(Charisma News) – Proponents of hyper-grace teach that the moral law (found in the Ten Commandments) has no relevance in the New Testament church era. This leads to the heresy of Anti-Nomianism (without law), which—as I wrote in Part 1 of this article—eradicates all biblical standards and ethics. Consequently, its proponents can theoretically sin without fear since everything is based on grace, without consideration for the moral law of God. (Some even teach that since Jesus died for all your past, present and future sins, you don’t even need to confess your sins because that is works and not grace—to which I would point them to 1 John 1:9.) Whenever a church only preaches the love and blessings of God in Christ without ever mentioning the need to repent and or the consequences of sin in the life of the believer,
there is a good chance that is a hyper-grace church. One of the worst things many proponents of hyper-grace teach is that the teachings of Jesus as found in the Gospels are not relevant for the church today. They believe that the teachings of the Gospels fall under the Old Testament dispensation since it was before His resurrection. This ridiculous assertion doesn’t take into mind the fact that the epistles were written for the church to apply the life and teachings of Jesus—not to give additional, unconnected revelation. This is why even a cursory study of the epistles of Paul, James, Peter and John show that they reiterate obedience to the Ten Commandments (as a standard for ethics, not for salvation) as well as the words and teachings of Jesus. READ MORE
