well. I just get tired of seeing a guy who does nothing but bring a solid grace message every day get attacked. one person lies, slanders, and refuses to give straight answers, one talks about the love and grace of God daily.
which one is better. which one should not get attacked?
Grace is combined with truth and faith....to say all things come from grace might be correct, but it can mislead babes in Christ...and keep them at the cross and not propel them into a God called sending....
I am not against the Biblical defined grace message....what I am agaisnt are those that say by grace alone you have all you need...that is not Bible truth at all....Grace has to be appropriated through faith....
We saw hellfire preaching start around 1948 when Israel become a nation because the fathers of dispensation were being proved right and the end was near......hellfire messages unintentionally induced works based salvation and working to be righteous through your own power....this was tempered 20 years alter with the very early grace message that was ignored by many and it was Oral Roberts when he starting saying Something Good is going to happen and it brought about the revelation that God is indeed a Good God...Oral was not perfect but he was used to change the narrative and bring balance to the hell fire works based crowd...by 78 a questionable & false doctrine started and it was the Word of Faith message.....we are now seeing that message being tempered with the grace and Jesus alone message and now all we see and hear about is grace, grace grace and that is all you need, just like you needed faith, faith, faith in the 80's....
before 1948 we heard one message REPENT and pick up your cross daily...Holiness was the change from within, and produced by fruit of the spirit being made manifest by the Holy Spirit....
The REPENT message is coming back because grace must be tempered and balanced with TRUTH....the grace message has slid right into the ditch the WOF message did...in an effort to make the nearly to good to be true Gospel less scary we now have grace driven false teaching....we have people removing entire passages of the Bible stating that is not for me it applied to_______ .
Grace alone never saves anyone....faith alone never made anyone wealthy....truth is never told because it separates the soul and spirit and and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.....but when these things are combined, radical salvation and radical transformation takes place and then total trust in the Lord is established and you are propelled into your call and sent to GO & MAKE, not simply GO & SIT.....
The easy believe grace message omits the whole truth, just like the blab and grab faith movement produces fear and condemnation....
There is a price to be paid to be a true son or daughter of God and this is because in covenant relationship there is GOD's Part and MANS's part....
I heard a popular easy grace hireling tell his people that fearing God is an OT concept and not needed today, because of Grace....He then said hey ya'll...looking so dapper with his trendy under cut hair doo, ripped skinny jeans, chuck Taylors and untucked super spiritual shirt with crosses all over it....confessing with your mouth the Lord Jesus is not accurate...grace allows him to be Lord without you verbally stating it....because ya know church....God is just so much about love and mercy and he knws when we mess up....he expects you to mess up, but hey he sent me here to tell ya that its ok if you continually mess up...his grrraaaacccceeee covers a multitude of SIN...sense he expects you to mess up he knows other are too, so there is no nee dfor you to check someones else out...cuz God, Daddy, poppy, man he knoooowwws allll about iiiit....just beleive you are good and his grrraaaacccceeee will cover it alll.....hey church stand with me as worship pastor joey and his two-tones come to play Hillsong's latest disco hit.....stand with me , lift those arms up and yeah, feel good, yeah feel the light ocming in...yeah dont worry about the mistakes...yeah now repeat after me...
God I love you because you love me...God I am sooo sorry for the mess ups I did this week...and God...say this with me church if you need to have grace save you..God thank you for saving me and then freeing me to be your kid...God thank you for dying for me and allowing me to continue in my old state because your grace covers it for me....God thanks for making a place for me to go when I die...and God I believe in you...Now church do you feel the grace coming into you...yeah, yeah thats it...thats grace it saved you...Happy days church grace come down today...Oh thank you God...we are free to me....and free to be them....WOW church God is a good God, a good daddy, now if you repeated that you ar now saved by grace adn are free.......we are going to collect the offering now....
Sadly I wish I could say I made that all up, but no sir...it was the real thing....and the guy who did is one of the most influential new generation hirelings on TBN today....he has direct and indirect influence over millions....
You read his "sinners prayer" and then tell me whats wrong with it and then you may begin to understand why some of us are sounding the alarm that it is never by grace alone...
