This is an overview of some of the main points of what is being called a "hyper-grace" theology. It powerful truths that are out of balance with other parts of scripture. Hyper-grace theology can help people in some ways by emphasizing the incredible love and grace of God. Hyper-grace theology can also confuse and damage people because it seems to ignore the clear commands of the Bible to avoid sin, confess sins and "work out their salvation in fear and trembling" motivated and empowered by the love and grace of God. Pray that the teachers of hyper-grace theology will find a biblically balanced way to help people encounter the most gracious, kind, generous, loving, compassionate Person the universe who also holds us accountable for how we live and will discipline us in love as a wise Father to bring us back to safety within godly living.

1. Hyper-Grace
Truth Out of Balance

2. All Life Needs Balance
• Our food
• Our weather
• Our government
• Our relationships
• Our spiritual life

3. Why Hyper-Grace
• A legitimate need to stress God’s incredible
goodness and mercy versus the false image of
God as harsh, critical and hard to please.
• To set Christians free from legalism, performance-
based spirituality and lack of intimacy with God

4. The Good HG Fruit
• Many have found new freedom from feeling like a
spiritual failure in God’s sight.
• Many now know that God’s grace and love is given
freely and not based on our performance.
• Many have found a deeply satisfying relationship
with a loving, kind, gracious Father and Savior.

5. The Bad HG Fruit
• HG is not the “whole counsel of God” but a partial
truth of how God wants us to relate to Him.
• HG confuses people about the real nature of sin
and the biblical call to live holy lives.
• HG teachers often denigrate those who disagree
as legalists, pharisees, “mixed-grace” teachers
• Some HG followers mistake liberty for license

6. Main Teachings
• God is not concerned about our current or future
sins since Jesus paid for all sin for all time.
• Some words of Jesus are irrelevant to us today
since they were spoken before His resurrection.
• God will not discipline a believer on earth for sin
since God pays no attention to our sins now.

7. Signs of HG Churches
• The preachers never speak against sin.
• The lead pastor only preaches positive motivational
messages
• The lead pastor never takes a cultural stand for
righteousness ( abortion & any sexual sins)
• The Old Testament is almost totally ignored.
• People who live immoral lives are allowed to teach and
lead ministries

8. Can We Ignore Sin?
• “If God has pronounced your future sins forgiven in
the same way he has pronounced your past sins
forgiven, why do Paul and other New Testament
writers address these very sins in their letters,
and why does Jesus address them in Revelation
2-3? ( Michael Brown)

9. Can We Ignore Sin?
• 2 Tim. 3:16: All Scripture is inspired by God and
profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction,
for training in righteousness
• 2 Tim. 4:2: …reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great
patience and instruction.
• 1 John 2:1: “My little children, I am writing these
things to you so that you may not sin. And if
anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father,
Jesus Christ the righteous.”

10. Can We Ignore Sin?
• James 5:15-16: “…and if he has committed sins,
they will be forgiven him. Therefore, confess your
sins to one another, and pray for one another so
that you may be healed.”
• 1 John 1:8-10: “If we say that we have no sin, we
are deceiving ourselves and the truth is not in us.
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous
to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned,
we make Him a liar and His word is not in us.”

11. Can We Ignore Sin?
• Heb.10:26: “For if we go on sinning willfully after
receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer
remains a sacrifice for sins…”
• Matt. 6:12-15: “…and forgive us our debts, as we also
have forgiven our debtors.”
• For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your
heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not
forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your
transgressions.
• Almost every book of the NT talks about sin!

12. Words of Jesus
• HG teachers believe that:
• Jesus preached law to the Jews before the cross
• Paul preached grace after the resurrection
• The commands of Jesus are part of OT law
and so do not apply to us today.

13. Words of Jesus
• Matt. 28:18-20: “Make disciples…teaching them all that I
have commanded you.”
• John 14:26: "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the
Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things,
and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you.”
• John 6:63: It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits
nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are Spirit
and are life.
• A Christian faith that discards the very words of Jesus is in
great danger of not being totally Christian

14. God Disciplines Sons
• Heb. 12:5-11: “For the Lord disciplines the one
he loves and chastises every son whom he
receives.” (Quoting Proverbs 3:11-12)
• God is treating you as sons…He disciplines us for
our good, that we may share his holiness.

15. God Disciplines Sons
• Jesus rebukes five of the seven churches (Rev. 2-3)
• Ephesus: repent or lose my Presence
• Pergamum: Repent or I come to oppose false
teachers in your midst
• Laodicea: You are lukewarm. Those whom I love,
I discipline. Therefore be zealous and repent.

16. Our Response
• Rest in and enjoy the Father’s love. He has pursued you to
love you before time began.
• Rest in and enjoy the grace of Jesus for salvation and for help
to lead a holy and fruitful life
• Choose to please God in all things, forgive quickly and
confess sin quickly so that the devil will not get a foothold in our
lives.
• Pray for the Holy Spirit to give each of us His balanced view of
scripture’s promises and commands.
• Pray for unity in the Body of Christ over this issue.