Hyper-Grace: Exposing the Dangers of the Modern Grace Message
At a time when the church needs an urgent wake-up call and a fresh encounter with Jesus, the hyper-grace message is lulling many to sleep. Claiming to be a new revelation of grace, this teaching is gaining in popularity, but is it true? Or is the glorious truth of grace being polluted by errors, leading to backsliding, compromise, and even the abandonment of faith?
Hyper-Grace looks at the major teachings put forth by many adherents of this “grace reformation” and prayerfully compares those teachings with the Word of God, answering questions such as:
· How do our sins affect our relationship with God?
· What is the relevance of the Old Testament to our faith?
· What does Jesus actually have to say about grace?
Without watering down the Bible’s true message of grace, Michael Brown gives you the facts, demonstrating the dangers of this seductive message and showing you how to keep from being taken in.
Top Highlights
“Simply stated (and to use some of Pastor Whitten’s words), if you teach that we are saved by God’s grace through faith, and that now as believers we are called by God to walk worthy of our salvation and to pursue holiness of heart and life—in other words, to work out the ongoing process of sanctification—you are preaching ‘behavior modification,’ you are in the (lucrative!) ‘sin management business,’ you are propagating the same ‘spiritually murderous lie’ that Luther and Calvin did, and you need to receive the great new revelation of this great new reformation, the grace revolution. That is quite an accusation!” (source)
“If God already forgave all our sins, past, present, and future, why is Jesus talking about being forgiven on an ongoing basis? It’s clear that our present sins need present forgiveness, not for the purpose of salvation but as part of our relationship with the Father. Again, this is presupposed throughout the entire New Testament.” (source)
“And it is true that when Jesus died for us, our sins were still future since we had not even been born. So, yes, He died and paid for our future sins as well as our past and present sins. What we must realize, however, is that the transaction of forgiveness takes place at different points in time.8 In other words, Jesus died for you and me sometime around AD 30, and the moment He breathed His last breath, He had paid for the sins of every human who would ever live on the earth. But were we forgiven at that point in time? Absolutely not!” (source)
“The truth is that the modern grace message is quite mixed, combining life-changing, Jesus-exalting revelation with serious misinterpretation of Scripture, bad theology, divisive and destructive rhetoric, and even fleshly reaction. And, in all too many cases, it is being embraced by believers who are not just looking for freedom from legalism but also freedom from God’s standards.” (source)
“Michael Brown is a master at defending the truth.” —Steve Hill, evangelist
“Passionate, powerful, and persuasive with a masterful use of the biblical text.” —Dr. Daniel Juster, director, Tikkun International
Product Details
- Title : Hyper-Grace: Exposing the Dangers of the Modern Grace Message
- Author: Brown, Michael L.
- Publisher: Charisma House
- Publication Date: 2014
- ISBN: 9781621365907
Michael L. Brown is the founder and president of FIRE School of Ministry, a leadership training institute birthed out of the fires of revival that is called to equip authentic and devoted disciples of Jesus. With a PhD from New York University in Near Eastern languages and literatures, he is recognized as one of the leading Messianic Jewish scholars in the world today. He hosts the nationally syndicated daily talk radio show The Line of Fire and is the author of more than twenty books, including
The Real Kosher Jesus.