The term “hyper-grace” is often used to discribe those of us who believe that when Jeremiah said, “No longer will they teach their neighbor, or say to one another, 'Know the LORD,' because they will all know me, from the least of them to the greatest," declares the LORD. "For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more." Jeremiah 31:34 and its EXACTLY what He meant.
Or when Almighty God said, regarding our sin, "Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more” Hebrews 10:17, and again in the book of Hebrews, “For I will be merciful to their iniquities, And their sins will I remember no more” Hebrews 8:12.
And then, perhaps the “best known” declaration of God regarding the sacrifice of His Son and how it applies to our sinful behavior can be read in these two powerful declarations…Micah 7:19 “He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea (sea of forgetfulness)” and Psalm 103:11-12 “For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
The word “fear” used in this passage means to love and reverence.
His grace is immeasurable!!
So, what about this “hyper-grace” definition given us by various religious groups who feel that grace in and of itself is not “really” sufficient (read 2Corintians 12:9).
Webster’s definition of the prefix “hyper” is “HIGH-STRUNG, EXCITABLE; also: highly excited. Webster also defines “grace” as “UNMERITED DIVINE ASSISTANCE GIVEN HUMANS FOR THEIR REGENERATION OR SACTIFICATION; also: a virtue coming from God; and: a state of sanctification enjoyed through divine grace.
So it certainly seems that while our religious brothers and sisters in Christ meant to belittle our understanding of God’s grace they have actually better defined our reason for rejoicing in it.
Hyper-grace…The high-strung, excitable, or highly excited belief in the divine virtuous assistance given to humans, coming from God, through sanctification attained through the life, death, and resurrection of our Savior Jesus Christ.
WOO HOO!! I COULDN’T HAVE SAID IT ANY BETTER!!
Thanks Charisma Magazine and all those who feel that grace isn’t sufficient without works and condemnation.
Remember Cain and Abel from your Children’s church? Cain brought his efforts to God and Abel brought a blood sacrifice. God was pleased with Abel’s sacrifice but not with brother Cain. As a result Cain grew angry, dejected and jealous. Soon his fierce anger led him to commit murder. So….as we relate this story to the Law and Grace we see that our works (dirty rags) are not nor will they ever be acceptable. Only when we bring the blood of Jesus to God are we made righteous and forgiven eternally. No wonder all those “Cain’s” out there, who are our brothers and sisters in Christ, want to “kill” hyper-grace teaching!
BTW…Here’s a few Scriptures for further study…
Romans 7:1-7 “Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of [her] husband. So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
John 17:17 “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.”
John 14:6 “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
John 3:36 “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
James 2:10 “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one [point], he is guilty of all.”
Ephesians 2:8-9 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:”
Galatians 5:2 “Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.”
Romans 8:1 “[There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”
Or when Almighty God said, regarding our sin, "Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more” Hebrews 10:17, and again in the book of Hebrews, “For I will be merciful to their iniquities, And their sins will I remember no more” Hebrews 8:12.
And then, perhaps the “best known” declaration of God regarding the sacrifice of His Son and how it applies to our sinful behavior can be read in these two powerful declarations…Micah 7:19 “He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us; he will subdue our iniquities; and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea (sea of forgetfulness)” and Psalm 103:11-12 “For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
The word “fear” used in this passage means to love and reverence.
His grace is immeasurable!!
So, what about this “hyper-grace” definition given us by various religious groups who feel that grace in and of itself is not “really” sufficient (read 2Corintians 12:9).
Webster’s definition of the prefix “hyper” is “HIGH-STRUNG, EXCITABLE; also: highly excited. Webster also defines “grace” as “UNMERITED DIVINE ASSISTANCE GIVEN HUMANS FOR THEIR REGENERATION OR SACTIFICATION; also: a virtue coming from God; and: a state of sanctification enjoyed through divine grace.
So it certainly seems that while our religious brothers and sisters in Christ meant to belittle our understanding of God’s grace they have actually better defined our reason for rejoicing in it.
Hyper-grace…The high-strung, excitable, or highly excited belief in the divine virtuous assistance given to humans, coming from God, through sanctification attained through the life, death, and resurrection of our Savior Jesus Christ.
WOO HOO!! I COULDN’T HAVE SAID IT ANY BETTER!!
Thanks Charisma Magazine and all those who feel that grace isn’t sufficient without works and condemnation.
Remember Cain and Abel from your Children’s church? Cain brought his efforts to God and Abel brought a blood sacrifice. God was pleased with Abel’s sacrifice but not with brother Cain. As a result Cain grew angry, dejected and jealous. Soon his fierce anger led him to commit murder. So….as we relate this story to the Law and Grace we see that our works (dirty rags) are not nor will they ever be acceptable. Only when we bring the blood of Jesus to God are we made righteous and forgiven eternally. No wonder all those “Cain’s” out there, who are our brothers and sisters in Christ, want to “kill” hyper-grace teaching!
BTW…Here’s a few Scriptures for further study…
Romans 7:1-7 “Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth? For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to [her] husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of [her] husband. So then if, while [her] husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man. Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, [even] to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not [in] the oldness of the letter.What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
John 17:17 “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.”
John 14:6 “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”
John 3:36 “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
James 2:10 “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one [point], he is guilty of all.”
Ephesians 2:8-9 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:”
Galatians 5:2 “Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.”
Romans 8:1 “[There is] therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.”
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