The bad news police who are established in a legalistic mindset will caution believers in Christ that too much teaching about God’s grace will lead to an unhealthy and perilous plight. Their tangled view of the testaments wrongly assumes grace needs to be balanced with law.
We’ve been supplied with an abundance of grace for a reason and it has no connection to law or a rules-based religion.
Hollow religion says a written code of commandments is needed in order to reduce sin and increase morality. There is just one problem with this approach … it’s the precise opposite of what Scripture reveals to us.
The law came for a purpose - to increase the trespass … not to reduce it. It’s only by grace and the gift of righteousness found in Jesus Christ that will allow for us to reign in life.
The term "hypergrace" has been used recently by some who apparently believe that grace is being taken to an extreme. We address a few of these concerns from an article in a popular Christian publication. The first thing that needs to be confronted here is the misunderstanding that legalistic religion has clung to and that is the belief that the New Covenant is a more perfect continuation of the Old Covenant. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, this line of thinking will point entirely in the wrong direction and will lead to many more misunderstandings regarding the gospel of grace.
When you hear people talking about the dangers of "hypergrace" or too much grace, one has to ask the question: How much is too much? Think carefully about this. Imagine someone claiming to believe the gospel and yet warning that too much grace can be dangerous. You don't have to imagine very hard because we hear it from people on a regular basis. Our thoughts this week on why the abundance of grace we have in Christ isn't the problem, but is in fact the only solution.
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