Dear Reader, “What advice would you give a man using a
two hour suntan lotion but remaining in the sun after that?”
Correct! You would say to him “Read the
instructions! Your lotion protection against the sun has done its job …
don’t
push it further!”
And this is the sin of the hypergracist … not
reading the Bible’s instructions of what grace can do and what it
can’t.
Dwelling on grace this, and grace that, the
hypergracist … having been saved … is hoping to con God … into winking
at their
not following any form of instruction of his laws for the Christian as
found in
Paul’s writings.
Of course, grace has done its salvation job with
Christ … but now there are laws to follow as a Christian.
Dear Reader, the next question is “Are you a legalist?”
Most of you would vehemently deny “Of course not!”,
knowing that the Bible teaches salvation by grace through faith
and not
of ourselves … instead of man’s efforts to keep the law (Ephesians 2:8;
Romans
3:28).
However what happens is that hypergracists
relate stories of their salvation consisting of their internal
experience
… often intense and uplifting … of having Christ come into their heart.
This in turn, is then supported with rapturous doses
of affirmation about the glories of being saved.
Dear Reader, can you see the subtilty of Satan … in
shifting the focus of salvation away from Christ … to his grace.
Chatting to a fellow down the shops the other day,
this was confirmed to me … they generally start the conversation with …
“Isn’t
it a wonderful thing to be saved by grace!”
And Dear Reader, of course it is … there is nothing
greater than God sending his Son to die for the sins of the world,
however
their salvation gets stuck in a quicksand of grace … like a car
revving
its wheels … only to sink further into the mire.
They then become hypergracists … and have a
distaste for God’s laws in any way shape or form.
They do not know that they are under God’s law of
liberty (James 1:25) … to be judged by it (James 2:12) …
and the commandments
of Paul
(1 Corinthians 14:37).
Congregations, hearing their preacher declare that the
Christian is no longer bound by the old law of the Ten
Commandments, are
like a horse that has been let loose out of the corral without a
rider …
running wild and free from its former law constraints.
These hypergracists would describe their new
found freedom in situational ethics terms … that their many sins are
covered …
indeed whitewashed … with this thing called ‘love’.
Yes Dear Reader, these “Spirit-filled” enthusiasts
declare that the indwelling Holy Spirit will set all the restrictions
you need.
“You don’t need the law when walking in the ‘Spirit’”
they say … “Love will cover a multitude of sins” is their motto.
Of course, hurtling over their own cliff of personal
impulses and impressions, hypergracists think they are being
moved by
the Holy Ghost … which they are not.
However, when this type of feminine liberalism
and humanism take over, hypergracists in acting out
their own
impulses, no longer need God’s laws for the Christian to define sin …
instead …
relying on their own insight and innate sense of justice.
To wit, we illustrate where this leads, to the fact,
that the Carlos United Church of Christ in the USA, ordained a
self-confessed
homosexual to the ministry in 1972.
Now “Shock! Horror! Wheeze! Gasp!” I hear you mutter,
but hang on, hasn’t the Australian Uniting Church … and most others …
done the
same thing today?
Furthermore, with this ‘feminisation’ of the
church, they now have women pastors despite Paul’s injunctions not to
do so.
In their haste to escape the title of legalist, the hypergracist
becomes an antinomian … someone free from the law (anti =
against,
nomian = the law)
However, little does the antinomian realize, that in
doing so, he has become a rank legalist!
By replacing God’s laws for the Christian, as
contained in Paul’s letters to the churches, the hypergracists have
simply
manufactured their own laws and standards … thereby making them
the worst
legalists of all … these are wolves in sheeps’ clothing.
As Paul said “If
any man think
himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the
things that
I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord.”
(1 Corinthians 14:37)
Ah
yes Dear Reader, Christians are under the law of God … it’s called “the
law
of liberty” (James 1:25; 2:12).
These
are laws that burrow right down to the bone and the marrow, and the
thoughts
and intents of the heart (Hebrews 4:12).
Misunderstanding Paul’s declaration of “not
under law but under grace” (Romans 6:14-15), all forms of
authority of
the scriptures are destroyed … with the Pied Piper hypergracists
reeking havoc in
the church with their own form of legalism.
This is called the disgrace of hypergrace …
turning the grace of God into their own form of rules and regulations.
Harley
Hitchcock
February
2026
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