Hector Co-Operations

HYPER-GRACE IS ‘FOR’ CONFESSION, NOT ‘AGAINST’ CONFESSION!
‘
‘
“Hyper-grace preachers say it’s wrong to confess sins. They say confession is a form of unbelief.”
‘
- Actually, every hyper-grace preacher believes in the power of confession.
- We say things like, “confession is good for you,” and “confession is healthy.”
‘
BUT WHAT IS CONFESSION?
‘
Like the word repentance,
- Confession is a word that has been mangled in the machinery of manmade religion.
- Instead of bringing healing to the hurting and life to the dead, confession is seen as the cost of admission into the house of grace.
- “You wanna be clean? Then ‘fess up you miserable sinner! Tell God your dirty little secrets.”
But that’s not what confession is.
‘
To confess literally means to agree with or say the same thing as another.
- The greek word is “homologeó”
- Biblical confession is agreeing with God.
- It’s verbalizing faith in His goodness and acknowledging your dependence upon Him (Rom. 10:9–10).
- It’s saying, “God, I believe You are faithful and true and will do all that You promised.”
‘
But some people have a different definition of confession.
- They think confession is something you must do to make yourself clean, righteous, and forgiven.
- “I have to review all my sins to receive forgiveness.” This is a dead work.
- Confessing-to-be-forgiven is like washing with dirty water. No matter how hard you scrub you won’t make yourself clean.
‘
Faithless confession puts the focus on you and what you have done, but faith-based confession puts the focus on Christ and what He has done on your behalf.
‘
Does that mean we should never confess or that it’s wrong to confess our sins?
- NOT AT ALL.
- Biblical confession is good for u.
- It will help u to walk in the grace that God has provided.
‘
One of the clearest descriptions of confession comes from MAX LUCADO:
‘
“Confession is not complaining. If I merely recite my problems and rehash my woes, I’m whining … Confession is so much more. Confession is a radical reliance on grace. A proclamation of our trust in God’s goodness.
“What I did was bad,” we acknowledge, “but your grace is greater than my sin, so I confess it.” If our understanding of grace is small, our confession will be small: reluctant, hesitant, hedged with excuses and qualifications, full of fear of punishment. But great grace creates an honest confession. (GRACE, p.83)
‘
- We don’t repent and confess to get God to forgive us. He does not need your permission to forgive you.
- We repent and confess because God has forgiven us.
- Your repentance and confession won’t change God, but it will surely change you.
- It will help u receive God’s life-changing grace. As Clark Whitten says, “Confession is for my healing, not for God’s forgiveness.” (PURE GRACE: The Life Changing Power of Uncontaminated Grace)
‘
Those who don’t understand this may point to 1 John 1:9 which seems to say God’s forgiveness is contingent upon our confession of sins.
- This scripture is so widely misunderstood that it gets mentioned in just about every book on grace I have read.
- To paraphrase Andrew Farley (The Naked Gospel), John cannot be saying God forgives us ‘on account of our confession’ because just a few verses later he says we are already forgiven on ‘account of Jesus’ name.’
‘
When u sin it takes no faith to beat yourself up and agree with the Accuser who calls u a sinner.
- It takes faith to look at the cross and say, “Thank you, Jesus, for carrying all my sin.”
- It takes faith to praise your Father for His superabounding grace that is greater than your transgression.
- And it takes faith to agree with the Holy Spirit who says, despite what u did, u are still righteous, acceptable, and pleasing to God.

HYPER-GRACE IS ‘FOR’ REPENTANCE, NOT ‘AGAINST’!
‘
‘
“Hyper-grace preachers say there’s no need for repentance. They dismiss repentance as unbelief.”
‘
- Actually, hyper-grace preachers are FOR repentance, not against it.
- We say things like “repentance is essential” and “repentance is to be our lifestyle.”
- We are for repentance, for without it no one can receive the grace of God.
- We agree with Martin Luther who said “The entire Christian life should be one of repentance”
‘
BUT WHAT IS REPENTANCE?
‘
Repentance is one of those words that means different things to different people. Those with a performance-oriented mindset typically interpret repentance as
- Turning from sin.
- It’s something u do (turn) as a result of something u’ve done (sinned).
- It’s fixing what u broke.
- It’s atoning for ur mistakes.
- It’s sewing fig leaves to hide ur shame.
‘
In contrast, faith-based repentance is always done in response to something God has done.
- It’s the change of heart and mind that happens when u encounter His grace.
- It’s often evidenced by turning to God in praise and gratitude.
‘
A mixed-grace gospel will define repentance in terms of
- A prescribed set of behaviors (e.g., turning from sin)
- And emotions (e.g., sorrow and grief).
‘
The fruit of repentance may take 101 different forms - don’t limit God -but repentance itself is simply a change of mind. It’s what the greek word “metanoia” literally means.
- The root of Repentance is change of mind, and the one of the fruits of repentance is change of behavior (You can say turning from sin!)
- Apparently the “fruit” of repentance (behavior change) has been put before the “root” of repentance (change of mind)
‘
the words of Watchman Nee:
‘
“Repentance … means a change of mind! Formerly I thought sin a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it; formerly I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better; formerly I regarded it a miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile; once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance. No life can be truly changed apart from such a change of mind.” (THE NORMAL CHRISTIAN LIFE, p.132)
‘
We all agree that REPENTANCE IS A GOOD THING and that there should be more of it, but how do we get people to repent??
- A mixed-grace preacher will use carrots (“Turn from sin if you want to see God”) and sticks (“If you don’t, you’ll pay the price”), but this is the way of the flesh, not faith.
- This sort of repentance will lead you to trust in your own repenting efforts and miss grace. Consider the Pharisees.
- The Pharisees turned from sin on a daily basis yet they did not recognize the Grace of God even as He came and stood among them.
‘
Mixed-grace preachers say, “We need more preaching on repentance,” as though this would motivate people to repent. But it won’t.
- Only one thing is guaranteed in scripture to lead people to repentance and that is a revelation of God’s goodness:
‘
“… God’s kindness is meant to lead you to repentance.” (Romans 2:4b, ESV)
‘
- Repentance isn’t doing something about your sin.
- Repentance is responding positively to God’s kindness and grace…
‘
How does a hyper-grace preacher encourage repentance?
- By preaching the goodness of God as revealed in Jesus.
‘
A mixed gospel says, “You gotta repent or else,” but the hyper-grace gospel says, “See Jesus!”
- Old covenant repentance puts the focus on you and your badness
- But new covenant repentance puts the focus on Him and His goodness.
‘
When u see the Lord of grace looking at u with love and affection,
- YOU WILL REPENT.
- You will turn from sin to Him not because u have been BRIBED with rewards or THREATENED with punishment but because Jesus is more attractive than anything this world offers.
‘
He is the Beauty who draws us to Himself.

GLORY OVER GLORY
(Heb 2:2 )
For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast(THE LAW), and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;
WOW! This shows us that each and every word God reveals, has aglory and power that comes with it.
And here we see how glorious the law was, why? It was given by God himself and due to that that glory Isralites couldn't look at Moses steadily in the face when he came with the tablets of stone where the law had been written,
YET IT WAS ONLY FOR A TIME AND IT WAS TO PASS AWAY.
How much MORE GLORY does this(THE GRACE) which came after it and to replace it HAVE???
YET is to stay forever...ushering us into the very likeness of God.
Without the Grace non would have been saved. But by it the entire world can be redeemed.
God wishes for all is to fully enter, be led and understand how much He loves us and the urbandancy of his Grace for us.
It's is by grace that one can be saved, not by the law. We couldn't be saved by it or our efforts of righteousness trying to do it or other good works of humanity which is impossible and that's the very reason for the grace.
That whoever believes in what Jesus Christ did, recieves his spirit and is able to meet all what the law demands because he is perfect.
And so that person(the spirit) needs not the law for guidance because he can't sin. That's who we are, led by him.
To make it more clear we become that very spirit of God when we be bornagain. We are translated to that form(spiritual as he is) and we die to the world.
That is GRACE, GRACE AND ONLY GRACE.
Lets all join the movement and minister the grace gospel of our Lord and saviour JESUS CHRIST.
It's what we where all called for, Join us on Sundays to know, preach, an manifest Christ. As our main aim at Jesus Empire. (Eph 2:6).....YO BLESSED.....