QUOTE(prophetjul @ Sep 30 2014, 09:09 AM)
The extremes of the grace doctrine is you dont have to repent anymore for your future sins. Afterall they are already forgiven. Sin is not preached but more preaching on the well being of the sheep rather than knowing God more. Man needs focussed.
Extremes of health and wealth: You can speak them into being like gods. Part of word faith doctrines.
They are part and parcel of the gospel. If you dont have them, something must be wrong with you. Some extremes on health include no medicine, no doctors.
I can explain about the Grace part.
I believe what they wrote against the Grace is mostly taken out of context from the preacher. They never really sit in through the entire sermon,
probably snippets of here and there and the summarised in wrong understanding as how you mention above. I've checked extensively in the Bible on Grace to be ensure of, that what they preached is in fact in line with the Bible.
For a long time we have understood it wrongly. We think we need to repent first in our actions.
And to the conventional Church, that is what repentance is. Change from our wicked ways.
And what is the measurement to check for repentance? The 10 commandments.
But many Christians don't understand, the more you try to do that*, the more you fall into it; that is you will sin more.
Many Christians do not understand what is the purpose and the design of the Law is for.
The Bible says the purpose of the Law is to show how sinful we are, for by the Law is the Knowledge of sin.
It's like a Syringe Jab to bring out the symptoms in your body.
The Law was never designed to make us righteous. It cannot and will never be for that purpose* because Christ is our Righteousness.
You see, Repentance is actually change of mind. Metanoya in the Greek.
The Bible says it is the goodness of God (Romans 2:4) that leads us to repentance, not the wrath of God, not by being sin conscious all the time.
In fact the more you think about sin, the more you will end up sinning. That is the Law of Death.
Question is, change of mind about what? Change our mind to the obedience of Faith in Christ. To his finish work, , His ONCE and FOR ALL eternal redemption.
The Bible says we are transform into the SAME IMAGE by beholding his glory. And What is the Glory of God? His Finished Work at the cross that give us Eternal Life.
So the point is this, the more we look to Christ, we will be transformed. Anything other than this will only lead us to the Flesh because the Law is about Man, Grace is about God. When we hook our focus on what is divine, miracles take place, hook the flesh? Only Failures.
We have focused wrong about repentance. That is why there is not much result in the Churches. People have been crying for revival and repentance without the proper understand of the above.
About the Health and Wealth, I'll talk with you about it, another day. And NO I'm not suggesting we are going on a trip to be millionaires if that is what you're thinking.
And Yes about the No Medicine and No Doctors, that is something that God never forbids. In Fact Doctors and Medicine is something that God really encourage for us to go to.