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Misunderstanding Wrath, Chastisement, and Reaping - Hyper-Grace Errors

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He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. And by this we know that we have come to know him, if we keep his commandments. Whoever says "I know him" but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him, but whoever keeps his word, in him truly the love of God is perfected. By this we may know that we are in him: whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked. - 1John 2: 2-6 (ESV)

Propitiate means to bring a state of peace and that is exactly what Jesus did. His work on the cross allows all mankind the opportunity to come back home to the Father through Him who was slain. It does not eliminate wrath - it stays it. But the rest of the context completely destroys the core of Prince doctrine. How do we know if we have come to Christ? Not be ignoring the law. Not by pretending it has no value to us. No. By keeping his commandments! Where wrath is defined as punishment as a consequence of anger; chastisement has a more parental feel to it:

And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? "My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the one he loves, and chastises every son whom he receives." It is for discipline that you have to endure. God is treating you as sons. For what son is there whom his father does not discipline? If you are left without discipline, in which all have participated, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. - Hebrews 12: 5-8 (ESV)

In the world of Joseph Prince God never does anything negative towards His children even though that makes Him an absentee parent! The reality is that God loves us as a parent. The "friend of God" theology continues to confuse the roles. Jesus Christ must be our Lord. That means He is in charge, not me. That means I understand that He disciplines those He loves. It is through discipline that we can grow deeper in Christ. Hyper-grace makes us illegitimate children. The final component tying all of this together is the general principle of sowing and reaping:

Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. - Galatians 6: 7-8 (ESV)

This is the other side of forgetting the law. Of casting it aside because of the cross. There is a reason why the Bible urges us to work out our salvation with fear and trembling. There are real temporal consequences for sowing to our flesh. Carnality reaps more carnality. Encouraging lawlessness leads to lawlessness. The teaching that it is irrelevant flies in the face of many Scriptures even one that spells out the end time problem we touched upon earlier:

"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?' And then will I declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.' - Matthew 7: 21-23 (ESV)

These verses eviscerate the teachings of Joseph Prince. The people described here are obviously churched people. They may have even served in church their whole life. They saw many miracles and demonic deliverances yet were never really serving God. What is the calling card of such people? Lawlessness. If believers need not concern themselves with the law, how does one explain these verses? The truth is that grace and law are two sides of the same coin and hyper-grace is a powerful delusion that uses a double sided coin with grace on both sides. These three things - wrath, chastisement and reaping all work together. God is wrath but it is stayed during this era of grace where people can freely come to Christ for the forgiveness of their sins. That does not mean however that God ceases from being parental and abandons His children by eliminating discipline. Overall, we are still bound by the universal law of sowing and reaping and ignoring the laws God has established is nothing more than pure carnality and carnality always has a price tag we do not want to pay. 

These are truths however for the 26% that sit in good and bad churches across this land but are truly born again. You can find God wherever you are. He isn't that difficult to find for the one truly seeking Him. The harder reality remains for the 74% who go to church but report that it does not even impact their life. They sit under false teaching and lap it up each week instead of using their Bible to discern what is and what is not from God. Further compounding matters is they answered an altar call once in their life, said a three sentence prayer and were assured by some preacher that they were saved. No penitent faith. No regenerate heart. No continuing fruit of salvation. Jesus taught that when you are convinced that your darkness is actually light - how deep is that darkness. A delusion has been visited upon them because they refuse to believe the truth and pleasure in their unrighteousness. That is upwards of 74% of the people who sit next to us every week. Let us always work out our salvation with fear and trembling. If we find ourselves attracted to these types of false teachings let us always return to the full counsel of God. Because we always reap what we sow. God is always our Father. And wrath is coming soon. 

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