False Apostles Teaching Cheapened Grace

The apostle Paul was writing to the church in Corinth. He was concerned that they were being led astray by false apostles to reject the truth of the gospel and to embrace the lies, instead. And it appears that these false apostles were leading the people to reject Paul and the gospel of Christ. And so Paul defended his own honor and his service both to the Lord and to the people. But he did not do this out of selfish motives. He did this because the people were listening to the lies and the liars and they were rejecting the truth.

2 Corinthians 12:19-21 BSB (Berean Standard Bible)

“19Have you been thinking all along that we were making a defense to you? We speak before God in Christ, and all of this, beloved, is to build you up. 20For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder. 21I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.”

A Similar Situation Today

And we have a similar situation as this today, at least here in the USA, we do, within many of the gatherings of the church (or what are falsely being referred to as the church) at large. We have many such false apostles in these gatherings serving as pastors and preachers who are teaching the people lies, and who are refuting the truth of what the Scriptures teach. And many of them are deceivers, manipulators, opportunists, egocentrics, and those who fake their Christianity, who themselves are living immoral lives.

And they are those who hide behind the grace of God and who hide their lies behind the grace of God, too. For they are teaching the grace of God as though it is carte blanche (free license) to keep on living in sin once you believe in Jesus. Many of them are teaching the people that God does not require repentance (death to sin) and obedience to His commands, for they call that “works salvation.” But that’s a lie! For Jesus gave His life up for us so we will now die to sin and obey God in practice, in the power of God.

So, they are encouraging the people to follow their example in living sinful lives – dishonorable, corrupt, immoral, wicked, dishonest, self-indulgent, and selfish lives – while claiming that God’s grace covers it all. So we have many people professing faith in Jesus Christ who are being convinced that their sins no longer matter to God. And so they continue in their sins without conscience, and so they continue to decline, to worsen, and to deteriorate while they claim that God’s grace covers all their sins. But that’s a lie!

By Faith in Jesus Christ

Yes, by faith in Jesus Christ we are forgiven our sins, and God’s grace does cover us if we should sin in the future if we are those who by faith in Jesus have repented of our sins and who are walking in obedience to our Lord and to His commands as a matter of life practice (see 1 John 2:1-6). But if sin remains our practice, deliberately and habitually, and not obedience to our Lord and to His commands, then we are regarded by God as not those who are of genuine faith in the Lord, so our sins are not covered by God’s grace.

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to Him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) Him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to His commands, in His power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls Him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in Him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; John 10:27-30; Acts 26:18; Romans 1:18-32; Romans 2:5-10; Romans 3:23; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Romans 12:1-2; 1 Corinthians 6:9-10,19-20; 1 Corinthians 10:1-22; 2 Corinthians 5:10,15,21; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; Hebrews 3:1-19; Hebrews 4:1-13; Hebrews 10:19-39; Hebrews 12:1-2; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Revelation 2:1-29; Revelation 3:1-22]

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