The problem of cheap grace: Making radical assumptions

Many cheap grace preachers will say, "You are making the assumption that we make assumption too!"

I will tell them, I don't make radical or 'lawless' assumption; I 'break' assumption. I do not like to teach radical assumption or vain imagination because I believe in the words of God:

• 2Co 10:3-6 KJV  For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh:  (4)  (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)  (5) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;  (6)  And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

Hence, it is scriptural to preach against weird assumption, cast down all lawless imaginations, and rebuke rebellious thoughts. I would go for the truth and keep God's laws and commandments. I keep His laws not because I am more righteous, but because I know that His laws are His words and commandments, and His commandments are His will for us. Keeping His laws and commandments will stop us from making the following assumption:

1. The absurd assumption that everyone who opposes cheap grace is a Pharisee
They will say, "Yes, I raise up my both hands in agreement, law preacher ! Only people like you would hate to make any creative assumption and stay relevant in our world. You are rigid, inflexible, and law conscious like the Pharisees. You can never understand grace because you are always judgemental and condemning on those who can think or preach better than you .."
I will tell them, I have said that I love grace; but not any kind of grace in 'What is cheap grace?' Now I will show you how most cheap grace preachers would love to make assumptions. Before I do that, they have already made the assumption that everyone who are against them are judgemental, condemning, and hypocritical like the Pharisees. So, if anyone does not agree with their assumption, they would categorize him or her as a 'Pharisee'.

2. **The false assumptions that all effortless favours or unpunished sins mean the grace of God 
They will ask, "How did we make assumption, other than the assumption that you mention above? We make no assumption in the preaching of grace .." I will tell them, you make assumption on too many things:

1. False righteousness - You assume that Abraham lied and that it is not a problem to lie because God counted Abraham as righteous. Hence, you assume that, if God punishes you because you lie, cheat, or sin, He is not righteous too. Hence, you assume that God is just to punish all others who sin; except you, no matter how you can sin. 
2. False peace - You assume that all those who judge or who are judgemental are the 'Pharisees'. But I would say that, if the people complain that we always judge with the words of God, we should take it as a compliment. It's because, if we are truly God's preachers, we would judge. We would tell the people what is good and what is bad, what is God's words and what is men's words, what is the will of God and what is not .. etc. Don't you judge and tell the people what is right about your grace revolution and what is wrong with the Pharisees too? If you say that you have never judged, either you are lying or you are not a God's preacher; but a men-pleaser like Aaron who listened to the Israelites and created the golden calf to please them. I believe that Aaron could still be the priest of Israel (after he created the golden calf), not because he was under grace or he was the brother of Moses (Exo 6:20); but because he repented. If we are God's prophets, we would judge too. We won't complain that God's prophets have judged too much or that they are too judgemental just because they have pointed out our sins. (See Can we judge?)
3. False humility - You assume that you can preach so well that you yourselves as well as all others must listen to your own Dvds and cheap grace preaching, instead of the Lord's preaching. I can tell you that that's because none of you read the Bible with a true repentant heart. If you keep thinking of how righteous you are because you can confess it repeatedly without true repentance, you won't see your own blindness or any wrong with your own preaching. 
4. False accusation -You assume that the Israelites were punished or killed in the wilderness simply because they obeyed God's commandments or chose to obey God's commandments, and therefore, anyone who obeys or chooses to obey God now will be punished like them under the curse of the law too: Exo 19:5-8 KJV  Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:  (6)  And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.  (7)  And Moses came and called for the elders of the people, and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him.  (8)  And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD.   
5. False grace - You assume that any unearned, undeserved, or unmerited favour which satisfies your thrill of getting something you do not work for is considered as 'grace' (eg. picking up the money on the floor which does not belong to you). You assume that Jesus is the solid Rock, and therefore, you can never fall by doing nothing too. You think that you can just build your 'house' and everything on  the Rock 'effortlessly', like picking up the money on the floor, without doing anything. Obviously you have shut your ears from hearing the Lord by making false assumption that He is the Rock who would only want you to rest in grace and do nothing. Unfortunately you have opened your ears to hearing the serpent by resting in 'cheap grace' or 'sinking sand' instead of hearing the Rock. Yes, salvation can only be built on the Rock or on Him by grace alone: we cannot do anything to save ourselves. That's the foundation, but we must still build our 'house' ! The foundation is given by grace, but the 'house' is built by doing His words: Mat 7:24 KJV  Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:   
6. False covenant -  You assume that we must cast out all the laws of God because Paul told us to cast out the bondwoman, and therefore, we must cast out all the law and the prophets: Gal 4:23-30 KJV  But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.  (24)  Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar...(30) Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. But have you read the Bible verses carefully? Cast out the bondwoman is to cast out the old covenant (or 'the law'); not all the laws of God. How can we cast out the law and the prophets which is the teaching of the Lord too? Mat 7:12 KJV  Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. Do you cast out the lawgiver too just because He gives you laws (Jas 4:12 )? No, this is absurd. Hence, a covenant without any law of God is a false covenant.
7. False assurance - You assume that all those who are believers or who are under grace can never sin, and therefore, there is no more law or judgement in the churches. How can you assume that no one can sin in the churches when there are already so many believers and pastors who steal, lie, and commit adulteries? Hitler was inspired by evolutionary ethics to assume and pursue the utopian project of biologically improving the human race. But he failed utterly after he brought chaos and wars into the world. If you don't learn from his mistake, you will end up bringing chaos and strife into the churches too. All humans will still sin no matter how perfect we think they can live their lives. If we are not in heaven, we still need law and order in our world and churches today. 
8. False promise - You assume that Jesus did everything to prosper you, including His humble entrance to Jerusalem on the donkey. You have preached and given the wrong impression that Jesus rode on the donkey so that you can drive luxurious Jaguar, Mercedes, or BMWs, and that it is right to do so because Jesus was made poor so that you can prosper. This is ridiculous. No wonder you can drive 'big' cars; but we drive 'small' cars. No, Jesus did not do everything to prosper us; He did everything to fulfil the words of God: Joh 12:12-16 KJV  On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,  (13)  Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord.  (14)  And Jesus, when he had found a young ass, sat thereon; as it is written,  (15)  Fear not, daughter of Sion: behold, thy King cometh, sitting on an ass's colt.  (16)  These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
9. False prophecy - You assume that all the warnings and the prophecies of the Lord against the false prophets in the four gospels are obsolete because His warnings were taught only to the Jews and the disciples who were under the law. When you make the prophecies of the Lord obsolete, you will give your own prophecies subtly by telling the people that you can hear from Him and make your own 'prophecies'. Unknown to you yourselves and many others, you fulfil the the prophecies of the Lord and you yourselves become the prophecies: Mat 7:15-23 KJV Beware of false prophets .. (22)  Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?  (23)  And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.   
10. False revelation - You assume that all the warnings in the book of Revelation are not applicable to you because you assume that the Lord's letters of warning to the seven churches in Rev 2-3 has become obsolete. If you could not convince us that the seven letters of warning have become obsolete, you would argue that the rapture would have taken place immediately after Rev 3, and therefore, the churches can just ignore any warning against the deception from the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet in the subsequent chapters of Revelation. You assume that, if the word 'churches' is not mentioned subsequently after Rev 3, it means that the churches are no more in the book of Revelation when the beast and the false prophet starts to deceive the world. But I think that it is equally absurd if you conclude that there is no more Holy Spirit, conviction of sins, death, joy, suffering, law, warning, churches, or believers just because they are ‘not mentioned’ in certain books, letters, or Bible passages. It is just plain excuse to shut your ears from hearing the words of God.
11. False repentance - You assume that repentance is all up to you and your believers to define how you can believe it or do it.  You assume that, if Jesus did not tell Zacchaeus, the woman caught in the adultery and the thief crucified with him to repent, it means that Jesus has never commanded us to repent or to confess our sins. You assume that, if the word 'repent' or 'repentance' was not mentioned in the parable of the prodigal son, there is therefore no repentance or turning away from sins in the preaching of the gospel. I find that this kind of explanation is ridiculous. It shows total blindness to the words and teaching of Jesus, when Jesus did mention to the woman to sin no more (or to repent), when Zacchaeus clearly did something which meets for repentance (after he heard the Lord's preaching of repentance while he was at the top from a sycamore tree), and when the prodigal son clearly repented before he confessed his sin to himself and to his father even though the word 'repent' was not mentioned in the parable: Luk 15:17-21 KJV And when he came to himself, he said, .. (18)  I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, (19)  And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. (20)  And he arose, and came to his father.. (21) And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son ..
12. False holiness and anointing - You assume that if your pulpit is decorated magnificently or filled with religious presentation of the cross, the banner, the state-of-the-art lightings, and the holistic stage effects, your pulpit would be holy enough for the people to worship God. But unknown to many, your pulpit is full of the 'vomits' of unholiness when you start to mock at the holy commandment of the Lord with your 'cheap grace' arguments and lies: 2Pe 2:15-22 KJV  Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;  (16)  But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man's voice forbad the madness of the prophet.  (17)  These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.  (18)  For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.  (19)  While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.  (20)  For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.  (21)  For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.  (22)  But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.  

It is not a shame to be blind occasionally, if we made the mistake by preaching a few wrong assumption of 'cheap grace'; just repent and do the works meet for repentance. It may not be a shame even if we are occasionally blinded by the false prophets too; just pray for them and expose their lies. But it is certainly a shame to know that we are blind, and yet we will still flock to receive their teaching, listen to all their lies and false assurance of no condemnation, and shamelessly boast around with all their false assumptions.

• Rev 16:13-15 KJV  And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.  (14)  For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.  (15)  Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.  
• Rev 3:15-22 KJV  I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.  (16)  So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.  (17)  Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:  (18)  I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.  (19)  As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.  (20)  Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.  (21)  To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.  (22)  He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.

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