Hyper Grace is False

I dreamt of watching two missionaries, who appeared as middle-aged men, who had the gospel and spread it to save the world. In doing so, the missionaries gained their own paradise. I think in the dream I was part of an audience watching perhaps a presentation about these two missionaries, because in my notes, I wrote “These apparently were among the first of the missionaries and so impacted the audience, meaning us, greatly.” I think I had this whole dream twice.

Two hours later, I dreamt that I was one of two men spreading the gospel and we sort of built our own kingdom out of it. I remember we were strident and combative to others who argued with us. I also remember there was a scene where a tour guide showed me this kingdom while I also simultaneously seemed to work for the kingdom.

I dreamt of being in an argument with family members where I claimed that race differences weren’t purely social constructs. Was this random?

Hyper-Grace

I also dreamt of the youtuber Rosie Lost Sheep talking about why hyper-grace is false (hyper-grace meaning the idea that following the commandments doesn’t matter because grace covers everything).

I think she discussed, firstly, how we are supposed to obey what God tells us to do, not the directives our spiritual leaders. And secondly, how part of faith includes believing the promise that if we follow the commandments we will be saved. Thus, people who believe in hyper-grace don’t have faith in the promises of rewards in heaven according to how we chose to live life and our good works (Matthew 6:19–21, Luke 12:33–34, Matthew 25:14–30, Matthew 5:10–12, Matthew 16:27, Revelation 22:12-14, Matthew 10:42, Matthew 19:29, Matthew 23:11–12, Matthew 6:3–4).

Just to step back, here are my view on grace for any who are confused:

• Yes, grace is what saves us (not our works), however, to access grace we have to make an effort to follow Christ and conform our lives to His will.
• There are varying degrees of glory we receive in heaven – so perhaps those with bad works might still get to heaven through great faith, but to be greatly rewarded in heaven requires us making sacrifices for God on earth.
• The point of grace is for Christ’s power to change our character and our personalities – so we can be born again with a greater desire to do good and greater aversion to sin. To instead use the concept of grace to justify increased sin is a perversion of the entire purpose of the atonement.