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“Don't let anyone charge you for what God has freely given.”
― Paul Ellis

“say yes to sin, it’s not the grace of God. It’s a manmade substitute. To say grace promotes sin is like saying Jesus promotes sin. It’s”
― Paul Ellis, The Hyper-Grace Gospel: A Response to Michael Brown and Those Opposed to the Modern Grace Message

“Holiness means wholeness. To say “God is holy” is to refer to the wholeness, fullness, beauty, and abundant life that overflows within the Godhead. God lacks nothing. He is unbroken, undamaged, unfallen, completely complete and entire within himself. He is the indivisible One, wholly self-sufficient, and the picture of perfection. When the angels sing “Holy is the Lord,” they are not admiring him for his rule-keeping or sin avoidance. They are marveling at the transcendent totality of his perfection. To worship God in the beauty of his holiness is to be awestruck by the infinite sweep and scale of his sublimity. It is to become lost in the limitless landscape of his loveliness. Holiness is not one aspect of God’s character; it is the whole package in glorious unity.”
― Paul Ellis, The Gospel in Ten Words

“Grace isn’t permission to sin; it’s the power of God to sin no more.”
― Paul Ellis, The Hyper-Grace Gospel: A Response to Michael Brown and Those Opposed to the Modern Grace Message

“I did not read the Bible to find Jesus but to answer the question, what should I do? I read indiscriminately and was often confused by scriptures that seemed to contradict each other. My solution was to go for balance: A little of this, a little of that, for all scripture is profitable. But by failing to filter what I read through the finished work of the cross, I unwittingly poisoned myself. I mixed the death-dealing words of the law with the life-giving words of grace. I thought I was zealous for the Lord, but in truth I was lukewarm. I was neither under the stone-cold ministry of the law nor walking in the white-hot heat of God’s love and grace.”
― Paul Ellis, Grace Disco: Escape to Reality Greatest Hits, Volume 1

“One can obey God and yet not trust Him, and in doing so miss out on a relationship with Him. One cannot, however, trust God and be disobedient to Him.[56]”
― Paul Ellis, The Hyper-Grace Gospel: A Response to Michael Brown and Those Opposed to the Modern Grace Message

“But those who dismiss grace as a license to sin merely show their ignorance of it. As John Calvin may have said, “How can the medicine that’s supposed to kill the disease (grace) feed the disease (sin)?”
― Paul Ellis, The Hyper-Grace Gospel: A Response to Michael Brown and Those Opposed to the Modern Grace Message

“I hope you will agree that the people in the debate are more important than the debate itself. Jesus didn’t die for an idea, a doctrine, or even the gospel itself. He died for people.”
― Paul Ellis, The Hyper-Grace Gospel: A Response to Michael Brown and Those Opposed to the Modern Grace Message

“yourself as a dearly loved child of God, you won’t. You’ll gladly receive His grace that frees you from the dominion of sin (see Rom. 6:14). Paul White writes:   There is a difference between chasing grace for what it gives and chasing it for Who grace is … It is Jesus, not a message, that makes us who we are.[55]”
― Paul Ellis, The Hyper-Grace Gospel: A Response to Michael Brown and Those Opposed to the Modern Grace Message

“This is something every parent knows. We don’t keep the laws to please the authorities and we don’t relate to our children on the basis of these laws. We relate to them on the basis of love and keeping the laws flows naturally from that love relationship. So why do we have these laws? Because not everyone loves their kids. The laws are for those who neglect or abuse their children. They are not for loving parents. We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels … (1 Timothy 1:9a) The laws in the Bible were not written for those who love Jesus. Contrary to what the legalist may tell you, keeping the laws to earn what He freely offers is a sign that you don’t know the love of God. A legalist reads the laws of the Bible and sees threats and warnings. Keep the laws or else! But love makes no threats.”
― Paul Ellis, The Hyper-Grace Gospel: A Response to Michael Brown and Those Opposed to the Modern Grace Message

“When the writer of Hebrews said, “Without holiness no one will see the Lord,” he was not making a threat but describing a fact (Hebrews 12:14). Our experience in a sick and broken world has not equipped us to relate to One who is healthy and whole.”
― Paul Ellis, The Gospel in Ten Words

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― Paul Ellis, Stuff Jesus Never Said