Mandates of Grace

Dr Brian Adams

Harvester Burgundy, 11 Oct 2026

Forgiveness

If you want grace you gotta give grace. Law of sowing and reaping. Power of first century church is still available. Early church fathers. Lack of miracles linked to lack of holiness.

Licentiousness. True grace of God. Season of extreme legalism. Moses did not even have holy enough shoes to stand in God’s presence. God came to set the captives free. I have called you to set the captives free.

If you love me keep my commandments. If you’re not under some law you’re lawless. Love the Lord your God. Love neighbour as yourself. Release him permanent. Pay some debt back.

Legalism, Hyper Grace and True Grace

Satan attacks the Gospel. Legalism—earn salvation—denies power of grace to save. Hyper grace—disregards repentance or obedience—denies power of grace to transform. You need to be convinced before converted. Gospel of Jesus stands in the middle of these extremes.

Grace understood correctly is a powerful force for transformation. ‘Charis’ means power, Grace, kindness. Sin gives the enemy a legal right. Anything not of faith is sin. You can place your Faith in lies or truth. Agree with heaven to receive from heaven.

Stop thinking what was done to you or through you is greater than what Jesus did on the cross. Christ died, buried and resurrected. Ascended, seated at right hand of Father. He can’t sit as a Priest until it’s done.

Salvation by Grace Through Faith

Apostle Paul writes in Eph. 2:8,9. By Grace we are saved through faith—not of yourself, it is the gift of God. Salvation is a complete gift. Human effort will not create salvation. Only the grace of God can save the human soul.

Faith is now. God walked with Adam and Eve in the cool of the evening. God Almighty. Impossibilities must bow their knee. We are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works.

Grace is the power to stop sin. Grace is to fulfil the calling of your life. We believe in Gospel. Give by going. Go by giving. Jesus paid for sickness and sin. We are in the collections department—collecting what Jesus paid for.

Grace, Repentance and Holiness

New Testament—some twisting the Gospel. Distortion—twisting the Gospel. Legalism forgets that salvation is a gift. Hyper grace teaches wrongfully that grace does not require repentance and holiness. True grace produces humility and transformation.

Romans 6:1. Certainly not continue in sin. Your yesterday should not keep you from your today. Worrying is not a fruit of faith but of doubt. Sow a smile—everybody speaks smile.

Rom 6:14. Sin shall not have dominion over you. Grace breaks sins authority. Purpose of Grace is to make freedom possible.

Those who are of God do not sin. 1 John 3:8. He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has sinned from the beginning. For this purpose, the Son of God was manifested, that He might destroy the works of the devil.

He is the great I Am not the great I was. You know that you know that you know. Engrafted in the vine. God corrects those He loves.

Titus 2:11—grace—denying ungodliness and worldly lust—live soberly. Grace trains the believer like a coach trains an athlete. Grace makes holiness possible.

Foundations of Faith

Jesus—repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Heb 6:1-2. Foundations of faith. Repentance from dead works.

You have to reproduce yourself. Everyone should lay hands on the sick. Everyone should pray in tongues. No one can understand the things of God but the spirit.

Apostles—Acts 3:19. Repentance preached—returning heart back to God. 1 John 9. Doorway back into intimacy with God. Are we more sorry that we are grieving the Father or that we are caught out in sin?

James 2:17. Faith without works is dead. Real faith produces work. Jesus taught same principle.

Healing, Gentleness and Divine Discipline

Hurt people hurt people. Healed people can heal people. Let your gentleness be known to all men. If your heart condemns you not, you can have confidence before God.

Heb 12:6. Lord disciplines the ones He loves. Divine discipline. Correction brings peaceable fruit of righteousness. Every time you sin—sow seeds of death.

Romans 10:9. If confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus. Jujitsu fighters in a church in Brazil first acknowledged Jesus as Lord—the God healed them all. Follow Jesus. Have faith in God.

The Bride and the Bible

Goal of grace is prep of church as a Bride—glorious church not having spot or wrinkle. Christ is purifying His people. Gospel tolerating sin unrepentant cannot produce holy bride of Christ.

Be strong in grace that is in Christ Jesus. My commandments are not burdensome. Hard—if doing in flesh. Honour God and do it His way.

Bible: Basic instructions Before Leaving Earth.

Pure Heart and Christian Life

Give me a pure heart and clean hands. Purge before the Lord. Christian life is impossible. With grace it is possible to love a Christian life.

Prepare a meal that is safe for you. Spiritual dieticians. It takes 5 to thrive. Get back in the Word.

In your liberty don’t cause others to sin. Don’t be named under any sin. If you’re accused, don’t cause people to think that.

Husbands love your wives—give yourselves to her as Jesus loved the church. Eph. 5:25. Sin causes shame—Adam sinned and hid. Repentance—go and sin no more.

Summary

1. If you want grace you gotta give grace. Love the Lord your God. Love neighbour as yourself. Law of sowing and reaping.
2. Salvation is a complete gift. By Grace we are saved through faith—not of yourself, it is the gift of God. Human effort will not create salvation.
3. Grace makes holiness possible. Grace breaks sins authority. Purpose of Grace is to make freedom possible. True grace produces humility and transformation.
4. Repentance—returning heart back to God. Doorway back into intimacy with God. Repentance from dead works. Go and sin no more.
5. Faith without works is dead. Real faith produces work. We are His workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works.
6. Follow Jesus. Have faith in God. Agree with heaven to receive from heaven. Impossibilities must bow their knee.
7. Honour God and do it His way. Get back in the Word. In your liberty don’t cause others to sin. Give me a pure heart and clean hands.