I listened to an interview of someone that represents a certain kind of teaching that many have criticized. Some of the points that has been criticized have been unfounded after I listened to the interview. I will not mention the church or person because it does not have to do with the article, there is the phenomenon of which I am looking for. Now it has been three years since I listened to the interview and now I have listened to it again, to check that I have not misunderstood something. During this time, I have come to one thing: A theological drift opens for a new one. They began by saying: "We do not need the law, it belongs to the old covenant." You can preach the gospel without the law, but it is a hefty theological drift, which I will address later. The law is good if one uses it properly (1Tim1: 8). It may not have been the intention from the beginning that it could be any theological drift, but because it has become easy to misunderstand the teaching so the result has still been there.
Now that I have heard a few more preachers from this theological orientation so I understand that it drifted more and statements like: "you have been sanctified through what Jesus did on the cross, there is nothing more you can do, everything is ready, you can not get better, the heaven is open for you", "Through Jesus, you have been sanctified.*" Such statements can be interpreted a little differently depending on who is listening. I think you should be clear about what they mean and do not try to explain itself to it's easy to misunderstand things.
*Sanctified in that meaning that a person has been set free from sin.
Where have we ended up?
Step 1 we do not need the law because it is tough for us and we do not want to offend people.
Step 2, we probably need not sanctification, for that is a difficult process for us and it's hard to confess sin and repent.
We have ended up exactly where God's Word is talking about: the man in the last days.
2 Timothy 4:3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear
They can not stand the Word of God in its fullness any longer.
2 Timothy 3:1-5 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.
To deny God's power is precisely what you do when you do not take holiness seriously anymore. The power of God to transform us in the sanctification process (confession and so on). Is to accept sin instead be set free from it. True grace is not to go on living in sin, it is to be freed from sin.