Jesus died for our sins so that we can live in Him and through Him. Matthew 5:45 says, “He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.” All have received the grace of life. Everyone has benefited from the goodness in this world that God not only created but provided. Every sinner, saint, atheist, agnostic, and doubter have all received His gifts of through being alive, witnessing God’s hand-painted sunsets, the breath in their lungs, or the love of a parent. If you’re alive and living on this planet, you have already benefited from God’s grace and goodness. He is our infinite source of grace and truth. Through Jesus, we have all we could ever need. Through this relationship, He is full of grace and truth ( John 1:14). Whatever we have in Jesus, it comes from His fullness in God. This passage tells us that Jesus’ fullness is the never-ending source of grace. John 1:16 says, “Out of his fullness we have all received grace in a place of grace already given.” In other words, grace upon grace. The word translated " grace" in the New Testament comes from the Greek word charis, which means “favor, blessing, or kindness.” What Is the Meaning of 'Grace upon Grace'? In other words, Jesus’s actions became the unthinkable transfer: the perfect Son of God taking our darkness, crimes, hatred, deceit, and lies, becoming our unrighteousness so that we could receive His perfection as our own. There is sin, no darkness, no crime ever committed that His limitless purity and goodness has not already paid for. He took the penalty of our sin and made it His own. Jesus loved us so immeasurably that He sacrificed Himself with all of His infinite perfection. Have you ever felt the weight of feeling unworthy? Or the way hopelessness untethers your soul? But then you meet the One who gives grace not because you deserve it but because He loves you anyway? God gives us grace upon grace because we’re all flawed, imperfect human beings in need of saving.
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