Title: Grace on top of grace
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Bible Text: John 1:16
grace over grace
John 1:16
Grace is received by those who do not deserve it, and it means receiving something great and precious beyond wrath. Giving undeserved love and favor to an unworthy person is called grace. Grace is receiving something that is priceless and priceless with money. I received for free what I could not make, obtain, or achieve on my own.
Free Grace
Grace upon grace is grace given freely. Free grace means free, not cheap. “Jesus was delivered for our transgressions, and was raised for our justification” (Romans 4:24). “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by the grace of God through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus” (Romans 3:23-24).
Jesus' death paid the price and we were saved. The saints who received free grace became the things of God that God bought with a price. “It was bought with a price, so glorify God in your body” (1 Corinthians 6:24).
“Come to the Lord, step by step, if you tell the Lord, you will be blessed. Do not refuse the free grace you give” (Hymns 323). “For by grace you have been saved, through faith, and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8).
Because the dead are raised to life by grace. Who doesn't deserve salvation? No one is unworthy of salvation. Anyone who comes to Jesus will be saved. Salvation is not received with qualifications, it is received through grace. Grace is given freely without labor and without payment.
Grace is what connects separated relationships. It is grace to experience reconciliation with God. It is grace to be connected with God, who is the source of life. It is grace to receive and enjoy life and peace from God. Grace is the wealth, confidence, and hope of the heart that comes from God.
When Jesus was hanging on the cross, there was a thief dying beside him. “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom!” He has been an unbeliever his whole life and has been an “evil man.” Jesus said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.” One simple confession of faith sent me to paradise. Please do not refuse the grace given free of charge.
Sufficient grace
Grace upon grace is grace that is sufficient. Sufficient grace is not sufficient grace because all of my desires are satisfied. It is a sufficient grace given out of dissatisfaction.
The drunk husband was driving the car. My wife asked me to leave the car, but she didn't listen. After a while, when he saw a drunken police officer, the husband asked his wife to change seats. My wife, who has a driver's license but has no experience, sat in the driver's seat. The police saw it. “Did you drink? Give me your license.” My husband said he didn't drink. I told him to blow the Eunju meter, but my husband shouts and refuses. The young son next to him cries out loud. The angry wife said, "I can't blow quickly. You were drinking and driving!” and screamed. In the end, I got my license suspended for 100 days and was fined. When the husband returned home, he said to his wife, “You are my wife!” and shouted. The couple had a big fight that day, but the incident caused the husband to stop drinking. The suspension of my license for 100 days and a fine was the beginning of a new life.
The Apostle Paul, speaking of his imprisonment, said, “Brothers, I want you to know two things that happened to me that actually made the gospel progress” (Philippians 1:12). Paul was ill. It is called “a branch of the flesh, that is, a messenger of Satan.” I prayed earnestly three times that the disease would go away. God did not heal the sick, but replied, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” He experienced the power of Hana Nam while suffering pain from the thorns in his body.
It can be called what kind of grace when it comes to pain, but sickness and weakness rather penetrated into God's arms and became an opportunity to strengthen God's power. “Therefore, on the contrary, with great rejoicing, I will boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest on me, and though I am nothing, I lack nothing above the greatest apostles.
Grace upon grace is the grace that adds the power of God to those who have been saved free of charge. The word 'in spite of this', which is 'on the contrary', is a word that reverses the meaning of the preceding sentence. This is the most appropriate term to describe grace. The Greek word for grace is “charis”, which means “kindness overflowing with wrath.” Even if you don't deserve it, you are giving generously. I hope you will receive grace, receive more, boast of your weaknesses, and experience sufficient grace.
amazing grace
Grace upon grace is a wonderful grace. What is amazing grace? “It is the grace of becoming a man.” “It is by the grace of God that I am what I am, and his grace that was given to me was not in vain” (1 Corinthians 15:10).
To be a person is to be a person. Paul's current character is not what he originally had, but the character that was renewed after he met Christ Jesus. In the past, he was an immature person, an unmature person, an egg (1 Corinthians 15:8), but he has matured.
“I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and a murderer, but I found mercy because I acted ignorantly in unbelief” (1 Timothy 1:13). He was a persecutor (1 Corinthians 15:9).
It was after meeting Jesus that he became a respected person. He was elevated by the knowledge of Jesus (Philippians 3:8). To be noble means to have high standards and dignity. It means excellent. It was the grace and truth of Jesus that made that person high. Jesus was full of grace and truth (John 1:14), and it is amazing grace to receive from the fullness.
Right before he met Jesus, he was on the verge of living. It was full of feelings of wanting to kill people. As I was on my way to arrest a Christian who was fleeing in Damascus, Jesus said, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?” When I heard the words, “Who are you, Lord?” “I am Jesus whom you are persecuting,” I fell down and became blind. After receiving the prayer of a disciple of the Lord called Ananias and seeing him again, he became a new person (Acts 9:1-9).
He had experienced his own transformation. Anyone who receives the grace of Jesus becomes a new person. “If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away; behold, the new has come” (2 Corinthians 5:17). You will be promoted to a higher personality. Amazing grace makes a person glorified. The purpose becomes great, and the thought becomes nobler. It is said that the word grace appears 125 times in the Bible. Moody received uncontrollable grace while reading the Bible and dealing with the word grace, went outside and grabbed a passerby and asked. “Do you know grace?” He asked, “Who is grace?” Grace is a gift from Jesus, God.
Just as the earth cannot produce anything without rain and sunlight, we cannot do anything without God's grace. Even if we are lacking, there is nothing we cannot and cannot do if we receive grace. Grace is my life relationship with Jesus. Free grace, sufficient grace, and wonderful grace come to all of us, and receive from the fulness of grace.
“Supply faith virtue, virtue knowledge, knowledge self-control, self-control perseverance, perseverance godliness, godliness brotherly kindness, and friendship love” (2 Peter 1:5-7). I believe it is grace.