From His fullness we have all received grace upon grace.From his fullness we all received grace upon grace.And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.For of his fulness we all received, and grace for grace.
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… and the word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. The question we have is, is that worth the wait? Like, is what God has done, is that worth the wait? Because think about this, from the beginning of the story, from the actually very first story. Here's Genesis chapter one and two, chapter three, everything falls apart. But in the midst of Genesis chapter three, Genesis chapter three, verse 15, God promises, he promises that there is going to be one who crushes the head of the serpent. There is gonna be one who restores all things. And then the whole rest of the story is people waiting from Abraham to Isaac, to Jacob, to the judges, to the kings, to the divided kingdom, to the civil war, to exile, through all the whole entire story, all the way to Jesus. is that worth the wait? I was thinking about, you know, this, think of right now, Christmas Day. I think a lot of us, we get really excited. …
… Where grace is, there's life. Put on the screen, John chapter one, verse 16. Out of his fullness, we have all received grace in place of grace already given. For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. Put on the screen, grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It raises the beggar from the dunghill and sets him among the princes. You and I could never earn our way to Jesus. We could never deserve our way to the Father. So God sent us his one and only son. Grace is undeserved. It is unearned. I love this. Also, the law says try harder, but grace says let me help you. when you're under the tyranny of the law the law demands you better try you better you better you better tithe you better pray oh you just Some of us think this is how God talks to us. What's wrong? The law says try harder. …
… created the heaven and the earth. John is saying, in the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God and the Word was God. That sentence in and of itself was enough to keep the theologians busy for three hundred years because on the one hand the Word is distinguished from God and then from a different perspective is identified with God. And since we looked at that somewhat closely during the Advent season, I'm just going to remind you that it's there as pregnant as it is in significance and is the basis basically more than anything else for the church's confession of Trinity. We read, He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him. Without Him nothing was made that was made. So that Jesus who came to this earth is now identified as the incarnation of that member of the Trinity for whom, by whom, and in whom all things were made. So that what John is saying in extraordinary ways is this, the one I'm going to tell you about, the one that I want you to believe in, and the one in whom there is life is the one who created you in the first place. …