For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
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… You've been brought from darkness into light. John 1, 17, the law was given by Moses, grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. That's what Romans ought to be doing for us. Week after week now. See, you know what? You hoist up that flagpole every morning for you and your family because you're a sinner justified by redemption and propitiation, given as a free, sovereign, unilateral gift. You suffer. There's suffering. Bad things happen to good people. That's true. But the story of your life, if you're a Christian, the story of my life is the story of grace. which is why when Paul is going to make the turn in the chapters ahead to talk about how then you ought to live, it ought to be so welling up within us that we're saying, well, of course, the whole banner waving over my life is grace. Of course, I'm grateful. Of course, I'm obedient. Of course, I present my body as a living sacrifice because everything I have and everything I am is grace. What's the story of this church? It's the story of grace. …
… 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. …
… 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. You know what grace says? Grace says, let me help you. Because wherever Jesus is, there's life. He didn't look at the women at the well and say, what's wrong with you? …
… From his fullness we have all received, hello, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. Praise God. then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the praetorium we're getting close to the finish here and gather the whole company and I'm skipping over huge chunks of scripture in multiple hundreds of verses about grace the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him and they stripped him and they put a Thank you. scarlet robe on him. and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. The same grace that chose us before the foundation of the world in eternity past wove a robe. that they would put on Jesus. just minutes before he would go to the cross. grace finished the work when he received the drink jesus said it is finished and with that he bowed his head and gave up his spirit if grace is god it worked and god at work finished the work right there on that cross and he said it's finished the work of grace is done i have done what i decided in eternity past that I would do and I have become what I knew I would become. I am the sacrifice for the sins of the world and I will give a perfect life to ransom men. It is finished. Grace. God at work. …
… 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. …