Grace

N.T.#686 "Grace"

Dec. 3, 2025

John 1-Part 4 

LET IT GLOW

When we believed in Jesus, called on His name, and received Him as our Lord and Savior, we became a child of God.  (verse 12) Then we are reborn spiritually, not on the basis of lineage or Jewish heritage, not of because of a carnal desire (flesh), not of our will or human in its origin. We have a changed heart-new attitudes, desires, and motives. How? It is a supernaturally of God. (verse 13)

LET IT GROW

How does John describe Jesus in verse 14?

• The Word was made flesh. Jesus became human, taking on a body.
• Jesus dwelt among us. Dwelt means to encamp or reside. Jesus was a fully divine nature and a fully human nature. He faced hunger, pain, temptation, grief, hardship, and rejection. 
• Those who saw Jesus beheld His glory, the Father, because Jesus is the only Begotten Son of God. Peter, James, and Joh saw Jesus transfigured before their eyes. 
• Jesus is full of grace and truth. John probably had in mind when God displayed His glory to Moses in Exodus 33-34. 

The attributes of God are: merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth. (Exodus 33:18, 19; 34:5-7)

Aren't we believers to have those same attributes?

In the Greek language, grace means gracious (divine influence up the heart, and its reflection in the life; including gratitude; favor, acceptable, thank, gift.

Do we show grace, God's grace, to others?

LET IT GO

Fill us with Your grace and truth, Lord.

May we have a grateful heart, full of grace.

Thank You Jesus for Your grace toward us.

God's grace is greater than all our sin.