Grace & Glory

Jhn.1:14, And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, (and we beheld, we gazed upon His glory, the glory as of an only begotten of the Father) filled up with all that grace and truth is.

We have been seeing how the grace of Christ can never be separated from the truth of His glory. (Please see Jhn. 10:30; 13:31-32; 14:9; 17:11, 21-22; Col. 1:27). Grace is never freedom to sin (Rom. 6:1,15; 3:8), but freedom from sin. (Please see Gal. 5:1-6; Jhn. 1:16-17; 8:32, 36).

satan, the adversary and accusing enemy of God, and us in Christ, wants to make us his prisoner of deceit and accusation (Rev. 12:9-10) through our own will not being submitted to God, through Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Please see Jhn.16:13-14;Ja.4:6-7; with Mt. 11:28-30).

This, of course, is dealing with our experience and not our position in Christ. (Please see Eph. 1:1-23). Sin, in the Christian’s experience, separates them from the fellowship of the Father and Son (1 Jhn. 1:1-4-9), but can never touch our positional relationship with God through Christ, by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Please see 1 Jhn. 5:18).

satan wants us to keep living, experientially, in the bondage of guilt and condemnation and for that condition to be how God sees us and we see ourselves, and not in how God sees and knows us in the Son of His love. (Please see Rom. 8:1-4; Col. 1:12-13).

Thankful for the truth of 1 Jhn. 1:9, and Job 36:7.