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John 8:32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
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John 1:14
The Word became flesh and made
his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only
Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
It’s very
simple yet so profound our finite brains short out again. There really is
absolute truth and His name is Jesus. It isn’t relative to anything, it is not
dependent on anything, and it really isn’t questionable. Faith is required to
accept this reality. It is more real than gravity or the necessity of our
hearts beating and lungs breathing in order to have life. After you’ve looked
at the light, the glory, mentioned in verse 14 above, all your doubts about the
absolute truth of the Bible and of who Jesus is disappear. For me, and some
others, it took a lot for God to get thru our thick heads head and clouded
hearts. My experience, on the night I got saved, was a supernatural light shining
on us, it was a spectacular and supernatural experience after which I never
doubted that Jesus is the King of the Universe and the Bible is absolute truth.
Most people don’t need anything like that to come to the same realization. What
a comfort to rest in, what an assurance and place of stability, it is when we
surrender all doubt and searching. We finally find rest for the soul knowing
that the King of the Universe knows and loves everyone of us individually.
John 8:32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
GRACE
John 1:16
And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace.
Now think
about that last phrase, grace for grace. We receive the grace we need on order
to have more grace, it’s like being in an endless outward spiral. The further
we spiral out the more grace we receive. Jesus is so full there is no limit to
His grace other than our receptivity of it.
A little
lesson in Greek sheds some light. Strong's dictionary defines the Greek word charis
(khar'-ece) as:
acceptable, benefit, favor, gift, grace (-ious), joy, liberality, pleasure, “thank
-worthy.” No doubt you have heard the classic definition as “unmerited favor.”
Well it is that, and so much, much, more. Listen to this verse
Heb 4:16 Let us
therefore come boldly to the throne of grace; that we may obtain mercy and find
grace to help in time of need.
The Lord
admonishes us to come boldly before Him to get this grace when we need it.
Don’t let the enemy inhibit you and God will never answer NO to this prayer.
Think of Queen Esther risking her life to go before her husband the king to
plea for the lives of her people. She was so bold that she risked her life to
go before him. His love for her was greater than the traditions of men. She was
desperate for “grace to help in time of
need.” This tells me that there must be something very powerful about
grace, and something so wonderful about the fact that God wants to give it to
us. His love is unbounded.
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Gen 6:5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man
was great in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was
only evil continually.
7 So the
LORD said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the
earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry
that I have made them."
8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the
LORD.
Things may
be tough right now but we’re not facing extermination. I’m a Jewish guy, I knew
Holocaust survivors and heard their stories of German concentration camps and
slaughter of millions. I heard the stories of the Pogroms in Russia forcing
countless numbers of Jews who were not among the slaughtered and enslaved to be
thrown off their land and out of their country where they had been for close to
1,000 years. We’ve all seen the atrocities of IS and other Muslim terrorists on
the news. Believe me we’ve got it pretty good compared to those folks. Those
survivors found grace in the eyes of the
LORD, they survived to tell the story. Please understand that I am not
saying that in this analogy that these genocidal atrocities were God's
judgment, as the flood was. They were the actions of sick crazy people who
worshiped the devil and were possessed by demons.
Some time
ago I read an article about a church where GRACE PREVAILED IN RELATIONSHIPS.
The saints developed relationships with each other where their guard could be
down. No one had to watch what they said too closely and confidentiality was a
given. Their love for one another was greater than anyone’s short comings. People
were comfortable about “spilling their guts” when needed and quick to lift one
another up. No one felt like they needed to prove anything to anyone. It’s my
prayer that God’s people would relate to one another in a GRACE PLACE. If our
hearts are abundantly filled with the love of God than that’s what comes out
and we’ll hear things people say through that filter. God is constantly
extending His Grace and Peace through His people.
PRAYER – May the reality of the light of the Gospel
in your face be reflected by your church throughout this Earth. May we have confidence
in you because You are the Truth and Your Word defines what absolute truth is.
May we be quick to run to you for your grace to help when we need it – and Lord
we always need it so that we can continually reflect your love. Finally Lord,
give us the grace to let your love and graces prevail in our relationships with
each other. May your church always be a haven, a GRACE PLACE!
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LAMB OF GOD
John 1: 29 The next day
John saw Jesus coming toward him, and said, “Behold! The Lamb of God who takes
away the sin of the world!
Under the
law of Moses, dealing with sin was to bring a sacrificial animal, usually a
lamb with no flaws, to the Temple where the priests would go through the
process of killing it, butchering, spreading some blood on the altar and
cooking it. Each individual paid the price of his own sin and there was no
power to change the sinful nature. As John tells everyone to look at Jesus he
is saying that guy is going to change the paradigm of dealing with our sin. John
said,
John 1:23 He said: “I am ‘The voice of one
crying in the wilderness: “Make straight the way of the Lord,” ’as the prophet
Isaiah said.”
Think of
verse 29 as John’s way of paving the road for what Jesus say...
John 3:15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish
but have eternal life.
16 For
God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever
believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
17 For God did not send His Son into the world to
condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
PRAYER – Father help us to accept this New Testament
paradigm of how to deal with our sin. Give us the power to accept Your Son’s
sacrifice that we might overcome every sin and “let us lay aside every weight,
and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race
that is set before us,” (Heb. 12:1) May we always walk in the freedom that this
sacrifice bought for us and give us the grace to:
Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which
Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
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