As we begin this new week, let us remember our constant need for grace. But let us remember as well that the New Testament always links grace with the person and work of the Mediator, the God-Man Jesus Christ. "Grace...came through Jesus Christ" (John 1:17; c.f. 1 Pet 1:10). "Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus" (2 Tim 2:1).Grace abounded...so that, as sin reigns in death, grace also might reign through righteousness (Jesus' obedience to death) to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord" (Rom 5:20f.). It is in union with the person of Jesus, crucified, risen, and ascended, and by virtue of His atonement, that men know grace, and it is faith in Christ--belief of the "message of the cross" (1 Cor 1:18), and trust in the risen Christ--that is the means by which we enter into it.
Let's walk in this grace this week. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly (Col 3:16).
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