May grace and peace be multiplied to you. Read it online at the Bible Gateway: (NIV) (NASB) (KJV) (The Message) John wrote that Jesus was full of grace and truth and that from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace (John 1:14,16). The idea portrayed is analogous to the ocean waves crashing upon the beach. One wave has hardly disappeared before another arrives. They just keep coming from an inexhaustible supply. So it is with the grace of God through Christ. Hes full of grace and truth, and from his inexhaustible fullness we receive one blessing after another. William Hendriksen commented on this passage as follows: The meaning of verse 16 is that believers are constantly receiving grace in the place of grace. One manifestation of the unmerited favor of God in Christ is hardly gone when another arrives; hence grace upon grace. The concept grace upon grace, an incessant supply of grace, harmonizes better with the idea from his fullness than does the simple term grace. The limitless supply or reservoir indicated by the words his fullness would seem to suggest a limitless outflow: grace upon grace. The God who was gracious to Adam and Eve both before and after the Fall, who rejoiced in doing good to the Jewish nation in captivity, who was the God of all grace to Peter (1 Peter 5:10) is the same gracious and generous God today. Grace is part of the very nature of God, and he cannot change. He is indeed the generous landowner of the parable in Matthew 20:1-16, continually going to the marketplace of life to find those in need of a days wages so he can bring them into his vineyard and then reward them out of all proportion to their labors. (Excerpt taken from Transforming Grace) The Navigators
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