JOHN 1: 14-18

Beloved children of God, John 1:14 says “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.” Christianity is not religion but a relationship with God and is about a living God who comes to us to reveal himself to humanity. Jesus preexisted with the Father before coming to earth. He took on flesh, went from preexisting with the father to existing with us. He gave up his rights and set aside His privileges of God. In John’s Gospel, Jesus reminded His listeners that He had come down from heaven. He told Nicodemus, “[I] came down from heaven” (John 3:13). He told His disciples, “For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me” (John 6:38). He became Human, lived a selfless, obedient life and He died the worse kind of death to save and restore humanity form being cut off forever from the Father. Jesus knows what life is like and He sees fit to make sure our lives are made whole and that it is restored back to the Father the way life should have always been thus giving us True Life. Jesus came to earth as a Man who stripped himself of his rights, privilege, and position as God in heaven in order to rescue all of mankind from the curse of Sin. Jesus was broken for us so that we may be made whole. Brothers and sisters in Christ, we as Christians have a lot of blessings to count, most important of which is the salvation of our souls. Every Christian in the world can say that God has given me one blessing after another. John writes that our blessings come from the fullness of His grace. God says that He is full of Grace, which means God is like a giant warehouse of gracious blessings and that warehouse never runs out. Every day the angels pull up there trucks and loads up God’s blessings and when God blesses His people, no one is left out. There is no Christian who has not been thoroughly blessed by God as declared in John 1:16 “From the fullness of His Grace we have ALL received one blessing after another. All of us receive a ton of blessings from God, no one is left out. Beloved brethren, instead of us being punished for our sins, Christ is punished instead as our substitute. On this last Thanksgiving Sunday in the year 2015, it is right to say THANK YOU, GOD!