God's Grace is New Life in CHRIST.

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John 3:16 says that God so loved the world, that He GAVE.

"GOD gave".

God is a giver. Hes an amazing mixture of Holiness, Love, and Giving. He's always giving. Giving health, giving help, giving answers, giving restoration, giving hope, giving favor, giving Love. Even creation is the act of giving.

Who did He give.? He Gave Jesus. And why did He give Jesus to the "world" Jesus? And notice, that God gave Jesus to the "world".... Not to the good people, or to the bad people, but to the World.. To the "worldly"... To the SINNER.

"ive not come to call the righteous". "its not the healthy who need the doctor".

To LOVE is to GIVE....

Jesus came for one simple reason... He came to make the ungodly, Godly. "To all who worketh NOT, but believeth on God >who justifies the UNGODLY<, their Faith is accepted, is counted AS GOD's Righteousness".

This is the Gift of Righteousness and this is the fruit of John 3:16. God so loved the world that He GAVE Jesus, as a GIFT, and this Gift IS the power of the Blood Atonement to make the ungodly, into the Godly.

The reason that Jesus's blood can make you holy, is because the Blood of Jesus, is God's Blood. "God was manifested in the FLESH". It is God's Blood that was shed for you.

If you are born again, you were MADE Righteous...."Made".... and only God can do that, and did. """ For God hath made Jesus to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God, In Christ"

.When you turned your heart to Jesus, God turned His heart to you, and took that BLOOD of the Only Begotten and shed it for YOU, and the Power of that Blood removed your sin and made you into "the righteousness of God'" as your NEW EXISTANCE as a "child of God". You were literally born by the Spirt of God, INTO the Spirit of God.... completing your union with God and Christ, and now you are IN Christ., and He is IN you.

How about that GIFT. ????? !! THATS GOD's GIFT TO YOU. "The Gift of Salvation".... God Gifted you with RIGHTEOUSNESS in place of your SIN. God took your sin, laid it on Jesus, and he bore it and became it and DIED for YOU. God then took the Righteousness of Jesus and caused you to be born again IN THAT and OF THAT and AS THAT...... You were MADE "the righteousness of Christ". This is "The GIFT of Salvation". "The GIFT of Righteousness". And in that very instant you stopped being who you were, and became a NEW CREATION, BORN AGAIN. "IN Christ".

And Reader, this is "not by our self effort, but according to God's MERCY, by God's GRACE", that ALL this is accomplished for you as THE GIFT OF Salvation..

Salvation is: Jesus given as a "standing offer" to "whosoever will".. "To ALL who will come".. and if you came to the Cross and gave God your Faith, then You now and forever have His HOLY AND ETERNAL GIFT.

Its a universal invite. Everyone is welcome . = "to all who will come". "for God so loved the WORLD....that He GAVE....

God's Love desires that ALL will come and take His free GIFT of Salvation.

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So again, why specifically was Jesus sent? He was sent from Heaven, as the Living Bread, for the "suffering of Death", Hebrews 2:9.

And what is that Death? That death is the "cup" that Jesus knew was coming, that caused Him to fall to His calloused knees in the Garden of Gethsemane, while sweating blood from His face.

That cup was YOUR JUDGEMENT DUE YOU, for all your sin.... Jesus was about to be tortured, knew it, and was sweating Blood from this extreme pressure and stress.

Soon the whips fell, the Crown was pressed, the spikes were driven, and the Cross was raised.....FOR YOU.

Was there ever such a GIFT?
Was there ever such a GIFT?

Reader, who loves you like that?
Who?

Only God. Only Jesus....

Now you love them ....don't you? But they loved you and did this for you before you were even born, knowing you were coming.

This Gift of Love was always waiting for you. Always there.... God's Love nailed to the Cross.

And one day you Trusted in Christ, and all of Heaven itself REJOICED.

Heaven rejoiced because YOU became an eternally forgiven "child" in the Eternal Family Of God.
 
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