2Cor.5:17(Amp) says, "Therefore, if any person is ingrafted in Christ Jesus (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether), the old previous moral and Spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
We can know what God's Grace has provided for His family, when reading Rom.1:17(Amp), which says, "For in the Gospel a righteousness which God ascribes is revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith, disclosed through the way of faith that arouses to more faith. As it is written, The man who through faith is just and upright shall live and shall live by faith."
Much has been said about growing our faith and living by faith. We can't put faith in what we don't know. We grow from faith to faith, by reading His Word and seeing what His Promises have provided us, through Grace. We need to understand what Grace has provided us, in Jesus. Eph.2:5(Amp) says, "Even when we were dead (slain by our own shortcomings and trespasses), He made us alive (the just shall live by faith). Together in fellowship and union with Christ; He gave us the very Life of Christ Himself, the Same new Life which He quickened Him, for it is by Grace (His favor and mercy which you did not deserve) that you are saved, delivered from judgement and made partakers of Christ's salvation."
God has already provided our salvation, two-thousand years before we were born. We were saved at the very moment we put faith in what Jesus provided for us and put faith in God's Grace. We weren't made new creations by our works, but by putting faith in God's Grace, which provided our salvation in Jesus. Jesus is the Source of Grace, that our faith is in. When Paul wrote about our "going from faith to faith," he was referring to our continually growing in God's Word, so we can discover all that Jesus has provided us, by His crucifixion. Grace for salvation was provided two-thousand years before we put faith in it and became saved. We accessed God's Grace and became new creations, by faith. This same Grace also provided our righteousness, sanctification, consecration and access to our inheritance in Jesus. It's not what we do, but faith in what Jesus has done and provided by Grace.
Paul writes about the part that faith plays, in what God's Grace has provided for us, in Rom.5:2(Amp) saying, "Through Him also we have our introduction (our access, entrance), faith into this Grace (state of God's favor) in which we firmly stand, And let us rejoice and exalt in our hope of experiencing and enjoying the Glory of God." This isn't by our doing, but by having faith in what Jesus has already done, when He bought and paid for it by His Blood. Grace isn't an excuse for sin, but is a Gift of righteousness.
Jesus provided everything we will ever need for here and hereafter, at His death on the cross and His Resurrection. It comes by Grace and is accepted by faith in Him. He bore our sickness and disease. Grace has already provided our healing and when we put faith in it, then we access what Jesus already provided. This is going from faith to faith. When we read God's Word and put faith in what His Grace has already made ours through Jesus, then we're going from faith to faith, unto completed salvation.
Through Jesus, God has extended His Grace to the entire world, but many have never put faith in His invitation of that Grace and remain unsaved. John3:16(Amp) says, "For God so greatly Love and dearly prized the world that He even gave up His Only Begotten, Unique Son, so that whoever believes, trusts in, clings to, relies on Him, shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost), but have Eternal, Everlasting Life."
God has extended His Grace to the whole world, but it must be accessed by faith in Jesus. We don't earn it, work for it or deserve it, but it is a free Gift of Grace by faith in Jesus. Now that we've accepted this Grace by faith, we must go from faith to faith and accept everything Grace has provided us, through Jesus. When the Father made us a new creation being, He provided everything Jesus paid for and bought by His Sacrifice, for us.
We continue asking the Father for things that He already provided by Grace. We must understand the Amazing Grace that provided our inheritance and made us joint heirs in Christ Jesus. This isn't only for when we get to Heaven, but for while we remain on earth. Jesus Paid the Price for our complete salvation and it's ours when we believe in what He has done.
We try to be good enough to deserve God's Blessing in our lives, but Eph.3:14(Amp) tells us, "To the end that through their receiving Christ Jesus, the Blessing Promised to Abraham might come on the Gentiles, so that we, through faith might all receive the realization of the Promise of the Holy Spirit." We keep "trying to be Blessed," not recognizing that God's Blessing is already ours, by faith in the Grace that Jesus provided by His Sacrifice.
There's nothing we need for our earthly lives, that God's Grace hasn't already provided in Jesus, according to 2Pet.1:3(Amp), which says, "For His Divine Power has bestowed upon us all things that are requisite and suited to life and Godliness, through the full, personal knowledge of Him Who called us by and to His Own Glory and excellence (virtue)."
It's already been offered by Grace and by the full knowledge of Him." We must put faith in the Finished Work of Calvary.
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