In John 1, we read the following:
“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.”
Then, verses 16 to 18, also say: “And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. For the law was given through Moses, [but] grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared [Him].”
When we truly believe that Jesus, God the Son, is now also the King here on earth and in their own lives, so many things happen, and so many things change!
Two things happen when we allow God’s grace and truth into our lives: it will change not only our lives but also everything around us.
This is what happens when Jesus enters people’s lives as the King. Things can no longer remain the same. Repentance must take place and continue to take place.
I want to talk to you about this grace-side and truth-side of the Gospel message about the Kingdom.
I don’t know if you know, but the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah was October 3-4, 2024. According to the Jewish calendar, the year 5785 arrived.
This means that in 2025, according to the Jewish calendar, we are still in the year 5785.
This is important and prophetically insightful, because of those two 5s in the Jewish year and the 5 in our year, 2025.
Did you know that the number 5 prophetically screams out just one word: Grace!
The number 5785 says as it were: Grace at the beginning and grace at the end! Grace at the front, and grace at the back. From the beginning to the end, it is only God’s grace on all sides!
But not just any grace. No, it is Jesus' grace; it is a Kingdom-of-heaven kind of grace!
As John 1 shows us: It is the kind of grace that always has a truth side!
So where people say that they are God's people, are Ekklesia, and are believing followers of King Jesus, this grace of God will be tangible. People will be able to taste and smell this grace. They will experience it when they are among us and deal with us. They will taste and experience this grace when they see how we love and care for one another.
Grace always begins there at the foot of the cross of Jesus, where people see and experience how a God who loved them so much that He sent His Only Son, Himself God, to become man and to give His life so that those who believe in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. (John 3:16)
At the foot of the cross, people who did not deserve it, discover how God extends His hands full of grace to us and hear Him say to each of us: This is for you too! Take it in faith! Choose to believe that He did it for you too!
To everyone who accepted Him, yes, who believes that Jesus was truly God who became man and came to live among us, to die on the cross for me and my sin, but also rose to now be the new King here on earth, everyone who believes this is changed into children of the living God by this grace. (John 1:12)
Tell me, do you believe this?
Was there a day and a date when you chose to believe that Jesus did this for you too?
Perhaps you do not always know exactly when you believe this. You could, of course, choose a day and a date somewhere that you can carve like a peg in the ground and write it next to texts like John. 3:16 and John 1:12, or 1 John 5:12-14, to write down in your Bible, which you can grab on those days when doubts arise or when the enemy wants to lie and deceive you.
What is important is that you can be sure and know that if you die today, you can know for sure that you are saved, are God's child in Jesus, and will not be lost!