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[Scribe]

Originally Posted by manna-man

Yes,...What a mystery!

That grace can flow from our God/Christ into His body/us!

To fully grasp and appreciate the splendor of this "grace" is our homework project for eternity.

And this is just the beginning! To Know such a Person.

May we all appreciate more and more His love/grace that endures forever!

Peace brother Scribe,

Don Jr.

Greetings Manna-man. Glorious study indeed is grace. In my present experience I see, that as grace passes through a man, he goes through certain trials in which he gains Christ. What he goes through and his victory in it become added into the grace of God to be imparted to others.

We of course have this grace because it is formed in Jesus. All He is and has and has experienced has become this grace. But not only. His grace has also passed through Paul. We need Paul's experience in our grace. So Paul writes to the Philppians in chapter one

³I thank my God for my whole remembrance of you,

⁴constantly in my every supplication, making the supplication for you all with joy,
⁵because of your fellowship with the gospel, from the first day until now;
⁶having confidence of this very thing, that he who has begun in you a good work will complete it unto Jesus Christ's day: ⁷as it is righteous for me to think this as to you all, because ye have *me* in your hearts, and that both in my bonds and in the defence and confirmation of the glad tidings ye are all participators in my grace.


Paul is confident that He who has began a good work in us will complete it. He knows it is righteous for him to think this- Because "you have me in your hearts". I do not think he means in a sentimental way. He means that he was been mingled into the gospel and imparted into our heart. In all his experience and suffering with the gospel he has been reduced and mingled into the grace to be in us. This is his confidence. So now in the defence and confirmation of Paul's gospel we are partakers of his grace. And not only so dear brother, that grace grows. For as we partaker of Paul's grace we have our own particular tirals and sufferings in the gosepl. This compounds into the grace to be imparted to others.

Yes what mystery. It is no small thing to receive grace from your brother. I am thankful.

Scribe