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Grace in its highest definition is
God in the Son to be enjoyed by us;
It is not only something done or giv’n,
But God Himself, our portion glorious.
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God is incarnate in the flesh that we
Him may receive, experience ourself;
This is the grace which we receive of God,
Which comes thru Christ and which is Christ Himself.
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Paul the Apostle counted all as dung,
’Twas only God in Christ he counted grace;
’Tis by this grace—the Lord experienced—
That he surpassed the others in the race.
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It is this grace—Christ as our inward strength—
Which with His all-sufficiency doth fill;
It is this grace which in our spirit is,
There energizing, working out God’s will.
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This grace, which is the living Christ Himself,
Is what we need and must experience;
Lord, may we know this grace and by it live,
Thyself increasingly as grace to sense.

Copyright Living Stream Ministry. Used by permission.

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八月 17 2026
Anitha Nokku

Tustin, CA, United States

"But Noah found favor in the sight of Jehovah." (Genesis 6:8)

favor Or, grace. Noah was able to walk with God in that crooked, perverted, and adulterous generation because he found grace (cf. Heb. 4:16). Grace is God coming to us to be our life supply, our strength, and our everything. Such grace enabled Noah to overcome the flesh and to live a righteous life.

Grace is the highest definition of God incarnate reaching to the fallen man through his only begotten son Jesus Christ. We just need him to be our life. Lord grant us your experiences.

It’s such a wonderful song.

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八月 16 2026
Vc

Tampa, Fl, United States

❤️God is incarnate in the flesh that we

Him may receive, experience ourself;

This is the grace which we receive of God,

Which comes thru Christ and which is Christ Himself. ❤️

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七月 9 2026
James Smith

Ontario, OH, United States

God is real and full of grace. You can not separate Grace from Christ. They subsist together. The definition of grace in this hymn is very profound. Because Christ reaches us by the Spirit where we’re as our supply , our portion, and our enjoyment. His grace is sufficient for all our life. This is not a common understanding. This hymn is full of riches that we should be enjoying experientially.

“Grace in its highest definition is

God in the Son to be enjoyed by us;

It is not only something done or giv’n,

But God Himself, our portion glorious. ”

John 1:17 Recovery Version

For the law was given through Moses; grace and reality came through Jesus Christ.

For reference:

John 1:17 New American Standard Bible

For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized [became real] through Jesus Christ.

John 1:17 Darby Bible Translation

For the law was given by Moses: grace and truth subsists through Jesus Christ.

We are in the age of grace. We only need to receive Him by faith.

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十二月 10 2025
Un Hermano

THE SPIRIT OF GRACE

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This book also tells us that the Spirit is the Spirit of grace (10:29). The Spirit of grace simply means that the Triune God in the Son as the Spirit becomes our enjoyment. The Spirit is the reaching of the Triune God to us. The Son could not get into us until He became the Spirit. He was among the disciples, but He needed to go through death and resurrection to become the life-giving Spirit (John 14:16-20 ; 1 Cor. 15:45). Then He was able to breathe Himself as the Holy Breath into the disciples for their enjoyment (John 20:22).

When the Bible uses expressions such as the Spirit of grace, the Spirit of life, and the Spirit of reality, this means that the Spirit is grace, life, and reality. Therefore, when we are the partakers of the Holy Spirit, this means that we are the partakers of the Holy Spirit as grace. The Holy Spirit is our possession, and grace is our possession. It is always better to pray, “Thank You, Lord, for another day, a new day, and thank You that I have the grace to live You today. ” The Spirit of grace is the eternal Spirit; hence, the grace is eternal. The grace that we have received is the eternal grace, which is the eternal, unlimited Spirit. It is inexhaustible.

THE DEFINITION OF GRACE

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The Gospel of John reveals that God came in the way of incarnation. The Word, who was God, became flesh and tabernacled among us, full of grace (1:14). Hymns, #497 tells us that grace in its highest definition is God in the Son to be enjoyed by us. Grace is God in the Son for our enjoyment. Many of us enjoy eating steak. Steak is beef, and beef is a small part of a big cow. The only way that such a big cow could be our enjoyment is by processing it. The cow must first be killed and then cut into pieces. Cutting alone, however, is not adequate. These pieces of steak must be cooked. After such a long process, the beef is now available to us. In like manner, for God to be our enjoyment in the Son, He must be processed.

We have seen that the Word was God, and this Word became flesh, full of grace. John 1:17 tells us that the law was given through Moses, but grace came through Jesus Christ. John 3:16 tells us that “God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. ” God has given us a unique gift, and this gift is nothing less than His only begotten Son. John 3:16 is directly related to John 1:14 . God gave His Son to us by incarnation. If God had never become a man, how could He have given His Son to us? God gave His Son to us by becoming a man. Actually John 1:14 explains John 3:16 , and John 3:16 defines John 1:14 . By putting these two verses together, we have the right understanding of the divine fact that God has given Himself in the person of the Son by the way of incarnation. Although the Son is such a gift, before our receiving of Him, He is not grace to us. When we receive Him, He immediately becomes the grace.

God's New Testament Economy

CHAPTER 17:

THE ETERNAL SPIRIT OF GRACE

AND THE SPIRIT OF ENVY

CWWL, 1984, vol. 3

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八月 5 2025
Felipe

Bernareggio, MB, Italy

Amen saints!

Amen per questo Spirito Vivificante!

Italian:

La grazia nel supremo senso è

Dio che noi Godiamo nel Figliol;

non è soltanto atti_o doni Suoi,

ma Dio stesso, nostra gran porzion.

Dio è incarnato affinché

Lo riceviam e Lo sprimentiam.

Quest’è la grazia che con Cristo vien;

è Cristo stesso, _e noi la riceviam.

Paolo_ogni altra cosa disprezzò,

la grazia - Dio in Cristo - esaltò;

sperimentando questa grazia, lui

gli altri nella gara sorpassò.

La grazia, _il Cristo che dimora_in noi,

la forza sufficiente ci darà;

è l’energia nello spirito

che_esegue la divina volontà.

La grazia che il vivo Cristo è

dobbiamo noi sperimentar ognor;

per questa grazia vivere vogliam,

sentirTi quale grazia, O Signor.

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四月 20 2025
April

San Jose, CA, United States

I am happy to have grace in church and believe in God that listen to me and the importance of a good life being out of control and not knowing, I will have to check my life.

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四月 16 2025
Maria L

Fremont, California, United States

Lord enlighten us to see that grace is Christ as the Spirit giving Himself freely to us for our enjoyment to be everything to us and do everything in us and through us. Hallelujah 😀

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三月 16 2025
V Carire

Tampa, FL, United States

’Twas only God in Christ he counted grace;

’Tis by this grace—the Lord experienced—

Amen!

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二月 27 2025
Anonymous

I'm only a sinner saved by grace

Only a sinner saved by grace To God be the glory, I'm only a sinner saved by grace.

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二月 20 2025
Maria Levi

Los Angeles, CA, United States

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your(our) spirit! (Gal. 6:18)

The Lord be with your(our) spirit. Grace be with you(us)! (2 Tim 4:22)

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your(our) spirit. (Phil. 4:23; Philem. 1:25)

The grace of Jesus Christ is the bountiful supply of the Triune God (who is embodied in the Son and realized as the life-giving Spirit) enjoyed by us through the exercise of our human, regenerated spirit.

Grace is God in Christ as our supply and enjoyment, conveyed to us and realized through the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ (Phil. 1:19).

This grace, which is in the eternal & indestructible life, is nothing less than Christ, the Son of God, who is the very embodiment of the divine life, dwelling and living in our spirit. We need to exercise our spirit day by day to enjoy the riches of this Christ (Eph. 3:8) as our sufficient grace (2 Cor. 12:9).

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Many in Christianity have been taught that grace is unmerited favor, something precious, like air and sunshine, that we receive without paying anything. However, this definition is not adequate. Grace is nothing less than the Triune God. John 1:14 tells us that the Word, who was God, became flesh and tabernacled among us, full of grace and reality. Then verses 16 and 17 say, "Of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and reality came through Jesus Christ," The predicate came indicates that grace is a person. The Jaw was given; it did not come, because it is not personified. We may say, "A Bible was given to me." A Bible does not come; it can only be given, but a person can come. Grace came through Jesus Christ. Thus, this grace is called "the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ" (2 Cor. 13:14). Expressions such as the love of God and the grace of Christ denote that the second noun is in apposition to the first noun. The love of God means that God is love and love is God. These two denote one thing. In the same principle, the grace of Christ indicates that Christ is grace and grace is Christ. This is the grace that Paul received. Paul received a divine, triune person—the Father, the Son, and the Spirit-as grace. This grace enabled, qualified, and empowered him to preach Christ in all His riches. Hymns, #497 says,...

This grace came through Jesus Christ; hence, it is the grace of Christ (John 1:17b; 2 Cor. 8:9a; 13:14a). In Greek, expressions such as the grace of Christ and the love of God are appositions. Grace and Christ, Christ and grace—the two are one. The grace of Christ does not mean that Christ is Christ and grace is grace; rather, it means that Christ is grace. Likewise, the love of God does not mean that outside of God there is something called love; rather, it means that God is love. This is the sense in 2 Corinthians 13:14, where the love of God, the grace of Christ, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit are mentioned. God is love, Christ is grace, and the Holy Spirit is fellowship.

The first three stanzas of Hymns, #497 read as follows:

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Grace to the apostle Paul was God in Christ. Can we also say that grace to us is God in Christ? I hope that we all can see that grace to us is God in Christ. All other things are not grace: neither wives nor husbands, neither sons nor daughters, neither properties nor bank accounts, neither education nor position. All these are not grace to us. Only God in Christ is grace to us. If we lose this Christ, we lose everything of grace. If we gain this Christ, He is everything of grace.

I hope that we all can see this matter. God has no intention to put us under the law; His intention is to put us in His grace. Today we are those who have received grace, which is the Triune God, which is the Father given to us in the Son, and which is the Son realized as the Spirit dwelling in our spirit. The Spirit dwelling in us is the practical grace. This is grace; we live this and we live by this. Apart from this, we can do nothing and we have nothing.

Grace is God Himself as everything to us. All the heavenly, spiritual, divine, and deep things are God Himself. Grace is the personified God. The New Testament is the history of such a personified Person. This Person is the Triune God in His Trinity processed and consummated. Today He is not the "raw" God, but the "cooked" God. Processed and consummated means cooked. If God had remained in His original situation as the "raw" God, how could He be anything to us? But in the New Testament, God is hundreds of items to us because He was processed. If God had not been incarnated and had not passed through human living, an all-inclusive death, and an all-surpassing resurrection, He could never do anything for us, give anything to us, or be anything to us. But today He can do everything for us, give everything to us, and be everything to us because He has been processed and consummated.

Second Corinthians 13:14 says, "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all." This is the processed and consummated Triune God becoming constituted into the believers to make a divine and human constitution. The consummation of this constitution will be the New Jerusalem.

John 1:14-17 says that God's incarnation is to bring grace to men that men may become Him, and this grace brought by God to us is God Himself for our enjoyment. Hymns, #497 speaks of the highest definition of grace:

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Grace is God Himself given to us. God gives Himself to us according to His righteousness, by His righteousness. Without God's righteousness, even if God is willing to give Himself to us as grace, He cannot do it because that is illegal, unlawful. But God has done everything to fulfill His righteous requirements by His righteousness. Now He is free to give Himself to us as our grace, as our enjoyment.

According to New Testament usage, grace and reality are equal to life. In John 14:6 the Lord declared, "I am the way, and the reality, and the life." In this portion of the Word, reality and life are joined together. If we do not have the reality, how can we have the way? If we do not have the life, how can we have the reality? When we have the life, we also have the reality. When we have the reality, the reality is the way. We are human beings; but without the human life, how could we have the human reality? Without the human reality, how could we carry out human things? In order to carry out human things, we need human reality, and in order to have human reality, we must have human life. The way is the reality, and the reality is the life. Hence, John 14:6 tells us that reality and life are one thing. Grace and life also are one thing. Both 1 Corinthians 15:10 and Galatians 2:20 contain the phrase "yet not I, but." First Corinthians 15:10 says, "...yet not I, but the grace of God," and Galatians 2:20 says, "...yet not I, but Christ" (KJV). Putting these two verses together, we can see that grace is Christ Himself. Second Corinthians 13:14 refers to "the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ." This too indicates that grace is just Christ. This Christ is the One who lives in us (Gal. 2:20; Rom. 8:10) as our life (Col. 3:4). When all these verses are put together, we can see that grace is the divine life of God becoming our portion. When the divine life of God becomes our portion, this is grace...

John 1:14 says that the incarnated Triune God was full of grace and reality. Many Christians do not have a proper realization of what grace and reality are. Grace is God Himself for our enjoyment. A line from Hymns, #497 says, "Grace in its highest definition is God in the Son to be enjoyed by us." Grace is God being enjoyed by us, and reality is God being realized by us. Grace is God for our enjoyment, and reality is God for our possession. Nothing is real in the universe except God. The real light is our God. Our real drink is God. Our food is God. God is the reality. The phrase "full of grace and reality" in verse 14 indicates that the incarnation is for God to come to dispense Himself into us as our enjoyment and as our possession. We need to see such a great vision. The incarnation of the Divine Trinity is for the dispensing of Himself into us for our enjoyment and for our inheritance. In His dispensing we enjoy Him and inherit Him as our possession, as our reality.

The Gospel of John reveals that God came in the way of incarnation. The Word, who was God, became flesh and tabernacled among us, full of grace (John 1:14). Hymns, #497 tells us that grace in its highest definition is God in the Son to be enjoyed by us. Grace is God in the Son for our enjoyment. Many of us enjoy eating steak. Steak is beef and beef is a small part of a big cow. The only way such a big cow could be our enjoyment is by processing it. The cow must first be killed and then cut into pieces. Cutting alone, however, is not adequate. These pieces of steak must be cooked. After such a long process, the beef is now available to you. In like manner, for God to be our enjoyment in the Son, He must be processed.

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