So That You

2 Corinthians 8:9 says For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you through His poverty might become rich.

Grace enabled or caused our Lord to humble himself to leave the riches of heaven, seated by his Father, to come to earth fashioned as a man and live poorly without material blessings so that through that poverty we could become rich.

Why did Jesus have to do all of that?  Why couldn’t God just extend grace to man without sending his son? 

God is holy.  He is without sin, and he cannot look upon sin.  It’s his nature.  For example (a very loose example, for sure) we are human and we cannot look past a certain view with our eyes, it’s not in us to do so – we can’t.  So God could not look past our sin because he’s holy.

Sending his son Jesus to be the spotless lamb, a man without sin, was the only way to extend grace to a fallen world and restore mankind into the riches of his love.

And because Jesus obeyed his father all the way to the cross, he conquered death for us, so that we now can come to God without fear or shame and receive all of the same inheritance that is now ours…forever.

That’s grace.

And it’s ours.