The Freeness of Grace

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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Joy, Jesus, John Piper, Daily Devotional, Desiring God, Solid Joys, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Christianity, Devotional

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🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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What act could be more one-sidedly free and non-negotiated than one person raising another from the dead? This is the meaning of grace.

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0:00.0	January 15, the Freeness of Grace. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with
0:11.7	which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ.
0:18.5	By grace you have been saved, and raised us up with Him and
0:24.2	seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
0:29.3	Ephesians 2, 4th, or 6.
0:33.3	The decisive act of God in conversion is that he made us alive together with Christ,
0:41.6	even when we were dead in our trespasses.
0:45.1	In other words, we were dead to God.
0:49.1	We were unresponsive.
0:50.9	We had no true spiritual taste or interest.
0:55.0	We had no spiritual eyes for the beauties of Christ.
1:00.0	We were simply dead to all that ultimately matters.
1:05.0	Then God acted unconditionally before we could do anything to be fit vessels of his presence.
1:16.3	He made us alive. He sovereignly awakened us from the sleep of spiritual death to see the glory of Christ.
1:29.3	2 Corinthians 4. 4. The spiritual senses that were dead miraculously came to life.
1:35.3	Verse 4 says that this was an act of mercy.
1:39.3	That is, God saw us in our deadness and pitied us. God saw the terrible wages of sin leading to
1:49.2	eternal death and misery. God, being rich in mercy, made us alive. And the riches of his mercy
1:59.7	overflowed to us in our need.
2:02.9	But what is so remarkable about this text is that Paul breaks the flow of his own sentence
2:10.2	in order to insert, by grace you have been saved.
2:14.7	God made us alive together with Christ, by grace you have been saved, and raised us up with him.
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