Grace is:  The love of God demonstrated to me, for me, on my behalf.  It is the actual demonstration, the actual manifestation of God’s love for me.  It is the releasing of His love (which is all He is, all His ability, character, holiness, everything He is and has).  Grace is God’s love sent forth on my behalf for me, to do what I can’t do.  It is God doing what He loves to do

Jesus  has gone before us and made a way.  HE IS THE WAY.  His way is righteousness, being right with God and doing things right.  In that way there is life and no death.  We must remember that death does not just refer to separation from our physical bodies.  It can mean separation from anything.  Satan wants to separate us from joy and peace and love and blessing of any kind.  He is the king of death.  Jesus is the Lord of Life.  He is our Life.

When Adam sinned, death came and ruled over mankind as a dictator.  Then God sent Jesus as His gift of grace to give us the gift of righteousness, and now we reign in this life, triumphing over sin and death through Jesus Christ.

Everyone who believes God and accepts Him is given the right to become a child of His (John 1:12-14).  Whoever receives the Lord into their lives has the privilege of being God’s child.  This birth comes from God.  We call it being born again.  And being born again gives us rights (righteousness) in the Father’s household.