• God makes man.
• Man rebels to seek “the knowledge of good and evil” for himself.
• God gives “the law”, an explanation of what is good.
• Man rebels by failing to follow the good in the law.
• God gives Jesus, to cover that sin and thereby allow us to be good through His life, not ours.

The entire Gospel is summed up in this verse. God pulls man back to the garden, to perfection, by giving Jesus to live the life we can’t, and die the death we should, but don’t have to.

Grace and truth come through Jesus, not through the law, not through religion. God lays a path down for us to walk back to Him, without earning it ourselves. He knows we can’t! He knows that we can never cover our own sin, our past, with our own goodness. We cannot earn forgiveness of our debt. The debt is real, overwhelming and we are bankrupt. The wages of sin is death. Period.We can convince ourselves otherwise, pretending to be wealthy, but we are still bankrupt.

Grace and truth say, it’s OK. He forgives you now so that you can sin no more. While we are sinners, He forgives! That’s grace. Through Him we can sin no more, that’s truth!

The law (religion, self help, will power, actions, good deeds, etc) can not save us. Grace and truth can save us. Jesus can save us.

ONLY Jesus can save us.