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Saved by Grace Through Faith: God’s Gift in Christ
This episode reflects on Ephesians’ message that salvation comes by … (visit YouTube for more)
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For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing. It is the gift of God.
This thing, it’s not our own doing. If we look back to what happened in the Old Testament, that system of sacrifice and punishment, this was all about what the Israelites did in order to become righteous again. And what that really showed them more than anything else was that they could never do enough. They would never remain righteous.
So it had to be the case for us to be saved completely, that it couldn’t be our own doing. We are not strong enough. We are not sinless enough. It has to come as a gift from God.
And of course, the gift to us from God is Christ arriving as a baby, living as a man, and dying on that cross. This is grace of course, grace, because we never could have deserved it.
And we receive this gift by putting our faith in Jesus and saying, I accept that for me, that struggle is over. I cannot redeem myself. I cannot make myself righteous.
