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I'm Dalton, a member of the Paul Trip Ministries team.

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This week, we'll listen to another poem from Paul that answers the question, what is grace?

Here's this week's Wednesday's word.

Quote, for the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the

present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and

Savior, Jesus Christ, who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify

for himself a people for his own possession, who are zealous for good works."

Titus 2.11 through 14. Grace is a thunderous, expansive, powerful, and life-altering word.

Other than the word God, there is no more important word that the human mind could consider

and the mouth could speak. It is the most transformational word in the Bible

that you hold dear. In fact, your Bible is the cover-to-cover story of God's grace. It is the best of

stories, the story of the undeserved redemption of lost ones and rebels. Scripture records for us

how God reached into the muck and mire of our sin-broken world to rescue

us, not because of what he saw in us, but because of what was in him.

Grace is why God sent his son into this world to do for us what we could not do for ourselves,

to transform us from what we are, sinners separated from him, into what we are becoming,

Christ-like and with him forever.

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