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Ephesians chapter 2 verse 8

for by grace you have been saved through faith and this is not your own doing. It is the gift of God,

not a result of work so that no one may boast. This is maybe one of the clearest verses and passages, Ephesians

chapter 2 verses 1 through 10 describing the gospel and how we can be saved. I would

even just real quick give you a quick gospel

acrostics so think G O-S-P-E-L based on Ephesians too here. So gee think God's

character. God is holy, he hates sin and yet he loves to show his salvation.

So we see His holiness, His love, his grace, his mercy, and his wrath all over this passage, the character of God, gee, and then, oh, the offense of sin, this passage describes us as dead in our trespasses and sins given over to the passions of our flesh like children of wrath by our very nature.

We have offended God in our sin. So God is holy, we have offended him.

G.O.S. The sufficiency of Christ. God has sent Jesus to do what we could not do to save us from our sin.

His life, his death, his resurrection,

makes salvation possible, which then leads to the P and gospel,

so God's character, offensive sins, sufficiency of Christ,

then P, personal response.

How do we respond to this good news of what God has done in Christ? We place our faith in Him.

By grace you have been saved through faith, not your own doing. So our personal responses, not try to do a bunch of things for God.

No, we trust in what God has done for us. We trust in Christ and what he has done for our salvation.

That's the P. That leads to E, eternal life,

and eternal urgency.

All of our lives are dependent forever on how we respond to Christ. And so we're provoked to trust in him today, to call other people to trust in him today because life and death, eternal life and everlasting death hang in the balance.

Heaven and hell hang in the balance with how we respond to Christ.

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