Hello I'm Creflow Dollar and this is the Creflow Dollar Ministries podcast.

I want to thank you for joining us today and I sincerely hope this word encourages you,

builds your faith and above all else helps you to understand grace and empowers you to change.

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If you have your Bibles, go with me to the book of Ephesians chapter 2 in verse 8. Ephesians chapter 2 in

verse 8. I really really had a good good day of study. I wanted to know about, I don't know if you've ever thought about this, but we've been talking about the things that the requirements before the

cross versus requirements after the cross and one of the things that used to

always bother me was the fact that after the cross we see

an anise and the fire who lied to the Holy Spirit and they fell dead and people say

well where is the mercy and the grace of God? Why did that happen? And so I did a study today

on that and I'm not going to teach it tonight, but I'm going to share with you just some things that I think will bless you. The first thing is that we just

automatically assumed that An Ananais and Safir were born again, that they were

a part of the grace of God.

One thing we do know under the Old Covenant before Christ,

punishment was available, and it was just.

But after Jesus went to the cross,

he did not punish those people who had a covenant with God.

So, you know, so it's not, you cannot assume just because you read the Bible that somebody is in the fold when Jesus very plainly said in Matthew that the tears will come up with the wheat.

Okay. And then this issue of unbelief,

it's just a lot of things that happen,

but the first thing that caught my attention was,

now you automatically assumed

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