Ephesians Bible Study Part 3: How to Cherish the Grace of God

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🗓️ 23 December 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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God wants us to know the immeasurable riches of His grace. He wants us to know the magnificence of Christ. However, we cannot grasp these realities until we grasp the darkness of our story. One theologian said, “The worse we realize we are, the greater we realize God’s grace is.” That is the essence behind this episode. Dale Partridge looks to Ephesians 2:1-7 in an effort to understand who we were before Christ.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Real Christianity, where our mission is to bring the church back to the Bible.
0:08.4	My name is Dale Partridge and I'm the president of Relearn.org and Reformation Seminary.
0:13.4	The premise of this show is simple.
0:15.4	The culture is growing darker.
0:17.3	The church is in need of sound doctrine and many Christians are hungry for the truth.
0:22.6	Join me here each week as we look to scripture and discover what it really means to be a Christian.
0:31.8	Welcome to the show.
0:34.1	We are on Ephesians Bible Study number three.
0:38.1	Today's episode is titled How to Cherish the Grace of God.
0:42.5	If you're new to the podcast and you've missed Bible Study sessions one and two, I would
0:47.8	recommend going back and listening to those episodes first before listening to this session.
0:53.9	In Bible Study number one, we learned the historical and cultural background of Ephesians, including
0:59.5	the author, the date.
1:00.5	It was written, the location, the letters recipients, and the purpose for the correspondence.
1:07.4	We concluded that the core purpose of the letter is to display the spiritual riches and
1:13.8	abundance that we have in Christ.
1:17.3	It's one seven, which is one of our verses today, says that the reason God saved us was
1:22.4	quote, so that in the ages to come, he might show the surpassing riches of his grace,
1:28.5	in kindness, toward us in Christ Jesus.
1:33.2	In Bible Study number two, we learned that as a born and Christian, we are blessed of God
1:42.5	in Christ by election through predestination.
1:47.7	That's a lot.
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