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Here's Grace to You, Bible teacher John MacArthur.

This morning we're going to continue our look at Ephesians, and we're coming to chapter 2.

And I'll encourage you to turn to Ephesians chapter 2.

It'll take us a little bit to get there, but it feels like I'm always among the group

of people trying to rescue words, trying to rescue precious words, words that are biblical

words that somehow get stolen away from the biblical intent and used for all kinds

of other things.

And gospel is one of those words.

Gospel is perhaps the most treasured term in the New Testament, and certainly in the hearts

of all who have been saved because we believed the gospel.

It is the soul of Christianity, it is the jewel of theology because the gospel is

the message that provides the only way of salvation, the forgiveness of sin, escape from

hell, and the life in eternal heaven.

Obviously, there will be efforts to confuse the gospel, to subtract from the gospel, to

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