In Touch, the teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Stanley.

Next on In Touch, Grace Alone.

One of the primary reasons that many people struggle all of their Christian life and just wonder what in the world

is going on and why they don't have any real peace and joy and really success is because they don't

really understand how they became a Christian. And if somebody were to ask you, how did you

become a Christian to begin with? I wonder what you would tell them. Our text in this message is one of the most crucial text in all the Bible.

It's familiar to a lot of people, but it is one of the most crucial because our whole understanding

of our Christian experience and how we became a child of God is found in this particular

passage.

Now this is the second in our series entitled,

concerning the grace of God,

grace, God's second chance.

That is, God in His goodness and love and mercy towards us,

gives us not only a second chance, but many chances.

And I want you to turn, if you will, to Ephesians chapter 2,

and I want us to read these first 10 verses,

because herein, Paul settles once and for all a very vital issue that in spite of how many

times many Christians have heard it, somehow it's very difficult for them to accept the fact

that salvation is by grace and grace alone. And that's the title of this message, grace alone.

And Paul is writing this to persuade those divisions to whom he is writing this, that it is not by

works, but only by grace. Listen to what he says. Beginning in verse one of chapter two,

and you were dead in your trespasses and

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