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Hey, welcome back. I hope that your new year is going well, and I'm very excited to share some simple ideas with you today. I think I can confidently say that of everything I hope to share with you this year,

this, to me, is the most important of them all.

I am intentionally trying to stack it earlier in the year so that I can reference back to it.

Also, new listeners tend to start at the beginning of the year,

and I wanted to make sure that they caught it.

We are talking about the sequential relationship between the grace that comes down from God,

the faith that is developed inside of you, and the life or the works that you live as an

extension of that. For me, this is about a lot more

than just a podcast in late January. I believe this can help address issues and trouble in the

hearts of believers that they've had for a very long time. I'm hopeful to make it the theme for

the entire year of 2023. During the off season of gospel meetings, which is like mid-November

through mid-January, I like to go back through the lessons that I taught here in Lindale and the

things that I thought made the biggest difference and try to formulate a theme that I hopefully can

take to all of the churches that I visit throughout the coming year.

This year, that theme came through clear than ever before. You and I have talked quite a bit

about grace in episodes last year. And if we can just learn and believe that God's overwhelming

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