You know, none of us can earn our way into heaven because eternal life is a free gift when you accept Jesus as the Lord of your life.

Hey everybody, this is Pastor Rick's Daily Hope.

And today, Rick Warren continues a series called Good News About Grace.

You can't truly understand the Christian life until you understand grace.

It's at the heart of your faith and your relationship with God.

And in this series, you're going to discover how not to only understand grace,

but how to experience it and the joy that it brings. And right now, here's part

one of a message called Living in God's Amazing Grace. I want us to just review the benefits of grace.

The Bible says that we're saved by grace, that the only way to heaven is the doorway through grace. And if you're going to get to heaven, that's the only way you're going to get there. You can't earn it, you can't work for it, you can't buy it, it's just by God's grace. The Bible says, for by grace you are saved through faith, and even that is not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of works, so no one can boast. If you could work your way to

heaven, can you imagine how boring heaven would be? Everybody would be bragging about how they got there.

Well, I did this. Oh yeah, but I did this. The Bible says we're just simply saved by grace, but more than that, we're forgiven by grace.

The Bible tells us in Isaiah 43, I forgive your sins for my own sake. We don't deserve it, but God says I forgive you.

The Bible says that we're sustained by grace. Philippians 213 says, God is always working in you

to give you the will and the power to do what he's called you

to do. God will never ask you to do anything that he doesn't give you the ability and the power to do,

and that power and ability is called grace. Then the Bible teaches that we're healed by grace.

It says that he heals our broken hearts and binds up our wounds. The Bible says

we're liberated by grace. We talked about that. You don't have to live under the rules and regulations

of legalism. Jesus said, come to me if you're tired and weary and I will give you rest. Not a whole

bunch of other chores to do. He says, I will give you rest. And if your Christian

life is not a life that says it's a life of resting in Christ, it means that I'm moving back

into that legalistic background. The Bible says that we're given talents by grace. God

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