Welcome to Gospel Truth with Andrew Wannick, a teaching ministry emphasizing God's unconditional love and grace.

The special life teaching on the balance of grace and faith is being

broadcast exclusively for our radio listeners. And now here's Andrew.

Praise the Lord. It's awesome.

Let's turn over to Ephesians again.

We started last night in Ephesians chapter 2 and verse 8 and I use this verse that is pretty

common to a lot of people but not commonly understood.

It says,

For by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves

it is a gift of God, of works lest any man should boast

and last night I was making the point that that grace alone doesn't save you

faith alone doesn't save you. Faith alone doesn't save you. You're saved by grace through faith.

And then I begin to define some things. Grace is what God does for us, independent of us.

It has nothing to do with us or it wouldn't be grace.

Therefore you didn't earn it, you didn't merit it. God didn't look at us and respond to us, but

rather grace is something that is done by God before we ever have a problem.

It's done independent of us, independent of anything that we deserve.

And that's a wonderful truth. But some people... independent of anything that we deserve.

And that's a wonderful truth.

But some people have taken this truth about

God does things independent of us and not

based on our worth or value.

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