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. any of the services before this. This is the first one you've been to. Could I see your hands?

Praise God. Still got quite a few. I've been teaching this week on an expanded teaching of grace and faith.

I have a book on that and a one tape teaching,

but I've just expanded on it during these five sessions.

I taught about how that we're saved by grace through

faith, Ephesians 2-8 and it's not grace alone that saves or faith. I define

what grace was what faith is. Grace is God's unmerited, unearned, undeserved

favor. It's done for us, independent of us, prior to us, so it has nothing to do with us.

Some people have taken that truth about that we don't deserve things and that it's all

God's ability and they have perverted that, taken it to an extreme.

And the very first night I talked against a wrong application of the sovereignty of God,

where you just, people think that God controls everything and we have nothing to do with everything.

It's whatever God wills comes to pass.

That is absolutely wrong.

It's a faith killer and it will make you vulnerable to the devil.

Then on the other hand, some people teach about faith that in a sense that we can make God do things

and they emphasize what we have to do and it becomes a legalistic thing to where they think that faith moves God.

Faith doesn't move God.

God moves by grace.

Faith only reaches out and appropriates what God has already provided for us by

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