Welcome to the Gospel Coalition podcast, where we help to renew and unify the contemporary church in the ancient gospel.

Today's podcast is the second of seven plenary messages on Ephesians delivered at TGC's

2025 national conference. Listen now to Kenneth Mabugua on Ephesians 2, 1 to 10, rescued together.

Well, good evening. Let me ask you to turn your Bibles to Ephesians in chapter 2 if you're not already there.

Join me in reading God's Holy Word.

Thank you. greeting God's holy word. And you were dead in trespasses and sins in which you once walked following the course of this world, following the

prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience,

among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the

desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath like the rest of mankind.

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us

even when we were dead in our trespasses,

made us alive together with Christ.

By grace you have been saved, and raised us up with Him and

seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus. So that in the coming ages

he might show the immeasurable reaches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

For by grace you have been saved through faith.

And this is not your own doing.

It is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus

for good works which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. This is the Word of the Lord.

I have a couple of questions for you. that we should walk in them. This is the Word of the Lord.

I have a couple of questions for you this evening. The first one of those is,

can you speak in Starbucks?

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