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. Okay, and now, here's

part two of a message called restoring grace. God does not reject believers when we sin, first,

because his love is unconditional. Second, because my salvation isn't based on my performance.

God doesn't reject believers when they send

because my salvation isn't based on my performance.

Romans 916 says, it doesn't depend on man's desire or effort,

but on God's mercy.

Now we covered this in detail in the very first message in this series

on saving grace.

And I'll say it again.

The only way you ever have ever any hope of getting into heaven

is by the grace of God.

You can't earn your way into heaven, buy your way to heaven, work your way into heaven,

bluff your way into heaven, you know, whatever.

If you don't get saved by grace, you're not getting saved.

If you don't get into heaven on the grace of Jesus Christ, you're not going to get there.

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