Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast.

Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

All right, so we're beginning a new series this weekend. It's entitled Grace Period. The reason I wrote a book which

will release, this is a pre-release copy from the publisher, Grace Period.

It will release April 2nd.

I believe, in my opinion, it's one of the most important books I've ever written and I know what God's done with the blessed life all over the world and 40-something languages and all that.

But I wish every person would read this because it will

completely totally change your life.

I promise you.

The reason I titled it Grace Period is because we're saved by grace period.

We're not saved by grace and. We're not saved by grace and we're not saved by grace plus. We're not saved by grace but I hear a lot of that. We're saved by grace but no we're saved by grace and I'm talking

about salvation I'm not talking about sewing and reaping I'm not talking about

consequences of sin, whether you're a believer or unbeliever,

I'm talking about how you're going to get to heaven.

Now, I know we're saved by grace through faith. Okay, I got that. We're going to read that

scripture. But as far as by the word be why, it's by grace period even though we have to receive it.

Does everyone get that?

Okay, the reason I'm saying this is because when you got saved you knew it was just God's grace that you were getting

saved you knew you didn't deserve it. But five years later, ten years later, 30 years later, after you're

a group leader, after you've learned how to use a Bible software and even you found out what a Greek word means and how to look it up and you don't sin as much as you used to.

You know you don't smoke or cuss or chew or go with girls

that do you know. Now that you're a little better or maybe a lot better, maybe it's a little bit, grace and your good works. But I'm going to nail it down for the next four weeks that it's

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