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. And now here's the final

part of a message called saving grace. The A and grace stands for available to everyone. It's available

to everyone. God doesn't play favorites, regardless of your background, regardless of your status, regardless of your sin.

It doesn't matter whether you've been a religious person or a non-religious person.

You have any religious background at all?

In Romans 14, 16, he says,

the promise is not only for those people that live under the law of Moses,

it is for anyone who lives with faith like Abraham.

Now, who are these people who live under the law of Moses?

Jews, Jewish people.

The Jewish people were given the law of Moses.

Moses was their leader, and they were given the ways of God

to do the right thing before the rest of us were given them. By the way, have you ever thought about

why are the Jews called God's chosen people? Does God just love them more than he loves the rest of us?

No. They were chosen for a purpose. What was the

purpose? They were chosen to spread the message to everybody else, to tell the world that there is

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