In today's podcast, we're going to continue our series, simply seeking to stir our affections toward God by looking at His boundless grace.

On a daily basis, it's God's grace that always draws me close first. His forgiveness, his loving compassion, his gaze changes everything.

May God open our eyes and hearts in a special way today

to receive His grace in every corner of our hearts.

Welcome to the First of teen podcast. Our verse of team podcast.

Our verse of today comes from Ephesians 1, verse 7. Scripture says,

In Him, we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace.

Grace is one of the most astounding and life-transforming aspects of God's character.

From the beginning of time, God has chosen to lavish grace upon us instead of wrath.

Time and time again, we've turned our backs on him.

And time and time again, he demonstrates the depth of his desire for us through the giving of his boundless grace.

In his grace, we're afforded a life not only apart from His wrath,

but lived in the glory of relationship with our Creator through the redemption of Jesus.

Ephesians 1 7 says,

In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses according to the riches of his grace.

Let's look at a few of these ideas today and let them stir our affections for God.

Allow God to speak through His word to the places of your heart where the grace of God hasn't been

given the opportunity to abound yet. Paul says that in Jesus we have redemption through his blood.

Have you thought about the nature of your redemption at length before. Colossians 1 19 through 22 says,

for in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and through him to reconcile to himself

all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of His cross.

And you who were once alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds,

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