In today's podcast, we're going to continue our series seeking to simply 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 challenges 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 15 podcast.

Thank you. Welcome to the First 15 podcast.

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 are afforded a life not only apart from his wrath, but lived in

the glory of redemption 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 once were alienated and hostile in mind doing evil deeds, has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death,

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