To try to earn your way to heaven is like rearranging chairs on the Titanic.

You can look better, but you're still going down.

Dr. Tony Evans says when the ship is sinking, you don't need a makeover.

You need a lifeboat.

You must place your faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ alone as your only God and Savior.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the

archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

You don't have to be rescued unless you're in danger.

And spiritually speaking, we all are.

Today, Dr. Evans unpacks the incredible grace God offers that saves us, lifts us,

and gives us a brand new identity in Christ. Let's join him in Ephesians as he reveals how

salvation is God's masterpiece, not our own achievement. Today I want to look at the first

10 verses of chapter 2. Paul the apostle lets you know that all of this

spiritual reality is born out of the great New Testament term grace. He wants to talk about the greatness

of grace. The first three verses describes the need for grace. It places

grace against a dark backdrop, the backdrop of sin. You will not understand grace. You will not

appreciate grace and you won't respond to grace unless you understand the backdrop

against which grace comes. When you go to a jeweler and you want those big pretty diamonds,

they will often put them against a dark backdrop

because the diamond glitters even more brightly against the dark backdrop.

The diamond is grace.

This dark backdrop is sin and God places the diamond of grace in the first three verses

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