Ask a stranger this question, and you'll likely hear a common response.

What's the key to earning your way into heaven?

Many will say it's the result of loving others and avoiding moral mistakes.

Well, today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall

shatters the myth that salvation is something you can earn through your own efforts.

Here's the shocking truth. We can't work our way to God. And we don't have to. God's grace

is a free gift. It's freedom from the exhausting treadmill of trying to be good enough. Chuck

titled his message, Unwrapping the Gift of Grace. Now let me read for you, please, Romans

Chapter 3, beginning at verse 21 through 31 before this morning's

prayer and offering. Romans 321, but now apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been

made manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets, even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ.

For all those who believe, for there is no distinction.

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus,

whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation. The word means satisfaction in his blood through

faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness because in the forbearance of God,

he passed over the sins previously committed for the demonstration, I say, of his righteousness

at the present time, so that he would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. Where then is

boasting? Well, it is excluded. By what kind of law of works? No, but by a law of faith.

For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from works of the law.

Or is God the God of Jews only?

Is he not the God of Gentiles also?

Yes, of Gentiles also.

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