Eph 2: - saved by GRACE through FAITH
Eph 2:1-10
Rom 10:8-11, 17
Review
- We can see from Scriptures that, actually, what God wants for our life does NOT automatically work out in our experience
- Being saved by grace does NOT mean our response is not required!
- We are told in Philippians 2 that because it is God who is at work in us, we need to work out our salvation!
- That is why we can be entitled to things by grace that we do not experience
- But it does not need to be that way
- Experiencing His great salvation starts with receiving the Savior
- What really satisfies, makes free, heals, is our coming to KNOW Him
- Knowing Him is what we were made for
- Prov. 4:23 tells us the issues of life flow from our heart
- So what is going on in our hearts affects what we experience
- So what different truths can we use to watch over our hearts?
- God is FOR US!
- He wants us to experience salvation more that we want to experience salvation. Always. He’s not opposing us
- WE CAN and MUST watch over hearts! That sets the stage for what we experience
- Commands He has given in Scriptures are at least partly about setting an ‘atmosphere’ in our hearts that allows salvation to be experienced…things can v
Main Points today
- Life flows from what is in your heart so GUARD
- Beware: what grieves Him
- Beware: presumption
- Beware: anxiety
- Beware: condemnation
- Beware: thoughts that persuade you - give up, impossible for YOU
- Be filled:
- with Holy Spirit!
- truth: I am ALREADY forgiven
- truth: I have peace with God!
- thankfulness, rejoicing,
- Forbearing spirit
- Deliberately: Give thanks, Rejoice, pray
- we are saved by grace THROUGH faith…
