The most amazing aspect of the Christian life is grace! Grace radically affects how I think about myself, how I live, and my identity, just to name a few. Today Pastor Mark walks us through Ephesians Chapter 2 and how much we need God as he talks about sinfulness of sin, the magnificence of mercy, the amazingness of grace, and the salvation of God.

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2. The Lord descended in the cloud
and stood with him there,

3. and proclaimed the name of
the Lord. The Lord passed before him and
proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God
merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and
abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness,

4. keeping steadfast love for
thousands, forgiving iniquity and
transgression and sin, but who will by no
means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of
the fathers on the children and the children's
children, to the third and the fourth
generation.” Exodus 34: 5-7

5. And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
in
which you once walked, following the course of
this world, following the prince of the power of
the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons
of disobedience—

6. among whom we all once lived in the passions of
our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and
the mind, and were by nature children of wrath,
like the rest of mankind.

7.
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great
love with which he loved us, even when we were
dead in our trespasses, made us alive together
with Christ—by grace you have been saved—
and
raised us up with him and seated us with him in
the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

8.
so that in the coming ages he might show the
immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness
toward us in Christ Jesus.
For by grace you have
been saved through faith. And this is not your own
doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so
that no one may boast.

9. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ
Jesus for good works, which God prepared
beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2: 1-10

10. The ofSinfulness Sin

11. What went wrong andtrespasses sin

12. We rebel by openly God
or trying to God
rejecting
control

13. is missing theSin mark

14. But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great
love with which he loved us, even when we were
dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with
Christ—by grace you have been saved—

15. and raised us up with him and seated us with him in
the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
so that in the
coming ages he might show the
immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward
us in Christ Jesus.
For by grace you have been
saved through faith.

16. Magnificence of Mercy

17. “ “Mercy is an attribute of God, an Mercy is an attribute of God, an
infinite and inexhaustible energy within infinite and inexhaustible energy within
the divine nature that disposes God to the divine nature that disposes God to
be actively compassionate.” A.W. Tozerbe actively compassionate.” A.W. Tozer

18. Mercy is the goodness of God
confronting human andguiltsuffering

19. The ofGraceAmazingness

20. ““In God mercy and grace are one.”In God mercy and grace are one.”
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21. Grace is God's goodness directed
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22. ““It's the dramatic transition from the status ofIt's the dramatic transition from the status of
a Condemned criminal. awaiting a terriblea Condemned criminal. awaiting a terrible
sentence, to that of an heir awaiting a fabuloussentence, to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous
inheritance.” J.I. Packerinheritance.” J.I. Packer

23. The grace of God bringssalvation

24. “For we are his workmanship.”