See Eph 2: 8-10.
Pastor shared William Barkley's seven reasons why salvation is a free gift:
1. Man cannot make God owe him.
2. Man cannot bring perfection to God.
3. Man cannot make God forgive him.
4. Man cannot heal God's heart.
5. Man cannot save himself.
6. Man cannot make God love him.
7. Man cannot set himself free and bring about liberty of conscience.
I had picked out a beautiful video with the song Your Grace Still Amazes me by Phillips, Craig and Dean. Then I saw this video and thought it fit so well today.
Were it Not for Grace written by Larnelle Harris
Verses for today:Ephesians 2:8-10 New International Version
8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast. 10For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
William Barclay quote: "The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way."
We prayed this morning to help us rely on God's Grace and not our own efforts.
We also prayed for God's hand to help in the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.