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Grace vs Reason Act 17 2 · Life For Toledo

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  This is Pastor Daniel Stevenson. I'm the director of the Southside Life Station and also pastor of New Heights Fellowship Baptist Church.
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  I'm thinking today of Acts 17-2 and I'll talk about that briefly.
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  That's coming up, Acts 17-2.
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  And according to Paul's custom, he went to them and for three Sabbaths reasoned with them from the scripture.
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  Three times on the Sabbath he was there. He tried to convince them that Jesus Christ fit the mold of the Messiah.
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  Reason is a tool where many are concerned. It's where we process the law and the testimony of creation.
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  If Paul had won them over by this argument, does that equal salvation?
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  Well, the truth is no, not actually.
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  What equals salvation is God's gift of free grace, that is grace that God gives so people don't deserve it,
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  through faith, Ephesians 2, 8, 9.
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  God gives this free gift of salvation to all those who will receive it if they will simply believe.
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  That being said, belief goes beyond reason.
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  Faith is something more than, quote, figuring it out, unquote.
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  And grace is, of course, beyond reason, because if you could reason your way to it, then it wouldn't be grace.
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  He came that we might have eternal life and also have life more abundantly here on the earth.
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