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A LIttle Saint A realistic Estimation · Life For Toledo

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  This is Pastor Daniel Stevenson, I'm Director of the Southside Life Station and Pastor of
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  New Heights Fellowship Baptist Church of East Lido, and you're receiving this message because
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  you opted in to be encouraged.
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  I'm thinking today of Ephesians 3, 8, the New Testament book Ephesians chapter 3 verse
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  8.
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  It says, to me, the very least of all the saints this grace was given, to preach to
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  the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ.
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  Paul was talking about himself and much has been made of how he said he was the very least
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  of all the saints.
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  A saint is a holy one, a servant of God, and he was that.
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  I think about myself and I think about the things that I did that would keep me out of
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  heaven, the things that I did that would send me to hell, we all have sinned and fall short
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  of the glory of God.
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  But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, his Son.
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  And so I am grateful to be saved now, to have a Lord and a Savior, and I hope you are as
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  well.
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  Then, it is grace that we are given the opportunity to preach, to proclaim, to teach the truth
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  of the unfathomable riches of Christ to anyone that's in our circle, anyone that we're in
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  contact with.
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  It's grace because it's more than we deserve.
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  It's grace because we now have a place to belong, a thing to do, a person to be.
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  We can grow and grow and grow until Jesus comes again, and we can serve and serve and
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  serve and give and give and give.
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  Get involved in your local church, serve Christ until Jesus comes again.
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  Check us out online at churchtoledo.com.
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  There's information there about New Heights Fellowship Baptist Church Services.
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  You can go to the church hunting page and look for a church in your area.
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  And there's a good lesson on there about what a good local church is.
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  I know sometimes it's hard to find a good local church to belong to.
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  God wants you where God has put you.
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  And that means by His grace, preaching the unfathomable riches of Christ whenever you
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  possibly can.
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  God bless you today.