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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.