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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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Be encouraged today. Jesus loves you. And he's made some arrangements to bless you.

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