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