It wasn't so long ago that you were [stuck in the muck] of that old stagnant life of sin. [Going the wrong way.] You let the world, which does not know the first thing about living, tell you how to live. You filled your lungs with polluted unbelief, and then exhaled disobedience. We all did it, all of us doing what we felt like doing, when we felt like doing it, all of us are in the same boat. It's a wonder God didn't t lose his [frame of mind] and do away with the whole lot of us [humanity as a whole]. Instead, immense in mercy and with an incredible love, he embraced us. God took our [lifeless sinful life] and made us alive in Christ. He did all of this on his own, with no help from us! Then he picked us up and set us down in the highest heaven in company with Jesus, our Messiah.
Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world, and the next, to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It's God's gift from start to finish! We don't play the major role. If we did, we'd probably go around bragging that we'd done the whole thing! No, we neither make nor save ourselves. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, (which God prepared in advance, before we were born.)
Ephesians 2:1-10 MSG [extended verbiage] (NIV)
Saved by Grace through Faith. Grace is a gift. Like any other gift, a person has a choice to accept the gift or reject it. How do you accept a gift such as grace? What is grace? What does an unconditional relationship look like? The Queens unpack this all in its simplest form, led by the Holy Spirit.
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