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Balanced Christianity

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Program Code: TDY210042B


00:01 Welcome back, my friends, we're talking about...
00:03 We're talking about what it means to be
00:04 balanced Christians and we have just our,
00:06 in our final couple of minutes here.
00:07 Dakota, I want you to read kind of
00:09 as a final capstone on all this.
00:11 Steps to Christ, page 59. Let's read it.
00:14 One of my favorite quotes by the way.
00:16 It says, "There are two errors against
00:18 which the children of God,
00:19 particularly those who have just come
00:21 to trust in His grace, especially need to guard.
00:24 The first, already dwelt upon,
00:27 is that of looking to their own works,
00:29 trusting to anything they can do,
00:32 to bring themselves into harmony with God.
00:34 He who is trying to become holy by his own works
00:37 in keeping the law, is attempting an impossibility.
00:41 All that man can do without Christ
00:43 is polluted with selfishness and sin.
00:46 It is the grace of God, grace of God and Christ alone,
00:50 through faith that can make us holy.
00:53 The opposite and no less dangerous error
00:56 is that belief in Christ releases men
00:58 from keeping the law of God,
01:00 that since by faith alone we become partakers
01:02 of the grace of Christ,
01:03 our works have nothing to do with our redemption.
01:06 But notice here that obedience
01:08 is not a mere outward compliance,
01:11 but the service of love."
01:13 And I think that's where it all really bases upon.
01:16 If our foundation is not the service of love again,
01:19 then as Paul said,
01:20 "Though I give my body to be burned,
01:22 it will profit me nothing."
01:24 Amen. I love that.
01:25 If we truly love God and we understand His love,
01:29 then we know that there's nothing
01:30 we can add to what He has done,
01:32 and what He will do in our life.
01:34 But at the same time if we know we truly love God
01:37 and that He loves us,
01:38 and at the same time we know we will give all and do
01:41 all not because we believe it saves us,
01:43 but because He has saved us,
01:45 and because He has saved us by His grace,
01:47 and if He has saved us by His grace,
01:49 it's because we have had faith in Him, true faith,
01:52 not our own works, not our own faith,
01:54 but the faith of Jesus Christ.
01:56 My friends, we don't want to be left, right.
01:59 We don't want to be ultra conservative
02:02 or extreme liberal.
02:03 We want to make sure we find that happy balance,
02:05 that balance that is only found in Jesus Christ.
02:09 I pray that's the case for you.
02:10 I want to thank you so much for joining us today.
02:12 Again my name is Ryan Day.
02:14 You have been watching 3ABN Today.
02:17 And we hope to see you right back here another time.
02:20 God bless you.


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