By His grace, believers in Christ are granted full forgiveness for all sins and are set apart in order to worship Him with all of our lives, including our speech. 

If our lives are consecrated to Him, our tongues will be also.

09The grace of God is a package deal, beginning with His sovereign election and effectual calling, and continuing with His power to set us apart and transform our lives. All moral imperatives for the Christian life are rooted in this grace.

Jesus miraculously fed a multitude in the wilderness to testify to His identity and to test the disciples and the crowds as to their faith.

Jesus’ identity and authority are clearly confirmed, but prideful independence, desire for acceptance, and doubt prevent people from coming to Him by faith and receiving His word for life.

The men in the boat where a peculiar lot who were selected by the unique man in the boat and he was going to teach them a very important lesson about the choice they made to follow him.