Our ability to acknowledge we need God is a gift from God. Our faith is a gift from God. Therefore we cannot boast. We are justified by faith apart from the law. Then we become followers of Christ.

Ezekiel 36-26 - I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you-I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. - Christians are called out to look and be different than the world. We are to be a peculiar people set apart glorifying God in our lives. The power is in the gospel and the transformation is in our life.

God has made both Jew and Gentile one through the Holy Spirit. Jesus is the chief cornerstone of all our salvation. He is the only way. We must submit our lives to Him and His teachings in the Holy Bible.

There is nothing anyone can do to save themselves. Should we be in total despair- Yes, except unless we have faith in Jesus Christ. It is none of us or we would boast in ourselves. Paul says in Romans 3-27,- Where is boasting then- It is excluded. By what law- Of works- No, but by the law of faith.-

Man without Christ thinks the things of God are foolishness. We who know Jesus must realize it is a gift to be called, transformed and grow in His knowledge. We must lift Him up and praise Him.

Jesus Christ came to dwell among us to endure the wrath of our sins for both past saints and the present time. The cross is the centrality of Jesus and we should be preaching this message to all who will hear.

Since there is nothing I can do to redeem myself then I need appeasement. I have wronged God therefore I must appease God. God is angry at us because we are sinners. How do we appease God- He provides the propitiation by His blood, through faith in Jesus Christ.

We are redeemed by God for a specific purpose. God gives each person He calls an assignment we are to carry out for the purpose of furthering the Kingdom and glorifying Christ. As Christians we are to complete the assignment the Lord gives us to complete our God given role.

Believing is not intellectual knowledge it is trusting, applying and following Christ. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Our common ground is shared in our falling short of qualifying for eternal life with God. We have been justified through Christ in His - righteousness and forgiveness of our sins.

Those who do not know Christ have a veil and are blinded in their minds. Liberty is having the sin unshackled so you can live to His glory and live with acknowledgement and praise to God.