##Summary
In response to God’s gift of salvation in Jesus, we are to walk by grace.
Specifically, we are to believe in God’s saving work in Christ and we are to walk in the good works that he has prepared for us.

##Salvation By God’s Grace In Christ
* It is a gift
* It is not something we did
* We receive it through faith
* It produces good works

##Summary
Jesus’ life, sufferings, death for sinners, and resurrection have inaugurated the new creation. In response, we are to believe in Jesus and surrender our lives to him.

##Jesus’ Resurrection and the New Creation
* The creation and fall (Genesis 1-3)
* The light of the new creation (John 1)
* Lazarus’ resurrection- preview of the new creation (John 11)
* Jesus’ death for sinners
* Jesus’ resurrection: dawn of the new creation (John 20)

##Our Part In the Story
* New creation and resurrection

##Passages Cited
Genesis 1:1-3; John 1:1-5, 9; 11:23-26, 41-44; 21:1-18, 30-31; 1 Corinthians 15:20-23; 2 Corinthians 5:17

##Summary
Because God (in his rich mercy, love, and grace) has made us alive in Christ, we are to showcase the riches of his grace .

##God made us alive in Christ
* Why we were made alive
* How we were made alive
* What our being made alive involves
* The reason we were made alive

This passage will help us to understand and feel the force of our desperate condition apart from God’s saving work for us in Christ.

##Our desperate condition apart from Christ
* Dead in our sins
* Living according to the values of this world
* Under the power of Satan
* Living according to the flesh
Under God’s wrath

##Recommended Reading
Jonathan Edwards’ sermon _[“Heaven is a World of Love”]_(http://www.biblebb.com/files/edwards/charity16.htm)