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The Message of Salvation: By God’s Grace, for God’s Glory is unavailable, but you can change that!

This book is about the best news the world has ever heard—the message of salvation. The Bible itself is the word of salvation, the message of grace that glorifies God by persuading sinners to believe in Jesus Christ. Philip Ryken opens up God’s saving message using the Bible’s stories, sermons, letters and poems to explain its own theme of salvation.

triumph these people celebrate has to do not with their own deaths, but with the death of Christ. Others think that the tribulation refers to a special period of persecution in the end times, what John elsewhere calls ‘the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world’ (3:10). This interpretation has much to commend it, for the sufferings of these saints are described as the tribulation, the great tribulation. This suggests an intense period of persecution—a tribulation to end all tribulations
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