of deserving God’s blessings by virtue of our own abilities, efforts, ethnic identities, personal accomplishments, feelings or beliefs. In the words of Ephesians 2:8a, we are saved by grace. Although all the promises of God are conditional, the provisions of God that make inheriting those promises possible are given unconditionally. These include not only the acts of redemption culminating in the first and second comings of the Christ, but also the provisions in our personal lives needed to fulfil
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