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Page 1: The Cart Before the Horse. The same God who inspired Paul to write to the Ephesians Ephesians 2:8-9…For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and

The Cart Before the Horse

Page 2: The Cart Before the Horse. The same God who inspired Paul to write to the Ephesians Ephesians 2:8-9…For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and

The same God who inspired Paul to write to the Ephesians

Ephesians 2:8-9…For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God- not by works, so that no one can boast.

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The starting point on this journey is to make a shift in our perspective from…

“This life is all there is.”…to…”There is life that is beyond this life.”

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The Bible calls it Eternal life

John 17:3Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.

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1 Corinthians 5:1-11Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you.

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Otherwise, you have believed in vain. For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, and then to the Twelve.

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After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time, most of whom are still living, though some have fallen asleep. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles, and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.

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For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all of them—yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me. Whether, then, it is I or they, this is what we preach, and this is what you believed.

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1 John 1:1-10

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked at and our hands have touched—this we proclaim concerning the Word of life. The life appeared; we have seen it and testify to it, and we proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and has appeared to us.

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We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ. We write this to make our joy complete. This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth.

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But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us.

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1 John 5:11 “And this is our testimony, God has given us eternal life and this life is in his Son. He who has the Son has life he who doesn’t have the Son does not have life.”

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Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

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Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Romans 5:8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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Romans 10:9-10 That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved.

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Mathew 7:7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

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Jeremiah 33:3 ‘Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’

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1 Timothy 6:11-16 But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness. Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

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In the sight of God, who gives life to everything, and of Christ Jesus, who while testifying before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, I charge you to keep this command without spot or blame until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, which God will bring about in his own time—God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see.

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To him be honor and might forever. Amen.