AWANA 1-29-2025

That is the Gospel with brings us to the next letter of P and the now the ball is in your court

P

Personal response -

Ephesians 2:5 NASB95

5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

Ephesians 2:8–9 NASB95

8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 9 not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.

The ball is now in your court

God sent his son to the cross to save you and I

Jesus is the Gospel and is the only way nothing else

Can we work our way into heaven

The choice to follow Jesus is entirely our own, no one elses

It is a personal choice that everyone must make, which is why we are telling people, they cannot decide if they do not know,

E

Eternal urgency -

Ephesians 2:7 NASB95

7 so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

You and I will live for eternity, not our fleshly bodies but our souls will

We do get to decide where we spend eternity either in a place called heaven with Jesus only because of Jesus or in a place called hell, only because we did not choose Jesus

This Gospel was for the Jews first and then for the Gentiles

It is urgent that we share with people because we do not know the time when people will die, and

L

Life transformation -

Ephesians 2:10 NASB95

10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.

Because of the Gospel you and I have accepted Jesus and have accepted the Gospel the result of that is a transformed life

If you and are children of God and have the Holy Spirit living in us then you and I are going to look and act different than the world

Good trees bare good fruit, to help each other grow you and I as brothers and sisters in Christ need to be fruit inspectors

it is only because of Jesus that you and I can live a life transformed