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Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the Spirit, the primary spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.

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Grace, mmm, how sweet the sound of grace. One of my hopes and one of my passions is, not only as a pastor but as a disciple of Jesus is that grace would not simply be an abstract theological word in the dusty caverns of our minds, but the grace would be King Jesus himself, but the grace would be King Jesus himself. For John 1.14 says and we beheld him full of grace and truth. Yes, it's true that grace is indeed the unearned, the unmerited, the unworked for gift of God. Grace is a person and his name is Jesus. Grace is God's righteousness at Christ's expense. Grace is God and Christ being for us, what we could never be and do. Grace is not simply God saying hey, I forgive you. Oh, it's so much more. Not only does he throw our sins into the sea of God's forgotten memory, he takes our sins away. But then grace gives us something too. Grace says you are holy and blameless. Holy means sacred, that you're set apart, that the blood of Christ, that you are owned by him, that you belong to him. You are sacred, you are holy, you are his beloved. Grace says that not only you're holy and blameless, not only are you his beloved, but that you are as righteous as Jesus. That that's your position in Christ. And grace says that as you trust me by the faith that brought you to my heart, that same faith will grow you to reflect my heart. Grace says you are my bride and I cherish you. Grace says you are my temple and I indwell you. Grace says you are my body and I empower you. Grace says I love you and I will never not love you.

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On August 2nd 1997, I had my grace awakening After five years in the National Football League, where my whole life was defined on how fast are you? How tall are you? How big are you? How strong are you? How well did you play? How good did you do your job? It was utterly exhausting. I was striving, and the more I accomplished, the more I saw that my accomplishments could never, ever meet my deepest need. My deepest need was love. Your deepest need was love.

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And so often we project onto God what we believe he's like. We think he's like people who say I love you if I love you, if I love you if you can, I love you if you do. Our God is not a transactional God, he's a transformational God. He's a God who says I have loved you before time ever began. And my love for you is not predicated upon what you do or don't do. I am love, I am grace. And when he lived a sinless life for us, it's grace. When he died on the cross in our place, it's grace. When he rose from the dead to be seated at the right hand of the Father and to send the Holy Spirit, it's grace, it's God's righteousness at Christ's expense. It's God doing for us and being for us what we could never do. You see, jesus gave his life for us, to give his life to us, to live his life through us. That's grace and friend, you are a trophy of grace. Live in grace. This is Pastor Derwin Gray Marinate on that.

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