Ruslan KD

But there's something to this grace and this mercy that he creates a pathway to heaven.

And again, not just heaven in the afterlife, but helps us usher in a piece of heaven on earth, helps us usher in his kingdom here and now.

So I think... This is such a great question.

I think, one, there's...

there's rewards here and now generally speaking generally especially in the west for living out god's ways so if you if you take the the the christian worldview and you apply it to your life and you practice the faith you practice loving your enemies you practice pray prayer you practice reading the scriptures you practice the principles on what it means to handle your money god's way to lead your marriage god's way

that there's rewards here and now you you will have generally speaking in the west in a state that's not oppressing christians and it's not we're not under roman occupation generally speaking there's a lot of fruit here now that we get to experience by aligning our lives with god's ways okay so i say that's generally true um

then there's real persecutions of christians getting beheaded for the name of jesus in other parts of the world for doing the same things right so it's this weird dichotomy there that that's tough to to deal with now when it comes to good works i believe we're saved by grace through faith to

two good works and meaning that faith is a confidence.

I'm placing my confidence.

I'm placing my trust.

I'm placing that when me and you are organizing this conversation, my confidence is that it's happening.

We're going to meet up.

It's right.

Like I have a trust in you, even though I've never met you.

I trust that you are who you say you are, that your team is who they say they are.

So I'm placing my trust, my confidence.

And then by grace, it is a gift.

That means great grace means gift.

You didn't do anything to deserve it.

I can't do anything to make God love me anymore, and I can't do anything to make God love me any less.