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When the Lord uses you in His redemptive program. Don’t ever
take the glory. You can never get beyond duty. You can’t even
reach duty. May your heart, get on its face before God. This is a
tremendous salvation. “By grace you have been saved”, by a
three-fold salvation. By grace, through faith. “It’s the gift of
God, not of works, lest any man should boast”. “Let him
who boasts, boast in the Lord.”

Studying EPHESIANS to Know God

Chapter 14 God’s Holy Temple 2:22

This brings us to the third question, “Saved unto what?” We’re
saved from, and we’re saved by. We are also saved unto. Unto
what? Really, unto Whom? 2:11-22,

“Therefore remember, that formerly you, the gentiles in the
flesh, by the so called circumcision which is performed in the
flesh by human hands; remember that you were at that time
separate from Christ , excluded from the commonwealth of
Israel, strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope
and without God in the world.”

By the way, you might be interested in this. The Greek word for
“without God” is “atheos”, from which we get out word atheist.
Before you were saved you were an atheist. But now in Christ
Jesus,

“You who were formerly far off have been brought near by
the blood of Christ, for He Himself is our peace, Who made
both groups into one and broke down the barrier of the
dividing wall, by abolishing in His flesh the enmity, which is
the Law of commandments contained in ordinances, that in
Himself He might make the two into one new man, thus
establishing peace, and might reconcile them both in one
body to God through the cross by it having put to death the