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Grace Alone: The Gift of Salvation
🎙️ Equipping You in Grace · 📅 Monday, October 6, 2025 ·
📖 Ephesians 2:1–10 · 📜 Series: Standing Firm: Truths Worth Reforming For
Show Summary
In this episode, Dave Jenkins unfolds the Reformation truth of Sola Gratia — Grace Alone from
Ephesians 2:1–10. We were dead in sin, but God, rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ. Salvation is
entirely a gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. Grace humbles our pride, gives assurance,
fuels worship, and produces a life of obedience and good works prepared by God.
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Key Points
- Our Desperate Need for Grace (Eph. 2:1–3): not sick or merely weak, but spiritually dead.
- God’s Rich Mercy and Love (Eph. 2:4–7): “But God” — He makes us alive with Christ.
- Gift, Not a Work (Eph. 2:8–9): salvation and faith are gifts of grace, so no one may boast.
- Grace Produces Good Works (Eph. 2:10): we are His workmanship, saved for good works.
Scripture
Ephesians 2:1–10 (ESV)
Pastoral Application
- Grace humbles pride: salvation rests on what God has done, not what we do.
- Grace gives assurance: if salvation is by grace, we are secure in Christ.
- Grace fuels worship & obedience: we serve from gratitude, not to earn favor.
Resources
Dave Jenkins is happily married to his wife, Sarah. He is a writer, editor, and speaker living in beautiful Southern Oregon. Dave is a lover of Christ, His people, the Church, and sound theology. He serves as the Executive Director of Servants of Grace Ministries, the Executive Editor of Theology for Life Magazine, the Host and Producer of Equipping You in Grace Podcast, and is a contributor to and producer of Contending for the Word. He is the author of The Word Explored: The Problem of Biblical Illiteracy and What To Do About It (House to House, 2021), The Word Matters: Defending Biblical Authority Against the Spirit of the Age (G3 Press, 2022), and Contentment: The Journey of a Lifetime (Theology for Life, 2024). You can find him on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, or read his newsletter. Dave loves to spend time with his wife, going to movies, eating at a nice restaurant, or going out for a round of golf with a good friend. He is also a voracious reader, in particular of Reformed theology, and the Puritans. You will often find him when he’s not busy with ministry reading a pile of the latest books from a wide variety of Christian publishers. Dave received his M.A.R. and M.Div through Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.
