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[00:00:00] You are listening to My Devotional, the daily devotional from Dr. Michael Youssef and Leading
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[00:00:08] No Other Sacrifice by Dr. Michael Youssef
[00:00:13] At the core of most world religions is the desire to appease a god or gods to attain favor
[00:00:20] in the afterlife.
[00:00:22] Followers live in fear of upsetting their gods so day after day they labor to earn their
[00:00:27] salvation through good works and religious practice.
[00:00:30] While these religions are focused on pursuing and appeasing a deity, Christianity is founded
[00:00:36] on God's pursuit of man.
[00:00:38] In Christianity, salvation cannot be earned.
[00:00:41] Rather, it is received as a gracious and merciful gift.
[00:00:45] For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves.
[00:00:50] It is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast.
[00:00:57] Salvation is received by faith in the sacrificial death and triumphant resurrection of Jesus Christ.
[00:01:04] Through faith in the perfect shed blood of Christ, we are fully covered for eternity.
[00:01:09] No other sacrifice is necessary for the remission of sins.
[00:01:13] The idea that our God sacrifices for us reverses the pattern followed by other religions.
[00:01:20] Let's pray together.
[00:01:22] Father, thank you for your grace.
[00:01:23] Thank you for making the ultimate sacrifice, not sparing your own son, to save us from our sins.
[00:01:30] We pray this in the name of Jesus.
[00:01:32] Amen.
[00:02:02] Amen.