How do we know grace is essential for understanding Scripture?
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Understanding Scripture requires grace; without it, we are spiritually blind and deaf to its truths.
1 Corinthians 2:14 states that the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God because they are foolishness to him. This highlights the necessity of God's grace to comprehend spiritual truths. Only through the work of the Holy Spirit can our eyes be opened to understand God's Word. The sermon underscores that despite having access to God's Word, without the enabling grace of the Spirit, one cannot truly believe or understand it. This also affirms the teaching that salvation is wholly of grace, as seen in Ephesians 2:8-9, where it is made clear that faith itself is a gift from God.
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