D a Waite

Christ in You, the hope of glory1. The Glory is Certain2. The Glory is Shared3. The Glory is Defined4. The Glory shall be Received

All Are Sinners. In this book of Ephesians, Paul made it very clear that every human being is a sinner. In fact, they are all "dead in trespasses and sins." (Ephesians 2:1)All Must Be Saved. Since all are sinners and "dead in trespasses and sins," all must be saved. Paul differed with the liberals and apostates of our day who say that all are saved and will go to God's heaven. God's salvation cannot be accomplished by our "works." It is only by God's "grace" that people can be saved, "through faith" in the Lord Jesus Christ (Ephesians 2:8-9).All Saved Should Serve. Though none can be saved by their "good works," once saved, all should serve the Lord by "good works" which God has "ordained that we should walk in them" (Ephesians 2:10). Though we cannot serve God to be saved, once we are saved, we should serve the Lord with willing hearts and with "good works."

The goal of this Fourth 200 Questions and Answers is similar to that of the First, Second, and Third 200 Questions books. I want to give our readers an understanding of where I stand on many controversial issues.

The Beginning. This book is the seventeenth in a series of verse-by-verse preaching from various New Testamentbooks of the Bible. It is an attempt to bring to the minds of the readers two things: (1) the meaning of the words in the verses, and (2) some practical applications of those words to the lives of both genuine Christians and non-Christians. Paul is the apostle of Jesus Christ by God's will. Before this, he imprisoned and agreed to the killing of Christians. The Lord Jesus Christ met him as he was going to Damascus to imprison Christians. On his way there, the Lord Jesus Christ saved him and called him to be an apostle. I believe Paul, not Mathias, was chosen by the Lord Jesus Christ to take the place of Judas Iscariot who betrayed the Saviour. Timothy was with Paul when he wrote 2 Corinthians and he was right there in the church of Corinth with all the genuine Christians in Achaia or northern Greece. This was Paul's second letter to them. In his first letter, he excoriated them because one of the men had committed incest with his father's wife. Paul is trying to encourage them in the things of the Lord Jesus Christ.

The Galatian problem of faith versus works salvation is addressed