How The Gospel Has Affected H.b. Charles, Jr.

- [H.B. Charles] I would say recently, the work of Christ on my behalf has been sweet for me to enjoy through a study of the book of Ephesians. I really, as a pastor is prone to do, decided to preach through Ephesians because I was convinced this is what my congregation needed to hear, that they needed to be confronted with these gospel realities with the large message of the work of Christ and what it means to be in him. But as God and His ironic providence often works, as I am preaching through that book, it was a clear sense that I needed this more than anyone that I was preaching to. And studying through those chapters of Ephesians, first, the explanation of the gospel in the first half and then how that is to be walked out in later chapters, all of that just made me, over those weeks, meditate on the riches of the gospel of Jesus Christ and how the riches of the gospel and the power of what Christ has accomplished on our behalf applies to race relations, family life, spiritual warfare, the life of ministry, and all of those, every area of life and ministry. And through an unexpected but gloriously pleasant means, the sweetness of the gospel of the work of Christ was made new for me, and I really rejoice in it even still.