Transformed By Grace

Transformed By Grace is a daily television program produced by the Berean Bible Society. Pastor Kevin Sadler presents the transforming power of God’s grace on many different outlets.

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Solomon begins Ecclesiastes, in this episode, by declaring that life is empty when God is left out, showing that work, routine, and the pursuit of wisdom cannot give lasting purpose. He describes the monotonous cycles of nature to illustrate how life feels futile without a higher perspective. Solomon’s own search through education, knowledge, and intellectualism only increased his grief, because human wisdom cannot straighten what is crooked in this fallen world. True meaning is found not in earthly pursuits but in looking “above the sun,” where purpose comes from knowing God and living for Him.
Part: 4
In this teaching on John 13, Jesus washes His disciples’ feet at the Last Supper to model humble service, not to institute a ritual that the Church must repeat today. In a room full of disciples arguing about who was greatest, the Lord—fully aware of His divine authority—performed the lowliest servant’s task. He explains afterward that He was demonstrating that true greatness is found in serving others with unconditional love and without partiality. We as grace-age believers are to imitate Christ’s humility in meeting people’s needs, finding joy in living out His servant hearted love.
Airing October 14, 2026 (Schedule)
Part: 3
This lesson explains that the unpardonable sin in Matthew 12 refers contextually to Israel’s religious leaders attributing Christ’s Spirit empowered miracles to Satan. Jesus warned that while speaking against Him could be forgiven, rejecting the Spirit’s testimony after Pentecost would not be pardoned. This sin was unique to Israel’s prophetic program and cannot be committed today because God has since introduced the dispensation of grace, when all sins are fully forgiven the moment a person trusts in Christ’s death and resurrection.
Airing October 2, 2026 (Schedule)
Part: 3
The series on the Apostle Paul’s storm tossed voyage in Acts 27 concludes with a portrayal of the Church living in the turbulent “present evil age.” As the ship’s crew lost hope, Paul stood up with God given assurance, and his faith, gratitude, and leadership brought courage to all on board, demonstrating how Paul’s teachings nourish, steady, and strengthen believers in this dispensation of grace. In the end, every person reached land safely, symbolizing that all who “sail with Paul” in the gospel of grace will be preserved and brought safely into God’s heavenly kingdom.
Airing October 1, 2026 (Schedule)
Part: 2
Our study of the Apostle Paul’s windswept journey continues here. The narrative illustrates how demonic forces oppose the progress of God’s truth today, especially when believers reject Paul’s counsel in favor of human wisdom or the majority opinion. The crew’s decision to ignore Paul led them into danger, symbolizing how the Church has departed from Paul’s teachings, embraced unsound doctrine, and is drifting into spiritual shipwreck. The passage urges believers to hold fast to Paul’s message of grace, resist deception, and remain anchored in the truth God revealed for this present age.
Airing September 30, 2026 (Schedule)
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The first of a three-part series of the Apostle Paul’s stormy voyage to Rome in Acts 27 presents the journey as a picture of the dispensation of grace, showing that the Church is sailing through a stormy age marked by satanic opposition, worldly turmoil, and resistance to the gospel. The “contrary winds” symbolize the powers of darkness pushing back against Paul’s message and hindering the spread of grace to the nations. Through Paul, God reveals how believers must navigate this age, and that Christ will deliver His Church before the coming wrath.
By presenting the Apostle Paul’s letters in the order he wrote them, we learn in this lesson that the miraculous sign gifts were active during the Acts period, but temporary, disappearing entirely in Paul’s later epistles. Paul teaches in 1 Corinthians 13 that these partial gifts would cease “when that which is perfect is come,” referring to the completion of the full revelation of the mystery and the Word of God. Faith, hope, and love, however, remain throughout the entire age of grace, with love being the greatest and the true measure of spiritual maturity.
We see in this episode that the miraculous sign gifts—prophecy, tongues, and healing—were temporary tools God used during the “childhood” stage of the dispensation of grace to reveal His Word before Scripture was finished. Paul shows that these gifts would “fail,” “cease,” and “vanish away” once the completed revelation of God’s Word—especially the full mystery given to Paul—had come. Because the early Church only had partial knowledge, these gifts operated for a time, but were eventually no longer needed and therefore stopped.
This study on 1 Corinthians 12 explains that God gave the early Body of Christ a variety of spiritual gifts to establish the Church and reveal the mystery before Scripture was complete. Apostles and prophets were foundational because they received and communicated new revelation, while miracles and healings confirmed that revelation—but these gifts ceased once the Word of God was finished. Other gifts such as teaching, helps, and administration continue today because they build up the Church through the already revealed Word.
This series-opening message groups Scripture’s sign gifts into three categories. The miraculous signs in Mark 16 and early Acts belonged to Israel’s kingdom program and were temporarily suspended when God set Israel aside. When God began the dispensation of grace through the Apostle Paul, He introduced a new set of temporary sign gifts partly to confirm Paul’s apostleship, but these ceased once Scripture was complete. Today, only the non miraculous gifts remain, as believers now “walk by faith, not by sight.”