think as we heard today it's my pleasure to baptize you my sister in the name of the Father and His Son Jesus Christ and Holy Spirit

in some way but every person has a gift you know in the one chapter on gifts in one corinthians 12 it says god has given different gifts but then he uses the picture of the human body where christ is the head and there is no

we want to continue thinking about the local church as the Bride of Christ I want to repeat what I said yesterday we're not saying the whole Bride of Christ is in your local church the Bride

have this almost woe is me this surprised attitude and one of the things that's important for us to know as New Covenant Christians is we will be sifted we will be tested and we need not be surprised by that if you turn with me to Hebrews chapter

just am I not doing this because I have because I I'm just I can't do this it's like what does Philippians what is it 4:13 I can do all things in Christ who strengthens me and I been really looking at these promises lately and it's like

believed in him was a very small number so it was a big step when somebody decided I'm going to believe in Christ and one would have thought you know when you have a whole lot of people thousands and thousands of people

yeah when i was young growing up uh i didn't really know jesus uh i grew up in a family where my father was an atheist and my mother was you know roman catholic christian so even when i went to church uh i was just

when in Christendom education is valued so much so many places of the great men of God that are known in the world are those who are great scholars esteemed

this verse that God is saying it is good for us to mourn regularly as God is showing our life and comparing a life at the life of Christ and when we see the Sun Christ like nature's in our attitudes and things like that then the

more like Christ. He convicts us and makes us hate it. And when we see something that's like that, we say that's beautiful and I love that. And um and the Holy Spirit guides us and changes us like that. He works in us to

my mind very often the God in his timing allowed and CCF to be births I think about three years or so after I'd left and I had a longing beginning in around the year 2001 or so to be a part of a local expression of the body of Christ

felt like there was just like this on christ-like attitude all this ugliness I was building up in me but I believe that the Lord gave me that desire to and just ask for forgiveness and apologize and it made such a big difference and it was

seems impossible you know but with God all things are possible right so these are just some reasons as a Christian that I can do the impossible as i believe is I trust my use these guys as my example and believe in God for

so we were hearing about mourning from the beginning it's a very important part of the christian life because in the sermon on the mount jesus said blessed are those who mourn for they shall be strengthened so

we were saying that the church is the body of Christ and uh the first Body of Christ that was on the Earth was the physical body of Jesus and the spiritual body of Christ that was formed on the day of Pentecost is called the body of Christ because

truth that birthed me into a new kind of Christian life and it started the beginning of a new way of living the life that has continued to this day but I I'm thankful because this verse was a good grounder for me as I was so tempted

growing in Christ christlikeness I should also and likewise be growing in my intimacy with my heavenly father and um there's a promise um sand mentioning claiming the promises of God I've started doing that ever since we heard

today around authenticity if you're being yourself if you're being real then that is the best thing you can possibly do and I've come to see this week as followers of Jesus Christ we are not called to be real we're called to die

mystery a mystery can be known only by Revelation you can read it and use your intellect and explain it and you haven't understood it there are multitudes of Born Again Christians who have not