I notice things that I'll never see before habits little things that probably most Christians won't see if we're judging ourselves and we have that heart all the time of I love God's um calling for me to be like Jesus then if I have that heart of I want to

something because I followed Christ maybe I'll getting I will get something better than what I have lost but I've noticed that in verse reading and it says that good the romans 8 28 talks about is becoming conformed to the image of his

with his eyesight i felt that words when that relationship intimation and the other picture which helped me is the life of jesus christ on earth his life was not a fancy lot of miracles

can be excited about on this world is worth nothing because it's because it's not Christ everything outside of christ is rubbish and so I had different illustrations I was just one little thing that I saw early on in life I

people who dress women who dress very honestly are very arrogant in their mind they're not christ-like inwardly it's in the mind that the world he could be conformed to the world so our aim is to change people's thinking in their

Lord I want to have an unlimited faith that this is something that you can do and then seeing that the rest of chapter 1 it says then you yourselves became an example to other Christians and now the word of the Lord has spread out from you

Korean Betsy lived as devout Christians but in the prison they were allowed not allowed to read Bible and even Bible was not allowed into the camp so they smuggled it so the insolent goes like this which encouraged me this was a words of Corey

bread. We are one body in Christ. And we remember the fact that he died for us and we take part in that bread to say we want to die with him. And we drink the cup saying that he shed his blood to forgive all our sins saying, "Lord, I want to take sin very

knowledge by people of the about the glory and he was so wanting for the temple to come back or the walls to come back similarly even in my life I have not attained the life of Christ in all areas and there are so many areas where

12 through 16. not that i have already obtained it or have already become perfect but i was on to lay hold of that for which also i have been laid hold of by christ jesus i do not regard myself as having laid

closer towards the wise and intelligent side then I realized and I like to share an example from that there's two questions in the Christian life that are very important to me and I really wanted to have an answer that I could say yes

Something that is well known to those of us who have heard the message here through the years is what is the goal of the Christian life and what is the goal of the individual Christian? It's very important to know that because

so we were studying the Sermon on the Mount of the subject of being growing into the likeness of Christ and we first saw the nine right attitudes that Jesus described in verses

utley it doesn't it's not receiving christ and i don't receive a child so that's one way that's wrong right another way that's wrong is i don't receive a child in the child's name because they're small because they're needy

we want to continue our study in growth in Christlikeness which is the pedlar given for our study of the Sermon on the Mount and so far we looked at nine right

god like it sticks with this a bit longer and the song that was saying that it made me start thinking about what what Christ has done for me is when we saying how deep the father's love for us how vast beyond all measure that he

jesus still came to them he appeared on the shore to a bunch of deserting disciples and it spoke to me the kindness and the humility of jesus christ that he was willing to revisit them you would think visiting them in the

to share from Romans 7 and then Ephesians 1 so Romans 7 verse4 says therefore my brethren you also were made to die to the law through the body of Christ so that you might be joined to another to him who was raised from the dead in

believed it and read it and yet they were more most unlike God why do I say that because who are the people reading the Bible today Christians can read it every day and

be what nearness to jesus christ the great the only gift i want is to be close to him when what are they saying here grant that we might be close to you lord we only want that gift you've just told us it's absolutely impossible and then