all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ all right um and so I want to add a little note the verse actually ends the um you know the the published picture cuts the reverse off a little bit ends with

they were nothing great as they decided to follow Christ the sinners they were tired they were no one but here as they walked with Jesus sat in Jesus feet here in verse John chapter 17 verse 22 I read

Christ and manifests through us the sweet Aroma of the knowledge of him in every place for we are a fragrance of Christ to God Among those who are being saved

having parents. Both of my parents had passed away and even as I became a Christian um there were many challenges I struggled with and for a long time I used to an excuse I used to come up with or um

reading from philippians 3 8. it says i'll start from verse 7 whatever things were gained to me those things i have counted lost for the sake of christ more than that i count all things to be

jealous for you with a Godly jealousy for I betrothed you to one husband so that to Christ I might present you as a pure virgin so he had this mindset that he he wanted to present something in Jesus Christ too and that wasn't just himself but it was

Christians in again in Hebrews chapter 10 uh verse 32 on it's talking about how these early Christians went through difficult times of uh you know uh persecution says remember the former days when after being enlightened you

scripture seriously we can be protected in these last days before Christ comes again and be ready for him I want to tell you one thing about Christ coming he's coming for a bride he's coming for

Christ's expense great basically it means everything that God has we have we have his power and ability to do to accomplish anything in our life that we want if it's his will so if we want to be done if we see our sin I have this Idol I'm not fully in this

simple we heard in the sermon this week that sound doctrine is simply practical Christianity Christianity that we can apply in every area of our life whether it's in our home life in our personal life in our work life it's sound

big city and since then he often visited Paul and strengthened him and encouraged him and even Paul being the greatest Apostle of Christ and needed an encouragement from a brother and was so thankful for and how much more I need that

you ought not to do it um and but you may be afraid of of what they would say do not be ashamed to identify with Christ um and also seek to have that testimony um even now in your young days to make

have a heavenly father but here in Galatians 3 it's an amazing verse in 29 if you belong to Christ and we say we do men you are Abraham's descendants

beneficial it is to build us up in Christ how that's one of the treasures that God gives us to become more like him I um I was writing a a Blog this week for the Church website and uh I asked Jess her opinions and she gave

that's the picture of Christ come into our life God says draw dark heart let there be light Christ comes into our life in 2nd Corinthians 4:6 it says that God who said let the light shine out of darkness has put the light of the knowledge

okay we'll continue our study on holding fast because to the Christian life title of the Christian life and you remember and use the example of the hand and we started with the palm

ground and dies from that fruit will come and I want to say that I proved it now in my life that is the secret any amount of powerful preaching and anointed Servants of God will not produce a body of Christ it's falling

knowing God as a father is only the beginning it is not the end Holy Spirit is going to do more as we hunger for him we heard this another common worse in 2nd Corinthians 3:18 that Holy Spirit will reveal Jesus Christ in the scriptures

And there are many times in my Christian walk that I get to a point where life presents difficulties and I'm faced with a decision whether I am on I'm going to go honor God or I'm going to honor my flesh. There's in my experience