I I believe all of you are. I hope so. walking in the truth which means according to the light that we have. It is God's will that as we grow in the Christian life,

so I would like to continue from what we heard from George just now Christ died the just for the unjust that we might bring us to God there's a beautiful expression in Ephesians in chapter one

what Peter had just confessed in verse 16 you are the Christ the Son of the Living God that was the rock Peter just said others are saying that your verse 14 Elijah Jeremiah John the Baptist and but we know you're the Christ the Son of

family in order to come to Christ with most of us that has not been true so we've not understood the price one has to pay in such situations so I always appreciate someone who's come from non-Christian

I'm always amazed how Jesus could speak to 5,000 people without a mic we're all weaklings he was a strong man uh whenever we the Christian life is a

Poonen. It's my pleasure to introduce brother Zac this morning. As many of you know, he is coming from Bangalore, India to to be with us today where he is been a teacher and minister there for over 40 years at Christian Fellowship

light so my love for Christ must be so great it's not that I don't love father mother wife children and all that but it must almost be like Darkness compared to my love for Christ and the illustration

everything else was because there was in the heart of people of passion to discover more and more and more and any christian who is not doing that to discover more and more of the life of jesus should be ashamed when he looks at these

that's written about it but we get a little idea of what the early Christians were like and and those of us who have been used to traditional Christianity uh you must remember that the early church never had Church

that concerns the Lord is not so much that the world has not been reached with the gospel. I come from a country where 98% are non-Christians. And I've traveled the whole length and breadth of that land. And my problem as I see as I see is not

people who want to accomplish something you want to spend our life and say we've accomplished something with the lord even in christendom who other people were known as great in christendom people have done something accomplished

growth to maturity are what brings a balanced Ministry and Jesus made that clear in what is known as the Great Commission if you were to ask the average Christian what is the Great

meet his current needs and he lost his Birthright so the thing that we need to ask ourselves is what is our Birthright if someone were to ask you my brother or sister what is your birth right as a Christian

that's wrong because if you do that you'll be just as guilty as those who actually crucified Christ on the cross if you eat the bread and drink the cup in an unworthy manner you'll be guilty of crucifying

1 and verse 18 we say Christ is the head of the church and we are the body of

We were studying the Sermon on the Mount seeing it as a description of partly a part description of a Christ-like life. All of Christ-likeness is not found in the Sermon on the Mount. It's a much vaster

today that the reason why the Apostle Paul knew Jesus Christ so well was because he says in Philippians 3 I considered everything outside of Christ as

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

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

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

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