about Christ something comes to you is a is a guru as a teacher or a rabbi or a saint or a prophet um and also scriptures um you know scriptures also bear witness about Christ right that's how we came to Faith and Jesus himself

you're that donkey right in this scenario it's a little bit different because you're being you're put in a situation if you read the story it says that this donkey had carried balaam his entire life right so you see a faithful donkey you

know that so now I'm a little curious so Peter set now he didn't have a typewriter I'm kind of putting in perspective Peter did not have a typewriter but he lik he writes a letter you know dear to all of those of a similar Faith love Peter what's in the

world has blinded the minds of non-christians so that they try to work out their salvation and so many other ways get their forgiveness of sins in so many ways but we've received it by faith by grace in the same way the god of this

don't know what happened to them. The narrative doesn't tell us, but I don't think it was good. I don't think those guards were around much longer. I think they were executed." So he turns to Doug, remember the bad guy, the the faithful truth teller, and

let's wrestle with them one at a time. An unbeliever. Brothers and sisters, would you say that you are absolutely faithful to the Lord? That you're full of faith all the time? That you never waver. You never doubt. You never have times where you're crying

that's what I'm gonna do I'm not gonna look at somebody else whose job is to fill 30 or 300. I say Lord you put us a circle around me you drawn that Circle and I'm going to be faithful that whatever you've put in my circle I will

Spirit. And yet is the is this promise only for some people? Please turn with me to John 7:38. It's a very important verse. And my dear brother, sister, as you read this verse, please listen to what I say. According to your faith,

can shut out eyes and say boy I really love the Lord but you go home and yell at your wife or husband and say it's it's it's all of Faith it's just a feeling you got in the meeting 1 John 5 John says the love of

not just as if we have never sinned. If we have confessed our sin the Bible says the blood of Jesus cleanses us from all sin. We are familiar with that. If we confess our sins he's faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and

that salvation comes through faith in Christ and all of us who received Christ we received Christ into our heart I know when I accepted Christ to my heart I probably asked Christ into my heart 100 times between the age of 13 and 19

what they had done. They were supposed to go by faith. They were not supposed to take a bunch of money, a bunch of extra clothes. They were supposed to lodge with people in the different towns. They were very busy. It it was

just settle for the money or if we'll really long for that which is valuable by being faithful in money and so we want to continue to grow in that and learn like okay this thing there is some connection God is using this to test and

except that it will be true that it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave himself for me but in order for that to happen now you know

somebody that didn't have an opportunity to do much of anything except let go of his pride and in faith request something of jesus that was so bold will you remember me will you think of me a murderous sinner could you when you

faith so you say if i get this high-paying job everything will be great is that true and you may spend a lot of time on money thinking all these different thoughts about it it would be better to say like lord as far as i can tell this would be

me with is right in the middle of these two with my two talents and it's perfect allocation. God gave me what he gave me and he did it perfectly. Thank you Lord. Now help me to be faithful. And I go back to this. This is an important part

gate, a narrow gate and a narrow way that leads to life. And the narrow gate is repentance and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. The narrow way is take up your cross daily, put Christ

god you are great and merciful hear my prayers and he confesses the sins and then he also says remember verse 8 remember the word which you have commanded your servant Moses if you are unfaithful I will scatter you but if you

the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace patience longsuffering goodness faithfulness gentle Gess and self-control um the fruit is uh christlikeness uh the holy spirit in US wants to produce christlikeness when the

to become the children of God if he confess our sins he's faithful and just to forgive us 1 John 1:9 and the witness of the Holy Spirit that tells you in your heart you're a child of God it's this double witness of the Word of God

Every journey with Christ begins here at cross. At cross with repentance and through the new birth in faith. We didn't earn it. It is through our faith.

colossians about onesimus does it say that he's a faithful and beloved does paul now identify him as one of your number did did the letter work it appears so right it appears so and from what from what i could find this letter was

do you see that if you really have come to Faith it was through the foolishness of those of the preaching foolishness of the message preached for indeed Jews ask for a sign and the Greek search for wisdom but we preach Christ crucified to Jews a stumbling