points back and says Christians today please take a look at that it was actually Jude uh a verse in Jude verse 5 that really got me thinking about that and that shapes a lot of my um understanding um so I'm thankful for

sand all the tables right but the who got the recognition joseph even in jesus's identity he's the backup and here's what's encouraging to me if if jesus worked in that carpenter shot from the time he was 12 till he began his ministry at 30 18 years of his

towards this that you're seeking to be part of the body of Christ and here's the thing you'll have to give up a lot of your individual identity I'm sorry but for Christ to get all the glory like we sang about you're going to have to

just a student he studied under a teacher he was just a guy in the class so both of these saws started out very humble and and what about you you know what was your beginning what was the beginning of your Christian Life it's

says he chose us in him in Christ before the foundation of the world that we that we would be holy and what's the word? Blameless. So before the Lord, you know, was was,

everything, all your identity. You know, they they don't assume anything. They don't they don't even assume you know how to dress. They don't assume you know how to make your bed. They don't assume you know how to fold a t-shirt. They

me and for one and a half years I accepted that argument that I must stay on in this dead church so that I can convert bring other people to Christ but as I read the Bible I found baptism was very clear you must be immersed after you're born

temple. Everything that was so precious and that was part of their identity as God's people. It was all wiped out. And God caused Nebuchadnezzar to to take most of the people away to Babylon. And during that time, they were exiles. They

special people in the body of Christ there's only Jesus God uses us in different ways and how he uses us is not as important as whether we are used by him so make yourself available to him so

life I can live you know off the most of my income I can do what I want but suddenly Jesus shows up and starts making a mess of things hey this cuts right to the core of that life that I thought I was doing so well I was a good Christian remember I tied

to find our identity in the competition with others and so what do we go back to we go back to that love we go back to the cross we go back to christ and then we looked at our third example and we said when these thoughts come in they are

people speak about worship in the spirit is making a lot of noise what a deception the devil is practiced on Christendom go to the Bible take the word worship in the concordance and see what worship in the spirit is I decided

Good morning brothers and sisters. Today um I want to share about something that has uh transformed my Christian journey. Uh that is the gift of

need to know him as primarily in the old testament everything in the old testament particularly under the law was a picture of what was going to be fulfilled in christ it's important to understand that we

fellowship and building the body of Christ now the reason I've selected that is because I feel this is the area where many people who would like to hear about an

careful how he builds on it now please read this very carefully for no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid which is Jesus Christ but if any man builds on the foundation and

that we're discover discovering the knowledge right i'm going to point to some verses and we'll get some knowledge from there but it's not just the knowledge we want we want the life we want the reality we want the life of christ in us and we

christ and lord ask you to open our eyes and ears again to your word thank you for meeting with us today continue to be in our presence we love you and praise you in jesus name amen all right thank you josh okay so we're gonna start today not in

Josh you need to be a better listener and it's sad to me that the world gets this more than Christianity gets this and so I want to show you in scripture all right look at complete this phrase for me he who has ears to hear yeah let him hear everybody knew it

me about the future i think this is so important for us to understand as christians because it makes a difference about how we live our lives for many years i was a christian who had my sins forgiven a clear conscience with

new creation the old has gone right so always remember dear brothers and sisters that we have a new identity in Christ that's why we don't need any attention from anywhere the attention that we have is enough the Lord is with

Faith The Obedience of Faith Christian faith has obedience to it you can't say who are you to judge my faith and then go live however you want apart from what Jesus's words say you cannot do that you must do what he says now don't

your life where you can repent the second verse it says that God lot overlooks the times of zimmer remember ignorant right and it's a wonderful truth that we looked at that that God you know is because of the blood of Christ is able to just you know