so uh i was having a conversation with uh somebody a while back and uh we were talking about the the preaching of the way of the cross and uh i believe that's that's the message that's lacking perhaps the most in christendom today

I was thinking about this in this context. You know, I think that some of the other religions are have less hypocrisy than Christians. They they are who they are. They're not putting on a pretense. I sometimes they say see some religions where they

think differently from us others even who are not don't believe in Jesus Christ. And that's why the tax gatherers and the prostitutes and the the wicked men so-called wicked men of Jesus day were drawn to the son of God. They were

looking at John chapter 1 verse 12. This is a verse that many Christians know. I remember memorizing this when I was a new believer and it's absolutely true. John 1:12, as many as received him and let's skip to the end of that verse,

even after coming to christ i can speak about this from [clears throat] experience [snorts] for many years even after i was born again i would condemn myself i say lord i've let you down so badly and even after i got born again

follow jesus is to build his church to fulfill the command he's given us a lot of christians i think it's enough just to follow him and be all by myself or but to follow him as he said very clearly if you love me you will keep my

Good morning everybody. Good morning brothers and sisters. Today I feel blessed to stand here before you to declare what God has done in my life. Um I've always been in a family where we were Christians for the Catholic and

bow down to Satan we know that that is our Lord Jesus Christ. Satan said, "If you bow down to me, I'll give you all the treasures of this earth. All the things of this earth I'll give you if you bow down to me." So, and Jesus said,

difference the reason I can read what my daughter has written is because her heart is pure and that is everything in the Christian life that is everything in the Christian life blessed are the pure in heart Matthew 5 verse 8 Jesus told us

how in a Christian Nation which there's no such thing that's why I put it in quotes like America in the west which has been so Keen to send missionaries to the unreached in the world more evangelists more missionaries have

years old gave his life to Jesus and step by step God led him and we're going to read the rest of the story during the first five or six years of his Christian life so what till he was 16 years old uh he often had doubts about whether

chapter 10. i don't think most christians have understood what this means hebrews 10 he first speaks about forgiveness

narrow way and how this is a truth that false prophets would like to hide from the from Christendom like to hide from us because and the devil ultimately is the one behind it he would like to hide this truth from us that somehow I

Covenant of the blood of bulls and goats Christ had to die and shed his blood before our hearts were cleansed and then only could the Holy Spirit dwell within that's why the Holy Spirit could not dwell in anyone under the old

that too. Let me say it again. Every privilege of the kingdom of heaven that Jesus Christ has as the son of God, you have as well. Not to be God in identity, but to partake of his divine nature. You have the rights to everything in the

was bad or good and now it is Christ deciding what I do. That is it. If you've heard any other explanation or description or definition of what it means to be born again, you've been deceived, dear friend. To be born again

I will fill you with my glory back in Matthew chapter 16 I want to show you these three areas that Jesus talks about the first is this recognition that Christ is the Messiah the true identity

as spiritual or as Christ-like as I should be, as disciplined with my time, as disciplined with my body, as disciplined with my tongue, as disciplined with my eyes. There were a lot of other excuses I gave to myself until the Holy Spirit just pointed his

discipleship ship is a walk of joy and I say that it's so important because I know from my own life my own testimony and from having walked alongside many other Christians that there's often a lack of Joy it's sad that people in the world

Christian it's by faith and believe God's Word that he's given you the authority if you've received him to be a child of God that if you come to him he will not cast you out and the Holy Spirit it says in Romans 8 verse 14 to

And there's only one source of faith. That is Jesus Christ. Romans 10:17 says, "Faith comes from hearing Jesus speak to you, hearing by the word of Christ." So, as as I pray, uh I hope you won't hear my voice. You will hear my voice with your physical

and i've been using the word choice to as an acrostic for that we started by looking at the importance of choosing to receive christ i want to emphasize it's not us choosing him he chose us before the foundations of the world we're told