dear family we've heard been hearing a lot we hear a lot in this church about the importance of not being passive christians unfortunately most of christendom has been directed in a path where their church experiences i don't even

followed Christ if you weren't following him and that's what I say about the healthy fear that at that moment when Christ comes and I hear the trumpet and it's the twinkling of an eye I will be somewhere else far away from Christ

I believe that every Christian should have a burden to reach those who are unconverted. Just like Matthew had, you know, as soon as he was converted he immediately thought, "Let me have a big feast here for all my unconverted colleagues.

there's no in between christian life now in christendom you'll hear that you say a prayer and repentance is not preached daily repentance after you're born again is not emphasized and so you end up with a lot of people who think they're christians but their

16 Jesus asked his disciples verse 15 who do you say that I am and Simon Peter said you're the Christ the son of the Living God and Jesus answered and said to him blessed are you Simon bar Jonah because Flesh and Blood did not reveal this to

i have been crucified with christ and 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 up for me i don't believe it's possible that i can

beyond that and what I mean specifically we're going on behalf of Christ and if we're taken out by the event or the activity we may miss what God wants us to do of course we're going to enjoy the party we're going to enjoy fellowship

Now as we think about those things, I want to think about this this verse here. It says God to whom I belong. It says that we were purchased by the blood of Christ. We were purchased with a a precious with his precious blood. We

continue with sinful life bad moods lust anger bitterness jealousy unforgiveness Messiah it doesn't give me the license to do any of that but it gives me a passion to live wholeheartedly for the Lord Jesus Christ until he

billion and trillion to describe the riches of what God has given us through Jesus Christ no amount of money no big number you can describe can tell you how much he has put in your bank account so Jesus died my sins were forgiven Jesus

so we were considering who can build the body of Christ the church and uh we saw it's one who has a burden and as he seeks to fulfill that burden God trains him through Brokenness and failure I want to share uh something in

in our minds by faith professing in our hearts by inward blessing on our tongues by words confessing Jesus Christ is Lord. Sing it

so we pray that you would open our hearts Lord help us to hear you speaking Lord I pray that um you would uh let the words spoken be from a pure heart and we ask that Jesus Christ would

because it's cleansed in the blood of Jesus Christ. But even that page was written in love. And on the last page, you've heard me say it often, is written, Santosh is conformed into the image of Jesus. Now, that's my book.

want to take that step in obedience to the Lord to bury the old self and rise with Christ. >> [music]

jesus christ but if any man now if any man builds upon the foundation so he says he establishes that the foundation is jesus christ and then he talks about building on that foundation and that's why he he's setting that in the context of

in the hype, then you're going to fall away." And I believe it's the same in the Christian life, that whatever, whether people praise me or or have not so nice words to say about me, I need to go back to my father who knows me fully,

he is precious unto you who believe believe he is precious in Christendom people talk about being a Believer are you a Believer have is he a Believer is so- and so a Believer is she a Believer if you call yourself a Believer

We can never blame our circumstances for not being able to see Jesus. Jesus is there if you want to see him. But those things can be a distraction I believe. And for immature Christians like I was at that time, it was difficult for me to see Jesus because

Death Christ speaking in his place it's been wonderful CS Lewis said I think humility is not thinking less of yourself but it's thinking about yourself less you see the difference it's not thinking less of yourself because it's still self-thinking less oh

pressing on to perfection like paul said i press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of god in christ jesus and to get there we emphasize we need to take up the cross

God will anoint you to fulfill that particular Ministry that every single one of you and I mean every single one of you even your little children you have a Ministry in the body of Jesus Christ and the church is the best place

that our Christian life becomes very static. that we don't get more light on uncristlikeness in our life. We have already got light on some areas. Praise God for that. And we've got a pretty good testimony