promise I tell you this man went to his house what Justified rather than the other that mean he was clothed with the righteousness of Christ went back home a righteous man even though he had sinned probably in his business did things

God." Verse 5, you also as living stones are being built up as a spiritual house for a holy priesthood to to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. And so Jesus

did ministry become his identity was was was his identity in his ministry that he was the treasurer and he lost sight of his love for Christ because he was so busy with this ministry of being a treasurer and and the second question I

not be afraid. For behold I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all people. For today in the city of David there has been born for you a savior who is Christ the Lord. This will be a sign for you. You will find the baby wrapped in a in

verse 28 we proclaim him admonishing every man colossians 1 28 every man and teaching every man with all wisdom so that we may present every man complete or perfect in christ and for this

movie of Jesus like The Passion of Christ or one of those movies you always see that Jesus is very prominent they picked the best actor the most prominent actor and make him represent Jesus and then for the disciples they'll go and

they answered him and said you are not from galilee are you search and see that there's no prophet that arises from galilee and so he started taking a little bit of that reproach of christ but he said it's worth it for knowing

in second Corinthians chapter 10 verse 5 it says take every thought captive to The Obedience of Christ that means every thought that knocks on the door doesn't just get to come inside at evil thought a dirty thought a discouraging thought a thought of

shall live by faith everything in the Christian life is not static stagnant meaning it's staying in one place it's all a part of growing if you turn with me to 2 Corinthians chapter 3 Verse 18 we see

you could forgive me of all my sins let me not stop there because the gospel is from Faith to Faith I don't stay stagnant in my Christian Life the narrow gate speaks of the cross

12 25 that the members may have the same care for one another and so as i i as we spend time here at time testimony time i feel it's a time where i can express a little bit of my care for the body of christ it's just a small

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

just like that young child struggling and struggling and struggling and feeling discouraged that it wasn't working until the dad helped him are like that in our Christian Life as

And that's uh that's not true. We We are a part of the church and and we there is a work for us. And we looked at um how it says in in in the scriptures that we are co-laborers with Christ.

This is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. So when God goes out reaching out to those who are condemned, discouraged, broken, he's not just saving them

I was born into I I was born into a non-Christian home. I came to know Christ around 15 or 16, about the age of many of you teenagers. And I was fortunate to be able to go to a church for eight years that would teach me every Sunday

worship him know him but God is a God who hides himself only a few Shepherd knew that Christ was going to be born there and the Magi very few people knew and recognized Jesus when he first came

even in his correction and him knowing me and showing me my unchrist likeness why do I hide from the Lord why do I want to close this flask and say Lord

the one who is morally righteous the morally righteous Christian that's who he focused the parable to the parable was not focused at the woman who had sinned why most of us here

oh I'm really thankful for all of you precious young people who've come here and I just pray that the Lord will give me the words to share with you to kind of give you a taste of of the body of Christ here um I wanted to first talk a little bit

speak on that but it doesn't start off with baptism it does it starts off first with repentance and faith in our life and I see that everything that we experience in the Christian life is to the measure of how much faith we have

with jesus who is the head of the body and the church which is his body what is your relationship with christ who is the head of the body and with his church it says in ephesians 5