our Father in Heaven we want to thank you for this morning we want to honor you Lord we want to exalt the name of Jesus Christ in this meeting Lord I pray that you would help me know what to say what not to say you know the

and i've been i've been blessed to see something that we can learn about pursuing christ from some of the folks who are mentioned in luke's gospel in the first couple of chapters and so i wanted to speak about a few things that i've seen there

can say is the only thing I've ever shot our horse apples which are movable they don't move and clay pigeons and I don't think I've ever hit either of those so if you so I hope that we can share the bond of Jesus Christ because I am from a

all things is at hand above all keep fervent in your love for one another and I think we just heard some very very practical things not only from God's Word but from the life of Jesus Christ about what that looks like so I want to

having to travel a lot and the Lord has been showing me these little kind of moments of my life what does it mean to be with me to be a disciple who's living in fellowship with Jesus Christ and all of it is it's an inward reality that outward stuff's

the world and then you contrast that with I'll share this next two by two here um and I put seeking God's kingdom first or the interests of Christ in pink and you can see it's a it's just a polar opposite right um

about Jesus Christ himself when the fruit of the spirit is the fruit of spirit is gentleness what about when Jesus drove the money changers from the temple do your eyes say that's gentleness right there or uh Joy free of

one thing I would say is I mean I love hymns and things like that I love some modern music too the one thing I'm watchful of is when it's primarily emotional or when it stirs me up emotionally I do like we spiritual Christian lives

verse 14. He says, "I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." The prize of the upward

Jesus Christ of the Scriptures will grow in accordance with a God of our own imagination and so it's really important to know who God is and what he loves and one thing he loves is he loves repentance I know this sounds like a

kind of amazing interaction with this priest who's a form who's kind of a shadow of the high priest that Jesus Christ reveals is revealed to be and then in chapter 15 God makes a covenant with Abram um and Abram he actually