and joint hairs with jesus christ if we and if we suffer with him that we might be glorified with him if we suffered him and why i love that verse as a reminder i mean i think many almost all that jay shared this money we've heard

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

leave the world alone to carry on what they they call Christmas that even Christ is taken out of Christmas and it's become Xmas so I'm not preaching to you a Christmas

says, John 15:5, the last part, without Christ, I can do nothing. You must have a coin. On one side, it says, without Christ, I can do nothing. But that's not all. That won't help you. Turn around to the other side

gods invested in me by giving me the best helper I could ever ask for in my wife now the question is did God invest all these things in me so that I could live for myself and have a nice comfortable Christian life the answer is

struggle with your looks your your identity your weight or your face or your hair or or whatever it might be how much money you have your marriage prospects these are things that you probably struggle with and do you feel

verse 3 it says Christ is a radiance of God's glory imagine there is no Christ then there's no radiance then you don't get to see the picture of God's glory

growth to maturity are what brings a balanced Ministry and Jesus made that clear in what is known as the Great Commission if you were to ask the average Christian what is the Great

clearly so on this rock a Christ revealed in my heart I will build my church and I believe that it's only those who have seen Christ revealed in their heart who really come together and form the church and I've seen in in

measured to you. Which means if you are not careful with what you listen to and you're not taking the word you hear and it's getting distracted by other things that you hear, maybe you'll only be a 30% Christian. And some of you may be comfortable being

so we were studying the sermon on the mount of the subject of being growing into the likeness of christ and we first saw the nine right attitudes that jesus described in verses for

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

For the cross of Christ is very central. It's very important for us to understand the meaning of it fully. For most Christians it's only meaning is Christ died for my sins. Right. That is the ABC of the Christian

difference between a servant and a son that is another thing which a lot of Christians don't understand even many many Christians I've heard say this like they say I'm are I asked them are

and you to the uttermost as long as we are drawn near to God through him and the Proteas anyone who wants to come to God must come through Jesus Christ Jesus himself said I am the way and the truth

now and it brought Jesus Christ had done that by bringing him into Union with himself and so even though Charles still had his own identity and Free Will and moral responsibility that means he was still responsible for the decisions he

pray or the heathen pray and most Christians pray our prayers almost always begin with us our need when we think a prayer we are praying of something for ourselves for our family

the the church is often described or pictured as a woman, the bride of Christ. And here you think about a wise woman who builds up her house. A wise church is one that's built up in the way that the Holy Spirit wants to build up the church.

You need teachers to teach you the Bible and the truths of scripture. Christ has given teachers to the church. But you don't need anyone to teach you about God as your father. The Holy Spirit See, there's a difference between

christ comes again many people think of the two groups of believers and unbelievers being separated in that day but this verse tells us they're going to be two groups among the believers that means two groups among those of us

pulled me back and um it's contributed so much in helping me find my identity in Christ and I just pray that the will that same love that I've received here that I might reflect it to the

truth that christ died to set the captives free you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free there are two freedoms that we need to experience

and when that's what we're tasting in the church were truly building his body where I recognize it's the body of Christ not so and so in the body in Christ and so and so in the body Christ yes they are the ones but this is the