be what nearness to jesus christ the great the only gift i want is to be close to him when what are they saying here grant that we might be close to you lord we only want that gift you've just told us it's absolutely impossible and then

being designed by God to accomplish his purpose in our lives um and that he intends to use whatever circumstances he brings us to to fulfill his purpose which is to conform us to the image of Christ but as I thought about this week and the work that I have

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

what happened to hebron they don't call it hebron anymore and for me it's it spoke a warning to my heart that the land resumed its former identity you know the faith of caleb and the faithfulness of god which was kind of you know um

morning everyone good to see you all first Peter - we heard from Bobby about how we have to have a heart like Jesus Christ we can try to fake it we can try to emulate him we can try to imitate him so if we don't have the heart of Jesus

self-will and the flesh that remain in me the giants that remained unconquered [Music] it's um it's incredible to consider the passion that jesus has and the longing that he has to present every man complete in christ

challenged me do i cherish gentleness so much do i cherish do i see that it's imperishably precious it'll be precious in god's sight forever if i'm able to acquire a gentle and quiet spirit from jesus christ it's something that i'd like to

careful of that I might lose the prize that I've been working so hard to get? It says in verse 7, it says, "Watch out for false teachers and there will be many of them who don't believe that Jesus Christ came to earth

problem pride is and as a Christian I have to see all of the areas of my life whether it's spiritual temporal Whatever It Is God I want to be delivered from Pride I don't mind this confusing thing what I mind is the pride that threatens

own life it says Philippians 1 verse 21 for to me to live is Christ and to die is gain if I'm to live on in the flesh this will mean fruitful labor for me and if I and I don't know what to choose I'm hard-pressed from both directions having

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

this is what lets us be a witness the Holy Spirit gives us the power he enlightens our inward eyes are spiritual eyes to see Jesus as alive he's given to us to glorify Christ and take of him literally to take from him who is alive

then it says draw near to the throne of grace I'm drawing near to a savior who goes I have no idea what that's like but I really care and that is beneath Jesus Christ when I come to him and I can in my sin and my shame and my

all with unveiled face beholding is in the mirror of the glory of the Lord are being transformed into that same image the image of Jesus Christ from the spirit so I see there's Jesus Christ God the Father and the Holy Spirit all agreed on

and purity of devotion to christ and we've talked many times about the the importance of maintaining a simple and pure devotion to jesus christ and the question came as i was reading isaiah chapter 42 what do i think of when i think of

Jesus Christ can see my faith just like those Friends of the paralytic and so it kind of sent me on a little bit of a journey which has ended with i think i feel like what Bobby shared I don't even have to share almost there's a great

but it continues, we are to grow up in all aspects into him who is the head, Jesus Christ. And I think it's so important that we see the burden of the Lord very clearly is he wants us to grow up in all

nature right is restful to the world and and yet we can say if if we think about rest is there is it quiet in my home if it's not then it's not restful right and we can have these wrong definitions of rest and and even even in christendom there's an

16 is not the cup of blessing which we bless a sharing in the blood of christ is not the bread which we break a sharing in the body of christ since there is one bread we who are many are one body and we all partake of one bread

verses 6 and 7 the first thing that came to my mind even as I was listening today is what an awesome description of Jesus Christ the one who reminds the Lord taking no rest for himself and giving the Lord no rest it says as we heard

it's speaking here about the final day maybe that day in the light of that heavenly place and it's speaking here about what the response of kings is going to be when they see jesus christ highly exalted it says in verse 13 isaiah 52 13 behold

those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ more than that I count all things to be lost in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and

exemplary Christian and there's a verse here the Thessalonians were a special church you can look with me at even verse three this is not the verse I was going to share but just to see in verse three he says giving thanks for you this is