difference the reason I can read what my daughter has written is because her heart is pure and that is everything in the Christian life that is everything in the Christian life blessed are the pure in heart Matthew 5 verse 8 Jesus told us

how in a Christian Nation which there's no such thing that's why I put it in quotes like America in the west which has been so Keen to send missionaries to the unreached in the world more evangelists more missionaries have

years old gave his life to Jesus and step by step God led him and we're going to read the rest of the story during the first five or six years of his Christian life so what till he was 16 years old uh he often had doubts about whether

was bad or good and now it is Christ deciding what I do. That is it. If you've heard any other explanation or description or definition of what it means to be born again, you've been deceived, dear friend. To be born again

as spiritual or as Christ-like as I should be, as disciplined with my time, as disciplined with my body, as disciplined with my tongue, as disciplined with my eyes. There were a lot of other excuses I gave to myself until the Holy Spirit just pointed his

that too. Let me say it again. Every privilege of the kingdom of heaven that Jesus Christ has as the son of God, you have as well. Not to be God in identity, but to partake of his divine nature. You have the rights to everything in the

and i've been using the word choice to as an acrostic for that we started by looking at the importance of choosing to receive christ i want to emphasize it's not us choosing him he chose us before the foundations of the world we're told

I will fill you with my glory back in Matthew chapter 16 I want to show you these three areas that Jesus talks about the first is this recognition that Christ is the Messiah the true identity

This ugly cup was filled with the life of Christ. This wretched sinner, this horrible person that Santos really was. Trust me, when you see when Jesus Christ comes, you'll realize I was a lot more horrible than you thought I was. Now,

okay I see this pure sacrifice now the rest of mankind can have its sins forgiven so Jesus is not only uh our savior we saw that he forgives our past sins but he's our example now Christ is Manifest in our flesh the spirit of

discipleship ship is a walk of joy and I say that it's so important because I know from my own life my own testimony and from having walked alongside many other Christians that there's often a lack of Joy it's sad that people in the world

dear friends this is the time of year when many people around the world remember the life of jesus christ especially his birth and even though historically jesus could not have been born in this time of year i use it personally as an opportunity to

And there's only one source of faith. That is Jesus Christ. Romans 10:17 says, "Faith comes from hearing Jesus speak to you, hearing by the word of Christ." So, as as I pray, uh I hope you won't hear my voice. You will hear my voice with your physical

happening today in churches that if Jesus Christ in the flesh was to walk into many churches today we would they would miss him I wouldn't even know that that's Jesus God in the flesh the same Jesus they sang about earlier in the

bet you would think man I wish I could be a human being and imagine if you had the opportunity to do that that's what Jesus Christ offers you to have your identity changed your identity from being a dog to being a human being

you fall asleep, you know, a lot of people even in religious Christendom are in the habit of saying prayers before they go to sleep. Unfortunately, most of the prayers are, Lord, don't kill me while I'm asleep. If my If I should die before I wake,

my mind very often the God in his timing allowed and CCF to be births I think about three years or so after I'd left and I had a longing beginning in around the year 2001 or so to be a part of a local expression of the body of Christ

be 30 or 50 or anything like that. I'm already past both of those. Um Today is the day of salvation. You need power to be like Jesus. Anyone who says he's a Christian must live today and on Now, it's already 11:19 on April 20th,

We started by looking at the importance of choosing to receive Christ. I want to emphasize it's not us choosing him. He chose us before the foundations of the world. We're told in the book of Ephesians chapter 1. We are choosing to

lose some weight to get through that door maybe if you're carrying a bunch of stuff you have to let leave it behind because it's a narrow gate now I believe that there are there is a message in Christendom I think most of us probably

he will enlighten our darkness and we alternate between promises and commands you've heard it in this church often that our goal as christians should be that by the time we reach the end of our lives um we have god has been able to fulfill