believing in God's goodness this is the kind of self-effacing Christ exalting Christ astonishing faith that he's looking for when he comes back to earth there's a similar story in mark in a chapter 10 if you want to turn there

who can build it he also invites sm as we wait on him and in dependence upon him it's not that we have no responsibility we have plenty of responsibility I was thinking about it you know think about the return of Christ it's the ultimate case in which

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

body can be very healthy and very strong and yet if even one percent is weak that determines the functional strength of my body what does that say to me as a member of the body of Christ our body is only as strong and healthy as our

and one of the easiest pictures i can think of or that i've seen in the bible is the picture of the disciples if you turn with me to matthew 28 the disciples spend 40 days with jesus christ after he raised from the dead they knew

verse two it says when john while imprisoned you could say while people were hating him while people were ostracizing him while he was in jesus words being blessed when he heard of the works of christ he sent word by his disciples and he said

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

thanks for sharing that Bobby really appreciate it you reminded me of that verse and a first Peter five it says after you have suffered for a little while the god of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ for

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

or have already become perfect but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus Brethren I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet but

say, I want Jesus to increase. Right? I won't do a show of hands, but hopefully everybody here says, "I want Jesus to increase." Well, I I don't just see this as a quote. I see this as a law of the kingdom. The only way for Jesus Christ to

devil even against the church and I see that until I'm honestly prepared to get to label as sin everything which displeases God everything which come short of the glory of the life of Jesus Christ that there won't be a greater

jesus christ like the verse we had memorized so many years ago now um verse 29 those whom he foreknew he also predestined to become conformed to the image of his son so that he would be the firstborn among many brethren

for people who he can make his ways known to and the person who he has decided that he will make his ways none too is the person who when they see the life of Jesus Christ when they hear that the the standard of the New Covenant

things that i'm good at where i have strength already where i have natural ability that whatever things were gained to me those things i have counted as loss for the sake of christ and so what i see is he didn't just he didn't just say oh no

persecutions, with difficulties for Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong." And I see that here Paul says that our weakness is actually what allows uh the power of Christ to dwell on us. He doesn't say after I'm weak then I'm

he's infinitely merciful he's abundantly merciful it's like that verse that tells husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church if you honestly read the Bible you read that and go what how can I possibly do that and yet we know that

our lives just this past week I felt no lack in any circumstance I had perfectly everything I needed and was able to perfectly manifest the perfect nature of Jesus Christ can anybody say that I'm not there yet but and yet that's the promise right

we've been cleansed we walking with the Lord and the Lord is he's cleansed us of our sins but then as we walk along the pilgrim way as we lock walk in our Christian lives we pick up dirt on our feet and what is the Lord's command to

grow in um and that is around what motivates my obedience to Christ what I saw In this passage in John is that what ought to motivate my obedience is that it is what opens up a path to a deeper and deeper knowledge of God's love for me and my

beliefs in this church that we are called to manifest the glory of Jesus Christ in our lives to proclaim the excellencies I think who called us and as I started the day today I thought there were I wanted to talk about two