said rather suffer ill treatment with the people of god than to enjoy the passing pleasures of sin considering the reproach of christ how did he know about christ he is the one who testifies prophesies about christ that the lord is

1 and verse 18 we say Christ is the head of the church and we are the body of

in institutions military camps and all there's a check post and they have a bar that goes up like this they check your identity okay they lift the bar you can go so I think of myself as an elder sometimes like that people come to the

heavenly father that does not condemn me yet commands me to be victorious but yet how can i have this victory i've tried early on in my christian life living a good life trying on my own strength to overcome my lusts my love for things of the world my

Isaiah this is beautiful Christ 8 and this is about this is the character of Christ he does not despise the weakest candle it has the tiniest bit of the flame and that for me it does not look down on the street and it's bruised or

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

good afternoon before I came to NCC F I never heard much about the church being the body of Christ or the church being like a family I always thought Christianity was simply my individual relationship between me and God but this week through our study

narrow way and how this is a truth that false prophets would like to hide from the from Christendom like to hide from us because and the devil ultimately is the one behind it he would like to hide this truth from us that somehow I

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

it's not that Christianity isn't God doing everything for us and us just um kind of relaxing and receiving it but partaking in God's work and having the same burden as him and um having the privilege to be part of the work and we

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

days and that is God's will my brothers and sisters God's purpose for every one of us that we are to be a letter of Christ written by the Spirit of the

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

what did he entrusted to him his identity his hope i count all things as lost for the sake of knowing jesus christ my lord he said he had entrusted everything to him and having entrusted everything to him what does he say

Savior sanif healer the unchanging Christ is he he has won my heart's affections and he meets my every need Jo he is not a

heart so that you see here it says the wicked flees. Wicked means somebody who has lost his identity before God or standing before God like that prodigal son who went away and he had lost his identity. He lost his confidence and

of God. I want to invite all of you dear brothers and sisters to ask the Holy Spirit to show you the heart of your heavenly father to show you the heart of Jesus Christ. And our subject today is concerning the family.

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

doing. And in the new covenant, he's telling, "Put on the new man." That is when we repented of repented of our sins and put our faith in Christ, the Bible says, "If any man is in Christ, he's a new creation. All things

says he chose us in him in Christ before the foundation of the world that we that we would be holy and what's the word? Blameless. So before the Lord, you know, was was,

Good morning everybody. Good morning brothers and sisters. Today I feel blessed to stand here before you to declare what God has done in my life. Um I've always been in a family where we were Christians for the Catholic and

christ is all christ alone is all that i seek and that his the gospel truly is about my crucifixion with him and his resurrection power being my new identity jesus essentially being my all in all and as we've heard you know him being the glory