faith to be baptized in water I believe my old man was dead crucified with Christ I've been raised up in newness of life and you came to us and asked us to be baptized because you believed but when it comes to be back AP

regrets and that's what Paul also did he made sure that all that he did was to present every man woman and child perfect or mature in Christ turn with me to Colossians Colossians chapter 1

your sakes in the presence of Christ. When I forgive someone, I say, Lord, to the best of my ability, best of my knowledge, I've forgiven this person, and I want to do this in in your presence. Before you, I say, Lord, I

Christ extended further through their lives so this is that that that second verse from that song we just sang from this Earth I will soon be departing all my days here on Earth have been

ago where I I had repented of my sins and I was attending a church and I was going regularly and there was one thing that God was had told me about but I didn't want to do I came from a non-Christian home and so taking baptism was going to be a

have had a tendency okay I know I'm bad but to call me Satan that's not very christ-like would you say that but I was just looking at that

raised up first one Colossians 3:1 therefore if you have been raised up with Christ keep seeking the things above where Christ is seated at the right hand of God set your mind on things above not on the things that are on the earth and so we look at it from

despise they don't look down on others and I said Lord Maybe when I first became a Christian I only saw myself and I saw you and my face was radiant could it be that I'm looking at others

and Jesus is in our midst, what should be the difference in our lives? If Jesus is speaking to us, he's putting his finger on things in our life. And we've got much more than eight words. What should be our response to Christ

people who Shipwrecked their faith and so our life our Christian Life is pictured as taking a ship going on a ship from one side to another and so as

we living for the honor of men are we living for the outward appearance are we having that pure devotion to Christ Lord no matter what other people know or don't know about my life doesn't matter what do you know about my life

as a Christian for many years I've not seen. And suddenly it's it was in my blind spot and I didn't see it. And God saying, "Look at your blind spot." And this is one of those things. If you

were told in advance. And I I I think back, we believe that about 1500 years before Christ, the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt. I thought if I went back

for us to think about each one of us I don't know about you but for me I need to see okay is Lord is there anything in my life I want to be like this I want to lay a good foundation for my Christian walk I want to destroy anything we're

life into my life in my workplace in my home and be able to taste the fragrance of heaven in my life the fragrance of christ in my life and it is possible it is possible and dwell in the presence i remember where um in acts it says that the only evidence

two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And so even these seraraphim who've not sinned, holy beings, they cover their face so that they can't see God. But I think about what Christ did for us

him I'd teach my disciples how to fast and pray earnestly be devoted to Christ but one day Jesus came and Andrew and another disciple went and asked Jesus where does he live

to see the majesty of christ to see his worthiness and i think of myself as a blind man the mountains you see the mountains here here in colorado there's such majestic mountains but if i'm a blind man and somebody comes and takes me and says

constantly pumping. And when God made the church, he called it the body of Christ. And when he made us, it was to rep- represent the church. There are visible ministries, there are hidden ministries. The heart,

having that pure devotion to Christ Lord no matter what other people know or don't know about my life doesn't matter what do you know about my life Lord so we see a lot and how he compromised but

when we build a house and our Christian Life is often compared to a house there's a foundation and then there's the house on top of it and when Paul was writing to the church in Ephesus he's laid a foundation in the first

that God is doing a work in each of you as well to show compassion to it's me and that's how it is in the body of Christ we should have increasingly she we should feel a home where were a family and what's the definition of