is this on am I on yes it is okay um let's begin by praying together and I like to take us to a few requests a number of our families are sick um and also Anova Christopher mentioned Anova asked asked for prayer

13 Hebrews chapter 13 one of the first distinctive marks of CFC is that in this church I heard people who could say follow me as I follow Christ I can honestly say I don't think

light of the world you see how verse 14 follows on from who you are your identity are you verse three poor in spirit this is how you get the life of christ that is the light of men and the light shone under in the darkness and the light was the life

Listen, this is the truth that we proclaim. The mystery of godliness. He who was revealed in the flesh. Christ revealed in the flesh. Christ our example. This is the mystery of godliness. And if you hear a gospel that says, "No, Christ

me about the future i think this is so important for us to understand as christians because it makes a difference about how we live our lives for many years i was a christian who had my sins forgiven a clear conscience with

earthly tradition of the worldly traditions hadn't yet crept into the church and there was a purity of devotion to christ that was that was starting to come in but maybe hadn't yet penetrated as much i have found i don't say this

same sewer is speaking that's Jesus Christ. But each of us has different soil. And I hope our hope through these gatherings partly why we only invite a few of you it's invitation only is we're looking for those who have a desire whom

bit more every day Paul says it was happening every day I mean it's not a 24-hour period went by that Paul has not changed it's a little bit more into the image of Jesus and seeing more and more on Christ's likeness in his flesh and

problem in Jesus Christ then we saw that even though the free gift is available to everyone we must still receive it in Repentance and in faith that still hasn't fully solved the problem however

chapter entire chapter Romans 8 and it's good that you are it's a wonderful wonderful chapter talks about no condemnation for those of us who are in Christ Jesus and ends with the love of God the length breadth depth and height

seven or eight years that we've been here in Colorado but it's a growing burden and the more I taste it with you all fellowship and growth in the body of Christ the more the deeper the burden is for me to the deeper the burden is for

one cup is the cup that God wants to fill up with his holy spirit continually the other cup is that God wants to fill you up with partaking of Christ's suffering and Paul says I'm being I'm seeking to be filled with the holy

his son Solomon and it's all about him and then it's the Kings after that they were the center of attention in the New Covenant it's not like that because there is only one center of attention and that's Jesus Christ and his body so

christ how we here and this is something that has defined the direction and identity of us as a group of believers we're not just a group of believers that like this building or like each other and find certain things in common and find some

thank you you will do that now we believe it in Jesus name amen amen so the theme of our conference I have it on there is that Christ has the preeminence in everything and I don't know I think most of you probably knew that that was the theme of

but I feel that's a very dangerous place to be. And I think it's symbolic of our Christian life as well that if our Christian walk ever becomes so routine that I know what to do next or like Merv was bringing out in what he

we've been talking about serving the purpose of god in your generation and becoming 3d christians and we talk about three-dimensional christians christians that don't just have uh length they have width but they also have depth you know how we saw a stick

deceived by who is the biggest deceiver for Christians I wonder what you would say been thinking about that over the last few weeks who is the biggest deceiver of the Christians probably your first response

faith and repentant Faith so honesty goes a long ways and I believe that we have hope as Christians we have hope as husbands we have hope as wives we have hope as children children remember this that's why lying is one of the most

Christ there's people in the world that are building on other foundations not Jesus Christ and what will happen in the case of those people who didn't even build on the foundation that is Jesus Christ is

to the way they sought to go, not copying the ways of the world. There are many other churches that have risen and fallen. Kingdoms, you can say that have risen and fallen. But the church of Jesus Christ will