plant a hope in my heart that the holy spirit would be a helper of the same caliber as jesus christ himself was to her physically in john 14 and verse 16 he says i will send another helper will ask the father and he'll give you

to produce the fruit of the spirit and the life of jesus christ and in the final day we will see that these are the areas where god specifically appointed that he might get all the glory so that as when i mentioned earlier so that no man

emphasis or the focus should be I am gaining Christ I gain Christ Jesus and as long as my life and spiritual walk is defined by what I'm not doing I lose sight of the fact that the ultimate is that that I gain Christ and Paul says I

John the Baptist is speaking of Jesus and he says, Jesus Christ will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire. And I think in a lot of my life I've kind of thought of these as the same thing. You know, the Holy Spirit descends on the day of Pentecost as

interesting um I'm reading out of the um the living Bible mostly today so if my version sounds a little different from yours maybe that's why um but it says in 1 Timothy 6:1 never let it be said that Christ's people are poor workers don't let the

areas specifically where I fall short of the glory of God as revealed in the face of Jesus Christ if God's showing me things that make me broke for him out of an awareness of my need so I see who Jesus Christ is and do I see through the

I was I was really encouraged there was a brother tell to say this by in passing there was a brother there who I met a Christian brother toward the end of my trip and we were visiting me in a couple of co-workers were visiting a couple of

thought a good definition of spiritual maturity are growing in my Christian walk if you go to the next slide is it that number is decreasing you see the arrow there the number is decreasing it less meaning what smaller and smaller

any farther than Jesus Christ himself was Jesus disobedient not at all was he disciplined absolutely therefore we we shouldn't always think if I'm disciplined it must be because I've been disobedient says here even in verse 2 he

um and a lot of our natural thinking is wrong and we have to continue to seek to be conformed to the mind of christ as we consider what should i share lord what do you you know it says whoever speaks should speak as one who's speaking the oracles

deliver us from the very presence of sin and the first part of the verse that says you have delivered me from death it speaks to the past tense that because of the blood of Jesus Christ we've been delivered from the penalty for sin

then Jesus Christ comes and says, "It's for you I came." And that was a real encouragement to me all week long to be aware of these things in coming to him. And I I was comforted that it's for such people, for such people who are aware of their

heart? Jesus Christ is zealous for the purification and the unity of his bride. Am I? Has the Lord poured that zeal and that love in my heart? And the proof is do I give God no rest? says here, "I

than Satan has which means he's going to be amplifying his attacks and if I want to be on guard I've got to be preparing myself at a time the other thing that I can be preparing myself is for the return of Christ there's a verse that I

one another and and so made me think if I think about a test of holiness of our ultimate goal is to become like Christ you know we have on our website on the very on the masthead so to speak the very top of the website we say our goal

there are natural disappointments in this life and the lord reminded me of a word that he had spoken to me a couple years ago from peter when he says set your hope completely on the grace to be brought to you at the revelation of jesus christ

righteousness of God has been manifested being witnessed by the law and Prophets even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe for there is no distinction for all have sinned and fall short of the

christ might be the most precious person to me and is it and one evidence that it's my is my hope is that i'm asking him lord make yourself more real to me make yourself more dear and more precious to me that it's a burden of my heart not that

to Christ our spirits become as it says alive because of righteousness and for the first time we don't have to obey our flesh we can please God but it's not that we're just able to please God that's what I want to focus on the

a story that else we understand something spiritual about my life with the Lord so who's the little boy yes a believer yeah someone a disciple of Jesus Christ what we hope you all will become one day a disciple of Jesus

what do i see is god's intent for the church and for christians and wholehearted disciples but then i have a choice i get to choose which plane do i want to get on based on what i see as far as i can tell what are the coordinates of the church what have they