these of the Corinthians and he says now I exhort you brethren by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you all agree and that there be no divisions among you that but that you be made complete in the same mind in the same judgment for I

there's a set of Christians that we haven't been able to get them to forsake God or to fall into some major sin what can we do and then somebody one of the demons said well let's preoccupy them with other stuff so they're still kind

neck no longer so as we heard this week in our midweek groups we just finished going through Beauty fractious about in that books about treating in our dirty self life for the beauty of Christ and our memory verse here in Deuteronomy

I'll just share a couple notes that I took from the brothers who shared that I was blessed by from arnaldo I want to be a hundred-fold Christian I don't want to be just a 20-fold or 60-fold but I want to be a hundred-fold Christian we can't

his love and to say Lord I'm gonna live for you because of that I want to be a good Bride of Christ I want to be a good child of God and I imagine all the great dinners that this couple must have had together all the good fellowship that

Christian a rat a very devoted Christian who loves the Lord with all their heart their life on the outside may not look that different than a person who doesn't love the Lord at all who just has good morals and for

And what it means and I'll just read from verse 35. Talking about all these types of afflictions. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or

certain persons have crept in unnoticed. Those who were long beforehand marked out for this condemnation. ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into lysentiousness and deny our only master and lord Jesus Christ. The

Christians who are further ahead than us it usually happens like this we see some great work or sign of maturity that somebody else is doing or showing and then we look at our license a my life doesn't look like that I'm not doing the

lofty thing raised up against the knowledge of God and we are taking every thought captive to The Obedience of Christ that is um uh pretty high calling to take every thought captive I kind of think of it like um

it's totally not true it's what are you doing with what you have maybe the people who have maybe there are millionaires and billionaires who are more faithful and more christ-like than us who aren't millionaires and so I can

even even if I myself am safe there maybe my body got touched maybe my bank account was touched Bryan's still safe there and even like we heard recently in from Romans 8 nothing can separate us from the love of Christ not even death

as we've heard seeing each other become like christ and be closer to christ and be um grow in christ's likeness um and so when i think of the when i think of the idea of unity and being united with the church being one with the church

and our understanding of that year that we've been taught is that the glory of the Lord is a godly life Christ's likeness God's glory and it shines just I kind of think of it like how something beautiful on earth shines maybe a

bigger gain later if he can get us to do that and i believe we see that every time we hear on the news another christian leader who fell into some major sin and it becomes public and we get shocked by it but at one point or another it started with a

i wanted to share on a picture that we've often heard of we know that the picture of the three-story building is the christian life and i wanted to share based off of a i have a powerpoint to share so i'll share this hopefully you can all see it

he owned on that scale for us and so I believe that we can measure ourselves in the same ways what am I willing to give up for Christ I realistically I I don't think that um God has uh put us in any situations here especially in this country where we

god's what what we're laboring for in christ versus the things of this earth are tied together for example one of them is in james 4. i'll just share this one it

we've heard over and over in our church that about the foundation of the Christian life and we understand that the foundation is God's love for us that's our foundation that will keep us solid through everything and faithful to

they have um but it's very rare to find a Christian who is totally all about deep intimate relationship with Jesus and so um that kind of opened my eyes to question make sure that I'm not just about what Jesus would have me do and

like picturing like jesus on the boat that was what his life was like inwardly all the time where we can have rest i think hebrews 4 gives us two requirements that even a lot of christians they may have jesus but why are so many