really subtle ways where we never actually realized our love is under attack but what he's shown me clearly is that Satan is always attacking my devotion to the Lord Jesus Christ and if I'm not aware of his schemes I can

it was him when help comes and to give him credit for it um it should cause us to praise him and I was convicted this week that I've not always been diligent to acknowledge when God answers my Christ for help um I was reminded of the story

have to see the church get brighter and brighter with every day and I believe that his passion is to present the church as a bride of to Jesus Christ radiant and beauty pure and spotless and it's for that reason I feel that

talk with christians in different places dispirited i looked it up in the dictionary it means having lost enthusiasm or hope and disheartened and there's a certain hopelessness in the world um among people who don't know god you

I wanted to talk about some of the things we heard on Sunday as it pertains to um receiving the Holy Spirit and and some things that have helped me in my own Christian life. I just wanted to mention because they're things that I didn't hear about too much

and it's good to for me as I heard brother Zach say that's almost zoom out to the Thousand Year view the 2000 year view am I gonna whatever you say whatever function you play in the body of Christ right now is that what you're

that the lord's been convicting me of which is growing in the fear of the lord i feel like that's something that should mark our lives as christians we should always be growing in the fear of the lord so i wanted to share a few things that

verse 14. He says, "I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus." The prize of the upward

and i was just thinking this has to be one of the greatest privileges you know to a jew a first century jew to see the glory of god in jesus christ and the law and the prophets all together you know yeah i don't know that there

a christian i can also think because they're not eventually like the whole thing's going to come tumbling down or and i can if i'm not careful that thought can remain there unrebuked and the truth is god doesn't take pleasure in the death of the wicked and

you'll find rest for your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light and I have seen this take my yoke upon me are you and learn from me for I am gentle and humble at heart and I see the two things that Jesus Christ tells me to

Jesus Christ of the Scriptures will grow in accordance with a God of our own imagination and so it's really important to know who God is and what he loves and one thing he loves is he loves repentance I know this sounds like a

that i might gain christ and i might know his love but he also says my my goal in my life isn't just into his love it's i want to make god happy and the first thing we have to know about this is it's impossible it's impossible for us to make god happy

Paul says whatever things were gain to me I counted as loss for the sake of Christ so Jonathan is lost right now whatever you're finding a little bit of wealth and a little bit of riches end take a moment in your heart to count it

uh having been a christian um there are two questions that have changed my life and i want to share both of those questions with you all in hopes that perhaps they'd be of an encouragement to you as you're on your journey walking with

place really well on a college placement or a high school placement exam or something right I think that we can have this wrong idea in our minds that as Christians were exempt from tribulation or exempt from distress and we can be

to consider that satan himself might enter into a disciple of jesus christ and i was thinking as i read that that if judas wasn't immune i'm certainly not either it says later in acts chapter 20 that when paul is exhorting the ephesian elders he says

so Philippians 3 starting with verse 7 we'll go through verse 19 if you need to bring a read a f free U let's recite it slowly but whatever things were gained to me those things I count as loss for the sake of Christ more than that I

because for me I've noticed I can I can start to think oh no if I were in in good standing with the Lord surely I wouldn't be perplexed foreign perplexity is a normal part of the Christian Life That's What I want to encourage you that's what I feel the

veiled or covered up to those who are perishing in whose case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the gospel of the glory of christ who is the image of god so what this verse tells us is