husbands be subject to your wives in the fear of Christ Christ next verse wives be subject to your husbands as to the Lord both are there if you want to know where it is don't quote it to your husband this is for you to meditate on

it's not a question of how spiritual you are it's a question of whether you use the authority of the name of Jesus Christ or not it's like you can have 10 massive trucks coming down a road and one little policeman stands up and holds

Israel made because as I've observed Christians I've discovered they make exactly the same mistakes that Israel made in the Old Testament and a wise man learns from the mistakes of others he studies the mistakes of others and

people sitting there, I'm not close to them. I may visit some homes much more than I visit others. And my example is Jesus Christ who was very close to Peter, James, and John. I may share things with two or three brothers that I don't share with

I feel that Christians need to see more seriously what sin is and the only way to see it I pass from for my life for I've been a Christian 59 years now since I was born again is by looking at the cross of Jesus meditating on that and

with our heavenly father and jesus christ it's not to go to heaven see there are so many wrong motives with which we can come to christ and if i come with the wrong motive

then you call yourself a christian if jesus was not god then our sins are not forgiven and when we take part you know there are two things we can do to jesus one is admire him

So, in these days we've been uh looking at the subject of growing in Christ-likeness. From Matthew chapter 5, chapter 6, and chapter 7. Because everything written here

revelation last time because Jesus told Simon in verse 17. blessed are you Simon for flesh and blood is not revealed this Christ me as the Christ the son of the Living God to you but my Father in

but it's not everything neatly arranged in its proper place. I said I praise the Lord for this sister who sacrificed so much to bring Jesus Christ to India. This means nothing to me. It means nothing. I will never say I

the greatest in the kingdom and that can that is a question that constantly comes up in Christian circles who is greater this brother or that one who's the greatest person in the church is it the elders who are the greatest or that's a question that's a

is john's great theme you notice how it comes through in all his writings love love love even in john's gospel and as i said when we see this is john looking at the decline of christendom and seeing how everything has fallen

our subject from the beginning of this study is growth in Christ likeness if you want to know what Christ likeness is or at least a part of what Christ likeness is you just have to read ma Matthew 5 six and seven

anything to correct the Galatians he had to use very strong language saying o foolish Galatians who has bewitched you and things like that corrects them very strongly but for the Ephesian Christians he has nothing to correct it's a

remember when I accepted Christ I did not believe that my past was blotted out I knew it was forgiven but I would keep remembering things as is way back 64 years ago when I was converted I keep

even though all the people in the world have not accepted jesus christ it's still true that jesus has got all authority in heaven and earth and that's very

if you feel you did relish it a bit okay ask a lot to forgive you next time you won't relish it at all you'll gradually come to the place where you resist it but i feel i know why i say this is because in my early christian life

section. The first three chapters the Holy Spirit through Paul tells us all that God has done for us in Christ. And the next three chapters

Covenant and fifth the main thing in the Christian life is to love Jesus supremely and the Holy Spirit comes within us to do that and number six to take up the cross every day and bear the dying of Jesus constantly which is

believers. Nominal Christians were not found in those early days. Nominal Christians came after persecution stopped. Wherever there's persecution of Christians, there won't be any nominal Christians

it's got a tremendous burden to hear the legs have got a feet have got a tremendous burden to walk what's wrong in all of us having different burdens many christians haven't understood it my

so we want to continue our trying to understand what it means for the local church to be and function like the bride of Jesus Christ and we were looking at

[Music] Jesus Christ has been placed Ephesians 1:21 above all rule Authority power Dominion every name that's named this is how God originally made man to be read