today i better not miss because i'm sharing or oh they've asked me to do this i better not miss because who i am in christ has not changed at all and who i am in this body my identity the body has not changed at all so i just wanted to share that

States over the last years has become where the President blames everybody at all not the other way around but in the church the spirit of eldership and the spirit of Jesus Christ is this I'll take the blame if the Lord ever calls any of

who do you say that I am and when you say when you give an answer will it be Peter's answer think about it for a moment Jesus was to come to you and say who do you say that I am and you say well yeah yes Lord You're the Christ the son of the Living God

should become new when I am in Christ behold if anyone is in Christ verse 17 he is a new creature. The old things passed away. Behold new things have come. Now another one I just want to mention in passing is verse 16. We know no man

unfortunately even though many Christians sing to him the right way they don't live in that way oh what a wonderful wonderful day damn will never forget Evan came down though refilled this my soul and the Christian life as described in that

things like we have the mind of Christ he says in First Corinthians 2. have this attitude walk in the same manner as which means there is an equality with Jesus that we're called to have not in identity as God but in the quality of

here not to point fingers at the disciples but to see that tendency in my own flesh after I've walked with the Lord for a while to think that I'm ready for advanced Christianity and that's a little bit of the sense I get of what

religions and even so-called evangelical Christian them has sadly degenerated into this Christianity is an identity or a checkbox because of your name perhaps and in the country that I grew up in in India it identified you as different

I was thinking this morning that any UNCHR ice likeness in us the root of all sin is only because the love of Christ

narrow way and how this is a truth that false prophets would like to hide from the from Christendom like to hide from us because and the devil ultimately is the one behind it he would like to hide this truth from us that somehow I

think differently from us others even who are not don't believe in Jesus Christ. And that's why the tax gatherers and the prostitutes and the the wicked men so-called wicked men of Jesus day were drawn to the son of God. They were

the home in the church yet we hadn't come here and there was just a deep Welling within me to see and be a part of the body of Christ more than just know about it to experience it to see it to pour my life into it and give myself

what is it when did Jesus say this it was when Peter made that confession verse 16 that Jesus was the Christ the son of the Living God and I've said this before I think a few weeks ago I want to say it again if Jesus was to come to you

[Music] one of the things that we are passionate about as you know as a church is to remove the formality and rigidness that exists in Christendom and in a lot of

Jesus and his their hands, my hands on his head as I slew him have said, "Rock of ages cleft for me. Let me hide myself in thee." Dear brothers, dear sisters, dear children, we will build the church of Jesus Christ. If every single one of

that you have done in Christ Jesus the complete work that you have set for us a perfect destination to be conformed perfectly into the image of Jesus I pray Lord that we will never insult you in that way by coming to you

Christ is valued. What is he speaking about? You see in verse one, behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brothers and sisters to dwell together in unity. When the church is united and we dwell together in unity in your homes,

this is the woman who looks like this this is how the world treats women and that itself also is slavery because the only release from slavery comes in this in finding our identity in Christ the son is the one who will set you free so

verse 27 that jesus christ is coming back for his church he's not coming back for santosh specifically he's not coming back for me in that individualistic kind of way that allows me to somehow have an identity on my own read what it says

so uh i was having a conversation with uh somebody a while back and uh we were talking about the the preaching of the way of the cross and uh i believe that's that's the message that's lacking perhaps the most in christendom today

I was thinking about this in this context. You know, I think that some of the other religions are have less hypocrisy than Christians. They they are who they are. They're not putting on a pretense. I sometimes they say see some religions where they

on and memorizing that verse this week about the context in which Galatians 5 5 comes Galatians is a book written to people who are dealing with legalism and uh there's a lot of people in this world in Christendom today who are

looking at John chapter 1 verse 12. This is a verse that many Christians know. I remember memorizing this when I was a new believer and it's absolutely true. John 1:12, as many as received him and let's skip to the end of that verse,

follow jesus is to build his church to fulfill the command he's given us a lot of christians i think it's enough just to follow him and be all by myself or but to follow him as he said very clearly if you love me you will keep my