The Sermon The Relationship by David McGee
Oct 17, 2010
The Relationship (26:49)
Referenced Scriptures: Colossians 3:1-4
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Colossians 3:1-4
1) If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
2) Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.
3) For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
4) When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
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Okay, now the hearing. Thank you very much. I'd know well. Anyhow, I wanted is there a yellow eyes belong legally and that on Wednesday night, Bob, there were there were a few distinct individuals that Wednesday night Bible study involving José and and and and and now I and Wednesday nights, like one of those stages thrown open. You know, we talk about many things, and the Bob says faster, you know, when you pray she don't look at us. So while you were standing up you would like to do either nine thousand children by the so what and I start talking as well, you know, sometimes when the spirit moves that you look at individuals, and you say well you know God is telling me to tell you something while I may be looking at thinking of the whole group, but I'm looking at Stevens Tuesday all on the trouble now. Tell God what the dummies on the advantage that it is only on this one, Anna and I cannot think of Bob and I will look at Bob on this luggage. They know and as the smartest things I got a look over and don't see because I sometimes lost in my thoughts. It's just a lot to be lost in and I liked so I tried to look at if I look at you and I'm saying something doesn't necessarily mean that I need you exactly a day by job so that's what they were doing in the world then dinner waving your hands, my wife is off go like this is that you can see the smoke was looking at the she will call me afterwards that you had a number of opportunities to quit and didn't attend the sermon on a good note. But anyhow, where was I outbreak and philosophies and stop like that so the charger Ron- the church and velocity had taken on a number of characteristics that they began to think about it in our society today. We do the same thing we look at some really good ideas and some good philosophies and we want to merge them in with our Christian faith while I as I was saying at this aunt and uncle who were very well-educated and they are an active and retired, they decide to go through back to college and they took religion and philosophy classes, and what they did was they kind of made up their own religion and they made up their Christianity because they were particular denomination and they they took that part of Christianity. They took some of their room than the religious classes that they taken about the own philosophy classes and pull them all together and try to make your own religion and you would talk to them about their faith and it was like oh my gosh, where did you get this in out his dislike of lender chopped up stuff and and so on. But in effect, the sad thing is, their children are now moving their dolomite. Both my and my man still alive but my uncle died and when he died he came back to his faith in Christ. My also has the back to her faith in Christ, but her children, their children, their real as the because they never had an understanding of Christianity. They had an understanding of the soup. This mixture of stuff and never on. I haven't. I see them. I've may be seen. Once the last ten years and no, there are wonderful individuals, but when it comes to their faith. It's is just really off-the-wall because they never really had that foundation of their faith in Jesus Christ that when my uncle died, he thought they wanted me to talk to it. I called him and who I was at the state he was in a state of confusion and the better talk to him about his relationship with Christ and he came back to his understanding and his confession because he couldn't die. You couldn't die with what he believed anything they could live and what they could live with what they believe, but they couldn't die with and in the ideas that are lies in our relationship with Jesus Christ is something that is, that changes everything. It changes everything and we look at the Christian difference of the Christian faith is the deity of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is God is not a created being by God is not someone who is the Spirit of God came into whatever he was thirty and left before they crucified it was the ice crucified that Jesus Christ is the son of God. He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin. The Christian faith is based upon the life of Jesus Christ is virgin birth is that his life is that his burial, his resurrection, his ascension, the promise coming of the Holy Spirit. We are. Our faith is based in this. Without that there is no Christian faith in Jesus Christ is not risen from the dead. The apostle Paul says, your faith is in vain filter files of years ago there was the challenge about the resurrection involved in the apostle says that if you don't if you don't believe in the resurrection, there is no Christian faith, and I had an involvement you are most miserable and in our needs in these folk about this relationship with Jesus Christ and the resurrection of Jesus Christ because he had an encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus. He encountered Jesus and it changed his life. It wasn't what Paul was searching for it was Philly was against was Jesus, but in the grace and the mercy of Jesus Christ, he was confronted by Paul was confronted by Jesus in his life was changed as a result, it would our life that without Jesus Christ. We are nothing, and our faith is in vain. Our religion is not a religion of rules and regulations. Our religion is a relationship based upon our relationship with Jesus Christ. And yes we do have rules and regulations, they are rules that enhance the relationship gang say there were like the ten Commandments ten Commandments for land deal in our relationship with God. Six of them deal with our relationship with people. Jesus broke about two love the Lord thy God with all the heart, soul, mind love your neighbor as yourself. The challenges that the relationship of the Commandments that God gives to us is about protecting and providing for us. You're so cute. Give rules to your children what is given in roles for Eisler Steve the break down phenotypic controls let you get one for a given rules of order, protect and provide for them in the ballplayer. So why are you don't step in front of a car, why you'll get hurt in our lock the door when you get in there in the car whenever going. We had the same things when they point to protect and provide for us the rules and regulations is aware that the Commandments that God gives to us are about how this relationship works, and how we can keep it growing. What if there were no relationships, roles and relationships. How long when our relationship last that love is about foundational principle of our relationship. So the continuing as we look at this with what Jesus Christ has given us and what Paul has written to the church here. It's a connection with Christ through the word, the written word. Its connection with Christ through prayer and it's a daily continue to connect with him and in his word. Jesus Christ is God incarnate Jesus became mad lot among us. The word made flesh, and I love to sing, but it is rose my voice and how it. José says, you really need to shut off my everything, even with the muted it still comes through the essence think this is the drunken that the capital. Thank you for the story is a story of a soldier back when the Napoleon was doing his conquering the soldier was caught running from battle and so the. The idea was that if you view random battle. You were the only basically executed on the spot, but for whatever reason on the guy appealed to the Emperor, who was the commander bullion and when they brought the soldier to Napoleon. Admissible what happen he says I got frightened and in the battle in Iran and faster and in the voice is what your day. He looked at them, he said my name is Napoleon while the Emperor Connor sat back and then he got up, step forward and grabbed hold of this young man. He says you either change your name or change your ways left and went the ideas that it are relationship with Jesus Christ that we have a relationship that changes us from the inside out, and the relationship. This is something in which we participate in it is something that we wear now you tell this is a fine dispute out in the is not on me. This is me right, that's me, but this is what we wore and Jackson were yesterday at the at the boob. What is, how, how about that at were we at high while part was I with you if this was the birth( sixty one. Does the right. So anyhow, why, why do they widen a wider people dress up nearly put on a costume and in it was a nice building, and always will. Kids run around the needs nice costumes and they weren't allowed to have scary cost they advertise that on the TV so they got kids and you want to get out and get a four dollar coupon from giant Eagle, a four-hour block twenty two dollars it cost to get in and that NEI got all these kids ER on storybook Forest, the need to candy and all the kids were all dressed up and it's a nice cool thing they they they really enjoyed, but the idea is, sometimes we dress up like were not supposed. Remember who you are new matter, no matter what you wear to you are not the intended Halloween, we have been. We can all have different views on following, but the idea is that sometimes we dress up their different ages driver couple of participants, Joe, thank you there. And chalet. Then about the was it that are unsightly in games is that just left you there and Connie Hamline area here, I know you're a here is a sixty one -year-old here on the old man of the grouping by older than me here and there is. But anyhow, but whatever. Just thought that I was a sixty one -year-old man Joe Howley, you start a few years. All of the gel is that they just love is a very wrong. That figure all twelve -year-old by now dressed up in their there uniforms when we dressed up as yourselves, your age group who you are as a person at our main man, right on time. There is a healthy bringing up there for you to easily yammer your daddy up here. It is these dress up like an old man to be the mistress like a drink for years. All they stress like a three -year-old man that we know images it would come dressed for what we can dress for who we are. Remember who you are ready to go. I can go back to thinking that it wasn't all I know my son of Northwest or electroplating entire home but it's something how that we sometimes don't act their age. We dressed inappropriately. We might not on. They have silly ideas and being a Christian is having the character of Christ being a Christian is having the character price having his Spirit abiding within us and so we are to be reflective of it all and you have these cautions and things that we buy one and reflect about your lottery Superman and super woman, and Kate and I well send Rollins and angels and all of us. I know that one lady. Similarly, put your wings on and on about me not to thought, okay, but now the. The idea is that everybody has their own. We have our own characteristics we have all of who we are, but without Christ, no matter what we wear were lost. The new matter what age we are without Christ were lost. We can reach up to God by following rules we can find God by observing rituals we cannot be religious by practicing religion, but when remember who we are because of our relationship with Jesus Christ. Jesus came to loss as God incarnate, God became flesh and dwelt among us, God is come, and his purpose was that he might save us from our sins that we might become the person God wants us to be, because we've all say we've all come short of the glory of God and God now asked for us to respond to respond to Jesus Christ, the response of our believe in and what he tells us about himself that we confess our sins, that would acknowledge his sacrifice for our lives. Allow God 's forgiveness to reach into our lives in and put aside the desired development and Internet in the Scriptures. Here Paul is trying to get them to focus on the relationship with Christ, rather than the melting pot of different philosophies and of the Greek philosophy and art and of Judaism. It you would look at this this culture that the church at velocity is in and has its a heavy Greek influence, and the great writers and the committee on the historians and in all the Greek philosophy and thought and then you have the jury that the Jewish people. I've been forced out of Jerusalem or sought of Israel, mandolin, the community and then you got this group called Christians who are followed Jesus Christ followers of Jesus Christ, and they are living to a high standard, a standard of forgiveness instead of a relationship with God. There living drove very great standard and so you have all these people and they come with about eleven. I did you have about Christianity is good, but we also have a good idea. I'm from the great philosophies and then you have the Jewish people sang while you know you've got these laws that we know them are handed out to us for thousands of years for my father Abraham and down through Moses and the Commandments will bring those in here and you start putting together all this stuff. What does it look like they take you and what beliefs or theologies. What's, philosophy and art. There are the bad knife, gently not, but there's only one talks about the deity of Jesus Christ is only one that tells us about the relationship we can have with God, God came to save us from our sins from our failures. If you think about how that our mistakes can be haunting thoughts, but God has come to release us from those hauntings has come to forgive us store and gave them giving us the idea of forgiving ourselves and forgive others as you have been forgiven as the weather philosophy that teaches that no other religion that speaks of forgiveness and to the extent that God himself would come in dive for you so that we might have forgiveness, our salvation is not the him upon her own disciplines. Our salvation does not depend upon our feeling of the rules our salvation and our relationship with Jesus Christ depends upon the power of Christ in his resurrection is kind of positive pray and say, God, thank you business of the pollutant loads of my sermon this is the prayer in the middle of. Thank you. Thank you for hearing my prayers and thank you for making yourself real to us for a distance, the words the enticing words of men, but God is by your spirits your Holy Spirit, that you make yourself real to us. So no matter what we're thinking there still a place in our heart that only you can fill. I pray God that you touch us in that way. Fill our lives with your spirit with your truth. The arguments that we have in our minds, I pray, O God, that you would give us peace. We might see the revelation that comes to us from a heart disease, only the spirit can change a heart that you look up you only use only the Holy Spirit can change heart. I think of. While this was the study was done by the government. It was the I was done in relationship to drug and drug addiction teen challenge centers and the least success rate at all at so when legs under. I believe it is one or two out of a hundred. The success rates of teen challenge, which focuses on which focuses on a relationship with Jesus Christ. Their success rate is like eighty five hundred after ten years now. The idea is that if we don't change who we are in our hearts. Nothing changes, and an end and I ran a ill of the studies of this day they came to the teen challenge groups that the head of the organization is set if you will get rid of the God stuff will back you one hundred percent will buy you all the equipment we will furnish your buildings. We will pay your salaries, but you got to get rid of the God stuff, but to see it's God who makes a difference in our lives. It's God who changes us in an easy and in chapter three verse one don't remember who is Apollo 's writing to the Colossians, and what are they going April to gather a lot of things in their society. They pulled together a lot of plots in their society, and since then you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things about workplace is seated at the right hand of God, where Jesus Christ is the same Jesus who was crucified is the one seated at the right hand of the father, and he says. Instead, you have been raised with Christ that you haven't raised that that meant life of God is in you since you've been raised with him such a hard things about that is that we have a perspective of life that is a wow, here and now we have a perspective on life that gives us a view from an eternal perspective, and that's why we find ourselves challenged to look at ourselves and to look at life and say we aren't eternal being, we are eternal beings that we are set free from the things of this life to destroy us, and he says here that you set your hearts on things while it is essential mind on the things above such a hard from the things about your use of the scene of your emotions. The sooner you are look at them from a divine perspective. Then set your mind on the things above, not only earthly things for you. Our dad in your life is now hidden with Christ in God, the all things pass away the life that we were living to ourselves and the philosophies of this world. He says to them, he is now gone and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, you will appear with. That's not a philosopher. That's a revelation that we will live with Christ around using this is the relationship and this is why when we talk about the deity of Christ, who died about the forgiveness of Christ. We talk about young trusting ourselves up. It is trying to dress ourselves up in a particular costume. It's about a change of our life of us being us where we are at on you being you where you are at. God touching your life. Whether your three or twelve sixteen thirty, sixty I want to say I'm for my wife corrected me that you are being you why you are in God 's touch in your life. From this moment on, and is not something that originates in your head. It's that which originates in your heart for God has called you, each of us to be his child and he is come to forgive us establish us and keep us for an eternity that when he appears we will appear with him. That's not a philosophy that's the relationship between you and a God who is alive forOkay, now the hearing. Thank you very much. I'd know well. Anyhow, I wanted is there a yellow eyes belong legally and that on Wednesday night, Bob, there were there were a few distinct individuals that Wednesday night Bible study involving José and and and and and now I and Wednesday nights, like one of those stages thrown open. You know, we talk about many things, and the Bob says faster, you know, when you pray she don't look at us. So while you were standing up you would like to do either nine thousand children by the so what and I start talking as well, you know, sometimes when the spirit moves that you look at individuals, and you say well you know God is telling me to tell you something while I may be looking at thinking of the whole group, but I'm looking at Stevens Tuesday all on the trouble now. Tell God what the dummies on the advantage that it is only on this one, Anna and I cannot think of Bob and I will look at Bob on this luggage. They know and as the smartest things I got a look over and don't see because I sometimes lost in my thoughts. It's just a lot to be lost in and I liked so I tried to look at if I look at you and I'm saying something doesn't necessarily mean that I need you exactly a day by job so that's what they were doing in the world then dinner waving your hands, my wife is off go like this is that you can see the smoke was looking at the she will call me afterwards that you had a number of opportunities to quit and didn't attend the sermon on a good note. But anyhow, where was I outbreak and philosophies and stop like that so the charger Ron- the church and velocity had taken on a number of characteristics that they began to think about it in our society today. We do the same thing we look at some really good ideas and some good philosophies and we want to merge them in with our Christian faith while I as I was saying at this aunt and uncle who were very well-educated and they are an active and retired, they decide to go through back to college and they took religion and philosophy classes, and what they did was they kind of made up their own religion and they made up their Christianity because they were particular denomination and they they took that part of Christianity. They took some of their room than the religious classes that they taken about the own philosophy classes and pull them all together and try to make your own religion and you would talk to them about their faith and it was like oh my gosh, where did you get this in out his dislike of lender chopped up stuff and and so on. But in effect, the sad thing is, their children are now moving their dolomite. Both my and my man still alive but my uncle died and when he died he came back to his faith in Christ. My also has the back to her faith in Christ, but her children, their children, their real as the because they never had an understanding of Christianity. They had an understanding of the soup. This mixture of stuff and never on. I haven't. I see them. I've may be seen. Once the last ten years and no, there are wonderful individuals, but when it comes to their faith. It's is just really off-the-wall because they never really had that foundation of their faith in Jesus Christ that when my uncle died, he thought they wanted me to talk to it. I called him and who I was at the state he was in a state of confusion and the better talk to him about his relationship with Christ and he came back to his understanding and his confession because he couldn't die. You couldn't die with what he believed anything they could live and what they could live with what they believe, but they couldn't die with and in the ideas that are lies in our relationship with Jesus Christ is something that is, that changes everything. It changes everything and we look at the Christian difference of the Christian faith is the deity of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is God is not a created being by God is not someone who is the Spirit of God came into whatever he was thirty and left before they crucified it was the ice crucified that Jesus Christ is the son of God. He is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin. The Christian faith is based upon the life of Jesus Christ is virgin birth is that his life is that his burial, his resurrection, his ascension, the promise coming of the Holy Spirit. We are. Our faith is based in this. Without that there is no Christian faith in Jesus Christ is not risen from the dead. The apostle Paul says, your faith is in vain filter files of years ago there was the challenge about the resurrection involved in the apostle says that if you don't if you don't believe in the resurrection, there is no Christian faith, and I had an involvement you are most miserable and in our needs in these folk about this relationship with Jesus Christ and the resurrection of Jesus Christ because he had an encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus. He encountered Jesus and it changed his life. It wasn't what Paul was searching for it was Philly was against was Jesus, but in the grace and the mercy of Jesus Christ, he was confronted by Paul was confronted by Jesus in his life was changed as a result, it would our life that without Jesus Christ. We are nothing, and our faith is in vain. Our religion is not a religion of rules and regulations. Our religion is a relationship based upon our relationship with Jesus Christ. And yes we do have rules and regulations, they are rules that enhance the relationship gang say there were like the ten Commandments ten Commandments for land deal in our relationship with God. Six of them deal with our relationship with people. Jesus broke about two love the Lord thy God with all the heart, soul, mind love your neighbor as yourself. The challenges that the relationship of the Commandments that God gives to us is about protecting and providing for us. You're so cute. Give rules to your children what is given in roles for Eisler Steve the break down phenotypic controls let you get one for a given rules of order, protect and provide for them in the ballplayer. So why are you don't step in front of a car, why you'll get hurt in our lock the door when you get in there in the car whenever going. We had the same things when they point to protect and provide for us the rules and regulations is aware that the Commandments that God gives to us are about how this relationship works, and how we can keep it growing. What if there were no relationships, roles and relationships. How long when our relationship last that love is about foundational principle of our relationship. So the continuing as we look at this with what Jesus Christ has given us and what Paul has written to the church here. It's a connection with Christ through the word, the written word. Its connection with Christ through prayer and it's a daily continue to connect with him and in his word. Jesus Christ is God incarnate Jesus became mad lot among us. The word made flesh, and I love to sing, but it is rose my voice and how it. José says, you really need to shut off my everything, even with the muted it still comes through the essence think this is the drunken that the capital. Thank you for the story is a story of a soldier back when the Napoleon was doing his conquering the soldier was caught running from battle and so the. The idea was that if you view random battle. You were the only basically executed on the spot, but for whatever reason on the guy appealed to the Emperor, who was the commander bullion and when they brought the soldier to Napoleon. Admissible what happen he says I got frightened and in the battle in Iran and faster and in the voice is what your day. He looked at them, he said my name is Napoleon while the Emperor Connor sat back and then he got up, step forward and grabbed hold of this young man. He says you either change your name or change your ways left and went the ideas that it are relationship with Jesus Christ that we have a relationship that changes us from the inside out, and the relationship. This is something in which we participate in it is something that we wear now you tell this is a fine dispute out in the is not on me. This is me right, that's me, but this is what we wore and Jackson were yesterday at the at the boob. What is, how, how about that at were we at high while part was I with you if this was the birth( sixty one. Does the right. So anyhow, why, why do they widen a wider people dress up nearly put on a costume and in it was a nice building, and always will. Kids run around the needs nice costumes and they weren't allowed to have scary cost they advertise that on the TV so they got kids and you want to get out and get a four dollar coupon from giant Eagle, a four-hour block twenty two dollars it cost to get in and that NEI got all these kids ER on storybook Forest, the need to candy and all the kids were all dressed up and it's a nice cool thing they they they really enjoyed, but the idea is, sometimes we dress up like were not supposed. Remember who you are new matter, no matter what you wear to you are not the intended Halloween, we have been. We can all have different views on following, but the idea is that sometimes we dress up their different ages driver couple of participants, Joe, thank you there. And chalet. Then about the was it that are unsightly in games is that just left you there and Connie Hamline area here, I know you're a here is a sixty one -year-old here on the old man of the grouping by older than me here and there is. But anyhow, but whatever. Just thought that I was a sixty one -year-old man Joe Howley, you start a few years. All of the gel is that they just love is a very wrong. That figure all twelve -year-old by now dressed up in their there uniforms when we dressed up as yourselves, your age group who you are as a person at our main man, right on time. There is a healthy bringing up there for you to easily yammer your daddy up here. It is these dress up like an old man to be the mistress like a drink for years. All they stress like a three -year-old man that we know images it would come dressed for what we can dress for who we are. Remember who you are ready to go. I can go back to thinking that it wasn't all I know my son of Northwest or electroplating entire home but it's something how that we sometimes don't act their age. We dressed inappropriately. We might not on. They have silly ideas and being a Christian is having the character of Christ being a Christian is having the character price having his Spirit abiding within us and so we are to be reflective of it all and you have these cautions and things that we buy one and reflect about your lottery Superman and super woman, and Kate and I well send Rollins and angels and all of us. I know that one lady. Similarly, put your wings on and on about me not to thought, okay, but now the. The idea is that everybody has their own. We have our own characteristics we have all of who we are, but without Christ, no matter what we wear were lost. The new matter what age we are without Christ were lost. We can reach up to God by following rules we can find God by observing rituals we cannot be religious by practicing religion, but when remember who we are because of our relationship with Jesus Christ. Jesus came to loss as God incarnate, God became flesh and dwelt among us, God is come, and his purpose was that he might save us from our sins that we might become the person God wants us to be, because we've all say we've all come short of the glory of God and God now asked for us to respond to respond to Jesus Christ, the response of our believe in and what he tells us about himself that we confess our sins, that would acknowledge his sacrifice for our lives. Allow God 's forgiveness to reach into our lives in and put aside the desired development and Internet in the Scriptures. Here Paul is trying to get them to focus on the relationship with Christ, rather than the melting pot of different philosophies and of the Greek philosophy and art and of Judaism. It you would look at this this culture that the church at velocity is in and has its a heavy Greek influence, and the great writers and the committee on the historians and in all the Greek philosophy and thought and then you have the jury that the Jewish people. I've been forced out of Jerusalem or sought of Israel, mandolin, the community and then you got this group called Christians who are followed Jesus Christ followers of Jesus Christ, and they are living to a high standard, a standard of forgiveness instead of a relationship with God. There living drove very great standard and so you have all these people and they come with about eleven. I did you have about Christianity is good, but we also have a good idea. I'm from the great philosophies and then you have the Jewish people sang while you know you've got these laws that we know them are handed out to us for thousands of years for my father Abraham and down through Moses and the Commandments will bring those in here and you start putting together all this stuff. What does it look like they take you and what beliefs or theologies. What's, philosophy and art. There are the bad knife, gently not, but there's only one talks about the deity of Jesus Christ is only one that tells us about the relationship we can have with God, God came to save us from our sins from our failures. If you think about how that our mistakes can be haunting thoughts, but God has come to release us from those hauntings has come to forgive us store and gave them giving us the idea of forgiving ourselves and forgive others as you have been forgiven as the weather philosophy that teaches that no other religion that speaks of forgiveness and to the extent that God himself would come in dive for you so that we might have forgiveness, our salvation is not the him upon her own disciplines. Our salvation does not depend upon our feeling of the rules our salvation and our relationship with Jesus Christ depends upon the power of Christ in his resurrection is kind of positive pray and say, God, thank you business of the pollutant loads of my sermon this is the prayer in the middle of. Thank you. Thank you for hearing my prayers and thank you for making yourself real to us for a distance, the words the enticing words of men, but God is by your spirits your Holy Spirit, that you make yourself real to us. So no matter what we're thinking there still a place in our heart that only you can fill. I pray God that you touch us in that way. Fill our lives with your spirit with your truth. The arguments that we have in our minds, I pray, O God, that you would give us peace. We might see the revelation that comes to us from a heart disease, only the spirit can change a heart that you look up you only use only the Holy Spirit can change heart. I think of. While this was the study was done by the government. It was the I was done in relationship to drug and drug addiction teen challenge centers and the least success rate at all at so when legs under. I believe it is one or two out of a hundred. The success rates of teen challenge, which focuses on which focuses on a relationship with Jesus Christ. Their success rate is like eighty five hundred after ten years now. The idea is that if we don't change who we are in our hearts. Nothing changes, and an end and I ran a ill of the studies of this day they came to the teen challenge groups that the head of the organization is set if you will get rid of the God stuff will back you one hundred percent will buy you all the equipment we will furnish your buildings. We will pay your salaries, but you got to get rid of the God stuff, but to see it's God who makes a difference in our lives. It's God who changes us in an easy and in chapter three verse one don't remember who is Apollo 's writing to the Colossians, and what are they going April to gather a lot of things in their society. They pulled together a lot of plots in their society, and since then you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things about workplace is seated at the right hand of God, where Jesus Christ is the same Jesus who was crucified is the one seated at the right hand of the father, and he says. Instead, you have been raised with Christ that you haven't raised that that meant life of God is in you since you've been raised with him such a hard things about that is that we have a perspective of life that is a wow, here and now we have a perspective on life that gives us a view from an eternal perspective, and that's why we find ourselves challenged to look at ourselves and to look at life and say we aren't eternal being, we are eternal beings that we are set free from the things of this life to destroy us, and he says here that you set your hearts on things while it is essential mind on the things above such a hard from the things about your use of the scene of your emotions. The sooner you are look at them from a divine perspective. Then set your mind on the things above, not only earthly things for you. Our dad in your life is now hidden with Christ in God, the all things pass away the life that we were living to ourselves and the philosophies of this world. He says to them, he is now gone and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, you will appear with. That's not a philosopher. That's a revelation that we will live with Christ around using this is the relationship and this is why when we talk about the deity of Christ, who died about the forgiveness of Christ. We talk about young trusting ourselves up. It is trying to dress ourselves up in a particular costume. It's about a change of our life of us being us where we are at on you being you where you are at. God touching your life. Whether your three or twelve sixteen thirty, sixty I want to say I'm for my wife corrected me that you are being you why you are in God 's touch in your life. From this moment on, and is not something that originates in your head. It's that which originates in your heart for God has called you, each of us to be his child and he is come to forgive us establish us and keep us for an eternity that when he appears we will appear with him. That's not a philosophy that's the relationship between you and a God who is alive for