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that character got its got
character who comes to live within us then who who speaks Russian
if we want to be if we want to be like got we want got
spirit dwelling in us and when we become a believer
in got His Spirit dwells in us and his character then
as we as we follow him to be him becomes
causes us to become more Christ-like
because Christ was the perfect image and illustration of God.
Now. So, the question is
who are we going to see then, when we
go to heaven?
and the answer is, we'll see Jesus.
We'll see Jesus. Now we'll going to see three different manifestations
just like
when I look at you
I see you
but when I really see is your body
because one of these days you're going to leave your body, and your body will be
nothing
else than a piece of furniture
your body only has any kind of
use when your present, well there's usually not present but
not used you used to do in medical field. So
that when I look in the mirror
I don't really see David Homer
but
when I leave this body I don't cease to exist
according to the Scriptures I'm an everlasting soul
and everyone has an everlasting soul
and if you can imagine it like this that just inside
our skin and so forth there's another manifestation of us
that's not physical whatsoever
that's
that's going to be us, we're gonna leave this sometime folks I mean
whatever you believe about God we're gonna die in and and
our
our souls gonna continue on
but then there's also the part of us which you could say is our spirit
which identifies us as who we are
individually there's a difference between
between me and mister Gillette, he has a body I have a body he has a soul
I have a soul but my spirit my manifestation my characters not going to
be the same as his
that's the Holy Spirit in a God who comes
changes us to be more like him, so, when when you're talking about this matter
of us Christian we further believed that Jesus
is the incarnation of God
and when we go to heaven, think about this when we go to heaven
we will see Jesus
the way that Jesus will be identified is because
he his body will have the only flaw
in heaven, His body
will be only one that there's
scars
and marks from it the marks that
replaced in his body because of our sin
will identify Jesus immediately because he will be identified as the Lamb of God
who takes away the sin in the world and we will for
ever and ever and ever in ever see those marks
in his hands as the proof that Jesus
paid the price for us
the Bible says for those of us who follow him will go to heaven
and our bodies will be made perfect
like when God started the creation he created Adam and Eve
all their perfection we will be living imperfection can't tell you what that is
because mean perfect it's hard for the perfect you know what a perfect is. So,
about the fact is though that this God is
who we believe it that's what we say I call myself Christian as a Christian I'm
a follower of Jesus Christ
a a a disciple of Jesus I believe that Jesus
is got we make that very release stated in our
in our state a do but now I quickly going on here
we also believe are many people do in there's
in in got
gots
these gots are the story so
up up although they're they're the myths are
that have been
grown up in literature and so forth now again %uh I'm
I am NOT going to dismiss
this idea %uh gots that there wouldn't be any super human being or spear
up even the Bible tells us that one time there were giants and landed there are
those who
that that sons of God came America that daughters have met I don't understand
what all that is about to say don't understand someday we will
but I don't I I don't dis dismissed this
offhand as the the myths because somewhere
in our mind our imagination however this group II don't know but
when you read through the mists there there's some
very interesting stories it and even in the mist there's
interesting correlations to some the things that we read about in the Bible I
think the Bible as being the Word of God
but I also understand that there's just a whole lot that's going on in this
world that I don't get
soul
the belief in the gods dole is whether or not
there are
it's clear that they are not the one true God because
in mythological writing the gods have bad with each other the gods have sex
with each other
the gods have all these kinds relationships and things are going on in
and all the stuff is going up but because they're just
god's there's no one got that supreme got
and I think especially in art this Chinese society
I was talking to some other students I sits name summer the gods
they named a what you
and I model my about yes and who else
anybody else
say it out loud about
ok see there's
there's a n I have other Greek got a boat know the Greek gods
apollo juice
soul so you know I i'm saying these
these are gots
but not these got would make the claim to be the Most High God
the Most High God we believe
be
I Jehovah God your way
and even in these religions the
that they have a up in understanding that there's a supreme being somewhere
but in many religions pic the stepping stone is
through the lesser gods represent you to the higher got therefore we have
physical representations which would be called idols or animals or other object
worship that would be refer to is as being got
top there's got
BT got gots the you gots
and others
atheists we don't believe in any got and and I don't
up I don't know there's really
anyone who is a for all going atheist
because here's what happens with someone who doesn't believe in God or gots
they're basically saying that there's a spiritual representation
which is not
that all the world is physical
and that if you can't see to if it's not part physical senses
then you can't be there well I'm I'm not exactly sure if I agree with that
because
each if you are sitting on a chair
you see the physical representation at the chair but you cannot see
the physics that's involved in holding you
up in that chair there's a strength and a bonding that takes place
you can't see it
but it's there just because something can't BC doesn't mean it's not there
tall when we're talking about this I atheism
the other five point is this:
if I do not believe that there is a God
then there's no being %uh there's no spirit that
greater than the human being and the human spirit
that down reasonable there's no bill got forgot
I and atheist is one at deism is do's the word for God
the ISM has gotten and atheism means
yoga
salt that means that there's
no final authority other than
human we become that the final accord
and humanism then has banded together to say that we humans and are the highest
representation
what we decide is what's going to happen
yeah but I just seems too many
disasters huge even a things it that humans do
with with nuclear things nuclear bombs and stuff like that
and we act as if we have it all under control really
if we're got then we should be supreme would be able to control
the he sings but we cannot
told the next step is just have to say then I've got my own life and
stop there
that becomes then the source of our moral authority
and that's become got
talk got guards and no got
than the next thing is I i want to when we as Christians are asking the question
about who's got is to go to this matter i've
Jesus is God Jesus is God
this is the statement that we have in our statement fee
we believe that Jesus Christ is the eternal
Sun I've got that he is God in human flesh
conceived by the Holy Spirit born a *** the savior of the world
that his death on the cross is ours substitution or sacrifice
and his resurrection from the dead is our of a better life
so this is where we stand as far as our doctoral statement with regard to Jesus
Christ is exhaustive no its not exhaustive but the
this these this is the essence of where we stand up
and I'd like you to turn your bibles to I
John chapter 14
John chapter 14 judge after fourteen is probably
a verse that are a passive could do that would be fairly familiar with I think
and i'd like for us to read the first fourteen persons there
and has we read this understand that this is Jesus talk
Jesus is talking to his disciples
I John if you want to know the philosophy in the theology of Jesus you
should study the book
jot because there are those Jesus
is expounded awful lot if you have a red-letter addition at the Scriptures
you see that
you the book John there's just all lotta red
because that represents Jesus speak John
chapter 14 15 16 has a lot to say about got it most that is
Jesus speaking so here's what he said Jesus says let not your hearts be
troubled
believe in God believe also in me
in my father's house are many rooms if it were not so
I would have told you and I go to prepare a place for you
if I go and prepare a place for you I will come again
and we'll take you to myself that where I am you may be also
had you know the way to wear I'm going
Thomas set who tom is thomas'
promises kinda grumpy old guy he doesn't
he doesn't you he doesn't take just because you say so doesn't mean that's
the way it's
and
so he said just because you say Jesus rose it doesn't mean
really what happened I got it that's the correct
guy Thomas its
Thomas said to him Lord
we do not know where you're going how can we know the way
what Jesus said him
I am the way and the truth and the like
no one comes to the Father except for me again your some
pretty rough like in a pluralistic world when we would like to save that
there's many opportunities and many has to got
here's Jesus telling his disciple is a very controversial
perks I would say %ah saying I have the way
truth and the life no one comes to the Father or to god except
me but he goes on over 70 says
if you had known me
you would have known my father also from now on
you do know him and have seen here after the says the
more
show us the father it's enough for us jesus said
provided with you so long and you do steal
not know me Philip whoever has seen me has seen the Father
how can you say show us the father do you not believe that I am
in the Father and the Father is it be the words that I say to you I cannot
speak on my own authority
but thats father wells in me does his work
believe me
that I am in the father in the fathers in me are all spies
leave on account up the works cell
truly truly I say to you
whoever believes in me will also do the works that I do and greater works than
these
with the do because I'm going to the park
whatever you ask in my name this I will do
that father may be glorified in the Sun
if you ask me anything in my name
I will do
free pretty forthright strong language there
and for us in our date H
up
it's telling us Jesus
is the way
just three things on a spring out very quickly in this past script first about
Jesus sets
believe me believe in God
leaving me believe in God
he tells us in that we're in the very first burt's
if you believe in me you believe in God
soul that's why it's important for us to understand
with this Jesus guy it's
if there's no Jesus then we don't have any way
I don't say yeah I would say that
the only way that we can come to God is because God has come to us
if God has its hasn't hasn't crossed
the distance between us and him there's no way that we could prosper way
the infinite distance to hear so it's absolutely
imperative
whatever you believe about God there's just no way for humanity to no
Gothamist got tubes art direction because God by virtue of being Supreme
Being
there's a separation
so God and His love and His mercy and His grace
came to us in the form of Jesus Christ
the senate's believe in God believe in me
secondly I wanna notice what he says about itself he says
I yeah
I am I am the way the truth
and the light
no one comes to the Father but my but by me
up there are those even who call themselves Christians
and that would say that they cannot accept this perched
they cannot accept the fact that Jesus is the only way
however here's the thing with that if they're
isn't that exclusivity
then that what we have is we have competing got
you can't have competed yeah
God is God
and if if you had your God and I have my God your God keeps you in that way my
god
to be my way who's got
who's got
and and the thing is this
christians are accused of being Eric it
because we have this exclusive ist very exclusive
whole on got
it's not a matter for Eric its actually should be a matter
I dodge let me take that back sometimes it is
sometimes we r very Eric it and very
unkind about it I will highly buddy
gonna go to hell you you
like Jesus are
you know it and so sometimes we we come across that way
but really what E what Jesus saying to us listen
lists
this is the way now we have a responsibility
to let people know how you want to know but by showing the love Jesus what did
Jesus do
keep died show less his love and I promise you folks
that if we love one another like Jesus loves us
if we'd be willing to put our life it other people with people to give
everything other people to introduce them to Jesus week
change this
if we'd be more like geez
our message is not what I'm saying
you Jesus way or the highway
our messages wanna say
we know him
can we introduce it to we've we're humbled by the fact
that Jesus is come here the way the truth
life I get I need to move on the third thing i'd like for us to see
where Jesus says see me
see the farther see me see the park there's not
3b when we talk about 3 in 1 the Trinity the Trinity
is all in one but there's three parts
just like I will explain when got says to us that he made us
in His image he made us in His image what happened is
after having made Adam uneven is image they were fully
up %ah body soul and spirit but the Bible tells us that there's
spirit die within
when they see it
and that's why we talk about being born again to new life in Jesus prices
because
that's when the Spirit is the new business the spirit got
took that
that brings me that back to the question of who is God and I've got all
through this because is important for since there but here's
the crux of the matter the crux of the matter its
we me we may be able to come to an understanding of who
got hits
but does that affect what we do
what we do because
and ice is about myself I believe it got
but you know something its very easy for me to simply
just ignore it
ignore and I'm my experience has been that
thats oftentimes what we do
we would never sing all I don't the guide
especially for Christians your have to
we just have to ignore it that's all 310
okay got you do your thing or
I'm going to be at church on Sunday because that's the cop thing to do
Monday to Saturday
my to got you sit on the bench
you said on the tape a pick you up again Sunday morning
that's not the idea got books look this is what i'm saying is
we may understand all these things about got
but what's important than is not our understanding about
not its our relationship to ca
and our Christian belief
I let me take it back
RR Christianity
is not intended to be a blister
doctrinal beliefs in and theology
we study all that stuff was and and we should also work St I see
some but but the thing is the important thing in and this is the beauty of it is
that
we develop as humans a personal relationship
we've got
Jesus Christ
that's an amazing phat
its it could actually be incredibly frightening
to think that this got should be something that we can actually
have fellowship with
but I would also say to us that
in this relationship thing
many of us might be
guilty of being
functioning atheists
functioning eighty its we wouldn't be believing
atheists but we would be functioning
a which simply says
with our mouths we might say I believe it picky got
but I don't pay any attention
to kinda have a life to live
and I need to do that
and reason that we need to ask that question now is because we asked these
questions
not who I am when I wired for it were my head and so forth we
prolong the context got back
it doesn't mean a thing
if we don't really live like
Kat is who he says yeah it's soul
rather than being functioning
atheists
really what we want to be is a PDF file
obedient bob
that leads us to the third person
up the Trinity God the Father God the Son Jesus Christ
and got all the spear
not or respect no oftentimes writings we hear about
the Holy Spirit the holy spirit this the Holy Spirit I
I can really uncomfortable with the Holy Spirit is if it's some
I impersonal entity that's out there
I typically like *** to
the third party the trinity s
gots Holy Spirit it gives you the sense of
up being in person to not to some kind of
30
something that's out there the presence in row love got spirit is a sin
and up
let me just read through these will be done to me okay rolled got spirit
you're fighting John 16 you wanna be further John sixty
he is our council he
shows us where he wants to go
gives his guide its in the decisions apply he convicts
the world have said that includes us we have a sense that something's not right
it probably is right if got spirit within a sweet we could
Knoll I we can grieving we can know what's right or wrong because his Spears
within us
and and that means the spokes weekend actually feel the presence of God
letting us know something's not right
he will guide us into all truth helpless understand God's truth in fact
it's not possible for us to understand God's truth without got spirit yes
yesterday this useful for having a discussion about John 11 work where
it talked about in the beginning was the word word was God and before
but in Chinese network word is doll
now now they are asking me what is the word ball
have to do with the word word in English because you would normally
translate doll as work
well I actually I don't think the word
word English is a good translation
the required is low gots the Greek word low cost is much better translated
doll
that work
but I think this was stuck at work and in inside just one little word its
the Word of God as vast in its
as expensive that is you notice that your Bible to capital W picked up you
work and a
but
it's very hard for us in english to translate the meaning of low-cost its
it's much bigger than did our language allows but the Chinese language has the
word doll
which
you could spend a long time study that work
he helps us to understand his truth it is holy spirit that helps us to
understand
in these areas were where we might have difficulty he also helps us to
understand the future
we don't know the future got does got spirit amazingly
leads us and guides us and maybe you have stories about how you
tended to go one way you just said Ste
that God was leading you to go another way and you realize wow
that was just really at the fine touch it got the beat is in that direction
he also translates up
got to us as a resident through the Spirit
inward gots welling in assets to his spirit he empowers us to do the work
I've got as given
us to do
now these are this all the role Holy Spirit so who's got
who's got
well got is the most supreme big but God is jeez
got for us today we don't see Jesus right we have the spirit guide
dwells in us through the through the work of Jesus Christ on the cross
that's why it's important for us to know who's got but
it's also very important for us to understand that's
our relation T chip him is what support now we know all
it's how we with eighty and
and the thing is this II what you're saying I season closing
no matter how we answered the question
no matter how we come across to the answer of who
is guy it fundamentally does
not change who God its
it doesn't change who got its
got remains the same yesterday today Rep
is our thoughts and reflections about but more important that
it's our relationship talk I II close by saying this
we've looked at these questions I think the good questions to ask we've looked
at them in the car in the context of what
*** would say to us about that
but now
now
it's up to us whether or not we really believe God
actively moving us that direction if you want to be fulfilled
in our purpose here knowing what our purpose is knowing what it is that
that were wired to do wanna be heading that direction
we really need to have the presents a got
his spirit which comes from his were
that's why we need to be answering
who is God
and what is my relationship our relationship with God
comes to Jesus Christ come to the props
you that's why to use a sense I'm way
the truth and the like dole
person Obstet got except dude
a father
thank you again for your presence
amongst
thank you again for your word that teaches a thank you especially for Jesus
discourse
book John work he really expounded his disciples the things that we might add
what show us shows the father will know who he is
Jesus as I I'm
he said mean I'm with you and so
was the focus our attention on geez
to learn from you learn
about you to desire to be more like let you
through the Spirit of God change
our lives it be like
that too late you show us what your desire is
expert your will is sports in art now we might find that
reach cents a satisfaction telling our per
Jesus Christ boldest
yet that I precinct Jesus
reminders
next week got it up not having our church
form having a teachers meeting afterwards and also I'd appreciate it
pray for me as I get beach next a yeah
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