What an eye opening and exciting first two weeks of our new series have been! This Sunday, the third week of it, promises the same!

For some reason, a vast majority of Christians think that God forgives us our sins on an ongoing basis as we ask Him to forgive us. But what if we forget to ask? Wouldn't we have unforgiven sin? Wouldn't that jeopardize our salvation? What everyone, ESPECIALLY CHRISTIANS, needs to know about Christianity is that Christians are forgiven ONCE AND FOR ALL not over and over as they ask for it. One is truly good news, the other is worse than they had on the Old Testament.

In the weeks leading up to Easter 2018, we are going to take a look at the top 10 things that we wish EVERYONE new about the good news of Jesus--ESPECIALLY CHRISTIANS. There are so many misconceptions of who Jesus is, what He came to do, where he now is, etc, etc. Wouldn't it be nice if those who have embraced a misconception about Jesus and His Gospel would come to know the amazing reality of His Grace--ESPECIALLY CHRISTIANS?

We start this Sunday with #1 - The Bible is one book with two drastically different covenants. If we don't see the two covenants in the one book, it is very likely we are mixing the New and Old Covenants and therefore have an incredibly skewed concept of this whole thing we call Christianity.

Here at Life Journey, we talk a lot about the amazing work that Jesus accomplished on our behalf and how it affects the spiritual side of our existence. We have been made new, united to Christ Himself, given God's very divine nature, made inheritors of the righteousness of Christ, and forgiven all of our trespasses. However, we remain here in this earthly flesh, weaving our way through this crazy life day by day. While Christ's work is incredible, it isn't limited to the spiritual realm, is it? Should it not also have an incredible effect on our flesh and our lifestyle? Shouldn't we as born again believers be living lives that do nothing but show off God's goodness, faithfulness, and power? I think the answer is yes, but how we get there may be a mystery.

In this sermon, we look at the difference between John's baptism and the baptism Christ offers. John himself said that he baptized in water only, but there was One far greater who was going to baptize in the Spirit. John's baptism was an amazing picture and foreshadowing of the incredible baptism of which Christ invites us all to be a part. When people were baptized by John, they came out of the water asking what they should do with their lives now and how they should live. When we enter into Christ's baptism, we have new life and have the very mind and Spirit of Christ Himself. How can our lives not be changed by such a truth?! This sermon unpacks the Gospel as more than just good news but the power to actually transform the flesh as well.

As we celebrate Jesus' birth we are going to take a look at a question that has been asked for generations, "WHY A VIRGIN?" It seems quite odd that the entire validity of Christianity hangs by a thread that a virgin had a baby!

Why would God do it that way? How can we know Mary was a virgin? What if she wasn't? But what if she was? Our hope is that we come away with even more reason to celebrate the baby in the manger, who became the sacrifice on the cross, who became the deliverer risen from the grave.

It's the most wonderful time of the year! We are celebrating the entrance of the Son of God into our realm of Earth!

We're taking a look at one of the clearest predictions of the coming Messiah and specifically what He came to do out of Daniel 9. If Jesus is the Messiah, then God's accounting of iniquity, sins, and trespasses have all ended, we who believe are now perpetually right with God, and the most amazing reality of it all, we have become the very holy dwelling place of God Himself! WOW!

As we wrap up our series, we're looking at one of the realities of our new life in Christ that the enemy works very hard to keep hidden from us. What does it really mean to be a child of God? We use the phrase. We heard it all our lives. But what does it mean?

The truth is that however much of a son Jesus is, that is the same measure of a child we are for we are "co-heirs" with Christ! Are we willing to believe this?

One of the most difficult things to believe about the Gospel is that we are no longer condemned, ever, in any way by God, whatsoever! It's hard to believe because we still condemn ourselves, others condemn us and so on. But the truth is that however condemned Jesus is by the Father is the same amount of your condemnation by the Father now that you are in Him!

Is this of your doing? Of course not! It's all His doing. We now choose whether or not we are going to believe what He's done to us! Do you believe Him? Do you believe that as He is so are you now in this world? If you do, it will change your life!

We hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving! One of the things we are most thankful for at Life Journey Church is our new relationship to Sin and the Law now that we are in Christ. There's great confusion in the body of Christ about this. Many Christians see themselves still in Sin and under the requirements of the Law. We will see plainly on Sunday that the truth is so much better! The truth is we are free from Sin and no longer under the Law! Why is this such a big deal? Because the Law gives opportunity for Sin to deceive us and kill us! So why would we seek to put believers under the very thing that gives Sin this power?

Let us be thankful for the truth that "AS HE IS SO ARE WE IN THE WORLD!" Let us discover the truth of what Jesus has done for us and to us!

It has been God's desire for a long time for us to have a heart that matches His. And that is exactly what we now have in the New Covenant! As His heart is, so is ours now in this world! But do we live from our new heart? That's the question.

There's not a problem with our new heart in Christ, the problem is we don't know how to live from it.

The purpose of God's love is to give us confidence in the day of Judgment for "as He is, so are we in this world!" How can there be any fear of judgment if we are, by grace, as He is already?

This sounds too good to be true doesn't it? What about all this sinning? We still sin don't we? Sure, but did you know that if we are Christians, we have died to sin? Did you know that? Most don't! Most of us believe that we are still very much alive to sin. But the truth is so much better! However dead Jesus is to sin, we are too!

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