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When you know, you know. While the intellectual knowing of God through His word is one thing, the knowing God personally is another. Knowing the facts about God, and even knowing theology, that is the sense-making of all things centered in the acknowledgement of God, is simply that, the knowing. To choose to accept the gift of God of salvation through Jesus is a genuine choice that all humans have to make at some point in our lives.

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Matt Cancio gives us a historical view of the world as it existed when Jesus began His ministry.

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In preparation for our upcoming study on the book of Acts, I would like to revisit the final chapter of Luke. I would encourage you to make/take notes so that the full picture emerges more clearly.

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Guest preacher Lucas Lunsford brings us God's word from Matthew 23:1-35.

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Today, I am challenged to consider whether we are living as those who are caretakers of the work of our God, or if we are instead the undertakers, living as if we were in the last days of a dying faith.

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Guest speaker Henry Chan shares with us.

All week long I have been wanting to give you something. I have anticipated this since early in the week when it came into my heart. If I could give my church family something today, it is joy. There is so much of the opposite in the world and in our lives sometimes. What I want to leave with you today is a better understanding of joy and how we can have it in abundance.

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Salvation is instant, and is completed work immediately. As soon as we accept this cure for our imminent death, we are perfectly and utterly restored to Him. Sanctification is not completed as long as we remain in our physical bodies. Holiness, that is, the progression toward being like God, is a messy, halting and unending journey for those whose hearts are set on Him.

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Our most important consideration, far above all else, is being able to recognize our position before a perfect, holy God, as sinners, lost and utterly unable to save ourselves. Our God, in perfect love, created a path back to him through his Son. Our only action, our singular choice, is whether or not we will believe in Jesus, accepting his perfect salvation. If we do not put our full faith in Him, we are fully responsible for our sin and will have to do the work of restoring our souls on our own.

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We spoke of this last week - that the most important position that anyone can improve is the one between us and our Creator. This is infinitely more valuable than anything we could accomplish in our lives. The fact that we can actually do nothing to accomplish this is what drives us to consider the gift of grace. We should thank God every day for this.

Once our position before God is secured through the saving grace and efforts of Jesus, our attention should immediately and naturally be drawn to correcting and developing relationships with others.

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