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Personal responsibility. We know that's in fact what it means to be an adult, right? To be able to take responsibility for your life and responsibility for your choices, and God treats us like adults and says, "You're responsible for all the choices you make."

I understand the bible teaches God's sovereignty, I understand the bible teaches human freedom. What we are going to be talking about over the next several weeks is human freedom and human responsibility. How the ball has been placed in our court and what God wants us to do about it and what our choices are in response.

The Christian life begins with, continues with and culminates with us abiding in Jesus and abiding in the love that Jesus has for us. We are to immerse ourselves in Jesus' love!

Jesus said, "If any man is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. And out of his innermost being will flow rivers of living water."

If you have a perspective about Christianity that does not focus on Jesus Christ, it is a wrong perspective.

Jesus says in this passage that He came from heaven, He went back to heaven, He is preparing for us a place in Heaven and He is going to come back again to take us with Him.

Prayer is a trade to be learned. We must be apprentices and serve our time at it. Painstaking care, much thought, practice and labor are required to be a skillfull tradesman in prayer.

And wherever you are in your spiritual journey, there is good news! And the good news is where you are, God wants to meet you right there and help you get connected to Him!

But somewhere we've gotten the notion, some of us, that salvation is like signing up and paying for a fire insurance policy and you got that policy and you put it in your hip pocket and then you can live like hell but be certain of heaven.

What would you want people to say in their eulogy of you at your memorial service? And then the challenge is whatever it is that you want people to say about you, start living that way now so that will be the legacy that you leave.