*points from na*

*we fight for faith not to get God 100% for us, but because he already is 100% for us!



**Why do we want to be forgiven?**
*If Jesus is just a ticket to heaven, he is not honored.

* "I don't want to go to hell... hot!!" -piper :)



**Regressive sanctification**

*if you don't keep swimming against the current, you'll be pulled backwards.



*Psalm 42*

*We are in an unending conversation with ourselves -- this conversation has the most influence on our soul than anything else in every day life.

*talk to yourself. don't listen to yourself.

*god has not forgotten the psalmist. the psalmist has forgotten god.

*speak to your soul with the promises of god.

*talk to god - god is pleased when we come to him with his promises. he is eager to fulfill them. go to the throne and say, "do as you promised".



*Galatians 4:1-7*

*god's purpose did not conclude with redemption. it culminated into adoption.

*"to be right with God is great, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is greater."

* am i more aware of justifying grace than of adopting grace?

*"the greatest sorrow and burden and unkindness you can do to the Father is to not believe that he loves you"

* I know that christ loves me because i love him. and there is no way that love was put there without him first loving me.



** Unless Your grace had called me
And taught my darkened mind
The world would have enthralled me
To Your glories I’d be blind
My heart knows none above You
For Your rich grace I thirst
I know that if I love You
You must have loved me first

Jesus, You have saved me
And taken all my sin, all my sins away
Jesus, You have called me
Before the world began, to glorify Your name**

jeremiah 15.16

Your words were found, and I ate them, and your words became to me a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O LORD, God of hosts.


--God's work meets us right where we are.

--the bible is not a book of all that we need to do for God, but rather a story of all that God has done for us.



-- may the bible not just be lifeless words on a page, but words from the heavenly father to meet us.

.love.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

I Corinthians 13

classic.