following program is sponsored by seattle open door church yet all up and your church is committed to loving god loving people and loving life our doors are open to whomever no mass required seattle open door church to put a song on that in just a moment and i want you to meditate on the words of the song and i just think god is interesting because i have this belief system i believe that if you say god speak to me i believe that god speaks i think he speaks through his word i he speaks through the radio he speaks through songs he speaks through people and so the message is going to give today and i was saying lord i just want to see if i turn the radio i said i just want to see a lord if you got a message that needs to be shared that's going to tie in with my my sermon where there's a song i never heard that i found out that you know the song and i never heard the song before i heard the song and the words of the song fits in what i'm going to be talking about about going deeper into christ and that fits into what i wanted to prep the sermon with and that's that last week we talked about conny conny is a faithful saint that passed away and then we had a tribute for conny and i had a challenges is that that the challenge was the value of a saint and what would people say about you when you pass away when they say that that you had a significant impact on their life what they say that you did something to help change his role would they have something positive for you to say and i would argue that for some of us unless we get deeper in christ that's not going to be the case that we need to get deeper in christ and conny was one that one to continuously go deeper in christ want to get closer to jesus want to be more like christ and that's the challenge that i would hope that all of us want to be the way this song talks about that that can say i want a camera twenty four seven on me what how much hours a day of hours a day thirty seconds how much are you living for christ the person good for sixteen says therefore i encouraging you to me am a tater of me now if you didn't know the ah if you didn't know the context say what upright for person how can a person say i encourage you to be like me the reason is because all do the best of his ability live like christ jesus so are you living like christ is that you encourage somebody to live like me you don't hear i you see yourself a reflection of yourself and there are so out of it of course with a ball short but you have honor in a thirst for christ says do you want to go deeper can i challenge you if you're a bully or jesus christ why would you not  thought i wanted to be when there's a funeral for me i want there to be a celebration but i'm not happy i want somebody to save during my funeral some is good at the preacher tell somebody except jesus i want somebody else to go there with me about you and you say be an imitator of christ like i am whatever it is what is it that you have as a heart as a god that people should imitate go deeper in christ only when it was going to say like a closer to jesus with more intimacy with christ not to but he is truly our best friend that we have a close relationship with them that this is how crazy i'm talking about so crazy relationship with them that even when you're whack out and you have a gun to your head and you're going to take your life you still can make jesus i know that your god i know that you love me and i'm just messed up now that is best da that's really messed up that was me that's messed up i could share then you say life is worth living just trust christ will get you through this this will pass away that's been years and years and years ago now out of i was able to survive because i  the word says we need to be transformed an ongoing basis it says that christ came what to transform us to change us the greatest image of that is a butterfly pick up butterfly  where they are what are they there are a caterpillar a brush the caterpillar that buzzy caterpillar turns into either a butterfly or a mom and to me is just amazing how that happens if you have a mo it's inside there you know it has to happen to th melted down the silver and then somebody is looking at them and you can see the droste keep coming out you see the bad stuff coming out and he's keep working on working on it and so he says how do you know when you're done with the silver how do you know when you have your silver he says a simple when i go see my reflection in the silver i know it's pure you can look at the mare and you start seeing jesus you know you're being plans you know what it feels like to look at a mirror at yourself you look at it and you can actually start to like that  by the way i don't like it when people say that proves that i'm better than them or they're better than they i don't believe in that con i just think they make better choices i think they make better decisions and i don't think i want to human beings because of christ in me i make better choices and i can say when i first accepted christ i didn't make a good choice so going deeper with christ and i start plans of me and then i can make better choices to go deeper in christ as a deep truth about redemption to really understand what jesus done for us to get close to her stand what he done for you then when you look at the cross you realize that it is a jeep the saying up there that's you and there and you know stuff you're hanging up there  my girlfriend because she gave me certain things in the middle of the night that's one reason i like her because she gave me what i wanted like a single human being i thought i was better than every human being and this is crazy i can't stand by the better than everybody else that's messed up and i didn't have a up or single human being there was no nothing that could touch me i till i accepted christ there was never a cure shed in my life that i can know that mazy when i accepted jesus christ in my i don't have a lot of compassion for because i've been doing that kind of ministry for years and most of those neat way in a sign don't want to say so what do i do i say god soften my heart when i see him i know him he comes to the feeding program he gets  no matter what you think no matter what you say no matter how you act you know that you're born again and you're going to have it or is your relationship with christ based upon work i'm and i'm going to go out there i'm a person  believes that once saved saved is not true i'm a person that believes that you can lose your salvation a moment i don't think you know one of those are true i think it's in the middle some way and the reason i say that because if you look at the word there's one group that takes all jesus i'm a sinner and you know i ask you to take my life and change my life and you say that and you keep on living a life and then i don't believe you have salvation i believe that's a lie from the pit of hell i think you're harming that person's life you're affecting their soul because it isn't the hope to be done or and we have information on frequently asked questions about christianity we let you know step by step and accept jesus christ your lord and savior encourage you to go to there's hope t v dot or that is there is hope t v dot org also on it you know if you would like to talk to me person you can always give me a call toll free anytime one eight six six one god you have been listening to there is so with pastor richards over through jesus christ we can live a victorious life seattle open door church located in derian committed to loving god loving people and loving life seattle open door church once you know that regardless of where you've been or what you've done god loves their doors are open to anyone and everyone their services are sunday mornings at eleven seattle open door church is located at six twenty five south west one hundred forty ninth street in period next to the southwest courthouse