following program is sponsored by the apple open george church yet along with your church he's committed to loving god loving people and loving life our doors are open to whomever you know mass required seattle when your church honor we go to hear word with thank you that you spoke to apostle john the very door he writes came from you you inspired him to speak the words that he spoke to write the words that he wrote we thank you father god that your work gives us guidance it gives  direction it shows us how to live shows us how to braid we sing a song about our daily bread that we should be taken in the word of god daily allowed to motors the shape of the changes cypre father you do it in jesus name somebody else make sure you don't they if you here is what happens i've seen this happen in addiction realm somebody gets claimed up there you know got sobriety they got two years three years twenty years i don't have and years they have and all of a sudden they start again like you know what i'm i'm i'm so good i'm doing so good and i'm going to go minister i'm going to minister in the streets i'm a go minister the drug addicts are because you know what i'm so much better than they are what do you think happens in those times i have a good good friend i know exactly what happens a friend who actually god set him free from heroin totally deliver him from heroin he did a documentary video on here one addiction shared his own story in capitol hill ministry this tell is tell you how it goes this is how it goes and you start getting i don't care what germs has and i just want to shoot up that's guy turns around and does heroin his girlfriend dies in his lap my friend who videotaped that with back into heroin went back to heroin and that guy who did here when the bathroom in of except in christ went through a leadership program in our church and man him went to see my friend larry in the hospital that had abscesses from here on how that happen to keep this you fall when you go to mr somebody else realize that you are no better than them you just happen to be walk with jesus closer because you know we're not better than each other some of his learn how to walk closer to jesus who's will cover it when we get to the next slide but right now we know that no one is born of god since what is that saying if you're born of god should you sin yes or no though does that mean you can live a life without sin to question absolutely you can live a life without sin if you tolly one hundred percent trust the says that that jesus was tempted but didn't say so obviously the devil controlled temptation but how do you live a life without sin when the temptation comes what you have to do you have to cast that god out you can't meditated well and so as a believer can you live without sin absolutely because he says he was born of god doesn't sin that means there must be a place where if you're born of god that you don't have to sin and that you can not send but i know that most of us aren't there yet so what we do is it's or hands up say you know what we all sin so i can't help it you know what we are all so that yes right here oh don't go but you know you can't talk to about my sin because you know judged so if you're going to be judged what can you do judge do you judge the heart never do you judge the heart because how do we know the heart of man but can we judge the fruit well guess what a problem also shouldn't judge right ok so there's a balance there he says that if you're born of god as a sin we're going to see in a moment it gives us a it gives us a way out too many look at the way out to a less pass each year verse twenty god is faithful and just to forgive you have your sins so if we're christians don't sin why did paul tell christians if you confess your sin he's favored just to give you of your sins so what does that  trick question if i sin and i ask forgiveness and god forgives me in god's eyes did i said no because why he says he's cast my set as far as  is from the west so in god's eyes i am clan sed so how do you walk with no sin confess repent cunt fast repent  time you see and you actually did went to the altar i should make it a rule if you walk into the church for a sin we have guards outside and you can't get out to you come to the altar  do what bring your heart back to life we need to have our spiritual her brought back to life when we sin c p r s actually confession i confess my sin that c p s praise i praise god when i come fast my sin he will forgive me of my sin but what do i need to do for that to happen i need to repair it so c is compression p s praise ours repent so when we practice c p r on a regular basis guess would send than our life and we know that the son of god has come his give us understand his so that we may know him who is true and we are in him who is true in his son jesus christ so if i know god who is truth and i am in god who is true what will i walk out truth i will walk it out how do i walk out truth i got to be in him and the more i am him the more truth i walk in so if you're not reading the truth and if you don't have an intimate relationship with the truth are you going to walk in truth what yeah but i go to church every week and i actually get a begin any truth if you go to church that isn't preaching the gospel is a preaching the word so i walk in truth i spent time so tell me something if you spend one minute in this and three hours on your phone how much truth are you getting if you do one minute is that you watch football for three hours how much truth are you getting well i guess whatever russell wilson the born again for back says you might get some truth that you know the guy that dated the woman who was doing porn shows that he married that guy or no i can't say that because he's russell wilson so what it was a say or truth doesn't come from people just because they're christian truth has to come from the word in our intimate close relationship with jesus christ so as i spent time in the words i spent time in prayer is a spode time until it's shipped with believers that are walking in the word what is going to is going to be truth of my life and if you have truth in your life guess what you start to avoid certain things jeff was talking about he doesn't have many friends and you know what jeff doesn't have many friends especially in the last what year you know many friends because all of a sudden he got the truth and what happened he got the truth he had to let go some friends and there's some friends that want to be friends with them that he has that been friends with them because it gets that some of the things about him why because you got and we got the pyre right off the tree and took it right off the tree fresh me and cami it fight over the papaya and she knows i don't like the pile but when i get the real thing so we watched there was one this big and we watched for two weeks we watched it and we prayed over it that would get right we don't want to for anybody ousts we don't want the next people coming to get it we wanted it for salvation and we watched and watched waiting and waiting and waiting you know when you tasted of the good you don't want the bad you don't want the bad and all of a sudden you want where of the good things of god as to the things this world has to offer and then look at that last verse twenty one little children guard yourself from idols guard yourself from idols guess what when you find the truth you don't want the idols this isn't to say little children not one idols is that what it says  is little children guard yourselves from the idols that's one step further nonny that you don't want to you guard yourself from them so i am a i'm an information addy i love information there's somebody else an information addict i love information and i learned something early on when the internet came i learned that it will suck me dry if i turn myself over to it because guess what you can do in the internet you can research anything and everything it is on the internet is true yeah right ok so out of it is i could have the idol of knowledge oh wait a second i know a couple that desire knowledge something happened to them they seek knowledge instead of wisdom they seek knowledge instead of the truth in the garden who is the truth god the father says walk with them they're walking with truth and they desire knowledge think about that why would you seek knowledge if you know the truth the truth would give you any knowledge you need to know do you know that i remember pastor cho talked many times to the biggest problem of man is is seeking knowledge instead of gaining wisdom that at any one of the knowledge of good and evil can i tell you something if you know good you don't need to know evil they knew good when they knew good they did fine is knowing the evil if you know good you don't need to know me because if you know good you do good you know good you have everything there is that they have well you know what i want to try drugs just to see what it's like you know what i want to check just see what it's like you know  i want to know what it's like to you know what is it was if people will was still for big beef jerky when what it's like to get away with still no beef jerky node christians never think those kind of thoughts it to tell you the list christian renew their mind they have the same kind of dots and so out of there comes a place in life that we seek the truth is jesus christ so as we summarize the whole concept of going deeper in christ i made a statement at the very beginning we did this series if you're going to reflect the life of christ the much go deeper in christ and first john we talk about all the ways going deeper in truth deeper in relationship deeper in in the knowledge of christ deeper when it comes to love deeper when it comes to the fellowship deeper and it comes to relationship with god and i always soyuz say it if you want to really have a victorious life you have the jump in with jesus all the way all the way i would i would in this saying you should go to every church service there is and what would be there's a church that has something going on they have it there's a church doing a series on on parenting and you have a child you want to learn how to be a good parent i say go to that church go to their series of parenting gain some more knowledge of that what if i tell you that if we have a sunday school class in the morning that talks about moving beyond the past to be there i find it interesting some people have a stroke with the past they don't show up to the class on the past isn't it interesting something to think about isn't it what if i tell you that i there's people attend i don't know how to pray what if it was a good place to learn how to pray around people pray what do you learn you know you learn you pray you just talk to god yes we learn i don't know how to pray we'll go to a prayer means see what happens the people talk to god and they say and god and i pray get you know their name is gone ok with that so you go to prayer you find out something and you get to just be real with god and he's ok with that so if you want to go deeper how about that we jump into anything that god has to offer what if i as a tell you that even as i talk about volunteering i that they've been asking us as a church if we would volunteer ad transfer burey and for several months now and i tell them i just can't do it i don't have a large enough congregation to do it you just don't have enough people to do it we can't we can't cook a mill we'll have the funds to be able to cook a meal then they said well we'll provide the money yeah but we have to cook the mill and we have to cook the milk for one hundred fifty people in this little church and then we have to serve but what if i tell you if you want to go deeper in christ what's one of the things you should be doing i would argue should be volunteering that you should be given time maybe it isn't to transform your eon maybe it's something else maybe it's just the your neighbor's lawn maybe maybe is to be laura who is the taxi cab driver river neighborhood or relatives and everybody else is just be a taxi cab driver that takes people to the airport takes them to the doctor but find some way that you mr somebody if you gave deeper christ it does something to you and when you see that person smile in their face we go to the convalescent home of nursing center or whatever it's called rehab as it's called rehab but most people don't get  that came in such that's all she knows it's me i don't know but you know what it makes it so just maybe it touched her i talked to told gentlemen the back i can't member's name that is in recovery yeah and i talked to him of the last time he has parkinson's he says give me a medicine that makes i don't have those shakes and he start telling the short story to happen you know who got minister to me sometimes with a minister to others guess what happens you get ministry back it's a win win win situation jesus wins you win that person wins but how do you know that if you don't do it get deeper with christ yeah things over forty five years he talks about that says just to go to a all the time and you go in there he talked about a brother died of alcoholism talks about a sister who has alzheimer's and he says she knows i am so thankful i might have parks's but don't have alzheimer's i know right matt i know what's going on why when you hear stories it does something for you so this just ask god to take us deeper in christ lord i pray that we go deeper in christ i pray lord  god that we would get closer to you that we would just wrap our lives around you lord in a great and powerful way the lord we would want to walk in holding us we want to be people who can live a victorious overcoming life against the things of this world we want to be people lord god that can make a difference in the lives of other people nor we want to be a reflection of jesus christ will you help us get there you accept jesus christ your lord or savior today you want to get more information you can always go to our website to learn how to accept jesus christ as your lord and savior you can go to there is hope t v guide or that there is hope t v die 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 you have been listening to there is so with pastor richard over through jesus christ we can live a victorious life seattle's 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 having a hard time to forgive others to forgive yourself or maybe even to forgive gun will see an open door church as a series that we're doing called moving beyond the past you will be videotaping each week the sessions here some of the sessions will be covering what is healing past hurts who needs healing the prodigal son god's forgiveness face to face encounter with god the power of the cross forgiveness an inner healing in are values and bitterroot judgments closing open doors breaking every curse breaking every d section and being filled with the holy spirit i can promise you that it will not take going through all of the material to be able to move beyond your past but if you keep track with all that we share you will certainly live a victorious overcoming life and i want to let you know that you can live the victorious overcoming life in your deserts can be turned into glorious garden