Michigan Camp Meeting 2018: As a Witness, Matthew 24:14

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Sung Hyun Um

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Father we come before you in our brokenness but you already know who we are in our inner core.

So Father we just take down our mask and we are ourselves and we admit that we are human beings and we're prone to making mistakes and we need help and we're not God.

So help us not to play God and just be ourselves and to enjoy being the human being that you created us.

Help us to stop all the doing, Father, but to find peace who we are in our relationship with you.

Thank you for each and every person that is here.

Father, may they hear your voice and you calling their name.

And once Again, may they know that they're a special child of God.

The more I study about God, the more I study about psychology and theology, the more I study about how God works in terms of healing and everything.

God is an amazing God, and the gospel that we have is a beautiful gospel.

And With that in mind, let's go to our first text that I mentioned here.

Okay, keep you awake so that you can follow along and everything.

To prepare God's people for works of service may be built up until we all become mature Attaining to the whole major of the fullness of Christ, then we will no longer be what?

We will no longer be infants tossed back and forth by the waves Instead speaking the truth in love we will in all things what grow up into him who is the head that is?

Christ from him the whole body and joined and held together by every supporting ligament grows and builds itself up in love as each part does its work.

I mean it just takes a whole hour to talk about it.

But I'm going to just run through it very, very quickly and what this passage has to say about breakthrough and it has to say about maturity and so forth.

First of all, it says the Christian life is a life of pursuing what?

Christian life is a life of pursuing maturity.

And then the goal of maturity, Because it is talking about what?

Being built up and being growing up and growing and build and leading away the childhood issues and infantile stage and all that.

It is about growing up, it is about maturing.

And then what is the goal of our maturity?

Full, whole, major of the fullness of God.

So I always tell my wife that, you know, you better hang out with me because Beth is yet to come.

To see the product of your labor, so you better hang around, you know?

So then Christian life is a journey of maturity, growing from eternity to eternity.

So don't be so dismayed or disappointed when things don't work out.

Sometimes I felt like, oh, I messed up on my sermon.

I really, really didn't do a good job and all that.

But whenever I do that, I have to remind myself to realize what?

So it's an ongoing journey of growth toward what?

We're going to grow from eternity to eternity.

How many of you believe that even after we go to heaven we'll continue to grow?

Somebody says that I don't give up on me because I am not finished yet.

So it's an ongoing growth that God wants us to experience.

This is a very important aspect I want to mention.

It says, number 1, it's ongoing, like I said.

And here, built up and grow up and growing and building up is a perfect hour is tensed in Greek which means it has been it is it is ing and then it will continue there's an ongoing thing ongoing thing okay so it is ongoing and then second 1 what's the nature of our Christian growth and maturity?

If you get that, I'm going to have to give you something.

In that, our growth in Jesus Christ is something that is what?

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