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Religion Versus Relationship

  Matthew 21:6-16 "15 But when the chief priests and scribes saw the wonderful things that He did, and the children crying out in the temple and saying, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant 16 and said to Him, "Do You hear what these are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes. Have you never read, 'Out of the mouth of babes and nursing infants You have perfected praise'?""   In this section of scripture the incident of Christ coming into Jerusalem on a donkey is related. There was immense excitement surrounding this. The people laid branches and garments out for Him. The disciples and others realized the significance of Christ entering in this way. It was the way that a king entered a city. They all thought that Jesus was setting things up for Him to become their

The Perfect Man

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(Taken from Brother George Parsons' message- 3/23/2015) Ephesians 4:11-14-- 11 And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, 13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; 14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting,   1 Corinthians 13:10-12 10 But wh

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Philippians 3:7-9: 7 But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. 8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ                                                  9 and be found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith; Paul stated here that he considered everything in life as rubbish, trash, in order to know Jesus Christ. In life, if we keep tract of our nutrition in order to have a healthy life we learn soon t