Daniel Kelley - To walk with Christ

This morning, I want to look at what it means

to walk with Christ. We just sang a song about,

and we sang the words that we said, I walk with

the King. And we sang another song at the first

of the service. We said, we sang about taking

time to be holy. That was also about our walk

with Christ. There is so much that is. that we

can look at from the scriptures and we can glean

from the scriptures and understand of what it

means to walk with Christ. And we're going to

take a few minutes this morning to look at this.

There is so much in the New Testament that we

could look at and go different routes of what

it means to walk with Christ. We're going to

look at a few things this morning though and

hopefully help our understanding. In Matthew

Matthew 16:24

chapter 16 verse 24, Jesus then said unto his

disciples. He said if any man will come after

me Let him deny himself and take up his cross

and follow me If we are going to follow Christ,

it's it's absolutely necessary that we deny ourselves

and That we take up our cross and we we follow

him When To follow means that we're going in

the same way We're not leading we're coming after

but we're along the same path and We understand

though that he is the one who is leading If we're

gonna follow him we have to put him first And

this world gets it messed up many times and they

they want to lead and they say Jesus come on

pick keep keep up The times are progressing.

You know, things are changing. We are following

after Christ. The phrase, Jesus uses this phrase,

follow me, 17 times in the gospels. And they're

all found in that phrase that he uses. It's only

found in the four gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke,

and John. And as we read the rest of the New

Testament, We see the command to walk To walk

so we're following him. He tells us to follow

him in the Gospels Then after Jesus completes

his mission on this earth. He's in heaven. He's

given his word to his apostles It's been written

down for us to understand and now we can understand

how to follow him by walking after by walking

after him We have to understand that this walk

It starts with with faith. That's the very beginning

of our walk Hebrews chapter 11 verse 6 says but

Hebrews 11:6

without faith it's impossible to please him for

he that cometh to God must believe that he is

and that he is a rewarder of them that Diligently

seek him Second Corinthians 5 verse 7 says for

2 Corinthians 5:7

we walk by faith and not by sight It's not possible

to follow Christ To live as a Christian without

faith. It's just not possible It's impossible

to please him without it and by this faith is

that's how we walk Starts with our faith and

this faith is the scripture says it's the substance

of things hoped for it's the evidence of things

not seen And then in first Peter 1 verse 9 says

1 Peter 1:9

receiving the end of your faith even the salvation

Of your souls our Christian wall it starts with

faith and it ends with an unending faith and

that being and Ultimately the salvation of our

souls That's the end of it if we're gonna put

our faith in Jesus if we're gonna walk with him

Well, then we must then put our faith in His

words how he lived how he told us to live And

in the end we put our faith in knowing that salvation

awaits for us The end of it if we keep this faith

the end of that is going to be salvation This

walk will not continue forever. We will ultimately

reach the goal But we can't give up we have to

keep following after Christ You know ultimately

he's going to come back and we will see him face

to face There won't be no more of this walking

in this this going through these mountains and

valleys and these things we will be in his presence

and The end of our faith will be our salvation.

This is a journey. It's a lifelong walk And it

starts with faith. You know, many people, they

worry very much about getting in their daily

steps. They make sure they wear, you know, you

can track it on your phone or whatever, and you

want to make sure you get in your steps for the

day and you brag about how many steps you got.

But what about our spiritual walk? How many steps

are we getting in with the Lord? How many times

are we opening our Bibles? How many times are

we casting aside our will and letting his will

be done? How many times are we holding our tongue?

Instead of saying what we we would like to say

instead we say what God would rather us say That

is walking with Christ We need to be more concerned

about getting in our spiritual steps If we can

be very concerned about our physical we so much

more should be concerned about our spiritual.

In Colossians chapter two, verse six, he says,

as ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the

Lord, so walk ye in him. So this morning, as

we have received Christ, our Lord, we're gonna

look at, I wanna look at five ways of how we

can Walk with the Lord. There's many you can

make this ten ways you can make there is so much

that is in it I would encourage you to Take a

concordance look up the word walk and look at

it and look how many times it's used in the New

Testament It's used over and over Because it's

talking about our life our life in Christ our

walk it's compared to walking with him our walk

First is in newness of life. Romans chapter 6

Romans 6:3

verse 3 says here, Know ye not that so many of

us were baptized into Christ, and to Jesus Christ

were baptized into his death? Therefore we are

buried with him by baptism into death, that like

as Christ was raised up from the dead by the

glory of the Father, even so we also should walk

in newness of life. After we have been buried

with Christ in baptism, we're raised to a new

life in Christ. We don't have to wonder about

what this new life means or how we can walk in

this newness of life. We just need to keep reading.

It says, for if we have been united together

in the likeness of His death, certainly we also

shall be in the likeness of His resurrection.

Listen, he says knowing this that our old man

was crucified with him That the body of sin might

be done away with And that we should no longer

be slaves of sin For he who has died has been

freed from sin Now if we died with Christ, we

believe that we shall also live with him Knowing

that Christ having being raised from the dead

dies no more death no longer has dominion over

him for the death that he died he died to see

it once for all but the life that he lives he

lives to God likewise ye also reckon yourselves

to be dead indeed to sin but alive to God in

Christ Jesus our Lord therefore do not let sin

reign in your mortal body that you should obey

it in its lust If we're gonna walk as a Christian,

and we're gonna begin this walk, and we're gonna

have faith, and we're gonna obey His words, we

can't keep doing the same things that we used

to do. The old man has been crucified. A new

man has been raised. There must be a personal

transformation. And this transformation, it can't

begin before you're in Christ. It begins after.

Once he gives you his spirit Then the transformation

can take place and if for some it can it can

happen very quickly for others Maybe it takes

a little more time But God will prune you he

will work in your life He will put people in

your life and your life will begin to change

and your mind will begin to change And you will

begin and you will be walking with Christ in

newness of life. And you will begin to see that

sin is not raining in my body anymore. The things

that I used to say yes to, I say no now. And

the more you do that, the easier it becomes.

And it's not a struggle. It's just part of who

you are. That's walking in newness of life. It

begins when we were baptized into Christ That's

when our old man was put to death and there was

a new man then that was risen up And we walk

in newness of life our walk should be in decency

We're gonna look at this in Romans chapter 13

Romans 13 · chapter mention

Romans chapter 13 once verse 11 says and That

Romans 13 · chapter mention

knowing the time that now is high time to awake

out of sleep for now is our salvation nearer

than when we believed the end of our faith salvation

Is nearer now than when we first believed because

time more time has gone on We're getting closer

to the Lord coming back. We're getting closer

to our death Because when that comes that's the

end Salvation awaits judgment awaits The night

is far spent, the day is at hand. Let us therefore

cast off the works of darkness and let us put

on the armor of light. And let us walk honestly

as in the day, not in rioting and drunkenness

and not in chambering and wantonness and not

in strife and envy. But put you on the Lord Jesus

Christ and make not provision for the flesh to

fulfill the lust thereof. He says therefore do

not let sin reign in your model body that you

should obey it in the lust He says I've got a

cut off there he says he says let us walk honestly

as in as in the day and he says put on the Lord

Jesus Christ and may not provision for the flesh

to fill it for the lust thereof and Then at first

1 Corinthians 14:40

Corinthians 14 verse 40 says let all things be

done decently and in order. The word used in

Romans 13 honestly is the same word as used in

1 Corinthians 14 verse 40 when he says, let things

1 Corinthians 14:40

be done decently and in order. When he's talking

about the assembly of the church, he's talking

about how the men should speak one by one. And

if you have something to say, hold your tongue

until the other finishes. What does this mean

it means that there's not so there's not chaos

So there's not confusion Our lives should not

be lives that are full of confusion and chaos

There is a lot of chaos in this world there's

a lot of dishonesty There's a lot of confusion

this should not be so in the life of a Christian

Our lives should be different Look again at Romans

13 and there and Verse 13 there not in rioting

and drunkenness not in chambering. That means

cohabitation That means living together before

marriage. That's what the world does These things

these these things are chaotic rioting drunkenness

all these types of things This is what the world

does. Let all be things done decently. We should

walk in decency, not in lives that are full of

all these things. Look what he says in First

Peter. He says, for we have spent enough of our

past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles

when we walked in lewdness and lust and drunkenness

and revelries and drinking parties and abominable

idolatries as lives. These things Should not

be so in the life of a Christian our lives should

be clean and and peaceful You know, we may have

come from a life that was full of a lot of chaos

and a lot of turmoil and There may still be some

of that in our even after we become Christians

our lives may still have some of that Much of

that comes from our past life. It comes from

that old man. Some of that fruit is still taking

place in our lives. We're having to face those

things that we did in our past, those past relationships,

and our old way of thinking. But in Christ, as

we begin our walk with Him and we continue to

walk with Him, Our lives should get more peaceful.

There should be greater peace starting first

and foremost inside of here. And that we've made

peace with our God. And then from that we can

then begin to see the world differently. And

we begin to look at things more spiritually and

we begin to look at people. not to try to see

how we can get back at them or how we can, whatever,

think bad things about something, but to think

about their soul and to think about how you can

get them to the Lord. Our lives should be more

and more peaceful. Our walks should be in decency.

In 2 Corinthians 5 verse 17, he says, Therefore,

2 Corinthians 5:17

if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature.

And old things are passed away, and behold, all

things are become new. I love this verse. Old

things are passed away. When something passes

away, we use that phrase, you know, they passed

away, they died. Old things die. Our old things

that we used to do, they passed away, they've

been put to death. And all things are new. That's

the way our life should be in Colossians chapter

Colossians 2 · chapter mention

2 He says here in whom also you are circumcised

with the circumcision made without hands and

putting off the body Of the sins of the flesh

by the circumcision of Christ He says buried

with him in baptism where he knew you are also

risen with him through the faith of the operation

of God Who hath raised him from the dead and

you being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision

of your flesh Hath he quickened together with

him having forgiven you all trespasses. God performed

a work in you when you were baptized into Christ.

He removed your sin. He did the work that you

could not do. You only submitted to Him to allow

Him to perform this operation on you. It was

nothing. You just submitted to His will. He did

the miraculous work of forgiving your sin If

you keep reading you go to Colossians 3 I must

have missed it here or there it is in Colossians

3 He says then keep on reading said if ye thee

been risen with Christ seek those things Which

are above where Christ siteth on the right hand

of God. He says set your affections on things

above not on things of the earth We go back to

Colossians 2 verse 12. He says bury with him

Colossians 2:12

in baptism wherein also you are risen with him

When you're buried in baptism, you come up you're

risen with him a new man And then what he says

if then if you are have been risen with Christ,

what does he say? He says seek those things which

are above Seek those things which are above set

your affection on those things above God like

I said, he performed a work in you in your life

when he forgave your sin He did an operation

that you could not do But now what are you doing?

What are you setting your mind on? What are you

casting off? Are you laying aside the weights

and the sins that can so easily drag you down?

God did something in your life that you could

not do now What are you doing in your life that

you have the responsibility? To do through the

power of Christ him working in you. Are you casting

off? Are you setting your mind on the right things?

Are you laying aside those weights as you run

and you walk this this race that we're in that

can so easily drag you down Are we doing that?

That's our responsibility to do that Are we?

Am I? Our walk should be in diligence Ephesians

Ephesians 5:15

chapter 5 verse 15 says see you then that you

walk circumspectly not as fools, but as wise

Redeeming the time because the days are evil

We must walk with diligence The word used here

for diligence is circumspectly circumspectly

meaning that we Have diligence and viewing all

around us this, you know, you think about circumspect

or circum circumference is that the you know

and full 360 degrees And you're looking you're

being very diligent all around in all aspects

your life we must be walk circumspectly we was

what we must walk with with diligence and it

takes wisdom it takes understanding and knowing

that there is evil in this world and Satan is

seeking to destroy you he's seeking to destroy

your family our eyes have to be open to these

things that Everything in this world is not good

Everything everyone does not have the best intentions

Satan wants to destroy you. He wants you to he

wants to bring you to hell It takes wisdom and

it takes diligence to see these things in life

So there are so that we can walk correctly You

know, it's very easily to waste our time, to

let our guard down. We have to be aware, though,

of what we're doing, who we're hanging out with,

what we're teaching, what we believe. We have

to be careful in these things and be diligent

and use wisdom. Acts chapter 18. I want you to

Acts 18 · chapter mention

look at here Acts chapter 18 verse 24 through

Acts 18:24–25

25 And it says here a certain Jew named Apollos

Born at Alexandria an eloquent man and mighty

in the scriptures. He came to Ephesus This man

was instructed in the way of the Lord and being

fervent in the spirit He spake and taught diligently

the things of the Lord knowing only the baptism

of John Says that Paulus was an eloquent man

He was mighty in the scriptures and he taught

diligently what he knew But the problem was that

he was diligently teaching the wrong things He

didn't know of the baptism of Christ he was only

teaching of the baptism of John at this time

Christ Had already been resurrected The gospel

was the good news of Christ and what he had done

and the fact that he had died and was resurrected

and was sitting at the right hand of God But

he didn't know these things but he was diligently

teaching the wrong thing and It says and in verse

26 and he began to speak boldly in the synagogue

whom when Aquila and Priscilla had heard They

took unto Him and expounded unto Him the way

of God more perfectly. This husband and wife

team, this Aquila and Priscilla, they heard Apollos

teaching, and because they were walking circumspectly,

because of their diligence, they heard and recognized

this false teaching that was being taught in

the synagogue. And they took Apollos and they

taught him the truth. They taught him of the

fact that Jesus had come and that they were teaching

about his baptism. What if they had heard this

false teaching and they didn't recognize it?

What if they weren't walking diligently in that

and their ears were closed and they were sitting

there in there in the pew and the the the man

was up there teaching false doctrine and they

they didn't recognize it and They would go on

maybe to take that same teaching and go on to

share it with others What if they weren't walking

diligently and they weren't? Having the right

mindset or what if they did recognize it and

they said well Maybe someone I hope someone will

teach him what's actually true about Christ Surely

someone will someday will help him. I can't believe

he's teaching these things What if they had just

done that and not took the time to meet with

him? Apollos this man that started We read about

him teaching the baptism of John, and he was

an eloquent man, he was mighty in the scriptures,

but he was teaching things that were false. Once

he was taught the truth, he went on to become

a very great and missionary for the church. He

spent many, much of his time with Paul traveling

and teaching. And it started with this husband

and wife being diligent. Taking the time to see

this man and to teach him the truth You know

the story goes back further with him with them,

you know, you can read this whole story in Acts

Acts 18 · chapter mention

chapter 18 Paul the Apostle Paul He had an earthly

occupation. You know, we know he was an apostle.

He was a Jew He was called by the Lord. He was

an apostle of Christ. But he also made tents.

That's what he did. He was a tent maker. And

so was Aquila and Priscilla. The earthly occupation

that they shared brought them together. And Aquila

and Priscilla and Paul They began to hang out

with together and they would hear Paul teach

in the synagogue every Saturday because he would

go to the synagogue because that's where the

Jews would meet and they would be teaching from

the Old Testament, from the Old Law. And Paul

would go in to reason with them from the Scriptures,

from the Old Law and show them how Christ had

fulfilled the Old Law. And Aquila and Priscilla

were there with him hearing these things. And

they became very close friends with Paul. And

from there, Aquila and Priscilla, they were from

Italy. And we can read this in Acts 18. And they

traveled with Paul on about a 250 -mile trip

from Italy, from Corinth to Ephesus. Became friends

with him. They were following him. They were

doing what Paul was doing They went from Corinth

To Ephesus And in Ephesus is where they made

a policy They were 250 miles away from their

home They were in a very different country But

they were still walking diligently they were

walking circumspectly And in this different place,

some hundreds of miles away from their home,

they heard this man teaching something that was

not true. And they took him, they took the time,

and they expounded unto him the way of God more

perfectly and more diligently. And then Apollos

goes on to become this great teacher. Their common

job brought them It led to this with this being

a tent maker God will use and he can use and

he does things in your life to further his kingdom

But he needs willing people to be his hands and

feet He needs people like Aquila and Priscilla

that are diligent and what they hear and when

they hear something that it's not true They don't

blast him publicly, they took him aside. And

they talked to him on a private level. And this

is also an example. We see a woman teaching.

This was not in a public assembly. This was in

a private setting. And they taught Apollos. And

it was very effective. Apollos goes on to do

great things. They were walking diligently. We

must walk in a worthy manner Ephesians chapter

Ephesians 4:1

4 verse 1 says I therefore the prisoner of the

Lord beseech you that you walk worthy of the

vocation wherewith you are called With all loneliness

and meekness with long suffering for bearing

one another in love Endeavoring to keep the unity

of the spirit and the bond of peace What does

it mean to walk worthy? It means to be appropriate

to be godly To walk in a manner that's appropriate

for someone that claims to follow the Lord, to

be a Christian, to take on the name Christian,

to follow after Christ, that's a great responsibility.

And if we're gonna walk worthy, it means that

we need to walk in a way that's appropriate if

we're gonna carry that name. It means to be godly,

to be godlike, to be the way He would be. You

know, we may think, well, how am I even able?

How can I be worthy of this, of even being called

a Christian and taking on this name of Christ?

God in the flesh. You know if you think of worthiness

and the fact that well I'm worthy of this or

that Because of me because of what I've done

and what I've accomplished in my my life. I'm

worthy of this I'm worthy of you giving me these

things and or or Getting at this praise because

of who I am and what I've done You're missing

it if that's the idea of thinking of worthiness,

but if you lower yourself Realize that Jesus

Found me worthy even to the extent that he would

die for me You see that your worth to God was

the price of his son and It should cause you

to humble yourself to lower yourself and lift

him up Because he is holy But he deemed you Worthy

enough to die for you What does that mean to

it I mean We should not be prideful of that we

should be in great humility and great have Why

Lord why did you help But you did this for me

and I thank you and I will live for you and I

will praise you and I will give you Glory and

honor because you did this for me That should

be our attitude I Will strive then therefore

to to walk in a manner that is worthy Worthy

of being called your servant Remembering that

you I'm not leading I'm only following I'm only

walking after you Therefore I will be long suffering

with people I will be kind I will be modest.

I will try to make my life decent and in order.

I will strive to show my appreciation to Him

in the way I live, in the way I think, in the

way I dress, and in the way I treat other people.

In all aspects of my life, I will try to be and

live and walk in a way that's worthy of you,

Lord. Because of what you have done because nothing

I have done but what you have done for me Philippians

Philippians 1:27

1 verse 27 says only let your conduct be worthy

of the gospel of Christ So that whether I come

and see you or an absent I may hear of your fears

that you stand fast in one spirit with one mind

striving together for the faith of the gospel

We walk worthy of the Lord when we strive together

For the faith for the gospel We should be a church

without division and without strife Without clicks

We should be working together to spread the gospel

God when we do that God sees us and says they're

walking in a way that's pleasing into me They're

walking in a way that's befitting to my name.

They're walking worthy of me He finds great pleasure

in that Colossians 1 verse 9 says for this reason

Colossians 1:9

also once we also since the day we heard it do

not cease to pray for you and to ask that you

may be filled with the knowledge of it of of

his will and all wisdom and spiritual understanding

that you may walk worthy of the Lord fully pleasing

him being fruitful in every good work and increasing

the knowledge of God. We walk worthy of the Lord

when we strive to be fruitful in good works and

when we strive to increase in our knowledge of

Him. When we strive to get in our daily steps

for Him and we take His Word and we read it and

as we do that we are increasing in the knowledge

of God. We are then walking worthy of Him. It's

pleasing to Him. That's what He wants. You know,

one of the reasons that we covered the topics

that we did in our recent meeting, in our summer

meeting, was so that we could increase in the

knowledge of God. It should be something that

we strive for all the time. If we have questions

about something, about why we do what we do,

whatever it is, we should look for the answers

in His Word. And when we do that, we're walking

worthy of Him because we're trying to increase

in His knowledge. His knowledge is beyond our,

we cannot fully understand and comprehend fully

who God is. But He finds it pleasing when we

strive to learn more and more of who He is. And

we become more knowledgeable in His Word. And

when we become more fruitful in doing good works,

He finds great joy in those things. And we're

walking worthy when we do those things. Our walk

finally should be in truth. 3 John chapter 1

3 John 1:3

verse 3 says, and truth. Third John is one chapter

in the New Testament. It's the shortest book

in the Bible, in the New Testament, in Scripture,

by word count. And the word truth is used six

times in this book, in Third John. The truth

is the good news of Jesus. We must walk in a

way that agrees with the scripture and the doctrines

that we profess The Lord says I have no greater

joy than to hear that my children walk in truth

If we're going to walk in truth, it simply means

that we must practice what we preach We must

not give lip service To the Lord There's no greater

testimony than to live out what you say you believe

It's very effective to actually live it out That's

what the other early church did When there was

great persecution, they didn't deny the Lord

They suffered even to death when they were when

they were punished They just spread and they

continued to preach the gospel wherever they

went Just like Aquila and Priscilla they went

some 200 miles away and they were still teaching

the truth even from their homeland There's no

greater thing testimony then we then that we

can give then to live out and actually practice

what we preach People see that and as people

see that conversations develop relationships

can be Started and people can be led to the Lord

Because they're seeing that these people are

real they're not being hypocrites I Heard it

put it I heard it put this way, you know, what

happens when you walk in the dust and the mud

There's been a lot of that this week because

of all the rain what happens when you go out

and you walk in it you get dirty You get that

on you. What happens when you walk in the rain?

Well, you get wet What happens when you walk

in truth It gets over us it gets all over us

it should become a part of who we are It's not

like the mud though. We shouldn't try to avoid

it It's not like the rain, we shouldn't use an

umbrella to try to keep it off. We should want

the word, the truth, to get all around us, all

inside of us, and deep within us, as the scripture

says, so that we might not sin against the Lord.

It should be a part of who we are. We should

want the truth in all to become a part of who

we are. And when we walk in truth, That's what

will happen. It will become a part of who we

are. Second Corinthians 13 verse 8 says, for

2 Corinthians 13:8

we can do nothing against the truth, but for

the truth. Jesus said that he is the way, the

truth, and the life. He is the truth. Our concern

should be what can we do for him? We can't do

nothing against him. What can we do for him?

What can we do for the truth? We shouldn't fight

against it We should maintain our correct position

and are following after him. Make sure we don't

step ahead Make sure he's leading now. We're

following him and we're taking up our cross and

following after him You know truth is much more

than just knowing what is true. It's actually

being true True to Jesus true to his words True

to your conscience true to the way that you live

It's not just enough to know it we have to live

it out and that It's what we're looking at this

morning. When we live it out, we walk in this

way and we walk it in a way that's decent, in

a way that's worthy, and we're striving to gain

more knowledge of Him. In our recent meeting,

as I mentioned earlier, we studied in depth about

how we can and we should be in the business of

restoring New Testament Christianity. You know,

in those lessons, the focus was on our assemblies

of why we have communion the way we do, why we

strive to give the Lord the correct worship in

our music, why we teach the way we teach, why

we don't divide ourselves when we come together.

We study those things depth. But there's so much

more to Christianity than just our assemblies.

It's our lives. Are we living daily for Christ?

Are we walking with Christ every day? That's

the question we need to ask ourselves because

we could come together for the worse and people

did that and we read about that in Corinthians.

We don't want to do that. We need to strive to

walk personally every day for the Lord, to walk

in these ways. We're walking with diligence,

knowing that we have been created a new person.

We have newness of life. So we walk diligently.

We walk in a worthy manner. We walk in a way

that's truthful. We must strive to live every

day In a way that's pleasing to him help we should

wake up with a prayer on our lips and thanking

him for the day and Asking him to guide us To

help us Because this walk will continue on Until

the end and what's the result of our faith the

end result? It's the salvation of our souls as

we read about this morning. Revelations chapter

three verse four says they shall walk with me

in white for they are worthy. In verse 24 in

chapter 21 he says those who are saved shall

walk in its light. We walk in this life we go

through the hills and the valleys and the the

hard times and the difficult times but if we

continue steadfast and if we Maintain that we're

gonna walk with him now. We will walk with him

in heaven He's made that promise He will create

all things new. We will see him face to face

and there will not be no more faith We will be

benefiting from the end of our faith, the salvation

of our souls. I look forward to that day, and

I want you to look forward to that day. If you

have not begin your walk with Christ, you can't

look forward to this day. Your walk with Christ

begins with faith. It begins with submitting

yourself to His will. Allowing Him to perform

a work in you that you cannot do. As was put

in Colossians chapter 2 that we read. The operation

Colossians 2 · chapter mention

of God. The removal of your sin. You can't do

that. God does that. You just submit to Him.

You repent of your sins. You say, I'm not going

to do what I used to do. I'm going to do what

God wants me to do. You submit to his will you

allow yourself to be buried with him in baptism

you allow then him to raise you and Then once

we're raised with him. What do we do then? We

begin our walk. We begin to set our affections

on things above We begin to cast off we begin

to lay aside those weights and our walk with

him We'll begin. You can have that. God wants

you to have that. We will help you begin your

walk this morning if you need that. If you're

a Christian here this morning and you need prayers

of this church, you can ask for prayers and God

will hear our prayer this morning as we come

to His throne on your behalf. If you have a need

this morning, won't you please come as we stand

and sing.