He's writing to the church and he says, rid yourselves of malice and deceit and hypocrisy and envy and slander of every kind in order to rid yourself of it

they've got to be present. Oh tolerate that stuff.

Like newborn babies,

babies craves pure spiritual milk so that by it you may grow up in your

salvation now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. We want to keep

growing in our salvation.

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Now it's on to Pastor Allen. Be blessed.

Our title for, actually this session and our next one is similar. They're intended to be companion pieces.

We're going to talk about majesty, glory, and honor. And I really want to

invite you to a heightened imagination of what it means to be a Christ follower.

Something far beyond a church member or a church

a tender or a church participant or a religious person or a person with a

heightened moral sense or perhaps an elevated ethical awareness, all of those things are fine, but they're not

adequate representations of what it means to be in a relationship with the King of Kings

and the Lord of Lords, the one who created the heavens and the earth.

And somehow I think we've managed to diminish it to the point that it's easily sacrificed.

It can be set aside. We've attached such little value to it. We've treated it as if it's an

eternal insurance policy and in the outside chance that there is a God and there might be an

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