Turn to Matthew 13 and Isaiah 57 and I want you to put a marker at each of them all right and if you don't know there are sermon notes in the bulletin you can get your sermon notes out you can use those as a marker

and you can use that little string in your Bible and so you want to mark we're

going to start we're going to begin in Matthew 13 but we're going to flip over to Isaiah 57.

The reason I want you though to keep it marked

is because we will go back to Matthew 13, all right?

And then we're going to go to Isaiah 57

on every point of the message.

We're in a series called The Journey.

This is the last message in this series.

And we've been talking about four groups of people that attend church and where all of us are in our

growth process with the Lord and if you remember what we did was we drew four

circles like this we put the cross here and then three circles here and this

first group now you're going to have to say it loud because I had to rebuke the

other services all All right?

So this first group are those people who are

exploring God. That's good.

All right?

And then the cross, they come to know Jesus.

Now they are in a group. They are beginning in God and then we come to place where we are

Close to God and lastly we our life revolves around God his word and we put a word up here

that typifies all of them. What was that word? Growing. We're all growing in God. All right? And we also talked

about there was a truth that these people in group one chose to

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