What was the writer of Hebrews talking about when he discussed with them the confession, this good confession of our faith, this confession that we're going to hold on to with our hope?

This is what we're talking about. How do we go forward in the mess we're in? We go back to go forward.

We go back to the fundamentals of our faith,

back to the confessions of our faith.

This is something I want to speak over you before we have a little review and get into this morning's lesson.

I can tell you this much that what he has called you to do exceeds your natural gifting.

It exceeds your skill set as skilled as you may be. It's not that those things aren't important.

Those are part of the things that he uses, how you have been educated, where you've grown up,

the environment you've been in. We are just this whole conglomeration of person, the people

that have poured into us, where we've been taught, where we were

mentored in the faith.

These things all make us very distinct, but we come to a place to realize that whatever

our purpose, remember in our earlier session, we were talking about taking hold of that

for which God has taken hold of us through Christ.

That would be Philippians chapter three. This is what I'm talking about. Whatever it is,

he has taken hold of you to do and you to do. It is beyond what you can do. I need to know

if anybody is tracking with me. It's beyond what you can do

because it requires the Holy Spirit to do it. See, he set it up where in order for you to serve

God, you have to have God. That's the only way you can do it. I mean, you could pretend,

I mean, you could do the actions, but you will not have the

feeling of the spirit that energizes instead of depletes. It's not that you wouldn't be

tired afterwards, but there would be an energizing of the spirit that makes you able to do

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