Thank you for listening to thisst John, chapter number 3. Read this out of a couple of different translations as we get there but we're going to

I don't know where we are to be honest with you in the sense of is this still in the

realm of confident rest where to my what to myaosis, we got a lot of stuff happening, so I'm not

going to try to figure that out. I'm just going to talk to you about what is most alive

in me

and I believe has us.

And so I don't want to try to worry about how it fits in to other

teachings and I know that we just got out of a wilderness

society that we now call under the oaks and

those become so transformative that they almost kind of take over all of my thinking.

And so we've got people back here in the back corner having amazing encounters with the Lord.

I see people crying and just encountering the love of God.

So we got a lot going on.

Let's just track in here together and see what all the Lord has for us.

I want to remind us tonight that beholding is the means of becoming.

It's not a means of becoming, it's the means of becoming.

The two independent yet related

revelations are this. Beholding is the means of becoming and you and I are

mesmerizing to the merchant. Being mesmerizing to the merchant is what keeps us free from the

crippling shame that does not enable us to live in the lifestyle of Prost

face-to-face communion that we were born for.

So literally what happens when we begin to understand our status as the righteousness of

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