Welcome to Gateway Church's podcast. Wherever you're tuning in from, we hope you're encouraged by today's message.

Okay, so we're in a series called Divinely Human and we've been looking at humans in the Bible

that were divinely used by God and last week we looked at some practical ways we could choose

between making a choice or a response that's human or divine. This week God spoke something so

strongly to me. We're basing everything on 2nd Peter chapter 1 verse 4 that were partakers of

the divine nature but that's for people who are in the faith. In other words, you're born human

when Christ comes in that's when the divine comes into your life but if Christ hasn't come in

your life then you're not partly divine yet. Now here's the reason I'm saying this. There are

many people that go to church that haven't given control of their life to Jesus Christ yet

and yet believe in Jesus and I just want you to know if you study the doctrine of salvation

and just simply take some of the sayings of Jesus like anyone who wants to follow me

has to deny himself, take up his cross and follow me. That's just one and I could give you hundreds.

If you study salvation believing means trust it means you literally put your future in his hands

you give up control of your life and until you give up control then you're still Lord

and as long as you're still Lord he's not Lord. So I want you just to be open because there are

a lot of people who make a childhood commitment and then begin going to church and actually begin

getting closer to God but still need to have that born again born from above experience. So this

week we're going to talk about Nicodemus and the line that came to me when I was getting ready to

prepare this message was how do you go from human to divine in a millisecond?

Because it happened to me in a motel room when I finally gave up control. I walked into that

motel room, addicted to many sins and walked out with no desire to do any of those sins anymore.

No desire. What happened to me was divine and I know many people this has happened too, all right?

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