When was the last time you just heard this pounded on?

Because somehow the point has become doctrinal purity

instead of Christ's likeness.

The goal of all spiritual formation is Christ's likeness.

So we can be as doctrally pure as the freshly driven snow.

And if we have no sense, no bearing of witness of Christ-likeness, we are doctrinally off

the gospel track. because it's everything.

I'd like for you to turn with me this time to Matthew chapter 10, and then we're going to scoot

up and grab in a little bit of chapter 9 with it. So go with me. Our primary text is going to be

Matthew chapter 10, but we're going to do a little bit of a rewind to catch something.

So number one is we live in a magnetic field polarizing the needle of our compass.

Number two, Christ calls us to recalibrate our compasses to the kingdom of heaven.

That of all things Christ taught, the thing he most clearly

wanted to get through to us and through to those who were listening to his preaching and his

teaching was that the kingdom of heaven has broken in and that we are people of that same

eternal kingdom ethic and that we are people of that same eternal kingdom ethic, and that everything we do is meant to be

out of that ethic and out of our pursuit of being conformed into the image of that one,

the Son of God, Jesus Christ. And so I want to show you

something here because I think this is so fascinating. So you're open here at the end of Matthew 9

and the beginning of Matthew 10. I want you hold your hand right here, flip back a couple of pages,

and I want you to see the end of Matthew 4 and the beginning

of 5, because this is very, very noteworthy. Now, Jesus began to go all over Galilee, teaching in

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