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Next on in touch, the stages of our Christian life. The Christian life.

The Christian life is not an event.

It is a process.

It is a journey.

It has the beginning and the truth is it never has an ending because once you and I leave this life

is the children of God forever and ever and ever will be walking in the way of

the Lord Jesus Christ.

And so when God saved us, he saved us with a purpose in mind.

The Bible says in Romans 829 that he predest in you and me

to be conformed to the likeness of his son. So in order for that to happen,

then beginning at the moment that you and I were saved, it is his purpose and his plan to grow us up.

That is the growers in lightness of his son. So all of the days of our life you

and I should be growing, becoming more and more Christ-like in every aspect of our life.

And that's what I want to talk about in this message today because I do believe there are stages in our Christian growth, stages in our spiritual walk. And what I want to talk about in this message are is the stages of our Christian life.

And so I want you to turn, if you will, to 2 Peter.

A little book over toward the back of your Bible, 2 Peter, chapter 3, and in this particular passage we admonish to do what the

scripture tells us throughout, that we are to be growing in our relationship to our Lord. And so he says, beginning in the 14th verse of the third chapter.

Having talked about the coming of the Lord and all the things that will be happening in those days he says,

Therefore beloved, since you look for these things the

coming of Christ the destruction of the earth and so forth, be diligent to be found

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