Welcome to the Jesus Image podcast.

So honored to be able to share tonight.

This is something that this topic is something that is very near and dear to my heart.

And it actually kind of backs up perfectly off of what

Jess preached about this morning. How many of you were here this morning and heard the message

from Jessica? Wasn't that just such a timely word for our house? About having humility, about

following the Lord with humility in this process of becoming more like Jesus as we humble ourselves. And it really kind of

lines up perfectly with what I've been feeling all summer as I was leading up to this, this sermon

tonight of what I feel like the Lord is laid on my heart. And how many of you want to finish

this thing really, really well? I feel this really strong

burden to love Jesus more. We talk about this a lot as a church of, of we have, we are a Jesus

people. Jesus is literally in the name of the church, right? It's like on every sign,

his face is the logo. Everything that we do as a church family here at Jesus image is to know

and to love Jesus. It's on all the signage. Only one thing is needed. If you walked in tonight

and you saw only one thing is needed and you didn't

know the scripture reference, here's the clue, here's the answer. Only one thing is needed is Jesus.

He is what we're after. He is what we long for. And we are called as not just a people of this house,

but as people who are believers in Jesus to love him more, to be conformed

into his image. That is the sole purpose as believers is to love Jesus and to be like Jesus.

That is what we're here to do. And I have this desire more than ever to do that more,

to love him greater, to love him with everything that I have, to become more like him.

And I feel like tonight, what I've been feeling of this stirring in my heart is there is a gift that

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