Our actions will tell somebody what we believe.

And when we keep going back to that same pit over and over again, it is because we believe we belong in that pit.

Because that's who we believe we really are.

What if you believed Christ instead.

You're at John chapter 11, but I need to know what our first ready words in the red with seismic results have been.

So how many do we have so far?

All right, I'm going to need to know what they are.

And I've been thinking this morning about when Christ says, and he says it several times in the gospel,

something that you can look up later if you'd like, you have heard it said, dot, dot, dot, dot, but I say dot, dot, dot.

The reason why this is so important is because, let me tell you something, we got to have

our first-hand relationship with Jesus.

I'll tell you something that we can fall into.

This is the easiest trap in the whole wide world, is that we get to where we have this

whole second-hand relationship with Jesus.

It's through our Bible teacher.

It's through our pastor.

It's through our community group leader.

It's through our good friend who is really a person of faith.

And we don't do the reading for

ourselves. We're not just soaking ourselves in in the Gospels in in the New Testament, in the

scriptures from Genesis to Revelation. What we're doing is we're getting it from someone else.

But here's what he's saying to us. There are all manner of people saying this.

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