Sunday 24th November

Lawrence Kirby shared a message titled,
'​Our Core in Christ'

Jesus said he wouldn’t just transform our behaviour, he’d change our hearts.

Our hearts being transformed, allows us to shift from being selfish and self-centered (living from our human nature) to being God-centered and others-centered.

Christ is with you while you're living out your call. 

The Kingdom view shows us the cause of Christ. 

We could ask ourselves, do we idolise the call over our cause? 

Our call must come under the cause of Christ. 

Sometimes our call must submit and be laid down for the greater cause. 

This is like putting the wellbeing of the whole body over the function of your own part you play. 

Your core needs to centre around the idea that you are in Christ. This is about identity.

Ezekiel 36:25 NLT
““Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. Your filth will be washed away, and you will no longer worship idols. And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart. And I will put my Spirit in you so that you will follow my decrees and be careful to obey my regulations.”
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God makes us tender and responsive to his spirit. 

“The heart of human problem, is the problem of the human heart” (unknown)

Proverbs 4:23 NIV
Above all else, guard your heart,
    for everything you do flows from it.

We need to allow the transformation to invade every part of who we are. 

Galatians 3:26-29 NLT
“For you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus. And all who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ, like putting on new clothes. There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You are his heirs, and God’s promise to Abraham belongs to you.”
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Your identity is as a child of God. 

You may still be maturing, yet that doesn’t change your identity as a son or daughter. 

We are heirs of everything good Father God has in store for us. 

Have you settled for something that’s less than God’s best for you and accepted “this is just my lot in life.”? 

There are moments of breakthrough God has for us! 

We are IN CHRIST.