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I think I did things this way the first time I know it's for y'all I'm going to try it again this morning, a little more tired this time.

So in the habit of lifting up instant prayers every now and then then I'd ask for one now pray that the horde might help me bring his message here this morning, even if I'm a bit tired but the in the two messages that I've had with you, we looked at what price message was.

And so the first one, we looked at his announcing the kingdom.

What it was going to do was going to be involved to enter into that Kingdom.

That was based around The Sermon on the Mount and then the second message.

We looked at what he said would respect to ourselves a shin.

If we've made the decision to follow, Jesus been born again then how secure is that I can.

We see evidence of that in the lives of others and our own life.

So we looked at those questions.

The last time I spoke with you in today, Look at the message of Christ in this.

So this is the first of two messages on that we're looking at, Al Christ that out to accomplish his mission, back of the first part of that today.

And so the sermon title was the way of Christ and you'll see that in my mind anyway, that that's has perhaps three different meanings.

Or when we talked about the way, one can be a choice or a direction that you move in a path that you made up about that first.

Then a way I can be your way of life, your manner of Life.

How you go about, living your life?

What you liked about it?

And we'll talk about that second.

And the third thing is, is way as a method what was his method of polishing?

His purpose and setting up the world to continue in that purpose after he was ascended in back with the father...

Last Begin all of this want to read the three scripture verses that I'm basing.

It on read those for him.

So we'll start with a piece of The Sermon on the Mount in chapter 7, Matthew where Jesus talks about the narrow gate.

Hear these words of the Lord Jesus says, enter through the narrow gate because the gate is wide and the way is spacious, that leads to destruction.

There are many who enter through it.

I'll narrow is the gate and difficult the way that leads to life.

And there are few who find it.

I'm going to read all three passages here and then we'll take them one at a time.

I got, the second passage is a familiar one.

And this is from John's gospel chapter 14, the disease again, are the words of the Lord?

Jesus says, I am the way, the truth and the life.

No one comes to the father, except through me, then our last message is again from John and this is in the 17.

This is from what they call Jesus High Priestly prayer, so he was Jesus prayed for his disciples and for the people that his disciples will reach in and teach so that they become disciples in the, in the movement, Jesus is movement the way will continue through that ending effort and I figured you was on my way to use a few pieces.

Says, I am praying on behalf of them, I'm not praying on behalf of the world, but on behalf of those you're giving me cuz they belong to you, I'll be there on the first 17 set them apart in the truth.

The word is truth.

Just as you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world and I set myself apart on their behalf so that they too may be true.

Is set apart.

I'm not praying only on their behalf but also on behalf of those who believe in me through their testimony for God can people guide Break through first piece, Jesus talks about the narrow gate and the few find it until I spoke of that understanding of a way, as being a choice or read.

One more piece to get us in the right frame of mind for that.

In this, I'm going back into the Old Testament in the very first song in The Book of Psalms in, this was important because the book of Psalms was like, a warship manual for the Hebrew people, they knew most of these, and they considered the 1st to the especially important, because it's sort of, that's the tone of God's message through his people.

And let us read the first two.

Verses of the first song says, a blessing is the one who does not follow the advice of the wicked or stand in the pathway with centers or sit in the Assembly of scoffers.

Instead, he finds pleasure in obeying, the Lord's commands meditates Superman's day and night for didn't read the rest, it short, he's like a tree planted by flowing streams if yields its fruit at the proper time and its leaves never fall off, he succeeds and everything he attempts not.

So with the wicked instead, they are like windrip and chat for this reason.

The wicked cannot withstand judgment, North and sinners.

Join the Assembly of the God would certainly the Lord guards, the way of The Godly, but the Way of the Wicked ends and destruction, so that's speaking to the choice that has always been a part of the human experience.

We started out doing all the way back to consider what the Bible said about creation of humans.

In in Genesis, when I did the first message, we all fled Into The Sermon on the Mount.

So they're in the Garden of Eden before the fall was, are you going to be obedient to the one restriction?

And I gave you In God's view.

God thinking of giving you only one restriction.

You're in the midst of this paradise.

Everything is perfect and designed exactly for your benefit and you have no, no needs as we fill them today, have no concerns or worries.

You're the perfect place.

The only thing I say is don't eat from this one particular tree.

So he set up that choice to be made of.

Are you going to the choice really?

Was, are you going to stay in fellowship with me and be obedient to the one?

Small rule that I gave you or is that something you're unwilling to do so, you know how that went and human beings and say that we're prideful by Nature, any rebellious by Nature?

I know the Bible talks about the Jewish, people all throughout the Old Testament, being a stiff-necked people, and being rebellious.

But the point is, by the time we get to the writers of the songs, they saw.

Your situation now it's after the fall in the situation now was, what path are we going to choose?

Are we going to choose the app?

But say that God has given the terms of the music, provided the law.

And he said, you know, are you willing to leave by this set of rules now, Ten Commandments and interpretation of those?

Are you willing to live by those and then doing that?

Come back into relationship with me or not?

I'm so someone leaves out that choices says, no, or are you going to walk in the ways of the wicked or you going to turn from there and said all of the other path.

But Jesus by the time we get to the part of red by Jesus about the narrow gate, by that time we see that the path is often chosen.

Talk about why maybe, but the beginning and someone laying out a choice are you going to be in Rebellion or Are you going to be reconciled with God and follow the way of life that he laid out for us?

In our recent life here, in, in this country.

Anyway, that's a little bit.

Like the movie series The Matrix.

I'm dating myself now and maybe some know what I'm talking about.

And then that the hero comes out to be the hero.

He doesn't realize himself that he's the hero when it begins, but he's presented with a choice in the choice, in the movie was in the form of a different pills, two different colored pills.

And so you could choose one and stay unaware of the sort of meaningless life that he's been living, where you could choose the other one and be led down a path.

I start heading down a path of Swords, we would say freedom in and being completely different from that Old way of life.

And so he's got a clear choice to me.

Just like in, someone had one more piece of an example where God has presented a choice.

So the Hebrew People said they were rebellious and stiff neck when they're wandering in the desert, they complained against the way things were going for them to start to Grumble, and God had brought some correction, some pretty severe correction in the form of poisonous, snakes that were biting, the people throughout, y'all remember the story.

And so Moses, interceded and said, Lord, and get your get your message message been received, you know, can you save us now from the snakes?

And and so the mechanism to achieve that salvation from those poisonous snakes that God set up and ridiculous to them at the time.

But what it was was to put a model of a snake card or passed out of brass and put that on a stick and stand that up where people could look at it.

And the solution was if you were a been bitten by one of these deadly snakes, only thing you could do.

Save you.

And the only thing you had to do to save, you was to look up at that asked bronze snake on a stick, anybody that did that was cured from the poisonous, spider bite that sort of Bible study, and people would say, is a foreshadowing of Christ in his owning death on the cross.

And so, hope all is one of the churches is call felt weird.

He said that he talked to do nothing among them, but preach Christ and him crucified.

And so, I think about that each time I try to give a sermon, that, that should be the bulk of the sermon.

Whatever, the rest of the message is that ought to at least be part of a message and it is for us in this message today.

So, it's a choice, are we willing to ask, or hope for salvation?

The only one that can bring it.

And that's Jesus Christ.

But, that's that idea, of the way being a choice, you just says, I am the way.

In the life.

No one comes to the father, except on me.

It's exactly like that situation in the desert with the Hebrews know, they had one thing they could do to be saved.

Jesus is saying the same kind of choices before you now, and I'm the person that you have to choose.

There's at the other piece for his interpretation of, what does it mean to talk about the way of Christ?

Way of Christ as being his his way of life that he modeled for us in the flesh.