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Well, good morning, everyone happy New Year. Let's with a word of prayer, and I wanted to say Happy New Year to do for folks on Zoom, and also maybe some folks in West Union that might be listening.
So our father we just got before you and we'll give you thanks and praise for all the blessings you showered upon us in Christ Jesus.
We are grateful for be getting a New year with a fresh start, and we are thankful Lord, for the guidance that you give to us, and we especially ask that you would effectively work through the public reading of your word, and so we give you thanks now in the mining precious name of our
Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.
At the turn of each year. Many people make resolutions that they would like to fulfill in that new year.
Some of these can be humorous. One person said this at the beginning of this year I made a New Year's resolution to lose 10 pounds, only 15 to go.
Another wrote this, my New Year's resolution this year is to keep last year's resolutions.
Remember Johnny Carson, famous talk show host started out New Years by asking the audience to raise their hand if they made some New Year's resolutions.
Many hands went up, and he said, How many of you are going to break this before I finish my opening monologue?
Here's a final one. This person, wrote. I've given up social media for the New Year, and I'm trying to make friends outside Facebook while applying the same principles every day.
I walk down the street and tell people who pass by what I've eaten how I feel, what I did the night before, and what I will do tomorrow.
Then I give them pictures of my family, my dog, and me gardening.
I also listen to their conversations, and tell them I love them, and it works.
I already have 3 people following me, 2 police officers in the psychiatrist
Well, looking back on year 2,020 were there failed resolutions or accomplished goals.
Did you clean out those closets? Did you get your records in order to fire your tax returns?
Did you use that exercise equipment you bought last year?
How about teaching yourself Spanish? How's that going? Remember, one political candidate telling people they should learn Spanish?
And then a reporter asked him, Do you know Spanish?
He goes well. No, but you should learn Spanish, anyway. In 1, 2,014, study 35% of participants who failed their New Year's resolutions said they had unrealistic goals.
33% of participants who failed didn't keep track of the progress.
23% forgot about the resolutions, and one in 10 people who failed said they made too many resolutions.
How's that for you? So all of these resolutions often fail because they rely on human effort, and our own efforts.
And Paul has a lot to speak about this in the Book of Philippians.
We had a Tom. My goodness, I'm trying to blame Tom.
Read the portion for us. But let's read it again.
This is in the new living treasure, just to get a different feel.
Paul, speaking of what he used to trust in before his salvation, says, this flippians reversore, I could have reason to trust in the flesh if anyone could feel that the flesh could do something for him.
I could, went through the religious act of becoming a Jew. When I was 8 days old I was born a Jew, and came from the family group of Benjamin.
I was a Jewish son of Jewish parents. I belonged to the group of the proud religious lawkeepers.
I followed my religion with all my heart, and did everything I could to make it hard for the Church.
No one could say anything against the way obeyed the law, but I gave those things.
I gave up those things that were so important to me, for Christ.
Verse 8. Even more than that, I think of. Everything is worth nothing.
It is so much better to know Christ Jesus my Lord, I have lost everything form, and I think of these things is worth nothing, so that I can have Christ.
Verse 9, I want to be as one with him. I could not be right with God by the law, through what it said to do.
I was made right with God by faith in Christ Jesus. Can I get an Amen on that time in that?
Well, at Wbc. We've come to a New Year 22 is gone in 2,023 is here.
If you're like most people, you've made some resolutions about.
We talked about for 2023, some special changes for the New Year and how you're going to turn over a new leaf.
Someone has said that trouble with turning over a new leaf is that once you've done it twice, you're right back where you started, in 2,023.
Maybe what we need is not new resolutions, or turning over any leaves.
Maybe what we need is a new beginning never fails to amaze me that when I do a sermon in the Lord's Supper there will be several references either to the passage I'm going to preach on or several of the Keywords and of course that happened this
Morning a new beginning. How many of you here today would like to have a new beginning this year?
All of us this morning have made many mistakes in 2,022, and what we'd rather not talk about them right?
Some of us have experienced setbacks and failures last year in early in our lives.
Sometimes we allow these mistakes, we setbacks and fares to enslave us to the point that we never really enjoy the full life that God has for us.
God wants us to experience but I want you to know that God wants you to have a new beginning this year.
Let me share 4 ways that you can have a new beginning with God.
First of all, we want to get our eternal salvation settled.
The second one is that we want to get to know Christ in His fullness.
The third one is that we want to put the past behind us and look to the future.
And finally, point number 4, we will persevere in pursuing Christ.
So let's take a look at this first one. Get your eternal guest.
And he settled at one time Paul was relying on what most people rely on even 2,000 years later, to find God and have a relationship with him until he discovered the truth.
Paul said at one time he thought his salvation all depended on him, and he was trusting his own self, and he says this in Philippines, chapter 3, verse 4, he says, though I also might have confidence in the flesh if anyone else.
Thinks he may have confidence in the flesh, and I more so.
He gives us more information on this false foundation in verses 5 and 6, he says, before he discovered the truth, he relied on his religious heritage.
He says in verse 5, circumcised the eighth day of the stock of Israel.
The tribe. The Benjamin, the Hebrew of Hebrews.
Some people think they're going to have him because they were born in a Christian family, but your religious heritage won't save you.
Being born in a Christian family will no more make you a child of God.
Then, being born in a desert makes you a camel.
Some think they that they have eternal life because their parents were good Christians, that true of the matter is, you can't, for each of us must answer to God for ourselves.
So then Paul also relied on his religious affiliation, to put him into a right like relationship with God. Verse 5.
B. Says this concerning the law, a Pharisee prided himself on being a member of the strictest of the religious denominations of his date, which he felt secured.
God's approval. But he came to understand that religious affiliation was of no value, and get to heaven by your membership in a certain church.
In reality being a Baptist, illusory, Catholic, whatever it is, whatever denomination won't make you write with God and wash away your sins and salvation is not about denominational affiliation.
Third, Paul trusted in his sincerity to gain God's approval.
He says this in verse 6, concerning zeal persecuting the church Paul was so sincere in his religious beliefs and dogma that he thought that he was doing right by persecuting the early Church, that he later found out that he was diluted many think that as long as they're
sincere. In the end God will accept them. Have you ever heard someone say it doesn't matter what you believe, so we're sincere, of course, that's untrue.
It's possible to be sincere but sincerely wrong.
Here's an illustration we can sincerely believe that we are right about something and be completely wrong.
Anyone who knows GPS has used it notice that that voice you hear giving you instructions can sound so sincere, but leads you down the wrong path, following it blindly without checking and using common sense, can lead to wrong turns and possibly danger.
Just consider some of these incidents as noted from Salon Magazine, not one GPS Sems, elderly German man into a sandpile.
Number 2 girls, drown, drive down boat, launch into lake 3 tourists drive rental car into Pacific Ocean 4 GPS nearly sends drivers off a cliff.
5. Limo driver follows GPS down to flight of steps.
6 Swedish tourists directed to the wrong part of Italy.
Finally, Swiss driver makes takes goat trail up mountain.
I mean, you gotta look out the window at some point. I would think I don't know.
So a lot of people are like that. They're very sincere about the religious beliefs.
But God says there's only a certain way to follow, and if you go any other way it doesn't matter how, sincere you are.
You're going to going the wrong way, and you'll end up in the wrong destination.
And there's one other destination besides heaven, and it's considerably hotter.
There. So take heed. Fourth, Paul said. That he relied on personal righteousness.
His own personal righteousness to get into heaven. In verse 6 of Philippians 3.
Says concerning the righteousness which is in the law, blameless to get to heaven.
God is not interested in our righteousness. Isaiah 60.
4, says this, we are all infected and impure with sin when we display our righteous deeds, they are nothing but filthy rags.
This is the reference here is like dirty sanitary napkins meant to be thrown away Paul says in Titus 3, verse 5, he says, not according to our own works, not according to works of righteousness, which we have done but according to his mercy, has saved us, being
Washed, by a through regeneration, and the renewing of the Holy Spirit.
Very powerful. Once again we looked at 4 things that Paul was trusting.
And to please God, and to gain eternal life for himself, for the same things many people trust in today, but in verses 7 and 8, Paul tells us, he came to see the worthlessness of these things into gain.
Christ's approval, or God's approval, and he threw them in the trash can, so that he could win in Christ, listen to these verses 7 and 8.
But what things were gained to me. These I have counted loss for Christ.
Yeah, indeed. I also come all things lost for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus.
My lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish or garbage, that I may be Christ.
So Paul discovered the truth how to get to God and obtain eternal life and have it.
He realized that his righteousness required the righteousness required to get into heaven.
Is not self generated, it is given or bestowed upon us by God, and in verse 9, he says, and to be found in him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ the righteousness which is from God, by faith so the
Righteousness you must have is not your own righteousness, that is the righteousness that you would earn by keeping God's laws, but the righteousness that comes from God is a gift.
Got alone is perfectly holy and entirely righteous. If you have his righteousness, then you have been imputed the righteousness of Christ.
It's a sinless as God Himself. If you have His righteousness, God sees you through his Son Jesus Christ's righteousness, and that righteousness can't be faulty question or taken away.
That's the only way anybody can be saved. We must have God's righteousness.
Christ died on the cross for your sins, and when He did, He bore your sins on the cross.
But that's not off. What's not often understood is that we're given or imputed.
Christ, righteousness, perfect righteousness, it's an exchange secret. Corinthians. Chapter 5, verse 21.
He made, he made him who knew no Cindy sin for us, so that we might become the righteousness of God in him.
Paul has it. The ability to crystallize truths in one sentence, and pack so much in there.
So the second truth Paul discovered about how to get to heaven is that this righteousness from God is received by faith in Christ Jesus.
He says, in the middle of verse 9, how can you receive God's righteousness?
Simply, believe in Jesus Christ. Believe what your trust, and rely on a put your faith in it so does this mean that all the trust in Jesus will be safe.
Yes, and that's all you must do. So to have a new beginning to get your salvation settled.
Believe in Jesus Christ, who loves you so much. He died for your sins and do it today, especially at the end of the New year.
But the second point, the sermon really is this, we've got to get to know God in His fullness.
What did Paul say? Was his goal? Now we look at verse 10.
It says that I might know him, that I may know him in the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, and being conformed to his death.
In short, Paul gave up religion and rulekeeping and religious affiliation, and misplaced place, zeal or intensity in order to get to know Christ in 3 ways.
First he wanted to know Christ personally. Then he wanted to know Christ powerfully, and then you wanted to get to know Christ painfully.
So he wanted to get to know Christ personally. He says that I might know him, as I've already said, salvation is not about religion or obligating lists of rules, or simply being given a glorified fire escape from hell it's about knowing God personally by having a personal relationship with the living God
As real, as knowing your own spouse or close relative. It's about knowing Christ.
I remember when I became a new believer. I attended a funeral in Oklahoma.
Walk in the even 25 years 26 years later, I still remember that eulogy, and there are the pastor was preaching to a mixed audience.
The the person that died was a believer, and he said the same sermon points over and over again.
Do you know him? Do you know him? Do you know him?
Every single term of money just kept going back. It was a powerful message.
Do you know him talking to people that were spiritually dead?
Who could come alive in Christ Jesus to enter into the land of the living.
That's what he was doing. Paul also wanted to know.
Christ powerfully says this inverse, and that I may know Him, and the power of His resurrection he wanted to know the power that raised Christ from the dead that destroyed the flesh, and freedom from slavery to all always having to serve sinful prompt and brother Joel read in Roman.
6, about being freed from the slavery from Kingston's dominance even, and you know the Holy Spirit dominates the flesh.
It dominates the flesh, even when you don't believe that every thought, everything that you do that's oriented to Christ uses is proof of that.
It dominates the flesh, and and you can experience that more and more as you walk with them.
Paul didn't want dead religion based on his own power and strength.
You wanted a vibrant relationship with God that transformed his life.
Supernaturally, just as God supernaturally raised Christ from the dead.
When you trust in Christ, you receive the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit will change you from the inside out in a way not possible from the outside.
In, you know. Moses was on a glide. Pass to being feral.
He had grown up in Pharaoh's palace.
He was trained in all of the arts, military craft, wisdom of Egypt.
He was training for rating their kidner wrote a book about proverbs.
If you can get it's really really good, and he makes a note in the preference preference preface of that book that there were many, many wise men that existed.
They were, they existed in every culture. They guided the kings and such, and and of course Egypt had a lot of this wisdom who could put the Pyramids together without a ability and such.
But at 1 point he felt felt a disconnect between his luxurious Egyptian lifestyle and his Hebrew brethren.
He identified with him theival says in Hebrews, because Moses had faith, it would not be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter.
When he grew up he chose to suffer with God's people instead of having fun doing sinful things for a while.
Danny shame that he suffered for Christ was worth more than the riches of Egypt.
He kept his eyes on the reward Godhead was going to give him.
In another case Nehemiah was a godly man, and he heard that things are pretty rough in Jerusalem, and that the walls had been destroyed, and things were a mess.
He felt a burden placed on his heart. Me and my child, one says this, it came to pass that Hanani, one of my brethren, came with men from Judah, and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped who had survived the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem, and they said to me the
survivors who are left from the captivity in the province are there in great distress and reproach.
The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down and its gates are burned with fire.
So it was when I heard these words that I sat down and wept and mourned for many days.
I was fasting and brain before the God of heaven. Mercy!
Levin tells us, Oh, Lord, I pray let please let your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants, who desire to fear your name and lecture servant prosperous day, at great and grant to mercy in the side of this man where I was the king's cup
Bear? Why should my face not be said when the city, the place in my father's tombs lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire.
In my chapter 2. Should he stay and do good work for the King of Persia in a parent luxury?
Or should he follow the promptings of the Holy Spirit, and leave his profession and help his own people?
Should he serve himself or his God? That's the question.
So in summary Paul gave up his status and wealth as a Pharisee to follow Jesus.
Moses spurned the riches of Egypt to follow God.
Nehemiah left the comfort of closeness to the king, and a great job to obey the Lord.
So Paul wanted to know Christ personally, powerfully, but Paul also wanted to know Christ painfully.
Philippians, 310 speaks of the fellowship of his suffering being made conformable onto his steps, modern Christians want an easy faith that involves no sacrifices, suffering, I'm not talking about you guys.
I'm just saying, as a general statement, not Paul, to really know someone in the most intimate sense is to be there in their pain as well as in the good times.
If you've ever gone on a hospital visit, you see the faithful being there with folks in the good and the bad times, they're faithful.
And so Paul was saying, I wanted to be Christ's closest companion, to know Him, to experience what he experienced, to walk as he wants, and if that means I experience the pain of ridicule as He did by following Christ, so be it if I suffer the pain of misunderstanding, as he did so be
It. If I suffer the pain of physical beatings and afflictions as he did so be it, for I am not following him for personal game.
All I want is to know and fully. You know every true, truly born again.
Christian knows Christ, but most also know that it's really in the midst of struggle and trial and suffering, or the rebukes that we received, that we really come to know Christ intimately.
It's usually then that we call out to God and truly seek Him, and so many times it's then that people look back and say, That's when I really got to know Christ, most people no, there are a lot of books written on prayer.
I'm convinced that people become good at prayer when there's a need that drives them through their need to to their knees, and they cry out to the Lord, they're the end of their resources, and they cry out to Him any answers, and sometimes we're surprised that he answers
Wow! They can do things can actually do this. Yes, you can.
So first get to know your internal destiny. Get it settled.
Do it today. Second, get to know God in His fullness.
And third, to have a new beginning in your life. Put the past behind you, and look to the future.
Verse 13 of Philippians 3. Says, this, brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended but one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those things which are ahead.
Paul had discarded religion, and in embraced a relationship with Jesus.
But he says, I have not apprehended that means I haven't arrived spiritually.
So, if Paul may be the greatest Christian who ever lived, had not arrived spiritually.
Where in the world does that leave you in me or may you may or may not have tried, deliver the Lord this past year.
Either way. You know you have failed the Lord many times in revelation 1210.
It says that Satan is the accuser of the brethren, accusing them night and day Satan wants you to rude around and defeat and feel intense skilled for your past actions.
Both before and after you trusted in crisis, Savior.
But Paul has a different solution. He says, put your pass behind you, James.
4 tells us to mourn over sin, but not stay there actually gives us this prescription.
Resist the devil. Right! He says, resist the devil, submit to God, draw close to him mourn over, Cindo, sailor, and then humblely, or set from the experience we can experiences forgiveness.
First Thessalonians force as this, that we would learn how to possess our vessel and sanctification, and honors something that Fred spoke about on Wednesday, that is, getting to know ourselves.
There's certain I I don't think it's a misapplication here to get to know ourselves and to understand the amazing power that the Lord has to do anything really in our lives, and
When you fully realize the fullness of God's forgiveness, your reminder repeatedly of what was said before.
If you have trust in Christ Jesus, you're saving you're given the righteousness of Christ, and you may see yourself as a failure, and maybe, humanly speaking, you are.
I don't know but God sees you in Christ for given and perfect, and Godsite all says, forget the ways you blew it in the past, and reach forward to the victory God wants you to have in the future.
Once you've done that, don't live in guilt and self, looting.
Live in God's forgiveness, and it's an amazing life.
And that same vein was put behind us. The bitterness for those who have wronged us.
You know many of us have felt that we've experienced wrongs from people.
Maybe in our family or close people, maybe in serving in Minnesota, and such, who knows?
We might allow anger and hurt, and feelings, a betrayal in bitter us, and harden our hearts against them, even if the offender has repented of what they have done, and this can lead to pretty serious issues that caused a lot of heartache and pain, as much as the offenses
Themselves. But here's one thing failing to forgive, and offender.
Not only affects the person, you are anger against, but it affects you, and all those around you the right of Hebrews warns us.
Pursuit, peace with all people. God wants us to follow the path of reconciliation and peace and forgiveness, not spite and anger and retaliation with everyone.
No exceptions, he says, looking carefully less than anyone, falls short of the grace of God.
The steady root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become filed.
Give a bit offended. God gives you the grace to forgive that person, and if you do not forgive them.
The writer here says that you you fail God's grace, in other words, you fail to accomplish those things that he wants to accomplish by his grace, not personal effort, but but relying on His grace and that power to do these things here's the scary part when we don't forgive
A road of bitterness springs up in us, and through it many are defiled.
Better. People affect everyone around them, their kids, their family, the friends.
But God is a better way. He says, and he exhorts us in Ephesians 4, 31, and 32.
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking.
Be put away from me with all malice, to be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, even as God has forgiven you in Christ Jesus.
That's the verse I go to many times, you know.
It's. It's just something that really puts the mind in focus.
You know. So first get your eternal destiny settled.
Second, get to know God in his fullness, third, to a new beginning in your life, with the past behind you, and look to the future, and finally to maintain a new beginning, you need to keep pursuing price here it is the message in the beginning of the year, pursue Christ, pursue Him Philippians 314 says
I press toward the goal for the prize of the upper call of God in Christ Jesus.
Here's the key to finish the course I press toward the goal for the prize and the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Here, hear the word goal refers to that white finish line in a Greek Olympic race.
And the words I press are very helpful here. The word for press here is the same Greek word that we found previously where it was.
Trout translated follow after Paul is saying, Follow after verse 12 says this of Philippians, 3, not that I have already attained, or I'm already perfected, but I press on that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has laid hold of me hear the Greek word again when used of a
Race meant to run swiftly in order to catch a person or a thing to run after, to to press on figure to lee of one who is in a race who runs swiftly to reach the goal, to pursue.
It's the idea of being in a race and seeing the finish line and running hard, and within an unfailing, persistent, persistence, and reaching forth with all your might to reach the finish line.
I think about. If you watch the world copper the great teams are always pressing for it to score goals.
They're not just kind of moving with a pressing forward with a strategy to score those goals.
When we think of American football, big running backs or legs are always churning, churning, they get in a scruff, and it's still churning and churning and churning.
Just persistence. So the idea of being an erase and seeing the finish line is, implies persistence and endurance to reach the goal and not give up.
It implies queue on, no matter the cost or the obstacles.
All, says I, press on, I keep on I won't quit.
I follow after I pursue, I will have the fortitude to keep on until the race is finished.
Also, as I gave up religion for relationship with Christ, I put my past sins and fails behind me, and I'm looking ahead to serving God with all my heart.
Now I'm pressing toward the finish line I won't give up till I reach.
Having the finish line. I won't quit. I won't stop, and if I fall I'll get up again and keep in the race and press on, in the gospel of Luke, speaking about discipleship.
Jesus says, no one having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
You're a disciple, keeps his hand on the plow.
A Bible scholar said this, it describes the plowman concentrating on the furrow that he's plowing that that that shallow furrow or trench receives will go.
He keeps his eye concentrated before him, guiding the plow with his left hand, and goading the oxen with the looking away, would result in a crooked furrow.
Let's continue. Keep her eyes on Jesus this year. Let's continue to keep our eyes single without distractions on him, even though sometimes we are pressed into His servant, service, and it interrupts our plans.
You know the choice, gleanings, calendar, the entry for January first, 2,022, had this to say, quoting from Mark 1521.
Then they compelled a certain man, Simon a Cyrene, the father of Alexander, and Rufus, as he was coming out of the country, and passing by to bear his cross
Simon was passing by. He had other plans that day.
Another destination. But God had a plan too. In a moment Simon's course was turned.
His harsh hands compelled him to bear another's cross, into walk with him to Galga, amidst a riotous storm.
Of humanity. It changed Simon's life, and this year, as it unfolds, and we daily pass by making our own plans settling our own destinations.
Don't be surprised if if God interrupts those, because He has cross bearing plans for us, too, maybe hard in the moment, but it will lead us to Calvary and closer to Christ, it will change our life choice Green's calendar one of many great right entries.
You know. In conclusion, 23 could be the greatest, happiest year of victory and spiritual advancement in your life.
How can you make that possible? First get your salvation settled?
Begin this year, if you have not already, by bowing your head and telling God you've acknowledged that he sent his Son Jesus Christ to dive your sin, telling him you were trusting Him to save you.
Not on your own works. Ask him to become your Savior and the boss of your life.
From now on and if you do it, God promises to forgive you of all your sin and give you eternal life.
Second, get to know Christ, get to know Him personally by trust.
Get to know him powerfully by listening to him in his work, by obeying him, and by listening to and following the promptings of the Holy Spirit.
Get to know him intimately by calling out to him in the midst of your trial, getting into the Word of God in the midst of your trial, and seeking his face, and asking God to reveal Himself to you, and trusting Him through the trial, third, put your failures in your sins behind you by
repentance and confession, and put your offenses and hurts behind you with forgiveness and tender heartiness, and look forward to the victory and freedom of joy.
God has for you finally follow Christ with all your heart, without wavering, pursue the Lord, never stop chasing, and never give up.
Pursue to the end. If you look at books on marriage, the number one thing that they will say for men is, pursue your wife
Still working on that, but pursue your your wife with everything you've got, and if you do fail, go back to point.
Number 3. Now this isn't marriage advice. This is the sermon advice.
Go back to point Number 3 put the pass behind you, get back in the race, get your eye on the finish line again, and keep on keeping forgotten.
You know we saw many great things in the chapel in 2,022.
Another year of remembrance of the 5 martyrs in Ecuador, one of whom had Collie had a connection with our chapel, there is, you know, there's actually a Wikipedia entry for that it's called operation aka kind of fascinating we
Sell a hundred-year anniversary with many of you participating in the other.
We commended Juanispanita to the work in Columbia, a young man who, filled with energy and enthusiasm for the Lord, goes to work in God's vineyard, and we saw another year of faithful service and representation.
Here in among other things, sadly but joyously.
We also saw the passing of some saints who could forget Oscar Garcia.
Who shared so passionately about Jesus Christ and Lord, separate.
How about Dennis Canal? It's someone was very faithful to see people see saved, and was always prepared for the Lord.
Accept in tiers many times. And how about Dennis Shult, a deacon and a former treasurer, who dedicated to this chapel? I think.
Yeah. Marty, Tommy saved every single bulletin or the family to going back into the forties, and he did that.
He never sought attention for himself just to name a few notable things, and we will see more things or will do.
In this year 2,023, if he doesn't come back as we keep her eyes in Jesus, the author and finisher of our face.
Finally I spoke of resolutions in the beginning of my message.
They say that resolutions fail because of 3 things, the lack of accountability. What's the solution?
The Biblical solution let us never forsake the fellowship of saints.
A second point is no tracking review. The Biblical solution is, let us always be reviewing our walk with Jesus.
Thirdly, it's lack of planning regarding, planning, Bible says, Commit your way to the Lord.
Trust also in him, and he shall bring it to pass. Let us always submit our plans to Lord, and be waiting for a sure return.
Let's pray our Father. We come before you. We thank you and praise you for this time together to consider your word that it might have an impact upon us that we give you thanks as we begin this New year, pursuing Jesus Christ is our Savior.
To give you thanks, and his name. Amen.