James shares with us the three key ways you must approach the Bible and the truth that is in it if you are going to live a life that God honors and God blesses.

When you pray this kind of prayer,

• it will show you your need,

• and you take that need directly to Christ,

• and you let Christ meet that need

• and conform you to his image.

It sounds simple. But it can completely transform your life.

Throughout the Bible, we encounter characters who serve as models for us today. Some of those characters teach us what to do; others remind us what not to do. Belshazzar, the king of Babylon, was one character no one wants to replicate in today’s world, because the mistake he made cost him everything.

If the passage we are studying is true, (and it is) you are going to see why everybody is somebody regardless of • who they are socially, • what they have materially, • or how they look physically.

We all want to know, deep down, who we truly are. Yet so many people have a misconception of their true identity because they look to the wrong source of that identity. But through this message, we realize that the true source of our identity is the One who made us.

Sometimes Churches tend to lean too far: Some lean
more toward grace and some lean more toward
truth. We need to be filled with grace and truth. The right balance.
We have looked at the situation where Jesus was all
grace and then we looked at the Jesus who was all
truth.
In this message, we are going to study an incident in the life of
Jesus that perfectly reveals His perfect balance between grace and truth.