This man Jesus disappeared off the earth, they could never find his body. He went through death and he came back and over a period of 40 days he appeared on 13 different occasions

Are you at peace with your “place” in this world — or full of resentment at what others have that you seem to lack?

Will you decide if you’re going to live for your own satisfaction — or if from now on it will be “For me to live is Christ?”

It is important that our inner being is made pure by God. But it is also important that our outer life show that. Our idea that the Holy Spirit can bypass our quiet personality or our noisy personality is wrong. He must use our renewed personality

Why aren’t we happy and why isn’t our work a joy? Could it be we’ve fallen our of love?

Illustrations from Jekyll and Hyde, Boswell’s Life of Johnson showing the deceitfulness of the sinful nature.

Living by security, significance and happiness because our self is perverted.

People serious about their relationship and searching for God, at last, reach the point when they ask God to search them for impediments. Yielding all – they receive God onto the throne of their heart. If you have something left to give still- press on.

People including Christians have selfish natures. Freedom comes by giving every part of their lives to God-and asking God to purify them inside.

The Jews knew about the Old Covenant – God removes guilt and forgives sins. Christianity’s New Covenant deals with being clean inside-through faith.

To overcome sin, Christians need to have clean hearts. God gives them this by baptizing them with the Holy Spirit, as they seek him for this.

A born-again Christian often finds he still has uncleanness inside. He needs God to cleanse his heart-by faith-then be filled with the Holy Spirit.

Are We Born again?

One characteristic of new birth in Christ is a change in your way of thinking about your life –to recognize you’ve been first and foremost born in Jesus.

If life seems to be generally satisfying–why would I want or need to be born again?

Appearances aren’t everything, our inner self can be an irrepressible monster. Wouldn’t it be nice to be without that inner monster?

Is having a lustful thought pass through your mind sin?

Why don’t our spiritual experiences last? Can’t the Holy Spirit make us clean inside?

I do not understand my own actions. I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.

Do we ever find ourselves talking behind the back of a friend?

Getting a clean heart is simple but costs everything.

We’re like a computer with a bug. We meet a disagreeable guy. We know a gentle spirit should rise but we spout a ‘Give him as good as you get’ blast.

You’re born of God. But the Holy Spirit is not able to dwell in your heart. There’s an inconstant Christian life, up and down.

Some may have been born of God and been cleansed inside all at once but many of us have not experienced the clean heart.

How many of us believe we can receive a clean heart by faith? We don’t. We believe we work on an unclean heart by psychology, and trying harder.

Repentance is not never sinning, but it is a refusal to accept sinning as normal.

Our spirits are alive to God, but our heart still struggles against sinful thoughts and acts.

We want to be clean inside, but we still look to money to be safe and secure.

The New Covenant is not forgiveness of sin but the power of the Holy Spirit to be clean and pure inside.