We have been continuing our journey of discovering the challenges of loving God and loving one another. The key verse this week is Galatians 2:20 "I have been crucified with CHrist; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me". Kate's message this week (can be heard by clicking on the Listen tab and then on Sunday talks - dated 2011-05-22) focused on the story of the Exodus from Egypt and linking it to our crossing over from the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of God by the cross, with the forgiveness of our sins. She then discussed a further crossing - for the children of Israel into the Promised Land with an exchanged life for us, when we live not by our own effort but by the power of Christ in us. This is something that is little known and hard to grasp as our natural inclination is just to try harder. However there are for all of us areas of sin that we can't just try harder to deal with and it is only the power of Christ in us that can live the life that we can't live. We will continue to talk about this together as it is an amazing truth that we need to understand together.
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