Growing Older or Growing Up

What do we use to grow up?

1) The Word of God

2) The Spirit of God

3 Ways God Makes us More like Christ:

1) Choose faith over doubt when trials and troubles come.

a) God wants to build character

b) God is more interested in what you are than what you do.

c) Learn to trust God completely.

1) secret to trust is acceptance

2) I must choose faith when I'm tempted

a) troubles to trust, temptations to obey

3) Trespasses to be forgiven

a) when you're done wrong, forgive with no retaliation

b) look at how much God has forgiven you. No one has been treated as badly as he was.