I AM ONE!   Matthew 18:12 what do you think?  If a man owns an hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety nine on the hills and go look for the one that wandered off?  And if he finds it, I will you the truth, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninetynine that did not wander off. In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any these little ones should be lost.  Why would he leave the ninety nine, and go after one?  Because the ninety nine were united, and would stay together...OBEDIENCE IS THE KEY to be united with God.  " I AM THE ONE! And am NOT the same, since Jesus found me...Jesus will continue looking for the lost..  NO one ever united with Jesus Christ until he is willing to relinquish not sin only, but his whole way of looking at things.  To born from above the Spirit of God means that we MUST LET GO before we lay hold, and in the first stages of relinquishing of all pretense.  What Our Lord wants us to present to Him is not  goodness, nor honesty, nor endeavor, but real solid sin; that is all He can take from us.  And what does He given in exchange for our sin? REAL SOLID RIGHTEOUSNESS, SALVATION for ETERNITY.... GALATIANS 2:20 " I am crucified with Christ". When a man really SEES himself as the Lord sees him, it is not the abominable sins fo the flesh tha tshock him, but the awful nature of the pride of his own heart against Jesus Christ.  When he sees himself in the light of the Lord, the shame and the horror and the desperate CONVICTION COME HOME...for it is WITH God ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE Matthew 19:26  I WAS ONE! Now I AM NOT THE SAME, I AM OF NINETY NINE

1. GLORY TO GOD!!

Amen