(John 1:45-46 NLT) Philip went to look for Nathanael and told him, “We have found the very person Moses and the prophets wrote about! His name is Jesus, the son of Joseph from Nazareth.”

46 “Nazareth!” exclaimed Nathanael. “Can anything good come from Nazareth?” “Come and see for yourself,” Philip replied.

(Psalm 34:4 ESV) I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.

(Psalm 139: 23-24 NLT) Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.24 Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.

(Genesis 1:26-27 NLT) Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.” 27 So God created human beings in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.

(Isaiah 43:7 NLT) “All who claim me as their God will come, for I have made them for my glory. It was I who created them.”

“God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.” - John Piper

Greatest enemies of purpose:
1. Pain
2. Pleasure

(James 1:2-4 ESV) Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

(2 Timothy 4:10 NLT) Demas has deserted me because he loves the things of this life and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus has gone to Dalmatia.

For salvation:
Text – Reborn to 97000

For baptism:
Text – Baptize to 97000