1. A free CD of this message will be available following the service It will also be available for podcast later this week at calvaryokc.com

2. James 1.17 ~ Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning. 1 John 1.5 ~ This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.

4. 1 Cor. 2.14 ~ But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. Phillips ~ But the unspiritual man simply cannot accept the matters which the Spirit deals with – they just don't make sense to him, for, after all, you must be spiritual to see spiritual things.

6. Definition of a standard : A basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated An upright pole or beam

8. Num. 21.8-9 ~ 8 Then the Lord said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live." 9 So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.

9. John 3.14-16 ~ 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

11. Rom. 3.22b-23 ~ 22b For there is no difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

13. Is. 59.2 But your iniquities have separated you from your God; And your sins have hidden His face from you, So that He will not hear.

15. John 3:3-7 ~ 3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 4 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?”

16. 5 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’”

18. We are … the lost coin (Luke 15.8-10) the hidden treasure (Matt. 13.44) the pearl of great price (Matt. 13.45-46) the lost sheep (Matt. 18.10-14)

20. John 5:28b-29a ~ 28b … for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice 29a and come forth— those who have done good, to the resurrection of life,

22. Acts 3:6 ~ Then Peter said, "Silver and gold I do not have, but what I do have I give you: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, RISE UP AND WALK."