Programme: Writing the Vision (October Edition)
Date: Saturday, 21st October 2023
Transcript Summary
1. We would witness image-making in these end times; this is because transactions and declarations are ongoing in the realm of the spirit. The everlasting gospel, which is the gospel of image and likeness, is being preached. In Revelation 14:6, we see it being declared by the angel who had the everlasting gospel to preach to them that dwell on the earth. While the everlasting gospel is being trumpeted, those on the satanic side would also understand the times and seasons we are in. Therefore, the image of Satan is also being preached. The spirit of the anti-Christ also preaches image, and by so doing, causes men to make an image of the beast (Rev. 13:14). These spirits understand that it is by image that man rules. That image is the sceptre of dominion (Gen. 1:26). Without image and likeness, there can be no dominion.
2. Satan has his ways; this is what makes him spirit. Ezekiel 28:15 explains that he was perfect in his ways. God is a Spirit, not because He is invisible, nor does it mean He is a ghost. What God being a Spirit means is in reference to His contents — the ways and laws resident in Him. These are the things that make Him spirit. What makes a person spirit are the laws and ways that such a one has within. “As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.” (Eccl. 11:5). Spirits are made by ways. We know that what is born of the Spirit is spirit (Jn. 3:6-8). To be born of the Spirit means to embody ways or be born of ways. A person who is born of the Spirit is windy (Jn. 3:8). One characteristic of spirits is that they live (Heb. 12:9). In other words, anyone who is not a spirit is not living (in the realm of the spirit).
3. “Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?” (Heb. 12:9). God is the Father of spirits not because He created all spirits, but because anything He fathers becomes spirit. It was by fathering that God gave birth to Jesus. To be subject to the Father of Spirits is to be subject to training. It is only God who knows how to train a man to become a spirit. God has ways. If we reject the training of God, we will not cease from being flesh (Heb. 12:7). God is training us to become spirits, for sons are spirits. There is a kind of spirit God wants us to become. We become spirits in our souls by imbibing ways. There is an image which God intends that we all come into (Rom. 8:29).
4. “As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.” (Eccl. 11:5). The way of the Spirit are the works of God. Works cannot be wrought without ways. This means the introduction of ways is to accomplish works. The Son of God is the finished product whom we are to believe in for the works of God to be wrought (Matt. 17:5). The works of God are those who have been raised by the reason of ways, leading, and instructions that bring about a work called image. There are prior works we need to do before we receive the instructions that will lead to the formation of an image. God takes us through training by leading, and the destination is to take us to that point of image formation.
5. The image and likeness of God is the Son of God; this is why the work of God is that we believe on Him who was sent (John 6:29). God will not send a person who is not finished. This means Jesus had been successfully raised by God; He imbibed all the ways of God. God would not have announced Him as a beloved Son without putting things (ways/works/training) in Him.
6. Spirits have ways. The ways of a spirit cannot be known if we are not raised to be spirits in our souls. The reason why sin and death have ravaged the Church is that we do not know the Way. We know sins to be acts, but not as ways. Sin is a way in a spirit. It then goes on to become iniquity. It is a progression of the way. When the Father of spirits raises us, we will know ways. The hearing of the word will reveal to us the way to walk in, and as we walk in that way, we will know the works of God. To know the works is not merely having the knowledge of works; we must come into the ways of works. Without works, we cannot come into resurrection. Resurrection is for raising images. In other words, images are resurrections that our souls can attain (Phil. 3:10). The image of the Son of God is a resurrected being.
7. In this season, we are coming into more resurrection. God is introducing us to the power of resurrection. Anything that has been born of God has been raised or resurrected (1 John 5:4). Image is resurrection; to acquire image is to acquire the resurrection. Writing images is synonymous to resurrection. Before Jesus went to the cross, He had resurrected in His soul (John 11:25). Image and likeness are resurrections in our souls. They mean our souls are resurrecting after the order of the Son of God. When we acquire the image, we become resurrected. When we are subject to the Father of spirit, we will live. To live is to be resurrected. The Father of spirits is raising us all. We only need to be subject to Him because this is how we will yield the peaceable fruit of righteousness (Heb. 12:11).
Blessings!