The Image of the Father Part 4 - John 15:1-2
The divine imagery in John 15:1-2 where Jesus refers to Himself as the true vine and His Father as the husbandman. Reflect on the concept of bearing fruit, pruning for growth, and the importance of abiding in Christ. Delve into the message of spiritual maturity and the hope of being transformed into the likeness of God as His children.
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The Image of the Father Part 4 JOHN 15:1-2 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
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BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES July 16th John Anthony Harwell Richard & Mary Smith July 17th Brinley Hughes July 18th Sheba Javed 3 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
WHO.IS.THIS 13 We would ask that You would bless this little church today, pastor, deacons, the board, members, and strangers that's gathered in our gates. We are grateful for fellowship, hearing someone say they drove many miles for the service. Truly the Scripture is made manifest when It said, "If I be lifted up, I'll draw all men unto Me." And we know, Lord, that Thy Church is not in the majority this morning, the true believers are in the minority. But someday, Lord, You will take that minority to Yourself. That's the hour that we long for. 59-1004 4 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
THE.TIME.OF.DECISION 6 So the Church is not in its right state yet. We have to remember that. It's not matured. So we just have to linger and do the best we can. And there's no one can bring it to maturity, only the Holy Spirit, as we listen to It. I don't believe it'll ever come by man, it'll have to come by God. 59-0611 5 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
I JOHN 3:1-3 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. 2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. 6 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
LEAN.NOT UNDERATANDING 19 I got that little story about that eagle, walking with the hens and the chickens because he was hatched out and born there, but he never did feel just like them chickens. And when his mammy come by and hollered, he heard a voice that sounded awful good to him, because, remember, he was an eagle, to begin with. He just had to come to find himself, to find his place. 20 That's the way every believer is. You wasn't born for this world. You was created in the image of God, to be a son of God. And you don't belong in this chicken yard out here. You're a eagle. 65-0120 7 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
GENESIS 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion GENESIS 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. GENESIS 5:3 And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: 8 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
JEREMIAH 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. HEBREWS 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; 17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. 9 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
GOD'S.POWER.TO.TRANSFORM 261 Paul, a local church member, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal; down the street he went, with his great defying spirit in him, that he knowed more than any of them... What happened on his road down to Damascus, get a bunch of people who was believing God's Word? On his road down there, was stricken down, and he heard a Message. And It transformed him from a church member and a churchgoer; to a prophet of God, who wrote the Word of God, in the New Testament. From a church member to a saint! 65-0911 10 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
David A masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created 1501-1504, by Michelangelo. ROMANS 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. Michalangelo: 11 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
THE.MASTERPIECE 33 But, this Michelangelo, cost him some-thing to do that. He was a great man, cost a big part of his life, because he was many, many years in carving out. Just take a rock of marble, kept carving it. And, only the sculptor himself, has in his mind what he's trying to do. You might walk up and say to him, "What are you pecking on that rock for?" To the outsider, who doesn't know what's in his heart, it's nonsense. But to the man, the sculptor himself, he's got a vision in his mind, what he's trying to make, and he's trying to reproduce what he has on his mind in the form of a monument. That's the reason he's digging it out of the rocks. THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 12 07-12-2020
44 Now lets turn the page, of Michelangelo, and close the book. And let's open another Book and read of the great Sculptor, the Almighty. Who, before there was a world, and before the foundations was laid, He had in His mind what He wanted, and He wanted to make man in His Own image. He wanted to make something in reality of what was a vision to Him, what was in His thinking. 64-0705 13 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
IMAGES.OF.CHRIST 18 Now, that doesn't mean that we have to grow a long beard, as the artist pictures Him having... We don't necessarily have to be that to reflect His physical image; but we must, in our souls, reflect His Spirit imageand His manner of life I believe it's a reflection of Jesus Christ in a human being. For we are the members of His Body. And we bear His image... Now, what kind of an image was He? He came not to be some great somebody, yet He was, but He came as a servant. He came, not to be ministered to, but to minister. 59-0525 14 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
GEN. DOUGLAS MCCARTHUR By profession, I am a soldier, and take pride in that fact, but I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; a father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies creation of life It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me, not from the battle, but in the home repeating with him our simple, daily prayer, our Father Who art in Heaven. Gen. Douglas MacArthur 15 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
GOD'S.PROVIDED.WAY 26 I do not think the war will be a missile warfare. But I think it'll be a spiritual warfare, that'll come in and just take the nation over and put them to sleep, till they get in and get a hold. 61-0516 16 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
David Livingstone was a Scottish missionary, abolitionist and physician known for his explorations of Africa, having crossed the continent during the mid-19th century. Livingstone eventually made his way north and set out to trek across the Kalahari Desert. In 1849, he came upon Lake Ngami and, in 1851, the Zambezi River. Over the years, Livingstone continued his explorations, reaching the western coastal region of Luanda in 1853. In 1855, he came across another famous body of water, the Zambezi falls, called by native populations "Smoke That Thunders" and which Livingstone dubbed Victoria Falls, after Queen Victoria. 17 07-12-2020
GENESIS 1:26-28 man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. And God said, Let us make Dominion: (Heb) radah To rule, dominate, tread down, subjugate. 18 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
MALACHI 4:1-3 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. 2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. 3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts. 19 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
I KINGS 4:21-25 (Positive) And Solomon reigned over all kingdoms from the river unto the land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life. 22 And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, 23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted fowl. 24 For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about him. 25 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon. 20 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
LEVITICUS 25:41-46* And if thy brother that dwelleth by thee be waxen poor, and be sold unto thee; thou shalt not compel him to serve as a bondservant: 40 But as an hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, and shall serve thee unto the year of jubile: 41 And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return. For they are my servants, which I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: they shall not be sold as bondmen. 43 Thou shalt not rule over him with rigour; but shalt fear thy God. 21 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
COMMUNION 75 I believe it's the coming in of the issue of God, the great revelations of the Word opened during this time God ever sends His power to the church, it'll be His grace, it won't be the obedience of the people. Is. 40 cry to Jerusalem, that her warfare was over," yet guilty of idolatry, but it was God's grace that was sending it. God sends anything to us, it'll be His grace, not our merits. I predict that there'll be a change. I don't know what it'll be, but I believe it's fixing to happen. We're... right on the eve of it now. 62-0204 22 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
Dominion vs. Possession ISAIAH 26:12 LORD, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us. 13 O LORD our God, other lords beside thee have had dominion over us: but by thee only will we make mention of thy name. 14 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish. 23 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
Dominion vs. Possession PSALM 19:13 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression. 14 Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer. 24 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
Dominion vs. Possession PSALM 119:132 Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name. 133 Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. 134 Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts. 25 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
Dominion vs. Possession ROMANS 6:13-15 Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. 15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid. 26 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
JOSHUA 22:18 But that ye must turn away this day from following the LORD? and it will be, seeing ye rebel to day against the LORD, that to morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel. 19 Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD'S tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our God. 20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 perished not alone in his iniquity. 27 07-12-2020
EXODUS 10:8 And Moses and Aaron were brought again unto Pharaoh: and he said unto them, Go, serve the LORD your God: but who are they that shall go? 9 And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old, with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto the LORD. 10 And he said unto them, Let the LORD be so with you, as I will let you go, and your little ones: look to it; for evil is before you. 11 Not so: go now ye that are men, and serve the LORD; for that ye did desire. And they THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 were driven out from Pharaoh's presence. 28 07-12-2020
8So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. All right, he told them, go and worship the LORD your God. But who exactly will be going with you? 9Moses replied, We will all go young and old, our sons and daughters, and our flocks and herds. We must all join together in celebrating a festival to the LORD. 10Pharaoh retorted, The LORD will certainly need to be with you if I let you take your little ones! I can see through your evil plan. 11Never! Only the men may go and worship the LORD, since that is what you requested. And Pharaoh threw them out of the palace. 29 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
GENESIS 22:15 And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, 16 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: 17 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; Possess: (Heb.) to devour, destroy, bring to ruin 30 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
Power of Transformation: Romans 12:2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. Conform: (Gr.) suschematizo To change one's self (i.e. one's mind and character) to another's pattern, fashion one's self to another and describes what is transitory, changeable, and unstable. 31 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
Example: I PETER 1:14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: POWER.OF.TRANSFORMATION 37 That's what we all want to do is; Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of our mind to do the perfect and acceptable will of God. Now, that we have been saved, as we are; and that we have been filled with the Holy Spirit, as we have; now we want the mind that was in Christ to be in us, that we might be transformed from the natural things of life, and be brought in to do the perfect will of God by transformation of God's Spirit by His Word. THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 65-1031 32 07-12-2020
COLOSSIANS 3:5-10 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: 7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. 8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth. 9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; 10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: 33 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
HEBREWS.CHAPTER.TWO.3 246 Pentecostals said, "They spoke in tongues. They got It. If you spoke in tongues, and got It, all right. But you could speak in tongues and still not have It. 247 So, after all, it is the experience of passing from death to Life; when all the old things die, and all things become new. Christ becomes real. The old things drop away, the old roots of carnality. You know how to dig a root out? We used to take a grubbing hoe dig it till there wasn't a speck left in it And that's what the Holy Spirit does, root out all the roots. Dig them out. Pile it up; burn them You get a good crop then, if we do that. 57-0828 34 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
WHY.ARE.PEOPLE.SO.TOSSED.ABOUT 17-6 The law used to be on stones in the ark, (ark represents the heart), "I will put my new law in their hearts... The heart is the abode of God.... God's not known by theology; by mental conception; God's known by old fashion, sanc- tified born again experience in the human heart. 17-8 Yet men and women live a good life, love God by a mental conception. But the real hiding place is in the heart: hid with Christ. And when Christ the Holy Spirit comes into your heart, He is in you with your temperament, and He's living His own Life thru His own will through you. 56-0101 35 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
Vision: A thought of God becomes a Word to a prophet; spoke it into literal word form (still the thought of God) and when a Believer takes that Word by faith into his heart (still God s thought) it becomes a force. The Message itself becomes our vision, because it is God s vision. 36 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
THINGS.THAT.ARE.TO.BE 76 We should behave ourselves, act like Christians. Our conduct should be like Christians. Because, we are aliens here. This is not our Home. No. We were just put here, temporarily. There is something in us, calls, to live. And something in us that calls to do right. Then God will call somebody on the pulpit, that will preach the absolute Truth. Why? It shows you. Then, if you're a real child of God, you begin to cry out, "God, take it away from me. Circumcise me from this. Take these things away from me." Why? It's needed for your heavenly Home that you're going to, where He's gone on to prepare. You got to be a real Word Bride of Christ. 37 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
THINGS.THAT.ARE.TO.BE There is something in us, calls, to live. And something in us that calls to do right. Then God will call somebody on the pulpit, that will preach the absolute Truth. Why? It shows you. Then, if you're a real child of God, you begin to cry out, "God, take it away from me. Circumcise me from this. Take these things away from me." Why? It's needed for your heavenly Home that you're going to, where He's gone on to prepare. 38 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
ROMANS 10:14-15 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things! EPHESIANS 4:12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ: 13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: 39 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
THE.HARVEST.TIME 125 "No man can come to Me," said Jesus, "except my Father draws him. And all that the Father hath," past tense, "given to Me, will come to Me, to the Word." How can they come unless they were, are all, foreordained to come? As many as received Him, to them give He the power to become sons of God." See, 'cause their names were on the Book, He come to redeem what was on the Book. 40 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
IMAGE: Eikon Used of the moral likeness of renewed men to God; to reflect the image of Christ, into which true Christians are transformed. Not just the likeness of the heavenly body, but also to the most holy and blessed state of mind, which Christ possesses. Once the inside is transformed, it has to show on the outside, it must shine out of your humanity like it did Jesus! 41 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
POWER.OF.TRANSFORMATION 76 Sometimes you have to separate from everything that's dear on earth to you to take your position that God has called you to But what's God doing? Transforming you from what you was. Maybe a daughter or a son, or whatever it is, from a lovely family sometimes, He places you somewhere else. Because it's His way of doing it, by the renewing of your mind to obey the Word of God, regardless of what the price is. 42 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
TITUS 3:1-8 Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, 2 To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men. 3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. 4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, 43 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; 7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. 8 This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men. 44 THE IMAGE OF THE FATHER 4 07-12-2020
