The Issues about Women's Liberty pt 17

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right in. Hallelujah. Luke chapter 3. Luke chapter

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3. Thank you, Jesus. So we are continuing our

message. We started long ago. And last Wednesday,

we saw that in Luke, Dr. Luke was somehow to

rewriting Genesis chapter 5. And we know that

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that Genesis chapter 5 is also linked to Genesis

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chapter 1, verse 26 to 27. In fact, verse 1 and

2 is also of Genesis chapter 5 is right in Genesis

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1. Are we together? Verse 26 and 27. Amen? And

we also noted that That Jesus, as Luke presented,

traced Jesus back, not just to Adam, but also

to God. But he said at the last part, and I want

us to read that please. He said, the son of Adam,

the son of God. Hallelujah. Are we in Luke chapter

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3? Look at verse 23. Luke chapter 3, verse 23.

Luke 3:23

Now Jesus himself. began his ministry at about

30 years of age, being, as was supposed, the

son of Joseph, the son of Heli. And then when

you go and we saw all the son of this, the son

of that, and traces Jesus back to Adam. Look

at verse 38. It said, the son of Enos, the son

of Seth, the son of Adam, the son. of God. The

son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.

And remember we said go back to Genesis chapter

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5. Genesis chapter 5. Look at verse 1. He said,

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this is a book of the genealogy of Adam. In the

day that God created man, he made him in the

likeness of God. Verse 2, he created them male

and female and blessed them and called them mankind.

In the day we are created. We said this also

was rewritten, just when we read Genesis 1, 26

and 27, you will see that. Now in verse 3 of

that chapter 5, it says, And Adam lived one hundred

and thirty years, and begot a son in his own

likeness after his own image, and named him Seth.

And name him Seth. And then we talked and noted

that that word image is relational. Or we said

that word image, we can say it means son. It

means son. Or we can say family or kingship.

It means that what unites you with the other.

And so when we go back. and look at what Luke

is saying, and say the son of Seth, which means

Seth in the image, sorry, the son of Seth, yes,

the son of Adam, that means Seth is a son of

Adam, which means Seth in the image of Adam.

Are we together? And Adam in the image of who?

God, because he said the son of God, which means

the image of God. Are we together? So which means

that Jesus, the image of God, or Jesus, the son

of God, Jesus, the image of God. Are we together?

Hallelujah. Go back to Matthew 19. And what we

just last concluded on Wednesday, we said, so

why is Jesus called the image of God? We said

Jesus is called the image of God because he became

a man. Hallelujah. Matthew 19. Matthew 19. Look

at verse 4. He said, and he answered and said

to them. Of course, this is in response. This

is Jesus' response to the Pharisee questioning

verse 3. The Pharisee, verse 3, also came to

him, testing him. And saying to him, Is it lawful

for a man to divorce his wife for just any other

reason? And verse 4, And he answered and said

to them, Have you not read that he who made them

at the beginning made them male and female? Made

them. Male and female. Of course, Jesus pointing

them back to Genesis 1, verse 27. Also Genesis

Genesis 1:27 Genesis 5:1

5, verse 1 and 2. Hallelujah. Now, in his response,

Jesus did not own exclusively the phrase, the

image of God. He made them at the beginning male

and female. So Jesus was pointing the issue that

male and female are made in the image of God.

Now I want you to note something here. Again,

how Jesus responded to the Pharisee. When they

asked him, is it lawful for a man to divorce

his wife for just any other reason? In verse

3. He did not say, well, it depends whether she's

born again or not. That's not what Jesus said.

Hallelujah. Remember, they were Pharisees. They

were not born again because he made them to understand

that even the issue of divorce, of putting away,

it was not so in the beginning. Are we together?

And they were asking because that was what they

were doing. In fact, they wanted to claim, they

said, Moses even asked us, they said, we should

give a certificate of divorce. What we are trying

to say is that this is already, we have a certification

in this process. You see? There's something we

are standing on. We are not just speaking. We

have a source from the Bible. You see? And some

of us say, It is written now. It is written now.

It's in the Bible. It's in the Bible. We want

to defend our... It's in the Bible. Hallelujah.

So, what are we trying to say? So, Jesus responded.

He didn't say, well, you can divorce your wife

if she's not born again. You can put her away.

You understand? That's not what he's talking

about. The issue of the image is not an issue.

exclusive to those who are born again. Are we

together? We've already talked and said image

is identity. It's a collective identity. You

understand? Rather Jesus pointed them that in

the beginning it was not so. And therefore what

God joined together because he mentioned that

He said, let no man put asunder. What God has

joined together is not marriage ceremony. He's

talking about joined in creation. Are we together?

He's talking about in creation. So, because these

people are unbelievers, they are hard -hearted

people. They disrupted the plan of God. And today

we still have that identity crisis. Hallelujah.

The world is full of identity crisis. All kinds.

So the first thing you will be able to help yourself

is that your understanding of a woman and of

a man be shaped by Scripture. Your understanding

of a man and a woman be shaped by Scripture.

Colossians chapter 15. Let's go there. I'll still

press a little bit on the issue of why Jesus

is called the image of God. We have already established

earlier that the reason why he's called the image

of God is because he became a man. Colossians

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chapter 1. Verse 15. Colossians 1, 15. It says,

He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn

over all creation. Over all creation. And I want

you to know the word, who is the... image of

the invisible God. The image of the invisible

God, the firstborn of every creature. Hallelujah.

Now, if you look at it, maybe just glance, it

will look as if Paul is saying that Jesus is

the only image of the invisible God here. Jesus

is the only image of the invisible God. If you

just look at it, just By face value. I mean just

glance through it. But no. Look at the word.

By using the firstborn of every creature. Because

it didn't stop there. It said the firstborn.

So the image of the invisible God. Is not exclusive.

It said the firstborn of what? Of. Over every

creation. Now that word every creation is talking

about. is man or refers to man. Firstborn of

every creation. That is man in the image of God.

So Jesus, because he's man, is the image of the

invisible God. The first, you understand, born

over all what? Creation. So it means he is the

first, you understand, over all creation. So

image is a collective identity. The first bond

is the word prototokos, P -R -O -T -O -K -O -S,

prototokos in Greek. It means the model of how

other sons will look like, meaning that it is

not the... Only, but means that there are others.

Are we together? How others, he is the model

of how others will look like. So, and that is

talking about, and I want us to note, look at

verse 18 of that same Colossians. Look at verse

18. He said, and he is the head of the body.

Are we together? Amen. He is the head of the

body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn,

from what? From the dead. I want us to come together.

I mean, just follow me. From the dead, that in

all things he might have the preeminence. Acts

chapter... 13 verse 33. Acts 13, 33. Acts 13,

33. He said, God has fulfilled this for us, their

children, in that he has raised up Jesus. As

it is also written in the second Psalm. You are

my son. Today have I done what? Begotten you.

So of course he's talking about the resurrection

of the body. So our hope of the resurrection.

Is because he was risen. Is because he was risen.

And of course I want to just read. A text in,

remember, Prototokos showing us a model of what

we will be, all of us. Men, not angels. Hallelujah.

What we would be, men, we, men, will be, you

understand, not angels. Glory to Jesus. 1 Corinthians

15. Let me read some few things there. Look at

what's starting. But if there is no resurrection

of the dead, then Christ Christ is not risen.

Verse 20. But now Christ is risen from the dead

and has become the what? The first fruit of those

who have fallen out as what? As sleep. Of those.

The first fruit of who? Those. So when he said

the image of the invisible God, the firstborn

over all creation, he's not trying to say that

Jesus exclusively is called the image of the

invisible God. Are we together? It's an inclusive

word. It's a collective term. Image. Image is

a collective term. And when you look at verse

23, it says, but each one in his own order. Christ,

the what? The first fruit. Afterward, those who

are Christ at his what? At his coming. So you

see, there will always be those. Are we together?

There will always be what? Those. Every creation.

All over all creatures. Listen. Of course, he's

not talking about the plants, the animals, everything.

Listen. He's talking about men. Those. Those.

In fact, Romans 28 says brethren. Are we together?

Romans 8. Look at 29. He clearly says brethren.

He didn't say those even. He said brethren. 29.

He said for whom he foreknew, he also predestined

to be conformed to the image of his son that

he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Firstborn. among many brethren. So image is inclusive.

Talks about image is relational. Image is family.

Are we together? Family is a plan of God that

we are together. Understand? Remember the last

time we discussed It's not the plan of God to

stay in isolation. You understand? To stay in

isolation. You cannot achieve God's purpose alone.

You cannot achieve God's purpose in isolation.

This freelancer kind of a believing life is not

God's will. You understand? You are a freelancer.

You move from your online. Today is Sunday. You

attend 20 services. You move from this one to

that one. And you are not in any. God wants us

to be together. Hallelujah. Amen. So, Jesus.

Patuk from our nature. Man. Man. So, when we

talk about Jesus, the image of God, he points

us to what he has come to do. Are we together?

Amen. Look at this text. Let me read because

I think it's good to read the whole of it. Hebrews

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chapter 2. Hebrews chapter 2. Let me read from

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verse 9. Hebrews chapter 2, I will read from

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verse 9. Verse 11. And those who have been sanctified

are all of one. For which reason he is not ashamed

to call them brethren. Saying, I will declare

your name to my brethren. In the midst of the

assembly, I will sing praise to you. Again. Look

at verse 13. And again. I will put my trust in

him. And again, here am I and the children whom

God has given to me or given me. Look at verse

14. Inasmuch then as the children have partaken

of flesh and blood, he himself, he himself likewise

share in the same. Verse 16. Verse 16. But he

does give aid to the seed of Abraham. He gives

aid to the seed of Abraham. He said, those who

belong to Christ are the seed of Abraham. Hallelujah.

Say, I have help. I have help of God. He said,

therefore, in all things. He had to be made like

his brethren. Oh, are you together with me? Are

you together with me? He had to be made like

his what? Like his brethren. He became a man.

That he might be a merciful and faithful high

priest in the things pertaining God to make propitiation

for the sins of the people. Hallelujah. Amen?

Are we together? So Jesus, being the image of

God, or we say the image of the invisible God,

is not exclusive to him. Rather, it shows the

inclusive nature of what he came to do. Of what

he came to do. That's why you saw. Verse 17 will

say. Therefore. In. In all things. He had to

be made. Like his brethren. He had to be made.

Like brethren. Go back a little bit to. Hebrews

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chapter 1. Hebrews chapter 1. God who at various

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times and in various ways spoke in time past

to the fathers by the prophet has in these last

days spoken to us by his son whom he has appointed

heirs of all things through whom also he made

the worlds. Verse 3. who being the brightness

of his glory and the express image of his person,

and upholding all things by the word of his power.

That word image is a great word character. C

-H -A -R -A -K. T -E -R, character. Now, this

word is different from the one we read. You understand?

A little bit in what I mean different. I mean,

they're not the same spelling. You understand?

In Colossians 1 .15, which we said the invisible

God, also the image. of his son, that the image

that is in Romans chapter 8 verse 29. Of course,

Romans 8:29

we have many other places in scripture that talks

about the image. For example, 2 Corinthians 4,

4 talks about also the image. You understand?

Character is, this is the only place we have

this word character. You understand? In Hebrews

Hebrews 1:3

chapter 1 verse 3. Character refers to representation.

You understand? It talks about the person, representation

also. Now, the word, image, which I said we read

in Colossians 1 .15, Romans 8 .28, and so forth

and so on, I mean, and so many of those other

places, is icon. E -I -K -O -N, icon in Greek,

icon. It also refers to representation, status

or representative figure or likeness. You understand?

In fact, this word icon is the one used most

in the New Testament Greek. You will see it appears,

for example, in the King James Bible more than

23 times. Or about 23. Let's say 23. So you can

see that. And this word icon. The Hebrew word

is Salem. You know what we study? So icon. The

Hebrew word is Salem. Which we have already studied.

Which is image. Now if you look at it. You will

see that. Character. and a corn are synonymous.

They are synonymous. All of them refers to likeness

or representative or representative figure or

representation. Therefore, the theology that

Jesus Is the image of God is correct. But it

does not show. That the description image of

God. Is exclusive to him alone. Are we together?

It's correct to say Jesus the image of God. But

that description. Is not. Exclusive to him. In

fact as we have noted. That he's called the image

of God because he became a man. So, God who became

a man is called the image of God. You've heard

him called also the son of man a lot. Are we

together? Hallelujah. Yes. He is a son of man.

He is a son of God because he is a son of man.

So, our view about man, about, when I say man,

I mean male and female, believers or not, should

be that of The representatives of God. In the

plan of God that he created all of us to represent

him. Are we together? To be as his image. You

know, I told you that word in the image. You

know, probably that's what we use. So I want

to use that word as his image because it means

to represent him. And what that means is that

it's not just man or him alone in terms of male.

It's male and female. And remember we said in

the plan of God, They are not to walk in isolation.

It's a collective term. It shows us that God

desire to build a family. That in God's plan

is to build a family. So he made them male and

female in the image of God. In the image. of

God. Remember, one of the problems which I will

come to it is that our view have to be adjusted

because even though, yes, somehow we know that

men in this church that men are not born sinners.

Did you get what I'm trying to say? Are we together?

But you see, sometimes there's some debris that

makes you to think that you are of a higher value

to God than those who are unbelievers. In fact,

there's a way we sometimes say sometimes this,

you understand? I am the apple of God's eye.

There is a jealousy of God over my life. You

are a dead man if you say anything against me.

So we conjure scripture and we grab here, grab

here. And we are happy. When others are suffering.

It's only when you hear that they are killing

believers. Then you say. Lord save them. Lord.

What is this? But once you hear. Especially those

who have been against you. Once. You have heard.

You say. That's the judgment of God. They are

joking with the God's anointed. You see, your

theology is tempered. Something is wrong. It

makes it look as if the love of God has high

and low. There is some certain situation, certain

condition. When you received him, his love is

higher towards you. When you have not received

him, his love towards you is low. and his dispositions

toward those who are against him, he killed them.

Our worldview ought to be shaped by the word

of God. That in the plan of God, male and female,

you understand, in the image of God. You have

to fight your village. Because so many of us

have been walking with our villages, even though

we have left it far away. But he's still following

us. There's nothing wrong to go to a village,

but let it not continue to be in your head. When

you see a woman, what is your disposition towards

her? What is your first instinct? And even our

women, our ladies, each time you come among people,

I've seen it in class. We say, who represent

us? The man who you know is the dumbest in the

class, you come out. The smart ladies, you see

them. He said, you, can't you? No, he can't do

it. Because consistently we have been taught

or society have made it to look like you are

inferior. And your value is only in marriage.

And many of us unconsciously You are sitting

now. Even though you are doing well in school,

your main goal, your ultimate desire, your apex,

your zenith, you understand, in life, is to get

married. You feel something, as people told you,

that... If you didn't see men crowding around

you, something is wrong with you. Did you see

that your village is still following you? You

must understand that there is an inherent value,

an essence and a significance that God has made

you. In his own image, just like the man. We

might differ because of, in terms of reproduction

and things. Are we together? But there are not

two kinds of men, God admit. There are not two

kinds of images. Did you understand what I'm

trying to say? It's one. It's one. Look at what

James said. Look at James. Chapter 3. Let me

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read from verse 6. James chapter 3 verse 6. He

James 3:6

was talking about the tongue. He said the tongue

is a fire. A wall of iniquity. The tongue is

so set among our members. That is the fire. Verse

8. Verse 8. Full of deadly poison. Look at verse

9 where I'm going. Oh, let's read together. One,

two, go. With it, we bless our God and Father.

And with it, we curse men who have been made

in the world. Oh, talk to me again. Hallelujah.

That word, similitut. That word, similitut. He

didn't say believers who. He said man. All man.

Made in the similitude of God. That was similitude.

It's homoesis. H -M. H. Did I say H -M? H -O.

H -O. Don't worry. Maybe I want to return to

Hebrew. You know, in the earlier Hebrew, there

was no vowels. H -O -M -O -I -O -S -I -S. H -O

-M -O -I -O -S -I -S. It means likeness. Interestingly,

this word in Hebrew is the moot. Remember? Image

and likeness, which we have studied before. Are

we together? Which was used also for Seth. He

was born after the likeness and the image of

God. And we noted that the word likeness, you

understand, is the same like image, which is

Salem. Are we together? So, this word similitude

also means... Or it means, you can say, it's

the same thing with image. It's a man made in

the image of God. So this means all of us, male

and female, male and female, have been made in

the image of God. Did you see that, what I'm

saying? He said, who have been made, not who

will be. Are you with me? He did not say who

will be. Did you understand what I'm saying?

Who have been made. That's why we said the word

image is not something that is even exclusive

to believers. Every man and every woman. Look

at Acts. Look at what Paul said. Jesus. Acts

17. Acts 17. I want you to see what is the view

of the Bible in this regard. I want you to see

how these apostles... How the prophet of old

wrote and what they meant by the image of God.

And what the apostles, when they came, also what

was their view? What was their understanding

and revelation concerning this? Look at verse

17. Well, let me read from verse 16. Acts 17.

Verse 16. Now while Paul waited for them at Athens,

his spirit was provoked within him when he saw

that the city was given over to idols. Therefore

he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and

with Gentiles, worshipers, and in the marketplace

daily with those who happened to be there. Then

certain Epicureans and Stoic philosophers encountered

him. And some said, what does this babbler want

to say? Others said, he seems to be a proclaimer

of foreign gods because he preached to them Jesus

and the resurrection. Verse 19. And they took

him and brought him to the Areopagus saying,

may we know what this new doctrine is of which

you speak. For you are bringing some strange

things to our ears. Therefore, we want to know

what these things mean. These are not believers.

For all the Athenians and the foreigners who

were there spent their time in nothing else.

but either to tell or to hear some new things.

Then Paul, verse 22, stood in the midst of Areopagus

and said, Men of Athens, I perceive that in all

the things you are very religious. For as I was

passing through and considering the... objects

of your worship. I even found an altar with this

inscription to the unknown gods. Therefore, the

one whom you worship without knowing, him I proclaim

to you. Look at verse 24. God who makes the world

and everything in it. Since he is Lord of heaven

and earth, does not dwell in temples made with

what? Made with hands. Verse 25. No, is he worshipped

with men's hands as though he needed anything

since he gives to all life breath and all things.

Verse 26. And he made. Please note verse 26.

What did he do? And he made from one blood every

nation of men to dwell on all the face of the

earth and has determined their pre -appointed

times and boundaries of their dwellings. Verse

27. So that they should seek the Lord in the

hope that they might grow for him and find him.

Though he is not far from each of us. For in

him we live, we move and have our being. As also

some of your poets have said. also is offspring.

Therefore, since we are the offspring of God,

we ought not to think that the divine nature

is like gold or silver or stones or something

shaped by art and man's devising. I want you

to know that Paul, first and foremost, was not

speaking in church. He was not speaking to believers.

So he was not speaking to Christians. He was

speaking to these philosophers. Are we together?

Look at verse 26. He said, and he makes from

one blood every nation of men. Every. Every.

One blood from one blood. This means that every

human being has the same identity. Did you understand

what I'm trying to say? Every human being has

the same identity which came from God. Remember

what James said. You understand? Men who have

been made, how? In the similitude of God. Paul

is again reaffirming that every man, every human

being, you understand, have the same identity.

That same identity is what Jesus partook. You

understand? Are we together? And the word became

flesh. And he dwell among us. The word became

flesh. And he dwell among us. So Paul. In this

text. Is pointing. To Moses view. In Genesis

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chapter 1 and 2. About man. James pointed us

to that one also. Remember we have said that

these people were not writing from a thin air.

Did you understand what I'm saying? The apostles,

when they were writing and teaching, they were

not writing from a thin air. It was the materials

of Moses and the prophet they were using. So

every view that we are holding, we ought to see

it across scripture. Because what they were holding

were actually what was taught and revealed. So

Paul agrees with even the poet. You know, you

don't need, it's all necessary. You know, I see

many believers when something happens and then

they ask, and maybe something very spectacular

and it happens and they ask, who is he? Is he

a believer? I know that thing is from the pit

of hell. Did you hear what I'm trying to say?

We have not seen that kind of pattern. Please,

Jesus did not save you to enter into bitterness

with those people who are not saved. Are we together?

The fact that you acknowledge The good things

of God in man doesn't mean that you subscribe

to their ideology. Did you understand what I'm

saying? Paul agreed with their poet. This philosopher,

he agreed with them. Remember, we have it in

our... I think it's here, right? In him we do

what? This is not a quotation from Bible. It's

not from any Old Testament. This is Paul's extraction

from the philosophers. Did you understand what

I'm saying? From these poets. Please don't deny

good things. Don't deny good things. You know,

I know brothers do that. If you see good things,

acknowledge it. Acknowledge it. It's always seen.

It means you are healthy. Acknowledge it. You

know, in those days, anything you see, an invention

in the world or anything that is good, you say,

we know who is giving them those ideas. They

are getting it from the pit of hell. It's from

the marine world. How did you know? Were you

there? There are truths, and we taught this during

the time we were talking about the communicity

of Scripture, I think during one of our cataclysms,

right? There are many texts, many biblical writers

that actually quote from materials from unbelievers.

But the fact that you quote a piece does not

mean that you say everything they are writing

and everything is okay. No, that's not what they're

saying. In fact, if you check here, in that same

place, Paul disputed some of the things also

they are saying. Did you understand what I'm

trying to say? So it's not that blanketly. Oh,

let me see that place. Verse 29. Therefore, since

we are of the hospital of God, we ought not to

think that the divine nature is like gold. Did

you see that? That means they are taking that

the divine nature is like what? He said, no,

no, no, no, that's wrong, that's wrong, that's

wrong. So the fact that Paul quoted from them

and said this is right does not mean that he

subscribes to everything they are saying. Are

we together? So please acknowledge this. If you

see a lady beautifully dressed, you say, oh,

you are beautifully dressed. You know, sir? Don't

you say, bless you, sister. And then when you

go in your heart, say, this lady is endowed.

Hallelujah. You are human. Live it. Humanity

is not sinfulness. Do you understand what I'm

saying? Do you get what I'm trying to say? I

see some people do look as if you are a believer.

You make Christianity look as if it's about you

frowning your face. When people are laughing,

you don't want to laugh. What is that? When we

are fellowshipping and everybody is speaking

and eating some this thing. You don't want to

eat before bread. What is the meaning of that?

You say, what do you call it? Ministerious ethics.

Where did you learn that? From your Jesus? Hallelujah.

Now, as I close for today, the question is, is

that identity, the human identity, is that image,

that identity, sin of sin? No. We have already

noted that that has never been the teaching of

Moses. Moses never taught that. That we are born

sinners. Never. Are we together? Moses never

taught that. The apostles never taught that.

Never. They never taught that. Many people misinterpret

Romans chapter 3. We have taught it in this place.

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Romans chapter 3 verse 23. You understand? All

Romans 3:23

have sinned and fallen short of God's glory.

You understand? Or Romans 5. Verse 12. No. That's

not what Paul is saying. He didn't say that everybody

on earth have sinned. It's not true. You know,

son, when we come next, we will ask the question,

is our physical body part of the image of God?

Is our physical body part of the image of God?

Because we need to address a lot of things. And

so that you see it clearly. That, you know, there

are some teachings of a mixture of different

things. Whereby you think is by destroying your

body and killing your body is the body of sin.

Is the body of sin. We have to kill it and we

die daily. Okay, from what? Of course, I die

daily. See my gray hairs. But that's not what

Paul is saying. Are we together? But as you are

moving, know that there is an inherent value.

The same value like that of a man. God has no

different value for a woman different from that

of a man. Are we together? You have an inherent

value. And it's not because you have done anything.

James told us that he has made. Meaning that

it's an identity not by doing, but by being.

Are we together? By being. You do nothing to

receive such inherent value. It's an act of God.

It's the doing of God. It's the work of God.

And we have seen it. And we tell the Lord for

it. Can you just thank the Lord for that? And

say, Lord, let my view concerning my sister change.

Concerning who I am change. To the one that is

yours. That you have value in her. Just like

you have value in me as a man. That we are both

in the image of God. That you never desire that

we... Stay in isolation. That together. That

together. That it is your plan we stay together.

That it is your plan. You are planning. You are

planning right from the beginning. You wanted

a family. A family that is connected. Male and

female. You wanted a church. Male and female.

Glory to Jesus. Oh, thank you, Lord.