Roger Thrower

Father God planned to have an earthly family to be his eternal family restored to him, empowered by him, and re-presenting him by reigning in life and eternity with and through him.

Jesus is the ultimate picture or functioning image of what we are becoming. Our hearts belonging completely to Father God, knitted to him, reflecting the fulness of his love and life in Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 1:3a - He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature….

Romans 8:29 - For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

This functional image of God in re-presenting Jesus Christ as the ultimate picture of what all mankind is to be is under assault in the earth today.

2 Corinthians 4:3-4 - And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. 4 In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

For instance, just one of the attributes of Jesus that is to be re-presented in his followers to emulate his character is to forgive your enemies.

Only Jesus does this. He is the source of forgiveness in the human race. The blood of the cross is the power of redemption that releases the forgiveness of sins, all sins.

Your high calling, our high calling, in this life and eternity is to show forth the image of God as he truly is. This is only accomplished as he empowers us, like a branch receives from the vine.

Jesus patterned this for us.
John 5:19 - So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.

Jesus coming to earth was an act of war culminating in victory when we rose from the dead breaking the power of sin and death.

1 John 3:8 - Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil.

In Luke 4:18 the word captive in the Bible Greek language literally means prisoner of war.

Captivity - the state or period of being held, imprisoned, enslaved, or confined. A condition of being trapped and confined under the control of someone or something.

Captivity can involve words, a habit, a troubling thought process, a point of control over a part of your life that traps you and you feel powerless to control, thus captivity.

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