We’re in the Process of being Deified to become the New Jerusalem Fully Expressing God

…We know that if He is manifested, we will be like Him because we will see Him even as He is. 1 John 3:2

As believers in Christ, we are in the process of being deified to become the New Jerusalem, fully expressing God for eternity! There is an amazing thought in the Bible concerning God's desire to be one with man; His desire is to become man so that … [Continue reading]

The Resemblance of God and Man as seen in Man’s Creation and Christ’s Incarnation

And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness… Gen. 1:26

Throughout the Bible we see that God desires to be one with man and for man to be one with Him, and in particular this is seen in the resemblance of God and man in their images and likenesses. Wow! This week in our Crystallization-study of Jeremiah … [Continue reading]

Christ is the Treasure in our Earthen Vessel: we’re Vessels of Mercy unto Glory!

To Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus unto all the generations forever and ever. Amen. Eph. 3:21

As believers in Christ, we were created to be vessels of mercy unto honor to contain Christ as the God of glory; in our earthen vessel we have a priceless treasure, Christ Himself, and we're being transformed into His image from glory to glory. … [Continue reading]

We Worship God for His Sovereign Mercy, for He made us Vessels of Mercy unto Honor

Because of the merciful compassions of our God, in which the rising sun will visit us from on high. Luke 1:78

In His sovereignty, God the Father has had mercy on us and made us vessels of mercy unto honor and glory; we must praise and worship God for His sovereign mercy and trust not in ourselves but in His mercy. According to Gen. 1:26, God created us in … [Continue reading]

Seeing that Everything Depends on God’s Mercy and being the Open Vessels of Mercy

So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy. Rom. 9:16

Everything depends on God's mercy; it's all because of His mercy, not because of our seeking, pursuit, or intelligence, but because of His great mercy toward us. God has sovereignly created us in His image and according to His likeness for us to be … [Continue reading]

God’s Mercy Reached us and made us Vessels of Mercy: Everything Depends on His Mercy

In His sovereignty God as our Potter has the authority to make the ones whom He has selected and called to be vessels of mercy unto honor and glory — Rom. 9:11, 18, 21-24. Crystallization-Study of Jeremiah, outline 5

It is all because of His mercy; in His sovereignty, God as our Potter has the authority to make the ones whom He has selected and called to be vessels of mercy unto honor and glory. It is not because of our seeking, our zeal, our being better than … [Continue reading]

As God-shaped Containers we’re Open Vessels Emptying ourselves to be Filled with God

In order that He might make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He had before prepared unto glory. Rom. 9:23

The basic teaching of the whole Scripture is that God is the content and we are made as vessels, containers (even God-shaped containers!), to receive God, be filled with God, and be vessels unto honor; not being filled with God is vanity of vanities, … [Continue reading]