SERMON BY REV. ALBERT BOTCHWAY:
We are the believers of God because of our allegiance with Jesus.
Ephesians : 1 : 3 – Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
Ephesians : 1 : 4 – According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Hebrews : 1 : 1 – God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
Being in Christ is not an after thought. God planted us in Christ before the foundations of the earth. As we sit in Christ Jesus we sat there before the foundations of the earth. God knew you many years before this earth came into being. We were in Christ before God created the earth.
God also has an impression and God’s impression is Christ. All that was in the mind of God was Christ. This is because in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God. anytime God comes to man he comes to man with his word.
Impression: Something imagined or pictured in the mind.
Expression:
Hebrews : 1 : 2 – Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
Hebrews : 1 : 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, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:
Anytime God wants to express himself it’s through Christ. Nobody has seen God before but God’s expression is Christ and this because Christ is the expressed image of God’s person.
The impression that God had when he expressed it, it was Christ. So if you see Christ, you haven’t seen God but you have seen the expressed image of God.
God dwells beyond the spiritual and so if you want to see God he expresses himself in the image of Christ. God is in another realm(God is in the heavenly places)
1 Timothy : 6 : 16 – Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.
Colossians : 1 : 15 – Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Colossians : 1 : 16 – For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him:
Colossians : 1 : 17 – And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
Heaven is created and things which cannot be seen with the physical eyes was created by Jesus. Jesus is the first born(source) of all creation. So therefore the creator is Christ.
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