In the world you are a bar code.
In the kingdom you bear the image of God.
You are not your feelings.
You are not your past.
Your inner man is not the age of your outer man.
Your spirit is eternal.
Your real capacity is unexplored because it's a new nature that came alive the moment Christ came into your heart by the Holy Spirit.
You are no longer merely human – you possess an aspect of the divine nature. Your recreated spirit is the real you, and in that part you bear His image.
As you behold the beauty of the Lord you are changed:”But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD” (2 Corinthians 3:18).
Did you know that the ancient mirrors were actually bronze hammered flat? When the sun hit them the radiant reflection would cover your face.
The figure is one of great beauty. The idea is, that by placing ourselves within the light of the gospel and by contemplating the glory that shines there, we become changed into the likeness of the same glory that shines on us.
The world system is called Babylon. Everybody losses their unique identity and becomes a brick, a unit, a number, a bar code – in a globally controlled economic system of total surveillance.
The tower of Babel was built of brick. Each brick made to fit exactly like the other brick.
The Temple of the Lord on the other hand is built of stones – “living stones” that fit together in such a way that each stone is unique.
The world pressures you to conform. It tries to make you a brick in a godless system.
The kingdom challenges the bride to transform: to make you a living stone in a living temple.
You are a whole lot more than you think you are!
“When He appears you will see Him as He is and immediately be transformed to be just like Him ” (1 John 3:2).
Do you know why? Because you are made of the same nature and material. Your life is hidden in Christ.
You only need to see Him to be like Him.
You only need to receive His words to activate what you've got.
Open the Bible and do it now. You only need to see to be.
Make sense?
– Lance
Transformation is such a slow process and the new nature seems actively dormant sometimes.
wowow, what wonderful words of enlightenment and encouragement. Such powerful words of strength that I need to hear over and over again. Thank you so much brother. I am from Providence, R.I and a Jewish believer also. Praise Yeshua haMashiach!
Awesome. It’s so big – so very very big. Creation groans, longing for us to get this.
Dr. Lance: Once again, Sir, your words from your blog (by the Spirit) have touched my heart. Sometimes I look down on myself but I should look
towards heaven because I am a Child of the King! I have to remind myself who I am in Christ.
Great blog Pastor Lance! Amen!
You have made your mark. You remind me of Paul with clear and lifechanging words. Divinely inspired.
Lance
Ever since I drove to Bakersfield some years ago to listen to your ministry (at which time I was one of five you prophesied over) you have been a life changing influence. This blog continues to be that kind of Blessing! Keep Fighting The Fight Which Has Already Been Won!
Thank you Lance,
I like the mirror explanation & the comparison about bricks & living stones.
Shalom Brigitte
We are created to rule the world by His word and not to conform to the world.
The wisdom condensed in this article is huge!!!
More power and grace Lance
Yes! This so resonates with what I’ve been seeing. I have dug and dug deep only to feel ‘go deeper’, to discover in weakness and weary from the work, that I’ve dug my own grave, and for the finished work I must die already, to rise as His treasure. He deliberately pointed my way to Him is by loving every unlovable thing about myself, His handy work. Ps. 65.