GENERATION OF JESUS CHRIST

1. When God said, ‘… Let us make man in our IMAGE, after our LIKENESS: …”, He spoke of the GENERATION OF JESUS CHRIST, the “… BRIGHTNESS of his GLORY, and the EXPRESS IMAGE OF HIS PERSON …” [Genesis 1:26. Hebrews 1:3] SIN marred the IMAGE in man and prevented crowning GLORY of God’s LIKENESS in man, “For ALL HAVE SINNED, and come short of the glory of God; Being JUSTIFIED FREELY by his GRACE through the REDEMPTION that is in Christ Jesus” [Romans 3:23-24] Our REDEMPTION is the MYSTERY of all time, God was manifest in Jesus Christ to RECONCILE us to Himself, “To wit, that GOD WAS IN CHRIST, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of RECONCILIATION” [2 Corinthians 5:19] The terms and season of our SALVATION and CONFORMITY with Jesus Christ were settled before the beginning, “… FOREORDAINED BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, but was manifest in these last times for you” [1 Peter 1:10-20] We are the GENERATION OF JESUS CHRIST, who receive Jesus Christ as God manifest in flesh and CONFORM to His LIKENESS, “For whom he did FOREKNOW, he also did PREDETINATE to be CONFORMED to the IMAGE of his SON, that he might be the FIRSTBORN AMONG MANY BRETHREN” [Romans 8:29]

2. Every GENERATION has progenitors with traceable precepts, even Jesus Christ, as it is written: “The book of the GENERATION OF JESUS CHRIST, the son of DAVID, the son of ABRAHAM” [Matthew 1:1] We are the GENERATION OF JESUS CHRIST, CALLED out of the world in the manner of Abraham, to who God said, “… GET THEE OUT OF THY COUNTRY, and from thy KINDRED, and from thy FATHER’S HOUSE, unto a land that I WILL SHEW THEE. … and I will BLESS thee, …” [Genesis 12:1-2] We are the GENERATION redeemed out of the misery of SIN by the GOSPEL preached in the NAME of Jesus Christ, who by His BLOOD are HEIRS of the PROMISE, “That the BLESSING of Abraham might come on the GENTILES through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the PROMISE of the SPIRIT through FAITH” [Galatians 3:14] The PROMISE in Genesis 1 26-28 was to ALL MEN, Jews and non-Jews; Your race or gender is no impediment to inheriting the PROMISE and BLESSING of SONS of God, “But as many as RECEIVED HIM, to them gave he POWER to become the SONS OF GOD, even to them that BELIEVE IN HIS NAME” [John 112] Those who BELIEVE in His NAME no longer live for themselves but to please God in the manner of Abraham, putting aside whatever he wanted to be to become what God desired him to be, “… dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the HEIRS with him of the same PROMISE: For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God” [Hebrews 11:10]

3. We are the GENERATION OF JESUS CHRIST, who like David overcame primordial FEAR to possess the PROMISE, “And David said to Saul, LET NO MAN’S HEART FAIL because of him; thy servant will go and FIGHT with this Philistine” [1 Samuel 17:32] Israel had the physical PROMISE, land of Canaan, but lived in fear; there were adversaries and portions unoccupied. The same can be said of the present Church age, those who went before us fought hard to establish the FAITH but we live in fear of adversaries and portions remain unreached. GENERATION OF JESUS CHRIST is God’s end-time ARMY of men and women who have overcome all fears, “Casting down IMAGINATIONS, and every HIGH THING that exalteth itself against the KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, and bringing into captivity every THOUGHT to the OBEDIENCE” [2Corinthians 10:5] David put down Goliath, the GIANTS of today are false doctrines, grand deceptions, conspiracy theories, crass materialism, etc., “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against PRINCIPALITIES, against POWERS, against the rulers of the DARKNESS of this world, against SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS in high places” [Ephesians 6:12] We are SOLDIERS of Christ not CELEBRITIES and have no room for worldly distractions, always in readiness to endure everything the enemy throws at us, “Thou therefore ENDURE HARDNESS, as a good SOLDIER of Jesus Christ. 4 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier” [2 Timothy 2:3-4]