You Are an Image Bearer: Be Who God Made You to Be

• And so let’s look at James chapter 2 verse 30 or verse 14 through 25. What good is it my brother and sisters if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? King James says works. Can such faith save them? Now here’s the theological side. Okay. So what good is it if you claim to have faith but you don’t have works or you don’t have deeds? Can such faith save them? That’s the theological side, right? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food.
• That’s the activist side. That’s the doing side. So what if I always told you about myself that I am sent into this earth primarily for two reasons? To bring spiritual truths that transform, which means to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. and to also take care of the poor needy. Now, my heart has been heaviest for children and women because of my own personal experience, but I do these two things and I don’t separate them and go, I only do this and there’s been opportunity to only do this side or I only do this and there’s been
• opportunity which means that it frustrates most people because they often want to box you in. Never let anybody box you in. You be who God uniquely created you to be. And I’m going to show you how all this fits into the church because the church is made up, the bride is made up of many members.
• So, you’re going to see how all this comes back to the local church because I’m going to give you a sentence too early. But the church, okay, here’s always been my philosophy and here’s the word of God. The church is the epicenter of all society. That’s why I say the only legal entity in the earth that is authorized by God to bring forth true transformation whether in a person’s life or a political system or an organization is the bloodbought church of Jesus Christ.
• So the church should always be the epicenter. It always was. That’s why Jesus went in. Think about this. Jesus went in and what did he do? He said, “You’ve turned my house of prayer into a den of thieves. You’ve turned the church into something that it was never supposed to be. And what did he do? He threw over the market tables.
• What are market tables? They were doing banking. Was that wrong to do banking? Because see, we have a western concept of church. No. Because when you went in, why did Paul tell I know I’m getting a little off script here, but why did Paul tell women, and you’ve got to be able to study the Bible in context. He says, “Put a covering on your head.
• ” Does that mean that all of us that don’t have a covering were wrong scripturally? No. Because he was specifically dealing with Corinth, which was quite a church. All right? That’s why we need to go to Greece. Anyway, it was quite a church because you’ll understand all their different gods. You’ll understand like all the the different philosophies which the 10 main philosophies came out of the centers.