WCCC Day 5 Conformed to the image of His Son

Brother Stephan Kung Section 3. The Son is the Exact Image of God

I. If we love the Lord, we will know His will and love that will. So, what is His will? He has chosen us before the foundation of the world and pre-destined us to be conformed to the image of His Son.
II. Pre-destined is according to His all-knowledge. It is what we will be and what we must be.
He knows, so He calls. He calls, so He is responsible, faithful and will perform. He is responsible, He will justify. (We have totally no ability to be justified by faith.) He justifies, He sanctify (separate). He sanctifies, He glorify. To be glorified is to be conformed to the image of His Son. Because, the Son is the completely magnification of God's glory Image.
III. What we lacking is God's divine nature, which is His Life. No life, no conformation. Have Son, we have His life, and this is gospel.
IV. Transformation:
1. The Son has demonstrated a perfect human life on earth. He has every rights to exit this world, but He did not and went to Calvary. Only showing us a perfect person is not enough, we need a perfect life. Therefore, through the cross, His life was released to anyone who believed in Him.
2. When we believed in Him, we have that exactly/perfect life in us. Bird has a bird's life and fish has a fish's life. Old Adam has old Adam's life - a self-center life. But, what kind of life did we receive? The life we receive from Christ is a transformation life - such as a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly. This life is exactly the same life that our Lord Jesus has when He was on earth.
3. This is the work of Holy Spirit. If we obey the Holy Anointing, we abide in Him. In another word, if we don't do our job (obey), the Holy Spirit will not do His work. To follow the Holy Anointing is the meaning of living sacrifice. How can what we have heard and have saw become a reality? Living Sacrifice.
4. Offering is a beginning and a way. Everyone should have their first time, and continue to offer up deeper and deeper. Holy Spirit will point out which thing needs to be offered up. That's why the burning offering is offered in the morning and night, and the fire (1st love) is never extinguished.
5. This body belongs to me and I have the very right to do whatever I want to do. Now, I am so moved by God's love, I offer my body up to God. Then, it is up to God to do whatever He wants to do with it. God has the very right to do whatever He wants to do on this body, and I don't.
6. Why transformation is slowing down? It is because our heart is tempted away from Christ. We become what we look at. We look at Christ, we will be like Him, we look at earthly thing, we will be earthly.
7. Transformation has everything to do with love.
8. Song of Songs tell about the story of transformation.