Like Father Like Son

God gives us, as a gift, a deposit of Spiritual Life. We become a partaker of the Divine Nature. That’s a gift. But that isn’t the end of it. That is totally the first, basic movings of God. Now, what does HE desire? That He may build a Christian Character through this; that out of it, like a Spiritual Evolution, may come a New Creation, birthed of God, in Spirit… and in Life, and in all Truth; A REALITY. A thing which will never perish. The body, upon which you lay so much emphasis; that’s going to perish. The things that you do; they will perish! He will never ask me, as I stand before Him, "How many souls did you save?" He’ll never ask me that! He’ll never say, "How many books did you write? How many churches did you build? How many missionaries…" He doesn’t do that! That isn’t the point!! Well, why? Because if any of that has ever become effective in God, it had to be wrought in the Spirit anyway, and not mine! He can’t bless me and reward me for something which he has done! He wouldn’t thank Himself for what He’s done! Why, I say, all of that is what HE has accomplished. What will He do? He will say, "Turn around my child." And as I turn around, He will, with His penetrating power of perception, seek to find how much of the Image and Likeness of His Son; how much of that, has been etched upon my immortal spirit. "What have you done?" NO!! What have you become!!! He will never ask about what you have done! It is always what have you become!! How? You have become this through faithfulness.