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Fred R. Coulter–-December 20, 2025
God has made us in his image. And given us the spirit of man as we will see in just a bit. But nothing with even the highest form of what is called Artificial Intelligence, or what is made or created, has life.
this is why we are here
this is why God has made us in:
His image
His likeness
But what He’s going to do for all of these ‘great Intelligent people’ in the world is going to absolutely. confound them!
Let’s come to 1-Cor. 1 and see what God says, and then we’ll get down into what God has given us, which is greater than anything that the scientists can come up with.
1-Corinthians 1:19: “For it is written, ‘I will destroy the wisdom of the wise...’”
Now remember this: ‘There is a way, which seems right to a man, but the end thereof is the way of death’–-death and destruction.’ Look at what we have today. All of the people killing and murdering. Just like it was before the Flood. Why? Because they are misusing what God has given them to use properly!
“‘...and I will nullify the understanding of those who understand.’ Where is the wise?.... [they’re nowhere] ...Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age?....” (vs 19-20)
Now listen carefully, because this is going to happen, and God is going to do it in a way that they will be astounded, but never understand.
Verse 20: “Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this age? Did not God make foolish the wisdom of this world? For since in the wisdom of God the world through its own wisdom did not know God...” (vs 20-21).
That is exactly where Eduardo ended up {note message: In Our Image #2}
Psalm 14:1[transcriber’s correction]–-“The fool has said in his heart, ‘There is no God.’....”–-so, we will make God. ourselves!
Here is what God has done. He does the opposite of what human beings think. All of the intelligent, all the wise and all of those who know all of these things, it’s nothing compared to what God has done. So, God isn’t going to select any of them. That’s why we do not see Elon Musk sitting in the first row of our meeting today. He may be the most wise and the richest...
Here is what God has done.
1-Corinthians 1:21: “...It pleased God to save those Who believe...”
believe God
believe Christ
believe His Truth
live His way
“...through the foolishness of preaching” (v 21).
They look upon the teachings from the Bible, foolishness. Who are these people? Well, one day they’ll find out!
Verse 22: “For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom; but we proclaim Christ crucified....”(vs 22-23).
They have no idea whatsoever Who Christ is or why He came. That’s why we are putting together another transcript book: Who Is Jesus Christ?
The true Jesus Christ they have rejected. They have created. False Christs. Satan has infiltrated those organizations and churches that should believe the Truth, because they have the Bible. But don’t believe it because Satan is infiltrated them.
“...To the Jews it is a cause of offense, and to the Greeks it is foolishness; but to those who are called—both Jews and Greeks–-Christ is God’s power and God’s wisdom” (vs 23-24).
All they have to do to solve their problems is begin right here in John 1, and understand that all that they see, and all they can’t see... Here’s the important thing:
John 1:1: “In the beginning was the Word...”
that’s the One Who was Christ
that’s the One Who was the LORD God of the Old Testament
God has done a wonderful thing. Since they don’t know anything about the Bible or anything about God, they can’t understand it; it’s foolishness to them.
“...and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (v 1).
Right in one verse it tells us that in the Godhead today there are two:
God the Father—the Great Sovereign of the whole universe
Jesus Christ—His only begotten Son
Verse 2: “He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through Him, and not even one thing that was created came into being without Him” (vs 2-3).
Everything that these men work with are the things that God has made! Yet, they do just exactly as Eduardo pointed out, they fall down and worship it!
Verse 4: “In Him was life, and the Life was the Light of men. And the Light shines in the darkness, but the darkness does not comprehend it” (vs 4-5).
They could know! I wonder what would happen if you would hand the Bible to some of these ‘great’ scientists and technicians, and say: ‘Here’s what you need instead of what you’re doing.’ They would run you out! Let’s look at us:
1-Corinthians 1:26: “For you see your calling, brethren...”
That’s true. We are here because an event unseen by human hands has occurred. That is through God’s intervention in our life, however that may be, for each one of us in a little different way. He’s intervened so that we come to know God. That comes beginning with something that most people don’t like to do; that is repent! Repentance! Repentance is a moving experience that is spiritual. because God is involved in it!
Verse 26: “For you see your calling, brethren, that there are not many who are wise according to the flesh, not many who are powerful, not many who are highborn among you. Rather, God has chosen the foolish things of the world, so that He might put to shame those who are wise; and God has chosen the weak things of the world so that He might put to shame the strong things. And the lowborn of the world, and the despised has God chosen—even the things that are counted as nothing—in order that He might bring to nothing the things that are... [God does not operate the way that men do] ...so that no flesh might glory in His presence” (vs 26-29).
Come up to God and say, ‘Look, God, what I did’–-no one!
Verse 30: “But you are of Him in Christ Jesus, Who was made to us wisdom from God, even righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption; so that, as it is written, ‘The one who glories, let him glory in the Lord’” (vs 30-31).
Now then, we are going to get into something about human life that only the Bible can tell us the Truth of.
the world knows nothing about it
the world can’t understand that
in spite of
all that they have
all that they’ve invented
all of the AI that they’re making
all of the robots that they devise
They don’t know what life is!
Now let’s see what God can do that men cannot do. That is create human life! It’s amazing what He has done. That’s why there’s male and female. And after the command that God gave to dress the garden and keep it, and created Eve and presented Eve to Adam, He said:
Genesis 2:24: “For this reason shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.”
Right from the beginning. When they come together as male and female, and where there’s a beginning of a new human life,it comes from life that only God can give!
We have a book that’s called From a Speck of Dust to a Son of God, Why Were You Born? The creation of human life is so marvelous and fantastic. And it comes from that which you cannot see with the naked eye!
David wrote Psa. 139 and he says, concerning human life and concerning God:
Psalm 139:13: “For You have possessed my reins; You have knit me together in my mother’s womb.”
That is an absolute amazing miracle of creation, another human being made in the image of God! That’s why there’s male and female; God made it that way! All the other attempts of creating human beings or substitute human beings or create them without male and female–-the way God intended—all come to nothing!
“...You have knit me together in my mother’s womb. I will praise You, for I am awesomely and wonderfully made; Your works are marvelous and my soul knows it very well. My substance...” (vs 13-15).
That’s what we started out as. Today abortion is the #1 rate of murder. Millions and millions and millions. God’s judgment is coming on the world because of it.
Verse 15: “My substance was not hidden from You when I was made in secret and intricately formed in the lowest parts of the earth.” That’s a symbolic description of the womb!
Verse 16: “Your eyes did see my substance... [God can know exactly when you were conceived] ...yet, being unformed; and in Your book ALL my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet, there were none of them.”
Everything about it. You think about everything about the human body; that’s a tremendous thing, and then children are born.
When they’re born the first thing that happens is you say, ‘Are they all there?’ And there are only two sexes: male and female. I’m thankful that the Congress has passed the law to outlaw transgenderism, which is the most satanic thing possible!
Now then, let’s think about this, because God’s thoughts are toward us. God’s thoughts are toward His people, and we will see how 1-Cor. fits in.
Verse 17: “How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them! If I should count them, they are more than the sand; when I awake, I am still with You. Surely You will slay the wicked, O God; therefore, you bloody men, depart from me” (vs 17-19).
1-Peter 1 see what God does when we repent or are baptized and receive the Holy Spirit. God does something akin to the very beginning of human life but this then is the beginning of spiritual life for us as human beings. That’s what God is doing with us right now.
1-Peter 1:1: “Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the elect strangers scattered in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia; who have been chosen...” (vs 1-2)–-selected by God!
That’s an interesting thing to understand. People can’t go to God and select Him; God selects us! Then what does He do?
He forgives our sins
He buries them in the watery grave of baptism
That’s why it’s by full immersion in water!
then we receive the Spirit of God
That Spirit of God comes from God to what we will see is the ‘spirit of man’ in just a bit. That’s something that the scientist cannot reproduce. the spirit of man and the Spirit of God only comes from God!
Verse 2: “Who have been chosen according to the predetermined knowledge of God the Father, by sanctification through the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied to you.”
Notice this again. This is where it all begins and this is how even though choosing those who are not the highborn etc. that we develop into what God wants us to be. Here’s where it starts.
Verse 3: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ... [that ties in with John 1] ...Who, according to His abundant mercy...”
Now, pay close attention to this, because there’s no such thing as born again while you’re still in the flesh. Jesus was the Firstborn from among the dead! But in order for there to be human life there’s got to be a begettal from the father and the mother to create that new life within the womb of the mother.
Now then, spiritually speaking, there is a parallel. When we repent and we receive the Holy Spirit of God, let’s see what Peter writes about it.
Verse 3: “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who, according to His abundant mercy, has begotten us again...”
There is the begettal that starts Christ within us, and then we are to grow in grace and knowledge spiritually:
through the Word of God
through the love of God
through faith
and no man can duplicate that; that comes from God!
“...has begotten us again unto a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead; unto an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and unfading, reserved in heaven for us, who are being safeguarded by the power of God through faith for salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time” (vs 3-5). That leads up to the resurrection!
This is a tremendous thing that God is doing. The world doesn’t understand it. They don’t know what it is. That’s why those who are called, chosen and faithful (Rev. 17) that’s the most important thing.
1-Cor. 2–-it talks about the spirit and power of the Gospel and so forth, that our faith and wisdom might be through God!
1-Corintians 2:9: “But according as it is written, ‘The eye has not seen...”
Everything I describe to you we can understand that takes place. But we didn’t see it start, but when a baby is born, we see the final product of husband and wife. That’s an exact parallel so that when we are born again from the flesh, that we will be exactly as God is! Just like a newborn baby is made in the image of God through mother and father.
“...‘The eye has not seen, nor the ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.’” (v 9).
Now, here’s something very important to grasp:
no robot can love
no robot can have feelings
no robot can cry
no robot can repent
Cut off the electricity and it falls into a pile of junk! What God is doing with us is something!
“...the things which God has prepared for those who love Him” (v 9.
Now, the reason we understand it, is because of:
the Word of God
the Spirit of God
the love of God and our love back to Him
God’s goodness to us
His Commandments
His Laws
everything that God has given to us
which no man can reproduce, an amazing thing!
Verse 10: “But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit...”
We didn’t come up with it because of our thoughts. We’re not living the life that we’re living because we of ourselves have chosen to do it without God.
“...‘The eye has not seen, nor the ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him.’ But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things—eventhe deep things of God” (vs 9-10).
That’s an amazing thing! Think about it; this world today is going absolutely nuts, absolutely crazy, because they’ve rejected God! They don’t know what is happening!
Well, let’s look at what’s happening with us, and what God is doing to us.
Verse 11: “For who among men understands the things of man except by the spirit of man, which is in him?”
That spirit is a spirit that is given to man at the instant of conception! Every man and woman has the spirit of man, and with that, there are all the attributes of human existence and things that can be on the level of love, service, doing and everything like that! But more importantly, to receive the Spirit of God! Begotten again!
“...no one understands except by the Spirit of God. Now, we have not received the spirit of the world” (vs 11-12).
What is the ‘spirit of this world’? The ‘spirit of this world’ emanates from Satan the devil! Satan is able to bring what appears to be benefits.
God gives blessings! Here is the spirit that is in the world, Eph. 2. That’s why our calling and everything about what God is doing is so absolutely amazing. The world doesn’t even understand that.
Ephesians 2:1: “Now, you were dead in trespasses and sins...”
The only way that you know that you’re doing what is wrong is because of how things turn out so badly. That’s one of the ways that God begins to call you. You begin to realize that you have got to find your way out of this mess, and then God opens the door so that you understand what He wants you to do.
Verse 2: “In which you walked in times past according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit... [of the world] ...that is now working within the children of disobedience.”
Everyone out there is subject to Satan, the devil, and what does it say today for the end time? Satan is deceiving the whole world!
Do any of those who are connected with AI, developing robots and all of that, think that they’re being deceived by the spirit of this world, Satan the devil? No! No, they don’t!
“...that is now working within the children of disobedience; among whom also we all once had our conduct in the lusts of our flesh, doing the things willed by the flesh and by the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as the rest of the world. But God, Who is rich in mercy because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, has made us alive together with Christ. (For you have been saved by grace.)” (vs 2-5).
Now, there are two aspects of saving:
saved from our sins
saved from death
saved from our sins means we:
we receive the Holy Spirit of God
we love God
we keep His Commandments
saved from death means when the resurrection comes
All of that is by grace!
1-John 5:1: “Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been begotten by God...”
That’s what Peter wrote about begotten again, which then is sanctification through the Spirit. Now, this is what we need to understand, the parallel that’s going on with us and the deception that’s going on in the world.
“...and everyone who loves Him Who begat also loves him who has been begotten by Him. By this standard we know that we love the children of God: when we love God and keep His Commandments” (vs 1-2).
And you cannot duplicate that in anything that man can make. Doesn’t matter what you make it look like. It doesn’t matter what you make it speak.
there is no love
there is no feeling
there is no spirit of man
there is no Spirit of God
That is the spirit of this world, which is Satan the devil!
Verse 3: “For this is the love of God: that we keep His Commandments; and His Commandments are not burdensome.”
Let’s read what it is that God is doing with us and all of the people of God, wherever they are, because God is doing something so great:
in preparation for the first resurrection
in preparation for the return of Christ
that He wants us to understand we need to draw close to Him:
pray
study
overcome
yield to God
because His Plan is way beyond anything that we have ever imagined, and we won’t know it until we’re resurrected from the dead!
1-John 3:1: “Behold! What glorious love the Father has given to us...”
think about what we are because of God
think about what we were when we were conceived
think about what we are now
think about what God wants us to do
think about how we yield to God
This is what we need to understand: Only God can do this!
“...What glorious love the Father has given to us, that we should be called the children of God!....” (v 1).
that’s why we’re here
that’s why we do what we do
that’s why we have the Word of God
that’s why we love God and keep His Commandments
So living in this world the way that it is, yeah, we can use some of these digital things, but there’s no life in it!
Verse 2: “Beloved, now we are the children of God, and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be... [we don’t know what that’s going to be like] ...but we know... [now this is what we need to keep in the forefront of our mind]: ...that when He is manifested, we shall be like Him...”
Now notice this next sentence, because this is the whole key as to:
why we’re here
where we’re going
what we are doing
what we will do
how we achieve it
Right here!
“...because we shall see Him exactly as He is” (v 2). That’s an amazing thing!
When a child is developing in the womb of its mother, mother and father put their hand on where the baby is and they talk with each other, and they say, ‘I wonder what he will look like.’
Will he look like mother?
Will he look like father?
Will it be a boy?
Will it be a girl?
They have a way of knowing whether it’s a boy or girl now before they’re born. But God is the One Who has done it! That’s an amazing thing! Now, think about this spiritually!
Verse 3: “And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself, even as He is pure”–-that’s through the power of God!
We will see this is an amazing thing indeed that God has done, what God is doing with us right now in our lives. So, we don’t need to be discouraged about what’s going on—all the evil is going on in the world—because they’re following Satan the devil, and all the evil is taking place because they have rejected God! But God is dealing with us!
That’s why in understanding what we understand is so fantastic. So, keep this in mind when you’re praying and studying, that:
God is working with you
God will help you
God has a way to help you
to forgive you
to strengthen you
to lead you
because we are His begotten children, not yet born! Amazing! We can’t figure it out ourselves!
1-Corinthians 2:10: “But God has revealed them to us by His Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things—eventhe deep things of God.” That includes:
how we live
how we think
prophecy
everything about God
Verse 11: “For who among men understands the things of man except by the spirit of man, which is in him?
That’s what no robot can have. No robot can have anything greater than electrical power and inputted knowledge that has already existed.
“...In the same way also, the things of God.... [we saw that] ...no one understands except by the Spirit of God” (v 11)–-which God has given them!
Now then, here’s the parallel: “... In the same way also, the things of God...”
This is why we need to stay close to God in the days that we’re living in right now. Because He wants us to grow and develop in grace and knowledge and understanding. While the world is doing all of this, God is doing all of this wherever his people are!
Verse 12: “Now, we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is of God, so that we might know the things graciously given to us by God.” Now, that’s an amazing thing! That’s why:
when we study, we learn
when we love God, He loves us
when we love each other and care for each other, God is with us
All of that is there, and that all comes from God!
Col. 1–-this tells us how we come to know this. Then in Col. 2, as we’ve seen before, Paul warns us about the philosophy of men. The worst thing that can happen is to try and take the good from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and use that ‘good’ instead of the spiritual good from God.
That’s what he’s talking about right here in Col. 1. It’s so important for us to understand what God is doing. It talks about Christ, and that’s an important thing for us to understand.
Col. 1–-about how that Epaphras gave a good report of their spiritual condition.
Colossians 1:9: “For this cause we also, from the day that we heard of it, do not cease to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will...”
This is what God wants. That’s why we have the Bible. That’s why that’s the most important thing that we have. This Bible tells us everything we need to know about:
the world
sin
repentance
goodness
obedience
God the Father
Christ
what our destiny is
where we’re going
what we’re doing
All of that right in one book! Amazing!
Verse 10: “That you may walk worthily of the Lord... [live your life according to the Word of God] ...unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God...”
That’s more important today than ever before with all of this false knowledge out there going around. And it’s amazing. It is attractive; it is hypnotic and all of that! But it’s not from God.
Here’s how we grow in it: “...being strengthened with all power according to the might of His glory, unto all endurance and long-suffering with joy (v 10)
Showing that everything in our life is centered around developing the character of God, preparing for God’s way in us, so that at the resurrection we can be born again and enter into the Kingdom of God. Now the world can never figure that out!
Verse 12: “Giving thanks to the Father, Who has made us qualified for the share of the inheritance of the saints in the Light.”
Being the children of God, we’re going to inherit what God gives us. That’s why, as Peter wrote, we have to be begotten again with the Holy Spirit of God! Now then, it shows where this goes.
Verse 12: “Giving thanks to the Father, Who has made us qualified for the share of the inheritance of the saints in the Light; Who has personally rescued us from the power of darkness...” (vs 12-13).
Think about that. The power of darkness is Satan the devil, who rules this world. We have been saved from that!
that’s why we’re not to go back to it
that’s why we’re to grow in grace and knowledge
“...and has transferred us unto the Kingdom of the Son of His love” (v 13).
Now these are all things that Christ taught, all the Laws of God combined together, etc.
Verse 14: “In Whom we have redemption through His own blood, even the remission of sins.”
That’s what’s really important. Today, we have so many things bombarding our minds through television, through digital things, through ads, everything.
That’s why we need to study every day and come close to God, and let Him give us of His spirit. Let us have the strength to put, by determination, those things out of our lives.
“...redemption through His own blood, even the remission of sins” (v 14).
That’s why it says there in the prayer that Jesus gave us, the model prayer, every day you repent! To show you how easily it’s to get sin in your mind, have you ever had a song trapped in your mind that came from an ad that you saw on television or heard over the radio? That song, the one that Dolores never liked was Cars for Kids. That song, she said, was the hardest one to get out of her mind. I find the mute button as soon as I see Cars for Kids, because I know what that song is, and I’ve had a hard time getting it out of my mind.
But we have been redeemed from that through His Holy Spirit. We have, as our Savior, Jesus Christ the Son of God.
Verse 15[transcriber’s correction]: “Who is the image of the invisible God, the Firstborn of all creation.”
Now, that means the creation of us, all who are the saints who are going to be in the first resurrection! That’s what it is. God is creating in us now:
the very character that we need
the very love that we need
His Laws written in our heart and mind
And overcoming the sin within!
Verse 16: “Because by Him were all things created, the things in heaven and the things on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether they be thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him and for Him. And He is before all, and by Him... [by the Word of His power] ...all things subsist. And He is the Head of the Body, the Church...” (vs 16-18).
Now, today, the Church is scattered because of the nature of what it is like in the world. That’s why we have an opportunity of yielding to God with His Spirit and growing and overcoming like never before.
“...the Firstborn from among the dead so that in all things He Himself might hold the preeminence.... [always be there] ...For it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell; and having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things to Himself; by Him, whether the things on the earth, or the things in heaven” (vs 18-20).
Now, stop and think about this: We have been called with such a great calling that we’re going to be involved in helping to bring about the completion of God’s Plan in the phase that he’s working with now! That’s an amazing thing to understand. That’s why we’re here.
Verse 22: ‘In the body of His flesh through death, to present you... [this is what God wants] ...Holy and unblamable and unimpeachable before Him.”
That’s why we do what we do. This is why it’s important, as Eduardo brought up, that we don’t get caught up in the modern idolatry of this digital world and get carried away with it and think that we’re something greater than we are.
Now then, here’s how that’s going to happen, and these are the choices we need to make.
the world is choosing hatred
the world is choosing murder
the world is choosing all of the sins that are going to lead to its total collapse
But here’s what we must do:
Verse 23: “If indeed you continue in the faith grounded... [not floating around, not wondering, not getting after false doctrine, any of that] ...and steadfast, and are not moved away from the hope of the Gospel, which you have heard, and which was proclaimed in all the creation that is under heaven; of which I, Paul, became a servant.”
See how great it is that God has called us for what He’s doing with the Plan that He has created.
Verse 24: “Now, I am rejoicing in my sufferings...”
You go through and study what Paul went through and what he suffered, so think about that! We’re going to suffer things! We’re going to go through things! All of those things are there so that we can grow and overcome and prepare for the great creation at the resurrection. That’s the whole goal of what God is working for now.
Everything else, all the prophecies, everything that there is, you find in the book of Revelation, leads to that very thing!
“...for the sake of His Body, which is the Church; of which I became a servant, according to the administration of God that was given to me for you in order to complete the Word of God” (vs 24-25)–-and he did it!
Now we have the complete Word of God, and let me just say this: one of the wonderful things that God has granted us to do is to produce the Bible, The Holy Bible In Its Original Order, that is the best translation even on Artificial Intelligence so that
we can study it with confidence
we can understand it with Truth
we can let God’s Spirit work with us
we can change, grow and overcome
we can develop the love of God
God is doing so many great things within His own Church that the world knows nothing about, and that’s what he’s doing in each one of our lives!
Verse 26: “Even the mystery that has been hidden from ages and from generations, but has now been revealed to His saints.” Ties right in there with 1-Cor. 2! Revealed by His Spirit
connecting with the spirit of man
connecting with the Word of God
connecting with all that God wants us to do
Everything that comes from God can never be reproduced by men in an artificial world.
Verse 27: “To whom God did will... [the will of God in our lives] ...to make known...”–-to understand!
I hope we all realize how fantastic that is! There are some times that you go along and you just stop and think, especially if you can go out at night and look at the stars, or you can even use your laptop and look at some of the pictures of the universe and you think about the God Who made that, Who created it all by command! Who knows it all by name; knows it all by number, has called each one of us, to understand the great mystery of God, that the world cannot understand! Remember, that’s why we’re here!
Verse 27: “To whom God did will to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.”
1-John 4–-let’s keep this in mind with what God is doing with us, to us, and through us, and so forth, and that this is how we change, grow and overcome!
1-John 4:4–-showing that we are not part of the world: “You are of God, little children, and have overcome them because greater is He Who is in you than the one who is in the world.”
Remember that God in you! Christ in you, is greater than anything in the world!
Verse 5: “They are of the world; because of this, they speak of the world, and the world listens to them. We are of God; the one who knows God listens to us; the one who is not of God does not listen to us” (vs 5-6)
That is, IF we preach the Word of Truth, the way it should be!
“...the one who is not of God does not listen to us. By this means we know the Spirit of the Truth and the spirit of the deception” (v 6)–-which is coming upon the whole world, and it’s going to be awesome indeed!
It’s going to look like the greatest thing that there is going to be:
yes, men can work out their problems
yes, we can have peace
yes, we can tame everybody down
yes, we can control everyone through AI and through the Mark of the Beast
‘Now we can have our perfect world,’ that’s what’s coming to the world!
Verse 7: “Beloved, we should love one another because love is from God; and everyone who loves has been begotten by God, and knows God.”
There it is again! That’s why living in this world the way it is, it’s really important for us!
Verse 7: “Beloved, we should love one another because love is from God; and everyone who loves has been begotten by God, and knows God.”
That’s what it’s all about! As John closes off here, he talks about the world.
1-John 5:18: “We know that anyone who is begotten by God does not practice sin... [sin is breaking the Commandments of God] ...for the one who has been begotten by God keeps himself by the power of God...”
staying close to God
using His Spirit
growing and overcoming
“...and the wicked one does not touch him” (v 18).He can’t really take you down when you stay close to God!
Verse 19: “We know that we are of God, and that the whole world lies in the power of the wicked one.”
We can see that today as never before, that is an amazing thing! So, this is what we need to look to!
I’m thankful that Eduardo did a real good job in explaining about Artificial Intelligence, and thankful for the Word of God that tells us:
why we’re here
where we’re going
how we can stay close to God
Scriptural References:
1-Corinthians 1:19-21
Psalm 14:1
1-Corinthians 1:21-24
John 1:1-5
1-Corinthians 1:26-31
Genesis 2:24
Psalm 139:13-19
1-Peter 1:1-5
1-Corinthians 2:9-12
Ephesians 2:1-5
1-John 5:1-2
1-John 3:1-3
1-Corinthians 2:10-12
Colossians 1:9-10, 12-27
1-John 4:4-9
1-John 5:18-19
Scriptures referenced, not quoted:
Psalm 13
Revelation 17
Also referenced: {truthofgod.org}
Message: In Our Image #2
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From a Speck of Dust to a Son of God, Why Were You Born?
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Transcribed: 12/24/25
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