Thank you for listening to this message from Damon Thompson Ministries. All right, go with me to 1st John 3.

Let me read a few things to you.

Are you settled in?

Are you good? What a night?

I know it's a little after 8 o'clock already and they started at 4.30. I heard the first drum kick hit at 4.30 and it just stopped a minute ago.

So that's how we rolled.

I am so through Elijah Ward.

I don't know how he does that, but he is such a blessing to this house,

he and Macy, so thankful for it.

I know all of them do it, but man, he's back there beating on those things in that little hot box and loving every minute of it.

I thank him the other night. He said, thank me. He said, this is what I was born for.

He said, when I was a little boy I learned to play the drums. It was for this right here. This is what I was born for. He said when I was a little boy I learned to play the drums. It was for this right here. This is what I was born for. So some of you, your little boy stuff is preparing you for what you were born for.

Amen. Let's go with me to 1st, John 3, but let me read this to you to start with.

I'm now beginning to see by the spirit the next phases of where we're going with Theosis.

And it's a natural flow from both Roman. phases of where we're going with theosis.

And it's a natural flow from both Romans 8 and John 17,

which if you know my apostle, I was established

in Romans 8 and John 17 from the time I was, you know, a teenager. So Romans 8 and John 17, the Romans 8

narrative is that when you and I get released from the slavery and futility of religion, we get released into sunship. Our sunship becomes a witness

to the cosmos that it's time for her to leave her captivity and futility as well. The earth or creation or what we call the

Cosmos will remain in a state of perpetual captivity and I love this word because I think it's it's it's

nuanced enough to give us the whole picture it's it's it's the I'll just use this phrase it's the hamster

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