Thank you for listening to this message from Damon Thompson Ministries. All right. If you would come in and try to grab a spot, we'll get kicking this morning.

Done everything I can to try to keep from having a social church, but apparently y'all like people.

I don't know what it is, so I'll be praying for you.

We are from the light, returning to the light in order to be the light.

This is why circles are important.

We are naturally from, or better said, we are of the light, created in their image and likeness.

Let us make man in our image and likeness. Notice the plural pronouns. We are of

the light with or without faith and union.

However, there is an intended measure of light

that is reserved exclusively for the individual

that says yes to the mystical and transcending union and fellowship we were designed for.

This particular individual isn't just liked in the sense of the way one is created.

No, this mystical one understands that beholding is the means of becoming, and our status as those

created like the light is a place to start, simply a foundation as it were that we should

launch from. We are to remove from that initial created state into the

pilgrimage we were sovereignly designed for.

We were born for union and not just any union, but a union with the holy and transcendent

yet mysteriously imminent triune God.

And this union is the mother of fusion.

And that fusion manifests a fire,

I call that fire the fire of the beloved burning bride. That fire brings a

light both to us and through us that cannot and will not be hidden under a basket,

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