Thank you for listening to this message from Damon Thompson Ministries.

All right, I'm getting the thumbs up from Matt, so we're going to jump on in this morning and I just as I've been

kind of praying into where to go I honestly have my mind somewhat set on where I

think we'll go the week we have together at the end of February but I don't want to

miss the opportunity that we have between now and then but I do want to sort of

and I know this is a challenge for you because you have, you sit under so many different instructors,

but I want to kind of take my time here to lay a little bit of a foundation of what I think that next,

that long stretch we get together will look like at the end of February, as you're kind of moving into the second half of your experience here with Union and so I'm going to I'm going to

I want to show you a couple of things I've been seeing by the spirit and I've been

talking a little bit about this but I've talking about an initial aim and an

ultimate aim and how important both are.

And we would describe the initial aim as his eyes and your neighbor.

And then we're going to describe the ultimate aim as theosis and the kingdoms of this world

become the kingdoms of our God and of His Christ.

So again, the initial aim is His eyes and your neighbor.

The ultimate aim is Theosis,

your illumination and the kingdoms of this world

becoming the kingdoms of our God and of His Christ.

So what you're seeing there is you're seeing

an ultimate self-portrait, you're seeing an ultimate cosmic portrait

from both lenses, from the immediate and from the ultimate. So let's go again. The immediate

is his eyes and the outworking of that into the cosmos is how you see your neighbor. The ultimate

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