Image Bearer Ministries

This final episode of the series encourages and challenges believers to break up fallow ground and seek the Lord until God rains His righteousness on them. (Hosea 10:12) The series has lately highlighted how genuine and consistent seeking after God doesn't just lead to righteousness but encounters with God Himself. The psalmist in Psalm 84 consequently longs for God's dwelling place, and in psalm...

This episode contrasts "crises searches" with "love searches." Many seek God principally based on crises and don't pursue Him on a regular basis. The ideal is that we seek God continually, based on our desperate need to be molded by Him into the image of Christ. Hosea 10:12 highlights the positive motivation behind love-searching.."until He rains righteousness on us." Many unfortunately don't tran...

This episode addresses the motivation behind searching for God. While God honors "crisis" seeking, where He aids us in crisis moments, He intends that all believers become life-long "love"-seekers who hunger and thirst for God Himself. The program addresses the dynamics of how God transforms crisis-seeking to love-seeking, often by making lasting victory over sin and circumstances elusive, requiri...

Coming from Hosea 10:11-14, this episode emphasizes the hard work of searching after God after receiving God's righteousness in Christ. Many believers today content themselves with the imputed righteousness of Christ, where God declares them positionally righteous because of the blood of Christ, but don't make their actual condition a priority. Hosea tells us that we need to seek the Lord "until H...

This episode mostly focuses on the early stages of sanctification, in which new Christians are faced with the arduous task of reversing bad sowing. Many despair in the process as they discover that modifying their behavior is difficult, if not impossible. But that's the whole point of the yoke. The episode highlights the fact that all spiritual progress in sanctification is predicated on the yoke,...

Coming from Hosea 10:11-14, this episode narrowly deals with the yoke, the means by which Christians yoked to Christ reverse both the effects of bad sewing and bad sewing itself. Christians are connected to Christ with a yoke which acts as the means of sanctification. Both the Son and the Holy Spirit enable believers to "sew with a view to righteousness and reap according to kindness." This sewing...

Expanding on the previous 2 programs from Hosea 10:11-14, this episode highlights a balanced approach to sanctification in which sewing is just as important as reaping. Christianity in America is comparable to the Israelites in Hosea 10, in which the prophet noted that they loved to thresh (the final stage of reaping) but didn't sew with a view to righteousness or break up the fallow ground. This...

"This episode mostly focuses on the destructive effects of ""the fruit of lies"" which is the product of ""plowing wickedness"" and ""reaping injustice."" (Hosea 10:13) Spiritual growth is challenging because uprooting the fruit of lies (repeated sinful behavior and thinking) requires addressing both the original lie and the self-reinforcing baggage of the lusts of deceit. This baggage corresponds...

This episode is an overview of Biblical spiritual growth based on Hosea 10:11-14. Substantive spiritual growth that endures temptation and the natural ups and downs of life is a thorough work that mirrors the agricultural process of sewing, reaping, and threshing. Many Christians unfortunately adopt a "get-spiritual-quick" mentality towards spiritual growth and emphasize the final stage of threshi...

This episode highlights the imperative of Psalm 29:1-2, contending that Christians incorporate its mandate as an objective of holistic salvation. "Ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. Ascribe to the Lord the glory due His name." The New Testament version of this imperative is 1 Peter 2:9, where believers are called to "declare God's excellencies." Glorifying God is therefore a principal objecti...