Images or Copies

“As Believers What Are We Modeling?” PT 1Are you an Imager or A Copy??Much today pulls on our attention and time to the extent that We find ourselves missing the foundation of intimacy with YHWH. Church leaders have become the foundational voice in our lives and while many of them are appointed by the HOLY SPIRIT Spirit we have replaced the leadership of the HOLY SPIRIT with the voice from the leaders.This does not mean that we don’t submit ourselves to leadership appointed by the HOLY SPIRIT.However when the voice of our leaders becomes a dominant voice we have in turn exchanged. Moses told the people that YHWH wished that all HIS people would prophecy which in turns means at the core that HIS people would have an intimacy of their own with HIM that whether Moses came down or not they would know how to live. Numbers 11:29,30Paul said Follow me as I follow YESHUA 1Corinthians 11:1.Unless do some digging Paul was a chief pharisee. At the core pharisees knew, how to conduct business Remember they were able to get the Roman nation.to support them along with compromising and lead a nation of people as well as influence or culture.Paul was a formidable force and a regards to being a pharisee yet he abandoned all of that for the purpose of being an imager instead of a copy.When Paul said follow me as I follow CHRIST the foundation of that verse comes from him laboring to CHRIST before him in people.I can hear Paul saying (Phil 3:5) no matter how smart I am how much influence I have how much education and learning I have acquired I am not the model follow me as I follow CHRIST because my goal is that you bear the image of the MESSIAH and not the image of myself.So from a leadership perspective if Paul was laboring till we become images of CHRIST then that means the entire body should be a bear image of CHRIST.