Picture this:
Having it all, then throwing it away to become nothing – the lowest of the low – the greatest loss ever recorded.

Picture this:
Coming from nothing, weakness and destitution, to become greater than all – the greatest victory ever conceived.

Picture this:
Our place in the greatest victory ever conceived.

But you can’t picture the last one.
The forces of the world actively rise to keep you from that picture.
Politicians and preachers have made careers by keeping you from that picture.  This picture is the most censored picture in the world.

Why?
Because this picture shows everything that God wants.
And it’s everything that God’s enemies want to keep you from.
But this picture is not your good deeds, your hard work, or your accomplishments.

The picture that the worldly fights to keep you away from is you.
It’s you and only you.

Deuteronomy 28:28-29
   The LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:
   And thou shalt grope at noonday, as the blind gropeth in darkness

Kings and chiefs have fallen and become low.
Picture this:
Isaiah 14:9-11
   Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
   All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?
   Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.

The greatest rebel, Lucifer, brought low – with his own ‘good’ works.
Picture this:
Isaiah 14:12-15
   How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
   For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:
   I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
   Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.

The Lion, King of Judah, has prevailed… by becoming the weak Lamb slain.  Strength in weakness.
Picture this:
Revelation 5:5-6
   And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
   And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain…

From the least to the greatest – such is the kingdom of God.
Picture this:
Mark 4:30-32
   And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?
   It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:
   But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.

Faith as a mustard seed.
Picture this:
Luke 17:6
   And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.

What is required for the greatest victory ever conceived?
What is required for coming from the least like the mustard seed to being greater than all?
It’s not an arsenal of weaponry.
It’s not vast wealth.
It’s not your good deeds.
It’s not your hard work.
It’s not your accomplishments.
It’s you and only you.

God loves a cheerful giver.
2 Corinthians 9:7
   …for God loveth a cheerful giver.

Proverbs 22:9
   He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor.

But God doesn’t really need your money.  He already owns the world.
Haggai 2:8
   The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.

1 Corinthians 10:26
   For the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.

God wants you to work…
Matthew 24:45-46
   Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
   Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

…but not on your ‘good' works.
1 Corinthians 15:10
   But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

Matthew 11:29-30
   Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
   For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

God has good works prepared for you.
Ephesians 2:10
   For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

God is not interested in your accomplishments or your prestige.
1 Corinthians 1:27
   But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;

Job 34:19
   How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

God doesn’t want your vain sacrifices.
Hosea 6:6
   For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Amos 5:22
   Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

Isaiah 1:11-15
   To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.
   When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?
   Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
   Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
   And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

The sacrifice that God wants is you.
Psalm 51:16-17
   For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
   The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

1 Samuel 15:22
   And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

God only wants you.  You and only you.
Romans 6:18
   Being then made free from sin, ye became the slaves of righteousness.

Galatians 2:19-20
   For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
   I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Philippians 3:8
   Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ

Your leaders have betrayed you.
Picture this:
Jeremiah 10:21
   For the pastors are become brutish, and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.

Jeremiah 23:1
   Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD.

Your leaders rise up against God.
Picture this:
Acts 4:25-26
   …Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
   The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord, and against his Christ.

Why?
Because they want to keep you from the greatest victory ever.
The start of this victory is repentance.
Repentance is a decision to give yourself fully to God, and putting aside your old good works – a change of clothing.
Matthew 22:12-13
   Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.
   Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

The enemies of God keep their shame as clothing, and want you to do the same.
Job 8:22
   They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; and the dwelling place of the wicked shall come to nought.

Ezekiel 7:27
   The king shall mourn, and the prince shall be clothed with desolation

Many professing Christians believe wealth, abundance, and money is evil.
Love of money, and using your money and other resources for un-Godly purposes is evil – but money itself is a blessing.
God will give you the blessings of money, if you can be trusted to use it for Godly purposes.
1 Timothy 6:10
   For the love of money is the root of all kinds (all types) of evil

Blessings:
Deuteronomy 28:1,12
   And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day…
   The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

Conversely, the curse of poverty, which is lack of everything:
Deuteronomy 28:48
   Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things

Wealth, health, wisdom, and strength all can be blessings that can be used for Godly purposes.
(Of course, they also can all be used for un-Godly purposes.)

Another blessing that professing Christians believe is wrong is beauty.
While beauty can be used for evil…
Proverbs 6:24-25
   To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
   Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

…beauty is a world reclaimed by proper Christians.
Psalm 50:2
   Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined.

Isaiah 41:18-19
   I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
   I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together

Although we might be ugly for now, we strive through Christ for beauty.
Proper Christians do not accept the dark, nihilistic world of the Blade Runner movie (from 1982, the Final Cut).

Unfortunately, the Devil and the leaders of this world who war against Christ want you to accept the pessimistic, depressing view of this world – and they want you to prioritize glorifying this world’s ugly nature.

They hide the greatest victory from you.
How?
The enemies of Christ (most of the world) have targeted the most beautiful image in the world: the female body.  When depicting all of its own beauty – the depiction is of a nude.

By criminalizing any love and desire for this pinnacle of beauty, the enemies of Christ have set a precedent that undermines any beauty and sets a standard that stifles what should be our Christian goal – creation of beauty in the world, not the demonic ugly.

Perversely, we lionize the dark, the depressing, the nihilistic and the ugly.
Results include fat acceptance, normalizing of illness, romanticization of poverty, pursuance of sympathy, and love of victimhood.

Moreover, when we fervently oppose displaying the very image of how God wants to see us, we are cut off from the wisdom inherent in how God sees us.
God’s desire for us, likened to a man’s desire for a woman’s beauty, becomes incomprehensible to us.

Left wingers, right wingers, professing Christians, Islamists, atheists, secular, etc. might not agree on much – but with certainty they all target men’s heterosexuality – that love of the pinnacle of beauty – the female form – and the material reflection in picture form.

The reasoning might be ‘objectification,’ ‘lust,’'feelings,’ ‘porn’ or some other false religion – but the worldly and their leaders agree: the picture of the nude woman must be stopped.

But know that when the kings of earth stand up against Christ, they aim to stop you even picturing what Christ wants for the greatest victory ever: you and only you.

Now you can picture this:
          

Ezekiel 16:3-7
   And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
   And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.
   None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.
   And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
   I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.

We picture ourselves as a woman, as God views us as his bride:
Isaiah 54:6
   For the LORD hath called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit, and a wife of youth, when thou wast refused, saith thy God.

Importantly, she is nude.
Why?
Because she (God’s people) need to washed clean.
John 15:3
   Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.

Ezekiel 36:17,25
   …the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman…
   Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

She is nude because God has his own clothing for her, which is his good works for her (not our own ‘good’ works).
Ezekiel 16:9-10
   Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.
   I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen…

Revelation 19:8
   And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of saints.

Repentance is taking off the old clothes (our own ‘good’ works) and putting on God’s righteous works.
Ezekiel 26:16
   Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and lay away their robes, and put off their broidered garments: they shall clothe themselves with trembling; they shall sit upon the ground, and shall tremble at every moment, and be astonished at thee.

1 Peter 5:5
   Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

The only clothing that we desire is heavenly.
2 Corinthians 5:2
   For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven

Women have no legal right to approach God without the headship of a man.
Men lead by directing the charge towards learning about and getting to know God.
John 17:3
   And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

1 Peter 2:21
   For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps

The picture that the leaders of the world do not want you to see (by dismissing it as men’s pornography) is key to relating to God and Christ.
Almost all men (male gender) can relate to that picture of the nude female.

Like God’s wants – the picture shows all we want from the woman.  Most men aren’t interested in her money, prestige, status, education, accomplishments, or occupational status.  We’re interested in her and only her.

And we have clothing for her: 1) literal clothing (attractive clothes to our taste) and 2) figurative clothing (works such as wifely cooking, cleaning, and sexual duties).

That picture shows what men want: that woman’s body… just like God wants your body.
Cleverly, by getting your body, God gets all of you: soul, spirit, and your future works for him.

Romans 12:1
   I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

The greatest defeat: having it all, but throwing it away.
Picture this:
Look upon Lucifer with the raiment (clothing) of following his heart.
Isaiah 14:16-20
   They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;
   That made the world as a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof; that opened not the house of his prisoners?
   All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every one in his own house.
   But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
   Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.

When we are forbidden from even picturing what God wants from us (a picture created by God’s own words), we can never begin true repentance, and learn about Christ.

Most of us carry on with the ‘normal’ picturing of woman – just regularly clothed, and we join the Devil in condemnation.

Why?
Because we held on to our own normal life, our own path, our own ‘good’ works/clothing.
Matthew 16:25
   For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it.

Mark 9:43
   And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched

In contrast to pictures that we might dismiss as porn – what pictures do we hold in high esteem?

Most people have pictures of family and friends and sentimentally remember the past.
Burn those pictures.
Luke 14:26
   If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

2 Corinthians 5:17
   Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

John 3:3
   Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Matthew 7:14
   Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

If you can picture what God wants, don’t picture the past and look back.
A narrow way, like a blade, does not accommodate turning around.
Luke 9:62
   And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

Luke 17:31-32
   …let him likewise not return back.
   Remember Lot's wife.

Picture this:
Genesis 19:26
   But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

God will raise his people for the greatest victory ever conceived, by lifting a standard (battle flag) against the enemy.
Picture this:
Isaiah 59:19
   So shall they fear the name of the LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun.  When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the LORD shall lift up a standard against him.

How will God raise his people?
It won’t be by comfort, good times, or some silliness like a ‘rapture’.
It will be by affliction.
The old, worldly nature has to die.
2 Corinthians 4:16
   For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

2 Corinthians 8:2
    How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

Hebrews 11:25-26
   Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
   Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompence of the reward.

Isaiah 48:10
   Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.

In affliction, God’s people run the blade to the Lord.
Picture this:
Hosea 5:15
   I will go and return to my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me early.