As a new school year has begun, Rev Foster has been asked to speak at two morning assembly meetings.His theme for 2015-16 is DV, Pictures of Christ in the Bible. It is to the beginning of the Bible that we must turn for the first picture of the Saviour for He was promised in the Garden of Eden. "And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel," Genesis 3:14-15. Christ is called here - "Her Seed." The Saviour was "made of a woman," Galatians 4:4. He did not have a human father like us. His birth of Mary was a wonderful miracle. He was, as we put it, 'God manifest in the flesh.' Is it not noteworthy that in the very first picture of Christ given us His virgin birth is emphasised? How important a doctrine this is. It is hated and attacked by the devil and his agents, the false preachers that occupy pulpits today but God underlines it for us here. Around the walls here in our assembly hall we have pictures of the first pupils at the school. How many of you recognise them even though you know those in the picture now that they have grown up. Some of you may see here the pictures of your mother or father when they were young but you don't recognise them! In a similar way, the early pictures of the Lord Jesus given us in the Bible are a little hard to make out until we have the likenesses of the Saviour pointed out to us. 1. The picture of Christ was given following man's fall into sin. This shows the grace and the mercy of the Lord. 2. It was in a statement to the devil. The gospel is hated by him for it ever tells him of his defeat and doom.