CREATED
IN HIS IMAGE
Genesis 1:26-27 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:
and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the
air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing
that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of
God created he him; male and female created he them.
The creation of humans as male and female, forms the high
point of the chapter. Unlike the rest of creation man and woman were created in
Gods image, able to reason, to create and to commune with their creator. Gods
desire is always to rescue that which he values most highly, the human race.
We are made in the
image of the triune God, which is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, not only us
but they too are relational beings. Likeness indicates physical similarity, not
just a spiritual resemblance.
Both male and female at creation was made in Gods image.
Proving that neither gender is superior to the other. They each equally reflect
his character and are Gods masterpiece.
Genesis 3:16
16 Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply
thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and
thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
This change came about after they disobeyed God in the garden of Eden. It
is what God said to Eve.
Genesis 3:17 17 And
unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and
hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat
of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all
the days of thy life;
God said this to Adam. Adam bore the weight of the curse of the ground,
not humans. No curse was put on Adam and Eve, only the serpent and the ground.
When Christ returns after the seven-year tribulation to rule and reign
on this earth during the millennium, life will resume as it was before the
curse. Full resolution will be the eternal state.
Being created in the image of God is like when you take a photo of
another person, the photo you have taken is only an image of the person, not
the person itself.
God desires we as humans to seek Him as our heavenly Father, not just as
an image. He walked and talked with Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden before
the fall. He just wants to love us and for us to love Him and put Him first in
our lives.
Your image of who you are is your identity and we must guard our
identity and shift it to reflect God in our every day lives. The way to do that
is to believe in Gods word. It will produce faith. Faith grows out of us
reading and believing in the word of God, not by praying for more faith.
Prayer does not cause faith to work, faith causes prayer to work. Our
faith should never be allowed to stand still, we must expect the word of God to
come to pass and believe it will manifest what we pray.
Faith is released by your words, supported with action. Once you
understand how faith works you will understand how to bring things from the
unseen realm of God to the seen realm of planet earth.
Romans
8:37-39 37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that
loved us.
38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor
angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be
able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
In Gods eyes we are more than conquers, we are in Christ, and Christ is
in us. It is called the great exchange.
Not only was man created in the image of God but was created in Gods
class to be the associate and companion of Deity.
Mark 9:23 23 Jesus
said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that
believeth.
All things are possible to God, and we are born of God: which makes all
things possible to the new creation, which are the believers. He that is joined
unto the Lord is one spirit.
2 Timothy 1:7 7 For
God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a
sound mind.
The person who realizes he is actually been born again in Gods image
will no longer be lorded over by Satan through fear and sin.
Isaiah 54:14-15 14 In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from
oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come
near thee.
15 Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by
me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.
We have been trouble minded,
poverty minded, sickness minded, weakness minded, and death minded. We have
therefore been busy attending to all of these things.
Proverbs 4:20-23 20 My son, attend to my
words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the
midst of thine heart.
22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health
to all their flesh.
23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are
the issues of life.
We must look to Gods word as the
final authority in our lives bringing our spirit into the ascendance by
meditation on the word of God. You can’t be a doer of the word and talk in
unbelief.
God is a spirit, those that
worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. The soul praises God the spirit
worships God. Worship is man’s reaction to Gods holiness and his word. It means
to bow down before Him. Putting His word absolutely as number one in our lives.
1 Corinthians 1:30-31 30 But
of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and
righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
31 That, according as it is written, He that glorieth, let
him glory in the Lord.
There are four major forces of the
recreated human spirit. Faith, righteousness, wisdom, and love. Faith is not
the product of reason, it is born of the human spirit at the time of
conversion.
The reborn person is a faith being
and is to live in the likeness of His heavenly Father. To live as one with God,
is a far higher and more divine life than to simply live our life in submission
to God.
We must seek to become righteous
minded and lean hard on God given righteousness and believe that He can do all
things. Don’t be inferior minded. Be bold in your praise and worship, seek Him
as a loving Father. He is waiting for us to reach out to him in loving worship.
Stay in the word.
Brother Andy
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