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<div class="SSN_title">THE IMAGE OF GOD</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. WHAT IS MEANT BY THE IMAGE OF GOD?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. I do not believe that it means a physical image.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Though the Bible refers to the eyes of the Lord, and His ears. It talks of the hand of the Lord, also the arm of the Lord. These are all used in a figurative sense, for in the Psalms it refers to Him covering us with His wings.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Jesus was a manifestation of the Godhead bodily, but He became flesh and dwelt among us.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Jesus said, "God is a Spirit."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. God's chief emotional attribute is love, so He created us with the capacity to love.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. I know the joy of giving love.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. I cannot describe the feelings that I have when I hold my wife or my children or now my grandchildren.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. I cannot describe my feelings for God, the warmth and satisfaction as I commune with Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. I cannot describe the feelings I have for you who share with us here in the body of Christ. My appreciation, my joy, my blessing.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. I know the joy of receiving love.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. It is difficult to know which joy excels.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. As the lyrics of a song once expressed, the greatest thing you'll ever learn is to love and be loved in return.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. God's chief governmental attribute is His self-determination so He made us self-determinate beings.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. I have the power of choice. I am not a robot.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. For choice to be valid, there must be something to choose. Hence, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the garden with the prohibition.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. For choice to be valid, there must be respect for the choice made.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. This capacity of choice is necessary for love to be a meaningful expression.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. If I am forced to call you every night or forced to send you a bouquet every day, it may or may not be a true expression of love. You would never know.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. If I were forced to fellowship with God, if there were no alternatives, then my fellowship would not be meaningful.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. God's chief moral attribute is holiness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Man was created pure, holy, and as such had fellowship with the holy God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. An unholy man cannot have fellowship or be one with a holy God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. God is a Spirit and He created man a spirit, but clothed him in a body in order to be able to express himself to other men.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Man is a spirit, dwelling in a body, possessing a consciousness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Thus man as God is a trinity.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. One of our problems is trying to decide if a malady is physical or mental. If it is something from my spirit or my flesh.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. The truth is that we are so integrated that it is often impossible to tell.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Whatever effects one part of me effects all of me. Would God create man in His own image?</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. WHY WOULD GOD CREATE MAN IN HIS OWN IMAGE?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. It would seem it was His desire to come into a meaningful loving relationship with His creation.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. It is stated in the scriptures that we were created for His pleasure. That is the pleasure of loving us and being loved by us</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. You may say, "I don't want to love God." You have a prerogative, He created you a free moral agent.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Just note that in not loving God, you have failed to respond to the basic purpose of your existence thus do not be surprised if your life seems at times to be empty, frustrating and useless.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. God desired fellowship.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. More than half the joy of having something beautiful is the sharing of that beauty with someone you love.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. If I see a beautiful sunset, I will call Kay to come see it with me.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. If I hear a beautiful symphony, I will call her to listen.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. God wanted to share the glories and the beauty of His creation, hence He created man in His image and likeness that He might fellowship or share with Him all the glory and beauty of His love.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. GENESIS CHAPTER 3 TELLS US OF THE FALL OF MAN FROM THAT IMAGE.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. The fall came from disobedience to the command of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. The fall came by the exercise of the free choice.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. The fall resulted in spiritual death, hence broken fellowship with the Holy God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Man continued to live in his body, possessing a consciousness but the spirit was dead, thus the mind was dominated and controlled now by his flesh, and the desires of his flesh.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The path man chose was a one-way path, that is, there was no opportunity to undo that which was done. He could not resuscitate his dead spirit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. The fall brought great sorrow to God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Because He loved man so much, He desired the best for man, but He knew this could only happen as man was one with Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. As Jesus wept when He could see the consequences of the wrong choice man was making, so God no doubt wept.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. The fall brought great calamity to man.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Life alienated from God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Life dominated by the flesh with the resultant strife, fighting, wars, maladies and death.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. THE PURPOSE OF THE COMING OF JESUS CHRIST WAS TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR MAN TO BE RESTORED INTO THE IMAGE OF GOD.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Thus restored, his fellowship with God could be renewed and man could once again answer to the basic purpose of existence.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Jesus talked to the earnest seeker of life, of the necessity of being born again of the Spirit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Jesus talked of denying self, taking up the cross to follow Him. If we seek to find life in the things of the flesh we will lose it. If we are to find true life we must lose the life of the flesh.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Jesus talked of God's love for man and the desire of restored fellowship.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. He then proved the love of God for man, by taking the guilt of our sins, and dying in our place.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. The capacity of choice now comes in once again.</div>
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