Created in the Image of GOD!

Created in The Image of GOD!

Genesis 1:26-27…2:7 CJB “Then GOD said, ‘Let Us make human kind in Our Image, in the likeness of Ourselves; and let them rule over the fish in the sea, the birds of the air, the animals, and over all the earth, and over every crawling creature that crawls on the earth.’ So GOD created humankind in His own Image; in the Image of GOD He created him; male and female He created them…Then ADONAI, GOD, formed a person (Heb. Adam) from the dust of the ground (Heb. adamah) and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, so that he became a living being.”

Exodus 32:1-10 CJB “When the people saw that Moshe was taking a long time to come down from the mountain, they gathered around Aharon and said to him, ‘Get busy, and make us gods to go ahead of us; because this Moshe, the man that brought us up from the land of Egypt – we don’t know what has become of him.’ Aharon said to them, ‘Have your wives, sons and daughters strip off their gold earrings; and bring them to me.’ The people stripped off their gold earrings and brought them to Aharon. He received what they gave him, melted it down, and made it into a shape of a calf. They said, ‘Isra’el! Here is your god, who brought you up out of Egypt!’ On seeing this, Aharon built an alter in front of it and proclaimed, ‘Tomorrow is to be a feast in honor of ADONAI.’ Early the next morning they got up and offered burnt offerings and presented peace offerings. Afterwards, the people sat down to eat and drink; then they got up to indulge in revelry. ADONAI said to Moshe, ‘Go down! Hurry! Your people, whom you brought up from the land of Egypt, have become corrupt! So quickly they have turned aside from the Way I ordered them to follow! They have cast a metal statue of a calf, worshipped it, sacrificed to it and said, “Isra’el! Here is your god, who brought you up from the land of Egypt!” I have been watching these people, and you can see how still necked they are. Now leave Me alone, so that my anger can blaze against them, and I can put an end to them! I will make a great nation out of you instead.”

Psalm 106:19-23 CJB “In Horev they fashioned a calf, they worshipped a cast metal image. Thus they exchanged their Glory for the image of an ox that eats grass! They forgot GOD, who had saved them, who had done great things in Egypt, wonders in the land of Ham, fearsome deeds by the Sea of Suf. Therefore He said that He would destroy them, (and He would have,) had not Moshe His chosen one stood before Him in the breach to turn back His destroying fury.”

Colossians 1:14-20 CJB “It is through His Son that we have redemption – that is our sins have been forgiven. He is the visible image of the invisible GOD. He is Supreme over all creation, because in connection with Him were created all things – in Heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, lordships, rulers or authorities – they have all been created through Him and for Him. He existed before all things, and He holds everything together. Also He is the Head of the Body, the Messianic Community – He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He might hold first place in everything. For it pleased GOD to have His full Being live in His Son and through His Son to reconcile to Himself all things, whether on the earth or in Heaven, making peace through Him, through having His Son shed His Blood by being executed on a stake.”

The Image of GOD! What is it? I’ve heard and taught that it is that GOD is triune (Father, Son and Spirit) and we are triune (spirit, soul and body) but that’s not it. I believe the reason that the devil hates us is that we are made in His Image or Glory. Lucifer was the most beautiful angel because he reflected the Glory or Image of GOD; then GOD created humanity in His Image or Glory! Lucifer was so jealous that he rebelled against GOD in his pride and decided he wanted to be god. Now he is ugly because he no longer reflects the Glory or Image of GOD!

Humanity was created to carry the Glory of GOD, but Lucifer deceived Eve and then after she sinned by eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; she convinced Adam to also eat it and he did knowing that he was disobeying GOD; that was sin. But GOD! GOD knew this was going to happen and He had already planned our salvation (forgiveness and deliverance from sin) to restore us to the place of reflecting His Glory as new creations (born again) in CHRIST JESUS!

How do we reflect the Glory or Image of GOD? By being like CHRIST and doing the will of GOD as found in the Bible!