![]() God made us in relationship with himself. God made us NOT because he needed a relationship (he has that in Trinity). We are created as image bearers to be in a relationship with God. Not one and the rest disagreeing.įemale and co-laborer and helper for male to subdue and have dominion over the whole earth.Ģa. We’ll unpack that as we go along, just be aware that God’s relationship to man is mediated through covenant, and this first covenant involves us doing God’s mission. This relationship introduces a key theme for us, and that theme is covenant. God made Adam and Eve, gave them life, placed them in the garden and gave them this important purpose of verse 28. Verse 28 defines in nuances the purpose of God for his representatives/ambassadors that flows out of their created distinctions. We can only be sustained by God.īecause we are created by God and dependent, we are responsible to God.Įven though we have not yet been given our clear instruction, we have to be responsible to the one who made us uniquely like him. ![]() No other creature in all of creation shares this designation.īecause we are created in his image we are unique, but because we are created we are completely dependent on God. They are not less than, they are simply subject to the overall purpose of God in all that he has done, and our purpose for these 16 weeks is to see purpose in how the stories of Scripture fit together to point us to Jesus and his mission. Of course, there are ethical implications to mankind being image bearers of God, but those are subject to the larger movement of the story of the gospel. The specific item we want to focus on this morning is that the image of God means we are able to fulfill the mission he has given to us. That would be a systematic theology of the topic.Īmong all the items we could discuss, we have to mention that God’s image is bound up in the characteristics and relational tendencies we share with God. There are a host of items would could tackle regarding us being God’s image bearers. Mankind as God’s image bearers to represent him in his kingdom reign So, in Genesis we are seeing that baseline that determines our ethics and practice as people in Christ. Genesis 1 and 2 are the baseline for what is God’s purpose, what is normal, what is right and where God is taking all things back to in redemption. Understanding the gospel and how all the stories, patterns and types point us to God’s redemptive work in Jesus and his restoration of all things begins in the beginning, Genesis. Now we discover that God makes human beings in his image to represent him in this kingdom. We have discovered God created a kingdom and he is the King. Genesis 1:26-28: God Makes Human Beings to Represent Him in His Kingdom…Covenant The Whole Story of the Bible in 16 Verses SEE Three Rivers Unity Audio FOR AUDIO OF SERMONS. ![]() THESE NOTES ARE PROVIDED TO LOOK ALONG WITH THE SPOKEN MESSAGE. ![]()
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