Who in Whose Image?
Genesis 1:26-28
26 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image,
according to Our likeness; let them have dominion
over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and
over the cattle, over all the earth and over every
creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
27 So God created man in His own image; in the
image of God He created him; male and female He
created them.
28 Then God blessed them, and God said to them,
"Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it;
have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds
of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the
earth.”
Gen. 1:26-28
Background of this Lesson
Background of this Lesson
• The Almighty Jehovah God
Background of this Lesson
• The Almighty Jehovah God
• Infinite in all areas
Background of this Lesson
• The Almighty Jehovah God
• Infinite in all areas
• Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent
Background of this Lesson
• The Almighty Jehovah God
• Infinite in all areas
• Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent
• Sovereign
Background of this Lesson
• The Almighty Jehovah God
• Infinite in all areas
• Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent
• Sovereign
• His Amazing Creation Reveals so Much
Background of this Lesson
• The Almighty Jehovah God
• Infinite in all areas
• Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent
• Sovereign
• His Amazing Creation Reveals so Much
• About Him
Background of this Lesson
• The Almighty Jehovah God
• Infinite in all areas
• Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent
• Sovereign
• His Amazing Creation Reveals so Much
• About Him
• About us
Background of this Lesson
• The Almighty Jehovah God
• Infinite in all areas
• Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent
• Sovereign
• His Amazing Creation Reveals so Much
• About Him
• About us
• He made us in His image
Background of this Lesson
• The Almighty Jehovah God
• Infinite in all areas
• Omniscient, Omnipotent, Omnipresent
• Sovereign
• His Amazing Creation Reveals so Much
• About Him
• About us
• He made us in His image
• The Fall of Man
Remaking God Into Our Image
Remaking God Into Our Image
• Satan and Eve – Genesis 3
Remaking God Into Our Image
• Satan and Eve – Genesis 3
• Golden calf – Exodus 32
Remaking God Into Our Image
• Satan and Eve – Genesis 3
• Golden calf – Exodus 32
• Idolatry – Romans 1:21-25
21 because, although they knew God, they did not
glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became
futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were
darkened.
22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,
23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God
into an image made like corruptible man—and birds
and four-footed animals and creeping things.
24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness,
in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies
among themselves,
25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and
worshiped and served the creature rather than the
Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
Romans 1:21-25
Remaking God Into Our Image
• Satan and Eve – Genesis 3
• Golden calf – Exodus 32
• Idolatry – Romans 1:21-25
• Basis of Religious Division & Secularism
Remaking God Into Our Image
• Satan and Eve – Genesis 3
• Golden calf – Exodus 32
• Idolatry – Romans 1:21-25
• Basis of Religious Division & Secularism
• Satan has not changed
Remaking God Into Our Image
• Satan and Eve – Genesis 3
• Golden calf – Exodus 32
• Idolatry – Romans 1:21-25
• Basis of Religious Division & Secularism
• Satan has not changed
• God says, “Do not add or subtract”
Remaking God Into Our Image
• Satan and Eve – Genesis 3
• Golden calf – Exodus 32
• Idolatry – Romans 1:21-25
• Basis of Religious Division & Secularism
• Satan has not changed
• God says, “Do not add or subtract”
• Changing God manifested in false religions
Remaking God Into Our Image
• Satan and Eve – Genesis 3
• Golden calf – Exodus 32
• Idolatry – Romans 1:21-25
• Basis of Religious Division & Secularism
• Satan has not changed
• God says, “Do not add or subtract”
• Changing God manifested in false religions
• Changing God manifested in false morality
Remaking God Into Our Image
• Satan and Eve – Genesis 3
• Golden calf – Exodus 32
• Idolatry – Romans 1:21-25
• Basis of Religious Division & Secularism
• Satan has not changed
• God says, “Do not add or subtract”
• Changing God manifested in false religions
• Changing God manifested in false morality
• His plan, lift us up into His image
Changing Ourselves Into His Image
• The Right Attitude
Changing Ourselves Into His Image
• The Right Attitude
• Balaam said it
19 God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of
man, that He should repent. Has He said, and will He
not do? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it
good?
20 Behold, I have received a command to bless; He
has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.
Numbers 23:19-20
Changing Ourselves Into His Image
• The Right Attitude
• Balaam said it
• Young Samuel understood it
9 Therefore Eli said to Samuel, "Go, lie down; and it
shall be, if He calls you, that you must say, 'Speak,
LORD, for Your servant hears.' " So Samuel went and
lay down in his place.
10 Now the LORD came and stood and called as at
other times, "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel answered,
"Speak, for Your servant hears.“
1 Sam. 3:9-10
9 Therefore Eli said to Samuel, "Go, lie down; and it
shall be, if He calls you, that you must say, 'Speak,
LORD, for Your servant hears.' " So Samuel went and
lay down in his place.
10 Now the LORD came and stood and called as at
other times, "Samuel! Samuel!" And Samuel answered,
"Speak, for Your servant hears.“
1 Sam. 3:9-10
29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor
relent. For He is not a man, that He should relent.“
1 Sam. 15:29
Changing Ourselves Into His Image
• The Right Attitude
• Balaam said it
• Young Samuel understood it
• David described it – hidden word & create in me
Changing Ourselves Into His Image
• The Right Attitude
• Balaam said it
• Young Samuel understood it
• David described it – hidden word & create in me
• The Right Source
Changing Ourselves Into His Image
• The Right Attitude
• Balaam said it
• Young Samuel understood it
• David described it – hidden word & create in me
• The Right Source
• Cannot do it on your own
Changing Ourselves Into His Image
• The Right Attitude
• Balaam said it
• Young Samuel understood it
• David described it – hidden word & create in me
• The Right Source
• Cannot do it on your own
• Only God can change you
Changing Ourselves Into His Image
• The Right Attitude
• Balaam said it
• Young Samuel understood it
• David described it – hidden word & create in me
• The Right Source
• Cannot do it on your own
• Only God can change you
• His word and His Spirit will change you
Changing Ourselves Into His Image
• The Right Attitude
• Balaam said it
• Young Samuel understood it
• David described it – hidden word & create in me
• The Right Source
• Cannot do it on your own
• Only God can change you
• His word and His Spirit will change you
• The Right Process
Changing Ourselves Into His Image
• The Right Attitude
• Balaam said it
• Young Samuel understood it
• David described it – hidden word & create in me
• The Right Source
• Cannot do it on your own
• Only God can change you
• His word and His Spirit will change you
• The Right Process
• You must die
Changing Ourselves Into His Image
• The Right Attitude
• Balaam said it
• Young Samuel understood it
• David described it – hidden word & create in me
• The Right Source
• Cannot do it on your own
• Only God can change you
• His word and His Spirit will change you
• The Right Process
• You must die
• You must be buried
Letting Him Change You
Letting Him Change You
• Believe in Him
John 3:16
Letting Him Change You
• Believe in Him
John 3:16
• Repent—decide to obey Acts 17:30
Letting Him Change You
• Believe in Him
John 3:16
• Repent—decide to obey Acts 17:30
• Confess Christ
Rom. 10:9
Letting Him Change You
• Believe in Him
John 3:16
• Repent—decide to obey Acts 17:30
• Confess Christ
Rom. 10:9
• Baptized to be saved
Acts 22:16
Letting Him Change You
• Believe in Him
John 3:16
• Repent—decide to obey Acts 17:30
• Confess Christ
Rom. 10:9
• Baptized to be saved
Acts 22:16
Added to His church, His family, His way
Letting Him Change You
• Believe in Him
John 3:16
• Repent—decide to obey Acts 17:30
• Confess Christ
Rom. 10:9
• Baptized to be saved
Acts 22:16
Added to His church, His family, His way
• Be faithful until death
Rev. 2:10