Created in His Image, Broken Beyond Physical Repair

Created in His Image, Broken Beyond Physical Repair:

Last week we talked about being born again, being born into a new person.  Having the Holy Spirit of God come into us and begin to change us.  But why is that needed, are we not fine just the way we are?  The answer is no we are not, we are not who we were created to be.  In Genesis 1:26-27 God says “Let us make people^* in our image, to be like ourselves. They will be masters over all life—the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the livestock, wild animals, and small animals.” So God created people in his own image; God patterned them after himself.”  Did you notice God said let us, not let me, who is He talking to?  He is talking to Christ and the Holy Spirit.  He created us in His image, we Have a physical body (which is going to die), a sprite (which is never going to die), and Soul (which is what makes us us).  But we were also created holy without any sin, Adam and Eve had no sin, they were able to speak to God face to face.  What happened then? Why are we not able to have this?

Sin happened, in Genesis chapter three we read the story of the fall of man, how Satan tricked Eve and Adam into to thinking they could become like God if they ate of the forbidden fruit, but that was far from the truth for the fruit they ate of only brought death, not just physical death but also spiritual death and darkness. It ripped the relationship between God and man apart, no longer was man in the perfect image of God.  Because of this a new system had to be put in place a system that required a blood sacrifice, but that was able to come close to repairing the broken image of man.  Which is why Christ came to earth, “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life.”(John 3:16)

God loves us enough He Has Sent His Son: (John 3:10-20)

If you remember last week we talked about Christ talking to Nicodemus and how we need to be born again, but that was not the end of their conversation.  Christ went on to explain how He would have to be sacrificed.  That through Gods love He had come to show the world the light, and be the ultimate blood sacrifice that would restore the relationship between man and God.  We have to choice whether we want to follow and give our lives to God or continue to live in sin.  Christ tells Nicodemus that we live in a world full of darkness, it is easier to live in darkness then it is to accept the truth.  We have all heard the phrase, “ignorance is bliss.”  How true it is, if we don’t accept Christ in our life then we can live however we want to. We can say things like many different paths lead us to God.  We can live a life without any true guilt over our sins, but there is a consequence to ignorance.  In the 1930’s the United States was ignorant of what was going on in the rest of world, until December 7, 1941.  People thought we are okay over here we can ignore the rest of the world, to only wake up to Japan attacking us and taking us completely off guard.  We can choose to ignore Christ and live our lives in darkness here on earth, which then leads to eternal spiritual death and hell.  Or we can choose to live in the light and give our lives to Christ to which leads eternal life. The choice is yours.  “God did not send his Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it.   “There is no judgment awaiting those who trust him. But those who do not trust him have already been judged for not believing in the only Son of God. ¹⁹ Their judgment is based on this fact: The light from heaven came into the world, but they loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil.  They hate the light because they want to sin in the darkness. They stay away from the light for fear their sins will be exposed and they will be punished.  But those who do what is right come to the light gladly, so everyone can see that they are doing what God wants.” (John 3:18-21)