TOPIC: “MAN, THE IMAGE OF GOD”!!! (PT.1)

TEXT: PSALM 8:4: What is man, that thou art mindful of him?  “And the son of man, that thou visitest him”? 

Here in this Psalm with the question being asked in relation to “man” and the “son of man”, we are seeing the “HUMILIATION (shaming; degrading) AND THE EXALTATION” (elevating; raising; honoring; glorifying; extolling) of Christ!

• HUMILIATION: Philippians 2:5-8: Who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:  but made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:  and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. 
• EXALTATION: Philippians 5:9-11: Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:  that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
  Colossians 1:15-20: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:  for by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers:  all things were created by him, and for him:  and he is before all things, and by him all things consist.  And he is the head of the body, the church:  who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

“MAN”, THE IMAGE OF GOD”!!!

These words defined in the [HEBREW]: 

 Psalm 8:4: “What is MAN”:  (enowsh’) a mortal - certain; husbands; some; persons; another; people; servant / (anash – aw-nash’) to be frail, feeble, or (fig) melancholy:  incurable, desperate, desperately wicked, woeful, sick.

“That thou art MINDFUL of him”:  (zakar’) to mark (so as to be recognized), meaning to remember; to mention; recorder; think; bring to remembrance; record; burn; to burn incense; recount. 

“Or the SON”: (ben-bane) a son (as a builder of the family name) / (banah’) to build; build up; builder; made; built again; repair; set up; have children; obtain children: [“to build; establish; construct; rebuild”] (as Noah constructed an ark in Genesis 8:20):  (as Enoch built, founded or established, constructed or rebuilt a city in Genesis 4:7).

“Of MAN”: (adam – aw-dawm’) ruddy, in relation to a human being (an individual or the species, mankind, etc); Adam; common sort; low; man; men; person(s): [Adam means “man; mankind; people; someone (indefinite)] / (adam – aw-dam’) to show blood (in the face), in relation to being flush or turn rosy;  dyed red; ruddy.

“That thou VISITEST him”: (paqad-pawkad’) to visit (with friendly or hostile intent); to oversee; muster; charge; care for; miss; deposit; punish; appoint; commit; set; deliver to keep; enjoin; call to remembrance.

These same words as defined in the greek out of [Hebrews 2:6]:

Hebrews 2:6: “What is MAN”:  (anth’ropos) (ops) the countenance; man-faced;  a human being  (male or female).

“That thou art MINDFUL of him”:  (mimnes’ko) to remind, or to recall to mind; remember: [“remind oneself of”] / (mna’omai) to bear in mind, or to recollect; to reward or punish; in remembrance; (massa’omai [or masso, meaning to handle or squeeze; to bite or chew; gnaw]) (through the idea of fixture in the mind or of mental grasp).

“Or the SON”:  (hui’os) a “son”; Son of God; my Beloved Son; only begotten Son; firstborn son.  [Huios emphasizes the quality and essence of one so resembling another that distinctions between the two are indiscernible].

“Of MAN”: (anth’ropos) “ops” (the countenance); man-faced; a human being (male or female).

“That thou VISITEST him”: (episkep’tomai) to inspect in relation to select; to go to see; relieve:  look out.  [Meaning “to seek out; inspect (to look upon, care for, to exercise oversight over”; to visit with help as the act of the Almighty God)].

Hebrew 2:6 is repeating the question asked in Psalm 8:4, “What is MAN, that thou art mindful of him”?  “Or the son of man, that thou visitest him”?

WHAT IS MAN?  Webster defines man as a human being, a person; the human race; mankind.

In reality, “man” is God in flesh form, or God manifested (shown; displayed; evidenced; brought to light; demonstrated; disclosed; obvious; visible) in the flesh, as man.

• St. John 1:1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God:  vs 14: And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.
  [To “dwell” is to live in; reside in; abide in; inhabit]!

“MAN” is the image and likeness of God: 

•  (Genesis 1:26-27): And God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:  and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Psalm 8:4: “What is man that thou art mindful of him”?

What is this enowshe’ (mortal); person; people, these frail, feeble melancholy, incurable, desperately wicked, woeful, sick people, that you are so zakared’ (mindful” of):  or has marked so as to be recognized, remembered, mentioned, recounted, thought of; or to be brought to your remembrance?

God’s response: I remember what I did with him in Genesis 1:26-28, when I created him (male and female) in my own image, after my likeness and gave them dominion over the creation, and regardless of how low he has gotten or may get, he (male & female) is created in my image, after my likeness, and through every dispensation:  innocence, conscience, promise, law, human government, grace, even into the kingdom, I will help him to maintain that image and likeness forever for my glory!!!

• Exodus 3:13—15: And Moses said unto God, “Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name?  What shall I say unto them”?  And God said unto Moses, “I AM THAT I AM”:  and he said, “This shall thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you”.  And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shall thou say unto the children of Israel, the LORD God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you:  this is my name forever, and this is my memorial unto all generations”.
  [God’s name “I AM”, is neither past, present or future tense, it’s all three at once!  It connotes “Eternal Existence”!  HE IS, WAS, AND ALWAYS WILL BE!!!]

In other words, Moses was God that went into Egypt and delivered the Israelites out of the hand of the enemy! 

•  Exodus 7:1: And the LORD said unto Moses, “See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh:  and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet”.

This is God’s “name forever”:  The “I AM THAT I AM” identity!  Which is, man knowing that “Christ” is the understanding or awareness that “he (male and female) is fully God and fully man”!  Jesus was fully God and fully Man! 

• St. John 1:1: In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God:  Vs 14: And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us. 
•  1 John 4:17: “As he is, so are we, in this world”.

John 4:24: God is Spirit!  But to make Himself visible, He put on flesh as a “Man”!  It is not that “man” is trying to make himself God it’s just that God chose to make Himself Man!  Praise His name!

This is why God is “MINDFUL” of him (man – male and female)!

Now why did God visit him, as “the son of man”?

Psalm 8:4: “Or as the son of man, thou visited him”?

God paqad’ (visited) him with friendly intent, so as to oversee, care for, deliver and keep him, so that He (God) could enjoin (give man a command or order), and set or place man (male and female) in the position of not just son, but king, lord, priest, and god in the earth!

• Genesis 1:27-28: So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.  And God blessed them, and God said unto them, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it:  and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth”.

 Though God did eventually visit man with hostile intent, because of his disobedience, but through His love, grace, and mercy He came to our rescue in the person of Jesus The Christ!

• Romans 5:8: God commended his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 
• Hebrews 9:22: Without shedding of blood, is no remission (forgiveness for sin or annulling, pardoning, exempting or cancelling of sin).

“As the son of man”:  God was putting in place a “certain kind” of man!   God was “mindful” of man as a man, or enowsh’ (a mortal), but He knew that when He finished transforming him, he (man) would be the man (Adam) [both male & female], that would show forth His blood in their faces, and eventually through Christ (the Anointed One), who would be God Himself, ruling and reigning in the earth, in flesh form, His blood would be shown in the faces of those even today called Christians, as it was in Genesis with the Adam race of people!

John 4:24: God is Spirit.  He wanted to be seen so He had to put on flesh.  God had a Body even before Jesus was manifested as Mary’s baby.  It’s just that at the time Jesus was manifested as Mary’s baby, this was His appearing as Savior of the world, to die as a man to deliver the entirety of the creation and bring it back unto God the Father.

• 2 Corinthians 5:19: To wit (know), that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself; not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

What distinguishes “man” from all the other animals is that, he (male and female) is created and made in the image and likeness of God, Genesis 1:26-27.

• 1 Corinthians 15:32: If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus.
  Beast in this verse is from the root word theriomache’o, meaning to encounter (furious men); fight with wild beasts.
  [The same system of “religious order” that the Adam race of people fought against, Jesus encountered it, so did His disciples, and so are we today]!  But still greater is he that is in us, than he that is in the world 1 John 4:4.
• 2 Peter 2:12: But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption.  Jude 10.
  Beasts in the Greek, is zoon (dzo’on) a living thing, in relation to an animal.  [All creatures that live on earth are zoon, including man].

But "man" is different from all others, because God chose to make him (male and female) in His own image and after His likeness.

• Genesis 1:26-27: And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness:  and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth.  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

So when God said, “Let us make man”, He wasn’t referring to “male gender” only, but the female was also classified as “Adam”. 

• Genesis 5:1-2: This is the book of the generations of Adam.  In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created. 

That’s what that word “man” mean in those verses, Adam (aw-dawm’), meaning in the Hebrew, to show blood in the face.  This was a special kind of “man” (male and female) that would show forth or manifest God in the earth in flesh form.  They were His representatives or ambassadors showing forth His dominion, authority, and power!  The same thing is happening today with us as Christians being God’s representatives or ambassadors in the earth as both “male and female”. 

• Galatians 3:27-28: For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.  There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female:  for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
• 2 Corinthians 5:20: Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us:  we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God.

Leviticus 17:11: The life of the flesh is in the blood.  These people (Adam) gained life in their flesh through the blood of God Himself.  The “blood” has always been present because that is where the life is.  Blood is from the root word “dam”, pronounced (dawm).  With the “man” (male and female) all God had to do was give him (them) His blood and call them “Adam” or “Aw-dawm”!  Glory!!!

• Acts 20:28: Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood. 
  Since it was Christ’s blood, He had to be and was God, for it to have been God’s own blood!

If someone is injured and loses too much blood, they can’t survive, because the life is in the blood.  The Adam race of people had God’s blood in them.  Adam means “to show blood in the face”.

•   Genesis 2:7: The LORD God formed man the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.                                                                                                                                    
•   This word “nostrils” is from the root word “aph”, meaning, “the face”; a person; countenance; forehead.  

In the structure of the brain you have the Cerebrum and the Cerebellum.  The cerebrum is the largest part and accounts for 80% of the mass of the brain and is responsible for the higher mental functions, including memory and reason.  It has 5 lobes: frontal; parietal; occipital; temporal; insula.  But briefly the “frontal lobe” is responsible for voluntary motor control of skeletal muscles; personality; higher intellectual processes (concentration; planning; and decision making); and verbal communication.  This is how the LORD God was able to bring “man” (male and female), into the place of dominion and power through the forming process (squeezing them into shape by a pressurized process), and breathed into them the breath of life, which contained the blood of God, and caused them to become living souls!  The “breathing process” of the LORD God’s “breath of life” into man kindled (set on fire, ignited, excited, an interest, feelings, and ideas or Godly thoughts that aroused or excited them into action to demonstrate God’s power in the earth, with the ability to reproduce other sons of God to rule and reign over the creation for the glory of the Living God!

Our transformation processes begins in the “mind as well”! 

•  Romans 12:2: Be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind!

So what is meant by “man (male and female) being created and made in the image of God”?

Man (male and female) is made in the image of God, because the synonyms for “image” are: a picture or reflection.  When you look into a mirror you see the reflection of yourself, a counterpart, double, portrait, or representative.  God is Spirit but He covered Himself with a flesh body.  It’s like looking at a lamp with a light bulb, with a shade over it. God is God all by Himself, but He didn’t want to be by Himself, so He put on flesh so He could be seen and have a dwelling place!  The invisible God became visible in His people, called “man”, both male and female.

The word “image” is from the root word tse’lem, meaning to shade (to cover or veil).  So looking at “that shade” that’s covering the “light bulb” in a lamp, that’s an example of us, God’s people, being a shade, a covering, veiling or housing Him (the light)!  That’s what Jesus did. He was the veil that housed God who is Light. 

• Philippians 2:6-8: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him, the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:  and being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
•   Hebrews 10:19-20: Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the vail (covering), that is to say, his flesh.   

Another definition of “image” is “phantom” which means, an appearance without material substance.  But we God’s people give Him His substance.  Synonyms for substance are: person; incarnation; (Jesus was the incarnate Christ) [He was not born Christ, He became or was made Christ]:   (rest of the synonyms for substance) entity; existence; body; creature.  

• St. John 1:1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God:  Vs 2: And the same (“us”) was in the beginning with God:
•  Vs 14: And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.  [We know that was Jesus, but we were there too].

Hebrews 10:5: Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me.                                                                                                  That “body” that God had prepared for Himself was Jesus:  this was the body that God chose to suffer and die in which was composed of one man (the Man Jesus).  But Jesus had another body, the body of Christ, which was composed of many members (the Church).   The word “body” in this verse is the root word so’ma, meaning, the body (as a sound whole); bodily!  

• Colossians 2:9: For in him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. 
   Bodily is somatikos’, meaning “corporeally” (of a material nature; tangible), or “physically”.

That’s why when Jesus said, “I go to prepare a place for you”, John 14:2, He wasn’t talking about preparing a place somewhere beyond the blue.  The place was prepared in His own body for us, His people, so that He could take up residence within us!  That’s why He said, “I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there you may be also (John 14:3).   That’s why He said in John 14:2 “In my Father’s house are many mansions (dwelling places)!!  Jesus Himself was “the house” or “dwelling place” of the Father. 

• John 14:9: Jesus saith unto him (Philip), “Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?  He that hath seen me hath seen the Father”!                          

 This was a place Jesus prepared in His Kingdom which is a place of dominion, authority and power, that where He was they would be and we are also! 

• 1 John 4:17: As he is, so are we, in this world!
• Ephesians 5:30: We are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
• 2 Corinthians 6:16: And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?  For you are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them:  and I will be their God, and they shall be my people”!

Someone said to me, “When Jesus comes back”.  My response was:  “Where is He coming from and what is He going to do when He gets here”? 

• John 17:4: Jesus said to the Father, “I have glorified thee on the earth:  I have finished the work which thou gave me to do”.                                                                           
• He came back to them as He said and at Pentecost He gave Himself as a universal gift to whosoever will receive Him!  And He’s been here ever since. 

He has come back from where He said He was going.  He went back to the Father.  When Mary saw Him at the tomb, she thought He was the gardener.  She wanted to touch him, but He told her, John 20:17, “Touch me not”, I have not yet ascended unto my Father.  Mary didn’t know who Jesus was until He spoke.  Even after He got up by the resurrection power of God, the plan for the work of redemption wasn’t over.  The death and resurrection alone didn’t complete the redemption process.  What completed it was His ascension to the Father to make the blood deposit. 

•  Leviticus 16:16-17: [The Day of Atonement]: And he shall make an atonement for the holy place because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel, and because of their transgressions in all their sins. And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made an atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the congregation of Israel.  (Read all of 16). 
• That’s why Mary couldn’t touch Jesus then because He hadn’t yet made the blood deposit on the throne of the Father.  So where did Jesus make the blood deposit?  He certainly didn’t have to sail off beyond the blue somewhere to do it.  From the time Jesus said that to Mary and her going to tell the disciples the things Jesus had spoken,  later that evening Jesus stood in the midst of them (the disciples) and showed them his hands and his side, in John 20, verse 21-22, He said, “As my Father hath sent me, even so send I you, and when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said unto them, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost; whosesoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them; and whosesoever sins ye retain, they are retained”.  

When Jesus breathed on them that was the depositing of the blood on the throne of God!  A throne is a seat of authority.  And the Father lives on the inside of His people and rules from inside of us His people.  This is what’s referred to in Hebrews 12:24: And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaks better things than that of Abel.  Abel’s blood cried “revenge”, but Jesus’ blood cried, “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do”.

The “sprinkling (pouring; spreading; sowing; spraying; showering; watering; dispersing) of the blood” , meaning, the “blood of Jesus” is applied to our lives by the Holy Ghost. 

• 1 John 5:7-8: There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost:  and these three are one.  And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood:  and these three agree in one.

This breath that Jesus breathed on the disciples in John 20, is the same breath that the LORD God breathed into man in Genesis 2:7:  the same breath that was breathed on the dry bones that were in the valley, in Ezekiel 37:9: Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live!

It takes “prophesying” to breathe the breath of God.  Prophesying isn’t just when someone says, “Yea, behold, thus saith the Lord”.  You can be caring on a regular conversation and yet be prophesying.  When a man or woman of God is preaching or pouring out the Word of God under the anointing, they can be prophesying.  When that happens you are breathing the very blood of God into the face (forehead; mind) of those He has sent you to.  You don’t have to be preaching for this to happen, you can be having a conversation with someone and the blood application can be applied to someone’s life.
This wind that was in Ezekiel 37 was the same wind that came into the upper room at Pentecost.  It was the Holy Ghost breathing on God’s people, applying the blood to their lives.                                                   
Mind you, the disciples had the Holy Ghost when they went into the upper room, John 20:22: And he breathed on them and said, “Receive ye the Holy Ghost”.   So at Pentecost the fire was applied to their lives, while the others that were there received the Holy Ghost and fire. 

• Matthew 3:11: John the Baptist:  I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance:  but he that comes after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear:  he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire.

With man being in God’s image, those disciples were in the image of God, because Jesus formed and made them into the image that He Himself was.  That same Spirit is moving today.  He’s still forming men, or squeezing men, putting them through a pressurized process to bring them (us) (male and female) into His image and after His likeness.

What’s meant by man being made in the image of God?  It’s us being Him in the earth.  Jesus was God in the earth:

•  John 1:1: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God:  Vs 14: And the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. 
•  1 John 4:17: As he is, so are we in this world. 

This doesn’t happen after one dies and go up to heaven as religion preaches, but it happens right here and right now, while we are still in our bodies people of God.          

This word dwell, in John 1:14, means to reside, abide, inhabit.  So when Jesus came He stayed!  And the place He went to and prepared was the preparing of Christ’s Body within Himself.  But to prepare that Body, He had to make it up of His own flesh.  So He had to deposit His flesh body back where it came from, out of Spirit, and redeposit it into all of us! 

• 1 Corinthians 12:12: For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body:  so also is Christ. 
• Ephesians 5:30: We are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.  This is how we’re in the image of God.  Jesus was the very person of God.  

• Colossians 1:15-18: [Christ’s preeminence]:  Vs 15: Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature.
• Hebrews 1:3: Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.
• Jesus being “sat down on the Father’s right hand”, was not Him sitting in some chair beside the Father out beyond the great blue yonder, but it means that the Heavenly Father has established Him (Jesus) in a place of “dominion, authority, and power!!!   And that dominion, authority and power is on the inside of us by the Holy Ghost! 
• 1 John 4:4: Greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

  Genesis 1:2: And the earth was without form and void:  [the “earth” here was not the dirt, but it was a type of people]: 

• 1 Corinthians 15:47-49: The first man is of the earth, earthy:  the second man is the Lord from heaven.  As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy:  and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.  And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

EARTHY: (choikos’) dusty or dirty (soil-like) / (cho’os) a heap (as poured out), ie rubbish; dust.  The “dust” is that which the LORD God took the “man” (male & female) out of when He formed him in Genesis 2:7.         
 God took him out of that which was “earthy” (cheimon’) [the foul weather, the tempest of sin and death, or out of a “chas’ma”, which is a gulf or prison of ignorance, misery, mortality, corruption and death and gave him (them) life]! 
 People that are “of the earth, earthy” fit in the same category of “the lost son” in Luke 15:11:24, that “took his journey into a far country”; and also fits right in the same place with “the “rich man” in Luke 16:19-21, “In hell he lift up his eyes being in torment”.  But the LORD God raised “man” out of the dust of death and placed him into the heavenly in God!

Genesis 1:2, “the earth that was without form”: 

These were people that had lost the form of God.  Having God’s “form” was having flesh that couldn’t corrupt or decay; having immortality.    
                                                            

"and void": [they had become empty or depleted of the wisdom, understanding, knowledge, and power of the Living God, and the very life of God].                                                                                                                                         

"and darkness was on the face of the deep": [misery; ignorance; destruction; death].                                        

Genesis 1:2: And the Spirit of God moved (hovered):   "on the face" [(aph) (countenance; forehead; mind)].     
                                       

"of the waters": [“the waters were people”]:

• Revelation 17:15: “The waters which thou saw, where the whore sits, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues”).                                                                    

These “waters” weren’t the Atlantic or the Pacific Ocean, but they were people that God’s Spirit moved on that had become without His form (the ability to maintain immortality) and void of His power and life. 

Our being in the “image of God” is like looking into a mirror and seeing yourself!  That’s what was meant in Genesis 1:3: And God said, let there be light, and there was light.  Vs 4: And God saw the light, that it was good. 
God was seeing Himself in His people, and they were filled with His wisdom, knowledge and power, and were ruling and reigning over the creation as He Himself was.

 Genesis 1:3: God said, Let there be light. 
That wasn’t sun light.  That was “owr”, enlightenment; illumination (to make clear of understanding) God saw being manifested in His people.  The Word of God tells us to get wisdom, and get understanding. 

• Proverbs 4:5-7: Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.  Forsake her (wisdom) not, and she (wisdom) shall preserve thee:  love her (wisdom), and she (wisdom) shall keep thee.  Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom:  and with all thy getting get understanding.

Genesis 1:4: And God saw the light, that it was good. 
 If God is light, and He is, 1 John 1:5, what light was it that He saw that He said was “good”, when God Himself is Light?  There’s nothing better than God, because He’s the best Light one can see or have!  But God was looking at some phantoms, or images, or seeing His people as Himself in flesh form doing what He did and it looked good to Him.  It was as though God was looking in a mirror at Himself!  God could see Himself in flesh, doing what He was doing in Spirit!  And that’s why God rested in Genesis 2:2: And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 
This was because He had made “man” (male & female) into His image and after His likeness and gave them dominion in Genesis 1:26-28, and they were the LORD God in the earth ruling in Genesis chapter two that was “forming men” (male & female) into God’s image.   And the LORD God called the “man” he formed Adam which included both male and female. The Adam people were already at work from Genesis 1:26-28, but they were the LORD God, and this group of people, never fell.  The Adam people that fell in Genesis chapter three were the ones the LORD God formed in chapter two. The Adam (male and female) God created in His own image after His likeness in Genesis 1:26-27 they were the LORD God and they maintained the image and likeness of God.  Remember, God has always had a remnant.

With our physical make up we have a DNA out of which comes the RNA.  The RNA is the copy of the DNA.  The DNA is the cells “control center”.  God is the DNA and we the RNA are copies of Him. The RNA leaves the nucleus and goes into the cytoplasm but the DNA never leaves the nucleus of the cell.

•  “I am the LORD, and I change not” Malachi 3:6.
• “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee” Hebrews 13:5.

So if something goes wrong with the other components in the cells you can always go back to the master copy (DNA) for correction. That’s what happened after the creation fell.  God went back to the “Master Copy” (Himself) and made the correction in the creation through the manifestation of the perfect sacrifice of His Son Jesus the Christ, who was in reality, God in flesh form! 

•  St. John 1:1:  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God: 
• Vs 14: And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us!

God is as a molecule for example – it’s the smallest particle of an element or compound that can exist in the free-state and still retain the characteristics of the substance. 

When the creation fell, God never lost His position as God by putting on flesh as a man!  Even putting on flesh as a man in Jesus and going through the death process, He still retained and maintained His identity as God. 

•  Jesus said, “No man take my life from me, I lay it down for the sheep.  And if I lay it down, I will take it again” John 10:15-18.  And He did!!!  

Us being in God’s image, when God saw the light in Genesis 1:4, He saw Himself in man and man ruling and reigning over the earth as God.

When the LORD God took over, God was able to rest. 

The LORD God formed another man and called him by the name Adam (Genesis 2:19). 

There were two Adams in Genesis.  And the man that the LORD God formed was the one that fell, not the LORD God. 

You must always have something to go back too to work with if something goes wrong with your project.  God made man in His image after His likeness, but man fell, but it didn’t change God.  So when God was ready to make the correction for man He put on flesh as a man. So God came back to Himself the Master Copy and reproduced Himself in the person of Jesus the Christ!

For us to totally overcome in all areas of our life, all we have to do is follow His (Jesus) pattern in obedience to the Father.

• Revelation 3:21: To him that overcome will I grant to sit (be established) with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

THIS OVERCOMING IS FOR US RIGHT HERE ON THIS EARTH AND RIGHT NOW!!!

Pastor Gracie Perry