I am about to regress for a moment or two, to look again at what happened when Jesus said "it is finished" while hanging on the tree out side of the camp, the Jerusalem city of David. Just what did He just bring about for all of humanity? In one word, our "redemption" our returning to GOD as God ones, by re-birthing, re-genesis of the image and likeness of GOD, by the opening of the seed of Genesis 3:15 within all who would but believe Him and walk as one by reception (as the works of James' teachings) in agreement. Now making all who would but "Believe" a Genesis 1:26 person at His seed (Genesis 1:26) incarnation within them/us, as He was before the beginning which took place in Genesis 2:7. You, if you have read my many posting on this blog, you have read and thereby heard me say that we are restored to a Genesis 2:7 being, well that was only part of it, for we were actually restored to a "new being" of Genesis 1:26 which was within GOD before the foundation was laid. This action was Jesus' mission or assignment of introduction too the image and likeness restoration, which all of humanity benefits of. LORD help me to make this clear for all, thank You.
It Is Finished,
John 19:30 of 28-30 "After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), 'I thirst.' A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to His mouth. When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, 'It is finished,' (Jesus' mission of the redemption of GOD'S image and likeness is now able to be restored to (en) Humanity) and He bowed His head and gave up His spirit."
Man Made in the Divine Image and Likeness,
(GODS ultimate creation of the very likeness of Himself, about to take form but before this happens we see the following of Genesis 1;26-27 where this is stated: "Then 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 birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." So GOD created man in His Own Image, in the image of GOD HE created him; male and female HE created them. For in Genesis 2:7 HE stated, "GOD breathed into man, the breath of life.")
Genesis 5:1 of 1-2; 9:6 of 1-7 "This is the book of the generations of Adam. When GOD created man, HE made him in the likeness of GOD. Male and female HE created them, and HE blessed them and named them Man when they were created."
Genesis 9:6 of 1-7 "And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, 'Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man. Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for GOD made man in His Own image. And you, be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it.'"
Now comes the time of our reckoning because the next passage is in 1Corinthiians 11:7 of 2-16, but is best covered by Paul in 2Corinthians 5:14,17 of 14-15, 16-19 which states this: "For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died (John 19:28-30, Galatians 2:20 and 3:28); and He died for all, that those who live might no longer live for themselves but for Him Who for their sake died and was raised.
From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard Him thus no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation (re-genesis-ed). The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. All this is from GOD, Who through Christ reconciled us to Himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; that is, in Christ GOD was reconciling the world to Himself, not counting (their) our trespasses against (them) us, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation."
James 3:9 of 1-12 "Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness. For we all stumble in many ways. And if anyone does not stumble in what he says, he is a perfect man, able also to bridle his whole body. If we put bits into the mouths of horses so that they obey us, we guide their whole bodies as well. Look at the ships also: though they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs. So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire! And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell. For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our LORD and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of GOD. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water."
Man a Spiritual Being,
Job 32:8 of 6-14 "Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: 'I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.' I said, 'Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.' For it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand. It is not the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right. Therefore I say, 'Listen to me; let me also declare my opinion.' Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your wise sayings, while you searched out what to say. I gave you my attention, and, behold, there was none among you who refuted Job or who answered his words. Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom; GOD may vanquish (drive away) him, not a man.' He has not directed His words against me, and I will not answer Him with your speeches."
Proverbs 20:27 of 24-30; Ecclesiastes 3:21 of 16-22 "A man's steps are from the LORD; how then can man understand his way? It is a snare to say rashly, "It is holy," and to reflect only after making vows. A wise king winnows the wicked and drives the wheel over them. The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all his innermost parts. Steadfast love and faithfulness preserve the king, and by steadfast love his throne is upheld. The glory of young men is their strength, but the splendor of old men is their gray hair. Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts."
Ecclesiastes 3:21 of 16-22 "Moreover, I saw under the sun in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness. I said in my heart, GOD will judge the righteous and the wicked, for there is a time for every matter and for every work. I said in my heart with regard to the children of man that God is testing them that they may see that they themselves are but beasts. For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath (Not so for we have GOD'S breath as known by Genesis 2:7, where it states that "GOD Breathed into man the breath of life" being in His Divine image and likeness), and man (the flesh of) has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity. All go to one place. All are from the dust, and to dust all return. Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down into the earth? So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should rejoice in his work, for that is his lot. Who can bring him to see what will be after him?"
Ecclesiastes 12:7 of 1-8 "Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, "I have no pleasure in them;" before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed, and the doors on the street are shut—when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low—they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets— before the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit (breath) returns to GOD Who gave it (in Genesis 2:7). Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity."
Acts 7:59 of 54-60; 1Corinthians 2:11 of 6-13, 6:20 of 12-20 "Now when they heard these things they were enraged, and they ground their teeth at him. But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of GOD, and Jesus standing at the right hand of GOD. And he said, "Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of GOD." This made them to cry out even more with a loud voices and stopping their ears and rushed together at him. Then they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. And as they were stoning Stephen, he called out, "LORD Jesus, receive my spirit." And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, "LORD, do not hold this sin against them." And when he had said this, he fell asleep."
1Corinthians 2:11 of 6-13, 6:20 of 12-20 "Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away. For we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of GOD, which GOD decreed before the ages for our glory. None of the rulers of this age understood this, for if they had, they would not have crucified the LORD of glory. But, as it is written (by Isaiah in 64:4 of 1-7 and 65:17 of 17-25), "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what GOD has prepared for those who love Him"—for these things GOD has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of GOD. For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of GOD except by the Spirit of GOD. Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit Who is GOD, that we might understand the things freely given (our restored, renewed image and likeness of Him, as known in Genesis 1:26-27 and 2:7) us by GOD. And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are (become) spiritual."
1Corinthians 6:19-20 of 12-20 "All things are lawful for me," but not all things are helpful. "All things are lawful for me," for I will not be dominated by anything. "Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food"—and GOD will destroy both one and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the LORD (Romans 12:1-2, 2Corinthians 6:11-7:4), and the LORD for the body. And GOD raised the Lord Jesus and will also raise us up by His power (His Word). Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a (religious) prostitute? Never! Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written (in Genesis 2:24), "The two will become one flesh." For he who is joined to the LORD becomes one spirit with Him. (1Corinthians 2:11 of 6-13 above and that of John 19:30 of 28-30) Flee from (all religious) sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, Whom you have is GOD? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify GOD in your body."
2Corinthians 4:16, 18b of 16-18; 1Thessalonians 5:23 of 23-24 "So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal."
1Thessalonians 5:23 of 23-24 "Now may the GOD of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He Who calls you is faithful; HE will surely do it."
James 2:26 of 18-26 "But someone will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that GOD is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! Do you want to be shown, you foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless? Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar? You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by his (obedience and dependency) works; and the Scripture was fulfilled that says (in Genesis 15:6 and Romans 4:3 of 1-8), "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"—and he was called a friend of GOD. You see that a person is not justified by works but by faith alone. And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works (obedience and dependency of grace) is dead."
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