I am going to do something different here, I am going to Genesis 1:26-27 to get a look at what is our true life, the narrow path of law, as revealed there and then look at what may be linked to this passage in my study Bibles. Now this may be grounds already covered but it is the mission assignment that Jesus came to redeem and restore within all of Humanity, in one fell stroke, by the death of mans flesh, in which He was clothed or housed in. Which brought the re-genesis of the image and likeness of GODS presence within all of humanity. It is this that grace speaks of while the Law only addresses the outward world of sin. And sin is religions force of resistance for the dark side of non-re-genesis-ed humanity. Now here's the secret hide in GOD the words "image and likeness," means Christ.
Genesis 1:26 of 26-27 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."
Psalm 100:3 "Know that the LORD, He is GOD! It is HE Who made us, and we are His; we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture."
Isaiah 64:8 "But now, O LORD, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You are our potter; we are all the work of Your hand."
Now what is revealed by Jesus about this is often spoken of in veiled language by Him.
John 14:23 of 23-26 " Jesus answered him, 'If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make our home with him. Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. And the word that you hear is not Mine but the Father's Who sent Me. (Deuteronomy 18:15-18 of 15-22) These things I have spoken to you while I am still with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, Whom the Father will send in My name, HE will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you (Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7; Ephesians 2:10, 4:24 and Colossians 3:10).'"
1John 5:6-7 of 6-10 "This is He Who came by water and blood (natural birth)—Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the Truth. For there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood; and these three agree. If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of GOD is greater, for this is the testimony of GOD that HE has borne concerning His Son (those redeemed and restored to His image and likeness of Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7). Whoever believes in the Son of GOD has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe GOD has made Him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that GOD has borne concerning His Son (of Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7)."
Acts 17:28 of 22-31 "So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: "Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, "To the unknown god." What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. For the GOD Who made the world and everything in it, being LORD of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, nor is HE served by human hands, as though HE needed anything, since HE Himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. For HE made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek GOD, and perhaps feel their way toward Him and find Him. Yet HE is actually not far from each one of us, for "'In Him we live and move and have our being;' as even some of your own poets have said, "For we are indeed His offspring." Being then GOD's offspring (processing His image and likeness, of Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7), we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. The times of ignorance GOD overlooked, but now HE commands all people everywhere to repent, because HE has fixed a day on which HE will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom HE has appointed; and of this HE has given assurance to all by raising Him from the dead."
Christ-likeness, the ultimate aim of the Gospel,
Romans 8:29 of 28-30; 1Corinthians 15:49 of 42-49 "We know that those who love GOD all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose. For those whom HE foreknew (Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7) HE also predestined to be conformed to the image (likeness, exact copy of) of His Son, in order that HE might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom HE predestined HE also called, and those whom HE called HE also justified, and those whom HE justified HE also glorifies (sanctifies)."
1Corinthians 15:49 of 42-49 "So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. (this is John 19's death and the LORD's resurrection of Matthew 27:51-54; 1Corinthians 15:51 of 50-57, 5:2, 4 of 1-5; Ephesians 4:8 of 7-16 [Psalm 68:18 of 15-18], Colossians 2:15 of 8-15) It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. It is sown a natural body (John 12:24); it is raised a spiritual body (Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7). If there is a natural body (Genesis 3), there is also a spiritual body (Genesis 2:7). Thus it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being (Genesis 2:7, then the change in chapter 3)"; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit (the redemption of mans original being of the image and likeness of Genesis 1:26-27 and 2:7). For it is the spiritual that is first, and then the natural, and then the spiritual. The first man (Adam) was placed on the earth, made earthy, a man of dust; the second man (Adam) is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image (likeness, exact copy of) of the man (Adam) of heaven."
2Corinthians 3:18 of 12-18 "Since we have such a hope, we are very bold, not like Moses, who would put a veil over his face so that the Israelites might not gaze at the outcome of what was being brought to an end. For their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ (the second Adam) is it taken away. Yes, to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their hearts. But when one turns to the Lord, the veil is removed. Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is freedom (from religions veil). And we all, with unveiled face, can see as face to face, beholding the glory of the LORD, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the LORD Who is the Spirit."
Philippians 3:21 of 17-21; Colossians 3:10 of 5-11 "Now Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes on those who walk according to the example you have in us. For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction, their god is their belly, and they glory in their shame, with minds set on earthly things. But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, Who will transform our lowly body to be like His glorious body, by the power that enabled Him even to subject all things to Himself."
Colossians 3:10 of 5-11 "Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is spiritual idolatry (the religion of old). On account of these the wrath of GOD is coming. In these you too once walked, when you were living in them. But now you must put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth. Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. Here there is not Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free; for Christ is all, and in all."
2Peter 1:4 of 1-11 Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,
To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our GOD and Savior Jesus Christ: May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of GOD and of Jesus our LORD. His divine power (grace with faith) has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him Who called us to His Own glory and excellence, by which HE has granted to us His precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our LORD in Jesus Christ (the image and likeness redeemed and restored to all humanity). For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins. Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. For in this way there will be richly provided for you have entrance into the eternal kingdom of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ."
1John 3:2 of 1-3 "See what kind of love the Father has given to us (in Genesis 1:26-27, 2:7), that we should be called children of GOD; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know Him. Beloved, we are GOD's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when HE appears we shall be like Him, because we shall see Him as HE is. And everyone who thus hopes in Him purifies himself as HE is pure."
The LORD will we will look next to our Divine Teacher.
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