Sermon Tone Analysis

Created in God’s Image

Creation is capped off with the formation of a man and a woman.

God seems to have a counsel within Himself or the heaven creatures, where he decides to make man in His own image and likeness.

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

What is the Image of God?

27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

New American Standard Bible: 1995 update.

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Remember we talked about how God is Spirit so he cannot be a physical being.

Anthony Lane gives 6 great example in chapter 6.

Physical

People sometimes object to saying that the image of God is physical, because God doesn’t have a body.

But that is short-sighted.

God doesn’t have a body, but our bodies certainly reflect his power.

People sometimes object to saying that the image of God is physical, because God doesn’t have a body.

But that is short-sighted.

God doesn’t have a body, but our bodies certainly reflect his power.

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Frame, J. M. (2006).

Salvation belongs to the Lord: an introduction to systematic theology (p.

88).

Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing.

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The human eye is an image of God’s power to see, as the psalmist says, “He who formed the eye, does he not see?” (Ps.

94:9).

God doesn’t have literal eyes, but our eyes reflect his power of sight.

Similarly, Scripture speaks of God’s “arm” and “hand,” indicating his power to act, and showing that our arms and hand are also images of him.

“The human eye is an image of God’s power to see, as the psalmist says, “He who formed the eye, does he not see?” ().

God doesn’t have literal eyes, but our eyes reflect his power of sight.

Similarly, Scripture speaks of God’s “arm” and “hand,” indicating his power to act, and showing that our arms and hand are also images of him.”

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The human eye is an image of God’s power to see, as the psalmist says, “He who formed the eye, does he not see?” ().

God doesn’t have literal eyes, but our eyes reflect his power of sight.

Similarly, Scripture speaks of God’s “arm” and “hand,” indicating his power to act, and showing that our arms and hand are also images of him.

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Frame, J. M. (2006).

Salvation belongs to the Lord: an introduction to systematic theology (p.

88).

Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing.Official

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God gives us dominion over the earth,

- “The Cultural Commission” - Men and women are called to go out into the world and create.

We were created in God’s image to be fellow creators.

We use the material given by THE Creator to continue this cultural commission.

YOU AND I ARE CALLED TO CREATE CULTURE.

We often times find ourselves fighting against culture and trying to keep it away from our kids but are we being faithful with God’s command to create culture, to have dominion.

The Garden was to be the epicenter of culture.

From it everything would come.

New York city is one of the epicenters of American culture.

If New York does it then its only a matter of time until everyone else starts doing it.

Why, because it is the epicenter of culture.

Tim Keller hopes to continue and grow his gospel movement in New York City because he knows everything starts there.

It’s interesting to note that Genesis starts with a garden with two people.

But that was never meant to be the end.

shows us the end of time, where all men will come together and it wont just be a garden but it is shown as a garden like city.

Our purpose is to steward God’s creation.

Frame, J. M. (2006).

Salvation belongs to the Lord: an introduction to systematic theology (p.

88).

Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R Publishing.Our purpose is to steward God’s creation.

We were created to be God’s ambassadors to the world.

The ancient kings would build statues of themselves and then place them at the far reaches of their kingdom to mark the boundaries of the King’s authority.

when a foreigner would come to the Kings land they would encounter his image so they knew who was in control.

Our lives are meant to reflect the authority, the rule and reign of the Kingdom of God.

When people encounter you, do they see the image of God or do they see still the authority of this world.

Ethical

Our purpose is to steward God’s creation.

The NT authors saw the image of God as being reflected in our ability to have knowledge, righteousness and holiness.

Spiritual

We are called to treat every human being with dignity and respect.

It doesn’t matter if they are in conception and about ready to die.

Their skin color doesn’t matter or the region of the world they are from.

Every human being is endowed with value, not because government gives it, but because God gives it.

Spiritual

We are called to serve God and be his priests.

Eden was the first temple.

A couple examples as to what I mean.

The verb form of the Hebrew word mithalek used to describe God walking through the garden (Gen 3:8); its the same word used to describe the presence of God moving about in his dwelling place.

Lev 26:11-12; Deut 23:14; 2 Sam 7:6-7

Solomons temple - The Bronze sea had two rows of gourds on it; the two main pillars had two hundred pomagranates on them and a lily design at its top.

The walls were lined with wood carvings of cherubim and palm trees and then covered in gold.

There were ten lampstands each appearing to be a budding tree with 7 branches each holding a light atop a bulb that seems to blossom.

This orchard is symbolic of the Garden of Eden.

The temple is designed after the garden of Eden.

Eden was the place God would dwell.

It was his sacred space.

says God planted a garden in the east, in Eden.

Then says a river flowed out of Eden and watered the garden.

Ezekiels temple in Ez 47:1; both show a mighty river flowing out from the most holy place or the throne room of God.

What this shows is that Eden had a garden attached to it.

Eden was the dwelling place of God.

God would come out of his dwelling place to fellowship and commune with humanity in the garden.

If Eden was the first temple then Adam and Eve were his first priests.

The Jewish commentators overwhelmingly saw Adam as constructed out of the dirt that made up God’s dwelling place.

Adam was made of the same material that was God’s temple.

Adam had a unique relationship with God’s temple, he was to serve in it, but he was also made of it.

This should sound familiar.