The will of
GOD
For this is good and
acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who
desires all men to be saved and to come to the
knowledge of the truth. (1 Timothy 2:3-4)
On the sixth day of creation God created human
beings in His own image. God let human beings
have dominion over all of His creations. Then
God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according
to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the
fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over
the cattle, 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 (cf. Genesis 1:26-27).
God created the Garden of Eden for human beings.
God talked to them directly. But in current
condition human beings are not the same anymore
because since they sinned, they didn't have His own
image anymore. They lost fellowship with
God.
After they sinned, in His love God promised them to
send a Savior, Jesus Christ. But when the fullness of the
time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a
woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were
under the law, that we might receive the adoption as
sons (cf. Galatians 4:4-5; John 3:16).
Jesus prays for all believers "Father, I desire that
they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I
am, that they may behold My glory which You have
given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of
the world...." (John 17:24).
If Jesus finishes His work of salvation, if we are in
God forever, then we are back in His own image.
We shall be like Him as apostle John wrote "Beloved,
now we are children of God; and it has not yet been
revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He
is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see
Him as He is" (1 John 3:2).
"And the world is passing away, and the lust of it;
but he who does the will of God abides forever" (1
John 2:17).
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