Image of God (Who Are We?)

[Intro]
This is the image of God
Created
Fallen
And redeemed

[Verse 1]
We were made by the Triune God who's overflowing with life
For His glory He created us to know His delight
Although He doesn’t need us He was pleased just
To make us His conduits who show what He’s like
To be His image-bearers yep His mirrors in Eden
Made from the dust but by His Spirit we’re breathing (Genesis 2:7)
(who are we?)
We’re physical-spiritual beings
Who live before the face of God
He’s near and He’s seeing
Made to be dependent so clearly we need Him
Straying would bring His vengeance so fear Him and please Him
We’re embodied souls (Genesis 2:7) what is logical?
It’s giving all honor to our God in full
We were given dominion to be kings in His kingdom (Genesis 1:26)
To spread godliness through our kids and their kinsmen (Genesis 1:28)
Vice-kings made in His likeness to be like Him
Wise
Kind
Holy and righteous (Ephesians 4:24; Colossians 3:10)
Made with boundaries to obey is how we’re free
So to transgress is a crazy fallacy (Romans 1:22)
And to show how His pleasure is teeming
He made us male and female -- sexual beings (Genesis 1:27)
Made to love Him from our hearts and in action (Genesis 2:15-17)
In covenant relationship with God everlasting (Hosea 6:7)
If Adam passes the test and God’s statutes are kept
We’d be advancing to glory and then bask in His rest

[Hook]
Who are we?
We’re creatures who are made in His image
Who are we?
Now we’re all enslaved and we’re sinners
Who are we?
But now we’re being remade in His likeness
Glory awaits soon to be raised up like Christ is
Creation
We’re creatures made in His Image
The Fall
Now we’re all enslaved and we’re sinners
Redemption
But now we’re being remade in His likeness
Glory awaits soon to be raised up like Christ is

[Verse 2]
Naked without shame
But Satan would shout (hey)
Did God really say these statements they sound lame
You decide what is right based on your sound brain (Genesis 3:1-5)
But sin made every part of us defiled insane (Genesis 6:5)
We went from image-bearers now to image-makers (Isaiah 44:9-20; Ezekiel 16:7; Amos 5:26)
No longer royal children because sin’s enslaved us
Now this may seem quite odd
Romans 1 says we all know Him but we don’t like God (Romans 1:21)
We’re suppressors of truth with intellectual proofs (Romans 1:18, 25)
We justify our evil with an impressive excuse
To beastly pleasures we stoop and all the while pretending that He who’s omnipresent is duped
Physically alive but spiritually carcasses (Ephesians 2:1-3)
The darkness of our sarx and hearts is this
We deceive ourselves with our own arguments
So that we can pretend no God exists (Psalm 14:1)
We’re wicked treasonous we married our mistress (Jeremiah 3:1-11, 20)
With deceitfulness we’re cherishing riches
In disobedience our varied commitments
With allegiances show we’re very religious (Acts 17:16, 22)
Pursuing lustly instincts
Our disgusting sin stinks (2 Peter 2:10-12, 22)
Instead of God we’re trusting in things
We say (it’s psychological) discuss it with shrinks
Our standard is self
Our sense of justice intense
Can’t admit we’re wrong just can’t confess it
We can still do good deeds but demand the credit
Spiritually deaf
Blind and dumb
Screaming not Your will O God but mine be done
So the God of all goodness who is Jehovah says (okay your will be done) and gives us over
To our self-destruction (Romans 1:24, 26, 28)
So now we’re hurting prisoners locked up in our own cell’s corruption
Covenant breakers
To cover our shame up
We smother our pain don’t want others to hate us
We suffer from racists
Satan’s come and he’s raped us
Now we fear death cause judgment awaits us (Hebrews 2:15)
In Adam we’re all the same from God estranged
But in all this the image of God remains (Genesis 9:6; James 3:9)
Yet Yahweh He still is pursuing them
To save us He’ll die on a hill in Jerusalem

[Verse 3]
We are those whom God would share our nature (Hebrews 2:14)
To satisfy the Father’s wrath and bear His anger (Hebrews 2:17)
(Jesus) the firstfruits of new humanity (1 Corinthians 15:20)
(Jesus) our Blueprint of the truest Man indeed
Fully God yet true Adamic seed (Luke 3:38)
He became Man to pursue His family from every tribe
People group and nation (Revelation 5:9)
In His Resurrection
He begins the New Creation (Colossians 1:18; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Revelation 3:14)
Royal children again in the kingdom of His light (Colossians 1:13-14)
Two words summarize us now (in Christ) (Romans 8:1-2)
Cause united to the true Human
New hearts
Forgiveness and change
It comes through this union (Colossians 2:11-15)
Even before the Fall Adam was able to die (1 Corinthians 15:46)
Jesus who is Lord over all now is raised up alive
As we bore the image of him whose body was perishable
An imperishable glory-body will carry our soul (1 Corinthians 15:42-49)
Chosen in Him to be holy within (Ephesians 1:4; Romans 8:29)
Till then He shows us our sin
We are those who repent
Now covenant-keepers in the Son who redeemed us
Justified now by the blood of our Jesus (Romans 5:9)
A holy nation of priests
Now praise is a feast
We’re a chosen race
We’re His saints and His sheep (1 Peter 2:9-10)
The Spirit gives true discernment (Ephesians 4:23-24)
We want reality
Not pulp fiction (no Uma Thurman) we are those who grow although it is sloppy
Plus we're those who groan in this broken body (Romans 8:23; 2 Corinthians 5:2)
Less and less enjoy sin
More detest its poison
At times depressed
Sorrowful yet rejoicing (2 Corinthians 6:10)
We run swiftly but life becomes sticky
Crying (come quickly) yet His Son’s with me
Cause He isn’t far though
A compassionate Father who is always with us in our sorrows but at times spiritually hollow
Weary and not whole
With tears in His bottle (Psalms 56:8)
But when He returns all mourning is finished (Revelation 21:4)
From the sight of His glory we’ll be conformed in His Image (1 John 3:1-2; Philippians 3:20-21)
Though an eternity of hell is just
Forever we’ll praise the Lamb who Himself was crushed (Revelation 5:9-12; 7:9-10)
His Infinite love and light will envelop us
In ceaseless fellowship our God will dwell with us (Revelation 21:3)

[Hook]
Creation
We’re creatures made in His image
The Fall
Now we’re all enslaved and we’re sinners
Redemption
But now we’re being remade in His likeness
Glory awaits soon to be raised up like Christ is
Creation
We’re creatures made in His image
The Fall
Now we’re all enslaved and we’re sinners
Re-creation
But now we’re being remade in His likeness
Glory awaits soon to be raised up like Christ is

[Outro]
So it is with the resurrection of the dead
What is sown is perishable
What is raised is imperishable
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
It is raised a spiritual body
If there is a natural body there is also a spiritual body
Thus it is written
The first man Adam became a living being
The last Adam became a life-giving Spirit
But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural and then the spiritual
The first man was from the earth
A man of dust
The second Man is from heaven
As was the man of dust so also are those who are of the dust
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 of the Man of heaven
The first letter of Paul to the Corinthians chapter 15