Jesus is not just the answer for Salvation, He is the example of what life should look like. Jesus didnt just come here to die for the sole purpose of securing a place for us in heaven. He came to put heaven in us - to bring heaven to earth - For us to finish what He started, which was to reveal the Father and destroy the works of the devil; to walk in victory, to touch hurting people with real love - not-that-we-loved-Him-but-that-He-loved-us kind of love (1 John 4:10 love)! When God started it all with Adam, Gods plans were to make man in His image and for man to multiply and fill the earth with lots of little mini-images of God. But once Adam yielded to the enemy, he no longer could reproduce the image of God. He could only reproduce what he was - fallen man. Thats how we were born into the sin of Adam. We were reproductions of him in his fallen state. You can only reproduce that which you are. The devil is the great perverter and counterfeiter. He wants to reproduce after his own kind - as many as will yield to him. But God wants to reproduce after His own kind, as many as will believe. Jesus came to seek and to save that which was lost. We think that means a drunk in the back alley but what was really lost? The image of God! This is why Jesus came and said, Follow Me. This is why He said, If youve seen Me, youve seen the Father. This is why He said, You MUST be born again. Jesus, like Adam, could only reproduce after His own kind. And once we are born again into Him, we are re-created into the image of our Father. We drop the image of Adam and receive the image of Christ, who is the express image of His Father. He restores us to our original image. He became what we were so that we could become what He is.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 22:22:46 +0000