FULFILLING GOD’S DESIGN

Genesis 1: 26-28

by Rev. Richard Jones

Genesis 1:26-28 (ESV)
26  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.” 27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28  And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

 THE RESOLVE IN IMAGE

26  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.”
27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 2:7 (ESV)
7  then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

James 2:26 (ESV)
26  For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 (ESV)
7  and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Hebrews 9:27 (ESV)
27  And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,

2 Corinthians 5:17 (ESV)
17  Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Galatians 5:16 (ESV)
16  But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

1 Corinthians 15:46-49 (ESV)
46  But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. 47  The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. 48  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. 49  Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.

THE REALITY OF GENDER

27  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

 THE ROLE OVER NATURE

28  And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”