{"id":7432,"date":"2022-09-11T15:52:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T19:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=7432"},"modified":"2022-09-11T15:52:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T19:52:26","slug":"fulfilling-gods-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crossroadchristianfellowship.org\/?p=7432","title":{"rendered":"FULFILLING GOD’S DESIGN"},"content":{"rendered":"

FULFILLING GOD’S DESIGN<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

Genesis 1: 26-28<\/strong><\/h1>\n

by Rev. Richard Jones<\/b><\/h2>\n

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Genesis 1:26-28 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n26\u00a0 Then God said, \u201cLet 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.\u201d 27\u00a0 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28\u00a0 And God blessed them. And God said to them, \u201cBe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u00a0THE RESOLVE IN IMAGE<\/u><\/strong>
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\n26\u00a0 Then God said, \u201cLet 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.\u201d
\n27\u00a0 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.<\/p>\n

Genesis 2:7 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n7\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

James 2:26 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n26\u00a0 For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so also faith apart from works is dead.<\/p>\n

Ecclesiastes 12:7 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n7\u00a0 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.<\/p>\n

Hebrews 9:27 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n27\u00a0 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,<\/p>\n

2 Corinthians 5:17 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n17\u00a0 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.<\/p>\n

Galatians 5:16 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n16\u00a0 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.<\/p>\n

1 Corinthians 15:46-49 (ESV)<\/strong>
\n46\u00a0 But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. 47\u00a0 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. 48\u00a0 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\u00a0 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.<\/p>\n

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THE REALITY OF GENDER<\/u><\/strong>
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\n27\u00a0 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0THE ROLE OVER NATURE<\/u><\/strong>
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\n28\u00a0 And God blessed them. And God said to them, \u201cBe 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.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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