HUMANSWHAT DO WE LOOK LIKE?

HUMANS – AS CREATED

TAKE AWAY SIN AND ITS EFFECTSWHAT DID ADAM LOOK LIKE?WAS HE A SUPERMAN?WAS HE PERFECT?AT THE RESURRECTION WHAT WILL CHRISTIANS LOOK LIKE?WILL THEY BE PERFECT?

WHY HUMANS?DOES GOD NEED US?

DOES GOD NEED THE INCARNATION?COLOSSIANS 1:15-17

THE HUMAN JESUS IS AN IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GODEVERYTHING WAS CREATED IN [WITH REFERENCE TO HIM], THROUGH HIM AND FOR HIMHE STANDS BEFORE ALL THINGS AND BRINGS THEM TO THEIR GOAL

ADAM AND US

GENESIS 1:26-27 LET US MAKE HUMANS IN [ACCORDING TO] OUR IMAGEAN IMAGE IS A VISIBLE MANIFESTATION, EXPRESSION OF WHAT A PERSON IS, ACHIEVED THROUGH A PHYSICAL MEDIUMJESUS CHRIST IS AN IMAGEADAM AND US, WE WERE CREATED WITH THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME AN IMAGE

REASON FOR OUR CREATION

HUMANS ARE NEEDEDGOD NEEDS US TO REALISE A DREAMDREAMERS NEED A MEDIUM THROUGH WHICH TO ACHIEVELEVITICUS 22:32-33 I AM THE LORD WHO SANCTIFIES YOU [SETS YOU APART FOR MY EXCLUSIVE USE], WHO BROUGHT YOU OUT OF THE LAND OF EGYPT TO BE YOUR GOD [TO EXPRESS WHAT I AM AND ACHIEVE MY DREAM THROUGH YOU]

WHAT DO WE LOOK LIKE?

#1. WE ARE NEEDEDGOD NEEDS US

#2. GENESIS 2:18 WE ARE NEEDY

GOD DID NOT CREATED ADAM COMPLETE [PERFECT] HE WAS CREATED NEEDY

THE DESIGNER-CREATOR

WOULD GOD, COULD GOD CREATED ANYTHING PERFECT [COMPLETE IN ITSELF]?WHY DO WE WORSHIP ONE GOD AND NOT THREE?IS EACH MEMBER OF THE TRINITY SELF-CONTAINED, AUTONOMOUS, GOD ON HIS OWN?THE THREE MAKE ONE GOD FOR EACH IS NEEDED-NEEDY

NEEDED-NEEDY

CREATED NEEDED-NEEDYREDEEMED NEEDED-NEEDYCHRIST DID NOT DIE AND RISE AGAIN TO SAVE US FROM BEING NEEDED-NEEDYTHE CALL OF CHRIST RELATES TO OUR BEING NEEDED MATTHEW 4:18-19, ACTS 26:14-18

THEN TO OUR NEEDINESS

CHRISTIAN LIFE

INDIVIDUAL OR CORPORATE?IT IS COMMUNITYCHARACTERISED BY LOVE, RECIPROCAL LOVETHE GREAT COMMANDMENT IS NOT “LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR” BUT “LOVE ONE-ANOTHER”

THREE TYPES OF PEOPLE

• TAKERS• GIVERS• GIVER-TAKERS

ONLY THOSE WHO RECOGNISE AND EMBRACE THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NEEDED-NEEDY CAN LOVE ONE ANOTHER

EASY? NATURAL?

WHICH IS EASIER?• GIVING LOVE?• RECEIVING LOVE?

COMPLETE/PERFECT

WE CAN NEVER BE COMPLETE IN OURSELVESCOMPLETENESS IS CORPORATEEPHESIANS 4:13 BUILT UP UNTIL WE TOGETHER REACH ONE MATURE HUMANCHRIST AND HIS PEOPLE TOGETHER COMPLETEWE WILL ALWAYS BE NEEDED-NEEDY