Bible Studies

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In His Image; Natural and Spiritual

God created man in is own image. He is like a person, a great king, our heavenly Father. When we are born again we become a new person. As believers our inner, born again man is recreated after God in righteousness and holiness. (Ephesians 4:24, Titus 3:5) In Ephesians 3:16 Paul prayed that the saints would be strengthened by the Spirit of the Lord in the inner man.

Our inner man has new eyes;

John 3:3- Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Matthew 5:8- Blessed are the pure in heart; for they shall see God.
II Corinthians 5:7- For we walk by faith, not by sight. (We see by faith).

Our inner man has new ears:

Romans 10:17- So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Revelation 3:22- He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches.
Isaiah 50:5- The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.

Our inner man has a new sense of taste and smell;

I Peter 2:2,3- As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby: If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.
Hebrews 5:12- For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not strong meat.
Psalm 119:103- How sweet are thy words unto my taste! yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth.
II Corinthians 2:14- Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

Our inner man has a new mind;

I Corinthians 2:11- For what knoweth the things of a man, save the (born again) spirit of a man which is in him? Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
I Corinthians 2:16- For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Isaiah 26:3- Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee; because he trusteth in thee.

When we are born again we become a part of the body of Christ. "So we, being many, are one body in Christ..." (Romans 12:5)

We have hands;

Matthew 16:19- And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven; and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
Proverbs 4:13- Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.
Colossians 3:10- And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

We have feet;

Galatians 5:25- If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Ephesians 6:15- And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;
Psalm 18:29- For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.

We have muscle;

Ephesians 5:30- For we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones.
Ephesians 6:10- Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
Psalm 29:11- The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace.

Most important of all, we have a voice;

Psalm 107:2- Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
Romans 10:10- For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Proverbs 25:11- A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
Ephesians 4:15- But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ.

Thank God for the miracle of the body of Christ. "Til we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ."(Ephesians 4:13)

Blessed be the Lord forever.

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