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What is Man, That You are Mindful of Him

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Channel: The Faith Once Delivered To The Saints · 2017 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Sermon text based on Psalm 8. "O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained; What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field; The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas. O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!" Made in the Image of God.

What does that mean?

Well, let’s first talk about what it doesn’t mean: It DOESN’T mean that you LOOK LIKE God. God is a spirit, a person/personality without a physical body… except for the Son, Jesus, who took on a physical body (Who was God in the flesh) “God is a spirit…(A singular being without equals)” John 4:24 “…a spirit does not have flesh and bones…” Luke 24:39 When the Bible talks about God having a “face” or an “arm” or a “hand” or “mouth”… these are ways that we talk about God in terms we can understand and relate to – not saying that God has a BODY.   I am more than a body. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing Matthew 6:25 For physical training is of some value, but godliness has value for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come. 1 Timothy 4:8 But it is the spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding. Job 32:8 “…and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.” Ecclesiastes 12:7 

I was made for a purpose.To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ… 1 Corinthians 1:2

For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. Ephesians 1:4 Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord. Hebrews 12:14 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do; for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy." 1 Peter 1:15-16 Do you see how the holiness of God affects everything about our understanding of Him? God’s purpose for you was to make you holy so you would reflect his glory and image.  I was made to last forever.

[God] has also set eternity in the hearts of men… Ecclesiastes 3:11 “But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which a man may eat and not die. I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever.” John 6:50 “I tell you the truth, if anyone keeps my word, he will never see death." John 8:51 God put his thumbprints all over us. One of the ways we were made in the image of God is that we were created to last forever. Buddhism teaches “absorption into the collective consciousness”… that you will only exist like a drop that falls into the ocean. Atheists teach that you cease to exist. But Christians believe that 10 billion years from now, your personality, your consciousness will still be alive somewhere!

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