Coming Into His Image
Songs of Degrees: This is a sermon series about Psalms 120 through 134. The Songs of Degrees, or the Songs of Ascents, are meant to teach us about our upward journey toward what God wills for His church. There are 15 of these songs and there were 1,500 years between the ministry of Moses and the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ. When God gave Moses the plan for the Tabernacle, it was the beginning of His plan to restore man, to rescue man. This plan, we know, was fulfilled by the death, resurrection, and ascension of our Lord and Savior.
God created man after His image. Man cannot make himself after the image of God, for it is a creative work that only the Potter can accomplish. The devil tempted Adam and Eve into performing an action which he said would make them more like God. We know that was a lie, yet we still fall into the trap of using our intellect and our knowledge of good and evil to try to make ourselves more like God. It is futile. God promises that we will be conformed to the image of Christ by reckoning ourselves dead and by surrendering in obedience to the Potter and believing His Word. He guarantees that His way will work!
Scripture: Psalm 133, 1 Cor 12:1-12:17, 1 Cor 12:17-13:1, Daniel 2, Genesis 1:26-28, 1 Cor 15:49, 2 Cor 3:18
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