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  • So if you lived in ancient bible times odds are you lived under the authority of a king

  • And many of these kings claimed that they were Gods and they would even call themselves the Image of God

  • Meaning they had authority to tell people what to do order things to be made

  • Yah, they got to define good and evil

  • And these kings would often make statues of themselves which in hebrew were called Tselem often translated as idol or image

  • But for Israel they didn't view their kings as the God. In fact they were never supposed to even make images of God.

  • It's exactly right and that was really unique for that time and culture.

  • This is rooted first of all in Israel's belief that you can´t reduce the creator God down to any one thing in creation.

  • But there is another reason. PEOPLE AREN'T TO MAKE IMAGE OF GOD BECAUSE GOD HAS ALREADY MADE IMAGE OF HIMSELF.

  • When did he do that

  • Lets go to page 1 of the bible and the first person we meet there is God.

  • He is the one with authority over all creation. He speaks and the creation obeys and He defines what is good and not good

  • In other words, He alone is King but then surprisingly as the pinnacle of all of God's creative work He makes humans.

  • and he calls all of them the Image of God

  • So he gives all humans the authority to rule

  • Exactly. That is what He goes on to say.

  • He tells the humans to subdue the earth and to rule it. And so this task,

  • that once belonged only to elite kings is here in the bible, the task of every human being

  • This was a revolutionary statement in its day because all humans are being called

  • to rule and to participate in the human project.

  • So what does this mean, I mean, how are we all supposed to rule.

  • So, the picture we get in Genesis is

  • gardening, "Gardening?!"

  • Yes, Gardening. So, they rule the earth

  • by cultivating it, by harnessing all of the earth's raw potential and then making something more and new out of it

  • So, growing food for each other.

  • Yes, but that also includes growing families which then becomes neighborhoods

  • and then they create communities where people are going to work and take care of each other

  • and build businesses and cities and will expand to new places and so on

  • So, ruling is really the day to day acts of our work and creativity

  • Yes, we take the world somewhere

  • This is humanity's divine and sacred task.

  • This all sounds really nice

  • And humans have designed some pretty great things

  • But just as often we create things that cause a lot of sufferring and a lot of injustice

  • So, maybe we shouldn't actually be ruling

  • Yah, so the bible addresses this

  • In Genesis, what happens is that God gives humans

  • a choice of how they are going to rule.

  • So, are they going to use their authority for the benefit of others

  • which is God's definition of good

  • Or are they going to turn away and define good and evil for themselves

  • and use their authority for self advantage

  • and in the story they choose to define good and evil on their own terms

  • And so this is the bible's depiction of the human condition

  • so sometimes we pull off amazingly good stuff but just as often

  • despite our best intentions we act selfishly and we create evil in the world

  • and so we are stuck as mediocre rulers

  • making a mess of things

  • But that's not the end of the story

  • so, the bible goes on and makes this claim

  • that all of this was resolved when God bound himself

  • to humanity through Jesus and

  • He showed us what it looks like to truly rule as a human

  • So what does it look like

  • Well, Jesus ruled by serving and by seeking

  • the best for others by putting himself underneath them

  • and loving not just His friends but also His enemies

  • And that's not a typical way to rule

  • And not only that Jesus confronted the consequences of

  • all the evil and death that we have created by

  • our messed up ways of ruling

  • and he takes it, I mean he lets it kill Him

  • And so, when the new testament writers looked back

  • to Jesus's resurrection they see

  • a whole new future opening up for all humanity

  • Jesus is a new way to be human

  • Yah, that's why they call Jesus the Image of God or New Human

  • And not only that they also believe that Jesus is divine

  • life and power is now available to

  • heal and transform us to become our life and power

  • and this sounds really nice

  • but what does it really look like

  • So, practically the apostle Paul said it looks

  • like people being filled by Jesus's own presence and spirit

  • filled with love and joy and peace and patience

  • and kindness and goodness and integrity and gentleness and self control

  • He says this is the new humanity that God wants

  • to create in us. So that we become people

  • in whom God's image is being restored

  • people who will move the human project forward

  • and that's actually how the story of the bible ends

  • It's a renewed world where God is on

  • His throne and His servants are all around Him

  • But they are the ones ruling over this new world

  • Taking it into new uncharted territory with Jesus

  • as their healer and their God.

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  • one unified narrative that leads to Jesus

  • It has profound wisdom for the modern world

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  • design and message of books of the bible

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