Who's Image are You?

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THOSE WHO DESIRE TO BE MADE INTO THE IMAGE OF JESUS
WILL HAVE THEIR HEARTS TESTED SO AS TO BE CONFORMED INTO HIS IMAGE​
James 1:13 -- Who tempts you and me? Who tempted Eve? Who tempted Jesus?
James 1:14 -- Does your Bible say you are tempted by the lust of the flesh? How was Eve tempted? How was Jesus tempted? Did Eve resist the flesh? Did Adam?
Did Jesus do the will of God by resisting the lust-flesh temptations of the devil? How are you called to walk if you are in Christ Jesus? (See l John 2:6) (Read Mark 8:34-35. You die to your own selfish living in order to find your life in Jesus.)
James 1:15 -- Verse 14 says we are enticed and tempted by our own lust-flesh desires. Does your Bible say that when you yield to those lusts you give birth to sin and death?
Is this what happened to Adam?
Would someone who does not put on the Lord Jesus but rather makes provision for his lust flesh-desires, be a tree of life or a tree of death?
Does verse 15 tell you that when you yield to the lusts of the flesh that sin and death now works in you? When Adam and Eve were tempted, did they resist the devil? Did Adam become a tree of death?
When Jesus was tempted, like we are, did He resist the devil? Did Jesus become a tree of life?
James 1:16 -- Is this addressed to "brethren?" Does this verse warn you that you also could be deceived? Were Adam and Eve deceived? Were they not deceived when they were led away and enticed by their own lusts? Did they believe a lie of the devil?
1 Peter 1:14 -- Does God call you to walk in obedience by not being conformed to your former lusts?
1 Peter 1:15-16 -- Does your Bible say you are to be holy in all your behavior? [Note: All of 1 Peter is to show us how to overcome all the rebellion of the flesh and to resist the devil (powers of darkness).]
II Peter 1:4 -- God gave us His Word (precious and magnificent promises) that we might become partakers of the Divine Nature. Those who have the divine nature no longer walk in the corruption of fleshy lust-rebellion. They escape this cursed nature to partake in the Divine Nature by obeying God's Word.
This is how we are born again by the Word of God! We are reconciled back to the image and likeness of God from which we fell through Adam's lust-rebellion. This divine nature conforms us to the image of Jesus (See Romans 8:29).
In this way, we are restored to the image of God. (Compare this with how Adam lost the image of God through lust sin-rebellion.)
II Corinthians 5:17 -- Through the divine nature we become a new creation, old things have passed away.
II Corinthians 5:14,15 -- Does your Bible say that those who have the love of Christ (the divine nature) no longer live for themselves, but for God? This is the mark of the Divine Nature.
II Corinthians 5:18-19 -- We have been committed to the word of reconciliation being reconciled back to the image and likeness of God. Read Colossians 3:1-10
Colossians 3:10 -- Does your Bible say the new self (the new creation) is according to the image of God?
John 3:16,36 -- While verse 16 has become a popular memory verse, verse 36 has been ignored by the traditions of man.
Does your Bible clearly say who does not obey the Son shall not see life? [Note: The King James Version uses the word "believe" rather than "obey". However, compare verse 36 with Hebrews 5:9; Jesus has become the source of salvation only to those who obey Him.]
John 3:19 -- Does the Word of God say that judgement is on those who love darkness (lust, sin-rebellion) rather than light (Jesus, the truth)?
John 3:20 -- Does your Bible say the reason people don't come to the light of the Word of God (Jesus) is because they love darkness? [Note: Colossians 1:12-13 says those who are saints are delivered out of the "kingdom of darkness" and into the "kingdom of Jesus." Therefore, the kingdom of darkness is the rebellious, selfish, cursed lust-nature of Satan. Those who love darkness in John 3:20 are those who love the rebellious, selfish lust-nature of Satan more than they love God.]
John 3:21 -- Does your Bible teach that chose who practice the truth (rather than the lusts of the flesh) are the ones who come to Jesus?
 
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