Well, would you please take your Bibles and open them up again to the book of Genesis?
We're still in chapter 1.
Somebody asked me, I won't tell you who, this morning, if it was really going to take 10
years for us to get through Genesis.
Lord willing, will not.
But the first three chapters here, as we've said, are so foundational for us that we are
going to spend a good bit of time walking slowly through these first three chapters.
And today we're looking at the sixth day of creation, that's Genesis chapter 1, verses
24 through 31.
And so when you found that in your Bibles, let's stand in honor of the reading of God's
word this morning from Genesis chapter 1, verses 24 through 31, sixth day of creation.
And God said, let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds, livestock
and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.
And it was so.
And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the livestock according to
their kinds and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind.
And God saw that it was good.
Then God said, let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion
over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over
all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
So God created man in his own image.
In the image of God, he created him male and female.
He created them and God blessed them.
God said to them, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion
over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing
that moves on the earth.
And God said, behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all
the earth and every tree with seed and its fruit.
You shall have them for food.
And to every beast of the earth and every bird of the heavens and everything that creeps
on the earth and everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant
for food.
And it was so.
And God saw everything that he had made.
And behold, it was very good.
And there was evening and there was morning.
The sixth day.
Would you pray with me once more?
Lord, what an honor it is to be made in your image and to be remade into your image through
your son, Jesus.
And so we pray now as we look to this text, God, would you shape us further into your image
through the word by the power of your spirit this morning, we ask in Jesus' name.
Amen.
You may be seated.
You may remember seeing the headline about a year ago last week, actually, is January 28,
2024.
And the headline read, Outrage as iconic Mona Lisa painting defaced by protesters.
This is possibly the most famous image in the world painted by probably one of the most famous
artists ever to live, Leonardo da Vinci.
And apparently a group of protesters wanted to raise awareness about food insecurity in
France.
And the best way they could think to do that was to cover the Mona Lisa with a bunch of
pumpkin soup.
I threw it all over the famous picture.
This isn't the first time that somebody has attacked the Mona Lisa.
I read this week that apparently over the years she has been stabbed by a razor blade.
And she's had acid poured on her.
She was kidnapped once for two years.
Nobody knew where the Mona Lisa was.
For two years, an employee of the Louvre kidnapped her and kept her hidden.
She's had rocks thrown at her.
She's had mugs thrown at her.
She's even had pastries smeared all over her.
But amazingly, through it all, some 500 years later, the image still remains.
Last week, we began to look at this first week of creation and we saw God create the skies
and the earth and the sea and the sun and the moon and the stars.
He worked like an architect.
He was forming this unformed universe.
And then he worked like an artist.
You remember, he was filling this universe with life and beauty over the first five days.
But now we come to this sixth day on day six and we see God is doing something different here on day six
than the rest of his five days of creation.
God, the artist of all creation, here on day six, makes mankind in his glorious image.
This is the most impressive image in all the earth and is made by the most impressive, most glorious, most famous artist in all the universe.
But as we know, over the years, this image has been attacked, has been marred, has been defaced,
it has been drugged through the mud.
But even still today, through it all, the image of God remains on every boy, every girl, every man, every woman.
It is so important that we understand this high honor that you and I are made in God's image.
And so what I want to do this morning is I want to look to this text and ask the question,
well, what does it mean that you and I and everybody else, we are made in the image of God?
What does that mean?
What does that mean for our worth and our dignity and our roles and our responsibility?
What does it mean for us to be humans made in the image of God?
And we'll see three answers to that question here this morning.
Three answers.
Being in God's image means that you were made to resemble him,
that you represent him,
and that you receive from him your identity and your dignity.
And we'll walk through all three of these together.
First, we see being made in God's image means that you and I, in a very real way, we resemble God.
Look there with me to verse 24.
And just like on the third day of creation, there are two acts here on the sixth day.
These are parallels here.
First, we see God calls for the earth to bring forth living creatures according to their kinds.
And he says three categories of these land animals are mentioned as livestock.
These are the large domesticated animals.
And then there's the creeping things.
Those are all the animals you don't want in your house.
And then there's the wild beasts of the earth.
Those are the wild animals.
And just as with the rest of creation, everything here is put in its order, isn't it?
Each with its kind.
Each in its place.
And again, just as with the first five days of creation,
God sees what he's made and he declares over it that what he's made is good.
But then we see here that we're showing something happens that's different than what's happened here on the first five days.
Something totally unique and distinct happens here in verse 26.
Then God said, let us make man in our image and after our likeness.
So, verse 27 says, so God created man in his own image.
In the image of God, he created him.
Male and female, he created them.
This repetition here is intentional.
It's meant to draw our attention here that something special, something unique,
something important is happening here in the making of man.
This is the grand finale of the week of creation.
This is the end of the fireworks show.
That all of this has been building up to this moment, which is incredible.
Because when you think about it, you compare us to the rest of creation.
And I'm sure you've seen the same images that I've seen of Hubble telescope images of the galaxy.
These pictures of the Milky Way.
You've seen images of the stars and of the sun and of the planets.
You look up at the sun and how bright and powerful it is.
I'm sure each of you has been to some part of God's creation.
It just makes your jaw drop and hit the floor in awe at what God has done.
But here we see that all of this is just the opening act.
His crowning work.
The grand finale of all his creation is us.
Why?
Because unlike any other part of creation, man and woman distinctly bear the image of God.
We are made to resemble him.
I do want you to notice here also, by the way, clearly mankind is not a part of the animal kingdom.
I know that's different from what you learn in elementary school science.
But clearly here, mankind is set apart in a class of his own.
He's distinct.
He doesn't belong in any of these three categories of the land animals.
He's set aside in a category of his own.
And there's not a hint here that he might just be an elevated, evolved form of any of these creatures.
Or just one of the creatures that just happened to develop a little bit further, a little bit faster and turn into man.
From the very beginning, we see mankind is set apart with this distinction.
That he and he alone, out of all creation, is made in the image of God.
In fact, verse 26, we see mankind is given authority and dominion over all the rest of the animals.
Over the fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth.
Over all the creeping things that you don't want in your house.
Mankind is given dominion.
There's an undeniable distinction here.
In the value, in the worth, in the role of humanity over all the rest of creation.
He is not one of them.
He's certainly not less than them.
He's not equal with them.
He is in a class of his own.
Why?
Because we, in a very unique way, are made to resemble God.
I remember growing up.
More than once, somebody would tell me that I looked like my father.
I was David's son.
There's no denying it.
And then I started to lose my hair.
And even more, I heard I was David's son.
There's no denying it.
And then we had Cobb.
And here's the same thing.
He, in a very real way, resembles me.
You look just like your father.
You must belong to him.
And in a way, he bears my image.
But, you know, of course, God has no physical being like we do.
And so we don't share our father's nose or his ears or his eye or his hairline.
Right?
So how do we resemble God?
Well, we share some of his distinct qualities.
Like God, you and I are relational.
We can speak and communicate.
We can speak and communicate with God himself.
This is a very big part of what it means to be human,
is that we can have a relationship with God, speak with him, relate to him.
And like God, we're rational creatures, sometimes at least.
Right?
And we can think and we can reason.
We can understand.
We can gain knowledge and gain understanding.
We can gain wisdom.
We have personality.
We have capacity for moral understanding and decision making.
We have capacity to understand and obey the law of God.
In a reflective sort of way, we can, as his creatures made in his image,
we can share and experience and reflect his love, his goodness, his kindness.
We have capacity for holiness and for justice and for graciousness
and for faithfulness, for patience, for wisdom.
These are all what we call the communicable attributes of God.
Now, that's a big word, isn't it?
And all that simply means is those descriptions of God that he shares with those who are made in his image.
These are ways that we can be like God.
So when we see these qualities in people around us, even in non-believers,
we ought to see them as mirror-like reflections of the glory of God.
We ought to celebrate these glimpses of God's character in ourselves and in one another.
And when Christians put these qualities on,
and when we pursue these God-like characteristics and put them on,
we are showing forth to the watching world what God is like.
This is an incredible distinction, an incredible honor that God has given us.
Mankind is made to resemble God, which comes, second, with a big responsibility.
Second, being made in God's image means that we represent him.
We represent him.
Look there with me to verse 28.
Mankind is given a task here.
It says God blessed them and he said to them, which that's new, by the way.
God hasn't spoken directly to any part of his creation up until now,
but now he speaks directly to mankind, blesses mankind, and now he gives us a job.
Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it.
Have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens
and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
So now we see that at least part of our imaging forth of God to the world
is in our God-given responsibilities.
We're not just meant to look like him.
We're meant to act like him.
We're meant to function like him.
We're meant to work like him, even to work as an extension of him here on the earth.
You know, ancient kings in this time, they used to set up statues
on the borders of their territory.
They would put up images of themselves on the borderlines of their territory
to show, well, this land here is mine.
These images here, they represent me.
They represent my rule and my authority.
And so now here, in a similar way, God is setting forth his images in his domain.
And he says, go fill the earth with my image.
They're commanded to go fill the domain of God.
Now, I want you to think about these commands here.
Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, subdue it.
In light of what we've seen God do already in the first five days of creation.
Because this is a command to continue the work of God
as his representatives here on earth.
Think about it with me.
All of this, all of this is reproducing God's own creative activity.
You remember last week, right?
How God was busy giving shape and form to the formless.
And then he was filling up the emptiness.
And he was ruling over his creation by the power of his word.
And now, what does he say?
He says, you get to go be a part of this.
You get to go represent me by continuing my work in the world.
So go give form to the formless.
Go maintain the structure and the order of the earth.
Go rule over creation.
Go subdue creation.
Go have dominion.
And order all things by my word.
You get to work as God's representatives here on earth.
You know, I think this really,
it gives shape to the way that we think about work
and vocation and labor, doesn't it?
Work in and of itself and labor in and of itself
isn't inherently bad.
You think about this tomorrow morning when you go clock in to work, okay?
Before sin enters the world and makes work difficult
and bears thorns and thistles,
it's hard for us to do labor.
Before any of this happens,
work in and of itself is a gift of God.
It's a blessing for the glory of God.
And so Christians are called to whatever they do,
they're called to work heartily as for the Lord and not for men.
And whatever work we involve ourselves in,
it's meant to be an extension of the work of God.
As we form the formless,
order all things by His word.
And then we see here this command to be fruitful and multiply,
fill the earth, subdue it.
That's a command to work as God's own representatives
and see that the ends of the earth are filled with His glory.
We're called, like God, to fill the earth with image bearers.
Be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth.
When a husband and a wife come together and they say,
let us make a child in our own image,
who does that sound like to you?
They're representing and extending the work of God.
And in a beautiful act of creation,
an eternal soul is now formed and brought into the world.
An image bearer is formed.
And God's image is multiplied on the earth
through this blessing of childbearing.
There's another spiritual dimension to these commands here
that I want us to see, isn't there?
Because some of y'all are tuning me out.
Some of y'all who think that you're past the age of childbearing
have already stopped listening.
I want you to come back to me, okay?
And some of you who have retired from your day jobs
have already tuned me out and stopped listening.
So you come back here with me too
because there's work for you to do still.
Listen to this.
Remember again how it is that God brings beauty and order out of chaos.
How was it?
It's through the power of His Word, right?
How is it that He forms the formless
and He fills the earth with beauty and with life?
It's through the power of His Word.
How is it that He rules over all things in His domain?
It's through the power of His Word.
So how is it that you think that we as His representatives
are to continue this work of God
and to rule over all things and to bring order out of chaos
and to fill the earth with His glory?
Well, it's through the power of His Word.
Spiritually speaking, on this side of the fall into sin,
on this side of the chaos of sin in the world,
one of the main ways that we rule over and subdue the world
is by making certain that the world doesn't rule over and subdue us.
And how do we do that?
We guard ourselves by the power of His Word.
It's by living according to His Word in our own lives,
not letting the chaos of sin rule in your life,
but instead you rule over it by the Word.
Not letting the weeds grow in your mind and in your heart,
but fighting for the purity of Eden in your own heart and in your life.
Not letting the chaos rule over your family and rule over your marriage,
but instead making the Word of God central in your marriage.
This is how we bring form to the chaos here on this side of the fall.
Letting the Word of Christ dwell in you richly,
and then out of that, letting the Word shape and form your life at home
and at work and wherever you may go.
Also, on this side of the fall,
one of the main ways that Christians, all Christians, young and old,
can be fruitful and multiply is not just by having lots of babies,
although that's good,
it's by going and making disciples.
Bearing spiritual children.
Investing in the next generation of believers.
Sharing the Gospel with those who don't know the Lord.
And when they come to faith in Christ,
guess what happens in them?
They are reborn as children of God.
The best way for you to fill the earth
with the domain and the rule and the reign of God,
to fill the earth with His image,
is to share the Gospel and make disciples.
And pray that through your faithful evangelism,
the Lord would bring many spiritual children into the world
by faith in Christ.
This is God's means, ultimately,
of filling the earth with His image,
with His glory.
Church, each one of us has been given this responsibility
to rule and to reproduce.
To order all things by His word
and to fill the earth with His image.
This is a high honor, is it not?
Finally, third,
being made in God's image means that we receive from Him
our identity and our dignity.
I wanted to shift gears here for a minute
away from what we're called to do
and instead focus here on this last point
with who we are.
With our identity in Christ.
The fact that you are made in God's image.
This is the building block for our identity.
You realize this?
And this is the foundational building block
for who you are.
Mark chapter 12.
You don't have to turn there with me,
but maybe just mark this down for later.
The Pharisees and the Herodians,
they come to Jesus.
You may know this story.
And they ask Him a question.
It's a trick question.
They're trying to trip Him up.
They're trying to catch Him.
And they say,
Teacher, we know that you are true
and do not care about anyone's opinion.
For you are not swayed by appearances,
but truly teach the way of God.
So here's the question.
Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?
Should we pay them or should we not?
But knowing their hypocrisy,
He said to them,
Why put me to the test?
Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.
And they brought Him one.
And He said to them,
Whose likeness and inscription is this?
Whose picture is on this coin?
And they said to Him,
Caesar's.
And Jesus said to them,
Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's,
and to God the things that are God's.
What's the point?
Well, the coin bore Caesar's image.
And so in a way,
the coin belonged to Him.
Jesus had no problem telling people
they should pay their taxes.
I know we don't like to hear that
this time of year, right?
He said that belongs to Him.
It bears His image.
But there's a bigger point here
that Jesus is making.
Render to God the things that are God's.
Well, what's that?
What bears God's image?
You do.
And so what does that mean for you?
It means that you and I belong to Him.
He gets to determine who you are.
He gets to determine your identity.
He gets to give you,
and He gets to determine your value and your worth.
You belong to God.
This is the fundamental identity shaper
that we all need to understand.
We bear His image,
so we belong to Him.
Everything else around us,
you realize this, don't you?
Everything else around you
is competing with God
for that place of being able to shape
and form your identity.
Everything around you
is wanting to boot God out of the way
and have the main voice
in determining who you are.
Everything around you
wants to help shape your worth
and your sense of identity
and belonging and being.
One of my professors used to say,
the most important part about you
is not who you are,
but it's whose you are.
It's to whom do you belong?
Church, I think we need to cling to this
as the foundational roots
for our identity,
and especially so
because in our time,
and especially amongst younger generations,
there is one primary identity shaper
that's taken over
just about everything else,
and it's sexual orientation
and gender identity.
I believe that this is
one of the main cultural issues
that we face,
and we really need to understand
what God's word says about this
because it's not silent about this,
is it?
Look with me to verse 27 again.
God created man in his own image.
In the image of God,
he created him,
male and female.
He created them.
We learn here that from the beginning,
God created us,
male and female.
We are embodied,
gendered beings.
Sexuality is a good part of God's design.
We bear God's image
as embodied,
gendered beings,
as male or as female,
and it's good,
it's very good,
he says,
that we're made in his image,
male and female.
Humanity here is created binary,
which means,
if anybody is confused
about their gender identity,
our response as Christians,
we shouldn't encourage them
to be who they feel like they are.
Instead,
we ought to graciously,
lovingly,
patiently,
and clearly
point them back to God's good design,
how they were created.
We receive our identity
from our creator.
You belong to him.
But not only this,
look here with me,
I want you to see this.
All of us
also receive our dignity
from our creator.
Our sense of worth
and our value,
our dignity
comes from the fact
that we are made
in the image of God.
You remember Israel
read this text
as they're coming out of Egypt
and heading to the promised land
and they knew
that in Egypt,
Pharaoh was considered
to be the image of God.
Pharaoh was the embodiment
of God.
He was very God in the flesh
according to the Egyptians.
But here in Genesis,
Genesis corrects this
on two levels.
For one,
nobody is God in the flesh here.
And none of us
are the full embodiment
of God.
It brings everybody
down to the same level.
But at the same time,
it raises all of us up
with this incredible dignity
that all of us
are made in the image
of God.
So you Hebrew slaves,
guess what?
You share the same level
of dignity and worth
as Pharaoh himself.
You women here
who had little to no status
in the ancient Near East,
you are just as valuable
and dignified as men.
He made us in his image,
male and female.
He created them.
This message is completely radical
in this context.
All mankind bears the image
of God.
Which means that all people
are owed our utmost honor
and respect
as men and women
born in his image.
This means all people.
All people born
and unborn
are made in the image
of God.
Those inside the womb
or outside the womb,
your location doesn't change
your worth.
They're still image bearers
from the moment
of conception.
People with
and people without
all sorts of disabilities,
equally made
in the image of God,
equally valuable
and worthy
of honor and respect.
People of every race
and every color of skin
that doesn't change
your dignity and worth.
Every ism
that you can think of
is shattered right here,
isn't it?
Because the image of God
is upon every person.
Ageism,
sexism,
racism,
any type of attitude
that might put you
above somebody else,
it gets shattered here.
Because our dignity
as a human race
at a basic level
is not determined
or defined
by our usefulness
to society.
It is not determined
by our ability
or by anything
in us at all.
It's determined
by the image
of God
upon us.
I love how
Derek Kidner
puts it.
He says that
this requires
us
to take
all human beings
infinitely seriously.
It requires us
to show honor
to all people
as God's own
royal representatives.
I wonder
if we see
people this way.
I wonder
if we
speak
to people
this way.
Not just one another.
We love each other
here in this room.
I get that.
People that we don't know.
Is this how we
treat and honor
and speak about
people that we don't know?
How about
how you treat
and honor
and speak to
people online?
It's real easy
to be mean online.
How about
how we speak
and honor
and treat people
that we don't
really like
too much?
That we disagree
with?
That we didn't
vote for?
There's a basic
level of honor
here that's owed
to all
people.
Because all
people bear
the image
of God.
God
this
is the most
glorious
image
in all
the earth
imprinted
on us
by the most
glorious
creator
and artist
in all
the universe.
Look what he says
about it here
in verse 31.
Over
and over
again
throughout this week
as he creates
he says
it was good
and now
for the seventh
time
God says
it was good
but not just
good
what does he say?
It was very
good
but not
for long.
As we'll see
in just a few
weeks
something
has happened
that has
defaced
this very
good image.
Sin
has
entered
into the
world
and corrupted
this very
good image.
Sin didn't
destroy the
image of God
it's still
there
but it
has
smeared
it
and dragged
it through
the mud
and thrown
rocks
at it
and tried
everything
that it
can
to make
it almost
unrecognizable
at times
so that
now
it's
defaced
the image.
Something
is off
we can
agree about
this
can't we?
If something
is terribly
off
the image
is distorted
so none
of us
fully
resemble
God
like we
should
there's
parts in
all of
us
that
you got
all this
other stuff
mingled
in
there's
anger
that
shouldn't
be
there
there's
greed
that
shouldn't
be
there
there's
attitudes
of the
heart
that
just
are
nasty
and prideful
there's
lust
that
shouldn't
be
there
and
none
of us
represent
him
fully
as we
should
we
don't
rule
over
the
world
we
become
slaves
to
sin
we
let
the
world
rule
over
us
the
question
that
we
come
back
to
time
and
time
and
time
again
is
how
can
this
tarnished
image
be
restored
back
to
his
original
glory
is
it
possible
and
the
good
news
of
the
gospel
yes
it
can
Christ
Jesus
has
come
to
restore
us
fully
into
the
image
of
God
this
is
the
good
news
of
the
gospel
is
that
Jesus
Christ
has
come
to
restore
what
was
lost
and
broken
and
tarnished
by
sin
and
it
is
in
him
and
him
alone
that
there's
hope
that
this
image
of
God
that's
so
hard
to
even
recognize
at
times
can
be
brought
back
to
its
former
glory
and
preserved
for
the
rest
of
eternity
Christ
alone
can
do
this
because
Colossians 1
tells us
he is
the
image
of
the
invisible
God
no one
has
looked
more
like
God
than
him
all
of
the
glorious
attributes
of
God
his
kindness
his
faithfulness
his
gentleness
his
mercy
his
grace
are
on
full
display
in
Jesus
Christ
he
perfectly
resembled
God
because
he
is
the
image
of
the
invisible
God
and
he
and
he
alone
has
totally
perfectly
ruled
over
the
chaos
of
this
present
evil
age
he's
ruled
over
and
conquered
sin
and
darkness
and even
the
grave
so to
him
is given
dominion
over
all
things
in
heaven
and
on
earth
all
authority
in
heaven
and
on
earth
has
been
given
to
him
and
now
what's
he
doing
he's
filling
the
earth
with
children
of
God
who
are
remade
in
the
image
of
God
by
faith
in
Christ
this
is
why
Christ
came
this
is
the
eternal
plan
of
God
for
those
whom
he
foreknew
he
also
predestined
to
be
conformed
to
the
image
of
his
son
in
order
that
he
might
be
the
first
born
among
many
brothers
and
those
whom
he
predestined
he
also
called
and
those
whom
he
called
he
also
justified
and
those
whom
he
justified
he
also
glorified
and
our
future
hope
our
confidence
through the
resurrection
of Christ
is that
just as we
have borne the
image of the
man of
dust
so we
also
shall bear
the image
of the
man
of heaven
Jesus
came
so that
any
ruined
broken
dirty
sinner
like me
who
trusts
in
Christ
would
be
remade
into
the
image
of
Christ
who
is
the
image
of
God
friend
if you're
not a
believer
I have
good news
for you
there is a
way
for you
to be
restored
back to
your
original
design
to be
forgiven
totally
of all
the many
ways
you don't
look like
God
and to
begin to
see
his
glorious
image
restored
in
you
and it's
this
would you
come to
Christ
and repent
of your
sin
and trust
fully
in him
and believer
you are
called
to be
conformed
to the
image
of his
son
you are
called
to
exercise
dominion
you are
called
to put
sin
to death
and you
are called
to fill
the earth
with the
image
of God
by multiplying
and making
disciples
of all
nations
and so
we have
to ask
ourselves
don't
we
how are
we doing
here
are we
putting
on
what looks
like our
father
are we
representing
him
in our
families
and in the
world
are we
allowing
anything
else
to define
us
and give
us our
worth
and shape
our identity
other than
the glorious
good news
that we
belong to
him
through faith
in Christ
to be
made in
his image
is an
incredible
gift
what an
honor
and when
we think
about this
take the
time to
meditate
on this
our response
ought to be
like the
psalmist
in psalm
chapter 8
I want to
close by
reading this
to you
oh lord
our lord
how majestic
is your name
in all the
earth
you have set
your glory
above the
heavens
out of the
mouth of
babies and
infants you
have established
strength because
of your foes
to still the
enemy and the
avenger
when I look
at your
heavens
the work
of your
fingers
the moon
and the
stars which
you have set
in place
what is
man that
you are
mindful of
him and
the son of
man that
you care
for him
yet you
have made
him a little
lower than
the heavenly
beings and
crowned him
with glory
and honor
you have
given him
dominion over
the works
of your
hands
you have
put all
things under
his feet
all sheep
and oxen
and also the
beasts of
the field
the birds
of the heavens
the fish
of the sea
whatever
passes along
the paths
of the seas
oh lord
our lord
how majestic
is your name
in all the
earth
let's pray
father god
what a
incredible
privilege
that we
would bear
your image
what an
incredible
responsibility
that we
have to
represent you
here on
earth as
your royal
representatives
in all
creation
and what an
incredible gift
it is
that the
image of
god
himself
came to
remake
what's been
broken and
lost in the
fall
we love
you lord
we pray
that we
would honor
you as
your image
bearers
we ask
this in
jesus name
amen
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