Men’s Conference
A World of Image Bearers
“Showing the eternal beauty and Supremacy of God”

John 4:24 “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”

Genesis 1:27 “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”

Hebrews 1:3
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

God is a Spirit

We are fearfully and wonderfully made and this means physically (Psalm 139:14)

Our physical bodies are a reflection of greater glory found in God who is Spirit

Jesus Christ is the exact expression of God in Physical form

In God’s Image we are to rule and reign in the likeness of His Nature and Character

In God’s image we are given the ability to create life, but not outside of our wives (Helpers).

We are designed (most men are) to be sexually driven. This drive, when under the guidance of God, leads us to pursuing our wives, loving, protecting, enjoying, and providing for them.

I. We are Created - Genesis

We were Called (Jeremiah 1:5)
To Show People the Nature of God in a Physical Way through Our Bodies and Communication
To Bring Others to Know and Love Our God through Communication

II. We were Created and Called to Organize, Lead, and Produce Fruit

(John 15:6 & Gen 1:28)
If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

These are Physical Actions & Results that Imitate God

III. Our Image is Marred, Desiring to be Self Defined

Our natural leaning, compulsion, and desire is against bearing God’s Image. It is the marred, unredeemed images og God that will be eternally condemned.
(Genesis 3:5)
For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.

IV. Jesus Came in the “Exact” Image of God that He may Redeem Us as Marred Images to be Received by God
(Hebrews 1:3)

Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high:

V. We best Represent God the Father by Following and Implementing the Life Style of God the Son by the Internal Power of God the Spirit

VI. The Way We Conduct Ourselves as God’s Image Bearers in Marred Vessels can Best be Seen in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7)