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*Intro*
This past week Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple and Pixar Animated Studios, called the modern day Thomas Edison and Henry Ford,[1] died of pancreatic cancer.
He is credited to have created or co-created 338 different inventions.[2] Obviously the man was a genius who has truly changed the way we see the world.
We know he was able to do this, because whether he realized it or not, he was created in God’s image.
Being created in God’s image allows us to be creative like God.
Being created in God’s image is why we work, as we bring order out of disorder for the flourishing of mankind.
But when mankind decided to be God and decide that he was more important than anything else (Gen.
3:5), everything started to go downhill.
Sin made disorder out of order.
So we started loving things out of order.
We love creation over the Creator.
We love people over God.
We love stuff over people.
Sin reduced creation into nothing (like Cain killing his brother).
Out of mankind’s rebellion, we now have two groups of people: those of the seed of the serpent and those of the seed of the woman (Gen.
3:15).
God promised that out of the seed of the woman, the promised One would come, though no one knew when that would be.
But God promised something else: death (Gen.
3:19).
Interestingly Jobs said in a speech to Stanford grads in 2005: “No one wants to die.
Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there.
And yet death is the destination we all share.
No one has ever escaped it.
And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life.
It is Life's change agent.
It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.”[3]
There is some truth there in his statement.
Unless Jesus comes back, death will come to all.
However, Mr. Apple is wrong as well.
Is death the best invention of life?
Are you just cleared away?
One author says, “Death isn’t natural.
It wasn’t meant to be that way.
Death is the worst thing that happened, not the best.
Paul tells us in Romans 6:23 that death is the result of sin.
Death isn’t the end.
You’re not “cleared away”…You’re still around—you’re a soul that God created.”[4]
Though Jobs is lauded as one of the most creative and inventive men of all time, he could not invent something to stop death.
There is no app for death!
Last two weeks in Genesis 4 we saw that sin is powerful, leaving us without an identity, wandering and even trampling and destroying the image of God in people we love.
Sin destroys our legacy.
Yet we saw God’s grace is greater than our sin, that God is faithful to the seed of the woman and even gracious to Cain, before and after he went on the side of the serpent.
Though the seed of the serpent seemed to be winning and more powerful through Cain’s legacy (Gen.
4:16-24) God had the finally say at the end of Gen. 4, with the descendants of Seth pioneering worship of Yahweh (Gen.
4:25-26).
But what will life be like now in the battle between the two seeds?
Moses’ audience may have wondered about God’s promise of death.
Did that ever happen?
What about the fact that we were image bearers to be glory fillers?
But how can we live with sin now in the mix?
Moses in Gen. 5 is going to tell us how the seed of the woman is going to survive after the Fall and give us clues on how we can survive as well.
Take note of this first point:
*I.
** Despite our sin, we are still blessed to be image bearers of God (vv.1-3)*
Moses starts a new section in Gen. 5:1.
He has 11 of these “introductions” that start with “this is the book of…” or “this is the generations of…” It’s like, a review or he’s about to give us the next sermon.
Interestingly, only one other book starts the same way: Matthew 1. Genesis 5 ends with Lamech hoping and crying out for rest and relief in his son Noah (Gen.
5:29).
Perhaps he is thinking Noah will be the promised seed of the woman (Gen.
3:15)?
But we know that wasn’t the case.
Matthew ends in Christ.
It is almost as if Matthew is saying to his Jewish audience, “I know everyone in Genesis was longing for the ultimate Seed to come, but guess what?
He has come!”
The author refers back to the original intention of creating man.
Why is man created?
It goes back to the first poem in Gen. 1:26.
This was God’s original blessing.
/Sin doesn’t take away the potential and blessing of God for us to be His image bearers/.
By the way, Moses uses “blessing” over 80x in the book of Genesis.
God wanted His image bearers to be His glory-fillers of the world.
God wanted man to be a ruler, like He was.
And God promised to provide everything we would need to fill the world with His glory> Remember glory means “weight” in Hebrew i.e. the fact that God is the most important, most real and the only thing that matters.
The more weight God has in your life, the more great He will look through your life![5]
Being created in God’s image as a review, means that we are relational beings.
We are made for God and to be in relationship with each other.
We are simply the sum total of our relationships.
And because we are made in God’s “likeness” (Gen.
5:1), we possess dignity, value and worth.
It also means we are called to be reflecting His image just as a mirror reflects the sun.
But notice what Moses adds here in Gen. 5:3.
Adam, like God, creates a son “in his own likeness, after his image.”
And like God, Adam names him.
Why say it like that?
It implies that God is the father of Adam, and thus God is shown to be the Father of all humanity.[6]
And this God, being the Father of all, despite our sin, will accomplish His purposes for His glory.
God the Father will take care of His children.
Surely all are not His children except those who go over to the side of the seed of the woman.
This also teaches us that when we have kids, we are creating little image bearers of God, but at the same time, little sinners.
So not only will you have the opportunity to fill the world with image bearers~/reflectors, you will also be filling the world with sinners.
Sin has deformed what God had originally formed.
Sin caused alienation, so we no longer want to look at God and reflect Him.
His image in us has been marred.
But God stepped in.
Jesus, of whom Paul calls “the image of the invisible God” (Col.
1:15), was trampled on by our sin.
His image was deformed so that our image of God can be transformed!
Now in Christ as we face Him, He changes us into His likeness (2 Cor.
3:, so we can be His image reflectors and glory fillers again!
This truth changes me.
Sometimes we feel like soon as we are called something, or hired to something, or if our status changes, we must perfectly live up to that calling.
You might feel like you are called a Christian, but some of our days, we don’t look like or even feel like a Christian.
But this truth teaches us that we still becoming what God has declared we are.
So though I was declared a husband in 2004, but my wife can tell you there are many days I am not exactly that.
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