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Introduction
Good Morning.
I hope you all are doing well today.
You know one of the things I enjoy are those little Hersey’s Kisses.
Man aren’t they yummy.
Last year my family and I an opportunity to drive to Las Vegas NV.
We went by the Hersey store.
There was chocolate from floor to ceiling in every kind of flavor you could want.
And the shapes - goodness.
You had the small kisses, big kisses, candy bar from mini to regular to a whooping 5-pound bar.
I remember when Zoe held it up it was about this BIG.
Ok - maybe I exaggerated a bit.
The other think I noticed were all the different color foil wraps.
In some parts of the store it was just a sea of Hersey’ kisses of all different colors.
I’ve always wondered how the kisses are made.
We didn’t get a backstage pass that trip to see how the kisses were made or wrapped for that matter.
But when you look at a Hersey kiss, they for the most part have the same shape.
The most part the foil wrap is about the same, and most of the time you have this paper tail sticking out.
Now I had to look this up.
That little paper tail is knows as a Niggly Wiggly.
Some these Niggly Wiggly’s are perfectly shaped displaying a perfect marketing campaign.
Others are bent, some are torn, some are longer than others.
And, sometimes that little Niggly Wiggly is just not there.
I mean really who studies the foil wrap and Niggly Wiggly?
We just want to get the chocolate kiss.
Who cares what the outside looks like.
I want that perfect on the inside.
If we are concerned with only what’s on the inside, why do we care what we see on the outside.
Well it’s because we are visual creatures.
We enjoy being visually stimulated.
Colors and texture stimulate our brains and which helps introduce emotion.
Our society places enormous value on our visual ques to stimulate a reaction.
This goes with our person as well.
By our person, I mean this earth suite we wear every day.
If you look at your person right now, and if you could only pick one thing - what would change.
Now you don’t have to raise you hand, but how many of you picked something exterior?
Hair color, eye color.
Perhaps weight loss or weight gain.
Many of us have something we would like changed.
The digital age has brought with it wonderful advantages in all aspects of people’s lives, but it has also created unexpected troubles, one of which is a detrimental change in society’s perception of beauty.
Many of us in the constantly-changing age are bombarded what our society defines are healthy, desired and socially acceptable.
When we fall outside these unrealistic demands, and we can place, sometimes, impossible expectations on ourselves.
Did you know God has another plan?
His plan in not influenced by what our society thinks, or what our society considers to be quote-unquote perfect.
Our passage this morning takes us to the first chapter of Genesis.
If you have your Bibles with you this morning, turn with me to chapter 1.
We will be reading verses 26 and 27.
Pastoral Prayer
Our passage this morning starts us off in the 6th day of creation.
When you start studying the creation account each day God did something significant.
One interesting aspect to see is God’s power.
At each day, Moses records the words “then God said.”
This is significant on several levels.
It shows the sheer power of how the universe responds to the command of God.
All God has to do is speak and things happen.
Things happen out of nothing, because God said for it be.
When you look at the whole creations account, there are a couple things that stand out.
First, is the command the God gives at each stage.
At each stage, Moses writes, “God said.”
This displays God’s sovereignty, and the response of our known universe to the power and voice of God.
The second interesting point when God issues his command for creation is, what some might think as suttle, but in fact this is significant.
During the other stages of creation, God says “let it, let the, let there be” - light, let the earth sprout vegetation, let the water swarm and so on.
The difference is when we arrive to verse 26.
We see the words change from let it, to “let us.”
As we start digging deeper - this naturally brings us to the question of who is “us.”
Who is God talking about when the reference of us is given.
Is God talking to a court, meaning only those who are present?
Is God talking before all of heaven, meaning all the angles?
I believe “us” does not include the angels, and this could be the first reference to the Holy Trinity.
Over in chapter 9 of Nehemiah, he prays acknowledging God as the one true God of creation who gives life to all.
He confirms God’s involvement of all things without angles in 9:6.
When Moses was talking with God, the conversation was with God, one self-existent, sovereign good God.
At this time, Moses would not have known about the Jesus Christ or the Holy Spirit yet.
Moses knew God as one God.
For you and I today, we have all this Holy scripture.
We have been gifted to look back in time, and learn about God.
Part of that is learning about the Holy Trinity.
We know the Trinity is made of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, each different, and each with their distinct role.
So see the finger print of the Trinity involved in the frame work of mankind.
Our passage this morning has two reference points to mankind.
First in verse 26 and again in verse 27 with the words:
Let us make mankind in our image, and So God created mankind in his own image.
Let us make and created are profound statements, they pack a lot of power.
When I was studying this, I was grateful for the Holy Spirit’s leadership.
My roots grew in a new way.
You should have seen the office desk.
It was a sea of books and papers.
It was so exciting knowing the day would come when I could share.
But! what is meant image and likeness?
In the Hebrew the word “image” refers to a representation.
Likeness points to “similar in appearance.”
These two meanings, representation and similar in appearance, is what we get by looking at these two words separate.
But they are not meant to be separated.
Instead they are meant to be put together.
“Likeness” complements “image” to mean we are more than just a mete image; we are a likeness of God.
Think of a baby.
To the baby nothing is real except what satisfies the baby.
Keep the baby warm, fed and allow the baby to sleep, and the baby is satisfied.
The baby’s father and mother have in their minds for him/her are completely outside of baby’s recognition.
As the baby grows, the baby’s world enlarges.
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