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Who Does God Say I Am? Made in His Image, Loved, His Child

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Summary

  • God says every person is made in his image, and so has the dignity of being “not just something, but someone.”
  • Scripture calls us sinners, but never leaves the word alone: “while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
  • Through faith in Christ, believers become God’s children and heirs, a new creation and a chosen people, and their “life is hid with Christ in God” (Colossians 3:3).
  • When Peter said who Jesus is, Jesus told Peter what his own name meant: “upon this rock I will build my church.”
  • Catholics and Anglicans speak of our adoption in baptism, the Orthodox of sharing God’s life by grace (theosis), and Reformed churches of belonging, body and soul, to Christ.
  • When Moses asked “Who am I?” God answered, “Certainly I will be with thee,” and told him who God is.
  • Our feelings change, but God’s word over us stands: “I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine” (Isaiah 43:1).

God says you are made in his image, loved while you were still a sinner, and, through faith in Christ, his own child. “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God” (1 John 3:1). In Christ you are also a new creation, and his own. The question is old. Moses asked it at the burning bush, when God sent him to Pharaoh: “Who am I, that I should…

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