FINALLY: WE SHALL BE LIKE JESUS!

GOD MADE MANKIND IN HIS OWN IMAGE AND LIKENESS.

Genesis 1:26 - "And 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 fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth."  [See Gen. 5:1]

BUT ADAM SINNED AND CEASED TO BE IN THE LIKENESS OF GOD!

Romans 5:12; 6:23 - "Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned....the wages of sin is death...."

STILL, GOD LOVED MANKIND MORE THAN YOU AND I CAN IMAGINE!

John 3:14-17 - "And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:  that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.  For God so loved the world, that He gave His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.  For God sent not His Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be saved."

HIS LOVE IS SO GREAT THAT HE KNEW WHAT SAVING US

WOULD COST HIM EVEN BEFORE HE CREATED US!

Ephesians 1:4-6 - "According as He has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love:  having predestined us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He has made us accepted in the Beloved."

1 Peter 1:18-21 - "For as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as  silver and gold, from your vain beliefs received by tradition from your fathers;  but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:  Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you, who by Him do believe in God, Who raised Him up from the dead, and gave Him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God."

Revelation 13:8 - Our names were "...written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world."  [See Rev. 17:8]

WHEN WE SEE THE RISEN CHRIST, WE SHALL FINALLY BE LIKE HIM!

1 John 3:2 - "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be:  but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is."