1689.4.2 clean up and TODO

TOTEACH 1689.4 On Creation: the Imago Dei #231

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@@ -38,13 +38,23 @@ It was God that formed you in your mother's womb. He stitched you and fashioned
 
 Your life was a blessing from God on this earth to us. Every part of you. The brokenness does not lie in your body parts but rather, what is going on in your soul and the empty, infinite void in your heart.
 
-Transgenders seek a world where they are not discriminated against, never hated, and accepted as they are. So this also the world I want as well--not just for me but for transgender people as well. Yet, let us use our imagination: imagine a world where we had the technology to change who you are on the outside. But what about on the inside? What in your heart? Would you be happy? Are you happy and satisfied?
+Transgenders seek a world where they are not discriminated against, never hated, and accepted as they are. So this also the world I want as well--not just for me but for transgender people as well. Yet, let us use our imagination: imagine a world where we had the technology to change who you are on the outside. 
 
 >Matthew 23:27-28 (CSB) “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of the bones of the dead and every kind of impurity. In the same way, on the outside you seem righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
 
 We are always so quick to read this passage and thinks that this does not apply to any about other than legalistic ministers. But that just it: a careful examination of word and letting his law cross-examine our hearts will reveal that each of these Christ declarations in Matthew 23 are about us.  We want to appear a certain way on the outside: our mask, our proxy, our own normative based on the gender we have chosen. But inside, we are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
 
-If you are reading this and think this is a bit personal, because it is. I have more than a few loved ones who have declared themselves transgendered. But my friends, this is not the identity you are seeking because it only changes you on the outside. It still doesn't satisfy your heart. It still doesn't fill the void in your soul. It still doesn't give you the peace that you are seeking.
+The change you have done on the outside--does this satisfies the longing of the heart? The eternal void within your heart. For:
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+>Ecclesiastes 3:11 (CSB) He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also put eternity in their hearts, but no one can discover the work God has done from beginning to end.
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+You and me--we strive to worship created things rather than the Creator. For:
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+>Romans 1:25 (CSB) They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served what has been created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen.
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+If you are reading this and think this is a bit personal, because it is. I have more than a few loved ones who have declared themselves transgender. But my friends, this is not the identity you are seeking because it only changes you on the outside. It still doesn't satisfy your heart. It still doesn't fill the void in your soul. It still doesn't give you the peace that you are seeking.
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+TODO: the imago Dei and Christ is the God that put on flesh and dwelt among us. He is the image of the invisible God.
 
 The identity, the fulfillment, and the rest you are seeking is Christ alone.
 
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 No, our God alone is mighty to save.
 
-In the immortality of our souls, that comes from the fact we bear the image of God. Other creatures, do not bear the image of God and therefore do not have immortal souls like we do.
+In the immortality of our souls, that comes from the fact we bear the image of God. Other creatures, do not bear the image of God and therefore do not have immortal souls.
 
 When God created Adam and Eve, he created mankind to live forever and ever and not die. But the wages of sin is death. When sin was committed, that was not a simple mistake but a trespass that had catastrophic consequences. You might say, "Why would God bring down such harsh judgement over one disobedience? That does not seem merciful."
 
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 The commandment of God to Adam:
 
->Genesis 2:16-17 (CSB) And the LORD God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree of the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.”
+>Genesis 2:16-17 (CSB) And the LORD God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from an y tree of the garden, but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.”
 
 Was a law of God. But the law of God that we know today that could be summarized in the Greatest Commandments, love the Lord your God and love your neighbor as yourself, were written upon the hearts of Adam and Eve. Mankind in Genesis 1 and 2 had no need for the Ten Commandments because God etched it into their consciences. They were born already righteous unto God and were born perfectly obeying him.
 
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 We speak of the devastating consequences of sin. One of the most damage outcomes of sin that some Christians tend to forget or ignore is that because of sin, we do not worship God. We were not born to worship God from the womb--no matter what family we were born into. We were created to worship but because of sin, we tend to worship other things including ourselves.
 
->Romans 1:25 (CSB) They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served what has been created instead of the Creator, who is praised forever. Amen.
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 With sin fracturing everything from the cosmos down to our hearts, it would be naive of us to think that somehow our free wills were impervious to the effects of sin. Our free will is as free as a prisoner in a prison cell. What ever a prisoner does in the midst of their cell is the limits of the freedom they have.
 
->Acts 16:25-28 (CSB) About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the jail were shaken, and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s chains came loose. When the jailer woke up and saw the doors of the prison standing open, he drew his sword and was going to kill himself, since he thought the prisoners had escaped. But Paul called out in a loud voice, “Don’t harm yourself, because we’re all here!”
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 For our imprisoned wills to choose God, believe God, trust God, and worship God, our wills must be set free by God.
 
 >Romans 8:20-21 (CSB) For the creation was subjected to futility — not willingly, but because of him who subjected it — in the hope that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage to decay into the glorious freedom of God’s children.