Verses 27-31….

   The account of God creating man in this passage is spoken of as general….the next chapter gives a more specific account. Here, the human race is spoken of as male and female, created in God’s image. Let’s think of ways in which mankind is made as God is…..

Man has….1. the capacity to reason; 2. Man needs to be loved; 3. Man has choices; 4. Man seeks fellowship, and until he fellowships with God, he is unfulfilled.

God also has…1. Reasoning powers (Isaiah 1:v. 18); 2. God is love (1 John 4:19); 3. God chose us in Christ (Ephesians 1:4); 4. God fellowships with His own people (1 John 1:3). Man has emotions the same as God does….. Pleasure           (Psalm 16:11)                                       (Psalm 147:11) Anger               (Ephesians 4:31)                                   (Psalm 6:1)       Patience           (1 Timothy 6:11)                                    (Romans 15:5) Joy                   (Philippians 2:18)                                   (Galatians 5:22) Compassion      (Hebrews 10:34)                                   (Mark 1:41)

Man was made in God’s image complete, To commune with Him in fellowship sweet, Man needs to love and want friends, God desires this too, in the world without end!

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