TITLE: First Word – Image
TEXT: Hebrews 1:1-3; Genesis 1:26-27
PROPOSITION: We must understand the important words of this text.
QUESTION: Which?
KEY WORD: Words
SCRIPTURE READING: Same
INTRODUCTION:

1.      Series “First Word” looking at the first time a word is used.

2.      Image = depicts the real, not the actual person or thing, but a likeness

3.      Photograph, statue, painting = image

Hebrews 1:3 – express image

1.      Image = exact likeness, not the person, but a likeness of them

2.      We are not God.

3.      We are the image of God on earth.

4.      We are the only God others will see.

Image – Mark 12:14-17

1. Images are not wrong - photos, statues, art
2. An image as an object of worship is wrong. (Exodus 20:4)
3. Do not worship created things - worship the creator of all things.
4. We bear the image of the heavenly (1 Corinthians 15:49)
5. We are made in the image of God (Genesis 1:26-27)
6. Jesus the “express image” of the Father. (Hebrews 1:3)
7. We should be like Jesus.