Lesson 3: In the Image of God

 A Healthy Lifestyle for Your and Your Family

Lesson 3: In the Image of God

1. What model did God use when He made man? Genesis 1:26

The word image means a resemblance, a representative figure. Likeness means resemblance, model, shape. Man was made to resemble God in all his physical, mental, and spiritual faculties.

2. Of what do we consist? Hebrews 2:14

This verse also points out that just as humans are flesh and blood, Jesus, in becoming like us also became flesh and blood that He might understand our infirmities and weaknesses, and show us how we can live the Christian life.

3. What does the flesh war against? Galatians 5:17

4. What happens if we sow to the flesh? Galatians 6:8

5. If we sow to the Spirit, what will we reap? Galatians 6:8

6. Our bodies are the temple of what? 1 Corinthians 3:16

7. How are we to present our bodies to God? Romans 12:1

8. What kind of living sacrifice are we to make of our bodies? Romans 12:1

9. What does it mean to be holy unto God? Deuteronomy 7:6

10. How can we be holy and acceptable to God? Deuteronomy 28:9

11. Who dwells in us? 1 Corinthians 6:19

12. In our bodies we are to what? 1 Corinthians 6:20

13. Why are we to glorify God in our bodies? 1 Corinthians 6:20

14. How do we present our bodies a living sacrifice?  2 Corinthians 7:1

15. Our sacrifice represents that we have made what with God? Psalm 50:5

16. What is the covenant that we have with God? Hebrews 10:16

17. If the Holy Spirit is living in our body temple, what will we not do? Galatians 5:16

18. What are the works (or lusts) of the flesh? Galatians 5:19-21

As you go through these lessons, you will find that all of these things affect the health of the body, but especially adultery and fornication, uncleanness, hatred, wrath, drunkenness and revellings.

In Israel, a lamb was sacrificed as a representative of the Saviour who would become man’s substitute for God said that “the wages of sin is death” (Romans 6:23).  Only the death of the one who gave the law could make an atonement for the transgression of the law (Hebrews 9:26).  When John the Baptist saw Jesus coming to him at the Jordan river, he said, “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29). Jesus was that sacrificial lamb who would shed His blood for our sins for “without shedding of blood is no remission” of sins. The animals that were used for sacrifices were to be without blemish (Exodus 12:5). When we present our bodies as living sacrifices, “not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing... it should be holy and without blemish” (Ephesians 5:27). Much of the disease suffered by humankind today is brought on by wrong habits of eating, drinking, dressing, and living.

19. God promises what to those who disobey Him? Deuteronomy 28:59

20. What will God not bring upon those who do right in His sight? Exodus 15:26

21. What is God not going to permit in heaven? Revelation 21:27 (first half)

Defileth means to make or consider profane. Our body temples can be defiled or profaned by the things we eat, drink, wear, and do. God asks us to present our bodies to Him without flaws brought on by our own unlawful actions. He knows that some of us are born with blemishes that we are not responsible for having. “Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children” (Psalm 103:13-17). God requires us to obey the laws of our being and maintain our health in as perfect a condition as possible.

22. What will God do to those who defile the temple of God? 1 Corinthians 3:17

23. What has God promised those who obey Him? Exodus 23:25

Next Lesson: What Shall We Eat? 

Part 1: God’s Diet Plan