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Welcome to Day 1501 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.I am Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to WisdomA Family of Imagers\xa0\u2013 Worldview WednesdayWisdom - the final frontier to true knowledge.\xa0Welcome to Wisdom-Trek! Where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend; I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy.\xa0Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. Today is Day 1501 of our Trek, and it is Worldview Wednesday.\xa0Creating a Biblical Worldview is essential to have a proper perspective on today\u2019s current events.\xa0To establish a Biblical Worldview, you must have a proper understanding of God and His Word.\xa0This week, on our Worldview Wednesday episode, we will continue our study based on a course I recently completed taught by Dr. Michael Heiser. Our study is titled \u201cSons and Daughters of God: The Believer\u2019s Identity, Calling, and Destiny\u201d Throughout this multi-week course, we will demonstrate that, in the Old Testament, \u201csons of God\u201d and \u201choly ones\u201d refers to supernatural beings whose Father is God and who work with God to carry out His will and that this divine family was present before humanity. By fully engaging with biblical texts such as Psalm 82; Psalm 89, and Deuteronomy 32:8\u20139, our study will show that this divine family functions as a template for God\u2019s human family. God desires of humans, as His imagers, to participate in His council. This study addresses issues such as polytheism, the nature of the (little \u2018g\u2019) \u201cgods,\u201d and Yahweh\u2019s uniqueness. This study will apply insights to the New Testament texts and show how the metaphor of being in God\u2019s family informs our sense of identity and mission as believers.
A Family of Imagers\xb7\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0Segment 28: Believers as Family, Participants - 1
Introduction
There are several statements about Jesus in the New Testament. There are also several references about us as His sibling, because of the incarnation.\xa0These references build on the family language of the Old Testament \u201csons of God,\u201d the divine family idea, specifically as it relates to representing God, that is to say, imaging God.
Christ as \u201cImage of God\u201d Intentionally Links to Genesis
For instance, in 2 Corinthians 4:4 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Corinthians+4%3A4&version=NLT), we read that \u201cSatan, who is the god of this world, has blinded the minds of those who don\u2019t believe. They are unable to see the glorious light of the Good News. They don\u2019t understand this message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God.\u201d Now, we know from the Old Testament that we are spoken of in the same language. If you were a person reading this or hearing this from Paul or the mouth of some other apostle, you would immediately think back to the concept (that scene in Genesis 1) where humanity is created in God\u2019s image or, as we\u2019ve suggested, as God\u2019s imager.
Here, you have Christ called \u201cthe image of God.\u201d He is, think about it, the ultimate human. He becomes man. He is incarnate as a human being, and He is here to do many things, but one of them is to show us what God is like\u2014to be God in the Father\u2019s stead, as it were. Of course, Jesus alludes to this several times in His own ministry, but this language, again, is intentional. As we fix our minds on the fact that Jesus is the ultimate imager, the ultimate example of this, the ultimate template, when the language shifts to believers, that\u2019s going to make sense; it\u2019s going to take our minds back to Genesis and help us to process these things because they have a long history that goes all the way back to the beginning.
Conforming to Christ
In Colossians 1:15 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Colossians+1%3A15&version=NLT), it says, \u201cChrist is the visible