And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so. - Gen 1:24 All life produces after its kind.     This message is to inform us that God produces after His kind.     We are Children of God and so gods ourselves.

Many people balk at the concept, but it was, and is, God's plan to produce children After His Kind.   

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. - Gen 1:26 Man was created to be like God in the Image of God to share in the Dominion of God over the Universe.     Man's part of the Universe is the Earth to which God gave Adam Dominion.     Adam was in Relationship God and was expected to refer to God for whatever Wisdom he needed to Rule the Earch.      Adam's Sin caused two things: 1) Adam's spirit was corrupted into a Sin Nature thus losing Fellowship with God.      2) Adam relinquished Dominion over the Earth to Satan.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. - Gen 1:27 God created man as a Spirit being just like Himself with a Soul and a Body.      Jesus is the Soul and Body of God the Holy Spirit.      Before the birth of Jesus by the Holy Spirit and the virgin Mary, God appeared as the Angel Of The Lord.      Forevermore, Jesus is the express Image of God, i.e.     Jesus is how God presents Himself Physically.      Understanding this explains how Sovereign God has given all Power in Heaven and Earth to Christ Jesus.

We know that often people are referred to as sheep rather than children.   And accordingly, many believers see themselves as the sheep of His pasture who follow the good shepherd, Christ Jesus.   

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: - Joh 10:27 What voice?     His Word.      We are Saved by Hearing, Believing and Receiving the Word of God.      A Believer in Christ who does not Believe God's Word is Deceived because they do not Hear Christ's voice and hence are not His Sheep.      Those that Hear, Believe, Receive and Do the Word of God are Following Christ Jesus.     See He Be Re Do.

But the question is: "Are we sheep or are we SonsOfGod?"

Compared to Creator God we are minuscule in every sense of that word.   As humans we are created beings.   And so we are reasonably called sheep.   

But something truly amazing happens to us in the New Birth.   We cease being only human, we become children of God.   Instead of having just the breath of God's life in us, we are born of His Spirit by His Word.   

Jesus answered, Truly, truly, I say unto you, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. - Joh 3:5 The Sin Nature must be destroyed and replaced with a New Spirit which exists in the Kingdom Of God.      The Kingdom Of God is Heaven, the Spirit Realm, which is a dimension of existence higher than that of the space-time continuum in which all physical life exists.      It is not possible for the purely physical to exist in the Spirit Realm.     This is why we must be born of the Spirit.

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. - Joh 3:6 Our Spirit and our Flesh exist in different Realms.      Our Spirit exists in the Spirit Realm while our Body exists in the Physical Realm.      God is Spirit and, as such, His existence is in the Spirit Realm.     That is why we must be Born of the Spirit - so we can be with God.      But God in Christ Jesus (who has a Body) also exists in the Physical Realm.      The Word of God expresses the Mind and Emotions of God.     In that sense, God has a Soul.      So, God is Spirit Soul And Body just as we who were created in His Image are.

In our physical body we are limited by the programming that God built into the human genome.   In our physical self, we can never rise above our human condition.   Considering the fact that the spirit of every human was and continues to be corrupted by sin, there is no hope for humanity.   

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. - Isa 53:6 Our rebellion against God created a chasm of separation between us and God.     Our Lord Jesus bore the punishment for that rebellion in His own body.

But God!   
In Christ Jesus God has redeemed us from our hopeless state, not just cleaning us up a little so that we can start again, but He has birthed us of His genome which is Spirit without any limitations but Truth, goodness, love and grace.   

And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly. - 1Co 15:49 We will look differently because we will look heavenly.      But the image of the heavenly is much more than a physical difference, it is a spiritual difference that manifests the character of the God of whom we are born.

Jesus has given us Eternal Life and Abundant Life in the New Spirit being that is birthed by the Holy Spirit and Word through Faith.   

The thief comes not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. - Joh 10:10 The Thief is Satan who is the inspiration for all the Evil in the World.      Whereas the 'I' is Jesus who offers us Eternal Life and Abundant Life.      This verse is a powerful statement contrasting the nature of the Enemy with the nature of our Lord Jesus Christ.      Note that the Enemy takes by Force what is ours, while we must take by Faith what is ours in Christ Jesus.      The taking is not a 'one and done' thing.     Rather, it is an ongoing process throughout our lives on this Earth.

Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. - 1Jn 4:13 The Holy Spirit is the Seal Of God that brings Eternal Life.

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which lives and abides for ever. - 1Pe 1:23 The Seed that births us into the Kingdom Of God is the Word of God - writtern and incarnate.     Both the Incarnate Word and the Written Word abide forever.

We are now a part of God and He is a part of us.   We are one with Him by virtue of sharing the same Spirit.   

But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwells in you. - Rom 8:11 This is one of those verses that nominal Christianity has gutted.      Yes, the Holy Spirit is the One who will change us from Corruptible to Incorruptible at the appearing of our Lord (1Co 15:52).      However, we now have the 'quickener' in us to make us alive today.     He is the One who implements the Provisions of Grace in our Lives according to our Faith in God's Word.      Unless we Walk in the Spirit we will not experience the Power that He represents.      We Walk in the Spirit by calling into play the Word Of God - Hearing, Believing, Receiving and Doing it ( He Be Re Do).      All things for Life and Godliness are ours (2Pe 1:3,) but they are appropriated according to the Power that Works in us (Eph 3:20).      We are not to be Sick, Weak or Poor.     We are supposed to be Healthy, Strong and Prosperous.     And we can be in the Holy Spirit and the Word.

We are no longer sheep who is a diffent species from the shepherd.   We are now brothers of Christ Jesus, our God in human flesh.   

For both he that sanctifies and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers, - Heb 2:11 Jesus made it possible for us to be Born Again, to be filled with the Holy Spirit, and in so doing to make us Children of God and Joint Heirs with Him of all things.

Our identity is no longer as feeble, hopeless humans but rather as powerful Sons Of God through whom our Father the Holy Spirit wants to manifest glory.   

To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: - Col 1:27 God, by virtue of Christ Jesus, has imparted His Holy Spirit into believers and thereby brought them into His glory as Sons Of God.

But we must receive this new identity in order for us to begin to reach our potential In Christ.   And we cannot receive our new identity until we release and disclaim our old identity.   

If you stretched the DNA in one cell all the way out, it would be about 2m long and all the DNA in all your cells put together would be about twice the diameter of the Solar System.    -- Hannah Ashworth