DNA is a molecule that resides in each of the hundred trillion cells in your body and each strand of DNA contains the blueprint (the genetic instructions) that enable your body to live, develop, and function.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.
Psalms 139:14 (NKJV)
Each of us has completely unique DNA (unless you’re an identical twin)
When we are conceived we receive our genetic make up from our parents. As we mature those elements in our DNA become apparent. This becomes especially fascinating when we consider the parallel between the natural and the spiritual. Jesus not only said:
God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.
John 4:24 (NKJV)
Can we really share in Gods nature? Aren’t we just human?
Remember: Gods original intentions for man are His eternal intentions.
The first words that came from the mouth of God about man,
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness;”
Genesis 1:26 (NKJV)
One commentary states, “being in Gods image means that humans share the imperfectly and finitely, in Gods nature, that is, in His communicable attributes, life, personality, truth , wisdom, love, holiness, justice, and so have the capacity for spiritual fellowship with him.”
Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned—
Romans 5:12 (NKJV)
Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
John 3:5-8 (NKJV)
But God’s free gift is not at all to be compared to the trespass [His grace is out of all proportion to the fall of man]. For if many died through one man’s falling away (his lapse, his offense), much more profusely did God’s grace and the free gift [that comes] through the undeserved favor of the one Man Jesus Christ abound and overflow to and for [the benefit of] many.
Romans 5:15 (AMPC)
The DNA We’ve Been Given in the New Birth is Grace. WE ARE BORN OF GRACE.
What is Grace?
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- Charis: unearned(not pay), unmerited (didn’t do anything to deserve it), undeserved( actually deserve the opposite) favor and blessing of God.
- Favor is Gods attitude towards you
- Blessing is Gods resulting action toward you
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Gods Riches At Christs Expense.
Physically we received our DNA through our parents, but spiritually, our human spirit has been born of God and re-generated by His Spirit. As we grow and develop spiritually, we will express more and more of his nature and his character that we received in our new birth.
As we mature we have to grow in RECEIVING AND EXTENDING GRACE.
Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, and have put on the new man who is renewed in knowledge according to the image of Him who created him,
Colossians 3:9-10 (NKJV)
and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
Ephesians 4:24 (NKJV)
by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.
II Peter 1:4 (NKJV)
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
Romans 5:8-10 (NKJV)