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  1. 2 Corinthians 5:17 tells us that those who trust in Jesus as their savior from sin become new creatures, in other words their original status is restored. We don’t have to wait until Jesus comes to have the image of God restored in us. God makes us new creatures when we trust in Christ and His plan is for everyone who is in Christ to be conformed to the image of His Son.

    Paul says in Romans 8:29 that “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.” If we’re conformed to the image of God’s Son, then the image of God is restored in us. This is God’s ideal, His plan for us. In practice, we will never reach the place where we can claim to have reached the ideal. But we should be always growing in the right direction. Regardless of how close to the ideal we get, our own righteousness is never sufficient to save. We must always trust in the perfect righteousness of Christ.

    God restores us to the image of His Son by bestowing upon us the fruit of the Holy Spirit- love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control- this whole package of nine items is a good description of what Jesus is like. God will restore His image in us by giving us the gift of the Holy Spirit. With the Spirit comes the fruit of the Spirit beginning with agape love.

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  2. I don't have any revelation that has not already been said. I do though, would like to associate restoration with reconciliation. Reconciliation is reestablishing a close relationship between God and us. God has no intention of us sitting back and folding our hands, letting it happen. God wants us to be participants. The relationship between a husband and wife would soon dissipate, if they both didn't put into it. "When Thou Saidst, seek ye My face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek. Psalm 27:8. What a rush of emotion. God is seeking me as much as I am seeking Him. No wounder in Christ Object Lessons page 118 it says, "The parable of the merchantman seeking goodly pearls has a double significance: it applies not only to men as seeking the kingdom of heaven, but to Christ as seeking His lost inheritance. Christ, the heavenly merchantman seeking goodly pearls, saw in lost humanity the pearl of price. In man, defiled and ruined by sin, He saw the possibilities of redemption."
    Happy Sabbath

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  3. Ellen white summed up restoration nicely.

    The Messiah fulfilled the Sacrifical laws Daniel 9:27, The Moral laws, such as the ten commandments are still in full effect

    It also has to be noted that restoration was for Israel, not the whole world. After Christ had died and fulfilled the promise for his people Israel, did he then tell the disciples to go to all Nations!

    Matthew 28:18-20

    18And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

    19Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

    Before this he said

    Matthew 15:24

    24But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

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