COMING SHORT OF GLORY

 Speaking of righteousness and faith, Paul wrote:

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: (Rom 3:23:4)

Sinned is trespassed or missing the mark. A mark is required for entry into Paradise.

 The mark was to be in the Image of God. Remade (regeneration) is “born again” (engendered from above). 

A mark must be on you to find the Way to Paradise.

 

Difference between heaven and Paradise: 

Man was made in the Image of God. That is gloriousness. 

Coming short of the glory of God is no longer in His Image — naked and ashamed.

 

Nakedness: 

Gloriousness is naked without shame. (Gen 2:25). “Uncovered” (transparent). 

Whatever flesh they had was transparent. They were “very good” (Gen 1:29) or glorious (splendor) because within they were the Image of God.

 Then the two were ashamed of their nakedness (blushing: their Image concealed). 

Concealed with what? Fig leaves. (Not enough) 

They had lost their glory. No longer could the Image of God (His Genome) be seen because it had changed to be like the old creature.

 

Flesh:

 

Apparently, the flesh of the Serpent (Lucifer) was inglorious and the image inside cunning. 

Unto Adam also and to his wife did the Lord God make coats of skins and clothed them. (Gen 3:21) 

God by grace clothed them; perhaps with both lambs skins and with grace.

 

Grace: 

Grace is unmerited favor, and it was not by their own hands but a gift of God: “For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God” (Ephes 2:8). 

Because God made them flesh, they would trust in Him which is exercised as faith. 

They could now eat firm things (Gen 3:17) and became foragers like the beasts of the field because inwardly they were vipers — cold blooded. 

They came short of the glory, or Image, of God (selem). 

They had acquired the image of Satan (nahas).

 

The images: 

Mankind would become first an eater of herbs and meat, not manna from heaven as before. 

When some look into a mirror; they see beautiful. I see myself as ugly! I know what is within and for that I am humble. 

We are to, “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up” (Jas 4:10)

 

Glorification: 

We are to admit our ingloriousness, and God will glorify us. 

Regeneration (re-glorification): 

“If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new” (2 Cor 5:17) 

Glorification is an inside out process beginning with rebirth and with completion at the rapture.