We talked yesterday about being made in God’s image. But sin distorted that image in every one of us — so what happens now? In this episode, we continue our Systematic Theology series by looking at how Jesus came not just to save us from punishment, but to recover the very image of God that sin warped.
We work through Colossians 3, putting off the old man and putting on the new, and 2 Corinthians 3:18’s picture of an unveiled mirror — daily being transformed into the likeness of Christ. Using a long, honest illustration about falling out of a workout routine and having to start again, we talk about why sanctification isn’t always a straight climb upward, why real setbacks don’t mean you were never truly saved, and why coming back to God isn’t the exception in the Christian life — it’s most of life. We close by looking ahead to what full restoration looks like when Christ returns, and the astonishing promise of 1 John 3:2: we shall be like Him.