1. The essential requirement for intimacy with God.
Likeness
The essential requirement for intimacy with God.

2. Knowing According To The Flesh
2 Corinthians 5:16-17 (NASB77) 16  Therefore from now on we recognize no man according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him thus no longer. 17  Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

3. Satisfied With God’s Likeness
Psalm 17:15 (NASB) 15  As for me, I shall behold Your face in righteousness; I will be satisfied with Your likeness when I awake.

4. As He Is So Are We
1 John 4:17 (NASB77) 17  By this, love is perfected with us, that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world.

5. Bringing Many Sons To Glory
Romans 8:29 (NASB77) 29  For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the first-born among many brethren;
Hebrews 2:10 (NASB77) 10  For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things, and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons to glory, to perfect the author of their salvation through sufferings.

6. Mere Men?
1 Corinthians 3:2-4 (NASB77) 2  I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able, 3  for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men? 4  For when one says, "I am of Paul," and another, "I am of Apollos," are you not mere men?

7. Created In His Likeness
Genesis 1:26-27 (NASB) 26  Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 27  God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

8. We Are Holy And Blameless
Colossians 1:21-22 (NASB) 21  And although you were formerly alienated and hostile in mind, engaged in evil deeds, 22  yet He has now reconciled you in His fleshly body through death, in order to present you before Him holy and blameless and beyond reproach—

9. Chosen To Be Holy And Blameless
Ephesians 1:3-4 (NASB) 3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4  just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him.

10. In Him We Have Been Made Complete
Colossians 2:8-10 (NASB) 8  See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ. 9  For in Him all the fullness of Deity dwells in bodily form, 10  and in Him you have been made complete, and He is the head over all rule and authority;

11. All Things Belong To You
1 Corinthians 3:21-22 (NASB77) 21  So then let no one boast in men. For all things belong to you, 22   whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or things present or things to come; all things belong to you,