I have always been fascinated with the verses in 1 Corinthians 16:45,47, and 49:  "And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul;  the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.  The first man is of the earth, earthy;  the second man is the Lord from heaven.  And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly."

Paul is writing about the difference between two perfect men.  One, Adam, who lost his perfectness through disobedience.  And the second, Jesus, who didn't.  Of course Adam only "held" the breath of God.  He was simply flesh until God breathed into him the breath of life and he became a living soul.  Which is the prototype of what happens to us when we receive the Holy Spirit.  On the other hand, Jesus was God and was wrapped in earthly flesh.   One started out as flesh and received God.  The other was God and received, or was wrapped in flesh.

Obedience is the center of the Christian life.  Samuel put it this way:  1Samuel 15:22 "...Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord?  Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice..."  (Keith Green wrote a song with those words.  Great beat.  Google it.)

Jesus was able to be the sacrificial Lamb of God because he met the requirement of perfection.  All sacrifices for the Israelites had to be perfect.  They were examined for three days before the okay was given to consider that they were acceptable for sacrifice.  He became the sacrifice for all of us.

Because of that, we will bear the "...image of the heavenly."  Not the image of the earthly.  "What?  Don't you know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which you have of God, and you are not your own?  For you are bought with a price;  therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's."  1 Corinthians 6: 19-20