Authority - 2
The power of God is delegated to us. In Matthew 28:18 we read that all power (authority) is given unto Jesus in heaven and in earth. He then says that we therefore are to go and teach all nations because He is with us always. These are Jesus’ last words, instructions to us. Jesus is saying: All authority in heaven and earth is given to Me. That authority is yours as you go.
In Ephesians 1:22 and 23 we read that the Father has put all things under the feet of Jesus Christ and given Him to be the head over all things to the church which is His body, the fullness of Him that fills all in all. Jesus as the Head directs the maneuvers. We carry out His instructions as His Body here on earth. Some instructions (laws) are already set up. Other instructions are issued on an individual basis. What is important here is that we recognize the authority of God over us and at the same time our authority over satan.
In the first three chapters of Genesis we find the reason for man’s existence; his relationship to God; the exalted position granted man; the truth about man’s fallen state; the devices of satan and the key to the rest of the Bible. It is this. God set in motion the redemption of mankind in the Old Testament. In the New Testament we have redemption. The whole Bible is the story of God wooing back the man that He loves and setting the stage to do it.
In Genesis 1:26-28 we hear God say: Let us make man in our image, after our likeness (exact duplication in kind) and let him have dominion (supreme authority) over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, over the cattle, over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Then God speaks to man what He is giving him. These are the first and most important words man will hear. And God blessed them and said to them: Be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, over every living thing that moves on the earth. Here God is empowering man (blessing) and equipping him.
The earth is to be in subjection to man and man is to have the highest authority over every living thing.
The universe is created for the earth; the earth is created for man; man is created to rule the earth. In Genesis 1:26 God duplicated Himself in man. Man is a replica, a copy of God. God is the original; man is the copy. Adam was an exact duplication of God’s kind—to be god of the earth. The whole law of Genesis is this: Everything produces after its kind. Therefore, since God is a Spirit. Then it follows that man is a spirit.
You are not equal to God in His divine attributes. You are not God. However, you are a spirit being under authority and subordinate to God. Adam was under authority of God, and given authority to be god over the earth. An exact duplication of God’s kind would be: God is a Spirit. Man is a spirit. The human spirit contacts God Who is a Spirit. Man is a spirit; he has a soul; and he lives in a body.
Man was created out of a Father’s heart of love for a family, for sons and daughters through whom He could reveal and express Himself. Ephesians 1:4,5 says that He has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world. He made the family plan available to us to be adopted as His children according to good pleasure of His will. John 16:27 and John 17:23 says that the Father Himself loves us. Here are a few other scriptures that you can look up on your own which relate to the Father’s heart for us----Romans 8:28; 1 Peter 5:7; Matthew 6:8,25-32, 7-11.
What God really wanted was a family affair----God and Son, Inc.----the same image, the same likeness, son, heir----as much like God as possible without being Him----in other words, His offspring, His child.
He wanted someone to fellowship with Him Fellowship: Koinonia----Participation and sharing of oneself; companionship and intimacy among equals
In Ephesians 1:22 and 23 we read that the Father has put all things under the feet of Jesus Christ and given Him to be the head over all things to the church which is His body, the fullness of Him that fills all in all. Jesus as the Head directs the maneuvers. We carry out His instructions as His Body here on earth. Some instructions (laws) are already set up. Other instructions are issued on an individual basis. What is important here is that we recognize the authority of God over us and at the same time our authority over satan.
In the first three chapters of Genesis we find the reason for man’s existence; his relationship to God; the exalted position granted man; the truth about man’s fallen state; the devices of satan and the key to the rest of the Bible. It is this. God set in motion the redemption of mankind in the Old Testament. In the New Testament we have redemption. The whole Bible is the story of God wooing back the man that He loves and setting the stage to do it.
In Genesis 1:26-28 we hear God say: Let us make man in our image, after our likeness (exact duplication in kind) and let him have dominion (supreme authority) over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, over the cattle, over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Then God speaks to man what He is giving him. These are the first and most important words man will hear. And God blessed them and said to them: Be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, over every living thing that moves on the earth. Here God is empowering man (blessing) and equipping him.
The earth is to be in subjection to man and man is to have the highest authority over every living thing.
The universe is created for the earth; the earth is created for man; man is created to rule the earth. In Genesis 1:26 God duplicated Himself in man. Man is a replica, a copy of God. God is the original; man is the copy. Adam was an exact duplication of God’s kind—to be god of the earth. The whole law of Genesis is this: Everything produces after its kind. Therefore, since God is a Spirit. Then it follows that man is a spirit.
You are not equal to God in His divine attributes. You are not God. However, you are a spirit being under authority and subordinate to God. Adam was under authority of God, and given authority to be god over the earth. An exact duplication of God’s kind would be: God is a Spirit. Man is a spirit. The human spirit contacts God Who is a Spirit. Man is a spirit; he has a soul; and he lives in a body.
Man was created out of a Father’s heart of love for a family, for sons and daughters through whom He could reveal and express Himself. Ephesians 1:4,5 says that He has chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world. He made the family plan available to us to be adopted as His children according to good pleasure of His will. John 16:27 and John 17:23 says that the Father Himself loves us. Here are a few other scriptures that you can look up on your own which relate to the Father’s heart for us----Romans 8:28; 1 Peter 5:7; Matthew 6:8,25-32, 7-11.
What God really wanted was a family affair----God and Son, Inc.----the same image, the same likeness, son, heir----as much like God as possible without being Him----in other words, His offspring, His child.
He wanted someone to fellowship with Him Fellowship: Koinonia----Participation and sharing of oneself; companionship and intimacy among equals
posted by Rev. Kialeen Potterton @ 2:56 AM
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