Authority - 4
How was Adam to subdue the earth? Today we will talk about that.
Since Adam was an exact duplication of God’s own kind, he was capable of operating on the same level of faith with God. God didn’t make earth out of nothing. He made it out of the substance of FAITH. Compare Genesis 1:1 to John 1:1-3----In the beginning, God----In the beginning was the Word. The Word was God. All things were made by Him. (All that is written down in our Bible was originally in the heart of God. The Bible, God’s personal word, is the heartbeat of God.)
God created earth with words (Hebrews 11:3). God releases faith in His words. God uses His words as containers (carriers) of His faith; His words are containers to carry His faith. Likewise, my words as His child are containers, carriers; if they are God’s words; they are carriers of God’s faith and produce results. Have the God-kind of faith we are told in Mark 11:22-24. Have faith in the words you speak, that they will bring results.
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. What you fill your mind full of, what you think on, dwell on, ponder and mull over (meditate) is what you put in your heart also. Your heart is full of what you have thought on. God’s words are filled with faith. Therefore, the more filled with His Word we are, the more filled with faith we are. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. The Word of God opens our ears to hear and hearing ears have faith. The substance of faith in Hebrews 11:1 is the Word of God.
Things we see with the natural eye are temporal (temporary, not lasting); therefore, they are subject to change. You can take your faith which is eternal, not subject to change, and change temporal things of the earth.
Adam was supposed to have dominion over the earth by releasing His faith in words just as God had done with His words. God’s faith was transported by words. We must realize that God didn’t create things the way they are today. Satan perverted them.
In order to understand the Bible, we must realize that God is our heavenly Father. He is not the author of death, evil, calamity, sickness and disease, poverty, lack, want, defeat, failure, depression, etc. These things are perversions caused by satan when Adam bowed his knee to satan and gave him the authority God gave Adam. God is not the author of death, but life.
We need to look at two words here: keep it and subdue. In Genesis 2:15 we see the words “keep it,” which is shamar---protect, hedge, guard. In Genesis 1:28 we see the word “subdue,” which is kabash----conquer, subjugate, tread down. These words were spoken to Adam by God because God knew whom Adam would come face to face with. It was Adam’s responsibility to protect what God had given him and make satan subject to his authority as God’s child just as Adam was subject to God’s authority.
When satan heard God say that man would have dominion over all the works of God’s hands, that meant over satan also. And he wasn’t about to submit to man. Instead, he would attempt to rob man of what God had given him.
In order to understand what was at stake here for satan, let’s look at who he is. Before he rebelled against God, satan’s name was Lucifer----son of morning, light bearer, star of the morning, daystar, the shining one, very beautiful. After the rebellion he was satan----accuser of the brethren, adversary (one turned against another with a design to oppose or resist him) of both God and man.
We must understand that man didn’t turn against God or resist Him until the nature of satan entered him. Jesus called satan the prince of this world. Paul called him the god of this world. Adam gave satan this position by his defecting, his rebellion, his disobedience. And Adam became just like satan, which is what satan’s intent was.
Since Adam was an exact duplication of God’s own kind, he was capable of operating on the same level of faith with God. God didn’t make earth out of nothing. He made it out of the substance of FAITH. Compare Genesis 1:1 to John 1:1-3----In the beginning, God----In the beginning was the Word. The Word was God. All things were made by Him. (All that is written down in our Bible was originally in the heart of God. The Bible, God’s personal word, is the heartbeat of God.)
God created earth with words (Hebrews 11:3). God releases faith in His words. God uses His words as containers (carriers) of His faith; His words are containers to carry His faith. Likewise, my words as His child are containers, carriers; if they are God’s words; they are carriers of God’s faith and produce results. Have the God-kind of faith we are told in Mark 11:22-24. Have faith in the words you speak, that they will bring results.
Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. What you fill your mind full of, what you think on, dwell on, ponder and mull over (meditate) is what you put in your heart also. Your heart is full of what you have thought on. God’s words are filled with faith. Therefore, the more filled with His Word we are, the more filled with faith we are. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. The Word of God opens our ears to hear and hearing ears have faith. The substance of faith in Hebrews 11:1 is the Word of God.
Things we see with the natural eye are temporal (temporary, not lasting); therefore, they are subject to change. You can take your faith which is eternal, not subject to change, and change temporal things of the earth.
Adam was supposed to have dominion over the earth by releasing His faith in words just as God had done with His words. God’s faith was transported by words. We must realize that God didn’t create things the way they are today. Satan perverted them.
In order to understand the Bible, we must realize that God is our heavenly Father. He is not the author of death, evil, calamity, sickness and disease, poverty, lack, want, defeat, failure, depression, etc. These things are perversions caused by satan when Adam bowed his knee to satan and gave him the authority God gave Adam. God is not the author of death, but life.
We need to look at two words here: keep it and subdue. In Genesis 2:15 we see the words “keep it,” which is shamar---protect, hedge, guard. In Genesis 1:28 we see the word “subdue,” which is kabash----conquer, subjugate, tread down. These words were spoken to Adam by God because God knew whom Adam would come face to face with. It was Adam’s responsibility to protect what God had given him and make satan subject to his authority as God’s child just as Adam was subject to God’s authority.
When satan heard God say that man would have dominion over all the works of God’s hands, that meant over satan also. And he wasn’t about to submit to man. Instead, he would attempt to rob man of what God had given him.
In order to understand what was at stake here for satan, let’s look at who he is. Before he rebelled against God, satan’s name was Lucifer----son of morning, light bearer, star of the morning, daystar, the shining one, very beautiful. After the rebellion he was satan----accuser of the brethren, adversary (one turned against another with a design to oppose or resist him) of both God and man.
We must understand that man didn’t turn against God or resist Him until the nature of satan entered him. Jesus called satan the prince of this world. Paul called him the god of this world. Adam gave satan this position by his defecting, his rebellion, his disobedience. And Adam became just like satan, which is what satan’s intent was.
posted by Rev. Kialeen Potterton @ 3:51 AM
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