John 1:16-17 (Amplified) says, "For out of His fullness (abundance), we have all received, all had a share and were all supplied with, one Grace after another and Spiritual Blessing upon Spiritual Blessing and even favor upon favor and Gift heaped upon Gift. For while the Law was given through Moses, Grace (unearned, undeserved favor) and Spiritual Blessing and Truth, came through Jesus Christ."
The authority and dominion God decreed over Adam, was lost to us when Adam gave it over to satan in the Garden of Eden. Until that time, Adam had control and dominion through his authority God gave him. Adam was to use this authority and dominion, in order to bless all that God had given him. Adam had dominion and authority over everything over the earth and was to use them to bless everything in and on the earth. This dominion and authority was transferred over to satan, at Adam's fall in the Garden. This meant that man lost his fellowship and identity he held in the Lord. It also meant mankind lost his authority and dominion rights to the enemy.
Jesus is the Last Adam and restored all that the first Adam had. Jesus also issued all power and authority both in Heaven and in earth. This Blessing was Promised to Jesus through Abraham. God Promised it to the "Seed of Abraham" and it's our Blessing now too, through Jesus. One of the greatest fears that satan has, is that God's people will discover our true identity. Satan has obscured the true depth of what the new birth and the new creation people is, for two-thousand years. Religion describes us as being "poor Pilgrims," who should be pitied and run over, but this isn't the Father's image of His children.
God created man in His Own Image and Likeness and mankind was to be God's under-rulers over the works of His hands, according to Psalm 8:4-9 (Amplified) which says, "What is man that You are mindful of him and the son of earth born man that You care for him? Yet You have made him but a little lower than God, or Heavenly beings, and You have crowned him with Glory and honor You made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet All sheep and oxen, yes, and all the beasts of the field; The birds of the air and the fish of the sea, and whatever passes along the paths of the seas O Lord, our Lord, how excellent, majestic and Glorious is Your Name in all the earth."
The above scripture show the True Image of God's creation, at the birth of His children. When Adam lost his authority and dominion over to satan, man lost his authority. The enemy has used man's own authority and dominion on mankind. Satan has used what God meant for a Blessing, making it into a curse. Jesus has redeemed us from the Curse that came through the First Adam. We've now received the Promised Blessing again, through Jesus Christ, the Last Adam.
Many only teach the Church about the Curse and the Law, instead of teaching God's children about our true identity in Christ Jesus. Our true identity has been lost to the lies of carnal men. In Romans 8:1-2 (Amplified) Paul writes, "Therefore, there is now no condemnation (no adjudging of guilty of wrong), for those who are in Christ Jesus, who live and walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. For the Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus, the Law of our new being, has freed me from the Law of Sin and of Death."
We must understand what the above scripture is saying to us today. It's not being prideful to say, "I am God's son or daughter." It's foolishness when we deny this awesome Truth. We confess that we're God's children, but then refuse to accept our place in His family. God never intended for His children to be subject to an outlaw spirit who would steal, kill, and destroy them. No father give life to his children, so they could live in starvation, sickness, bondage and death. Every earthly father desires more than tat, for his own offspring. Do we really think that our Heavenly Father wants less for His children?
This is a lie that has ruled over most of God's children and that lie was designed by satan, in order to bring grief and hurt to the heart of our Heavenly Father. The enemy cannot get to God, so he uses God's children as weapons against Him, bringing sorrow and hurt to the Father's great heart. When God's children are hurting, then God's heart is hurting too. Hebrews 4:15 (Amplified) says, "For we do not have a High Priest Who is unable to understand and sympathize and have a shared feeling with our weaknesses and infirmities and liability to the assaults of temptation, but One Who has been tempted in every respect as we are, yet without sinning."
Many read the above Verse as being about temptation to what we believe is sin, but most of the temptations Jesus faced, were more in the realm of taking back authority and dominion on behalf of those who were hurting and bound. Everything Jesus came against, was against Him. The people Jesus grew up with, were under the Law and satan and his demons, understood that every person was under satan's control. Jesus had to fave the temptation of His refusing to die on the cross and taking our penalty for sin. Jesus had faith in God's Truth and gave Himself over to the death, that we should have had.
We sometimes only think of "temptation," as sin in the flesh. Jesus faced a much greater force of temptation than we could ever imagine, so we could be free once again. Here we are though, still living mostly under bondage, not knowing the full force of what Jesus did on our behalf.
When we deny healing or dominion or authority and think of ourselves as "old sinners, saved by Grace," we're denying the greatest temptation Jesus was victorious over. Jesus didn't do what He did, just to forgive our sins, but He did it to restore us back to royalty, in our Father. Satan has lied to us, saying, "God doesn't do these things any longer" or "These things are only for after you die and go to Heaven." Jesus came that we would have Life, not only when we get to Heaven, but NOW. Jesus came so that we would have the God kind of Life, now on this earth.
God never intended for us (His children), to be ruled over by anything, except Himself and that was a Rule of Love. We have subjected ourselves to Him, out of Love and not fear. Paul describes the Love God has for His family as between a man and his wife in Ephesians 5:21-32 (Amplified). Verse 32 says, "This Mystery is very great, but I speak concerning the relationship of Christ and the Church." The intimacy and union Paul writes about, was and is, a position of Love and giving, on an equal basis. Paul says, "The two became one."
My wife took my name, my identity and an equal share of everything I am and have, when we were married. We have become as one, in every aspect of our lives. If I don't understand this relationship like God intended, then my wife would suffer under the bondage of misused authority and dominion. Religion tries it's hardest, to put wives under the bondage of her husband. Religion teaches Law, instead of Grace, leaving God's children to miss out on our ability to pray in agreement, as one. Religion teaches that the wife is less than her husband and this might be why, we "feel" like less, than what the Father has made us to be.
Galatians 3:28-29 (Amplified) says, "There is now no distinction, neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is not male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ (are in Him Who is Abraham's Seed), then you are Abraham's offspring and Spiritual heirs according to Promise."
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