Genesis 1:26-27 (Amplified) says, "God said, Let Us (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit), make mankind in Our Image (after Our Likeness), and let them have authority over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the (tame) beasts, and over all the earth and over everything that creeps upon the earth. So God created man in His Own Image, in the Image and Likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them."
Man was first created a spirit, like God. Man was to have authority over all the earth, according to Genesis 2:7 (Amplified), which says, "Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the Breath or Spirit of Life, and man became a living being." God created man in His Likeness and to be like Him, in every way. God formed man's body out of the ground and breathed that spirit into that body, so the body became a living being. Man was to walk and rule from his spirit and have contact with the natural world around him with his body and five senses.
No one knows how long Adam walked in his earthly body on earth, but he ruled and lived by his spirit during that time. Genesis 3:17 (Amplified) says, "And to Adam He (God) said, Because you have listened and given heed to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it, the ground is under a Curse because of you; in sorrow and toil shall you eat of the fruits of it all the days of your life."
The Curse wasn't God's doing, but was the result of Adam's choosing to disobey God. Adam had been given complete authority over all the earth and everything in it and he was the one who turned that authority over into satan's hands. Adam's transgression caused the earth and everything in it, to be under the authority of an outlaw spirit (satan), who had nothing in him except death. The sin was man's disobedience and betrayal and death came because mankind was now in subjection to a spirit who had no life and "the wages of sin is death." Romans 5:12 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, as sin came into the world through one man, and death as a result of sin, so death spread to all men, no one being able to stop it or to escape it's power, because all men sinned."
Many believe that God cursed the earth and cursed all men to sin and death. The Law of Genesis tells us though, in Genesis 1:12 (Amplified), "The earth brought forth vegetation; plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which was their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good (suitable, admirable), and He approved it." Everything in and on the earth had seed and was to produce after it's kind. This was God's Plan. Adam was to produce seed, that would produce after his kind. He was to produce men and women, after and in, the Likeness of God.
Sin took it's toll and death had become Adam's new nature, causing his seed to produce nothing but sin and death, from that day until now. Adam couldn't produce offspring in the Image and Likeness of God any longer, because his seed was under his self-induced Curse. Adam's new spiritual father was a dead spirit and could only produce death in Adam and all his seed. This was never God's Original Intent for His creation and family.
God could extend man's physical lives to a degree, when we placed faith in His Word, but He couldn't stop the progress of sin and death, without first restoring our spirit man again with Life. Romans 5:19 (Amplified) says, "For just as by one man's disobedience, failing to hear, heedlessness, and carelessness, the many were constituted sinners; So by One Man's obedience the many will be constituted righteous (made acceptable to God, brought into right standing with Him)." Jesus is the Righteous Seed and He brought Life and right standing with God to man, once again. 1Peter 1:23 (Amplified) says, "You have been regenerated (born-again), not from a mortal origin (seed, sperm), but from One that is Immortal by the Ever Living and Lasting Word of God."
Through the Ever Living and Lasting Word of God, Who is the Seed Jesus, we've been restored back into God's Original Intent. We are spirit beings, who are living in physical bodies, led by His Holy Spirit and are in authority and Ever Lasting Life again. We've been given the Power of Attorney to us the Name Above All Names, and "at the Name of Jesus, every knee shall bow, of beings in Heaven, in the earth, and those under the earth, to the Glory of God."
The original man is once again in God's Own Image and Likeness, through the new creation, which is born of the Seed, Who is the Word of God Jesus Christ. We are spirit, living in a body of flesh, and we have a soul that's been dominating mankind since Adam's fall. We are alive in God and alive unto God, once again. We've lived by our senses (our soulish man) for so long, that we don't know how to live by our spirit man. Paul instructs us to renew our minds with God's Word in Romans 12:2. He was speaking about returning to God's Original Intent and our walking in the Spirit. Romans 8:7 (Amplified) says, "That is because the mind of the flesh, with it's carnal thoughts and purposes, is hostile to God, for it does not submit itself to God's Law, indeed it cannot."
Since Adam's fall, mankind has lived by our senses and we knew no other way, until we were born-again. Our new creation person must learn how to walk by our spirit, like Adam did before the fall. We must renew our minds by God's Word and allow the Holy Spirit to lead and teach us. This requires us to spend time in God's Word and in His Presence. This comes by observing and continuing in trail, patience and faith in what He has Promised us, in Jesus. When we were toddlers, we saw everyone around us walk and we wished to walk too. We couldn't walk at first, but we didn't quit trying to do so, saying "Walking isn't for everyone." We continued trying to walk, until we made it. The same is true for walking in the spirit. We must persist, until we become good at it.
Everything in life came in degrees. We didn't learn how to speak, walk, count, or dress ourselves, without patience and practice and it's no different in the spirit realm. We persisted in our efforts to walk and talk alone, until we could do it for ourselves. Don't stop learning to walk in the spirit, just because some people quit. Don't use them as your example, because there's no end to what you can learn and know about walking with your Heavenly Father. We have God's Word and His Spirit to teach us "all things." This was and is, God's Original Intent for His family. He wanted us to know Him.
Let's take the time, even in this hectic season, to unwrap God's Christmas Gift to us. Let's see what Gifts He has brought. Don't just admire the Package, but unwrap it and see the fullness of this Awesome Gift of Love. Life, health, Blessing, peace and righteousness are only a few things you'll see, as you unwrap Christmas this year. Inside God's Gift of His Son, you'll find God's Original Intent for you. It's been given to all who will believe and it has been given to us freely and in Love, so that we can enjoy with Him and in Him.
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