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 complete 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."
When God created man, He created family. He created someone to share His Love with and someone to fellowship with, who was on His level of communion and status. There were angels and other beings in God's Kingdom, but none were created in His Image and Likeness. Adam and Eve had no sense of need or want, because their Loving Father had provided their every need. We're God's new creations now, according to 2Corinthians 5:17 (Amplified), which says, "Therefore, if any person is ingrafted in Christ (the Messiah), he is a new creation (a new creature altogether); the old previous moral and spiritual condition has passed away. Behold, the fresh and new has come."
God has provided for His new creation family, just like He did in the beginning. The Curse that Adam's fall produced, is still here, but through Jesus, God has delivered us from all these things and has restored the authority to His family, through the Name of Jesus. Matthew 28:18 (Amplified) says, "Jesus approached and breaking the silence, said to them; All authority (all power of rule) in Heaven and earth has been given to Me." Jesus goes on, in Mark 16:17 (Amplified) saying, "And these attesting signs will accompany those who believe: in My Name they will drive out demons, they will speak in new languages."
Colossians 2:10 (Amplified) says, "And you are in Him, made full and having come to the fullness of Life, in Christ you too are filled with the Godhead-Father, Son, and Holy Spirit-and reach full stature. And He is the Head of all rule and authority, of every angelic principality and power." Ephesians 2:10 (Amplified) says, "For we are God's Own Handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus (born anew), that we may do those good works which God predestined, planned beforehand, for us to take, taking paths which He prepared ahead of time that we should walk in them, living the good Life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live."
These prearranged paths are the same paths God Planned for His family, in the First Adam and through the Last Adam Jesus, have been made available to us. The same authority God gave to Adam, has now been restored to us and even greater authority, in Christ Jesus. Adam had authority over all the earth and everything in it. In Jesus, we've not only been give authority over the earth and everything in it, but over all the principalities and powers of the enemy too.
Sickness, death and the Curse came with Adam's sin, but healing, deliverance, redemption, remission of sin, the Blessing, son-ship rights, justification and Righteousness, have been returned upon us, in Christ Jesus. These are by God's Grace and faith in His Grace, to accept it. We're no longer required to obtain God's Blessing by the Law, but it's a free Gift of God's Grace and is available now by faith in Jesus' Finished work, on our behalf.
God has restored His family and made it complete in Jesus. Romans 10:17 (KJV) tells us, "Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God." Paul continues saying, "But how will they hear without a preacher?" Many churches today, have stopped preaching healing and Righteousness, so the people cannot develop faith in most of what Jesus paid and obtained, through His Blood. We've left it all up to God, saying, "If it be His will." God's will was Jesus and this is still His will for His family.
There is nothing we need to obtain by works, but only by Grace in the Finished Word of Jesus on Calvary's cross. All has been restored, by the One Sacrifice. for those who by faith, accept Jesus' Sacrifice, 'It is Finished." We've struggled to know what God's will is for two-thousand year, even though His will was made clear to those who heard and believed. Do bad things still happen to good people? Yes, of course they do. The last thing the enemy wants us to know, is who we really are in Christ Jesus.
"The Parable of the Sower," in Mark 4, tells us that the Word is the Seed, and the hearts or spirits of the people, is the soil. Jesus tells us in Verse 14 that, "The ones along the path are those who have the Word sown in their hearts, but when they hear, satan comes at once, and by force takes away the Message which is sown in them." Satan isn't "after you,"but he's trying to steal the Word you've heard. Jesus continues in Verse 17, saying, "And they have no real root in themselves, and so they endure for a little while, then when trouble or persecution arises ON ACCOUNT OF THE WORD, they immediately are offended (become displeased, indignant, resentful), and they stumble and fall away."
When we know God's Word and begin acting upon it, then we become a danger to satan's kingdom. Can you imagine what satan would do, if every Christian began walking in the authority and Power that Jesus delivered to us? What sort of miracle services would break out, if all God's family began casting out demons, healing the sick, delivering people from drugs and bondage, and revealing God as a Now God and the Great I Am? We've been talked out of most of who Jesus made us to be, by man's ideas that are without Revelation.
The Last Adam has restored us back to the Original Intent God had for His family. We're in His Image and Likeness once again. Hebrews 1:1-3 (Amplified) says, "In many separate Revelations (each of which set forth a portion of the Truth), and in different ways, God spoke of old to our forefathers in and by the prophets. But in these Last Days He has spoken to us in the Person of a Son, Whom He appointed Heir and Lawful Owner of all things, also by and through Whom He created the worlds and the reaches of space and the ages of time; He made, produces, built, operated, and arranged them in order. He is the Sole Expression of the Glory of God (the Light Being, the Out-raying or Radiance of the Divine); and He is the Perfect Imprint and Very Image of God's nature, upholding and maintaining and guiding and propelling the universe by His mighty Word of Power. When He had by offering Himself accomplished our cleansing or sins and riddance of guilt, He sat down at the right hand of the Divine Majesty on High."
It is Finished, NOW!
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