Lesson 73 THE YEAR OF UNDERSTANDING - Original Intent

     Genesis 1:26 (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 of the earth, and over everything that creeps upon the earth."
     God made mankind to be His family and to have complete authority over the earth and everything in and on it.  The authority God gave to mankind, was to continue for all of time and eternity.  Adam surrendered this authority over into satan's hands, when he transgressed in the Garden, which resulted in mankind being lost from God.  Mankind fell into a place of bondage and he could never deliver himself from this bondage by using his own hands.  We had no way out and still have no way out of this bondage, through our own abilities.  God gave authority and dominion over the earth and everything in it, but Adam violated it by his own actions.  Only God could bring things back into order.  But, since a man gave it away, only a Man could take it back.
     Adam's surrender caused mankind to be in sin and death and only a Man Who was without sin and death, could deliver it back and restore order.  Man couldn't stop this Spiritual Law of Sin and of Death.  God took it upon Himself to bring a Man into this earth, Who was without sin and death in Him, by the corruptible seed of fallen man.  God's Word, Jesus, became a flesh and Blood Man, Who was born with the Incorruptible Seed of God, thus beginning a new Blood line.
     Through faith in the Sacrifice of Jesus, God once again has a family born in His Image and Likeness, by the Blood and Spirit of the Living God.  The authority in the Name and Power of Jesus Christ, has delivered us from the Curse of the Law of Sin and of Death and has restored back God's Original Intent for His family, in authority and dominion.  The Original Blessing God pronounced on Adam, has now been restored to mankind through Jesus.  We're not only Blessed of the Lord, but we're the very family of God.  We're not only mankind in His Image and Likeness, but we're actually made one with Him, in Jesus.
     We've lost sight of the fullness of what actually happened on Calvary.  We acknowledge the forgiveness of sin resulted from Jesus' Sacrifice, but we've mostly overlooked the rest of our deliverance He brought us.  We're not just forgiven sinners, but we're completely new creations, in Christ.  In this new creation, we were actually created into a new species of being, without a trace of the old fallen man/woman or even a stain of sin.  We were created in Righteousness and are the temple of the Holy Spirit.
     Satan has worked diligently, to keep this Truth from God's family, so we wouldn't begin walking in what we've inherited through Jesus.  If God's family walked in the complete authority over the earth and everything that creeps upon it, then it would destroy everything satan has stolen from us.  One Man, Jesus, restored it all back, but the Body of Christ has been so divided that we've failed to establish this authority over the earth.
     There have been some who've taken this authority in and over their lives and over portions of this earth, but as a whole, the Body of Christ has failed to establish this authority in general, over everything else.  My authority can only cover the area where I am and not over your portion or jurisdiction of living.  We don't have authority over the lives of other people.  Man wasn't meant to rule over other men, but over the things God delegated authority over.  The decisions you make, will determine the authority that you can enforce in your own life.
     Your faith in the Finished Work of Jesus, will determine the degree of your authority, even though you have been given authority over all things.  If you've been deceived by the enemy and you don't know about this authority, then you'll never exercise it over your life, household and family.  Jesus couldn't do the things that He came to do, if the people wouldn't believe and He still can't do so today.  If we fail to believe in the authority He has delegated to us, then we won't exercise it for the deliverance He gave us.  Even though we're the Redeemed of the Lord, we'll continue walking in captivity, if we don't know the Truth of who and what Jesus has made us to be.
     Satan is "the father of lies," and has talked the Church into believing his lies, so we deny the Super-natural ability of our deliverance in Jesus.  We continue walking as mere men/women, without the ability of the Holy Spirit to move us into the authority Jesus gave to us, even after we're born-again.  The laying on of hands, the Gifts of the Spirit, the casting out of demons, the authority over satan and the acceptance of our righteous stand before God, have all but been lost to God's children.
     These Super-natural things of the Father, are the same abilities God gave to the First Adam and the Last Adam.  They were the nature of the children of God, because the Law of Genesis says that, "Everything produces after kind."  You can't be born of the Seed of God and not be produced after kind.  This Law is true for everything we see.  An apple seed will always and only produce apple trees.  A kernel of corn will always and only produce corn.  A child who is born of the Seed of God, will always and only produce one Like God.  This Law never fails.
     We need to understand the Seed that has produced this new creation, like we understand the seeds we plant in our home gardens.  The seed we plant can and will only produce after kind.  You are already what the Seed produced, but you just don't know it.
     1John 3:2 (Amplified) says, "Beloved, we are even here and now God's children; it is not yet disclosed and made clear what we shall be hereafter, but we know that when He comes and is manifested, we shall, as God's children resemble and be like Him, for we shall see Him just as He really is."  This scripture reminds of what Paul wrote in 2Corinthians 5:16 (Amplified), which says, "Consequently, from now on we estimate and regard no one from a purely human point of view (in terms of natural standards of value). No, even though we once did estimate Christ from a human viewpoint and as a Man, yet now we have such knowledge of Him that we know Him no longer in terms of the flesh."
     This is an awesome statement for the Church!  After we're born-again, do we see and think of Jesus as a man or as the Risen Lord of All and as living in our lives?  Most of us identify with Him as the Man of Galilee and not as the Seed that produced the entire family of God into God's Original Intent for His family.  You were born of Incorruptible Seed, the Seed of God, Who is Jesus.  An acorn will always produce and Oak tree.  You might not be the same tree, but you'll be just like the One Who produced you.  You'll never be the Lord Jesus, but you'll be like Him, in nature and ability as He is.  Although my children aren't all the same, they're all like me.
     We are the produce of the Word that produced Jesus.  The very Seed that God produced Adam and Jesus from, is the Same Seed (God's Word) that produced us.  The difference between the First Adam and the Last Adam is that that one produced the natural man, while the other, a Life Giving Spirit, produced the new creation man/woman, who was a spirit man/woman just like Jesus.  Our spirit man/woman is living in a flesh and blood body, so we can maneuver in this natural realm and be used by God to sow and produce more children for God's family, after kind.
     When we sow the Word, Jesus or Seed of Life, it still produces a new creation child of the Living God.  When we plant the Seed of God into the lives of others, then it will produce after kind, but we haven't understood what "that kind" really is.  We've thought it just produced persons who stop drinking, cussing and sinning, but in reality it killed the old man/woman and produced a new creature who lives in the old house of flesh and has the authority over the works of the flesh.  The ability to control the flesh, comes from the new creation man/woman who now lives in that house of flesh.  We must feed the new creation being on God's Word and His Spirit, which will cause the old man/woman to stop rebelling and lining up with your new authority in Jesus.