Genesis 1:26-28 (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 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. And God Blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth, and subdue it, using all its vast resources in the service of God and man; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and over every living creature that moves upon the earth."
The authority, dominion and Blessing God gave to His family, was to continue for eternity. Man's spirit was eternal and his body was immortal, so man would live and increase throughout all time. Adam and his family, were to be God's Own family. God would look upon, guide and teach His family, by His Spirit. Man was to know the things in the earth, while knowing and understanding the Spiritual realm of God's creation. Adam's fall caused man to lose his ability to see, hear, and understand the Spiritual realm, reducing man to only his natural senses to guide, protect and provide for himself. Adam gave the authority and dominion that God gave him, over to satan, leaving death and darkness to teach him, so death continued through mankind.
Man was no longer in the Likeness and Image of God, but had fallen to the image of man's dead spiritual father, satan. God no longer had access to man's spirit, but could only move in the realm of the physical to guide them. God had given all authority to man, so a Man without sin, was needed to take back the God-given ownership and continue as God intended His family to live.
Man had given it up and man had to take it back. How could man pay his own bill for his sins and trespasses, now that he was dead from God in sin, trespasses and death? God's Great Love and His heart wouldn't allow His family to be lost from Him and needed to provide a way for man to return to His Original Intent for family. It took thousands of years to make redemption legal in the Heavenly courts of Justice, but God found the way by the virgin birth, through Mary. Now, there was a Man, born by God's Seed (His Word), into this earth, Who could and would bring things back into God's order of creation.
Jesus was born of woman and Spirit, so He had man's authority without sin and death and the the authority God gave to the First Adam. Satan didn't have control or authority over the sinless Jesus. Jesus had the complete authority God gave to Adam, in His life.
We inherited sin and death through our relationship with the First Adam. In the Last Adam Jesus, we've inherited Life and righteousness by Him, because "Seed produces after kind," according to Genesis 1:11. Just like Adam's seed would produce children in his image, Jesus produced offspring in His Image. Adam's children wouldn't "be Adam," like our children aren't us, but they would be like Adam, just as our children are like us.
We're not Jesus, but we are in His Image and Likeness, produced after Kind just like Him. We're as much God's children as He is and and the Father loves us just as much as He loves Jesus, according to Jesus' prayer in John 17:23 (Amplified), where He says, "I in them and You in Me, in order that they may become one and perfectly united, that the world may know and definitely recognize that You sent Me and that You have Loved them even as You have Loved Me." This is difficult for the carnal minds of men to comprehend and believe, but your new creation man/woman, grasps it in JOY.
We have been restored back to God's Original Intent, when He created man in His Own Image and Likeness, when we received Jesus as our Savior, were born-again and made new creations in Him. We haven't understood this great miracle, because we continue holding onto that which was familiar to our old man/woman and the world of sin and death. Our past continues emphasizing our failures and shortcomings, when we see ourselves more as "forgiven sinners," instead of new creation beings. We're not just forgiven, but have been created new in Christ Jesus. There is no evidence of sin or death in the new creation family of God, there are only memories of someone who was dead and has now risen with Jesus, buried with Him in baptism and raised with Jesus into a new life. We're now seated with Him in the Heavenlies and sent forth by God, as ambassadors of His Kingdom, in order to bring this planet and all of it's inhabitants to Himself.
We're already citizens of God's Kingdom. We're now His sons and daughters in this life. Being God's child, isn't a future event for the believer, but it's a reality now in this world. Our natural body might die, but the new man/woman has already been born into the Image and Likeness of God and will never die. Death for the believer, isn't a thing of passing away, but passing on into the fullness of God. In 2Corinthians 5:4, Paul speaks about our natural body as being "swallowed up by life." We have so much Life inside of us now, that death can't hold it. The limitations of the flesh will be swallowed up and the Life Jesus spoke about, will completely dominate our new creation person.
Death will no longer dwell in this old house or body of flesh and life will rule in it's fullness. Some of us are older and it's difficult for us to move and walk, but soon, our house of flesh will no longer hold us back and the Life which is in us in Christ Jesus, will truly make us free. There is coming a time when we won't have any more limitations, no more doubt, no more walking in the natural and Spiritual realms, but we will have total freedom. The only limits we now have are these houses of flesh and the things of the senses we've learned in this world.
The carnal mind has kept us in a place of reasoning and doubt and has limited us to the world, concerning with the new creation. We must renew our minds with God's Word and His Holy Spirit, in order to remove the limits of the carnal mind. Every born-again new creation believer, has the life and creative ability God placed in both the First and Last Adam, living in us. We're made in God's Own Image and Likeness and Blessing, that God Intended from the beginning. We've looked in awe,at the things other new creation people (great men and women of faith), have done in the past, without realizing the same ability is at work and alive in the spirit of every believer on this planet. Remember that Seed produces after Kind. Sin and death was produced through the seed of Adam, but Life and ability was produced after Kind, by the Seed of God, Jesus Who is the Last Adam.
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