Genesis 1:26-28 (Amplified) tells us, "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. 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."
God intended for the First Adam to "be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth and subdue it." Adam was to bring forth the children of God, into God's family and His delight. God would be able to walk with them, provide for them and Bless them. God's heart desired to fellowship and partner with His children. The Last Adam, Jesus did exactly that and even more. Adam's seed was a natural seed that was to produce children in a natural body. Their natural bodies made it possible for them to enjoy the natural world or home that God created for them.
We are a new creation family, who were created new through and by Jesus, The Seed. We bare the First Adam's natural, mortal image, which came from the dust of the earth, as his seeds. We're also the seed of the Last Adam, Jesus and bare His Image, as a living spirit housed in our natural bodies. 1Corinthians 15:45-48 (Amplified) says, "Thus it is written, the first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the Last Adam Christ, became a Life-Giving Spirit, restoring the dead to Life. but it is not the Spiritual Life which came first, but the physical and then the Spiritual. The first man was from out of earth (made of dust, earthly minded); the Second Man is the Lord from out of Heaven. Now those who are made of the dust are like him who was first made of the dust (earthly minded); and as is the Man from Heaven, so also are those who are of Heaven (Heavenly minded)."
Romans 8:9 (Amplified) says, "But you are not living the life of the flesh, you are living the Life of the Spirit, if the Holy Spirit of God really dwells within you (directs and controls you). But if anyone does not possess the Holy Spirit of Christ, he is none of His (he does not belong to Christ, is not truly a child of God). But if Christ lives in you, then although your natural body is dead by reason of sin and guilt; the spirit is alive because of the Righteousness that He imputes to you."
Everything God intended for His family through the First Adam, has now become reality in our lives, through the Last Adam, Jesus. Healing is no longer a Promise, but is a Truth in Jesus. 1Corinthians 1:20 (Amplified) tells us that, "When we received Jesus as our Savior and Lord, "All [God's] Promises are Yes and Amen in Christ Jesus, to God's Glory." They are ours already. We still identify more with the natural man/woman, than with the new creation person of the spirit. We dwell in a natural body, but we Live after the Spirit. Our entire being is now to be led by and controlled by our spirit, which is infused in the Holy Spirit.
In the old covenant of days past, man could only receive the Holy Spirit from the outside anointing. In these Last days, God's new covenant family has the Holy Spirit and Anointing living within us and infused into our very own born-again spirit. We don't receive from the outside or flesh, but we're led by the Holy Spirit Who lives within us. Our spirit is the be led by God's Word and His Spirit. We function in this world by listening to God's Word and Spirit, but we're not of this world.
Jesus had a natural Body like we do, but He was led from within, by the Holy Spirit. Jesus said, "It's not Me, but the Father in Me, Who does the work." This is how the new creation children of God are supposed to operate. We still live in the flesh, but we don't walk after the flesh. Jesus had a Body, in order to eat, sleep, bathe and function in this natural realm, but He never allowed it to dominate His Spirit Man. When we study Jesus, during His earthly ministry, we can see God's Intention for the family He created in His Own Image and Likeness at the beginning. God intended the Spirit realm to be the dominate realm and to rule over the earthly realm. God gave mankind to have complete authority over the earth and everything that creeps upon it.
Everything was created by the Spirit and was made subject to the Spirit. As God's family, we're to have complete authority over everything the Spirit created on and in the earth, by our spirit. This planet and the natural things on it, were and now are again, under the authority of the new creation family of God. Even the weather and animals are once again subject to the new family of God, by the authority of the Name of Jesus.
The authority God gave to the First Adam, has now been restored to us, through Jesus. We've been placed back into God's Original Intent. We've never seen anyone walk in this God-given authority and have never learned to walk in it. The Spirit always had the authority, even in the old covenant. At that time, only kings, priests and prophets had the Holy Spirit Anointing to rule and have power. This has now been extended to all who are born-again, according to 1Peter 2:9-10 (Amplified) which says, "But you are a chosen race; a royal priesthood, a dedicated nation. God's Own purchased special people, that you may set forth the wonderful deeds and display the virtues and the perfections of Him Who called you out of darkness into His Marvelous Light. Once you were not a people at all, but now you are God's people; Once you were unpitied, but now you are pitied and have received mercy."
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