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 of the fields, and over all 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 it 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's Original Intention for His man and His family, was to fill the earth and have authority and dominion over everything on it and in it. Jesus came as a Man, walked with God without breaking the Law of Moses, and held the authority and dominion over everything that crept upon the earth. Through our faith and obedience in Jesus' work, we walk too, without breaking the Law.
Through Him, we're now qualified again for God's Blessing and we've returned to the Intent God had for us in the beginning. It's not up to us to fulfill the Law, we only must trust in the One Who did. It's not up to us to take back the authority satan usurped from Adam, but we must trust in the ability of Jesus, Who took it back. It's not up to us to redeem ourselves from the Curse of the Law, but to only trust Jesus with it. It's not up to us to "become" righteous, but to accept Jesus' Righteousness and Trust in the work He did for us. It's not up to us to cover our sins with the blood of goats and bulls, but we must trust in the Blood of Jesus Christ to eradicate our sins for us. It's not up to us to be healed, but to trust in the stripes Jesus took on His back, to manifest our healing for us.
In this day and age of salvation, God only requires us to believe that the Man, Jesus Christ has returned us back to God's Original Intent. God gave this Blessing and authority to a man, Adam and the Man, Jesus Christ has taken it back and delivered it to "Whomsoever will believe." Our salvation is so much more than just being with God after we die. It's God being with us here, on the earth He created for us. It's walking like the Last Adam walked here on earth, in the restored Blessing and authority God gave man in the beginning.
Jesus returned everything Adam gave over to satan, including the authority over satan. Since satan "creeps upon the earth," he is also under the God-given authority that Jesus returned to the man/woman who will receive and believe what Jesus said and did. Jesus didn't take back this authority for Himself, because He was never under the authority of satan. He did it for us. Most of us have never truly understood what Jesus did, when He took away in in our lives. Adam's sin caused man to be separated from our Heavenly Father and man couldn't remove sin and death on our own. It required a Man, Who was without sin, to pay for the sins that separated mankind from God. The Word tells us that "All had sinned and come short of the Glory of God." We were all born in sin and couldn't come into God's Glory. God's Glory couldn't come into mankind either, before Jesus.
When we put faith in that Jesus became sin with our sin on Calvary, then we became sin in Him. When our sin was removed in Jesus, then we could come into a place with our Father, like He intended in the beginning. God's Blessing was restored, the authority returned by the Power of His Name and our relationship with our Father was back in place. Jesus brought us back as God's Own family, as though Adam had never failed and things are like God Intended from the beginning, according to Genesis 1:26-28.
Most of us have never seen the Truth of our salvation and have believed that "we're old sinners, saved by Grace." We were old sinners and by Grace we were saved and in Jesus, we've been restored back to God's Own family members. We are heirs of God and joint heirs with Jesus. This means that like Jesus is, we're what the Father created us to be from the start. This isn't arrogance, but true faith in the One Who actually paid for all that had separated mankind from the Father. He Loved us so much and enough, to pray the entire bill that was against us. When we see the word, "Redeemed," it means "bought back." The price of our redemption was high and we could never pay it on our own. Sin took us from God and that cost needed to be paid, in order to restore us back to Him. We inherited the sin nature from our natural father, Adam. It was born into us, by his seed. God needed a Man, Who was born without Adam's natural seed and Who was born from a sinless Seed, the Word of God.
The Holy Spirit planted the Seed in Mary and Jesus became flesh, a Man born without sin Who would die in our place and restore God's family back to Him. God had given man this place from the beginning, but Adam lost it. A Man had to recover it and this Man was Jesus. He perfectly redeemed us by His Own Sacrifice. In Him, we're now supposed to do what we were first created to do and be. We're to use the authority and dominion that Jesus restored to us in His Name, to bring things back into God's Own Order. We're to preach salvation to the lost, give faith to the fearful and have authority over all the earth, to take dominion and put things back into God's Order.
Many will believe this is being puffed up in pride, but those who can "see," it's the Power of the Gospel or Good News in Christ Jesus. Psalm 107:1-2 (Amplified) says, "O give thanks to the Lord, for He is Good; for His mercy and Loving Kindness endure forever. Let the Redeemed of the Lord say so, Whom He has delivered from the hand of the adversary."
Only those who are in Christ Jesus, can say this, because our Redemption is in Him. The above scripture tells us that, "We have NOW been redeemed from the hand of the adversary." Now means now, while we're living here on earth. The Church has heard and believed the words of the world so long, that we're afraid to say what God has told us to say. We don't want people to think we're boastful and prideful, by saying what God says. It's not being these things, but it's Truth in what Jesus has done and having faith in the Redemption He has provided us. We can't discount the Awesome Price Jesus paid to buy us back, saying, "His Sacrifice wasn't enough to redeem us." This is denying the Power of Calvary.
The Father never left anything to chance, when He sent Jesus. Jesus was more than enough to bring us back to God's Original Intent. Jesus did this so we can fellowship with the Father again and so the Father could be in union with His family again. We still insist on staying outside of God's Presence though and remain separated from Him, by our human pride and foolishness. Only faith in Him can override the pride and guilt, satan tries to put on us by religion. Religion is man's idea of God and it's held us in a place of guilt and shame over who we were. It's prevented us from seeing who Jesus has made us to be. Romans 8:1-3 (Amplified) says, "Therefore, there is NOW no condemnation, no adjudging guilty of wrong for those who are in Christ Jesus, who lives and walk not after the dictates of the flesh, but after the dictates of the Spirit. For the Law of the Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus (the Law of our new being), has freed me from the Law of Sin and of Death. For God has done what the Law could not do, its power being weakened by the flesh (the entire nature of man without the Holy Spirit), Sending His Own Son in the guise of sinful flesh and as an Offering for sin, God condemned sin in the flesh (subdued it and overcame and deprived it of its power over all that accept that Sacrifice)."
Have you accepted that Sacrifice? If you have, then don't allow the dictates of the flesh to tell you that, "You are not acceptable to God" or that, "You're not redeemed from the enemy."
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