We discover the Father's Intent for His family in the beginning, by reading Genesis 1;26-28. God made sure that His family would never lack anything, when He created the earth. After completing and approving that provision, God formed the earthly body for the earthly realm and placed Adam and Eve in it. God pronounced a Blessing on Adam and Eve, in order to empower them and enable them to have complete authority over all that He had created for them.
We've mostly thought that God created Adam and that Adam transgressed the very next day. The Truth is that the earth is much older than what we've believed. God and His son Adam, walked together for an unknown amount of years, prior to Adam's transgression. They walked together as Father and son. God taught Adam how to ruled and reign, as headman over the earth and everything in it. Adam was first created a spirit and had been given a physical body, so he could operate in the physical realm.
We too are spirit beings, but we also must be aware of our natural abilities. You don't just drive your car by faith, but also by your senses. We've lost our contact with the Spirit of God and have only learned to function by our senses, which resulted in our not receiving instructions through our spirit any longer. We need both, in order to reign and operate like the Father created us to. We need balance. We need to hear and be led by the Spirit, in order to keep the senses from overruling our spirit.
Jesus had natural senses, but He only allowed them to do what the Spirit of God directed Him to do. Jesus still got hungry and He still got tired. He needed clothing and other things that natural men need, but Jesus didn't allow His natural Man to rule over His Spirit. God's family is required to provide care, clothing, food, and shelter for our children, but we're not to look at this natural realm for all our provisions, while forgetting the Father.
Jesus spoke about the natural things men need in Matthew 6:23-33 (Amplified), saying in Verse 33, "But seek, aim at and strive after first of all His Kingdom and His Righteousness (His way of doing and being right); and then all these things taken together will be given you besides." God never intended for His family to depend only on themselves, for their lives and provision, but as our Father, He will provided for us, like He did for Adam. Remember why God created the earth and everything in and on it. He still knows how to produce and provide. This doesn't mean we're to just sit on the sidelines and do nothing, but it does mean that there's more than just "making ends meet by the sweat of our brow."
It wasn't until after Adam transgressed, that God told him that the "sweat of his brow was required to provide." The Father was teaching Adam how to make the earth produce and perpetually provide his needs. The Last Adam, Jesus, provided bread and fish for the multitude, with only a small boy's lunch. Jesus directed Adam to catch a fish and take the money from the fish's mouth, in order to pay their taxes. Jesus provided enough fish to sink the disciple's fishing boats and we know that Jesus had a treasurer, who was always giving to the poor. Just prior to His Ascension, Jesus said in John 14:12 (Amplified), "I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he himself will be able to do the things that I do, and he will do even greater things that I do, and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father."
We may not have seen these things come to pass in our lives yet, but if Jesus said it, then it's possible for us to do them. Many have heard Jesus say, "Seek ye first God's Kingdom and His way of doing and being right," but found their own way instead. Our own way of doing and being right, isn't how the Kingdom works. God's way of doing and being right, isn't by works and religions, but by faith in the Righteousness He provided for us, in Jesus Christ. No person can become righteous by our own efforts, it's a Gift from God, given by Grace. Romans 3:27,26 (Amplified) says, "All are justified and made upright and in right standing with God, freely and gratuitously by His Grace (His unmerited favor and mercy), through the Redemption which is provided in Christ Jesus." Verse 26 says, "It was to demonstrate and prove at the present time (in this now season), that He Himself is Righteous and that He justifies and accepts as righteous him who has true faith in Jesus."
The Kingdom of God is governed by Spiritual Laws. That's why Jesus said in Matthew 6:34 (Amplified), "Seek, aim at and strive after first of all, His Kingdom and His Righteousness (His way of doing and being right)." The legal laws that govern the Kingdom, operate on the principles of justice and righteousness. The Church hasn't understood the legalities of God's justice, that He provided in Jesus.
Adam gave his God-given authority and dominion, over to satan's hands, so God needed a way to legally put it back into the hands of men. This is why Jesus declared Himself to be, "The Son of Man and the Son of God." God gave the earth to man and Jesus gave it back to us. It was a legal transaction, resulting in satan's not having man's authority any longer. We became new creation people, when we were born-again. God transferred that authority and dominion back into the authority of His new creation people. God had the legal right, by the Laws of His Kingdom, to transfer the Blessing and mandate He gave the First Adam, back into the authority of this new creation man/woman, by the Last Adam. We are back where God intended mankind to be, through the Last Adam, Jesus.
This might seem difficult to understand, but once we do understand it, it's much easier for us to be and do what Jesus said. The authority in the Name of Jesus, is the badge of authority that has been restored to the hands of God's family again. Jesus was and still is, a Man and through Him, the Ada-mic covenant and mandate are back in place. Jesus proved it as a Man, Who was without sin and was Righteous. Through Him, we're also without sin and righteous, because we are in Him. We are created in righteousness and His authority now, in His Name, His character, and His Righteousness. We are once again, God's Own family. Jesus was the First Born of many brethren and in Him, we were born of the Same Incorruptible Seed, Who is the Word of God, Who is Jesus.
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