Subject: The Lord our God works through man, why? |
Bible Note: Well things have gotten a little messy here. First God is Love. As brothers and sisters in Christ we are actually a part of each other and the world will know us by the love we have for each other. Regardless of the rules here. God did many things without using man before he gave man dominion over all the earth. Even Jesus authority on earth was based on His humanity. The earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof however He is truth and will not violate His covenant with us. That does not mean He will not intervene but it is highly likely that most intervention is based on man requesting action from God. That being said God does expect us to exercise dominion over not only creation but also authority over spirits of darkness. Unless you consider serpents and scorpions to be taken literally. Luke 10:19 Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will injure you. He gave Adam dominion. Gen 1:26-28 … fill the earth and subdue it and rule over the fish of the sea…and over every living thing that moves on the earth. It was because Adam had dominion over the earth that the earth became cursed when he sinned. Eve sinned and nothing happened. Gen 3:6 That is because God gave Adam dominion before she was formed. God instructed Adam not to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil before He fashioned Eve from his rib. Perhaps the clearest scripture is this. Psalm 115:16 The heavens are the heavens of the LORD, But the earth He has given to the sons of men. We know that Jesus had to be born of a woman for two reasons 1/ He had to be under come under the law. This is the only way He could fulfill the law. That is the whole reason God chose Abraham and made a nation then gave that nation His laws. The purpose of the law was not to perfect Israel for that was never possible. Rom 8:3, and Heb 7:18-19 He could not be a son of Adam. Generational sins and curses come down the fathers line and not the mothers. Once again Eve sinned first but creation did not fall until Adam sinned. Important note. Not later when God pronounced the curse but at the very moment Adam sinned So even if God could have found a way for the Spirit of Christ to be born of a woman and a man He would have inherited generational curses and sins. Man had dominion and he had submitted himself to Satan through his sin. So it was essential that He be the seed of the woman but not of a man. So being a man himself with nothing passed from previous generations He remained sinless and he had dominion because he was a man. When Jesus left He gave the Holy Spirit to fill us with His life so through us He could legally exercise dominion in the earth. There is now a and forever will be risen human being on the throne in heaven beside the Father It is the church that will subdue even the spirits of darkness for the greatest victory of all time Ephesians 3:10-1110 so that the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known through the church to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly places. 11 This was in accordance with the eternal purpose which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord, and Eph 3 16-20 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.20 Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, Look at the last 8 words. According to the power that is at work within us. God pours himself into man, He fills man with himself, His life flows through man resulting in Holiness and Power. In fact to a very great degree God limits Himself to what will be done through Man. His Son is a man on the throne of heaven. Yes He is God and we are not. We worship Him and fall at His feet in awe of His magesty and Splendor However It has not yet entered the heart of man what God has prepared for him (or what He has prepared him for). 1 |