New Creation Realities – 2.
This time we want to look at what was said when God said “Let us make man in our image”.
Last time we saw that God found himself as a source for man. You were created out of the I AM. Your origin is not some monkey somewhere. God did not find an ape and said let us make man from that. Neither did he find something else, an amoeba somewhere, not an angel, not a planet, not a star, no he found you in Himself. Wow!!!!!
Eph 1:4 says: Just as he choose us in Him before the foundation of the world.
You were created before anything ever existed. You are from eternity and created for eternity.
Let’s see what God says when he plans to create Adam and Eve.
Let us make man in our image – Gen 1:26
The very first statement that God made concerning you and me is about our identity. His image is your identity.
Ever since the fall of man there has been a struggle for our identity. The enemy’s attack was on Adams identity. “Is it so that God said, because if you partake of the tree of knowledge of good and evil you will be just like God.”
What a lie. They were in his image and God did not hold out on them. He didn’t say lets make man like a part of us. Let us make man so they will never know what it is to be in my image. No and a million times more I say NO!
The very statement that God made established your identity. You are one of His kind.
You are not what your father or your mother said about you. You are not what the coach said about you. You are not what your neighbor said after you ran over his dog. Nothing that you can do, can affect your origin. You had no say and no part in making or creating yourself. You are who God says you are. An original in the image of God.
He chose you before you could make that choice. He had you in mind before you ever understood a thing or had a thought. Why will we listen to the enemy trying to make us feel less valued?
The word for “Choose” in Eph 1:4 literally means “Out of the I AM”. He looked at himself, saw you and picked you. You are one of a kind.
Secondly we see that God said: and let them have dominion.
You were created to rule. First God spoke your identity and then He spoke your purpose. You are destined for greatness. Your creational purpose is to overcome and be more than an overcomer. Adam was to rule the world.
Psalm 115:15-16 May you be blessed by the Lord who made the heavens and the earth. The heaven, even the heavens belong to God but the earth he has given unto the sons of men.
So we see that God has given the earth to man to rule and reign and have dominion. As man multiplied he was to populate the earth with people in the image of God. What went wrong?
To find out we must look at the temptation of Jesus in Luke 4: 5-6.
Then the devil took him up on a high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. And the devil said to him, All this authority I will give you and their glory; for it has been delivered to me and I give it to whomever I wish.
The enemy says that someone gave him the authority. Adam had that authority and by sinning he gave that to the enemy. For the enemy to have it means that Adam had to have it to be able to give it away.
2 Cor 4:3-4 says that our Gospel is hid from them because the god of this world has blinded their minds. Adam made the enemy a god. Again that means that Adam must have had the authority of a god.
John 10:34 Jesus said: Is it not written in your law, I said, you are gods.
The Last Adam:
The first Adam failed. He missed it and messed it up. Jesus came as the Last Adam, God in the flesh to take back what the first Adam lost. If the first Adam lost authority then we know what Jesus as the Last Adam took back by defeating him. That is why Jesus can say:
ALL AUTHORITY HAS BEEN GIVEN TO ME IN HEAVEN AND IN EARTH.
What great news. Jesus bought our purpose back. He restored it all to us that are part of the second Adams Race.
2 Cor 5:17 I am a new creation, old thigs have passed away behold it has become new.
You have an identity. You have a purpose. Jesus said: I give you authority over all the power of the enemy. Go and make disciples of all the nations.