Monday, January 26, 2009
Adam's Purpose
Representative: One that serves as a delegate or agent for another.
– American Heritage Dictionary
Gen 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion…
This scripture gives us wonderful insight into God’s purpose for mankind. Adam was created in the image and likeness of God. Vines tells us that image means; "image or copy" of something in the sense of a replica. According to Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, Likeness refers to the representational aspect of the image.
Adam was God’s image chosen to reveal or manifest Himself to creation. Through Adam, an invisible God made himself visible. But more than a visible image, Adam’s purpose was to be representational of God. As God’s likeness, he was to ACT as God’s representative thereby revealing the nature and characteristics of God by those actions.
Adam’s representational purpose was not manifest when God gave him dominion. It was manifest when Adam obeyed God’s command and named the animals. God’s image and likeness was revealed, not by Adam’s position, but by his obedient actions to the commands of God.
We manifest our King, his kingdom and our purpose when we obey and do what we were sent to do. This results in demonstrating to the world that we are of a greater kingdom than the one of this world
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"Apostolic Kingdom Dominion"
Pastor Benjamin David Arazu
Man of God thanks very much for that book you gave me,it is great.Here is my thought on Apostolic Kingdom Dominion.
If you can hear it, you were born to serve the King and to walk in Apostolic Kingdom Dominion. If you can embrace this truth, the Kingdom of Yahweh will be established in your heart, and your life will glorify His Name in all the earth.
• Kingdom = King’s/Domain (Where the King rules and reigns)
• The King’s Domain has to be established in your heart and life before you can represent the King to someone else.
Note: (If you are not a man under authority then the people under your authority will not be submitted).
• “You were born to serve the King and nothing else really matters” blh
Luke 17:20b The kingdom of JESUS cometh not with observation: 21Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of Yahweh is within you.
Psalms 8:1- O GOD, our Sovereign, how excellent is Your name in all the earth, who have set Your glory above the heavens!
4-6 - What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? 5For You have made him a little lower than the angels, and You have crowned him with glory and honor. 6You have made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands;
Psalms 145:10-13 All Your works shall praise You, O LORD, and Your saints shall bless You. 11They shall speak of the glory of Your kingdom, and talk of Your power, 12To make known to the sons of men His mighty acts, and the glorious majesty of His kingdom. 13Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and Your dominion endures throughout all generations.
Luke 12:32 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
Malachi 4:5-6 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of Yahweh: 6And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
• Apostolic fathers are coming to you and government is coming with them. Order will be restored and authority and power will bring reformation.
• The enemy of our souls has been dealt with and his day has ended, our day has only begun.
• This is the day that Yahweh has made I will rejoice and be glad in it.
• This is the great and dreadful Day of Yahweh.
• This is the Third Day and we are under an open Heaven.
Isaiah 26:12 - LORD, You will establish peace for us, for You have also done all our works in us.
13-14 LORD our Elohim, masters besides You have had dominion over us; but by You only we make mention of Your name. 14They are dead, they will not live; they are deceased, they will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
Luke 11:20 But if I cast out demons with the finger of GOD, surely the kingdom of GOD has come upon you.
Colossians 2:13-15 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,14having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. 15Having disarmed principalities and powers, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them in it.
Daniel 7:13-14 “I was watching in the night visions, and behold, one like the Son of Man, coming with the clouds of heaven! He came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought Him near before Him.14Then to Him was given dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all peoples, nations, and languages should serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and His kingdom the one which shall not be destroyed.
Acts 5:12 - And through the hands of the apostles many signs and wonders were done among the people. And they were all with one accord in Solomon’s Porch.
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