REIGNING IN LIFE: ROYAL AUTHORITY RESTORED
For if because of one man’s trespass (lapse, offense) death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive [God’s] overflowing grace (unmerited favor) and the free gift of righteousness [putting them into right standing with Himself] reign as kings in life through the one Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One). (Romans 5:17 Amp)
God Almighty in His infinite wisdom and boundless love created man in His image and after His likeness to reign and to rule on the earth as kings for Him. His desire was for man to remain connected to Him, His will, His ways and His wisdom with which they will be able to take their place of dominion on the earth. He made all the resources they will need available for them before they were even created and formed on the earth.
However, their loyalty must be proven. They must be tested and trusted. God also in love instructed that they should not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil and that the day they do, they will surely die ( be cut off from Him and lose their essence and glorious destiny). Alas! Adam and Eve failed the test of Love (If you love Me, keep my commandments). They sinned and they died. Glorious heritage and placement was lost, Life and peace was lost, Death reigned and the world took a new turn negatively.
Death's reign emerged because of this one man Adam. Sin took us captive and brought us into the domain and dominion of death. Death manifested in man's productivity level as failure, his health as sickness, his marriage as divorce and barrenness, his finances as lack and poverty and in all phases of his life. Man became caught off from the source of life.
In spite of all these, God wasn't confused. He knew what to do. He has made the provision of the lamb that would be slained before the foundation of the world. The lamb to be slained was also to appear on the earth in the form of a man. The lamb appeared in the person of Jesus. The WORD through whom all things were created became flesh to be able to become the way to the Father for all men, show man the way to the Father and become the propitiation for the sins of all men thus making them fit to walk in the way. So sad...... He died!!! Yet So great a news......... He rose again. Death was swallowed in victory , the reign of sin and death ended. Power changed hands. Life and peace was restored to mankind.
It is now time for another being to reign and rule on the earth. Dominion is restored to man through Christ. Power and Authority to reign and rule is now restored because the price has been paid. The truth is we owe the debt we cannot pay but Jesus has come to pay the debt he didn't owe. What a great love of the Father God. Dominion mandate is re enacted in Christ.
The question is how did we respond to this? How do we enter into this placement provided for us in Christ?
Watch out for the Second Part of this write up!!!
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