On our last session we talked about;
UNLOCKING THE MYSTERIES OF SON SHIP!
Today we are exploring Authority, one of the keys to sonship. I want to show you another side of who you are and the power and authority that lies in every believer.
Let's start in the book of Genesis in 1:26, and 27 It says "and God said let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image in the image of God created he him male and female created he them."
In these two verses we see who we are as sons of God. When you look at this verse you see that you were created in the image of God. The word in Hebrew for create is bara; which means to create, shape, fashion. We were originally fashioned in the image of God not birthed. To be birthed you have to come from a womb. Man was fashioned or made in the image and likeness of God. God is spirit and so is man. He gave him power as a spirit being, to have dominion over the earth.
1. Man was given a body to have authority in the earth and a spirit to have authority in the spirit world.
The late Charles Capps talks about this in his book Authority in Three Worlds.
A. The fact that God formed Adam from the spirit made him a son of God.
B. He put his very image and likeness in him and gave him power in the earth.
2. Adam had direct access to God and the heavens. He gave man dominion over the earth, his assignment was to rule and conquer everything in the earth. Adam did not have to use physical strength but his words had power. He was created just like his father God, and he was given wisdom by the father. Just look at what he did. He named all the animals in the earth.
A. In Gen 3:8 And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. 9 And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? 10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
In this scripture we where Adam was in direct communication with God. It was not just a voice walk in the garden but God was their.
He had access to him.
B. the fact that Adam hid himself from God present,let you know he could see God in a face to face relationship.
C. He know after his eyes were open to sin that he could not look on God in a face to face way anymore and live.
3. I want you to see something in the Word that God has done. He has given us the Comforter which is the Holy Ghost whom the Father has sent in Jesus name, His job is to teach you all things and to bring all things to your remembrance. I want to stop and look at the word teach here in the Greek it is Didasko; either from daio or dao. To know or teach, to instruct by word of mouth. Didakos had inherent in the calculation of the increase in understanding of the student. The student hears for the purpose of understanding and to learn. When you look at what the job of the Spirit, it is to teach you in a supernatural way, that gives you divine understanding of what is in God's mind.
A. This was because of sin which broke the mans original knowledge in the spirit. God has given knowledge back too man through the birth of the Holy Ghost in us. There is more that I will share on this matter at a later time.
4. I want to deal with the key of speech as a son of God. In the book of Matthew 8:5-10 and Luke 7:2-10 we have an account of the centurion. In these accounts Jesus is teaching a principle about knowledge of authority. The centurion had a knowledge of authority. He understood that when a word is spoken from a position of authority, it must be performed according to the decree. That is the power of your words, when you know you have authority you act on it by saying what you want to happen. When you understand this you have and the ability decree a thing. You are now walking in sonship in the Kingdom.
A. Our problem is in the receiving it , and understanding how to apply it. It's like when you are going to the doctor he gives you a prescription and he tells you to take this pill three or four times a day and you will recover. We do what the doctor says because we believe him. But because it was written in the Bible,and we did not hear God say it physically our senses take over. Our body and our mind takes over and what happen, is we are controled by our through's our emotion's and feelings.
B. We fail to get what has already been paid for us. The reason is because of our mind our thought process has to be changed we have to do it by the Word of God. Romans 12:2 talks about being transformed by the renewing of your mind. Our mind is the third strongest weapon we have outside of our words. You ask the question what do you mean by this statement!It simple when a person make up their mind about a certain thing or situation they will do it, or they will not do it. Your mind will control a lot of what you believe until you start operating out of your spirit. That is one of the jobs of the Holy Ghost, but we have to walk after the spirit this something we must chose to do.
C. That is where our mind come into play, we must not let the thought of our feeling and the thought of the enemy take hold of us. You see this play out when Jesus was tempted for forty days and nights in the wilderness.
I want you to go back to Genesis 1 : 26 when God made man he made him as a son, not just a man or creature God put his image, which is a spirit which in the likeness of him. God even gave him a God mindedness where he could think the Father thoughts. But the devil knew he could not deal with Adam in his mind . But the woman who had not heard what God told the man heard he knew that he could deceive her, So he used the wisest creature on earth to deceive her,the serpain and she would get to the man. That is how the devil attacked the man thinking.
D.When you go to Genesis 3:6 you see where the woman's perception was changed about fruit. She thought that it would be good to eat, it appealed to her perception and it was pleasant to her senses to the point she lusted for it her spiritual appetite was deceived by a false desire. Adm who knew what God had said allowed her words to trap him into questing what God had said. Satin was able to make a suggestion through Eve due to the fact he had deceived her. It was a mind game for her to work on Adam to get him to give in, the moment he had a question about what God had said the could take him down. He did not know how he was as a son, nor did he know his authority.
I'm going to stop here because I want you digest this and look for part 3.
