THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND THE BLESSING OF THE LORD !

THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND THE BLESSING OF THE LORD ! Well, I'm just not convinced I can operate in that kind of dominion, Brother Bobby. Most of the time, I feel more like a weed puller than a lord. That may be true--- but if you're honest, you'll admit that even while you're pulling weeds, you are longing for dominion. I know that's true because every human being on earth has that longing. Dominion is woven into our very nature. God breathed into our spirits or the day one. That's the reason human beings are always trying to exercise dominion over something. It's the reason why children in fit games like King of the mountain. Even little children have an innate desire to rain. To see how important it is to be equipped for dominion, consider how Jesus transferred His authority to His disciples after His death and resurrection. He did into parts. First, He gave them The Great Commission and told them what to do. In our day and time people really don't like to be told what to do. He said: all power is given unto me in heaven and earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen (Matthew 28:18--20). That commission authorized the disciples to preach the gospel Of the Kingdom of God worldwide. It instilled in them the desire to do so. But that alone was not enough. They also needed to be empowered or equipped to walk in that authority. So, Jesus commanded them to wait in Jerusalem for part two: The Promise of the Father. He said to them, You shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and you shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost parts of the earth (Acts 1:8). The fiery power that came on the disciples it Pentecost, the outpouring of power we call the baptism in the Holy Spirit, is what equipped the disciples to fulfill the mission Jesus gave them. It empowered them to go into all the world, operate in the dominion over all the works of the devil and advance The Kingdom of God. It provided them with the same kind of power Adam received when God declared over him the words of (Genesis 1:28). It released to them THE BLESSING. For the most part many people think we are operating under a different church ! OUR DIVINE MANDATE: I can almost hear you thinking, what does the baptism in the Holy Spirit have to do with THE BLESSING Adam received in the Garden of Eden ? It has everything to do with it; and you'll eventually see the connection. But, for now, let's turn our attention back to the Garden of Eden. Let's see Adam again in our mind's eye as we saw him in chapter 1--- in his first split- second of life, standing face to face with God on the center of the world stage, about to receive his mandate from God. Mandate is a term often used in the political realm to refer to that which a government official has been commissioned to accomplish. A president, with a mandate from the people to protect the nation, is authorized and empowered by that mandate. It gives him not only the responsibility for national defense, but it also puts the military resources of the country under his command.THE BLESSINS was Adam's divine mandate. It delivered to him both the responsibilities and the resources to fill the earth with God's goodness. It gave him a divine commission and crowned him with all the divine power he needed to fulfill it. When God spoke THE BLESSING over Adam, (Psalms 8:5) says, He crowned him with glory and honor. Normally, when we think of a crown, we picture a circle of gold set on a person's head. But in Adam's case, the Bible says God crowned Adam by putting His own glory on him. He didn't just that I have a little circle of it over him as a kind of halo, but the original Hebrew says God encircled or encompassed Adam in that glory. Just imagine it ! Adam's eardrums were still vibrating with the first sound he'd ever heard-- the sound of Almighty God saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion. . .--- When suddenly he was engulfed by the blazing light of divine glory. He was lit up completely with the fire of God. It's shone around him from the inside out: so he was totally encompassed by it. Nowadays people are trying to get the church to manifest outside in and it doesn't work that way you can look churchy you can even sound churchy but the truth of the matter is the glory of God, from the inside out. That's why Adam didn't need material clothing. Although they were both naked, the man and his wife, they were not ashamed because they weren't naked in the sense that we understand it. They weren't exposed. They were clothed with the radiant glory of God. They couldn't even see their physical bodies.