Thursday, January 6, 2011

God is a Covenant Keeping God

We see through the gift of salvation that God is not a LEGALIST.  How do we know this?  The Bible says in Genesis that everything must reproduce after its own kind, but when God sent His Son to redeem us, He rewrote the rules and sent His Son through a virgin.

This means that He did not come through the seed of a man but He was conceived of the Holy Spirit.

God is a not a LEGALIST.  Satan, the adversary, is very much a legalist.  When Lucifer fell from Heaven his name changed to Satan.  Names represent personality.  The names of Satan and Devil both mean ACCUSER OF THE BRETHREN.  One means false accuser and the other means true accuser.

When Adam and Even sinned in the garden, they bestowed on Satan the legal authority to this world.  It did not come from God, but from man.  Before the battle in the garden took place, God had given Adam dominion over the world.  The Bible says Eve was beguiled by the serpent, but Adam was not deceived.

When Adam took of the fruit he transferred OWNERSHIP of the world to Satan.  As long as Adam was under God's authority, he had dominion over the world to multiply and subdue.  When Adam broke the covenant, he released his authority of the world to the enemy.  Now, Satan is the prince of this world.

From that time until today, Satan has been constructing an order of things that are diametrically opposed to the will of God.

Satan then attempted to do the same thing to the last Adam (Jesus) as he did to the first Adam.  In Luke 4 Jesus is led by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.  Satan is tempting Jesus to "sell out" just as he did with Adam because if he can get Jesus to fall to him like Adam did, then man will have no hope to be redeemed.

Jesus, who is sinless, being both God and man, is the only one that can make covenant with God.  Since Jesus is our elder brother and was totally man, He brings us into covenant with God.  Satan knew he had to get Jesus to sell out.  He was hoping Jesus did not realize the power of His ministry and the anointing that God had given Him.

Satan takes Jesus to a high mountain peak and shows Him all the kingdoms of this world.  And yet, Jesus already has full possession of the earth and the fullness thereof. (Psalms 24:1)

The earth belongs to God.  Not only the earth, but also everything upon the earth.  David makes a distinction between the earth and the world.  Why?  Because the world is always changeable.  The world is nothing but decor or a prop.

The real wealth of this planet is not in the world.  All of the real wealth is in the earth.  That is why when God talks about what He possesses, He never uses words like "I possess all the money in the earth" but He talks about possessing the earth itself.

All of the real wealth is in the earth.