Note from the Writer:
Dear Silent Reader (or at least I hope there is a reader out there not just individuals who click the links and move on.) I started a write up that I would like to share with you. Its different from my other writings in the past but I would like to bounce it off you to get a feel of what you think. I began to write on my understanding of the gospel and the work of grace in the life of a believer. I have written 5 pages only but I really would like to know what people think and also if it would be something you would like me to publish on this blog. The extract is below...Please get back to me on what you think. Thanks
Many have taken up different aspects of the gospel as an
emphasis that God intends for man. While I agree that God intends for man to be
prosperous, healthy and enjoy other benefits in life, the emphasis of the
gospel does NOT end only in the well-being of man. Many preach a gospel that lays great emphasis
on meeting the needs of men but I would like us to examine the scriptures again
to determine what God sort to emphasize.
The fall of Man
According to Economics the basic need of man is Food,
clothing and shelter. This clearly were not the basic needs of man until man
fell in the Garden of Eden. In the book of Genesis, all the basic needs of man
were provided for before Adam was created.
His food was
available before he was even created according to Gen. 1:29-30, man was clothed
in the glory of God and never knew shame from being naked (Gen. 2:25), and his
shelter was in the Garden of Eden (Gen. 2:8).
The story became different after the fall. Man now had to
sweat in order to produce food to eat (Gen. 3:19), the glory of God that
covered him was withdrawn and man realized his nakedness (Rom. 3:23, Gen.
3:10-11) and finally man was thrown out of the Garden, which was his shelter
(Gen. 3:23-24). So Food, clothing and shelter became the basic needs of man,
after the fall of man and not before.
What then did God create man for, If not to work for his
food, clothing and shelter? The answer lies in fellowship with God and the
exercise of dominion upon the earth. At this point let me explain briefly that
the dominion that God actually intended that Adam express on the earth, is to
be able to access the mind and will of God in the heavens and implement it in
the earth. God’s intention was not for man to God around like the chieftain of
the world without referring or gaining direction from God. Adam was God’s
enforcer upon the earth to establish God’s Kingdom upon the earth. Adam was to
mirror the government of God in the heavens and execute same upon the earth. In
fact the greatest Adam could do was to seek to accurately mirror what he saw in
heaven. It is not about commanding your world to align to your every whip and
desire, if we are to exercise dominion, our cry should be, THY WILL BE DONE ON
EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. He was called like Moses to function according to
what he saw in Gods Kingdom. Man was called to keep the garden and tend it. To keep implies to protect or safe
guard, while tending means to maintain or make continuous improvements. I will
stop here on this.
The
implication of that which man was commissioned to do in the exercise of
dominion means that man must maintain vital communication with God, in order to
replicate His will and Kingdom upon the earth. Hence, his strongest asset was
his connection to God and ability to communicate with heaven. This was what
Satan targeted in his temptation of man, knowing that if man loses his vital
communication with God, he can develop according to the will and design of
another. Hence, when Adam sinned man was cut off from his life source which is
God. That separation from God is what God spoke about in Gen. 2:17, when he
said that man will surely die
To be continued.......
