Matters Of The Kingdom

Ever since we started the Matters of the Kingdom programme here in Kingdom Family Center, God have opened our eyes to the deep things hidden in the treasury of God's heart concerning His Kingdom and the Citizens.

I want to share very briefly with you one of those teachings. However, we still look into it in more detail next time.

So God created man in his own image, in his image created he him, male and female created he them - Genesis 1: 27

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breathe of life, and man became a living soul. - Genesis 2: 7

The fisrt man God created was created in the very image of God. And again, the first man was filled with the Breath of Life. This means that, man was essentially created and made to be indwelt and surrounded by God.

Adam and Eve, the first man, lived and exercised dominion in the very image of God. The mandate God gave man in Genesis 1: 26 which is to have dominion was only made possible as long as man was wrapped up in the image of God and also was indwelt by the breath of life. This means that taking dominion over the earth is essentially made possible right in the confirment of the image of God. This is why immediately man fell from grace, he could not take dominion over the earth again. What he first controlled began to control him.

I want us to understand the image of God in this start point. In the Old Testament, we are told that man is created in the image of God. This is good for our understanding.

Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, old things are passed away, behold all things have become new - 2 Corinthians 5: 17

For we are the workmanship of God created in Christ... Ephesians 2: 10

Why the Old Testament tells us that the first man was created in the image of God, the New Testament tells us that the redeemed child of God or man is created in Christ.

In Hebrews 1: 3, we are told that Christ is the brightness of the glory of God and also He is the express image of God's person.

This means that Christ is the physical expression of the very image of God. This goes to establish the truth that the very image in which the first man - Adam was created in is revealed physically in the person of Christ.

So, we could bold say from these scriptures that Christ is the Image of God. This implies that, the first man was actually created in Christ - the image of God.

This become necessary why we should preach Christ to the world become in the first place man was created in Him and to function in Him.

Continue from here.

Please ponder on this study as we undertake he Matters of the Kingdom