Child of THE KING!

It is my prayer today that ALL (believers and nonbelievers) will come to the realization that all power, riches, wisdom, strength, honor, glory and blessing is ours because... Worthy is the Lamb! Sacrificed so that we could become Sons and Daughters of such a great inheritance... why?... because God Loves You!


We are going to start today in Genesis 1:26 & 27 


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.  27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.


In the beginning God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.  Have you ever thought of why God made man that way?  To make as a resemblance of who He is?  Webster’s defines resemblance as the quality or state of resembling; especially: correspondence in appearance or superficial qualities: a point of likeness: similarity.  This does not just mean outer appearance.  Likeness means a copy.  God gave man dominion over everything… Adam’s intelligence was so high that he named every living creature.
God made man to have relationship with him.  He made man in such a way that he would always have something in common with him.  Don’t you like to associate with people who you have things in common with?  Even after the fall of Adam, when he broke the only law given… though shalt not eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil and brought death into the world.  From that point on man knew good and he knew evil.  I find it amazing that God still longed to have relationship with His creation.  He loved him enough to first clothe him and at that moment put in to place a plan to redeem mankind for eternity. 


From the beginning of time God has never left man alone… it has been man that has rejected God.  But then after all that had happened God sent His Son to not just save the world but to bring mankind back into complete fellowship with Him.  There are times that I just sit in awe of what Jesus did and all that it truly means!  The other day I watched a movie the Prince of Persia.  It is based on a story of an orphaned boy who when the King saw him was moved and adopted him as a son.  This in turn gave him a complete inheritance of the kingdom.  Just think that today because of Jesus we all are adopted sons and daughters.  And the Kingdom inheritance of all power, riches, wisdom, strength, honor, glory and blessing is ours because... Worthy is the Lamb!  Jesus says’s it this way in the book of John:


John 10:9-11 (Amplified Bible)


9 I am the Door; anyone who enters in through Me will be saved (will live). He will come in and he will go out [freely], and will find pasture. 10 The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows).  11 I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd risks and lays down His [own] life for the sheep.


Even after all that has happened God made a way where there seemed to be no way, mankind was created for relationship and for so long through the law that Jesus came to fulfill, mankind has been living as servants when God has always intended for man to live as Kings to take dominion and rule over the earth.  


I am going to close with this, eating of the fruit of the tree did not make Adam & Eve good or evil it gave them the knowledge of good and evil and it has been through what mankind has done with that knowledge to cause either good or evil to prevail.  Every man, woman, and child has this knowledge but because God loved us so much He sent his Son Jesus to redeem us from the curse of the law of sin and death.  The Bible tells us in Ephesians:


Ephesians 2:5-7 (Amplified Bible)


Even when we were dead (slain) by [our own] shortcomings and trespasses, He made us alive together in fellowship and in union with Christ; [He gave us the very life of Christ Himself, the same new life with which He quickened Him, for] it is by grace (His favor and mercy which you did not deserve) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation). 6 And He raised us up together with Him and made us sit down together [giving us joint seating with Him] in the heavenly sphere [by virtue of our being] in Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One). 7 He did this that He might clearly demonstrate through the ages to come the immeasurable (limitless, surpassing) riches of His free grace (His unmerited favor) in [His] kindness and goodness of heart toward us in Christ Jesus.


God wants relationship with you today, He doesn’t want you to jump through any hoops, stop what you are doing, clean up your mess.  God wants you the way you are, when he looks at you he sees Jesus, all your sins, past, present and future have been forgiven.  Come as you are, Jesus said “I am the Door, anyone who enters through me will be saved!”  God is waiting to welcome you into the Royal family, a child of THE KING!


God Loves You!