Jesus Our Intercessor by Charles Capps

Author:Charles Capps
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Christian Life, Intercessory Prayer, Christianity, Religion, Mediation Between God and Man, Inspirational, Prayer, Christology, General, Christian Theology
ISBN: 9780892748532
Publisher: Harrison House
Published: 1994-05-31T22:00:00+00:00

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Our Right To Exercise Dominion

The first chapter of Genesis gives us an understanding of the authority God gave to man. Then as we study other Scriptures, from the Old Testament and into the New Testament, we find this thread of truth throughout the Bible: that God uses mankind as His agents here on earth to do His work.

God made Adam, under Him, the ruler of this world. But Adam sinned and turned his authority of the earth lease over to Satan. Then Satan became what the apostle Paul called the god of this world (2 Cor. 4:4).

Immediately God began to make covenants with men. First He made a covenant with Adam, then He made covenants with Moses, Noah and Abraham.

There were certain things God could not do in this earth unless He had made a covenant with a man who had legal authority here, for God had given mankind authority to rule on earth. This is a bone of contention with many religious people. Yet the Scriptures are quite clear on this matter.

Someone wrote me some time ago and said, "I don't believe God had to have access into the earth through a covenant agreement with man. If that is true, how did God destroy the world with a flood?" The answer is that God made a covenant with Noah. (Gen. 6:18; 7:1.)

There were some things God could do. But He limited Himself concerning what He could do in the earth by His Word, and God will not violate His Word. Therefore He made covenants with men on earth so He could work through those covenants to change things on earth.

When we understand God's Word concerning how we fit into His plan, we find that we are not just strangers and pilgrims struggling through this life. But we are sons of God, created in the image and likeness of God. We have a God-given right to exercise dominion on this earth under God's covenant with man. (Gen. 17:9,10; 1 John 3:2.)

Remember Jesus' statement, ... a body hast thou prepared me (Heb. 10:5). Jesus had been given a body. He was the sacrificial Lamb. His physical body was also His badge of authority to exercise dominion on this planet.

Even though He had authority before He was thirty years old, He didn't exercise dominion over the works of the devil until the Holy Ghost came upon Him. Every person who is born on this earth has a certain amount of legal authority, but they don't have supernatural ability to destroy the works of the devil until they are anointed with the Holy Ghost and power.

The same Holy Ghost anointing that was upon Jesus of Nazareth is available to His Body today. Before Jesus ascended to heaven, He commanded His disciples to not leave Jerusalem until ye be endued with power from on high (Luke 24:49). They already had authority, but they did not have ability except as Jesus had delegated to them the right to use His credit card for healing, so to speak.

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