Kingdom Assignment
I.
The assignment for
mankind hasn’t changed since the Garden of Eden (Genesis 1:26-28)
A. Man has been given an
assignment to replenish the whole Earth
1.
Fruitful
– Increase, grow, bring forth, bring fruit,
make fruitful
2.
Multiply – Be or become great, many, much, numerous, multiply
(of people, animals, things), to be or grow great, to make large, enlarge,
increase, to make much, make many, have many, to multiply, to make much to do,
do much in respect of, to increase greatly or exceedingly, to make great,
enlarge, do much, abundance
3.
Replenish
– fill, full, fulfill, overflow, satisfy, abundance
4.
Subdue
– To subject, subdue, force, keep under, bring into bondage, make
subservient, dominate, tread down
5.
Dominion
- rule, dominion, take, prevail, reign, ruler
6.
Psalm
8:4-8 – Man was made to have dominion over the works of God’s hands
B.
God
formed man’s body with dust of the Earth, but he created the spirit of man with
his words (Genesis 2:7)
1.
Genesis
1:26 – The Word’s that God spoke to create man and man became a speaking
spirit like God
a.
Genesis
1:28 – The first words that man ever heard
2.
Genesis
2:8 – God created man and put man in the Garden of Eden because His will
was that man live on this Earth never knowing one day of lack
a.
Eden
– Pleasure, Luxury, Delight, Paradise,
3.
Here
Adam stands inside the Garden of Eden with an assignment to fill the whole
Earth up with that Garden that he’s standing in (Genesis 2:7-8)
a.
That
Garden was a spot and it was man’s job to turn the Earth into the Garden of
Eden – To bless the whole Earth
C. God’s plan for the Earth
and man did not change because of Adam’s sin
1.
God’s
got the whole Earth on his mind
a.
Gen
9:1,7- Noah
b.
Gen
12:3, 18:18, 22:18-Abraham
c.
Gen
26:4-Isaac
d.
Gen
28:13-14-Jacob
II.
Our assignment is to
manifest the Garden of Eden everywhere we go
A. Jesus was sent by the
Father to bring Heaven to the Earth
1.
Jesus
came to destroy the works of the devil (1 John 3:8)
a.
Destroy
– Undo, loosen, destroy, dissolve, untie, break, put off, melt, to loosen
undo dissolve anything bound, to do away with, overthrow
b.
Whatever
Satan did Jesus came to reverse
1)
He
came to take it back to the place where it was before Satan did anything
2.
Galatians
3:13-14 – He came to redeem us from the curse of the law
a.
In
the Garden Adam was deemed free from curse, Jesus came to re-deem us from the
curse
b.
He
came to reverse sin, sickness, disease, poverty, and lack
3.
Wherever
Jesus went there was no trace that the devil had ever been in town (Matthew
11:4, 15:29-31, 14:15-21)
a.
Everywhere
Jesus went there was a reversal of that curse
b.
It’s
time to get some things reversed in our lives
1)
It’s
time for 180 degree turn
B.
The
way God sent him, he sent us (John 17:18)
1.
We
are sent with the same assignment to bring Heaven into the Earth; we are the
ones sent to walk out what he did
a.
Jesus
came to get us back to the place where man operated in before the fall; he came
to get us hooked back up to the Father so that we could operate like Adam did
in the Garden (Matthew 28:18)
1)
We
can go now because all power both and Heaven and Earth has been given unto him
and when we go in that name that power is what backs us
2)
I’m
backed by Heaven and sent to destroy that curse
b.
Matthew
10:7-8
1)
We
want to make so that every where we go there is no trace that Satan has ever
been in town
2.
Mark
16:14-20
a.
Go
into the world – We are sent into the World
1)
People
have brought people to church, but that builds the wrong image because you’re
not going to church
a)
Matthew
16:13 – People have thought that they are coming to church the church is
not a building
b)
When
that idea gets inside the world becomes the enemy and outside the church walls
is your enemy
c)
That’s
not your enemy out there, that’s your assignment
2)
It
doesn’t make any difference where you are, you got the Kingdom is in you and
you ought to be taking the Kingdom to the world
a)
We’ve
have brought people to church to get saved and healed, but not so in the
Kingdom, the Kingdom is in you to go out there and you can take the church out
there and heal the sick and raise the dead
3)
You
are supposed to be out in the world, you were placed there on purpose
a)
Jesus
ate with the tax collectors and the sinners
b)
I
don’t know who you don’t like, but God loves them
c)
Now
everybody wants to come and work for the church because they don’t think they’re
supposed to be at that job
d)
Satan
did that to keep you from out there in the world, he doesn’t want you to have
that harvest
b.
Signs
follow you (Isaiah 8:18)
1)
The
main reason why people don’t have signs following them is because they don’t
believe
c.
God
was working with them – not apart from them
d.
He
confirmed the Word
1)
They
didn’t confirm Word, God did
2)
They
just spoke the Word, and God confirmed it
3.
We
are supposed to manifest the works of God everywhere we go and be blessing the
whole Earth
a.
We
are supposed to be destroying that curse everywhere we go
C. Not only are we sent with
the same assignment, but we are equipped with the same power to carry out and
complete that assignment
1.
We
have everything in us that Jesus had in him; we have the Kingdom of God, God’s
system and His way of doing things and that will enable us to manifest that
Garden of Eden every where we go (John 14:10-12, Acts 1:6-8, 1 John 4:4)
2.
We
are the answer to the problem. We
were created to solve problems. We
were created to reverse and destroy that curse. We are the carriers of God. And Greater is He that’s in us than He
that’s in the world.
D. Matthew 5:13-16 –
We are the salt of the Earth
1.
Salt
preserves and protections from corruption – We are here to preserve and
protect from corruption
2.
I
am the light of the world and I wasn’t created to be hiding in some church
somewhere. I was created to be out
in the world working the Kingdom of God and changing the world.
3.
I
was created to the let the power of God manifest through so that the world will
see and glorify God.