Dominion Fall Curse Redemption

DOMINION – FALL-CURSE-REDEMPTION

By: Carolyn Sissom

Preached July 8, 2007

DOMINION

I first taught this in the late 80’s.  At that time, there was much persecution, because people in the church did not want to come out from under the curse of the woman or the curse of the man.  Since then, the church (Woman) has matured and people are now ready to receive their REDEMPTION  from every curse. 

Gen. 1:26-28:  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 creeps upon the earth.  So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him:  MALE AND FEMALE CREATED HE THEM. And God blessed THEM, and God said unto THEM, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have DOMINION over the fish of the sea,

And over every living that moves upon the earth.

 Here we have the purpose and intention of God.  He created male and female in His likeness.  This is a very interesting verse and very significant.  God is neither male nor female, for God is a Spirit.  “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and in Truth.”(Jn. 4:23-24)  Yet when God created male and female, He created THEM in his image.  This is a male and a female rightly related and revealing the image of God in Love.  “For God is Love”. (1 Jn. 4:8)

 What is so hard to understand about this?  The scriptures plainly state that creation is to be ruled equally with male and female in the image of God in the realm of Love.   This is the realm of the Garden restored.  The Garden is not a physical place located on this or any other planet.  It is a state of being.  The Garden of God is the Kingdom of God (Heaven) on earth. (Matt. 6:10).  It is the fullness of righteousness, and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.  It is the Holy of Holies, Zion, the realm of His absolute Lordship. (Ro. 14:17)

The Pattern Son went through two gardens to open up the Third Garden, which is the PARADISE OF God.

1. The Garden of Gethsemane (olive-press)
2. The Garden of the Cross and the Tomb (Jn. 19:41; Matt. 17:57-60)

THE FALL

Genesis 3:  “Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.  And he said unto the woman, Yea has God said, you shall not eat of every tree of the not surely die.  For God does know that in the day you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.  And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.   And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:  But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, you shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, less t you die.  And the serpent said unto the woman, you shall not surely die”

There is a difference between innocence and Purity.  Innocence has never been subjected to good and evil.  Purity has overcome both good and evil.  In my youth, I lived in a “rose covered garden of innocence.”  I saw no evil, heard no evil and spoke no evil.  As I became older, I was exposed to evil and had to make choices and a stand to not come in to agreement with evil and to overcome evil.  Without temptation, we are not proven to receive the reward of the “Overcomer”.

Adam and Even were created in innocence.  They did not resist Satan, but they transgressed against the Lord and consequently fell into the realm of death.  In this one choice, they lost their Glory, Dominion, and Image of God’s nature.  In his restoration through Jesus Christ, man once again has the privilege of this Sabbath ministry.

CURSE

Genesis 3: 14-19:  And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because you have done this, you are cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon your belly shall you go, and dust shall you eat all the days of your life:  And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed; it shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his hell.  Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply that sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow you shall bring forth children; and the desire shall be to your husband, and he shall rule over you.  And unto Adam he said, Behold you have hearkened unto the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, you shall not eat of it: cursed is the ground for your sake:  in sorrow shall you eat of it all the days of your life;  Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to you; and you shall eat the herb of the field;  In the sweat of your face shall you eat bread, until you return unto the ground; for out of it was you taken: for dust you art, and unto dust shall you return.

This curse along with every curse of the law in the Old Testament was broken at the Cross.

REDEMPTION

Galatians 3:13-14:  “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangs on a tree:  That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.”

This redemption is not automatic.  It takes four things to appropriate the broken curses from the Cross to our lives.

1.     Faith

2.     Holy Spirit

3.     The Blood of Jesus from the Cross.

4.     Grace

Galatians 5:4-5:  Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you is justified by the law; ye are fallen from GRACE.  For we through the SPIRIT wait for the hope of righteousness by FAITH. 

Through this provision of Grace, we are again in the image of God. “My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you.”

Satan seeks to destroy man through Doubt.  This is the wedge of sin.  He entices Eve to doubt God’s Word.  When doubt enters, and then comes unbelief.  From there satan convinces man that man can get what he wants separate from the way and Will of God.  The Lord will look the other way.

1.      Man’s faith in God’s character and integrity is destroyed.(Glory and Sovereignty)

2.      God’s authority by provoking man to asset his own authority is destroyed. (Dominion)

3.      The relationship with God and man is destroyed. (Communion)

Satan never changes his strategy:

1.     the lust of the flesh – “good for food”

2.     lust of the eyes – “pleasant to the eyes”

3.     pride of life – “to make one wise”

EVE – means the mother of all living. (Gen. 3:20)  “And Adam called his wife Eve; because she was the mother of all living.

Galatians 4:26:  “But Jerusalem which is above is FREE, which is the mother of us all.”  Thus Eve speaks to us of the WOMAN which is the church realm.  This WOMAN is to bear a MANCHILD which will rule or shepherd the nations.  (Rev. 1: 26-28; 12: 1-6)

EVE IS THE BRIDE OF ADAM. 

NEW JERUSALEM IS THE BRIDE OF CHRIST OR THE LAST ADAM. 

1 Cor. 15:45:  “And so it is written, the first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.  Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.  The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from Heaven.  And is the earthy, which are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly such are they also that are heavenly.  And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.  Now I say brethren that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God;

This is what Jesus meant when he said in Matthew 16:24-28:  If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me….Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of Man coming in His Kingdom”

This scripture obviously is not speaking of the Second Coming of the Lord, but of those to whom he was speaking walking in to the Kingdom of God on earth as it is in Heaven.  When Jesus ascended in to Heaven and is seated at the Right Hand of God the Father, He came in to His Kingdom.   The Kingdom of God is joy, peace and righteousness in the Holy Ghost. 

“As the bridegroom rejoices over the Bride, so shall your God rejoice over you?”  (Isa. 62:5)

The Cost of this blessing is to return to our first love and away from the deceitfulness of sin.  This is done through the appropriation of the Blood of Jesus from the Cross, through the Holy Spirit by Faith and Grace. 

Carolyn Sissom, Pastor

Eastgate Ministries, Inc.