The Cross purchased our dominion
August 6, 2023

Then God said, “Let Us make man in

, according to Our ; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and it; have over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
“GENESIS 1:26-28 (NKJ)”


Thus it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a

(an individual personality);” the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving Spirit [restoring the dead to life]. But it is not the life which came first, but the and then the spiritual. The first man [was] from out of earth, made of dust; (earthly-minded); the second Man, [is] the Lord from out of heaven.
“1 CORINTHIANS 15:45-47 (AMP)”


And just as we have borne the image [of the man] of dust, so shall we – and so let us also – bear the image [of the Man] of

.
“1 CORINTHIANS 15:49 (AMP)”


…“You must be

again.”
“JOHN 3:7 (NKJ)”


God saved you by his special favor when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a

from God. is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.
“EPHESIANS 2:8-9 (NLT)”


having been born again, not of corruptible

but incorruptible, through the word of God which and .
“1 PETER 1:23 (NKJ)”


Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a

; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
“2 CORINTHIANS 5:17 (NKJ)”


Dear brothers and sisters, you are “

and ” here.
“1 PETER 2:11 (NLT)”


God created man in His own image and likeness.…and God gave them

.
“GENESIS 1:27-28 (NKJV)”


You have made him to have

over the works of Your hands;…
“PSALM 8:6 (NKJ)”


…God also

(us) to be conformed to the image of His Son…
“ROMANS 8:29a (NKJ)”


…As

is, so are we in this .
“1 JOHN 4:17b (NKJ)”


“Heaven and earth will pass away, but

will by no means pass away.”
“MARK 13:31 (NKJ)”


As he thinks in his

, so is he.
“PROVERBS 23:7 (NKJ)”


“There we saw the giants;… and we were like grasshoppers in

, and so we were in .”
“NUMBERS 13:33 (NKJ)”


So you should not be like cowering, fearful slaves. You should behave instead like God’s

children, adopted into his family, calling him “Father, dear Father”. For his Holy Spirit speaks to us deep in our hearts and tells us that we are God’s children. And since we are his children, we will his – for everything God gives to his Son, Christ, is ours, too.
“ROMANS 8:15-17 (NLT)”


You must display a new nature because you are a new person,

in God’s – righteous, holy, and true.
“EPHESIANS 4:24 (NLT)”