Jesus taught … “From the beginning, it’s not been this way.” He clearly appeals back to the original design we see in the first pages of Genesis. To be renewed in Christ is to initiate a process of Eden-like restoration that will reach its zenith in the new heavens and earth.
The Page One podcast series explores some of the core aspects of this restoration. “Page One” is a focus on a few passages in early Genesis.
Genesis 1 | Genesis 2 | Genesis 3
Ruling with Christ — Part 1 of the Page One Series (Ep 178)
The Imago Dei — what does it really mean to be created in the image of God? Many things flow from this core understanding of the relationship between God and humanity.
The first thing God says after creating the man and woman in his likeness is “rule.” So how can we bear the image of God well on earth?
Listen to episode #178: Ruling with Christ — Page One Series, Pt 1
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule” … and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule.”
Genesis 1:26, 28
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SCRIPTURE:
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” (Genesis 1:26-28 NASB)
He loves righteousness and justice; The earth is full of the lovingkindness of the Lord. By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of His mouth all their host. He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap; he lays up the deeps in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him. For He spoke, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast. (Psalm 33:5-9 NASB)
What is man that You take thought of him, and the son of man that You care for him? Yet You have made him a little lower than God, and You crown him with glory and majesty! You make him to rule over the works of Your hands; you have put all things under his feet. (Psalm 8:4-6 NASB)
May you be blessed of the Lord, maker of heaven and earth. The heavens are the heavens of the Lord, but the earth He has given (or, assigned) to the sons of men. (Psalm 115:15-16 NASB)
And have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come. (Hebrews 6:5 NASB)
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Be Fierce to Have Dominion — Part 2 of the Page One Series (Ep 179)
As Vice-Regents, we are designed to exercise dominion under the sovereignty of God as King. Have you lost your fierceness? It’s costing you. And those in your sphere of influence.
Our full-on engagement is required to live our highest life for Christ. The authority is from above, but a fierce mastery must flow through us.
Listen to episode #179: Be Fierce to Have Dominion — Page One Series, Pt 1
Earth Governs Heaven? — Part 3 of the Page One Series (Ep 185)
The great 20th century Chinese Bible teacher, Watchman Nee, said that ‘earth governs heaven.’ Could he be right?
Jesus said he gave us the ‘keys of the Kingdom of heaven’ to bind and to loose. What if there is a clear connection between our move and heaven’s move? Part 3 of the Page One series.
Listen to episode #185: Earth Governs Heaven? — Page One Series, Pt 3
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