"CREATED TO REST AND REIGN"

Gene 1:27-28  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 the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Gene 2:1-3  Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Hebr 4:3-5  For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he spake in a certain place of the seventh [day] on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. And in this [place] again, If they shall enter into my rest.

• And the very next thing we read is that God rested the seventh day.
• Many think Christianity is just for some people.
• That is simply as wrong as wrong can be.
• Christianity is for the entire human race who were created to reign with God.
• Adam sinned and the human race fell.
• He lost his dominion.

Hebr 10:12-13  But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.

Ephe 2:5-6  Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised [us] up together, and made [us] sit together in heavenly [places] in Christ Jesus:

• And Eph. 2 says that God quickened us together with Jesus and made us sit together in heavenly places.

• But if you take some explanation the Bible gives you and RECKON IT OUT, start figuring and FIGURE it out, it makes perfectly good sense.

• Adam should have entered into a rest with God the VERY NEXT DAY.
• Did you know that Rest that God entered into was also intended to be the Rest for man?


Hebr 4:1-5  Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left [us] of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard [it].  For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he spake in a certain place of the seventh [day] on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. And in this [place] again, If they shall enter into my rest.

• He rested the seventh day.
• The Book of Hebrews quotes this from Genesis 2.
• Then it quoted another Old testament statement that is found after Genesis 2 is recorded, where We are offered the chance to enter the Rest in which God rested.
• So God did not trash that plan to have us rest and the reign.
• And the entrance into that rest is still available.

So this gospel is for the whole human race.

• Man was originally supposed to rule by immediately entering into a rest and ruling after God finished all the work.
• We think of ruling after we have worked and sweat and conquered everything.
• But that is not the way it is in the Kingdom of God.
• God did the work and finished it.
• And we rest with Him and rule with Him over all.

• This morning we discussed the New Genesis.
• The New Adam is Jesus.
• And the New Eve is the Church.
• She came from His side when His side was pierced on the cross and blood and water flowed out.
• And this new humanity is ready for the new heaven and the new earth we read about in Rev 21:1.
• God finished the work on the cross and we are to enter His rest.
• The work was the cross.
• And the last thing Jesus said before He died was IT IS FINISHED.
• This is reminiscent of Genesis when God FINISHED his work.

• Eve was not created from dust like Adam was, but was a multiplication of Adam.
• God told Adam to multiply.
• So what God did after creating Adam was multiply him.
• Eve was the first one to be the result of that multiplication.
• She came from Adam.
• God was not going to do any more work after raising Jesus from the grave.
• It is finished.
• All that happened after that was that Jesus multiplied.

• Earlier, Jesus multiplied that bread.
• But He did something to it before He multiplied it.
• What did He do to the bread before He multiplied it?


Matt 14:19  And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to [his] disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

Matt 14:21  And they that had eaten were about five thousand men, beside women and children.

He broke it first.

When He spoke about the bread being His flesh, he said:

1Cor 11:24  And when he had given thanks, he brake [it], and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

• If the flesh was represented by the bread, then the death was the breaking.
• And after it broke, it multiplied.
• Jesus entered into Rest after He ascended.
• He sat down far above all principalities.
• And we are to enter into that Rest with Him.
• The work is done.
• Simply become part of that multiplication.
• Satan thought that breaking Jesus would end it all.
• But what happened was that it only caused Jesus to multiply!
• Jesus increased.
• God told Adam to multiply and fill the earth.
• Jesus is multiplying and filling the earth ever since Satan had him broken!!!

Jesus is multiplied.

• And to become one of those in the multiplying of Himself, you need to be added.


Matt 27:57  When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathaea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus' disciple:

Matt 27:59-60  And when Joseph had taken the body, he wrapped it in a clean linen cloth, And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.

• Jesus ascended in the heights so high that He was far above all principalities and powers.
• Mankind was created to rule in the heights!
• That is where we belong.

• Joseph put Jesus in the tomb that he was to be buried in.
• You need to see that Jesus died as you.
• You died with Him.
• The tomb that was intended for you is now used because you died with Jesus when Jesus died.
• That tomb that he was put into was your tomb.
• You already died in Christ.
• He died because you had to die.
• He died for you, so you are dead.

• Joseph means "LET HIM ADD"
• Just replace Joseph's name with your's.
• You are added to the Body of Christ and become part of the new humanity when you accept the Gospel and truly believe that Jesus died for you.
• You believe that you died with Him.
• Like Joseph, you put Him in your tomb.
• You believe His death is your death.

• So that when He resurrected, you can say you resurrected.
• The natural sequence of events that follow those who died with Christ is that they would rise with Him.


Roma 6:4-6  Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also [in the likeness] of [his] resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

• She called me up.
• She said, Pastor Blume you would not believe what happened.
• She said that she got a call that she won several hundreds of thousands of dollars.
• And she laughed it off.
• She then heard the caller tell a person with him that she would not believe him.
• She laughed and hung up the phone.
• After she thought about it, she remembered how she entered a free draw at some store and recalled that grand prize was several hundred thousand of dollars.
• If she have RECKONED it out... figured it out... she would have realized that she did enter that draw.
• And she said she would have paid me the tithes!!! (Argghhhh!!)  :-)
• It sounded too good to believe, so she did not believe.

• Experiencing a renewing of the mind will transform our Christian lives.
• Because sometimes we simply think the figures are astronomical, and too good to believe.
• We look at the figures and say, "That's far too much for me to really believe."
• These verses in Romans show the figuring and the mind renewal.
• It is the part of the chapter that we feed on until it hits us and we understand how it figures.
• We learn HOW we died on the cross with Him, and how the "old you", that was limited by sin, is gone.
• And when you understand it, you can clearly see that it is the absolute truth.

• Or to change the way you look, your hair and your clothes so that when you look at yourself it kind of fools you into thinking the old troubles are not part of you anymore...
• When people say these type of things, you laugh and say that the "old you" is dead and buried.
• You reckoned it out.
• You FIGURED it out.
• There really is a rest in which we can reign with Him!
• BELIEVE IT!

• This mercy seat represented the throne of God and was set in the Most Holy Place.
• It represented where Adam was supposed to sit and rule with Christ.

• On that table were put loaves of bread.
• The bread represents the WORD OF GOD.
• BREAD OF LIFE.
• (Jesus' flesh, too, since the WORD was made FLESH)
• You must feast on that WORD OF GOD until you understand it.
• Until it hits you.
• And then you will be able to see yourself as worthy to sit on the mercy seat of God's throne with God.


Psal 99:1  The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth [between] the cherubims; let the earth be moved.

• Sitting on the mercy seat.
• The mercy seat on the ark was the only place where a seat was found "between the cherubims".
• He rests there.
• Let us enter that rest with Him.
• To enter that rest where you were created to sit, you must now, since sin, pass the veil.
• The veil represents His flesh that was broken in death.


Hebr 10:20  By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;