We Let The Smallest Things Come Between Us And God

Many people doubt that this sermon is entirely right but I am right and the devil is a liar. The reason you can not feel all of the power of a ruler is because of your ignorance to the will of God in your life. We must submit completely to the will of God in our lives to truly be able to handle the things that he has for us. The world around us is truly ours if only we can believe.

(Genesis 1:28 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.) – Just as he does today, he gave Adam a very heavy schedule of things to keep him busy yet Adam found the time and energy to do more than what God said and to even be disobedient.

As we look at the list of chores that Adam was charged to do we should notice that none of them were unpleasant. God told them to:

Be Fruitful - Very productive; producing fruit in abundance;

as fruitful soil; a fruitful tree; a fruitful season

2. Multiply - To increase in number; to make more by natural

generation or production, or by addition;

Replenish - To fill; to stock with numbers or abundance. The

magazines are replenished with corn. The springs are

replenished with water.

Subdue - To conquer by force or the exertion of superior

power, and bring into permanent subjection; to reduce under

dominion.

Have Dominion - Sovereign or supreme authority; the power

of governing and controlling.

Let’s compare what God was telling Adam and Eve to do to an earthly father telling his son to take this Car, House, Job, Money, etc. and go out and be fruitful. This would mean that the father would expect the son to work hard and gain possession of better car, a larger house, prosperous job and to live peaceably with his wife. The earthly father would want the son to produce to a level in which he could give back a portion to the father.

The father would also expect the son to multiply which would mean show an increase. Perhaps this would mean an increase in money, children, etc. In other words he would be expected to take what he had and make more.

If the earthly father told the son to replenish what he had given him. This would mean that the father would expect the son to fill those things up. This would mean that at one time there had to be plenty of whatever is lacking available. The son would have the power to replenish those things from the father

Next, the father wanted the son to subdue what he had been given. This meant that the father wanted the son to put everything that he had into subjection. The only way that this could be done was for the son to create rules for everything to go by. This is what most men struggle with. We want to put everything around us into subjection but we don’t want to submit completely ourselves. There is no way that anything around you will ever give you the proper respect without you first giving the proper respect to God.

Lastly the father told the son to have dominion over everything. This meant the father expected the son to have supreme authority over everything that he had been given. We will never have dominion over anything without the wisdom of God leading our every move. We should never try to move an inch without the wisdom of God.