A MAN'S MAN

August 19, 2001 am
MF Blume

(A MESSAGE FOR THE CHURCH)

Genesis 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.

Genesis 5:1-2  This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him; Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.


 


An element in the earth had to be overcome.

God wanted a CORPORATE MAN comrpised of all Adam's multiplied children.

Man would accomplish all this.

The spirit realm was secured where God rules.

Man should have paralleled God's activities.

Some contend as to who it was who fell from glory in the story of Lucifer's fall in Isaiah 14:12.

Adam's failure was that when he faced the serpent, he did not have another life in him. The Spirit did not anoint Jesus to lecture about good and evil.
Luke 4:18-19  The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.
Its to push Satan back and force him out! Satan hates the idea of a man commissioned to conquer him!

All through the New Testament, demons cried out to Jesus, but refused to acknowledge Him as SON OF MAN.

Jesus replied that MAN would not live by bread alone, not SON OF GOD. Satan would always say SON OF GOD.

I am preaching about A MAN'S MAN!

1 John 4:1-3  Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.
The devil will REFUSE to confess that Jesus is come IN THE FLESH because to admit that would be to admit that A MAN CAN CONQUER HIM!

Jesus was God incarnate as MAN, and as man depended on ANOTHER LIFE.

John 14:10  Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.

John 15:10  If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.

John 5:19  Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.

John 5:30  I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me.

Jesus relied upon that other life. Satan is concerned about GOOD.

God is concerned about LIFE.

Satan's biggest fear is what I am preaching today. JESUS IS A MAN'S MAN.

After the cross, Christ ascended upo on high.

Ephesians 1:20-22  Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
And the devil hates to think of a MAN far above him!

But God wanted a CORPORATE MAN.

AND HE HAS IT IN THE CHURCH.

We're in Chirst as Eve was originally in Adam as his rib, taken forth and reuinted to him as one flesh again.

And Satan hates the thought of THE CORPORATE MAN ABOVE HIM.

Ephesians 2:6  And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
Satan BEGS for us not to learn these truths!

A MAN is over him.

A MAN overcomes him.

Revelation 12:1-4  And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:  And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered. And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.  And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth: and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her child as soon as it was born.
The devil cannot see this MAN come to power.

BUT COME TO POWER HE DID!

Revelation 12:5  And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.
Notice the term MAN CHILD.

MAN is the translation of the Greek word ARRHEN (pronounced: ar'-hrane)

But it is interesting to note the Greek word translated as CHILD.

Child is translated from the Greek word: HUIOS (pronounced: hwee-os')

So we have the literal translation as MALE SON. This drives the devil crazy!

This male son's ascension to the throne caused the devil to be thrown out of the heaven!

Revelation 12:7-9  And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
And then we read:
Revelation 12:11  And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto the death.
How can WE overcome, when it was CHRIST who went to the throne?

A CORPORATE MAN.

Ephesians 2:15  Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
A MAN'S MAN!

This is God's original plan!

Let us depend upon the LIFE OF CHRIST IN US!
John 14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
JESUS IS OUR LIFE.