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faith, which both starts and finishes at two points, the cross and the resurrection of Jesus Christ. At His cross, Christ was establishing a new government that ushered in a different kingdom than the world had ever known. God planned that Jesus would come in a meek and lowly manner.

He could have come as King and made a lot of earthly changes that would set up the model government, or the model church. But he did not come to build a building or set up an outward governmental structure. What He came to do was extremely revolutionary.

Jesus was called the “Second Adam” or in some versions of the bible, the Second Man. And we will need to examine this little used name of Christ in order to fully understand what kind of Revolution Jesus was birthing.

“It is not the spiritual that comes first, but the physical, and then the spiritual. The first Adam, made of earth, came from the earth; the second Adam came from heaven.” Good News today English Version. 1 Corinthians 15:46

One of the definitions of revolutionary is world shattering. Jesus was a revolutionary in the truest sense of the word. It describes what He did on the cross perfectly! It wasn’t just a revolution of government; it was world shattering, world restoring, and world remaking. It was to happen one individual at a time.

God’s government was NOW written within man and the POWER of the Holy Spirit was given to accomplish the demolition and remodeling process. Every believer is equal with each other and ALL start at the same place as sinners saved through the grace and power of God. There is no hierarchy in the kingdom of God because the organizational chart of Christ’s kingdom is ONE king and many subjects. We are ALL equal in Christ’s sight. He gave His life for each and every precious one of us. He imparts different gifts, talents and offices to each of us but they are not given to exalt mankind and if used properly exalt the Lord alone. The corporate mind of Christ comes out of people who have given the dominion of their lives to Him and simply want His will to be expressed, His way.

Let’s examine why understanding Christ, as the second Adam, is so important to all government and dominion. The term dominion is about rule and authority. Christ already accomplishing everything at one time period in history, the cross and the resurrection.

He was, and is, to be the absolute Ruler and Authority in every born again spirit filled believer. We must never be guilty of allowing people in ruling positions to take the position that belongs to Christ alone. He is to rule and be in authority over His disciples. All serve Christ and one another as brothers and sisters adopted into a NEW family.

In understanding the concept of Christ as the "second Adam" or as translations define this term "the second man" concept, we may have an understanding of the metamorphosis that the people of God, the true Disciples of Christ, are going through in this season. They are being totally transformed into Christ and everything else is being shaken off.

We think of governments as those instituted by kings, parliaments, and republics. Each of these government systems are made up of a collection of individuals and families that hold different mind sets yet agree to be ruled in a certain way. Our very constitution states that NO government can long survive without the consent of those governed. And it is true of every believer.

God has chosen His government of love to be by the consent of the governed, freely given in adoration and thanksgiving to Christ alone for what He accomplished. Mature Christians serve Christ out of thanksgiving, appreciation and love alone. One who truly loves and is centered on Christ only wants His rule through His people.

Christ was to be a New Seed, the Second Adam. Human beings would be recreated, born of faith; every believer would NOW be molded and shaped into the image of God’s own son, Jesus Christ.

“Now to Abraham and his Seed were the promises made. He does not say, “And to seeds,” as of many, but as of one, “And to your Seed,” who is Christ. Galatians 3:14

Remember, Satan’s rebellion was started in a perfect place, heaven. Also, Adam and Eve’s covenant with the flesh and the devil was birthed in a perfect place, the garden. All created beings had ready access to God on a daily basis and they could contact him and get their questions answered every day. No sin separated them from God.

Humanity not only lived in perfection, the world around them was perfect. The entire war for dominion of the earth centered on the exaltation of man’s self, which desired to rule instead of God. Satan, Lucifer, started original sin when he rebelled against God.

“How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, you who weakened the nations! For you have said in your heart:

· I will also sit on the mount of the congregation on the farthest sides of the north;

As a fallen, powerful enemy of the will and purposes of God, Lucifer, or Satan, is called the Prince of the Power of the Air. In the book of Ephesians. this term is meant to help people understand that the entire course of this world's mindset is to chain people on earth to his kingdom and keep them from responding to the Holy Spirit by controlling them through the lusts and desires of the flesh.

¹A And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

Most of the spiritual warfare here on earth is against our own human nature and it's choices and decisions. The only way human beings could be transformed would be by placing a New Seed within. The Seed of Christ who being, fully God, and fully man, perfectly did the will of God and overcame the rebellion of self-rule.

That is the wonder of the new birth everyone talks about. As we study God’s word the seed inside us, Christ Himself, grows so we begin to know good and evil. As the power of the Holy Spirit grows, we begin to put to death the desires of the flesh and emotions that bring death and not life within.

We become a whole new creation and our lives are now ordered by what He believes is right and wrong; and not what we think or what the world structures and systems tell us. God knew that only by coming and ruling from within us could His true kingdom be established on earth.

All outside governmental structures, and especially those of the family and the church, should support this grown process from within between the believer and Christ. Leadership should coach, advise, and support ALL believers to hear and discern the voice of the Lord. True disciples of Christ want only the will and purposes of God to be manifested.