Co-creators with God

“So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them.” (Gen. 1:27).

“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. ” (Gen. 5:1,2).

As God creates by manifesting His thoughts, so do we create from our thoughts. He made us in His image with the power to create our own reality, our own little worlds, through the sphere of influence that we manifest under influence either of the Spirit of God, or under the spirit of Satan.

As God created the universe, we can create our own world of love and forgiveness and humility, or we can create our world of hatred and selfishness and pride.

Paul says something similar. “For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.” (1Cor. 2:11).

As God has His Spirit, so does man have his spirit. By His Spirit and ours we pick and choose from available information and recognized capability to do and make, and then we speak and make and do. It is by His Spirit that God created the universe, and it’s by His Spirit that He recreates the hearts of fallen humanity. Likewise are we creators of our children and the part of their brain that houses their spirits; and it’s by our spirit that we train their spirit. It’s by our spirit that we recreate broken bonds with our estranged children through the same process of reconciliation that God did for our sinful humanity.

Looking at man and the human family provides the perfect key to knowing God’s desires in our salvation and for His science of our salvation. Today’s New Age spiritualism, which successfully works to convince multitudes that it is of Christian origin, evades everything that the Creator has revealed of the beauty of His holiness in the Bible and of His kingdom through the human family.

It is through the model of the human family and the natural love found in its circle that we understand correctly God’s design and doctrines for our transformation again into His image. A natural, heart to heart human love is the target to work toward for the reconciled relationship with our heavenly Father through His only-begotten Son. All of the formulas that New Age “Christianity”, or Catholicism, or mysticism, or black magic, occult practices, atheistic psychology and counseling and self-help, etc. cannot restore the perfect peace that left all of us at the fall of Adam. Those formulas cannot remove the anxiety that has subverted the peace of Adam’s Edenic world.

The Bible, the God of the Bible, the Saviour of the Bible, are the only true guide to escape from the anxiety and depression that is plaguing the world today. The Bible, the Law, the gospel, and its Author alone lead to life.

“Hereby know we that we dwell in Him, and He in us, because He hath given us of His Spirit. And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.” (1Jn. 4:13,14).

We need to return to the divine resource that made Protestantism the great power to overthrow the devil. We need to go back to the Bible. Let all of our anti-Bible                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       prejudices be set aside. Let the assumption prevail that the Bible is true. Let us all fear God’s statement that the scriptures is the only right instruction to prepare for the Latter Rain, the soon to come time of trouble, and Jesus’ return. If the Bible is hard to understand; if it seems outdated; if the Old Testament sounds like it is speaking wrongly, let’s make it our determination to find out why it seems so out of character with the God who died to win our hearts from sin back to Him and His righteousness.

We can question God’s motives. He’s not afraid of an investigation. He and His truth can afford to be fair. Truth is His creation, His character. Right and truth are His. If we see a problem with His version of truth, we need to look more closely into it. If we already have and still have no resolution, then we need to set it aside, and take another look later. Invariably, different situations and circumstances will come that help we learn that God’s truth is always without error.

Old Testament slavery? Old Testament treatment of women? Old Testament martial law and capital punishment—the “ministration of death” (2 Cor. 3:7)? For all 7 billion humans, our concept of God’s character, whether understood correctly or misconceived determines our actions and our creations. Hence, our own little worlds depends on our study of God—theology—and our take-away from that study. Should I be a slave-driver? My answer will be, “Yes”, if I see God as a slave-driver. In my spirit if I see God as an overbearing monster, by beholding I am changed into an overbearing monster. And I make my little world overbearing. If I see Him or His truth as a fanatical religious extremist, that’s what I will be and make of my world. If I read Genesis 9:26 and Exodus 21:1-11, 20-27, and I believe I read God to be racist and a male chauvinist, I will make my own little world and my children racist and filled with male superiority.

“But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth Me, that I am the LORD which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the LORD.” (Jer. 9:24).

Similarly, if a person’s theology and his vision of God is what the Bible says, that He is full of divine love and divine love is justice and mercy combined, then the person’s spirit will be in sync with the Spirit of God, and the “things” of God (His thoughts and deeds) will be the person’s “things”, his actions and habits. God’s creative work will be the person’s creative work. Everything he does will prosper because God’s “things” always prosper and because the person is cooperating with God’s “things”, the person’s “things” happen also. By his Bible study his spirit was filled with God’s thoughts because his spirit linked with God’s Spirit, and therefore he prospers in all that agrees with the thoughts of God.

“His delight is in the law of the LORD; and in His law doth he meditate day and night.

And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.” (Ps. 1:2,3).

So we are creators. We were designed to be miniature creators in the great God’s image as the eternal Creator. What a privilege! The angels don’t even have that privilege. They minister to help us have that privilege. “Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?” (Heb. 1:14). The other worlds’ inhabitants don’t have this privilege to the degree that we have it, their spirits not made with the deep capacity for love that Adam’s and his progeny’s spirits love and love to be loved. We have the potential for a special liberty to think and to do that comes as a special inheritance with Adam as our father.

But we have all greatly jeopardized such a privilege. Only those who are linked back up with God through His only beloved Begotten, have the prosperity that comes with a creative spirit that loves God’s character of righteousness and love. By redemption—to the extent that we allow redemption to make us perfect—we are re-entrusted with the power to create the first dominion. And the fullness of our creative powers will come with the new Earth, the new heavenly body and mind and soul.

 “Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew Him not.” (1Jn. 3:1).

 “As it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love Him”—“[being] enlightened, have tasted of the heavenly gift, … made partakers of the Holy Ghost, … have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come” (1Cor. 2:9; Heb. 6:4,5).

“But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.” (1Cor. 2:10).

Yet there is more to come. More power to be like Jesus, more power to think and to do, to create the first dominion.

“For the earnest expectation of the [regenerated] creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

For the [regenerated] creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of Him who hath subjected the same in hope,

Because the [regenerated] creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.” (Rom. 8:19-23).

“Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when He shall appear, we shall be like Him; for we shall see Him as He is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as He is pure.” (1Jn. 3:2,3).