Arise, Take Charge!

INTRODUCTION

Basic Scripture:

“And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion…” ESV
“Blessed them, and said, “Have many children, so that your descendants will live all over the earth and bring it under their control…”GNT
“And God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful, multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it [using all its vast resources in the service of God and man]…” AMP

Genesis 1:28

God has said it from the beginning that the man in his image and likeness should be blessed, to be fruitful and multiply enough to subdue the earth, and to bring it under his control. God has equipped the Christian of today. Every man in whom is the new creation life – the life of Jesus Christ, is wired with potentials to take charge of the earth. The church is to be in charge of the earth, everywhere and in everything.

Every Christian is to be on the control towers of the earth; they should be at the helm of affairs. People in whom Jesus Christ lives are to be in charge and in control of every sector and division, all the components that make up the government of the land where they live. It doesn’t have to be their native land.

The Believers of Christ are the ones to rule the world from the spiritual realms out to the physical. Even when they are not the head of the organization, by virtue of their presence there, Christ himself is there with them, and is ready to establish his kingdom [his principles, life, love, excellence, knowledge etc.] in that place. Be it in business, agriculture, security, manufacturing industries, fashion and entertainment industries, banking and all that has to do with a society’s economy and religion.”
At the creation of man, God had a purpose at heart. But the possibility and fulfillment of that purpose was kept in the nature man would possess. God, therefore, decided to make human beings to be like himself, resembling him in his spiritual existence. He is holy, perfect, without sin. This was so that the man could fulfill God’s agenda upon the other creatures, in tending the garden and maintaining the others, just as He – God so desired.

Being made like him (Gen. 1:26-27), man was placed above other creatures. Being blessed by God (Gen. 1:28), he was equipped and commanded to have many children, so that his descendants will live and fill all over the earth, and to bring it under their control. By this command, God was asking human beings to make all the components of the earth subject to their control. Unfortunately, the man fell from their spiritual status in God (Gen. 3), and lost their wholesome mind by which they could have actually brought the earth under their control, according to God’s expected desire (Rom. 3:23).