Kings and Priests - Part 2

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In this series, we are being reintroduced to our original God given mandate and identity.

People perish due to lack of understanding. Royalty is of no use without knowledge of how the Kingdom works. There's nothing more frustrating than to be given the promise of an inheritance and never walk into it. The way the enemy tries to rob us of our inheritance is by convincing us that we're not worthy of it.

When Adam was made and placed in the garden of Eden, his mandate was to take the Eden experience and fill the whole earth with the environment of Eden. Adam failed and that mandate was corrupted, as a consequence Adam began to multiply an inferior way of life as was cut off from the Eden experience. Through salvation in Jesus Christ, man was re-instituted to the original mandate of filling the earth and subduing it. Even before Adam sinned, there were things he was supposed to subdue, the first being the voice of the serpent.

Identity as Kings and Priests: God didn’t only call you, God made you; which means you carry the fingerprint of God. The invisible God becomes visible through you. Within the image of God there are two functions; the function of a King, and function of a Priest.

The Ministry of a King:

Three of the primary functions of a King are:

1. A King executes a vision

2. A King protects and preserves his territory

3. A King is a role-model, a first citizen of a Nation

A king sets the standard of what he wants to be duplicated and imitated in His kingdom. A king always rules with His words. As a child of God, you must take your words seriously. The more casual you are with your words, the less weight they carry. If you don’t want it in your life, don’t speak it.

We live in a society that celebrates the inferior you, because that is what they identify with the most. The moment you start walking in your calling, you become less like the world and the more the world hates you. You will not profit from a Prophet if you constantly expect him to come down to your level. The oil flows from a higher level to a lower level.

The ways of royalty in the Kingdom of God are contrary to the ways of this world. A king produces solutions. Complaining is the fruit of a mind that is colonized by an inferior mindset.

The Ministry of a Priest:

Adam was both a king and a priest. The king executes the vision, but he gets it and comes in contact with the will of God through the priest. The Priest is the office where the human and the divine meet. The priest is the location where God comes down to speak. He can hear both the cries of the people and the Word of God. The office of the priest is the most powerful office on earth. The priesthood of all believers who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ partake in His priestly office, ministry, privileges and responsibilities. You are the point of intersection because of

Jesus Christ; wherever you are, you become the location that God visits.

When Adam sinned he was kicked out of Eden, but God didn’t not limit His voice to the garden. After the finished work of Jesus, Eden is not outside, it is a location inside us. Our God lives in earthen vessels. You experience it more through consecration.

Prayer is a function of the priestly office – to engage with God for yourself or on behalf of a group of people. As a priest, you have the ability to carry people to the presence of God.

God put both of these ministries inside Adam, and in Lord Jesus Christ we see the fullness of it. May we walk in the fullness of the identity given to us by our Creator and Lord.