Hello, everyone. Welcome to Reigning With Him, and I'm so glad you're here with me today.
We're going to continue on with Psalm 91, 1, although we are going to take a little
bit of a detour only because I believe it's an important one. I kind of alluded to this
in our last session, and we began, we were talking about what it means to be under His
shadow, and I connected that with Genesis chapter 1, verse 2, where we talked about
Holy Spirit moving across the face of the earth, and we said how that word move actually
means to brood over, to sit on. For Him, it also brings out a connotation of flutter,
and to inseminate is what Kirkland says. So those are all very, very, very important because
that word moved in Genesis chapter 1, verse 2, and that word shadow in Psalm 91, verse
1, they go together. They are so similar. Their meanings are very much the same, and
we see that interaction. We see that same type of thing happening in Psalm 91, verse
1, and you know Moses did author both of these. He wrote Psalm 91. He also wrote the
book of Genesis, so he is bringing this forth and expounding on it and giving us more information
of what this looks like, what it looks like in creation, and what it looks like in our
own individual lives as we sit under the shadow of the Almighty. So we are going to continue
in that vein, but we are going to look at creation today only because the beginning
of the year, I was just before the Lord, and you know how we pray those Ephesians prayers
if you do that. They are ones in the Colossians where Paul talks and he prays about us gaining
a knowledge of what is within us and what God has given us, and what Jesus paid for
on the cross, and what is now ours by legal right, and what we can walk in. I was before
the Lord on all of this because we never know it all, and there is always more, and I'm
just like, Father, I need you to teach me. Holy Spirit, you are my teacher. You are my
guide. Teach me what this means. Show me. Give me revelation. Take the blinders off
my eyes and the plugs out of my ears so I can learn this. He spoke to me and said, Alright,
for you to learn this, I want you to go back to creation. You need to see what you lost.
And so that was the beginning of this, and I began to go back and started studying and
looking at this and getting before Him in January, and as this year went on, I was like,
Okay, what's going on here? What are you going to show me that I've never seen before? And
began digging into this and looking at it, and just taking time to pray in the Spirit
over what was taking place here at the time of creation, and I went over everything that
I knew before, and I knew there was more, and He shows us that. He tells us how He wants
to show us the mysteries of His Word, and it is the pleasure and the delight for kings
to go and find these things and dig them out, and it gives Him great pleasure for us to
do that and for us to teach Him. So as I have done this and was studying this, I happened
to hear Robin Bullock give a teaching on this and what God was showing him, and I was
like, Wow, that resonates with me, but I have not yet seen what I need to find to be able
to concur with that and bring that into anything I would present. So again, I went back and
I've been studying this and like, Okay, I need to dig further. I need to dig further.
And I found what I needed to be able to release this and say, This is not what He said, but
this is what the Word says, and this is what the Hebrew brings out. And so I'm going to
share that with you today because it is amazing. And it was life-changing for me. It changed
my mindset. It gave me a new perspective of what God did when He created Adam and what
Adam lost when he and Eve basically committed treason. And what then Jesus gave back to
us and just how amazing it was when God created Adam and the oneness they had in who He was
in then and who Jesus was a second Adam and then who we are in Jesus. So I know I usually
pray at the end. I'm going to pray at the beginning today because I just want revelation
released over you and that you can grasp this and have it grow and have it.
Be something that churns within you and you go back to when you think about as today and tomorrow
until the next teaching and that you just begin to let it bubble up and those seeds just be
planted and grow and churn within you. So Father, I thank you for what you're doing today. Holy
Spirit, you're a teacher and you are the one who anoints the word and I thank you that your word
goes forth today. It does not return void. I ask you to give new perspectives, new insight, ask for
revelation for all of us in who you created us to be, in what you've given us, and how amazing
we are because you've called us forth. In Jesus name, Amen. Okay, we're going to get into this.
First, I'm going to share something from Psalm 8. I'm going to do this from the Passion Translation
and it says here, compared to all this cosmic glory, so he just talked about the stars and the
creations and creation in heaven and David is like this is so amazing as he's under this
and looking at it. He said, why would you bother with such puny mortal men?
Yet, what puny mortal men or be infatuated with God's sons. So that's us. Why? Yet, what honor
you had given to men and women created only a little lower than Elohim. Now, a lot of translations
will say angels, but this is actually in the Hebrew, the word Elohim, and we are going to
talk about that in a minute. When God created the heavens and the earth, when we go into Genesis
chapter 1, when it says God created, it is talking there about Father, Son, and Holy Spirit as one.
One. Three in one. Elohim. So it says, what honor you have given to men created only a little lower
than Elohim, crowned like kings and queens with glory and magnificence. You have delegated to them
mastery over all you have made, making everything subservient to their authority, placing earth
itself under the feet of your image-bearers. That's where we're going today. It's such a great
scripture. Again, that was Passion Translation. It is Psalm 8, starting with verse 4 through verse 6,
in case you want to go and check that out later and just meditate on that later. So anyway, we are
going to very briefly look at Genesis chapter 1, verse 26. It says, so in God, Elohim, the three in
one, there is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. In case this is new to any of you, or if any of you
have just a hard time grasping this, because this is so much bigger than we are, Father, Son, and
Holy Spirit are all unique. They are all individual, and yet they are all one. They become one. They are
one. They function as one. They are in agreement. They are in unity. They are committed to each other
in all ways. They are in covenant with each other, and yet they can function as one. One God, but Father,
Son, and Holy Spirit. So just to help you find a grid for that, a little bit of understanding
on how to file this and how to mentally separate this, because it's so much bigger than we are,
you can put on a hat as a parent. So you have that role. It's like a hat you put on.
It's a role you fulfill as a parent with your children. You can also, the same person, put on
another role and go to work as an employee or an employer. Another hat, another role. So parent,
employee, slash employer. Or you can have a third, possibly, and you can even have more.
But we're just going to go one, two, three. You can have another one, another role you fulfill,
another hat you wear of spouse, of a husband or a wife. So there is a third one. It is a role.
It is a hat you wear, and yet you are all one being, but you do these different roles. The only
difference with God is He actually is three beings, but He is one, and you can hear Him.
There is a significant difference between the voice of the Father, the voice of the Son,
the voice of Holy Spirit. When Father comes and talks to me, He enters in a whole different feel
in the Spirit.
When Jesus walks in, I know it's Jesus. I can just tell by his footsteps. Even though I don't hear
them physically, I can tell in the Spirit by his footprints that Jesus is here versus the Father
or versus an angel. And I know the voice of the Holy Spirit is so distinct from the other two.
So they are distinct. They have distinct personalities. Holy Spirit is our teacher,
our guide. He is our counselor. He is our comforter. He is our friend. He never leaves us.
Always there. He is the one that works transformation into our lives and brings us
into all truth. Jesus, our King, our Master, our Redeemer, our Savior, our brother. But yet,
we are his bride. And then Father, they all submit. We all submit to Father. Jesus submits
to Father. What did he say? I only do. I only say what I see the Father doing and what I hear him
saying. Holy Spirit shows us and teaches us about Jesus. Jesus, what did he say? You have seen me.
You have seen the Father. So once again, we see three distinct people, persons, individuals.
One person. Even Jesus, when he was baptized, you have Jesus in the water being baptized.
He is raised. He comes up from the water. Holy Spirit descends upon him as a dove. And what
happens? The heavens split open and Father speaks and says, this is my son who I'm well pleased.
Another perfect example of three. One, two, three. Three and yet they are one. So anyway,
let's go into this very quickly. Just trying to give you a little grid for that. If all that is
new to you, I know it's so big and he is more than we can grasp and we will continue learning
and growing. And some of these things we just take and say, yes, Holy Spirit, please give me
revelation. Please teach me. Please give me the capacity for truth in your word. And we just go
with it and we continue growing. And he does give us a grid for this, an ability to understand. And
then that ability and that capacity to understand does begin to grow. And it's like, yes, I don't
have to question this. Yes, this is true. So anyway, it says in God, Elohim, verse one,
verse 26 out of chapter one in Genesis. And God said, Elohim, let us, all three Elohim, make God
in our image. So image here means to shade. It means to phantom. It means a resemblance
and it means a representative figure. And that's all from Strong's. So he is going to make us in
his image. And I, you know, we've heard that and I always went with that. And it's like, yep, yep,
we're in God's image and no big deal, nothing new. But I did not get what I have now learned.
And that's what I'm going to give to you. So now we're going to go to Genesis chapter one,
verse 27. It's the very next verse. And it says, so God created man in his image. Now this word
created means, this is important because we're going to need to remember this in a minute in
our next verses. This is the Hebrew root Barah and it's a prime root and it means to cut down
or to choose. And it also means to get fat, which is very important as well. So remember this, that
it means to cut down because we are going to be looking at how this creation came to be. And there
was a time, I mean, all these years I've just, you know, he created, you think of the molding
process, you think of making a vase, you think of, you know, we try to connect these things with
things we've experienced. So, you know, in junior high, I was in a pottery class and we made vessels
and vases and pitchers and all that. And we used a wheel or we did things with our hands. And
so you're forming something, you're making something. Well, that is what God did with us. He
created in his own image and we already went over what image means. So now we're going to look at
Genesis chapter 2 verse 7. I know we're flying through a lot and I know we're already at almost
15 minutes. I have just a little bit more to cover today and then we're going to continue it tomorrow.
So anyway, Genesis chapter 2 verse 7. And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground.
Very, very important. Now remember we just read
that He created. That is one word showing us what this means. That is a verb
showing us and it meant that He cut down or He made fat. Now make fat is very
important because when fatness is talked about in the Old Testament and probably
bleeds over to the New Testament, it is usually talked about in terms of
anointing. It is usually talked about in terms of Holy Spirit and the fatness of
the Holy Spirit. When you talk about the yoke, that God's yoke, Jesus' yoke
is easy. It goes around your neck. It talks about fatness there because
there's such a fatness. There's the anointing of the Holy Spirit that it is
easy. It does not tear the skin. When animals were yoked, if there was fatness
around that yoke and if they made the yoke itself heavy in fat and very well
padded, it did not destroy. It did not tear the tissues of the animal. So He
created in Genesis 127. There was a cutting down. We're going to talk about
that in a minute. Then it says that you were made fat. There was an
anointing place within us. There was a fatness of the Holy Spirit placed within
us when we were formed. Now we're going to look at this word formed. In the
Hebrew, it's the word yatsar. That's as good as it's going to get
because I'm kind of mutilating it. That means squeezing. We've all
thought about that. We talked about if you're in pottery class and
you're making a vessel, you can think about this as if you have ever made
bread and you have to squeeze the dough and squeeze the dough and knead the dough.
You've got to get all the air bubbles out. Otherwise, you're going to have a
big hole in your bread. It will collapse. It's not going to be able to rise. It
will not be good. Then you have to let it rise. You have to knead it again and
knead it again. Get all those air bubbles out. So God is forming. He is squeezing. It
means to press. It means to be in a narrow place. It means to be in distress
and distress because of that kneading process, that kneading, putting it into
form. This is what's interesting. This is what I never saw before. This
is where my revelation came in that I'm going to share with you. It also means to
mold. I had just blown that over before too. I thought of it as
squeezing like you do play-doh, like you do clay, like you do dirt, which is what
he's doing. Form man of the dust of the ground. That's not what mold means. So I
found this and this is where I started confirming what I heard come out of
Robin Bullock. Mold means to cast. Specifically, it means the cavity in
which anything is cast or receives its form. Let's talk about this. I'm
going to grab my Bible. I'm going to read to you something. All of this
is so interesting. I love the word because we can read something a thousand
times. You can go to Bible school like me and you still learn something new.
It's just revelation. The Holy Spirit teaches you because you want to
grow and you want to understand and you want to be transformed into his image
and you want to carry everything that he has and release it to those around you.
So this is very, very good. I think I have glasses around here somewhere.
Let me share this with you. We're going to just go back a verse in Genesis
chapter 2. First, I want to say this is very interesting that God had Moses
put this in the word here because this easily could have been, they could have
waited. He could have had him wait until the story of Noah because that's when
the rain came. That's when this was important for them to know. Okay, Noah has
to build this ark because it's going to rain and people think he's crazy and
this is not for real because it's never rained before. Why was that
information not held until it was pertinent to this time with Noah and the ark and
when the rain was coming? This is why. This is cool. So verse 2, it says for the
chapter 2 verse 5, it says, For the Lord God had not yet sent rain to water the
earth. He hadn't sent rain. There was no rain to water the earth. And then it goes
on to say, And there were no people to cultivate the
soil. So, he was not bringing rain. He was not bringing moisture.
There was no rain at this time. It says, instead, springs came up from the
ground and watered all the land. And then it
goes into verse 7. Then the Lord formed the man from the
dust of the ground. Now, why is this significant? This is
amazing. So, here is, at this time, I looked up
those words and that was in NIV. But, if you go back into the Hebrew, when it
says springs, it talks about a mist and it talks about
a fog. So, if you think about a mist or a fog,
that is what was on the surface of the earth.
It covered the surface of the ground in Eden.
That is how it was watered. That is where the moisture came from.
But, in that happening, you could not see the surface.
You could not see what was going on there. And that is significant
because it was put right before the verse,
right before verse 7. It was in verse 6, it said that.
And then in verse 7, and God formed man
out of the dust of the ground. Why is this so important? Why did God do it like
this? Why did he put that verse right in front?
Because creation had no idea what God was doing.
The animals had no idea what was going on. The angels had no idea what was going
on. And Satan and his hosts of demons
had no idea what was going on because they could not see
what God was doing in the earth. And we are formed from the
dust of the earth. Now, remember I said that that word formed means to mold,
which means to a cast. And it says the cavity in which
anything is cast or receives its form. Remember that other verse that I
shared, and we had the Hebrew in there, means created and it means to cut down.
And it also means to make fat. So, think about this. The earth was soft.
It was very soft. That is where all the moisture was.
It came up from the earth. So, it was very soft.
So, God cut out, cut down. He, Elohim, three in one, made a cast,
a mold, a cast. It says a cavity in the earth. Nobody could see this
because he laid down in the earth. He pushed out as laying
down, pushed out, carved out, cut out,
is that other Hebrew word meant, into the earth
a cast. What is a cast of? Elohim, of God himself. That's how
we got to be in his image. It wasn't this thing
where he took some play-doh made out of dirt or dust. It wasn't this.
It was God himself, Elohim, laid in the ground,
cutting that out, making a cavity, forming a cast of himself,
God himself, in which he formed man. That became the cast
in which then he formed man from.
That's why he could say, they are made in my image. We looked at him,
looked just like him. It was like a second,
a second Elohim directly in his image. We have never gotten this before. We just
think of play-doh and it's not play-doh. It is not dirt.
It is not clay being formed. It is a cast of Elohim himself
and he made man in his image. That's where we're gonna end today.
We're gonna pick it up in my next teaching
in two days from now on Wednesday. I will post it
and because we are already at almost 25 minutes,
so we are gonna end there. I would just like you, as an activation, just take
this before the Father. Ask Holy Spirit. Just sit with God. Ask
Holy Spirit. Go into your Word. Look at Genesis chapter 1,
those verses, verse 2, about the Holy Spirit moving across
the face of the earth. Think about what we talked about with that. Go back
to the last couple teachings as well and then go
into verse 26 and verse 27. Look at that and go before Holy Spirit.
it and say wow give me a picture of this show me this give me an internal picture of this let me
begin to see this meditate on it and then go into genesis verse 27 because we are going to pick up
this tomorrow we're going to talk about what happened there right now we're laying in the
dust of the earth we are we got this cavity we're laying in the dust and earth but it says that he
breathed he breathed into his nostrils the breath of life we're going to start there tomorrow we're
going to see what took place we're going to see what happened we're going to look at what happened
in the spirit realm we're going to look happen what in the natural and we're going to look how
this is still functioning today in our lives in every way so anyway blessings to you guys today
i'm so glad you were with me and i will see you um in two days that's it love you guys bye