The Housetop

Mankind’s place in God’s creation is for us to have dominion over the works of His hands. Dominion means to tread down, prevail, and rule over.  Male and female both have a God-given dominion nature. If you apply this in life, it serves you well in work. This is what makes us have drive and strength.

But we are not to direct this dominion towards one another.  The downfall of many homes is when people try to get another to do what they want by manipulation, force, or fear.

Keeping the dominion nature of mankind pointed in the right direction is useful, but we need to not use it to control each other.

We never hear God say to have dominion over one another. This is a major issue in the home. God does not want you to control another human being. It is a perversion of our created order. God is in control; Jesus is our Lord. When dominion is properly directed, it is a blessing; but when we turn the dominion nature towards one another, it is a curse.

What is the cure? Divine order.

God has created a divine order for the home. God is a God of order. Everything is an orderly arrangement. If we would arrange ourselves under God, we would enjoy the order of His created purpose. It’s only when we get out of order that we have problems.

Husband and wife are in blood covenant with one another. You’re not going to get in a proper covenant with one another unless you are in a proper covenant with Jesus Christ. To have strength in the blood covenant of marriage, you need to first enter into a blood covenant with Jesus Christ.

Submission is part of us being partakers of the divine nature. Marriages need spouses who are first mutually submitted to Christ and then to one another. Submitting yourselves to one another through mutual submission is the key to a great marriage. We need to try to out-love one another.

Once we are restored to God’s image in the earth, then we can be restored to His divine order.

Man was created in God’s image as the pinnacle of God’s creation. We were made to stand before God, mirror Him, and reflect His image and glory. We were designed to worship and for everything from God to reflect out of us.

The devil loathes the image of God and will do anything he can to mar it. Because we stand in the image of God, the devil’s wrath is turned towards us. He will do anything he can to stop us from reflecting the image and glory of God.

In the early days of creation, man was innocent, had no sin, and walked with God. It was just man fellowshipping with the Creator. But something happened.

The tempter came, and they ate. Death and darkness came over the spirit of man. He became a 2-deminsional being, left with only his soul and physical body. Dead inside. Living outside – a living body on a ticking clock waiting for a physical death and eternal judgement. Banished from the presence of God. The devil had marred the image of God.

Once the heart and mind were darkened through sin, man lost the image we were meant to reflect. Since we are no longer reflecting the glory of God, all we can do is try to project our own glory. We now exalt the creature above the Creator and begin to live like we are gods. Men are lovers of pleasure instead of lovers of God. It’s perverted self-love; and it has bred a whole generation of narcissist. We worship ourselves, our opinions, and our pleasure. It’s idolatry.

Once created in the image of God to reflect the glory of God, but now that our spirit has died through sin and the life of God is no longer inside, our soul is looking for something to attach to that looks alive. We live in soulish realms and become chasers of alcohol, drugs, sexual perversion, sports, entertainment, and pleasure. However, we find those things aren’t life and their end is death.

God is offering eternal life back to you. In Jesus there is life - the same Word that spoke the world into existence and upholds it by the Word of His power.

When you have the light of Christ’s life inside, you will once again reflect the glory of God. You will begin to live. Your heart will begin to beat again with a spiritual beating. Eternal life will enter inside of you. The hope of the promises of God will come alive. There will be nothing between you and God. As the block is taken away, you can see the light of His glory rushing in. This is the new birth. Unless a man is born again, he cannot see the glory of God.

It is not about religion. There’s only one door. Church and baptism are not the door. The cross of Christ is the door. When we come to Christ, we see the error of our way, humble ourselves, and go through the cross. We pass from death to life. We die to the person we were and come alive in Christ Jesus.

Go to the cross till there’s nothing left of you. Weep your way through. Let Him restore His image in you so you can once again reflect the glory of God.

The predestined plan of God is to adopt you as sons and daughters and to conform you to His image. Where we will be like Jesus; walk, talk, look, think, live, heal, and pray like Him.

Marriage won’t give you life if you don’t bring the life of Christ in. There are so many who are dead in their sin; God wants to make you alive. If we will ever see marriage restored to where God wants it to be, we’ve got to get the life back inside of us.

God set an eternal soul inside a temporal house. Nothing can satisfy it except God Himself. We must touch the eternals, and the only access we have to eternity is: the eternal blood of Jesus, the eternal Word of God, and the eternal Holy Ghost.

Marriage is a created entity of God. If we are going to talk about the creation of marriage, we need to start at creation. We have to build our case for creation so we can see the power of God in the marriage covenant.

By faith we believe that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that the things we see were made by things that do not appear. The things we see were spoken into existence by the Word of God.

The sun, moon, and stars were created on Day 4 of creation, so on Day 1 when God said, “Let there be light,” what was the light God created? The light was the life of Christ revealed.

At the very beginning of creation, God revealed to the host of heaven that in the fullness of time He would slay His Son. This is the light of the world. It has nothing to do with the sun, moon, or stars. It has everything to do with the spiritual revelation of Christ crucified.

Marriage belongs to God. For one man and one woman for one lifetime. When hard times come, it is a stabilizing factor to remember we are created beings under a Creator.

If you can’t have faith in a Creator, you will have a struggle in your home and marriage. You have to see life and marriage as way bigger than yourselves.

We get so caught up in the makeup of the earth that we lose sight of the foundational principles that made it, set it in order, and uphold that order - all by the Word of God’s power. He wants to uphold your life and marriage by the same Word of His power. He wants to fix your marriage. He wants to fix you and your spouse first, put you two together, and get you where your home brings glory to God.

If you will begin to seek God diligently for your home, He can fix whatever condition your home is in. He can repair it. It will require divine change.

If we are going to have a marriage that fulfills God’s intended purpose, God’s created purpose for marriage, it’s going to have to start with two people who are in the spiritual new birth.

When something goes wrong in marriage, start here. What’s wrong with your spiritual life? Have you let things slip? How’s your prayer life? How’s your time in the Word of God? How’s your fellowship?

The recreation of man is so important. As fallen men, we need to be recreated in Christ Jesus. The revealing of Jesus Christ is the light we should walk in. It’s the only light that can bring us new life. This is how we save and heal marriage. It starts with two redeemed individuals.

If we settle this issue, we will see marriages heal. If we settle this issue, we’ll see those who are living together repent and get married. If we settle this issue, we will see many who are in perversion repent and get back to their created purpose of male and female.

1 John 1:7 - “If we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.” God’s light allows us to have relationship with one another. Transparency. Openness. Clarity. No darkness. No secrets. If we can’t communicate, something is very wrong.

Do you have communion with your spouse? Do you have fellowship with your spouse? Or do you just coexist? Do you just talk soulish? Is there spiritual communion? Is there joy in your home?

If He can fix this whole world and create it with the Word of His power, what can He do with your world? He can change your life!

Consider the power of light. The speed of light. The life in light. Everything in this earth is dependent on light shining on it. Especially your relationships.

God invented marriage.  It was created by God and for God.  Marriage belongs to God; and the Word of God defines it.  It is the only place sexual intimacy is made holy.

There is a sexual perversion and breakdown of God-ordained marriage; and Christians are expected to accept it.  As a culture, we have stepped far outside the perimeters God set for intimacy.  What we are now seeing is the judgment of God.

We have no understanding of “covenant” in our generation.  There needs to be a sobriety around marriage, and it shouldn’t be entered into lightly.

In marriage, two become one as the souls knit together.  Divorce wreaks absolute havoc in hearts and minds.  There’s a fragmentation of the soul.  The damage done emotionally and mentally with divorce is huge.

Jesus gave one root cause for why marriages fall apart and divorce happens.  That reason is a hardness of heart.  It’s when we are past feeling and lose the sensitivity of heart.  And the bible gives several causes for a hardness of heart: Lack of fear for the Lord, Religion, Unbelief, and Sin.

The one cure for a hard heart is repentance.  Repent.  Change your thinking, then change your actions.

We need to let the fear of the Lord govern of our soul and marriage by putting restraints and building perimeters.  In Jesus Christ, all marriages can be fixed, healed, and raised from the dead.