A NEW MANDATE

Nothing makes stale like an old idea that resist change.
Daniel ‘Kayode Jacobs

The fall of man did not send God to sleep; rather it got God working on a redemptive package. Man’s body had to be re-packaged and made ready for the garden. If you can remember, at the fall, the evil spirit was released from within the tree and the breath strove with man. That spirit reduced the eternal body of man into a time ruled body. A new being void of this “evil spirit” had to be created and introduced to earth.
A re-creation conference was held in heaven and it was agreed that a new body had to be introduced to earth. It was also agreed that this body had to be made from the word. In introducing this being, natural laws that had been contaminated had to jettison. The natural law that governed the earth had to be revisited, but the process was not an easy one.
The problem created in the natural needed a supernatural law to treat it. Abraham and Sarah were married, so Isaac was born to a couple. In the case of Joseph and Mary, they were not married, so Jesus was born purely by the operation of a supernatural law.
This new law governed his entry, his existence and his exit. It became the new law that was to govern the new kingdom within the earth. God spoke to the “mould” and it became flesh, and by the eternal power, it was planted into the womb of a virgin.
The seed within Elisabeth that represented the old generation that had the seed of death within it had no life for five whole months. The baby did not kick and the sign of its presence in the womb could not be easily ascertained. “And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Judah; entered into the house of Zacharias, and saluted Elisabeth. And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:” Luke 1:39-41
Elisabeth represented the old generation that operated under the law of sin and death. The “evil” that came out of the tree ruled that generation and its descendants. The law of life had to be re-introduced into earth. No one else could execute this job the way God would. He therefore needed to get himself back into the system and educate mankind.
A “school” needed to set up that would re-educate and school mankind into his original destiny. The seed that represented the old generation was in the womb of Elisabeth for five months without any kick. There was no sign of its existence. Mary who represented the new generation carried within her the power of re-creation. She saluted Elisabeth and the baby within her kicked. The power within her quickened the baby in Elisabeth. The power in the new quickened the dead soul of the old.
This power became flesh and dwelt amongst men. This baby was named Jesus. He was born a child loaded with Holy Ghost. As a child, it was in him as potential. His job on the earth was in three fold. Firstly, to dethrone the devil and give God’s Spirit the permission to directly operate in the earth. Secondly, to model the kingdom life before mankind and return man back to the garden and thirdly, to activate the law of life, which is grace.
The garden was now a wilderness by the time Jesus got there. Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to him, he said, If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple, And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone. Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them; And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me. Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve. Matt 4:1-10
Jesus was led into the wilderness to begin where man fell. He had to overcome what man fell for to be worthy of becoming the New Testament Adam. Like Adam and Eve, the rampaging old demon came looking for Jesus and found him in the wilderness and again tried to negotiate God’s mandate for his life.
The body of Jesus was not dust; it was electroplated by the word of God. The word of God was arrow in the mouth of Jesus. He shot it at the devil three good time and, “Then the devil leaveth him, and, behold, angels came and ministered unto him”. Matt 4:11
Everything the devil stole from man, Jesus reclaimed in the wilderness. The skill and understanding to run with the mandate was then released to him via angelic ministration. “And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding”. Dan 9:22
After being empowered by the angels, he had to announce his mission to the earth. “And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto them, this day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears”. Luke 4:17-21
Jesus found were it was written of him in the books. This gives you and me an idea of what God was doing immediately Adam and Eve fell in the garden to the evil spirit. He was using the old generation to write a book. For instance, Moses was a messiah sent to the Jews in Israel.
While they were in slavery in Egypt, they were as it was under bondage until Moses was sent to them. All through the leadership of Moses, God was actually writing a book. Immediately Moses died, God delivered the book to Joshua to lead them into Canaan. Canaan is the Promised Land. Every time you approach a promise land, you need a map or a guide.
Jesus came to lead mankind to the promise land so he needed a book. When the book was delivered to him, he browsed through it and found were it was written of him. He read it aloud and closed the book when he got to the termination point. He now said, the prophesy is being fulfilled in their ears.