Jordan explains, “Notice we always focus on the Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil, but look at what God said first. He said, ‘Of every
tree in that garden go eat it. Go consume it, man. Suck it up, enjoy it; go
discover what’s in it. Go harness it. There’s one thing you can’t eat. The
decision to do what’s right and wrong isn’t yours to do. That’s my privilege.’ ”
The passage goes on, “And the LORD God said, It is not good
that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.[19] And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
[20] And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.”
“People get confused about that and say, ‘I thought He
created those things on the fifth day but now He is on the sixth day recreating
them,’ says Jordan.
“On the sixth day, after He made man, He takes man out here
and says, ‘C’mon, Adam. I want to teach you something,’ and He literally forms
the animals out of the dirt while Adam is watching Him so that Adam knows where
that creation came from.
“Adam shows up and there’s a tiger and an elephant. There’s
a mosquito. There’s creation. Adam doesn’t know where they came from. He just
showed up! He doesn’t even know where he came from! God creates these animals
and the fowls, the birds, so Adam can see where they came from. God is
educating Adam about creation.
“Here Adam is, when he was created, he’s 33-years-old
looking. I mean, he’s a day old and he looks 33. Whew. People say, ‘You look a
lot older than your age.’ Adam’s a blank! He doesn’t know what’s going on and God’s
educating him.
“God walks in the cool of the day with Adam every day,
teaching him. And He puts the animals there and He watches Adam to see if
Adam’s caught onto what his job is.
“Now, if you didn’t have any other job assignment than to go
subdue the earth at the moment . . . You can’t be fruitful and multiply, it
takes time, but you can start subduing. If he understood what that meant, and
the Lord says, ‘Looky here what I did!’, what would Adam do?! Well, he’d start
trying to subdue it and that means naming them.
“He examines them, identifies the wisdom and understanding--what
were they created for, what was their function--and gives names to them and
names define a person. He’s extracting out of the creation purpose and
identifying them.
“Out of the ground God formed every beast. Underline that.
Why’d he bring them to Adam? Not to name them but to see WHAT Adam would name
them. He didn’t need Adam to name the animals. He brought them to Adam to see
if Adam was catching on to what’s going on. He put them in front of Adam to SEE
what Adam would name them.
“By the way, intellectual pursuit was given. He didn’t say, ‘Let
the animals name themselves.’ Fido ain’t a human. He gave to MAN the
responsibility that supersedes the capacity of the animals. An intellectual and
perceptual discipline and function was given to man. He gave man the
responsibility to look at creation and figure out what it was about.
“So what’s God looking for in creation? He’s looking to
extract the wisdom and understanding and knowledge that God has put in the
creation. Why did He do that for and what’s there? That was having dominion.
Dominion in the earth, ruling in the earth and in the heavens, is not simply
telling people what to do. We think about, ‘I’m going to reign. I’m going to
tell you what to do.’
*****
Exodus 31 starts out, 1] And the LORD spake unto
Moses, saying,[2] See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:
[3] And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship,
[4] To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,
[5] And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.
“Workmanship is an activity that the wisdom, understanding
and knowledge allows you to accomplish,” says Jordan. “Notice this guy has been
given wisdom, understanding and knowledge to be able to work in such a way as
to devise cunning works. He literally had the capacity to take gold and silver
material and extract out of them purposes.
“You know, when it talks about they became workers of brass,
brass is an alloy. You take copper and tin, copper and zinc; one makes brass
and the other makes bronze. You have to figure out there’s copper and there’s
tin.
“Somebody had to sit down and figure out to smelt them
together to become a heat catalyst to form something new that was better than
either one by themselves. That’s devising cunning works.
“You look at creation, you saw how God put that thing
together so that it could be worked to accomplish a purpose that hadn’t been
faced before. If you’re fruitful and you multiply and replenish the earth,
you’re going to face some problems nobody had to face."You say, ‘Where’s the owner’s manual for this problem?’ You go back there and it’s not in the index. ‘What am I going to do?’ He says, ‘I’ve given you wisdom, understanding and knowledge to figure out how to do my will in there because that information’s available.’
*****
“Colossians 1:9 says, ‘For this cause we also, since the day
we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be
filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding.’
“You know what God’s
purpose with the Body of Christ is? It’s that man is going to take wisdom,
understanding and knowledge out of His creation and harness it and subdue it
and develop it so that it manifests the wisdom God put in His creation. You and
I are going to do the same thing up there.
“You know what our reigning in the heavens is going to be?
It’s not going to be telling those angels to go do that and those angels go do
that: ‘You do this because I said so.’
“In Mark 10, Jesus says when two of His disciples come and
say, ‘We want to sit on each side of you in the kingdom,’ He said, ‘You guys
don’t understand; you’re thinking like a bunch of elitist Gentiles. You think
government is just telling people what to do. Government is to administer my
heaven. It’s to administer my business. It’s to take the wisdom, understanding
and knowledge that I have and go out there and figure out how to apply it to ever-increasingly
new situation so you don’t need to run to the index every time; you’ve got some
discernment to be able to deal with it based upon your understanding my will
and hence you can manifest my thinking, my mind, my life.’
“Whoa! You understand now why wisdom, understanding and
knowledge is really the gut issue? I’m thinking of 30 verses but I’m not gonna
do it. Ephesians 2:7 says, ‘That in the ages to come he might shew the
exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.’ ”
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