DOMINION: MODEL OF MODELS

And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be the Head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all – Ephesians 1:22-23 (NKJV)

Far above every other biblical model of dominion is the Master’s Model – the King of kings and Lord of lords – Jesus Christ! His is the Model of models: Dominion exemplified; Dominion personified!! He then transferred this same dominion to His Body – the Church (Eph.1:22-23). The thrust of the Great Commission is a Command in Dominion (Matt.28; Mk.16, Lk.24). This is Christy’s Mandate to His End-Time Army: “Occupy till I come” (Lk.19:13). By implication: “Exercise Dominion; make Impact; do business; replenish; add value; multiply; enlarge, expand, and possess the Kingdom, and do not stop till I come”!

The Lord Jesus Christ came to fulfil the plan of redemption that was announced by God in the Garden of Eden, “And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel” (Gen.3:15). All the authority and dominion that the first Adam traded away and lost was confirmed on the second Adam – the Man Jesus. The entire message of His ministry on planet earth was to proclaim the Kingdom – the King’s Domain. He was Kingdom-focused because that what humanity lost. He pleaded: “But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you” (Matt.6:33). Even now, the Kingdom remains His priority.

Jesus came to establish the Kingdom of God on earth, which was what the devil stole from us. Therefore, in His earth-walk, He not only proclaimed the principles, nature and virtues of the Kingdom, He demonstrated clearly how humanity should live in dominion. He started His miracles by turning water to wine; healed the sick; lifted the lame; opened the eyes of the blind and the ears of the deaf; helped the hopeless; delivered the oppressed; liberated the bound and set the captives free; raised the dead, and rapped it up by overcoming death when He rose triumphantly from death on the third day after He was crucified and buried. No opposition, power or dominion could stop Him. He expressed ‘Dominion Unlimited’!

The disciples of Jesus Christ followed on to demonstrate dominion in His Name and by His Spirit. He has restored back to us our lost dominion. He declares: “Verily, verily, I say to you, He who believes in me, the works that I do he shall do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go to my Father” (Jh.14:12). Many of the disciples and later apostles exercised this dominion in diverse dimensions. Indeed, everyone who believes in Him has the potential to walk in dominion: “Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes” (Mk.9: 23). You also can key into this redemptive provision of God and begin to exercise and walk in dominion – and truly and fully occupy till He comes!