Ever since Adam sinned and fell in that way, that's how everyone thinks - I've got a better plan than God's plan; and the core center of this plan is me getting ahead of everyone else. I'm in competition with everyone else. That's the core of sin; that's what sin looks like. I have fallen away from a relationship that's life-giving and loving, and being the representative of another, serving another. I've now become the center of my own world.
God's representative in the world is always a son; it's never an angel - it's a son. God intended that the kingdom of Heaven would be the same in the earth as it is in the heavens. When you pray it, your kingdom come. So God intended that the kingdom in the realm of the spirit would become the kingdom revealed on the earth. What did that look like - that the will of God would be done on the earth, and all the resources and goodness and the things that God would release would be released into the earth. That's the plan! So when you're praying "our father in heaven", you're acknowledging God is your father. We're giving honor to Him as the creator, and then we're praying to align our life with His life. Father, your kingdom, your rule come - and that means your will be done on earth, just the same way it's being done in heaven. In other words, all the resources of heaven would start to flow into the earth, and make the earth a wonderful place - marriage a wonderful place; family a wonderful place; finances blessed.
Adam's mandate was to establish the order and culture of heaven in the earth. Adam's mandate was to establish on earth, the order, the way relationships work, and the culture, the values of heaven, in the earth. So if you're God's representative, then you need to think about order, the way relationships are intended to work; not how the world says it's meant to work. The world is under the the influence of another spiritual power, totally contrary to God's order. Therefore, the message the world brings will always be one of rebellion and anger against the order that God has established, because that's a governmental order.
God has set an order in the church. He set an order in marriage. You need to understand what the order is. It's not to be oppressive; it's an order of service, in order to function, so God's blessing would flow. God's got an order between children and parents; and parents and Children. When it's functioning properly, then blessing, and benefits, and legacy is flowing. That's order; and culture means the the values, the creativity, the expression of something.
Every every group of people has a culture, but heaven has a culture. Heaven has values. When Jesus came, do you remember his message to the Sermon on the Mount? It's about the culture of heaven - the ways you relate to people, the kind of values that is important in heaven. In the earth, strength is important; in the kingdom of God, Meekness is important. In the world, to rise up and be the top dog is important; but in the kingdom, to be humble and be the servant is important. There's a conflict between the culture of earth, which has been shaped by rebellion against God's order; and the culture of heaven, which is a new culture.
When you get born again, your spirit comes alive, and you enter a relationship with God, and now you have the power to change. It doesn't mean you've become mature; it just means you have the power to change. You've received the spirit of your father into you; you are now placed into a relationship with your father; you have the power to be different. Before, you couldn't. You kept falling over, falling into traps and snares and all kinds of things you hated, and a very self-centered life; but once we receive Jesus Christ, who is the pattern representative of the father, when you receive Him, then His spirit enters your life. It's called the Spirit of Sonship. It's called the Holy Spirit, and He now generates a new life in you. You're born again; you're not mature, you're still childish in many ways. We're just infants, but we've got a new start, a new spirit, a new heart. We have a desire towards God - that's the new thing, and I've actually become a new creation. Every one of you here that among us, that have received Christ as our savior, the spirit of God has entered us. We are a completely new creation in the earth.