Made to Have Dominion (11/07/2004)

Park Meadows Church iconPark Meadows Church

5 views

Dr. Myron Golden

0 comments

00:03
All right, good afternoon. Good afternoon Psalms chapter 8
00:10
It's got a couple thoughts to share with y 'all. I'm gonna Be heading up to Dallas here this afternoon
00:16
My wife and I are gonna be brother Dave's gonna be taking us up to Dallas And so I'm probably not gonna go more than 10 or 15 minutes this afternoon.
00:23
We've got some thoughts I want to share it with you that have been exciting to me Psalms chapter 8 and I'll just read the whole chapter.
00:32
It says Oh Lord. Oh our Lord How excellent is thy name in all the earth? Who has set thy glory above the heavens out of the mouths of babes and sucklings?
00:44
Hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies that thou mightest still the enemy and the
00:49
Avenger When I consider thy heavens the works the work of thy fingers the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained
00:57
What is man? That thou art mindful of him and the son of man that thou visited in that a good question
01:03
What is man that thou art mindful of him and the son of man that I'll visit God. Why do you think about me?
01:10
For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels and has crowned him with glory and honor
01:16
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands Thou has put all things under his feet all sheep and oxen
01:27
Yea and the beast of the field the fowl the air and the fish of the sea and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the sea
01:34
Oh Lord our Lord How excellent is thy name in all the earth and this morning we talked about the name of Jesus this afternoon
01:43
I want to talk about the subject that we were made to have dominion and not to be dominated.
01:50
It's an amazing thought Let's pray father. Thank you for your word Speak to us
01:56
I pray And we give you the praise and the majesty and the honor for it we glorify you and thank you for making us the crown of your creation and giving us specific things that we must do and That you put us here to have dominion and not to be dominated in Jesus name.
02:14
Amen You ever say hello. How are you? And somebody says not too bad under the circumstances
02:23
Do you realize that? God did not make us to be under circumstances
02:30
God made us to be over circumstances and for circumstances to be under us So as I was reading this one day and meditating on it,
02:38
I thought when it said God His name is excellent in all the earth
02:45
When you consider the works of his hands the works of his fingers and everything else he made what's man and then it says
02:52
Thou made him a little lower than the angels and crowned him with glory and honor Most people most
02:59
Christians unfortunately do not feel crowned with glory and honor They don't feel regal most
03:06
Christians don't feel like they are royalty But according to God he has crowned us with glory and honor and he made us
03:15
To have dominion over the works of his hands. I heard I've heard Bible teachers teach that The reason man has to work is because of sin
03:25
But that's not true because God gave man a job to do before man ever sin
03:31
God put Adam in the garden to dress it and keep it and the reason God gives us work to do is because God is
03:39
A God that works and we are made in the image of God so he gave us dominion and Made us to have dominion and not to be dominated as I think about that when it says when
03:52
I consider the heavens the works of thy fingers the moon the stars with our sardine well, I See that God gave us as I look at the world we live in.
04:02
I see clearly that God gave us elemental dominion God gave us the ability to harness the elements and use them for our good in his glory
04:13
I think about that every time for the most part every time I get on an airplane I think about the fact that God is awesome that he can make man
04:21
Smart enough to figure out how to make something this heavy fly That's amazing
04:27
If you want to know about dominion All you got to do is look at all that man has been able to do with what
04:34
God has given him and it shows you That God has given us dominion over the elements whenever we feel like we're stuck whenever we feel like we have hit a wall whenever we feel like there's something that is insurmountable we ought to know
04:48
Foundationally because of what the Word of God says that God has already given us dominion over that thing
04:55
He's given us elemental dominion when you think about the fact And maybe your mind doesn't work this way
05:00
This is how my mind works when you think about the fact that a man can get in a rocket ship on the earth
05:07
There's no roads. There's no there's no sky sign. I was gonna say street time, but there's no sky sign
05:13
There's no route there's no road There's no anything and he gets in this rocket ship and he goes from the earth to the moon that in itself is amazing
05:21
But the thing that he can make it back To think that the first guy thought he could make it back
05:27
That shows you that God has given us dominion over the elements when I think about the fact that I can pick up a
05:35
Cellular phone that is not connected to anything. I can talk in it down here in Corsicana, Texas And my kids can hear me all the way in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, and I'm not even talking loud
05:48
That lets me know that God has given us to me what I'm trying to say is most of us
05:53
We do not experience the life that God wants us to experience because we go through life
05:59
Thinking that everything we that we're powerless, but God did not make us powerless He made us to have dominion over the works of his hands
06:08
He gave us elemental dominion but not only that Because the fact he told me that he gave me that elemental dominion and because he told me that he has crowned me with glory
06:18
And honor then that gives me emotional dominion. I don't have to be an emotional wreck I don't have to be emotionally bent out of shape because God is in control and in his being in control
06:30
He has given me lots of control over the things that I am to do So I don't have to worry about it because I know that as long as I'm following God's plan,
06:40
I've got emotional dominion, you know Sometimes I'm sure people think
06:45
I'm half crazy and Because I don't get bent out of shape terribly often as a matter of fact my nephews and my kids
06:54
They like to make fun of me because I'm so calm And so they'll get to them that's funny but what what it is, that's what we all should have
07:12
I'm not saying I'm the example of that though. Sometimes I do get kind of catty -whompus, but But the fact is we need to have emotional dominion
07:22
We ought not to worry about the future because God's already got it built. We ought not to we ought not to Be moaned too much the past because it's already behind us.
07:32
What we ought to do is we ought to do everything We can in the here and now We've got emotional dominion
07:48
Are we God's given it to us? We don't always have it because we don't always use it But one thing that a lot of people in our world don't want to accept is
07:57
God has also given us environmental dominion Notice what it says thou mayest him to have them in verse 6
08:04
Thou mayest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands has put all things under his feet all sheep and oxen and Beasts of the field and foul the air and the fish of the sea and whatsoever passes through the paths of the seas
08:20
Now isn't that interesting that God has given us Environmental dominion
08:25
God has given us dominion over the foul of the air God put the foul of the air here for us
08:30
God put the fish of the sea here the beast of the field and the cattle and the creepy thing God put those things here for us not us for them and we spend so much time in America in our world today
08:41
Trying to make sure that the deer and the antelope and the whale have as much rights as we do
08:50
But God has given us environmental dominion. He put those things here for us He didn't put us here for those for those things and to think that animals have the same right in this world that we do
09:02
It's hideous Because that's not a part of God's plan God put the trees here for us to use
09:09
God put the water here for us to use God put the animals here for us to use not for us to abuse but certainly for us to use and God has given us environmental dominion
09:22
But not only that We know that in this in the times in which this was written they lived in an agricultural society
09:30
Which means that all God also gave us economic dominion Because that's how they made a living people had a fishing boat or they'd have a ranch they were cattle ranchers or they had fishing boats or they had
09:46
They raised sheep they made their living with The animals and the beasts of the field and all that so God has given us economic dominion now sometimes
09:56
We don't feel Like we have economic dominion But I believe the main reason we don't feel like we have economic dominion several reasons number one is
10:07
Because we don't understand first of all that God has already given it to us. It's already ours That was very hard for me to understand and to grasp as a
10:17
Christian I used to believe Because of the preaching that I would hear that it was God's intention for us to be under hard financial
10:25
Difficulty and circumstances our whole life, but that is not biblical God has given us
10:31
Financial dominion as a matter of fact as I study the Bible in the
10:37
Bible God's children were the Sam Waltons and the Bill Gates and the
10:42
Donald Trumps of their day As a matter of fact, I'm not Not character -wise, not morally, but but business -wise
10:51
Abraham was the Sam Walton of his day Job was the Bill Gates of his day.
10:57
God did not put us here to be in financial bondage our whole life I don't
11:02
I just don't believe that and if we will apply Biblical principles to our finances then we can have
11:09
Economic dominion in our financial lives as well as we can in any other aspect of our lives
11:14
Now, of course, we understand and maybe some of us don't some of us don't understand Most people in the world don't understand you ever wonder and I'm almost done
11:23
But how many of you have ever wondered? Why it seems like the economy is going down and so many people are losing jobs.
11:29
Anybody ever wonder that? Okay Because we as people don't like to change and the world is changing
11:39
The needs of the world change Therefore the service that we need to bring to the world changes
11:45
So what happened if you were living in the agricultural age and you became very great as the
11:53
Bible called it you became wealthy through the agricultural age and then you move into the
12:00
Industrial age the same things that made a person wealthy in the agricultural age that gave a person financial dominion
12:06
Economic dominion in the agricultural age doesn't give them economic dominion in the industrial age.
12:12
It's a totally different thing and The things that see most of us that are you know?
12:19
34 30 I guess it's older than that now 40 years old or older We grew up in the industrial age
12:27
With industrial age ideas that worked in the industrial age But those same ideas work less and less because technology is
12:37
Moving at a very rapid pace and therefore technology is doing in a half a day what it used to take ten men three months to do
12:47
So what happens? people are still stuck over here and they're thinking but now we live in the information age and Because people are very slow to make that transition they get left behind the curve
13:00
We grew up listening to records right we talked to our kids about records. They think it's a great on a report card
13:07
Right, but when we were kids a record was a vinyl record. We did a CD First time
13:14
I ever heard somebody talk about a music video. I thought they were talking about a video game Because we live in a different era now than we lived in then do you realize people who made vinyl records who?
13:26
Manufactured vinyl records over here no longer in business today Who would have ever thought that Smith Corona would be out of business?
13:34
We thought we'd use typewriters forever Well, they would have realized that they were in the business of word processing
13:40
Maybe they would have been the ones to make the first computer. You understand I'm saying Having said all that what
13:45
I meant to say is this God has given us economic dominion if we will use our brains that God has given us and Think about things the way they are
13:57
Instead of thinking about them the way they want to be Then we can have that economic dominion the reason so many people in America today the wealthiest country that's ever existed
14:07
The reason so many people are in financial bondage is because they were educated to earn a living in a world that no longer exists and So we need to do as Christians We need to lead the way not just economically, but we need to lead the way economically so that we can lead the way morally because the people with the money do
14:30
Guide the moral direction of a nation As a matter of fact,
14:35
I'm gonna end with a quote by Solomon How many of y 'all have ever heard the saying nobody cares how much you know until they know how much you care?
14:41
How many of you ever heard somebody say that? Okay, Solomon had a different little bit different twist
14:46
He said people don't care how much you know until they know how much you got And he didn't say it exactly like that.
14:53
Here's what he said He told a story about a poor wise man who delivered a city that was besieged by a mighty king
15:01
He said and after that poor wise man delivered the city. Nobody remembered the poor wise man
15:06
Why because a poor man's wisdom is despised We were taught
15:13
I don't know if you were taught this brother Dave Or I know I've heard preachers preach I don't know how many of you but I've heard preachers preach in the past that you know
15:20
Well, we ought not to care about money. Well, that's silly most people work 8 to 16 hours a day for money, whereas if they practice anyway
15:30
I'm practice some principles from God's Word and apply some principles and and Work in the area at era in which we live.
15:38
They wouldn't have to work 16 to 18 hours a day So God has given us economic dominion and it's exciting to know that God has given each of us in this era in which we live
15:47
Something that we can do because we know that he gives to every man according to his several ability and everybody has a gift
15:54
That God has given us that we can give to the world in exchange as service in exchange for our economic dominion
16:02
Having said that let's pray Father, thank you for your word. Thank you for the truth and the power of it
16:07
Help us to realize that you have crowned us with glory and honor help us to walk around feeling special because we are special to you and help us to practice our
16:21
Elemental dominion Our emotional dominion our environmental dominion and our economic dominion because that is what you intended for us to have
16:31
Or that is what you intend for us to have Thank you for it and thank you for the fact that your name is excellent in all the earth