After the Fall of Adam, God was
in a peculiar position. He had given
Adam unquestionable authority over
the earth. But when Adam committed
high treason against God and bowed
his knee to Satan, spiritual death—the
nature of Satan—was lodged in his
heart. Actually, Adam was the first
person ever to be born again. He was
born from spiritual life to spiritual
death. God had said, “But of the tree of
the knowledge of good and evil, thou
shalt not eat of it: for in the day that
thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely
die” (Genesis 2:17).

God said that Adam would die the
very day he ate the forbidden fruit, yet
he lived several hundred years longer.
God was not referring to physical
death. He meant that Adam would die
spiritually—that he would take on the
nature of Satan, which is spiritual death.

This process is reversed when you
make Jesus the Lord of your life. You
are born from death into life. The law
of spiritual lordship is our way back
into the hands of God. You take on
a new Lord and receive the nature of
your new Lord which is eternal life
(John 3:16). This is why Jesus went to
the cross. First John 3:8 says, “For this
purpose the Son of God was manifested,
that he might destroy the works
of the devil.” Jesus turned to the most
religious men of His day and said,
“Ye are of your father the devil” (John
8:44). By going to the cross as the sinless
Son of God, Jesus took away the
dominion Satan had over mankind.
First Corinthians 2:8 states that had
the princes of this world known, they
would never have crucified the Lord of
glory. This was a trap that the Father
and Jesus had set for Satan. He walked
into it, and it cost him his lordship
over the earth.

After Adam’s Fall in the Garden,
God needed an avenue back into the
earth. He needed some way to break
the union between Satan and mankind.
Since man was the key figure in
the Fall, man had to be the key figure
in the redemption, so God approached
a man named Abram. He re-enacted
with Abram what Satan had done
with Adam, except that God did not
sneak in and use deception, as Satan
had. God offered Abram a proposition
and Abram bought it.

Kenneth Copeland Ministries