Over and over again Jesus was called upon as the Son of David to demonstrate His authority:
And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out, and say, Jesus, thou son of David, have mercy on me. And many charged him that he should hold his peace: but he cried the more a great deal, Thou son of David, have mercy on me.
Mark 10:47-48 (KJV)
Jesus demonstrated to us what it is like to rule and reign out of an overflow of a perfect relationship with the Father. Jesus ruled over all the works of God’s hands just as God intended for Adam to do.
If there was a storm He said: “Be still.” and the wind and rain had to listen to Him. If someone was sick He said: “Be made whole.” and the disease had to leave and the body be restored. If He wanted to walk on the water the water had to obey Him and keep him up. All of creation had to submit to Him. He had complete authority or dominion. When the disciples cast there nets into the sea, He controlled the fish of the sea, when they threw their nets on the other side He allowed the fish to get into the nets. Jesus had complete authority over the fish of the sea the birds of the air the beasts of the field over all the earth and everything that creeps upon the earth.
Maybe now we can better understand what it was like for Adam to rule and reign before sin came in.
Psalm 8 pointed ahead to the coming of Jesus and the restoration of the authority to man, it gives us a deeper understanding of the extent of this authority.
When I view and consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained and established, What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of [earthborn] man that You care for him? Yet You have made him but a little lower than God [or heavenly beings], and You have crowned him with glory and honor. You made him to have dominion over the works of Your hands; You have put all things under his feet: All sheep and oxen, yes, and the beasts of the field, The birds of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatever passes along the paths of the seas.
Psalms 8:3-8 (AMP)
Jesus the Son of God is Lord of all, He has all authority, but He accepts us as His brothers, sons of God, and sends us out in His authority. He is our example of how to rule and expects us to exercise that authority as we walk in fellowship with Him.
I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone steadfastly believes in Me, he will himself be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these, because I go to the Father.
Joh 14:12 (AMP)
Jesus gave us an example of how to multiply in the spirit and how to rule over the work of His hands. He reconciled man to God and restored man to God’s original intentions through the finished work of the cross. We who believe are now the multitude, the sons that God always desired. We are the multitude that is meant to be clothed and crowned in God’s glory and ruling and reigning in life.
It has been solemnly and earnestly said in a certain place, What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You graciously and helpfully care for and visit and look after him? For some little time You have ranked him lower than and inferior to the angels; You have crowned him with glory and honor and set him over the works of Your hands, [Ps. 8:4-6.] For You have put everything in subjection under his feet. Now in putting everything in subjection to man, He left nothing outside [of man's] control. But at present we do not yet see all things subjected to him [man]. But we are able to see Jesus, Who was ranked lower than the angels for a little while, crowned with glory and honor because of His having suffered death, in order that by the grace (unmerited favor) of God [to us sinners] He might experience death for every individual person. For it was an act worthy [of God] and fitting [to the divine nature] that He, for Whose sake and by Whom all things have their existence, in bringing many sons into glory, should make the Pioneer of their salvation perfect [should bring to maturity the human experience necessary to be perfectly equipped for His office as High Priest] through suffering. For both He Who sanctifies [making men holy] and those who are sanctified all have one [Father]. For this reason He is not ashamed to call them brethren;
Heb 2:6-11 (AMP)
For if because of one man’s trespass (lapse, offense) death reigned through that one, much more surely will those who receive [God's] overflowing grace (unmerited favor) and the free gift of righteousness [putting them into right standing with Himself] reign as kings in life through the one Man Jesus Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).
Rom 5:17 (AMP)
