Responsibility Of The Citizen!!!!

Exodus chapter 20




Today we are walking in: The Responsibility of The Citizen!!!




Today we look to the word- KINGDOM- H4467 mamlâkâh,- dominion, (abstractly) the estate (rule) or (concretely) the country (realm):—kingdom, king's, reign, royal





The Torah testifies...............



Deuteronomy 17:18

And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, H4467 that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:







The prophets proclaim..................



1 Samuel 10:18

And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, H4467 and of them that oppressed you:







The writings bear witness...........................



1 Kings 9:5

Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom H4467 upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.





You are a citizen of a country on Earth, and I hope you are a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven. Remember that your citizenship does not mean only that the government is responsible for taking care of you, but that you have a responsibility to the government as well. It is a two-way street, and the traffic goes both ways. Just as it is for you as a citizen of your earthly country, so also in the Kingdom of Yah are you held accountable to the government by means of its constitution, in this case, the Bible. You can be a much happier and more productive citizen when you understand your responsibilities.


Sad to say, many people do not want to shoulder their responsibilities. They are glad Yah has saved them, but they do not necessarily want to obey Him. They do not understand that their obedience is a way of expressing their appreciation. Yahashua Hamashiach Himself put it concisely: “If you love Me, keep My commandments” (john: ). They also fail to acknowledge that the rights that they enjoy as citizens, while they cannot be earned because they have been given as privileges, must be maintained through simple obedience to the laws of the land.


Submission To Authority


When you become a citizen of a country, the laws of that country automatically become your laws. As you submit to those laws, you submit to the authority of the government. By submitting to the laws, you are free to remain in the country for a long time, to move around the country for pleasure or business, and to enjoy the protections and privileges of citizenship.


Break even one of those laws, however, and your freedoms will be curtailed. If you have transgressed in a significant way, you may be incarcerated in prison. You may be deprived of your passport. You may be required to go through a long process before you can be reinstated as a free citizen. Jails are filled with irresponsible citizens who did not take responsibility for keeping the law.


Citizenship manifests the contract between the government and the people. The key to enjoying the privileges that come with citizenship is personal obedience to the laws of the country.


So these are the facts, if you are part of the country called the Kingdom of Heaven:


You are a citizen with legal rights to benefit from the constitution of Yah.


You have personal rights and authority to exercise your power as a citizen through alignment with constitutional law.


The last phrase is the clincher. The secret to wielding authority in the Kingdom is aligning yourself with the laws of the country, in other words, obedience. You obey Yah for the sake of your life here and now (and not just in order to get to Heaven when you die). This is the Kingdom lifestyle, and maintaining it is your responsibility.


Authority is a good thing, and you never outgrow your need for it. Can you imagine a plant saying this to the soil? “That is enough. You have been holding me down for all these years. I’m out of here, and I am taking my root with me.” What would happen if a plant did that? It would die, sooner than later. The absence of authority brings self-destruction.


Fish were created to submit to water. If a fish decides to move out from under its authority, you do not need to punish it, because it will die. The safest place for the fish to be is submitted. Surely you have seen a fish out of water. It gasps and flips and flops, trying as hard as it can to get back into water. I know people like that. They try this and that and wonder why nothing is working. When young people leave home too early, life can be very tough for a long time. It is the same principle. It is time to get back under authority.


Part of submission to authority is patience. When we fly, sometimes I listen to the pilot talking on the radio. That man needs to be completely submitted to authority. If the control tower tells him he cannot land yet, he goes into a holding pattern. His flight plan is very specific. He cannot deviate from it twelve inches in any direction without getting permission. He may not be able to see any other aircraft around him, but the people in the tower can see all of them, coming and going.


In the same way, the authorities over us keep us from crashing into each other if we obey their directives. Freedom has boundaries, always. In the Kingdom, if the King says, “You are free to eat from any other tree, but do not eat from this tree,” He has good reasons. Disobedience is not the best way to find out about the repercussions.


Authority Makes Power Legal


We like to be around powerful people, but we need to ask ourselves, “Is this person’s power under authority?” Power combines ability and energy and force, while authority is the right and permission to use that power. Authority is the right to use power effectively, not because you could, but because you should. Authority makes power legal.


Therefore, authority is more important than power. Teenagers may have the power to leave home, but they do not yet have the authority to leave. A person may be very aggressive and loud in speaking, but if they do not have authority, their words will not carry weight.


Submission to authority is what makes a person effective.


One time a military officer came to see Yahashua on behalf of his servant who was lying at home, paralyzed and suffering. Yahashua was willing to accompany him to his home in order to hela the servant, but much to his surprise the man declined his offer:


The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed.

9 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.

10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.

And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.



Notice how the centurion addressed Yahashua. He called him “Lord,” which indicates that he honored His authority. “Lord” is a legal term, not a religious term. It means “owner”. In that culture, you would use that word for king.



See also how the centurion’s military experience gave him a more complete understanding of the way authority works. He was completely submitted to the Roamn emperor and any other commanders who ranked above him. He had at least a hundred soldiers who reported directly to him (The title “centurion” is related to the word “century”, which indicates one hundred.) Probably he has been watching Yahshua as he worked in the village. He may have seen Him healing the sick, raising the dead, casting out demons and more. Obviously, this man Yahashua had power. Obviously some higher authority was guiding Him. He knew that a person’s performance depended upon his obedience to the instructions he had been given.



So he made the leap from his natural observation to faith and Yahashua was impressed with that, declaring that the servant was already being healed, and commending the centurion to the people around them. A distance away, the paralyzed servant got up from his mat, healed and whole, without Yahashua ever having had to make the trip to his house.



In the same way, if any of us want to experience Yah’s best for our lives, we must get positioned properly which is to say under authority and our entraties will be heard and answered.



Righteousness Exalts A Nation



Yahashua said, “Seek first the kingdom of Yah and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you” (Matt. 6:33). He wants us to seek first His Kingdom and, along with it, His righteousness is the same as submission to His authority within the Kingdom of Yah. By becoming righteous, you uphold the authority of the Kingdom which in turn will uphold you. “Righteousness exalts a nation” (Prov. 14:34). This is nothing like other religions, where “submitting” involves trying to keep your god happy. You are not bringing gifts to an altar or lighting incense and chanting in front of a statue. You are not contributing money or going through all sorts of rituals to obligate your king to look after you. You are not appeasing the authorities.



When you submit to Yah’s authority, He shows you what is next. He helps you change your behavior. He even helps you seek more of His righteousness. By remaining close to Him, you guarantee that the authority of the government of the Kingdom will be extended through you wherever you go.



When you keep the law, you secure your Yah-given authority over the kingdom darkness. Evidently, hell keeps track when citizens of the Kingdom keep the laws of Yah. Demons will know who you are if you abide in the Kingdom righteously. You are in their computer. That means that you can cast them out with ease, because they know you by your Kingdom reputation.



The laws to which you are submitting are heavenly laws, such as, “Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you and pray for those who spitefully use you” (Luke 6:27-28). So as you use kingdom love, which is powerful enough to extinguish the powers of darkness around you, you keep yourself under the protection of Yah while fulfilling your assignment.



You know that hatred will shut down your faith,and so will blind rituals. (In Galatians 5:6, Paul says, “For in Christ Yahashua neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.”) So you submit to the Yah of love even more completely, to your own benefit as much as the benefit of those around you.



You do not get things from Yah just because you ask. You get things from the government of Heaven because you keep the laws of the country. It is not enough to talk about the laws. You need to read the law-book as often as possible and follow those laws faithfully. The minute you stop doing that, you start removing yourself from the King’s protection and help.



A lot of people think they can get away with sins just because nobody’s looking. That is audacious, to say the least. We come to Yah and say, “Yah, heal me (but I’m still going to take drugs).” Or we say, “I’m going to sleep with that woman I am not married to, but I want you to bless my business and pay my bills.” We demand things while we are in disobedience.



Instead of breaking laws and hoping you can get away with it, why not start obeying laws that you would not mind getting caught obeying? For example, see if you can get caught loving your brother. See if somebody can catch you paying your tithe. Let somebody catch you forgiving someone who hurt you, or spot you committing an act of kindness. Gossip about somebody who has lived with his wife for forty-two years without strife; that would be a wonderful thing to gossip about. The laws of this country are wonderful, every one of them. Do right intentionally all the time, and the king is going to bless you.



How To Submit To Authority



Submitting to the King of kings often entails submitting to those He has established in authority. You cannot submit to someone you are comparing yourself to or competing with, especially if you are interested in taking that person’s position. By the same token, you cannot submit to someone if you are jealous of that person, or if you distrust that person. It just does not work.



A good king is willing to decrease so one of his subjects can increase. In other words, a good king is willing to move over and let one of his citizens exercise power. A citizen can expect this to happen. He should not feel the need to push and shove to get the king’s attention, nor should he shoulder his way in with a sense of entitlement.



You will find it impossible to submit to someone if you think they are not as smart as you are, even when you tell yourself you are not influenced by such things. Naturally authority does not match up with intelligence, and still less with educational achievement. But pride gets in the way and you cannot put yourself lower than a person you want to correct all the time.



Conversely, you will be able to submit to someone’s authority if you are able to trust and respect that person. You will indicate your submission by laying down your own agenda in favor of theirs. You will not feel the need to win an argument or negotiate an outcome. Instead, you will find joy in performing assigned tasks and asking for advice.



Sometimes people say to an authority figure, “The Lord sent me to work with you. I want you to be my mentor.” That is not submission. Those people just want to gain a measure of honor and fame in the eyes of others, so they can take away some of your friends and followers. They have got their ulterior motives all worked out.



You will find it easy to submit to someone if you know in your spirit that Yah brought this person into your life. Your discernment will show you that the person will not take advantage of you, and that he or she wants Yah’s best for your life. You will be able to tell that your own effectiveness will improve if you are under this person’s authority.



Keys Of The Kingdom

The laws of Yah are the keys to His Kingdom. Abiding by His righteous ruling unlocks the divine power that you need to live as a fully vested citizen of Heaven. Therefore, the more you can learn about his laws, the better.



This is a spiritual reality with very practical implications. It changes a person’s lifestyle into a Kingdom lifestyle, and that lifestyle has authoritative power. Look at the connection:



I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. (Matt. 16:19)



When you use the keys of the Kingdom to lock and unlock, bind and unbind, you are not responsible for the exercise of power or for the results. You are, however, responsible to obtain and use the keys in the first place. By submitting to the laws of the Kingdom, you surrender to the authority of Yah, and that sets you free from the burden of making things happen. Heaven will back you up when you turn one of the keys.



Citizens of the Kingdom have a responsibility to learn the words of the Bible. We need to read it often, because we tend to forget what it says. We need to read it more often than we read the newspaper. When the devil attacked Yahashua in the wilderness, His responses came straight from Scripture. He said, “It is written…” (See Luke 4:1-13.) Those words were His keys to the Kingdom and victory.



Yahashua said “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner” (John 5:19). He exercised the keys of Kingdom authority better than anybody before or since. Yet He, true Prince that He is, wants nothing more than for the citizens of His Kingdom to exercise those same keys.



You need to do only two things:


Seek the Kingdom in order to get into citizenship


Seek the King’s righteousness in order to stay in it. In other words, stay aligned with the King.

When you stay aligned with the King and His government, you obligate Him to take care of you. All of the promises in the constitution remain accessible to you, as needed. Things that you would otherwise need to fight for will come your way with no sweat. That is why the Scripture reads, “Seek first the kingdom of Yah and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” Having all these things added means you will have a lot of unwanted things subtracted, things like bad health, stress, and anxiety.



You should not be living to make a living. Your priority should not be working and living just to earn enough money to pay your bills. Yahashua has another perspective on such things. He says, “take no thought for them” (See Matthew 6:34). Instead of fretting about food and clothing and adding to an endless list of prayer requests, why not take His advice?

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