KINGDOM CONCEPT #2:UNDERSTANDING THE KINGDOM CONCEPT OF LORD!! PART 2

Exodus chapter 20




Today we are walking in: Kingdom Concept #2: Understanding The Kingdom Concept Of Lord Part 2!!




Today we look to the word- SUBMIT- H7511- raphac- humble thyself, submit thyself






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





Genesis 16:9

And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit H7511 thyself under her hands.






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




2 Samuel 22:45

Strangers shall submit H7511 themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.







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




Psalms 18:44



As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me: the strangers shall submit H7511 themselves unto me.




In those days, animals such as that colt were valuable commodities as beasts of burden and as transportation. They were like a car is to us today. So untying that colt was no small matter. The modern day equivalent would be as if Yahashua had said, “Go down to the corner, where you will find a brand-new silver Mercedes sport coupe. The keys are already in it. Bring it here to me.” In the end, one word from the Owner of the colt was all that was necessary. The manager/stew- ard of the colt let it go.

Another New Testament passage also presents Yahashua clearly as Lord of all. It is found in a letter written by Paul, the Kingdom of Heaven’s ambassador to the Gentiles, to Kingdom citizens in the city of Philippi:

Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Yahashua: who, being in very nature The Most High Yah, did not consider equality with The Most High Yah something to be grasped, but made Himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross! Therefore The Most High Yah exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Yahashua every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Yahashua Christ is Lord, to the glory of The Most High Yah the Father (Philippians 2:5-11).

Yahashua Christ is King and Lord of all.

LIVING UNDER A LORD

It is the lordship aspect of a kingdom that makes living in a kingdom better than a republic or any other form of national administration or rulership. Lordship in a kingdom protects the citizenship from competition with their fellow citizens for national resources. It destroys such elements as jealousy, fear, deceit, and hoarding. In a true kingdom, the lord owns all resources and distributes the same as he determines. Whenever he gives resources to a citizen, it is never for ownership but for stewardship. Submission to a king as lord positions the citizen to receive from the king.

From a kingdom standpoint, then, the most important confession any of us could ever make is to declare, “Yahashua Christ is Lord.” Ambassador Paul stated this explicitly in his letter to the believers in Rome when he wrote:

If you confess with your mouth, “Yahashua is Lord,” and believe in your heart that The Most High Yah raised Him from the dead, you will be saved (Romans 10:9).

By “saved,” Paul means redeemed, bought back, salvaged, restored from the estrangement of our rebellion against The Most High Yah the King into a right relationship with Him. The key affirmation in that process is our acknowledgment that Yahashua is Lord of everything, including our lives and our destiny.

But if we say, “Yahashua is Lord,” what does that mean in practical terms? What does it mean to live under a “lord”? The only experience most westerners have with a lord of any kind is with a landlord. If you now live or have ever lived in rental property, you know that the landlord is the landowner (or the landowner’s direct representative who exercises the landowner’s authority, which amounts to the same thing), the person you pay rent to and to whom you are accountable for the way you treat his property. Why? Because you do not own the property; the landlord does.

Dealing with a landlord provides a small taste of what it would be like to live all of your life under a lord. If you say, “Yahashua is Lord,” you are acknowledging His authority over you as well as your responsibility to obey Him. There is no such thing as lordship without obedience. If He is Lord, you cannot say, “Lord...but,” or “Lord...except,” or “Lord...wait.” If He is Lord, the only thing you can say is, “Lord...yes.”

Yahashua Himself reiterated this truth throughout His public ministry:

If anyone would come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me (Luke 9:23b).

Anyone who loves his father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me; and anyone who does not take his cross and follow Me is not worthy of Me (Matthew 10:37-38).

Another disciple said to him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” But Yahashua told him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead” (Matthew 8:21-22).

If Yahashua is Lord, He must receive first priority in your life. He is above every other love and every other loyalty. He is above every goal, dream, and ambition. You cannot be a disciple and say, “Lord, first let me...” He must be first...in everything. Otherwise, He is not truly Lord of your life, regardless of what you say. Yahashua said:

Why do you call me, “Lord, Lord,” and do not do what I say? (Luke 6:46).

You cannot call Him Lord and then start making excuses for not obeying Him. You can’t claim that He owns you and then go ahead and do whatever you please. In the Kingdom of Heaven there is no such thing as a “weekend citizen.” You do not follow Him one time and not another depending on your preference. If Yahashua is Lord, you cannot live for Him on Saturdayaturday and for yourself the rest of the week. Yahashua is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all. The Lordship of Christ is a 24/7 proposition. There is no other schedule.

Living under a Lord also means giving up all concepts of personal ownership. This does not mean you have to sell your house or sell your car or give away all your personal possessions. It does mean learning not to take a proprietary view toward these things. The King of Heaven is a righteous and benevolent Lord who graciously allows us to use and fully appropriate His riches and resources and all good things. That is one of our rights as Kingdom citizens. We can enjoy all of these things without measure as long as we remember who owns them. The moment we begin to think that they belong to us, however, we set ourselves up for trouble. If we think ownership is ours, we make ourselves a lord. This takes us out of alignment with the will and character of the King because in His Kingdom there can be only one Lord.

What happens when we think of ourselves as owners? In our dog-eat-dog culture it means we feel we have to fight for what we get, hoard what we have, and guard it anxiously from fear that someone will take it away. And our neighbors do the same thing. We live in fear of economic downturns, inflation, downsizing, and never having enough. This is not Kingdom thinking!

In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no economic crisis and there are no shortages. With a King who owns everything, how could there be? When we relinquish our sense of ownership and acknowledge The Most High Yah as the Owner and ourselves as stewards, it relieves us of the pressure of having to worry about how we are going to make it because we are now depending on Him for our welfare. And He is a benevolent and generous Lord of infinite resources.

Relinquishing ownership then also puts us into the position of full access to those resources. As we learn to give and receive and transfer at His will, He shares with us freely and abundantly. But a hoarding sense of personal ownership that shouts, “Mine!” cuts us off from those same resources. Which position would you rather be in?

Letting go of personal ownership also nourishes and releases a generous spirit within us. If we are only stewards and not owners, we can give freely as the Lord has given freely to us, knowing that He, who has no limitations, can replace what we give to others. His reputation as King and Lord rides on how well He cares for His citizens and He will give special care to those citizens who reflect His character by giving as He gives.

As a matter of fact, the best time to give is when things are tight personally because that is when you acknowledge that He owns even what you don’t have. The greatest sign that you truly believe that Yahashua is Lord is by how much you are willing to get rid of. You have learned how to live under a Lord when you can give freely without hesitation, regret, or fear and say to the Lord of all with a joyful and willing spirit, “It’s all Yours! It’s all Yours!”

SEVEN POINTS IN SUMMARY

In summary, here are seven fundamental principles of lordship.


kingA personally owns everything in his domain. There is no private ownership in a kingdom. Everything belongs to the king.


Use of anything in a kingdom is a privilege. If the king owns everything, then anything in that kingdom that we use is not by right but by a privilege granted by the king.


A king can give or distribute anything to anyone in his kingdom. Why? Because he owns it. He can shift things around any way he pleases. This is why we need to hold onto “our” possessions lightly. They really are not ours. Sometimes the King will test us by telling us to give up something He has given us. Our response—obedience or disobedience—will reveal whether or not we really believe He is Lord. If we obey, we show that we believe He owns everything and that He not only can replace what we give but even multiply it.


Submission to a king’s lordship means that we have no right to ourselves. That is why the greatest confession we can ever make is the confession, “Yahashua Christ is Lord.” The moment we say those words, we are acknowledging that we have no more right to our own life; it now belongs to Christ. We have put ourselves willingly under His control and direction and are at His beck and call. He can help Himself to our lives anytime He wants.


Obedience is acknowledgement of lordship. When we obey the King, we are simply saying to Him, “You are Lord and my life is Yours. Your wish is my command.”


Thanksgiving is an acknowledgement of the King’s Lordship. Daily thankfulness for food, water, clothing, shelter, and other daily needs reveals that we believe that the King owns all and is the source of all we have.


The word “Lord” can never be used with the word “but.” Those two words are impossible together. We cannot say, “I love You, Lord, but...” or else He is not Lord. We cannot claim Him as Lord and then make excuses for not obeying Him. The only appropriate word to go with “Lord” is “Yes!” Either He is Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all.

PRINCIPLES


All kings are automatically lords.


Kingship has to do with authority; lordship has to do with ownership.


All true kings must have and own territory.


As lord, a king literally and legally owns everything in his domain.


If the king owns everything, then no one in the kingdom owns anything.


If the king owns everything, he can give anything to anyone at any time according to his own sovereign choice.


A king’s wealth is measured by the size and richness of his domain.


The Most High Yah, the King of Heaven, is King and Lord of all.


Yahashua Christ is King and Lord of all.


The most important confession any of us could ever make is to declare, “Yahashua Christ is Lord.”


There is no such thing as lordship without obedience.


If Yahashua is Lord, He must receive first priority in your life.


Yahashua is either Lord of all, or He is not Lord at all.


Living under a Lord also means giving up all concepts of personal ownership.


In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no economic crisis and there are no shortages.


Relinquishing ownership puts us into the position of full access to all of Heaven’s resources.


Letting go of personal ownership also nourishes and releases a generous spirit within us.
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