Has Your Mindset Changed???!!!

Exodus chapter 20




Today we are walking in: Has Your Mindset Changed???!!!!




Today we look to the word-MIND-H3824 lebab--mind, knowledge, thinking, reflection, memory


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


Numbers 16:28


And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind H3824.




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


Ezekiel 11:5


And the Spirit of the Lord fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the Lord; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind H3824, every one of them.




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


Lamentations 3:21


This I recall to my mind H3824, therefore have I hope.




BUILDING A KINGDOM MENTALITY


It all comes down to whether or not we have a Kingdom mentality. If you believe that you are supposed to follow all the time, then follow on; the world is full of people who will be more than happy to lead you. If, however, you detect the seed of leadership in you, if you see evidence of the dominion mandate in your spirit and commit yourself to follow it, nothing can stop you. That mandate is inside every one of us, for The Most High Yah put it there.

Long ago, I decided that no one on earth was born to rule over me; only The Most High Yah had that right and authority. He alone was qualified. Some people have observed that attitude in me and called it arrogance. I am not arrogant; I simply understand my rights and privileges as a Kingdom citizen.


As children of The Most High Yah saved by the blood of Yahashua, we have no reason to feel ashamed of who we are or to sell ourselves short. Instead, we should embrace our identity as beings created in the image of The Most High Yah. We are like our Father, and we should live accordingly, boldly claiming our rights as citizens of a heavenly Kingdom. There is no reason for us to walk around with our heads down and our shoulders drooped.


There should be confidence in our demeanor and a spring in our step. We are children of the King! His Kingdom belongs to us as well. Yahashua said, “Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom” (Luke 12:32). The Most High Yah gave us dominion over the earth, an awesome responsibility as well as a wonderful privilege. Let us not conduct ourselves like vagabonds, servants, or hired hands who have no personal interest or stake in the land, but as wise children giving careful and confident management of a realm that we stand to inherit one day.


THE RULERS BECOME THE RULED


When Adam and Eve disobeyed The Most High Yah, they did not lose heaven, but gave up their kingdom on earth. By listening to satan they committed high treason and surrendered their ruling authority. By abdicating their throne of dominion, they subjected all humans of succeeding generations to subjugation as slaves of the enemy. They who should have been deployed became employed by an evil taskmaster. The rulers became the ruled, the victors the victims, and the kings the subjects.


Yahashua told the parable of the prodigal son to explain to us what happened and to reveal the Father’s attitude toward us. The Most High Yah stands ready to welcome us home with open arms to completely restore our full status as sons and daughters. Our problem is that too often we accept only the contract that the prodigal son wanted—to be a servant in his father’s house.


We want to be servants of the Lord, and although that is certainly what we are as believers, there is so much more to our relationship than that. If we settle for just being His servants, we will miss out on much of the joy of knowing Hamachiach and the fullest and deepest aspects of Kingdom living. Too many of The Most High Yah’s people only know how to be “workers in the field” and don’t know what it means to be a “son in the house.”


Yahashua said, “I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from My Father I have made known to you” (John 15:15).


Yahashua Hamachiach is our Savior by circumstance, but our elder Brother by a natural/spiritual genealogy.


Hebrews 2:11 says, “Both the One who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Yahashua is not ashamed to call them brothers.” So often, however, we tend to relate to Him as our Savior much more than as our big Brother.


Many people in today’s world, including many believers, are in a plight similar to that of the prodigal son, whose mentality was damaged by his time in the pigpen. Like him, they come from an environment that makes it difficult to believe that they can ever become sons or daughters again. Here is The Most High Yah’s glorious truth: All people on earth—no matter who they are, where they live, or what they have done—are potential children of The Most High Yah and Kingdom citizens. Lost children are still children. That is why the gospel of the Kingdom is such good news; it is a message sent from Daddy to all His children telling them that they can return home to the Kingdom and once again be sons and daughters in their full right.


Upon his son’s return, the father in Yahashua’ parable called first for a ring to be put on his son’s hand. The ring was the symbol of sonship and authority in the family. Once the young man had the ring, it meant that everything else in his father’s house was his as well. Hamachiach came to earth, died on the cross, and rose from the dead to put a ring of sonship on everyone’s finger to bring us back into fellowship with our Father so that we might assume our rightful place as His children and as citizens in His Kingdom.


For many of us, taking that step will require first a change or renewing of our minds to get rid of “pigpen thinking.” Consider Paul’s words to the Roman believers:

Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of The Most High Yah’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to The Most High Yah—this is your spiritual act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what The Most High Yah’s will is—His good, pleasing and perfect will (Rom. 12:1-2, NIV).


HEBREW, BUT NOT CONVERTED


Even though Paul was addressing believers—people who had placed their faith and trust in Yahashua Hamachiach as Savior and Lord—many of his readers still needed to undergo a change of mindset. Although they were children of The Most High Yah by faith, they were still caught up in a “pigpen” mentality of thinking like slaves.


This is a truth we need to consider carefully today. It is possible for a person to be “Hebrew” but not “converted.” Salvation takes place instantly; it is a spiritual transaction in which our sins are cleansed by the blood of Yahashua as we trust Him in faith.


Conversion, on the other hand, can take a lifetime as we learn how to think, live, and act as children of The Most High Yah. It is like moving suddenly from a dilapidated shack into a mansion; we bring all our old habits and “shack” mentality with us, and they change only gradually over time.


When Paul says that we should “offer [our] bodies as living sacrifices,” he is telling us to bring our bodies under management—to get them under control. Stop drinking or stealing or smoking or lying or doing drugs. Stop engaging in illicit and immoral sexual activity. Stop playing around with pornography. Break off unhealthy relationships. Bring our bodies under subjection. Keep our bodies and minds pure.


It is important that we learn to manage our body and get it in order because it is our legal house. If we lose it, we cannot do anything else. We can’t serve The Most High Yah effectively if we are addicted to tobacco or alcohol. We can’t fulfill our potential if by age 30 we are sick and have cancer in our lungs. The Lord cannot bless us if we are shacking up with someone or abusing our minds or bodies in any way, or living in any manner that is contrary to His revealed will. He wants us to bring our bodies under subjection and present them to Him as living sacrifices from which He can receive great glory and honor.


A CHANGE OF MIND


Paul says next that we need to “be transformed by the renewing of [our] mind.” What does he mean? His point is that even though as believers we have been born again, we still have a mental problem. We have the Holy Spirit, but not the spirit of the Holy Spirit. We have the anointing but not the spirit of the anointing. We need to change our thinking. The Greek word metamorphoo (from which comes the English word metamorphosis) literally means “to make a complete and total change.” The transformation that Paul talks about here involves a complete revolution of our mental state.


I had to fight this fight, too. For a long time after I became a believer, I loved The Most High Yah but complained because life in general seemed so terrible. I knew The Most High Yah was good, but wondered why everything bad seemed to be happening to me. It seemed as though wicked people all around me were making it and enjoying life and moving ahead, while I was stuck. I prayed and I fasted and believed The Most High Yah for the best, but things never seemed to change. Finally, I asked in despair, “The Most High Yah, what’s wrong here?”


“There’s nothing wrong with those wicked people,” He answered. “They are simply sons and daughters who do not yet know their Father. As for you, your problem is that although you are Hebrew, you are mentally damaged.”

I had to learn how to change my thinking, to think not like a loser and a nobody, but like a winner and a daughter of the Father. That’s what Paul is saying to all of us. We must learn to think like kings again, to lay hold of the spirit and attitude of kings. This is why Kingdom citizenship is really all about leadership.


It is about kingship and ruling a domain. It is not about being low, humble, and poor in the false, demeaning way that so many of us think. Kingdom citizenship is about recognizing our place and rights through Hamachiach as citizens of The Most High Yah’s Kingdom, and claiming those rights so that we can fulfill The Most High Yah’s Kingdom purpose in our world. It is about taking over again that which once was lost because of our sin and disobedience. Our Kingdom faith is about claiming and living out our dominion mandate.


CHAPTER ONE PRINCIPLES

• The Most High Yah’s original plan in creation was to extend His heavenly Kingdom on earth.

• The Most High Yah’s purpose was to establish a family of sons, not servants.

• The Most High Yah’s purpose was to establish a Kingdom of sons, not subjects.

• The Most High Yah’s purpose was to establish a commonwealth of citizens, not Christians.

• The Most High Yah’s purpose was to establish relationships, not religion.

• The Most High Yah’s original purpose and intent was to rule the seen from the unseen through the unseen living in the seen on the scene.

• Human beings were created to exercise dominion over the earth and all its creatures.


• The Most High Yah gave us rulership of the earth, not ownership.

• The Most High Yah will not do anything on earth without permission or access from those on earth to whom He gave dominion.

• The Most High Yah can do anything, but because He has given us the license, He can release on the earth only what we allow.

• The gospel of the Kingdom is good news: a message sent from Daddy to all His children telling them that they can return home to the Kingdom and once again be sons and daughters in their full right.


“The future of mankind is in his past.”