Kingdom Citizens Born To Rule, Not Be Ruled!!!!!

Exodus chapter 20




Today we are walking in: Kingdom Citizens Born To Rule, Not Be Ruled!!!!!!




Today we look to the word-RULER-H4910 mashal--to exercise dominion, to cause to rule




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




Genesis 45:8




So now it was not you that sent me hither, but God: and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler H4910 throughout all the land of Egypt.







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




Isaiah 28:14




Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule H4910 this people which is in Jerusalem.










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




Judges 8:23




And Gideon said unto them, I will not rule H4910 over you, neither shall my son rule H4910 over you: the LORD shall rule H4910 over you.




BORN TO RULE, NOT TO BE RULED




We were born to rule the earth—all of us. When we do not become who we were meant to be or fulfill our destiny, we open the door to a whole world of personal problems. Allowing ourselves to be dominated by our physical environment or by other people can result in things like high blood pressure and other physical problems and illnesses. It can even open the door to mental and emotional troubles.




Psalm 115 states it perfectly:

May the Lord make you increase, both you and your children. May you be blessed by the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. The highest heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth He has given to man (Ps. 115:14-16).




Verse 16 is an awesome verse. The phrase “the highest heavens” refers to the heavens above the stratosphere— the invisible world where The Most High Yah lives. Heaven is The Most High Yah’s realm, but He gave the earth to man, not in a deed of ownership, but as a lease agreement of proprietorship. Here the Bible tells us directly that heaven is not our territory.




Believers often talk about going to heaven when they die. The Most High Yah has made arrangements to make sure that we don’t stay there. If we stayed in heaven, The Most High Yah’s Word would fail, because He has plainly stated that He created us to have dominion over the earth. The Most High Yah’s Word can never fail:




As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is My word that goes out from My mouth: It will not return to Me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it (Isa. 55:10-11).




If The Most High Yah says He created us to exercise dominion over the earth, then clearly we cannot stay in heaven. The Most High Yah’s purpose for us has always been that we dominate the earth. Our tendency in the Church is to over-focus on heaven. The King of the universe has given us an earthly mandate. That is why He has made arrangements to ensure that believers who die now will return to the earth with the Lord. The Most High Yah has even made arrangements for our new bodies: It’s called the resurrection.




THE LAW OF THE KING: MAN SHALL MANAGE PLANET EARTH




By The Most High Yah’s design and intention, we have dominion over the earth. This means that we are the managers, supervisors, rulers, governors, leaders, and stewards of this planet. Whatever happens here is our responsibility. The Most High Yah will hold us accountable for our stewardship.




Our authority in this realm is so complete that The Most High Yah Himself will not violate it. Now I know that this statement will cause some of you to wonder how I could make such a bold assertion. Isn’t The Most High Yah sovereign and can’t He do whatever He wants? In theory that is true, but just as the word of an earthly king is law and cannot be reversed, so the word of the King of the universe is law and cannot change. At this point let us take a look at one of the most important principles in the constitution of the Word of The Most High Yah concerning your creation and the program of The Most High Yah for your rulership-strategy on earth. In the Book of Genesis we have already seen that The Most High Yah established the law that man was granted absolute responsibility for the earth realm. Man was commissioned to rule over all of The Most High Yah’s creation. He was given the will, the wisdom, and the authority to carry out this command.




Then The Most High Yah said, “Let Us make man in Our image, in Our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground” (Gen. 1:26).




Two of the most important words ever spoken by the Creator are locked away in this verse, and they establish the nature of the relationship The Most High Yah desired with the earth realm. Those words are “let them.” By these words the Creator The Most High Yah established a law which gives only to mankind the legal authority to exercise dominion and control over earth. It is interesting to note that The Most High Yah did not say “let Us” but rather “let them.” If He had said “let Us,” then He would have provided access by Himself to earth anytime without violating His word and thus be co- ruler with man on the earth. But by stating “let them,” He locked Himself out of the earth as a spirit being without a body.




Why is this so important to understand? Because The Most High Yah is a spirit and when He speaks, His words become law. His integrity will not permit Him to violate or break His word; therefore, whatever He speaks becomes a law even unto The Most High Yah. He will never break His word nor violate His principles.




In this case, the result is that The Most High Yah in His sovereignty has decided to delegate authority and dominion in the earth to mankind—a spirit in a body. This is why The Most High Yah cannot do anything on earth without the cooperation of a human. Man is The Most High Yah’s legal agency and access to earth.




The Most High Yah is and remains absolutely sovereign, but He has chosen to limit His activity or intervention on the earth to that which we, the proprietors, give Him permission to do. The way we grant that permission is through prayer.




I offer you two biblical stories that illustrate my premise. The first comes from an event that happened in ancient Babylon. In the sixth chapter of Daniel, King Darius of the Medes and Persians was seduced by evil men to make a king’s decree. The king issued a statute and established a law that no one could petition any other The Most High Yah or he would be thrown into a den of hungry lions. It is important that kings consider carefully their decrees and the implications of those decrees because once they are made they cannot be reversed.




Now, O king, establish the injunction and sign the document so that it may not be changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which may not be revoked (Dan. 6:8, NAS).




We all know the story very well. There was no way that Daniel could submit to this decree and was caught in the action of worshiping the The Most High Yah of Israel. When King Darius found out, he was deeply distressed and set out to save Daniel from his own decree. In the end, there was nothing he could do. It was the law of the king and could not be reversed even by the king himself.




The second story comes from the New Testament. Because of John the Baptist’s fiery condemnation of King Herod’s relationship with his brother’s wife, Herod had him arrested and put in prison. Herodias conspired against John and devised an evil scheme. Herodias’ daughter appeared at King Herod’s birthday party and danced very seductively before Herod and his guests. At the end of the dance, in a drunken state of seduction, Herod offered her anything she wanted, but he was stunned by her response as the young maiden asked for the head of John. Herod was grieved and overwhelmed but he knew he was trapped. He had made a decree and it could not be reversed.




THE MOST HIGH YAH NEEDS A BODY




This law of divine delegation creating human dominion over earth has made the body of man indispensable and a prerequisite for legal activity on earth. This is why The Most High Yah’s Spirit could not stop the fall of man, not because He was weak, powerless or impotent, but rather because He was faithful to His word. The fall of man, therefore, is in essence a result of the faithfulness of The Most High Yah. However, this is also why the promise of the Kingdom being taken from the adversary had to include and required the promise of the coming of the Spirit of The Most High Yah in a human body.




Bound by His own law, Father already had a plan worked out. He would introduce His own Son into the human equation. By the power of incarnation The Most High Yah would circumvent His own law. Through Yahashua, The Most High Yah could accomplish His will. Throughout the life of Yahashua we see His commitment to the will of the Father.




Yahashua therefore answered and was saying to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He sees the Father doing; for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner.” So Yahashua said, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and I do nothing on My own initiative, but I speak these things as the Father taught Me” (John 5:19; 8:28 NAS).




The Most High Yah needs a body to get His will done on earth. Through Yahashua He got that body and now through the indwelling of Hamachiach in us He can continue that work. During Yahashua’ earthly ministry He offered us various secret keys of the Kingdom. One of those keys is the power of prayer. By the power of prayer we can arrange to get The Most High Yah’s power into our earthly realm.




Yahashua told His disciples:




I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by My Father in heaven. For where two or three come together in My name, there am I with them (Matt. 18:18-20).




What Yahashua said to His disciples applies equally to all believers. When it comes to things in the earthly realm, heaven responds to what we do. Heaven binds what we bind and looses what we loose. In other words, The Most High Yah will not do anything on earth without permission or access from those on earth to whom He gave dominion. So if something we want to see on the earth is not happening, it is because we are not allowing it to happen. Prayer is important because it is our means of constantly granting The Most High Yah permission to “interfere” in the affairs of men on earth. 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.




Augustine, an early Church Father, once wrote, “Without The Most High Yah we cannot, without us The Most High Yah will not.” This is a concise description of how our dominion mandate works. Without The Most High Yah’s power and Spirit, we have no chance of affecting the earth for the Kingdom of heaven. Without our agreement and permission through prayer, The Most High Yah will not interfere. But through His Son, the Lord Yahashua, and then subsequently through the Body of Hamachiach, The Most High Yah can intervene. In His sovereignty, The Most High Yah has seen to it that there have always been people on the earth who agree with His purpose and plan and through whom He can obtain access in order to accomplish His divine purposes in the earthly realm.




If we want The Most High Yah to keep on interfering, we need to keep on praying. Prayer is serious business. When we pray we are communicating with a divine government for whom we are ambassadors. Prayer is the medium through which we get our “faxes,” “e-mails,” and flow of information and resources from heaven, and through which The Most High Yah’s government gains access to act on the earth according to our faith and dominion authority.




A FALL SHOOK THE WORLD




The Most High Yah created mankind for dominion over the earth, but the fall of man disrupted and sabotaged that program. When Adam and Eve disobeyed The Most High Yah, they fell not from heaven but from dominion. HaSatan deceived Eve by promising her that if she ate from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil (the tree The Most High Yah had placed off limits), her eyes would be opened and she would become like The Most High Yah. The problem was, she already was like The Most High Yah.




She and Adam were created in The Most High Yah’s image, and their power and authority in the earthly realm mirrored The Most High Yah’s in the heavenly realm.




The greatest weapon anyone can use against us is self- doubt. HaSatan used this weapon against Eve. By causing her to doubt herself, he opened the door for her to begin doubting The Most High Yah as well. Self-doubt involves low self-esteem, a negative self-concept, and a low sense of personal worth and value. If this is the way we see ourselves, it can lead us to doubt the character and qualities of the The Most High Yah who (we suppose) made us that way.




With this kind of mindset, it is no surprise that we end up thinking of ourselves as doubters rather than believers, losers rather than winners, followers rather than leaders, and subjects rather than sons. We have been so conditioned by our past, our culture, and our environment that we have lost sight of who we really are. Instead of taking our seat at the family dinner table, we content ourselves with eating in the servants’ quarters because we believe that is all we are entitled to. Our attitude should be that no matter where we are right now or what are our current circumstances, eventually we are going to be in charge. What we need is an entirely new mentality.