KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!!!!!!!

Exodus chapter 20




Today we are walking in: Knowledge Is Power!!!!!




Today we look to the word- RIGHTEOUS-H6662 tsaddiyq--just, lawful, righteous






The Torah Testifies………….




Genesis 18:25




That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous H6662 with the wicked: and that the righteous H6662 should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?





Exodus 23:7




Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous H6662 slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.








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






1Samuel 24:17




And he said to David, Thou art more righteous H6662 than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.





Ezra 9:15




O LORD God of Israel, thou art righteous: H6662 for we remain yet escaped, as it is this day: behold, we are before thee in our trespasses: for we cannot stand before thee because of this.









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






1 Kings 8:32




Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, H6662 to give him according to his righteousness.





2Chronicles 6:23




Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, H6662 by giving him according to his righteousness.





2Chronicles 12:6




Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous. H6662










BATTLE OF THE KINGDOMS


HaSatan’s tactics have not changed much. Today he still attacks us most often by attempting to draw us into doubting the knowledge we have received from the Lord. The Most High Yah tells us one thing; HaSatan tells us another. For example, The Most High Yah might say, “By My Son’s stripes 2,000 years ago, you are healed today.” HaSatan says, “You still feel the pain.” Two conflicting pieces of information come into our minds, and we must decide which one is real, which one is true, which one we will believe and stand upon, and which one we will reject or disregard. If we choose to believe in the pain, then we remain “in the dark” concerning our healing.


This is an example of how the two kingdoms work against each other. The kingdom of darkness is out to deceive and destroy us. The Most High Yah’s Kingdom of light gives us life because Yahusha Hamachiach, to whom the Kingdom belongs, is both light and life. As John the apostle wrote concerning Yahusha, “In Him was life, and that life was the light of men” (John 1:4). The Most High Yah’s plan, which will surely come to pass at the time of His choosing, is for the Kingdom of His Son to undermine and replace the adversary’s kingdom of darkness. On that day will come true the words of Revelation 11:15: “The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Hamachiach, and He will reign for ever and ever.”


Until that day, we who are believers must navigate the delicate balance of living in the kingdom of darkness, while walking in the Kingdom of light. The Lord has called us to “walk in the light as He is in the light” (1 John 1:7). Yahusha said, “You are the light of the world....let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven” (Matt. 5:14,16).


KNOWLEDGE IS IMPORTANT


The kingdom of darkness gets its power from that which we do not know. The truth we are ignorant of cannot protect us against HaSatan’s deception. That is why we must devote ourselves to studying, learning, experiencing, and practicing the Word of The Most High Yah. The light of knowledge dispels the darkness of deception and ignorance; the light of truth destroys the darkness of lies and error.


HaSatan hates the Word of The Most High Yah. He has no weapon that can stand against it. Whenever The Most High Yah’s Word is taught or proclaimed, HaSatan immediately attempts to steal it away or to blind and confuse people’s minds so that they do not understand and believe. As ruler of the kingdom of darkness, HaSatan fears the light. He fears the One who is the light, and he fears all who walk in the light. HaSatan is afraid of us because, as believers, we are children of the light. We possess and display in our lives the divine light of truth and knowledge spelling his destruction.


It is important to know the difference between what the world calls knowledge and the true knowledge of the Kingdom of The Most High Yah. The Bible teaches that all of us, as descendants of Adam and Eve and Spiritual heirs to their sinfulness, are born as children of darkness. This means that we are born in ignorance. Even as we grow, and no matter how much education we receive, our fundamental ignorance remains until it is removed in Hamachiach. No matter how smart we are and no matter how many degrees or titles we may carry after our name, until we come to know The Most High Yah through faith in Hamachiach and begin to obey His Word, we remain in the darkness of spiritual ignorance. Without Spiritual enlightenment of the divine truth of Hamachiach, all other knowledge ultimately is irrelevant.


Knowledge unenlightened by the truth of The Most High Yah is dark knowledge. We may have a B.S., an M.S., and a Ph.D., but without The Most High Yah all we have is dark information. It may be sufficient to help us navigate in the world of darkness, but by itself will never lead us to the truth. Apart from the revelation of the Ruach of The Most High Yah, none of us could ever find our way into the light. Darkly educated people are like those whom Paul described to his young protégé, Timothy, as “always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth” (2 Tim. 3:7).


Darkness is the absence of accurate information about The Most High Yah. It is possible to spend a lifetime in the schools of the kingdom of darkness and never see the light. That is why Yahusha told Nicodemus, an expert on the Hebrew law, that he needed to be born again (see John 3:3). In effect, Yahusha said to him, “Nicodemus, you need to start over. What you have learned up to now is no good.” A person of great learning who does not know the Lord is nothing more than a highly educated fool.


SURRENDERING YOUR HEAVENLY PASSPORT


Whenever a citizen of a country is convicted of a crime against the state and is about to be incarcerated, one of the first things the government requires is that he surrender his passport. A passport is one of our most significant symbols of citizenship because it is an official document that identifies our legal status as a citizen of a specific nation. It grants us the freedom as citizens to travel outside our country and still enjoy all the rights and privileges that we have at home.


In requiring a citizen to surrender his passport, the government is saying, “You are under judgment and during that time have forfeited your citizenship rights.” Citizens have the right to move freely, earn a living, own property, buy food, drive on the streets, pay taxes, and receive the benefits and services provided by their government. A citizen who is convicted of a crime has fallen out of favor or position with the government. During the terms of the sentence he must forgo many of those rights and privileges, particularly freedom of movement. Incarcerated prisoners must endure great restrictions of their personal freedom. The correctional system owns them and controls every aspect of their lives from the time they get up in the morning, to when they eat, what they do during the day, and when they go to bed.


This was Adam’s experience when he disobeyed The Most High Yah’s government. When Adam sinned, he lost his favored status. In other words, Adam fell out of position with the government and had all of his citizen rights cancelled. The Most High Yah took away his “passport” and Adam became a prisoner of darkness, a slave to sin, and was ruled by a “warden” named HaSatan.


PRISONERS IN A FOREIGN LAND


Every human being has been held captive in this precarious predicament. This is the universal human dilemma: Until we are enlightened and set free by Hamachiach, we are all prisoners in the kingdom of darkness. All of us are born in a prison of sin and darkness. Because of our sinful nature inherited from Adam, we are unrighteous. Being unrighteous means that while we are still created “in The Most High Yah’s image” (although somewhat marred), “we have no Kingdom rights.” Our citizenship is nonexistent until our unrighteous condition is removed.


In Luke 4:18-19 Yahusha describes His purpose in coming to earth: “The Ruach of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.” Yahusha came to restore our position in The Most High Yah’s government—to make us righteous. He came to restore our “passport” so that we can once again claim and enjoy our citizen promises.


Until the right time for the coming of Yahusha, The Most High Yah has set up a temporary government on earth called the covenant. The history, development, and specific circumstances of this covenant are related in the Old Testament. The Most High Yah established His covenant with Abram (later called Abraham), and promised to make of him a great nation through which all the people of the earth would be blessed (see Gen. 12:2-3). Even though Abraham and his wife Sarai (later called Sarah) were childless and far beyond childbearing age, The Most High Yah assured them that this great nation of people would descend from a son born to them in their old age (see Gen. 15:4). The Scripture says that in light of this promise, “Abram believed the Lord, and He credited it to him as righteousness” (Gen. 15:6).

Righteousness means being in right position with The Most High Yah, getting into relationship with The Most High Yah’s government and able to claim all the benefits promised in the covenant. When Abram believed The Most High Yah, the Lord declared him righteous on the basis of his faith, and Abram became a qualified citizen of the Kingdom of The Most High Yah. Abram received his “passport.”


THE COMING OF THE The YAH-MAN


Centuries later, Yahusha would appear. In order to resolve the predicament, The Most High Yah would visit planet earth in the person of His Son. As a descendant of Adam He would open the way for man to become righteous. This would be accomplished through the offering of His blood on the crucifixion stake. Yahusha came to bring us back and synchronize our lives with the government of The Most High Yah, so that we can once more claim our citizen rights. It is in this manner that The Most High Yah sought to reconcile us to Himself: “The Most High Yah made Him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of The Most High Yah” (2 Cor. 5:21).

The word righteous is a legal term, not a religious term, and means “to position oneself rightly.” Yahusha came to make us righteous again, to put us back in right relationship with The Most High Yah so that we are qualified to receive the promises of The Most High Yah. Understanding this is critical to developing solid Kingdom thinking. When we are in right relationship with The Most High Yah, He can extend His Kingdom—His rulership—into our lives, and rule the earth through us. It is as we rule the earth in the power and presence of The Most High Yah that the Kingdom of heaven impacts our planet through our physical lives.


A FULL PARDON FOR MANKIND


Through Hamachiach, our sins are forgiven and we receive a full pardon from The Most High Yah. A pardon is a powerful and potentially dangerous thing because it is irreversible. Once a king or ruler has pardoned someone, that person is forever free and exonerated of the crime or offense for which they were previously under judgment. Unlike a parole, which is a probationary state that still carries restrictions for the parolee, a pardon cleans the slate completely. A pardon declares its recipient to be as innocent as if the offense never occurred. Once a person is pardoned, the government returns his or her passport, and from that moment forward that person is free to travel, work, engage in business, buy and sell, and enjoy all other citizen rights and privileges without limitation. A pardon justifies and reestablishes a person’s righteousness in the eyes of the law.


That is what Yahusha did for all of us on the crucifixion stake. His death and shed blood bought our pardon and made us righteous in the eyes of The Most High Yah once more. Our Kingdom citizenship and rights were restored, and we were positioned once again as recipients and heirs of all The Most High Yah’s promises.


Righteousness is made possible through Hamachiach’s death and resurrection, but it is imparted to us through faith, just as it was for Abraham. When we believe, we become children of The Most High Yah. As Paul wrote to the Galatian believers, “You are all sons of The Most High Yah through faith in Hamachiach Yahusha, for all of you who were baptized into Hamachiach have clothed yourselves with Hamachiach....If you belong to Hamachiach, then you are Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise” (Gal. 3:26-27, 29).


Many centuries—millennia even—passed between the time Adam and Eve sinned in the Garden of Eden and the time Hamachiach came to restore our righteousness and return our “passport” to The Most High Yah’s Kingdom. If Hamachiach’s death on the crucifixion stake was so critical to mankind’s restoration, why did The Most High Yah wait so long to send Him to the earth?


CHAPTER TWO PRINCIPLES

• The Most High Yah’s purpose was for us to rule over the created order as vice-regents under His authority.

• Because The Most High Yah designed us to lead, the seeds of leadership lie within us, dormant until activated.

• As The Most High Yah’s vice-regents in this world, we are the Kingdom of The Most High Yah on earth.

• The Kingdom of The Most High Yah on earth is The Most High Yah’s rulership within the hearts and Ruachs of believers, and the Kingdom of heaven is when that rulership impacts the human earthly environment.

• The Kingdom of The Most High Yah is a Kingdom of light, the light of the knowledge of the Lord.

• The antidote to ignorance is knowledge. Knowledge comes through truth, and truth brings liberation.


• Without Spiritual enlightenment into the divine truth of Hamachiach, all other knowledge ultimately means nothing.

• Yahusha came to restore our position in The Most High Yah’s government—to make us righteous.

• When we are in right relationship with The Most High Yah, He can extend His Kingdom—His rulership—into our lives, and rule the earth through us.

• Through Hamachiach, our sins are forgiven and we receive a full pardon from The Most High Yah.

• Yahusha could not come until a Kingdom model existed as a visual illustration to help people understand His teachings on the Kingdom.

• Hamachiach’s Kingdom of truth is made up of citizens who are not only truth seekers but also truth followers.


“You can not lose what you never had”