YOU ARE A CREATION!!!!!!

Exodus chapter 20




Today we are walking in: You Are A Creation!!!!




Today we look to the word- CREATE- H1254- bara’ - create, creator, choose, make, cut down, dispatch, done, make fat









The Torah testifies……………




Genesis 1:1




In the beginning God created H1254 the heaven and the earth.










The Prophets proclaim…………………




Isaiah 4:5




And the LORD will create H1254 upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.









The Writings witness……………………




Psalm 51:10




Create H1254 in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.







THE MOST HIGH YAH CREATED A WORLD JUST FOR YOU



One of the fundamental principles of creation is that whenever The Most High Yah creates something, He designs it according to its purpose and intended environment. In other words, when The Most High Yah created birds to fly, He gave them wings and the desire to fly. When The Most High Yah created fish to swim, He put in them the ability to swim and gave them gills so they could breathe in water. When The Most High Yah created mankind to have dominion over the earth, He imparted to us the ability to govern, rule, lead, and manage the earth, its creatures, and resources. We are designed to rule, not to be ruled. We are designed to govern, not to be governed. We are designed to manage, not to be managed. We are designed to lead, not to follow.


Whenever anyone tries to tell us what to do, even someone in a legitimate position of authority, there arises in us a Spirit or attitude of resistance. It is our nature to resist being ruled or controlled by others. This is due in part to our sinful nature, which we inherited from Adam and Eve, and which the Bible says is always in rebellion against The Most High Yah, who is the ultimate and absolute authority. Adam and Eve sinned when, out of pride, they sought to be equal with The Most High Yah, their Creator, and free from His authority over them.



Our resistance to others ruling over us is also due to the Spirit of leadership that The Most High Yah placed in us when He created us. The Most High Yah’s purpose was for us to rule over the created order as vice-regents under His authority. He designed us for that purpose and put in us the appropriate Spirit and innate ability to fulfill our destiny. Sin distorted and exaggerated that Spirit, pushing it beyond the bounds that The Most High Yah intended. Our natural tendency is to resist all authority, including The Most High Yah’s.



One reason so many of us experience frustration in life is because our environment has changed. We were designed to rule our lives and environment but instead we live in a world where we are ruled by our own pride, lust, passion, greed, and selfishness. We are dominated by the adversary, HaSatan, the author of sin and the instigator of humanity’s downfall. The Most High Yah designed us for mastery, yet that is not the reality we experience in our daily living. We are frustrated because we are not fulfilling our purpose. We do not function properly because we are not living in the environment for which we were designed.


The key to fulfilled and purposeful living is discovering how to regain our place of dominion, to return to our position of leadership in the earthly domain as The Most High Yah originally intended. To do this, we must understand the contrasts between the two kingdoms that envelop our lives as well as how we are to integrate ourselves properly into these two different worlds.





THE SEEDS OF LEADERSHIP


When The Most High Yah created us, He gave us everything we needed to fulfill His original plan and purpose. Because The Most High Yah designed us to lead, the seeds of leadership lie within us, dormant until they are ready to be activated by the power of The Most High Yah. For this reason, leadership is not something we should have to study as much as something that is already inside us. It is a matter of discovering and nurturing those powers of leadership within us.


Within the earthly realm, The Most High Yah has given us great freedom. Ultimately, the kind of leaders we become and the degree of dominion we exercise depends upon us. The Most High Yah will never violate our freedom or override the dominion Ruach He placed within us. Although, I must say that He might make life awfully unbearable for us until we turn toward Him. The Ruach Hackodesh will never force our hand. But as we allow Him, the Ruach Hackodesh will convict us, guide us, and lead us, but He will never drive us.


Some of you may question this concept of the leadership potential within you. Maybe you consider yourself to be a follower and not a leader. Maybe you think you don’t have the skills, qualities, ability, or experience to be a leader. Perhaps you have accepted the negative things others have said about you. In truth, it does not matter what other people say or think, or even what we think of ourselves. What matters is how The Most High Yah sees us, and He sees us as leaders and rulers in the earthly domain. He created us for this purpose and designed us with the necessary abilities to fulfill our destiny.


As Creator, The Most High Yah knows what is inside each one of us because He put it there. Whenever The Most High Yah speaks to you, He addresses you based on what He knows about you, not on what other people think they know.


CALLED TO DO THE IMPOSSIBLE


The Bible is full of stories of people who were called out of ordinary circumstances and challenged by The Most High Yah to do the impossible. When childless Abraham and Sarah were in their old age, far beyond the normal years for childbearing, The Most High Yah told them, “You will have a son, and he will grow into a great nation.”


The Lord appeared to Gideon, the youngest of his family, which was of the least of the tribes of Israel, and He addressed him as “mighty warrior” (Judg. 6:12) and used him to deliver his people from the marauding Midianites.


In the eyes of his family, David may have been only a runt, useful for nothing but herding sheep. Nevertheless, The Most High Yah said, “You are a king,” and sent Samuel to anoint him as such.


Seeing Joseph while he was a slave in Egypt, The Most High Yah said, “You are a ruler,” and elevated him to the position of prime minister under Pharaoh.


When The Most High Yah speaks to us, He always speaks to the real person, not the person others see or even how we see ourselves. He looks beyond our external circumstances and personal characteristics as He addresses the leader inside us. No matter who we are, where we are, or what we do, The Most High Yah wants to deploy us into leadership. Wherever we work, whatever our career, we should think of our employment not as just a job but as an opportunity The Most High Yah has given us to release our leadership abilities. We should not complain about our wages or salary because we are already worth more than anyone could ever pay us. Work is not about simply making money in order to live. Work is also about being trained to assume our rightful place of leadership in the world.


As believers, we are all children of the King. The first step in successfully navigating between two kingdoms is learning how to think and act like the King’s children. In Spiritual reality we are all princes and princesses, but practically speaking most of us are not there yet because negative thinking has stunted our mental processes. Because we never learned to think like royalty, we still act like the prodigal son, seeking only the servant’s share.


The Most High Yah wants us to open our eyes to see the wonders of who we truly are—His children—and reach out to claim all that is ours by right of sonship. It all comes down to a decision that each of us alone must make: whether we will live as sons and daughters in the Kingdom of The Most High Yah, or as subjects in the kingdom of the world.


KINGDOMS IN CONFLICT


The Most High Yah reigns as King and absolute Sovereign over all things in both the Spiritual and physical realms. After He created the earth with all its varied plant and animal life, He created mankind to rule over it. By His design we are rulers over the earthly domain. The Most High Yah is King of the universe, and we are His ruling representatives in the physical realm. The earth is our designated territory. 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, therefore, is not the earth itself, but the ones chosen to function as His rulers in the earthly domain. This planet is not the Kingdom of The Most High Yah. The Most High Yah’s Kingdom is us carrying out His dominion on this planet. The Most High Yah’s Kingdom is manifest in His people rather than in a particular place.


Psalm 115:16 says, “The highest heavens belong to the Lord, but the earth He has given to man.” Every king or ruler must have territory to rule. Heaven is The Most High Yah’s territory; the earth is ours. We were born to dominate earth, not heaven. That is why heaven is always a temporary excursion for the human Ruach; it is not our territory.


Yahusha spoke constantly about the Kingdom. Sometimes He referred to the “Kingdom of The Most High Yah,” and other times to the “Kingdom of heaven.” One deals with the person while the other deals with the place. Essentially, both phrases are the same, with one distinction. Whenever Yahusha mentions the “Kingdom of The Most High Yah,” He is referring to the actual rule of The Most High Yah in the Spiritual realm. When He says, the “Kingdom of heaven,” He is talking about its “headquarters” and the heavenly invasion upon the earth, or the transfer of power from the Spiritual realm to the physical.


The prayer of the The Most High Yah illustrates this truth when He prays that the will of The Most High Yah be done in the earth regions as it is done in heaven’s realm. The first speaks to The Most High Yah’s actual rulership, while the second speaks of the source of that invading powerful Kingdom and its impact on the regions of the earth. As His representatives we are called to enforce the rule of heaven in the affairs of man.


The Kingdom of The Most High Yah on earth, therefore, is The Most High Yah’s authority within the heart and Ruach of man, and the Kingdom of heaven is when that authority impacts the human earthly environment through His designated representatives.


In other words, we who are the “Kingdom of The Most High Yah” on earth can, through the Ruach Hackodesh, take our King with us everywhere we go and impact our environment by helping bring the “Kingdom of heaven” to that place. This is what Yahusha meant when He said, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near” (Matt. 4:17). He had arrived, bringing the Kingdom with Him and in Him. With His Ruach in us, we, too, carry His Kingdom with us wherever we go.


A KINGDOM OF IGNORANCE


The Most High Yah’s orderly design was disrupted by the fall of man. By their disobedience, Adam and Eve abdicated their throne of earthly dominion, yielding it to HaSatan, the architect and instigator of their fall. This ushered in a counterfeit kingdom that the Bible calls the “kingdom of darkness,” which is in constant conflict with the Kingdom of The Most High Yah. When man chose to will something other than the will of The Most High Yah, he created a great disturbance in the force and initiated a time of great darkness.


Frequently throughout the Bible, the word darkness is used as a symbol of ignorance, while the word light represents knowledge. The kingdom of darkness, then, “is a domain where the king rules by ignorance—not in ignorance, but by ignorance.” HaSatan rules his kingdom of darkness by keeping his “subjects” in ignorance of the true nature of their environment and of the existence of The Most High Yah’s Kingdom. He fills their heads with lies and deception. HaSatan controls his subjects by keeping them “in the dark” regarding Spiritual truth. He blinds their minds lest they understand the glorious good news of Yahusha and the Kingdom of heaven.


The apostle Paul stated it this way: “The The Most High Yah of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Hamachiach, who is the image of The Most High Yah” (2 Cor. 4:4).


In contrast to the darkness of ignorance, light symbolizes knowledge. The Kingdom of The Most High Yah is a Kingdom of light, the light of the knowledge of the Lord. Proverbs 1:7 says, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline” [emphasis mine]. In this verse, the word fools refers to “people who are morally deficient.” The Most High Yah’s Kingdom of light brings the knowledge of grace, forgiveness, and salvation in Hamachiach. In his letter to the believers in the city of Colosse, Paul wrote of The Most High Yah as “...the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. For He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son He loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins” (Col. 1:12- 14).


Darkness and light—ignorance and knowledge—are opposites that exist in continual conflict with each other.


We either walk in the darkness of ignorance or in the light of knowledge. The two cannot coexist.


CREATING A LIGHT IN THE DARK PLACES


I have made it clear that there are two kingdoms with which we must deal on a daily basis. One is a counterfeit kingdom of darkness controlled by a false prince who rules by the power of deception and enforced ignorance. The other is the true and legitimate Kingdom ruled by the King of kings and Lord of lords, who rules by the power of light, knowledge, and truth.


The Most High Yah’s plan is to restore His original design to rule the visible earthly realm from the invisible heavenly realm. This plan is accomplished through human beings who properly exercise their dominion over the earth. In order for us to fulfill our destiny we must overthrow HaSatan from the throne of the earthly domain he seized illegitimately. From a Ruachual standpoint, this has already happened through the death and resurrection of Yahusha Hamachiach: “The reason the Son of The Most High Yah appeared was to destroy the devil’s work” (1 John 3:8b).


Yahusha’ death on the crucifixion stake broke sin’s power forever; His resurrection from the grave conquered death for all time: “Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?’ The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to The Most High Yah! He gives us the victory through our Lord Yahusha Hamachiach” (1 Cor. 15:55-57).


In a practical sense, from the beachhead established at Calvary, we must move forth in an all-out attack to free mankind from bondage to the devil and his evil kingdom of darkness. We who are in Hamachiach must work to eliminate the ignorance of those still trapped in the darkness of HaSatan’s deceptions. The antidote to ignorance is knowledge. Knowledge comes through truth, and truth brings liberation. Yahusha said, “If you hold to My teaching, you are really My disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free....I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed” (John 8:31-32; 34–36).


KNOWLEDGE: INFORMATION FROM THE MOST HIGH YAH


Knowledge lies at the heart of the struggle between the two kingdoms, because knowledge is where the adversary mounted his original attack on humanity. HaSatan’s most powerful weapon is ignorance, but to use it he must first destroy or distort true knowledge. That is exactly what he did with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. He deceived and overcame them by attacking the source and substance of their knowledge.


The first thing The Most High Yah gave Adam for their protection was information: “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die” (Gen. 2:16-17). Adam received knowledge; he knew what the boundaries were and what was expected of him. Furthermore, he passed this knowledge on to Eve after she appeared on the scene. As long as they obeyed The Most High Yah and respected His boundaries, they would live and prosper and enjoy unlimited fellowship with their Creator.


HaSatan, that serpent and deceiver, was very subtle in his approach. He did not launch a direct attack on The Most High Yah, but sowed seeds of distrust in Adam and Eve’s minds that led them to doubt and question the truth and veracity of the knowledge The Most High Yah had given them and, therefore, to doubt The Most High Yah Himself.


Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord The Most High Yah had made. He said to the woman, “Did The Most High Yah really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but The Most High Yah did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’” “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For The Most High Yah knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like The Most High Yah, knowing good and evil” (Gen. 3:1- 5).


Did The Most High Yah really say that?


The first thing the devil did was attempt to get Eve to doubt whether she correctly understood The Most High Yah’s instructions: “Did The Most High Yah really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” Next, he suggested to her that The Most High Yah was not being straightforward with them in His prohibition against eating the fruit from the tree in the middle of the Garden. “You will not surely die...For The Most High Yah knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like The Most High Yah, knowing good and evil.” In this he represented The Most High Yah as knowing both good and evil. In His omniscience, The Most High Yah understands the nature of evil, but in His perfection He does not know evil experientially. HaSatan knows evil because he is evil and, after their disobedience, Adam and Eve knew it also.


As a result of HaSatan’s ploy, Adam and Eve developed a distorted understanding of the knowledge The Most High Yah had given them. They succumbed to the devil’s manipulation and trickery to become “like The Most High Yah,” although they were already like Him. Once they took the devil’s bait, they fell into sin and became like the devil. In their sin, Adam and Eve, rather than becoming like The Most High Yah, became less like The Most High Yah than they were before.