PRINCIPLE OF LAW AND CITIZENSHIP PART 2

Psalm chapter 33













Today we are walking in: Principle of Law and Citizenship Part 2







Today we look to the word-WILDERNESS- H4057 midbar --wilderness, pasture, uninhabited land






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






Genesis 16:7




And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, H4057 by the fountain in the way to Shur.






Exodus 4:27




And the LORD said to Aaron, Go into the wilderness H4057 to meet Moses. And he went, and met him in the mount of God, and kissed him.





Numbers 14:33




And your children shall wander in the wilderness H4057 forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. H4057






Deuteronomy 1:31




And in the wilderness, H4057 where thou hast seen how that the LORD thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.







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








Isaiah 42:11




Let the wilderness H4057 and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.





Isaiah 43:19




Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, H4057 and rivers in the desert.





Jeremiah 9:12




Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, H4057 that none passeth through?





Ezekiel 20:13




But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: H4057 they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, H4057 to consume them.








The Writings bear witness.............










Joshua 1:4




From the wilderness H4057 and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.






2Chronicles 1:3




So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness. H4057






Nehemiah 9:19




Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: H4057 the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.





Psalm 65:12




They drop upon the pastures of the wilderness: H4057 and the little hills rejoice on every side.





Psalm 78:15




He clave the rocks in the wilderness, H4057 and gave them drink as out of the great depths.







What makes you different in this world is not only the laws you make but the ones you keep. Nations are making laws that are very dangerous right now. Although the whole earth is mine you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation, these are the words you are to speak to the Israelites. In other words, I want a nation. Not a church, not a religion. I want to build a nation he said. Look at Psalm 33 verse 12 Blessed is the nation whose Yah is the Most High, the people he chose for his inheritance. Look at Psalm 33:16, No king is saved by the size of his army; no warrior escapes by his great strength. So no law enforcement is going to save us from our criminal problems. You can build the defense force all you want but that isn’t going to save your country. You can put bars on your window and put electrical cameras everywhere but that isn’t going to save your country. Your strength will not save you He says. We spend billions of dollars in the world and countries are trying to build armies, to build security. The Most High says that won't keep your city. I'm the only one that will protect your country. Look at Psalm 33 but the eyes of the Most High are on those who fear Him. The Most High says you don't need more war weapons, you need the fear of The Most High to come back to your country. People aren’t afraid of The Most High anymore. So The Most High says therefore that's why you need a lot of police dogs, a lot more police cars, you need a lot of army weapons because you don't fear The Most High. The eyes of the Most High will be upon the country who fears him, on those whose hope in his unfailing love, to deliver them from death and keep them alive in the middle of an economic crisis. According to The Most High, I know this sound very stupid to the some people, but according to The Most High if you fear him he'll turn your economy around. Among all the nations something can happen in your country. You may discover oil in your backyard if you fear The Most High. If your family says, I will keep you from farming that means other nations will fall into a wreck economically but you would be preserved because of what? Fear of The Most High. If we fear The Most High again, he says I'll turn the economy around. Look at Proverbs 11:14. For lack of guidance a nation falls, but victory is won through many advisers. That means they keep making bad decisions because they get wrong counsel from wrong people. They hire more wrong consultants so the nation will fall. In the presence of many good advisors he says victory is sure. In other words, you need to check the kind of people you are getting counsel from. You know all nations want to be successful, don't they? Every country wants to be successful. So what is the key or the keys to national success? I want to show you where we are right now. How many years ago did the founding fathers of this nation set about to begin a land that was free from the oppressive rule of the British? This was recognizing that the preservation of their freedom will be guaranteed by national commitment to self-discipline, industry, loyalty, unity and an honor and an abiding respect for Biblical values and the rule of law. Now I want you to focus on the word freedom. The goal here is freedom. Let me prove that. The initial goal of this country was to be free for royal tyranny. A free democratic, sovereign nation founded on spiritual values and in which no man, woman or child shall never be slave and bondsman to anyone or their labor exploited for their lives or their lives exploited by deprivation. Now I want you to notice that this whole thing is about freedom. You know why? Many of the people who fled to this land called America, were looking for freedom to govern themselves! So when they say freedom in this constitution, they're saying look, this will never happen again. I want to share something very important here. The Most High always promises freedom while you are in the land of slavery. The Most High told the children of Israel there's a land with milk and honey. He told him that when they were in bondage, The Most High always gives you promise about light when you are in darkness, secondly The Most High always raises up a deliverer to bring you out of physical oppression. Here's the problem, The Most High never takes oppressed people directly to freedom. Write that down. The Most High will never take oppressed people directly to freedom, never. If you study history he never took them directly to freedom because their mind is a problem. I want to say this right now, we are not free yet. We are delivered. Don't confuse the two. In other words, The Most High will always lead people into a stage of deliverance, a period where he gives them an opportunity to learn how to live in freedom because freedom is a difficult place to live. It took them 400 years to make it to that point. So when they reach this time, The Most High says if you didn't change your mind, I'm going to kill you. It's found in the Bible. He gives you 400 years to change your thinking from pulling down others to get ahead to working with each other for success! He gives you 400 years to transform your thinking from killing your own brothers and sisters, from stopping their progress, from hindering their advancement. He gives you 400 years to change your mind. I know exactly where we are, as a matter of fact, here's what I believe may be helpful. Exodus 13 verse 17 When Pharaoh let the people go, The Most High did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country even though that was shorter. Doing research about the journey from Egypt to Israel it takes 40 days to walk from Egypt to Canaan. Now let me say it slowly. It takes 40 days to walk from Egypt to Canaan, 40 days. The Most High says I'm not going to take them the short way. He says for if they face war; That means responsibility, pressure, struggles, they might change their minds and return to slavery. There are some people today who still want to go back. The Most High says I could take you there in 40 days but it's not your location I'm concerned about. It's your mentality. So The Most High led them around the desert. Who led them? The Most High. He led them around a desert road toward the Red Sea. He led him into a test to check their minds. It says the Israelites went up out of Egypt armed for battle. They didn’t know how to fight, they never had an army. In other words you have on a suit and can't calculate the interest rate. You put on a fine dress but you still can't run a bank. Armed but can't fight. We look good but we aren’t able to handle it. They still believe you can't own a hotel, they still believe you can’t own the bank. They still believe that you can’t own an organization that's global. They say just get a job and make beds and cut the yard in your suit. Dressed but can't fight. Are you listening to me? Listen The Most High is more concerned about your transformation than he is about your relocation. The Most High says I don't want you to go to Canaan yet because you don’t have the Canaan mentality, so I'm going to keep you in this desert for 40 years. The Most High’s promises always demand preparation. The Most High will never give you what you don't qualify to manage. They couldn't manage freedom so he put them in a classroom called Sinai for 40 years to see if we can get them to be trained mentally to handle responsibility and they failed the test. As a matter of fact, true freedom imposes more law. It demands more work and requires more responsibility than slavery. Freedom is taking responsibility for your own life and we don't want to do that. We still believe that the foreigner is smarter, the investor is more intelligent. So we give them all kinds of perks, all kinds of opportunities and we still don't trust our own people because we are fighting the spirit of ‘you aren’t responsible yet’. We got people with PhDs who cannot be permitted to ride a bike. Then we have folks who come right out of high school in charge of them! This is heavy stuff. Transformation is more important than relocation. Write it down. In other words, mental freedom is more important than physical deliverance. Nothing can corrupt Canaan more than Egyptian slavery thinking. That's why Canaan demands conversion. The enemy of freedom is a slave mentality. Freedom is so special The Most High will keep you out of it until you get the freedom mentality. In other words you need to change the mentality in order to enjoy the relocation. The Most High always provides when you are in deliverance. That's why we survived for years. The Most High provides miracles and deliverance. He gave them free food, free clothing, free water from a rock. He gave them free healing from a snake on a pole. Everything was free. Why? Miracles and deliverance, but when the four hundred years is up the manna stops, the water doesn't come out of the rock anymore and the snake dies. That means you got to go dig your own wells, plant your own farms and you better eat properly. Take care of your own body. 400 years. The Most High will never take a people into the land of freedom until he has taken the land of oppression out of their minds. In other words, The Most High is willing to wait for the right generation to go into the land of freedom.