PRINCIPLE OF LAW AND CITIZENSHIP PART 3

Deuteronomy chapter 8










Today we are walking in: Principle Of Law And Citizenship







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.










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. The Most High always raises up a new leader to take the people into freedom when the people arrive in the land of freedom. The miraculous stops and the work begins in the land of freedom. You must grow your own food, you must sew your own clothing and build your own homes. In freedom you must fight your own battles! When they came out of Egypt they didn't fight a single person, the Most High killed a whole army of Pharaoh by Himself! They never fought, but when they went into the land of Canaan, the first day--the first thing Joshua saw in Jericho was a man dressed in armor. The first thing Moses saw was a burning bush a miracle, the first thing Joshua saw was a man in armor, a fighter. The Most High was saying okay every thing in Moses’ time is a miracle. In Joshua’s time, you better fight, your way to get what you need.

And Joshua had to fight to possess the land, in other words there must be the breaking of the chain mentally--write this down please. What is the responsibility of freedom? Freedom is a tough place we are about to enter it, 400 years is up! This means that we are about to leave the wilderness and cross over 40 years is always the amount that the Most High gives us in

Scripture for a generation. As a matter of fact generation is the fullness of national service. The Most High gives you 40 years for national service that means to serve your country. After that you better have done your job!

Generation is the completion of one phase and the transfer to another. That's what fourty means. Forty also means the number of succession. Forty also means the number of transfer. Forty also means the number of transformation. That means if you don't change at forty, the Most High gets rid of you. Let's see if this is true

2 Samuel 5:4-5 4 David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. 5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.

Now let’s look at the next verse, 1 Kings 11:42-43 42 And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. 43 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.

Still not convinced?? Ok I have one more:

Psalm 95:10-11 10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: 11 Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest.

Look at that He swore that He would kill all of them because they would not change their mentality! The people have been in leadership in this country for all of these years yet they still have Egypt all over them. The scent of the slave ship is still in their nostrils, so mentally they can't crossover. They are good people and have a tremendous desire to crossover but they just can mentally make it. Sometimes we call them, bankrupt of ideas. The Most High says at 40 you are beyond thinking creatively now. So you keep bringing up the old system, the old methods, the old style. Because you are stuck in the old generation, give the Most High a hand for a new revelation coming!! We have to get this right!! In the next general election, cannot reappoint the same leaders!!! Impossible!!! I'm telling you, by divine design that's impossible! Every leader in the Bible finished at forty and they succeeded--David didn't wait till he died to give it to Solomon. Neither did Solomon and wait to give it to Rehoboam! In other words, you don't wait until you die--you give it to them while you're living! Here son, take it to the next level I'm stuck!! Forty years means times up, either you change or die!

There's no greater burden than freedom that's why the Most High says you got to be free, to get into freedom! In other words everyone cries for freedom but few of them understand it. That's why we can't get there. Freedom is like love and beauty--you can't understand it, but you know it when you feel it. It's strange, the human spirit wants to be free.

There’s an experiment by a psychologist, they tied the dog to a stake with a chain. Then they place food in front of the dog. They placed it just far away that the dog could not reach it and the dog was so hungry he dashed toward the food with all of his strength--when he leaped the chain yanked his neck back and he choked. But he looked at the food, he was so hungry he jumped at it again and he choked and he jumped at it again and he choked and he kept jumping at the food but it was too far away. And his neck began to wear against the chain and then blood began to show up on his neck. And he felt the pain and the dog decided the pain is too great it's greater than the food. So the dog refused to move. That dog looked at the food after they loosed the chain, he was free but he was afraid to go to the food because he remembered the pain. I am going to say that again, he was free, but he refused to go to the food because he remembered the pain. Do you see the problem? It is the memory of the pain. Are we afraid to believe we can do great things at forty? Yes we are. You go to apply for a certain type of business, will they say to you--you can't do? Or to apply for a car loan or get a mortgage, that they would tell you can’t do that. How do they know that?? They don't know, but they've been tied to the stake so long and they were told no for so long they believe that they can not reach the food--even after the chain is loosed. Write this down please this is very important, we can die in the presence of resources. Africa is suffering from this right now. The wealthiest continent on Earth is Africa and yet it's the poorest!

I am going to say that again, you can die in the presence of plenty, even though you call yourself free--the memory is more powerful than the chain!! In other words, the chain is still in your mind--we are tied to a stake. Our social, economic and religious conditioning ties us to an invisible stake!! Positions does not guarantee disposition!! You change your position but your disposition is still the same. In other words, new does not guarantee change without mental transformation!! You can go to a new place, but continue to do the old things!! What you feed your soul determines your quality of life! Be careful, it can decrease your freedom! In essence, freedom is a result of mental adjustment, not relocation. All of the children of Israel, never made it to Canaan. Their location was changed, but the mentality never did. Forty years they were still thinking the same way. I want to show you something about these people. It is possible to be delivered and not free!! Deliverance is the physical relocation of liberation of a person. It removes your environment of oppression. Deliverance is the separation of the slave from the physical condition of slavery. Deliverance is just physical relocation or the breaking of something physical. We must never confuse the difference with slavery and your freedom! As a matter of fact, oppression is the cancellation of self-determination! When a person would say, I can not make my life anymore, this is called breaking the spirit. Oppression produces deep spirit of dependency and lack of self-determination when you are in slavery you become dependent on the master and you are afraid to think for yourself. That's why creativity is never among slaves, because the master thinks for them. They were not trained to think about solving their own problems with new ideas. A slave mentality is never creative, write that down. A slave mentality thinks about pain but not planning! A slave mentality always thinks of what cannot be done. Why it can't be done. The pain--your mental state is more important than your physical state. You are truly not free until your mind is liberated.This is why at 400 years in this country we must deal with our question--what are we mentally? Freedom is first a mental condition before it is a physical statement. This was the foundation of the freedom statement of Yahusha Ha Maschiach, He said the truth will make you free! The truth. Knowing the truth is mental experience. You will know the truth about yourself--something is supposed to happen in your mind and then you are free. I became free when my mind discovered who I was in HaMashiach! My whole life changed!!

Fiveamprayer, you got to become a global citizen thinker, if you're gonna be free from this small mentality!! There is so much that we could do, start our own businesses. Buy up land and construct buildings for businesses and residents. This is a total shift in our mind!! How many businesses would have a place to operate if you were to build that building? Who would be hired to construct, wire and plumb these buildings? Yet when you are stuck to the chain--for 400 years you find that the time has passed but mentally it is more of the same.

After 400 years is it too late? Is it possible to do it?? Four hundred years later, we have to know that our mental state is more important than our physical state. Write this down, no one is more dangerous than a mountain man with a valley mentality. I am going to say that again-- no one is more dangerous than a mountain man with a valley mentality. We own the mountain now, you know, but our mind didn't make it--it's still in the valley! Change has come and the mind is still set. One of the things that I learned is that deliverance is not freedom--it prepares you for freedom! You're not free until your mind is free! Your mind can only be free by the discovery of the truth about yourself! Freedom is not the absence of law, freedom is actually requirement of more law, of discipline and responsibility. Deliverance provides you the opportunity to be free. When the Most High delivered those people out of Egypt, they weren't free. It took 40 years and give he gave them a chance to see if they were ready for freedom and they didn't make it. Write this down please, Sir Winston Churchill said it so well he said the price of greatness is responsibility! You want to be great you, have to become responsible for your own future. Design and believe that you can actually design your own future. This is why I believe that the greatest prototype we have about slavery is the children of Israel coming out of Egypt. It is easy to exist in slavery than to live in freedom! Some people are so busy trying to get over their past they don't have time to live their future! There is no freedom without responsibility!