THE BENEFITS OF BEING A KINGDOM CITIZEN

Hebrews Chapter 7










Today we are walking in: The Benefits Of Being A Kingdom Citizen







2 Samuel 22:21




The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness H6663: according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.













RIGHTEOUSNESS









Today we look to the word RIGHTEOUSNESS--H6663 tsadaq -- Justify, Righteous, Just, Justice, Cleansed, Clear Ourselves, Righteousness








The Torah testifies.........……




Deuteronomy 6:25

And it shall be our righteousness H6663, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.











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






Isaiah 54:17

No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness H6663 is of me, saith the Lord.













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




Proverbs 11:5

The righteousness H6663 of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.




The laws of Yah are the keys to His Kingdom. Abiding by His righteous ruling unlocks the divine power that you need to live as a fully vested citizen of Heaven. Therefore, the more you can learn about his laws, the better. This is a spiritual reality with very practical implications. It changes a person’s lifestyle into a Kingdom lifestyle, and that lifestyle has authoritative power. He says in Matthew chapter 16, I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. When you use the keys of the Kingdom to lock and unlock, bind and unbind, you are not responsible for the exercise of power or for the results. But you are responsible to obtain and use the keys in the first place. By submitting to the laws of the Kingdom, you surrender to the authority of Yah, and that sets you free from the burden of making things happen. Are you with me? Heaven will back you up when you turn one of the keys. Citizens of the Kingdom have a responsibility to learn the words of the Bible. We need to read it often, because we tend to forget what it says. We need to read it more often than we read the newspaper. When the devil attacked Yahashua in the wilderness, His responses came straight from Scripture. He said, “It is written…” Those words were His keys to the Kingdom and victory. Yahashua said in John “Most assuredly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do; for whatever He does, the Son also does in like manner”. He exercised the keys of Kingdom authority better than anybody before or since. He wants nothing more than for the citizens of His Kingdom to exercise those same keys. You need to do only two things:

Seek the Kingdom in order to get into citizenship and Seek the King’s righteousness in order to stay in it. In other words, stay aligned with the King. When you stay aligned with the King and His government, you obligate Him to take care of you. All of the promises in the constitution remain accessible to you, as needed. Things that you would otherwise need to fight for will come your way with no sweat. That is why the Scripture reads, “Seek first the kingdom of Yah and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” Having all these things added means you will have a lot of unwanted things subtracted, things like bad health, stress, and anxiety. You should not be living to make a living. Your priority should not be working and living just to earn enough money to pay your bills. Yahashua has another perspective on such things. He says, in Matthew chapter 6 verse 34 “take no thought for them”. Instead of fretting about food and clothing and adding to an endless list of prayer requests, why not take His advice? Righteous means obeying the laws of Yah, out of love for Him and with his help. The word “righteous” means right positioning under authority, alignment with authority, right standing with authority, fellowship with authority, relationship with authority, correct standing with the regulations of authority and fulfillment of a king’s requirements. Obedience to the laws of any nation is a form of righteousness, and that obedience keeps you in good standing within the country. You know what it feels like to transgress a law and how it makes your heart thump faster when you see the police coming, even if that person does not know what you did. You have a private judge on the inside that makes you feel guilty. You know that you are out of alignment because you violated a regulation. The only solution is to re-engage with your authority, to get back under his legal protection. Seek to regain and maintain your alignment with the governing authorities, and you will regain access to everything in the constitution. Citizenship is the key to empowerment, because it provides legitimate access to all the rights and privileges of a state. When you become a citizen of the Kingdom, your citizenship is registered in heaven. So, you obtain all the rights and privileges of Heaven. With the keys of the Kingdom in your hands, you have access to the storehouse. As long as you keep those keys in your hands, you can go in and out as often as you want to. This puts you in a particular category and it is a powerful category. For you as a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven, nothing is impossible. Yahashua told a story about a widow who went before an ungodly judge in Luke chapter 18. He was the worst judge around, a man who did not fear Yah and did not honor people. In those days, widows were destitute. They had nobody to look after their rights or their welfare. They were very vulnerable. This particular widow was no different from the others, except that she knew her rights. She knew that she had a right to her claim before the judge, and she was unrelenting in her persistence. When that little widow stood before that judge, she knew her stuff. The judge said, “No.” She persisted anyway. The judge said, “Go away.” She came back. She was not begging or weeping. She was making a request, because she knew what her rights were. She knew the judge was required to render them to her. Most think of the words “judge” and “judgement” in a negative sense. We think of judgemental statements and consignment to prison (or to hell). But when the Bible says Yahashua was a righteous judge, it means He is the judge who is always lined up correctly with the laws of Yah- the one who gives you your rights. Train your mind to think of Him as a judge who is a rights-giver. His job is to get you what is rightfully yours. The lawyer makes the appeal but the judge executes justice. The better you know what is written in the law-book, the Bible, the better you will know what your rights are. I have been calling it the constitution of the Kingdom, because it tells you all of your rights, privileges, expectations, aspirations, and hopes- and it tells you what you need to do to obtain and attain them. If you know what the Bible says and you follow it, you will be a law-abiding citizen who will not lose your rights. In our experience, the Ruach Hakodesh is the Advocate, Counselor, or chief lawyer before the throne of Yah. We know that the Bible was written by the inspiration of the Ruach. This guarantees that the Ruach knows that legal document front-ward and backward. Because He abides inside of us after we become reborn citizens, we do not have to come before the Judge all alone. The Spirit brings the law to our remembrance, and He makes our appeal to Yahushua, Hebrews chapter 7 verse 25 says “[who] always lives to make intercession for them”. He is praying for us, standing between Heaven’s judgement and our sin. This is a setup for total success. How can you go into that courtroom and lose a case? Even more powerful, this intercessor is your brother. Before you even get to the room, he is praying for you. He is offering His own righteousness on your behalf. When you walk in, you do not need to say anything. The Ruach Hakodesh looks at the Abba and says, “According to what He did” nodding toward Yahashua who took care of the matter on the crucifixion stake, and the appeal gets finalized. Your advocate does not bring up your name. He brings the name of the King who paid the price for you and who has been praying for you ever since. You have the whole government backing you up. Prayer itself does not get things done. Positioning in prayer gets things done. The best preparation for prayer is your obedience to the laws of Yah. Many times, the reason Yah cannot help you is because you ask Him last. Only by staying aligned with the Lawgiver and Judge, through the work of the Ruach and Son, can you prevail. Have you noticed that if you have just sinned, you are unable to find boldness in prayer? When you break Yah’s law, it shuts down your prayer life. You have cancelled your right to appeal. Psalm chapter 66 verse 18 says “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me”. The prophet Isaiah stated it clearly in Isaiah chapter 59 verse 2 “But your iniquities have separated you from your Yah; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear”. It will not matter how loudly you beg for mercy and cry out for help, because Yah does not bless you because you cry; He blessed you because you qualify. Citizens have authority in prayer as long as they have maintained their side of their covenant with the King. The covenant is a legal agreement. You do not have to go before Him with theatrics or hysterics any more than a lawyer would go before a judge that way. You just have to be a citizen in good standing, and the judge will hear your case. Does that sound too legalistic to you? Did you think that Yahashuas’ coming meant the end of the Law? I have news for you; His coming meant that the Law was fulfilled in Him. “Hamashiach is the culmination of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes” according to Romans. Everybody in the Kingdom is equal. The King does not listen to special interest groups, and nobody has to wear special Kingdom regalia to get His attention. Any citizen of the Kingdom has equal access to the King. He will act on the behalf of anyone as soon as He sees that Yahashua is standing there on that person’s behalf.