UNDERSTANDING THE NATURE OF KINGDOM

Genesis chapter 1








Today we are walking in: Understanding The Nature Of Kingdom 








Numbers 24:7


He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom H4467 shall be exalted.





KINGDOM



Today we look to the word-KINGDOM- H4467 mamlâkâh, (mam-law-kaw') -dominion, (abstractly) the estate (rule) or (concretely) the country (realm):—kingdom, king's, reign, royal



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


Exodus 19:6


And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.


Numbers 32:33


And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom H4467 of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom H4467 of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.


Deuteronomy 17:18


And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, H4467 that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:




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


1 Samuel 10:18


And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, H4467 and of them that oppressed you:



Isaiah 9:7


Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.




Jeremiah 18:9


And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom H4467, to build and to plant it;







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



1 Kings 9:5


Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom H4467 upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.



1 Chronicles 17:11


And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I will raise up thy seed after thee, which shall be of thy sons; and I will establish his kingdom H4467.


Psalm 145:13


Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.









RESTORING THE KINGDOM ATMOSPHERE


I want us to turn to Genesis, let me come back to Ezekiel in a minute because I want to read from Ezekiel about the environment of Yah but I want us to just check a couple of things here about the atmosphere. The first thing Yah gave man is found in Genesis chapter 1 verse 26 and that was, write this down, he gave man an image. What did he give man? An image. What did he give man? An image. Yah gave you an image. Let us make man in our own image. The word image doesn't mean to look like, it means to have the same nature of. So Yah created you with his own nature. The word nature is where we get our word natural from. Natural and therefore whatever Yah is naturally he made you to be naturally and Yah is naturally love but he's also naturally a ruler that's why he is called Yahovah Yirah, Yahovah Rapha, Yahovah shalom, Yahovah means almighty, he is in charge and he gave us that same nature of rulership. Now please look if you will chapter 2 of Genesis verse 7 and the Most High Yah formed a man from the dust of the ground and Yah breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and the man became a living being, a living soul, a complete soul and that word actually means a composite. You know man is made up of three unique dimensions, a body which is his house, a spirit which is the man and a soul which is his mind and will and emotions, which connect the two. When Yah breathe into man the breath of life man became a complete whole trinity in one but verse 8 is more important. This morning I want to focus on verse 8. Verse 8 says and the Most High Yah planted a garden in eden, east in eden and there he put the man that he had formed. The Most High Yah planted a garden, I want you to put in your notes, Yah himself created it. Man did not plant the garden, man had nothing to do with the garden. The bible says, Yah himself planted the garden now what's very important here, I want to reinforce this. The Most High Yah put the man in the garden, this is very important to understand that man did not wander into the garden, Yah didn't allow the man to discover the garden, Yah didn't leave it up to the man to find it, no Yah didn't trust that. Yah created it and then he put the man in it which tells us something about the garden and that is man needs the garden. The kingdom of The Most High Yah is already with you. The kingdom of The Most High Yah is not really a physical territory. The kingdom of The Most High Yah is a jurisdiction over which the influence of The Most High Yah has full authority. Wherever you are, your influence, the kingdom of The Most High Yah has come to that place. The Bible says as many as believe on him; to them give you the authority to call themselves sons of The Most High Yah. Not servants. We're family to The Most High Yah. Now the Bible also calls you, write this word down please, ambassador. The Bible does call you that. You are an ambassador. Ambassadors work in diplomatic centers. You are an official agency representing the kingdom government of The Most High Yah. You are now sitting in the legislative session of this particular gathering of diplomats. Let me tell you something about ambassadors. So wherever the authority of a government is, that becomes the government's property and therefore all the authority and rights and powers of that country comes to effect on that property. The Most High Yah says you are ambassadors of Hamachiach in heaven and you are what? You are sojourners on the earth. Sojourners means you are in a foreign country but the property belongs to the government of heaven. I like what the government of my country says. Psalm chapter 68 verse 14 it says the earth is still The Most High's and the fullness thereof and all in it. In other words, this whole place is my government's property. In other words, if you don't take charge, then it stays under someone else's influence. That is why you can cast HaSatan out of the earth, because this is not his legal territory. It belongs to The Most High Yah's government and you are his citizens. The Most High Yah told the children of Israel, the Death messenger is going to come over Egypt and the death messenger is going to kill everything, so I tell you what I'm going to do. I'm going to make your house Heaven's property. That's Kingdom business he is dealing with. He says I've have to put a sign over your property so the messenger will know that's property we own. So The Most High Yah says I want you to kill a lamb and dip the branch in the blood and put the blood across the lintel and the doorpost and when the death messenger comes he will see the blood and say Heaven’s property and he'll pass over. When you are a citizen you are under government jurisdiction. When you are a Christian, you are under religion. Yahusha came to restore the kingdom of sons back to earth. The kingdom prepares you to invade earth. Religion focuses on heaven. The kingdom focuses on earth. Religion reaches up to The Most High Yah. The kingdom reaches down from heaven to earth. Religion wants you to escape earth. The kingdom wants you to invade earth. Religion seeks to take earth to heaven. The kingdom seeks to bring heaven to earth. They are completely opposite to each other. The earth was created by The Most High for Kingdom expansion. Write this down. It's very important. In the Book of Isaiah 45:18 For thus saith the Most High that created the heavens; Yah himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the Most High; and there is none else.The Most High says I've made the earth and I created it to be inhabited not to be empty. He made the earth to expand his kingdom from the unseen to the seen, from the invisible to the visible. He wanted to extend his kingdom from the supernatural to the natural. So his goal was to expand heaven to earth. Mankind was created by The Most High for the purpose of expanding The Most High's heavenly kingdom to earth. That's why you were created. The Most High's motivation for creating humanity was not so they can have religions that worship Him. That was not his motivation. His motivation was very clear, the big picture was to expand his kingdom to another territory and to do that you need to put your citizens in the territory. The Most High had no citizens, he only had messengers so he decided to produce his own citizens out of his own spirit and he called them man. His goal was not for them to stay in heaven. You can't expand without expanding. So heaven was not The Most High's destination for you. Heaven is your home country but earth is your assignment!! So his goal was to expand heaven to earth through his own children by placing them on the planet. Adam was given kingdom rulership over the territory of Earth. The word Dominion means to govern, to rule, to control, to manage, to lead, to have authority or sovereign rights, power over, to have kingship. He was telling us the whole species, rule fish and birds and cattle and animals and plants. Why? Because they are all rulers. So The Most High created a nation of kings.That's why it was he who told Pilate, when Pilate says I've got power to give you life with my thumb or to give you death. Why? I represent Caesar. Hamachiach never spoke during the trial until Pilate said that. Now Pilate is talking kingdom talk. So Yahusha cleared his throat, blood all dried all over his face and he said, “Mister Pilate, My Kingdom is not of this world and even now if I give the signal legions of messengers will come into this castle and wipe this place out. He threatened Pilate. I don't know what happened to Pilate but Pilate must have felt the words in his bones, something shuddered in his body and Pilate from that time forward tried to let him go. Yahusha said just like the Abba sent me, so send I you. The Bible says the messengers have been given charge. Charge means responsibility concerning you to keep you in all of your ways and they are ministering spirits sent forth to protect and minister to those and to do the bidding of those who are heirs of salvation in Hebrews chapter 2. Therefore, The Most High Yah's real purpose is kingdom and it's found in this verse we always talk about. Let us make man in our own image, our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, birds of the air. That means the rule of The Most High Yah in the visible world was The Most High Yah's original desire. I want to repeat these statements, if you can write them down if you're interested. The Most High Yah's desire was to rule the seen world, through the unseen Ruach HaQadesh, living in the unseen spirit of man, in the seen body on the scene earth. So the key to The Most High Yah's rulership is that unseen living, in the unseen. As long as the Ruach HaQadesh is inside a person's spirit, then The Most High Yah's King Dominion Kingdom, his rulership can happen on earth. So when a man loses the Ruach HaQadesh, then The Most High Yah's kingdom cannot happen on earth. Are you with me? Let me put it this way. There's a kingdom of darkness and there's a kingdom of light. You were born into the kingdom of darkness that's why you couldn't help sinning. But the Bible says Yahusha came to destroy the works of HaSatan and to set you free from the kingdom of darkness and to translate you into the kingdom of light and therefore we were once children of darkness but now we are children of light and therefore we walk in the light as he is in the light and the blood of Yahusha Hamachiach cleanses all of our sins and we have authority and fellowship one with another. That means when you were taken out of the kingdom of darkness and put into the kingdom of light as an ambassador all of HaSatan's power against you was no longer working. That means you cannot represent HaSatan anymore. People who joined the church never had an encounter with Yahusha, never been born again, never had the Ruach HaQadesh in their lives and they go to church taking communion. Saying you are an ambassador doesn't make you an ambassador. A person is only an ambassador as long as the government gives him that authority. Hamachiach says as many as believed on me to them give I the power to call themselves sons of The Most High Yah. You have to realize, once you have given your life to the The Most High and believe in him and receive the Ruach that it doesn't matter what anyone says about you anymore. He told you, you are a son or daughter of The Most High Yah. Once you connect to the government of The Most High Yah you are a son of The Most High Yah. Now ladies and gentlemen, once you lose the connection with the government, what happens? You are no longer a representative. When Adam sinned the government recalled the Ruach HaQadesh. Get it? When Adam sinned, he disobeyed The Most High Yah and the government recalled its power. Because the ghost that the government sends is a Ruach HaQadesh and Adam became an unholy container, so the government withdrew its powers. The Ruach HaQadesh went back. So now we have a guy parading like he is representing The Most High Yah, without any power. That's why HaSatan began to run our lives when Adam sinned. We had no more power from the government. So from Adam chapter three of Genesis all the way to Matthew chapter four we have a family of ambassadors misrepresenting the government. They had no power. In the Old Testament you may find this interesting, but in the Old Testament do you realize that the Ruach HaQadesh couldn't live in anybody all throughout the Old Testament? Why? Because the Ruach of the government is holy and the vessels were unholy and there's not been any sacrifice made that was good enough to make the vessels holy. So the Ruach HaQadesh only did one thing in the Old Testament. He would come upon them, they would prophesy and then he'd leave. He'd come upon Samson, he'd be strong then he'd leave. He'd come with Elijah, he would work a miracle, then he’d leave. He'd come upon Jacob, he would do something great, then he would leave. He'd come upon Enoch, he would do a great work, then he would leave. He would come upon the works of Gideon and upon Josiah, he'd come upon these great people and work a miracle, then he would leave. Why? He couldn't live inside of them and therefore they could not execute the administration of the kingdom of The Most High Yah every day. Another statement that’s used for the king of The Most High Yah coming is, “the word of the The Most High came unto me.” You've heard that. That means what? The Ruach of the The Most High came unto me. All through the Bible, the word of the The Most High came unto me, I prophesied and then he left. This happened all the way to Malachi, last prophet in the Old Testament. But Joel said something. Joel says, there's a day coming when the sprit of The Most High Yah will come upon all flesh and he shall live in the young people, in the old people, and the young shall have visions and the old shall dream, dreams and the young men shall prophesy. He said the day is coming when this army shall be raised up full of the Ruach HaQadesh. He says that day is yet to come. It will be the day of the The Most High. Who's the The Most High? Yahusha. Yahusha comes back to earth. His first declaration, REPENT! Who was Yahusha? It says Yahusha went into the desert led by the Ruach HaQadesh and he was tested of HaSatan. He passed the test and the Bible says messengers came and ministered unto him. Is that right? Then it says and Yahusha was filled with the Ruach HaQadesh without measure. You want to hear something shocking? As long as Yahusha was on the earth there's no record of the Ruach HaQadesh being anywhere else. Nothing happened anywhere by the Ruach HaQadesh because every ghost of the Ruach HaQadesh was in him! Why? He came to bring what? The connection to the kingdom. That's why he says the kingdom of The Most High Yah has returned. Why? I'm carrying it. Yahusha number one goal was not to heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons, or feed 5,000. That was not his goal. His ultimate assignment was to get that ghost back in you! That's why Calvary is not the gospel, even the blood is not the gospel. The gospel is the good news that you can get the connection back. You can get the Ruach HaQadesh back in you. You can be reconnected. The Most High Yah says repent because the kingdom. What is the kingdom? All he had was the Ruach HaQadesh. He said it is the Abba's good pleasure to give you the kingdom and they asked him, how will that be? He said if you being evil know how to give good gifts to your children, if your son asks you for bread, you wouldn't give him a stone, and if he asks you for an egg you wouldn't give him a serpent. How much more if you ask my Abba for the Ruach HaQadesh he'd give that to you. Everything you need is in the Ruach HaQadesh because he is the reconnection to the government. The blood was a means to an end. Calvary was a means to an end. Calvary was to wash you to make you holy so that the Ruach HaQadesh, the government connection, could get back in you. That's why Hamachiach could not give them the Ruach HaQadesh to live in them until after he had died and rose again and the blood was shed. The Bible says he gave them power to go out and cast out demons, heal the sick, raise the dead, and preach the kingdom. He says he gave them the authority to go. And what happened? The Bible said they cast out demons, they raised the dead, they healed the sick and they came back excited. They said master we heal the sick, we raise the dead, he says I know this is great and he began to rejoice with that. Why? He said you can see what you all missed. He said I was in charge of everything, controlled everything. You got another taste of it. He rejoiced with them then he says the time is coming when the kingdom of The Most High Yah that is with you shall be in you. So what does he do? He goes to the crucifixion stake and his blood remits your sins to make you holy. He went to hell and got the keys of death and the grave. So you wanted to be afraid of death but death can't hold you down anymore. Why? You have work to do. Then he rose again and the party is now! The Bible says he said receive the Ruach HaQadesh. Paul understood it! Paul says the kingdom of The Most High Yah is not in meat and drink, cars and big houses and fancy dresses and nice suits. The kingdom of The Most High Yah is love, joy and peace. Thank The Most High Yah for the Ruach HaQadesh. Tell the Ruach HaQadesh to rule your territory through you this week. Let the Ruach HaQadesh take charge through you. That's Kingdom. It's Kingdom when you walk into a board meeting. You are not a normal member of the board but since you'll probably just a Christian you’re not an ambassador of The Most High Yah’s Kingdom. We are in a kingdom! So let me wrap this up here real quick! Let me tell you what an ambassadorship does. It takes the pressure off of you. Before a person is an ambassador they are in debt. They owe all kinds of people money but the minute you are appointed an ambassador the government pays all your bills. The government cancels all of your debts, they take of everything, they pay all you your obligations. Why? Because they don't want you to think about nothing except the government's desires. So the disciples started worrying what we will eat, what are we going to drink, what are we going to wear? Hamachiach says in Matthew 6 you guys are ambassadors, seek first the government of The Most High Yah and all of its interests and all these things will come with the job. Christian's worry. Ambassadors sleep. You know why your prayer life is not working? You're praying as a Christian. You are not supposed to be praying for things. Why? These things are added, they come with the job. What you are supposed to pray for is The Most High Yah's will. What does The Most High Yah want done in this situation? What is my government's interest in this situation? If you handle the government's business the governor takes care of you. Yahusha was saying He will not make you an ambassador and disgrace you in the midst of this foreign land! Faith comes from what? Understanding your position as an ambassador. Kingdom Dominion means to govern, rule, to control, to manage, to lead and that means that every one of us here was born to be a king, a ruler over this domain and territory and therefore with the force of Kingdom, Kingdom Dominion influence is over everything in the earth for the King Yahusha we serve. Therefore The Most High Yah's goal is the kingdom of The Most High Yah on earth, not earth going into heaven.