Genesis chapter 1
Today we are walking in: Yah’s Original Plan For Mankind
Genesis 22:5
And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, H7812 and come again to you.
WORSHIP
Today we look to the word-WORSHIP- H7812 shachah--to bow down; prostrate oneself before superior in homage; before the Most High in worship
The Torah testifies.........……
Genesis 24:26
And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped H7812 the LORD.
Exodus 4:31
And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped. H7812
Exodus 34:14
For thou shalt worship H7812 no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
Deuteronomy 8:19
And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship H7812 them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
The prophets proclaim..................
Nehemiah 8:6
And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped H7812 the LORD with their faces to the ground.
Nehemiah 9:3
And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped H7812 the LORD their God.
Jeremiah 25:6
And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship H7812 them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
Zechariah 14:16
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship H7812 the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
The writings bear witness............
Joshua 5:14
And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, H7812 and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?
1Chronicles 16:29
Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship H7812 the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
2 Chronicles 7:3
And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, H7812 and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever
Psalm 66:4
All the earth shall worship H7812 thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.
Chapter 1
YAH’S ORIGINAL PLAN FOR MANKIND
Yah’s greatest desire as revealed in the Scriptures is for a family.
IN the beginning Elohiym created את the heavens and את the earth. BERE'SHIYTH (GENESIS) 1:1 את CEPHER. Land and seas, plants and animals, birds and sea creatures all came forth at His spoken word.
And Elohiym said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. So Elohiym created man in his own image, in the image of Elohiym created he him; male and female created he them. And Elohiym blessed them, and Elohiym said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth. BERE'SHIYTH (GENESIS) 1:26-28 את CEPHER.
This crowning act of creation was a result of Yah’s desire to have a family. He wanted someone to be His friend and to live with Him as a son. Yah’s original plan was that man would share in His authority and rule, not serve Him as a servant. This is why Yahusha Hamachiach is the “King of kings and Lord of lords” (Rev. 19:16b), not the King of subjects. Yah was interested in a completely different kind of relationship than we normally think of when we talk about a king. He wanted sons who would not only be led by the King but who would also exercise the King’s authority and rule on earth.
This relationship between Yah and man is of paramount importance to Yah. Creation shows this to be true. The first thing Yah gave man was His image and likeness, because that was the first thing Yah wanted man to have. The second thing Yah did was to place man in His presence, which is the meaning in the Hebrew language of the word Eden. Therefore, Yah’s greatest desire was that man would act like Him and live with Him.
Yah WANTED MAN TO HAVE HIS IMAGE AND LIKENESS AND TO LIVE IN HIS PRESENCE.
The word image means “resemblance” (Strong’s, H6754) or “exact likeness” (Webster’s, “image”). Therefore, to be made in Yah’s image means that man resembles Yah and is an exact likeness of Him. He has Yah’s true nature and His spiritual and moral character. In the Scriptures, the word Eden refers to a place of Yah’s presence (see Isa. 51:3; Ezek. 28:13). So Yah gave man His nature and then put Him in His presence. These were Yah’s priorities.
Yah did not establish reverent patterns, pious traditions, or religious activities in the Garden of Eden. There was simply a relationship between Yah and man. Establishing and maintaining this relationship continues to be Yah’s primary concern. He is much more concerned about our fellowship with Him than about our works, our activities, our traditions, and even our busyness. Yah wants relationship—that’s the bottom line—and everything Yah established for man was built on this desire for fellowship.
Thus, Yah created man for a specific purpose: to have dominion over all the earth; with an image different from that of all other parts of His creation: His own spiritual and moral nature; and with the ability to function like He does: seeing things that are not yet visible (faith). The Scriptures clearly show this intent of Yah that man would be more like Him than the rest of creation, and that he would think and act like Yah.
What is man that You are mindful of him, the son of man that You care for him? You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor. You made him ruler over the works of Your hands; You put everything under his feet (Psalm 8:4-6; see also Hebrews 2:6-8).
Truly, the creation of man was Yah’s greatest production, and He described the man He had made as being “very good” (see Gen. 1:31). Sadly, what Yah intended for man and man’s current experience are quite different. This difference is a result of man’s choice to disregard the principles that are an inherent part of Yah’s creation.
Yah Is a Yah of Principles
Man’s ability to fulfill his purpose and to be all Yah intended him to be is predicated on the requirement that he obey the principles Yah established when He created human beings. Why is this true? Yah is a Yah of principles. Everything He created was established to operate by certain principles that guarantee its proper function. This pattern in creation includes human beings. We were created to operate by principles that Yah established before He created us.
These principles or rules of operation for human beings are found throughout the Bible, although they are not always referred to as principles. They may also be referred to as Yah’s laws, ordinances, precepts, statutes, commands, commandments, decrees, instructions, word, and ways. Although the meaning of each of these words carries a slightly different nuance from the others, they all carry within them the basic concept of a principle, which is a law that is established to preserve and protect a created thing and to assure its maximum performance. So each time these words occur in Scripture, the particular word used may be removed and the word principle may be inserted in its p lace. These varying words for Yah’s principles can be clearly seen in Psalms 19 and 119:
The Torah of Yahuah is perfect, restoring the soul: the testimony of Yahuah is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of Yahuah are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of Yahuah is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of Yahuah is clean, enduring forever: the judgments of Yahuah are true and righteous altogether. More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb. Moreover by them is your servant warned: and in guarding of them there is great reward. TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 19:7-11 את CEPHER.
א ALEPH - BLESSED are the undefiled in the Way, who walk in the Torah of Yahuah. Blessed are they that guard his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. You have commanded us to guard your precepts diligently. O that my ways were directed to guard your statutes! Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all your commandments. I will praise you with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned your righteous judgments. I will guard your statutes: O forsake me not utterly. בּ BEYT - Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to your word. With my whole heart have I sought you: O let me not wander from your commandments. Your word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against you. Blessed are you, O Yahuah: teach me your statutes. With my lips have I declared all the judgments of your mouth. I have rejoiced in the way of your testimonies, as much as in all riches. I will meditate in your precepts, and have respect unto your ways. I will delight myself in your statutes: I will not forget your word. ג GIMMEL - Deal bountifully with your servant, that I may live, and guard your word. Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your Torah. TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 119:1-18 את CEPHER
Characteristics of Principles
Since a satisfying relationship with Yah, each other, and the rest of Yah’s creation is predicated on our obeying His principles in creation, let’s look now at some of the characteristics or properties of principles. Understanding these properties can help us to understand how principles function in our life.
Principles are permanent. When Yah created human beings, He created them to breathe oxygen. Although many years have passed since Yah first formed man from the dust of the earth, and man has found many ways to “better” his life experience, man still needs oxygen to survive. In essence, any environment where oxygen is absent is deadly to man.
Principles never change; they remain constant. In the English system of measurement, a yard has been determined to equal 36 inches. Now, you may create a stick that measures 35 inches long and call it a “yardstick,” but this in no way changes the principle that a yard is a unit of measurement equal in length to the sum of 36 inches. In essence, a stick 35 inches in length is not equal to a yard no matter what you call it, because a yard, by the principle of its definition, contains 36 inches. In a similar manner, modifications by our society to Yah’s standards of conduct do not change Yah’s law. Yah’s law is constant, even as He is constant (see Num. 23:19).
Principles work anywhere. One of the laws of nature is that water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit (or 0 degrees Celsius). It doesn’t matter whether you freeze water at the north pole or at the equator, water cooled to 32 degrees F (assuming the water is not contaminated with other substances that skew the water’s freezing point) will turn to ice. In the same manner, we can expect that Yah’s laws apply to us no matter where or when we live. His principles are applicable in all times, cultures, and geographic locations.
Principles protect the product. This characteristic of principles can be illustrated by the care labels that many clothing manufacturers sew into their garments at the collar or a side seam. These specifications by the manufacturer regarding the garment’s care may include requirements concerning water temperature for washing, line drying versus the use of a clothes dryer, and washing in water versus dry cleaning. The manufacturer provides these instructions to protect the clothing from possible harm that could result in shrinkage of the fabric, color loss, premature breakdown of the fibers, or other damage. Yah’s laws are also intended to protect us from harm. Although they may at times appear to limit our choices, these limitations are always given by Yah to protect our freedom and well- being.
Principles can never be broken. The laws of gravity state that the mass of the earth, the moon, or another planet will exert a certain pull on objects at or near its surface. This pull will draw the objects toward it. With the invention of airplanes, helicopters, and other modes of air transportation, one might say that the laws of gravity have been broken. Such a statement can never be true because a principle of creation cannot be broken. What can happen is that man devises various means to combat or redirect the forces of gravity. Then, although the principle of gravity is not evident in a particular event or circumstance, the principle itself—that is, the rule that objects at or near the earth’s surface are pulled toward the earth if they are not in some manner prevented from doing so—still holds true.
Principles, when violated, produce destruction. What seems right to you for the use of a product is not necessarily in agreement with what the manufacturer of a product intended. For example, when you buy an iron, the box it comes in contains a little booklet that lists the commandments or laws of the manufacturer concerning its function. These are often called the operating instructions. They tell you how to use the iron so you get the maximum performance from it.
Now you could take that iron, plug it into the wall, and put it into the bathtub with you to heat up the water. Since an iron is supposed to get hot, that way may seem right to you: “The iron is hot and the water is cold, so I’ll just put the iron into the water to make it warm.” Guess what? There’s a way that seems right unto man, but the end of it is a shocking experience! Both you and the iron will suffer damage because of your choice to violate the iron’s operating instructions (principles).
Principles contain inherent judgment. This last characteristic of principles is particularly important. For example, the principle of fire is heat. When you put your hand in fire, you can expect to get burned because fire produces heat. In other words, you don’t get burned because Yah burns you or the devil burns you. You get burned because heat is a principle of fire. In essence, the judgment—the burn—is inherent in the principle.
Thus, much of what we call “acts of Yah” are simply judgments that are inherent in Yah’s principles of creation. For example, Yah has killed no man. Rather, “the wages [natural result] of sin is death” (Rom. 6:23a). When you play around with sin and start flirting with things you shouldn’t be doing, you don’t have to worry whether someone will find you out, because your own activities will tell on you. Why is this true? Sin contains an inherent judgment. When you violate Yah’s principle, the principle itself contains your discipline or punishment.
Yah’s Use of Principles
The verses previously quoted from Psalms 19 and 119 also clearly reveal the necessity of understanding and obeying Yah’s principles of creation. This is true because only the manufacturer of a product knows what factors are necessary to obtain the maximum operation of the product. In essence, you can’t use a product according to your own ideas and expect it to fulfill what the manufacturer promised it could and would do. If you want a product to work, doing all that the manufacturer said it would do, you have to obey the principles (laws, commandments, instructions, etc.) of the one who designed and made the product.
Yah’s demands of us are always based on His principles, because He knows we cannot fulfill our purpose and enjoy fulfillment in life unless we operate within the parameters (principles) He has set for us. The effects of His laws cannot be avoided because they are inherent to the law. Therefore, our relationship with Yah, both our perception of Him and His response to us, is based on how we respond to the principles He has established throughout creation. He is not capricious in His responses to us, but rather is “faithful and just” (see Ps. 111:7 and 1 John 1:9).
IF YOU WANT A PRODUCT TO WORK, YOU HAVE TO OBEY THE MANUFACTURER’S PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION.
We may prefer lawlessness, which is the freedom to do whatever we want to do, but our very creation by Yah, our Manufacturer and Source, requires that we follow His principles. Should we choose lawlessness—doing what we want, when we want, how we want—we can expect to reap the inevitable results, which include slavery, death, and the loss of privileges or freedom. This is precisely what happened to the man and the woman in the Garden of Eden.
Disregard for Yah’s Principles Carries Consequences
When Yah placed the man in Eden, He gave him some instructions that were to govern his life in the garden. One of these instructions concerned what he could and could not eat.
And Yahuah Elohiym commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat thereof you shall surely die. BERE'SHIYTH (GENESIS) 2:16-17 את CEPHER
Please note that this command contains an inherent judgment. Death is the p roscribed consequence for disobeying this principle. Thus, Yah’s pronouncement to the man in Genesis 3:19, “By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return,” is nothing more than the logical consequence of man’s choice to disobey Yah.
DEATH IS THE ABSENCE OF THE PRESENCE OF Yah IN A MAN OR A WOMAN’S LIFE.
This physical death that will inevitably claim every person, whether in infancy or in old age, is not, however, the only death man suffered because of his disobedience. The more serious consequence of man’s disregard for Yah’s principles for life in the garden was his loss of the Holy
Spirit and his subsequent separation from Yah. This spiritual death, as it may be called, is at the root of all the ills that plague us as individuals and as a society. In truth, man cannot and will not live up to the potential and purpose Yah built into him until the love and intimacy Yah and man enjoyed in the garden is restored. Because life in the presence of Yah is man’s ideal environment, Yah’s presence is also his greatest need. Man cannot truly live until the relationship between Yah and man is restored.
PRINCIPLES
1. Yah created man to share His image and authority.
2. Yah is more interested in relationship than in rules and traditions.
3. Everything Yah created is governed by principles.
4 . Fulfillment of purpose requires obeying Yah’s principles.
5. Principles contain these inherent characteristics: Principles are permanent.
Principles never change.
Principles work anywhere.
Principles protect the product.
Principles can never be broken.
Principles, when violated, produce destruction.
Principles contain inherent judgment.
6. Yah’s Word contains the principles that govern men and women.
7. Disobeying Yah’s commandments brings natural and spiritual consequences.
The Divine destiny connection, the chain that links us together.
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
INTRODUCTION: REDISCOVERING KINGDOM WORSHIP
Genesis chapter 1
Today we are walking in: Rediscovering Kingdom Worship
Genesis 22:5
And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, H7812 and come again to you.
WORSHIP
Today we look to the word-WORSHIP- H7812 shachah--to bow down; prostrate oneself before superior in homage; before the Most High in worship
The Torah testifies.........……
Genesis 24:26
And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped H7812 the LORD.
Exodus 4:31
And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped. H7812
Exodus 34:14
For thou shalt worship H7812 no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
Deuteronomy 8:19
And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship H7812 them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
The prophets proclaim..................
Nehemiah 8:6
And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped H7812 the LORD with their faces to the ground.
Nehemiah 9:3
And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped H7812 the LORD their God.
Jeremiah 25:6
And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship H7812 them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
Zechariah 14:16
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship H7812 the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
The writings bear witness............
Joshua 5:14
And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, H7812 and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?
1Chronicles 16:29
Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship H7812 the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
2 Chronicles 7:3
And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, H7812 and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever
Psalm 66:4
All the earth shall worship H7812 thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.
Rediscovering Kingdom Worship
INTRODUCTION
From the third chapter of Genesis to the end of the Book of Revelation, we find Yah trying to get His people back to the intimate relationship He had with Adam and Eve in the beginning. Because Yah is holy, perfect, and pure, it is impossible for man, who has been conceived in iniquity since the fall of Adam and Eve, to stand in the presence of Yah without an atonement.
Yah gave Moses the plan for allowing Himself to dwell in the presence of His people through the building of the ark of Yah and the tabernacle of Yah. Through these rituals and sacrifices prescribed by Yah, the high priest was able to come into the presence of the Almighty and represent the people.
However, through King David, Yah shows us He desires more than just the blood and sacrifice of selected animals; He desires a pure and contrite heart. Yahusha, in His dialogue with the Samaritan woman, tells us that Yah is looking for worshipers who will worship Him in spirit and truth.
When Yahusha taught the disciples the Most High’s prayer, He said “.... Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven ....” In the heavenly experience of Isaiah in the sixth chapter of the Book of Isaiah, and John in Revelation, we see what is being done in Heaven continually: praise and worship.
Praise and worship has always been the avenue into the presence of our Yah. We can talk about Him, do things for
Him, and even pray to Him, but it is only through praise and worship that we are allowed to be in the presence of our Great Creator.
In this series it teaches us:
How to praise and worship
Whom to praise and worship
Where to praise and worship
When to praise and worship
The power of praise and worship The patterns of praise and worship
The principles of praise and worship The practicals of praise and worship The purpose of praise and worship
This series is a must read for those who have a passion to know the heart of Yah. I prophesy and predict that it will become required or recommended reading in many schools, colleges, universities, and for students throughout the world.
“Yah came near. I know He was right there with me.” What wonderful words! What a glorious experience! Sadly, such experiences come all too infrequently to most of us. Yet life without Yah’s presence was not His original plan for us. He designed us to know Him, living in close, intimate fellowship with Him. That’s why life is so difficult and unfulfilling for so many people. We are living without the one thing that is essential for our fulfillment and well- being. We are living without the continuous, enduring presence of Yah.
Whenever you live without a vital, ongoing relationship with Yah, you have no hope of finding true happiness or of fulfilling the purpose for which you were born. You simply cannot function properly and effectively outside the environment of Yah’s presence.
YOU WERE CREATED TO LIVE IN Yah’S PRESENCE. LIFE ANYWHERE ELSE IS A DISTORTED, DISSATISFYING IMITATION.
The purpose of this series is to teach you the conditions under which Yah’s presence draws near to us. For you see,
Yah’s presence is conditional. He doesn’t come simply because we want Him to. He comes when the conditions are right. Only as we learn to establish and maintain the conditions that He has ordained for His coming, can we hope to know the joy of living in His presence on a daily, moment-by-moment basis.
So read and study this series until the principles and truths taught here become a natural part of your thinking. Allow them to equip and inspire you to create the conditions in your life that will welcome the presence of the Most High Yahusha Hamachiach and of His Ruach HaQadesh. Then you will grow and flourish, finding the joy and fulfillment that only life in the presence of Almighty Yah can bring.
Today we are walking in: Rediscovering Kingdom Worship
Genesis 22:5
And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the ass; and I and the lad will go yonder and worship, H7812 and come again to you.
WORSHIP
Today we look to the word-WORSHIP- H7812 shachah--to bow down; prostrate oneself before superior in homage; before the Most High in worship
The Torah testifies.........……
Genesis 24:26
And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped H7812 the LORD.
Exodus 4:31
And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped. H7812
Exodus 34:14
For thou shalt worship H7812 no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
Deuteronomy 8:19
And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship H7812 them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.
The prophets proclaim..................
Nehemiah 8:6
And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped H7812 the LORD with their faces to the ground.
Nehemiah 9:3
And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they confessed, and worshipped H7812 the LORD their God.
Jeremiah 25:6
And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship H7812 them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I will do you no hurt.
Zechariah 14:16
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship H7812 the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.
The writings bear witness............
Joshua 5:14
And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, H7812 and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?
1Chronicles 16:29
Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship H7812 the LORD in the beauty of holiness.
2 Chronicles 7:3
And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, H7812 and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever
Psalm 66:4
All the earth shall worship H7812 thee, and shall sing unto thee; they shall sing to thy name. Selah.
Rediscovering Kingdom Worship
INTRODUCTION
From the third chapter of Genesis to the end of the Book of Revelation, we find Yah trying to get His people back to the intimate relationship He had with Adam and Eve in the beginning. Because Yah is holy, perfect, and pure, it is impossible for man, who has been conceived in iniquity since the fall of Adam and Eve, to stand in the presence of Yah without an atonement.
Yah gave Moses the plan for allowing Himself to dwell in the presence of His people through the building of the ark of Yah and the tabernacle of Yah. Through these rituals and sacrifices prescribed by Yah, the high priest was able to come into the presence of the Almighty and represent the people.
However, through King David, Yah shows us He desires more than just the blood and sacrifice of selected animals; He desires a pure and contrite heart. Yahusha, in His dialogue with the Samaritan woman, tells us that Yah is looking for worshipers who will worship Him in spirit and truth.
When Yahusha taught the disciples the Most High’s prayer, He said “.... Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven ....” In the heavenly experience of Isaiah in the sixth chapter of the Book of Isaiah, and John in Revelation, we see what is being done in Heaven continually: praise and worship.
Praise and worship has always been the avenue into the presence of our Yah. We can talk about Him, do things for
Him, and even pray to Him, but it is only through praise and worship that we are allowed to be in the presence of our Great Creator.
In this series it teaches us:
How to praise and worship
Whom to praise and worship
Where to praise and worship
When to praise and worship
The power of praise and worship The patterns of praise and worship
The principles of praise and worship The practicals of praise and worship The purpose of praise and worship
This series is a must read for those who have a passion to know the heart of Yah. I prophesy and predict that it will become required or recommended reading in many schools, colleges, universities, and for students throughout the world.
“Yah came near. I know He was right there with me.” What wonderful words! What a glorious experience! Sadly, such experiences come all too infrequently to most of us. Yet life without Yah’s presence was not His original plan for us. He designed us to know Him, living in close, intimate fellowship with Him. That’s why life is so difficult and unfulfilling for so many people. We are living without the one thing that is essential for our fulfillment and well- being. We are living without the continuous, enduring presence of Yah.
Whenever you live without a vital, ongoing relationship with Yah, you have no hope of finding true happiness or of fulfilling the purpose for which you were born. You simply cannot function properly and effectively outside the environment of Yah’s presence.
YOU WERE CREATED TO LIVE IN Yah’S PRESENCE. LIFE ANYWHERE ELSE IS A DISTORTED, DISSATISFYING IMITATION.
The purpose of this series is to teach you the conditions under which Yah’s presence draws near to us. For you see,
Yah’s presence is conditional. He doesn’t come simply because we want Him to. He comes when the conditions are right. Only as we learn to establish and maintain the conditions that He has ordained for His coming, can we hope to know the joy of living in His presence on a daily, moment-by-moment basis.
So read and study this series until the principles and truths taught here become a natural part of your thinking. Allow them to equip and inspire you to create the conditions in your life that will welcome the presence of the Most High Yahusha Hamachiach and of His Ruach HaQadesh. Then you will grow and flourish, finding the joy and fulfillment that only life in the presence of Almighty Yah can bring.
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
CITIZENS AS AMBASSADORS
2 Corinthians chapter 5
Today we are walking in: Citizens As Ambassadors
Jeremiah 49:14
I have heard a rumor from Yahuah, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle. YIRMEYAHU (JEREMIAH) 49:14 ×ת CEPHER
AMBASSADOR
Today we look to the word- AMBASSADOR- H6735- tsiyr- ambassador, hinge, messenger, pain, pang, sorrow
The Torah testifies……..
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The Prophets proclaim……..
Obadiah 1:1
THE vision of Ovadyahu. Thus says Adonai Yahuah concerning Edom; We have heard a rumor from Yahuah, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle. OVADYAHU (OBADIAH) 1:1 ×ת CEPHER
The Writings witness………………
Proverbs 13:17
A wicked messenger falls into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health. MISHLEI (PROVERBS) 13:17 ×ת CEPHER
The Principle and Power of Kingdom Citizenship: Keys to Experiencing Heaven on Earth by
Chapter 12
CITIZENS AS AMBASSADORS
Everybody on Earth is looking for something. They do not know what they are looking for. They do not know how to describe it. They search everywhere. They drink liquor, smoke dope, go to parties and clubs. They change jobs, get a different spouse, or go back to school for more education. They read books and search the Internet for whatever it is that they are missing. What can satisfy this yearning? Those of us who have found the Kingdom know what it is-it is the King. Once you find Him, you know you have found your long-sought desire, and from the first moment, you want to share the good news with others. He is alive! He loves us! We can know Him! The more we learn about Him, the better it gets. We want to communicate to all of the other searchers what He is like. This King is both our Yah and our Abba; therefore He draws us into His Kingdom and His family circle at the same time. Most of us remain right where we started out, within the same human families, living and working with the same people. But we are not the same anymore. For one thing, we have become ambassadors. From searchers and seekers, we become, by some imperceptible means, representatives of our new King and His government, wherever we may reside. We may travel from place to place, or we may stay put for decades. Wherever we are, we bring a taste of Heaven.
Being Religious Is Not Enough
The goal of Yah was never religion, but rather something I call “rulership through relationship.” I have described His original plan to have Adam and all the people who followed him rule over and manage the planet, and the close association between the words “dominate” and “kingdom,” which you might call rulership. But rulership alone was never Yah’s goal, because it must be based on a relationship with Him. We come into the Kingdom of Yah exclusively through establishing a personal relationship with the King and His Son Yahashua. The Son opened up the way to this relationship when He became a man Himself. His Ruach comes to live inside each one of us, and we begin a lifelong process of growing more and more into His likeness. Not only that, we begin to carry the fragrance of Heaven wherever we go. The apostle named Paul summed it up best when he wrote: Therefore if any man be in Mashiach, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of Elohiym, who has reconciled us to himself by Yahusha Ha'Mashiach, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that Elohiym was in Mashiach, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their transgressions unto them; and has committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Mashiach, as though Elohiym did beseech you by us: we pray you in Mashiach's stead, be ye reconciled to Elohiym. For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of Elohiym in him. QORINTIYM SHENIY (2 CORINTHIANS) 5:17-21 את CEPHER
We have not been saved from our old, earthbound lives simply so that we could become nice-looking additions to the heavenly choir. We have also been given a task to complete- spreading the Kingdom across the globe. We have been commissioned to show the world what the Kingdom looks like. We have become diplomats for the department of Heaven that has colonized Earth. In short, we have become ambassadors for Hamashiach Yahashua. You cannot represent someone you do not know. So that is why being religious is not enough. You need an ongoing relationship with the One in whose name you carry out your day-to-day duties. With His Ruach inside, that should not be difficult to carry out, but we seem to need reminders. Books such as this one are helping people remember, “Yes, I am an ambassador for Hamashiach, and I know what that means.” An ambassador must be connected to the one he represents.
Other people represent their religions (or lack of religion) too, but they do not have this kind of a relationship. That is why they resort to rituals and secret practices, to moral codes and dress regulations. That is also why, sooner or later, they admit that they are still searching for something more. They are not connected with the King, and He created them to be connected.
More Than A Messenger
In diplomatic circles, although ambassadors often live in foreign countries, they keep in touch with their head of state back home. Almost without exception, they know that person well. Ambassadors cannot legislate. They do not create new governmental policies or declare war. Yet they occupy a special position, government-to-government. Their words carry weight. They are senior representatives who have been invested with authority from their governing authority. In the Scripture quoted above, the Greek word translated as ambassador is presbeuo, which means someone just like that. Paul uses the same word again in his letter to the church in the city of Ephesus:And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the Besorah, For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. EPH'SIYM (EPHESIANS) 6:19-20 את CEPHER
Imagine that! Paul was locked up in prison without much hope of being released, and he still considered himself an ambassador of Hamashiach. Although his freedom of movement had been curtailed, he was able to write letters such as the one he wrote to the Ephesians, he was able to speak with visitors and guards, and he was able to stay connected to the King through prayerful attention to the Ruach within him.
Vested With Authority
Elsewhere in the New Testament, another Greek word for ambassador appears. The word is Kerux and it is commonly translated “preacher,” “herald,” or “proclaimer.” Sucha messenger has been vested with authority to convey the official messages of kings, magistrates, princes, military commanders to authorities in other places, and to perform duties on behalf of their sending ruler. Throughout the New Testament, Yah’s kerux ambassadors are proclaiming the divine Word.They were vested with authority by Yah the King to deliver messages and perform duties on His behalf, wherever they went. It did not stop after the New Testament times. You and I have been vested with the same authority. Yahashua was speaking to us when He said, “And I appoint unto you a Kingdom, as my Father has appointed unto me; LUQAS (LUKE) 22:29 את CEPHER. His meaning is clear-messengers and ambassadors of the Kingdom carry the authority of the entire country as they go from place to place. They do not carry only a set of diplomatic rituals or social niceties. Their words have weight, and they know it. Dr. Munroe says, I never thought deeply about the word “confer” until it was used over me in a ceremony. Some years ago, I received the OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) from a representative of the Queen of England. I had to bow and he put this thing over my neck. Then the governor pinned something on my suit coat, speaking as he did it, “By the authority of the Queen of England, I confer on you the British Empire.” He conferred a whole nation on me. Now when I go to England and they see “OBE” on my passport, everybody jumps to attention. “Yes, sir, Dr. Munroe; is there anything we can do for you?” Those simple initials carry the weight of authority. Everytime someone becomes an official ambassador of a country, the same phrase is used: “I confer on you the Commonwealth of the Bahamas,” using the name of the ambassador’s country. Thus, that individual personifies the whole country. We are official ambassadors of the Kingdom of Yah because Yahashua has conferred the Kingdom on us.
Ambassadorship
You will never see an ambassador in a club or a disco. You will never hear that he got drunk and walked around in public inappropriately dressed or participated in some scandal. Such behavior does not befit the dignity of the office. Ambassadors choose their words carefully, and you will never see them explode in anger in public. Whatever an ambassador does, the global community will impute to the country he or she represents. The ambassador is the country. This should be no less true for Kingdom ambassadors. We should be asking ourselves, “Am I representing Heaven?” as we walk around the food store, go to the gas station, or walk across the street. I think one reason we are not very disciplined in our lives is because we do not understand that we are carrying the weight of the country of Heaven. Yahashua said, “He who has seen Me has seen the Abba” (John 14:9). In essence, he was saying, “If you have seen Me, you have seen my source.” Can You say that? Why or why not? Do people have an idea of what Heaven is like when they meet you? You might be the only Kingdom believer in your workplace. Those people around you have only one source for their information about Heaven; you may be the only “heavenling” they know. How you act and react will represent your citizenship. Remember that you have been appointed as the local ambassador of the Kingdom in that workplace.
Benefits of Ambassadorship
If you turn it around, you can see that when you represent another country, it is a good situation to be in. Yes, you must behave yourself with dignity as befits your office. But you will be permitted to enjoy all the benefits of your citizenship with additional benefits added. For example, have you ever seen an ambassador driving an old jalopy with holes in his shirt? No, because the government pays all of his bills. If he needs something he just asks. “No problem, sir. “You are the ambassador.” Dr. Munroe says, Not too long ago, I went with a few others to Haiti. The Bahamian ambassador picked us up at the airport and we drove through the streets in an air-conditioned SUV. All around us was rubble. People were sleeping on the streets in the muck, just as you have seen in all the pictures. We just drove through all of that in air-conditioned comfort, sipping on cool drinks. The Bahamian flag was fluttering from the front of that beautiful SUV. I am sure that the people we passed were wondering what country that flag represented, thinking to themselves, Wherever that flag comes from, I want to go there. We arrived at the ambassador’s house in the hills. I said, “Wait a minute. Are we still in the same country that had the earthquake?” Yes. We walked into the house and someone served us a big breakfast of bacon, cheese, and grits, right there in the middle of all that poverty. The ambassador took me to my bedroom and it was as big as a house. He said, “You can sleep here tonight” I asked if he meant me and the brother who was with me or me alone. “Oh, he has his own room. This is all for you.”And he opened a curtain and showed both of us a big swimming pool full of blue water. I said, “Don’t you feel guilty sometimes, your Excellency?” He said, “No. When you step into my car and drive through my gate, you enter the Bahamas.” The property of an embassy is the same as the country it represents. It will always be as rich as the country the ambassador comes from. It will never have to be as poor as the country in which the embassy and the ambassador’s house are situated. As we sat eating at that breakfast table, the ambassador had said, “Do you want more?” and we said yes. So the cook came in with another big plate of food. We could have had even more if we had asked. There was no end of food-in Haiti, after an earthquake. The ambassador never had to fly to the Bahamas for his bacon and eggs. He received it every day in Haiti. He did not need to go back to the Bahamas to enjoy a nice, air conditioned house with a pool. He was experiencing the Bahamian lifestyle in a country away from the Bahamas. The Kingdom lifestyle- clean living, love-filled, and truly joyful- is ours wherever we may be stationed on the globe. The King is taking such good care of His citizens that they are living like the Bahamian ambassador in a ruined world. He is at work inside us, making us look more and more like Him. His goal is to bring us to a place where we will have no corruption, no sickness, no pressure, no difficulties. He gives us a big taste of it now. This is a culture of plenty, and it makes people want to come to Yah.
Every Citizen Of The Kingdom Is An Ambassador
As you go to work tomorrow morning or stop to buy something that you need, remember that you are a citizen of Heaven and an ambassador for the Kingdom of Heaven. This is important, because you will not be able to be much of an ambassador for the King if you forget your identity. He has conferred His authority on you, and He has given you an assignment, to represent Him wherever you go and to spread the truth about the Kingdom you represent. Can you do that? I pray that you will be able to connect with the King on a daily basis, and that you will hear what He is saying to you. Your assignment may seem insignificant to you, but the way you complete it is very important. May your citizenship in the Kingdom equip you to be a true ambassador, and may the King commend you for your service when its time is over. “His adoniy said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant: you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things: enter into the joy of your adoniy. MATTITHYAHU (MATTHEW) 25:21 את CEPHER
Today we are walking in: Citizens As Ambassadors
Jeremiah 49:14
I have heard a rumor from Yahuah, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle. YIRMEYAHU (JEREMIAH) 49:14 ×ת CEPHER
AMBASSADOR
Today we look to the word- AMBASSADOR- H6735- tsiyr- ambassador, hinge, messenger, pain, pang, sorrow
The Torah testifies……..
**************
The Prophets proclaim……..
Obadiah 1:1
THE vision of Ovadyahu. Thus says Adonai Yahuah concerning Edom; We have heard a rumor from Yahuah, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle. OVADYAHU (OBADIAH) 1:1 ×ת CEPHER
The Writings witness………………
Proverbs 13:17
A wicked messenger falls into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health. MISHLEI (PROVERBS) 13:17 ×ת CEPHER
The Principle and Power of Kingdom Citizenship: Keys to Experiencing Heaven on Earth by
Chapter 12
CITIZENS AS AMBASSADORS
Everybody on Earth is looking for something. They do not know what they are looking for. They do not know how to describe it. They search everywhere. They drink liquor, smoke dope, go to parties and clubs. They change jobs, get a different spouse, or go back to school for more education. They read books and search the Internet for whatever it is that they are missing. What can satisfy this yearning? Those of us who have found the Kingdom know what it is-it is the King. Once you find Him, you know you have found your long-sought desire, and from the first moment, you want to share the good news with others. He is alive! He loves us! We can know Him! The more we learn about Him, the better it gets. We want to communicate to all of the other searchers what He is like. This King is both our Yah and our Abba; therefore He draws us into His Kingdom and His family circle at the same time. Most of us remain right where we started out, within the same human families, living and working with the same people. But we are not the same anymore. For one thing, we have become ambassadors. From searchers and seekers, we become, by some imperceptible means, representatives of our new King and His government, wherever we may reside. We may travel from place to place, or we may stay put for decades. Wherever we are, we bring a taste of Heaven.
Being Religious Is Not Enough
The goal of Yah was never religion, but rather something I call “rulership through relationship.” I have described His original plan to have Adam and all the people who followed him rule over and manage the planet, and the close association between the words “dominate” and “kingdom,” which you might call rulership. But rulership alone was never Yah’s goal, because it must be based on a relationship with Him. We come into the Kingdom of Yah exclusively through establishing a personal relationship with the King and His Son Yahashua. The Son opened up the way to this relationship when He became a man Himself. His Ruach comes to live inside each one of us, and we begin a lifelong process of growing more and more into His likeness. Not only that, we begin to carry the fragrance of Heaven wherever we go. The apostle named Paul summed it up best when he wrote: Therefore if any man be in Mashiach, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things are of Elohiym, who has reconciled us to himself by Yahusha Ha'Mashiach, and has given to us the ministry of reconciliation; To wit, that Elohiym was in Mashiach, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their transgressions unto them; and has committed unto us the word of reconciliation. Now then we are ambassadors for Mashiach, as though Elohiym did beseech you by us: we pray you in Mashiach's stead, be ye reconciled to Elohiym. For he has made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of Elohiym in him. QORINTIYM SHENIY (2 CORINTHIANS) 5:17-21 את CEPHER
We have not been saved from our old, earthbound lives simply so that we could become nice-looking additions to the heavenly choir. We have also been given a task to complete- spreading the Kingdom across the globe. We have been commissioned to show the world what the Kingdom looks like. We have become diplomats for the department of Heaven that has colonized Earth. In short, we have become ambassadors for Hamashiach Yahashua. You cannot represent someone you do not know. So that is why being religious is not enough. You need an ongoing relationship with the One in whose name you carry out your day-to-day duties. With His Ruach inside, that should not be difficult to carry out, but we seem to need reminders. Books such as this one are helping people remember, “Yes, I am an ambassador for Hamashiach, and I know what that means.” An ambassador must be connected to the one he represents.
Other people represent their religions (or lack of religion) too, but they do not have this kind of a relationship. That is why they resort to rituals and secret practices, to moral codes and dress regulations. That is also why, sooner or later, they admit that they are still searching for something more. They are not connected with the King, and He created them to be connected.
More Than A Messenger
In diplomatic circles, although ambassadors often live in foreign countries, they keep in touch with their head of state back home. Almost without exception, they know that person well. Ambassadors cannot legislate. They do not create new governmental policies or declare war. Yet they occupy a special position, government-to-government. Their words carry weight. They are senior representatives who have been invested with authority from their governing authority. In the Scripture quoted above, the Greek word translated as ambassador is presbeuo, which means someone just like that. Paul uses the same word again in his letter to the church in the city of Ephesus:And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the Besorah, For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak. EPH'SIYM (EPHESIANS) 6:19-20 את CEPHER
Imagine that! Paul was locked up in prison without much hope of being released, and he still considered himself an ambassador of Hamashiach. Although his freedom of movement had been curtailed, he was able to write letters such as the one he wrote to the Ephesians, he was able to speak with visitors and guards, and he was able to stay connected to the King through prayerful attention to the Ruach within him.
Vested With Authority
Elsewhere in the New Testament, another Greek word for ambassador appears. The word is Kerux and it is commonly translated “preacher,” “herald,” or “proclaimer.” Sucha messenger has been vested with authority to convey the official messages of kings, magistrates, princes, military commanders to authorities in other places, and to perform duties on behalf of their sending ruler. Throughout the New Testament, Yah’s kerux ambassadors are proclaiming the divine Word.They were vested with authority by Yah the King to deliver messages and perform duties on His behalf, wherever they went. It did not stop after the New Testament times. You and I have been vested with the same authority. Yahashua was speaking to us when He said, “And I appoint unto you a Kingdom, as my Father has appointed unto me; LUQAS (LUKE) 22:29 את CEPHER. His meaning is clear-messengers and ambassadors of the Kingdom carry the authority of the entire country as they go from place to place. They do not carry only a set of diplomatic rituals or social niceties. Their words have weight, and they know it. Dr. Munroe says, I never thought deeply about the word “confer” until it was used over me in a ceremony. Some years ago, I received the OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) from a representative of the Queen of England. I had to bow and he put this thing over my neck. Then the governor pinned something on my suit coat, speaking as he did it, “By the authority of the Queen of England, I confer on you the British Empire.” He conferred a whole nation on me. Now when I go to England and they see “OBE” on my passport, everybody jumps to attention. “Yes, sir, Dr. Munroe; is there anything we can do for you?” Those simple initials carry the weight of authority. Everytime someone becomes an official ambassador of a country, the same phrase is used: “I confer on you the Commonwealth of the Bahamas,” using the name of the ambassador’s country. Thus, that individual personifies the whole country. We are official ambassadors of the Kingdom of Yah because Yahashua has conferred the Kingdom on us.
Ambassadorship
You will never see an ambassador in a club or a disco. You will never hear that he got drunk and walked around in public inappropriately dressed or participated in some scandal. Such behavior does not befit the dignity of the office. Ambassadors choose their words carefully, and you will never see them explode in anger in public. Whatever an ambassador does, the global community will impute to the country he or she represents. The ambassador is the country. This should be no less true for Kingdom ambassadors. We should be asking ourselves, “Am I representing Heaven?” as we walk around the food store, go to the gas station, or walk across the street. I think one reason we are not very disciplined in our lives is because we do not understand that we are carrying the weight of the country of Heaven. Yahashua said, “He who has seen Me has seen the Abba” (John 14:9). In essence, he was saying, “If you have seen Me, you have seen my source.” Can You say that? Why or why not? Do people have an idea of what Heaven is like when they meet you? You might be the only Kingdom believer in your workplace. Those people around you have only one source for their information about Heaven; you may be the only “heavenling” they know. How you act and react will represent your citizenship. Remember that you have been appointed as the local ambassador of the Kingdom in that workplace.
Benefits of Ambassadorship
If you turn it around, you can see that when you represent another country, it is a good situation to be in. Yes, you must behave yourself with dignity as befits your office. But you will be permitted to enjoy all the benefits of your citizenship with additional benefits added. For example, have you ever seen an ambassador driving an old jalopy with holes in his shirt? No, because the government pays all of his bills. If he needs something he just asks. “No problem, sir. “You are the ambassador.” Dr. Munroe says, Not too long ago, I went with a few others to Haiti. The Bahamian ambassador picked us up at the airport and we drove through the streets in an air-conditioned SUV. All around us was rubble. People were sleeping on the streets in the muck, just as you have seen in all the pictures. We just drove through all of that in air-conditioned comfort, sipping on cool drinks. The Bahamian flag was fluttering from the front of that beautiful SUV. I am sure that the people we passed were wondering what country that flag represented, thinking to themselves, Wherever that flag comes from, I want to go there. We arrived at the ambassador’s house in the hills. I said, “Wait a minute. Are we still in the same country that had the earthquake?” Yes. We walked into the house and someone served us a big breakfast of bacon, cheese, and grits, right there in the middle of all that poverty. The ambassador took me to my bedroom and it was as big as a house. He said, “You can sleep here tonight” I asked if he meant me and the brother who was with me or me alone. “Oh, he has his own room. This is all for you.”And he opened a curtain and showed both of us a big swimming pool full of blue water. I said, “Don’t you feel guilty sometimes, your Excellency?” He said, “No. When you step into my car and drive through my gate, you enter the Bahamas.” The property of an embassy is the same as the country it represents. It will always be as rich as the country the ambassador comes from. It will never have to be as poor as the country in which the embassy and the ambassador’s house are situated. As we sat eating at that breakfast table, the ambassador had said, “Do you want more?” and we said yes. So the cook came in with another big plate of food. We could have had even more if we had asked. There was no end of food-in Haiti, after an earthquake. The ambassador never had to fly to the Bahamas for his bacon and eggs. He received it every day in Haiti. He did not need to go back to the Bahamas to enjoy a nice, air conditioned house with a pool. He was experiencing the Bahamian lifestyle in a country away from the Bahamas. The Kingdom lifestyle- clean living, love-filled, and truly joyful- is ours wherever we may be stationed on the globe. The King is taking such good care of His citizens that they are living like the Bahamian ambassador in a ruined world. He is at work inside us, making us look more and more like Him. His goal is to bring us to a place where we will have no corruption, no sickness, no pressure, no difficulties. He gives us a big taste of it now. This is a culture of plenty, and it makes people want to come to Yah.
Every Citizen Of The Kingdom Is An Ambassador
As you go to work tomorrow morning or stop to buy something that you need, remember that you are a citizen of Heaven and an ambassador for the Kingdom of Heaven. This is important, because you will not be able to be much of an ambassador for the King if you forget your identity. He has conferred His authority on you, and He has given you an assignment, to represent Him wherever you go and to spread the truth about the Kingdom you represent. Can you do that? I pray that you will be able to connect with the King on a daily basis, and that you will hear what He is saying to you. Your assignment may seem insignificant to you, but the way you complete it is very important. May your citizenship in the Kingdom equip you to be a true ambassador, and may the King commend you for your service when its time is over. “His adoniy said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant: you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many things: enter into the joy of your adoniy. MATTITHYAHU (MATTHEW) 25:21 את CEPHER
Monday, March 25, 2024
THE RESPONSIBILITY OF CITIZENS
Matthew chapter 8
Today we are walking in: The Responsibility Of Citizens
Jeremiah 49:14
I have heard a rumor from Yahuah, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle. YIRMEYAHU (JEREMIAH) 49:14 ×ת CEPHER
AMBASSADOR
Today we look to the word- AMBASSADOR- H6735- tsiyr- ambassador, hinge, messenger, pain, pang, sorrow
The Torah testifies……..
**************
The Prophets proclaim……..
Obadiah 1:1
THE vision of Ovadyahu. Thus says Adonai Yahuah concerning Edom; We have heard a rumor from Yahuah, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle. OVADYAHU (OBADIAH) 1:1 ×ת CEPHER
The Writings witness………………
Proverbs 13:17
A wicked messenger falls into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health. MISHLEI (PROVERBS) 13:17 ×ת CEPHER
The Principle and Power of Kingdom Citizenship: Keys to Experiencing Heaven on Earth by
Chapter 11
The Responsibility of Citizens
You are a citizen of a country on Earth, and I hope you are a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven. Remember that your citizenship does not mean only that the government is responsible for taking care of you, but that you have a responsibility to the government as well. It is a two-way street, and the traffic goes both ways. Just as it is for you as a citizen of your earthly country, so also in the Kingdom of Yah are you held accountable to the government by means of its constitution, in this case, the Bible. You can be a much happier and more productive citizen when you understand your responsibilities.
Sad to say, many people do not want to shoulder their responsibilities. They are glad Yah has saved them, but they do not necessarily want to obey Him. They do not understand that their obedience is a way of expressing their appreciation. Yahusha Hamashiach Himself put it concisely: “If you love Me, keep My commandments” (john: ). They also fail to acknowledge that the rights that they enjoy as citizens, while they cannot be earned because they have been given as privileges, must be maintained through simple obedience to the laws of the land.
Submission To Authority
When you become a citizen of a country, the laws of that country automatically become your laws. As you submit to those laws, you submit to the authority of the government. By submitting to the laws, you are free to remain in the country for a long time, to move around the country for pleasure or business, and to enjoy the protections and privileges of citizenship.
Break even one of those laws, however, and your freedoms will be curtailed. If you have transgressed in a significant way, you may be incarcerated in prison. You may be deprived of your passport. You may be required to go through a long process before you can be reinstated as a free citizen. Jails are filled with irresponsible citizens who did not take responsibility for keeping the law.
Citizenship manifests the contract between the government and the people. The key to enjoying the privileges that come with citizenship is personal obedience to the laws of the country.
So these are the facts, if you are part of the country called the Kingdom of Heaven:
You are a citizen with legal rights to benefit from the constitution of Yah.
You have personal rights and authority to exercise your power as a citizen through alignment with constitutional law.
The last phrase is the clincher. The secret to wielding authority in the Kingdom is aligning yourself with the laws of the country, in other words, obedience. You obey Yah for the sake of your life here and now (and not just in order to get to Heaven when you die). This is the Kingdom lifestyle, and maintaining it is your responsibility.
Authority is a good thing, and you never outgrow your need for it. Can you imagine a plant saying this to the soil? “That is enough. You have been holding me down for all these years. I’m out of here, and I am taking my root with me.” What would happen if a plant did that? It would die, sooner than later. The absence of authority brings self-destruction.
Fish were created to submit to water. If a fish decides to move out from under its authority, you do not need to punish it, because it will die. The safest place for the fish to be is submitted. Surely you have seen a fish out of water. It gasps and flips and flops, trying as hard as it can to get back into water. I know people like that. They try this and that and wonder why nothing is working. When young people leave home too early, life can be very tough for a long time. It is the same principle. It is time to get back under authority.
Part of submission to authority is patience. When we fly, sometimes I listen to the pilot talking on the radio. That man needs to be completely submitted to authority. If the control tower tells him he cannot land yet, he goes into a holding pattern. His flight plan is very specific. He cannot deviate from it twelve inches in any direction without getting permission. He may not be able to see any other aircraft around him, but the people in the tower can see all of them, coming and going.
In the same way, the authorities over us keep us from crashing into each other if we obey their directives. Freedom has boundaries, always. In the Kingdom, if the King says, “You are free to eat from any other tree, but do not eat from this tree,” He has good reasons. Disobedience is not the best way to find out about the repercussions.
Authority Makes Power Legal
We like to be around powerful people, but we need to ask ourselves, “Is this person’s power under authority?” Power combines ability and energy and force, while authority is the right and permission to use that power. Authority is the right to use power effectively, not because you could, but because you should. Authority makes power legal.
Therefore, authority is more important than power. Teenagers may have the power to leave home, but they do not yet have the authority to leave. A person may be very aggressive and loud in speaking, but if they do not have authority, their words will not carry weight.
Submission to authority is what makes a person effective.
One time a military officer came to see Yahusha on behalf of his servant who was lying at home, paralyzed and suffering. Yahusha was willing to accompany him to his home in order to hela the servant, but much to his surprise the man declined his offer:
The centurion answered and said, Adonai, I am not worthy that you should come under my roof: but speak the word only, and my servant shall be healed. For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it. When Yahusha heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Amein I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Yashar'el. And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Avraham, and Yitschaq, and Ya`aqov, in the Kingdom of Heaven. But the children of the Kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. And Yahusha said unto the centurion, Go your way; and as you have believed, so be it done unto you. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour. MATTITHYAHU (MATTHEW) 8:8-13 את CEPHER
Notice how the centurion addressed Yahusha. He called him “Lord,” which indicates that he honored His authority. “Lord” is a legal term, not a religious term. It means “owner”. In that culture, you would use that word for king.
See also how the centurion’s military experience gave him a more complete understanding of the way authority works. He was completely submitted to the Roamn emperor and any other commanders who ranked above him. He had at least a hundred soldiers who reported directly to him (The title “centurion” is related to the word “century”, which indicates one hundred.) Probably he has been watching Yahshua as he worked in the village. He may have seen Him healing the sick, raising the dead, casting out demons and more. Obviously, this man Yahusha had power. Obviously some higher authority was guiding Him. He knew that a person’s performance depended upon his obedience to the instructions he had been given.
So he made the leap from his natural observation to faith and Yahusha was impressed with that, declaring that the servant was already being healed, and commending the centurion to the people around them. A distance away, the paralyzed servant got up from his mat, healed and whole, without Yahusha ever having had to make the trip to his house.
In the same way, if any of us want to experience Yah’s best for our lives, we must get positioned properly which is to say under authority and our entraties will be heard and answered.
Righteousness Exalts A Nation
Yahusha said, “Seek first the kingdom of Yah and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you” (Matt. 6:33). He wants us to seek first His Kingdom and, along with it, His righteousness is the same as submission to His authority within the Kingdom of Yah. By becoming righteous, you uphold the authority of the Kingdom which in turn will uphold you. “Righteousness exalts a nation” (Prov. 14:34). This is nothing like other religions, where “submitting” involves trying to keep your god happy. You are not bringing gifts to an altar or lighting incense and chanting in front of a statue. You are not contributing money or going through all sorts of rituals to obligate your king to look after you. You are not appeasing the authorities.
When you submit to Yah’s authority, He shows you what is next. He helps you change your behavior. He even helps you seek more of His righteousness. By remaining close to Him, you guarantee that the authority of the government of the Kingdom will be extended through you wherever you go.
When you keep the law, you secure your Yah-given authority over the kingdom darkness. Evidently, hell keeps track when citizens of the Kingdom keep the laws of Yah. Demons will know who you are if you abide in the Kingdom righteously. You are in their computer. That means that you can cast them out with ease, because they know you by your Kingdom reputation.
The laws to which you are submitting are heavenly laws, such as, “But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. LUQAS (LUKE) 6:27-28 את CEPHER. So as you use kingdom love, which is powerful enough to extinguish the powers of darkness around you, you keep yourself under the protection of Yah while fulfilling your assignment.
You know that hatred will shut down your faith,and so will blind rituals. (In Galatians 5:6, Paul says, “For in Yahusha Ha'Mashiach neither circumcision avails anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith in fervent love. GALATIYM (GALATIANS) 5:6 את CEPHER”) So you submit to the Yah of love even more completely, to your own benefit as much as the benefit of those around you.
You do not get things from Yah just because you ask. You get things from the government of Heaven because you keep the laws of the country. It is not enough to talk about the laws. You need to read the law-book as often as possible and follow those laws faithfully. The minute you stop doing that, you start removing yourself from the King’s protection and help.
A lot of people think they can get away with sins just because nobody’s looking. That is audacious, to say the least. We come to Yah and say, “Yah, heal me (but I’m still going to take drugs).” Or we say, “I’m going to sleep with that woman I am not married to, but I want you to bless my business and pay my bills.” We demand things while we are in disobedience.
Instead of breaking laws and hoping you can get away with it, why not start obeying laws that you would not mind getting caught obeying? For example, see if you can get caught loving your brother. See if somebody can catch you paying your tithe. Let somebody catch you forgiving someone who hurt you, or spot you committing an act of kindness. Gossip about somebody who has lived with his wife for forty-two years without strife; that would be a wonderful thing to gossip about. The laws of this country are wonderful, every one of them. Do right intentionally all the time, and the king is going to bless you.
How To Submit To Authority
Submitting to the King of kings often entails submitting to those He has established in authority. You cannot submit to someone you are comparing yourself to or competing with, especially if you are interested in taking that person’s position. By the same token, you cannot submit to someone if you are jealous of that person, or if you distrust that person. It just does not work.
A good king is willing to decrease so one of his subjects can increase. In other words, a good king is willing to move over and let one of his citizens exercise power. A citizen can expect this to happen. He should not feel the need to push and shove to get the king’s attention, nor should he shoulder his way in with a sense of entitlement.
You will find it impossible to submit to someone if you think they are not as smart as you are, even when you tell yourself you are not influenced by such things. Naturally authority does not match up with intelligence, and still less with educational achievement. But pride gets in the way and you cannot put yourself lower than a person you want to correct all the time.
Conversely, you will be able to submit to someone’s authority if you are able to trust and respect that person. You will indicate your submission by laying down your own agenda in favor of theirs. You will not feel the need to win an argument or negotiate an outcome. Instead, you will find joy in performing assigned tasks and asking for advice.
Sometimes people say to an authority figure, “The Lord sent me to work with you. I want you to be my mentor.” That is not submission. Those people just want to gain a measure of honor and fame in the eyes of others, so they can take away some of your friends and followers. They have got their ulterior motives all worked out.
You will find it easy to submit to someone if you know in your spirit that Yah brought this person into your life. Your discernment will show you that the person will not take advantage of you, and that he or she wants Yah’s best for your life. You will be able to tell that your own effectiveness will improve if you are under this person’s authority.
Keys Of The Kingdom
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. Look at the connection:
And I will give unto you the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven: and whatsoever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. MATTITHYAHU (MATTHEW) 16:19 את CEPHER
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. You are, however, 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. 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 Yahusha in the wilderness, His responses came straight from Scripture. He said, “It is written…” (See Luke 4:1-13.) Those words were His keys to the Kingdom and victory.
Then answered Yahusha and said unto them, Amein, Amein, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees את the Father do: for what things soever he does, these also does the Son likewise. YOCHANON (JOHN) 5:19 את CEPHER. He exercised the keys of Kingdom authority better than anybody before or since. Yet He, true Prince that He is, 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
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. Yahusha has another perspective on such things. He says, “take no thought for them” (See Matthew 6:34). Instead of fretting about food and clothing and adding to an endless list of prayer requests, why not take His advice?
The Power Of Obeying Laws
Righteous means obeying the laws of Yah, out of love for Him and with his help. The word “righteous” means all of these things: 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. In essence, 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 or rule, how it makes your heart thump faster when you see the police or another authority figure 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 with the authority 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.
Benefits Of Being A Law-Abiding Kingdom Citizen
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 (see Ephesians 2:19). Therefore, 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 of citizen, and it is a powerful category. For you as a citizen of the Kingdom of Heaven, nothing is impossible. (Yahusha said so; see Matthew 17:20.) You can move mountains.
Benefits Of Prayer
Yahusha told a story about a widow who went before an ungodly judge (see Luke 18:1-8). 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 Yahusha 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.
Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto Elohiym by him, seeing he ever lives to make intercession for them. IVRIYM (HEBREWS) 7:25 את CEPHER. 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 Yahusha who took care of the matter on the cross, 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. “If I regard iniquity in my heart, Adonai will not hear me: TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 66:18 את CEPHER. The prophet Isaiah stated it clearly” “But your iniquities have separated between you and your Elohiym, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear. YESHA'YAHU (ISAIAH) 59:2 את CEPHER.
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. Believers 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 Yahushas’ coming meant the end of the Law? I have news for you; His coming meant that the Law was fulfilled in Him. “For Mashiach is the goal of the Torah for righteousness to everyone that believes. ROMAIYM (ROMANS) 10:4 את CEPHER.
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 Yahusha is standing there on that person’s behalf.
Benefits Of Access
Let’s say I am a multi-billionaire and you are my son or daughter. You ask me for your inheritance early. I am generous, so I give you a billion dollars, and I help you set up a bank account for it. It is a drop in the bucket for me anyway, since I have more than 30 billion in my own bank accounts.
When your sister says, “Daddy,, I don’t want my own bank account,” I am glad because I would rather give her access to mine. It is the better choice. I will give her access to my accounts and she can write checks whenever she needs to. She will never run out of money, will she? This is the same as Yah’s provision for His citizens. No wonder Yahusha told His Disciples not to take any luggage when they set out to preach and heal the sick: “And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece. LUQAS (LUKE) 9:3 את CEPHER. He will send His provision all along the way, because they have access to His account.
Righteousness being in a right position with regard to the government of Heaven is what guarantees your access. My first child cannot go to the bank and demand funds from my account. Neither can you go to the throne room of Yah and start claiming things that you are not qualified to claim. Citizenship and right standing give you rights and justice.
Many people think that righteousness means staying clear of big sins. (You know, don’t roba bank and don’t murder anybody.) But righteousness covers obedience to every little law; it also means do not lie or deceive people, do not be jealous or envious, do not criticize or judge, do not murmur or complain. One murmur can shut the whole government down as far as your access is concerned.
Now one of the dumbest things a person can do is get up in the King’s face and start fussing at Him. That is called rebellion. The only remedy is repentance and humble submission. Do not forfeit your access to Yah. He loves you and He has given you the whole Kingdom:
The eyes of Yahuah are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 34:15 את CEPHER
Yahuah said unto my Adonai, Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool. TEHILLIYM (PSALMS) 110:1 את CEPHER
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your paths. MISHLEI (PROVERBS) 3:6 את CEPHER
AND it shall come to pass, if you shall hearken diligently unto the voice of Yahuah Elohayka, to guard and to do all his commandments which I command you this day, that Yahuah Elohayka will set you on high above all nations of the earth: And all these blessings shall come on you, and overtake you, if you shall hearken unto the voice of Yahuah Elohayka. DEVARIYM (DEUTERONOMY) 28:1-2 את CEPHER
Come Like A Child
We complicate our lives so much. Yahusha makes it simple. One time, he took a nearby child and used him to illustrate his point about how to enter the Kingdom and stay in the Kingdom:
And Yahusha called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, And said, Amein I say unto you, Except ye turn back, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. MATTITHYAHU (MATTHEW) 18:2-4 את CEPHER
Do you see? Our primary responsibility as citizens of the Kingdom is to remain childlike. Stay close to Yah. Do what He says. Trust Him. Stop worrying; your Daddy is taking care of you. Right now morning, noon and night.
The enemy of Kingdom life is being an adult. Being an adult will kill you, because you take on the responsibilities of the universe and you are not equipped to do that. You are a child; get used to the idea. Yah is your Abba and Yahusha is your big brother. You thought that being a mature citizen meant taking on more responsibilities, but in the Kingdom, it means taking on less. Adults have to calculate, analyze and explain everything before they act. Adults do not believe in something until they see it. Adults need a reason before they will believe anything.
Children, on the other hand, are quick to believe, innocent of strategic thinking, pliable. They put unquestioning trust in those over them. They are not at all impressed by status or money. When they meet a billionaire on the street they think he is just another old man like their grandfather. Children do not own much of anything, so it is not hard for them to give up things.
You never hear of a child fretting about having enough money, because somebody will always take care of them. They take things for granted, and that is okay. When I was a child, we had eleven children in the house and my father was not wealthy. It never occurred to me or my brothers and sisters to worry about where our next meal was coming from. It just happened.
Kingdom citizens soon learn how to trust like a child. Our Abba supplies our needs from the most amazing directions. Who, for example, would ever thought that Yah’s safety deposit box was the mouth of a fish? When the disciples had to come up with tax money, Yahusha directed them: “Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go to the sea, and cast a hook, and take up the fish that first comes up; and when you have opened his mouth, you shall find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and you. MATTITHYAHU (MATTHEW) 17:27 את CEPHER.
You were not born to beg. You were born to collect. You were born to have access to endless supply because your father owns everything. You are a family member, a member of His household. You are also a citizen. That gives you relationship status and also legal status. Your disposition with Yah gives you position with Yah.
When you come like a child to the threshold of the Kingdom, it is easy to get through the door. Yah created you to be a citizen of the Kingdom. Do your part and you will never regret it. Every citizen must make his or her own response to the requirements of citizenship. Nobody can obey the law for another person. I cannot stop st the red light for you; you have to do it yourself. I cannot pay your taxes. I cannot align myself with the laws of the Kingdom on your behalf, as much as I might want to.
Obedience to the laws of the Kingdom is both a proof and a demonstration of true love. The King is coming back someday, and He will decide who has been following His ways. He will not be impressed with the biggest churches or the longest list of academic degrees. He will look at the hearts of his citizens. “Did you love Me? Did you love others? Did you listen and obey My Word?” Those who can answer “yes” will dwell in the Kingdom for all of eternity:
When the Son of A'dam shall come in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory: And before him shall be gathered all nations: and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world: MATTITHYAHU (MATTHEW) 25:31-34 את CEPHER
Sheep or goats? I know which group I want to be part of, and I hope I will meet you there.
Saturday, March 23, 2024
UNDERSTANDING THE MANDATE OF YAHUSHA
Matthew chapter 4
Today we are walking in: Understanding The Mandate of Yahusha
Job 34:16
If now thou hast understanding, hear H8085 this: hearken to the voice of my words.
UNDERSTAND
Today we look to the word-UNDERSTAND- H8085 shama`--to hear with attention or interest, listen to understand (language)
The Torah testifies...............
Genesis 11:7
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand H8085 one another's speech.
The prophets proclaim..................
Nehemiah 8:2
And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear H8085 with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.
The writings bear witness...........................
1 Kings 3:9
Give therefore thy servant an understanding H8085 heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
Understanding The Mandate of Yahusha
This morning we are looking at the Mandate of Yahusha HaMashiach. What was his message and what was his mandate? What did he come to accomplish? Yahusha HaMashiach is the most misunderstood man on earth. He is mostly misunderstood by the people who represent him on earth. The Buddhists call him a wise teacher, the Hindus say he's another one of their six million gods, the Muslims say he was a good prophet, he's even in the Quran. The agnostics say that he didn't rise from the dead. The atheists say that he was a fake, probably never existed, he was created into a god by his followers 2,000 years ago. These Christians are probably the greatest misrepresentative of Yahusha HaMashiach! It is my conviction after my short life on earth so far--that Christians have misunderstood Yahusha the most!!!! The Jews believed that he was a misguided rabbi who claimed to be the Messiah. The majority of them haven’t accepted him. So we're stuck with this man that everyone seems to misunderstand. Now when you misunderstand somebody, you should go and talk to them personally. Let them talk to you and tell you what they think. That’s what I have done. The average human came to a conclusion about Yahusha without talking to him or listening to him personally. They either heard about him through someone else's perception, testimony, theology, opinion and they walked away with their conclusions based on third and fourth hand information. What I did from my frustration, trying to figure out life, I decided to talk to him and study him and listen to him myself. What I'm going to share with you is going to be very important for you because I know you too have been concerned about what you believe and whether it is true. Everyone is grappling with what is truth? First let me begin by talking a little bit, about the human condition. This is very relevant right now to the times we live in. First of all the kingdoms of this world, that means every country, every government, are all helpless! It's amazing that as powerful as the United States is, it cannot control oil prices, it cannot stop crime, it cannot destroy terrorism. Helpless nations! Another issue that we're living with is called globalization. Globalization makes us all interdependent and that is a problem. For example, America is now borrowing money from a communist country, while America is against communism. Because of globalization we are interdependent. Interdependent means even though I don't agree with your ideology, I need your money. Interdependent means whatever happens in one place affects every place. That's where you're living now, that's where I'm living now. We are living in a world of globalization. Thirdly, governments are helpless because no matter what kind of government we have, all of them aren't able to solve their social, economic, and educational problems. The economists are helpless because we cannot fix our economies. Educators are helpless--the reading scores of our children graduating from school is so low that we are ashamed of them. When our kids graduate from school we compare their grades with others in the other nations, we are wondering what is the education system doing? We seem to be helpless to fix it. It's the world we live in. Then we have the media and they only report the conditions that we are helpless with. They tell us how failed we are in our attempts to govern ourselves. Then we live in a world where the fear of recession is making us victims of the circumstances. The questions that we are dealing with now, I heard a report in a board meeting just this week where churches are now shutting down because people are losing their jobs and cannot pay tithes and so therefore the church cannot pay the mortgage for the building and so the church has to be put up for sale. That's what you call recession. The economy is contracting and is affecting the whole world. What do you do when you are a victim of an environment that you have no control over? That's a reality some of you could lose your job in the next few months, The Most High forbid, but that's possible. Some of you may have already lost it and you're sitting here looking for help wanting, The Most High to give you a word. Some businesses are downsizing, some of them are going to lay people off for a while, because when a recession comes, everyone runs for cover. People stop spending, people stop giving. What do you do in a world like that? You need the Kingdom message! In the midst of that we all seek what? A new government. That's why the presidential race in this country is so hot, because we are all hoping that somebody will take us out of this stuff and and everybody is fighting for their own candidate and every country is doing the same thing. Everyone of us, in every country, spending billions of dollars on government processing hoping to get better government every time. Because we seek new government. It is a search for a better world. That's what people want. Is that what you want? Yes. 6.7 billion people on earth today are looking for a better world. We want a better country, a better community. You want better societies, we want better education, better children in our communities. You want to get rid of gangs, poverty, incest, rape, abuse, broken homes, broken marriages and torn apart families. You want to get rid of all the mess in politics, in the church both corruption and failure. We want a better way. We're looking for a better world. So we run to religion, and religion is now the number one problem. Terrorism is motivated by religion. Most of the conflicts in the world are based on religious conflicts. So religion doesn't seem to be our answer. The most frightening truth about this all, is that we have what we call, a culture clash going on. Culture clash is when people who never used to be close to each other are now close to each other. So now you're learning to live with a Chinese and an African and a Haitian and a Mexican. You have to learn to live with people you never had contact with 20 years ago. They come to your neighborhood, they come to your church--it may have been where your church used to be white, now it's mixed with black and brown people. Your church used to be black, now it's mixed with white people and Asian people. And you are still singing those black gospel songs because you don't understand that there's a clash going on. Culture clash. What do you do about that? Dr. Munroe says, I remember in one of my books called the Seasons To Change, I wrote a statement that is so powerful. The founder of AT&T, said when the pace of change, outside of an organization is faster than the pace of change inside the organization, death is near. In other words, when the community around you is changing faster than your church programs, your church is dying. You've got to be able to handle the cultures. The world has changed. Culture is stronger than politics. Culture is more powerful than religion. This is why culture supersedes all forms of government law. This is why you have what they call a Chinatown in America. They are Americans but their culture is so strong it is called Chinatown. When you go in there you think you walked into China, because the culture is stronger than the politics of America. You cannot go to Chinatown and ask for a hotdog because the culture is stronger than the politics. What do you do in a world like this? Well here's what we focus on. All men believe that government is the answer. That's why we keep changing governments. I'm leading up to something, stay with me for a few minutes. It won't be long, but I want you to get this. We believe that government is the answer, and that's why we spend so much money on government. Look how many millions of dollars are being spent by those who are pursuing government? Millions of dollars and every country does it. Why is choosing government such a major issue, if not the most major issue in every country?? Somehow humanity believes that if we can just get the right government, all these problems will go away. Well here's a shock, The Most High looks down from his lofty place in heaven, he looks at our earth and here's a surprise. The Most High believes that government is also the answer to mankind's problems. The Most High believes that too, and that's the message!! Man is searching for good government. That's why you vote, that's why you believe in democracy. That's why there's socialism, communism and and all the other forms of government. Everyone believes that if you can just get the right government we'll have the right country. Then our governments keep disappointing us. So we keep voting again. But The Most High also believes that government is the answer to man's problems. Because government has to do with control. I’ll say that again--government gives you control over territory, over circumstances, over people, over resources. That's why people want government. Government deals with controlling the earth. The battle for earth is the battle for culture. Whoever is in government, affects the culture. Because whoever can control the laws, create culture. Culture is a product of what we call norms. A norm is an accepted form of behavior that is based on what is allowed in a society, which is what we call law. If you want to change your culture, change the law. The law will eventually produce a culture. This is why those who want to control culture will go after changing legislation. Washington D.C. is the most powerful city in the world and it is a city that does nothing but law. Why? Whoever controls law controls--culture. If you want to change the culture of a place, you got to change the law. This is why many groups in your country are not interested in what you are preaching. They go in after changing the law. If they can get the law changed, they don’t have to worry about your preaching, the culture will follow later. That's why--government is so important. Government creates culture. Culture is the manifestation of the collective thinking of a people. There's black culture in America, there's European culture in America, there's Asian culture in America, there's Latin culture in America, there's Italian culture in America, there is Germanic culture in America. There are a lot of cultures in this country and those cultures are a manifestation of a group of people who think alike. It is their collective thinking and culture, is more powerful than politics! Whoever controls the minds of a community, will create the culture! Whoever controls the minds of the people, will control the culture, they'll create the culture. And that's why you better hear me carefully, everyone is after your mind! I am gonna say that again! Everyone is after your mind!! Everybody is!! That's why there is so much on the television, the radio, the CD player and the Internet. Everyone's after your mind. That's why you have the speakers and all of the people talking in the Senate and in the Congress. Everyone is talking because words attack your mind, pictures attack your mind, sounds attack your mind. We got to get your mind! If I can get your mind I can create your culture. A man thinks, and the way he thinks in his heart, so is he. So therefore what is the heart? The heart is the mind. The word heart in the Bible has nothing to do with your chest. This is where a lot of religious people get into problems. When we say come into my heart, we pointed to our chest. Yahusha, come into my heart! HaSatan loves that. That's why he loves altar calls. He loves it. Why? You get Yahusha right into your chest. He can’t enter your chest!!! As a man thinketh, in his subconscious so is he. HaMashiach wants to possess your mind. Put on the mind of HaMashiach, not the chest of HaMashiach!! HaMashiach never says that that he would come into your chest and make free. He said you shall know the truth. Know means you get information, knowledge about the truth. When you get it, it'll set you free from lies. You will change your thinking, change your behavior, which will change your culture and change your lifestyle!! That's why mama teaches--she teaches to get you to think. This is why the HaSatan loves emotional people. Because emotional people never grow. They don't change. You are transformed, how? By the renewing of your chest. Oh sorry! Your mind. That's how you are changed!! The heart is the mind. The kingdom of The Most High, is a kingdom of the heart. It is manifested in culture, not in religious activity. This is where we miss Yahusha. Yahusha HaMashiach never came to earth to make you behave religiously. Yahusha never made an alter call. Never! Let me say it again in case you thought I made a mistake. Yahusha never made an alter call. Never will you find it in Scripture. He taught thousands and never made an alter call. Why? Because that doesn't make you a changed person. He said things like this. Let those who have ears, to hear. Let them hear. Then he would leave and take the boat and go on the other side. He was after what? Their minds. If I can change your mind, he says, then conversion has taken place. That's why folks at the altar are still going back and sinning. The mind hasn't changed. They have not got a revelation of truth yet and so they keep practicing their old habits, they are stuck in an old culture. The kingdom of The Most High is manifested, not in a religion, but in a culture. I'm here to change your mind. The Ruach HaQadesh said to me, who is the governor of the kingdom, he said tell wherever you go, tell the whole world, my 21st century mission is kingdom influence to culture. I'm going to bring the kingdom culture back to earth he says and it will influence every area of humanity. That's what The Most High wants. He doesn't want isolation, he wants infiltration. He doesn't want you to leave earth. He wants to go into all the world, with the kingdom of heaven influence!!! Religions abandon earth. The Muslims want to go to Paradise, the Christians want to go to heaven, the Hindus want to go to another consciousness or they come back and be reincarnated, the Buddhists want to go to subliminal thinking. They all want to go somewhere. HaMashiach says no, go into all the world. Stay here and make a difference. That's a different word altogether, see? But we've been trained to leave--not to influence. This is the assignment. The Most High's original goal is simple, to transform society through Kingdom culture. The Most High never wants to compete with Buddha, Muhammad, Confucius. Don't put him in the same class as no prophet!!! Yahusha HaMashiach was not a prophet. I am going to say that again, Yahusha HaMashiach was not a prophet. If he was a prophet he's in the class with everybody else. You remember this question? He said to them, who do men say that I am? That's a 2000 year old question and you haven't answered it yet! Who do men say that I am? They say, some say you are a prophet. I told you he wasn't one. Some say you are Elijah come back from the dead. Some say you are John The Baptist. They said all these things. Then he says now who do YOU say I am? Because I don't agree with none of those titles. Because a Prophet cannot have a kingdom, only Kings have kingdoms. Peter says thou are the HaMashiach. HaMashiach means anointed king. Son of the living Most High. I'm gonna build my government on the statement that I am the Messiah, a King. He was not tried because he was a prophet. Read the Bible again, stop reading other people's comments!!! Pilate says, “are you a king?” HaMashiach says, “for this reason was I born, yes I am a king and I have a kingdom.” Pilate says, “I find no fault in this man”, to with the Pharisees and scribes. This guy is in a different class altogether. He's not claiming to be no preacher or Pope. He ain't claiming to be no prophet. This guy is above that. He claimed to have a government. So what should be our mission? Here is our mission--earthly influence through heavenly kingdom culture! That's why The Most High sent you here on earth. He sent you on earth, to produce earthly influence through heavenly culture. In other words, he wanted heaven to affect the earth through your culture. Which means you are supposed to possess heavens culture. You cannot develop culture unless you are in it. This is why a white man can't play “black” and a black man can't play “white” because you gotta be brought up in this thing. Matter of fact the word culture means to grow, you grow in something. Culture is something that you have to grow by association with something, which means you cannot represent the culture of heaven if you ain't related to heaven. If you ain't hanging out with The Most High, you can't represent The Most High!!! Write this down please. I call it the process of Kingdom influence. How are we going to influence the word with Kingdom culture? The first word is a word that Christians don't like. That's why I'm not a Christian anymore. It's the word engagement. You cannot influence something you don't engage. You have to engage society, engage the system. You have to engage the environment if you're going to influence it. We've been taught to avoid the environment, stay away from it, back away from and hide from it. We are supposed to engage it. You cannot affect what you avoid!! So stop praying for a Christian job. Like salt is useless in the salt shaker. We have to engage the world. Number two, we have to confront the world. I'm not talking about violence, killing people, that's not confrontation--that's murder. Confronting means that we allow our culture to confront the culture of the world. You cannot change what you don't confront. As a matter of fact, write this down and remember this. Whatever you tolerate you will never change!! HaMashiach was always confronting the Roman Empire and the culture of the Judaism that was around him and the religion, why? His culture kept clashing with it. HaMashiach never killed anyone in his life. As a matter of fact he was killed. One time his disciples, who could be considered to be the first terrorists on earth, Bin Ladin is a joke to disciples of Yahusha. These guys were worse than Bin Ladin. They told Yahusha there are some people down the street who are not worshipping like us. Remember James and John? They said Yahusha call now fire and burn them up. Man, that's terrorism and that's in your Bible, Luke 9:49-56. Yahusha turned to them in shock and asked them, from where did you get this spirit? In other words, this didn't come from me. You got this from your synagogue, where you got racism and segregation in the synagogues. He says you hate people who aren’t like you. He was separating himself from the synagogue in that moment. He said I didn't come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. Even if they don't worship like me, he says I have sheep that are not of the fold, they're different but they're still mine. So he confronted the culture. Another word write this down. If you're gonna bring influence, you have to infiltrate. You know you can never salt a piece of beef unless you get the salt on the beef! If you are salt of the earth, you gotta get in the earth! You have to go in there, go into business, go into law, go into music, go into education, go into politics. He says he wants you to go in there. Stop looking for a safe place. Look for a place where you can confront and make a difference. That's Kingdom life right there, infiltration. Matter of fact it says for The Most High so loved the world he stood on Heaven's porch and looked down and shook his head and said poor things. No he didn't. If you love people in the world, you will leave your safe place and going to all the world. He came to the world to save sinners. He was the only righteous one when he arrived. That's a piece of salt on a big piece of beef. The world infiltrate means you move in and they didn't even know you're moving in. If you want to influence the world, that's where it is, integration. you have to integrate yourself in the system to change it. What do religious people do, like Christians? They attack the system, by criticism, not infiltration. You cannot change what you avoid. You have to integrate yourself in the system. He who is The Most High made himself man. That's integration. He who is holy came among those who were unholy, he integrated. The Most High took on the form of a man, put on a body like us, that's integration. He didn't come to observe. He came to impact. The last one is a very critical. strategic impact--this is planned, calculated deliberate impact!! If you're going to influence the world in the next 50- 60 years, the Church has to change it’s complete attitude and develop strategic strategies to impact the environment for the kingdom of The Most High. That means we need wisdom and new programs and new ideas. Let me tell you something, the programs that build this church will not be the programs that keep it. Because everything has changed. You gotta now look at everything you did and throw the jawbone of a donkey, that aren’t working, like Samson did. You know it once worked, but it is not working anymore. Throw it away. Why? you have to have strategic impact. The kingdom of The Most High is not static, it's dynamic. It's a country, it's not a religion! Let me give you some Kingdom concepts to remember. First of all, the message of the Bible was not about religion. The Bible is about a king and a kingdom, and the King’s kids. This book is about a king, a kingdom, and a royal family. And that is why every human being is seeking for the kingdom. All religious are man's attempts to find the kingdom! Every human being on earth is looking for the kingdom, all of us 6.7 billion people on the earth today are seeking for the kingdom of The Most High, they just don't know what it is they're seeking for!! And so they create these religions to try and find it. Religions is man's hunger for something that he lost, and yet man never lost a religion!! That's why the mission of Yahusha HaMashiach was not a religious message--it was a kingdom message. Let me ask you a question. If I see you taking tylenol, what should I assume? That you got a headache or some kind of pain. In other words, I can tell what's wrong with you, based on what the medication you were taking. If I see you're taking insulin, what can I assume? That you have got diabetes. In other words, you ain't gotta tell me. If I just see what you're taking, I can assume what's wrong with you. Well HaMashiach came to give us the medicine that we needed. He gave us a kingdom which means we must be lacking rulership. He didn't bring you a religion, he brought you a kingdom!! That means you are lacking government authority!! Show me the medication, I'll show you the sickness! If you want to know what's wrong with man, study with Yahusha bought. All true kingdoms contain the same components and characteristics. That means when we have the word Kingdom they all contain the same qualities. A kingdom is Kingdom in any culture. So when Yahusha says he brought a kingdom, he was bringing what all kingdoms have. All kingdoms have a king, they all have territory, they all have a constitution, they all have laws!! They all have in the kingdom what they call benefits or favors, they all have customs, they all have values, they all have moral status, they all have an army. In other words all kingdoms have different components that are the same. And the kingdom of The Most High has the same thing. All kingdoms are manifested through the influence of its culture. This is very important. If a kingdom is in a place it will show up by the culture that's present!! So I could tell where you are from, by the way you act, live and dress. So if you go to downtown Washington D.C. and you can stand on the street for 20 minutes and you'll see 50 nations walk pass. You will know this without talking to them, you can just see them. Why? Their culture is showing, in their dress, in their language, and what they're eating while they're walking. In other words when you are under a kingdom, it shows up in your culture! So if you are from heaven I'm supposed to be able to observe it! You don’t have to wear a badge saying, I am a kingdom citizen. It's supposed to show in the way you dress, walk, talk, eat, drive, act, and even get angry. Can people who tell where you from by observing you? Culture is lifestyle. Some of you have lost your children to another Kingdom. You don't even understand them when they talk to you. They're in a different Kingdom. You've lost them. It manifests in culture. I said that because I want you to understand The Most High's original idea. Write this down, it’s very important. The creator created the realm of heaven and called it his center of power. Heaven was created first wasn't it? Heaven is invisible. Number two it's very important. The Most High whose name is Elohim, created the heavens which is invisible but it's real and he's the king over that place. That country called heaven is his invisible domain. So Elohim is king over a country called heaven that is invisible. The Most High created this beautiful realm. He calls it heaven and he rules over that area. So he's called the king of heaven that's why it's called the kingdom of heaven. Now there are two terms Yahusha used in the four Gospels. One he would use the term, kingdom of heaven, then sometimes he used the words, kingdom of The Most High. Let me stress to you they are not the same. I'm explaining the difference. The kingdom of heaven is a place. The kingdom of The Most High is the influence of that place. Let me say it again. The kingdom of heaven is a place, it's an actual place. The kingdom of The Most High is the influence of that place. Dr. Munroe says, when he was born in 1954, he was born under a kingdom. That kingdom ruled his country for about 197 years. So he was born under a kingdom, now even though they were far away from that Kingdom, thousands of miles away, that Kingdom which is a place, called the Kingdom of Great Britain ruled their Islands in the Caribbean. The kingdom didn't come there, the influence came there. So when you come to the Bahamas you will notice that we drive on the left-hand side of the street. Why? If you go to visit our kingdom headquarters, they drive on the left. If you come to the Bahamas you would notice we drink tea four times a day. Why? If you go to his headquarters country, they drink tea four times a day. In other words, the place influences the territory. So we were under the Kingdom of Great Britain even though we never been to Great Britain. It's called Kingdom influence. So when Yahusha says the kingdom of The Most High is here, he's saying the influence of the country has arrived. Write this down please. The Most High's original idea was to extend his heavenly, invisible kingdom, to the earthly visible realm. That's all he wanted to do. Don't complicate it, don't get deep. We spend years preaching on the temple, the tabernacle, listen all that stuff is just symbols. The Most High's simple idea was, I want to rule earth from heaven. But we've created this complicated thing called christianity, all these rituals, and all these customs. The Most High is saying what are you doing? That's why HaMashiach never joined them, he never joined the religion. His simple idea was, to extend His kingdom to earth. Matter of fact, let's see what he says himself. Isaiah 45--some of you never saw this in the Bible before. Write this down. Isaiah 45 verse 8 says, he who created the heavens, he is The Most High, he fashioned and made the earth, he founded it, he did not create it to be empty but he formed it to be inhabited. That's in your Bible. We are thinking completely opposite to The Most High, Christianity is taught to abandon earth. Read the verse again. He said I made the earth and I didn't make it to be empty. I formed it to be what? Inhabited. I want my people on that place. Listen to me friends, listen to me, if you study the word kingdom and you study the word colonization, which is what kingdoms do, you'll discover that when you type the word colonization into your computer and you press search--you see a lot of information come up about Rome. Rome was the most successful colonizing kingdom in history. Then you will see a lot of countries come up like Spain, France, Belgium, Portugal and England. They'll come up why? Because all of them followed Rome. They are parts of Rome. They picked up the whole spirit of Rome and they keep colonizing. Listen to me, when you look at the information here's what it says. Colonization, was successful when a colony was placed in a foreign territory. Then it says a colony was established by the Romans when the Roman king would choose three hundred citizens, removing them out of Rome to live in a foreign territory. The Romans believed that once you get 300 people in a foreign place long enough, they will take over the place with culture and turn the place into Rome. So they say when in Rome, you do as the Romans do. Let's say the Bible is a territory and I'm the king and this is my territory over here. Let’s say I want to colonize another place. What I would do is, I remove some of my citizens from my territory and I would put them in that other territory. In other words, I would say let them have dominion. Let them dominate that place. You are not from Earth. No humans came from Earth. Your original country was heaven, you were sent here to dominate this territory for your country. What happened was, you decided to declare independence from your country and establish your own government down here. There is a way that seems right unto the man but the end of it is incest, destruction, murder, homicide, drugs, destruction, and corruption. Why? Because you’re ruining your own life The Most High says. That's why the king decided, that's still my territory, I'm gonna go down there myself. He came into the world, he came unto his own territory and they didn't recognize the king. You are not from Earth. If you are not behaving like heaven, you are misbehaving. All of us like sheep he says have gone astray. I didn't teach you to live like this he says. Yahusha never claimed to be a Hebrew, he never claimed that he was from Bethlehem, he never claimed that he was from Nazareth, he never claimed that he was come from Capernaum. Never. Read the Bible. I read this book for 28 years and I'm shocked at things we assumed. Matter of fact, they tried to make him agree with them, that he was from Nazareth. He disagreed. They tried to make Mary his mother, he disagreed. They tried to make Joseph his daddy, he disagreed. Some people didn't get it, yet they said where are you from? Tell us plainly. He says I came down from our Father. They said wait a minute, we know your mother, she's Mary. We know your father, he's Joseph and your brothers, James and John. He says, I came down from My Father. He says, if you knew my father you would know me. You know what your problem is? You claim to be an American. If you are an American, then you will be as successful as an American can be in a recession. You are as rich as where you came from. You are as healthy as where you came from. Some of you inherited your parents genes, that's why you got cancer, that's why you got high blood pressure, that's why you got diabetes, but this morning I want you to change your heritage. I came down from heaven and there is no sickness in heaven, no disease in heaven, no fear in heaven, no depression in heaven, no corruption in heaven. I am just like my hometown. The kingdom of The Most High is your hometown. So when someone ask you again where you're from, tell them it depends on what you want to know. What do you really want to know about me? I ain't no African. I came down from my father he says. They said but we know you, we know your parents. He said, I came down from my father. He made this place just for me to inhabit it he says. I am part of the colony that's supposed to fill this place with heavens culture, that's all I am. I came here to bring heaven on earth, through my influence. So when your government runs out of money, my government shall supply all of your needs according to the kings riches. That means, you are under the kingdom of The Most High and nothing shall come near your dwelling. A thousand may fall at your right, ten thousand at your left but your home shall be preserved. You are under a different economy and in the midst of poverty you shall prosper. Only the kingdom could sit in the middle of five thousand hungry people, and turn to a citizen, and say feed them and they look around and there is nothing to eat. He says feed them. Why? We are not limited by what you see. He was connected to another country that multiplies bread. Everyone talking about economic doom, economic downturn, economic collapse, let me tell you something. In the kingdom of The Most High there's no such thing. The kingdom of The Most High gets excited when the kingdoms of the world fall apart, that's when the kingdom shows off. You see, you are under a different government. You are not from Earth. Get it through your head. You are a spirit and you live in a dirt house. Your body is your earth suit and you came from heaven. Psalm 115 it says in verse 16 the highest heavens belong to Who? The Lord. That's his territory, but the earth he gave to the kids. Why do you want to abandon what he gave you? Look at this one, Genesis 1:26 he said for The Most High said let us make man, our kids, in our own spirit image just like us. Why? Let them have control, influence, leadership, and dominion over what? The fish, the birds, the cattle, and over all the earth. That's why he made you. He didn't make you to live in heaven, you came from there. Christianity produces the laziest people on earth. They are irresponsible, always wanting to vacate and evacuate. They hate pressure, they can't handle a bit of pain. Lazy people. The word dominion, write it down, is the word for Kingdom. Matter of fact, the word in the New Testament, the word basilia and it actually means sovereign power. It means royal power. Let them have royal power over the earth. The Hebrew word is even more powerful, it's the word melaka or roddow. This word roddow is a powerful word used in Genesis, that actually means kingdom, sovereignty. Let them have Kingdom over the earth. In other words, I want my country to come on earth. The Most High says, he created you to bring his country on earth, his culture just like the British brought their culture to the Bahamas 3,000 miles away. He wants to bring heaven to earth. Let them have rulership. Let me tell you something, you were born to rule. That's why you hate to be told what to do. You are built to be in charge. The word Dominion-- Roddow means a king over a territory. Let them have Kingdom over the territory. That's why he gave us the earth. You cannot be a king without territory. You cannot dominate nothing. That's why The Most High created the earth before he released you. So you don't understand The Most High. He put everything in the earth first, made the earth then put everything in it. Animals, plants water, gold, silver, diamonds, flowers, insects, reptiles, everything. The Bible says and the Lord said that it was good. Next verse, and then The Most High said, now let us release the kids. Let's make man out of our own spirit, they're coming out of heaven, put them in a dirt body on earth and let them have dominion over earth. They got to dominate something. You will not be happy in heaven, I guarantee it. Because there's nothing for you to rule in heaven. Read revelations chapters 19, 20 and 21. It says that the Saints are crying in heaven, they are weeping. Paul says they are weeping in heaven because they longed to be clothed again with their bodies. That's in your Bible. Twenty-first chapter of Revelation says I saw therefore a new heaven and a new earth coming down. Christians say, I'm going up... NO!! It's coming down. “I'm flying away” NO!! It's coming down! Revelation says and you shall reign on the earth with him forever. So you have a choice, believe your hymn book, or believe the Bible. You are a ruler and this is your territory. Let them have dominion. Let me give you a definition of what a kingdom is. This is very important. A kingdom is the sovereign rulership and governing authority of a king over his territory, impacting it with his will his purpose and his intent, producing a citizenry of people who reflect his character, nature, lifestyle and morals. That's a kingdom. It's a country with people. A kingdom is different from a democracy. In a democracy, you do not take on the nature of the president. Thank The Most High. In other words, in a democracy you don't dress like the president, eat like the president, act like the president, and talk to the president. But in the kingdom, you have to actually dress like the king, eat like the king, drive on the left-hand-side like the king, drink tea like the king, speak like the king. you take on the Kings complete character, his nature, his lifestyle. That's the difference. This is why in a kingdom you cannot have your personal values, your private morals. That's why we love Christianity, because Christianity allows you to have your own personal opinions. So you can decide, what you believe, what you don't believe in. Christianity means you are not in the kingdom of The Most High. You’re a Christian but you're not a kingdom citizen. As a kingdom citizen you become just like Yahusha. HaMashiach didn't say, read this book and memorize it. He says follow me. That's why people hate Yahusha. You don't choose him among many, you don't compare him to Mohammed, Buddha and Confucius and psychics and Dr. Phil. He’s not in their class. He’s KING! And if you claim him as your Lord, then you act like him, talk like him, eat like him, react like him and you represent him in every way. You are an ambassador of HaMashiach. That's why we love religion. Religion allows you to do what you feel. HaMashiach says you call me Lord, but you don't do what I say. You say, “Yes Lord” He says, stop lying. The word Lord means owner. Don't tell me I own you and then you're doing your own thing. Who are you sleeping with that you ain't married to and you singing in the choir? Are you crazy? You can't call him Lord. Now you get quiet. The kingdom of The Most High is a country for citizens that take on the nature of the King. The kingdom is the nation governed by a king. It's a nation. It is not a religion. Christianity is not the kingdom of The Most High. Christianity is a religion, and what's amazing about Christianity? It was formulated by a Roman king in Rome. That's why they call it the Roman Catholic Church. They moved it from Jerusalem. It is the route to Rome, it's the pagan headquarters. HaMashiach never told his disciples to meet me in Rome. He said meet me in Jerusalem. That’s where the real church is but they moved it to Rome. That's why the Pope lives in Rome. And Martin Luther was a Catholic- bishop -priest and he created Protestantism. Which is Baptist, Methodist, Church of God etc. They were created by a priest. Paul says in Romans 6 do not detach yourself from the root, cause you are just a branch. Go back and plant yourself where the root is in Jerusalem. Through a set of rituals and customs and rights, producing a distinctive group that is radical in nature. In other words, they think they are different. They keep to themselves, they become a sect. All religions have that definition that is completely opposite to what Yahusha preached. That's why he could not become a Pharisee, he couldn't join the Sadducees. Why? They were a sects. Christianity is a sect. They call us a sect because we worship a deity, better yet, a set of beliefs, we use rituals. Yahusha HaMashiach came to earth to bring something completely different. He came to bring a kingdom. A kingdom is not a religion. A kingdom is a country, a country governed by a king with all the components of a nation. The Most High lost a nation when Adam fell--he lost a nation, a country. The Bible says Abraham and all the patriarchs were looking for that country. That's in your Bible. They were not looking for religion. Abraham was looking for a country. As Adam’s great-great-great great-great grandson he knew his daddy his great-great Grandaddy lost a country. And that's why you are still searching today. Christianity has made you very frustrated because it's disappointed you. It's not a country. That's why church is boring and people keep leaving it. Because they get excited about the rituals for a while and then boom!-- Disappointed...they're looking for a country. He said happy are those who are spiritually poor, for to them belongs the kingdom. Not a religion. The Most High says, Abraham, come to me. Where? I'll tell you when to stop. Abraham got up and started walking. The Most High appeared to Abraham. “Abraham I want my country back and I need a colony again.” He says, I need a group of people who I can put on this place and they can become just like me. Out of you, I shall make a new nation, not a religion. That's why Judaism is not what The Most High wants. It's a religion. I will make all of you a great nation. I lost my colony and I will be your Most High, you will be my people. You will only listen to the heaven’s government and through you all the other nations that declare independence shall come back to me, and I will rule the earth again through my colony. If you understand, Abraham, what I am telling you, if you get it right, then I will bless you. The blessing is tied to understanding who you are. So if you're building a religion, you're going to go broke because he is not financing what he never told you to start!!! Abraham I will bless you. Make me this nation and I will bless you and I will bless those who help you make it. I will curse those who try to stop it. Stop what? Building my nation, my colony. I will curse them. Abraham had a son and that son had a son and that son had 12 sons and they became a colony. Now The Most High says okay, I'm going to give you the first thing countries have, a King. I will be your Yah and you will be my people. You don't need a human King. I am the government you are the colony. Number two here are the laws you will live by, the Ten Commandments. You will follow them. Why? I'm gonna create a new culture. You will not steal from people. As a culture, I will say it again, you will not steal. We don't kill. Why? It's our culture not to kill people. That's what he wants. It's our culture not to lie. We don't tell lies, why? It's not our culture to lie. It's our culture to tell the truth all the time with a colony of people. We don't covet our neighbor's goods, why? It's our culture not to covet. He was creating a culture. We know what happened to those people? They followed The Most High for a while and then they started to intermarry with the other cultures. Then they lost their culture and they went into slavery again and they ended up in Egypt, oppressed. The Most High says I still want my colony. Moses, let me try one more time. Go get them for me, bring them out here ,watch this and I will make of them a great religion? No!! A great nation. You know what's amazing to me? We have accepted the idea, that there's a separation of church and state, when in fact you are the state. He came to regain his country. We've created a religion--so we are useless, of no effect, having no impact. That's why we have a good time among ourselves only. You see, I'm not from here. Anybody else want to join me? The key to Kingdom is territory You cannot have a kingdom with no territory. That's why the first thing The Most High created for man was earth, territory. Number two kingdoms territory is called domain. The Bahamas used to be the domain of the Kingdom of Great Britain for 197 years. Domain-- that is where we get the word Dominion from. You can't have dominion unless you have territory. You cannot dominate anything. Number three, when you put a king with this domain it is called King domain. So we can see the word Kingdom is talking about two things. It is talking about a person and a place. It's two words put together. “King” - “domain” “King”- ”dom”. The word Kingdom means a person and a place. The glory of a kingdom is territorial influence. All kingdoms in history had their glory based on their capacity to influence vast territory. The bigger the territory of the influence, the greater the kingdom they were considered. So that's why all kingdoms kept expanding, because the more territory you control, the more glory you have. That's why the Bible says, the heavens declare the glory of The Most High, the earth shows forth us handiworks. Why? He made it so he can have more territory. 500 million galaxies all were made by The Most High, why? The Most High wanted to be the most awesome king of all time so he created time, itself and rules time. That's why I said that the king of glory is coming. Who is the king of glory? The Most High, strong and mighty. The Most High mighty in body, he is the king of what? Glory!! He has more glory than any other King. He owns all territory seen and unseen. He is king of all kings! All kingdoms expand. Why? They want more territory. See The Most High usually controls the unseen, that wasn't enough, so he created the seen. Then he wanted to colonize the seen with the unseen so he created unseen kids, put him in seen bodies and put him on the seen earth. Got the scene? What an awesome King. Write this down. The first Kingdom in existence was the Kingdom of Heaven, very natural, logical. So he controls everything from headquarters. He's King, the only problem is he handed earth over to you, and gave you sovereign rulership over earth. So whatever happens here, is up to you. That's the problem. So he says whatever you bind on earth, then we could bind it. Whatever you loose or allow on earth, then we have to allow it. So wherever any two shall touch and agree concerning anything on the earth, then the Father in heaven, can do it. It's all up to you. So he said, when you pray, pray like this--thy kingdom come, thy will be done, where? On earth!!
Today we are walking in: Understanding The Mandate of Yahusha
Job 34:16
If now thou hast understanding, hear H8085 this: hearken to the voice of my words.
UNDERSTAND
Today we look to the word-UNDERSTAND- H8085 shama`--to hear with attention or interest, listen to understand (language)
The Torah testifies...............
Genesis 11:7
Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand H8085 one another's speech.
The prophets proclaim..................
Nehemiah 8:2
And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear H8085 with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.
The writings bear witness...........................
1 Kings 3:9
Give therefore thy servant an understanding H8085 heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
Understanding The Mandate of Yahusha
This morning we are looking at the Mandate of Yahusha HaMashiach. What was his message and what was his mandate? What did he come to accomplish? Yahusha HaMashiach is the most misunderstood man on earth. He is mostly misunderstood by the people who represent him on earth. The Buddhists call him a wise teacher, the Hindus say he's another one of their six million gods, the Muslims say he was a good prophet, he's even in the Quran. The agnostics say that he didn't rise from the dead. The atheists say that he was a fake, probably never existed, he was created into a god by his followers 2,000 years ago. These Christians are probably the greatest misrepresentative of Yahusha HaMashiach! It is my conviction after my short life on earth so far--that Christians have misunderstood Yahusha the most!!!! The Jews believed that he was a misguided rabbi who claimed to be the Messiah. The majority of them haven’t accepted him. So we're stuck with this man that everyone seems to misunderstand. Now when you misunderstand somebody, you should go and talk to them personally. Let them talk to you and tell you what they think. That’s what I have done. The average human came to a conclusion about Yahusha without talking to him or listening to him personally. They either heard about him through someone else's perception, testimony, theology, opinion and they walked away with their conclusions based on third and fourth hand information. What I did from my frustration, trying to figure out life, I decided to talk to him and study him and listen to him myself. What I'm going to share with you is going to be very important for you because I know you too have been concerned about what you believe and whether it is true. Everyone is grappling with what is truth? First let me begin by talking a little bit, about the human condition. This is very relevant right now to the times we live in. First of all the kingdoms of this world, that means every country, every government, are all helpless! It's amazing that as powerful as the United States is, it cannot control oil prices, it cannot stop crime, it cannot destroy terrorism. Helpless nations! Another issue that we're living with is called globalization. Globalization makes us all interdependent and that is a problem. For example, America is now borrowing money from a communist country, while America is against communism. Because of globalization we are interdependent. Interdependent means even though I don't agree with your ideology, I need your money. Interdependent means whatever happens in one place affects every place. That's where you're living now, that's where I'm living now. We are living in a world of globalization. Thirdly, governments are helpless because no matter what kind of government we have, all of them aren't able to solve their social, economic, and educational problems. The economists are helpless because we cannot fix our economies. Educators are helpless--the reading scores of our children graduating from school is so low that we are ashamed of them. When our kids graduate from school we compare their grades with others in the other nations, we are wondering what is the education system doing? We seem to be helpless to fix it. It's the world we live in. Then we have the media and they only report the conditions that we are helpless with. They tell us how failed we are in our attempts to govern ourselves. Then we live in a world where the fear of recession is making us victims of the circumstances. The questions that we are dealing with now, I heard a report in a board meeting just this week where churches are now shutting down because people are losing their jobs and cannot pay tithes and so therefore the church cannot pay the mortgage for the building and so the church has to be put up for sale. That's what you call recession. The economy is contracting and is affecting the whole world. What do you do when you are a victim of an environment that you have no control over? That's a reality some of you could lose your job in the next few months, The Most High forbid, but that's possible. Some of you may have already lost it and you're sitting here looking for help wanting, The Most High to give you a word. Some businesses are downsizing, some of them are going to lay people off for a while, because when a recession comes, everyone runs for cover. People stop spending, people stop giving. What do you do in a world like that? You need the Kingdom message! In the midst of that we all seek what? A new government. That's why the presidential race in this country is so hot, because we are all hoping that somebody will take us out of this stuff and and everybody is fighting for their own candidate and every country is doing the same thing. Everyone of us, in every country, spending billions of dollars on government processing hoping to get better government every time. Because we seek new government. It is a search for a better world. That's what people want. Is that what you want? Yes. 6.7 billion people on earth today are looking for a better world. We want a better country, a better community. You want better societies, we want better education, better children in our communities. You want to get rid of gangs, poverty, incest, rape, abuse, broken homes, broken marriages and torn apart families. You want to get rid of all the mess in politics, in the church both corruption and failure. We want a better way. We're looking for a better world. So we run to religion, and religion is now the number one problem. Terrorism is motivated by religion. Most of the conflicts in the world are based on religious conflicts. So religion doesn't seem to be our answer. The most frightening truth about this all, is that we have what we call, a culture clash going on. Culture clash is when people who never used to be close to each other are now close to each other. So now you're learning to live with a Chinese and an African and a Haitian and a Mexican. You have to learn to live with people you never had contact with 20 years ago. They come to your neighborhood, they come to your church--it may have been where your church used to be white, now it's mixed with black and brown people. Your church used to be black, now it's mixed with white people and Asian people. And you are still singing those black gospel songs because you don't understand that there's a clash going on. Culture clash. What do you do about that? Dr. Munroe says, I remember in one of my books called the Seasons To Change, I wrote a statement that is so powerful. The founder of AT&T, said when the pace of change, outside of an organization is faster than the pace of change inside the organization, death is near. In other words, when the community around you is changing faster than your church programs, your church is dying. You've got to be able to handle the cultures. The world has changed. Culture is stronger than politics. Culture is more powerful than religion. This is why culture supersedes all forms of government law. This is why you have what they call a Chinatown in America. They are Americans but their culture is so strong it is called Chinatown. When you go in there you think you walked into China, because the culture is stronger than the politics of America. You cannot go to Chinatown and ask for a hotdog because the culture is stronger than the politics. What do you do in a world like this? Well here's what we focus on. All men believe that government is the answer. That's why we keep changing governments. I'm leading up to something, stay with me for a few minutes. It won't be long, but I want you to get this. We believe that government is the answer, and that's why we spend so much money on government. Look how many millions of dollars are being spent by those who are pursuing government? Millions of dollars and every country does it. Why is choosing government such a major issue, if not the most major issue in every country?? Somehow humanity believes that if we can just get the right government, all these problems will go away. Well here's a shock, The Most High looks down from his lofty place in heaven, he looks at our earth and here's a surprise. The Most High believes that government is also the answer to mankind's problems. The Most High believes that too, and that's the message!! Man is searching for good government. That's why you vote, that's why you believe in democracy. That's why there's socialism, communism and and all the other forms of government. Everyone believes that if you can just get the right government we'll have the right country. Then our governments keep disappointing us. So we keep voting again. But The Most High also believes that government is the answer to man's problems. Because government has to do with control. I’ll say that again--government gives you control over territory, over circumstances, over people, over resources. That's why people want government. Government deals with controlling the earth. The battle for earth is the battle for culture. Whoever is in government, affects the culture. Because whoever can control the laws, create culture. Culture is a product of what we call norms. A norm is an accepted form of behavior that is based on what is allowed in a society, which is what we call law. If you want to change your culture, change the law. The law will eventually produce a culture. This is why those who want to control culture will go after changing legislation. Washington D.C. is the most powerful city in the world and it is a city that does nothing but law. Why? Whoever controls law controls--culture. If you want to change the culture of a place, you got to change the law. This is why many groups in your country are not interested in what you are preaching. They go in after changing the law. If they can get the law changed, they don’t have to worry about your preaching, the culture will follow later. That's why--government is so important. Government creates culture. Culture is the manifestation of the collective thinking of a people. There's black culture in America, there's European culture in America, there's Asian culture in America, there's Latin culture in America, there's Italian culture in America, there is Germanic culture in America. There are a lot of cultures in this country and those cultures are a manifestation of a group of people who think alike. It is their collective thinking and culture, is more powerful than politics! Whoever controls the minds of a community, will create the culture! Whoever controls the minds of the people, will control the culture, they'll create the culture. And that's why you better hear me carefully, everyone is after your mind! I am gonna say that again! Everyone is after your mind!! Everybody is!! That's why there is so much on the television, the radio, the CD player and the Internet. Everyone's after your mind. That's why you have the speakers and all of the people talking in the Senate and in the Congress. Everyone is talking because words attack your mind, pictures attack your mind, sounds attack your mind. We got to get your mind! If I can get your mind I can create your culture. A man thinks, and the way he thinks in his heart, so is he. So therefore what is the heart? The heart is the mind. The word heart in the Bible has nothing to do with your chest. This is where a lot of religious people get into problems. When we say come into my heart, we pointed to our chest. Yahusha, come into my heart! HaSatan loves that. That's why he loves altar calls. He loves it. Why? You get Yahusha right into your chest. He can’t enter your chest!!! As a man thinketh, in his subconscious so is he. HaMashiach wants to possess your mind. Put on the mind of HaMashiach, not the chest of HaMashiach!! HaMashiach never says that that he would come into your chest and make free. He said you shall know the truth. Know means you get information, knowledge about the truth. When you get it, it'll set you free from lies. You will change your thinking, change your behavior, which will change your culture and change your lifestyle!! That's why mama teaches--she teaches to get you to think. This is why the HaSatan loves emotional people. Because emotional people never grow. They don't change. You are transformed, how? By the renewing of your chest. Oh sorry! Your mind. That's how you are changed!! The heart is the mind. The kingdom of The Most High, is a kingdom of the heart. It is manifested in culture, not in religious activity. This is where we miss Yahusha. Yahusha HaMashiach never came to earth to make you behave religiously. Yahusha never made an alter call. Never! Let me say it again in case you thought I made a mistake. Yahusha never made an alter call. Never will you find it in Scripture. He taught thousands and never made an alter call. Why? Because that doesn't make you a changed person. He said things like this. Let those who have ears, to hear. Let them hear. Then he would leave and take the boat and go on the other side. He was after what? Their minds. If I can change your mind, he says, then conversion has taken place. That's why folks at the altar are still going back and sinning. The mind hasn't changed. They have not got a revelation of truth yet and so they keep practicing their old habits, they are stuck in an old culture. The kingdom of The Most High is manifested, not in a religion, but in a culture. I'm here to change your mind. The Ruach HaQadesh said to me, who is the governor of the kingdom, he said tell wherever you go, tell the whole world, my 21st century mission is kingdom influence to culture. I'm going to bring the kingdom culture back to earth he says and it will influence every area of humanity. That's what The Most High wants. He doesn't want isolation, he wants infiltration. He doesn't want you to leave earth. He wants to go into all the world, with the kingdom of heaven influence!!! Religions abandon earth. The Muslims want to go to Paradise, the Christians want to go to heaven, the Hindus want to go to another consciousness or they come back and be reincarnated, the Buddhists want to go to subliminal thinking. They all want to go somewhere. HaMashiach says no, go into all the world. Stay here and make a difference. That's a different word altogether, see? But we've been trained to leave--not to influence. This is the assignment. The Most High's original goal is simple, to transform society through Kingdom culture. The Most High never wants to compete with Buddha, Muhammad, Confucius. Don't put him in the same class as no prophet!!! Yahusha HaMashiach was not a prophet. I am going to say that again, Yahusha HaMashiach was not a prophet. If he was a prophet he's in the class with everybody else. You remember this question? He said to them, who do men say that I am? That's a 2000 year old question and you haven't answered it yet! Who do men say that I am? They say, some say you are a prophet. I told you he wasn't one. Some say you are Elijah come back from the dead. Some say you are John The Baptist. They said all these things. Then he says now who do YOU say I am? Because I don't agree with none of those titles. Because a Prophet cannot have a kingdom, only Kings have kingdoms. Peter says thou are the HaMashiach. HaMashiach means anointed king. Son of the living Most High. I'm gonna build my government on the statement that I am the Messiah, a King. He was not tried because he was a prophet. Read the Bible again, stop reading other people's comments!!! Pilate says, “are you a king?” HaMashiach says, “for this reason was I born, yes I am a king and I have a kingdom.” Pilate says, “I find no fault in this man”, to with the Pharisees and scribes. This guy is in a different class altogether. He's not claiming to be no preacher or Pope. He ain't claiming to be no prophet. This guy is above that. He claimed to have a government. So what should be our mission? Here is our mission--earthly influence through heavenly kingdom culture! That's why The Most High sent you here on earth. He sent you on earth, to produce earthly influence through heavenly culture. In other words, he wanted heaven to affect the earth through your culture. Which means you are supposed to possess heavens culture. You cannot develop culture unless you are in it. This is why a white man can't play “black” and a black man can't play “white” because you gotta be brought up in this thing. Matter of fact the word culture means to grow, you grow in something. Culture is something that you have to grow by association with something, which means you cannot represent the culture of heaven if you ain't related to heaven. If you ain't hanging out with The Most High, you can't represent The Most High!!! Write this down please. I call it the process of Kingdom influence. How are we going to influence the word with Kingdom culture? The first word is a word that Christians don't like. That's why I'm not a Christian anymore. It's the word engagement. You cannot influence something you don't engage. You have to engage society, engage the system. You have to engage the environment if you're going to influence it. We've been taught to avoid the environment, stay away from it, back away from and hide from it. We are supposed to engage it. You cannot affect what you avoid!! So stop praying for a Christian job. Like salt is useless in the salt shaker. We have to engage the world. Number two, we have to confront the world. I'm not talking about violence, killing people, that's not confrontation--that's murder. Confronting means that we allow our culture to confront the culture of the world. You cannot change what you don't confront. As a matter of fact, write this down and remember this. Whatever you tolerate you will never change!! HaMashiach was always confronting the Roman Empire and the culture of the Judaism that was around him and the religion, why? His culture kept clashing with it. HaMashiach never killed anyone in his life. As a matter of fact he was killed. One time his disciples, who could be considered to be the first terrorists on earth, Bin Ladin is a joke to disciples of Yahusha. These guys were worse than Bin Ladin. They told Yahusha there are some people down the street who are not worshipping like us. Remember James and John? They said Yahusha call now fire and burn them up. Man, that's terrorism and that's in your Bible, Luke 9:49-56. Yahusha turned to them in shock and asked them, from where did you get this spirit? In other words, this didn't come from me. You got this from your synagogue, where you got racism and segregation in the synagogues. He says you hate people who aren’t like you. He was separating himself from the synagogue in that moment. He said I didn't come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. Even if they don't worship like me, he says I have sheep that are not of the fold, they're different but they're still mine. So he confronted the culture. Another word write this down. If you're gonna bring influence, you have to infiltrate. You know you can never salt a piece of beef unless you get the salt on the beef! If you are salt of the earth, you gotta get in the earth! You have to go in there, go into business, go into law, go into music, go into education, go into politics. He says he wants you to go in there. Stop looking for a safe place. Look for a place where you can confront and make a difference. That's Kingdom life right there, infiltration. Matter of fact it says for The Most High so loved the world he stood on Heaven's porch and looked down and shook his head and said poor things. No he didn't. If you love people in the world, you will leave your safe place and going to all the world. He came to the world to save sinners. He was the only righteous one when he arrived. That's a piece of salt on a big piece of beef. The world infiltrate means you move in and they didn't even know you're moving in. If you want to influence the world, that's where it is, integration. you have to integrate yourself in the system to change it. What do religious people do, like Christians? They attack the system, by criticism, not infiltration. You cannot change what you avoid. You have to integrate yourself in the system. He who is The Most High made himself man. That's integration. He who is holy came among those who were unholy, he integrated. The Most High took on the form of a man, put on a body like us, that's integration. He didn't come to observe. He came to impact. The last one is a very critical. strategic impact--this is planned, calculated deliberate impact!! If you're going to influence the world in the next 50- 60 years, the Church has to change it’s complete attitude and develop strategic strategies to impact the environment for the kingdom of The Most High. That means we need wisdom and new programs and new ideas. Let me tell you something, the programs that build this church will not be the programs that keep it. Because everything has changed. You gotta now look at everything you did and throw the jawbone of a donkey, that aren’t working, like Samson did. You know it once worked, but it is not working anymore. Throw it away. Why? you have to have strategic impact. The kingdom of The Most High is not static, it's dynamic. It's a country, it's not a religion! Let me give you some Kingdom concepts to remember. First of all, the message of the Bible was not about religion. The Bible is about a king and a kingdom, and the King’s kids. This book is about a king, a kingdom, and a royal family. And that is why every human being is seeking for the kingdom. All religious are man's attempts to find the kingdom! Every human being on earth is looking for the kingdom, all of us 6.7 billion people on the earth today are seeking for the kingdom of The Most High, they just don't know what it is they're seeking for!! And so they create these religions to try and find it. Religions is man's hunger for something that he lost, and yet man never lost a religion!! That's why the mission of Yahusha HaMashiach was not a religious message--it was a kingdom message. Let me ask you a question. If I see you taking tylenol, what should I assume? That you got a headache or some kind of pain. In other words, I can tell what's wrong with you, based on what the medication you were taking. If I see you're taking insulin, what can I assume? That you have got diabetes. In other words, you ain't gotta tell me. If I just see what you're taking, I can assume what's wrong with you. Well HaMashiach came to give us the medicine that we needed. He gave us a kingdom which means we must be lacking rulership. He didn't bring you a religion, he brought you a kingdom!! That means you are lacking government authority!! Show me the medication, I'll show you the sickness! If you want to know what's wrong with man, study with Yahusha bought. All true kingdoms contain the same components and characteristics. That means when we have the word Kingdom they all contain the same qualities. A kingdom is Kingdom in any culture. So when Yahusha says he brought a kingdom, he was bringing what all kingdoms have. All kingdoms have a king, they all have territory, they all have a constitution, they all have laws!! They all have in the kingdom what they call benefits or favors, they all have customs, they all have values, they all have moral status, they all have an army. In other words all kingdoms have different components that are the same. And the kingdom of The Most High has the same thing. All kingdoms are manifested through the influence of its culture. This is very important. If a kingdom is in a place it will show up by the culture that's present!! So I could tell where you are from, by the way you act, live and dress. So if you go to downtown Washington D.C. and you can stand on the street for 20 minutes and you'll see 50 nations walk pass. You will know this without talking to them, you can just see them. Why? Their culture is showing, in their dress, in their language, and what they're eating while they're walking. In other words when you are under a kingdom, it shows up in your culture! So if you are from heaven I'm supposed to be able to observe it! You don’t have to wear a badge saying, I am a kingdom citizen. It's supposed to show in the way you dress, walk, talk, eat, drive, act, and even get angry. Can people who tell where you from by observing you? Culture is lifestyle. Some of you have lost your children to another Kingdom. You don't even understand them when they talk to you. They're in a different Kingdom. You've lost them. It manifests in culture. I said that because I want you to understand The Most High's original idea. Write this down, it’s very important. The creator created the realm of heaven and called it his center of power. Heaven was created first wasn't it? Heaven is invisible. Number two it's very important. The Most High whose name is Elohim, created the heavens which is invisible but it's real and he's the king over that place. That country called heaven is his invisible domain. So Elohim is king over a country called heaven that is invisible. The Most High created this beautiful realm. He calls it heaven and he rules over that area. So he's called the king of heaven that's why it's called the kingdom of heaven. Now there are two terms Yahusha used in the four Gospels. One he would use the term, kingdom of heaven, then sometimes he used the words, kingdom of The Most High. Let me stress to you they are not the same. I'm explaining the difference. The kingdom of heaven is a place. The kingdom of The Most High is the influence of that place. Let me say it again. The kingdom of heaven is a place, it's an actual place. The kingdom of The Most High is the influence of that place. Dr. Munroe says, when he was born in 1954, he was born under a kingdom. That kingdom ruled his country for about 197 years. So he was born under a kingdom, now even though they were far away from that Kingdom, thousands of miles away, that Kingdom which is a place, called the Kingdom of Great Britain ruled their Islands in the Caribbean. The kingdom didn't come there, the influence came there. So when you come to the Bahamas you will notice that we drive on the left-hand side of the street. Why? If you go to visit our kingdom headquarters, they drive on the left. If you come to the Bahamas you would notice we drink tea four times a day. Why? If you go to his headquarters country, they drink tea four times a day. In other words, the place influences the territory. So we were under the Kingdom of Great Britain even though we never been to Great Britain. It's called Kingdom influence. So when Yahusha says the kingdom of The Most High is here, he's saying the influence of the country has arrived. Write this down please. The Most High's original idea was to extend his heavenly, invisible kingdom, to the earthly visible realm. That's all he wanted to do. Don't complicate it, don't get deep. We spend years preaching on the temple, the tabernacle, listen all that stuff is just symbols. The Most High's simple idea was, I want to rule earth from heaven. But we've created this complicated thing called christianity, all these rituals, and all these customs. The Most High is saying what are you doing? That's why HaMashiach never joined them, he never joined the religion. His simple idea was, to extend His kingdom to earth. Matter of fact, let's see what he says himself. Isaiah 45--some of you never saw this in the Bible before. Write this down. Isaiah 45 verse 8 says, he who created the heavens, he is The Most High, he fashioned and made the earth, he founded it, he did not create it to be empty but he formed it to be inhabited. That's in your Bible. We are thinking completely opposite to The Most High, Christianity is taught to abandon earth. Read the verse again. He said I made the earth and I didn't make it to be empty. I formed it to be what? Inhabited. I want my people on that place. Listen to me friends, listen to me, if you study the word kingdom and you study the word colonization, which is what kingdoms do, you'll discover that when you type the word colonization into your computer and you press search--you see a lot of information come up about Rome. Rome was the most successful colonizing kingdom in history. Then you will see a lot of countries come up like Spain, France, Belgium, Portugal and England. They'll come up why? Because all of them followed Rome. They are parts of Rome. They picked up the whole spirit of Rome and they keep colonizing. Listen to me, when you look at the information here's what it says. Colonization, was successful when a colony was placed in a foreign territory. Then it says a colony was established by the Romans when the Roman king would choose three hundred citizens, removing them out of Rome to live in a foreign territory. The Romans believed that once you get 300 people in a foreign place long enough, they will take over the place with culture and turn the place into Rome. So they say when in Rome, you do as the Romans do. Let's say the Bible is a territory and I'm the king and this is my territory over here. Let’s say I want to colonize another place. What I would do is, I remove some of my citizens from my territory and I would put them in that other territory. In other words, I would say let them have dominion. Let them dominate that place. You are not from Earth. No humans came from Earth. Your original country was heaven, you were sent here to dominate this territory for your country. What happened was, you decided to declare independence from your country and establish your own government down here. There is a way that seems right unto the man but the end of it is incest, destruction, murder, homicide, drugs, destruction, and corruption. Why? Because you’re ruining your own life The Most High says. That's why the king decided, that's still my territory, I'm gonna go down there myself. He came into the world, he came unto his own territory and they didn't recognize the king. You are not from Earth. If you are not behaving like heaven, you are misbehaving. All of us like sheep he says have gone astray. I didn't teach you to live like this he says. Yahusha never claimed to be a Hebrew, he never claimed that he was from Bethlehem, he never claimed that he was from Nazareth, he never claimed that he was come from Capernaum. Never. Read the Bible. I read this book for 28 years and I'm shocked at things we assumed. Matter of fact, they tried to make him agree with them, that he was from Nazareth. He disagreed. They tried to make Mary his mother, he disagreed. They tried to make Joseph his daddy, he disagreed. Some people didn't get it, yet they said where are you from? Tell us plainly. He says I came down from our Father. They said wait a minute, we know your mother, she's Mary. We know your father, he's Joseph and your brothers, James and John. He says, I came down from My Father. He says, if you knew my father you would know me. You know what your problem is? You claim to be an American. If you are an American, then you will be as successful as an American can be in a recession. You are as rich as where you came from. You are as healthy as where you came from. Some of you inherited your parents genes, that's why you got cancer, that's why you got high blood pressure, that's why you got diabetes, but this morning I want you to change your heritage. I came down from heaven and there is no sickness in heaven, no disease in heaven, no fear in heaven, no depression in heaven, no corruption in heaven. I am just like my hometown. The kingdom of The Most High is your hometown. So when someone ask you again where you're from, tell them it depends on what you want to know. What do you really want to know about me? I ain't no African. I came down from my father he says. They said but we know you, we know your parents. He said, I came down from my father. He made this place just for me to inhabit it he says. I am part of the colony that's supposed to fill this place with heavens culture, that's all I am. I came here to bring heaven on earth, through my influence. So when your government runs out of money, my government shall supply all of your needs according to the kings riches. That means, you are under the kingdom of The Most High and nothing shall come near your dwelling. A thousand may fall at your right, ten thousand at your left but your home shall be preserved. You are under a different economy and in the midst of poverty you shall prosper. Only the kingdom could sit in the middle of five thousand hungry people, and turn to a citizen, and say feed them and they look around and there is nothing to eat. He says feed them. Why? We are not limited by what you see. He was connected to another country that multiplies bread. Everyone talking about economic doom, economic downturn, economic collapse, let me tell you something. In the kingdom of The Most High there's no such thing. The kingdom of The Most High gets excited when the kingdoms of the world fall apart, that's when the kingdom shows off. You see, you are under a different government. You are not from Earth. Get it through your head. You are a spirit and you live in a dirt house. Your body is your earth suit and you came from heaven. Psalm 115 it says in verse 16 the highest heavens belong to Who? The Lord. That's his territory, but the earth he gave to the kids. Why do you want to abandon what he gave you? Look at this one, Genesis 1:26 he said for The Most High said let us make man, our kids, in our own spirit image just like us. Why? Let them have control, influence, leadership, and dominion over what? The fish, the birds, the cattle, and over all the earth. That's why he made you. He didn't make you to live in heaven, you came from there. Christianity produces the laziest people on earth. They are irresponsible, always wanting to vacate and evacuate. They hate pressure, they can't handle a bit of pain. Lazy people. The word dominion, write it down, is the word for Kingdom. Matter of fact, the word in the New Testament, the word basilia and it actually means sovereign power. It means royal power. Let them have royal power over the earth. The Hebrew word is even more powerful, it's the word melaka or roddow. This word roddow is a powerful word used in Genesis, that actually means kingdom, sovereignty. Let them have Kingdom over the earth. In other words, I want my country to come on earth. The Most High says, he created you to bring his country on earth, his culture just like the British brought their culture to the Bahamas 3,000 miles away. He wants to bring heaven to earth. Let them have rulership. Let me tell you something, you were born to rule. That's why you hate to be told what to do. You are built to be in charge. The word Dominion-- Roddow means a king over a territory. Let them have Kingdom over the territory. That's why he gave us the earth. You cannot be a king without territory. You cannot dominate nothing. That's why The Most High created the earth before he released you. So you don't understand The Most High. He put everything in the earth first, made the earth then put everything in it. Animals, plants water, gold, silver, diamonds, flowers, insects, reptiles, everything. The Bible says and the Lord said that it was good. Next verse, and then The Most High said, now let us release the kids. Let's make man out of our own spirit, they're coming out of heaven, put them in a dirt body on earth and let them have dominion over earth. They got to dominate something. You will not be happy in heaven, I guarantee it. Because there's nothing for you to rule in heaven. Read revelations chapters 19, 20 and 21. It says that the Saints are crying in heaven, they are weeping. Paul says they are weeping in heaven because they longed to be clothed again with their bodies. That's in your Bible. Twenty-first chapter of Revelation says I saw therefore a new heaven and a new earth coming down. Christians say, I'm going up... NO!! It's coming down. “I'm flying away” NO!! It's coming down! Revelation says and you shall reign on the earth with him forever. So you have a choice, believe your hymn book, or believe the Bible. You are a ruler and this is your territory. Let them have dominion. Let me give you a definition of what a kingdom is. This is very important. A kingdom is the sovereign rulership and governing authority of a king over his territory, impacting it with his will his purpose and his intent, producing a citizenry of people who reflect his character, nature, lifestyle and morals. That's a kingdom. It's a country with people. A kingdom is different from a democracy. In a democracy, you do not take on the nature of the president. Thank The Most High. In other words, in a democracy you don't dress like the president, eat like the president, act like the president, and talk to the president. But in the kingdom, you have to actually dress like the king, eat like the king, drive on the left-hand-side like the king, drink tea like the king, speak like the king. you take on the Kings complete character, his nature, his lifestyle. That's the difference. This is why in a kingdom you cannot have your personal values, your private morals. That's why we love Christianity, because Christianity allows you to have your own personal opinions. So you can decide, what you believe, what you don't believe in. Christianity means you are not in the kingdom of The Most High. You’re a Christian but you're not a kingdom citizen. As a kingdom citizen you become just like Yahusha. HaMashiach didn't say, read this book and memorize it. He says follow me. That's why people hate Yahusha. You don't choose him among many, you don't compare him to Mohammed, Buddha and Confucius and psychics and Dr. Phil. He’s not in their class. He’s KING! And if you claim him as your Lord, then you act like him, talk like him, eat like him, react like him and you represent him in every way. You are an ambassador of HaMashiach. That's why we love religion. Religion allows you to do what you feel. HaMashiach says you call me Lord, but you don't do what I say. You say, “Yes Lord” He says, stop lying. The word Lord means owner. Don't tell me I own you and then you're doing your own thing. Who are you sleeping with that you ain't married to and you singing in the choir? Are you crazy? You can't call him Lord. Now you get quiet. The kingdom of The Most High is a country for citizens that take on the nature of the King. The kingdom is the nation governed by a king. It's a nation. It is not a religion. Christianity is not the kingdom of The Most High. Christianity is a religion, and what's amazing about Christianity? It was formulated by a Roman king in Rome. That's why they call it the Roman Catholic Church. They moved it from Jerusalem. It is the route to Rome, it's the pagan headquarters. HaMashiach never told his disciples to meet me in Rome. He said meet me in Jerusalem. That’s where the real church is but they moved it to Rome. That's why the Pope lives in Rome. And Martin Luther was a Catholic- bishop -priest and he created Protestantism. Which is Baptist, Methodist, Church of God etc. They were created by a priest. Paul says in Romans 6 do not detach yourself from the root, cause you are just a branch. Go back and plant yourself where the root is in Jerusalem. Through a set of rituals and customs and rights, producing a distinctive group that is radical in nature. In other words, they think they are different. They keep to themselves, they become a sect. All religions have that definition that is completely opposite to what Yahusha preached. That's why he could not become a Pharisee, he couldn't join the Sadducees. Why? They were a sects. Christianity is a sect. They call us a sect because we worship a deity, better yet, a set of beliefs, we use rituals. Yahusha HaMashiach came to earth to bring something completely different. He came to bring a kingdom. A kingdom is not a religion. A kingdom is a country, a country governed by a king with all the components of a nation. The Most High lost a nation when Adam fell--he lost a nation, a country. The Bible says Abraham and all the patriarchs were looking for that country. That's in your Bible. They were not looking for religion. Abraham was looking for a country. As Adam’s great-great-great great-great grandson he knew his daddy his great-great Grandaddy lost a country. And that's why you are still searching today. Christianity has made you very frustrated because it's disappointed you. It's not a country. That's why church is boring and people keep leaving it. Because they get excited about the rituals for a while and then boom!-- Disappointed...they're looking for a country. He said happy are those who are spiritually poor, for to them belongs the kingdom. Not a religion. The Most High says, Abraham, come to me. Where? I'll tell you when to stop. Abraham got up and started walking. The Most High appeared to Abraham. “Abraham I want my country back and I need a colony again.” He says, I need a group of people who I can put on this place and they can become just like me. Out of you, I shall make a new nation, not a religion. That's why Judaism is not what The Most High wants. It's a religion. I will make all of you a great nation. I lost my colony and I will be your Most High, you will be my people. You will only listen to the heaven’s government and through you all the other nations that declare independence shall come back to me, and I will rule the earth again through my colony. If you understand, Abraham, what I am telling you, if you get it right, then I will bless you. The blessing is tied to understanding who you are. So if you're building a religion, you're going to go broke because he is not financing what he never told you to start!!! Abraham I will bless you. Make me this nation and I will bless you and I will bless those who help you make it. I will curse those who try to stop it. Stop what? Building my nation, my colony. I will curse them. Abraham had a son and that son had a son and that son had 12 sons and they became a colony. Now The Most High says okay, I'm going to give you the first thing countries have, a King. I will be your Yah and you will be my people. You don't need a human King. I am the government you are the colony. Number two here are the laws you will live by, the Ten Commandments. You will follow them. Why? I'm gonna create a new culture. You will not steal from people. As a culture, I will say it again, you will not steal. We don't kill. Why? It's our culture not to kill people. That's what he wants. It's our culture not to lie. We don't tell lies, why? It's not our culture to lie. It's our culture to tell the truth all the time with a colony of people. We don't covet our neighbor's goods, why? It's our culture not to covet. He was creating a culture. We know what happened to those people? They followed The Most High for a while and then they started to intermarry with the other cultures. Then they lost their culture and they went into slavery again and they ended up in Egypt, oppressed. The Most High says I still want my colony. Moses, let me try one more time. Go get them for me, bring them out here ,watch this and I will make of them a great religion? No!! A great nation. You know what's amazing to me? We have accepted the idea, that there's a separation of church and state, when in fact you are the state. He came to regain his country. We've created a religion--so we are useless, of no effect, having no impact. That's why we have a good time among ourselves only. You see, I'm not from here. Anybody else want to join me? The key to Kingdom is territory You cannot have a kingdom with no territory. That's why the first thing The Most High created for man was earth, territory. Number two kingdoms territory is called domain. The Bahamas used to be the domain of the Kingdom of Great Britain for 197 years. Domain-- that is where we get the word Dominion from. You can't have dominion unless you have territory. You cannot dominate anything. Number three, when you put a king with this domain it is called King domain. So we can see the word Kingdom is talking about two things. It is talking about a person and a place. It's two words put together. “King” - “domain” “King”- ”dom”. The word Kingdom means a person and a place. The glory of a kingdom is territorial influence. All kingdoms in history had their glory based on their capacity to influence vast territory. The bigger the territory of the influence, the greater the kingdom they were considered. So that's why all kingdoms kept expanding, because the more territory you control, the more glory you have. That's why the Bible says, the heavens declare the glory of The Most High, the earth shows forth us handiworks. Why? He made it so he can have more territory. 500 million galaxies all were made by The Most High, why? The Most High wanted to be the most awesome king of all time so he created time, itself and rules time. That's why I said that the king of glory is coming. Who is the king of glory? The Most High, strong and mighty. The Most High mighty in body, he is the king of what? Glory!! He has more glory than any other King. He owns all territory seen and unseen. He is king of all kings! All kingdoms expand. Why? They want more territory. See The Most High usually controls the unseen, that wasn't enough, so he created the seen. Then he wanted to colonize the seen with the unseen so he created unseen kids, put him in seen bodies and put him on the seen earth. Got the scene? What an awesome King. Write this down. The first Kingdom in existence was the Kingdom of Heaven, very natural, logical. So he controls everything from headquarters. He's King, the only problem is he handed earth over to you, and gave you sovereign rulership over earth. So whatever happens here, is up to you. That's the problem. So he says whatever you bind on earth, then we could bind it. Whatever you loose or allow on earth, then we have to allow it. So wherever any two shall touch and agree concerning anything on the earth, then the Father in heaven, can do it. It's all up to you. So he said, when you pray, pray like this--thy kingdom come, thy will be done, where? On earth!!
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