Exodus 16:4
Then said Yahuah unto Mosheh: Behold, I will rain bread from the heavens for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that I may prove them, whether they will walk in my Torah, or no. Shemoth (Exodus) 16:4
LAW
Today we look to the word LAW-- H2706-choq-- statute, ordinance, limit, something prescribed, due, prescribed task, prescribed portion, action prescribed (for oneself), resolve, prescribed due, prescribed limit, boundary, enactment, decree, ordinance, specific decree, law in general, enactments, statutes, conditions, enactments, decrees, civil enactments prescribed by Yah
The Torah testifies...............
Genesis 26:5
Because that Avraham obeyed my voice, and did guard my watch, my commandments, my statutes, and my Torah. Bere'shiyth (Genesis) 26:5
Exodus 16:28
And Yahuah said unto Mosheh: How long refuse ye to guard my commandments and my Torah? Shemoth (Exodus) 16:28
Exodus 24:12
And Yahuah said unto Mosheh: Come up to me into the Mount and be there: and I will give you caphire stones, and a Torah, and commandments which I have written; that you may teach them. Shemoth (Exodus) 24:12
The prophets proclaim..................
Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests have violated my Torah and have profaned my holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Shabbaths, and I am profaned among them. Yechezq'el (Ezekiel) 22:26
Hosea 8:1
Set the shofar to your mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of Yahuah, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my Torah. Husha (Hosea) 8:1
Micah 4:2
And many nations shall come, and say: Come, and let us go up to the mountain of Yahuah, and to the house of the Elohai of Ya'aqov; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the Torah shall go forth of Tsiyon, and the Word of Yahuah from Yerushalayim. Miykah (Micah) 4:2
The writings bear witness............
2 Chronicles 33:8
Neither will I anymore remove the foot of Yashar'el from out of the land which I have appointed for your fathers; so that they will take heed to do את all that I have commanded them, according to the whole Torah and the statutes and the ordinances by the hand of Mosheh. Divrei Hayamiym Sheniy (2 Chronicles) 33:8
Psalm 78:5
For he established a testimony in Ya'aqov, and appointed a Torah in Yashar'el, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children: Tehilliym (Psalms) 78:5
Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that guards the Torah, happy is he. Mishlei (Proverbs) 29:18
PRINCIPLES, LAWS, TRADITIONS AND COMMANDS PART 2
Today, this already on, this is, I just want to close this part of it out on understanding principles, laws, traditions, and commands. The focus today is understanding the uniqueness of divine law when you compare it with principles, precepts, commands, and traditions.
I want to begin talking a little bit about immigration, but I want to talk in the light of kingdom migration and immigration. The two words look similar, migration and immigration. Migration has to do with movement, where people change location. People migrate from one country to another. You can migrate from one part of a country to another part of a country. You can migrate from New York to California. But migration is normally in reference to changing countries, where you actually migrate from one jurisdiction under a government to another one: migration.
These two words are being used all over the world. Europe, when I was in France, the big talk in France was all of these people migrating from different countries into France, and they’re trying to force their culture on the culture of France. There’s a big argument. Germany, big fuss about migration, especially Germany. Germany used to be, as you know, East and West, and Western Germany was more prosperous than Eastern Germany. And so, when they became one country again, people started moving from the East by the thousands to the West, because the East used to be communist. And so people migrated from the East to the West because they were looking for a better life.
Now migration is taking place here in the Bahamas. People are migrating from other countries to the Bahamas. The Bahamas is a very attractive, attractive place. You don’t hear about people migrating to Mexico too much. You don’t hear about people migrating to Haiti by the thousands. I want you to think about it for me. What you hear is the reverse, don’t you? You hear people migrating from Mexico to where? The United States. And they migrate from Haiti to where? To the Bahamas. All right, and it goes on, many different countries, not just these two. I want to pick these two because we are aware of them.
Now migration is not casual. People don’t migrate casually. They are motivated to migrate. You don’t hear about too many Bahamians migrating from the Bahamas. Did you know that we are the smallest percentage of migrants in the Caribbean? Bahamians stay home. They go to college, they can spend 10 years, come back home. Why? Because somehow we don’t have the motivation to migrate. I’m explaining in a minute why.
Now write this down. It’s very important. What is the motivation for migration? This important question: why do people relocate, even at the expense of maybe threatening their own lives? Why do people take chances, risk, to migrate? What is the motivation for migration?
Let me give you some answers. This is the biggest one, I think.
One: to seek a better life. Do you agree with that? Absolutely. This is the biggest motivation people have for migrating. Some people from Bahamas might migrate to the United States because of job opportunities, better pay. In other words, the fundamental motivation for migration is you’re seeking a better life. You ask anyone who migrated to the Bahamas, they’d say, well, you know, let’s say from a lesser economically stable country, that’s I come here to get a better life. Those who migrate to the United States, motivation: I come for a better life. Some people migrate to Canada from the Caribbean, or to England from the Caribbean. They’re looking for one thing: a better life. You don’t migrate to become poorer. What I’m saying is very important.
Number two: people migrate because they want to benefit from the privileges of a country. Let’s say you’re in a country where there is restriction on movement, oppression. You migrate to another country because the privilege of freedom, freedom of movement, freedom of doing business, freedom of worship, is easier. So you want to migrate because of the privileges and benefits of a country.
Third reason why people migrate is to advance their personal ambition. Here you are with a PhD, living in a small country where they can’t appreciate your content or your knowledge, your experience. So you migrate because you want to advance yourself personally. So you have a personal ambition to migrate. People migrate because they want to have better business opportunities. Maybe the country they’re living in, they can’t do business well, or maybe the policies are more restricting for them. So they want to live in a country where they can take their ideas and turn them into a lot of money. That’s ambition. They migrate for that reason.
Number four, and this may be changed, I’m gonna give you why people don’t migrate. The reason why people don’t migrate: they don’t migrate because they want to learn the country’s constitution. Am I right? In other words, the constitution is not the attraction. Now, it might be the benefits of it, but they don’t go there because they want to read this document and they like the document. It’s not the constitution that makes them come to the country.
Secondly, people don’t migrate because they want to understand and obey the laws of the country. As a matter of fact, most people migrate recently by disobeying the law. They break the law to migrate. They come through the back door. So people don’t come to countries because they want to obey the laws, because they like the laws. They come for those top three reasons. This is very important.
And people don’t migrate because they want to pay taxes in the country. So, you know, well, you know, uh, I can’t wait to get to a country so I can pay my taxes. You don’t say that. Matter of fact, that’s the last thing you want to pay when you come into a country. You don’t want to pay taxes.
Look at that list. We have three motivators for migration, and they all to do with personal benefit and benefits for ambition. But the other three, we don’t think about it. I don’t change my citizenship because I like the laws of a country, or because I want to read them, I want to know what they are. I don’t change my country because I want to understand the constitution of that country, and I don’t change countries because I want to pay taxes.
Why is this important…
Why is this important? I was talking to a young man. I was in San Antonio, Texas, which is very close to the border of Mexico, and this guy was obviously a Mexican. And I was speaking at a conference there, and this young man walked up afterwards, and he was impacted by what I had shared, and he said to me, he said, “Dr. Monroe, you know, uh, I came to this country 17 years ago, and, you know, I used to live in a, in Wakahaki, Mexico. This is one of those poor countries, like in the garbage area.” He said, “And my parents, we grew up in the garbage dump,” he says, “as kids.” And he said one day someone showed him a photograph from a magazine, a page of a beautiful city in America. He said, “When I saw the photograph, I kept the piece of paper.” And he said all his life he had one prayer: “Take me to that place.”
He grew up in the garbage dump, but he had a picture of the United States, a big city. And he said he didn’t even know that existed, but he kept the picture. And he said his dream all his life was to go to that picture. And he said circumstances occurred where he eventually came north in Mexico to visit with his uncle. His uncle was living not too far from the border, and he decided, of course, by then he saw television and all the stuff, but he saw a world he never knew. And he saw, you know, cars, and he saw the trains, and he saw all the people shopping, and these advertisements of hamburgers and everything. He said he almost died because he grew up in the garbage dump, and he saw these pictures. He said, “My mind was full of this, and I had one dream: I got to get there.”
And he said, “You know, one night me and my three friends decided we’re going to take the trip.” He said, “We knew that we could probably get hunted down by dogs, we could probably get shot, we can probably get killed trying to climb that fence.” He said, “But the dream was bigger than the pain.” And he said, “12 midnight, we packed our little bags, put them on our backpack, and we began to trek toward the dream of the United States.”
He told me this story, and it came back to me when I was thinking about this session. He said, “You wouldn’t believe what we went through. We had to swim through rivers. We had to walk through, you know, cactus, being stuck with prickles and everything. Snakes, had to watch for rattlesnakes.” He said one night, “My friend actually got bitten. He had to suck the stuff out of his part of his feet, the poison.” In other words, they went through all of this just because they want to change countries because of the hope they saw.
And he said eventually we got to the point where we saw the fence, and we knew that over that fence was a new world. We also knew that there would be police and immigration officers driving past that fence every 15 minutes. We had 15 minutes to make it. And he said, “I stood there and I saw my future if I could just get over that fence.” He said the chance of getting caught was high because many of his friends were put in jail and were sent back. They were not treated well, he says. And he said, “But the poverty of my experience was worth the risk.”
And then they saw the lights coming in the night. They saw the SUV with the police, border police. And he said they watched it as it drove by very slowly. They watched it go out of sight, and they counted 15 minutes. “One, two, three, go.” And they ran toward the fence. He says the fence was filled with barbed wires. There was all kinds of metal pieces stuck in it to make it difficult. He said, “I got cut the first time I put my hand on it. Blood started coming down.” He said, “I began to scramble.” He said, “Dr. Monroe, what it took me to come to this country almost killed me.”
He said, “But I remember falling on the other side of that fence, on the ground, just falling.” He scrambled to his feet, he says, and ran through the bush. Didn’t know where he was, didn’t know where he was going. All he knew was, “Go north.” And he changed countries.
He said, “I lived in this country for about eight years illegally, and I worked for all kinds of people, did menial jobs.” He says, “And one of the men who I worked with, picking farm goods in his farm, said that he liked me, and I was a very well-mannered young man, and he would sponsor me.” And he sponsored me, and I became a citizen. I got my residency and got my green card. Now I’m assuming, he says, “You know, Mike,” he said, “but my children, I now have a family, and they are in this meeting tonight.” And he introduced me to his kids, beautiful kids. He said, “I met my wife over here. She’s Mexican as well. He said, “This is my family.”
I thought about that man. He said, “When I came here all I wanted was that picture, that picture I saw in the garbage that my friend brought to me from an old magazine.” He says, “And I’m in the picture now. I am in the picture.” He has a nice car parked out in front of the hall we were in. He got his own house. His wife sells little things around the house there, a little store, store. And, uh, he’s making his life.
And I thought about it. He didn’t come there because of President Obama, or President Clinton, or President Bush. It wasn’t the president that made him come. You know, we preach Yahusha and don’t preach the Kingdom. People are not looking for a better president; they’re looking for what? A better life.
He said, “When I got to America, the shock I got was I had to learn the law.” We don’t come to countries for law; we come for a better life. He said, “But I discovered to live in this country I have to obey the laws.” And the first law they told me I’d obey is to become legal. And I was sponsored.
And then he says, “My kids went to school, and they came back home.” And he said, “You know, I couldn’t speak good English earlier, but I had to learn English because when you come into a country you need to get the language.” Speaking of that, my kids came home and showed me this lesson they had in school on the constitution. He said, “I didn’t know there was such a thing.” And he says, “I looked at the lesson of my children, and it said in big letters: ‘The Constitution is the document with your rights and your privileges as a citizen of this country.’ Read it.”
You can live in a country and not know your rights. You can live in a country and not know your privileges.
What does that remind me of? That couple who won the ride on the cruise, and then on the cruise spent seven days, and they took soda biscuits and cheese and locked up in the room because they figured all they got was the ticket to get the cruise. And on the sixth day the captain was asking, “How come cabin 92 never reported in?” They went to cabin 92, and the two sitting on the floor smiling, eating cheese and crackers. And they were so happy just to be on the ship.
And the captain asked them, “What are you doing here?” They said, “Well, you know, we just thank Elohiym that we are on a cruise. It’s a beautiful cruise. You got a beautiful ship. It’s a nice room, sir.” He said, “But we haven’t seen you at the meals. I haven’t seen you at the shows, haven’t seen you at the banquet, I haven’t seen you at the buffet.” They said, “Oh, no, no, no, we can’t afford that. We’re just happy we won the tickets for the free cruise.”
And the captain realized that this couple did not know the fine print in the ticket. So he said, “Show me the tickets for the cruise.” And the lady went in a little bag, and she brought two tickets. She was saying, “See, we won, we won, we won this, we won this.” And he said, “Uh, can I have them, please?” He took them and turned to page two.
Page two says, “The bearer of this ticket has access to all shows, food, banquet, exercise halls, everything on the ship.”
And the cruise was over.
It’s possible to be in the Kingdom of Elohiym, live in one little hut somewhere, and feast on cheese and crackers. Tell your neighbor, “Not me today.”
Do you understand? You can live in a country and not know the privileges, the rights, the benefits of that nation. This is why the law is so important.
He said, “I realized that there was this document with all of these promises, but also there was a law that I had to obey to benefit from these promises.” That’s what migration is about.
I’m a Kingdom citizen. I entered Elohiym’s country. I came back home, reconnected to my country, and we must learn the laws.
The last one here: we don’t change country because you want to serve that nation, do we? You don’t think about serving the country. We just want to get in that country and get a better job, get some more money, build a house, get education for our kids. We are not into serving the country.
We don’t join a country so we could get into the army, so we could die. Anybody with me? That’s not the motivation. Haitians don’t come to the Bahamas to join the police force and so they can be on the defense force and then fight. You don’t go to America so you can become, you know, a military person to go fight in Afghanistan. You don’t think about serving the country.
My question is a big one — it’s the big one: why did you enter the Kingdom of Heaven? Why did you come to the Kingdom of Elohiym? What’s your motivation?
Let me read what Yahusha said is our motivation. This is the Scripture we read earlier. Yahusha said, “I know why you’re looking for me.” Take a deep breath.
“You know, I want Yahusha. I want You.” He said, “Why you want me?”
“I love Yahusha.” Why you love Yahusha?
“I want to serve Yahusha.” Why do you want to serve Him?
He says, “You don’t fool me. I know why you want to come over here in my country.” What is the motivation? He said, “Is it not because of the fish and bread?”
What makes a person change countries? They change it because they’re looking for bread. They ain’t thinking about presidents. They don’t think about the laws you gotta obey and all this constitutional stuff. “Look, I just need to get me a good job, get some money, buy some food, some clothes — that’s it. That’s why I’m here.”
His explanation for our following exposes our motivation.
Yahusha said, “I know why you’re looking for me. You’re looking for me because of the bread and fish I gave you yesterday.”
Let me ask you a question: do you have any interest in the laws of Elohiym at all, or you just want to get some food from Elohiym? You just want to come to the country and just get stuff — free health clinic, get pregnant, free care for the baby? I mean, why are you coming into a country?
He said, “You have…” — then He exposes it.
Yahusha said, “I know why you follow me.” Look at that. He said, “Not because you saw the miracles, signs, but because you ate fish sandwiches.”
He just said, “Stop it.” Yahusha said, “No, I got your heart. I know what’s going on. Your motivation is not to learn about the Kingdom of Elohiym. You don’t want to know the Kingdom’s laws — you just want some food.”
You don’t read the constitution. How many of you read the Bible this week? And yet you come before Elohiym again and say, “YAHUAH, I need a blessing. I gotta pay that light bill.” But Elohiym said, “But you never even touched the constitution.”
He exposes us.
What’s your motivation for migration? It should be deeper than just benefits.
Now look at verse 27. He says, “Do not work for food.” Oh no, man — that’s the reason for taking the trip. That’s why I took the trip on the boat. That’s why I crossed the fence — to get a good life.
He said, “Don’t take the trip for the bread.”
Do you know what made America great? What made America a successful nation? You know what? Oppression.
The people that moved from Europe to America were oppressed. They were religiously oppressed, and they wanted religious freedom. And so they took the risk of crossing the ocean from England and France and Spain to make it to this place called the promised land — America.
Some of them died on the passage. And they built America on one word: freedom.
But look what’s happening now. They’ve got no more motivation, so they are mutilating freedom. That’s why they were called pioneers. They struggled, they fought to subdue the land, they built farms, they moved west — it was tough. They fought the natives. They had this passion because of oppression.
What motivates us to follow Yahusha? Just some bread?
“Don’t work for food,” He says. “It spoils. I’m offering you life.”
Matter of fact, look at this verse, Mattithyahu (Matthew) 16. He says, “If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself.”
Now wait a minute — that’s not the motivation for coming to the country. The motivation is to take care of myself.
He said, “No. You should come without that being your major motivation,” which means you’re coming for something deeper. You’re coming for something more important than just the benefits of the law. You’re coming for the law. You’re coming for the life of the country.
He says, “If anyone comes after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.”
That means you’ve got to give up your personal motivation and vision for coming into the Kingdom of Elohiym for the sake of the Kingdom of Elohiym.
In other words, you come in not just for the country to serve you — you come in to serve the country.
Do you understand what he’s saying?
It is so subtle, where we can be motivated by what the country can do for us that we don’t care about the country. When you stop loving a country, you destroy it.
And so Yahusha said, “You must come and lose your life.”
We go to another country to get a life, not to lose a life. We go to another country to make a life, not to deny a life.
His concept is: this thing is about the country. It’s not about your personal ambitions. It’s not about your private demands. It has to do with serving the law of the country, understanding the constitutional requirements.
In other words, can I put it this way? Privileges and profit in a country are supposed to be byproducts of obedience to the country’s laws.
“Seek first the Kingdom of Elohiym and His righteousness” — righteousness means to line up with the laws — “and then all these things,” He says, “are added to you.”
And what He’s saying is, look: if you come to this country for these things, you missed the reason for coming.
Seek the Kingdom — that means to study the government, study the constitution, study the lifestyle, study the culture, study expectations of the Kingdom. Study it. Learn it. Know it. Apply it.
If you obey the law, then the benefits are natural byproducts.
You know, I’m sure by now all of you in this room may have heard about the immigration laws in Arizona. Now, that’s a strange law. Everybody is fussing about it because the law has to do with stopping people on the streets, and if you look like you are not a citizen, they could stop you and ask you to show proof. Thank YAHUAH Elohiym doesn’t do that, boy — that would have been a message. Some of y’all look good right now; we don’t know what’s going on.
But this law that they have passed in Arizona is causing stress, and a lot of people are now moving out of Arizona who have ethnic backgrounds because they feel that the intimidation level is too high.
I guess the question is: did you come here for food in Arizona, or you came to submit to the laws? If you submit to the law and the guy pulls you over, you smile: “Hello.” If you keep the law, you’re never intimidated.
“Oh yes, my card? No problem.” Boom — you gone.
Arizona is saying, “Look, taxes in this state are very low, so you benefit a lot from that. Then we’ve got healthcare, we get free education, all this stuff.” He said, “Now listen, if you’re here, you’re enjoying all of this, but we want to check to make sure you’re keeping the laws.”
So they stop you to make sure you qualify for the benefits.
Let me quote Yahusha again: “Seek ye first the Kingdom of Elohiym.” That’s the country. But then He says, “and His righteousness.” That means check your immigration status — am I keeping the laws?
Sometimes you think Elohiym is Santa Claus. Well, wait a minute — not even Santa Claus, because even Santa Claus wants to know if you were good all year. Santa Claus got some laws, you know. If you’ve been good, you get a gift.
But we think Elohiym is someone who doesn’t care about nothing. I don’t know who we think Elohiym is. You know, it’s like we break the law all week and ask Elohiym to bless us on the weekend, and Elohiym’s like, “What are you doing? Either you’re a citizen or you’re not a citizen.”
You always come to me for bread and fish, but you don’t submit to the laws of the country.
Look at the last part of the verse. He says, “But whoever wants to save his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for me will find it.”
When you surrender to the laws of the Kingdom of Elohiym, you actually have a life — a real life.
I am living, and Elohiym wants you to live a big life, abundant life. I prophesy that this month you will be a law-abiding citizen in the Kingdom of Elohiym, and your structure in your life will change next month. HalleluYah!
There’s no guessing about success in life. If you lose your life, He says, for the sake of the country, you will find your life.
Do you know what the next verse says? It says, “For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose everything?”
In other words, there are people running around trying to get stuff, and you know, it’s amazing — you could try to get all this stuff and lose everything that’s important to you.
I’ve seen rich people who ain’t got no marriage. Rich folks who ain’t got no children. Children gone, gotten bold and gone, and they using it by themselves. This don’t make no sense. You got a ten-bedroom house you struggled for years to get, and only you and the maid. It just don’t make no sense.
You gain the whole world and lose the things that are life.
It’s more important to keep the laws than to keep the bread.
He says this thing is about the Kingdom. You deny yourself so that you can enjoy Kingdom life. You obey the laws so you can have Kingdom living.
This is the way you move to a country.
My word today to you is this: you came to the Kingdom of Elohiym to submit to the laws of the country so you can benefit from its promises.
You don’t keep the law to get saved — you keep the law because you are saved.
Do you know that if you are an illegal immigrant and you’ve been in a country for 25 years, you were illegal for 25 years? In other words, no matter how long you’ve been there, you’re still breaking the law.
You are a law-breaking citizen for 25 years.
Now watch this: the minute they naturalize you — they make you a citizen — what happens? That moment, you become a law-abiding citizen.
So for 25 years you were illegal, law-breaking, even though you lived in that country all those years. But the minute they make you a citizen, it switches — you become law-abiding.
So the question: why did they give you citizenship? Answer: so you can obey the law.
Now the reason for coming into the Kingdom is so you can live legally now, according to the laws of Elohiym that we serve.
So this message Elohiym is telling us is, “Look, I want to bless you. I want to prosper you. I want to give you a big life.” He says, “But you’re going to have to submit to the country’s laws.”
Okay, let me close a couple of thoughts here.
We know that Elohiym wanted to put us on earth to extend His country, called the Kingdom of Heaven. And He did that because He wanted to establish His culture on earth. He wanted to give us a legal existence on the planet.
So the first thing Elohiym gave Adam was law. He gave him land and law. It was land and law — two important L’s you must always remember: land and law.
Wherever there’s land, there’s got to be law.
He gave him a garden — gave him the earth — and then He gave him a law: “Do not touch that tree.”
Watch this: “The day you eat from it, you will lose your life.”
Which means, before he touched it, he had a life.
Adam had such a good life that Adam never, read my lips, sweat. Now, that’s what I call a good life. Say amen, somebody.
It just gets deep, you know, into plastic. You know, next time you do your seminar on financial development management, think about this: you ain’t have a good life until you ain’t sweating.
Can I say that? I feel a little anointing right here.
As long as you’re sweating, that ain’t good life yet.
I’m gonna say something a little deep here, okay? People think that when you have a job, that’s hard work. They go to work every morning, you work for somebody else, and they pay you.
Other people think that when you get a business, you’re free.
Let me tell you something — go for that. Let me tell you something: when you own a business, you work twice as hard as when you have a job. I want you to get that revelation.
So don’t think that, you know, “I want my own business now, I’m free.” Am I right, sister? You stay up all night working, right? People sleeping, but when you got your own business, you don’t work nine to five no more — you work nine to nine a.m. the next morning.
Which means you’re sweating twice.
So it took me years to figure this out. I said, “How come the curse Elohiym pronounced on Adam was sweating?” Which means sweat, which means toil, is a part not of the life that Elohiym intended.
Okay, so then when does a person stop sweating?
I figured it out. You know, I studied people like Buffett — these brothers don’t sweat. Now you gotta analyze them. I’m trying to work on that myself. I’m trying to get to the point where I understand what wealth is.
Wealth is not work — wealth is ideas.
You’re not really wealthy until you make money while you’re sleeping.
Every morning, Bill Gates wakes up — matter of fact, while he’s sleeping: ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching. When you wake up, your account increases.
He goes from the bed straight to the golf course: ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching, ka-ching.
What do they do? Ideas.
Adam never used to sweat.
When you break the law — whatever you’re doing, listen to me carefully — think quickly of franchising. Can I say that again? I just gave you a multi-million dollar idea. You should pay me for it.
Let me say it again: whatever you’re doing — if you’re doing hair, you’re a cosmetologist — stop thinking about running the business. Think about training people to run it while you go to sleep.
The fellow who owns the insurance company is on the boat fishing. You didn’t get it yet, huh? You in the field, and he in the sea.
Now he started out selling, you know, he started out selling like you, but his eye was on something else.
I think one of the curses of the Bahamas is we like jobs. Our government is serving that issue. I mean, our politicians don’t even think beyond jobs, so we are in trouble. If the head got it wrong, the body in trouble.
Elohiym wanted us to run this beautiful planet without sweating. But when we break the law, He says, “Now you’re gonna sweat. Now it’s gonna be a tough life. It’s gonna be rough for you to just get bread.”
He says, “You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow.”
Then Yahusha comes and says, “Don’t work for bread.”
In other words, “I’ve come now — I’ve come to fix it.” HalleluYah.
I came to correct what your forefather did. He broke the law. I came for you to be able to keep the law again. And if you keep the law, all these things shall be added.
It doesn’t mean you don’t put effort into life — it means it shouldn’t be a depressing effort.
If you hate Mondays, you are toiling.
When you find what you were born to do, that ain’t no sweat. You’re in your groove, man. You’re in the zone. You don’t sweat in the zone.
Can I hear an amen?
But if you hate getting up to go to that place Monday, yeah, yeah, yeah — you are toiling.
Yahusha came to put you back in the zone.
And so a person who is doing what they love to do, I didn’t expect for them — they could do it all day. Listen.
But if you hate what you’re doing, or you have to do what you’re doing because someone is telling you to do it, you’re a victim of someone else’s interest, and you are toiling.
Go and think about these things.
All right, I want to close.
Let’s turn into Psalm 1, please. Let’s obey the law.
Turn to Psalm 1. I learned Psalm 1 when I was three years old. Most of you did — at least the Bain Town people. This was the major Sunday school verse.
But I want you to read this verse for the first time in your life again and read what it says.
The very first verse says what? “Blessed is the man…”
Now stop right there. You want to be blessed? It’s telling you. The first word in the entire book tells you how to be blessed.
“Blessed is the man…”
Happy, fulfilled is the man who walks not where? In the counsel of the ungodly.
That word “counsel” — how’s it spelled? C-O-U-N-S-E-L.
That means you’re getting advice from people who ain’t smart.
Whoever is counseling you is controlling whether you are blessed or cursed.
Blessed is the man who walks not — who avoids people who are ungodly.
In other words, there are some people you need to avoid. They are bad for your future.
If you’re going to be blessed, you’ve got to choose your company.
Now what’s the next verse?
“Nor stands in the way of sinners…”
Now that doesn’t mean they’re walking and you stand in the way. It means you are going where they are. You are doing what they do. You are living how they live.
He says this is a man who does not hang out with the lifestyle of ungodly people.
Now it tells you what you should be doing.
“But his delight is in the law of YAHUAH…”
I see people think that law is depressing — hard, drudgery. “You gotta don’t do this, don’t do that…”
Listen to me — that’s why you ain’t blessed.
If the law is a chain on your neck, if the law is something you hate, you don’t want to do it, it’s hard — that’s your problem.
This morning, I heard it clearly: this ain’t hard. Keeping the law is supposed to be a delight.
Let me tell you something: I love YAHUAH. I love the Word of Elohiym. I love it.
Young people, do you love the Word of Elohiym? Do you love the Scriptures? Do you want to obey it?
Or is it, “Here we go again…”
Is it a burden or a blessing?
Do you enjoy doing right?
David was successful because he loved the law of Elohiym.
That’s why when he disobeyed it, he got sick in his spirit.
He said, “Purge me… wash me…”
He called it foolishness.
How can I be so foolish to break Your law?
Do you feel that way? Or are you planning how to break it again?
His delight is in the law of YAHUAH.
And in His law does he meditate day and night.
Meditate means “chew” — like a cow chewing cud.
You read the Word, then you sit and think on it again. You bring it back up.
If you don’t read it, you can’t meditate on it.
He cannot bring to remembrance what you never put in.
Now watch this.
“If you do this…” — verse 3 — “you shall be like a tree planted by rivers of water…”
You’ve got a source.
“…that brings forth fruit in its season…”
I prophesy your season is coming.
“…whose leaf also shall not wither…”
And here it is:
“And whatsoever he does shall prosper.”
Say it again: “Whatsoever he does shall prosper.”
That’s a blank check.
If you obey the laws, anything you start can prosper.
Lift your hands and say: “YAHUAH, I expect…”
Make it bigger. Increase your expectation.
Stop praying for enough.
He is more than enough.
Don’t just heal me — make me healthy.
Don’t just bless me — bless me to be a blessing.
HalleluYah.
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