PRINCIPLES, LAWS, TRADITIONS AND COMMANDS PART 1

Genesis chapter 1













Today we are walking in: PRINCIPLES, LAWS, TRADITIONS AND COMMANDS PART 1










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 1




Laws, traditions, and commands. I think another word you use is command—the word commandments. All of these words are found in the Scriptures. Most of these words have been considered to be synonymous, but they are not. And as we focus on how Kingdom citizens live in YAHUAH’s country, we must understand that the foundation of any nation is law.




So we need to appreciate the difference between law, principles, commandments, and traditions so that we’re not confused.




I want to begin today with a few important statements. I want to talk about a big picture right now, and I hope that you will get this. If you understand this, you’ll be able to tell anybody about the good news of the Kingdom of YAHUAH.




Listen carefully.




YAHUAH’s original plan is important to understand.




First of all, YAHUAH’s plan was to establish the nation of heaven on earth through His children—mankind. That concept is called colonization.




YAHUAH’s original plan was to establish the nation of heaven—that’s where He lives—on earth. That’s what He made. When a kingdom establishes its extension to a distant territory, that concept is called colonization.




Number two—write this one down—YAHUAH’s plan was to establish a community of heaven on earth. That is what kingdoms do when they colonize—they establish their community in a distant land.




Number three—YAHUAH’s original plan was to fill the earth with the culture of heaven. His plan was to fill the earth with the culture of heaven.




And this is the most practical side of colonization.




In the Bahamas, we speak English because we were colonized by a British kingdom. Right next to us is Cuba—they speak Spanish because they were colonized by a Spanish kingdom from Europe. And right next to us to the east is Haiti—they speak French and Creole because they were colonized by the kingdom of France.




So we’ve got three countries right next to each other, but they were formerly colonies, and each one of them is different because their kingdoms were different. So they speak different languages, eat different foods, they even have different architecture, and their culture is different.




When a kingdom colonizes a territory, it takes on the culture of that kingdom.




YAHUAH’s plan was for earth to take on the culture of heaven.




Number four—YAHUAH’s plan was to govern earth from heaven through the domination of man on earth. This is found very clear in the first Cepher of the Scriptures, the first chapter.




YAHUAH said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the earth.”




And then He specifically stated what we are to dominate: the fish, the birds, the animals—and then it says all the earth. What that means is everything that’s in the earth—plants. And then He says everything that creeps upon the ground—all the insects, all the reptiles, the birds.




He said, have dominion over the earth.




That means He wants mankind to be the dominant culture on earth.




Where did man come from? Man came from Elohiym. Elohiym is in heaven. So we were sent to earth to make heaven the dominant culture.




This is what kingdoms do when they colonize.




Number five—YAHUAH’s plan was to establish a holy heavenly nation on earth.




Please write this one down. That concept is the key to the theme this year.




YAHUAH’s plan was to do what? Establish a heavenly, holy nation on earth.




This concept has not been understood by most of what we call Christianity. Christianity is a religion that focuses more on preparing people to leave earth and go to heaven. The Kingdom of YAHUAH is more focused on heaven coming to earth, which is reversed from the theology that has been distributed and disseminated through the Christian religion.




So when Yahusha came to earth, He didn’t come to take us to heaven. His focus was to bring heaven to earth.




As a matter of fact, when He prayed, He said, when you pray, don’t pray to go to heaven. He said pray like this:




“Our Father, which art in heaven, holy is Your Name. Your Kingdom come. Your will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.”




He says you pray not to leave earth to go to heaven, but you pray for heaven to come to earth.




So His plan was to establish a holy nation—the culture of heaven—on earth.




Now, this helps us understand what I call the secrets to national development.




Please write this down.




Number one—the key to success in life is law.




Life is designed for your success, and the way you succeed in any kind of experience in life is you must know—everybody say know—you must understand—everybody say understand—you must apply—say apply—and you must practice—everybody say practice—the laws and principles and commandments and decrees of YAHUAH.




If I was to explain the success in my life, it’s simply because I followed this process since I was 14 years old. My hunger for the law of YAHUAH developed when I was 13. So I began to read the Scriptures when I was 14.




I read the entire Bible when I was 14 years old. Didn’t understand 90% of it—but that was not important to me. I took a whole year, and every day I read a portion from the Old Covenant and a portion from the Renewed Covenant.




And when I was 15, I began to understand it. And every year I read the Scriptures through from January to December because I had a hunger for the laws of YAHUAH.




Now the secret to success in life—old person and young person—is please follow the words carefully:




First, you must know the principles. First word is knowledge—you’ve got to know them. You cannot know what you do not learn.




Then you must understand them. You can’t apply what you don’t understand.




Then you must be capable of applying.




And then you must practice.




Now applying is one thing—practicing is different.




You can apply a teaching on prayer by praying one day. Yes—someone tells you that prayer is important, prayer is a priority, prayer is essential—you say, okay, I agree with that. So you understand that. Then it says you pray, your life becomes more in tune with Elohiym—that’s the benefit. So you say okay, I’m going to pray.




And then you decide, I’m going to start praying tonight. So you put time aside and you pray.




That’s called applying.




You’re still not practicing.




What are you going to do tomorrow? And the next day? And the next day?




You may pray once—that means you applied it, but you didn’t practice it.




Yahusha said, “If any man hears my words and practices them…”




Practice means daily. Every day. For the rest of your life.




Are you with me?




Someone says, okay, you want to lose 10 pounds—good. Then stop eating this, stop eating that, and exercise.




So you stop eating for one day and exercise that whole day—and the next three weeks you do nothing.




You applied what you heard—but you didn’t practice.




Practice.




And Mashiach was very specific—He says if any man practices my laws, he shall have good success.




Sometimes we blame Elohiym for our failure.




“I paid tithes last week and didn’t get no blessing this week.”




Because you applied—you didn’t practice.




You’ve been paying tithes for the next six months—that’s practice.




So we must be careful—Elohiym doesn’t want a life, He wants a lifestyle.




There’s a difference.




Practice and practice and practice. Success is a journey; it’s not a destination. Success is how you constantly keep overcoming your temptation to quit. Success is how you constantly pursue your dream, even though it seems to be taking a long time.




I experienced major success early in my life because I started early. So don’t be jealous of me. Don’t go behind me—mine—I started when I was 14. I started preaching, sharing my life with people at 15. I started really working in the community, sharing with people. Matter of fact, with my parents, we all started. We started like nine and ten, eleven years old. We started helping older people. My mother and father had us hand out bikes to older people. Our whole family—we started ministry as little kids.




Some of y’all got saved when you were 30. Half of my life was already in Elohiym by the time you got saved. So it’s quick to get jealous of a person who paid a price you don’t know about. So you need to practice, because success is a result of laws.




Yeah.




All right, let me show you how this works.




The power of laws. Laws are so powerful. I want to give you these definitions so that when you see these words again, you know the difference.




There are four words I want you to write down. The fifth one I want to talk about briefly.




The first word is principles. Principles are called first law. As a matter of fact, the word prince, if you write it down by itself, means first. What does the word mean—prince? It means first. Normally, when a king has a child, the child is called a prince, or if it’s a female, it’s called a princess. The word prince means first, and they call the son prince because he’s first in line for the throne. They call the female princess because she’s first in line for the throne. Prince means first. Principle means first law.




First law is the law that was inherent in the product when the Manufacturer made it. That’s why it’s called first law. Whoever creates a thing puts in it the principle for how it works. That’s why principles are important. They are most important. As a matter of fact, the word that comes before principle is precept. Precept is the thought. Principle is when the thought becomes an established function. So principles are key.




Principles are sometimes invisible. They are not even written, but they are built in. For example, the first law of a seed. The first principle of the seed is it needs soil and water. Now, there is no book that tells you to do that. It’s built into the seed. So you don’t need to actually be told what to do with the seed. The seed kind of tells you by the nature of what it is, “If you give me soil and water, I’ll bring a tree.” That’s the principle.




So the principle is the first law built into something by the Manufacturer. Therefore, principles are critical. You must learn them fast, because principles are inherent. You don’t create them. The product comes with them.




The principle of your car is unleaded gasoline. When they designed the car, they designed it for unleaded gasoline. So that principle of fuel is built into the car. You can’t change a principle. You can’t decide, “I’m going to put orange juice in my car tank because I like orange juice.” The car will malfunction because you violated principle.




Now, I want to focus on this hard, because if people ask me, “Dr. Monroe, why do you seem to be so wise or smart or intelligent?” I ain’t smart. What I did as a young man, and still do as an older man, is I keep learning the principles. Once you know principles, you become smarter than those who know facts. So David says, “Oh, YAHUAH, teach me Your precepts. Show me Your principles,” he says, “and I will be wiser than my teachers, and I will be wiser than the elders,” because elders may know, number five, tradition, but they may have forgotten the principle.




The second word is the word law. Law is established principles. Principle is the inherent concept, or precept, for function. Law is when you establish it. Laws are established. You can’t change them. So the law of operating your car is you need gasoline. That’s a law. So laws are established principles. If you know law but don’t know the principle that created the law, the law doesn’t benefit you.




That’s why number three is important. Everybody say commandment. Write that down. The word commandment is what I call what it is: it is spoken law, or declared law. The principle is the essence of the thing. The law is the established principle. The command is when you speak it.




The Scriptures say something very interesting. To explain this, let me explain this. My father had 11 children in my family. One of my brothers died. But I kept wondering, how did my parents bring us up so well? I mean, how do you take 11 kids and they all come out decent? Nobody went to jail, nobody killed anybody. Sometimes we felt like it, but we had a wonderful home. And I figured out—it took me years to figure out why—I was reading the book of Mishlei, which is a very important book that everyone should read over and over again every year, because that book is filled with these words right here: principles, laws, commands, and decrees. And I discovered that my father and mother practiced something that I saw in the Bible.




The Bible says to husband and wife, it says, “Son, listen to the instructions of your father.” Very specific—instructions. It is the law, established law. Then it says, “And listen to the commands of your mother.” Different word in Hebrew. Look at the two words. “Listen to the laws of your father”—instructions—“and the commands of your mother”—pronouncements.




What does it mean? It means before the father leaves the house, he gives instructions. And my father was good at that. “Okay, everybody, when you come out of school, you wash the dishes, you take the garbage out, you clean the yard, you paint.” He was instruction. And then he goes to work.




Now my mother is home by herself. We all come home, and all these children in the house, and she’s got to get them to do what Daddy said in his absence. What does she do? She doesn’t give us instructions—why? They’re already given. So she would say, “You wash the dishes—go. You go paint the house. You go clean the yard.” And we’d react: “I don’t feel like cleaning the dishes. I don’t feel like painting. I’ll do it later.” And my mother would say, “Do you remember what your father said?”




Now, what she did was she went from the instruction and made a command. Commands are only as powerful as the instructions that back them up. Instructions come from authority. One of the reasons why our homes are having challenges, you know, many of them, is because there’s no instructor in the house. So we got a woman trying to give commands, and we don’t know instructions backing her up. And so we have these young people, teenage ones, who would talk back at their mother—and father, or their mother, rather—because there’s no instructor to say, “Look, don’t you remember what your father said?”




What made us afraid to disobey Mom? If she had that power to say, “I’mma tell your dad about you,” we knew that meant there was gonna be a whoopin’. See, that strength was there. So in his absence, I cleaned the dishes, grumbling all the way through. But the power of her command was the instructions that backed them—the law.




You ever heard this: “I’m gonna lay the law down in this house”? It’s very, very challenging to not understand this. So the difference between a law and a command is the law and the instructions are spoken; the command is repeated. You know why the Ten Commandments are called the Ten Commandments? Because Elohiym spoke them first to a man, and no one was there—Mosheh. When he came down from the mountain, they became what? Commands, because now he’s got to tell them what Elohiym said. Now, when he wrote it, it becomes what? A decree. A decree is when you write the law on paper and establish it as a king does. A decree is a written law.




Kings would make statements and they’d be written down as decrees. Once you have a decree, it cannot be changed. I like what Pilate said—you know, Pilate was representing a king when he crucified Yahusha—and he wrote on a piece of paper, “King of the Jews.” And the Yahudiym became very offended. He says, “He’s not our king. Take that down.” And Pilate said, “I can’t do that because I represent the king. What I have written, I have written.” He says, “It’s a decree.”




This is why the Book in your hand is so serious. These are not suggestions. The Bible is not a book of recommendations; it’s a book of decrees. These cannot be changed, no matter what people tell you about the Bible. “You know, it’s all just people’s fables. You know, the Bible is just old stories,” all the stuff they say about the Bible. Let me tell you something—they still can’t change the truth of this Book. Do you know why people hate the Bible? We hate the Bible because the Bible exposes us too effectively. We hate it because it is so right. It cannot be changed.




And so it’s important for us to understand the difference between principles, laws, commandments, and decrees.




Now the fifth one is tradition. Everybody say tradition. Tradition is, write this down, a conscious or an unconscious custom that comes from a law.




Now what I mean by this—this one is very dangerous. The law of YAHUAH says, “You shall not steal.” Okay, that’s an instruction that came from Elohiym. It becomes a command, written on paper, decree: “You shall not take what is not rightfully yours.” That means don’t thief. Okay, that’s a law, and it becomes a decree; it’s written.




Now, we’re supposed to develop a tradition of not stealing. So it becomes a custom: we don’t steal. Now, as long as the law doesn’t become a tradition, it is open for negotiation. In other words, “I don’t steal… except if it is necessary.” You ever heard that?




I read a story in the newspaper on my way back here last night, in the Miami Herald. They say that this fellow walked into a store with a gun, and he held up a young lady. And the young lady started telling him about Yahusha. And the fellow had the gun, but he said, “I’m a Christian too.” That’s such a funny statement. “I’m a Christian too.” She said, “You the Christian?” He said, “Yes, I go to church.” And then she said, “Which church do you go to?” He told her. She said, “Jesus, I visit that church very often. I know your pastor.” He said, “Yes, Pastor Bob—yeah, that’s Pastor Bob.” He still got the gun. He said, “You know something? I really don’t want to be doing this, you know.” She said, “But Jesus could help you. You just gotta give your life to Him again and go back to church.” He said, “Yeah, you’re right. You know, I shouldn’t be doing this.” He said, “But you know how it is. Man, I don’t want to do this, but I have to do this.”




The guy is trying to steal and rob the woman, but she’s talking about Yahusha.




My issue is this: he said he’s a Christian, born again, but he’s a thief. Which means he knows, number one. He knows, number two. He knows, number three, even though number four—but it hasn’t become a custom of not stealing.




Can I put it this way? If you gotta think about not doing something, you ain’t there yet.




When holiness becomes your first nature, not your second nature, you still got some work to do.




Yeah. A woman wink at you, brother, and you married or not married—what is your first thought? She wink at you. Mean you know nice, but don’t wink at you in the airport this week. What’s your first response? It tells me where you at. Is it a tradition that you do not compromise your commitment to your wife, or are you gonna have a second thought? Do you walk over and mess around and sit by her to order a cup of coffee because you feel thirsty suddenly? You know, you need some help.




Yeah.




So tradition is dangerous. Tradition is man’s experience with the law. Tradition can come from an instruction that Elohiym gave you. You obeyed it, but then Elohiym gave you another instruction after that, but you decided to keep the first one. That can become a tradition, and you start to trade it to the other generations.




You might find the word—look at the word tradition—the word trade is in it. Trading is when I had an experience with the law and it worked so well for me that I want to give you the experience.




Let me write this down. Write this down: Never transfer traditions. You transfer the law to the next generation. Got it?




Yeah.




What Elohiym did with you through the law may not be what He does for your children through the same law. So give your children the law, not your experience. Tradition is what you experience when you obey the law. Don’t give your kids the tradition, because tradition is your experience. Once you teach your child the laws of Elohiym, and they leave your house and go to college and you don’t know where they are, you better hope the law stays intact.




You know, my son and daughter, man, they’re traveling. My daughter’s living far from me. I gotta trust the laws we laid down in their hearts, because law is what is stable, not your experience.




And sometimes your experience you shouldn’t transfer to your kids, if you know what I’m talking about. I mean, you smoked dope—you can’t tell the kid, “But you know, you gotta try it one time because, you know, you gotta go through that.” No, no, no, no. That’s a bad tradition.




How about this one: “I got pregnant before I was married, and I want my daughter—” No, no, no, no, no. You give her the law. “I violated the law. You keep the law. You remain celibate.” Transfer the law.




Yeah.




So traditions are dangerous, because they are your experience, and they become your custom that you learn when you encounter the law. But they may not be the same for the next generation. Is that clear?




And this is why I think I told you in my last session, Elohiym is too creative to repeat Himself. Elohiym never did the same miracle twice anywhere in the Bible. That’s amazing. I said, how come He never did a miracle twice? Because He don’t want the miracle to become a tradition.




How do you raise the dead? Well, I don’t know—it depends. One time He walked into a room, a little girl was dead. He simply talked to her. He says, “Talitha cumi,” which means, “Come forth,” and she rose from the dead. Then He met another guy who was on his way to the funeral, he was in the box—He touched the box, and the little boy rose up. The next time He went to a cemetery, a guy was there three days—He called the guy back. In other words, how do you raise the dead? I don’t know. Too creative.




How do you heal a person? Well, first He put mud—spit—on the eye. He never done it before, never did it since. He met another guy—just touched him. Then another guy—He touched him twice. Another guy—He says, “You go wash in the water.” In other words, there’s no tradition to heal the blind person, but the same power and the same law is at work.




Let me tell you how good that is. What that means is how Elohiym plans to cancel your mortgage may be different from how He did it for somebody else.




See now, according to your faith be it unto you. How Elohiym plans to heal your body may be different. “Well, this person prayed for me, I get that same person, let them pray for me.” No, no, no. He may say, “Look, I want you to stop eating pig.” Or, “I can heal you if you stop eating too much fat.” You don’t want that way, right? “Elohiym, I don’t want that. I want the instant way. I don’t want the long way. I gotta eat my ribs.” Elohiym says, “No, I want you to be vegetarian for three years because your system is messed up. If I heal you, you’ll be sick again from what you’re eating.”




In other words, how does Elohiym heal?




I like the word Yahusha uses. Yahusha says, “You shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover.” Now, recover could be a day, a month, two years, five years, ten years. He left that word so wide, it could be instant, it can be a process, but you will recover. That’s the good news.




Hello.




So we cannot dictate to Elohiym a tradition. This is why when you go to some organizations, some churches, they get such a strong tradition—Elohiym left that church a long time ago, because, you know something? “I’ve been trying to get into that church, but they got them traditions locked down so tight I can’t get in myself.”




As a matter of fact, the book of Revelation talks about this. Yahusha—when you read the book of Revelation, and by the way, pastors mess this up so badly, I’d repent because I used to do it—there’s a Scripture in the Bible that says, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If any man hears My voice and hearkens to My voice and opens up, I will come in and sup with him.” Now, when you read that text, it has nothing to do with an unsaved person. The text has to do with the church. The text says that the seven churches were giving Him problems. He says one of the churches was so locked down, they locked Yahusha out.




The chapter is about Yahusha trying to get back into His own church. And He says, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock.” Meanwhile, them folks having a good time. They got all their regalia, all their rituals, all their incense, all the shouting, all the screaming and stuff. They’re having a good time without Elohiym. “Behold, I stand at the door and knock at My own church.” And then He said, “If any man hear”—in other words, one person might hear Him—“I’ll come in and sup with him, by himself.”




Sometimes you discover truth in the middle of a tradition, and you can’t stay because Elohiym visited you personally, because you wanted more.




Huh?




Right.




And sometimes you wonder, why can’t I get back to that church anymore? Elohiym says, “Because you discovered Me. I supped with you. You ate My stuff privately. You got different diet now. You can’t go back to that stuff. You can’t eat that old stuff anymore.”




So it’s tough for you to go back because you had an encounter with the One who you heard at the door.




Tradition is dangerous. It can lock Elohiym out. Tradition is a killer because you can become so habitually attached to it that, even though you know it ain’t working, you still do it.




And so these four words are important.




Now let me show you something here, very important here, how this works with some Scriptures I want to share with you for the next few moments.




Elohiym’s Eternal Mandate




I call it the dominion mandate.




What did Elohiym really want? And you got to understand this for me to close this session. Elohiym’s plan was to establish a nation. Remember, I talked about that.




Okay, let’s read some Scripture.




Bere’shiyth (Genesis) chapter 9. Everyone turn there, please.




Some verses you never saw before. Bere’shiyth chapter 9, verse 1 says:




“Then Elohiym blessed Noach…”




By the way, I better give a context to this.




We all know the first man that Elohiym created. His name was who? What was his name? I gotta make sure y’all say it. Adam, right? Okay, Adam. Now Adam had everybody inside of him, and Elohiym went inside, took out a woman, and He told them to multiply. And Adam began to release all these kids. Adam lived 930 years, and this guy had a lot of kids. A few of them we know—Hevel, Qayin, Sheth, Cham, rather—you know, we have a few kids, but he had a whole lot of kids.




Now, we remember what happened with Adam’s first generations, eh? The Bible said they became so evil because they what? Disobeyed Elohiym. What did they do? Disobeyed Elohiym.




Can you tell me? I think you better just read it, because I want you to see the connection.




Turn to Bere’shiyth chapter 2.




Bere’shiyth chapter 2, verse 15:




“YAHUAH Elohiym took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and to care for it.”




And YAHUAH Elohiym did what? Verse 16. I can’t hear you. Say it loud. I can’t hear you.




Okay, let’s go back to that list again. The command is what? A spoken law. Elohiym didn’t need for the man to figure it out in his mind. Elohiym made it a command: “Do not touch the tree.” So He spoke it, which means Adam got what from Elohiym? A word.




Ladies and gentlemen, Adam had no written decree. All he had was what? A word from Elohiym. A word is a command.




Now, the entire human race is hanging on a word. Adam could keep us in Elohiym’s will or take us out of Elohiym’s will simply by a command. The power of a command backed up by Elohiym: “Don’t touch the tree.”




What did Adam do? Adam violated the command. He broke the law.




What is the command? A spoken law.




Adam broke the law, and everybody fell apart. The whole human race was kicked out of the garden. The human race became corrupt, and the Bible says that the sins of men were so filthy by the time Noach was born, it says that the stench of man’s sin was in Elohiym’s nostrils.




What does Elohiym do? Elohiym says, “I’m going to start over.”




Now, He doesn’t start over by destroying the earth, because earth wasn’t the problem. Earth is always innocent.




You see that oil spill over there? I’d say, “Look, I knew y’all was nothin’. I have oil in my belly. You punch in my belly, oil come out. What’s the deal? I’m innocent.”




Earth is always innocent. It is the humans on it.




Hey, neighbor, life would be good if he wasn’t here.




YAHUAH have mercy. Oh, YAHUAH, that’s a revelation for me.




Now some of y’all who married thinking, “YAHUAH, if the queen just go away just for two weeks, I’ll be okay.” Listen—humans are Elohiym’s greatest challenge.




Elohiym got no problem with monkeys. Elohiym says, “Jump, monkey,” and the monkey jumps. Mommy tell man, “Do this.” Why? We gotta question. We gotta discuss it.




So now man destroys the whole thing, right? What does Elohiym do? Elohiym makes a decision. He says, “I’m going to clean off the earth. I’m going to sterilize my earth.” There it is. “The earth is Mine. I’m going to clean it. I’m going to kill every one of the first specimen.”




And the Bible says this Scripture—very important verse:




“Then Elohiym blessed Noach…”




Now, YAHUAH called Noach. The reason why I want you to read this is because you never saw this verse before. The same words Elohiym said to Adam, He said to Noach.




I want you to see that.




What does Elohiym say to Adam? “Be fruitful, multiply, replenish, and fill the earth, and dominate the earth—the fish, the birds, the animals. Do all of that.”




Okay, same instruction.




So Elohiym drowns all these people. He only has eight people left, and Elohiym says, “Okay, tell you what I’m gonna do. I’m gonna start over.”




And Elohiym says to Noach—let’s read together:




“And Elohiym blessed Noach and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth. And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moves upon the earth, and upon all the fish of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.”




And you get dominion over them.




Verse 3:




“Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you; even as the green herb have I given you all things.”




The first time He’s telling them they can eat meat.




Okay.




Now I want you to watch this. Look at that statement—exactly the same thing He told Adam, right? Here’s my point: Elohiym has this one idea, and He refuses to let the idea go. “I want to have humans on the earth. They must dominate the earth.” Notice—not dominate people. Dominate creatures, animals, plants, and resources on the earth.




The same plan never changed.




So Elohiym is what? Starting over again with a new group of people—eight people.




What does Elohiym do? Noach gets drunk.




Because old Noach—man, second time, I’m losing it again. The guy became an alcoholic, staggered all over the place, naked.




Elohiym says, “Wait a minute. I wanna start again, but I got problems with humans again.” My Elohiym must really love you, man. He knows all your mess and still will use you. Give Him praise anyhow. Thank You, YAHUAH. Man, He knows all of our stuff. He knows all of our weaknesses, all of our challenges, and Elohiym says, “I’m still going to forgive you because I need you to work with Me.”




So Elohiym says, “Okay, Noach, I can’t use you anymore.”




What does Elohiym do? Elohiym then goes to his great-great-grandson.




I want to read Ma’asiym (Acts) chapter 17 for a second, because Sha’ul refers to this struggle Elohiym has, because Elohiym wants to build this nation on earth out of man.




Acts chapter 17, verse 26. Turn there.




It actually tells you. It says:




“From one man Elohiym made every nation of men.”




From one what? Man.




Adam.




Elohiym made—He’s trying to get His right nation.




He keeps trying to get the right nation.




Elohiym only wanted one nation on earth, but the first one failed. He started to get a second one—that one failed. He says, “From one man I’m still trying to get the right nation, from that one man, that they can what? Inhabit the whole earth.”




Remember, we read that in the book of Yesha’yahu 45. He said Elohiym made the earth to be inhabited with what? His nation.




I want to read another verse.




Let’s go back to the Old Testament.




Bere’shiyth 12.




Then YAHUAH said to who? Avraham.




Why? Adam messed up. Noach messed up. Now Elohiym gonna start again. He says, “Okay, this is Noach’s great-great-grandson. Okay, let Me try one more time. I’m gonna call one man again.”




And He says to Avraham:




“Leave your country and your people and your father’s house and go to the land that I will show you.”




Verse 2:




“I will make you into a great nation.”




YAHUAH wouldn’t quit. “I want a nation that looks like heaven on earth. I’m not going to quit till I get it.”




You want to go to heaven. Elohiym says, “No, I want you on earth. I want them to see what heaven is like on earth. And I want an entire people that have the same culture.” That’s the message of the Bible.




He’s trying for the third time.




He said, “Avraham, I’ll make you a great nation. I will bless you. I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.”




The word “name great” there means I’ll give you a reputation. The whole world—He says, “All the nations of the world will be blessed through you.”




Ladies and gentlemen, Elohiym wanted to raise up a nation of people who were so distinctive, they’d become famous for being different.




“I will give you a reputation among all the nations, that they will all want to be like you because you remind them of heaven.”




Read the next verse, verse 3:




“I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you, and all the peoples of the earth will be blessed through you.”




That word “peoples” means nations.




Then what do you mean by this? He says, “Look, how can I do this?”




Elohiym only knows one nation, you know. It’s called the Adamic race. All these other nations we have—Elohiym don’t know anything about these nations. One nation Elohiym had, and the first one failed. He tried to get one more through Noach—that one failed. He’s trying now to get another one through Avraham.




Did they fail?




Absolutely yes.




The Avrahamic nation failed. They became so corrupt. They intermarried with Kena’aniym, Mo’aviym, Yevusiym. When they got into the land they got corrupted.




Elohiym says, “I’mma kill them all.”




And Elohiym drove them into Egypt. They failed.




What’s He after? A nation.




Bere’shiyth 18.




Then YAHUAH said, “Shall I hide from Avraham what I am about to do? Avraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and all nations on earth will be blessed through him.”




Now please watch this for the next couple of seconds.




Elohiym has one nation. That nation failed. Elohiym tries to get another nation.




So what did Elohiym do? Elohiym chooses a group of people to create a heavenly nation with. And then He says, “I’m going to use this nation to be the catalyst for bringing all the other nations back to Me, so the whole earth can be filled with the knowledge of the Kingdom of Elohiym.”




In other words, Elohiym calls out the nation of Yisra’el so they can become a prototype of heaven on earth, so the other nations can be jealous.




They see a nation without sickness, no disease, no poverty, no corruption, the marriages together, the homes together, the kids right—and they say, “Wow, what are they doing? We want to be like them.”




They failed.




Instead of them becoming an example to the Kena’aniym, they married the Kena’aniym women. Instead of them becoming an example to the Yevusiym and Chittiym and Mo’aviym and those who offered children on the altar, cut the children through and put the blood on the altar—they married their children.




Elohiym said, “What are y’all doing?”




When you read the Old Testament, Elohiym says, “I will kill you all.” He got mad at them. He said, “What are you doing? You are like a harlot.”




He’s talking to the whole nation of Yisra’el. He says, “You become like a prostitute, sleeping in the bed with the very people you’re supposed to be an example to.”




By the way, before I go home today, in the next few minutes, you’re gonna see the church has done the same thing.




The Christian church.




How can you tell a guy not to be homosexual when the preachers are homosexual? In other words, you’re sleeping with the very people you’re supposed to be an example to. The reason why a lot of preachers don’t preach the law of Elohiym anymore—they can’t preach it. Why? They’re breaking it.




We were in Brasilia two days ago—about 5,000 leaders in this auditorium in Brazil. They called us up, my wife and I, to wish us happy anniversary for 31 years of marriage. And the people started clapping and shouting, and I saw some of them sitting there crying, just looking at us, weeping.




This should not be an exceptional experience.




When I tell people when I got married I was a virgin, they clap. Wow. That’s a disaster. Young man, when being a virgin makes you special, our world is in trouble. The church claps when a young woman says she’s a virgin. We have no more standards to show the world.




I was talking to a marriage therapist this week in Brazil, and he said, “You know the statistics now of divorce is equal in the church to the world. There’s no difference between the world and the church with divorce anymore.”




That has to change.




There’s got to be a nation of people that becomes a standard, which is what Elohiym wants.




He says, “I’ll make you a distinction in the world.” He says, “That’s why we keep the laws.”




Read this.




Bere’shiyth 35.




And Elohiym said to him, “I am El Shaddai. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall come out of your loins.”




He’s talking to Avraham.




Look at the next verse.




Shemoth (Exodus) 19.




Now Elohiym is speaking.




So let’s get the story right here. So the folks out of Avraham messed up. They became partners with pagans, Chittiym, Mo’aviym, Kena’aniym.




So Elohiym says, “Look, you wanna fail Me? I’m going to turn you over into slavery.”




So they went into slavery, 430 years.




After they’d been in Egypt, Elohiym raised up what? Another man. Always through a man.




So we got Adam, Noach, Avraham, now we’ve got Mosheh.




He’s still trying what? To get a nation.




What does He say to Mosheh? Read it.




YAHUAH said, “No, you go to Egypt and get slaves.”




Now, what are slaves? We celebrate emancipation day tomorrow. A slave is a human that has no rights. They own nothing. No right to land, no property, no heritage, no history, no lineage, and no future. A slave is chattel.




Elohiym says, “I want to begin with slaves again. I want a group of folks who ain’t got nothin’. They are nothin’ and got no plans.” In other words, “I’m gonna start again with zero again.”




Why?




“I want a nation.”




So let me wonder why we enter slavery—because trying to strip us so He can start with fresh meat. “Let Me start with someone who don’t know.”




And then He says, “Let Me warn you. Okay, when I take you into this land, don’t forget Me now.”




Elohiym kept telling them before they go, “Don’t forget Me.”




Look at The Bahamas, man. “Faith of Our Fathers” name. Oh, we sang that in 1973. “Until the road we trot…” Listen to our economy. What happened to Elohiym?




It’s so easy to forget when you get in the land, you know, a little bit of wealth, you build your house over by the lake, everything cool. “I gotta go to church? Ah, man, stay in too long.”




See, this is Elohiym saying, “Wait a minute, wait one minute. These people were nothing.”




And Elohiym says, “Mosheh, bring them out in the wilderness to meet with Me.”




That was the instruction.




When they got out there, this is what He says.




Read.




“Although the whole earth is Mine…”




Let’s stop reading there.




He says, “Look, although the whole earth”—that means everything on the earth, all the other people, all the other countries—“is Mine. I own the whole thing.”




So you ain’t special. He’s warning them.




“It’s a privilege for Me to choose you.”




Read the next statement.




He says, “Yet you will be for Me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation.”




Not a holy person.




This is not individual.




He wants a group of people—everybody holy.




The children holy. Teenagers holy. Young adults holy. Adolescents holy. Married holy. Unmarried holy. Aged holy. Grandfather holy. Grandmama holy. Old people holy. Geriatric holy.




He wants the whole nation holy.




Holy means distinctive. Sanctified means to be set apart for one specific use.




Elohiym says, “I’m gonna use y’all as a model over here so the other nations can see what it’s like to be a kingdom community.”




That’s the picture.




He said, “These are the words you have to say to these slaves.”




You know, I make a confession for years that Elohiym lives in The Bahamas. You know, I believe it with all my heart. But that’s a cry of hope. I’m hoping that when the tourist lands in this country, the first thing they would feel is the presence of Elohiym, not the presence of Junkanoo. That’s my hope.




My hope is when they walk down the street, they would hear people humming. I want to see people experience the goodness and the joy of YAHUAH in the streets, not crime.




We sell our soul for a little bit of porridge. We are going in bed with Kena’aniym, sleeping with Chittiym, just to get some money in our back pockets. We sacrificing the faith that built our country for some finances that can’t last.




Our prime minister—whoever he or she may be—is supposed to be holy. Our deputy supposed to be holy. The senator supposed to be holy. The members of parliament supposed to be holy. YAHUAH, the judge is supposed to be holy. Every supreme court judge, holy. Every lawyer, holy. Every hotel manager, holy. Every policeman—YAHUAH help us—holy. Every defense force officer, holy. Every teacher in the classroom, holy. Every sports entertainer, holy. Every businessman.




He’s looking for a nation.




Let me just show you how this works. Look at Kepha Ri’shon (1 Peter) now.




You might say, “That’s the Old Testament.”




Let’s see if He wants it for you.




When Mashiach went to the cross—by the way, let me just say this. Let me go to the list again.




We got what? Adam. Then who? Noach. Then we get who? Avraham. And then we have Mosheh. And they all failed.




So Elohiym said, “Look, I’m not using man no more. I’m coming Myself.”




Why? Because from one man He has to make this nation.




So He says, one man—and you listen to me carefully—after Mosheh failed, the prophets took over. And the prophets kept on saying, “YAHUAH Himself shall give you a sign. The virgin shall conceive a child, because He shall be called Immanu’el—Elohiym is coming to be with us Himself. For unto you a child will be born,” speaking of the king coming, “unto you a son will be given, and the government that you lost shall be upon His shoulders. His name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty El, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. And of the increase of His government there shall be no end, and it shall expand. He shall reign on the throne of David.”




He’s coming. He’s coming.




And Mal’akhi is saying, “And just before He comes, there’ll be one before His face announcing Him.”




His name shall be Yochanan HaMatbil.




And Yochanan says, “Behold, the Lamb of Elohiym has arrived.”




And here comes Yahusha.




The last one.




What does He come to get?




A nation.




Not a religious people.




Not read—why?




Kepha Ri’shon 2:9. Read:




“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation…”




Read on.




“You belong to Elohiym, that ye should show forth the praises of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of Elohiym.”




Once you had not received mercy, but He has forgiven you and cleansed you.




What does He want?




A whole nation.




But you got to remember this. This is not about you personally and individually.




I’m believing Elohiym that before I die, folks will look just like heaven.




I’m believing Elohiym’s dream—people in this church—because the children get American problems, you know, and I think, what else can I tell them? I can’t counsel you no more. I preach marriage principles all my life. I got books and CDs. I got stuff. What else? What’s your problem? You won’t apply and practice. Won’t waste my time all over again. You want a private sermon? I already preached. I tired, man. I travel and I try it.




Live right. Do right.




He’s looking for a people who are distinctive, who forgive one another, who don’t hurt their spouses, who don’t say dumb things to their spouses, who don’t beat one another, who don’t molest children, who don’t commit adultery, who don’t fornicate. He’s looking for a people who live clean and holy.




To obey the law.




Read the last part, verse 10.




You’re supposed to be the example for them, the prototype for them, the model for them.




He wants a nation that people can say, “I want to be like that.”




That’s what Elohiym’s after.




This verse:




Devariym (Deuteronomy) 4:6.




Read.




Now I want to show you what I call the distinctiveness of law.




This is what I want to close this on.




Do you agree with me, from what you saw, that Elohiym wants a nation? Any arguments there? No. We see it all through, right through the entire Bible.




Okay, now the question is: how do you build a nation?




That’s the question.




The answer is simple.




And The Bahamas needs to learn it, and so does America, and Jamaica, and Guyana, and Haiti, all nations.




Let’s read this, because Mosheh bring them out—was it what? A bunch of broke, empty, naked people. The money they had was given to them.




So here they are in the desert, because Elohiym says, “Okay, Mosheh, we’re gonna start the nation.”




What is the first act of Elohiym?




The first act of Elohiym to start a nation is He makes an appointment with them.




Can you read your Bible?




He says, “Tell them to meet Me at three o’clock tomorrow.” He says, at a certain mountain. He said, “Mosheh, tell the men to put a barricade around the mountain.” He says, “And tell all the people”—oh, Yahusha—“including the children, tell everyone to wash their clothes.” This is instructions. “And tell them to wear clean clothes, and I want all the people to come to the mountain to meet with Me.”




Are you following this?




That was the first instruction.




So Mosheh says, “Yes, YAHUAH.”




Then Mosheh went back to all the people: “Wash your clothes. Take off tomorrow. Be on time. We’re going to gather. We’re going to meet with Elohiym.”




By the way, Elohiym keeps dying where we been from 9:30.




Anyhow, so here we go.




Elohiym says, “All right.”




So the people came the next day, right? Everybody was dressed up, clean, ready to meet Elohiym. Children, teenagers, everybody. Elohiym wants to meet with the whole nation.




The Bible says they were waiting. Suddenly there was thunder and there was lightning. Then it says the earth began to shake. Then it says the mountain began to rumble. And the thunder grew louder as YAHUAH’s presence descended upon the mountain.




He says the people became afraid, and the Bible says the people became so afraid they ran away from the mountain back to their tents, went inside, zipped it up, locked themselves in their tents.




Now, I don’t know how the tent gets locked from the inside, but anyhow, they were so afraid, the Bible said they hid themselves. And they told Mosheh on their way while they’re running, they said to Mosheh, “You see Him for yourself.”




And the Bible said when YAHUAH came down to meet with the people, there was only Mosheh.




Now the principle—let me—prince, what is what? First law.




The first law is Elohiym didn’t want anyone to represent you.




That’s the principle you missed.




He wanted to meet you personally.




My job is really temporary. Elohiym doesn’t want me to be doing what I’m doing right now. I’m going to prove that before this series ends. He wants to get rid of pastors and prophets, because that was never His plan. You don’t need a prophet to talk to you about Elohiym or for Elohiym. He will talk to you Himself.




So Mosheh—well, the people ran. Mosheh was there, and YAHUAH Elohiym came down and said, “Mosheh, where are the people?” And Mosheh said unto YAHUAH, “The people were afraid of You, and they fled.”




Then YAHUAH said unto Mosheh, “Come thou up unto the mountain, that I may speak with thee.”




Elohiym never wanted to speak to Mosheh.




Now what’s He gonna say to Mosheh?




Exactly what He wanted to say to the children and the teenagers and the adults.




What does He say?




Law.




What makes the church such a mess?




Individuals breaking the laws of Elohiym.




Those Ten Laws that Elohiym gave Mosheh are running every nation today.




“You shall not steal.”




“You shall not murder.”




“You shall not covet.”




“You shall not bear false witness.”




“You shall not work seven days a week and kill yourself.”




Every nation tries to follow them, but will never admit where they got them from.




Elohiym is building a nation. He starts with law.




Now I want you to read this verse, because this verse tells you how important the law is to a country. It also tells you what Elohiym was after.




Ready?




Devariym 4:6.




Read together:




“Observe therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say: Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. For what nation is there so great, who has Elohiym so nigh unto them, as YAHUAH our Elohiym is in all things that we call upon Him for? And what nation is there so great, that has statutes and judgments so righteous as all this Torah, which I set before you this day?”




He said, what’s going to distinguish you is this body of laws.




Not just shouting and singing and preaching and falling on the floor.




He says from the other nations, it’s these decrees.




He didn’t say grace will distinguish you.




Wouldn’t it be great to be married to a man who just keeps them?




That means you ain’t got to worry where he is at three o’clock in the morning.




The problem is we got folks who just don’t keep the law, so you don’t know who to trust.




The businesspeople need the law of Elohiym.




The price of “you shall not steal,” man. If I took your money to buy something, bring it to you. When I use it, I shouldn’t use it to do something else. That’s stealing.




And then you tell me because you’re my brother you can wait a couple of years—you need a good beating.




Just keeping your word distinguishes you.




“I promise to love you and cherish you until death.”




All she has is my word.




Let me tell you something—elections coming up soon. Listen to your pastor.




When they come to your house, invite them in. Come right in. Sit down. Give them a cup of coffee and everything. And then ask them some questions they can’t answer.




Who you sleeping with all the time? Are you straight? Oh, this is serious business.




Ask them, “I heard some things about you. Are you straight? Because I vote for none. I’ll keep my vote in.” In other words, we need some distinction.




Any member of this church that goes into politics, if you know their character, their testimony, you vote for them, even if it’s against your own party.




Let me tell you why: you want righteousness in there.




The Bible says, “When the righteous rule, the people rejoice; but when the wicked are in power, the people groan.”




Boys, this party thing got to stop. We need a righteous nation. We need righteous leaders. And you can’t get a righteous man if he does not come from righteous seed.




Don’t confuse a nice person with a righteous person. There are nice people in the world.




He says, “This law shall separate you from the other nations. This body of law will make you different.”




If we live right, they should say, “Wow.”




You know, I hope the day comes soon when they’ll say, “Anybody from BFM? Because they clean, and they don’t steal, and they’re honest. They got character.”




Right now, don’t do it. Right now, don’t do it.




But I pray the day will come, but you’ll get this message in your spirit. There’ll be a distinction between you and the other nations.




We close with this.




Write this down, please.




Elohiym is the Elohiym of law. That’s why He gave law first.




Elohiym’s divine laws are inherent. They’re built in. They are principles.




Elohiym’s divine laws are never canceled. They’re always present.




Elohiym’s divine laws are also eternal. No one can change them.




Elohiym’s divine laws are not tradition, because your experience with them keeps changing.




Elohiym’s divine laws are given to protect, not to destroy, not to restrict. Tradition restricts us, but not the laws of Elohiym. They give us freedom.




Within the context of law, there can never be law without freedom, and no freedom without law.




Elohiym’s divine laws are permanent, so grace doesn’t cancel them.




Traditions are temporary, but Elohiym’s laws are eternal.




And the big question we need to ask ourselves is this question: is there any of the Ten Commandments that are now irrelevant?




The answer is no.




In our succeeding sessions from here, we’re gonna go to those Ten Commandments and see them again for the first time. Some of our teenagers never saw the Ten Commandments, because they don’t read the Bible. Some of you forget to take them out. You gotta quote all of them.




And the Bible says the law of Elohiym must be in your heart, heartbeat, and mind.




You can’t even remember them.




They are all valid. They are still relevant.




And until we get this in our spirit that we have to follow Elohiym’s laws, we will always be compromising with the world.




It’s so wonderful to meet someone who would say to the world, “I don’t do what y’all do.”




What a beautiful sound.




A Scripture that was read today stuck in my mind. I want you to turn to that Scripture from the description.




Tehilliym (Psalm) 112.




I want you to read it.




Get your Bibles ready.




Everybody say, “I love the law of Elohiym because I love Elohiym.”




“If any man loves the laws of Elohiym, he shall be preserved.”




It’s a beautiful verse of Scripture.




Psalm 112.




Get it.




What’s the first verse?




“Praise ye YAH.”




Everybody say, “Praise YAH.”




Say it like you really mean it now.




“Praise YAH” means give thanks to the Owner of everything.




Read the next statement:




“Blessed is the man that fears YAHUAH, that delights greatly in His commandments.”




Blessed is the man who fears YAHUAH. Why? He delights in His commands.




Commands—stated laws.




Blessed is the man who fears YAHUAH. He delights in His commands. Delight means what? To enjoy the laws of Elohiym.




I love it because He’s always right.




You don’t have to wonder what happens if you obey the laws of Elohiym. You ain’t got to check over your shoulder. You ain’t got to know who’s calling you on the phone, and your wife may pick it up. You ain’t got to wonder where you at three o’clock in the morning, coming from your office, whether you’re doing something dumb. If your heart is right, you can come home 4:00 a.m. and still be clean.




The laws of Elohiym—you delight in them. You enjoy them.




Can your husband enjoy your friends, ladies?




Can your wife enjoy the friends you keep?




David says, if you delight in His law, because you fear disappointing Him…




The fear of Elohiym doesn’t mean you are scared of Elohiym. It means you are afraid to disappoint your Father. You don’t want to hurt your Father’s feelings. You don’t want your Father to be disappointed in all of His expectations of you. You’re afraid to embarrass your Daddy.




That’s the kind of fear you need.




“I couldn’t do this, son, because my Daddy would be embarrassed. I can’t sleep with you. I’mma hurt my Father’s feelings. I’m afraid to hurt Him.”




Do you love Him so much you’re afraid to hurt Him?




Love always brings that fear of hurting.




If you love your wife, you do everything to make sure she’s not hurt. And you know what makes us hurt, brother? When they are hurt.




Quite hurt.




See, when your wife is hurt, you feel sick, especially if you caused the hurt, because love doesn’t want to disappoint.




That’s a good kind of fear.




If you fear YAHUAH, you will delight in what? His commands.




Next verse:




“And your children…”




I call this the benefits of the law.




If you obey the law, your kids are gonna come up right.




Now, what he’s talking about, the law of Elohiym first affects your house.




Why?




You’re building a community, remember. You can’t build a nation—the nation begins right in the house.




Our prisons are filled with young men, and a few women, who came from homes where the law of Elohiym cannot be found. So they become community dangerous elements.




“I will bless your children.”




What’s the next one?




“The generation of the upright will be blessed.”




Verse 3:




“Wealth and riches…”




Oh, very sorry. I claim that right now.




Now, by the way, now, you gotta stay in touch with verse 1 though. “Money coming, I’m blessed.” Oh really? Check verse 1 first.




“My Elohiym shall supply…” Yes, but did you check verse 1?




If you obey My laws, it says wealth and riches will be where? In your house.




Now, two different words.




Let me talk about that.




Cash—you can lose that. Wealth is good ideas. You can never lose that.




If you obey My laws, no matter how they fire you, you can still find something else better. Why? They can’t take away your wealth. They can take away your riches, but not your wealth.




“I’m gonna give you both,” He says.




Ideas to start a business in your own house. What an idea. Get up in the morning, just walk over to your business instead of slaving around other people telling you what to do.




Ideas—that’s wealth.




What’s the next one?




“And his righteousness endures forever.”




Righteousness means staying in line with the law.




He said, once you feel how sweet it is, you’re getting wealth all the time, righteous. He said, “Man, you ain’t never gonna disobey Elohiym.” He said, “I’m gonna stay right in the righteousness of Elohiym. I’m never gonna disobey YAHUAH.”




Why?




Man, there’s benefits.




But what’s the next benefit? I love this one.




“Unto the upright there arises light in the darkness.”




Okay, this one really hit me at this point when I was reading.




Elohiym says if you keep My law, when it is dark, when nothing seems to be working, they shut down the company, shut down the business, they lay you off, everything dark—because you keep My law, just keep saying the law—He says in the middle of the darkness, what does He say, brother? He says when everything seems to be crisis, crisis, He says in the middle of the darkness, you’re gonna just emerge bright.




Light is on the way.




They can’t keep a good man down.




You shall arise out of darkness. The bright light shall shine on thee.