Ecclesiastes chapter 10
Today we are walking in: RULES CHANGE, LAWS NEVER DO PART 4
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
Write this down:
Those who keep universal laws rise predictably above those who follow popular rules.
What did I say? Say it back to me.
Popular rules are trends.
Laws are tracks.
Stay on the tracks—and you will arrive, rain or shine.
Let’s start with a name that fills arenas:
LeBron James.
The popular rule says:
“Talent is enough. Be gifted. Be famous. Coast on highlights.”
No.
But LeBron broke that rule and kept the law of mastery.
He arrives early.
He stays late.
He invests in his body.
He repeats drills the camera never films.
Dull repetition—that’s what lazy eyes call it.
Ecclesiastes 10:10 says, “If the axe is dull and one does not sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength, but wisdom brings success.”
Sharpening is boring to the bored—but it is law to the wise.
LeBron sharpened.
Conditioning.
Nutrition.
Sleep.
Recovery.
Film study.
That is why he stands before kings—finals, Olympics, boardrooms—because Proverbs 22:29 promised it.
“Do you see a man diligent in his work? He will stand before kings.”
Tweet this to someone chasing talent fairies:
Talent makes a splash.
Diligence builds a dynasty.
Now look at consistency through another lens:
Kevin Durant.
You saw the MVP speech.
The tears.
“You the real MVP.”
Beautiful.
But don’t romanticize the fruit and ignore the law.
KD’s life is not hype—it is habit.
Shooting routines when the gym is empty.
Rehab when nobody is watching.
Repetition when the crowd has moved on.
Galatians 6:9:
“Do not grow weary in doing good, for in due season you shall reap if you do not faint.”
Circle that:
Due season—not due sentiment.
Due season visits the one who kept the law when nobody clapped.
KD broke the rule that says momentum is everything and kept the law that says consistency legalizes increase.
Write this down:
Consistency is louder than commentary.
Now let’s shift to innovation.
The popular rules once said:
“Computers are for geeks.”
“Phones need keyboards.”
“Design is decoration.”
“Software and hardware must stay separate.”
Then came Steve Jobs.
He broke those rules—but he did not worship rebellion.
He worshiped laws:
Clarity.
Simplicity.
User experience.
Focus.
He said no to 10,000 features to keep a few laws.
He removed the keyboard—not to be flashy—but to obey a law:
Remove friction so value can flow.
He made fonts beautiful—not for ego—but because the law of human experience says:
Beauty invites use.
Write this down:
He violated fashion and bowed to function—and function rewarded him with influence.
In other words:
He broke device rules to keep design laws—and the market followed.
Now hear this clearly:
Shortcuts are the longest way to success.
Say it out loud.
Proverbs 13:11:
“Wealth gained hastily will dwindle, but whoever gathers little by little will increase it.”
Hacks that violate law will invoice you later—with interest.
You can inflate numbers—but if you violate the law of value, trust will evaporate.
You can cut corners—but the bill is already in the mail.
Joshua 1:8 gave you the straight line:
Meditate.
Observe to do.
Do.
Then—you make your way prosperous.
Reverse it:
Ignore law—and your shortcut becomes your detour.
Now, definition drill.
Write this down:
Influence is the capacity to cause others to prioritize your priorities.
Say it again.
Influence is earned—not demanded.
How?
Through visible success that is predictable.
Why predictable?
Because you kept laws consistently.
Write this down:
Laws make life predictable.
Predictability builds trust.
Trust creates influence.
When people can forecast your fruit—they entrust you with their future.
That’s why a coach hands the ball to LeBron in the last 30 seconds.
That’s why teams build around KD.
That’s why people line up overnight for a product.
Predictability created trust.
Trust produced influence.
Now let me contrast it clean:
Popular rules say:
Post at these times.
Chase trends.
Hack the algorithm.
Go viral.
Laws say:
Practice until panic disappears.
Design until confusion disappears.
Deliver value until resistance disappears.
Tell truth until suspicion disappears.
Prayer is essential—but hear me:
Prayer is not a replacement for practice.
Prayer empowers practice to be precise.
Write this down:
Pray, then practice, then perform.
Pros do not violate sequence.
Now ask yourself:
In your craft—what is your LeBron drill?
In your field—what is your KD routine?
In your product—what is your simplicity principle?
Write it down.
Then circle one rule you will break this week.
Maybe:
“Move fast even if sloppy.”
“Market big before ready.”
“Promise what you can’t deliver.”
Cross it out.
Replace it with law:
Master fundamentals.
Build real value.
Tell the truth.
Deliver on time.
Here is your activation:
For the next 7 days:
Schedule one hour of law-keeping.
Call it your mastery block.
No phone.
No noise.
No trends.
Only reps that sharpen your edge.
At the end—publish one small artifact:
A clip.
A note.
A demo.
Visibility is stewardship.
You are not boasting—you are building trust.
Say this like a contract with your future:
I reject popular rules that seduce and sabotage.
I keep the laws that sharpen, simplify, and serve.
My success is predictable because I am predictable in excellence.
Because I am trustworthy, I am influential.
Break the rule.
Keep the law.
Transform.
Now we are going to put a tool in your hand.
Because transformation accelerates when you systematically swap rules for laws—and measure fruit.
What did I say? Say it back to me.
Take a clean page.
Draw three columns:
Column one: Rule I follow
Column two: Law it violates or ignores
Column three: Lawful replacement action
That is your audit.
Habakkuk 2:2 says:
“Write the vision. Make it plain.”
If you don’t write it—you won’t run it.
Now fill it:
Column one—be honest:
Holiness equals busyness
Wait for permission
Smallness is piety
Respond to every message instantly
Say yes to everything
Post only when perfect
Column two—name the violated law:
Sabbath
Purpose
Stewardship
Focus
Truth
Visibility
Column three—write the action:
Schedule Sabbath
Launch one solution this week
Publish imperfect but helpful work
Set two focus blocks
Practice daily
Solve one real problem
Write this down:
Vague intentions protect old rules.
Specific actions enforce new laws.
Now repentance:
Repentance is not emotion—it is restructuring.
Romans 12:2:
“Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
James 1:22:
“Be doers of the word, not hearers only.”
If your calendar doesn’t change—you didn’t repent.
Tweet this:
Repentance that does not restructure routines is religion, not renewal.
Now your two-week experiment:
Replace three rules:
One in your schedule
One in your gifting
One in your visibility
Schedule:
Replace reaction with purpose planning.
Gifting:
Replace waiting with deploying.
Visibility:
Replace hiding with publishing.
Guardrails:
One Sabbath
Two focus blocks daily
One visibility slot
Metrics:
Problem solved
People served
Profit or progress recorded
That is fruit.
Now say it like a covenant:
I repent by restructuring.
I break rules that waste my purpose.
I keep laws that guarantee fruit.
I measure problems solved, people served, and progress made.
My transformation accelerates because I swap rules for laws.
Again.
Now go do the audit.
Don’t wait for feelings.
Feelings will catch up with law.
And when the numbers testify—
Give glory to Elohiym.
Break the rule.
Keep the law.
Transform.
Before you run off breaking rules with a sledgehammer, hear me clearly.
We are not anti-tradition.
We are pro-truth.
Write this down:
Good traditions are vehicles that carry law.
Bad traditions are veils that cover law.
What did I say? Say it out loud.
In other words:
Keep any tradition that serves law and purpose.
Release any tradition that competes with them.
Yahusha Himself confronted this tension.
In Mattithyahu (Matthew) 15, He asks:
“Why do you transgress the commandment of Elohiym because of your tradition?”
And then:
“Your tradition has made the word of Elohiym of none effect.” Mark 7:13.
That is not anti-tradition.
That is pro-law correction.
You don’t break laws—laws break you.
But right traditions can build you.
So here is your filter.
Write this down and teach it:
Three questions.
Question one:
Does Scripture command it?
“All Scripture is Elohiym-breathed…” 2 Timothy 3:16.
If it is commanded:
Love your neighbor.
Make disciples.
Walk in holiness.
Honor rest.
Then we keep it.
We deepen it.
We don’t debate it.
Some traditions are simply obedience wearing cultural clothing.
Keep the coat—just make sure it still fits the body.
Question two:
Does it increase fruit?
Yahusha said:
“By this My Father is glorified—that you bear much fruit.” John 15:8.
Fruit is measurable:
Problems solved.
People served.
Progress or profit recorded.
If your tradition multiplies fruit—it is a trellis.
Keep it.
If it starves fruit and feeds ego—cut it.
Test the fruit—not the feeling.
Question three:
Does it free purpose for service?
“The Sabbath was made for man—not man for the Sabbath.” Mark 2:27.
If your tradition:
Equips people
Releases gifts
Empowers service
Keep it.
If it:
Controls
Restricts
Gatekeeps
Burden people
Break that rule to keep the law.
Now write this chain—it will protect your life:
Law → Principle → Practice → Preference
Say it again.
Law is the unchanging will of Elohiym.
Principle is the timeless application.
Practice is the method.
Preference is style.
Never elevate preference above principle.
Never elevate practice above law.
Don’t turn your playlist into a priesthood.
Don’t confuse the engine with the paint job.
Preference is paint.
Law is the engine.
Now—pastoral guardrails.
Breaking rules is not license for lawlessness.
Submit your changes to wise counsel.
“In the multitude of counselors there is safety.” Proverbs 11:14.
In Acts 15, the early assembly faced a tradition crisis.
Did they rebel?
No.
They gathered.
They searched Scripture.
They listened.
They decided.
They kept the laws that mattered—and released the burdens that didn’t.
Write this down:
Don’t swing a wrecking ball where a scalpel will do.
Reform with honor.
If your change is born in pride—it is rebellion.
If it is born in truth—it is alignment.
Now let me give you a picture.
A community had a long-standing service structure.
Beautiful—but heavy.
Long routines.
Little fruit.
They ran the three-question test:
Scripture? No.
Fruit? Declining.
Purpose? Restricted.
So they adjusted—not dishonoring, but refining.
They kept what honored law.
They released what blocked purpose.
And fruit testified:
More engagement.
More transformation.
More life.
Same heart—better alignment.
Write this down:
Sacred is not the schedule.
Sacred is the stewardship.
When law is centered:
Prayer deepens.
Holiness sharpens.
Humility grows.
Write this:
Lawful alignment produces quiet confidence.
Unlawful stubbornness produces loud insecurity.
Now your courage steps:
Take one tradition this week.
Run it through the filter.
Does Scripture command it?
Does it increase fruit?
Does it free purpose?
Then map it:
Law
Principle
Practice
Preference
If it’s preference masquerading as law—unmask it.
If it’s practice frustrating principle—redesign it.
Bring it to counsel.
Pray.
Decide.
Implement.
Measure.
Adjust.
“Test everything. Hold fast to what is good.” 1 Thessalonians 5:21.
Now say this with reverence:
I honor law above every custom.
I submit my preferences to principles.
I keep traditions that serve truth.
I release those that suffocate purpose.
I break man-made rules to keep Elohiym-made laws—with reverence.
Again.
Good.
Now hear me:
This is not a conclusion.
This is a commissioning.
We are not ending a talk—we are opening a calendar.
For the next 30 days:
You will treat your life like a laboratory of law.
Write this down:
Commit to 30 days of law-keeping—and your success will move from accidental to predictable.
Say it out loud.
Here is your daily cadence:
Before you touch your phone—give Elohiym 10 minutes.
Yehoshua (Joshua) 1:8:
Meditate.
Observe to do.
Do.
Turn the verse into method:
Read it.
Speak it.
Choose one action.
Schedule it.
Reverse it:
No meditation → no clarity
No clarity → no action
No action → no progress
10 minutes.
Law first.
Then:
Write your top three law-aligned tasks.
Title the list:
Today’s obedience.
Schedule two focus blocks.
Phone off.
Notifications off.
People notified.
If it’s not scheduled—it’s a wish.
Then pray.
Not for performance—but for wisdom and strength.
“Ask for wisdom…” James 1:5.
Add this to your mouth:
“Elohiym has not given me a spirit of fear—but of power, love, and a sound mind.” 2 Timothy 1:7.
Power to act.
Love to serve.
Sound mind to stay aligned.
Write this:
Emotions are great servants—but terrible supervisors.
Now weekly rhythm:
One Sabbath.
No production.
Only rest, worship, renewal.
That is not laziness.
That is maintenance.
Each week:
Solve one visible problem.
Not talk—solve.
Then:
Publish one outcome.
A result.
A lesson.
A solution.
Visibility is stewardship.
Meet your accountability partner weekly.
Measure:
Did you keep law?
Did you produce fruit?
Not feelings—fruit.
If numbers are slow—keep sowing.
“Do not grow weary…” Galatians 6:9.
Faithfulness is the bridge to fruitfulness.
Now your 10P cadence:
Week one: Purpose + Perception
Week two: Potential + Passion
Week three: Principles + Planning + People
Week four: Persistence + Perseverance + Prayer
Each week builds alignment.
Each day builds predictability.
Now say this like a covenant:
I break the rule.
I keep the law.
I transform.
Again—louder.
Successful people break rules for the sake of law.
Now do this:
Set your alarm.
Schedule your focus blocks.
Block your Sabbath.
Text your accountability partner.
Choose one problem to solve.
Name one person to serve.
Don’t wait for courage.
Courage grows when you move.
You are commissioned as a lawkeeper in your field.
May יהוה establish the work of your hands as you honor His laws.
May wisdom meet you in the morning.
May diligence carry you through the day.
May peace cover your Sabbath.
In 30 days—your numbers will testify.
And your peace will deepen.
Because laws make life predictable.
What did I say?
Laws make life predictable.
Now go.
Do.
Return with fruit.
Break the rule.
Keep the law.
Transform.
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