THE CONCEPTS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE KINGDOM PART 2

Genesis chapter 2













Today we are walking in: THE CONCEPTS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE KINGDOM PART 2










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





















THE CONCEPTS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE KINGDOM PART 2




Briefly, about the concepts and characteristics of the Kingdom, focusing on Yahusha and His focus on the Kingdom, I want to begin with a split statement. I want you to write this down:




Yah never intended to have a religion, only a Kingdom.




When Yah created the heavens and the earth, and then Yah created mankind, He never had religion in His mind. That’s very clear if you read the book of Bere’shiyth chapters 1 and 2. In these two chapters, we find the entire plan of Yah summarized. As a matter of fact, in chapter 1 alone, you can actually write Yah’s mission statement that He made. It’s found in Bere’shiyth 1:26. This is Yah’s mission statement for His project called man.




Here it is. Quote, Bere’shiyth 1:26:




“Let us make man in our own image and in our own likeness.” Why? “That he may have dominion over the earth, the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, and the creeps of the field, and all that is in the earth. Let him have dominion.”




Verse 27 says, “So Yah created man in His own image, created him male and female, created He them. And Yah blessed them and said unto them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, replenish and subdue the earth, and have dominion.’”




Two verses, you find Yah’s mission statement, His vision statement, His purpose statement concerning man.




Now, in those verses, there is no prayer meeting, there’s no singing, no choir, no preacher, no parcel, no pastor, no bishop, no nothing. And yet Yah says, “This is very good.”




So, when you read the first two chapters of Bere’shiyth, there is religion, and there is no worship service. But there is Yah, man, earth, and dominion, and power, and authority, and leadership, and rulership over this planet.




So Yah’s entire focus is rulership on the earth through mankind. That is what Yah wanted. And so the word dominion is important, and I want to define this morning what is kingdom.




You can take a look at our screens and write this down. The word kingdom in the original text of the Bible is translated from a word basileia, and basileia is a word that means a certain type of concept that we’ve come to know. The word kingdom means sovereignty. It means royal power, and it means dominion.




The word kingdom, it means sovereignty, royal power, and dominion.




So, if the word basileia means dominion, then you can translate that word in the mission statement: “Let us make man in our own image and in our own likeness, and let him have basileia over the earth. Let him have dominion over the earth. Let him have,” look at the next term, “royal power over the earth.” Isn’t that beautiful?




In other words, Yah is saying, “Let’s create a species called man and let him have,” look at the next word, “sovereignty over the earth.”




Well, we all know that in the past the Bahamas was under this concept of basileia. We were part of the Kingdom of the United Kingdom. And in that kingdom, there has to be a king or a queen. And those words are related to that queen or that king, don’t they? Yes.




The word, like sovereignty—Queen Elizabeth of England is known as their sovereign. She’s also known as their royal power. Therefore, she is known as the one who has dominion over the Kingdom of Great Britain.




But that’s the exact same word Yah used for you.




Yah says that you are to have—look at the words again, speak them aloud with me.




First word: sovereignty.

Second word: royal power.

Third word: dominion.

Over what? The earth.




That means you were created to have sovereign royal power and dominion over the planet. That means, obviously, you got royal blood. Can I hear an amen? Royal blood.




Now, why do I teach the Kingdom, and why am I going through this so meticulously? Because I’m working on brainwashing.




If people say that I’m brainwashing you, they are exactly right.




Turn the TV on. I want to brainwash you too.




Nothing is worse than the wrong mentality, because as a man thinketh, so is he. So, if you think like a slave or a servant, a subject, if you think like an oppressed person, then that’s the way you are. As a man thinketh, so is he.




So what you need and I need to do, we need to understand how we ought to think. And the Bible says a man ought not to think beyond and above that which he should. So what we got to do is find out what we should think like, and then begin to learn to think like that.




In my book on the burden of freedom, which I hope you will all read—and this book to me is required reading, if I remember. By the way, this book just sold out. Probably should call me, say, “Second printing.” And in this book, I tell the story at the beginning of an experiment that was done by some scientists. They wanted to test the power of conditioning.




So they had a beautiful dog brought out, and they tied the dog to a stake with a chain at a certain length. And every day they would bring out this nice fresh meat to the dog, and they would put it beyond the chain’s length. And the dog would run toward the meat, and just before he got to the meat, the chain would yank him back so he couldn’t reach it.




And every day they would do this practice. They put this fresh meat, and the dog would run toward meat, and the chain would yank him back, and he would be hurt. And, of course, he would keep jumping, trying to get this meat.




And for days they did this. They’d put the meat down, and the dog would run toward it and be yanked back.




Then about two weeks later, they brought the meat out, and when they put it down, the dog just sat and looked at it. Then they pushed the meat closer, and the dog just sat and looked at it.




The next day they came out, and they took the chain off the dog, and they put the meat out, and the dog stayed by the stake and just looked at it. They pushed the meat closer, and the dog backed away. He just looked at it.




He was free.




If you’ve been conditioned to think like a slave all your life, even when the door is open, you stay in prison.




I’ll make a statement I want you to never forget. Yahusha said He is anointed to do something, Luqas chapter 4. Here’s what He says. He says, “The Spirit of Yah is upon me, for He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor.” Fine. Then He says, “To bind up the brokenhearted.” No problem. Then He says, “To give sight to the blind.” No problem.




But then He makes a statement that is very shocking. He says, “And to preach deliverance to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.”




The way it’s written in the original Greek language is, He comes and says He declares that the door is open to those who are in prison.




Get the concept.




In other words, Mashiach doesn’t come to open the door. The door’s open. He comes to the door and says, “Hey, you can come out.”




This book is really about the burden of freedom. It talks about the fact that freedom is really in the mind, not just having chains off your hands. That dog was free but died of starvation.




How many of us, even though we claim to be—can I use this term? You always use religious people, “King’s kids.” Really, a king’s kid thinks a king’s way.




I told you a few weeks ago that Prince Charles—you know his sons have tutors that train him not to be like you. Did you know that Prince William is trained not to be like you, not to look like you, not to talk like you, not to walk like you, not to eat like you, not to sit like you, not to dress like you? He is trained not even to think like you. He is conditioned.




And I remember Prince William is born a baby just like you, but by the time he is five years old, he don’t think like you. By the time he’s five years old, the adults in the castle are calling him master.




What are they doing? They are brainwashing him. Because someday, when Queen Elizabeth dies, that kid gets to sit on that throne, and he gotta be thinking like the throne.




And that’s what Yah is having problems with in the church. Yah says He gave us dominion, and for us to develop the spirit of dominion. And this is why we need to understand that everything that Yah taught us is to condition us back to think like royalty.




Now I want you to write some things down concerning kingdom.




I believe that one of the most important things that we need to do is to understand what kingdom is about, how it works. So I want you to turn back to the book of Mattithyahu chapter 13, and let’s read what we heard earlier in this session. I want to show you what a kingdom is.




It says in Mattithyahu 13:31, yes, “He told them another parable: The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed.”




All of Yahusha’s teaching was about kingdom.




So I want you to underline this, please: “The kingdom of heaven is like what? A mustard seed.” Though it is the smallest of all the seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air can come and perch in its branches.




Next verse: “He also told them another parable: The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman puts in a mixture of dough, of flour, until it worked all through the dough.”




And He spoke these things to the crowd in parables. He did not say anything to them without using a parable. So was fulfilled what was said: “I will open my mouth in parables and utter things hidden since the creation of the world.”




Now, my friends, listen carefully. Look at it. Look at me. Look at her. They are working for me. You listen to me now. Yahusha is not talking about dough and about mustard seed. A parable is designed to teach a truth. Is that clear?




So when you read this, what do you see in these two parables? What is the real principle? The Kingdom of Yah is a subject, but not the principle. What’s the principle? Say it loud. What? It is influence.




Write it down.




The issue of these parables is influence. You know when you take a little bit of yeast and you put it in the dough, it influences the entire dough. When you take a mustard seed and put it in the ground, it is so small—in fact, it is smaller than a benne seed or a sesame seed. It’s smaller than that. But when it grows, it becomes a big plant.




And Mashiach says the Kingdom of Yah is that way. It don’t take much of it to start influencing a whole lot of places.




So let’s then take a look at kingdom. Kingdom has to do with influence.




So when Yah says, “Let them have dominion over the earth,” He was talking about influencing the planet.




So kingdom, then, has to do with governing. That’s what influence is all about.




Write this down, please.




The word earth—E-A-R-T-H—earth. And write this word down: terra. The word is terra. Earth means the physical planet. Terra, it means the physical planet.




Now write another word down, please: the word world. Everybody say world. Very important word.




The word world in the Bible, New Testament, is translated from the word—write this down—kosmos, K-O-S-M-O-S. I did not say C-O-S, I said K-O-S-M-O-S. Kosmos. And the word kosmos has a meaning.




The word kosmos means influence. Another translation of the word kosmos, it means order of authority. Write that down, please. Order of authority. That’s the word world in the Bible.




So when you read the Bible, it’s important to separate the difference between the earth and the world. The world is the order of authority, or influence, that’s influencing the earth, which really has no power.




We put it this way: if I take some of the earth and make it into ore, and the ore becomes a knife, and make a knife out of the earth or iron, I can take that knife, I can cut your throat or peel you an orange. So the knife is completely neutral, isn’t it?




In other words, the earth doesn’t influence anything. It is influenced, depending on which world is on it. Is that clear?




That’s why the Bible says there are actually two worlds on the earth. There’s only one earth, but two worlds. Now, the problem is, the earth is Yah’s. It never says the worlds are Yah’s. The property, the real estate, the planet, is always Yah’s property. But He says that we must be dominions over the earth.




Yah intended for His world to rule the earth. And a world is called, one, a kingdom. Kingdom is an order of influence or order of control.




Man was created to have dominion, to have authority, to have influence, to govern the world, to rule the world for Yah. Yah only wanted one earth and one world.




What happened? There was influence that came from another place, and that was from an unemployed cherub. And Satan came, and he beguiled the woman who was a part of the world of Yah. And then she disobeyed, went to her husband, and he also disobeyed Yah.




And suddenly another influence took over their lives.




Are you following this?




So now we got Adam leaving the world of Yah and entering the world of Satan, or Lucifer.




Put it another way. We got Adam leaving the world of knowledge, with its knowledge light, entering the world of darkness, which is what? Ignorance concerning the light.




So the Bible says when you are born again, He translates you from the world of darkness into the Kingdom of light. Get it?




So really we got two kingdoms in one earth, rather. And you are either in one kingdom or the other.




Now this is where conflict comes. If you’ve been born into the kingdom of darkness, which you have, and you grew up in that kingdom for 30, 40, 50 years—here you are, 45 years old now, and you’ve been brought up in the kingdom of darkness—suddenly in five seconds you are in the kingdom of light. What’s gonna happen to you?




You’re gonna be like the dog, because you got mental brain damage. After 30 years of thinking one way, it doesn’t change in a night.




And that’s why the Bible says, watch this, the Bible says, “And Yah gave the church apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, teachers,” to do what? To train the saints. They need training.




You need training to train the saints for the work of their ministry. In other words, being saved, born again, isn’t enough. Now you need to be taught how to think in harmony with your status as royalty so you can carry out your assignment, which is a royal assignment.




And so being born again, I’m stressing this, is really not about going to heaven. It’s about living effectively on earth by the Kingdom rulership of Yah in your life.




We put it this way again. Everywhere your foot shall tread is supposed to be under the influence of the Kingdom of Yah. That means everything that Yah gives you, whether it’s a job, a house, a car, some money, or some friends, they’re supposed to be influenced by the Kingdom of Yah if they are under your influence. Can I hear an amen?




So when you go to work tomorrow, some folks say, “Well, Brother Myles, you know, someone offered me a job in the casino. Should I take it?”




Well, let’s see what you think. What you think? I said, what you think?




You have a—“Brother Myles, I gotta serve drinks in there.” So what do you think? What do y’all think? Hallelujah.




Okay, the worst place for a Christian to go to bring the influence of the Kingdom is to a church meeting.




Why? Because you don’t need to influence the influenced.




Some of you are wondering, “Why did Yah give me this job in this hellhole?” Because He wants hell to be influenced by heaven. That’s why Yah gave you the job.




All the people that work for you, sir, them folks who work in your business that I know about—Yah made that business of yours to make money, you know. The money is just a side blessing. He brought them to you with all of their skills, but also for you to influence them to come into the Kingdom of Yah.




Everything is about kingdom.




And so, saying it’s important for you and I to understand that this whole thing is about the rulership of Yah on earth through His family of sons. That’s what Yah wanted.




Let’s take a quick look, then, at what is a kingdom. Write these down. You gotta write fast, all right?




First of all, every kingdom has to have a king. That’s number one. You can’t have a kingdom without a king. As a matter of fact, it takes a king to create a kingdom.




All right, and secondly, every kingdom has a territory. You cannot have a kingdom without territory. You cannot be a government without property. You gotta have land. You gotta have real estate.




My lord, you know this is an important one for the Bahamas to remember. I wish I could park here for two weeks and talk about this.




Let me—listen to me carefully. Every time a nation sells its property, it is selling its existence. Let me repeat it again. Every time a nation sells its land, it is selling its existence. Government is no government without land. You got to have territory to be a king.




So when you read the Bible, in Tehillim 115, write it down, verse 16, it says, “The highest heavens belong to Yah”—that’s His territory—“but the earth He gave to man” as our territory.




Every king got to have a territory.




That’s why when Yah told Adam, “Have dominion,” He had to give him the rest of the sentence: “over the earth.” You cannot have dominion over nothing. So if you are a government, but foreigners own your land, you ain’t no kingdom.




We’ll put it another way. How many of you are renting people’s house right now and you think you own a house? I don’t care how clean that house is, how much expensive furniture you put in that house, that still ain’t your house. And I don’t care how you tell everybody, “I live in there.” You still in that house. As long as someone else owns the house, you are not the king of the house.




Lord have mercy.




You ain’t king until you own the property.




I’m talking in human terms now. That’s why every kingdom has to have a territory. Yah could not create us to be kings without giving us a territory.




So He says, “Let them have basileia, kingdom, dominion over the earth.”




In the book of Mishlei, Solomon says something important. He said, “He that does not work his own land will grow poor.” Can I repeat that to the TV? Turn it up loud.




It says, “He that does not work his own land will grow poor.” And then the next verse says, “But he who chases fantasies shall be disgraced with his fantasies.”




The word fantasy is interesting. The Florida Lottery is called the Fantasy.




Chasing fantasy means you’re running after get-rich-quick schemes. You know this. If you’re just trying to sell our soul for a bowl of porridge, that’s fantasy. Believing that you could get rid of your land and still be in charge. You cannot sell your land and sit on it.




You know there was an old policy in our country years ago, under the first Bahamian government, the first one. And that policy—even though I didn’t agree with that government’s social program, on their racist tendencies—I at least agreed with their policy.




The policy was to the foreigners: if you want to own a piece of the Bahamas, we’ll let you have a piece of it for 99 years, but it’s still ours.




That’s good policy, because you ain’t never supposed to get rid of your real estate completely.




I told you before, and I say it again, in Israel—it’s amazing—I sat with members of the Knesset in Israel, that’s the government, and talked with them about an amazing thing I found out, and it’s true. And that is, nobody in Israel can own land. They got over 3 million people, and no one can own land. Everyone who lives there, they lease the land. Because they say the land belongs to Yah.




So if you buy a house, even though you can live on it until you die and even pass it on to your kids, you can never own it. The government states that the land of Israel belongs to the sovereign Yah of Israel and is protected by the government.




In other words, the government sees their job as preserving and protecting the land for Yah. What an idea.




And they got that from the book of Shemoth, because without territory, there is no kingdom.




Can I suggest then—let me say this, this is very deep. Listen carefully. Therefore, walking around as a so-called religious Christian—I ain’t talking to you, I’m talking to the person sitting next to you—claiming, “I’m a child of Yah, and I’m a king’s kid, and I’m a part of the kingdom,” all this talking you saying, but you ain’t taking no territory.




You supposed to take your job workplace for Yah. You supposed to take the finances of the country for Yah. You’re supposed to take the houses for Yah, take all the resources for Yah. In other words, if you are a kingdom, you’re supposed to take something. Take territory.




I liked the day when Yah showed me something, and this is kind of heavy, but y’all see I’m stuck on this land thing. It’s important. It is. It is. See, you ain’t kingdom without territory.




The Lord showed me one day that this Bible is really about property. The whole Bible. It’s about land. Hmm.




Can you think a few minutes? Read the Bible. It’s about land. You think it’s about heaven. It’s about earth. And it’s really about real estate. This is a real estate book.




I’m saying that after 33 years of reading it. The whole Bible starts with real estate. The first verse: “In the beginning, Yah created the heavens and the earth.” Real estate.




Then Yah made the man and gave him what? Read it. Real estate. “Have dominion over the”—not heaven—earth.




What did Adam lose? No, he lost control over the earth. He didn’t lose the earth. He’s still on it. You still on it. But another influence came in. Okay, no problem.




So what did Yah do when that went bad and people sinned? Yah sent a flood, wiped the people out, but He kept the earth. And He saved eight people. And He told Noach the same thing He told Adam. He says, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the real estate.”




Adam’s great-great-great-grandson, his name is Abraham. Because Abraham—come here—I want to tell you something. What’s the message? He didn’t say, “I will bless you and make you a man of heaven.” Read your Bible. It’s about real estate.




He says, “Listen, there is a land over there, some land, Abraham. I am sending you land.” You ain’t got no land, that’s why you’re a lot of people. “And through you, I’m gonna create what? A nation.” But a nation needs land.




So Yah says, “Abraham, I’m gonna give you some land, real estate flowing with milk and honey.”




Abraham had a son named Yitschaq. “Yitschaq, I’m gonna give you land.”




Yitschaq got two sons, Esau and Ya’aqov. He says, “Ya’aqov, I’m gonna give you land.”




Ya’aqov got twelve sons. One of them was Yahudah. He says, “Yahudah, I’m gonna give you land.”




And then Yahusha came.




Can I wrap it up in here? Oh, I love Yahusha.




He said—now go to Mattithyahu 5 if you want to read it. Let’s read it. Mattithyahu 5. Heavy stuff, man.




His first public announcement, His first statement in the whole ministry of His work, His first public declaration, here’s what He says. He says in chapter 5, verse 5: “Blessed are the meek”—the religious people say—“for they shall go to heaven.”




That’s not what He says.




He said, “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit”—what? Real estate.




Give Him a hand, boy. You gotta catch Him. You gotta catch it. Gotta watch Him now. He shifted on you. We say, “Blessed are the meek because they want to go to heaven.” He says, “No, if you’re meek, you’re gonna get property.”




You know the first verse is what? Spiritual, right? “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” So He says what? First of all, He’s gonna reconnect you to the Kingdom of Yah spiritually.




Look at the next beatitude. Yes. First you get to become a Kingdom of Yah citizen again. The next one is what? “Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.”




Now why, after you come into the Kingdom, are you mourning? See, the second step is mourning. You mourning because when you came into the Kingdom, your brain so messed up from them old dark living years, in this whole new life, but you look—you thinking like the old life. And you say, “My Yah, man, I need help.”




He says what? “I’ll comfort you.”




Today Yah has sent me, Myles Munroe, into your life to comfort you, to tell you, you will think like where you are. That’s comfort. He says eventually you’re going to get it. You’re gonna finally get it. It’s gonna click if you keep getting good teaching. I’m gonna comfort you to believe that you are a royal child.




The next verse He says, “And then, if you are meek”—look how high property is in the list now.




The word meek does not mean weak. It is a Greek word, rather, that means controlled or self-disciplined. The word meek actually literally means controlled power. So to be meek means to control yourself—the power to control yourself.




He said, “Blessed are the self-disciplined, for they shall inherit”—what? Real estate.




Let me tell you something. You ain’t rich until you own land.




That might upset a lot of people in here, but it also gives you a goal to go after. I want to challenge you from this day forward to please stop spending money on fancy cars before you get land. Stop spending money on fancy clothes before you get land.




In other words, Yah says discipline yourself.




You know how I got my piece of property? My wife and I drove an old Datsun until it died, and I lived with my mother-in-law, trust me, four years. And that don’t take a whole lot of pride, believe me. But why? Because I had to discipline myself.




I took my lunch in a brown paper bag as an executive because I was saving money while he was driving your car. We had one car, shared that car for years. Why? We were saving money. We were disciplining ourselves.




We didn’t go for lunch eating every day, buying Kentucky Fried Chicken. Too much money. I put it in the bank. And now I got my property worth half a million dollars. I paid for it. It took discipline. But guess what? Ain’t nobody can control my property.




Don’t go behind the Joneses half and you’re faking it anyhow.




Young people, don’t get uptight about no fancy cars and no fashion. Get rid of them Nikes. No more Nikes. Buy Converse. They probably expensive too. Go to Kmart. Be disciplined. Go on, clap for that.




Come out of advertisement. Give us some money. Go to Payless, right. Oh yeah, we wore Payless for a long time. Now we pay more.




It’s about what? Territory. “Blessed are the self-disciplined,” He says, “for they shall inherit”—not heaven—but young man, you ain’t in charge until you own land.




And that’s why, you know, the issue in our country about land is very serious, because we ain’t got much to go around. And we need people to start thinking about the biblical principle, not just about the economy. Because what is it worth to you if someone else owns your economy?




Whatever you get, make sure you get land. And when you get land, don’t sell it. Don’t ever sell land. If your parents left you land, listen to me, young people, don’t sell it. I don’t care if it’s on Calabash Bay behind Bambouboo. You keep that land. Because one day—praise Yah.




Some of you already sold land, and now you still rent.




If somebody ever tells you that they left you land, you make sure you don’t sell it. Then Yah told Abraham, “I’ll give you this land, and it’s for your children’s children’s children’s children.”




And guess what? In 1947, when the Zionists stood in the United Nations in New York, there was no Israel. Do you know how they got that land back?




That old man stood before the United Nations, and he didn’t pick up some contract to get land. He picked up the Bible in the UN, and in 1947 he turned to the page where Abraham paid for a piece of property. And he said, “That land is ours because Abraham never sold it.”




Can I say 5,000 years later, the contract for land was still good? That’s why they’re fighting today to keep it, because it is about land.




There’s no kingdom without territory.




You can’t be a king if somebody can put you out, like you said. That’s slow. Please, I missed that. “It’s my house.” Well, if the man can put you out, you ain’t no king yet. You need territory.




Give me just a couple more. We can pick up here next week.




Every kingdom needs citizens. There’s no kingdom without citizens. And every kingdom must have a constitution.




We understand very clearly that in the Kingdom of Yah, we are citizens. But the church has made us Christians, and there’s a difference between a Christian and a citizen. A Christian is a religious person. A citizen is a legal person.




And you will never be free until you stop thinking religious and start thinking legal.




See, when you’re religious, you gotta beg for things. But when you are legal, you can demand rights.




The Bible is not called the devotional of Yah. It is called the law of Yah. It’s legal.




Christians have devotions. Citizens, they demand their rights.




That’s why many prayers are not answered, because we are functioning in a legal environment, trying to get things emotionally. So crying—you see, when you go in court, you start crying, they put you out. They tell you, “Go outside, compose yourself, dry your tears, and come back.”




Right? They don’t entertain your feelings in this room. This is law area. You come here with some evidence. “Shanda, robosoto, makai”—they demand a verdict.




Where do you get your rights from? The constitution. That’s why every kingdom has a constitution.




Boy, you stay with me in this series, we’re gonna learn a lot of stuff in this series. This is the constitution of the Kingdom of Yah—this book called the Bible. This is not a religious book. This is the constitution of the Kingdom of Yah. From this, you get your rights and your authority.




Next, a kingdom has laws. Every kingdom has laws. The kingdom of the Bahamas has laws. The nation of Israel has laws. United States got laws. Every kingdom gotta have laws.




Without land and laws, you know—have you ever wondered why they fought the second and third world wars? Why? What do you think caused it?




You notice over land World War I was fought over land. World War II was fought over land. Millions of people died because of land. Why? Because if you don’t have more land, you ain’t got more power.




I was listening to the CNN news this morning—sorry, yesterday morning—and they were talking about China and this situation that came in recently, and now they’re talking about Taiwan. You know what the problem is? China and Taiwan.




Some of you don’t even know this stuff. But you know China is a massive country, over 1 billion people. Taiwan is smaller than Ireland.




Guess what China said? “Taiwan is ours.” The Taiwanese say, “No, we’re not.”




So now we got a big fight going on. They got a billion people against one little island. So the United States is saying, “Look, you can’t just claim people’s land. So we’re gonna stand with Taiwan and even sell them some weapons in case you attack them.”




It’s about land.




What about the Palestinian and the Israeli problem? It ain’t about politics. It ain’t about money. It’s about land. And it has to do with power. Laws.




They got laws. And the more territory you gain, the more you can influence that territory with your constitutional laws.




I like what Yahusha said to you when He left you as His kids. You know what He said to us? Listen. He said, “My children, go into all the world and preach the good news of the Kingdom of Yah.” He says, “Baptize everybody.”




Wow. In other words, Yah wants you to regain earth for Him. And then He says, “Occupy until I come.”




Finally, every kingdom has a government, and it has privileges. It has a government and privileges.




Let me close on a verse. Oh, there’s so much in this thing we’re gonna learn, I tell you.




Can I ask you to turn with me to Yeshayahu, if you have your Bible? And this will be where we pick up next time.




Yeshayahu chapter 9. This is a prophecy about the coming of Yahusha before He came on earth. In that chapter, we read a lot about this stuff at Christmas time. But this ain’t no Christmas story. This is an everyday story.




And here’s what it says in Yeshayahu chapter 9, very simple statements. Verse 6: “For unto us a child is born, and a son is given.”




Next statement is what? “And the government shall be upon His shoulders.”




Now, we don’t hear many people talk about that statement. Oh, they preach about Yahusha being born and, you know, that the Son is given, and they like that part. This ain’t about the Son. It’s about that thing He carrying on His shoulders.




Another way, the Son is given and the child is born for the reason of bringing a government back to earth. In other words, when He comes to earth, He’s carrying something with Him.




Now, the word shoulders, keep in mind, is an idiom. It’s a symbol. It doesn’t mean that He’s literally carrying, you know, a bunch of cabinet members on His back. Shoulders has to do with that which carries weight, that which carries the load.




In other words, He’s coming carrying something.




What’s He bringing? He ain’t bringing heaven. He bringing government.




What’s He bringing? A new order of authority. He’s bringing what? A new world. That’s what the history was about.




And so every kingdom has to have a king. Who’s the king? The Son. It has to have a territory. The territory? The earth. It has to have citizens. That’s us, the brethren He came to restore. And then it has to have a constitution. He brought the Word of Yah back to us. It has to have laws. He says that if you obey My laws, you shall live. It has to have a government, and He’s carrying it. And He came to deliver that government to us.




And finally, a kingdom has privileges. We call them civil benefits.




If you are a legal citizen of the Bahamas, there’s some things you benefit by. For example, no income tax here. Hallelujah. Praise Yah. Thank you, Yahusha. Amen.




Now, you folks from America, you know, you don’t understand that yet. You see, because you gotta pay income tax. But in the Bahamas, no income tax. Yeah. Well, that’s a privilege.




Not long, alas, but it’s a privilege. It’s a privilege for you to be a Bahamian. There are places you can go that no one can stop you. That’s a law.




You can go anywhere. You can live anywhere in the Bahamas. Walk anywhere. It’s a privilege.




That’s why this fight over the beaches now, because this privilege is written in the law. It says that no land shall be landlocked to those who are citizens. Some of y’all know that.




You can walk—people probably go to the beach. They can’t anymore. Once you get to the beach, you’re legal. Why? On the land, you’re trespassing. But the law says that the beach, the coastline, belongs to the citizens.




You didn’t know that. It’s a law.




In other words, if you’re on the beach and they come to throw you off, you can call the police for them. That’s a privilege you have as a citizen.




Someone’s gonna be saying, “I didn’t know that.” Next holiday, take a boat, go around, have your picnic. Praise Yah.




Give the Lord a hand for understanding the law. It’s the law.




Now, I looked at your face just now, and I saw some of you in shock. Do you know what that means? That means you did not know.




Okay. Why didn’t you know? Because you did not read the constitution.




I wonder what Satan is keeping you from, because he tells you you can’t get there because you don’t know the constitution.