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Rules or Laws
March 11, 2026
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Hosea 4:6
Matthew 13:11
Matthew 24:35
Jeremiah 1:5
Matthew 15:6
Proverbs 19:21
Romans 8:2
Proverbs 4:7
Psalm 19:1-2
Galatians 6:7
Matthew 23:4
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Rules or Laws
March 11, 2026
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Hosea 4:6
Matthew 13:11
Matthew 24:35
Jeremiah 1:5
Matthew 15:6
Proverbs 19:21
Romans 8:2
Proverbs 4:7
Psalm 19:1-2
Galatians 6:7
Matthew 23:4
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00:11:06And,
00:11:36I think when we left off talking about, what was it, Christian or kingdom, and I know a
00:11:43lot of folks struggle with that because they're so used to the term, but I pray you'll go
00:11:47back and listen to that if you missed it, because it's very important.
00:11:50I believe it has everything to do with your advancing into the kingdom.
00:11:54The kingdom message is not a religious message.
00:11:58It has nothing to do with religion, nor does God.
00:12:01God is not about a religion.
00:12:04Jesus did not come into the earth to bring a religion.
00:12:07In fact, all of his encounters was against the religious rulers, and they were the only
00:12:13ones that really attacked because religion was what they were spreading, and Jesus came
00:12:19to make sure we understood that he was not a religion.
00:12:23It was about the kingdom of God.
00:12:26So yes, I say it again.
00:12:27We've done a great job of preaching Jesus Christ.
00:12:31Thank God for that.
00:12:33But we now must preach what Jesus Christ preached, and that is the realm of kingdom so that people
00:12:41can understand how to embrace their inheritance, embrace their identity, and walk in the fullness
00:12:50of the power that has been invested in us.
00:12:53So when they were asked, you know, where is the kingdom, or when will the kingdom come?
00:13:01Again, that was in Luke chapter 17.
00:13:03Again, that's back in our other sessions.
00:13:05You can go back and watch those.
00:13:07The Pharisees, you know, when they asked Jesus, where is the kingdom of God?
00:13:13And Jesus simply answered, it does not come with signs or to be observed.
00:13:19It's not a visible display.
00:13:21He was very clear.
00:13:23He says, you know, in other words, if people say, come over here and see it, or look here,
00:13:29he says, don't go there.
00:13:30That's not what this is about.
00:13:33He said, the kingdom of God is within you.
00:13:36And I like the other translation.
00:13:38It says, it's among you, in fact, surrounding you.
00:13:43Well, how is that so?
00:13:45Among you.
00:13:46It's in you.
00:13:46It's surrounding you.
00:13:48Well, that brings me to Matthew 13 and 19, where he goes into the law of seed time and
00:13:55harvest.
00:13:55He talks about the sower and the different types of ground that, you know, the seed was,
00:14:01you know, planted and it didn't.
00:14:03Some, it didn't grow.
00:14:05Some of it, it was washed away.
00:14:07You read that on your own.
00:14:09That's Matthew 13.
00:14:10I always say you have to start reading.
00:14:13One day a week is not enough.
00:14:15You have to take some time and invest in it so that you can understand.
00:14:18And so it goes on.
00:14:20And he, I think in verse 19, or actually verse 23, he says, whenever, whenever or whoever
00:14:29receives seed into the good ground, this is what he concludes it with.
00:14:33And again, he's talking about the kingdom of heaven is likened on to, praise God.
00:14:40Thank God for those who are seeking the kingdom, because that's what it's going to take.
00:14:44He didn't just say, seek it to sound good.
00:14:46It's because that's what it's going to take.
00:14:48And so he goes on and he says, those, whoever hear the word and understands it, okay, they begin to
00:14:55what?
00:14:56Bear fruit.
00:14:57And it brings forth, guess what?
00:15:00Now watch this, some 100 fold, some 60 fold, and some 30 fold.
00:15:07And so you see then the kingdom within us, because everyone does not manifest the same way.
00:15:15Some will manifest 100 fold, some 60, some 30.
00:15:19This is understanding that the kingdom of God is what we bring into the earth, in earth as it is
00:15:28in heaven.
00:15:29Now, as we venture into this study tonight, we're going to look at the realm of rules and laws, because
00:15:37most of us need to realize that the kingdom laws are what cause us to prosper, to live in the
00:15:46abundance that Jesus brought.
00:15:48But when you're so religious and caught up into traditions and, you know, all the ceremonialism and just, it takes
00:15:58up a lot of time and it produces nothing.
00:16:00And so that's what we want to look at, see?
00:16:02And so when we look in at the fact that it's in you, then it's up to you to produce
00:16:12and manifest the realm of the kingdom.
00:16:15So let's begin with looking at the rules or laws, because they're very different.
00:16:23Some would say, well, it's pretty much the same, but they're really not.
00:16:26Rules or laws have major differences, and we want to talk about that in reference to the kingdom.
00:16:32So one of the things you need to understand is God did not design success to be some mysterious thing
00:16:41that you can never figure out.
00:16:44He designed it to be predictable, and anything that's predictable is governed by laws.
00:16:55So already we're starting to challenge your thinking, because, again, success was never designed to be a mystery or something
00:17:05that is hit and miss.
00:17:06It's designed to be predictable, and whenever you're dealing with something that is predictable, it is going to be governed
00:17:16by laws.
00:17:17Now, the problem with believers is, you know, the tradition and the religious mindsets, okay?
00:17:26It's not even about sin or rebellion against God.
00:17:29It's not that at all, but it's ignorance, okay, ignorance of how God works for our well-being and the
00:17:39things he has established so that we can begin to benefit and advance his kingdom.
00:17:46In fact, Hosea chapter 4 and verse 6, we'll take it right there.
00:17:52It says, my people, okay, not the world system, but my people are what?
00:17:59Destroyed.
00:17:59Now, that's a harsh word.
00:18:01They're destroyed for what?
00:18:03For lack of knowledge.
00:18:06And it goes on to say, because you have rejected knowledge, because some people are so steep in tradition and
00:18:13in their own way of thinking and doing things, they reject.
00:18:18They don't want to hear anything other than what they know.
00:18:22And when you know everything, you think you know everything already, you can't learn anything new.
00:18:27And mind you, this is nothing new that we're teaching, okay?
00:18:31But it goes on to say, because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you shall be
00:18:36no priest before me.
00:18:38In other words, you will not share in the realm of what he has brought to you, seeing what you
00:18:46have forgotten, the law.
00:18:47So that's the first clue right there, seeing that you have forgotten the law of your God.
00:18:53Now, it doesn't stop there.
00:18:55I will also forget your children.
00:18:58Now, that's generational ignorance.
00:19:01So that means the same ignorance that's passed down to you is passed down to your children and your children,
00:19:08and it doesn't end.
00:19:09And this is where the destruction comes, because you cannot benefit from, you know, wrong things.
00:19:16So destroyed, that's a harsh word.
00:19:19It says destroyed, again, not for lack of prayer, not for lack of fasting, or going to church every Sunday,
00:19:28as some of us see it to me, not even for sin, but lack of knowledge.
00:19:34That's what we want to tackle.
00:19:36We want to understand the difference between rules or laws, because I believe rules had dominated the body of believers
00:19:46so much until they are more committed to rules than the laws that actually govern our success.
00:19:54Knowledge of what?
00:19:57What is it that we are lacking here in this realm of knowledge?
00:20:01Knowledge of laws.
00:20:03We are more first in the rules and traditions and rituals that govern our church activities.
00:20:13And when I say church, I'm really stepping out on a limb there, because church, as it was in the
00:20:19scriptures, is not as it is as we know it today.
00:20:23But anyway, what?
00:20:25So in other words, we don't have the proper knowledge of understanding the laws that govern the kingdom.
00:20:33You know, religion puts emphasis on rules.
00:20:36Don't do this.
00:20:37You have to do that.
00:20:38Dress this away.
00:20:39And boy, did we adhere to those rules.
00:20:42And, you know, we judge different ones.
00:20:45If they don't dress and look and act like us, we really adhere to those rules.
00:20:50Okay.
00:20:51But when it comes to laws, we don't really have a clue.
00:20:54So religion has put such emphasis on rules when the truth is life, according to kingdom, simply responds to the
00:21:07laws that God has put in place for our success.
00:21:10I hope you can understand that.
00:21:12Now, when rules replace laws, your reality is to work hard, pray more, pass some more.
00:21:24We're talking about the rules now.
00:21:26And then if you come up short, you blame yourself.
00:21:31Now you're guilty and feeling less than.
00:21:33And when nothing is getting better, you actually, some even charge God foolishly.
00:21:40Okay.
00:21:41So I really want you to stick with me tonight as we walk through this, because some, it may become
00:21:46offensive.
00:21:47But we are so, I mean, if you're like me, you should really be tired of reading scriptures of an
00:21:52abundant life and all the things that Jesus promised.
00:21:55And you're not experiencing any of that.
00:21:57And many have been saved for a long time.
00:21:59I should think you would be very ready to be refreshed, you know, with the genuine word of God.
00:22:05So the voice of religion speaks loud and it tells you over and over the rules.
00:22:17When you go to church, it knows, I call it organized religion.
00:22:22Religion, the things that we've known for years, it's emphasized and watch this.
00:22:28Now you become so conscious of it until all you're thinking about now, because we know, come on, let's be
00:22:34honest.
00:22:35We know what goes on in the various church organizations, church services, the meetings, all sorts of stuff goes down
00:22:43because that's the way religion, that's the nature of religion.
00:22:47Religion is a spirit.
00:22:49It didn't come from God.
00:22:50It is from the adversary and he uses it to make people think they're all right.
00:22:56So they don't try to do any better.
00:22:57They don't seek to do any better.
00:22:59And they get offended when I say we don't try, we train.
00:23:03But anyway, I keep going.
00:23:05So, you know, where you belong is what it makes you understand.
00:23:10This is where you belong.
00:23:11Stay in your place.
00:23:13OK, and let you know what is possible, what is not possible, mostly what's not possible for somebody like you.
00:23:21You know, your background, you know where you came from.
00:23:23Stay in your place.
00:23:24This is, you know, religious mindset.
00:23:26And so many with such great potential inside of them are ready to explode and they have nowhere to release
00:23:37what God has placed in them.
00:23:38That is going to stop in Jesus name.
00:23:41The kingdom of God is about principles, people of God.
00:23:45Hear me now.
00:23:46And not about someone's opinion of you and someone's rules that they've established and set up.
00:23:53All right.
00:23:53This is so important to realize that because this will help you to begin to understand why you did everything
00:24:00that you were told and you were still not much better off.
00:24:05All right.
00:24:07Matthew 13, 11, we just shared with that.
00:24:10And you can read that in your own time.
00:24:11I'm not going to read it, but it goes into parables.
00:24:14And of course, the disciples, they pull into the side and say, why parables?
00:24:19And he goes on to say, now watch this.
00:24:21He says, because it is given unto you to know the mysteries.
00:24:25So, as I said, right at the top of this teaching that God did not design our success to be
00:24:31mysterious.
00:24:33And here in chapter 13, he says, you know, I'm speaking in parables because the design is actually for you
00:24:43to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven.
00:24:45Okay.
00:24:46But to them, it's not given.
00:24:49Because why?
00:24:50They don't really want, you know, they just, you know, they're hanging around to get whatever they don't want to
00:24:56grow.
00:24:57And, you know, a lot of folk who don't want to grow and they don't want you to grow.
00:25:00And that's why there's such critics and they're always questioning you and they're always challenging you, not with the intent
00:25:06to grow, but with the intent to condemn and bring you down or put you at least at their level
00:25:11so that, you know, they won't feel bad being in your presence.
00:25:15Just a whole lot of foolishness.
00:25:16This all goes on in Christendom.
00:25:18I pray that you will get delivered from it and cast it from you in Jesus' name and understand the
00:25:25power of the kingdom that's working on your behalf.
00:25:28That's going to bring you into an abundance.
00:25:31God will bring proof to them if we would embrace what he brought to us.
00:25:37And this is what this is all about.
00:25:39And so when he says it's for you to know the mysteries, what just happened when he said that?
00:25:45He positioned, it's a position of superiority.
00:25:49Now, some may not like that, but that's exactly what Jesus did.
00:25:53He says, I positioned you at a higher level, a higher frequency to hear and to listen because you're seeking.
00:26:01They are not seeking.
00:26:03They're coming to find fault, to see what it's not and condemn and criticize.
00:26:07But for you that are seeking, he just placed you in a position of superiority.
00:26:15All right.
00:26:16And so and this is the word of God.
00:26:18Now, he just said that it's for you to know the mysteries.
00:26:22Why?
00:26:22Because if you understand the mysteries, that means you are understanding the laws that cause the kind of success that
00:26:30he has already planned and mapped out for your life.
00:26:34So then Matthew 24 and verse 35, he makes it very clear now what he just said.
00:26:41He said that it's for you to know it.
00:26:44See, and when we're done, you're not going to be able to say, well, I don't understand.
00:26:47No, no, no.
00:26:48It's for you.
00:26:49You need to lay hold on to that by faith right now and decree and declare that you know it.
00:26:55All right.
00:26:56And why?
00:26:56Because he says heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
00:27:03In another passage of scripture, he says not one dot or tittle, which those are Hebrew marks for their language.
00:27:09He says not one of them will pass away before my word.
00:27:15He's making it very clear.
00:27:16His word is solid.
00:27:19We can stand on the word of God.
00:27:21It's a solid foundation, obviously standing on religion and tradition has not been, and it's going to take some time
00:27:29to drive it out.
00:27:30But if you receive and continue to seek and pursue and be consistent in your pursuit for kingdom, you will
00:27:38absolutely come into the success that has been designed for us in Jesus name.
00:27:44So this means what?
00:27:46It says my word will not pass away.
00:27:48This means God's law will outlive every voice, every tradition.
00:27:55We know tradition goes on and on and on.
00:27:57It will outlive every ritual, every ceremonialism, everything that's ever been practiced in the religious realm, his word, his law.
00:28:06Okay.
00:28:07In other words, it will outlive every system, every culture, every generational culture.
00:28:12God's word is so solid, and that's what we have to hold on to.
00:28:17As I said before, we cannot have one foot in religion and the other foot in kingdom.
00:28:23You've got to go all the way if you look to and want to see the success and the promises
00:28:30that God has for us.
00:28:32Now, the danger is not having rules because rules, to a certain extent, you know, are good to know.
00:28:40But the danger of that is when rules become laws, and I have watched that in organized religion, in denominations,
00:28:52where they actually take scripture out of context and literally charge people as their rules become laws and work against
00:29:05people.
00:29:06And the religious world, not just churches, but even in the religious world, you know, I saw a documentary, a
00:29:15young girl who didn't have her head covered properly, was taken out of a crowd and beaten for not covering
00:29:23her.
00:29:24Now, this is extreme, but I'm just showing you, this is religion.
00:29:29It's a mean and evil system.
00:29:33It was never what Jesus brought and was never meant for his people.
00:29:38And so understand, when people don't have power, they come up with rules.
00:29:45Glory to God.
00:29:47And rules can never take the place of law.
00:29:52Rules can limit you, but laws will determine you.
00:29:56Rules tell you to stay in your place, whereas laws demand you to expand and grow.
00:30:08Rules can only manage behavior.
00:30:13Laws self-train you for self-governing.
00:30:19And it makes you to become who you're really supposed to be.
00:30:24So don't confuse the two because they are not the same.
00:30:31Rules cause you to submit your destiny to those who did not create you and know nothing about you.
00:30:42Glory to God.
00:30:44That part really irks me.
00:30:45I just want you to know that.
00:30:46Your assignment is not from a job.
00:30:51It's not even your parents.
00:30:56Not even the country you live in.
00:30:59It came directly from God Almighty.
00:31:03You have been chosen, separated, taken out from the midst of.
00:31:10And it's hard for you to believe that because of this world system that is so evil and imposes itself
00:31:18upon us from time to time.
00:31:22So Jeremiah, Jeremiah 1 and 5, I think is a good, sound, solid scripture to keep in your spirit no
00:31:34matter what.
00:31:35He says, before I formed you in the belly, I knew you.
00:31:38This is God.
00:31:42Get this in your spirit so that you won't ever, you know, let someone override and control you, you know,
00:31:53in the midst of who God is bringing you and, you know, growing you into.
00:31:58He says, before I formed you in the belly, I knew you.
00:32:00And before you came forth out of the womb, I sanctified you and I ordained you a prophet unto nations.
00:32:09Get this in your spirit because people think, you know, right away to grab the title prophet, this is the
00:32:15prophetic of who you are.
00:32:17Don't you understand if you're in the image and likeness of God, you are not nailed to just one thing.
00:32:23You can do more things.
00:32:24There are so many things that God wants to bring out of us.
00:32:27But see, religion just kind of closed you in and you can only be this or you can only be
00:32:32that or only this.
00:32:33You can't be that.
00:32:34No, that's not.
00:32:35The devil is a liar.
00:32:37God ordained you for so much more than what you've been allowed to.
00:32:43And this is something because when you really understand this, guess what?
00:32:48This means your purpose.
00:32:52Okay.
00:32:52Your calling.
00:32:54Your sanctification.
00:32:56You predates every rule.
00:33:01Whatever God had made for you, it all predated any rules or any denominations or any of the stuff that
00:33:08you came under.
00:33:11In fact, anything that you've ever been taught, your purpose predates that.
00:33:16So anything that contradicts your purpose, no matter how long that it's been accepted or no matter how much tradition
00:33:28it has behind it, it cannot be law and dominate you.
00:33:33Because it's just not something that can prevail over what God has already said concerning you.
00:33:42So many people are not failing.
00:33:46They're simply over obedient to the wrong thing.
00:33:54And that that's not your failure.
00:33:57That's not understanding the law.
00:33:59That's keeping rules and not understanding the power of law.
00:34:05You know, wrong systems cannot produce right success.
00:34:12When you're loyal to traditions, and I'm talking about myself now.
00:34:16When you're loyal to traditions, traditions that never aligns with your purpose, you will not see the success of that
00:34:26because that's not what it's designed to do.
00:34:29Tradition is not designed for your success because you were predated any of those things already.
00:34:38Oh, so how did Jesus confront this?
00:34:41Well, Matthew 15 and 6, Matthew chapter 15 and 6, he simply told them, you know,
00:34:47You have made the commandments or the laws of God of none effect by your traditions, your rules, and all
00:34:55the things that you hold to that have produced nothing, just a lot of controversy and conflict.
00:35:03And it's so much stuff going on.
00:35:05And the devil, he just loves it because people will descend to the end something that they don't even understand.
00:35:15Tradition has the power to cancel progress, especially when it replaces law.
00:35:23It makes many people very busy, very tired.
00:35:27I was very tired.
00:35:29And yet you're faithful to something where you're just stuck.
00:35:32You're either governed by laws or you're imprisoned by rules.
00:35:36Your answer explains your frustration.
00:35:40Delays and your unrealized potentials is what's got you so stir crazy.
00:35:46And we need to be honest about that because I get very frustrated when I read scripture that say what
00:35:51I am and what I can do and so on and so forth and never experience that.
00:35:56To me, that's a problem.
00:35:58That's a problem.
00:36:00And to just skip over and keep going is not something that, you know, I can do.
00:36:05And maybe, you know, so been at it, been at it for a while and we'll keep at it because
00:36:09I know one thing that the word of God is true.
00:36:13God cannot lie.
00:36:14So, again, looking at Proverbs 19 and 21.
00:36:22It says, many are the plans of a person's heart or your mind.
00:36:29Many are the plans of a person's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails, and that's for sure.
00:36:36And so a lot of what we've been doing, when you don't see it, I guess, thank God, because at
00:36:44least now you can get to what you're supposed to be doing.
00:36:47Purpose prevails, but only when it's obeyed through the laws of God.
00:36:52God never told us to obey the culture, but rather obey what is truth.
00:36:59Truth is alignment with your design.
00:37:02Your design is a big clue, and your design is not just your outer, but it's your inner and who
00:37:09you are, what you like, what you don't like.
00:37:11All of that has a lot to do with who you are and what you're supposed to be doing.
00:37:16So it's not about being emotional.
00:37:19When design that God has designed is violated, no amount of sincerity can prevent the consequences.
00:37:29Yes, I was very sincere in the denominational stuff that I was into, but it didn't help anything.
00:37:38It didn't change anything.
00:37:40It was just not.
00:37:43And so sincerity does not change laws.
00:37:46Romans 8 and 2 says this,
00:37:49For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin
00:37:54and death.
00:37:55Now, if that law works, so does all the other ones.
00:37:58Glory to God.
00:37:59And when law is in place, you've got to succeed.
00:38:03You will.
00:38:05You know, freedom does not come from rebellion, but from alignment with God's law.
00:38:11And a lot of what is going on in quote unquote church is not alignment with God's law.
00:38:19This is why a lot of people that I know are not bothered by not sitting up in somebody's church
00:38:27every week.
00:38:28And I can't blame them because it no longer represents its true identity.
00:38:34It has taken on a spirit of religion called Christianity, and it's not producing any of what the scripture says.
00:38:43And you are not fulfilled.
00:38:45You're not seeing the progress and the success you're supposed to see.
00:38:49And this is why, because we're not learning the laws of the kingdom.
00:38:54We're learning the rules of an organization.
00:39:00Glory to God.
00:39:02God's word comes to make lawful, not emotional.
00:39:09It will make you understand and no longer be ignorant of his laws.
00:39:14That's what the word comes for.
00:39:15Okay.
00:39:16That word, it's not to inspire you to shout and jump all around and tear the place up as some,
00:39:23you know,
00:39:24because they don't feel like they've had church if we ain't had the music and the shouting and the beating
00:39:27and carrying on.
00:39:28Um, that's, that's not what this word is not designed to do that.
00:39:33Okay.
00:39:34But it's to instruct you, instruct you to the point to where you absolutely have to say, wow, now I
00:39:42am succeeding.
00:39:43Glory to God.
00:39:44Now I am succeeding.
00:39:48Fear disappears when you understand the laws of God and you begin to see how life actually works.
00:39:56The greatest enemy of your future is not failure.
00:40:01It's obedience to man-made limitations and your over-commitment to what has been designed by man and not by
00:40:12God.
00:40:13And it contradicts your God-given design because you don't know the laws that govern how God has created you.
00:40:25So let's define, let's define our terms.
00:40:29In life, what you do not define will eventually defeat you.
00:40:34You might want to write that down.
00:40:36In life, what you do not define will eventually defeat you.
00:40:47Okay, one more time.
00:40:49In life, what you do not define will eventually defeat you.
00:40:57And right now, it's a real challenge to define even what's going on in the so-called Christendom, Christianity, whatever
00:41:09you want to call it.
00:41:11And most are living defeated lives.
00:41:18Of course, they'll never admit it.
00:41:21But when you understand that confusion in life is always the results of undefined terms.
00:41:37So when the terms are not defined, like, okay, what are we doing?
00:41:42Why are we doing this?
00:41:43What is the purpose of it?
00:41:44Where's the results?
00:41:45That doesn't happen.
00:41:47No, you just do what we say.
00:41:49You do every week.
00:41:50You just do.
00:41:51And there's no definition.
00:41:54And it becomes a defeat for everybody who's participating.
00:41:58It's not good, people of God.
00:42:01Again, listen, you cannot defeat.
00:42:06Or understand this.
00:42:08When defeat comes, it's because there's no definition of what's supposed to be in the first place.
00:42:15Glory to God.
00:42:18And you cannot, you can't master what you don't even understand.
00:42:25And I'm going to be honest with you.
00:42:27I was in a lot of church stuff.
00:42:31And I had, I remember sometimes I was like, what is this for?
00:42:35You know, why, why, why are we, why do we need to do this?
00:42:39And there was never an answer.
00:42:41And this is going on to this day.
00:42:44And it just surprises me that so many are just willing to go with the flow and not challenge
00:42:52and find out for their, for their destiny's sake, you know, not to challenge or come against
00:42:58anybody, not even going there, but for the sake of your destiny and your purpose of being
00:43:04here, you can't defeat what you won't define.
00:43:09How do you defeat, you won't define, you can't defeat it because you don't even know what
00:43:12it is or why it is.
00:43:16So, you know, when something is undefined, it's going to be misused.
00:43:22I'll use it a good example.
00:43:24You're you yourself.
00:43:26They couldn't understand you.
00:43:29So they misused you.
00:43:30And in many cases abused you.
00:43:33And that happens on all levels.
00:43:35And you go to church and only to get some more.
00:43:38Even more at the, even at a worse level.
00:43:42So many fight the wrong enemy.
00:43:44We fight, we fight the wrong enemy, you know, rebuking devils when it's really a lack of
00:43:50discipline, lack of knowledge, fasting and praying when the real issue is the consequences
00:43:57of disobedience of, again, wrong commitments to wrong laws, commitments to things that have
00:44:05nothing to do with.
00:44:06And we're fighting the devil.
00:44:07And he's like, I ain't have nothing to do with that.
00:44:09You know, but the truth is he is the culprit behind it all.
00:44:13That, that, that is the truth.
00:44:14Uh, but violations of laws can easily be, you know, uh, uh, uh, understanding of what is
00:44:22going on.
00:44:23Law is not an opinion or suggestion, nor a tradition.
00:44:29Okay.
00:44:30Laws must be defined and understood because they are designed for success.
00:44:38Law is an inherent principle that's built into our creation.
00:44:44It governs function and it guarantees predictable results.
00:44:51Okay.
00:44:52Laws are invisible, but the effects are undeniable.
00:44:59You don't see gravity, but the law of gravity is highly respected.
00:45:07You don't see electricity, but you obey it because it's a law.
00:45:14Laws do not ask for permission.
00:45:17They enforce themselves.
00:45:21And when you abide by them, you are successful by them.
00:45:24Psalms 19 verses 1 and 2, Psalms 19 declares the heavens declare the glory of God and the
00:45:36firmament shows his handiwork day unto day, utter speech and night unto night shows knowledge.
00:45:45So these things are already in place.
00:45:48And just as they are successful in their function, so are we supposed to be successful in our function
00:45:57and what God has planned and prepared within us.
00:46:01So creation itself is declaring every day that God is a God of source.
00:46:08He's a God of order, of systems, and of laws.
00:46:14Sun, moon, stars, these are systems.
00:46:16Theseans all obey their courses by order.
00:46:21God is a God of order.
00:46:22He's not a God of confusion.
00:46:24So laws carry built-in consequences.
00:46:27This is so good.
00:46:29God does not have to punish you for a violation of a law because guess what?
00:46:34The law does it by itself.
00:46:35It's built in.
00:46:37Okay.
00:46:37If you jump off a cliff, God doesn't kill you.
00:46:41The gravity does.
00:46:42The law of gravity.
00:46:44And so understanding laws is how we become successful.
00:46:49But as I've said, we've been more committed to rules than we are to law.
00:46:55And you say, well, I don't understand.
00:46:57Sure you do.
00:46:58Sure you do.
00:46:59You're more committed to coming to church and abiding by how you're supposed to look and how you're supposed to
00:47:06dress.
00:47:07You know a certain way you're supposed to come and you've got to come, you know, that way and so
00:47:11on and so forth.
00:47:12And if you don't do that, okay, but at the same time, you mad at so-and-so and won't
00:47:17even greet them or shake their hand or they mad at you or whatever is going down.
00:47:22And it's been that way for a couple of weeks now.
00:47:25And you know the scripture that says, don't let the sun go down on your wrath.
00:47:28You also know the scripture that you're not even supposed to bring an offering to the altar.
00:47:32If you have ought what your brother says, take that offering back, leave it and go back and straighten out.
00:47:37We know these things, but we're more committed to the rules of going to that service than we are the
00:47:43laws of the word of God.
00:47:45Just a small, simple example, nothing major, but there are many, many more.
00:47:50So they, and these laws have built in consequences and we have a lot of stuff going on, but we
00:47:56don't want to admit that maybe we had something to do with why it's happening.
00:48:00So again, understanding this Galatians 6 and 7 puts it this way, be not deceived.
00:48:06God is not mocked for whatsoever a person sows that shall they also reap.
00:48:16Now that's not, we only, we make that so one-sided is not just for bad stuff.
00:48:21That means if you do good things, you're going to reap that.
00:48:24It's a full circle thing.
00:48:26So God doesn't withhold harvest.
00:48:29It's the law of seed, time, and harvest.
00:48:33Reaping what you sow is not a threat.
00:48:36It's a law.
00:48:38And it absolutely has its built-in consequences.
00:48:43Are you listening, Praise God?
00:48:45Laws are universal.
00:48:47They're permanent.
00:48:48They're predictable and impartial.
00:48:50Laws are not respective of race or gender or age or how sincere you are or your intentions are good.
00:48:58You know, laws respond only to obedience and compliance.
00:49:03That's what they respond to.
00:49:05Making them predictable for success or failure is how they work.
00:49:10We know, you know, we just read where he says, my word is not going to fail.
00:49:15It's going to do exactly what it says to do.
00:49:18But we willingly, you know, walk in, you know, anger and unforgiveness and bad attitudes.
00:49:27And I mean, I could go on and on.
00:49:30But we don't consider them as important, even as the rules that we have committed to obey
00:49:37in our traditional religiosity.
00:49:43Let's just, okay, let me let it go.
00:49:45Laws that make one person prosperous is the same laws that will expose another person's negligence
00:49:54because a law works both ways.
00:49:57Okay.
00:49:57When you define, let's define, define rules, rules, because we're talking about rules and we're talking
00:50:02about laws, okay, rules or laws, define rules.
00:50:05A rule is very different from a law.
00:50:07A rule is a regulation, okay?
00:50:11A regulation is made to control or govern conduct.
00:50:19According to a rule created by people, systems, or institutions, cultures, or organizations,
00:50:29they all have rules.
00:50:32And those rules are to control and manage people.
00:50:38Rules are to manage behaviors and maintain control.
00:50:44Rules are local.
00:50:46They are not universal.
00:50:47What is rules in this country are different in another country, okay?
00:50:53Rules are temporary, okay?
00:50:57They're not eternal.
00:50:58Rules can be amended.
00:51:00It can be changed, suspended, abolished, or replaced, okay?
00:51:07But laws cannot.
00:51:11Rules are often attempts by people to control outcomes.
00:51:16Without understanding principles, therefore, rules are enforced externally, while laws work
00:51:26internally.
00:51:26Are you getting that?
00:51:27Rules are, okay, as long as somebody's looking and watching me, you know, I'm going to do what
00:51:32I'm supposed to do.
00:51:33That's external.
00:51:35You know, I think Paul said that, you know, he was talking to one of the churches that he
00:51:39found it, I don't know whether it was Ephesus or Corinthians, but he said, yes, you know,
00:51:43I trust that you'll do what you're supposed to do, not just when I'm present, but when I'm
00:51:48gone as well.
00:51:50Because people will follow rules, but internally, they were not, you know, they'll violate laws,
00:51:57but follow rules.
00:51:58That's, yeah, all right.
00:52:00All right, so he, in other words, rules are enforced externally while laws work internally
00:52:08because they, you know, they are, you know, that's how they're wired.
00:52:13Laws are self-consequences.
00:52:16You need police for rules, but not for gravity.
00:52:22You know, you don't need a police for gravity because gravity is a standard law, okay, rules
00:52:31for supervision, but you don't need a rule for seed time and harvest.
00:52:36In fact, scripture says, you don't know how it grows.
00:52:38It just comes up because it's a law.
00:52:40So then Matthew 23 and four, Matthew 23, and I'm just about to wind up this particular
00:52:46section, but I hope I'm saying something that will make you think, that will make you realize
00:52:51that you've been far more committed to rules than you are to laws, and it's time to turn
00:52:57that around because the laws is what caused your success, okay?
00:53:01Rules just simply limit you to a certain way of behaving, and this is why when the supervision
00:53:10or management is gone, people pretty much, you know what they say, the cat's the way the
00:53:14mice will play, so to speak, that kind of mentality.
00:53:17Matthew 23 and four says, for they bind heavy burdens, he's talking about the religious
00:53:22people, the scribes, the Pharisees, he says, they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be
00:53:28born and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not move them with one of
00:53:36their fingers.
00:53:37They put on people what they're not even willing to do their self, and we've seen that, oh,
00:53:44I can't even tell you how many times, and when, you know, confronted about it, it was
00:53:49like, you know, you stay in your place, it's not for you, blah, blah, blah, so this is very
00:53:55interesting as we walk through.
00:53:56You're going to learn some more things as we walk through this.
00:53:59Let me finish up.
00:53:59So Jesus, in Matthew 23, he was referring to the religious rulers, of course.
00:54:05They have all these human regulations that burden the people, but it produced no life,
00:54:12no success, the people were oppressed and miserable, and this is why Jesus had so many encounters
00:54:19with the religious rulers.
00:54:21Religious rules often demand compliance without definition or even understanding, my Lord.
00:54:30So laws, but a law, it defines function, whereas a rule, it just regulates your conduct, but a
00:54:38law determines a functional working, and it causes you to see some results.
00:54:45Rules determine behavior within a system.
00:54:49A law takes you beyond the boundaries of man-made rules.
00:54:54So as we are going to continue to walk through this particular master class so that you can
00:55:00understand that maybe it was harder for you to forgive and really just say, well, maybe
00:55:07I was just, you know, over-abrupt or aggressive.
00:55:11You know, we don't deal with ourselves when it comes to the laws of God as much as we do
00:55:15the rules of a church situation.
00:55:17I think right now the way situations are and millions are starting to challenge the organized
00:55:24religion situation because they're not seeing any results, and they're still miserable, and
00:55:30I think God is allowing it to happen so that people will start to turn to him, okay, and
00:55:37not to, you know, organize religion because it is not producing.
00:55:42It's not making disciples, as Jesus said in the scriptures, go ye and make disciples, teaching
00:55:49them.
00:55:50I mean, that's the word of God, and that's what needs to take place.
00:55:54This is the realm of the kingdom.
00:55:56Kingdom is going to produce results if we embrace and live by it, but if we continue under, you
00:56:03know, some undefined regulations, then we will not have the kind of results that we really
00:56:10desire and need to have.
00:56:12So when we come back, of course, on Sunday, we will step into a whole new teaching concerning
00:56:19kingdom, I want you to really be able to go to the scriptures because over and over again,
00:56:26Jesus said the kingdom is likened onto this.
00:56:29The kingdom is likened onto that.
00:56:31So what was he doing?
00:56:32He was showing us the principles that govern the kingdom, that if you would abide by these
00:56:38principles, then you will have success, and it won't be some mystery that you happen to
00:56:45stumble under.
00:56:46He says, your design is to be successful.
00:56:49That's how you were designed.
00:56:51I planned you.
00:56:52I knew who you were.
00:56:53I knew what I placed in you, and that is what he will continue to bring out of you.
00:57:00Does it take a process?
00:57:01Of course it does.
00:57:02We've been through so many different religious type situations.
00:57:07I know I have, but God, okay?
00:57:13And it's there for us if we will embrace kingdom.
00:57:16So we will continue as we go forth on Sunday.
00:57:21I do hope you'll join us.
00:57:22We will step back into this round, understanding rules and regulations.
00:57:26But then we're also going to venture into something even more powerful that we will share with
00:57:32you as we come back together.
00:57:34But in the meantime, understand this.
00:57:38You are successful already.
00:57:41Even if you don't physically see it or even mentally feel it.
00:57:46Just start saying in your spirit, okay, that you were designed for success.
00:57:53God is your designer.
00:57:55And even if you can just begin to just change the record that you're hearing in your head
00:58:01and shut that down and begin to decree and declare your success in your calling and in
00:58:08your ministry and all that God has for you, despite of what comes and what the enemy is
00:58:15going to try and do, you are stronger.
00:58:18You're more powerful.
00:58:19Your spirit is greater.
00:58:21When the greater one comes, the strong man no longer can sit on your goods.
00:58:26And so understand you are the greater.
00:58:29We went through that in Christian or kingdom.
00:58:30And we're going to probably go through that lesson again so that people can understand the
00:58:35power of kingdom as opposed to this religious thing called Christianity.
00:58:39Spirit of the living God, we thank you now for the word of God.
00:58:42Thank you for all those that were able to hear under the sound of my voice.
00:58:46Lord, I speak the blessing of the Lord that makes rich and add no sorrow upon each and every
00:58:51household, every family, everyone under the sound of my voice that you would bring about
00:58:56the kind of increase that would confirm unto them that the kingdom has arrived.
00:59:03And it is inside of them and ready to manifest that their future is not ahead of them, but
00:59:10it's inside of them.
00:59:12And we thank you for it.
00:59:13We call it done.
00:59:14And it is so in Jesus name.
00:59:16We look forward to seeing you on Sunday.
00:59:18God bless.
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