Principles, Laws, Traditions and Commands Part 1 | Dr. Myles Munroe

thank you for joining us for another power packed message from dr miles monroe provided by monroe global incorporated and monroeglobal.com we transform followers into leaders and leaders into agents of change we hope that this message is a blessing to you as you advance your life and discover your purpose now let's go into the message laws traditions and commands i think another word you used to command the word commandments all of these words are found in the bible most of these words have been considered to be synonymous but they are not and as we focus on how kingdom citizens live in god's country we must understand that the foundation of any nation is law and so we need to appreciate the difference between law principles commandments and traditions so that we're not confused i want to begin today with a few important statements i want to talk about a big picture right now and i hope that you will get this if you understand this you'll be able to tell anybody about the good news of the kingdom of god listen carefully god's original plan is important to understand first of all god's plan was to establish the nation of heaven on earth through his children mankind that concept is called colonization god's original plan was to establish the nation of heaven that's where he lives on earth that's what he made when a kingdom established its extension to a distant territory that concept is called colonization number two write this one down god's plan was to establish a community of heaven on earth that is what kingdoms do when they colonize they establish their community in a distant land number three god's original plan was to fill the earth with the culture of heaven his plan was to fill the earth with the culture of heaven and this is the most practical side of colonization in the bahamas we speak english because we were colonized by a british kingdom right next to us is cuba they speak spanish because they were colonized by a spanish kingdom from europe and right next to us to the east is haiti they speak french and creole which is because they were colonized by the kingdom of france so we got three countries right next to each other but they were formerly colonies and each one of them are different because their kingdoms were different so they speak different languages eat different foods they even have different architecture and their culture is different when a kingdom colonizes a territory it takes on the culture of that kingdom god's plan was for earth to take on the culture of heaven number four god's plan was to govern heaven to govern earth rather from heaven through the domination of man on earth this is found very clear in the first book in the bible the first chapter god said let us make man in our own image and our likeness and let them have what dominion over what the earth and then he specifically stated what we have to dominate the fish the birds the animals and then it says all the earth what that means everything that's in the earth plants and then he says everything that creeps upon the ground all the insects all the reptiles the birds he said have dominion over the earth that means he wants mankind to be the dominant culture on earth where did man come from man came from god god is in heaven so we were sent to earth to make heaven the dominant culture this is what kingdoms do when they call in eyes and number five god's plan was to establish a holy heavenly nation on earth please write this one down that concept is the key to the theme this year god's plan was to do what establish a heavenly holy nation on earth this concept has not been understood by most of what we call christianity christianity is a religion that focuses more on preparing people to leave earth and go to heaven the kingdom of god is more focused on heaven coming to earth which is reversed from the theology that has been distributed and disseminated through the christian religion so when jesus came to earth he didn't come to take us to heaven his focus was to bring heaven to earth as a matter of fact when he prayed he says when you pray don't pray to go to heaven he said pray like this our father who is where in heaven holy is your name and then he says your request should be let your kingdom come and your will be done where on earth how just like it is in heaven he says you pray not to leave earth to go to heaven but you pray for heaven to come to earth so his plan was to establish a holy nation culture of heaven on earth now this helps us understand what i call the secrets to national development please write this down number one the key to success in life is law life is designed for your success and the way you succeed in any kind of experience in life is you must know everybody say no you must understand everybody understand you must apply say apply and you must practice everybody say practice laws and principles and commands and decrees of god if i was to explain the success in my life it's simply because i followed this process since i was 14 years old my hunger for the law of god developed when i was 13. so i began to read the bible when i was 14. i read the entire bible when i was 14 years old didn't understand 90 of it but that was not important to me i took a whole year and every day i read a chunk of scripture from the old testament a chunk from the new testament as a teenager and when i was 15 i began to understand it again and every year i read the bible through from january to december because i had a hunger for the laws of god now the secret to success in life old person and young person is please follow the words carefully first to know the principles first word is knowledge you got to know them you cannot know what you do not learn then you must do what understand them you can't apply what you don't understand that's why we're teaching the laws of god then you cannot understand without being capable of applying and practicing now applying is one thing practicing is different you know you can apply a teaching on prayer by praying one day yes someone tells you that prayer is important prayer is a priority prayer is very essential you say okay i agree with that so you understand that then it says you pray you know your life becomes more in tune with god that's the benefits he's okay i'm going to pray and then you decide okay i'm going to start praying tonight so you you put time aside and you pray that's called applying you're still not practicing what you're gonna do tomorrow and the next day and the next day you may pray once that means you applied it but you don't practice it you don't pray no more jesus said if any man hears my laws and practices them practice me daily every day for the rest of your life are you with me someone says okay you want to lose 10 pounds good then stop eating this stop eating that and exercise yippee so you stop eating this for one day and you exercise that whole day and the next three weeks you ain't done nothing you applied what you heard but you didn't what practice practice and christ was very specific he says if any man practice my laws he shall have good success sometimes we we blame god for our faith well i i paid tithes last week and i get no blessing this week because you applied you didn't practice you've been paid time for the next six months and so we we must be careful that god doesn't want a life he wants a lifestyle there's a difference you know brother randy looking at you now think about you as a as a coach randy is a coach a sports coach and he will tell you that many athletes come into his care and they are very good at what they do and they may have a good game and they say okay i want you to run five laps for the next three days to get your knees in order or something and those guys don't do it in other words they they're good but they won't practice right and they end up being rusty and actually causing the team to fail because they didn't practice what they knew so we must not just know the laws of god or not just understand them not just apply them we must practice them what must we practice principles laws commandments degrees of god all right let's take a look at this then laws guarantee success stay there with me you know i wish i could pound it in your head i know i've been saying it but the holy spirit keeps telling me don't stop saying it we think that success is a matter of scheming or maybe success is the product of of conniving manipulating people listen jail is full of those people there's no instant success you know with that right you got to be training all the time practicing practice and practice and practicing success is is a joining it's not a destination success is is how you constantly keep overcoming your temptation to quit success is how you constantly pursue your dream even though it seemed to be taking a long time i experienced a major success early in my life because i started early so don't be jealous of me you know don't don't go behind me mine i started when i was 14 i started preaching sharing my life into people at 15 i started you know really working in the community sharing with people matter of fact with my parents i started all of us started we started like like i mean like nine and ten eleven year old we started you know helping the old people my mother father had us hand out bikes to old people we were our whole family we started ministry with little kids some of you all got saved when you're 30. half of my life was already in god by the time you got saved and so it's quick to get jealous of a person who paid a price you don't know about so you need to to to practice because success is a result of laws yeah all right let me show you how this works the power of laws laws are so powerful i want to give you these definitions so that when you see these words again you know the difference there are four four words i want you to write down the fifth one i want to talk about briefly the first word is principles principles are called first law as a matter of fact the word prince if you write it down by itself it means first what's the word mean prince it means first normally when a king has a child the child is called a prince or if it's a female it's called a prince says the word prince means first and they call the son first or prince because he's first in line for the throne they call the female princess because she's first in line for the throne prince means first principle means first law first law is the law that was inherent in the product when the manufacturer made it that's why it's called first law whoever creates a thing puts in it the principle for how it works that's why principles are important they are most important a matter of fact the word that come before principle is precept precept is the thought principle is when the thought becomes an established function so principles are key principles are sometimes invisible they are not even written but they are built in for example the first law of a seed the first principles of principle of the seed is it needs soil and water now there is no book that tells you to do that it's built into the seed so you don't need to actually be told what to do with the seed the seed kind of tells you by the nature of what it is if you give me soil and water i'll bring a tree that's the principle so the principle is the first law built into something by the manufacturer therefore principles are critical you must learn them fast because principles are inherent you don't create them the product comes with them the principle of your car is unleaded gasoline when they designed the car they designed it for unleaded gasoline so that principle of fuel is built into the car you can't change a principle you can't decide i'm going to put orange juice in my car tank because i like orange juice the car will malfunction because you violated what principle now this i want to focus on this hard because if people ask me dr monroe why do you seem to be so wise or smart or intelligent i ain't smart what i did as a young man i still do as an older man is i keep learning the principles once you know principles you become smarter than those who know facts so david says oh lord teach me thy precepts show me thy principles he says and i will be wiser than my teachers and he says i will be wiser than the elders because ellis may know number five tradition but it may have forgotten the principle the second word is the word what law law is established principles principle is the inherent concept or precept for function law is when you establish it laws are established you can't change them so the law of operating your car is you need gasoline that's a law so laws are established principles if you know law but don't know the principle that created the law the law doesn't benefit you that's why number three is important everybody's say commandment write that down the word commandment is what i call what it is it is spoken law or declared law the principle is the essence of the the thing the law is the established principle the command is when you speak it the bible says something very interesting uh to explain this let me explain this my father that 11 folks kids were in my family one of us one of my my brother died but i kept wondering how did my parents bring us up so well i mean how do you take 11 kids and they all come out decent nobody went to jail you know nobody killed anybody sometimes he felt like it but we had a wonderful home and i figured out it took me years to figure out why i was reading the the the book of proverbs which is a very important book that everyone should read over and over again every year because that book is filled with these words right here principles laws commands and decrees and i discovered that my father and mother practiced something that i saw in the bible the bible says to husband and wife it says son listen to the instructions of your father very specific instructions is the law established law then it says and listen to the commands of your mother different word in hebrew look at the two words listen to the laws of your father instructions and the commands of your mother pronouncement what does it mean it means before the father leaves the house he gives instructions and my father was good at that it's okay everybody up when you come out of school you wash the dishes you take the garbage out you clean the yard you paint he was instruction and then he goes to work now my mother is home by herself we all come home and all these children in the house and she got to get them to do what daddy said in his absence what does she do she doesn't give us instructions why they're already given so she would say you wash the dishes go you go paint the house you go clean the yard and we react i don't feel like cleaning the dishes i don't feel like peyton i'll do it later and my mother would say do you remember what your father said now what she did was she went from from the instruction and made a command commands are only as powerful as the instructions that back them up instructions come from authority one of the reasons why our homes are having challenges you know many of them is because there's no instructor in the house so we got a woman trying to give commands we don't know instructions backing her up and so we have these young people teenage ones who would talk back at their mother and father or their mother rather because there's no instructor to say look don't remember what your father said what made us afraid to disobey mom if she had that power to say i'mma tell your dad about you we know that meant they're gonna be a whoopin see that that strength was there so in his absence i cleaned the dishes grumbling all the way through but the the power of her command was the instructions that back to them the law you ever heard this i'm gonna lay the law down in this house it's very very challenging to not understand this so the difference between a law and a command is the law and the instructions are spoken the command is repeated you know why the ten commandments are called the ten commandments because god spoke them first to a man and no one was there moses when he came down from the mountain they became what commands because now he got to tell them what god said now when he wrote it it becomes what a decree a decrees when you write the law on paper and establish it as a king does a decree is a written law kings would make statements and they'd be written down as decrees once you have a decree it cannot be changed i like what uh pilate said you know pilate was representing a king when he crucified jesus and he wrote on a piece of paper king of kings king of the jews or something the king of the jews and the jews became very offended he says he's not our king take that down and jesus said i can't do i mean the pilot said i can't do that because i represent the king what i have written i have written he says it's a decree this is why the book in your hand is so serious these are not suggestions the bible is not a book of recommendations it's a book of decrees these cannot be changed no matter what people tell you about the bible you know it's also all people's fables you know the bible is just you know just the old stories all the stuff that's about the bible let me tell you something they still can't change the truth of this book do you know why people hate the bible we hate the bible because the bible exposes us too effectively we hate it because it is so right it cannot be changed and so it's important for us to understand the difference between principles laws commandments and decrees now the fifth one is tradition every question tradition tradition is write this down a conscious or an unconscious custom that comes from a law now what i mean by this one is very dangerous the law of the lord says thou shalt not steal okay that's a an instruction that came from god it becomes a command written on paper decree thou shalt not take what is not rightfully yours that means to not thief okay that's a law and it becomes a decree it's written now we supposed to develop a tradition of not stealing so it becomes a custom we don't steal now as long as the law doesn't become a tradition it is open for negotiation in other words uh i don't steal except it is necessary you ever heard that i read i read a story in the newspaper on my way back here last night in in the miami herald but they say that this this guy walked into a store with a gun and he held up a young lady you read the story and the young ladies started telling about jesus and the fellow had the god but he says i'm a christian too that's such a funny statement i'm a person too she said you the christian said yes i'd go to church and then she she said which church you go to he told her she said jesus i visit that church very often i know your pastor he said yes pastor bob you have passed the ball i thought you got the gun he said you know something i really don't want to be doing this you know she said she said but jesus could help you you know you just gotta you know give your life to him again and don't get back go back to church you know he says yeah you're right you know you shouldn't be doing this he said but you know how it is he said man i i don't want to do this but you know i have to do this the guy is trying to steal and rob the woman but she's talking about jesus my issue is this he said he's a christian born again but he have the thief which means he knows number one he knows number two he knows number three even though number four but it hasn't become a custom of not stealing can i put it this way if you gotta think about not doing something you ain't there yet when holiness becomes your first nature not your second nature you still got some work to do yeah a woman wink at you brother and you married or not married what is your first thought she wink at you mean you know nice but don't wink at you in the airport this week what's your first response tells me where you at is it a tradition that you do not compromise your commitment to your wife or are you gonna have a second thought do you walk over and rest around and sit by how to order a cup of coffee because you feel thirsty suddenly you know you you you need some help yeah so when the when not tradition is dangerous tradition is man's experience with the law tradition can come from an instruction that god gave you you obeyed it but then god gave you another instruction after that but you decided to keep the first one that can become a tradition and you start to trade it to the other generations it might find the word look at the word tradition the word trade is in it trading is when i had an experience with the law and it worked so well for me that i want to give you the experience let me write this down write us down never transfer traditions you transfer the law to the next generation got it yeah what god did with you through the law may not be what he does for your children through the same law so give your children the law not your experience tradition is what you experience when you obey the law don't give your kids the tradition because tradition is your experience once you teach your child the laws of god and they leave your house and go to college and you don't know where they are you better hope the law stays intact you know my my son and daughter man they traveling my daughter living far from me i gotta trust the laws we lay down in their hearts because law is what is stable not your experience and sometimes your experience you shouldn't transfer to your kids if you know what i'm talking about i mean you smoke dope you can't take a kid but you know you got to try it one time because you know you got to go through that no no no that's a bad tradition how about this one i got pregnant before i was married and i want my daughter no no no no no you give it a law i violate the law you keep the law you remain celibate transfer the law yeah so traditions are dangerous because they are your experience and they become your custom that you learn when you encounter the law but they may not be the same for the next generation is that clear and this is why i think i told you in my last session god is too creative to repeat himself god never did the same miracle twice anywhere in the bible that's amazing i said how come he never did a miracle twice because he don't want the miracle to become a tradition how do you raise the dead well i don't know it depends eh one time he walked into a room a little girl was dead he just simply don't talk to her he says you know uh what's good tala kumai which means comfort and she wrote in the dead then he met another guy who was on his way to the funeral is in the box he touched the box the little boy rose up the next time he went to a cemetery a guy was there three days he called the guy back in other words how do you raise a dead i don't know too creative how do you heal a person well first he put mud spit on the eye he never done it before never did it since he met another guy just touched him and then another guy met a guy who touched him twice another guy says you go wash in the water in other words there's no tradition to heal the blind person but the same power and the same law is at work let me tell you how good that is what that means is how god plans to cancel your mortgage see now according to your faith be it unto you how god plan to heal your body give us about the lord you know she prayed and god healed this person prayed for you i get that same person let them pray for me no no no call me look i want you to stop eating pig all right like i said look i can heal you if you start beating too much fat you don't want that way right god i don't want i wonder i want the instant weight i don't want the long way i gotta eat my my ribs god says no i want you to be vegetarian for three years because your system is messed up if i heal you you'll be sick again from what you're eating in other words how does god heal i like the word jesus uses jesus says you shall lay us on the sick and they shall recover now recover could be a day a month two years five years ten years he left that word so wide it could be instant it can be a process but you will recover that's the good news hello so we cannot dictate to god a tradition this is why when you go to you know some organizations some churches they get such a strong tradition god left that church a long time ago because you know something i've been trying to get into that church but they got them traditions locked down so tight i can't get in myself as a matter of fact the book of revelation talks about this jesus when you read the book of revelations and by the way pastors messes up so badly i'd repent because i like to do it there's a scripture in the bible says behold i stand at the door and knock if any man hears my voice and hearken to my voice and open up i will come in and sup with him now when you read that text it has nothing to do with an unsaved person the text has to do with the church the text says that the seven churches were giving him problems he says and one of the churches was so locked down they locked jesus out the chapters about jesus trying to get back into his own church and he says behold like stand at the door and knock knight away then folks having a good time and then they got all their you know their regalia all their rituals all their incense all the shouting all the screaming and stuff if you're having a good time without god behold i stand at the door not at my own church and then he said if any man here in other words one person might hear him he said i'll come into sabaroo with that person by himself him he says him sometimes you discover truth in the middle of a tradition and you can't stay because god visited you personally because you wanted more huh right yeah and sometimes you wonder why can i get back to that church anymore god said because you discovered me i sucked with you you ate my stuff privately you got different diet now you can't go back to that stuff you can't eat that old stuff anymore so it's tough for you to go back because you had an encounter with the one who you heard at the door tradition is dangerous it can lock god up tradition is a killer because you can become so habitually attached to it that even though you know it ain't working you still do it and so these four words are important now let me show you something here very important here how this works with some scriptures i want to share with you for the next few moments god's eternal mandate i call it the dominion mandate what did god really want and and got to understand this for me to close this session god's plan was to establish a nation remember i talked about that okay let's read some scripture genesis chapter nine everyone turn that please some verses you never saw before genesis chapter nine verse one says then god blessed noah by the way uh i better give a context to this we all know the first man that god created his name was who what was his name i gotta make sure you all said it adam right okay adam now adam had everybody inside of him and god went inside took out a woman he told him to multiply and add him begin to to release all these kids and i don't live 930 years i think it is nine or three years 930 years and this guy had a lot of kids a few of them we know you know abel kane j uh cham rather you know we have a few kids but he had a whole lot of kids now we remember what happened with adam's first generations eh the bible said they became so evil because they what disobeyed god what did they do disobey god can you tell me i think you better just read it because i i want you to see the connection turn to genesis chapter three chapter two rather chapter two genesis chapter two chance chapter 2 the lord god chapter verse 15 the lord god took the man and put him in the garden of eden to work it to care for it and the lord god did what verse 16. i can't hear you i say it loud i can't hear you okay let's go back to that list again the command is what a spoken law god didn't needed for the man to figure it out you know in his mind god made it a command do not touch the tree so he spoke it which means adam got what from god a word ladies and gentlemen adam had no written decree all he had was what a word from god a word is a command now the entire human race is hanging on a word adam could keep us in god's will or take us out of god's will simply by a command the power of a command backed up by god don't touch the tree what did adam do adam violated the command he break the law what is the command a spoken law adam break the law and everybody fell apart the whole human race was kicked out of the garden the human race became corrupt and the bible says that the the sins of men were so filthy by the time gnaw was born it says that the stench of man's sin was in god's nostrils what does god do god says i'm going to start over now he doesn't start over by destroying the earth because earth wasn't the problem earth is always innocent you see that oil spill over there i said look i knew you're nothing i have oil in my belly your punch in my belly oh i'll come out what's the deal i'm innocent earth is always innocent it is the humans on it hey neighbor life would be good if he wasn't here [Laughter] lord have mercy oh lord that's a revelation for me know some of y'all who married thinking lord if the queen just go away just for two weeks i'll be okay listen humans are god's greatest challenge god got no problem with monkeys god's a jump mommy tell man do this why we gotta question we gotta discuss it so now man destroys the whole thing right what does god do god makes decisions he says i'm going to clean off the earth i'm going to try to serve my earth there it is the lord is mine i'm going to clean it i'm going to kill every one of the first specimen and the bible says this scripture very important verse it says then the lord bless noah now the lord called noah the reason why i want you to read this because you never saw this verse before the same words god said to adam he said to noah i want you to see that what does god say to adam be fruitful multiply replenish and fill the earth and dominate the earth the fish the birds the animals the trees he said do all of that okay same instructions they're watching that so god drawn all these people he only has eight people left and god says okay tell you what i'm gonna do i'm gonna start over and god says to no let's read together and the lord god bless noah come right now and his sons say to them be fruitful and multiply in number and fill the earth the fear and the dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air and upon every creature that moves along the ground and upon all the fish of the sea they are given into your hands and you get dominion over them verse three everything that lives and moves will be food for you just as i gave you the green plans i now also give you everything else which include meeting stuff the first time it's telling me it's not even me okay now i want you to watch this look at that statement exactly the same thing you told adam right here's my point god has this one idea and he refused to let the idea go i want to have humans on the earth they must dominate the earth notice not dominate people dominate creatures animals plants and resources on the earth the same plan never changed so god is what's starting over again with a new group of people eight people what does god do no it gets drunk because oh no man second time i'm losing it again the guy became an alcoholic staggered all over the place naked cause man wait a minute i want to start again but i got problems with humans again my god must really love you man he knows all your mess i still will use you give him praise anyhow thank you lord man he knows all of our stuff he knows all of our weaknesses all of our challenges and guys i'm still going to forgive you because i need you to work with me so god says okay no i can't use you anymore what does god do god then goes to his great great grandson i want to read acts chapter 17 for a second because paul refers to this struggle god has because god wants to build this nation on earth out of man acts chapter 17 verse 26 turned there it actually tells you it says from one man god made every nation of men from one what man adam god made he's trying to get his right nation he keeps trying to get the right nation god only wanted one nation on earth but the first one failed he started to get a second one the second one failed he said from one man i'm still trying to get the right nation most of us want god to save us god wants to save a nation he wants a whole nation this is coming through this is one reason why christianity is so weak because it's focused on individual salvation private redemption it's like it's like i'm saved the rest can go to hell kind of thing you know i know god you can go to hell kind of thing but this prayer is not of god he wants a whole nation to know him he's after a nation and so we find god saying i from one man trying to get the right nation from that one man that they can what inhabit the whole earth remember we read that in the book of isaiah 45 he said god made the earth to be inhabited with what his nation i want to read another verse let's go back to the old testament genesis 12. then the lord said to who abraham why moses i mean i know all messed up adam messed up god started again noah messed up now god gonna start again he's okay this is this this is this is noah's great great grandson okay guys okay let me try one more time i'm gonna call one man again and he says to abraham leave your country and your people and your father's house and go to the land that i will show you verse two i will make you into a great nation jesus wouldn't quit i want a nation that looks like heaven i'm not going to quit till i get it you want to go to heaven god says no i want you on earth i want them to see what heaven is like on earth and i want an entire people that have the same culture that's the message of the bible he's trying for the third time he said abraham i'll make you a great nation i will bless you i will make your name great and you will be a blessing the word name great there means i'll give you a reputation the whole world he says he says what all the nations of the world will be blessed through you ladies and gentlemen god wanted to raise up a nation of people who were so distinctive they'd become famous for being different i will give you a reputation among all the nations that they will all want to be like you because you remind them of heaven read the next next verse three i will bless those who bless you curse those who curse you i will curse them all the peoples of the earth will be blessed through you that were people that means nations all the nations then what do you mean by this he says look how can i do this god only knows one nation you know it's called the adamic race all these other nations of god we have god know anything about these nations one nation god has and the first one failed he tried to get one more no that one failed and trying now to get another one abraham did they fail absolutely yes the abrahamic nation failed they became so corrupt they intermarried with canaanites moabites they tied jebusites when they got into the land they got corrupted god says i'mma kill them all and god drove him into egypt they failed what's he after a nation genesis 18 then the lord said to abraham's son shall i hide from abraham i'll rather say abraham from should i should i have abraham the things that i do abraham will surely become a great one powerful nation and all nations of the earth will be blessed to him now please watch this for the next couple of seconds i notice but i can explain it god has one nation that nation failed god tries to get another nation so what did god do god god chooses a group of people to create a heavenly nation with and then he says i'm going to use this nation to be the catalyst for bringing all the other nations back to me so the whole earth can be filled with the knowledge of the kingdom of god in other words god calls out the nation of israel so they can become a prototype of heaven on earth so the other ladies can be jealous they see a nation without sickness no disease no poverty no corruption you know the marriages again the homes are together the kids and they said wow what are they doing we want to be like them they failed instead of them becoming an example to the canaanites they married the candidate women instead of them becoming an example of the jebusites and hittites and moabites and those who offered children on the order cut the children through and put the blood on the order they married their children god said what are you all doing when you read the old testament god says i will kill you all he got mad at them he said what are you doing he said you're like a holland he's talking to the whole nation of israel he said you become like a prostitute sleeping in the bed with the very people supposed to be an example to by the way before i go home today in the next few minutes you're going to see the church have done the same thing the christian church how can you tell a guy not to be homosexual when the preachers are homosexual in other words you're sleeping in the vehicle the reason why a lot of preachers don't praise the law of god anymore they can't preach it why they breaking it we were in uh brasilia two days ago about 5 000 leaders in this auditorium in brazil and they called us up my wife and i to wish us happy anniversary for 31 years of marriage and the people started clapping and sharing and shouting and i saw some of them sitting there crying just looking at us weeping this should not be an exceptional experience when i tell people when i got married i was a virgin they clapped wow that's a disaster young man when being a virgin makes you special our world is in trouble the church claps when a young woman says she's a virgin we have no more standards to show the world i was talking to a marriage therapist this week and he said right in brazil he said you know the statistics now of divorce is equal in the church to the world there's no difference between the world and the church with divorce anymore that has to change there's got to be a nation of people that becomes a standard which is what god wants he says i'll make you a distinction in the world he says that's why we keep the laws look at this genesis 35 and god said to him i am god almighty be fruitful and increase in number a nation and a community of nations will come from you and kings will come from your body he's talking to abraham look at the next verse exodus 19. now god is speaking to him okay now let's get the story right here so the folks out of abraham messed up they became you know partners with pagans hittites moabites canaanites so god says look you want to fail me i'm going to turn you on into slavery so they better the slavery 430 years after they've been in egypt god raised what another man always dreams of a man like one man moses so we got adam noah abraham now we've got moses he's still trying what to get a nation what does he say to noah let's read it the lord said no you go to egypt and get slaves now what are slaves we celebrate emancipation day tomorrow a slave is a human that has no rights they own nothing their right to no land no property no heritage no history no lineage and no future a slave is chapel god says i want to begin with slaves again i want a group of folks who ain't got nothing they are nothing anger plans in other words i'm gonna start again with zero again why i want a nation so let me wonder why we've entered slavery because trying to strip us so you can start with fresh meat let me start with someone who don't know and then he says let me warn you okay when i take you into this land don't forget me now god kept telling him before you go don't forget me look at the bahamas man faith of our father's name oh we signed that in 1973. until the road we trot listen to our economy what happened to god it's so easy to forget when you get in the land you know a little bit of wealth you build your household by the lake you know everything cool i gotta go to church in a moment stay in too long man see this is god say wait a minute wait one minute these people want nothing and god says moses bring them out in the wilderness watch him to meet with me that was the instruction when they got out there this is what he says acts exodus he says although coming out loud although the whole earth is mine let's stop reading this guy said look although the whole earth that means everything on the earth is mine all the other people all the other countries all of his mind i can't choose anybody's that want to stay for me i own the whole thing so you ain't special he's warning them it's a privilege for me to choose you read the next statement i am he says what you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation not a holy person this is an individual he want a group of people everybody holy the children holy teenagers holy young adults holy adolescence holy married holy unmarried holy age holy grandfather holy grand mama holy old people holy geriatric holy he's the one the whole nation holy holy means distinctive sanctified means to be set apart for one specific use god i'm gonna use you all as a model over here so the other nations could see what it's like to be a kingdom community that's the picture he said these are the words you have to say to these slaves you know i make a confession confession for years that god lives in the bahamas you know i believe it with all my heart but that's a cry of hope i'm hoping that when the tourist lines in this country the first thing they would feel is the presence of god not the presence of jungkook that's my hope my hope is when they walk down the street they would get people humming i want to see people experience the goodness and the joy of the lord in the streets not crime we sell our soul for a little bit of porridge we are going in bed with canaanites sleep with hittites just to get some money in our back pockets we sacrificing the faith that built our country for some finances that can't last our prime minister whoever he or she may be supposed to be holy our deputy supposed to be holy the senator is supposed to be holy the members of parliament supposed to be holy lord the judge is supposed to be holy every supreme court judge holy every lawyer holy every hotel manager holy every policeman lord help us holy every defense force officer only every teacher in the classroom holy every sports entertainer holy every businessman he's looking for a nation let me just show you how this works look at that first peter now you might say that's the old testament let's see if he wants it for you when christ went to the cross by the way let me just say this let me go to the list again we got what adam let me get who no then we get who abraham and then we have moses and they all failed so god said look i'm using man no more i'm coming myself why from one man he has to make this nation from one man so he says one man and you listen to me carefully after moses failed the prophets took over and the prophets kept on saying the lord himself shall give you a sign the worship shall be a child because they shall be called emmanuel god is coming to be with us himself for unto you a child will be born that's the prophet unto you a son will be given and the government that you lost shall be upon his shoulders his name shall be called a wonderful counselor mighty god come on prophesy everlasting father prince of peace and of the end of his government there shall be no end and it shall expand he shall reign on the throne of david he's coming he's coming and malachi is saying and just before he comes there'll be one before his face announcing him his name shall be joined the practice and john says behold the lamb of god has arrived and here comes jesus the last one what does he come to get a nation not a religious people not read why is peter new testament read five peter two verse nine read but you are a chosen generation a royal priesthood you are a holy nation read on you belong to god that you may declare and show forth the praise of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light once you used to be not a people but now you are a nation of god once you have not received mercy but he has forgiven you and cleansed you which he wants a whole nation but you got to remember this this is not about you personally and individually i'm believing god that before i die who look just like heaven i believe in god's dream people in this church because the children get american problems you know and i think what else can i tell them i can't come to you no more i preach marriage principles all my life i get books in their cds i get stuff what else what's your problem you won't apply and practice want to waste my time all over again you want a private sermon i already preach i tired man i travel and i try it live right do right he's looking for a people who are distinctive who forgive one another who don't hurt their spouses who don't say dumb things to their spouses who don't beat one another we don't molest children who don't commit adultery who don't fornicate he's looking for a people who live clean and holy to obey the law read the last part verse 10 you're supposed to be the example for them the prototype for them the the model for them he wants a nation that people can say i want to be like that that's what god at this verse deuteronomy 4 verse 6 read now i want to show you what i call the distinctiveness of law but this is what i want to close this on ah okay do you agree with me from what you saw that god was a nation any arguments there no we see it all true right through the entire bible okay now the question is how do you build a nation that's the question the answer is simple and the bahamas needs to learn it and so does america and jamaica and guyana and haiti all nations let's read this because moses bring them out was it what a bunch of broke empty naked people the money they had was given to them so here they are in the desert because okay moses we're gonna start the nation what is the first act of god the first act of god to start a nation is he makes an appointment with them can you read the bible he says that tell them to meet me at three o'clock tomorrow he says at a certain mountain he said moses tell the men to put a barricade around the mountain he says and tell all the people oh jesus including the children he says tell everyone to wash their clothes this instructions and tell them to wear clean clothes and i want all the people to come to the mountain to meet with me are you following this that was the first instruction so mostly yes lord the most have been back to all the people watch your clothes take off tomorrow be on time we're going to gather we're going to meet with god by the way god keeps dying where are you being from 9 30 anyhow so here we go god says all right so the people came the next day right everybody was dressed up clean ready to meet god children teenagers everybody god wants to meet with the whole nation place in the league and the bible says they were waiting suddenly there was thunder and there was lightning then it says the earth began to shake then it says the mountain began to rumble and the thunder grew louder as the lord's presence descended upon the mountain he says the people became afraid and the bible says the people became so afraid they ran away from the mountain back to their tents went inside zipped it up locked themselves in their tents now i don't know how the tent gets taken from the team but anyhow they were so afraid the bible said they hid themselves and they told moses on their way while they're running they said to moses you see him for yourself and the bible said when the lord came down to meet with the people there was only moses now the principle let me prince what is what first law the first law is god didn't want anyone to represent you that's the principle you missed he wanted to meet you personally my job is really temporary god doesn't want me to be doing what i'm doing right now i'm going to prove that before this seriousness doesn't get rid of pastors and prophets because that's never his plan you don't need a prophet to talk to you about god or for god he will talk to you himself so moses ran i mean the people ran most of the bibles and the lord god came down and said moses where are the people and mostly under the lord the people that said lord the people were afraid of thee and they fled then the lord said unto moses come thou up unto the mountain that i may speak with you god never wanted to speak to moses now what's he gonna say to moses exactly what he wanted to say to the children the teenagers and the adults what does he say he law what makes the church such a mess individuals breaking the laws of god those ten laws that god gave moses are running every nation today thou shalt not steal thou shall not murder thou shalt not covet thou shalt not be a false witness thou shall not work seven days a week and kill yourself every nation tries to follow them but will never admit where they got them from god's building a nation he starts with law now i want you to read this verse because this verse tells you how important the law is to a country it also tells you what god was after ready deuteronomy 4 6 read together go observe them carefully for this will show your wisdom and understanding to who the other nations who will hear about all these decrees and they will say about you surely that great bahamian nation is wise and understanding what other nation is so great as to how their god near them the way the lord our god lives in the bahamas and whenever we pray to him he hears us and what other nation underline it is so great as to how such righteous decrees are laws as this body of law i am setting before you today he said what's going to distinguish you is this body of wars not just shouting and singing and preaching and falling on the he says from the other nations is these decrees he didn't say grace will distinguish wouldn't it be great to be married to a man who just keeps them that means you ain't got to worry but he is at three o'clock in the morning the problem is we got folks who just don't keep the law so you don't know who to trust the business people they need the long guard badge the price of thou shall not steal man if i took your money to buy some bring it to you when i views i shouldn't use it to do something else that's stealing and then you tell me because your brother you can wait a couple of years you need a good beating with a just keeping your word distinguishes you i promise to love you and cherish you until death all she has is my word let me tell you something elections coming up soon listen to your pastor when they come to your house invite them in come right in sit down give him a cup of coffee and everything and then ask him some questions they can answer who you speak with all the time are you straight oh this is serious business ask them i heard some things about you are you straight because i vote for none i'll keep my vote in other words we need some distinction any member of this church that goes into politics i don't care if you know their character their testimony you vote for them even if it's against your own party let me tell you why you want righteousness in there the bible says when the righteous rule the people rejoice but when the wicked is in power same verse the people groan boys this party thing got to stop we need a righteous nation we need righteous leaders and you can't get a righteous man if he does not come for righteous seed don't confuse a nice person with a righteous person what are nice people in the world he says this law shall separate you from the other nations this body of law will make you different if we live right they should say wow you know i hope the day comes soon when they'll say hi anybody from bfm because they claim and they don't steal and they're honest they get character right now don't do it right now right now but i pray the day will come but you'll get this message in your spirit there'll be a distinction between you and the other nations we're close with this write this down please god is the god of law that's why he gave law first god's divine laws are inherent they're built in their principles god's divine laws are never cancelled they're always present god's divine laws are also eternal no one can change them god's divine laws are not tradition because your experience with that keeps changing god's divine laws are given to protect not to destroy not to restrict tradition restricts us but not the laws of god they give us freedom within the context of law there can never be law without freedom and no freedom without law god's divine laws are permanent so grace doesn't cancel them traditions are temporary but god's laws are eternal and the big question we need to ask ourselves this question is there any of the ten commandments that are now irrelevant the answer is no in our pre-sea in our succeeding sessions from here we're gonna go to those ten commandments and see them again for the first time some of our teenagers never saw the ten commandments but they don't read the bible some of you does forget to take them out you gotta quote all of them and the bible says the law of god must be in your heart heartbeat is mine you can't even know remember they are like baby they are all valid they are still relevant and until we get this in our spirit that we have to follow god's laws we will always be compromising the world it's so wonderful to meet someone who would say to the world i don't do what you all do what a beautiful sound live a scripture that was read today stuck in my mind i want you to turn to that scripture from the description psalm 112. i want you to read it get your bibles ready everybody say i love the law of god because i love god if any man loves the laws of god he shall be preserved it's a beautiful verse of scripture psalm 112 get it what's the first verse praise the lord everybody say praise the lord say it like you really mean it now praise the lord means give thanks to the owner of everything read the next statement blessed is the man who fears the lord why he delights in his commands commands stated laws blessed is the man who fears the lord he delights in his commands delight means what to enjoy the laws of but i love it because he's always right you don't have to wonder what happens if you obey the laws of god you're gonna check over your shoulder you're gonna know who who calling you on the phone and your wife may pick it up hey i talk in there you all gotta wonder who what you at three o'clock in the morning come from your office whether you're doing something dumb if your heart is right you will come on four am and still be clean the laws of god you delight in them you know you enjoy them can your husband enjoy your friends ladies can you can your wife enjoy the friends you keep david says if you delight in this law because you want you fear disappointing him the fair god doesn't mean you are scared of god it means you are afraid to disappoint your father you don't want to hurt your father's feeling you don't want your father to be disappointed in all of his expectations of you you're afraid to embarrass your daddy that's the kind of thing you need i couldn't do this son because my daddy would be embarrassed i can't sleep with you i'ma hurt my father's feelings i'm afraid to hurt him do you love him so much you're afraid to hurt him love always brings that fear of hurting if you love your wife you do everything to make sure she's not hurt and you know what makes us hurt brother when they are hurt quite hurt say when your wife is hurt you feel sick especially if you cause the hurt because love doesn't want to disappoint that's a good kind of fear if you fear the lord you will delight in what his commands next verse and your children i call this the benefits of the law if you obey the law your kid's going to come up right now what he's talking about the law of god first affects your house why you're building a community remember you can build a nation the nation begins right in the house our prisons are filled with young men and a few women who came from homes where the law of god cannot be found so they become community dangerous elements i will bless your children what's the next one the generation of the upright will be blessed verse three wealth and riches oh very sorry i claim that right now now by the way now you gotta stay in touch with verse one though money coming i'm blessed oh really check verse one first my god shall supply yes but did you check verse one if you obey my laws it says wealth and riches will be where in your house now two different words let me talk about you know thing cash you can lose that wealth is good ideas you can't never lose that if you obey my laws no matter how they fire you you can still find something else better why they can't take away your wealth they can take away your riches but not your wealth i'm gonna give you both he says ideas to start a business in your own house what an idea get up in the morning just walk over to your business instead of slave around other people tell you what to do ideas that's wealth what's the next one your righteousness challenge your what forever righteousness means staying in line with the law he said you're always he said once you feel how sweet it is you're getting wealth all the time righteous he said man you ain't never gonna disobey god he said i'm gonna stay right in the righteousness of god right i never gonna disobey the lord why man there's benefits but what's the next benefit i love this one this is hunted up right there arises light and darkness okay this one i really felt at this point when i was reading that's the this god says if you keep my law when it is dark when nothing seems to be working they shut down the company shut down the business they lay you off everything dark because you keep my lord just keep saving the law he said he says in the middle of the darkness what do you say brother he says when everything seems to be crisis crisis he says crisis in the middle of the darkness you're gonna just emerge bright light is on the way they can't keep a good man down you shall arise out of darkness the bright light shall shine today thank you once again for 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Published: Sun Nov 01 2020