Rediscovering The Priority of Law For Kingdom Living Part 5 | Dr. Myles Munroe

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Myles Munroe provided by Monroe global incorporated and Monroe global.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 rediscovering the priority of law for Kingdom living rediscovering what the priority of law in Kingdom living when you start teaching on law people become nervous but I want to say up front when I use the word law I am NOT talking about religious tradition and we're going to show that very clearly in this series I am talking about laws that never change that have been engrafted in God's creation and grafted in his spiritual structure and they never change most of the laws that are putting men in bondage who are produced by men I am NOT referring to those religious laws of legalism and will explain that in this series but it's important me to say the front because sometimes we become a little nervous when it being set free from something to feel like we're going back into it you can never leave God's laws you can leave the laws of men so I want to begin by reminding us of a couple of things write this down every nation in the world is built on law it's impossible to have a country without law why do I make this statement because the kingdom of God is not a religion it is a country it's called the Kingdom of Heaven God established the Kingdom of Heaven as the first invisible nation in existence the territory is called heaven the government is established by Jehovah it's a real active government secondly nations are built on law but they are also sustained by law when laws disintegrate a country collapses this is why every nation is considered if it's a civil society as a law-abiding nation where there is no law that can be no civility thirdly the quality of life in a nation depends on and is determined by the people keeping laws national life is protected by law what prevents people from coming into your home legally and taking your possession law does what prevents you from colliding when you stop at a stop sign with another car because there's a law that controls that intersection what makes the bank give you back your money when you go back to get it if you deposited it there's a law that they are required to deliver what you put there in other words laws protect the society fourthly all societies must adhere to law if we do not obey laws we have no social relationships all of our relationships in a country monitored and regulated by law this is why when you get married you have to have a legal document to sanctify and to legalize your union they license you to get married they license you to drive a car they license you to build a house in other words everything has to be legal if a society is going to succeed and number-5 community is produced and created by law this is important because we talk about the kingdom of heaven it is a community you cannot just live with your own private laws in a community what makes a community a community is what they call social norms the word norms means that which is normal for that society to obey there are certain laws in our culture that we've considered as there are norms we don't do certain things or break certain agreements because of the norms laws create that community I mentioned in an earlier session that even the professions are communities there are the community of lawyers why there are certain laws that lawyers of the live by then there is the the the medical profession they have a community of medical practitioners why they service certain kinds of laws that they adhere to in other words every group becomes a community if it has laws that they submit to now that takes me then to my next point how important is law there are people who've been teaching that when Jesus came to earth he eradicated law that he came to earth to destroy the law I think we gotta be careful when we use terms with make sure that be the terminologies are correct when Jesus came to earth two thousand years ago he was born in a culture that was very religious and the number one religion of that culture that he was born in - was Judaism Judaism was really a development over 4000 years of a structure of rituals that became so difficult to obey that even those who perpetrated it couldn't obey it as a matter of fact the religious leaders of his day were called lawyers teachers of the law the question is would not the two groups that were the major group there are many others were the two that were major groups of religious leaders in his day were the Pharisees and the Sadducees the Pharisees and Sadducees were very powerful the Pharisees were more religious the Sadducees were more legalistic they were more political and they all took the laws of Moses and added their own laws over 4000 years and they developed a set of laws that were called traditions of the elders these laws God know very little about but they claim to present them in God's name it's a matter of fact the total ended up being 669 laws write that down can you imagine having to obey 669 laws every day that was too much burden for people you couldn't even remember what you would disobey that's why when Christ came he could not join them he never became a Pharisee he never became a sod you see because they were sad you see but he now became a part of them because what he meant is not what he meant they produced a religion that was not related to the kingdom of God this is why when he began to preach he reintroduced the kingdom of God and they became offended because the kingdom of God will always challenge religion they would always challenge structures that control people it also will destroy oppression and religion can be very oppressive and so we have two different laws let's read what Jesus talks about when he introduces himself because he restored the priority of law he didn't destroy law matter of fact he put law back where it fell from law is the foundation inherent in creation I will show you as we move in this conference and in this series that God has laws that are designed to guarantee your success and I'm telling you that most of our failures are results simply of disobeying or ignoring God's laws they are built into creation the other point is law is the glue that holds the universe together we all agreed that out of 500 million galaxies these planets are not colliding how can 500 million galaxies with trillions of planets stay in orbit and orbit around their Suns with decent exactness and never collide there is an order a law even our solar system where earth is that we live on consists of nine planets and one Sun and they have been going around the Sun for millions of years and haven't collided there are laws built into that structure that keep them in order a boy say Law & Order both go together nor will always produce order so whenever there is disorder anywhere you know there's violation of some law now the third point here is that everything exists by law the plants follow laws you take a seed you put it in soil liberty' moisture you obey the law what happens a tree comes up in other words the laws are already built in god doesn't grow trees he simply instilled a law in the seed when you obey the laws of seed then the result is natural success is actually predictable if you understand the priority of law that leads to my next point everything exists on law and exists to fulfill law that includes me and you we were not born just to live haphazardly do you know that when I read books written by some of the great meditation thinkers people like Buddha and Confucius and Maharaja and all these so-called Eastern mystics do you know what they really focus are simple they focus on the natural laws in other words even the scientists study God's laws and they built science on the laws because laws are inherent they are built-in I think the problem that could arise and most of those mystical itches is many times they create they make the laws itself God in all this is saying that if you if you have a good watch and the watch is working you mind every watch is working there was a watchmaker somewhere so don't get caught up in how exciting the watch works and how deep it works and how educated works just remember that there is a manufacturer somewhere don't make the watch the point of worship humanists for example have made creation their point of worship they themselves have become the measure of what is right and good and this is dangerous because you know someone sent me an email the other day that was real good they said that there was a real courtroom trial in Florida where an atheist came before the court demanding that they have a holiday for atheists they say the Christian got a holiday for Christmas and you know the Muslims got a holiday Ramadan so they want a holiday for the atheists and that we are not treating them properly and that we are not respecting them and they need their own holiday and and he went before the courtroom when he laid out his whole argument before the judge a very good fella the judge says considering your presentation and your arguments I think you are right that you do need a holiday and I would like to say as the presiding judge of this community that I have found your holiday you've already got one and the gentleman says we have one we don't celebrate it he says everyone celebrates your holiday he said what's my holiday April Fool's Day is and the man was confused and bewildered he says April Fool's Day how can it be a holiday and the judge turned to the Bible and says the Lord says the fool have said in his heart there is no God and you got a day celebrated all around the world don't make the watch God people worship Mother Earth there is no mother earth Earth is a product of creation by God the Sun is simply a mass of gases dense gases giving massive nuclear light don't worship the Sun bit of the Sun God no that's the gases God in other words don't don't confuse creation with the Creator he put laws in his creation you obey those laws and you live you disobey them and you self-destruct now write this down please very important Matthew 5 again please read carefully I call this the priority of law in Matthew chapter 5 is the first public ministry of Jesus he is 30 years old and he leaves the desert where he was a 40-day and he introduces himself to the whole world and he makes an announcement look at chapter 4 first verse 17 where he walks out of the desert he was there for 40 days and fasting and prayer he dealt with his flesh he dealt with his mind he overcame a lot of these temptations that we deal with every day he victoriously overcame them and then it says in verse 17 of Matthew 4 then from that time forward Jesus began to preach repent because what the kingdom of heaven has arrived that's what it means the kingdom is not a religion it is a country so he came back to earth introducing a again God's planet to the kingdom of heaven he says repent because the king of heaven has arrived write the word repent down one more time the word repent is not a religious word the word repent came from the body of psychology it's a it's a psychological word it means to change your mental state it means to change the way you've been trained to think it means to change your mentality to completely change your patterns the way you've been trained to think well that makes sense because as a man thinketh so we see in his subconscious mind so he says change the way you've been trained to think because in other country has come back on the planet Earth actually is one planet with two cultures on it the culture of the kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of light very clear in Scripture and so we talking about a culture we talking about a country can I put it this way he's talking about colonization of Earth again or re colonization of Earth colonization is simply the impact of a country's culture in a foreign territory Christ brought back the culture of heaven on earth this announcement is very clear everybody say country our countries were a nation a nation is built on what laws now watch him he meets these religious people he grew up in them for thirty years and never joined them why he said these people are crazy they've made their laws more important than the Word of God he said that Matthew 15 we read in a little bit they became so infected by their own laws they forgot about God that's legalism legalism is when you said worshiping law more than worshiping God we've done it here in the Bahamas and in the Caribbean we are professional legal worshipers I remember when I was growing up in the Bahamas and please don't take offense but you know wearing hats used to be a religious thing can I touch that just a sec I'm gonna touch it anyhow and they used to say that if you don't cover your head God will hear you so women have to walk around you know and believe me I believe the folks who created that law but those who sold hats well if you study the book of Ephesians that said Diana of the Ephesians those who were worshiping Diana of Ephesians which was a god of arrows and the god of futility those people when Paul came to that town poured other people all save and they stopped buying all that stuff and the people attacked Paul and put him in jail and they said he has it disrupted our business so they say women should wear hats and I grew up in the Baptist Church mm-hmm Pentecostal church right here and women need to put hat over their heads you couldn't you couldn't stand up in a church wrote a hat on you could read the Bible are you crazy you gotta have your head covered and all the deep stuff they would talk about and we were afraid for women to go anywhere without hats and I found out where they got that from they got it from the book you know of Corinthians when Paul says a women should not you know worship at their heads uncovered of course we read all chapter he wasn't talking about hats he was talking about a woman who was married being under her husband's covering but let's put that aside then Paul went on to explain some other things about here he says women should let their hair grow and men should cut their here because nature he says proves that women have natural glands that produce certain kinds of oils that keep long here L but men don't have those same levels of hormones to produce those oils so a Manny it is known that a man's we have short here it's easy to keep it was a it was a scientific biological discussion Paul head we made it religious also poor then we can't explain why a woman should cover here in that particular town he was in in Corinth it was not a national doctrine matter of fact the people in Corinth wrote Paul a letter I started complaining you find a complaint in the book he says look he says we having problems in Corinth the women are being accosted because of their previous lives etc etc and ports in the middle to write his letter back he wrote his letter back to the people now Corinth was the capital of the worship of arrows as a matter of fact the word correct means corrupt to never name your house Corinth or your child Corinth or Carinthia it means corrupt and it was a name given to the city by the Romans the Romans were already corrupt themselves if they named a city corrupt that's double corruption they were so corrupt they called the city corruption hey boys sit with me okay so the book said Bible called phase ii corruption this was the city paul ran to the Apostle Paul he preached the gospel there and it was the capital city of the worship of eros eros is a goddess of sex the largest temple of eros was in Corinth there still remains over there today and my wife and I went to to the Greece in the area they were poor was we saw these temples there still there and in those temples they they had the worship of God goddess eros they got this massive statue that was there of a naked woman and then they had this colonnades of columns massive temple biggest one in the whole Roman Empire and on the size of the temple were these marble slabs the size of a human and those slabs were used for people to worship the god of eros by having sex in the temple so the way you wish god of else you bring fruits you bring oblations you bring wine and then you get someone to have sex on the altar and that's how you get the protection and the fertility of the goddess of arrows it was a it was a center for sex it was a religion pagan religion obviously would group around that whole place was prostitute houses where people were available for worship look at it go back to check on the internet this stuff on internet and their job was to make themselves available to help you worship this is why in the book of Corinthians you find where Paul talks about homosexuality and about lesbianism because this was a big business around the temple you traveling far from Egypt and you want to stop off and worship you got to probably someone to worship with so give me 50 bucks we go to worship so prostitution is found in the book of Corinthians because that's was the biggest business in the city of Corinth that's why the Romans called it the center of corruption Corinth now the way you identified the prostitutes is very interesting in their culture the male prostitute led us here grow that's how you recognized him and the female prostitute would make her here lo she would cut it here off so you can identify who was available by just looking at them their parents that's how it worked so when you went to Corinth if you saw a guy with long hair you know that he was a prostitute both male or female prostitute you know he goes both so homosexuality was very big in Corinth and then you see a woman with short cut here and all kinds of jewelry all over her then that was a female prostitute and that could be both sides lesbian or heterosexual not way this was big business they actually discovered that all around the temple is little Hut's whether they live near the temple available for business poor when inthere preach the kingdom of God and received the word and the church was birth in Corinth and most of the people got saved were former prostitutes I'm trying to show you how law corrupts everything and so these people got saved they they walked away from their old lifestyle and they began to meet in church houses build houses around the place where they come fellowship and many of them would would be going to the church house and the woman said not short here because here don't grow because he got saved and they'd be going toward the church house and man would come or even lesbians would come and say look I want to do business and they would say I don't do that anymore they'd say but look at you you you look like you do it and it became a problem then the man who wore long here with earrings all over their nose and stuff and this is very common in those days the woman would a man would say I wanted to say I don't need you to congressional and a guy would say no I changed my life I follow Jesus Christ now and it became such a problem that the church leaders wrote wanted Aaron says look we're having difficulty you know with these people try to stay clean trying to stay right because they're under pressure from these people who were coming to worship and Paul wrote this poses tell their women to cover their heads until they hear grow because woman's here is a glory and tell the man the cut they hear and tell a woman to take up all that jewelry because that's part of the recognition of a prosecutor and tell him to drop dress morosely that mean think of all that stuff Paul was an establish in a law for the church he was correcting a problem sorry a prostitute problem anybody would be this important so he walked away saying Paul said everybody in the Bahamas must wear hats if Paul came to some churches today he think everybody must have been prostitute and they made it a religious law Paul says a woman's here is her glory take off your hat let's see your glory I didn't like how to find my wife perhaps once in the world but it's for fashion not for holiness you put on your bracelet and your your jewelry but that's not a sign that you are available you're available you go down to some of the prostitute red-light districts and you can tell who's available they wear in what they call I don't know them call them things down a little mini they've Mickey or something they higher than Minnie you know you can tell them these shoes that high and all the stuff on you could tell they are available which means that if you come to church like that we began to wonder about you in other words whatever the culture identifies as being questionable you need to moderate that in your life if you mare it don't advertise your brass why they for your husband MA and if you saved no advertiser breast why that's for your future husband you're not for sale I hope so here we have these laws that people develop that are not the laws of God sometimes porn would even want that me to say now what I'm telling you is not from God this is my opinion he says so we're not here to put pressure on you with laws created by men but at the same time the kingdom of God is the country and it has laws unlike any country you got to obey laws to live in that society let's read the words of Jesus right across the page Matthew chapter 5 Jesus said these words do not think that I have come to destroy the law now why does he say this because here he is preaching a message of a kingdom and he knew that the Pharisees and Sadducees and those religious leaders would attack him on the issue of law they'd say oh are you telling us that we can just live loose and don't obey God and matter of fact many times they would bring up Moses a Moses laws are you telling people to break Moses laws so he started by saying first of all let me just clear the air do not think that I have come to abolish the law and this has been the problem in the 20th century Church we have gone to the extreme where we have become so graceful we are lower less we become so bent on forgiveness of God that we use it to violate God's laws oh I'll be forgiven tomorrow starts in now that's what we say oh I can always go to God after I do this and he'll forgive me because he had to forgive me God he said go and live see and so we use that grace to violate God's law crisis look let's just clever it by the way this is the beginning of his ministry he begins in by saying look the kingdom god is here and it doesn't come to destroy law it's built on law matter of fact reading the rest of us with me let's read together do not think I have come to abolish the law or the prophets not a word prophecy believe that in a minute but it's important because the prophets are simply those who repeated the law God state the law the prophets keep repeating it I didn't come to destroy the law nor those who repeated it but I came up but I came to fulfill the law I tell you the truth until heaven and earth disappear not the smallest letter nor the least stroke of a pen in the law will by any means disappear from the law until everything is accomplished do not think set up with me why does he have to say that because he knows what you think in I'm free free he says yes you're free but not from law you free from the burden of trying to please God by keeping rituals you're free from that you free from trying to impress God with all of your holy living and all of your you know oblations and all your sacrifices you free from that I've become the lamb you don't need it anymore you're free from that but you ain't free from keeping God's laws let's take it a step further do not think say that with me write this down please what does he mean by do not think it is a research for you the Hebrew word means do not consider it also means do not imagine he says get that out of your mind do not dream that I've come to abolish the law don't even think about it he says we have literally made it a doctrine I am free from law I'm under grace we've made it a doctrine we actually call it the doctrine of grace what are you telling God he says look do not assume that I have come to abolish the law do not suggest to anyone that law is finished to live in God's kingdom and expect God's promises to full people filled you have to also obey the laws of God's promises listen to me friends even in your own country you can't just live anywhere you feel like the constitute of our country and Jamaica and Barbados and st. Thomas and Kitson Grenada and Diana and America and Canada and England everyone has a constitution not a constitution has in it the promises to the a constitution is actually the aspirations of the people constituted in a document and in that document of all the promises made to the citizens that are their rights now in order to get your rights it also constitutes the laws by which the citizen will live so the citizen could demand the promises in their constitution in other words the condition for receiving which promised in the Constitution is you must be a law-abiding citizen you murder someone in the Bahamas we take you out of society and put you in a little cell why you can't no longer live in the environment where you can experience the promises of our Constitution are you telling me that God is worse than us is God slack concerning his promises you need to go back and read his Constitution one of God's favorite words write this down I his favorite word if you would do this if you would do that if you would obey me if you would keep F then I will then I will but the if it is before the dam so God pay my rent cos is okay if you pay your tithes now you see what you're going again you've messed up the whole conversation in other words we like the promises without the principles that's what we talking about here Chrysler do not imagine I have come to cancer God's laws I am God and I made the laws another meaning it means to not entertain the idea he means do not conceive the thought that I've come to destroy law get it out of your mind he says it also means I didn't come to abolish that the word abolish it means to destroy to set aside to invalidate to cancel or to eradicate I didn't come to Castle the law eradicate the law make it invalid or even to cancel it or set it aside I came to do the opposite what did he come to do he says I came to fulfill the law I wanted to put these two in here before we leave today write this down the law and the prophets I've done the research for you that's why I'm the teacher just write this down it's important because when you start telling this to your children around the dinner table you gotta explain this to them that's why you take notes you have to be in charge of the people in your home to help them succeed if you want to succeed young man you got to keep the laws of God do another way for law is word the Word of God what is the law the law is the original precepts and principles and standards and inherent regulations established by the Creator very important document statement a law is the original precepts the original principles and standards and they are inherent and they regulate the product and they are established by the Creator the car in the parking lot that you came here in has that exact same principle your car operates on the law called unleaded gasoline you did not decide that who decided that the manufacturer created the car and that is built into the car so your opinion doesn't affect that law if you like orange juice apple juice and you prefer to put that in your car the law doesn't respect it it it actually malfunctions because the car is not regulated by orange juice it is regulated by and let it gasoline not just gasoline unleaded if you put normal gas in your car it will affect the engine because there's certain ingredients in normal gasoline that will have a negative impact on the combustion chamber and you'll find your car Chicka Chicka Chicka Chicka having some problems because you use the wrong gasoline even so they would state sometimes right on your gas tank nozzle it put unleaded gasoline only because the regulation of that automobile is under the control of the law that the manufacturer built in God is smarter than Ford he is wiser than Mitsubishi he knows his creation matter-of-fact can I give you something to do go home today and get some alcohol exactly good alcohol pure alcohol expensive alcohol and pour it on the plant in your house it looks like water just pour it on the plan you don't need to kill that plant plants do not need alcohol they are regulated by what water so your personal opinion to destroy the plant plant you know what's killing us our personal preferences I prefer to shack up God say ok no problem I prefer to choose my own lifestyle does it ok no probably I don't need to kill you it kills you [Music] one thing when law it sets the creative free God doesn't kill maybe self-destruct your lungs is the most beautiful instrument in your body it's designed to suck in pure oxygen then the alveoli sac cells extract oxygen from the air and then they release carbon dioxide and then your lungs does something the muscles go and it blows over the carbon dioxide which is poison what a beautiful instrument your lungs are they take in they extract and they excrete they take in good oxygen they release poison carbon dioxide God made that instrument to do that so here you are sucking on a cancer rate it was not designed to extract nicotine and carcinogens from the air it cannot handle the poison in that cigarette so it becomes trapped in the cells of the law and begins to burn the cells and you end up having what they call bronchial poisoning your long turns black so God says let everything have breath praise Lord you can embrace him you you you have violated the law your lawns were not made for nicotine who kills you you kill yourself some of the more talented people in the Bahamas are there today because of cancer ads we lost their gifts we lost their talents to a leaf [Music] they regularly life that's what laws do the second point is profits he said I didn't come to destroy the law or the prophets prophets are the individuals who were chosen by God to declare teach magnify the laws of God and the declaration that's all prophets do prophets don't create law they simply repeat them if you read the Old Testament prophets they kept saying the word the Lord came unto me the word of the Lord in other words the law returned to me to remind a nation that you're going wrong prophecy says okay if you continue in this direction against God's law there shall be national disaster that's what profit to do they don't invent information they repeat information this is why you shouldn't believe any prophet who conjure up things that are not in the Word of God you know the Lord told me that he must give me $100 evil bless you now wait a minute brother bigger profits going around selling stuff we gotta be cautious and some of y'all are spooky but all now but some of y'all are spooky going around these profit groups collecting information from people who are questionable let me just say something very simple the more you study the Word of God the less profits come into your life [Applause] don't go around collecting people's opinions of you if you become spiritually mature you hardly have a prophet prophesy to you and if they do prophesy to you if they are genuine prophet they never tell you anything new they simply remind you of what you already heard God say for a long time that's the true part I remember in the book of our Acts when Paul went to visit a city and there was a guide in an Aggie bus and he had two daughters and they were in a meeting with Paul now port already talked God to Paul when he was not from the horse he says look you shall go before Caesar and then you shall be tried on my behalf and you shall testified me before the king okay talk to him revenues of the horse ten years later Paul in the city and two young girls in the church got up said prophesy and before Paul they found his hand and they said thus saith the Lord when you go to Rome they shall they shall put you in chain and he shall speak before the king pause it thank you very much I already know that read the Bible Paul so determinant you sometimes folks want to be impressive take on the middle I had a dream last night the Lord so you know difficulties pastor miles listen I had that since I was born the Lord sure but you gonna have a rough year hey hey which one wasn't stop going around trying to impress me with your funny stuff matter of fact there got telling a rough time the Bible says all them who live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer a lot of persecution I don't need you to tell me that that's in the book anybody get into any persecution lately praise the Lord then you are right on target that means you are righteous the prophets are those who simply repeat the laws of God which means when God wants to fix a country he simply reinstates laws when God wants to fix a family he simply reinstates his laws when God wants to fix an individual he simply reinstates his and that's why this year God's command to us this reinstate my laws stop asking me for blessings in violation of laws you said it ain't working which may work and you ain't working it you know it's like it's like buying grade-a orange juice from Florida putting it in your gas tank filling it right up and then wonder why the car I am working you are working it it says gasoline God doesn't weep at orange juice make it new to this place I came to fulfill the law says I did my research for you again the Hebrew word here is very interesting it means to enforce I didn't come to destroy the law I came to what enforce it I'm so glad we got so many lawyers in our church because the lawyers I just love lawyers man they they're the best wants to read the Bible because the Bible is actually a book of law I'm gonna have some of them preach in the during the series let him preach because they need to explain to your the power of law one of the problems with our country is we got laws on the books but it's not being enforced crisis look the problem in the world is you guys know my instructions and nobody's enforcing it I want to say this again listen to me carefully God does not wink at sin God does with sin head-on God didn't forgive you a sin he died with it you forgive him but it didn't get away it killed him God don't cover up someone gotta pay you know Jesus said he said no he said woman you were caught in adultery good he's in ok I forgive you but then he said afterwards go and sin no more that means go and obey the law secondly the word fulfilled means to explain you know when when you go to a lawyer the lawyer gets paid to explain the law that means he is there to help you fulfill it and thirdly the word fulfill means to restore the meaning of something you know nothing is worse than having an old document that you don't understand what the writer meant legally they call it the spirit of the law so the two parts of the law there's a written law and there's the spirit of the law the written law is called the code that's the document the hard copy the spread of law is the intent that was in the mind of the one who wrote it now they may be completely different in most cases because if you don't know what the person meant then you put your own interpretation on the law and develop a completely different culture America is going through that right now for the last 100 years maybe they've been going through a problem with the law because the law give us and the law writers of American Constitution died they are dead and so they gotta figure out what do they mean when they say freedom of speech what do they mean and so in the 1960s the young people started burning the flag and Congress spent almost six months trying to figure out did they mean brand of life is burning the flyover country Finnish speech now a flag is the most important symbol of a country because it is the constitution of the very essence of the people this is why you couldn't fly a flag in your home upside down or backward or something or have it raggedy in other words the government suppose in force of law drive around see flags and if it's all ripped up if they take that down why because that's the people people ain't rightly it's against the law to fly a flag that is torn did you know that so when is that burning the flag began to become confused they means freedom to burn the flag or not burn the flag and they couldn't go accident you can't ask their people would they man take a deep breath you know the King of God is the only country where the government made the laws then the government died then the government rose again just to make sure you understand what the government met come on get a government a big brave right there and then the government grant a step further the government gave you a permanently residential lawyer living on the inside of you and he's called the counselor just in case you get confused you don't need no pastor to tell you what to do listen to the guy living on the inside of you called the Holy Spirit you know when you sinner he came to restore the meaning to fulfill then it also means to restore the spirit of the law the intent let me get into this deeply during the year you're gonna see I'm gonna go to some of the laws in the Bible that are so amazing for example Christ in the same chapter Jesus began to attack the misinterpretation of the laws for example in this chapter he said something that really made those guys angry he said this this is interesting it's just a couple more silly I want to show you something look at Matthew 5 these guys were incredible they've kissed them all up so badly that you didn't know what murder was anymore in chapter 5 they break at chapter 5 verse 17 do not think that I have what come to destroy the law or the prophets okay alright look at verse 21 he says for example I heard you all say he rendered him even expose your misinterpretation I heard y'all say do not murder he says I did say don't not murder that's an attack commandment he said what you guys have done with it is you said do not do any murder or anyone who murders will be subject to judgment he said but what I meant was look at verse 23 he said what I met was the spirit of that law was anyone who was angry at his brother you know what I know always precedes murder murder is too late he says you kill him in your mind first and that's my country my country says if you kill them in your mind they're dead all you right now is for opportunity anybody with me he goes on top with adultery he says in your country you all say don't commit adultery look at verse 27 he said nación law in other words don't get caught that's what you mean he says you may don't get caught he said what I meant was if you just look at the brother he's fine if you just look at the woman hmmm-hmmm and you imagine you are with now he says you commit adultery all you're waiting for now is opportunity when I understood that I had to repent because I had to I commit adultery so many times don't look at me you too come on clap and feel a little bad about it a man in other words his country deals with the mind level the thought level because every sin begins with a thought if I can stop it at the top level it'll never reach the manifestation level his laws have been restored to the meaning level the spirit of it write this down it also means I came to demonstrate how to practice this law you look at a woman and if your eye is single your whole body says it's full of light that means if you look at a person and your eye is pure then everything that you think about them is pure I can't show you how to practice this chapter is an important chapter is full of the correction of the laws he says when you give don't let you right handled your left hand otherwise you don't go around telling everybody I gave us a good sinner I gave her some lift I gave her some grits he's telling people that give her grits privately man protect her face he said when you pray don't tell everybody I prayed you know every end that's in the Bible the Bible says the Pharisees love to walk in the marketplace saying their prayers that others may see they're easy but when you pray in my country you go in the secret place no man sees the print but they see the results give God a praise different noise and that's why we're here in this series he closes it by saying this if anyone breaks one of the least of these laws and teaches others to break them they are called least we're not in a religion in a country in the kingdom of God do not encourage people to violate law he says encourages them to keep them do you know what I'm doing right now I'm so excited it's gonna be the best year of my life because I'm actually doing exactly what he says he says but whoever practices and teaches others to practice the laws shall be called great in the kingdom of God I don't know but you but somehow I got a feeling God's gonna call me a great man in his country he closes it by saying this before I tell you that unless you're right positioning with the law exceeds that of the religious people who are so legalistic that they can't even see God anymore then you would not enter Kingdom lifestyle the law of God is not burdensome it's not do bahattin don't get lipstick and don't wear Roche and don't put on that false eyelashes don't wear hair extensions and you know we talking about that's not we talk about bondage he's saying but don't lie don't steal don't commit adultery that's a different kind of law there's some folks who don't don't wear earrings don't wear makeup and they commit adultery mr. point I'll never forget the young lady came to me I'll never forget this I had just come back from school working for the Minister of Education and I had my little cubbyhole up there you know an office and that place on Shirley Street and this young lady came to work there for the summer and she was a Seventh day Adventists yes I said that and she came to me and she said oh you Myles Munroe know what happened that Bible study down hotel I said yes ma'am that's right yeah and she was assigned to work with me okay by the way please encourage the babies to be in the nursery because every sound of a child goes on this recording and it's sent around the world so please thank you for cooperating anyhow okay so it's important so this woman said she said to me she says but dr. Monroe she said you know something you are living in sin you are not a true man of God I says why she says y'all meet on Sundays I said oh she said you're not keeping the Sabbath and then she says I I guess you also eat lobster I knew he can't I mean she laid into me and I'm sitting there of course you know I've been around this on my life I listened to her and let her give a speech and I mean she was so excited you know young woman just laying in Maghrib you kidding me correcting me and I just said they never said a word and I said well tell you what you pray for me okay he pray for me she said but you don't understand you are going to hell this is true story and and I said okay then you pray for me you pray for me she said she said yeah I can pray for you I believe God God wants to save you but you need to get your life started out and she really was trying to you know sort me out anyhow we worked there too wholesome she was there for three months and the second month she was working there one morning she came to work and she walked in my office just said now this is the chair and she was very depressed very sad and I looked at her I didn't say a word I said you sure you want to come in this office this is a sinner's office she just said and they just had a crying weeping tears coming down her face and I said what's wrong I can't believe this I said what happened she'd just break down loud and just started weeping so I walked over to the chair put my hand on her shoulder and I said whatever it is it's gonna be okay it's gonna be okay what what's what's wrong and she says I said you are what I am pregnant she says and I don't know how to tell my mother and my father I said wait a minute you keep the Sabbath you don't eat lobster you don't eat count you know you I'm confused here but you don't keep your leg closed in a crazy let no man judge you the Bible says according to Sabbath's the issue is not about the day it's about the principle of rest [Applause] there she was broken so I said I said okay I'll tell you what I'm gonna help you I'm gonna help you I said okay I am going to meet with your parents with you and I'm going to break it to them and help them through this you would do that everything I said I said yes ma'am sinners do great things I called her mother got the number call him on the job a mother to work right on Bay Street and I said please can you have your husband we with me in the morning and my office here at the mission of Education with your daughter something has come up and it's very serious and I need you to be present and they said what happened I said don't worry about it you know it's gonna be okay but I need you to be here and they came sat down with her and I had to help her break that news how far the stunt Sabatino his face turned stirring mother staunch Adventist and there's the daughter pregnant not married and I told him a story I said you know a lot of people makes mistakes like this and you got to restore them forgive them who God is very forgiving I said I said I think there's a lesson to be learned from this door I said you know Moses said something about trying to keep these strict laws he said if you try to keep all and you break one you are guilty of all I said perhaps it may be helpful for you now to become a little bit more sensitive to people including your daughter and forgive them this baby is not your grandchild wasn't born in the perfect condition but the baby is perfect this child is not illegal it's a legal child your daughter is illegal I recommend you keep this child we prayed to this day they asked my best friends that young lady she's in the church right [Applause] don't ask new it is I can tell you you see we're not talking about legalism we talking about keeping the laws of God except your righteousness exceeds the religious people's rituals you cannot enjoy kingdom nightstand let's pray father thank you for your word help us to enjoy our life help us to enjoy doing right hallelujah help us to enjoy obeying the laws that make us successful help us to enjoy following your path that leads to life and godliness that was to enjoy not sitting because it's the way of our culture help us to enjoy the community of the saints who believe in the goodness of god but also the judgment of god we thank you today that this community of faith shall grow from glory to glory we shall hear more witnesses and testimonies of your goodness there shall be a kingdom culture in this place forgive us Lord for using your grace to abuse your law we repent we are we now ask you by your Holy Spirit to give us a week of sensitivity to our conscience not our conscience is your word engrafted in our minds speaking to us daily thank you for the Holy Spirit that uses our conscience to remind us of what is right and good we leave this place focusing on your law we thank you for your grace but you didn't come to destroy the regulations either not legalism but love for if you love you always give laws no thank you for loving us so much that you chastise us for you certain you're worried if a man doesn't chastise his son he hates us thank you for my mother and father who made us stay out on the road it was a law don't play the streets because they loved us so much they didn't want us to get killed help us to see your laws that way you trying to protect us not restrict us let there be decisions today to keep your law your heads bow on your eyes ecology pretties pray with me Heavenly Father I heard your voice I submit your laws I submit to obey them now help me by your Holy Spirit to keep the laws of your country that I may experience the benefits of your promises no good thing will he withhold from me if I walk uprightly this day is the beginning of upright walk I thank you that I'm not alone you are with me to help me and I will experience Kingdom life then Jesus thank you once again for listening to this message as we hope that it has been a blessing to you our goal 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Length: 68min 40sec (4120 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 05 2020