Previously in this series... Just like God, when we see his whole purpose, original intent, creation, connection, and contribution, that's why human beings... See, an animal is perfectly fine not creating, not connecting, and not contributing.
But human beings can only be fulfilled when we are creating, connecting... contributing and contributing so anyway that's what i thought of when you were talking about that man that is so powerful and that's that that's yeah that's it right i know you like this part of this video series but you're gonna love the entire thing i invite you to go back and watch the entire thing In sequential order. So if you're jumping in the middle somewhere, go back.
Watch the first video, then the second, then the third. Watch these videos in sequential order. They will bless you beyond measure. We are different. We are different.
And our fundamental difference is in this creative appetite and capacity. This puts us in the God class. Now, when God has made man in his image and likeness, the first thing he does is bless them. okay and because god called their name adam adam later called her name eve right right he blessed them and he said to them be fruitful do multiply replenish the earth subdue it subdue it and have dominion right so dominion is kingdom language it's king language right because a you kingdom is a king's domain and you can only have dominion where you dominate where you rule okay therefore what god is is showing here is the fundamental difference between the kingdom of god and the kingdoms of men so here's the difference between the kingdom of god and the kingdoms of men The kingdoms of men typically have a king, a royal family, a royal extended family called the nobility or the aristocracy, and every other person is a subject in the kingdom. Alright?
So in the United Kingdom, you have British citizens and you have British subjects. So countries that were colonized who applied for British citizenship would get a passport that said British subject. And then they'd have to fight for citizenship because citizenship would give you more rights. But in the eyes of the aristocracy, everyone that is not a part of the royal family is a subject.
now I've got an issue with the word subject which is that it starts out with sub right and anything that is sub is what it's underneath which suggests that the royal family is The object governing the subject, right? Okay. But in the kingdom of God, you will notice God does not give Adam dominion over Eve. He does not give Eve dominion over Adam.
He doesn't give people dominion over people. Why? Because Jesus is not the king of subjects and slaves. He is the king of other kings. Come on now.
Come on now. Let's go. So that in the kingdom of God, everyone is the royal family. All right?
There are no subjects in the kingdom. We are the royal family. Jesus is the king of other kings.
So this now is the revelation or the realization of your own royalty. like it's it's it's really difficult to understand the kingdom until you get a revelation of your own royalty come on now right it's and it's it's the power of who you are in essence and who you are from god's perspective from god's perspective the earth and its resources should be governed by the people who are governed by god they are the royal family you And therefore they are the kings. And, you know, once you realize your royalty, then the search is on. The search is on now for my domain.
Because since my domain is not other people. And I can't be a king without a kingdom. I've got to figure out what is it I am here to rule.
What realm should I rule over? Come on now, Bishop. What domain should I dominate? Okay. And what you're going to find fundamentally is that your dominion is going to be linked to a skill set.
Oh, wow. What you say? Yeah. Because, see, it requires a skill to transform the natural resource of the earth into a valuable item that we can use to enrich humanity. In other words, God doesn't make tables and chairs.
He makes trees. We, because we are creators, will look at the tree and we'll see tables and chairs in it. Come on now. And so then a skill set, right, of transforming natural resource, which is what we have dominion over, into a viable product or service, that's a skill set. Carpentry, okay?
Let's all say carpentry. Carpentry. Now I can be the king of my thing when it comes to carpentry. And once I'm king of my thing, I am no longer competing with you. Come on now.
Once I'm king of my thing, you simply cannot compete with me. I don't need to be you. You don't need to be me because we can all be kings of our things. We can be masters of our mission.
I tried to tell you. And what happens now is I'm no longer intimidated by your progress. I'm inspired by it.
Come on now. All right. And what we've got, you know, we've got too many people who have embraced the doctrines of scarcity. Yes.
And they are believing that if you're winning, I'm losing. Well... If, you know, if you're getting more, I'm getting less.
But that's perhaps the first lie. 100%. I mean, I like the way you deal with that.
Could you just... how that scarcity is the lie? Well, first and foremost, we have to understand that the very first temptation in the history of the world was the temptation to focus on lack.
So, what do you mean, Myron, the very first temptation in the history of the world was the temptation to focus on lack? Well, here's what God said. Genesis chapter 2, verses 16 and 17. God said, He's talking about, He says, Of every tree of the garden, thou mayest freely eat. So he said, every tree, freely eat. Every, freely.
What are the words? Every, freely. Okay, so every tree, freely eat, right? Are every and freely lack words or abundance words? Total abundance.
And then he said, but of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it. How many is that? One. For the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
So here's what that's showing us. It's showing us that Adam and Eve had everything but one thing. They had everything but one thing. Here's what Satan did.
Genesis chapter 3, verse number 1. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. By the way, you need to understand how Satan operates. He operates in the realm of subtlety. He does not operate in the realm of overtness.
Satan is always covert. He is never overt. He does not tell big lies. He tells little lies.
And so here's what he said. The serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, yea, hath God said ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden.
So here's what he did. He added the word not. and took out the word freely.
Does that change the meaning? 100%. He added the word not, took out the word freely. When he added the word not and took out the word freely, he got Eve to thinking about something that was not even in her consciousness. Right.
He got her to start thinking about the tree she didn't have. She said, now, by the way, Satan is a master at changing words. Why? Because he understands something we still don't understand in 2022. And that is this. Words are not just a communication tool.
Words are the window through which we see the world. So if you change what you say, it changes what you see. If I don't call it adultery, it doesn't seem that bad. If I call it an affair, it sounds like a party and maybe I should bring a gift and flowers.
Is what I'm saying making sense? So, the woman said we may... eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden.
Guess what she did? She took out every end freely. Wow.
Because we don't want to offend anybody. We don't want to call it what God called it, original intent. We want to call it what everybody else calls it so nobody's offended by what we call it. Oh, y'all picking up what I'm putting down.
So here, we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden, but of the tree that's in the midst of the garden, here's what she said. God has said, you shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it lest you die. But guess what? God never said don't touch it. She was trying to use willpower to do something willpower can't help you do.
Because Satan wanted her to pay attention to what was missing. Why? Because he understands where attention goes, intention follows.
And as soon as he got her attention on the tree that she couldn't have, he knew she would put her intention. on the tree that she couldn't have. And so here's what happened.
It says, when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, pleasant to the eyes, desires to make one wise, she took the fruit thereof and did eat, gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat. Now, here's what we see from that. There's one tree they couldn't have.
They had apple trees and pear trees and plum trees and peach trees and avocado trees and olive trees and mulberry trees and trees upon trees upon trees upon trees that they could have eaten from. Here's what they had to do. As soon as she got her attention and intention on the thing that was missing.
she had to walk past all of her abundance to get to the things she lacked. And the more we focus on what's missing, the more likely we are to lose what we already have. And so the first temptation in the history of the world was for Adam and Eve to focus on what was missing.
And as soon as they focused on what they didn't have, they lost everything they did have. Woo! So, woo! How's that, Bishop?
That's rich.