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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, yeah, not kid, not connected, perfectly fine, and not contributing. But human beings can only be fulfilled when we are creating, connected, 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 going to love the entire thing. I invite you to go back and watch the entire thing in sequential order. So if this is, if you're jumping in the middle somewhere, go back, watch the first video, then the second, then the third. Like, watch these videos in sequential order. They will bless you beyond measure.
We are different. We are different. Our fundamental difference, um, 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, first thing He does is bless. 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 kingly language. It's king language, right? Because a kingdom is a king's domain, and you can only have dominion where you dominate, where you rule, okay? Therefore, what God 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. All right? So in the, you know, in the United Kingdom, you have British citizens and you have British subjects. Countries that were colonized who applied for British citizenship would get a passport that said "British subject." Okay? 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 the, with, 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. Um, 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, 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, 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 gotta figure out what is it I am here to rule? What realm should I rule over? Come on now, Bishop. What, what, what domain should I dominate? Okay. And what you're going to find fundamentally, uh, is that your dominion, uh, is going to be linked to a skill set. Oh, wow. What you say? Yeah. Because see, see, it, it requires a skill to, 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, you know, a viable pro, uh, 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. Um, 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. Um, and what we've got, you know, we, 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 explain how that scarcity is, 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 of, He's talking, He's talking. 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. Right? So every tree freely, right? Or every freely. Lack words or abundance words? Total abundance. And then He said, "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it." How many is that? One. "For in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." So at, here's, here's what that's showing us. 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 one. "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, "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" and 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, so the woman said, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden." Guess what she did? She took out "every" and "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, 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 is in the midst of the garden," here's what she said, "God has said, ye shall not to 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. Um, because Satan wanted her to pay attention to what was missing. Why? Because he understands where attention goes, intention follows. Yeah. 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, and pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat." And she 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, um, 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. Um, and the more we focus on what's missing, the more likely we are to lose what we already have. Geez. 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. So how's that, Bishop? That's rich.