Kingdom Concepts Revealed

It's really sad to me when, um, when I see people who go to churches and they have pastors who don't study, who preach proof-text messages. Proof-text message means that they look for a verse to prove the idea that they have in their head. And so they teach a lot of isolated doctrines, and they don't teach the scripture in context of itself. And so what happens is people end up believing that up is down and down is up, and good is evil and evil is good.

And like, when I see people leave comments like, "You, I mean, you could say myON has a really big head, and his beard is too white for his face, and his suits are ugly." And I don't care. Like, I, I don't care. But if somebody says, like, "Oh, this man is teaching so much evil," I feel sad for them because they don't know. And they really believe that what they're saying is true. They believe that they are somehow protecting people from the lies that I am spreading.

And like, I, somebody disagrees with me. Like, I am, I, I'm so not opposed to somebody who disagrees with me. A lot of times people disagree with me, and I find out I was wrong, and then I got to change it. That's a beautiful thing, right? But, um, but this whole idea that Christians are supposed to be broke as a joke and ready to choke and and and just living a sad, miserable existence on Earth until we all get to heaven, it's, it's, it's so not biblical. It's not biblical.

The Bible is a practical book. It's orders from headquarters. It's stuff we're supposed to be doing while we're down here. And it's not stuff we're supposed to be doing while we're here so we can get there. All the stuff that needs to be done to get us to heaven, Jesus did that. He did it. But the stuff we're supposed to do to make our lives better and the lives of the people we serve better, we're supposed to do that part.

And so, anyway, I just feel sad for people who don't understand these principles because the whole Bible is about the kingdom of God. Salvation is your entryway into the kingdom. Salvation is not the end goal. The scripture tells us in the Book of Revelation, the Revelation of Jesus Christ. By the way, the Book of Revelation is not the Book of Revelations. It's the Book of Revelation. It is the re—there's only one Revelation. There's only one person being revealed. It is the Revelation of Jesus Christ. It is not the Book of Revelations. There are not Revelations. It is the Book of Revelation. It is the Revelation of Jesus Christ. And in the book of the Revelation, in the first chapter, in the fifth verse, it says that He shed His blood for us to make us a nation of priests and kings. That's the purpose. It's why He shed His blood, not just to take us to heaven so we can escape Earth. He, God, put Earth here for heaven, not the other way around, as a place to expand His heavenly kingdom, His heavenly domain, His heavenly dominion. I'm fussing already, ain't I? Good. Am I getting you worked up?

So, so anyway, so, so I've been studying the Bible since I was, I've been reading the Bible since I was 16, and I've been studying it since I was probably like, study, like, legit studying, studying since I was in my 30s. And I'm 62, and I'm blown away by how new it is every time I pick it up. I'm blown away. I'm blown away by how practical it is and how, how infallibly every principle works just like He said it would when we work it.

And so, um, I'm going to ask Bishop a question that I think is a really, really good question, and I think his answer might not just help me, but it might help you. So here's the question I've got for you, Bishop. You've been studying the Bible for a long time. A while. Yeah. A while now. At least four or five hours. Yeah, or more. Okay. So you've been studying the Bible for a long time, many, many decades. Of all the success principles that you've discovered in the Bible, like, and when I say success, success is discovering God's purpose for your life, developing yourself for that purpose, and deploying yourself in that purpose. That's success, right? Sometimes it means you make a lot of money. Sometimes it means you end up getting your head lobbed off, like John the Baptist. Sometimes it ends up you preach a great revival and thousands of people are saved. Sometimes it means you preach for years and nobody repents, like Ezekiel, right? So don't want anybody to be confused what I mean when I say success, okay? So of all the success principles, now that I've chased all of the rabbits, and there's pelts all over the room, of all the success principles that you've discovered in the Bible, whether they be around business or life in general, whatever, what is the most mind-blowing biblical success principle you've discovered since you've been on this journey in the in the last four hours? In the last four hours, exactly.

Uh, well, first of all, greetings and salutations to, to one of the greatest minds and, um, contributors to the, the kingdom conversation in our generation. I, I, I genuinely think of you as a gift from God to our generation, and I celebrate you. We cherish you. And I, and I know that I speak on behalf of everyone. And it's always a pleasure, privilege, and an honor to just be in your presence because we talk what we're about to do is what we do in the car, in the restaurant, is what we do. And that iron sharpens the iron. So, of course, to me, the whole Bible is, is a set of principles. Exactly. The whole Bible is, is a set of success principles. And, and you only ever see that, I guess, if you look at it through a particular lens. I guess I inherited, um, a, a religious lens, a theological lens. The Bible was a theological book about religion for religious people to help religious people do religion, um, a little bit better, a little bit harder. Um, I guess I then begin to discover that that beliefs, um, have, have psychological implications and ramifications. And so I begin to discover this was not just the book of theology, it was also a book of psychology. And that, that, um, it was designed to help me think better and, uh, to think again, to think differently. That's actually the meaning of the word repent. And repentance is to have a second thought. And I realized, I guess, as I begin to look at our faith heroes, that God would often, um, He would typically change their thinking before He changed their life. Okay? He would, uh, give them a new sense of identity, um, a new, a new, I guess, sense of self before changing the circumstances. Because if you change someone's circumstances before you change their, their mindset, it's a matter of time before they bring the new circumstances back to the old state. And so, uh, I didn't stop there. I began to realize this was a book of economics. This was a book of sociology. This was a book of, I mean, that just, it was the wisdom of God compressed in the scriptures. And that it required a particular lens in order to, to, to see what you could see. So in answer to the question, what for me is, is, is the greatest, uh, and, and I'm going to say that this is a work in progress because I may discover something tomorrow as a result of conversing with you that just trumps what I'm about to say. Uh, but, but for me, perhaps one of the greatest overarching, uh, success principles in the Bible, uh, is right there in Genesis chapter 1. In fact, every, every success principle, uh, for me, is seeded in, in the Genesis. And in Genesis 1, we are told that human beings, that man is the image and the likeness of God. Mmm. He, he is fundamentally a reflection of God. Well, um, and what that means to me is that whatever God tells you about Himself, oh, He's gonna get me started, y'all. He is indirectly telling you about yourself. Come on here. And it means that however God did it, that's how you do it. Bishop, give me some of that. Give me some of that right there. Yeah. And so I began to look at how did God do it? You know, and, and this now raises a whole another issue, uh, for me. I'm going to put this down. Raises another issue because I think the version of Christianity that I inherited meant that a lot of the preachers used the Bible to spiritualize the material. Okay? So that if the Bible spoke about wealth or land or government and leadership, we would use the Bible to spiritualize that so that it meant something spiritual. And yet, what was clear to me in the Genesis is that the Bible is fundamentally about how God materializes the spiritual. Go ahead, Bishop. So, so, so here I was, spiritualizing the material, when Genesis 1 documents God materializing the spiritual. Go ahead. Now, and so if I'm going to get in the flow, uh, of God, if I'm going to be God-like, Godly, the image and the likeness of God, then I am uniquely equipped, gifted, called, graced, and anointed to materialize spiritual things. Go ahead. And the spiritual thing starts with my idea or my intention. Because what I see God doing in Genesis 1 is materializing His idea, materializing His intention. When He then says that we are His image and His likeness, that's a clue. He's saying, "Look, I'm saying this about me so that you understand something about you, that you have the potential to materialize your own ideas." And then, of course, when, when the New Testament describes the beginning in John 1, it literally says, "In the beginning was the Word." And this means that before there was a world, there was a Word. And here we are looking for a world when actually we have to start with the Word. The very next verse says, "All things were made by Him." And so since that Word, that Greek word is logos, and, and logos, um, really is a Greek term that describes reason, rationale, logic, wisdom, then all things are made when they are started with your logic, your logos, your wisdom, your rationale, your reason. But that logos only saves when it is incarnate and made flesh. So that my job is to take my thoughts, my ideas, my intentions, and materialize them. And that, for me, is a very powerful, overarching success principle. And whatever success literature I've ever read, reaches the same conclusion that that material things are made out of non-material substances. Now, I'm, I'm going to dive into that, okay? Because, because silence tells me when to go in deeper, okay? So according to, to Hebrews, we are told that the things which are seen, that's things that are observable, things that you can study under a microscope, the things that are seen are not made from things which do appear. Well, so that physical things have spiritual roots, right? And at a scientific level, at, at the level of physics, I guess that is the overarching conclusion that physical things are made out of non-physical substances. So that if you were to look at any physical thing through the microscope and break it down into its component parts, it's made up of molecules, right? But then if, if you go into the molecules, the molecules are made up of atoms. And then if you go into the atoms, the atoms are made up of subatomic particles, which are not things, they are information and energy. And so physical things, even at the physical level, are made up of spiritual things. So if my spirituality isn't making something, then how spiritual is it really? Wow. You know, if, if my faith doesn't have works, the Bible says it's dead. Dead. Wow. Can I pause there? That's, he comes out swinging, knocks you out in the first round, and then says, "Can I pause there?" So, so many things you said were so mind-blowingly amazing. Yeah. Well, yeah. Pick one. Um, it's interesting how even though I don't know if you and I have ever talked about this about our affinity for Genesis chapter 1, right? It's like, it's, it's like I say this often, um, it's like when Gen—God wrote Genesis 1, it's like He gave us a wink and said, "If I don't get to chapter two, you gonna be eye-," right? And, um, there's so many success principles in Genesis 1. And I love the fact that you said it's our job because this is what God did to give spiritual, uh, to take things that are spiritual, to, to materialize the spiritual. Um, because heaven gives Earth meaning, but Earth gives heaven expression. Yes. And so a lot of people are walking around feeling like they have a heavenly meaning, but they have, they are completely void of earthly expression. And it's, it's, it's why faith without works is dead. It's like, it's like you see somebody, we, I'm sure y'all had this happen before, you maybe somebody at the grocery store, "How you doing?" And they say, "I'm blessed." And right, and they unzip their face and a monster. Like, "If you're happy and you know it, tell your face." That's a child's song, right? And so I, I, I, I think that's, um, that's that's so good on so many levels. And I never thought about the fact that God said, "Okay, like, this is a success principle. I'm, you're made in my image, so how I do things is how you do things." Bro, that was a gold mine. So thank you for that. Thank you. Thank you. Can I share mine? Yes, because you got me all excited. I want to learn. Okay. So what's interesting to me is the God, because God doesn't change. He still does everything the way He's always done everything. So if it was a good idea in the beginning, it's still a good idea now. And we hear people, um, talking about, um, the economic pie, right? And people like to refer to the economy as a pie. But the economy from God's perspective is not like a pie, right? Um, because the pie implies that if it only has so many pieces, and so if I eat a piece, there's less for you. If you eat a piece, there's less for me. And so people go through life believing the reason they don't have is because somebody else has. But we know that's not true. Because God, when He put man on this Earth, and when I say man, I'm talking about Adam and Eve, because He called their name Adam, which means man. Adam later called her name Eve, right? So when God put man on the earth, He didn't put him in a bakery to make pies. He put him in a garden. And there are a whole lot of things that are interesting about a garden. In a bakery, you bake something, it has a finite number of pieces. But in a garden, when you produce something, consumption creates production. Exactly. What does that mean? So if you have a, a tree, if you have an apple tree in a garden or an apple orchard, you eat an apple. It might have six seeds. It's not going to grow six apples. Those six seeds can grow six trees. So the individual consumption creates a multiplication in production. That's how God's economy works. God, like, the, the media propagandists would have us to believe that we're running out of air and running out of water and running out of ozone and running out of this and running out of that because they bought into this limited resource lie. But the reality is, there is no limit. There are no limited resources. There's just limited resourcefulness. And so what's interesting is that God put man in a garden to dress it and to keep it. This is, this is the most mind-blowing success principle that I've discovered in my life. And so God put man in the garden to dress it and keep it. Dress means to cultivate. Keep means to protect. Um, now, the Garden of Eden, the garden is an enclosure. The word garden means enclosure, which means the Garden of Eden had a wall around it or a fence around it. And we know that it had a, a wall or a fence because when God put Adam and Eve out of the garden, He put an angel with a flaming sword by the gate. Now, you don't put a gate out in the middle of a field. You put a gate in a wall or a gate in a fence, right? So the Garden of Eden was an enclosure. Now, here's what else is interesting. The word Eden means pleasure. So we know that God's ideal environment for man is the protected place of pleasure and provision. That's God's ideal environment for man. Yeah. So if you are not living in God's ideal environment, the question I have to ask you is, why? Maybe the reason you're not experiencing life in God's ideal environment, the protected place of pleasure and provision, is because, just like Adam and Eve, there is a principle that God has given that you're not obeying. Now, here's what's really mind-blowingly amazing because I'm, this, that was introductory of what I'm thinking about next, which is the very first thing God told man to do: "Be fruitful and multiply, replenish the earth, subdue it, and have dominion." Well, so that all sounds good, but see, here's what we don't do, which would be good for us to do. We don't ask questions when we're reading the Bible or when we're reading anything. So He says, "Be fruitful." Like, maybe there's a question we could come up with, like, "What's fruitful?" Wouldn't that be a good question? Like, instead of assuming that we know what fruitful is, wouldn't it be a good thing for us to do? Well, what's fruitful? Well, here's what's really cool about that. Genesis chapter 1 tells us that too. In Genesis chapter 1, it tells us that a fruit is a living organism whose seed is in itself. Now, let me ask you a question. Who planted the Garden of Eden? God did. God planted the garden, but then He put the man there to dress it and keep it. And then God made man in His image. But then after God made man, what did He do? In Genesis chapter 2, God made man. In Genesis chapter 1, what did He do? In Genesis chapter 2, He formed man. What did He form man out of? The dust of the ground. So the very, very dust that God planted the garden in is the very dust God made the man from. Come on now. So when God told the man to be fruitful and multiply, He's giving us a clue. What He's saying is, "I have put a seed in you. I have planted a seed in the gardener of the garden." Y'all tracking? And, and what's interesting about that is, it, it's interesting that God told the gardener to take care of the garden, but then God planted a seed. Now, what is that seed that God planted in the man? God planted a seed, the seed of an aspect of God's creativity inside the man. Now, God's creativity is infinite. So God didn't give any man all of His creativity, but He gave every man some of His creativity. Come on now. Huh? You picking up what I'm putting down, Dr. Ron? Huh? And so He, He, He put, He planted an aspect of His creativity. Some of us, He planted a musical aspect of creativity. Some of us, a numeric aspect of creativity. Some of us, a scientific aspect. Some of us, an artistic aspect. And see, what happens is, God put an aspect of His creativity inside of us for the purpose for which He put us here. He put a different aspect of His creativity inside the person we're looking at, and we're looking at their creativity and then thinking, "Well, I don't know why God didn't give me what He gave them," because you ain't supposed to grow what they supposed to grow. Yeah. Now, here's what's interesting about that. Seeds, when you put them in the ground, when you put a seed in the ground, it grows in two directions. It has to grow down first before it can grow up. If it don't grow down, it can't grow up, right? And, and, and, and so, and we know, we know this part of the, of the plant as being the root, right? These are the roots. The roots happen below the ground. The reason they happen below the ground is because they are gravitropic in nature. What does that mean? That means they grow towards gravity and away from light. By the way, every foundational thing in life is gravitropic. Preparation is gravitropic. It's what you do in the dark when nobody's watching to prepare to do in the light what everybody sees. Wow. And if you don't do enough gravitropic work, all you're going to do when the light shines on you is to reveal to everybody that you failed to prepare when it was time to prepare. And so when it grows up, starts growing up out of the ground, that's, that's the part that grows up. This is the phototropic, phototropic nature of a plant, which is that it grows away from gravity and towards light. And see, here's the problem that people have. Everybody desires to be phototropic. We want to be phototropic on Instagram. We want to be phototropic on YouTube. We want to be phototropic on Facebook. We want to be phototropic on Twitter. We want to be phototropic on TikTok. We want everybody looking at us. But the problem is, when they look at us and we haven't done the groundwork, they see something that is nothing more than the imitation of a thing. Now, here's what's interesting. This plant that is growing, this plant of creativity that is growing inside of you, creativity that's growing inside of you, this plant—creativity is growing inside of you, this plant of potential that's growing inside of you, this plant of possibility that's growing inside of you, it is your job as the gardener to garden the garden that is you, to dress and keep the garden that is you. Okay? How do I do that? "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his, but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law do he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of waters, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season. His leaf also shall not wither, and watch this now, and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper." Now, let me ask you a question. What if that's true? No, it's definitely true. But here's the question: Has it been true for you? And here's what I mean when I say that. Have you been making sure you were planted by the river of water? So there are parallel passages that show us the same thing. So I'm supposed to dress and keep the garden. That's my job. I'm supposed to dress and keep the garden that is me. And so, so, so when the cultural hypnotic societal mechanism comes to throw the seeds of weeds in my garden through all the negativity that comes on all of the electronic income reducers, I'm supposed to make sure I keep my garden weeded. Am I talking too fast? I'm supposed to make sure that I am not inviting the evil one to come throw bad seed in my good field. That's why it tells us over in Philippians: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things." Why? Because you are supposed to dress and keep the garden that is you. Yes, sir. Isaiah 55: "Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God; for he will abundantly pardon. For my ways are not your ways, saith the Lord, neither my thoughts your thoughts: for as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts." But watch this: "As the rain cometh down and the snow from heaven, and WATH the earth, and maketh it bring forth in bud." Here's what that means. Let me, let me, let me pause right there. The rain and the snow come down from heaven, and they force, they make the earth bring forth. The earth doesn't get a choice. They make it bring forth in bud. Here's what God said: "So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereunto I sent it." So what is my job as the gardener of the garden? Well, I got to keep all the sower of the weed seeds out. I've got to make sure that I saturate the soil that is me with the water of the Word of God so that the Word of God can nurture and nourish the aspect of the seed of God's creativity that He put inside of me. And when I do that, it's not, I don't have to try anymore. I don't have to try. I don't have to try to be successful. I don't have to try to be joyful. I don't have to try to live righteous. I don't have to try. Why? Because the rain and the snow of the water of the Word of God produces the fruit of the spirit. And see, you got a lot of people trying to live right, and here's why they're trying to live right: because they are not full of the spirit. They're not full of the spirit of the Word. They're not full of the spirit of the Lord. They're not full of the spirit. Because here's what the scripture tells me in Ephesians chapter 5. There was Galatians chapter 5. Paul named 17 things. And he said, "Don't do these 17 things." He said, "If you do these 17 things, you shall not inherit the kingdom of God." If you do these 17 things, you will not inherit the kingdom of God. So here's what he said: "But do this one thing. Do this one thing, and you don't have to worry about the 17 things." He said, "Walk in the spirit, and you will not fulfill the lust of the flesh." We got too many people walking around trying not to fulfill the lust of the flesh instead of just going ahead and walking in the spirit. Sir, saturate the soil that is you with the Word of God without having an agenda. Without, see, see, so many people want to be right about the Bible. I just want to let the Bible affect me rightly. I don't want to have an agenda. I want, go, when I go to the scripture, my desire is God's agenda. I don't, I'm not, I'm not here to prove I'm right. I'm not here to prove that my doctrine is better than your doctrine. I am looking for orders from headquarters on how to fulfill the purpose for my life. And when I go to the scripture looking for that, and I've asked God to show me that, He is faithful to assist you, me, and anybody who's sincerely yielded, intending to the garden that is the gardener. That's well. Thanks very much, ladies and gentlemen. It's been great, great having you tonight. You're out of control. You're out of control, bro. But you know what? I, I, I think, I think that's worthy of a handclap moment because I'm like, that's just deep. It's so deep and profound. And God has the best content, right? God has the best content. He was never wrong about. I like to say God ain't right about heaven and wrong about everything else, right? Been a hurry, but no, that's just amazing. Uh, so I have nothing to add to that whatsoever. Right, right. Because I'm just digesting that. But there is a thought that, you know, in terms of these success principles, and you went to the garden, and as soon as you went to the garden, this is, but, uh, I do think that one, one of my most profound, overarching success principles comes from the garden, okay? Actually, many come from the garden. Come on here. But, uh, the one that I think, you know, beautifully dovetails into what you just shared is the fact that in the process of creation, God created, uh, each aspect of it in these creative days, right? And, uh, back to the, uh, uh, gravitropic and the phototropic, um, the creation would appear to have taken place at night, and the manifestation in the light, because with each of these creative days, we're told that "the evening and the morning were the first day." Okay? So that's night. So that's the, the groundwork piece that God's showing. This is how we do this, right? How we do the groundwork at night. So, so that, so it appears, it manifests in the light. But, but when you consider the fact that that God created, um, you know, the process of creation took place in these creative days, and then you get to Genesis 2, um, where God's intended environment for man, uh, is described, Eden, the pleasurable place, the protected place, the prosperous place. God doesn't create it. Instead, He plants it. Mmm. And this means that at one stage, the Garden of Eden was a field of mud. And it takes a certain faith and conviction to see a garden in your field of mud. Go ahead. And there are so many people looking for the microwave, readymade, uh, circumstance. Come on here. That you are overlooking the acres of diamonds that are in your field of mud. Overlooking the fact that God has already planted the seeds of your prosperity, pleasure, and provision well beneath, in the place of your assignment. And that, that, that it's going to emerge around you as you faithfully execute on your assignment. So I stopped looking for readymade situations. I started sensing what God had planted in my, my field because He plants the perfect environment for you, and it emerges over time as you dress and as you keep it. I just felt I wanted to mention that. It's a very powerful success principle. And I'm saying it for people who, who are, who are looking at someone else's garden and thinking, "Well, mine doesn't look like that quite yet." But because it's planted, it emerges over a period of time. And it emerges, you know, based on what, uh, myON has just shared, it emerges, um, in relationship to your growth, because ultimately, you are not just the gardener, you are yourself the garden. And so as you grow both, uh, down and up, the circumstances around you begin to mirror and reflect who you are and where you are. Come on now. Now, you know, it's, and, and this kind of brings me to this, this last piece before we do anything else, right? Hey, let's go. Which is the whole issue of management, right? The whole issue of management. Because Adam's job was to dress and keep the garden, and it hadn't rained, okay? It hadn't rained on the earth. And the Bible specifically says it hadn't. That, that, that a mist went up from the earth. But it says, "Why? Because there was no man to till it." And this would suggest that that actually, until you are ready to manage prosperity and provision and pleasure, that it's, it's waiting on your management ability. Let me give you a, a, a, a New Testament example of that. It, it, it, it is Matthew 25, which I, I consider to be one of the end-time parables, end-of-the-age parables, because Matthew 25 and Matthew 24, if you have a red-letter tradition, are all the same sermon, okay? So Matthew 24, when he talks about the end of the age, goes straight into 25, where he deals with three parables or parallels, okay? So there's the 10 virgins, there's the talents, there's the sheep and the goat. But when it comes to the talents, he specifically says, "To one he gave five, to another he gave two, to another he gave one, every man according to his ability." So that if you want more, you have to increase your ability. All right? God will not give you what you cannot manage. That's why He says, "If you're faithful with a little, you'll be faithful with much." And whatever He puts in your hand is a test to see how you handle that. And if you handle that appropriately, you qualify for more. So I believe this garden emerges around me as I tend to me. And tending to me means allowing that water of the Word to connect with the seed God planted in me so that it brings forth, it buds, it brings bread to the eater, seed to the sower, it all comes out of me and revolves around me. So good. And interestingly enough, as an addendum to your addendum, it's a night of addendums. As an addendum to your addendum, it's interesting that God said, "Be fruitful." But that wasn't all He said. He said, "Be fruitful and multiply." Well, the word multiply means to increase. So if the first thing that God told man to do was to be fruitful, produce on the, by the way, fruitful, to be fruitful means to produce on the outside based on the seed that God planted on the inside, because you're not going to plant an apple tree and grow an apple seed and grow an orange tree, right? The fruit that grows is going to match the seed that was planted, right? And so, so He said, "Be fruitful." That's the first part. And then, "Multiply." Multiply means increase. Why? Because in the words of the late, great Warren Wiersbe, "Any fool can count the number of seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed." And so when you plant a seed, it grows more than an apple, more than a tree. It grows a tree that has hundreds of apples, that maybe thousands over the decades, and then more seeds and more growth. So multiplication is the natural, it's like God's natural order. God's math is multiplication. It's not addition. So that's number one: be fruitful, multiply. And then He says, "Replenish the earth." The word replenish means to fill up. Well, what am I filling up the earth with? All the stuff that I'm multiplying, right? See, here's, here's what fascinates me. We have these people who, who haven't really thought about anything that they think they've thought about, because most people don't think, they just think they think. Um, and they'll go out into the forest and they'll look at a creek and they'll see a beaver dam and they'll say, "That's so organic." And they'll see an ant hill, they say, "That's so organic." They'll see an eagle's nest in a tree, that's so organic. And then they fly over the city of Tampa, Miami, that's so or—inorganic. We're destroying the earth. Well, here, here's the question I have for you: When a beaver or an eagle or an otter or whatever uses its limited resourcefulness to make something that makes its life better, why is that organic? But when human beings use our unlimited resourcefulness to create something that makes our lives better, how dare we look at that like it's inorganic or unnatural? Right? It is the most organic. A city is as organic, yeah, as the forest. Maybe even more organic. "Be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth, subdue it." What does subdue mean? It literally means to trample down. It doesn't seem to fit, does it? Be fruitful, produce on the outside based on what I put on the inside. Multiply, that means to increase. Replenish the earth, fill it up. And trample it down. What? Why is He telling us to trample it down? Because God understands that just like in the laws of thermodynamics, the law of energy comes first, the law of entropy comes second. Disruption always follows intention. And so God is saying, "When I'm telling you to go out and create something, the first thing that's going to show up is opposition." Yeah. And difficulty. Always. God said, "When it shows up, step on it." Yes, sir. Stomp it. Yes, sir. Now, if He's telling us to step on it, we know two things about it: it is both smaller than us and it is beneath us. So I will never face an obstacle that's bigger than me or above me. They are always smaller than me and always beneath me. "Be fruitful, multiply, replace the earth, subdue it." And then He said, "And have dominion." Dominion means rule, authority over. We were put here as an extension of God's authority to spread heavenly culture in the earth realm. So that's what you made me think of.