Rules Of The Kingdom (Part One)

*I am not certain how long this particular article will be, but I do know that it's length will have no equal to it's content, for it's content is essential and vital for every individual who professes citizenship in the Kingdom of God. It is about laws, rules, statutes, commandments, precepts, judgments, guidelines and boundaries. In the book of Genesis when God the Creator uttered His word and formed the earth and everything in it and on it, he set invisible boundaries and rules for everything he created. The scripture tells us in chapter one of Genesis that the earth was without form and void and darkness covered everything. "And God said, Let there be light ... and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness Night'. Here, we read what we can consider to be one of the first unwritten laws of God. The law was that light was to rule the Day, and darkness was to rule the night. The boundaries were set and they could not override the spoken word of the Creator. ( See Ps. 19:1-9). In verse 11 of this same chapter, God performs another creative act. He creates the grass, herb yielding seed, fruit trees yielding seed after his kind whose seed is in itself. The earth obeyed Gods command, (Gods law). Thus, the earth brought forth grass, herbs, and fruit trees that were impregnated with their own ability to reproduce themselves after their own kind. Simply stated, the law established by God was that the seed of the plum cannot, once planted, produce oranges because that was not the established law of the Creator God. The plum tree can only produce plums, the apple tree can only reproduce apples and so on. In verse 16, it is written, "And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the Day, and the lesser light to rule the Night."If you will notice, not only does each light have a boundaries, they also have separate degrees of strength, distinguishing one from the other. He made the stars also. Here again, we see an unwritten law or rule, the first being that the greater light, the sun, would have dominant rule and rule the day, while the lesser light, the moon, and the stars, would rule at night. The boundaries were set by the word of God, the rule established and it has been that way ever since, and it will stay that way until the end of the age. End part one.

Later we will continue to learn the meaning and purpose of ruler ship so we can begin to see the importance of boundaries, commandments, statutes and laws.

OZETTA BARGE DAVIS Editor