Kingdom Principles

Kingdom Principles

creative rights. We rule it because of privilege. We are kings by delegation, not by creation. God gave us ruler ship but not ownership. But our rulership “charter” includes a sense of ownership because He gave us sover eignty within our earthly dominion. BINDING AND LOOSING This transfer of ruling authority over the earth from God to man has major implications for all of us regarding our daily circum stances and our relationship to our society and culture. Therefore, it is important that we understand it. God has given us authority over the earth. That means we’re in charge . Whatever we say goes. This gives us a lot of freedom to do what we please within our domain. But it also means that we can’t blame God for everything that goes wrong, yet that is exactly what we do. “Why does God allow so much suffering in the world? Why doesn’t God do away with evil? Why does He allow sickness to continue? Doesn’t He care? Why doesn’t God do something?” Why doesn’t God intervene? Because this is not His domain. He will not intervene in the affairs of this earthly domain without the permission of those who hold dominion authority here. And who holds dominion authority? Every human being on earth who is a cit izen of the Kingdom of Heaven. God is not to blame for human evil and suffering. We brought these things on ourselves by our own self ishness and rebellious spirit. God wants to help but won’t intervene unless invited to do so by Kingdom citizens who know their domin ion authority. Through prayer we invite God to act in our domain. This is what Jesus meant when He said:

I tell you the truth, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven (Matthew 18:18).

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