Kingdom Principles

Kingdom Concept #4

4. The constitution contains the rights established by the king for the citizens. In addition to the benefits and privileges accruing to Kingdom citizens, the constitution also delineates and sets forth their rights. Rights in a consti tution are important because they are the grounds for making law, which is the next stage. If I said to you, “I give you my car, my house, and my boat,” I have just expressed my will. If I then document it on paper, it becomes a testament and your constitution. Now I have to make sure that laws exist to protect what I gave you. At that point, I would call in a lawyer to draw up a for mal document because a lawyer knows the law of the environment to protect the piece of paper that states my will for you. The lawyer reads it and makes sure it is in a certain form where it becomes integrated into the sys tem of society with the rights to protect it. Then, if someone contests it, you can go to court. The court is the law, and the court says, “This is a legal document. Everything written here he has a right to receive.” So the constitution contains your rights, and the laws protect them. Therefore, the constitution is the source of law; it is not the law itself. If God says, “I will bless you, I will prosper you, I will make your name great…” that’s constitution. If He then says, “…if you obey Me and keep My word, and walk uprightly,” He has given you laws that set the conditions for the benefits and privileges to apply. The gov ernment says you are free to do commerce, to lease, to buy proper ty, etc., as long as you pay taxes, do not break the law, obey the social order, and respect people’s property. They give you all these consti tutional rights, but they are contingent upon your honoring the laws. The Kingdom of Heaven is no different. 5. The constitution cannot be changed by the citizens—only by the king. This principle should be perfectly clear by now and needs no further elaboration.

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