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Benny: So for me, it's easier to understand what you're saying.
Myles: Absolutely.
Benny: But we have to educate God's people to understand how the Lord thinks.
Myles: That's what the books are about. The book is to reconnect people. That's why we
call it rediscovering the kingdom concepts. Jesus Christ is a king, so you don't discuss
things with him. You obey.
Benny: And obedience was natural – it was in our blood. This is so powerful.
Myles: Let me explain to you why obedience is so important. The second word there is
lord. If he owns everything, he has the right to do anything with it that he wants. Let
me give you an example – "How do you become a kingdom citizen?" If any man would confess
with his mouth (the word confess means 'to agree') that's what it means. It doesn't mean
to bring up your past.
Benny: It means "to agree". It doesn't mean "to bring up your past." If you confess with
your mouth, it means you agree.
Myles: You're agreeing that He is Lord.
Benny: Wow.
Myles: Otherwise, when you come to Christ and you say, "I agree that you are..." See,
you can't make him Lord. He's Lord, whether you know it or not. He owns it.
Benny: You've just answered that big question – I heard a heathen man call Jesus, 'Lord,'
one day. And I said, "The Bible says you can't call him Lord, but by the spirit." How come
this man who doesn't know him is calling him Lord? You've just answered my question.
Myles: Everybody is saying it.
Benny: It's agreeing with what the Bible says about it.
Myles: Everyone calls him Lord. That's why they got the healing. When you call him 'Lord,'
it makes him responsible for you. Let me say it again. When you call him 'Lord,' you make
him responsible for you. Lordship puts pressure on the one you're calling lord. That's why
when Peter was talking about how women should respond to their husbands, he said, "Sarah
was a smart wife." Why? She called Abraham 'lord.' Lord doesn't mean that she's less
than him. It means he's responsible for her.
Benny: That's awesome.
Myles: So when you call Jesus Christ 'Lord', you're telling him, "I'm yours. I'm poor."
That's the kindest citizen you have. Submission to a king makes you wealthy, because the king
will never want his subjects to reflect anything less than his best.
Benny: When you say, "Jesus, you're my Lord," you're saying "You're responsible for my life!"
Myles: Absolutely. And that's why when a woman gets married to a man, the Bible actually
encourages this concept – to call her husband 'lord.'
Benny: Yeah. But how many really do?
Myles: Because they don't understand kingdom concepts. In the western world, to submit
to someone means that you are less than them. In a kingdom, to submit to an authority means
you are protected by them. So that's why we need a whole new reconnection to the idea
of kingdom. For example, Jesus Christ is considered the husband. The Church is considered the
wife. He says, "Submit yourselves onto the Lord and He will give you food, clothes, protection.
He will give you everything you need." Why? The submission makes him responsible. Submission
puts pressure on the one who's being submitted to.
Benny: Wonderful. Protection, it's all that.
Myles: Provisions. So the third word there is 'territory.'
Benny: That's right. I want to talk about it.
Myles: The concept of territory. You cannot be a king without a territory, because the
idea of kingship is rulership over territory. A king without territory is no longer a king.
This is why God created the heavens and then He became king over the heavens. Then He created
the earth. Why did God create the earth first before He created mankind? Because He knew
He's going to create kings, so He made the territory first. And then in verse 26 of Genesis,
it says, "Now let us make man." You cannot rule nothing. You've got to rule something.
Benny: You've got to slow down.
Myles: That's why territory is the key to kingship.
Benny: You missed what he said, maybe... He created the earth and then men because He
was creating kings. He created angels before He created the earth. Therefore, they're not
kings. We are.
Myles: Absolutely. He never said to any angel, "I put under you the earth."
Benny: Angels are not kings.
Myles: They are servants. As a matter of fact, I wanted to say this in the last program.
You're giving out a keychain with an angel signet on it.
Benny: That's right.
Myles: Okay. In my first book on the kingdom, I talked about one of the concepts of the
kingdom is angels. The Church has it completely wrong and I'm saying this with great stress
in my heart. We believe that the Church is an army. The Bible never calls the Church
an army. That's a concept invented by Christians who were zealous to do something ritual. The
Church is not an army and is never called an army.
Benny: You're getting my attention now.
Myles: Because in a kingdom, the citizens never fight. When a person joins an army they
cease to be a citizen. They become a non-civilian. That's why you become non-civilian. You're
no longer a citizen. As a matter of fact, when you join an army, you join up to die,
not to live. This is why when a soldier is killed, you don't feel sorry for the soldier
– because he was dead the minute that he signed up. When he comes back to society then
you say, "He's now a civilian, again."
My point is this: In a kingdom and a country, when you are fighting, the citizens are relaxing.
Right now, in America for example, we have war. The soldiers in Afghanistan, in Iraq,
they're the ones who are getting killed. What are the citizens doing? Drinking iced tea,
swimming, going on picnics. Because in a kingdom, the citizens don't fight. It's the army that
fights – so when you read the Bible in the kingdom of God, God never commands us to fight.
The angels are the army of the Kingdom of God. They are sent forth to do the bidding
of those who are heirs of salvation.
Benny: That's what it says.
Myles: So when you read all the wars in the Bible, scripturally from the Kingdom, angels
are fighting. When they came out of Egypt. God said, "I will set an angel – one behind
and one in the front." One angel is big enough to take care of a whole army. Do you think
God leaves you with no other weapons? When Elijah's sitting on the porch on a rocking
chair drinking iced tea, his servant says, there is an army coming to kill us. He then
just kept drinking his tea.
He says, "I don't see any soldiers. I don't have a problem." And the servant says, "Look!
You can get killed!" And then, Elijah told the Lord to open his eyes and let him see
(our) soldiers.
Benny: That is awesome.
Myles: Jesus, when he was arrested, he told the disciples, "Peter, put up your sword."
Why? He went before Pilate and then Pilate threatened him. Pilate says, "Do you know
who I am? I've got authority from King Ceasar to take your life or give it to you." Jesus
got excited. Jesus said, "Wait a minute." He had to speak then, because he was threatened.
He says, "First of all, you cannot take my life. For even now, I could call not Peter,
James, John, Bartholomew or Matthew to fight for me, but I can ten legions of angels in
heaven."
The Romans have legions, they were soldiers. Christ has like that legions too. Ten legions
of angels – that's six thousand soldiers. "Angels," Jesus said, "would deliver me out
of your hands." He says, however, "I came to die, so just behave yourself and kill me.
I will give you my life." He referred to the army as a king. Read the book of Revelations.
Everything God wanted done on earth, the final judgment, no human did it. Angels are the
warfare people. He's like, "I'm getting my angels in charge, concerned with you."
Benny: I've been looking for many years. I have never heard this said by...