The law was given to make peace. The living word is the spirit of God. Life is instruction that enables us to grow, change, and reproduce. Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord (Deuteronomy 8:3). God gave us instructions saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it (Genesis 1:28). God moves each man with the desires of his heart. It is inevitable that determined men will seek the power to fulfill their desires. God gave us law so that we may follow his instruction with an optimal balance of peace and freedom.
The function of a king is to establish and protect the integrity of men. A king is chosen to gather the men together and keep them in formation (Proverbs 30:27). The king keeps the men in formation by issuing a common understanding. This common understanding is what we know as law. A king’s law is his kingdom. The measure of a king’s law is based on how many men can make peace with it. The Father witnessed against Israel for failing to implement his law without unrighteousness. The Father said, “Only you have I known of all the families of the earth; therefore, I will punish you for all your iniquities. Can two walk together, except they be in agreement?” (Amos 3:2-3).
The Father’s law is without unrighteousness. Christ spoke of His teachings saying, “He who seeks his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him (John7:18). The instruction given by the Father leads all men to be free unto God (1 Samuel 12:17). Christ said, “The disciple is not above his master; but every one that is perfect shall be as his master (Luke 6:40). James said, “But whoso looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed” (James 1:25).
Jesus began preaching saying, “Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand” (Matthew 4:17). Jesus taught the Kingdom of Heaven at both a personal and provider’s degree saying, “For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither anything hid, that shall not be known and come abroad. Take heed therefore how you hear; for whosoever has, to him shall be given; and whosoever has not, from him shall be taken even that which he seems to have (Luke 8:17-18). One who seems to have, has only for himself. Christ told his disciples to hear his words from the perspective of a provider. He taught us to hear his teaching with a consideration for others. Christ did not only teach us to govern ourselves, he simultaneously taught us how to govern a nation.
To govern a nation, we must accept that all power belongs to God. This means that the children of God are fathered by law. King David tried to rule with his own power, but he had sin and fell short of the glory of God. King David said, “God has spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongs unto God” (Psalms 62:9). God’s law is the placeholder for power. The law is without desire, so God gave us law to distribute power among us and make peace. Only by placing power in the law do we have righteousness (i.e., freedom) unto God. The Father defended his law saying, “I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth; I did not say to the seed of Jacob, seek me in vain; I the Lord speak righteousness, I declare things that are right (Isaiah 45:19).
Righteousness is freedom and with this understanding we are set free by knowing God’s plan. The Messiah said, “From now on I do not call you servants; since the servant does not know what his lord does, but I have called you friends; since all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known to you (John 15:15). The spirit of the Son was preached and recorded so that we may perceive the instructions of the Father from a heavenly governor’s perspective (Matthew 2:6). With an understanding of the Son, we can see the big picture that reveals God’s plan.
God’s plan is understood by the Father’s will to govern the earth in the same manner as the heavens. Christ taught the disciples to pray in unison declaring “thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10). We cannot be righteous unto God until we worship the Father in truth and in spirit (John 4:23). Christ taught his disciples that words are spirit (John 6:63). The word Lord means commander. In spirit, the commander is his commandment. The commandment was given to make peace, so our God is our peace. God’s plan is to be our peace by distributing power with law given by his Lord the Prince of Peace (Isaiah 9:6).
The Father said the law was an adequate placeholder for power saying, “a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people” (Isaiah 51:4). When Gideon freed the Children of Israel from the Midianites, they asked him to be a king and rule over them. “Gideon replied, I will not rule over you, neither shall my son rule over you; the Lord shall rule over you (Judges 8:23). Christ left his commandment to rule in his place saying, “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you; not as the world gives, I give unto you. Let your heart not be troubled, neither let it be afraid (John 14:27).
The peace Christ left us with was the government of heaven. The Father calls a government the peace of a city. The Father gave Jeremiah instructions for the Israelites in exile. He told them to be self-contained as much as possible. He told them to build their own homes, grow their food, and to intermarry with one another. Because they couldn’t provide their own protection and law enforcement, he told them to seek the peace of the city where he caused them to be carried away captives and pray unto the LORD for it (Jeremiah 29:7).
Yahshua was a governor taught by God to teach us the kingdom of heaven (Matthew 2:6). Yahshua did not give his peace as the world that gave it with unrighteousness. The way of the world is to provide peace with protection, but this protection would require some form of unrighteousness. It was understood that you cannot protect what you can’t control, so Christ told his disciples, “let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid”. Christ wanted us to believe we could achieve integrity the ultimate level of integrity. With this integrity, we could achieve the fearlessness needed to protect ourselves and deter others from offending us. Christ revealed God’s plan to deliver men to be one nation under God with liberty and justice for all (Exodus 19:5).
