See, so I'm trying to get the thinking right. See once we get the thinking right - so a [colony, group of people - 00.24.53] so we're charged with colonising the earth. Colonise the earth. Go and actually one by one colonise the earth, so the problem was Adams disobedience. Now [interesting this. 00.25.03] To colonise the earth one of the things is everything has to come under the principles and ways of God's kingdom. That means we've got to actually learn how to live subjected to Him. That's not a hard thing to do that. See people look at it, it's hard. No, it isn't hard. It's actually an easy thing with wonderful benefits to honour God and to live a life that pleases Him. What's hard is when you don't. It feels good, then it's hard in the long-term. You think about this. You build a marriage, a covenantal marriage.
You both live clean lives, form your marriage, begin to build the marriage on the principles of God's kingdom. You begin to operate as a man, take leadership, responsibility, begin to love your wife, begin to serve in the family, provide an example and leadership and protection as God says this is how you do it. Then the wife, she begins to take her positioning alongside you as a partner in life and you begin to flow together, just like God's word says to do it. What happens is over a period of time - you've got struggles initially but over a period of time you start to see the fruit of it. Then years later people look at your life and they say look at the fruit of this marriage, isn't it wonderful? They still love one another at this age. Then the others who live a different kind of life, they're promiscuous and they did whatever they wanted. They didn't run their life God's way. What happens is they find they've got a lot of troubles and they can't see how they got there, because it all seemed right what they were doing. They had opinions. We didn't have opinions; we said God, how do You want it to happen?
So the same with children. You begin to work with your children. You get a family and they work with their children according to the principles of God. It doesn't mean they won't have troubles, because we live in a culture opposite to that. There will be troubles, but on the other hand they should have a family that actually loves and respects them. And over the course of their life, in spite of the troubles, things work out see, because God's principles work - but you've got to actually see the long haul to see it work. It's not in the short thing. See we tend to want a miracle now, rather than a lifestyle that produces fruit, and it's the lifestyle over years that produces the fruit, see? So we can see then very clearly God's intent in this area. Okay, now I want to just look at the - see the problem with Adam's sin. Have a look in Romans 5, problems with Adam's sin. So the mandate is to go into the earth, become productive with our life in every area, so if you're an artist become a productive artist. If you're good in business become productive in business, make a lot of money. Be fruitful. Extend the kingdom of God and extend His influence.
Let's have a look in Romans. Now the Bible tells us here Romans 5:12, it says by one man sin entered the world. So when Adam disobeyed something was actually - a spiritual power came into the earth. Now that spiritual power that comes into the earth comes in every time we disobey or we break the law of God, we actually empower the demonic. We empower destructive things to happen - and it says, I want you to see in verse 17, if by the one man's offence death reigned - so death actually reigns in the world - much more those who receive the abundance and grace, the gift of righteousness shall reign in life. Now notice here again it's saying that when man sinned another spirit entered the world, and that's why there's this chaos and destruction. But when we come to Christ and become right with Him, righteousness and we have His grace, that's His empowerment; what happens then, we should be able to win in life. Reign in life means having dominion, means actually success in life. It doesn't mean you succeed short-term; long-term you actually see benefits and results.