The K-Gene - Principles for Attaining Your Destiny

CHAPTER 1: KINGDOM

The beginning of all things is God. There is no way to get around this eternal fact, and nothing would exist without Him. To understand a kingdom and its ways, one must first have an understanding of the king. After all, every kingdom thrives off of the identity and mentality of its monarch. The fact that God is the creator of all things also makes Him King, and the presence of a king implies that there is a kingdom. The system of Kingdom existed before the beginning, just as God was before creation. Thus when God made man in His likeness, man was not only a spiritual being but also inherently a Kingdom being. Since God is the King, His Kingdom DNA was genetically passed on to humanity. If there was ever a place where Kingdom gene was placed within man, it was at this point of formation. At the creation of man, the Kingdom Gene, or the K-Gene, was activated and drove the desires and intentions of man into alignment with the will of God.

Adam enjoyed open fellowship with God and a peaceful alignment with everything in nature. Adam resided in God’s Kingdom, yet it was the active K-Gene that allowed him to function properly in God’s sovereign domain. Adam experienced true peace, dominion in the earth, and synchronized movement with God. It was a time without exploitation or hard labor, because Adam maintained the Garden as a love fellowship with God. Yes, man had choice and free will, and as long as he willingly chose to abide in obedient synchronization with God the K-Gene remained active. This constantly placed Adam in fulfilled interactions with his King. This was the perfect state of being for humanity, where every need was met and there were no vulnerabilities — except for the gift of free will. And it was this vulnerability that eventually made man accountable for the fall from grace.

To characterize the fall as simply eating forbidden fruit is a huge oversight on the part of the believer. This fall was not just a mere “fall from grace” as we often like to annotate it, but a drop from a higher state of living, thinking, and acting, to a lesser state. The fall was a battle of systems, a contest of two prevailing ideologies, a choice that needed to be made by humanity. The choice was between God’s superior Kingdom system and the inferior system of man’s self-image. Consider the argument that the subtle serpent makes to Eve in the Garden. It begins with a thought meant to cause Adam to take the future into his own hands. First, the serpent twists God’s Kingdom decree in conversation with Eve, with the sole intention of distorting her perception of the reality of things. “Yea hath God said, ‘Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden … Ye shall not surely die” (Genesis 3:1-4 KJV). The serpent gets into a proverbial duel with Eve over whether the eating of the fruit meant assured death. Eve was attempting to combat the logic of the serpent with Adam’s first-hand experience of God’s decree, not her own experience. Perhaps this is why some of us similarly find ourselves in continuous cycles of failure, despite the countless Christian conferences and decreed and declared biblical rhetoric over our lives. Experiences with God must be personal, and God’s Word must be digested to be of adequate use to the hearer. You can’t expect that you’ll overcome by someone else’s testimony, nor will you be able to withstand crafty demonic logic without knowing the Word for yourself.

The serpent’s argument was subtle enough to dissuade Eve from God’s system of logic, for it was crafted with a mixture of God’s Word and personal feelings. “You shall surely die” … this was the promise of God to Adam. The same words that the enemy used against Eve. After eating the fruit, Adam and Eve did not drop dead physically. No, they lived a long life that would make all of our years small in comparison. So did God lie? Was the enemy correct that they wouldn’t die, but would rather flourish like their Diety? The truth is that they misunderstood what God meant when He spoke of death.

God is a Spirit, so any command and penalty that He gives has a spiritual component. Therefore, the death that God spoke of was spiritual, which is why Adam and Eve’s mortal bodies were not immediately affected, but at the moment of transgression they experienced a spiritual separation. The serpent’s real intent with his argument was to prompt Adam to construct a self-image. “For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” This logic seems harmless on the surface, yet in a Kingdom system the emphasis is more on the King than on the subjects. In the beginning, Adam did not do anything for himself, nor was his motive to improve upon his status and reputation. His work in the Garden was as an act of worship unto his Creator. The constant fellowship that Adam sought was attributed to his genuine love for God. Now suddenly the serpent introduces Adam and Eve to the concept of self-determination. Instead of working as worship of their king, they now worked to build an empire for themselves. Worship had been perverted by Lucifer, and now he had caused man to pervert the Kingdom covenant that they held with God.

Kingdom is a system of trust and covenant between rulers and their subjects. The subjects willingly obey the laws of the land and work communally for the greater good of the kingdom and their monarch. In return, the king looks out for the security and provision of the citizenry. Everything in kingdom is about the king, and every action is done for the furtherance of the collective kingdom. With his reasoning, the serpent succeeded in convincing man to become self-driven instead of Kingdom-driven. When Eve presents Adam with the fruit, the reality is that his choices were between two opposing systems: God’s image for man, and man’s self-constructed image of himself. So when Adam chose to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, man’s self-image was constructed. And it was constructed in a way where we became the primary caretakers of our body, soul, and spirit. After that, the prevailing culture was to look out for “Number 1,”; self-preservation at all costs, consistent entrapment to building and maintaining the images we would separately create for ourselves.

We create the monsters that we see and the dark characters that we have become. Your greatest enemy is not the devil, nor is it your “haters,” but it’s the image you created for yourself. So now everything that man does is in line with sustaining the imagery that we designed. We lie, cheat, steal, and degrade other people’s character ultimately because it is all part of our master plan of self-identity and self-preservation. Adam introduced a genetic disorder into humanity, which would display itself through various sinful actions and motives.

A genetic disorder is a disease or illness that is a direct result of an abnormality in the genes, and this disorder is often present at birth. An abnormality is a deviation from the normal function of things, or a perversion of the original intent. When Adam ate the fruit, his disobedience ushered sin into the world and all humanity was now born with this genetic disorder. This is why David could then rightly assert that he was “born into sin, and shaped in iniquity.” Adam’s paternal Kingdom chromosomes were immediately put to sleep, and all that remained were his maternal instincts (that of the natural, mother earth, our fleshly desires). In essence, the K-Gene still existed within Adam and Eve, but was rendered temporarily inoperative. Though he would never realize it, Adam needed help because he had turned into a monster by accepting a false reality.

Although there was now a genetic disorder ushered into the earth, God’s commands to be fruitful, multiply, and replenish the earth were not repealed. Thus man began to reproduce after his kind, complete with the inherent desire to build and protect our own self-constructed images. There is something to be said about using our own methodologies to implement God’s power and commands, as these scenarios always turn out to be disastrous. Have you ever tried to do what you believed God commanded you to do, but carried it out in your own understanding and ideology? The results are not far from that of David’s disappointment when his attempts to bring back the Ark of the Covenant resulted in Uzzah’s death (2 Samuel 6:7-8 KJV). Many of us have good intentions and noble ideals, yet if these plans are detached from God’s original intent, they are doomed to fail. When man rebelled against God, humanity was still endued with power, but left with a skewed perception that muted our ability to succeed in the Kingdom.

Mankind now attempted to operate in God’s system with their self-constructed ideology. Selfishness lived on and was replicated from generation to generation. Adam and Eve gave birth to Cain and Abel, who both present their respective offerings unto the Lord. Abel gives unto the Lord out of faith, while Cain offers unto the Lord through mere works. Abel chooses to operate in faith, which is indicative of not only God’s heart, but His way of operating. In essence, Abel executes the correct righteous desires with the correct methodology of operating. Cain gives unto God out of his own human intellect, the best that he can do absent of faith, yet he fails to understand that this offering is inadequate to a perfect God who requires a more excellent sacrifice. He had chosen to try to accomplish the right desires (the desire to sacrifice unto the Lord) through the self-image that he had created. When God refused to favorably accept Cain’s sacrifice, his reaction...