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kingdom commonwealth

Learning how to operate in Kingdom

Commonwealth according to God's
system and design

By: Howard Rose, Jr.

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DEDICATION
I would again like to dedicate yet another work to my loving, faithful,
encouraging, strong, and caring Wife, Patience Lavon Rose. Truly you have
been my rock and my help meet. You have been there with me against all
odds and for that I am most thankful. It is because of you being in my life
and having brought such a profound revelation of Kingdom to me that I
am able to function and move forward in who God has made me to be to
date. I will never, ever forget who you are and have always been to me. This
book attests to who God has made you to be in my life. I love you dearly,
greatly, immensely, and intensely.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments

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Preface

Commonwealth By Definition And Design

What Is Money?

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Why Money Was Created

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The Purpose Of The Creation Of Money

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What The Bible Says About Money

31

Understanding The Difference Between Ownership And Stewardship

39

What We Learned And Know About Money

45

Understanding Money, Its Purpose, And How It Works

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Money: God's Intent And Purpose For Us

58

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Money And A New Regime

63

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Money And Sowing Seed

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Can God Trust You With Money?

76

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Working For Money And The Spirit Of Mammon

84

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Jesus, Prosperity, And The Gospel

91

15

You Are Commander In Chief

96

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What Are You Subject To?

103

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The Wealth Covenant

108

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The Economic Status Of The Church

113

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The Barter System

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TABLE OF CONTENTS (CONT.)

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Our Work In The Kingdom

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The Dominion Mandate

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What The Commonwealth Of The Kingdom Is About

137

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Understanding And Knowing The System

143

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Classes: Division In Kingdom Commonwealth

152

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Kingdom Commonwealth: FULL ACCESS

158

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Commonwealth And Community

166

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The Constant Spread Of Influence

172

About The Author

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to acknowledge the following people in my life who God has
used to help me make it to this point and acknowledge the fruit of their
seed coming back to bless them:
Mother Debra White
I will always love you for who you are to me both naturally and spiritually.
You have ALWAYS been the same and you have truly been a great,
tremendous Kingdom influence in my life. I wish the world knew who you
were and this is the best I can do to help them know. Your efforts in my
life helped to produce this. I love you forever, Mama.
Mother Josephine Richard
Between you and "Mama Deb," you two tag teamed in helping me to make
it through some tough times and instilled some solid, Godly values in me
that never left. Thank you for all the times you gave me an encouraging
word, prayed for and with me, and just being a wonderful example of what
a Godly life looks like.

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There is a Kingdom order and System that God originally designed

for us to live by in the earth realm in order for His Kingdom to be
established in it. We have been donned with the task of bringing it
forth into the earth realm. From the beginning, Satan has worked to
keep man's attention completely off of this Mandate through the
establishment of his own order and government being made manifest
in the earth realm.
God is preparing you for a place, a place that has Commonwealth
at the core of its design. Before you get there, you absolutely MUST
understand what Commonwealth is, how it works, and how it
operates and functions.
To date, we have truly yet to see God's Kingdom Governmental
Order and what He originally designed for us to live by made
manifest in the earth realm. His plans have never changed and they
never went away. Because of Satan's plan, man's desire to rule things
as he has seen fit has been what we have seen to date.
In order to understand this Order that God has designed, there
are key components that we must understand and the #1 tool that we
must use to establish this Order is God's Word. In this writing, we
will explore God's Word and learn the design of what it is God
expects us to come back to in order for His Kingdom to reign and be
established here in the earth realm.

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Commonwealth By
Definition and Design

Understanding Kingdom Commonwealth

You are not or may not be experiencing the Kingdom

Commonwealth because your mentality concerning it is distorted. In
order for you to understand the Commonwealth of the Kingdom of
God, your mindset, thoughts, precepts and concepts, and ideas about
money and finances, wealth, and economy have to change:
Acts 2:42-44 (KJV)
And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and
in breaking of bread, and in prayers. And fear came upon every soul: and
many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. And all that believed
were together, and had all things common;
Here we find the earliest recorded expression of believers, the
citizens of the Kingdom of God forming themselves as His intended
Community - an aggregation of believers founded in common unity.
Acts 4:32-37 (KJV)
And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul:
neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was
his own; but they had all things common. And with great power gave the
apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was
upon them all. Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as
many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the
prices of the things that were sold, And laid them down at the apostles'
feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.
And Joses, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas, (which is, being
interpreted, The son of consolation,) a Levite, and of the country of
Cyprus, Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the
apostles' feet.
Again we see the New Testament believers beginning to operate in
Kingdom Commonwealth as they share their possessions freely
amongst those in their common unity (Kingdom Community).
You must begin to see these subject matters from God's Holy
perspective.
The word commonwealth is actually derived from the word
commonweal which means:
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1. The common welfare (the good fortune, health, happiness,

prosperity, etc., of a person, group, or organization; well-being); the
public good (not a welfare system. hrj)
2. The body politic; a commonwealth

The word common means:

1. Belonging equally to, or shared alike by, two or more or all in
question
2. Pertaining or belonging equally to an entire community, nation, or
culture

The word weal means:

1. Well-being, prosperity, or happiness
2. Obsolete. Wealth or riches
3. Obsolete. The body politic; the state

So, if we were to define commonwealth by the root meanings of

all words "common" that make up the meaning, it would look like
this:
The common welfare concerning the public good regarding the body politic,
or the body involving the state and/or its government, equally belonging to,
and shared alike by two or more or all in question, namely its citizens,
being the very epitome of well-being, prosperity, and happiness, involving
equality and equal distribution of wealth and riches among the body
politic, or, more specifically, the state and/or its government, skillfully
distributed through the policy and system of government, pertaining to all
citizens.
This implies that God intended for His wealth, and the wealth of
the wicked, from the scripture that is so often eloquently quoted, to
be distributed equally among all the Citizens of His Kingdom. This
also means that the actual "economy" in which I believe God
intended for us to reside under entailed us sharing and having "all
things in common." This would mean that we are all supposed to live
in the exact homes our individual purpose requires in a community
where we all reside with one another in peace and harmony, driving
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the vehicles we require to accomplish our Kingdom purpose. In

other words, again, all the wealth is common one to another. There is
no status where there is Upper, Middle, or Lower Class because God
sees us all the same. We are all in the same Class as far as He's
concerned!
Modern day economist propose that there are enough resources in
the Western World alone to not just reduce poverty and
homelessness but to extinguish it altogether. There are many books,
some currently best sellers and others being used as college texts that
are full of research data supporting a shift in the world's thought
process towards a reasonable facsimile of counterfeit commonwealth.
However, Kingdom concepts facilitated through man's methods will
never accomplish God's intended purpose. I propose that if the
wealth of resources currently available in the community of the
Kingdom were redistributed as God intended, we would set a
standard in the earth realm of that common welfare, well-being,
prosperity, and happiness as described in our afore mentioned
definition. God's intent for us as Kingdom Citizens was for us to
walk in the Dominion Mandate controlling all the wealth of the
world, living together under His Kingdom Governmental Order in a
community where all things are common to everyone and everybody.
There is an equality that exists in the Kingdom that God not only
intended but expected for us to live by.
We, mankind, are the ones responsible for the state in which we
live whereby we have created these expanses that have allowed
division to enter into the Body of Christ, leading us away from God's
original mandate. We have allowed Satan's devices to pry us away
from God's principles, causing us to live under the current systems
under which we now reside. We have no one else to blame but
ourselves. We cannot even blame Satan.
What you must realize and understand is that both God and Satan
must have permission to access the earth realm through us. They
cannot access the earth realm any other way without our permission
because that is the way God designed the system to work. In the
book of Genesis 1:26, God gave us (mankind) the authority, the ability
to control, the responsibility of management, and the knowledge to
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lead everything here in the earth realm. No other creature on the face
of the planet has the authority and rights that we do to govern the
earth realm. For the privilege of living in Kingdom we are
automatically responsible for governing ourselves according to
Kingdom Commonwealth. This means that we must begin to
familiarize ourselves with what (Kingdom) Commonwealth is, learn
it, eat it, drink it, sleep it, study it, etc. (I think you get the picture.)
But learning this is paramount for us, not just as Believers but as
Kingdom Citizens. I believe that this is one of the missing
components in the Church and why so many Believers are still
missing the mark, not living victorious lives, and still feeling a level of
defeat, to whatever degree.
Without the knowledge of Kingdom Commonwealth, we will
forever continue to live in the cyclic spiral that Satan has used Man to
put in place in the earth realm. And let's be clear: Satan has used Man
to implement the systems in the earth realm by which we live today.
It is the reason why even introducing a subject matter such as this
would seem foreign to many because we have been buried in the
current systems underneath which we reside and to talk about God's
Kingdom and its Commonwealth system today sounds almost
asinine, largely due to what we have learned and what we have been
so programmed to believe.
We must endeavor to get back to the initial authentic Kingdom
mandate that God gave to us from the beginning when He created
Man. It is the system that He designed for us to live by and that is the
system under which we will experience the intended success as
Kingdom Citizens.
In God's Kingdom of Commonwealth, you must understand
several things:

His Kingdom is NOT governed by this world's economy

His Kingdom is NOT a Capitalist economy

Where God's Kingdom Commonwealth truly exists, there is

no "Buy or Sell," only equal distribution of wealth.

God does not horde all the wealth for Himself or a chosen

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few, but lovingly shares it with all His Sons/Citizens

God's Kingdom Commonwealth can only be accessed by

those who know how to access it and what to do with it, even
prior to it coming into their hands and their possession.

God intended for His wealth to be shared and equally distributed

by all. Because of Kingdom law, we have the right to enjoy it all:
1 Timothy 6:17 (KJV)
Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor
trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all
things to enjoy;
To say that there are no big "I's" and little "you's" in the Kingdom
of God is a gross understatement. We are all equal in the Kingdom
and have equal access to all the wealth and riches God has in store.
You need only understand two main principles:
1. How to access it, and
2. The purpose of it once you have possession of it
When true Kingdom Commonwealth is present, there is no need
for money.
God has an established Governmental Order by which He runs
Heaven. It is with this same order and mindset that He designed for
us to run the earth. The government He has set in place has laws,
principles, statutes, precepts, concepts, ordinances, and commands
that we are to follow and live by. He ordained and mandated for us
to live by this order that already exists and has a zero-failure rate
when applied.
We can no longer live by the order that we think we should live by
and govern the earth. It is because of this mindset and for this reason
that we have the problems in our government that we have today and
for this reason we have come to a place of being frustrated,
aggravated, confused, bewildered, perplexed, and in grace despair,
especially in the church. It is because we have not come back into our
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rightful place as the order in the earth realm that God designed for us
to be. When God spoke what He did in Genesis 1:26, it spoke
volumes by itself. The rest was told later.
God designed for the Church to be the state and carry out His
Kingdom governmental Order here in the earth realm that would set
the precedence across the globe. In setting this precedence, it would
automatically be a process of duplication by which His system and
standard of living that He designed for our lives would be made
evident in every region we claimed for the Kingdom.
One of the rightful places of the Church is to be the government.
How can truth and order be established in a nation that claims to be
"one nation under God" but the methodology by which we become
and remain that nation of oneness under God is not fully employed
in our governmental order? A nation whose God is The Lord would
show forth characteristics and attributes that would be irrefutable.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Howard Rose, Jr. is a profound Pastor, a prolific Motivational
Speaker, an experienced Entrepreneur, a dynamic Life Coach, and a
published Author. Having been an entrepreneur for almost two
decades, Howard has become well-rounded and experienced in
several areas of business including the field of IT, Professional
Design, Development, Hosting and Maintenance of Websites,
Graphic Design, and Business Technology. In the midst of
developing his main business entity, The GLE Group, through good
and bad times in the economy, Howard was able to maintain business
through great client relations. In the beginning of developing The
GLE Group, Success Thoughts was born, a prodigy in and of itself
started in 2001. Success Thoughts is a Ministry and Motivational
Speaking entity that centers greatly around self-inspired quotes that
helped him through very tumultuous times in his life.
Howard has a passion for helping others realize that success and
greatness begins in themselves first, starting in the mind. His heartfelt
regard for people motivates him to help every person he comes in
contact with, pushing and propelling them towards their destiny. His
unique approach to dealing with life issues, coupled with his great
love for people, is helping many an individual realize success and
greatness from within and change their lives one thought at a time.

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