Dimensions Of The Dominion Mandate by Dr David Ogbueli: MP3 Download & Sermon Notes

Personal, Institutional, and National Transformation

Fellowship has two dimensions. First, we come in and focus on the Lord — we worship him. Then, once you have touched God, you are qualified to touch people.

In the kingdom there is personal transformation — the number one goal of any genuine ministry. Then there is institutional and organisational transformation. And then national transformation.

You cannot change a nation without changing its families. The decay in any nation starts with decay in the family system. When parents watch their children live in ways that dishonour God and say nothing — the moral decline has already started at home.

There are problems that government cannot solve. The institution God mandated to maintain the moral climate of any nation is the church. That is why Jesus said: "If the salt loses its savour, it is good for nothing."

If we are going to heal this nation, we must first heal the church. And then we must go after the foundational institutions that make up society.

The Seven Spheres of Society

Society is structured in seven major spheres. Every one of them has between 250 and 300 sub-institutions.

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1. Religion and Belief Systems — This is the foundation. Every society has a belief system, and that system forms the value system of its people. Their values decide their behaviour.
2. Family and Social Systems — The family is the headquarters of the social system. NGOs and community organisations extend from here.
3. Education — Responsible for training and raising people, both formal and informal.
4. Economics — The marketplace, commerce, and industry.
5. Government and Politics — This is the one everyone blames for everything. But government is only one sphere of seven.
6. Technology and Communication — Media, IT, and all related industries.
7. Arts and Culture — Sports, entertainment, and the arts.

To change any society or nation, you need transformational leaders across all of these sectors — not only in government. The secret: the square root of the population is all you need. For a nation of 160 to 170 million people, approximately 7,000 transformational leaders is enough to shift the culture.

The church claims millions of believers — and God is still asking: "Who shall I send? Who will go?"

Every Believer Has a Calling to One of These Spheres

God saved no one merely to warm a seat in church. His plan is that on Sundays you gather and are infused with kingdom values — then you take that mandate back to your sphere and influence it.

You are the light of the world. You are the salt of the earth. That is not metaphor — that is a mandate. There is a sphere of life you were specifically designed to dominate.

Nobody was created by God to be a failure. But even the most gifted person will fail in a field they were not designed for. You are not wired for everything — you are wired for something.

The Animal Training School — A Parable of Purpose

A training school decided to broaden its curriculum to cover all animals across all three domains: water, land, and air.

The sharks and dolphins excelled at swimming but were stranded on land. The horses and lions excelled at running but nearly drowned in water. The eagles soared in the air but struggled to run and nearly died in the water.

The faculty eventually realised: the reason every creature fails in different areas is because each one was designed for a specific domain. The solution was not to force every creature to excel at everything, but to train each creature in the domain for which it was created.

This is the principle of purpose. God designed you with a domain. Everything you need to succeed in that domain is already inside you. The struggle ends when you find it.

What Is Your Field?

Ask yourself:

• What is the passion God has placed in you?

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• What idea keeps returning to your mind — the one that will not leave?
• What are the gifts, talents, and abilities God has given you?
• Where do you achieve success with the least struggle?

Purpose and calling are not reserved for those who go into full-time ministry. There are people called into politics and government. There are those called into education, into economics, into the arts. Each one of those is a sacred calling — carrying kingdom authority into a sphere of influence.

The Foundation of Dominion: Image, Likeness, and Mandate

In Genesis 1:26, God said: "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness — and let them have dominion."

Three things are built into the dominion mandate:

1. The Image of God — This refers to divine nature: values, character, moral excellence. Love, integrity, compassion, loyalty. Without this foundation, there is no lasting greatness. This is why spiritual and moral development must come first.
2. The Likeness of God — This refers to divine functionality: how God operates. God is a planner who starts from the end. God is a builder of teams — the Trinity itself is the pattern. God is a god of vision, wisdom, and purpose. These are the operational principles you must develop.
3. Dominion — This is the dimension of influencing your world through service. You were not created to dominate people. You were created to serve them — and through serving, to lead them.

Three Keys for Executing the Dominion Mandate

1. Develop Spiritual and Moral Stamina — Build integrity, build character, build your faith. In whatever field you enter, you will meet challenges that intellectualism alone cannot solve — challenges that require the supernatural. You will encounter people who have made occult covenants to get ahead. You need a genuine walk with God, not a casual one.
2. Develop Professional Competence — Whatever your field, master it. Study, read, grow, sharpen your skills. Self-development is not unspiritual. Spirituality mixed with ignorance is undesirable. And intellectual development without godly values produces educated criminals.
3. Add Value to Your World — Find a problem you can solve. Begin rendering service. Money is not difficult to acquire — it is simply the reward for services rendered. Find the problems in your society that are unaddressed or poorly addressed, and create solutions. Every social problem is a potential business.

Dominion Is Not Domination

God hates domination. Dominion is not domination. The purpose of being placed in authority — whether political, spiritual, economic, or social — is to serve those under your care.

Jesus said: "The Gentiles lord it over those who follow them. But in this kingdom it shall not be so. Whoever would be greatest among you must first be your servant."

Power is for service. Authority is for justice. Leadership is through influence, not coercion.

The fastest way to leadership is service. The surest way to significance is to solve problems that others have not solved.