The Dominion Man: A Plan of Action

This is the last one.

Ten weeks ago I told you that you were living in a prison cell. A cell with the door hanging wide open.

We tore down the lie of exile. We answered the two-kingdoms men, knocking down one pillar at a time. We selected the blueprint, the law of God. And last week we stood on the cleared ground, with the plans open on the trestle, and I asked you the only question that was ever going to matter. Who picks up the tools?

Today, that is you. The plans are all laid out on the table. The tools are charged, the machinery filled with diesel. There is nothing left to explain.

Because here is the truth I have to say to you plainly, on the last day. None of what I said matters. Not one minute of these ten weeks. If you walk away from this series without any change in the real world.

Knowledge that never becomes action is just bubbles in your fizzy drink. And I did not make this series to blow bubbles. I wrote it to enlist you for active service in the Lord’s army.

So today, no more theology. Well, a tiny wee bit. But mostly a plan. Eight steps. That take you from exile to heir. From the cell to the building site. And some of them you can start before the sun goes down.

My name is Nathan Conkey, with RestoreChristianity.co.uk. And this is Exiles No More.

What This Final Episode Gives You

First, the three steps that rebuild the inner man. Your mind. Your name. Your own front door. Get these wrong and the rest collapses.

Second, the three steps that take you out into the world. A real church. Your daily work. The blueprint in your hands.

Third, the two steps that outlive you. The things you build that do not die when you do.

Fourth, the one charge that ties all eight together. The reason the prison door was never locked in the first place.

By the end you will not have a theory about dominion. You will have a to-do list. A list with your name on it and this week’s date.

The Inner Man: Steps One to Three

The first three steps are about you. Not the nation. Not the culture. Not the politicians. You. Your mind, your inner man, and your own house.

Step one. Repent.

I do not mean feel sorry for a while and then move on. I mean metanoia. A total revolution of the mind. A complete change in the way you look at everything.

Stop thinking like an exile. Stop saying “this world is not my home.” Stop waiting for the rescue helicopter. Stop keeping your head down till you die.

Start thinking like an heir. The earth is your Father’s. And He has handed it, your wee slice of it, to you. That is not a feeling you wait for. It is a decision you make. You can make that decision today.

And I will tell you what the exile mind looks like, because you will recognise it. It doomscrolls. It despairs at the headlines. It says “the country is finished” and pours another drink, of tea. It tells itself the next world will sort all this out, so this one does not really matter. It calls that faith. It is not faith. It is surrender, with a false face on.

The heir reads the same headline and asks a different question. Not “how bad is it?” But “what is mine to build in the middle of all this chaos?” Same news. Different mindset.

Step two. Know who you actually are.

Romans chapter eight, verse seventeen. If children, then heirs. Heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ. Revelation chapter one, verse six. He has made us kings and priests to God.

Now hold those two words. King. Priest. A king has a domain. Land. Authority. A realm he is responsible for. A priest has a service. He stands before God on behalf of the world, and brings the world before God. You are both.

So stop living like a beggar sleeping at the gate. When the deeds to the estate are in your name right this minute.

Here is the tragedy I have observed in good men. A man can be a king and live like a servant his whole life, simply because nobody ever told him who he really is. He had the title the whole time. He had the authority the whole time. And he spent fifty years asking for permission to exist.

Permission from the culture. From the experts. From the men who told him the Bible has nothing to say about his work, his money, his nation.

Brother, you do not need their permission. The King has already issued you a commission. Knowing who you are is not pride. It is giving the boot to a big, fat lie.

Step three. Before you try to fix the country, fix your own home.

So let me ask you the hard questions. Is your marriage what it should be? Are you leading your wife, or just cohabiting without arguing? Are you loving her the way Christ loved the church?

Are your children being discipled by you? Or are you handing them to a screen and hoping for the best?

Do you have family worship? Or does God only get an hour on a Sunday and a prayer at the table once a week?

Myron Golden says most men want to look successful more than they want to be successful. The exile performs. He wants the world to think he is a strong man. The heir builds. He starts where nobody is watching. And nobody is watching the breakfast table on a Tuesday morning. Which is exactly where dominion starts.

So let me make it practical, because “get your house in order” is a fine slogan. What does it look like?

It looks like opening the Bible at that breakfast table tomorrow. Five minutes. A psalm. A prayer. Before everyone scatters. It looks like turning the screen off and actually looking your son in the eye and asking him how he is. It looks like sitting down with your wife and leading, not just co-existing. Setting a direction for the family that you carry, instead of letting her carry the load.

None of that is glamorous. But a man who governs his own table well has already done more for the kingdom than a man who shouts about the nation and neglects his own children. You cannot take dominion of a country when you refuse to take dominion of your own hearth and home.

So those are the first three. Repent. Know your name. Order your house. That is the inner man rebuilt. But this wave of transformation cannot stop at the gate of your house. So the next three steps take you out the door and into the big, glorious world of opportunity.

The Outer Work: Steps Four to Six

Steps four, five, and six. Now we go outside. Into the world you were made to claim.

Step four. Get into a serious church.

Not a country club. Not a concert with a coffee bar and a fog machine.

A church with men in it. A church that preaches the whole counsel of God, not just the nice bits. A church that baptises, breaks bread, disciplines, and builds men.

If your church will not talk about the lordship of Christ over everything. If it will not touch the law, or the family, or the nation. If it treats you as an exile and tells you to wait it out. Then with respect, find one that will. You cannot fight a war as an army of one.

And here are three questions to test the one you are in. Does it preach the whole counsel of God, or just the comfortable parts? Does it actually disciple men, or does it entertain a crowd? Does it believe Christ is Lord of the nation, or only of your private heart?

If the answers are good, then plant yourself. Do not drift in and out the back. Join. Serve. Submit. Put your shoulder under it. A serious man in a serious church is one of the most dangerous things in a nation. Because that is where exiles get turned into an army.

Step five. See your work as kingdom work.

You do not need to quit your job and become a pastor to take dominion. The plumber glorifies God by plumbing well. The carpenter. The coder. The farmer. The man who fixes the boiler in the cold and charges a fair price.

Genesis chapter two, verse fifteen. God put the man in the garden to work it and to keep it. Before the Fall. Before sin ever entered the world. So work was never the curse. Work was the calling.

When you build something good, when you serve a customer with excellence, when you do honest labour with your hands, you are taking dominion. You are pushing the curse back one inch.

There is a beautiful thing buried in the Hebrew here. The man, Adam, is taken from the adamah. The ground. And the ground is not finished. It is raw. It is potential. The dominion man is a man who takes the raw ground of his life, his trade, his family, his street, and makes it become what God always intended it to be. That is your vocation. To make a corner of the world become.

And here is a hard word Myron Golden gave me that I will give you. Wealth, he says, goes to the most obedient. Not the most talented. The world is full of talented men going nowhere, because talent without obedience just spins.

The dominion man does his work God’s way. Honest weights. Fair prices. Promises kept. Debts paid. Excellence when no one is checking. And here is what happens. A man who works like that becomes trusted. A man who is trusted gets given more. That is not worldly. That is the parable of the talents. Be faithful with the little, and the Master hands you more to rule.

Your trade, done God’s way, is not a distraction from dominion. It is dominion. One honest job at a time.

Step six. Learn the blueprint.

You cannot build with plans you have never read. Last week I handed you the blueprint. This week, open it.

Read the law. Exodus. Leviticus. Deuteronomy. Do not skip past them as if they were someone else’s mail. And read them with the question we learned. What is the justice of God in this? How would this make a whole society flourish?

And if you do not know where to start, start small. A chapter of Proverbs a day. Thirty-one chapters, one a month, for the rest of your life. Then the Ten Commandments, slowly, asking what each one builds and what each one protects. Then the case laws, asking where the justice of God lies in each.

You are not cramming for an exam. You are learning the trade of justice, the way an apprentice learns a craft. A little, every day, until the blueprint is in your bones and you can read the world by it.

Church. Vocation. Law. That is you, out in the world, working. But there are two steps left. And these last two are the ones that echo long after your own life is over.

Beyond a Single Lifetime

We have rebuilt the inner man. We have sent him out to church, to work, to the law. But everything so far still fits inside one lifetime. Your lifetime. And the kingdom of God was never meant to fit inside one lifetime. So let me show you the two steps that reach past your own grave.

The Long Game: Steps Seven and Eight

The last two steps are not about you at all. They are about time. About what is still standing when you are gone.

Step seven. Build institutions.

Because a man dies. But an institution endures.

The humanists understood this. They did not win the West by winning arguments. They won it by capturing the institutions. The schools. The universities. The agencies. The courts.

So here is the answer. Do not just complain that they took the institutions. Build new ones.

Start a business that runs on Christian principles. Found a school. Plant a church. Build a homestead. Start a little classical academy in your own front room with four other families this September. You do not need permission. You need a first stone.

And here is why this matters more than any argument you will ever win online. Opinions die with the man who held them. Institutions outlive him.

The men who captured the West did not do it by having better opinions. They did it by patiently taking over the schools, the courts, the agencies, the newsrooms, and holding them for a hundred years. You will not out-shout that. You out-build it.

A school you start today is still teaching the truth when your grandchildren are grown. A business run for the King is still employing Christian families long after you are in the ground. That is how the ground actually changes hands. Not in a news cycle. In institutions, held faithfully, across generations.

Step eight. Play the long game.

The one nobody expects on a list about taking dominion. Have children. Raise them in the Lord. And hand them more than you were handed.

God said to Abraham, I will be a God to you and to your descendants after you. Abraham never saw the promised land possessed. He died owning a single field and a cave to be buried in. But he built toward it anyway. By faith.

Think of the men who cut the stones for the great cathedrals. A mason shaped a block knowing the wall would not rise for fifty years, knowing he would be dead before the spire was capped. That is covenant succession. You are not the finish line. You are a link in a chain. You lay one stone, in a cathedral you will never see finished.

And handing it on is more than having children. It is giving them a faith they cannot shake, because they watched you live it. It is giving them a name that means something, because you kept your word your whole life. It is giving them more than you were given. More truth. More stability. More ground.

My generation was handed less than our fathers had, in almost every way that matters. The chain got dropped. So pick it back up. Be the link that hands the next generation more than it received. That is how a curse gets reversed. One faithful father at a time.

And our age calls that defeat. Why work for something you will never see? The dominion man calls it faith. Because this is how the meek inherit the earth. Not in a revolution. In a relay. One faithful generation handing the baton to the next, and never dropping it.

Eight steps. Repent. Know your name. Order your house. Join the army. Work the ground. Read the blueprint. Build what lasts. Hand it on. But let me tell you the one thing that ties all eight together. It is the thing I have been holding back since the very first week.

What You Do Before the Sun Goes Down

Eight steps is a life’s work. But a life’s work that you start “someday” is a life’s work you never start. So here is what you do before the sun goes down today. Four things.

One. Write the list.

Get a piece of paper. A real one. Write the eight steps down in your own hand. Repent. Identity. House. Church. Vocation. Law. Institutions. Succession. And beside each one, write a single word. Where are you on it? Started, or not.

Do not judge yourself. Just tell yourself the truth. A man cannot build on ground he refuses to survey.

Two. Pick the one that scares you.

Look down your list. One of them made your stomach drop a little. Maybe it is the marriage. Maybe it is the church you have been avoiding. Maybe it is the children you have been handing to the screen. That is the one God is talking to you about.

Take one concrete action on it today. Not a plan. An action. Make the call. Say the sorry. Open the Bible at the breakfast table tomorrow morning. The exile waits for the fear to pass. The heir acts while the fear is still in the room.

Three. Find one other man.

You will not do this alone. No one ever has. Send this to one other man today. One man who needs to hear that he was never an exile. Then meet him. This week. And ask him the same question I asked you. Where are you on the eight?

Because two men with a list and a Bible is how Rome fell to the gospel. It always starts that small.

Four. Look back at where you began.

When you have written the list and taken the one action and sent it to one man, go back and remember the man at the kitchen table who could not speak.

Because that was you, ten weeks ago. A man with the whole earth in front of him and a lie in his head that told him none of it was his. And I want you to feel the difference between that man and the one holding this list. That is the difference ten weeks of truth makes.

Now imagine what ten years makes. That is not the end. That is the start of your life as an heir.

The Door Was Never Locked

Let me leave you with this.

You were never an exile. You were an heir who forgot his name.

For ten weeks you have watched the prison door, certain it was locked. It was never locked. You were a king, sitting on the floor of a cell, in rags, with a crown in your back pocket.

So stand up. Put it on. Walk out. The earth is the Lord’s, and He has handed it to His sons.

The ground is cleared. The blueprint is open. The tools are in your hands.

You are not an exile. You are an heir. Now go and act like it.

I am Nathan Conkey, with RestoreChristianity.co.uk. This was Exiles No More. If this series helped you, share it with one other man who needs to hear it.

And before you go. Hear the words the King left His heirs with. Go. Make disciples of all the nations. Teaching them to obey everything He commanded.

That was never just a call to win souls. It was a call to disciple nations. You have the name. You have the blueprint. You have the tools.

Now go and build. See you on the building site.