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God's Word to sustain me | Pastor Dwain Wolfe | Nov 30th 2025
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Father, we thank you for your word today. Thank you
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for the ministry of truth, the washing of our hearts,
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and the development of our inner man. We thank you
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for renewing our minds with wisdom from above and enabling
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us today to shed the wisdom from beneath. We give
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you the praise for it in Jesus' name, and everybody said, Amen, God,
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bless you.
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You may be seated.
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I want to talk a little bit about renewing our
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mind concerning financial well being today.
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So this is in the booklet that I.
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Gave out a few weeks ago where we talked about
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the tin trees of the heart garden. This is your
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heart garden right here, and so here it is and
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all of its glory, your heart garden. Typically there's ten
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trees in there. I put ten trees in there previously,
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but we're just going to focus on the one tree today,
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your financial well being. And I want to with the
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help of the Holy Spirit and then Holy Spirit just
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ministering to you. My hope is to wash our hearts
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a little bit today but also make a deposit of
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the Word of God in us so that we can
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be renewed further in our mind, be renewed further in
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our thoughts about financial well being. So one thing we
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know is that our financial well being, and I include
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on the New Creation House the New Creation worksheet, the
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prosperity of our household. So it's the prosperity of our
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household and depending on depending on our household. For instance,
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when all four children were actually Jasmine had already moved
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out for college. But when when all three of the
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boys were at home, our grocery bill, after after going
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through the food bank line every week, our grocery bill
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at the Wolf House was still over one thousand dollars
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a month. So how many of you know I needed
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some financial well being, right, And then there might be
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things you feel called to, like I felt, you know,
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for a while, we felt called that our children needed
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to be in private school. So there was a season
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where we felt very convicted about our children being in
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private school, so Christian school. We weren't being snobs, we
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were protecting our children, and so that was also another
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financial need, right. So what we know is that that
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there's some of these things that we need, and there's
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no argument that can remove the need. There's no even
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France's a CISI who took a vow of poverty. Guess
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what he still had to eat, He still had to
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change his robe, he still had needs. Everybody has needs,
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right and the needs that you have should relate to
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the vision of God over your life. That's why when
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you have, when you're provided for according to the word
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of God and the economy of God's thinking. When you're
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provided for, it's called provision. So because the pro that
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which is provided is supposed to relate to the fulfillment
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of the vision that God has over you. And the
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vision God has over you is related to your family,
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your calling, your.
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Church, what God has for you.
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I have a couple of millionaire friends and they inherited
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their wealth and they both inherited like nine million dollars
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from the family. When mom and Dad passed away. One
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of them chose to go into creating more wealth. The
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other one chose to go into government. So, and I
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say this just to say that God's provision for you
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is never to be worshiped. It's to be enjoyed, it's
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to be received. But provision is not Provision is what's
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provided for your vision, and His vision was government. Where
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we make a mistake sometimes is we make an idol
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out of money or mammon or sustenance or supply, where
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we exalted above what we're called to. So it's provision
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on purpose, and it's a vocation on purpose. Vocation in
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the original understanding of Scripture, means to be vocally called
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out for something in your generation by God. That's what
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it means. Vocation means to be vocally called. Actually, the
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voice of the Lord speaks over you to call you
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into something for your generation. And that's why it's called
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a vocation because it's God's voice that calls you. So
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you're vocally called. It's literally you should hear the voice
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of God concerning what you should do, and then God
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wants to pour out blessing on you. According to that vision,
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he wants to pour out a pro vision upon you
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so that you have fulfillment. Does that make sense? So
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this is in our heart garden. We can't escape it,
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we can't get away from it, but yet we don't
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need to. It's like God, it's not an unclean thing.
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It's what we surround our it's what we surrounded this
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with in order to fulfill it that becomes unclean. So
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it's not even money that is the root of evil.
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The Bible says, it's the love of money that is
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the root of evil. Right, So it's not it's not
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that this need is a problem. God knows that you
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have these needs, so it's not that need actually, And
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God wants to be the fulfiller. He wants to be
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the fulfiller so that he receives the glory, he receives
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the praise. He wants to be the fulfiller of this need.
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So that's you know, Matthew six thirty three. And it's
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just all sorts of scriptures. But what I want to
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what I want to go to a little bit, is
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I want to show you that from the very beginning
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that what God's ordained for you is actually abundance. So
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God has not ordained for you to have just enough,
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but what God has ordained for you is abundance. Okay,
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everybody say abundance. So we see this in the beginning
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in Eden. This is first of all in Eden. And
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when we see Eden, we see a picture of what
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God ordained for Adam, for Eve, but He's we see
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a picture of what He ordained for all of mankind.
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So Eden was a picture of what He ordained for
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all of mankind, and the blessing on Eden was to
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as they walked in righteousness with God, that blessing was
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supposed to go with them as they essentially heavenize the rest.
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Of the globe.
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So they were going to take the blessing of Eden
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out of Eden. And their assignment was to fill the earth.
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Remember the assignment to fill the earth. That was their
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assignment to fill the earth. And they were to fill
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fill the earth with the blessing of Eden. They would
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fill it out of intimacy with God, out of righteousness.
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That was theirs, because they were walking in righteousness, that is,
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they were in unity with God. There was no disagreement.
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They were in unity with God. It's unity with God.
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It's agreement with God that makes our heart rite with Him.
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That's righteousness. And so out of that righteousness, they were
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also covered with the glory of God. And they had
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the dread of God. So the dread of God was
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on them and the glory of God was on them.
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So this is what was common for Eden. And they
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had an abundance. There was no scarcity, there was no lack,
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there was no sickness, there was no disease, there was
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no thorns. There was no thistles. The earth was remade
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in fallenness. The earth was essentially subject to futility. And
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those things that were of the curse came after they
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were dismissed out of the garden of Eden. They were dismissed,
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and then two cherubim were set there to guard the
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entrance into the garden, and they were sent into what
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would become then scarcity for them. But then God immediately
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gives us a picture of Jesus, and this is God
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initiating abundance.
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Again.
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God wants to even in our fallenness, God is coming
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to us. We have this religious thinking that we have
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to talk God into blessing us. But from the very
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beginning God's been trying to talk us into receiving blessing.
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God has a greater level of blessing for you than
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you actually have a level of petition for so you're
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trying to talk God into blessing you. God's actually trying
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to initiate blessing. But we've been so conditioned with doubt,
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with unbelief, with the religiosity, and with the thinking of
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the demonic realm, that we can't accept the goodness of God.
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It's hard for us to receive the goodness of God.
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But immediately he comes to them and he sacrifices an animal,
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and he covers them with the skins of the animal,
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and that's the first blood sacrifice that makes them acceptable
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before him. And then that's the beginning of blood sacrifice.
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And every blood sacrifice, all the way to Abraham, all
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the way to Moses, all the way through to Jesus,
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every blood sacrifice is an atonement sacrifice. It's so Atonement
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is the word at one month, Atonement at one month,
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it means.
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That we're made through the sacrifice.
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Of the animal, through the shedding of the blood, we
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are made at one again with God. Our sins are
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out a side. They no longer obstruct us with God
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or before God. And that atonement, the blood of atonement.
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And every single one of those was the picture of Jesus.
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Every single blood sacrifice found its fulfillment in Jesus. Every
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single one of them pointed to Jesus. Every one of
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them were reaching forward into the final sacrifice. They were
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a prophetic picture that were reaching forward into this final
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sacrifice of the Lamb of God, the perfect, sinless, blameless,
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perfect Lamb of God. And that's why these animals had
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to look like they were the Lamb of God, because
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they were actually pictures of the Lamb of God. So
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they had to they had to be without blemish, they
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had to be a certain age, they had to have
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a certain look about them. This is all preparing the
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way for the one who will finally come, and he's
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coming to bring us into the family, all of us
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from every nation, so that we can all come into
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the blessing that God's ordained for us. Because God's trying
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to bless us. This is God initiating God initiating God,
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initiating God, initiating God chasing. God's chasing you today. He's
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chasing you. He's initiating a blessed relationship. This is part
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of how he shows his love to us. Right Mama Joel,
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she has something she says when the kids are loading dishes.
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When she hears the sounds of dishes going in the dishwasher,
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she says, Oh, that's my children telling me they love me.
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God's trying to tell you that he loves you in
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every blessing that he's making available, in every blessing he's
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pouring out on you, trying to tell you that he
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loves you. See, his love is not abstract. His love
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is not ethereal, it's not up in the sky somewhere.
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It's actually manifest in tangible ways by him pouring out
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blessings upon your life. So then in Genesis chapter twelve,
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he chases down this guy he likes him, and he
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finds this guy up in err of the Chaldies or
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up in Haran somewhere, and he finds this guy named Abram.
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Remember Abram. Now this is right after the Table of Nations.
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This is right after Babel. This is right after Babel,
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and Babel is right after the flood. So we have
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the flood, and we have God frustrated with humanity. Violence
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is filling the earth worse than every game you've ever
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seen that your children have played on a PlayStation. Violence
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is filling the earth. God is sorrowful that he's made
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me mad. He starts over with Noah, and then Noah's
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lineage continues, and then they disobey God and they make
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a tower. It was a cigarette. They were actually making
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a temple edifice to worship false God's false deities. And
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so God scatters them and he starts with a new nation,
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only one. He divides them into seventy nations. He divides
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them into seventy nations, and only one nation he keeps
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for himself, that's Israel. And so the nations are scattered.
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And right after that he goes and he finds Abram,
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and Abram will be the beginning of his nation. Abram
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will be the beginning of his nation. He's going to
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select one nation to lead into guide out of the
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seventy and the sixty nine are turned over to darkness.
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And so he finds Abram, and he says to him,
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leave your father, leave your household, leave your family, leave
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your nation, leave your tribe, leave what you've known, leave
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your idolatry, and follow me and co to the land
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that I will show you, and I will make you
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view a great nation, and I will bless you. And
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so Abraham does this. Now I want you to see this,
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because again this is God initiating and God setting something
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up where God wants to bless somebody. God wants to
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bless Abram. God wants to set him apart, and actually
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he makes Abram the superior king of the entire earth.
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Abram becomes the king of the earth, and the Bible
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goes on to say some crazy things about Abram, whether
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you like it or not. And I don't know if
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you like it. Some of us are deep in religion
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and so we don't like stuff. But the Bible says
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some interesting things about Abram. For instance, in Genesis twenty
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four to thirty five that says, the Lord greatly blessed
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my master Abram or Abraham, so that he has become rich.
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He has given him flocks and herds, and silver and
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golden servants. God blessed Abram and made him rich. Abram
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was God's covenant man in the earth. He was the
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superior cove and he was the founder, the beginner of
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what we know as the patriarchs. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
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are the spiritual patriarchs of Israel and the spiritual patriarchs
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of our lineage as well. And i'll read that to
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you in a minute. And then Genesis fourteen twenty three,
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when Abram was offered the plunder from five kings that
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he routed and overtook on his own with his own army,
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so to speak. When he was offered that, he said,
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I will accept nothing that belongs to you, not a
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thread or a strap of a sandal, so that you
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will never be able to say I made Abram rich.
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So Abraham was very passionate about his allegiance to God,
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and he was dependent upon God. But he was seeing
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that God was keeping his covenant. God said, I will
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bless you, and I will make you a great blessing.
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And God was faithful to that. And as Abraham walked
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in covenant before him and believed God, then God credited
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to him that faith as righteousness, and righteousness qualifies you
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for Eden. Righteousness will always qualify you for Eden.
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And so then we go a little further.
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Down the line and we get into Isaac and Jacob,
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and then eventually Jacob has a son named Joseph, and
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Joseph is the favor of God, the rescuer of God.
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He's another picture. There's just pictures all the way through this.
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The Old Testament is filled with pictures of provision, the
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vision of God and the pro vision for the vision.
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The Old Testament is still full of this on purpose,
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so that we would trust God, so that we'd rely
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upon him, so that essentially we would leave the carnal behind,
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that we would leave the demonic behind, that we would
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leave the Idolatrus behind, that we would leave the darkness,
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that we would leave false doctrines behind, and that we
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would fully trust God with our finances, with our financial
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well being, with our household, and with all that God
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has put on our heart. This is what God wants
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to do. Right, Hello, somebody over here. We got error,
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and then we got aggressive aggressive demons, and then we
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have oppressive demons. Oppressive demons. We have oppressive mindsets, mindsets,
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we have aggressive mindsets, spirits demons, and then we have
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doctrinal error. We have that too, right, we have Okay,
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so let's get to that. But let's go here. Let's
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go We got Joseph. Let's go to Joseph. And when
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Joseph gets down to the land of Egypt.
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We thought that it was a bad thing.
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That he was sold into slavery and all this bad
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stuff's going on. But there's a famine coming, and God,
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in his fore knowledge knew there was a famine coming,
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and so God was actually sending Joseph forward through events
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that the enemy thought were dampening or sabotaging the favored one.
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The enemy thought he had Joseph. The enemy thought that
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he was suppressing Joseph. The enemy thought that he was
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taking Joseph out because the enemy saw favor on Joseph.
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He was the favored son of Jacob. He was the
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lineage of Jacob and the lineage of the Messiah, and
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so the enemy was after him. Right. But he gets
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down into Egypt, here comes the famine, and then Joseph
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like it opens up Jacob for provision. And so Jacob
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and all the brothers, all of Israel. Jacob's name has
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been changed now from remember Jacob's name what it means.
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It means trickster, deceiver's supplanter. God encounters him and changes
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his name to Israel, which means prince with God. Isaiah
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sixty says that God has given.
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You a name change.
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Isaiah sixty one, sixteen and sixty one says, God is
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changing our name. He's going to give us a new name.
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You wear a new name. Christian is a new name.
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And this name is anointed one. You're an anointed one,
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You're a favored one, You're a blessed one. So God
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changes Jacob's name. He's no longer going to rely on tricking.
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This is aggressive trickster tricks. Okay, different than trick or
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treat tricks. That's an aggressive mindset, sleight of hand, deception. Right,
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these are the old these are the old tricks. And
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actually this is.
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How good God is.
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Right, Jacob had relied on all of this stuff, and
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God still loved him, and God still pursued him, and
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God still corrected him, and God still met him, and
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God still desired him, and God didn't reject him in
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all of your stupidities, God's not rejecting you. God's trying
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to help you. God's trying to lead you. Now. The
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enemy wants you to think that you're disqualified, disqualified, okay,
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the enemy wants to think. He wants you to think that.
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You've done too much, too much, too.
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Many sins, too many mess ups, too many screw ups.
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It's over for you.
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No, no, no, no, that's a doctrinal air.
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God loves you as much as he did.
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Jacob was a complete trickster and deceiver and caniver. But
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God meets him and he says, you think you've been
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wealthy so far, you think you've a mess and herds
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so far, you think you've been blessed so far, you
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haven't seen nothing yet. Watch wait till you see what
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I'm gonna do with you now. But first I'm gonna
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break your heart and change your nature. First, I'm gonna
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lay hold of you and change your name. You're no
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longer gonna rely on deception, trickery and lying and sheeting.
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You're no longer gonna rely on those old aggressive patterns.
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You're gonna rely on me fully and wish you as
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you do. Then God is gonna, I'm gonna blow this
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thing up. And you know what he was trying to do.
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He was trying to fulfill the promise that he made
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the Abraham. It's Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. And God is
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passionate that all of the lineage abides in and enjoys
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the same blessing as the fountain head. The fountain head
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was Abraham, and God wants everyone in the lineage to
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enjoy the same blessing as the fountain head. And so
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this is what he's doing with Jacob. So he changes
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his name, and so Jacob and all of them go
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down to Egypt, and Joseph is down there preparing the way.
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And guess where they go. They go to the land
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of Goshen. Now it says in the Bible that the
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land of Goshen looked just like Eden.
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This is the biblical pattern.
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And then some bad guys rise up in Egypt and
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they don't know Joseph, and so then they put him
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in bondage, and there's all this bad stuff going on,
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and God says, you're not gonna get my kids. You're
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not gonna oppress my kids. You're not gonna beat up
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my kids. You're not gonna harm my kids. I'm gonna
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deliver them out of there. I'm gonna take them to
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the land I promised them. When did he make a promise, Well,
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when Abram first shows up. Abram shows up where God
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leads him, and God leads him to a place like Eden.
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Look in the scripture. God leads him to a place
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that was like Eden. And then he says, Abram, lift
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up your eyes, and as far as you can see,
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I'm giving you this land. This will be your territory.
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This is your land, Abram. And so he lifts up
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his eyes. He looked north, and he looks south, and
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he looks east and west. And then they made that
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their boundaries. And God brought them back to that land
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that was the promised land. And though the enemy had
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come and invaded the Promised Land. Seven nations had come
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and taken over the Promised Land. God said, that's okay.
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We'll just let them build all the houses. We'll let
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them plant all the vineyards. Listen, do you think he
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loves you as much as he does or did the Israelites?
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Does he love you as much as he does or
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did the Israelites? Is anybody loved as much as he
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did love Jacob and Isaac and Abra anybody in the room. Well,
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can't you see what God does? God is so amazing.
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God says, I'm just gonna those seven nations. They are
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doomed to destruction. They are children of wrath, they are
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under unclean deities. But we're just gonna let them work.
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We're gonna let them build up the land and plant
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a bunch of vineyards and build a bunch of houses.
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And then you're gonna go in and you're gonna possess
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that land and you won't even need to fight.
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Just pretend that you're fighting. Just pretend that you're fighting.
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And if you'll just come in by faith and pretend
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you're fighting and work with me, then all ringing down
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some hailstones that are about this big and just disperse
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those guys out of there. And then I'll just cause
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the walls to just fall over, and they won't just
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fall over, they'll actually disappear, and you'll just go in.
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All you really need to do is on the seventh day,
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just like shout, really good would you?
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This is what God does.
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Oh, but God doesn't prosper us. You know those promises,
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that's for in heaven. When we get to heaven. Get
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to heaven, another doctor on later, Well, that's when we'll
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have blessings when we get to heaven. I got news
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for you. You don't need any blessings when you get
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to heaven. You don't need gold, you don't need silver,
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you don't even need a good thought.
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You need nothing when you get to heaven.
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You're gonna have it all when you get to heaven.
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This is God working now because he loves you now.
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He wants to bless you now, and you're the ones
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now He's chowsen to heavenizes the earth with you are
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the new atom, and so he takes them to this
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promised Land. I remember there's some things that happen with
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the Promised Land. You got to remember a few things, like,
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for one thing is that we have to wrap our
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head around abundance. It's really hard for us to wrap
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our head around abundance, and so we don't really want
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to believe for abundance because we think that's not godly.
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It's not godly to believe for abundance. Even though Jesus
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said in John ten ten, I have come to give
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you life and life more abundantly. We spiritualize that what
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we mean is God is going to in the midst
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of my crawd God's going to give me a happy heart.
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Have you had a happy heart in the midst of
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your crud lately? It's actually hard to have a happy
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heart in the midst of your crowd unless if you
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had not believed. This is what David said. If I
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had not have believed that I would see the goodness
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of God in the land of the living, my heart
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would have failed me. My heart would have fainted. If
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I had not have believed that I would see the
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goodness of God in the land of the living. No, no, no,
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God does not want you to have a happy heart
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and then believe for a life of misery. God is
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actually trying to get blessing to you. Trying to get
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provision to you, trying.
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To get hope to you.
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He said over Israel Jeremiah twenty nine eleven. We've all
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memorized it.
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I know the hope I have for you.
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Hope to bless you, hope to prosper you, hope to
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give you a future. Yes, he said that to him
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when they were sinning. He said that to him when
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they had failed. He said that to him when they
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were messed up. But he said, you know what I'm
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gonna I got to tell you my heart. You might
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be struggling with your heart now, but I'm going to
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tell you what my heart is. My heart is I
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have hope for you. And this is the heart of
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God over every generation. So he takes him into the
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Promised Land. Now, those of us that struggle with abundance,
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we want to live in the wilderness, because remember what happened.
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The promised land over here is a land of abundance.
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The Promised Land is a picture of salvation. It's such
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a picture of salvation that the guy that takes him
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in is Joshua. That's the Hebrew name for Jesus. The
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guy that takes the men is Joshua. That's the hebret
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in for Jesus. Moses couldn't take them in. It wasn't
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because Moses was unholy. The law can never take you
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into the Promised Land. A do good life can never
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take you into the Promised Land. Trusting only in Jesus
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and in his righteousness and walking in unity with Jesus
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is the only thing that can take you into your
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promised land. So Joshua is ordained to take him into
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the Promised Land. And you'll notice he has to deal
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with those that have been wondering. They were wandering around
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the same mountain for forty years. They were wondering due
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to unbelief. They wouldn't believe they could go in and
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inherit the Promised Land. They didn't believe the Promised Land
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was for them. They didn't believe God could actually put
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these enemies under their feet and give them the Promised Land.
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And so they couldn't have it through unbelief.
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So, if you are happy in your unbelief, then they
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still had enough. How many Christians still have enough? Wow?
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Today?
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Somebody has needs today, somebody has needs. There's people all
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around us with needs. But you can't be a minister
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to that need. If you just have enough, you're consumed
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with holding on to what you have because you only
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have just enough. But God has ordained the Promised Land
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for you, which is more than enough, and he gave
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you a picture of it and told you all about it.
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And yet we still struggle to believe that this is
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God's will and purpose and desire for us. This is
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so much a perfect picture of New Testament liberty and
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abundance and grace that when they cross have heard me
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say this before, biaus love its I'll just say it again.
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When they crossed over the Jordan River, he stopped the
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river at a town called Adam. It's in the scripture.
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Would he why would he do? You can't make this
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stuff up. Why would he stop the river at a
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town called Adam? Because he was rolling the curse back
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all the way to Adam for them. As they went
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into the Promised Land, they were going into the land
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of milk and honey. And the wilderness period was a
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period of just having enough. They didn't have more than enough,
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they just had enough. So if that's what you're believing
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for you're in a wilderness. God calls God calls just
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enough a wilderness. Hello, somebody. So he wants us to
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believe for more. I want to read you a few scriptures,
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and we'll look at a couple scriptures together and to
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see if we can back some of this up with
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the word glory to God. Genesis chapter twelve, one and two.
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Then the Lord said that Abram, go from your country,
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your people, and your father's household to the land I
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will show you. Remember, he's beginning a new nation. This
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is immediately following the Table of Nations. We call it
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the Table of Nations, the dividing of the nations. This
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is Genesis twelve, the dividing of the nations tower a
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babble Genesis eleven. So now he's making a new nation
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with Abram. And I will make you into a great nation,
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and I will bless you, and I will make your
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name great, and you will be a blessing God has God,
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and we're going to read it in a moment. God
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has actually woven you into the lineage of Abraham through Christ.
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Christ was the promised seed of Abraham. Christ was the
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promised seed of Abraham. And God has woven you into
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Abraham and brought you into the Abraham a promise, not
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that you would only be blessed, but you actually have
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been ordained to be a blessing. It's through you the
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blessing is supposed to flow. It's not through government. It's
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not through welfare. It's not through social security. It's not
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through this, that or the other thing. It's not through sinners.
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It's not through Google. It's not through bitcoin billionaires. It
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is through you, the Church that blessing is to flow.
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Because you are the blessed nation. You are the heir
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of Abraham. I will make you your name great, you
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will be, and you will be a blessing. I will
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bless this who bless you, and whoever curses you, I
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will also curse. And all people on earth will be
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blessed through through you. Wow, You're a walking Christmas stream.
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Come on, somebody, Uh uh, look at uh, look at
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look at Galatians Street. Let's go to Glatians Stree. I'll
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read the I'll read the collaborative verses to him. Therefore,
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know that only those who are of the faith are
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sons of Abraham or daughters daughters of Abraham. And the Scripture,
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foreseeing that God would justify the gentile nations every other nation.
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The Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by
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faith preached the Gospel to Abraham.
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He was preaching the Gospel.
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To Abraham beforehand. Now the word gospel, remember what it means.
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We've heard recently right here from this pulpit. The gospel
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means good news, good news, good news. He preached beforehand
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the gospel, saying, in you, all the nations shall be blessed.
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In You, all the nations shall be blessed. So then
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those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
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Did you hear that.
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Those who are of faith in Christ? Now the whole
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text is even better than this. The whole text is
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better than what I'm reading. I'm just picking out seven
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through fourteen. But those who believe, are you a believer
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in the building this morning, any believers in the building
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any believers shouting in their living room on camera this morning?
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Those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
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For as many rely upon the works of the Law,
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they are under a curse. For it is written, cursed
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is everyone who does not continue in everything written in
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the book of the Law, so that no one is
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justified by the law and the sight of God. It's evident,
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for the just shall live by faith. Yet the law
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is not of faith. The man who does them lives
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by them. So Christ has redeemed us from the curse
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of the law, having become a curse for us.
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For cursed.
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It is everyone who hangs on a tree that the
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blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ,
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Jesus the blessing that the blessing of Abraham might come
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upon the gentiles.
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Church.
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You don't have to pray for this. You don't have
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to pray for this. You how many hours have we
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spent in petition asking God to bless us because we
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didn't feel worthy. We didn't know if he wanted to.
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We didn't know if it was his will. Come on,
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We got if it be thy will, prayers all over
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the world. Oh bless me, if it be thy will.
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He made up his mind. He already made up his mind.
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His will was.
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Already set forth.
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He already revealed his will in Christ.
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Jesus.
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Christ was the fulfillment of the promise made the Abraham.
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And everyone who believes on Christ is qualified for the
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blessing of Abraham. Everyone who believes on Jesus Christ is qualified.
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Now the enemy wants to come along with accusation. That's
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another category we got accusation over here. Accusation can lead
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to aggressive mindsets or oppressive mindsets.
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I'm just a.
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Worm, I'm rejected, I'm an orphan. My parents aren't rich,
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I'm from the wrong tribe. I don't have enough talent, education,
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too many sins. So we can partner with that too.
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We can partner with oppressive mindsets and destroy what God
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wants to. Essentially, we're putting up roadblocks to the blessing.
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We're coming into agreement with roadblocks to the blessing. Doesn't
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change God mind. God still wants to bless us like
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he did Jacob. He wants to pin us down somewhere,
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maybe in a prayer meeting. Jacob was in some kind
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of a prayer meeting, all right. He laid his head
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on a rock, and then he started having a vision,
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and in the vision, angels were ascending and descending. He
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moved into a prayer meeting. That's one of the spots
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where he met God. God met him. God's trying to
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meet us and talk us out of our old mindsets.
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But what we need, we need the word of God.
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We need the word of the Word of God. When
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we learn God's will, I don't need to pray if
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it be Thy will bless me, I don't need to
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pray if it be Thy will favor me. I don't
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need to pray. If it be Thy will, go before
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me with your glory this week. God's already decided to
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do that stuff. What we need is a lot more
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receiving prayers. Send with me this morning, receiving prayers. What
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would happen if you shift from petition and whatever the
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enemy's been telling you, and however he's been holding you up,
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and however he's been sabotaging you. What have you shifted
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from petition into thanksgiving and into acknowledgment. Father, I thank
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you you're going before me this week. I thank you
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that I have favor going out and coming in.
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Father.
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I thank you that your glory is on me, that
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the glory you gave to Jesus you've.
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Given to me.
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Father, I thank you that that glory goes before me.
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I thank you the dread of the Lord is on
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my enemies. I thank you that wherever I go, I'm
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just acknowledging before you that I'm your favorite son. I'm
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your favorite daughter, and wherever I go, you're orchestrating good
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for me. You're leading me in paths of righteousness. There's
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enemies that might show up, but you know what, you
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prepare a table for me in the midst of my enemies.
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I'm just thinking you that right now, you're going before
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me by your foreknowledge Holy Spirit. You see sabotaging plans,
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you see enemies, you see difficulties, you see storms and troubles,
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and I just agree that you're going before me to
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create a table of increase for me in the midst
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of my enemies. Actually, the plans that they're setting for
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me in the traps, they are going to be put
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to shame. It's going to be embarrassing what happens for
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them when they see that in the midst of their plan,
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you prepared a table for me, in the midst of
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my enemies. That's Psalm twenty three. It's your palm prayer
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team as you come, and just I want to close
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by letting the prayer team just be available.
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We're going to.
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Close with the worship that if you need to shed
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something this morning before you leave, some wrong thinking, some
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doctors error, some oppression, some methodology that you've been working with.
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Just come and leave it here.
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Leave it here in prayer with somebody, or just come
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on your own and leave something here. Don't go as
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you came in, but leave something here to embrace the
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renewal of your mind, the washing of the water of
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your word. And leave here today lifted, built up, strengthened,
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knowing God is for you. God is pursuing you. He's
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overtaking you with blessings. He's giving you the power to
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create wealth Deuteronomy eight eighteen, to prove that you have
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a covenant with him. Father, we thank you for this
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day and for your hand upon our lives, for your
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increase in your kindness in Jesus' name. And everybody said