Restore The Church | Pastor Dwain Wolfe

So Father, we just thank you that you're preparing the

way right now for our summit, our conference, our solemn assembly,

our gathering together.

We just bless you for it.

We know that it's going to be awesome that you've

called us to it, and we give you the praise

for it in Jesus' name. And everybody said, the title

of my message today is selling out your Inheritance, and

I'm starting out of I got this lozenge in my

mouth and it's too powerful.

Wow.

We filled that one with eucalyptus or something. It's a

whole eucalyptus tree in one lozenge. Genesis twenty five, Selling

Out Your Inheritance gis twenty five.

This is a little bit.

Of the story of how Jacob came to be. And

so it's the story of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Those

are the biblical patriarchs of Israel and of Faith and

of the Christian faith, and so Verse twenty five. Chapter

twenty five talks about Isaac and the birth of Jacob.

And so you know that Jacob became Israel. So God

changed his name and he became the father of what's

known as the Twelve Tribes of Israel right. So I

want to pick it up at verse nineteen though, and

I want to pick up this story, and it's a

little bit of the story of how Jacob got his

birthright or how he came into the position of the

lead of the inheritance. So this is part of the story.

I want to just dive into this because I want

you to see what happened, and I want you to see.

How powerful this is.

So this is the account of the family line of

Abraham's son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac, and

Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebeccah, daughter

of Bethel Weal, the Aramaean Aram and sister of laban

are Aramian. Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of

his wife because she was childless. The Lord answered his

prayer and his wife, Rebecca, became pregnant. The babies jostled

each other within her, and she said, why is this

happening to me? So she went to inquire of the Lord,

and the Lord said to her, two nations are in

your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated.

One people will be stronger than the other. The older

will serve the younger. When the time came for her

to give Bertha the twin boys in her womb, the

first come out was red, and his whole body was

like a heavy garment, so they named him Esau. After this,

his brother came out his hand grasping Esau's heel, so

he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when

Rebecca gave birth to them. The boys grew up, and

Esau became a skillful haunter, a man of the open country,

while Jacob was content to stay at home among the tents. Isaac,

who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but

Rebecca loved Jacob. Now I wonder if that love for

Jacob was somewhat related to the words she received concerning

Jacob and what would happen with Jacob. Because she wasn't

maybe favoring so much the firstborn as she normally would

have in this culture, she recognized something was going to

happen with Jacob. Once, when Jacob was cooking, some stew

saw came in from the country, famished, and he said

to Jacob, quick, let me have some of that red

stew unfamished, and Jacob replied, first, sell me your birthright. Look,

he said, I'm about to die. What good is the

birthright to me? But Jacob said, swear to me first.

So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright

to Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some

little stew. He ate and drank and got up and left,

and so Esau despised his birthright. So this is, you know,

it's a great metaphoric story. It's a real story. It's

a true story. It's a sad story for Esau. In

many ways. It was part of the tapestry of Jacob

and part of the tapestry of how he became the

air of the promise. It's part of the story. But

it's a sad story for Esau. And there's a metaphor

within the story, like a biblical metaphor, as there is

all the way through many of these passages and Genesis,

there's a biblical metaphor in the story. And so we

can find some things that happen here that transpire in

Genesis with these real life people, though, that give us

a metaphoric or a parable reality that we can glean

from and grow from. He sold his birthright for a

bowl of soup. How many of you think he should

have done it? No, what's the birthright?

You know?

The birthright represented so many things. It represented his inheritance.

Puritance of the firstborn was to be a double portion

of any of the others that would be coming into

the family, so they would receive a double portion. Now,

I know, when mom and dad wolf pass away, all

the kids will be lining up for an equal portion, right,

But in those days, the firstborn would receive the double portion.

So it meant double portion, It meant leadership in the family.

The first born became the leader of the family. It

meant judicial authority. This is interesting. So authority was granted.

The firstborn inherited the father's judicial authority over the family line,

and it meant priesthood. The firstborn became the family priest.

So all of this Esaw was willing to give up

over a bowl of soup, over a bull of soup.

And what I find that is just super interesting about

the story. Super crazy about this story is that what

he was trading away and what he traded away for

it wasn't like a bull of soup is something that

he could have easily had a bull of soup wasn't

wrong for him to have a bull of soup, wasn't

illegal for.

Him to have.

You know where my mind goes, is that are we

trading away our inheritance or God's word over our lives,

or God's will for us, or God's God's calling of

us for something that is not even sin? Like it's

one thing like David Nearly traded the kingdom and his

calling for his relationship with Bethsheba. Right, and we know

that that there was a judgment that came to David,

and we know that the first son of the two

of them died, and so we know that it harmed

the kingdom, that that that whole. But we would we

would look at that and we would say, yeah, but

that was sin. That was definitely sin. How many of

you would say that was sin? So you know, we

would look at that, we would say, well, that was

that was really a sin issue. And and so you

know this this this is different, but yeah, it's different,

but it's different in a very interesting way because in

this case, Esau was willing to sell his birthright or

really the will of God over him or the word

of God over him, or his rightful place in family

and in literally the leading the lineage of the future

for something that wasn't sin, for something that wasn't sin.

And so I'm kind of pondering that because I'm wondering,

you know, is that the case with us when I'm

watching and I know the Lord's dealing with me on

this as well. But when I'm watching the failures or

the public failures or the brought to light failures of

be It, there was new things out about Todd Bentley

this week, and I got people reaching out to me

about Todd Bentley this week, and these new things that

we're going to be shared. And then there's the recent

issues with Chris Reid. There's the recent issues with Rick Joiner,

there's the recent issues with Mike h. Bickle, there's the

recent issues with So it's just name after name, it's

name after name. It's almost like week after week there's

something new coming out, and I see that stuff happening.

Number One, I feel like this is what the Holy

Spirit's saying, is that that's a microcosm of what's happening

in the entire body. There's disobedience everywhere. If it's in

our leadership, shame on us for scolding our leaders, like

we're something great if it's in the leaders of our

networks and our and our if it's if it's globally like.

Oh my goodness, and so please, please please.

I mean, when I see this stuff, because I know

the frailty of my flesh and you don't know it,

but I know it. When I see this stuff, I

am I'm like humbled. I'm brought to a contrite position.

I find myself being super empathetic and cautious and careful

and getting on my knees and not posting something new

on Facebook book or railing against them, because if not

for the grace and the mercy of God, there go I,

there go I in some dimension. But again, those are

sin dimensions. And yet I think the Lord is wanting

to highlight the things that have a sin dimension, so

that we would pay attention to the things that don't

have a sin dimension, because I think that we are

forfeiting the blessing of the Word of God over us,

or the call of God over us, or the Word

of God over twenty twenty five, or maybe we thwarted

the word of God or wild with inheritance potential. It's

the Word of God that is filled with authority, potential,

judicial authority, potential. The Word of God is filled with

these things. And we get instruction, and we choose a.

Bowl of soup instead. I do. Now.

We choose the bowl of soup because we're hungry. We

choose the bowl of soup because the bowl of soup

is natural, it's normal, it's dinner time.

This is what I do. I eat soup.

God, what in the world are you doing with me?

I'm a soup eater. I eat soup. It's soup time.

Can I not have my soup? And this is where,

this is where even what we do is we even

compare ourselves among ourselves. We compare ourselves among ourselves to

justify our soup eating. You thought what I'm saying? So

in other words, well, you know, they don't have to

pray all the time. Why do I have to? You know,

they don't have to do this. They don't seem to

do that. They aren't called to this. Well, they get

to watch this. How come I don't get to watch this? Well,

they have that kind of a thing. They have this,

they have that. And so we compare ourselves among ourselves.

But Romans fourteen four says, quit paying attention to one another.

You're only gonna give account unto me. What do you

have to do with another man's servant? Quit examining others

and justifying your own choices, and it all comes really,

it all comes down to obedience. We called him Lord,

but I don't know that we really mean it. This

is what he's saying to me, and he's saying to me, Dwaine,

I need you to really mean that I'm Lord, not

just mean that I'm Savior. We all want savior? Do

we want Lord? And again, what I want you to

focus on today, because this is how the Lord's dealing

with us. He wants us focused on things that are

legal to do. Because what happens is we know the

things that are illegal to do, that's the Lord's territory,

and we may allow him to chasten us or rebuke

us over those things.

But the things that.

Are legal to do, whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa, That's

where I'm Lord, And so we'll present, we'll present, will

present all sorts of stuff to him. I mean, we're

not gonna lie to you or hanging with girls that do.

I mean, we're.

You know, we're gonna present that stuff to him. Right,

we're gonna you know, I got the ten Commandments down

I know about okay, Lord, all right, okay, none of

that behavior, none of that activity.

Got that down.

And of course the Lord's dealing with that at this

time as well, because he's preparing us. The spirit of

Elijah is ministering to our hearts so that we prepare

the way of the Lord. So I've got that down.

I'm going to bring that to the cross, okay, Lord, Okay,

all right, you're hurting me, houch.

That helps? Okay, thank you. Lord.

Okay, all right, Okay, I know, I know I shouldn't

do that. That violates your commandments, and that is my

sinful nature. I'll bring that to the cross. But Lord,

don't be talking to me about.

That out her stuff.

But the Bible says, and I looked up a couple

verses during worship because they were popping in my brain.

Is this okay? Okay?

Like Isaiah thirty twenty one. Isaiah twenty one says, and

your ears will hear a word behind you, this is

the way, walk in it, and your ears will hear.

Now it's not your physical ears. He's not talking about

your physical ears. Isaiah thirty twenty one. He's talking about

your spiritual ears. Will hear the voice of the Lord

as you're moving on a path that pleases him and

a path that's unfolding before you that's of him, and

you'll just kind of have this witness this is the

way walk in it.

There's another one.

That I pulled up, and it's just such a great

one and it says that he can direct this when

our heart is tender, and what he really wants his

tender hearts. And what happens is the more we kind

of disobey, then the more we row a little bit

of a colllessness over our heart so that we're not

hearing the voice of the Lord or perceiving his ability

to direct us. Husbands, you ever been directed with a

foot under the table?

Husbands?

Have you ever been directed with her eyes like you're

doing something dumb and she gives you that look?

Right? Okay?

Children? Children, you were all children once? Were you ever

directed by mom or Dad's eyes like they give you

the eye right?

Right?

So this is you know, the Bible says this. The

Bible says that our hearts need to be so tender

to him. This is Psalm thirty two eight. I will

instruct you and teach you in the way you should go.

I will counsel you with my loving eye. I will

counsel you with my loving eye. The Lord wants our

hearts so tender. But he doesn't want just our sin

presented to him, or our flesh, or our carnality, or

our carnal desires or anything. He doesn't that's not the

limit of lordship. He wants everything presented to him, and

anything less means that as he sends his word, because

woven into his word is an inheritance. Woven into his

word is authority. Woven into his word is priestly empowerment.

Woven into his words is all of this stuff. There's

like a birthright of something special. Woven into all of

his words. The word of his calling over your life,

the word of his calling with your wife, a loas somebody,

the word of his calling over your ChIL woven into

every word over your life is an inheritance, a birthright

of blessing and a double portion. And so he's calling

us to no longer.

Now.

I want to talk to you about I want to

talk to you a little bit about and I did

have some stuff in here on Daniel Uh.

But because this is.

The Daniel fath. But I want to talk to you

about I want to talk to you about Baalim. You

ever heard of Bailim? Numbers twenty two, number twenty two.

It says that Israel came up to the place where

Moab was and the Moabites got afraid, right, they got

super nervous, They got afraid. Let's read it. Chapter twenty two.

Israelites traveled the plains of Moab and camped along the

Jordan across from Jericho. Now, Beyloch son of Zippor saw

all that Israel had done to the Emirates, and Moab

was terrified because there were so many people. Indeed, Moab

was filled with dread because of the Israelites. The Moabides

said to the elders of Midian, this horde is going

to lick up everything around us as an ox looks

up the grass of the field. So Beyloch son of Zippora,

who was king of Moab at the time, sent messengers

to summon Baalim, son of Bior, who was at Pethor

near the Euphrates River in his native land. Baylock said,

the people's come out from Egypt. They cover the face

of the land. They've settled next to me. Now, come

and put a curse on these people, because they're too

powerful for me. Perhaps then I will be able to

defeat them and drive them out of the land. For

I know whoever you bless is blessed, in whoever you

curse is cursed. So the elders of Moab and Midian left,

taking with them a fee for divination. Everybody say a fee,

So they took some profit for the prophet, and when

they came to Baylim, they told him what Bylock had said.

Now I want you to see this story. Baalim is

a prophet of God. He's a prophet of God, and

the fame of him is throughout the region. And so

Bylock is like super nervous. He's scared. He sees this

great throng across and he knows that any moment they're

going to attack him like they did the others before,

and that he's going to be wiped out. So he

sends for a prophet to come and curse these people

that have come. But these are God's people. He's the prophet,

and there's about to be some prophet. There's a fee

for the divination. And this is kind of the bowl

of the Soup thing is that God's trying to show

us throughout scripture that regardless of the payoff, regardless of

the enjoyment, regardless of the pleasure, even if it's legal

to do, regardless of that which is available, we're always

to choose the word of the Lord. We're always to

choose to follow God. And here in this case, he

illustrates this that if we don't, then there may come chastening.

And I personally have this funny feeling that hundreds, if

not thousands of Christians in the Body of Christ are

under chastening from the Lord, and they don't even realize it.

They haven't discerned it. We are not discerning the chastening

of the Lord. We have hardened our hearts to the

chastening of the Lord. We've literally put a boundary around

everything legal and we've said this is mine, God, don't

mess with it. It's legal to eat, it's legal to sleep,

it's legal to watch television. It's legal to go where

I want to go. It's legal to shop, it's legal

to buy. Everything legal is mine. I'm the Lord of

this territory. I don't even need to ask the Lord

about it, because he gave me lordship over it. And

then this is a very similar situation. It says that

instead of telling them that he wasn't available to prophesy

against the people of God, the very people associated with

the God from whom he received prophetic utterance, instead of

telling them that he told him, just stay the night,

spend the night here, and I will report back to

you in the answer with the Lord that the Lord

gives me. And so the Moabide officials spent the night,

and this is a picture of us kind of wrestling

with the leading of the Lord. We kind of wrestle

with it, We kind of struggle with it, we kind

of argue with it. We're kind of like, well, I

don't know if I really show out, I don't know.

We're kind of struggling with it. And then we're kind

of struggling with well, you know, if I don't do it,

you know, am I you know? Is this legal for

me to do? Is it not legal for me to do?

Is it really sin for me to I mean, I

don't know if it's really sin, I don't know. And

so we see this whole wrestling thing going on with

Balam and with this calling. There would have been no

wrestling if there wouldn't have been a fee for divination.

The reason there was a struggle is because of the

reward available for going with them and cursing God's people.

So he struggled.

He struggled to the point where he finally even went

with them. Right, So Balem got up in the morning

verse twenty one, saddled up his donkey, went with them

a bite of visuals. But God was angry with them.

Now this is interesting. He hasn't even cursed the people yet,

he hasn't followed through, He hasn't done anything. But God

knows your heart. God knows that he's wishing he could

do this.

Did you know?

God knows when you're wishing you could do something. God

knows when you're not totally sold out on his word.

God knows when you are holding back on his word.

God knows when you're when you're wrestling with his word

and you're wishing you could disobey his word.

God knows that.

And I'm here to tell you today it doesn't make

God happy. And I don't know if you have room

in your theology for a little bit of unhappiness out

of God? Do you have room in your theology for

a little bit of unhappiness out of God?

Because you know, for years.

We have developed, you know, the God is Love theology,

and we've filled our churches with the God is Love theology,

which is fabulous and wonderful. And I love that we

have developed our churches into a God is Love theology churches.

It's wonderful. It's not just here, it's all over the

planet that there's been a shift toward God is Love.

But have we developed this theology so deep that we

can no longer allow him to rebuke us? If God

rebuked you, would you recognize it? The way chastening starts

if we could draw a graph, could if we could

draw a graph on the whiteboard today, the way chastening

starts is the same way chastening starts at your house.

You know, first you say a honey, come back to

the table and finish your dinner. H and then say

thank you for the good dinner before you run off and.

Play mightn't well rah.

No, honey, come back to the table, get back and

finish your dinner.

I don't like green beans I know.

They're not your favorite, honey, but these are good for you.

Anything green is good, and so just sit down there

and just finish your green beans. So it starts with

a rebuke, right, it just starts with a vocal rebuke.

But what happens is is that if it's not sin

that the Holy spirit's leading us or convicting us away from,

if he's not convicting us away from sin, then a

lot of times we just rationalize it, we just argue

with it. We just like, oh, you know, and we

have all these mental gymnastics that are going on until

we're able to quench his voice. When we're able to

quench his voice, then what happens is that it escalates

a little bit and he moves from speaking to afflicting. Now,

my backside was afflicted many many times, thousands of times,

my backside was afflicted because I didn't heed well the

vocal rebuke. But he says in Hebrews twelve that this

is him loving us. So when we have a God

that loves us, and we've developed the theology of God

loving us, but we don't allow him to rebuke us

or chasten us, then we have a false love. We

don't have a true father. We have a permissive father,

we have a harmful father. We don't have a father

that really cares about Because a true father cares about you,

not only fulfilling the word that he gave you, but

receiving the inheritance and the authority, the blessing of the word.

And so this is, you know, this is how the

chastening starts. In Hebrews chapter twelve. It starts with a rebuke.

And here's the end of you know, this is the

great story of the story of Bayleem, number twenty two.

A lot of you are familiar with it. It says

that he went off, but God was angry, and so

Byalam was riding on his donkey and two servants are

with him. And then the donkey saw the Angel of

the Lord standing by the side of the road with

a drawn sword, and so the donkey turns off the

road and goes into a field. And so then Balem

beats the donkey to get back onto the road, and

so then they're going through a vineyard and then there's

walls on both sides. The Angel of the Lord stands

in front of the donkey, and God was opening the

eyes of the donkeys. The donkey could see the Angel

of the Lord, and so the donkey's like trying to

avoid the sword of the Angel of the Lord and

wax Balem's foot into the side of the wall. Right,

are you seeing this? And so he beats the donkey again,

and then the Lord opens the donkey's mouth, you know,

and the donkey's talking to him like, haven't I been

your donkey?

Aren't I a good donkey? Have I failed you?

Have I ever purposely crushed your foot before? No? You

you actually haven't. You know, it doesn't occur to him.

I'm talking to my donkey. And then it says, suddenly

his eyes were open and he saw the Angel of

the Lord, and then he realized he was being rescued

from his own folly. So he got off the donkey

and he bowed before the Angel of the Lord. You know,

I've been rescued from that kind of chastening so many times.

I've been rescued so many times that from severe chastening

because I paid attention to the rebuke and I repented.

And God is calling us to this place. God's calling

us to this higher place. And this is really the

life of Daniel Daniel could have been so frustrated that

he had been stolen away and made a slave. He

could have been so frustrated about so many things. He

could have been so mad and angry. But he was

looking for God's purpose. He was looking for God's purpose

and he and then I can imagine how excited he

was when he was chosen to be one of the

selected ones in this new kingdom. That would have been

exciting because he was redeemed out of whatever slavery. All

of his brothers and sisters were in and brought into

the palace, and then they bring him in and set

before him all this choice food.

He's a young man. You ever seen young men eat?

They set him in front of all this choice food,

and the Lord says, that's not for you, And he's like,

what do you mean that's not for me. It's for everybody.

It's for everybody. They said, it's for me. They said

it's for me. Authority. I'm supposed to be under authority.

Authority said it's for me, And the Lord said it's no,

it's not for you. You're going to eat vegetables.

I rebuke you, you.

Foul demon, not a demon. This is the Lord talking

to you. Stand with me this morning church, heads bowed,

eyes closed, all across the auditorium. I want to do

ask the prayer team to come to prayer team if

you would come, and I do want this to be

a solemn time where you're just thinking before the Lord

in pray, and maybe even just come and offer something

to the Lord on your own.

If you.

Desire prayer as we close, that's beautiful and appropriate as

well someone to pray with you, that's beautiful.

But just right now, with heads bowed, eyes closed, I.

Want you thinking right now about the chastening of the Lord.

It says in Hebrews chapter twelve starts with a rebuke.

It starts with the rebuke, would you allow the Lord

to rebuke you? A rebuke is something simple like that's

not for you. A rebuke is something simple like turn

to the left. I didn't say the right. I said

to the left. It's a corrective word. It starts with

a corrective word. And many times it's over something that

we think everybody else gets to do. But you see,

you're not everybody else.

God has a.

Special calling on your life. God has a special word

for you, a special calling on your life. A special

inheritance for you. God has something different for you. Do

not look at others, look only to the Lord. What

is the Lord calling you to do? What is the

Lord saying to you? What is his word over your life?

Whatever that word is, that's what you run with with

all of your heart. And you never let a bowl

of soup take that from you. You never let anything

temporal steal that from you. So I'm asking you today,

would you repent just where you are, head bowed, eyes closed?

Would you repent even as we close in worship? Would

you come forward maybe and just kneel before the Lord?

Is there something in your life, something you've been choosing,

something you've allowed, something that you didn't even count it

as sin? Nobody counts it as sin. But for you

it's sin because it's idolatry. It's idolatry. To disobey God.

It's always idolatry. To lift up your choice against God's

that's always idolatry. It's idolatry. To lift up your choice

against God's that's idolatry. And if it's idolatry, then for

you it is sin. And God is calling you to

leave it alone, and to leave and to just follow him,

Just follow him, just follow it, and then trust that

in doing so, you've entered into birthright obedience. You've entered

into birthright obedience. There will be an inheritance for you

that's better than a bullet soup. There will be authority,

priestly power, there will be everything else that goes with it.

We're gonna worship as we go. I'm gonna ask you

to respond. Stay as long as you need to, don't

let anybody around you, leaving or staying, influence you. And

if you need to come forward, do so. As we worship,

and as we leave. Today we declare the word of

the Lord made precious again to your heart, the word

of the Lord made precious again, the calling of the Lord,

the desire of the Lord made pressure again to your heart,

and supreme above everything else,