Sermon
The Blessing of the Lord | Sam Stark | 11.2.25
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Hallelujah.
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Oh, shaka bundi. All right. Amen. It's
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always a shaka bundi when the Lord's in
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the house. Amen.
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>> And just so grateful once again. We've
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been traveling a lot. We've been at
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Myrtle Beach a lot. And uh thank God for
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what he's doing. He is building his
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church. And he is building his church.
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Unless the Lord builds the house, we
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labor in vain. and uh Psalm 127,
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including families, our house, our local
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household. You know, under the Jewish
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Hebrew mindset, the home was more sacred
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than the temple. And so, we need to be
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looking the father's blessing. May the
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quiver, that's five arrows, be full of
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them. The children are the heritage of
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the Lord and the gift of God. And uh he
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wants our houses to be blessed. Would
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you say blessed with heaven's best? God
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doesn't do half measures. Paul said, "I
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come in the blessings in the fullness of
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the blessings of the gospel of Christ."
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Paul understood the blessing of the
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Lord. And uh today we're going to speak
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on that blessing, the blessing of the
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Lord that makes rich. Uh Proverbs 10:22,
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the blessing of the Lord makes rich and
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adds no sorrow. So when we talk about
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the blessing of the Lord is something to
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be coveted. It's something precious as
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we'll see today. It's something that
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cost Jesus his blood and it's something
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that God's called you to walk in.
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Hallelujah. And so I want you to look at
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Galatians. I'm going to try and go
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slowly today. Otherwise I get into, you
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know, teachers explain, preachers
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proclaim. So let me start by maybe Jesus
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went around teaching and preaching and
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healing. And by the way, if you have any
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metal in your body, any operations
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you've had metal in your body, God does
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unusual miracles. He did unusual
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miracles by the hands of Paul. If you're
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blind in one or other eye or both eyes,
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hallelujah. Jesus is in the place and
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his anointing is upon us. We thank you,
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Father, that you have anointed us to
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preach the gospel to the poor. sent us
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to preach deliverance to the captives,
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recovery of sight to the blind, to set
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at liberty those that are bruised. Lord,
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we thank you to preach the jubilee year
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of the Lord, to bring your people into
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their inheritance, that Lord, they may
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be more than conquerors. We thank you
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that if you were for us, there's none
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that can be against us. Who is it that
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condemns? It is Christ that died, Lord,
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that is even at the right hand of the
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father today praying for us. And so
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Lord, I take authority over every demon
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spirit in the name of Jesus Christ of
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Nazareth. I cancel your assignments in
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Jesus' name and I release the power of
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the blood of Jesus. Angels just attend
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to your the word today. We thank you
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that you are ministering spirits
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according to the word. And so breathe
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upon the people Holy Spirit today and
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touch each and every heart that not one
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will leave this place. Not one will hear
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this message without being changed
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because you promise Lord that you watch
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over your word to perform it in Jesus'
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name confirming it with signs, wonders,
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and miracles. So, not only those with
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metal plates, but any sickness and
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disease has to dissolve in the presence
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of God. No plague can come nigh your
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dwelling. And the anointing of the Lord
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destroys, it doesn't only break, it
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destroys every yoke of Satan. Amen. And
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as we'll see today, we know where
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sickness and disease comes from. So Paul
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writing to the Galatians, and you can
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turn to Galatians 3:13. Let me go slowly
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so you can get this. The Lord wants you
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to live in the blessing. [clears throat]
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Jesus didn't come all the way down the
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Milky Way of time into the arena of
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human affairs and walk that sinless life
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and bleed and die on an old rugged cross
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and rise again and go through all that
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he went through. so that you could live
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under the curse.
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Jesus came so that you would live in the
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blessing.
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>> And the blessing of the Lord makes rich.
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And that word rich, by the way, means a
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full supply. We get all kinds of
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extremes. And I'll touch more on that,
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but we're not into extremes here. We're
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into a full supply. Everything that you
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need for life and godliness, everything
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you need to fulfill your purpose in this
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life, God is committed by covenant
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blessing and covenant love to provide
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every need according to his riches in
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glory by Christ Jesus.
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>> And so Paul says, the father has blessed
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you. Jesus has attained it and the holy
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spirit manifested in your life. the
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father. I I went before the father
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looking, "Father, how do you feel about
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me?" And he took me to Ephesians 1:3 and
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he said, "Son, I have blessed you."
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Listen to this. Not going to bless you.
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Would you say, "I am blessed with every
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spiritual blessing in heavenly places in
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Christ Jesus."
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Thus says the Lord. I'm just a messenger
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boy. But I love this message because the
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gospel is the power of God unto
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salvation and a full surprise. Supply
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also a surprise. Thank God he surprises
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us. There's instant surprises. So
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Galatians 3:13, Christ has, would you
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say has,
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>> you have been redeemed, bought out of
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the slave market, set free and released.
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Christ has redeemed us from the curse of
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the law, having become a curse for us
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because it is written, "Cursed is
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everyone who hangs on a tree that the
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blessing of Abraham might come upon the
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Gentiles in Christ Jesus." Would you say
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in Christ Jesus?
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>> Not standing in my own righteousness. My
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own righteousness is as filthy rags. But
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when I receive Christ, who is my
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righteousness? 1 Corinthians 1:30.
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Christ is your righteousness. Christ is
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your sanctification, your holiness.
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Christ is your redemption from sickness,
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poverty, and spiritual death. Christ is
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your wisdom. Hallelujah. And with wisdom
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comes riches, honor, and long life. That
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the blessing of Abraham might come upon
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the Gentiles in Christ Jesus that we
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might receive the promise of the Holy
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Spirit through faith.
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Oh, hallelujah. Thank God I don't have
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to live by my own limited human ability.
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You don't have to live live by your own
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limited human ability or wisdom, but you
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have the mind of Christ and you can live
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out of the wisdom of God. Solomon, the
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wisest of all men, fell in sin. But a
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greater than Solomon, Jesus said, is
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here. One who never sinned, though he
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was tempted in all points like as we
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are, yet no sin. And he became sin with
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your sin, cursed by hanging on a tree.
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And through his sin and becoming sin,
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you have been made the righteousness of
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God in Christ. Through the abundance of
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God's grace, God's riches at Christ
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expense, and the gift, would you say the
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gift? The gift of righteousness,
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you are called to reign and rule in your
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circumstances as a king. Romans 5:17.
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Then verse 29, this is so important. For
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if the inheritance is of the law, it is
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no longer of promise, but God gave it to
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Abraham by promise. I left my water
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there. If somebody can give me water,
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please. [clears throat]
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Oh, hallelujah. Let me read [laughter]
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that again. For if the inheritance Thank
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you, brother. For if the inheritance is
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of the law, it is no longer of promise,
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but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
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So you cannot earn the blessing. You
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cannot earn victory. You have to receive
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Christ. Amen. He is the gift of God. For
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God so loved the world that he gave his
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only begotten son that whoever believes
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into him into him
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should not perish but have shaka bundi
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everlasting life. And that's Zoe the
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life of God.
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So when we look at the blessing of
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Abraham, beloved, we need to understand
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that Abraham lived before the law.
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People don't think tithing is is for
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today. They need to read Hebrews 7:8.
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And they need to look at the fact that
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Abraham tithed before the law and Jacob
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tithed before the law. And so tithing is
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a principle, I believe, of blessing in
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God. And when we look at Abraham, Isaac,
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and Jacob, you will know that God
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blessed Abraham. And he told him, "I'm
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going to make you rich, and I will make
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your name great, and I will bless you."
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If you go to and you can go through u
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Genesis 12, go 17 and 22. I don't have
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time today, but he said, "As the stars
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of the heavens and as the sand of the
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sea, the shore, so will your seed be."
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Thousands upon thousands upon thousands,
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not only Palestine, but the earth. The
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Bible says in Romans that the earth was
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his inheritance, the inheritance of
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Abraham. The earth belongs to the Lord
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and he is king of kings and lord of
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lords. That worship was so beautiful
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today.
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And he said, "All power in heaven and
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earth is given unto me." Hallelujah. He
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sits upon the circle of the heavens. The
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earth is but his foottool and the earth
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belongs to him. Unfortunately, God as
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you know in the beginning created man in
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his own image and likeness and he
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blessed him and he blessing means
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empowered. He empowered mankind to be
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fruitful and to multiply and he made a
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covenant in uh on Tuesdays we have fire
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in the week here and we've just having
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such a wonderful family time here. Our
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people are praying and knitting. Hearts
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are knitting and we teach the word. And
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I've been pressing into what covenant is
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all about. When God made a covenant,
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understand, beloved, it's a covenant
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that cannot be broken. It's a covenant
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not signed with ink, but established in
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his own blood. The Bible calls the blood
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of Jesus the blood of God. And so God is
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committed to you by his blood. And he's
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made a covenant. And he started making
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the initial covenant with mankind. And
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he said, "Go and be fruitful and
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multiply, replenish the earth." [snorts]
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And man was meant to live out of the
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tree of life, which speaks of Jesus. But
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instead of living out of the life of
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God, man began to feed from the tree of
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the knowledge of good and evil. And they
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had to learn that the serpent was in the
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tree. The wisdom of this world, James
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3:14 tells you that the wisdom of this
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world is sensual and it's demonic. The
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world lives by demonic spirits. And you
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ask yourself why the chaos, WHY THE
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CONFUSION? WHY IS THIS HAPPENING IN OUR
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NATION AND in America and the nations of
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the world? What is TAKING PLACE HERE?
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IT'S THE CONSEQUENCE. Curse is a
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consequence of sin. And so Adam and Eve,
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as you know, disobey God, partake of the
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forbidden fruit, eat of the wrong tree
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instead of the tree of life. And those
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cherubim and saraphim have to tell them
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to leave the garden lest they eat of the
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tree of life and live forever in a
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sinful cursed state. And as they leave,
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beloved, all of a sudden we see all the
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diabolical deeds of the devil. We see
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death as Cain kills Abel. And we seeing
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that in the countries today when Cain
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killed Abel, it's just another thing
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that is basically like Marxism.
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When you think about this, these are
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religions. What is communism? What is
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Islam? They're trying to take over the
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world. They're trying to bring a false
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kingdom, but the kingdom of the world
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will be established and every other
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kingdom will be shaken and brought down
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from Babylon all the way down, said
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Daniel. He saw the stone come out of the
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mountain, the kingdom of the Lord
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coming. And we seek first the kingdom of
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God and his righteousness and things are
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provided supernaturally because the
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father's watching over his word to
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perform it.
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And so when we talk about the blessing
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of Abraham, understand God was always a
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God of grace. God has always been a God
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who wants to bless you. He wants you
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blessed coming in, blessed going out. He
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wants you to be the head and not the
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tail. He wants you to enjoy life's very
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best.
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But Satan's come to kill, steal, and
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destroy. But Jesus said, "I've come to
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give you life and life more abundantly.
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And if you'll do it my way and you live
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out of the tree of life and come back to
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the place that I called mankind to live,
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you will enjoy and you will be fruitful.
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Hallelujah. And your fruit will remain.
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Oh, thank God for the tree of life.
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Thank God for the blessing of the Lord
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that makes rich and adds no sorrow. And
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so God blesses Abraham. And as he
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blesses Abraham, he says, "Not only you,
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but your seed will be blessed." And
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you'll see that blessing flow from
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generation to generation. And as we've
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just read in Galatians, even to the
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Gentiles, to the church of the Lord
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Jesus Christ. And that blessing that
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makes rich and adds no sorrow. That
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blessing, blessing means empowered to
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prosper. That blessing that empowers us
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is by the Holy Ghost. He said, "The
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blessing of Abraham, the gift of the
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Holy Spirit. It's not by might nor by
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power, but by my spirit, says the Lord.
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And when I try to do it in my own
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strength, I fall flat on my face every
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time. But when the spirit of God came
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upon Samson, Samson jumped on the lion.
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That was the end of the lion. When the
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spirit of the Lord, hallelujah, came
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upon him. He took THE JAWBONE OF AN ASS
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AND SLEW A THOUSAND PEOPLE on his own
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under that anointing.
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Understand the anointing of God, the
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power of God is the greatest power on
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the face of the earth. The power of the
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Holy Spirit. And when God blessed
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Abraham AND HE BLESSED ISAAC, ISAAC DID
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NOT have to go down to Egypt for
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provision. Genesis 26. When others were
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going down and Isaac was going to go
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down because of famine in the land and
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the what was going on,
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should we call it a government shutdown?
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He didn't go down to Egypt. The Lord
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said, "You stay here and you sow in
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famine." And Genesis 26 says that he
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sowed in famine. And verse 14 says, "In
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the same year, he reaped a hundfold
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because the blessing of the Lord makes
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rich. And God said, I'm going to make
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you rich. My blessing will give you a
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full supply." "I've never seen the
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righteous forsaken, nor his seedbegging
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bread," said David. "The difficulty,
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beloved, or the challenge is for us to
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stop leaning to our own limited
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understanding."
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Lean not you understand to your own
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understanding, but believe and trust the
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Lord. I'm not moved by what I see. I'm
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not moved by what I feel. I'm only moved
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by what the word of GOD SAYS. AND GOD IS
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WATCHING OVER HIS WORD to perform it in
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your life because he's no respector of
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persons.
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If you're in Christ, then you have
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Abraham's blessing and you're an heir of
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God and a joint heir together with
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Jesus. Everything that belongs to God
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now belongs to us as the family of God.
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Just as an interjection, the reason some
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don't enjoy it is they they disconnect
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from the body of Christ. Don't do that.
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There is no perfect church. There's no
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perfect pastor. Just understand there's
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no perfect anybody other than Jesus.
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>> But as we look at the blessing of
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Abraham now, we see Isaac prospers. I
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mean, talk about he didn't even have to
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find his own wife.
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Oh, Shaka Bundi.
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That's that's a word for a few bachelors
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here.
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God even found his wife for him. And
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sometimes the mess is we go and find our
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own wife and we go in the wrong places
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where sin is drunk like dirty water. And
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I remember we did a divorce recovery
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course. This woman was so angry because
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the person leading it, I've got to keep
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this short, but
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>> [panting]
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>> He said, "Every divorce is two-sided."
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And this woman got so angry. Then she
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said, "Don't you dare say that my
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husband was an alcoholic. He molested my
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daughter and you telling me this divorce
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was both of ours 50/50."
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And the woman leaded said, "Tell me when
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you married that dude, did you know he
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was an elk?"
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She said, "You know, my mother tried to
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warn me. Everybody tried to warn me. My
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friends warned me. But I was determined.
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You understand? Rebellion is the spirit
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of witchcraft. I'm not listening to God.
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I want this dude. And she said, I walked
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down that aisle knew knowing I was doing
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the wrong thing. And the consequences,
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the curse
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smashed her life and her daughter
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molested and affected throughout life
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until Jesus healed.
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It's a terrible thing, beloved, the
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curse. When you look at the curse and
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you look at Deuteronomy 28, what is the
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curse of the law? The Bible talks about
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the blessing. Blessed in the field,
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blessed in the basket, blessed in the
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womb. all these blessings if you obey
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the Lord and do it his way and live out
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of the tree of life, so to speak, out of
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his word and walk in his ways. It's his
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word and his ways and his will, right?
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And when we walk in his will and ways,
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there's blessing. Hallelujah. Because
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God's watching over it. But then it goes
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from verse 15 to 68. It's the most
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terrible thing. blindness and locusts
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eating the crops and everything being
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destructed, destroyed and even
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sicknesses that haven't been named
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coming on people because of the
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consequences of sin. The diabolical
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deeds of the devil destroying and
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brought forth thin thistle and thorn and
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the curse came upon mankind. Cain kills
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Abel and so it goes on. Well, God has to
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flood the earth. But when we look at the
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life of Abraham and Isaac, we now come
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to Jacob and his beautiful son Joseph.
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And the Lord really quickened for us to
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look at Joseph is a type of Jesus.
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Joseph is a type of the church. And
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here's this young man and he begins to
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move and live not by flesh or out of his
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own understanding. The young boy has a
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dream and in the dream he sees the
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blessing of the Lord upon him. the sheav
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bowing down to his sheath. The sun and
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the moon are the stars bowing down to
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him. So help us to properly interpret
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the scriptures. How did the father
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understand what he was talking about? He
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says, you talk about the sun and the
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moon and the stars bowing down. You
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know, are you saying your parents will
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bow down to you? I want you to get this.
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He was living out of the tree of life.
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It wasn't his own plan. He wasn't
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running in somebody else's lane. He
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wasn't running with somebody else's
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vision. He wasn't trying to be anything
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other than what God called him to be.
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And I tell you, those Pharisees wanted
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to kill Jesus. Jezebel will always want
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to kill the anointing. It's all about
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power. But thank God, the anointing
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destroys the yoke. And the Unix will
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bury Jezebel where she needs to be
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buried. Isn't that right? Isn't it
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right? The spirit of Pharaoh that makes
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slaves of people. Think about it,
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beloved. Don't don't come with the
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nonsense that people care. The reason
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they don't want people to be legal is
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because they can keep them slaves. But
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make people legal they can earn their
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salary and have a minimum wage and
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prosper because the hardworking man will
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be made rich. Not communism or Marxism,
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but the Holy Ghost blessing that makes
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rich and adds no sorrow.
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And so this young man is now listening
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to God and he unfortunately releases the
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the vision too early to the wrong people
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and you know they threw him into the pit
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and from the pit he went as a slave to
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part of his house. But in those
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situations beloved when those brothers
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left him in the pit and he LOOKED DOWN
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IN THE day and he saw the sand of the
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seashore he could remember the blessing
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is upon my grandpa and greatgrandfather.
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The blessing of the Lord makes rich and
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adds no sorrow. It doesn't matter if I'm
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in the pit. God will take me out of the
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pit. He will remove me from THE PRISON.
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HE WILL OPEN the prison house by his
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spirit and he WILL PUT ME IN THE PALACE.
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AND WHEN HE looked up, he saw THE STARS
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OF THE heavens and understood the
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blessing of the Lord was upon him. And
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when Piper saw him and he was being sold
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as a slave, the Bible says that Piper
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looked at him as a slave and he knew
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that he was a prosperous man. He knew
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something was different and he prospered
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in in that man's house until the man
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could trust him and didn't even have to
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think about what was happening with his
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money or anything else. But that
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blessing, Satan hates the blessing.
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Satan wants to bring the curse. Satan is
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driven like a green serpent by jealousy
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and envy and wants to stop anything
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that's the true anointing of God. Thank
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God in North Palm, we are pressing in
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for the genuine and the real. You heard
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Timothy today. We wanting the real and
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the true. We wanting what's genuinely of
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God. We want the true bread and we want
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the true wine. We want the true Jesus
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and we want the true gospel. Paul said,
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"They bring another gospel. Let them be
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accursed." The curse is upon nations
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because of the doctrine of demons and so
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many people living under the
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consequences of sin.
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But this young man, even in the hour of
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temptation, he said, "I cannot do this
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thing." And he fled. Flee youthful
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lusts. The word hidden in your heart
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will keep you pure in your ways. The
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purifying word of God, the purifying
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fire of God. Now, when I preach this,
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it's never to bring condemnation. You
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got to understand, I come out of sin and
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every other thing. So, I stand here by
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the grace of God. I'm a prodigal son
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that's come home. But I got tired of the
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pigs. I got tired of the demonic. I got
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tired of eating pig flop. I got tired of
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the emptiness in my soul. I got tired of
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depression and all the rest of it and
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fear and torment and every other thing
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as spirits came against my life. Thank
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God the devil was cast out of me. And
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Jesus came in and the Holy Ghost came
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in. AND GREATER IS HE THAT IS IN ME than
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he that's in the world. I don't have to
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lean on my own limited human ability.
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Oh, blessed be the Lord. Blessed be the
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Lord. Blessed be the Lord. Oh, he does
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feed upon our praises. Timothy worship
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team. He rides upon our praises. He's
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enthroned upon our praises. His
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authority is released in these meetings.
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And so the authority of Christ is in
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here in the name of Jesus to set every
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captive free from every curse. And those
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curses come and you listen to Christians
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and they struggling with depression and
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this that and the next thing. Thank God
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for the spirit of counsel and those who
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know how to counsel by the spirit, not
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by the tree of knowledge. Jesus is the
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bishop of bishop of our souls. He knows
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how to restore our souls and our minds
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and emotions, but it's by the spirit
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and by the word.
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And so this man through the blessing. He
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treasured the blessing. He wasn't an
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Esau. He was like Jacob. Jacob wanted
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the blessing, the father's blessing.
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Hallelujah. And he wanted he honored the
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covenant. The covenant has to be with
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relationship. It's like a marriage. God
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is married to you. Even to the
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backslider, backslider, listen to me.
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He's married to the backslider. He will
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not let you go. All he says is come
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back. And he'll run and fall on your
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neck and kiss you when you come back.
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And he will put a ring back on your
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finger. And he'll put shoes on your
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feet. And he'll clothe you with a robe.
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Oh, [gasps]
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didn't he love his son, his eldest boy,
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Joseph? He just loved him and he put
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that coat on, but it brought jealousy
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and envy. Of course, the Pharisees like
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with Jesus wanted to take him out. So
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they put him in that pit and he had to
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go through that wilderness experience.
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But the blessing of the Lord that makes
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rich in every area, spirit, soul, body,
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interpersonally, financially kept him
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from the sin.
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And in purity of heart, he's thrown and
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falsely accused. Just like Jesus,
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though tempted in all points, yet
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without sin, they crucified him. They
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nailed him to that cross and he had to
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pay in full until he cried, "Eli, Eli,
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my God, my God, why have you forsaken
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me?" He drunk a bitter cup. He'd never
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sinned. But now he yielded to the
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father's will. Not my will, but your
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will be done. Father, I'll do whatever
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you want me to do. I this cup, I don't
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want to drink it. Nevertheless, not my
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will. I'll take it all. And he went to
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the whipping post and he went went to
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the cross and hanging between heaven and
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earth. Hallelujah. Nailed to the cross,
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God paid in full for all your sin and
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mine. And he rose again for our
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justification.
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And so we watch this beautiful boy go
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through prison. And even the prison
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warden, the one over the prisons
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recognize there's something about this
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man. Even in prison, the blessing's
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working. I don't care what process
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you're going through, beloved. If you'll
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abide in Christ and abide in the
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blessing, he will keep you. Hallelujah.
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And he will preserve you for the work
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he's begun in you. He will perform. Only
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thing you have to do is abide in Christ,
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the source of all blessing. Abide in me.
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I am the branch, the vine, and you are
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the branches. Just abide in me and watch
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me bring it to pass.
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The blessing works. Cream will always
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rise to the top. I remember my mother
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taught me as a boy singing hymn under
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the tree son. Jesus never stood on
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others to get to the top. He built
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others. That's the heart of the man of
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blessing. He doesn't operate out of
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fear. Fear, manipulation, control of
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people. He lives out of faith in the
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blessing and knows promotion comes from
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the Lord. And though you go through
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difficult times and though you
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misunderstood and most times you're
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thrown in the pit and people at your
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workplace do stuff to you that you can't
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explain, understand as we heard today
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from Apostle Alex. You understand
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there's other voices talking to other
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people. They're under the sway of the
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devil. They're under the sway of the
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curse.
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But you walk in the blessing and you
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walk in the light and all the darkness
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of the world cannot extinguish the light
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of God in you. You're a lamp and a light
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and you're a salt in that place. And so
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even in the prison house, he's blessed.
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And then he begins to prophesy. I want
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you to hear this over the baker and the
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cupbearer. Isn't it wonderful? Say,
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"God, I'm in a prison cell here and I've
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been falsely accused." And this is
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serious because this dude Potterer
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actually works in the prison guard of
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Pharaoh.
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I'm going to lose my head. This doesn't
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look too good.
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like standing before the the Red Sea,
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Pharaoh behind you, mountains either
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side, no way out, but God.
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Stand still. Rest in God. Rest in the
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blessing. Let the blessing work. It's
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not always pressing through. Oft times
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it's just resting, abiding.
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Never seen an apple sweat.
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And as you abide in the Lord, he begins
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to move. And these men come around him
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and say, "We've had these terrible
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dreams. I wish I had time to go into the
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fullness of those dreams, the wine and
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the basket of bread." And he says to the
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cup bearer, "Within three days you'll be
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back with the king, but remember to
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remember me
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to him." And he interprets the dream.
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People who I'm Please I'm I'm not
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interested in judging anybody. I think
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what I'm talking but when you come and
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talk to me be it cessationism that God
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doesn't still move today I ask you what
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socks are you smoking
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you ain't going to walk in this blessing
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without the gifts of the spirit
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without the holy spirit the holy spirit
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never left the earth he's never left and
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faith never stopped working the word of
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god only profits us when it's mixed with
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faith and Satan doesn't want you to
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believe that God wants you rich. Satan
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doesn't want you to believe that God
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wants you healthy. Satan doesn't want
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you to believe that you're going to
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heaven forever and that you have eternal
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life. He's the father of lies. Be ely
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bub the thief that's come to steal the
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word. But if you'll let the word the
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truth come into your heart and let
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become good ground, you'll bring forth
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30fold, 60fold, 100fold because the
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blessing will always work. The blessing
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of the Lord that makes rich. the
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blessing of the Lord that prospered
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Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Israel. And now
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the church, the Holy Ghost has come. And
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Jesus broke the curse. Cursed is
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everyone that hangs on the tree. And he
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took the curse of sickness, poverty, and
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spiritual death. When that woman was
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bowed over for 18 years, Jesus walked
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through. Listen to this. the the ruler
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of the synagogue was upset with the
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anointing
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dead head.
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And Jesus said, "This daughter of
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Abraham, she's not meant to be bowed
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over like this." Sickness comes from
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Satan. God is not the author of
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sickness. He has to permit stuff because
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people walk in sin. [clears throat] They
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give place to the devil. They let the
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locust eat. And the Bible tells you
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adultery will reduce a man to a slice of
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bread. Read Proverbs. This is sin. When
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you let sin in, sin destroys. I'm not
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talking condemnation. I'm preaching the
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blessing. But God's given you a free
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will to choose. And I remember sitting
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down and saying, "God, I'm going to look
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in the mirror of your word, and I'm
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going to look at these sins. I'm going
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to have a good look at myself, and I'm
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going to look in the mirror, and you'll
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know the seven deadly sins. They
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basically summarize pride like Lucifer
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and Ne Nebuchadnezzar, envy like Cain,
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wroth like Saul, sloth like the church
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at Leadyia, greed like Judas, gluttony
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like Esau, lust like Samson. Lord,
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anything of that ask you to forgive me
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cuz that curse will bring locusts. It'll
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bring devastation. It'll bring sickness.
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I got in a wrong attitude one day and I
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was claiming 1 Peter 2:24 for my healing
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and the Lord said, "Look at the context,
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son. You've allowed nonsense in your
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heart. You've got bitter and twisted."
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3:00 in the morning, I repented right
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there and God instantly healed me. Don't
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let the devil lie to you. Vengeance is
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the Lord's. He will repay. Just abide IN
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THE BLESSING AND BLESS THOSE who curse
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you. Pray for those who despitefully
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you. Don't use you. Don't lose the
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blessing. The Lord said, "Bless them
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because what comes out of your mouth
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goes into your heart.
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Bless them. Don't curse them. Pray for
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them."
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Understand it's all about protecting the
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blessing.
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And when that blessing that makes rich
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and adds no sorrow functions, they'd
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forgotten initially. But then Pharaoh
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has a dream.
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Oh, I was talking to Apostle Mark and
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the apostles and we're talking about the
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apostolic. You want to talk about the
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apostolic and prophetic, the prophetic
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flow in Joseph. But he became a father
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to Pharaoh. Study it in Genesis.
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Oh hallelujah.
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The next thing Pharaoh wants somebody to
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interpret his dream. The fat cows and
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the lean eating it up. Seven good years.
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Seven fat years. You see the Holy
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Spirit, he knows the future.
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And he will work through dreams and
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prophetic words.
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Despise not prophesying.
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Thank God for the prophetic words over
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my life. And I knew they were God.
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He says, "Pharaoh, what you've seen
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here, seven flat fat flat. The flat ones
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ate the fat ones.
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Seven bad good years and then seven bad.
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Says, "I tell you what, counsel, the
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spirit of counsel, put men over it." And
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Pharaoh calls his counsel and says, "Who
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do we do?" They said, "Put this boy
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Joseph.
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Put Joseph." Listen to me. You are the
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Joseph of God.
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Christ in you. God's Joseph. These are
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all types of Jesus and what he went
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through.
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He was thrown in the pit, came unto his
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own, and his own received him not. They
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crucified him, spat upon him, tore his
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beard from his jaws. He was made a
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curse,
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and he took poverty.
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Hear me now. He took poverty. Oh, read
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the book of Job. Job was only like that
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for nine months. And he said, "The thing
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I feared, I let the devil in." And then
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at the end he said it's my I was
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standing in my own righteousness was
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overkill. He kept going and presenting
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sacrifices all his own righteousness.
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But when he repented God restored
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everything he had to twice what he had
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before. Knowing the grace of our Lord
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Jesus Christ that though he was rich 2
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Corinthians 8:9 though he was rich for
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your sakes he became poor that you might
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be rich. In 9:8, 2 Corinthians 9:8 says,
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"The Lord, hallelujah, will make all
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grace, undeserved merit." Please listen
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to me. This is for everybody here that
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will receive Christ. If you'll let Jesus
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in, if you'll receive Jesus and the
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blessing of God, it'll begin to work in
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your life. The blessing, the Holy Spirit
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will begin to restore what the
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cankerworm and the locust and the palmer
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have eaten. He'll restore everything the
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curse has done in your life. Oh, my
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beloved and darling brother and sister,
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you got to hear this. God loves you and
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he loves you with an undying love. And
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he said, "You seek first my kingdom,
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righteousness, peace, and joy in the
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Holy Ghost." Hallelujah. And everything
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will be provided. Every need will be met
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according to my riches in glory by
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Christ Jesus. Oh, hallelujah.
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And the widow walked straight. That
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little wood 18 years this daughter of
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Abraham walked in the blessing of
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Abraham and Satan had to leave. He
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cannot stay where the Abraham of
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blessing is upon your life. The Holy
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Spirit no plague will come now your
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dwelling and his anointing will destroy.
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And then he said Jesus God had warned
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them if you eat of that tree you'll die.
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Now there's different deaths. Cain
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killed Abel and that but it was talking
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about spiritual death.
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You know, it was the law of the spirit
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of life that we sang about today.
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Oh, thank God for the law of the spirit
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of life. Oh, glory to Jesus. I can let
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that bottle go. The law of sin and
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death. That's what I found. My flesh
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does just pulls me further and further
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down. But when it's tied to a hydrogen
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balloon, when the law of the spirit of
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life, when the Holy Spirit begins to
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work, when life begins, the life of God,
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the Zoey life, I've been teaching on it
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in fire in the week, but I can't here. I
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haven't got time. But you know what
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happened with John Cheet Lake? They put
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sickness on his hand and it dissipated.
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Said, "What's happening?" The doctor
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said, "You don't even have any garments
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or anything to protect you." He said,
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"No, the law of the spirit of life has
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set me free. That sin, that sickness
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touched my body. It dissipates." He
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said, "Sickness is pockets of death
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came through the garden." The curse.
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But when the Holy Spirit came and Jesus
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came who is the life and people received
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eternal life, he says all I do is I
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trust the life of God in me. The Zoe
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life, the law of the spirit of the Zoey
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life of God has made me free from the
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law. I just mix the word of God with
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faith and the fountain in me becomes a
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river and it washes out sickness and
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disease.
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We need revelation knowledge. Paul's
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prayed that we would understand these
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things. Otherwise, we live a Christian
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life. I've been there. Please hear me.
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Trying to live it in my own strength.
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Falling flat on my face. Trying to live
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for victory when God had already seated
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with me in Christ and wanted me to live
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from victory. Trying to earn the
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blessing when I'm already blessed.
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Trying to be redeemed when I'm already
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redeemed. What are we doing?
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Somebody said, "You got the bull by the
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tail, looking it in the face.
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Got everything back to front."
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But God wants you to know the truth.
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He is no respective person. If I could
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express what I'm feeling.
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This is not about Steve Stunning who
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comes up here and preaches. Please
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listen to me. I just messenger boy to
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tell you that the real messenger, the
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Holy Spirit wants to impart that
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abundant life to you.