Redemptive Realities 4

Let's reach down and pick up our Bibles and let's wave them around and make Jesus glad and the devil mad.

Let's say this together say Heavenly Father, I'm so glad to be here.

I celebrate so many things, but I want to remember mother today, the mother of my children, my mother.

Thank you, lord, for the love of the mother and Lord, it doesn't exceed your love, because your love transcends all and it never fails.

In Jesus name, amen, you can be seated.

We are going to wrap up our series that we've been teaching on redemptive realities.

This is the fourth in that series, and first Peter.

Let's turn to first Peter, chapter one, and read our foundational scriptures.

It's good to have an anchor whereby we're basing our teaching, verse 18.

Peter said for as much as you know, see, we've got to know some things about the blood.

We've got to have revelation about what the blood is done, is doing and will do.

For as much as you know that you were not redeemed by corruptible things such as silver and gold, from your vain conversation or manner of life received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious, you've been redeemed by the precious blood of Christ, precious blood as of a lamb, without blemish and without spot.

And then in Romans, chapter eight, he who's at verse 32, he who spared not his own son but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also, with him, freely give us all things?

And I've been reading to you out of the New English Bible and it says he did not spare his own son but gave him up for us all.

And with this gift, how can he fail to lavish upon us all he has to give?

And so redemptive reality.

The reality is that we have a warehouse full of unclaimed blessings and you know, we have not counted the blood of Jesus, as valuable as it is, in our own lives.

We look in the mirror and we, we don't see ourselves.

We see ourselves as undeserving, we see ourselves as unworthy.

Well, the truth is, the reality is that we are worth what Jesus has paid for us.

Did he get gypped?

Did the father pay too much for you and me?

See, I just don't think so.

He's God.

So we've got to look at everything that we have, not from our pitiful flesh standpoint, but with the standpoint and through the blood.

See, god looks at us through the blood.

That's why the blood is up there in the, at the mercy seat.

It's right there in the throne room of God, and I want to stir you up, to begin to lift your sights for the things that God wants to lavish upon you.

And so we've been studying, you know, week one, we, we, we found out that the blood and the glory are linked.

When we say glory, we're talking about the Holy Ghost.

Is God raised Christ from the dead by the glory of the Father or by the Holy Ghost?

And when we talk about glory and Holy Ghost, we're talking about God's power, and we know that 2023 is a year of God's power.

If we're gonna, if we're gonna have anything God wants for us to have, we're gonna have to abide and allow that power to flow.

And so the blood, the power, flows where the blood is applied.

We got that settled in week one.

We talked about the dedication of high priests Aaron and his sons and the, the.

The power can flow where the blood is applied.

We apply the blood with what our mouth, our, our confession, and we talked about the prodigal son.

And we talked about the rich man with the two sons he had, and we called him junior and Bubba.

That's just me.

I said Griner translation Just as an illustration I've this is.

This is one of those revelations that goes back a long, long way, 30 plus years, when I was praying about to start this church, when I was praying about going to brother Osteen to tell him that God had moved on me to start my own work and that, you know, I had.

You know I had to have a word from God and God gave me the one.

That junior, that Bubba said.

He said give me the portion of goods that fall upon to me, in other words, give me my inheritance.

I knew I had an inheritance at Lakewood.

I knew I had.

I had, I had a harvest that I had sown to and I needed now to go out the door with it.

I was not gonna leave brother Osteen and Lakewood church without my inheritance, without my double portion.

And I got it, bless God.

I waited for his full and unreserved blessing and received that.

So, and you know, junior knew he had an inheritance.

We went through all through Luke 15.

And but, but junior didn't know.

I mean, he got the double portion the same day that that that Bubba got his, junior got his, but junior didn't, didn't exercise it, and we know that that Bubba went off and blew it with right us living, came back.

I'm not worthy to be called your son.

But the father said no, no, no, no, no.

My son was lost and now is found.

My son, who was dead, is now alive.

In other words, you're part of the bloodline.

Let's bring the best robe, let's get the shoes on the boy's feet, let's put the signet ring on his hand and let's kill the fattened calf.

We're gonna have a party.

See, the glory showed up, his standing showed up, his authority showed up.

Are you with me?

When?

What?

The revelation of the bloodline.

See, when we realize that we're in the family of God and that the precious blood of Christ has redeemed us and set us free, oh hallelujah, that's when God's power shows up to bring us everything he wants to lavish upon us.

And so we, we got into those things.

On week one and then week two, we talked about healing, that we live far below what God, the blood of Jesus, paid for.

We, we, we allow ourselves to settle for less than perfect health.

We, we, if we're, if we're not dead, then we're, we're fine.

Well, listen, god wants you to be healthy.

He wants your health to spring forth as a water garden.

We need to be strong.

We need to have stamina like nobody else, and I know we all go through things, but I'm.

You know, listen, when you have, when you latch on to what the blood has done, it will see you through to the other side of whatever trial the devil has sent you.

Don't ever be condemned over a trial that the devil sends you.

Just just rejoice because you know how it's going to end.

So we talked about healing, and then last week we talked about the same issue in finances.

I mean all of the, everything that Jesus did on the cross.

He did for, everything he did for he did for our to take away our sin, to take away our sickness, to take away our inability to meet the needs of the heart.

You see, that's the new definition of poverty.

The new definition of poverty is the inability to meet the needs of the harvest, and they are vast folks.

The church is way behind.

If you allow yourself to be numbered with a kind that criticize preachers that fly in their own jets, well, just repent, stop it.

What have you done?

Well, I haven't heard from you in my four.

Well, that's not enough.

You're poverty stricken, see, because there's a whole lot of people who hadn't heard the word yet.

They hadn't heard the gospel yet.

And it's gonna take immense sums.

And where are they gonna come from?

Well, from God's treasure house.

Everything belongs to Him and nothing belongs to the Bill Gates and the George Soros of this world.

Nothing belongs to them.

They stole it.

And God is shaking.

He's shaking the heavens and the earth.

Oh, glory to God.

I get excited when I start preaching about that.

That's what the gospel to the poor, oral Roberts, told me.

That's the guts of the gospel.

Without the gospel to the poor, the gospel can't be preached all over the world.

It takes money, amen.

So this week we wanna get into Colossians, chapter one, if you will, and I wanna wrap it up and kinda get into some of the details of covenants, because in our Western society it's not part, as it was in the Old Testament and Bible days.

It was part of their culture.

It was part of how they lived anyway.

God didn't have to paint a picture to Abraham about a covenant and what it meant.

God didn't have to paint a picture to any of the 12 tribes about what a covenant meant, because that's how they lived.

They lived by blood covenants with one another.

They did business that way.

Today, we've kind of removed the blood out of it and we replaced it with a signature, which means what?

Nothing.

And even if it's notarized and it's stamped and witnessed, it means nothing.

I mean marriage, covenant.

Marriage is a covenant.

People forgot that a long time ago, so now it's really nothing to it.

I mean they get married, they get divorced, they get married, they get divorced, they get married.

So our culture is not acquainted with covenant, which is why I'm gonna go back a little bit this morning, wrap this whole thing up, so that you can understand that these things are inviolate, that they have words that have been spoken and sworn to by God and he's not going back on his word.

God cannot lie, amen.

So Colossians, chapter one, verse 12.

I'm reading in the King James and this is part of a whole lot of the Bible and this is part of a Holy Ghost prayer that starts way back there, verse nine.

The prayer that he's praying for the Colossians starts in verse nine.

So if you wanna read that whole prayer, you could pray that prayer for yourself and for others, but I'm gonna pick it up in verse 12.

Giving thanks unto the Father who hath made us meet or worthy.

See, the Father made you worthy, well you know.

But, pastor, I just don't deserve to get deserves out of your vocabulary, cause it's not about deserves, to quote Clint Eastwood in the unforgiving movie.

It's not about deserves, thought about deserves, cause we know what we deserve.

We deserve all of us deserve to go to hell and burn there, but we're not going there.

Jesus went there for us.

I'm identifying with the risen Savior.

Amen.

The substitution of identification.

So he says here giving thanks unto the Father which hath made us meet or able or worthy to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light.

You hear that word inheritance again.

We talked about it with Bubba.

Bubba found out he had one.

He got it.

He didn't beg for it.

He made a demand, he demanded his due.

He wasn't ugly about it.

His father, just give me the portion of goods that fall upon him.

He didn't even say please, it's mine, give it to me, okay, just like that Boom.

It's amazing.

Who's telling the story?

Jesus is telling the story.

We've been made worthy to receive this inheritance.

Partakers, sharers of the who are we sharing with Jesus?

We're equal heirs with Jesus.

The Bible says co heirs, equal heirs, sharers of the inheritance of the saints in the light, who hath delivered us from the power of darkness One version says the power, authority, jurisdiction and control of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear son, in whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sin.

That word, forgiveness, is not really accurate.

As I mentioned the other night, the Greek is a bigger language, has more idioms that English.

When they translated out of the Greek into King James English, I mean they just couldn't pick up all the nuances of the Greek language.

But it really means remission, it means cancellation of our sin.

It doesn't just mean forgiveness I forgive you, but we've got a record of it down here at the courthouse.

No, our record has been expunged.

Does anybody know what expunge means?

I mean you committed an offense and they've got a record of it down there and they got your rap sheet and says oh, they're guilty of this, guilty of that.

You can have that thing expunge when you, I'm telling you sometimes you can satisfy your probation and everything you can file and you can get your record expunged.

What does it mean to expunge?

It means erased.

It means the hard drive is formatted, erased.

No record of you ever having transgressed.

Wow, in whom we've received.

The remission of sin really is what it is.

So, number one, he made us able to have the things that he prepared for us, all the things he wants to lavish on us.

It's not about deserve.

He made us able, he made us, he gave us the ability to get it, to have it.

And it was the father.

I liked it, verse 13,.

I liked this translation.

It was the father who sprang us from the jailhouse of darkness and turned us loose in the new world of his beloved son.

He sprang us out of the jailhouse.

King James says we've been delivered from the power, authority, jurisdiction and control of darkness and translated over here into the kingdom of his dear son.

Now I've got a little video clip you guys ready.

It's a clip of a scrap yard.

One of the most valuable pieces of equipment in a scrap yard is the crane, and they have the crane attached.

It picks up an electromagnet.

It's not a rare earth magnet like a magnet that you see in the back of a speaker, but it's a magnet that happens when you turn the electricity on to this, to this big piece of metal.

It turns it into a very, very powerful magnet.

And that's what they do and they?

They floated over a pile of scraps.

So see it, look at it.

Picked up all the the, the ferrous metal and took it out of the box and left all of the non ferrous stuff behind.

See, look at it, picked it up, delivered it and translated into the kingdom of his dear son.

That power, what happened?

The power was applied to that magnet the minute you accepted Jesus Christ as Lord, the power of the gospel was released in your life and it picked you up out of the scrappy and it brought you over and made you a valuable commodity.

Oh, hallelujah, deserves, deserves.

No, no, it was just a work that God did by himself, of his own will.

He begot us with a word of truth Hallelujah.

Y'all like my little scrap scrap yard there, hallelujah.

So it's the blood of Jesus that paid for our freedom.

You know John 8, 36, if the son makes you free, then you're free indeed, or you're unquestionably free.

It's not something that you're gonna get.

You got it.

You have to enforce it.

How?

By faith, by your confession and by believing in your heart.

Free from sins, control, free from Satan's dominion, free from sicknesses, bondage, free from poverty's jurisdiction, free.

Everybody say I'm free.

Oh, my God.

And the other part of it is that the blood of Jesus restored our lost dominion.

See, what about the?

What about Bubba?

Bubba?

He had no idea he was the bottom of the heap.

He's living with the hogs.

No man gave to him.

He's starving, he's eating hog food, living with the hogs.

And he said oh, I've sinned against heaven and against my father.

I'm no longer worthy to be called his son.

I don't deserve, see, I don't deserve it, I don't deserve it.

And the father said no, just interrupted his little speech.

No, he went, ran.

As soon as he came back, he ran to meet him, embraced him, kissed him, said bring the best robe.

See his lost dominion, he is a son.

And that didn't end.

You know, whatever mistakes we make, what do we do?

We run to God, not from God, and we get it under the blood.

We can, we own what we do wrong, and then it's over with, it's gone.

A lot of people don't get taught that, and so they, they mess up and they sin, they do something, they, they should be ashamed of it, but then, instead of confessing it and receiving their forgiveness, they just wear it and they just, you know, they try to earn God's, you know favor and all that doesn't work.

The blood did it.

Say yes to the blood.

So it's all about identification.

See, once you get saved, you no longer identify with Adam, and Adam all died.

See, you were born into Adam.

When you were born into this world, your mother gave birth to someone who is in Adam.

That's why you had to get out of Adam and into Christ.

By what?

To get born again.

You got born again is what happened.

That's why you have to be born again.

People don't go to hell for the sin.

They go to hell because they're not born again.

The sin's already been taken care of.

The sin has been wiped out.

This is going to blow your mind, but when you get a hold of it, you quit looking at everybody so negatively and so condescendingly and everything.

Yeah, it's hard to live with some of these screaming, yelling people that are so wrong and so filled with demons.

It's hard to live around them and everything.

But at the same time, jesus loves every one of them.

He's got a plan for their salvation.

They need to hear it.

Whether they accept it or not, it's not our fault, but whether we, they hear it.

I mean, we've got to speak it, don't we.

That's really love, isn't it?

It's in love, telling them the truth, amen.

Alright, so we identify with our Heavenly Father's bloodline.

That's what I'm getting to, and that's when the power shows up to bring everything he wants to lavish upon you.

Alright, let's turn over to Genesis 15.

Anybody getting anything out of this this morning?

I just want to touch on these things.

Genesis 15 is a wonderful picture of the covenant.

Again, we covenants blood covenants are strange to us in the West in the 21st century.

We don't.

You know, a lot of our customs are around it, but we don't even know why the customs exist and some of the wordings exist.

And so I wanted to go over what God spoke to Abram in the beginning, abraham who became Abraham later.

And let's look at Genesis 15 and verse seven.

And God said unto Abram I am the Lord that brought the out of the Calvaries to give thee this land, to inherit it.

What land is it?

Israel?

It goes back to what God gave Abram.

He didn't.

He didn't give it to the Palestinians, he didn't give it to the, he didn't give it to the Arabs, he didn't give it to any of those people groups.

In fact, he took it away from them.

So when we go over there and we force Israel to sit down with their mortal enemies and make them give away their land that God gave their father Abraham for peace, then we get on the wrong side of God, which is where we are as a country and we're losing our country like big old, huge amounts are eating it up.

Millions of people coming across the border and let me tell you, they're not all our friends and they're not all wanting to go to work.

See, that's what they're trying to sell you.

Oh, they just want to.

They want to work hard.

Well, there's a few of them that do, I don't doubt it, but there's a whole bunch of them.

There's some of them that want to do Jihad.

There's some of them that want to spy.

There's some of them that want to do nefarious things and traffic and do all this kind of stuff and they're doing.

And a lot of them want to sell the, deliver the drugs they're carrying.

You know they're letting people go with the agreement that in four to ten years they'll come back and have a hearing on their asylum claims.

Well, there are asylum claims or bunk.

You could settle the asylum claims before they ever get here.

You could do that in Mexico.

I mean, trump had that going on Anyway.

So this is a this See, we're reaping what we sowed as a nation.

We're losing it.

We're losing it because we made Israel lose her nation.

Oh, I tell you.

So look at.

So he says I hear that I give you this land to inherit it.

And then Abraham said this now, abraham is a friend of God.

You ever hear that?

We used to sing that song I am a friend of God.

Well, you know, if you're a friend of God, then you're in covenant with him, and he sometimes makes demands on his covenant with you.

We're big about receiving from God.

Sometimes God wants to receive from us.

I said sometimes God wants to receive from us.

We'll get into that in a little bit.

And so he said Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?

I mean, what's the proof?

Ah, shit.

And God didn't smite him, god didn't strike him dead.

You, rascal, you mean my words not good enough for you?

No, he said get me a heifer, bring me a heifer.

What's a heifer?

Well, it's a cow that's never born, a calf, so it's a virgin cow, then essentially Younger cow, and give me a ram of three years old and a she goat of three years old.

So goats and a couple of birds, a pigeon and a turtle dove, and bring them here and part them down the middle.

So here is the blood covenant and action.

God is saying okay, you want me to back up my words, I'm gonna cut the covenant with you On my behalf.

This animal is gonna give its life, it's gonna shed its blood, and the symbolism is if I don't do what I say, I die.

Hebrews says it this way that God could swear no higher.

So he swore by himself, saying surely, blessing I will bless thee and multiplying I will multiply thee.

So he swore by himself and cut the covenant with Abraham.

How do I know?

How do I know this is gonna come to pass, cause I'm gonna back it with my own life.

See, that's what covenants are.

There are a swearing of life to life to do certain things.

And so he.

So it's a picture of the blood covenant that they practiced all the time.

So he didn't have to go into great detail what he was doing.

Abraham knew exactly what he was doing.

So he split that animal, that heifer down the backbone and split it.

Can you imagine the blood Split, those that ram and that she go.

And all that blood and those birds.

He didn't split the birds, but he cut them to where they bled and all that blood.

The whole thing was covered in blood and then nothing happened.

I mean, a blood has been shed and now the birds are coming down to try to eat the animal of the sacrifice.

The devil will try to eat your promises.

He will try to eat your ability to trust in what God has already given you, that God doesn't just come right now.

He waited and then, finally, the sun's going down.

Abraham had to drive the birds off of the sacrifice.

Why?

Because God didn't come right down.

He wanted to see how determined Abraham was to receive this covenant.

Sometimes it's better for us if things take awhile.

Uh-oh, I mean, how much can you?

Do you really trust God, or do you have to have it yesterday?

Does God have to be the bride through at McDonald's?

And he has to give it to you right now, right now.

Give it to me right now.

Give it to me right now, right now, god, give it to me right now.

Give it to me, give it to me, give it to me right now.

Well, there are instant miracles, but I'm telling you, the overwhelming majority of miracles take a little time, their seed time, anyway.

So he drove the birds off, and now the sun goes down and you can read the rest of it.

You can read your homework, genesis 15, also while you're reading Genesis 22.

Read that one too, genesis 15.

So he drove the birds off, it's going down, sun's going down, and now it's dark.

See, god, always in Israel, he always did things from night to the following day.

Their day started after sundown.

So Passover starts, or Sabbath starts, friday night after sundown and runs through Saturday.

See, instead of ours goes from morning to night, and God goes from night, and that's how he created the earth From night to morning, night to morning, night to day.

So when it got down, a deep sleep fell on Abram.

He began to kind of be in an altered state and God came down like a burning lamp and he began what we call the walk of the blood through the pieces of the animals and midst of the blood.

See, that's what they did back then.

So a regular covenant.

Let's just say you're a warrior tribe and I'm a farmer tribe.

I need protection from the marauders and the thieves.

And so I'm telling you, as a warrior tribe.

You know, you've got the weapons, you've got the horses, you've got the guts.

All I've got is a bunch of farm implements, and I've got the land and I'm gonna grow these foods.

I tell you what we'll do.

We'll enter into covenant with one another and we gotta negotiate that covenant.

What exactly what I'm asking you to do?

And then we've gotta find out what you're gonna do for me.

And then I've gotta say what I'm gonna do for you and when it's all said and done, we enter into this covenant.

So that's exactly what God was doing.

He's entering into a covenant with Abraham that implies that Abraham is gonna have to deliver on his side.

Also Doesn't really say that in Genesis 15.

That's why I'm gonna have you look at Genesis 22.

Because in Genesis 22, way down the road, after years and years, his promised son came.

Isaac was born.

When Isaac came of age, then God said okay, I want you to take Isaac, that son you believe for, and I want you to take him in sacrificing.

And I've seen, I saw a movie one time where Abraham was all upset and he was just so oh, I can't believe.

I've gotta do this.

Oh, god, ask me to do it.

No, he didn't have that attitude at all.

He said that's my child, a promise.

I'm gonna kill him, but God's gonna raise him from the dead.

He already received him.

Read your book, the book of Hebrews 11.

He already received him.

Is raised from the dead before he ever plunged the knife in him and he raised the blade to plunge the knife into Isaac.

Don't hurt the lad, don't hurt him.

Get the ram caught in the thicket.

Jehovah, jireh, the Lord, provides.

And so he knew.

And God.

Then he said now I know that since you didn't withhold your son, your only son, whom you love, that surely, blessing I will bless thee and multiplying I will multiply.

See, that was the finishing of their covenant, see, but it was 20, some odd years separated from here.

Are y'all getting this now?

God looks at long-term things.

Let's not get all discouraged just because what we're believing for hasn't happened yesterday.

It's coming, drive the birds off of your sacrifice.

So it's based on strengths and weaknesses and you've gotta have the animal.

The animal has to be chosen, and they split that animal down there and they have an exchange of coats.

I give you my coat, see.

Bring the best robe, remember Exchange of coats.

I give you my coat.

See, that's my authority and my family.

You give me your coat.

That's your authority and your family.

Now I've got authority in your family, like you do, and you've got authority in my family, like I do.

Everything I have belongs to you and everything you've got belongs to me.

We've just traded as if we're one.

We just traded and really, basically, we're gonna treat each other like we're of the same bloodline, even though we're really technically not.

That's why blood had to be shed.

Are y'all with me now?

Authority, everybody say authority.

Then you had an exchange of weapons.

I don't know what the farmer would have as a weapon, maybe a sith.

You know, they didn't have weapons.

They had farm implements, pickaxe, I don't know.

But the warrior tribe had swords and knives and horses that they could ride, and possibly even chariots, depending on who they were.

So that's the giving of strength.

Your enemies are now my enemies.

You're an exchange of enemies.

Now your enemies are my enemies.

See, what's all that for?

Well, because the weak tribe gains the strength of the stronger tribe in battle, but they're weak in food.

They don't grow their own food.

So now they gain the strength of the farmer's family in their food supply.

Pretty good bargain and we've been doing business like this for thousands of years.

But, like I'm saying, in the 21st century we've gotten away from all of the behind it, the scene, the blood, the swearing.

Then you had the walk of blood.

The walk of blood was both parties got in between those animals that were slain, the blood's all over the place and they would do the walk of blood and it would be in a figure eight pattern through the blood like this, and of course, the figure eight is a symbol of infinity, which is a symbol of eternity.

It's an everlasting covenant.

So you didn't enter into covenant without a lot of words.

You had to have a lot of negotiating before you did that walk of blood, for you give somebody your weapons and you exchange enemies and you exchange strength and authority and all that.

You've got to have a negotiation.

You've got to find out what are the terms of the covenant.

What do you expect of me?

What do I expect of you?

I mean, that's what God.

When you go back to Genesis 15, when God walked through the walk of blood in between those animals, he started telling Abram about the future.

He said you know, you're gonna be blessed.

Later on, your descendants are gonna have this land, but they're gonna have to move to Egypt and there they're gonna be evil and treated for 400 years, but they will come out with great substance.

God already told him that they're gonna be slays but they're gonna come out rich.

And that's exactly what happened 460 years later.

And he said and they'll come into this land, but not yet, because the iniquity of the Amorites and all theites, jebusites, hivites, bud Lights, cellulites, all the lights, ites, the iniquity, is not yet full.

In other words, they haven't sinned enough to fill a cup of my judgment.

I can't legally take their land from them and give it to you until they fill a cup of judgment.

The same with Egypt.

They couldn't, god couldn't judge Egypt until Egypt had done enough sinning against Israel for God to so see there.

It took time for his word to come to pass.

Are y'all getting this now?

So then they swear by God and go back to the normal way of doing business.

They would swear by God to each other.

Then God became the third party of the covenant.

He watched over both sides.

See, it's fine if you're gonna watch over me and I'm gonna watch over you, but you know, when we get God involved now they uh-oh, god is gonna hold everybody accountable.

You go back on your covenant agreements.

God is going to start lining up against you.

Are you with me now?

America is not saved.

America is a nation.

So America has gone against.

It's basically it's covenant with God one nation under God.

We've gone against our covenant.

That's why we're having so much trouble, and the church has got everything to do with it.

If the church doesn't rise up, wake up and speak up, then what hope has this govern, has this nation got?

Because the nation, let's face it, I mean it's backslid, it's way away from it's underpinnings.

It's long since turned away from the God of the Abraham, isaac and Jacob and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, long since.

It's only the mercy of God that America even stands today.

Well, you sound hopeless?

No, not at all.

I know God's not through and the church is still God mighty work to do, and God will know and no one wants to do it.

Amen.

So God is the third party.

So that's why it's important young people to get married and not to live together, because you're entering into something that needs a protection of a covenant where God is the one that's the third party to your agreement and it's solemnized by a preacher in a church.

I mean, I know you can legally get married down at the courthouse, but you know I'm a preacher, I've done a lot of weddings and I just think the value of getting married in front of a man of God and having words spoken is very valuable.

There's power in that Boy.

It takes power to.

It doesn't take much power to get married, but it takes a lot of power to stay married.

It takes a lot of love too.

Amen, all right, then the last tradition is the cutting of the hand or the arm.

So, after they've had the walk of blood, they've done the negotiating, they've made the promises.

They can't listen, they can't go back on those promises.

They can't.

It's permanent.

It's another thing in our society.

We just we season your stall while I.

Things are different now.

Let's throw away the constitution.

Things are different.

Let's have a living constitution.

Let's have a constitution that just goes like this Whatever people think it ought to be today, that's a bunch of bunk.

It's not what we did when we started this nation, and God was there, and God's still there.

He hadn't changed.

So they cut each other's hands or their wrist and they joined hands.

That's where our handshake comes from the blending of the bloods.

It's I mean, you know, my blood goes into yours and yours goes into mine.

It's a symbol of that blood covenant.

In some cultures they would bleed into a cup of wine and both drink it.

I mean there's all kinds of ways that they would blend the blood, but the bottom line is that it was sealed by the shedding of blood, the shedding of Jesus' blood.

So he was the chosen vessel to shed his blood.

He was the Lamb, the spotless Lamb of God, sinless, spotless.

He shed his blood.

No blood like it, ever no blood.

There's no blood.

There's no human blood, there's no animal blood.

Jesus' blood stands alone and it's our blood.

That's our blood.

Because why we're in Christ?

Woo, glory to God.

We've been delivered out of the power, jurisdiction, control of darkness and we've been taken over to the, not the scrap heap, the commodity stack of commodities, valuable commodities.

Now.

We are valuable kingdom commodities.

So the reality of our authority, the reality of our ability and our anointing and our worthiness, the reality of our righteousness, we have the best robe.

Say we're not junk, we're not, we're not unworthy.

Oh, I'm just unworthy, god.

If you pray that, stop it right now.

That's just religion.

Start looking at yourself the way God looks at you through the blood.

Be in Christ at all times.

Be in Christ at all times.

And so the more you think that way, the more you meditate on your redemptive see.

These are redemptive realities that I'm talking about.

Reality means truth.

So when you meditate on those redemptive realities, then the more actually experience all that God wants to lavish upon you.

How many of you are willing for God to lavish some things upon you?

Come on, lift your hands right now.

Glory to God.

He wants to lavish on you a strong marriage.

He wants to a strong household, your children just successful and blessed.

He wants to lavish upon you good health springing forth as a watered garden.

He wants to lavish upon you all your financial needs and even desires.

Glory to God.

Come on, let's rejoice this morning.

Redemptive realities Did you get anything out of this series?

My aim is to get you ready for this year of power.

God wants to release things over your lives that you just have never had before.

Hallelujah, glory to God.

Thank you, jesus.