El Shaddai

and wave those Bibles around.

Ah, let's make Jesus glad in the devil mad.

Let's say this together Say heavenly Father, I thank you for the Holy Ghost.

You went back to heaven, Jesus, but the Father sent me the Holy Ghost.

Holy Spirit, shine your light on the Word tonight so that it's food for my faith, nourishment for my spirit.

Give me revelation that will stick to me.

Change my life forever in Jesus' name.

Amen, I'll tell you, the Word of God's changed my life forever.

Let's look at a couple of places Genesis 17 and right in the front of your Bible, and also Galatians, chapter three.

I'm preaching on Galatians three for the second time in the same day.

How many of you are tired of it and wish that I would move on?

Let's look at Genesis 17, chapter 17, verse one.

And when Abram was 90 years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram and said unto him I am the almighty God.

Walk before me and be thou perfect or be thou upright or sincere, and I will make my covenant between me and thee and will multiply thee exceedingly.

How old was he?

99.

99.

Starts talking about babies, starts talking about kids.

And who was doing the talk?

Almighty God, or, in the Hebrew, el Shaddai.

El Shaddai.

I wanna bring a message about El Shaddai tonight, and let's look over here at Galatians three, verse 26.

For you are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus, for as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

There is neither Jew nor Greek.

There is neither bond or free.

There is neither man nor woman.

There is neither Greek.

There is neither bond or free.

There is neither male nor female Boy.

That's a radical idea.

I'm not sure we've clued into that one yet.

For you are all one in Christ Jesus, and if you be Christ, and we are, then are you Abraham's seed that God promised him, and heirs according to the promise.

You see, christ was Abraham's seed, see, and since we're in Christ, we're Abraham's seed.

El Shaddai said that to him.

Literally, the word El Shaddai means the God who is more than enough.

The literal Hebrew is the almighty, breasty one.

He never runs out of milk.

Glory to God.

You can feed and feed and feed, and he won't dry up.

He has an inexhaustible supply.

Now this message is going to tie right into the one that I preached this morning about believing for abundance, and I just felt the need to double down on what I said this morning, because I just believe that this church is in position for God to move in a mighty way, financially, in every one of your lives.

Because you can't trust a lot of people with riches, because they don't know enough of the Word to protect it and just wind up being separated from it, do more harm than good.

I've seen it.

You know, it's a statistical fact that people that win the lottery, it doesn't last three to five years.

They lose it all.

They're victims of scam artists.

Their whole extended family, every third cousin and everybody that's not even Ken has got their hand out.

They don't know how to say no, they don't know how to establish boundaries.

Loose lips, sink ships.

You start telling everybody about it.

You start telling everybody about it.

You start telling everybody about it.

Loose lips, sink ships.

You start telling everybody how rich you are.

You're going to be in for it.

No wisdom.

But you know what, when you apply yourself to God's Word, you live holy life and you have the kingdom of God, your kingdom of God-minded, god-inside-minded.

I'm telling you you can be trusted with riches.

He's the God who's more than enough.

So he reveals himself to Abram, the Almighty God, the God who's more than enough.

He said I will multiply the exceedingly.

And he had to change his name from Abram to Abraham, and Abraham means father of many nations.

He had been calling himself Abram for 99 years Well, maybe not 99, but when he was old enough to know his name and say it, that's what his name is.

But he wasn't saying the right thing.

He wouldn't say hi, I'm the father of many nations.

That's what God had made him.

God had already told him these things previously, but nothing had happened because, mainly because his mouth was getting in the way.

I mean, is our mouth getting in the way of God's abundance?

Good question, I mean what we say has everything to do with what we have, amen.

And so he changed his name Abraham.

And so you know.

You start reading the Bible in Psalm 23, my cup runneth over.

He's a running over cup God.

I mean he fed the 5,000 with five loaves and two fish.

They had 12 baskets left over, but they ate till they couldn't eat anymore and they had leftovers.

He's sitting there.

He did say pick the leftovers up, not to let it be gone.

He's not a wasteful God, but at the same time he's not stingy.

He didn't ask anybody.

Well, just take one little morsel, and that'll have to do you till you can get back.

No, he fed them till they couldn't eat anymore.

He fed the 4,000 with seven loaves and a few fish, seven baskets left over.

That's the God who's more than enough.

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Jesus said give and it shall be given unto you.

Good measure, pressed down, shaking, and the running over.

He's a running over God.

All this stuff about just barely get along Boulevard, the corner of Lack Lane, that isn't God, that's not El Shaddai, that's not who our Father is.

If he was Abraham's El Shaddai, he's El Shaddai to all of us.

Because we're the seed.

Are you with me now?

Why?

Because we're in Christ.

You know I was talking about anorexia, people, that anorexia.

They look in the mirror and they think they're fat and so they quit eating and they're just deceived.

They have the wrong image of themselves and you know he said there's no more uh, junior Greek, there's no more bond or free sea.

People had the wrong image.

They were looking in the mirror and seeing themselves as a certain race, as a certain, even a certain gender, and God said you're missing it.

You need to get in Christ.

You need to see yourself as in Christ, because I'm El Shaddai to the folks that are in Christ.

Are you all with me now?

In John, chapter seven, he said you can pray and the Father will give you the Holy Ghost as rivers of living water.

I mean you'd think one river would be enough, but he said rivers.

John chapter seven, verse 37, 38, rivers plural.

Malachi, chapter three, we mentioned this morning.

He'll open up the windows of heaven, pour you out a blessing.

There's not room enough to receive it.

What is that blessing?

Well, ideas, concepts and insights.

God, I've got so many things I can't even think about them.

Would you hold up on that for just a little while, cause I can't.

I can't handle all this download.

He's in a hurry for you to receive everything that you need.

So God revealed himself as El Shaddai to Abram when he was 99 and he still had no air.

Now he was trying to generate an air.

You know, and say right, whose name was changed to Sarah, which means princess.

She had to have a name changed to, didn't she?

She had her image, wasn't right?

Her image was her image.

Was this an old lady who's been bearing all of her life?

She was not a candidate for bringing forth a baby until she started changing what she said and what he said about her.

If you'll look at the record, it took them exactly 90 days to conceive a child after they started talking.

Right, are y'all with me now?

And so still no air, unable to father children.

His dead, womb.

And.

But he commanded Abram.

He said I want you to walk blameless that word, perfect there, means blameless in the covenant.

Walk blameless in the covenant, do what the covenant says to do.

And he reminded him if you keep reading, we didn't read it.

But if he reminded him of the previous covenant where he told him that in Genesis 13, 16, that his seed would be as plentiful as the dust, he said look out there, look at all this.

Your seed is going to be more plentiful than the dust.

Boy, I've been to Israel.

Not only is there a lot of dust, there's a lot of rocks.

You can't count the rocks.

And then, in Genesis 15, he said look up at the sky.

If you could count the stars, that's how numerous your seed will be.

But still, abraham or Abram.

At that time he couldn't get his image.

He couldn't get to the place where he could receive the strength to conceive his promised seed until he finally got the new name at 99 years of old.

And really I believe God just wanted a bigger miracle.

He said all right, I'll just show everybody how important their confession is.

I'm gonna take him while he's too old to do anything.

And her she's already been barren.

Now she's double barren cause now she's too old to go on top of that.

But God's will was performed.

Who did it?

El Shaddai, which ought to give all of us hope, no matter what kind of financial position you find yourself in presently.

When you measure that up against El Shaddai, he's the one that made the promise.

He's the one that sent the redeemer to redeem you from the curse.

It's all his doing that made us the seed of Abraham.

We couldn't do that ourselves.

Amen.

So he renamed him so he could talk right, and it's really true.

Most people just they identify with their birth, their birth family, their birth identity.

It's always kind of curious to me that people that are adopted, they just work real hard to find their birth parents here.

Your parents raised you, they wanted you enough to adopt you, and then you go around looking for your birth parents and going in and interrupting their lives.

In many cases it causes pain, it causes division, it causes disappointment on everybody's side.

And why do you wanna dig up dead bodies?

Why do you wanna go interfere?

See, I think it's just that.

It's a lack of identifying in crime.

I mean, if you're saved, you shouldn't.

It's irrelevant.

You're born again.

You got a new family.

Get to know him.

Amen.

If you've done that, well, I'm not talking about you.

All right, maybe it worked out all right, but I know plenty of cases where it didn't work out too swift, all right.

So we put too much stock in our family line or, in some cases, our gender.

You know, there was a move in the church for this feminism to God in the church.

A little bit.

It was just a come on, get over yourself, stop it.

Everybody's got a role to play.

Play your role and like it.

That's how God made you Amen.

Uh-oh, I'm really stepping on toes now.

All right.

So let's look at John, chapter 10.

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Jesus, who's the seed of Abraham.

Thank God he came.

He's our Messiah, he's our Redeemer, he's our example.

John, chapter 10, verse 10.

John 10:10

The thief cometh not but for the steal, kill and destroy.

Let's back up at verse eight and put that verse in context, because a lot of people say, yeah, that's the devil.

Well, that's true, that is the devil, but he's really not talking about the devil.

Let's look, chapter 10, verse eight.

All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them.

So he's obviously not talking about the devil there.

He's talking about religion.

He's talking about religion.

Religion is a thief and a robber.

Are you with me now?

The sheep didn't hear them.

I am the door by me.

If any man enter in, he shall be saved and shall go in and out and find pasture.

The thief cometh not, see, religion cometh not, but for the steal, kill and destroy.

But I am come that you might have life, zoe, the God kind of life, or the kind of God's life as he lives it, literally, that you might have life and have it more abundantly.

When you look up that word more abundantly in your concordance, the Greek means super abundant and quantity, superior in quality, sounds like Elle's shadow to me.

Notice it's quantitative and qualitative.

Both aspects of God's life, his Zoe, have to do with abundance.

Not just abundance, but super abundant, not just abundant, super abundant.

You know, james is a sailor.

He sailed on tall ship.

He sailed a lot of vessels.

You know a nice sailing vessels.

40, 50 foot long, that's a nice sailing vessel.

But how much nicer is a 300 footer?

That's super abundant.

That's a yacht.

That might be a cruise ship, superior in quality, superior.

I had a partner that was.

You know, he was so tight, he was tighter than Dick's hat band.

You know, dick, you ever met him, so that's.

My dad used to say that all the time.

That's an old time he's saying most of you can't.

Back in my dad's day all men wore a hat up until about the 70s I think.

Then men's hair got real long and they quit wearing hats.

But previous to that men wore these little hats for doors and stuff, and so he was so tight that he was always looking for a bargain.

So we go out to eat every day and so Bonanza Steakhouse had just opened at Bonanza.

Some of you are laughing because you know, but Bonanza is Bonanza, I know, I know.

I know Tom knows Bonanza.

They had a store near Northline so we were building up on 1916, 45.

So we'd have to drive all the way.

There wasn't any place to eat on 1960.

1960 was a two lane road.

There were no, there were nothing out here.

It's nothing, just called it Jackrabbit Road because that was all it was out here, jackrabbit.

And so we would have to drive.

For lunch We'd have to go somewhere, so we'd drive all the way down on I-45.

And usually we'd go to the truck stop at Kirkendall.

We ate there twice a week, had this lady that had this beehive hairdo, went all the way around her, went all the way up to the ceiling and but anyway we went to Bonanza's.

Yeah, man, I heard that Steakhouse is open.

Well, you know it's steak.

But what kind of steak?

I mean you could, you could order.

There's six guys of us.

We ordered six steaks, but I mean I would.

That was not superior in quality, it was.

We had some quantity, no question about it.

But you know, even the juice was tough.

I mean, you know they came out with a.

They had another chain called the Sizzler, remember the Sizzler?

So they, they stole, they sold the sizzle instead of the steak.

If you could eat the sizzle it would have been a lot better than the steak.

See, I'm talking.

You know you can have a whole lot of nothing say and it's not really worth anything, right, but when you've got superior in quality to go along with super abundant in quantity.

That's El Shaddai.

Spent a long time on that one.

I'll try to be shorter next time.

In other words, it's too much and too nice.

God is just too much and he's too nice.

That's why we need to renew our minds.

That's why we need to get into the Bible and get our thinking changed and quit feeling ambivalent and guilty about believing God for what he wants to give us because he paid the price.

He's the one that bought the meal.

He's the one that paid the price.

What if somebody bought you a big old spread that tasted Texas?

They came out of there with one of those big old porterhouse to 40 ounce porterhouse steaks.

Man lay it out.

Oh no, that's way too extravagant, I tell you.

Just let me find, give that to someone else.

I wouldn't want to eat that.

I want somebody else paid for it.

Amen.

We've got to renew our minds.

He's too much and he's too nice.

Our God is listen.

He will give you over and above what you ever dreamed of.

He's done that over and over in my life.

You know there's things that we believe for and God is faithful to bring those things to pass because he watches over his word to perform it.

But then there are rewards.

There's a rewarder of those who diligently seek him, and sometimes he just rewards you for something, with something that you didn't even believe him for.

And all of a sudden, here's something that you weren't even believing for.

Yeah, it was exceedingly abundantly above all that you could even dare ask or think.

And here it is.

We're living in the days when the church is going to be his jewels.

We're going to be on display.

And why?

Well, number one he loves us.

Number two he wants to use us as witnesses to the lost and dying world.

He wants the church to shine in these last days.

He doesn't want this hang dog.

Woe is me victimized.

Amen, hell, shout out.

Everybody say hell, shout out my God.

In Luke, chapter five, jesus has barred their boats and preached a big sermon and he said all right, boys, launch out into the deep for a let down your nets, plural Let down your nets.

Peter said well, lord, we've been fishing all night.

You know we don't fish in the daytime around here.

I know you're not a fisherman, you're a preacher, but I mean he could have said that, because that's what he's thinking.

Nevertheless, it's our word at thy word, lord, we'll do it.

You said it, we'll do it.

And they let down their net.

Singular.

And what happened?

In the middle of the day, when fish are not supposed to be around, there's supposed to be someplace else besides fishable.

They had a net breaking boat sinking partner straining catch.

They almost sank their boat trying to get the net in.

Think what they'd have gotten if they'd have really listened and put all their nets into the water.

That's El Shaddai.

After Jesus rose from the dead, john, chapter 21,.

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He said Ledge, have you caught any fish?

No, they, all night long, hadn't caught a thing.

He said throw it on the right side.

They thought, oh, come on, 153 great fish.

I don't know what a great fish is, but it must have been bigger than a minnow.

Huh, we have to have too much and, by the way, it needs to be too nice, see, for some people.

And this is where we have to get tougher.

This is where we have to get tougher.

We walk in love, but we can't be concerned about what people think of us.

There's always going to be jealous-hearted, envious people.

There's always going to be.

People look down their nose because you are successful, so you're not going to be successful just to please other people.

No, listen, we've got a harvest to reap and it's time for us to renew our minds to El Shaddai and realize that he's not chinchy.

I know I'm doubling down on this morning, but I just feel like, with the narratives that we're facing on a daily basis now, coming off of two years of this planned emin, totally planned by man, germ warfare is what it was, and then they've performed a psychological operation.

If you listened to Dr Jackson last week, he didn't say it in that term, but that's what it was.

That's what it was A Psyops.

And it was successful as far as they're concerned, because 25% of Americans bit into it.

Talk about right for revival.

This nation needs a revival and I believe God's going to give us one.

So we've got to have too much, because revival is very expensive.

This church won't be big enough to hold crowd.

What are we going to do?

Have parking lot ministry?

All that that was so stupid.

Yeah, you can have a.

Yeah, we had a communion service last Sunday.

It's in the parking lot.

People just drove by and just whoop, here's.

Here's the bread.

Oh, you spilled the juice.

Oh, you were driving too fast.

Slow down.

Anyway, according to God's Word, there's an excessive supply available.

Come on, let's lift our hands right now.

Father, I make myself.

I join up with those who want excessive results.

No matter who it identifies me with or separates me from, I will pass the money test.

I'll pass the money test.

I want to read you oh, I left my phone.

Have you got?

Can I borrow your iPhone and get it on the Bible thing?

Get it on the passion translation for me.

Ephesians three.

You can be my Bible.

Ephesians chapter three.

In the first 14 in the passion translation.

I just I have to read that.

I have to read that to them.

Thank you so much.

Appreciate it.

Ephesians three, 14.

So I kneel humbly and all before the Father of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, the perfect Father of every father and child in heaven and on the earth, and I pray that he would unveil within you the unlimited riches of His glory and favor.

Until supernatural strength floods your innermost being With His divine might and explosive power, then, by constantly using your faith, the life of Christ will be released deep inside you and the resting place of His love will become the very source and root of your life.

Then you will be empowered to discover what every holy one experiences the great magnitude of the astonishing love of Christ and all its dimensions.

How deeply intimate and far reaching is His love, how enduring and inclusive it is.

Endless love, beyond measurement that transcends our understanding.

This extravagant love pours into you until you are filled to overflowing with the fullness of God.

Never doubt God's mighty power to work in you and accomplish all of this.

He will achieve infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream, and exceed your wildest imagination.

He will outdo them all, for His miraculous power constantly energizes you.

Now we offer up to God all the glorious praise that rises from every church in every generation through Jesus Christ and all that will yet be manifest through time and eternity.

Amen, isn't that powerful.

The whole basis of this is His love, it's all His love, it's all His doing.

Amen.

He came to give us life.

Why?

Because he loves us so much, his love for the body of Christ.

So, as we pray these, I pray that prayer every day, not in a passion, but that's a good one to pray.

It's kind of wordy.

It might take a little longer than the King James, but it's really good, isn't it?

Praise God.

So you know, let's just believe God.

He's El Shaddai.

Let's take Him at His word.

He wants to manifest Himself to this generation so that we'll have the means by which we can spread that love as far as we can, all over the world.

Come on, lift your hands and receive tonight El Shaddai.

Praise God, hallelujah, did you get anything out of this?

This worth a little follow-up from this morning's message.

Amen, we doubled down.

I said we doubled down.

Hallelujah, glory to God.

Thank you, jesus.