Sermon
The Mystery of War (A Key To Inheritance)
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You're listening to the Cross Kingdom Sermon of the Week, we hope you enjoy
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this message from Justin Carpenter. But Goliath, Deanna Heisman did Goliath for me,
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and and she did the fruit. And as you all know, this
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year is a year that we said we're declaring war in twenty twenty four on
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doubt and unbelief, because I believe with all of my heart the greatest giant
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in the land is unbelief. Period. If it wasn't the Old Covenant,
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it's in the New Covenant. If the Disciples had all authority and power to
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cast out demons, heal the sick, raise the dead, and then they
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came up to a young man they couldn't get rid of the demon, and
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he said, it's because of your unbelief. When we are going and pressing
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in and looking for breakthrough, the issue is not God. He is for
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us. Are you with me? Are you with me? And so I
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just I had Deana do this weeks ago because I've had this so many times
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when we talk about scripture and we talk about oh, okay, so Caitlin,
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Caitlyn's what's Caitlyn Bowen? She's pregnant and her blood pressure just just went
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dangerously high, and they yeah, and they just took her to the emergency
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room. So let's pray real quick. So Father, right now, in
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the name of Jesus, we just speak healing and wholeness, Lord against this
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attack. Father, we rebuke a spirit of death right now that's coming against
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this child, and we speak peace over her body. Lord, and we
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asked that you'd release your angels to bring healing and deliverance. Right now,
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Father, we just cancel the in agreement right now, all of us.
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We cancel the enemy's assignment of stealing and destroying life right now, and we
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speak life, and we declare that that baby will declare the works of the
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Lord and the mighty name of Jesus. Amen. So I want to talk
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to you, man, I got as much time as I did this morning
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was going on. I want to talk to you about the mystery of war,
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because it's a key to your inheritance, and you're not going to receive
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the fullness of your inheritance without war. Are you with me? Joshua?
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Are sorry? Judges two six to ten. When Joshua dismissed the people,
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the people of Israel went each to his inheritance to take possession of the land,
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and the people serve the Lord all the days of Joshua, all the
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days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work
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that the Lord had done for Israel. And Joshua, the son of Nune,
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the servant of the Lord, died at the age of one hundred and
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ten. Ah, hey, we can get to one twenty people. And
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they buried him within the boundaries of his inheritance in Timnath Harris in the hill
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country of Kerrville, I mean Ephrium, north of the Mountain of Gosh.
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And all that generation also, I'm sorry, and all that generation also were
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gathered to their fathers, and there arose another generation after them who did not
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know the Lord are the work that he had done for Israel. In many
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ways, we find ourselves in a similar situation today in America. We're no
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longer just a backslidden nation. We are on the cuffs of the last statistics
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I saw gen x is at like forty six percent where they're agnostic or atheist,
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they're non religious affiliated. By election time there'll be at fifty percent.
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We with the breakdown of the home, the destruction of the family. We
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have one of the most fatherless generations we've ever had. We're literally living in
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a time where we see the fruit of the curse from MELOCHI too, and
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it's time that the hearts of the fathers are turned back to the sons,
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and the hearts of the sons are turned back to the fathers. The enemy
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knew when he broke the home up that that that's the nucleus did. In
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the Old Covenant, Gods called the angels his sons, so family was on
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his mind and a part of what he did from the very beginning. And
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you, as sons and daughters of God in this life to come, will
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actually join the Divine Council and rule and reign with his other angelic sons.
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So you, right now, we can get stuck in these patterns of blowing
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off our responsibility over the earth. And what you don't realize is what you're
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doing on this earth right now is actually setting you up for the life to
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come and preparing you for future promotion of responsibility for eternal consequences. And every
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day you wake up, you're in a battlefield. The day you were born,
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you and you literally breathe your first breath. You were born in a
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battle, whether you like it or not. And nothing is free. Salvation
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is free, intimacy is costly. And we're in a battle. We're in
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a battle right now. And I said this in first service. Do not,
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I repeat, do not be overcome by a political spirit this this election
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season. We've already seen what happens to the prophets when they're overcome by a
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political spirit. Your hope is not in the White House, It's in Jesus.
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And I might add that God said very clearly he gives the king the
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nation deserves. And in the other hand, he says that the heart of
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the king is in his hand and he can turn it any direction he pleases.
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If you believe that we're not under God's correction judgment as a nation,
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then you need to read your Bible again. You are not just at war
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for your life. You're at war for your bloodline. You're at war for
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the future generation. It says, raise up a child, and the way
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he should go when he's old, he will not depart. Your children are
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not being taught about God in the education system in case he hadn't figured that
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out. But they are being discipled and I might add, it's not the
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youth pastor's job to raise your kids. The youth pastor is a supplement to
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you parents, training up your children in the ways of God. Are you
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with me, Judges three? Now, these are the nations that the Lord
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left to test Israel by them, that is all in Israel, who had
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not experienced all the wars in Canaan. It was only in order that the
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generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those
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who had not known it before. Anybody ever read that? Anybody ever catch
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that in there when you've read that before? Like, why in the world
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would the Lord literally leave their enemies in place and then intentionally take them into
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battle because they didn't know battle and they needed to know battle? Well,
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I want to tell you something, because of the generational breakdown in the family,
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we have lost something from the men in this nation from War War two
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to today, because literal war and spiritual war teaches you something. Now,
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before anybody thinks I'm gonna create a militia and start a physical war, hold
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onto your hands or your butt. Uh. That's not that's not my uh,
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that's not my intention. The point is is We're in a spiritual battle.
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Our battle's not against flesh and blood. And do we have a battle
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plan? Because the enemy has a battle plan that he's executing on your children
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and on your children's children, and on this nation. And you may be
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in a mountaintop experience in this moment. You may be everything might be peachy
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for you. But you know that Jesus said he came to give you life
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and give it more abundantly. So right on the horizon is a valley,
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because your character is forged in the wilderness, not the mountaintop. So what
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is it that he wants to teach you in this hour by preparing your hands
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for war? Do you actually know your weapons of righteousness in your right hand
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and then your left? Do you actually know what weapons you need in the
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moment of conflict? Or are you scrambling to figure out, Oh, what
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do I need? Peace? Or love? Or or whoa, whoa?
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What do I do? What do I need? Interestingly, in numbers one,
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the Lord spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai in the tent of
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meeting on the first day of the second month and the second year, after
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they'd come out of the land of Egypt, saying, take a census of
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all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by father's houses,
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according to the number of names every male head by head for twenty years
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old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war.
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So when we were reading Judges two and Judges three, it was on the
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cuffs of them already getting into a place of having an inheritance. Because remember
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Joshua and Caleb, they went out for forty days, and they spied out
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the land. They spied out the land, and it says, it says
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in numbers eleven. Then the Lord said to Moses, gather for me seventy
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men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of
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the people, and officers over them, and bring them to the tent of
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meeting, and let them take their stand there with you, and I will
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come down and talk with you there, and I will take some of the
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spirit that is on you and put it on them. And they show bear
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the burden of the people with you, so that it may not you may
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not bear it alone. And he goes on to say, at the end
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of forty days, they returned from spying out the land. So they sent
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them out, and they said, be encouraged and bring some of the fruit
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of the land. This actually is not as big as what was what they
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were carrying, because scripture says that when they came back from spying out the
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land, two men each on the end of a pole, were carrying the
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grapes. But this isn't too far off. Literally a cluster of grapes so
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big it took two men to carry it. Says it was flowing with milk
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and honey. So your promised land, your inheritance, what God's called you
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to individually and as a bloodline, is actually flowing with milk and honey and
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has amazing fruit. I was gonna, I was gonna get a pole and
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hang it, But I have Goliath there for giants, because as they went
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out they found something. They came to the land in which he sent us
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that flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. However,
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the people dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and
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very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of a knock. The
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Amalekites dwell on the land of the Negeb the hit sites, the Jebi sites,
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and the Amorites dwell in the hill country, and the Canaanites dwell by
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the sea and along the Jordan. But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and
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said, let us go up at once and occupy it, for we were
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well able to overcome it. Now keep in mind on the cuffs of this
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statement, they spied out the land for forty days. They come back with
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this godsill I mean that probably make I don't know, a couple hundred bottles
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of wine maybe, And they come back with all this fruit, and it's
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flowing milk and honey. And Joshua and Caleb they're there. They see the
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sons of a knock. By the way, this is nine foot seven.
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Of your wondering, this is the actual height of Goliath. But he was
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small. King Ogg's bedstead was fifteen feet and it was built of iron.
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In fact, an Amos, it says that the giants, the Nepheleine were
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so big they were as tall as cedar trees. And guess what happens every
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time these huge skeletons are unearthed. Guess who comes and gets them and stores
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them away in the basement the Smithsonian Institute. Goliath at ninety seven was no
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small man, but he had brothers, and we saw that they were killed.
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Two. Interestingly, none of the Nephelene bloodlines were offered mercy. They
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were completely annihilated. And you might say, well, man, that's pretty
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harsh. Lord, Well was it? Because they were a hybrid race.
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Genesis six is clear that the sons of God came down on Mount Hermon by
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the way and saw the daughters of men, and that Hebrew word for banio
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lhem is only used for angels, never human, and they made a pack
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and they took the daughters of men, and the offspring of that is the
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nepheline. And it says they were on the land or in the earth in
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those days and after meeting after the flood, and Jesus makes this crazy statement,
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he says, just like in the days of Noah, so shall it
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be when the Son of Man returns. And if you have eyes to see,
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you realize there's things happening behind the scenes right now and being pushed on
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the entire earth that actually has the capacity to change your DNA. I'll leave
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that there, because that's a whole nother teaching in fact, Daniel says that
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they will try to mix with man, but it will not take. In
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the Toes, Corinthians talks about having a head covering a symbol of authority over
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the woman, and Paul makes the statement, I say that because of the
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angels. See, Paul had a Genesis six worldview, and from Paul's perspective,
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he understood that that could happen again. And that goes right over so
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many people's heads because everybody wants to focus and argue on whether a woman should
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ever head covered. Today in church, when he drops this big bomb on
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everybody on Genesis six worldview, they had six toes and six fingers. Our
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military actually killed one, and there's eyewitness testimony from one of the guys involved
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in today. The problem is much of the church in America has a natural
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worldview rather than a biblical worldview. So we have to spend so much time
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rooting out unbelief so people will have a supernatural worldview, and then we wonder
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why we don't see the healings, miracle signs, and wonders and resurrections here
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the way we do around the world. When you don't have to convince them
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of a spiritual battle because they don't have that unbelief. They haven't had hundreds
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or thousands of denominations come in to bring division and actually create doctrines that build
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unbelief. The number one stronghold over this region is a religious spirit, and
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it will make you feel spiritual without transformation, and you will have no power,
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but you will be so full of pride you'll think you're rocking it.
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David looked at Goliath and had five smooth stones. Goliath had four brothers.
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Did you catch that? Yeah, he had five for a reason. He
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said, I'll take your head off and your brothers. He didn't literally say
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that in there, but there's a reason for five stones. And then we
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see later that his four brothers were killed. Now, just for a moment,
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can you imagine yourself. You know, David was probably about my height.
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I guess, probably wasn't as good looking as I am, but that's
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okay. And all all of Israel is scared to death of him, and
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he's running his mouth and said he's gonna feed David to the dogs. He
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was a champion, and truth be told, his shoulders at nine to seven
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were probably about like that. And then you fast forward and they're spying out
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the land, and they say they're giants. The sons of a knock are
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there. They give this horrible report. The land though which we've gone to
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spy out as a land that devours its inhabitants. And all the people that
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we saw in it are of great height. And there we saw the Nephelum,
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the sons of a Knak who came from the Nephelum. And we seemed
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to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them. My buddy Dan
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Gerroi went to be with the Lord about a year and a half ago.
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He called it grasshopper thinking. He called it grasshopper thinking. And yet Joshua
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and Caleb were of a different spirit, and something generationally broke down because you
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see Joshua staying in the tent with the Lord. As Moses would leave,
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he would always stay back because he was focused on the presence of God.
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The whole purpose of Israel going into the wilderness was so that they would actually
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get rid of the unbelief and God would gather them together. He is looking
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for a priesthood from day one. And they go no, no, no,
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no, Moses, you you go talk to God, we're out of
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here. We don't want to you go talk to God and fast forward.
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In today's culture, how many times would he'd rather have a prophet come and
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tell us everything we need to know, rather than spending the time in the
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prayer closet to hear from Jesus ourselves. One of the quickest ways of finding
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out a false prophet or a false teacher is how much they actually point people
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back to themselves. They want a following, they don't want to point people
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to Jesus. A mature prophet's actually going to be more focused on raising people
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up to hear God's voice for themselves, versus having a pez machine and throwing
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prophetic words at him, feeding the children candy, y'all with me, so
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he gives a bad report. God is dealing with our grasshopper thinking today.
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God is wanting us to face our goliath, and every one of you may
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have a different goliath in your life right now, but make no mistake about
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it, if you don't allow the kingdom to advance inside of you, it
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will not advance through you. Don't expect to go see somebody delivered from something
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that you are handling and loving God and your pet sin. You've named it,
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and you have a leash on it, and you're like, oh,
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Lord, don't don't touch this room. Don't mess with this sin. Lord,
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you can have everything, but this, Lord, you can't have this.
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Every time Israel went out to war, if they had sin in the
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camp, guess what, they could not stand before their enemy. And it's
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no different today. If you have sin in your life, you will not
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stand before your enemy. I've heard so many testimonies of men were doing deliverance
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ministry and they had sin in their lives, and the demon came all the
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way forward and laughed at him and talked to them, Oh, I know
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you. I hadn't seen you for a little while. And I might add,
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we will lose authority what we don't have love for the moment people become
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our enemy, we've lost because we don't wrestle against flesh and blood. The
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moment you pull out your sword and you identify the person in front of you
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and and you want to cut them, you've already lost. Paul said,
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I know no one by the flesh. Literally. Just a couple of days
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ago, Heidie Baker posted that they just had a whole bunch of pastors and
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villages and churches burned and lost pastors and their entire families to martyrdom, and
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they were standing. She was standing there in the video with two pastors and
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saying, pray. We've seen, we have videos and it's just horrible the
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loss. And then you have the American church, who if someone doesn't talk
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to you daily, are pamper your ego. You get ticked off and leave
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and go someplace else because you feel persecuted, y'all. Paul said, when
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I was a child, I acted like a child. But then when I
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grew up, I put childish ways behind me. It is time for us
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to grow up in him and get into a place where we become undefendable.
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I mean unoffendable. We are defendable. I mean you knew what I meant.
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There were ten giants that they faced, and I've talked about this in
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the past, and the Lord literally tells Israel, look, the first three
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giants, you're more than able to take out. You actually have the natural
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ability to take them out. Kind of like when thirty thousand people show up
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with Gideon and the Lord's like, yeah, there's too many of you.
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Let's cull the herd real quick, and what happened. You remember the story
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at the end of the day, the real warriors when they lap their water
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like this, because they never took their eyes off their enemy, and they
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were lapping their water looking for the enemy. There were three hundred of them.
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He goes, yeah, I can do that. So why do you
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think it's strange when God gives you a battle plan that sounds completely outrageous and
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the natural, and then all of a sudden you have all this fear rise
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up in you because now you don't have the ability and your own strength,
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wisdom, or understanding to actually accomplish what he just called you to do.
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And if you dare move forward, then that just guarantees the victory with him.
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But you got to lay it all out on the altar, and the
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temptation to pick Ishmael back up will never be greater than in that moment,
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because that's when you've gone from the dark knight of the soul into the dark
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spirit, the dark knight of the spirit, which means when Jesus was like,
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Father, I commit my spirit to you. You've done everything you can,
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and either he shows up or he doesn't. And that's the temptation to
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hop back off of that altar and then go grab what you created with Jesus
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sprinkles. Jesus said, the son of Man did not come to be ministered
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to, but to minister and offer his life a ransom. In the American
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church, how many times do we show up to a place and everything is
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determined by what we can get rather than what we can give. And then
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we call that maturity? Y'all with me? Yes, we have got to
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step into. Don't worry. He's not offended. He's been on the worship
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team through two services and oh you're offended. Good, he's defended. Yep.
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Seven seven giants were greater. Seven Israel couldn't take out in that moment
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of looking at that seven feeling like a grasshopper, what you focus on is
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going to determine the success. Joshua and Caleb were way more focused on what
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they carried back than what they had to conquer. And there are giants in
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your land, but the grapes are worth it. There are giants in your
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bloodline, but the grapes are worth it. There's a religious spirit that needs
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to be crushed and pulled down over this region. But the grapes are worth
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it. There's a poverty spirit that tells you you don't have enough, and
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you got to gather everything for yourself over this region. But the grapes are
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worth it. The disciples were butt hurt one day and went to Jesus and
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said, what about us. We've given everything up? What about us,
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Lord, We've laid it all down, We've given it all up. And
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he gave them a promise, and he goes through the list of houses and
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families and brothers and sisters and mothers and fathers, and he says, you
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will get all of that back in this life and the life to come.
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With persecution. I want to say something, maybe, just maybe we haven't
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been experiencing the level of persecution that we should because we actually haven't lived a
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life threatening enough to the enemy to bring it. Paul said he was filling
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up in his flesh what was lacking in the sufferings of Christ. In other
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words, he was like, you should be living on this level that demands
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persecution because the enemy is scared to death. But since you're not, I'm
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gonna fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the body of Christ?
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For the sufferings of Christ. He's got a word. Okay, they're they're
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sword fighting in the room's next door, raising him up. Don't worry,
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moms, that was a joke. There's not literal swords next door. Be
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at peace. So I'm gonna land the plane gently. Interestingly enough, these
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these seven giants actually have meaning to them, and as I go through them,
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I wanna. I want to encourage you to take in and tory of
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your heart right now, you with me, and don't lie to yourself.
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Who knows. We're really good at lying to ourselves. We have guardian lies
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all the time to put distance between the pain that we've gone through, the
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traumas. Like y'all have heard my story a bunch. But when Lisa and
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I first met, I told her, Hey, I said, I came
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from a divorced home. My grandparents raised me. I was molested for seven
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years, but don't worry, none of that affected me. I'm fine.
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And Lisa was like, well, I guess he's fine. And then we
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separated, I mean not separated. We stopped dating. We're away for a
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couple of years, came back, got married, and everything that I thought
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I was cool with isn't it, y'all. When you first get married,
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all of a sudden you find where your easy buttons are? You ever see
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a spam? And all of a sudden, whoa, Yes, there were
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some giants that had to be pulled down for us to have a good marriage.
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And now over twenty four years later, we're just getting started, all
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right, seven giants that are mightier and greaterer greater than you, which means
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this takes a complete surrender and ruthless trust in your life to get the fullness
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of your promised land. See, we're contending for this region, and we're
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not the first place to be offered to it, but we will get it
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as long as I'm on the watch. And like I said before, if
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I got to put a crash helmet down and run through a wall, I'm
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going I'll never forget that dream I had when Bill Johnson came. He comes
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out of this house and there's all these houses on each side of them,
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and there's these young people around them, and I go, Bill, when
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did you get here? And he looks at me and goes, oh,
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I've been here for a while. And I woke up from that dream,
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and I knew the way the Kingdom was advancing and read in California. God
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wanted to advance the kingdom. He wanted a movement here and he'd been waiting.
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Oh I've been here for a while. And I actually got to share
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that with Bill just recently. Like in real life, it's our responsibility for
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the waiting to be over, and it's going to take a group of people
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m H that knows. They understand what it means to take up their cross,
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They understand what it means to serve, to actually have humility, to
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have a love that becomes unoffendable h and to have character that can carry weight
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carry the responsibility in the kingdom because just like God lit the lit, the
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lit the candle in the beginning, the priest would have to trim the wick.
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The hit Tites mean sons of terror, subliminal torments, phobia's terror,
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depression. That would be a son of terror in real life. The Gergoshites
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mean stranger feeling out of place, like you don't fit in. Anybody ever
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feel like that, Oh I don't belong here, I don't fit in,
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I have no business being here. And then you don't take authority over those
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thoughts and you allow the enemy to run you out of your inheritance, because
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in that place you've not yet conquered that giant. The means sayer or to
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speak, it's to boast. It's pride. What does God do with pride?
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He opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble, and he
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also likes crushing idols. The Canaanites means zealous or premature opportunity. How many
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of you showed up too early to something and then got frustrated that it didn't
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happen. It's kind of like when you've got God's approval but you don't have
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favor with man, and you're irritated with everybody around you because you don't have
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that favor. But when you have favor with God and favor with man,
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then you know the timing of God is correct. But we've gotten really good
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in our culture of marketing ourselves, of self promotion. The Parazites mean squatter,
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lazy or low self esteem. You know they're squatter rights now like in
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the natural you literally can get squatters in your rent house and they're like,
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if you like, I won't do that again. And the Raphaeim are the
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Hivites. It means giants vision limited to enjoying earthly and hair purridence or hedonism.
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I like this statement, how much is too much money? The moment
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you stop trusting God and you trust your money. I didn't come up with
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that, I think Bill. I heard Bill say that, and I was
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like, Oh, that's good. Another amazing quote from Baker. He said
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he said kingdom wealth is having, not you, not having to ask your
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money permission to obey God. And the last one, jebusites means downtrodden or
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depressed or a victim mentality. You think we got a problem with a victim
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spirit in our culture today. It's not my Hey, we've all been there,
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y'all. The moment you say you make me you're the victim. You
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didn't take any responsibility for your life or your actions in that moment. You
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blamed everything on the person in front in front of you, and I got
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knows I can't. There's spot ram bakha. I'll just start speaking in tongues
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and finish up. Now, where was I I gotta move over? Okay,
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Yes, victim spirit. If you don't take responsibility for your life,
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you're never going to go anywhere. If you don't allow yourself to feel and
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actually own your feelings. You're actually not taking responsibility for what you believe because
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your emotion is the bridge back to your belief. You can't have a feeling
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without a belief behind it. And guess what, no matter what's happened to
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you in life, you may have been Trust me, I was victimized for
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seven years. There's plenty of people that were victimized, and that was true
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in that moment. But if I sat here today and said I am a
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victim, that is not true. You with me, you will be in
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a permanent state of imprisonment. With a victim mindset, you will never face
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any of your giants. You will never face anything because you're too busy blaming
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someone else for your problems. Okay, the next part we're going to talk
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about, not obviously right now, but characteristics of the leaders of the next
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move of God. And since I'm harping on this issue of being a victim,
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I want to say something. Anybody been hurt in church, raise your
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hand. It took me, well, the very first time my youth pastor
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to get hurt, and then I went to the next church after that,
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and oh that took about eight months and I vowed to God I would never
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do ministry again. I love you, Jesus. I will get as close
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to you as I possibly can. But I'm done with people and I'm done
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and i am done with ministry. That was That was twenty four years ago.
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That worked out well, didn't it. But I was wounded. I
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was hurt. I wasn't taking full responsibility of what I was feeling in my
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heart in that moment because it was so painful and I wanted to push it
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away and not deal with it. But I want to say something to you.
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God's governmental structure, what he says in his word didn't hurt you.
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His structure did not hurt you. Wounded people hurt you. So do not
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throw out the baby with the bathwater. Do not think that God's called you
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to create some brand news. There's nothing new under the sun. And I
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challenge you to look at this in the scriptures when he says that I make
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all things new over and over, he took something that was old and renewed
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it. I said this last week, we're watching a purification of the body
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of Christ. Right now, we're watching a purification of leaders in the Body
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of Christ. In this very moment, and these things are happening not because
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God's against us, but because He loves us. And He's coming back for
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a bride that does not have a victim mindset. He's coming back for a
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bride that is not stuck in sexual immorality. He's coming back for a bride
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that knows who they are, whose they are, and they're going to be
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without spot or wrinkle or blemish. He's coming back for a purified bride.
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And if he is trimming you right now, if he's dealing with an area
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of your heart right now, give it to him, because you are not
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your own. You've been bought with a price, So glorify him. It's
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his reward. We are his reward. We are the reason why he endured
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the sufferings on the cross. He said for the joy set before him.
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You are that joy, whether you think so or not. And there's something
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way bigger than us in this room that God wants to do in this region
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and beyond. And we have no idea the ripple effects that will take place
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for the next generation of what we're pioneering in this moment. So pick up
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your swords, pick up your hammers. Allow the Kingdom to advance inside of
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you and press on and recognize what your enemy really is. He is invisible.
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And let's love the hell out of people. Okay, if I can
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get the prayer teams to come up, that'd be the prayer teams Mueller old
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movie in case you hadn't seen that. Okay, I'm gonna close us in
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prayer. If you need prayer, please come up. Otherwise, bless you,
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we love you. Let's get connected. Let's watch this region be transformed.
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Yeah. So, Father Ice, thank you for another amazing morning.
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Jesus, I thank you that you are faithful to manifest yourself to us.
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Lord, have your way strengthen us to not fall prey to a victim's spirit,
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to a poverty mindset, to a negative mindset. Lord. And when
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we see the giants in the land, give us the grace to focus on
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the fruit, not the giant. And Lord, the battle is worth it.
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And I thank you Father that we are fighting from a place of victory,
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not for it. It's already finished. It's already done. When you
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said it's finished, you were not pretending, you were not playing. It
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was not a warm up. And so Lord, I asked that you would
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strengthen each and every one of us right now in our innermost beings, to
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know the truth. The truth is in you. You are the truth,
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and you are in us, and you have called us to be sons and
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daughters of light, walking in the light and ministering that light to others.
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So thank you, Lord for what you're doing in our midst And Lord,
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we asked that you would just double it. And when we start complaining and
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whining because you're pulling our strongholds down, please ignore us and just keep doing
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it. Lord in Jesus' name, Amen, thank you for listening. For
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