Inheritance Unlocked | Joshua 17:1-6 | Pastor Sammy Rodriguez

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I'm kind of like one of your crazy cousins, Puerto

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and I, like I said before, I'm fired up. I've

been brought a sweat rag because I feel like we

about to go in. Okay, so someone touch a neighbors

say we going in? All right, We're about to go

in on this word and a few different things. One,

I believe that you're gonna be encouraged, Okay tonight everybody's

saying encouraged. And I believe that God wants you to

leave built up, not beat up, all right, So I

believe you're gonna leave built up Okay, even though maybe

you're hitting someone on the drive here, you better get

your hands off your kid, you know what I'm saying.

But then you're you're we'll back, We're back, We've got

our church face on.

And uh.

But I believe you're gonna be encouraged and you're gonna

be built up. But also I believe you're gonna be challenged.

Somebody say challenged. And Pastor Adam did an incredible job

bringing a word a full word this last Sunday, and

as he always does. But you're gonna be challenged to

walk in what you're called to walk into.

Amen.

And I believe tonight you're gonna be activated. Somebody say activated.

And why I feel excited, I always feel excited, if

you know me. But why I really feel excited for

this is because we have a little kind.

Of who's gonna be preaching each week?

And technically I wasn't supposed to be preaching this week,

but one of the passes on our tea, Pastor Aaron,

said hey, actually can you fill in.

For this week?

And he texted me when I was suffering for the

Lord in Hawaii. You know someone's got to do it, Amen.

You know I said, here we are, send us load,

all right. So my wife and I went on on

a teaching.

Trip when brought our kids. We have a three year

old and a one year old.

We love them so much, but we were so tired,

even more tired after the trip. If you are a

parent of young kids, give me an amen. You know

they're they're sleeping already. That's why they wasn't that loud.

But anyways, I say all this to say pastor Aaron

text me, hey, can you cover this? And why I

believe it's a great moment is because that same day,

everybody says, same day my wife was teaching the women

that we were teaching, we broke into guys and girls

the exact same chapter and story that that that I'm

gonna be preaching on tonight. And not only that, was

she had a god dream, a god dream years ago

preaching on this passage and on these dogs coming where

my ladies in the room. Ladies in the room say

he a man, or go yeah, all right, whatever way

you want to do it, all right, because this is

a story about five daughters that changed the course of history.

It's a beautiful story. But my wife had a dream

about this story in Joshua seventeen and number twenty seven,

that it was all about fighting for your inheritance. And

even tonight, I felt this activation. There's always here, but

I felt this activation of faith in the room, even

in worship, even if as Pastor Herron was leading us

in the miracle moment, as Pastor Daniel was leading us

in worship with the team, I believe there's faith for change.

Can I get an amen? So why don't we jump on?

In the title of my message tonight is this is

inheritance unlocked. Inheritance unlocked. Now you gotta remember this. Goats

take notes, Okay, all right, So so just keep that

What does that mean? That just mean just ask a

young person what's a goat? You know, it's the greatest

of all times. So if you want to remember what

you're saying and what we've talked about, I want to

heard you to take notes in your journal or on

your phone. But it's inheritance unlocked. I look this up briefly,

and did you know that inheritance is mentioned close to

fifty times in the Book of Joshua.

Fifty that's because if you.

Look at the end of Joshua and go to the

next Book of Judges.

What happens is just because you inherit.

Something doesn't mean it's all gonna be happily.

Ever after.

I'm preaching to somebody, Come on, somebody, just because you

inherit something doesn't mean it's all gonna work out how

it's supposed to look. And the reason why even I

believe it's mentioned fifty times fifty, the number of jubilee,

we're about to talk about five daughters, the number of grace,

fifty grace upon grace, is because it's important for us

to understand just because you inherit something doesn't mean it's

gonna go as planned unless we are actively moving forward

to say this is how I'm gonna walk out my inheritance.

The next book of right after Joshua's Judges and Judges

is all about.

People doing what was right in their own eyes.

We look throughout this whole Book of Joshua and it

says there's still people dwelling in the land. And here's

what's important about that is that if we don't kick

those people out of our land, we might fall into

worshiping the same idols that they worship.

And so I want to encourage you about this.

The reason we're kind of pounding on inheritance and Joshua

is because we have to be reminded if we don't

fight for it, we will lose it. And so here

we come into a story that's historic.

That's the first time ever, and we're gonna jump right in.

You ready to jump in in, Patriot if this is

your first time, We stand for the reading the world.

We only got six verses, but why don't we stand

up all together and let's read this out. It says this,

and Joshua won seventeen one through sixty says Then the allotment,

and we're gonna have fun with the names. Okay, we'll

see what happens. You know, will fail together?

Amen? All right?

Then the allotment was made to the people of Manassa,

for he was the firstborn of Joseph Tomkir, the firstborn

of Manassa, the father of Gilead. Were a lot of

Gilead and Bashan because he was a man of war.

And the allotments were made to the rest of the

people of Manassa by their clans. Abbiezar helek Asrael schechem Heffer,

okay Uh shemaidah. Okay, well, we're gonna talk about Heifer.

A little bit.

But day day someone mom and death. Please don't do that. Okay,

moving on, all right. These were the male descendants of Manassa,

the sons of Joseph by their clans. Now Zelefah had

the son of Heifer, the son of Gilead, the son

of Makir, the son of Manad. I'm killing it, okay,

moving That's what I was. Had had no sons. Somebody say,

no sons, but only daughters. Somebody say, only daughters. And

these are the names of his daughters, mah Lah, Noah, Hagla, Milka,

and Terza. They approached Eliezer the priest, and Joshua, the

son of Nun, and the leaders, and said, the Lord

commanded Moses.

Somebody say commanded.

The Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance along

with our brothers. According to the mouth of the Lord,

he gave them an inheritance among the.

Brothers of their father.

Thus, thus there fell to Manassa ten portions, besides the

land of Gilead and Bashan, which is on the other

side of the Jordan. Because the daughters of Manassa received

an inheritance along with his son. Somebody give me an amen,

and the land of Gilead was allotted to the rest

of the people of Manassa. Stay standing with me, Lo,

we pray that tonight you would speak to us, Lord,

that only your words would go forth, that I would

move out the way, and that you would speak to

us about unlocking our inheritance in Jesus' name. And everybody said,

amen and amen, go ahead and grab your seats. You know,

I was thinking about inheritance unlocking, and I was thinking

about almost in the sense of like access, you know.

And my next year will be twenty years in full

time ministry for me.

I know. I started when I was five moving yeah.

Yeah, you could clip, yeah yeah. I started on seventeen.

I'll be thirty seven next year. Every twenty years and

part of my ministry that I got the chance to

do is I got to fly a lot and travel

to different countries. And one thing that you do if

you fly a lot and you travel, you sign up

with a certain group because when you have access to

their group and you hit different markers, you get an

inheritance or you get access from them. And some really

incredible perks. So some places, if you fly long enough,

they'll upgrate you to first class.

Somebody say, geez, take the wheel, you know what I mean.

Some places you get access through a group to a lounge.

So I don't know if you've ever walked around in

the airport and you see the lounge opens and all like,

you know, like some posh people all speaking in the

British accent inside, you know what I mean.

That's what you get access.

You get access to that, you get access to different

seats and all these beautiful things. And I remember one

time I was traveling with one of my buddies who

was brand new to the travel game, but he was

already traveling five or six years. But he never recorded

his point. So even though he had access to these places,

he never went into these places. He was sitting in

the back by the bathroom, next to two people in

the middle seat, holding his red saying, lo.

Jesus take the way, you know what I mean?

And I told him, did you know you could sit

up front? Did you know you had access to the

free snacks in the lounges.

There's even some that have showers.

And you gotta get a missat did you know that

he had no idea that he had access For years

he was flying something. He had no idea what he

had had access or an inheritance to. And here's my

challenge to us, myself included. How much of us.

In our walk with the Lord? Do we walk with.

Jesus and we enter into the Gate of Salvation, but

we never explore the Kingdom of God.

And we enter.

Into this place and we say, thank you God, we're saved.

We're saved from hell. Amen. But we we set up

our tent right by the gate of Salvation.

When God, God says, when he came, he said, the

Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.

Hey, you can clip a church. Go ahead, you get

clapt church. That's all right.

And here's what I want to tell you is I

want to talk to you about what it means to

truly walk out and live in your inheritance.

I love this. It's on the screen right here.

I love this because even their names preach a story.

Okay, I wanna encourage you.

Heiffer the grandfather, his name means pit hole and dug out.

The Leffa had his father, the father of the daughters

means shadow of fear. So the grandfather means living in

a pit. The father's the lefa had his name meant

shadow of fear. But let's look at what the daughter's

names mean. The first daughter means weakness or sickness. But

how many guys know God's power is perfected in our weakness?

Can I get an amen from five people?

No? One means movement and rest.

Hogla means patrech and persistence. Milk come means quick and

turns on means delight and pleasure.

Can I get an amen?

From the pits to the shadow, to weakness, to royalty,

to delight, God redeems the legacy. Come on, I'm preaching

to somebody. I need to use this. And I feel

like what God wanted to do even tonight was for

some of us that we've come from a legacy that

or our.

Family just known to be in the pits, or.

We just have this is this shadow of my family

who's following me around. And I believe that God wants

to let you know, in the same way he did.

For the daughters, he's gonna redeem your legacy.

Come on, in the same way he did for the daughters,

He's gonna do for your kids. And your grandkids. Can

I get an amen?

And I love this. The first point I want you

to write down is this point number one.

Is this know your inheritance, No your inheritance, because the

truth is that the daughters didn't know their inheritance. How

could they fight for their inheritance. How could they go

up to Joshua and Eliezer and say, you gotta give

us the land. This is I want you to understand this.

This has never been happened before in the history of

the world, that daughters inherited property because the father had

no sons. You imagine the conversation with the five daughters.

You know, they were even talking to some other daughters,

and they said, well, it never happened for me, so

it probably ain't gonna happen for you. And those five

daughters did not let what everybody else said hold them back.

They didn't care about their reputation. They said the worst

they could say is no, But the best they could

do is change the law. That's good.

And the daughters didn't listen to anyone else. Here's what

I want to encourage you to hear. Is that word

inheritance in the original language. It's not on the screen,

but I want you to listen. It means to receive

a possession, to inherit, a possession meaning more than land.

It's about heritage, a lot of possession, perpetual gift of God.

It carries both illegal somebody say legal carries legal weight,

which means land rights, and covenenttal weight, which is a

God given destiny. The daughters knew that God had promised

and refused to let it be forgotten. I want to

encourage you. You need to know your inheritance.

But what's beautiful about this is it didn't start there.

We saw in.

Joshua seventeen. We saw where the daughter said, just as

God commanded Moses, will you give us our land? And

they got their land. But here's what's beautiful. We have

the recording of the story in the Book of Numbers.

It'll be on the screen, says in numbers one, and

we're gonna read this. You can stay seated because we've

got a few verses to read. I love it, but

I want you to catch the heart of this moment.

Then drew near the daughters as the left for had

the son of Hepper's, son of Gilead, son of makiir

son of Manasa. I got it down from the clans

of Manassa, the son of Joseph.

The names of his daughters were Malah and Noah, Hagalatmilka,

and Terza.

And they stood before Moses and before Elia, are in

the priest.

And before the chiefs and all the congregations at.

The entrance of the tent of meetings, saying pause. So

here's what you gotta understand. Right before they're going into

the promised Land, right before Moses is getting ready to

pass away, this is when the daughters initially come to

Moses and the priest.

Okay, if you're following me, say I'm following you. Let's

keep going. Our father died in the wilderness verse three.

This is the daughters.

He was not among the company of those who gathered

themselves together against the Lord, in the company of Korah,

but died for his own sin.

And he had no sons.

Why should the name of our father be taken away

from his clan because he had no sons? Give to

us a possession among our fathers brothers. Moses brought this

case before the Lord. Okay, I want you to We're

gonna keep reading, but I want you to I want

you to hear this moment real quick. Don't assume what

God is saying. We need to bring things to the Lord.

I'm gonna say it again. I'm gonna say again. This

has never happened in the history of Israel's nation, in

the history of the world, where a daughter has gotten inheritance,

they come with this outlandish thing. How about we get

the inheritance. What Moses does is biblical. Somebody say biblical.

It's something that we can lean in on. Is that

he does not commit the sin of presuming what God

would do and what God would say.

Come, I'm preaching right now. Come on, somebody listen to me.

Sometimes what happens is when our traditions when when when

when when our cultures, when our things get challenged and

we're like, no, no, no.

That's not the way we've ever done.

That's not And we heard it even pass around, and

when he talked about all the different chairs and the

different and then removing up certain chairs that make more room.

Sometimes when traditions are the way it is, it's easy

for us to say no, no, no, no, we're not doing that.

But what Moses did was when the daughters came before him,

even though it's nothing. It's never been happened in the

history of the world, in the history of Israel. Moses

brought it to the Lord. Amen, And we must in

the same way. When things come to us that are

challenging us, we must as well take it to the Lord.

We must as well not assume, but bring it to God. Amen.

Let's keep going. Verse six Moses' brother case before the Lord.

And the Lord said to Moses, the daughters as the

left had are right. You shall give them a possession

of an inheritance among their father's brothers, and transfer the

inheritance of their father to them. And you shall speak

to the people of Israel, saying, if a man dies

and has no sons, then you shall transfer his inheritance

to his daughter. And if he has no daughters, then

you shall give his inheritance to his brothers. And if

he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance

to his father's brothers. And if his father has no brothers,

then you shall give his inheritance to the nearest kinsmen

of his.

Clan, and he shall possess it.

And that shall be for the people of Israel, the

peaceeople of who the people of who Israel a statue

and a rule as.

The Lord commands Moses, I want to.

Encourage you with something else, and we're gonna get into

a few more things. But I love it because the

five daughters are from the tribe Manassa. But when they

came forward and all they were, they weren't asking for

an inheritance from other tribes. They were asking for their inheritance,

which was theirs. But when they got it from not

only just from Moses, but when God spoke to Moses,

Moses said, this is from the Lord. What does Moses say?

He says, change the laws for all of Israel?

What am i? What am I saying? Right here?

Listen, what you're fighting for for your family isn't just

for your family.

What you're fighting for for yourself isn't just for yourself.

Come on, what you're believing for and what you wanted

to walk in?

Is it just for you? What if it could affect

our whole church? What if it could affect our whole region?

Come on, what if it could affect our whole nation?

You never know? You never know. Your daughters, their their

purpose wasn't that.

But what they did was they said give us our inheritance,

and it changed the law for a whole nation. Maybe

your obedience could affect a whole nation. Come on, maybe

you're fighting for your inheritance could affect a whole nation.

Can I get an amen? And here's the thing I

told you I was gonna do that. I almost knocked

off my mic. Okay, I'm sweating more than I was

after doing announcements and baby dedication and praying that my

daughter doesn't run across the stage.

You know this Sunday in it. Okay, moving on. Okay,

here's the thing is I want you to look at this.

Okay, if we don't know our inheritance is this. There's

a few things.

You can't fight for what you don't know belongs to you.

If you don't know your inheritance, you can't fight for

what you don't know belongs to you. Ignorance will rob

you faster than the enemy will. Okay, that's gonna come.

Listen. Listen.

In Joseiah, it says my people are destroyed for lack

of knowledge because you have rejected knowledge.

I reject you from being a priest to me.

Some of us are being robbed of our inheritance because

we're ignorant of what God has spoken to us.

And here's the truth is. The truth is, if.

We knew what our inheritance was, the things that matter

to us won't matter because we're focused and worried about

our inheritance.

Amen, can I.

Give you two more? Can I give you two more?

Shall we skip? I'm gonna give you two more?

It's all right.

The next one is this, if you don't know what's yours,

you'll settle for leftovers.

I told you I was gonna challenge some of us.

Come on, some of us.

We don't know what our inheritance is. And all we're

doing is we're eating leftovers in every relationship. Maybe that's

in our dating relationships. Oh, don't look around. All we're

left with is leftovers. All we're left with is that

because we don't know we are a son or daughter

of God and we're left with leftovers. The daughters could

have lived quiet, passive lives. Instead, they knew what God

said and stood on it. AKA they stood on business.

It's for the young people or business. I love it

because if we don't know our inheritance, we can't walk

in it. But here's another thing that I want you

to think about where can we get it wrong?

Can I challenge you a few more times?

We know the stats of our fantasy football team, but

not the promises of God. Oh maybe that's just for

me because I'm starting fantasy Lord, Please let me remember

your promises.

Amen.

We know the latest update on our bank account, but

not our eternal inheritance. Can I come for somebody today?

Because I say, can I challenge you today?

Is that?

Okay? I challenge you a little bit. Let's do two more,

two more.

We care more about a promotion that work than our

position in Christ.

No one in this room.

That's for everybody else you know that didn't come. Okay,

this isn't for this isn't for us, it's for the

people outside. We stress over what people think of us

more than what God has.

Spoken over us.

And the truth is, when we know what our inheritance is,

we don't care what anyone else would say. And I

want to challenge you with this. You'd ask you this question.

Are you preparing for what you're praying for? I'm gonna

say it again for myself and the people in the back.

Are you preparing for what you're praying for? Because a

lot of times. What happens is.

We're praying for it, we're believing it.

Let's say you know it's a it's maybe if it

has to do with the relationship a single person.

Godleeense, bring wife feet, you know what I mean? But

you're not. You're not like cleaning up your act. You

know what I mean? You never learned how to make

the bed. How's wife? You're gonna come? If you can't

even make the bed? But you praying for wife? You can?

I get a name? Man? You praying God give me

a business? I want to. I want to coach teams.

But but but but you're in negative in your bank account.

You're not even honoring God with your account.

And the truth is we might pray for it, but

are we preparing for it?

And I want to encourage you.

Is that knowing your inheritance makes you focused on what

you're supposed to be focused on. And the majors will

be major and the miners will be minor. Amen, we

need to know our inheritance. Not only did the daughters

know their inheritance. The second point, which we'll get to

in a second.

Let's read verse four.

It says they approached everybody say approached, say it like

you mean it, say approached. Alias are the priest and Joshua,

the son of None and the leaders, And said, the

Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance along with

our brothers.

So according to the mouth of the Lord, he.

Gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.

Point number two I want you to write down is

fight for your inheritance. Fight is coming up right now

on the count of three, one, two, three, shakana, Amen,

how look at that power of God. Point number two

is fight for your inheritance. Somebody say, fight for your inheritance.

I love this because that word approached in the original language,

it actually means this. It actually means to draw near

with boldness and often in a priestly worship lee language.

And what I love about it is that it was

five sisters. It wasn't one sister trying to get the

whole inheritance.

It was five.

The biblical number five means grace. Everybody say grace. They

did it together, arms in arm, walking together, because saying

we might get rejected, but we also might get an inheritance.

They fought, They fought for their inheritance.

And they didn't have come in in a fearful way.

They didn't have come in like Moses. Maybe I'm here. No,

it said, they approached, and that word was with boldness.

They said that it is often as a priest or

in worship. They said, I know my inheritance, even though

they might not know what. I know my inheritance, and

I'm willing to fight for it and show up on

this ground so that Moses and the priest will give

me my inheritance. I love it because the daughters show

us what it means. It means five means grace, power, men,

and favor.

Amen.

I love it because in fighting for your inheritance, I

feel like the daughters had these three things that challenge

us and invite us into it. They had clarity. Somebody

say clarity. They stood on God's word and numbers six

and seven. We're not going there, but it actually says

God commanded, Moses sought the Lord and God commanded.

We just read that verse.

So they had clarity, somebody say clarity. The second thing

was they had consistency. They waited and asked again years later,

still believing from numbers twenty seven to Joshua seventeen and

this might be for someone here. I know it's all

for all of us, but this might specifically be for

someone where you have known your inheritance and you have

fought for your inheritance.

But it's been a few years. Am I talking to anybody?

Just me? Okay? Cool?

And it says that from numbers twenty seven to Joshua seventeen, it's.

Been seven years.

And it says for seven years, not only did they

contend for it, but they believed in it. They were consistent,

and they were faithful. They waited, and they asked again

and again and believed that God spoke it and God

would fulfill it in his timing.

Amen. They fought for it.

And the third one is they had confidence. They boldly

approached and trusted God's justice to prevail.

Amen.

There's multiple ways that we could currently fight for it.

Besides those three things. We could fight for our inheritance

today in prayer. We could fight for it in purity,

we could fight for it in perseverance, we could fight

for it in priorities, and we could fight.

For it in people.

And here's the thing that I feel when I was

praying today, because I had this all mapped up, but

this afternoon before going in, I felt the Lord impressed

on my heart is that some of us have lost

our fight. Mike Tyson has a famous line says everyone

has a plan until they get punched in the face.

And some of us have had a plan, and life

has punched you in the face, and.

It's bewildered you. It's shocked you.

If you ever watch any of those heavyweight boxing moments,

whenever someone gets tagged, their equilibrium and they can't see

and that's why they're dancing around because everything is distorted.

Life has hit some of us in a way where it's.

Distorted us and we're not sure if we want to

get back in the ring and fight again.

And here's what I want to encourage you with.

And when when the Israelites were talking about walking to

their promise, and after they were freed from Egypt, after

they were freed from from.

Slavery, when they were in the wilderness, what.

They did was was they had a cloud by day.

They had fire by night, which means a cloud by day.

They weren't getting burnt, right, it was nice and shade.

It felt good. Fire by night, they weren't too cold.

It said they had manna coming down from the from

the heavens. Even when they complained about it, they had

quail that came. They were like, I don't want all

this bread too much, you know, glue to God, and

uh and like fine, here's some quail.

Fine, you know. And they had all this stuff.

Their clothes never wore out right there, their their their

their shoes never wore out. But on the verge when

they crossed in, when they crossed into the Promised Land.

The moment their feet moved from the Jordan and went.

To Gildgall on the Promised Land, it said that the

fire left, the cloud left, the food stopped, the clothes

started to wear.

Out, and they had to start fighting. What am I

saying is.

That for some of us, we need to realize the

closer you're getting to your promised Land, the more the

fight intensifies. And you thought, no, no, no, no, I'm gonna

stay back in the wilderness where there's fire in clouds

and it's cozy and the glory cloud comes down and

all this food is here. But the truth is God

is moving you into the fights, and some of us

we've lost our fights, we've lost our ability to believe,

we've lost our ability to.

Take what is ours. And what God wants to encourage

you to do.

Is to fight again, to believe again.

Because you're on the verge of your inheritance. Don't think,

don't let's not always blame.

The devil, right, the devil, the devil. My car brought

down the devil. Right, you know, she flipped me off

the devil. You know, like we're always blaming the devil. Right,

maybe you're about to enter your promise landing the devil. No,

so he wants to distract you. And so what God

wants us to do is he wants us to learn

to fight even after we're punched, fight even.

When things don't go our way. Will you continue to fight?

Just like the people of Israel, They continue to fight.

Their promised land wasn't just given to him on.

A silver platter. They said, here's your promised land. You

gotta fight, amen, can I'm gonna give you one more point?

Here it is josh Was seventeen verse six. Not only

do we know our inheritance, not only to fight for inheritance,

but I love this because the daughters of Manassa received

an inheritance along with his sons.

Third point I want to write down.

As Pastor Julio gets ready to play, and it just

feels like the Holy Ghost is back in the room.

The third point I want you to write down is

walk in your inheritance. Not only are we knowing our inheritance,

not only are we fighting for our inheritance, but it

says the daughters walked in their inheritance. I love this

part right here because what did they do? They did

three things. They broke norms, their obedience shifted culture.

It was the first time daughters received the land.

They changed the rules, their faith became a testimony for

others to follow, and they lived fulfilled.

Inheritance isn't just received, it must be lived in. Amen.

And here's what I wanna. One more little challenge, and

then we're gonna go. We're gonna we're gonna land the plane.

But I'm Puerto Rican, so my land in the there

might be seven landings. Okay, so we'll see some of us.

I want you to hear this. This is a loving

thing that that I'm taking as well. But some of

us are complaining about what we once prayed for. You

prayed for years for kids, and now you're complaining about

your kids. You prayed for years about a house, Now

you're complaining about the house. You pray for years for

a job, and now you can't stand your coworkers. When

did the blessing become the burden?

When? When did that happen? When? When? When? When? And

And that happens when we lose perspective. We all do that.

I challenge you because we all do that.

We all sometimes move the blessing out and we put

it as a burden.

But we need to remember what God gave us is

the blessing. And even though there's work.

And that's why I love this book because it talks

about the inheritance.

But as you read through Joshua, which I know you have.

It talks about people that would still dwell there.

And it says that they couldn't kick them out, so

they made them slaves.

Can I encourage you with something, Do not make slaves

in your life to the areas that you can't conquer.

So if it's an area of purity and you're like

I can't get out of my life, I'm just gonna

make it a slave in my life, it will come back.

It's going to come back in your life, and it's

going to conquer you. The truth is the Israelites did

not send out the people in certain areas, and.

It came back to bite them.

So what I want to encourage you is that in

our inheritance is this is not only do I want

you to know it, not only.

Do I want you to fight for it, but I

want you to walk in it. I have these keys

up here.

One of these keys are house keys, and one of

these keys are car keys.

Not my keys, but just as a metaphor, and it's.

Almost like I'm talking and think about it like I'm

talking abo past the pastor.

Can't you look at this house? I got this house, man,

I got this house. I'm so excited. Passing Kenn He's like, amen,

you know how he's amen, you know?

And he's like super grateful, and then he's like when

can I come over?

I'm like, I don't know. I haven't been in it.

I've had these keys for ten years, but I've never

been in it. But I got the keys. Look look

I got the keys. I've known it. I fought for it.

I finally got the house. Same thing with the car.

What if I'm like, look at this brand new car.

I love it. I love it, but I never drove

it off the lots.

And the truth is, for some of us, we've known

our inheritance, right, we fought for it and once we

finally received it, but we.

Haven't walked in it.

And until I furnished the house, and until I drive

the car, what is an inheritance? And for some of us,

just like I said from before, we've we've walked in salvation,

but we've never walked around the kingdom and walked in

our opportunity and walked in what God has for us.

And so all we're doing is we're holding keys. We're

just holding keys, but we're not operating in the gift

that God has through our in heritance.

It's the same way I have this last one up here.

I have this diploma, the diploma, sorry, it's a doctorate

for the studies in the Book of Joshua. It's fake, okay,

But imagine, I'm like, man, I went to school.

Man, seventeen years, baby, I went to school.

You're like, amen, And what if every year I came

up to you, look at my diploma, Look at it,

look at it.

But I never built anything. If I was a lawyer

and never built a law firm.

What would I be doing just holding this if I

was a doctor and I needed to work for a hospital.

But all I showed you was this, But I never

walked out and what I once fought for and believed for.

And why I'm belaboring this point is because I think

for some of us in this room, you've known it,

you've fought for it, you've even received it, but you

haven't walked in it. And I believe tonight you're gonna

walk in it. I believe God wants you to walk

in your inheritance. I believe God wants you to drive

that car. I believe God wants you to move into

that house.

And maybe it's because because.

That shadow of fear, like Heifer and ze Leffah hat Right,

your family came from a pit, and that shadow follows

you around. So you don't want to go into your

inheritance because you believe you might repeat the same cycles

as your generational line. But what God wants to let

you know is that the price he pay for on

the Cross is greater than any mistake your family can make.

And it doesn't mean you got you don't have to

deal with things.

It doesn't mean you don't have to go to things

like life classes and forward and do all these things.

But what it does mean is that he who is

in you is greater than he who is in the world.

And what I hope to encourage all of us tonight

is that we don't just have these keys and this diploma,

but that we start to live life and we start

to walk in our inheritance. I'm ending here, I promise you.

I promise you. That was my second one, so you

know there's a few more. I'm just skidded, Okay. I

just want you to look at this real briefly, because

not only are we talking about the daughter's inheritance, we're

talking about ours. It says our inheritance in Christ. Without Christ,

there's fear in Christ. Our inheritance is faith and power.

Without Christ, there's condemnation in Christ. There's justification without Christ.

The wages of sin is death with Christ. The gift

of God is eternal life in Christ, Jesus our Lord.

Without Christ, there were slaves to sin. With Christ, we're

walking in freedom, for who the Son sets free is free.

Indeed next one.

Without Christ, we operate in a world of hate, and

we operate in hate in Christ, we are operating in

the gift and the culture of love. Without Christ, we

are orphaned. In Christ, we are adopted. Without Christ, we

are perishing, And with Christ we are imperishable and eternal.

Can I get an amen?

So I want to encourage you on these three things

to unlock your inheritance. Do you know you're inheritance? Will

you fight for your inheritance? We'll do these questions and

then we'll do this. Do you know your inheritance in Christ?

Are you willing to fight for it under God's grace?

And will you persist in it until you walk in

it so others can follow?

Amen, Here's what I want to do. We're gonna get

a moment.

Every time we have a service, we give a moment

for a salvation for those who want to give their

life to the Lord for the first time or for

the last time. Of the greatest inheritance you could ever

receive is eternal life.

Roma six twenty three says the wages of sin is dead.

The gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus

our Lord, it says.

In Roma's ten, it.

Says, if we confess with our mouth and believe in

our heart, we shall be saved.

Amen.

Before I go into that salvation moment, I want to

give a special, just a brief moment.

Of prayer for a group of people.

If you heard this message and something stirred in you,

and maybe you need to know your inheritance, or maybe

you need to fight for it, or maybe you need

to walk in it. Maybe one of them, two of them,

are all three of them. If that's you can, I

just ask you to stand right now, Just stand right

now where you're at. I want you to stand, and

I want to pray for you.

Yeah. Amen, you can put your hands together.

You can put your hands together. There's more. Don't worry,

there's more and more. We'll keep standing more, We'll keep standing.

Sometimes it takes you know, one person to stand. He

I don't want to be the only person. If you

need to know God, go in and keep putting your

hands together real quick.

If you if if.

You need a greater understanding of your inheritance, if you

need a you need an increase in your fighting, or

if you want to walk in it, go ahead and

stand right now.

I know there's more in the room. Go ahead and stand.

I'll give fifteen more seconds.

Yeah, go ahead, we canna put our hands together real quick.

Here's what I want you to do, real quick, and

you could stand even as I'm praying. If you see

someone standing around, just extend a hand for me. Extend

a hand. Lo we pray for these people who are standing.

We thank you so much that you in the same

way you did for the daughters.

You want to walk. You want us to walk in

your inheritance.

So I pray for those that need to know your

their inheritance, that there would be knowledge of it. I

pray for those who need to have an increase of fight,

that that increase of fight would come to them. And

I pray for those that need to walk in it

they would walk out in.

Their inheritance in Jesus' name. And everybody said, amen and amen,

put your hands together. You could grab a seat. Last

thing we'll pray, and then I'll let you get out

of here.

Only a few minutes over. So that's perfect according to

Latino time. Like I said before, the greatest decision you

can make is walking in that place of giving your

life to the Lord. And so what we're gonna do

is we're just gonna bow our heads and close our

eyes for a second, you could do it right now

and no one looking around. One of my favorite preachers

he would say this, and I kind of borrowed it

from him. He said that in heaven there's no grandsons

and granddaughters.

There's only sons and daughters.

And what that means is that God wants a personal

relationship with you. Not with your family, not with your church,

not with your region. God wants to have a relationship

with you.

So he came to the earth, he died on a cross.

Three days later he rose from the grave to have

a relationship with you.

Wages of sin is death. The gift of God is free.

The wages sin is death. The gift of God is

eternal life in Christ. Jesus, our Lord.

So with no one looking around, every all has a

bowed Let's just pray this prayer altogether.

Let's pray this prayer.

Say, Jesus, we thank you that you came to the earth,

that you died on a cross, and that you rose

from the grave. Say we confess that we're sinners in needs,

in need of a savior. So Jesus forgive me and

my sins. Wipe my slate clean tonight. Jesus, I declare

that you are my Lord, and that you are my

Savior and Holy Spirit. Come and fill me up in

Jesus's name, and everybody said amen and amen, we can.

Put our hands together. Listen. I want to let you know,

and if you've been here, you know this.

But this might have been your decision for the first time, or,

like we like to say, for the last time, you've

recommitted your life to Lord. But Heaven's throwing a party.

So if you prayed that prayer for the first so

last time, on the count of three, I want you

to lift your hands up high and proud, and we

want to celebrate with you. One.

Jesus loves you so much. Two, one, two, three, right now,

lift it up. Go ahead, lift it up. Thank you

so much, thank you so much, amazing, thank you so much, incredible,

thank you so much. That's amazing. We love it. We

love it.

We will welcome home, Welcome to a family.

And we're so grateful that you surrendered. Anyone in the

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