WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:07.839 Hallelujah. Okay, today is Mother's Day. Hallelujah. Thank you so much. 2 00:00:07.839 --> 00:00:11.039 I'm not going to give you a word on mothers today. It's going 3 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:14.919 to be a word on missions. But it works, okay, So we're 4 00:00:14.919 --> 00:00:18.320 gonna work it together and it's going to be fabulous. By the time we're 5 00:00:18.359 --> 00:00:20.839 done here today, you're going to be glad that you came. If you're 6 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:26.679 not already, has everyone gotten a mission's magazine here in the house? Raise 7 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:30.800 your hand if you've not received one of these, and our wonderful ushers are 8 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:33.920 going to be ready to get you one if there's anyone. Now, if 9 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:36.320 you have your hand up, you have to leave your hand up because they're 10 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:39.200 coming. They're coming, So leave your hand up. You want to get 11 00:00:39.200 --> 00:00:43.719 one of these missions magazines. These turned out so fabulous and what they are 12 00:00:43.880 --> 00:00:47.799 is a snapshot of what we're doing here at New Horizon for missions. Keep 13 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:51.079 those hands up. They're coming, so you want to get that. You 14 00:00:51.079 --> 00:00:53.119 want to take a look at that, you want to look through it. 15 00:00:53.759 --> 00:01:00.159 There's some links to go to our website. Our website is redone and I'll 16 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:03.239 fill just filled with wonderful information. So if you have any questions, or 17 00:01:03.640 --> 00:01:07.920 would like to know more about what we do here for a missions at New 18 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:11.000 Horizon. Go ahead and go online. And when you get your magazine, 19 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:15.239 I want you to open it up and in the middle pages you're gonna see, 20 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:17.359 or actually it's on the front, it's kind of in the middle. 21 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:22.280 There's on one side there is a magnet for you to take home and put 22 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:26.200 up on your refrigerators, so you always think of missions. And if you 23 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:27.760 put it on your refrigerator, every time you go to get a snack, 24 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:34.439 you're gonna think about missions. Double duty. Right there, and on the 25 00:01:34.519 --> 00:01:41.439 backside of that is a card. It's a Pledge card. Oh you're bringing 26 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:44.840 my little buckets out, it's a Pledge card. And that pledge card we're 27 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:49.159 gonna use next week. Next week is going to be International Sunday and Pledge 28 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:53.599 cards Sunday for missions. And so next week we're gonna have tables all around 29 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:57.000 the room and there's going to be people from all sorts of different countries. 30 00:01:57.079 --> 00:02:00.920 Romania's gonna be here, I know it is. You're in the house, 31 00:02:01.560 --> 00:02:06.640 and there will be food all the way around the room and it'll be a 32 00:02:06.680 --> 00:02:12.520 lot of wonderful, just exciting time to get to know people from other countries 33 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:17.080 and to celebrate the nations. We also have Pastor Robert Casozie here next week 34 00:02:17.400 --> 00:02:23.319 to preach, so you're gonna hear from a pastor from Uganda. And then 35 00:02:23.479 --> 00:02:28.479 you're also going to we're gonna do pledge cards Sunday. So what we're gonna 36 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:30.759 do is you're gonna bring your cards back. So take that card, be 37 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:34.840 thinking about it, be praying about it. How much can you give into 38 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:40.199 missions on a monthly basis and then that is how we will order our budget 39 00:02:40.319 --> 00:02:46.360 and who will get missions support this next year. And we have right now 40 00:02:46.400 --> 00:02:52.879 we are supporting eight missionaries on a regular basis, and our budgets about twenty 41 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:55.439 five hundred dollars somewhere around there, twenty three hundred twenty five somewhere in there. 42 00:02:57.039 --> 00:03:00.159 And my goal is to raise it to almost three thousand. You can 43 00:03:00.199 --> 00:03:02.400 get to three thousand a month. We started our mission's budget. You know 44 00:03:02.400 --> 00:03:07.000 what our mission's budget was at first zero and then we went to two hundred, 45 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:10.800 and then we went to five hundred, and then now we are pushing 46 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:15.479 three thousand dollars a month that is going out of this house. And yes, 47 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:23.000 oh you are absolute wonderful, generous people. It's the Missions Pledge support 48 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:27.000 that keeps our missionaries on the mission field. If they didn't have that, 49 00:03:27.039 --> 00:03:29.639 they wouldn't be able to eat, they wouldn't be able to put gasolier car, 50 00:03:29.639 --> 00:03:31.599 they wouldn't be able to survive, and they would have to come home 51 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:35.599 and just get a job and work, right, Which isn't a bad deal 52 00:03:35.639 --> 00:03:38.840 to just have a job and work because some of us are called to that, 53 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:43.759 others are called to be on the mission field, and we support them 54 00:03:43.919 --> 00:03:46.840 over there with that. So take that card out, be praying over it, 55 00:03:46.879 --> 00:03:52.360 be thinking about what you can do to help support missions here at New 56 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:57.520 Horizon. Amen. Then also on the back wall back there, there's a 57 00:03:57.560 --> 00:04:00.080 bunch of paintings, and all of those paintings, if you want to take 58 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:03.759 one home, give a donation today. There's a black box over there on 59 00:04:03.759 --> 00:04:09.240 the side. Just put a donation in that will go to missions as well. 60 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:12.719 And you can take one of our paintings that we're done during worship over 61 00:04:12.759 --> 00:04:15.480 the last year. So help us go ahead and take those, take them 62 00:04:15.519 --> 00:04:19.319 home, give them a little spot in your house and give to missions. 63 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:24.279 Amen. Okay, So also I wanted to bring to you. We have 64 00:04:24.439 --> 00:04:28.639 a project, a missions project this year, and our project is to put 65 00:04:28.680 --> 00:04:31.040 in a well. And that picture right there is a well that we put 66 00:04:31.079 --> 00:04:35.680 in a couple of years ago. And as you can see these jerry cans, 67 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:40.439 this is what the kids carry back and forth to get water. And 68 00:04:40.800 --> 00:04:43.600 they get their water. If they don't have a well, they get it 69 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:46.079 from the swamps. And we have a video that we want to show you 70 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:51.040 here of some children getting some water. This is the school that we are 71 00:04:51.079 --> 00:04:57.240 going to put a well at. So go ahead, no other one stop 72 00:04:57.560 --> 00:05:01.439 that one. Yes, it has sound, so he said, Harry, 73 00:05:30.519 --> 00:07:30.360 so turning all right. So this scene this plays out every day, two 74 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:34.519 to three times a day over in Uganda, over in Africa, all over 75 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:39.639 the place. And there is a school and a church in a community here 76 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:42.399 that we are going to go ahead and put a well in. As I 77 00:07:42.439 --> 00:07:45.160 said, this well right here is one that we put in a couple of 78 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:47.079 years ago. We put it right in the middle of a school compound and 79 00:07:47.199 --> 00:07:50.319 in the middle of a church compound, so that the whole community comes. 80 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:57.079 Now that this school had that same type of swamp, swamps or swamps anywhere 81 00:07:57.120 --> 00:08:01.040 you go right where they get their their water. Gonna show you a video 82 00:08:01.279 --> 00:08:05.560 of that well in in action, So go ahead, there you go, 83 00:08:07.319 --> 00:08:13.519 there it is. You have New Horizon bought that well and put that in. 84 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:18.040 Look at that beautiful clean water. Look how pretty that is, and 85 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:26.920 look at those kids. Isn't that fun? So I was able to actually 86 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:30.959 scoop water from that well and drink it straight from the tap and I didn't 87 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:35.320 get sick. So that's what you're gonna do. We're gonna do that again. 88 00:08:35.320 --> 00:08:37.240 We're gonna do two of those. Now, we're gonna put another one 89 00:08:37.240 --> 00:08:41.399 of those in. So we are going to right now, if the ushers 90 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:46.600 would come forward, and if you would put that slide up, there you 91 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:50.120 go, if you would be willing right now, last week we took an 92 00:08:50.159 --> 00:08:52.759 offering, the first offering for this. It's going to cost twelve thousand, 93 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:58.279 five hundred dollars to put this well in, and you very generously gave eight 94 00:08:58.480 --> 00:09:03.240 eighty eight hundred dollars. So yep, we are well on our way to 95 00:09:03.279 --> 00:09:07.759 the well. How's that sound, huh? So if you would for me, 96 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:09.679 if you would right now, if you would be willing to open up 97 00:09:09.679 --> 00:09:13.519 your wallets, open up your heart to this project. And let's finish this 98 00:09:13.600 --> 00:09:18.240 off that's thirty seven hundred dollars left. That's not much at all. And 99 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:22.360 I think we're gonna go well and above that, and so if we do, 100 00:09:22.720 --> 00:09:26.159 then I will have finance to potentially start another well or do some other 101 00:09:28.039 --> 00:09:31.960 wonderful, wonderful projects over there. So let's just give freely and let's just 102 00:09:33.279 --> 00:09:37.039 hit this mark and surpass it. Amen, So you can use that QR 103 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:41.159 code. There's envopes in front of you. We're going to take that offering 104 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:43.840 right now. So if you would prepare that for me, I would love 105 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:46.240 it. And we are going to do some shouting and hollerin next week when 106 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:50.080 I get to tell you that we made it and we're going to put another 107 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:54.120 well in. So, Father and Jesus name, thank you so much for 108 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:56.919 the generosity of these people. God, I thank you right now that we 109 00:09:58.000 --> 00:10:01.440 open our hearts and our minds and our our gifts and our talents and our 110 00:10:01.480 --> 00:10:05.919 finance to you. Oh Father, God, God, I think you right 111 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:07.279 now. You're gonna put in a well. You're gonna put in many wells. 112 00:10:07.320 --> 00:10:13.679 We're gonna break the power of darkness and poverty off of these places. 113 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:18.200 In Jesus name. Amen, hallelujah, Thank you so much. Yeah, 114 00:10:18.279 --> 00:10:24.399 go ahead and pass that. I appreciate that. Okay, So I have 115 00:10:24.480 --> 00:10:28.000 some I'm just going to jump into the word because I think we need to 116 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:33.279 to get there. Are you ready to hear from the Lord? I believe 117 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:39.600 He's got something for you today, and I believe that He is in the 118 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:43.600 house today. The Holy Spirit is in the house to stretch our hearts on 119 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:46.840 our minds and to think better thoughts. Everybody say, I'm going to think 120 00:10:46.919 --> 00:10:52.120 better thoughts. God says, to come up to his level. He is. 121 00:10:52.279 --> 00:10:56.279 He thinks higher than His ways are higher than ours, and his thoughts 122 00:10:56.600 --> 00:11:00.840 are higher than ours. And so many times we and so much of our 123 00:11:00.879 --> 00:11:03.120 life kind of down here in our own thoughts and in our own ways. 124 00:11:03.600 --> 00:11:07.879 And every time you come to church, I'm hoping that you're hearing the word 125 00:11:07.200 --> 00:11:11.480 and God's calling you up to a higher vantage point. When you're at a 126 00:11:11.559 --> 00:11:16.159 higher vantage point, you can see things better, can't you. You can 127 00:11:16.200 --> 00:11:18.320 see the future better, you can see the lay of the land better, 128 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:22.279 you can see what's going on better. And that's what God does when he 129 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:28.000 brings you into the church and into the Word, and that's what we're gonna 130 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:31.720 do today. Amen. Okay, So I have a scripture for you this 131 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:35.919 morning that we're going to get started with. And so if you would turn 132 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:39.720 in your bibles, and if we look to the screen Psalm twenty four, 133 00:11:39.919 --> 00:11:46.200 Verse one, the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof the world, 134 00:11:46.639 --> 00:11:54.080 and they that dwell there in. I fell in love with this scripture just 135 00:11:54.639 --> 00:11:58.240 over the last few weeks. It's just been rattling around and around and around 136 00:11:58.240 --> 00:12:01.759 in my heart, and I've just been letting it grow inside of my soul 137 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:05.320 and becomes something. And so I hope today here this morning, that I 138 00:12:05.320 --> 00:12:09.600 can give you just a little glimpse of the insides of this verse. Are 139 00:12:09.639 --> 00:12:11.120 you ready? So we're gonna say this together. We're gonna say it a 140 00:12:11.159 --> 00:12:15.519 couple of times because I want it inside of your noggin real good. Ready, 141 00:12:15.799 --> 00:12:20.200 let's say it with me. The earth is the lords and the fullness 142 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:26.600 thereof the world, and they that dwell there in. Okay, one more 143 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:33.320 time. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof the world, and 144 00:12:33.440 --> 00:12:39.080 they that dwell therein. I want that verse so stuck. I want you 145 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:41.159 know how you sometimes you go home from church and the worship song is going 146 00:12:41.279 --> 00:12:46.320 round and round and round. You can't even go to sleep. That happens 147 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:50.000 to me all the time. So today instead of the worship song, well 148 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:54.000 maybe the worship song too, but today that verse is gonna go round and 149 00:12:54.159 --> 00:13:00.440 round and round in your head. Amen, Okay. So the Earth is 150 00:13:00.440 --> 00:13:03.840 the Lord, and all is fullness the world and all who dwell there In 151 00:13:05.720 --> 00:13:07.759 this verse, if I were to pull some words out that I feel like 152 00:13:07.799 --> 00:13:16.360 are the most important, would be land, land or earth fullness not emptiness, 153 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:24.360 fullness, people, people are those those the word those there are they? 154 00:13:24.399 --> 00:13:31.440 That is people right, dwelling, dwell those that dwell therein Those I 155 00:13:31.480 --> 00:13:35.200 feel like are the four main topics of that verse right there, and I'm 156 00:13:35.200 --> 00:13:39.519 going to kind of break them apart. So the earth or land, and 157 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:45.600 the word fullness, those two go together. God is completely invested in this 158 00:13:45.679 --> 00:13:50.519 earth. Did you know that He is so invested He used his strength and 159 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:56.320 power to create it in Genesis One. It is the most powerful and, 160 00:13:56.440 --> 00:14:03.919 by the way, the most contested writing of all time. Fights continue even 161 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:09.200 today. Is Genesis One truth or is it not truth? I stand here 162 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:13.879 to tell you that, yes, in the beginning, God created the heavens 163 00:14:13.919 --> 00:14:16.000 and the earth. Much is to be said and pulled out of even that 164 00:14:16.120 --> 00:14:22.639 verse. But God is completely invested in this earth and in the concept of 165 00:14:22.679 --> 00:14:26.159 the land. And if you were to look in your Bible, there are 166 00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:35.159 almost fifteen hundred verses and passages that talk about land. That's a lot the 167 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:41.519 land, the land, this earth, the land. I know I'm standing 168 00:14:41.519 --> 00:14:46.399 on a stage, but underneath this stage is land and God that is very 169 00:14:46.440 --> 00:14:52.360 important to him. The land, the earth is very, very very important 170 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:58.519 to him. And who owns the land and the earth the Lord. If 171 00:14:58.559 --> 00:15:05.879 you read that verse, the Lord, the earth is the lords and the 172 00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:09.799 fullness thereof. So then if you keep reading in Genesis one, all of 173 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:15.919 a sudden, you know, there's this cool moment where God separates the skies 174 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:20.919 from the earth and the waters below. And then then the waters recede and 175 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:24.799 land emerges, This dirt emerges, and then and then another day, out 176 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:28.759 out of that dirt just comes out vegetation. Can you imagine the day that 177 00:15:28.879 --> 00:15:33.720 the trees sprung up out of the ground. Can you imagine that day? 178 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:37.559 Can you imagine the day that the jungles just saying like that and just came 179 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:41.360 into being. Can you imagine the day that God said, let there be 180 00:15:41.480 --> 00:15:43.799 fish in the sea, and all of a sudden, all the oceans of 181 00:15:43.799 --> 00:15:50.080 the Earth just went and came alive with fish and all the different types. 182 00:15:50.320 --> 00:15:54.399 And then he said, let the earth the skies be filled with birds. 183 00:15:54.879 --> 00:15:58.279 And it says that the skies teemed with birds, all the different kinds and 184 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:04.279 all the different singing and everything. The earth and it's fullness thereof. And 185 00:16:04.320 --> 00:16:07.240 then he said to the land, after he put the vegetation, now let 186 00:16:07.279 --> 00:16:11.240 there be animals all over, And all of a sudden animals aren't and all 187 00:16:11.279 --> 00:16:18.039 these amazing animals came forth. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, 188 00:16:19.639 --> 00:16:25.360 all of that amazing stuff inside. They're just incredible. I want I 189 00:16:25.440 --> 00:16:29.440 look around at the earth, just the earth alone. How can you not 190 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:33.039 know? There isn't a God? How can you know? So I get 191 00:16:33.159 --> 00:16:38.440 the privilege of driving my little granddaughter to preschool in the morning, so Mondays 192 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:42.480 and Wednesdays, I'm driving little little Ellie in, and you know, it's 193 00:16:42.519 --> 00:16:45.000 just kind of one of those things. She's not a morning girl, and 194 00:16:45.240 --> 00:16:49.000 typically she gets in the car and she's a little bit grumpy. Everybody say 195 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:53.919 grumpy what do you do with a grumpy little girl. Well, at first, 196 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:56.279 I was like, honey, if you're nice, if you're good, 197 00:16:56.679 --> 00:16:59.639 and I start, you know, i'll give you a chocolate milk. When 198 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:03.240 we get that. Not enough, you know, she's gonna keep her grumps. 199 00:17:03.679 --> 00:17:06.200 Well, so I've figured out the way to get her out of her 200 00:17:06.200 --> 00:17:11.279 grumps. We just start talking about the miracles around her. And she doesn't 201 00:17:11.319 --> 00:17:14.279 know it what I'm doing. But by the time we're done, and by 202 00:17:14.279 --> 00:17:17.599 the time we pull in the parking lot, she's all excited and just so 203 00:17:17.680 --> 00:17:19.920 happy about what I'm talking about. So the other day I said to her, 204 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:23.799 it was the first time I thought, God help me, that's what 205 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:29.000 I thought. And I said, you know what, Ellie, do you 206 00:17:29.039 --> 00:17:32.640 like dirt? And she said, no, I don't like dirt. Dirt's 207 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:36.480 dirty. I said, you are absolutely right, dirt is dirty. But 208 00:17:36.559 --> 00:17:40.960 you know what dirt is, Dirt is a miracle. And I started talking 209 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:44.720 to her about what dirt is. Dirts this crumbly stuff and it's kind of 210 00:17:44.759 --> 00:17:48.000 like all over the place, and you it's it's hard enough to where you 211 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:51.039 can walk on it, but it's soft enough to where you can dig it 212 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:55.640 up and then what is in this dirt. There's there's all sorts of nutrients 213 00:17:55.640 --> 00:17:59.319 in this dirt, and it's so good that it feeds the plants. And 214 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:02.279 so the plants grow because there's stuff in the dirt, because they've got their 215 00:18:02.319 --> 00:18:04.279 roots down in it, because it's soft and crumbly, and it feeds the 216 00:18:04.279 --> 00:18:07.599 plants, and it grows the plants. And then guess who eats the plants. 217 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:11.079 The cows and the chickens and everybody else eats the plants. And then 218 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:15.119 guess what you get to eat? Cows and chickens. So at the end 219 00:18:15.119 --> 00:18:21.799 of the day, you eat dirt. Totally changed her whole mindset. She 220 00:18:21.960 --> 00:18:26.920 loves dirt now, right, But what else is in dirt? Minerals are 221 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:30.880 in dirt. There's coal, there's gas, there's heat, there's warmth, 222 00:18:32.039 --> 00:18:34.799 there's magnetism within the dirt and in the very core of the earth. It 223 00:18:34.920 --> 00:18:41.720 is a miracle. Dirt is incredible. He has so much buried inside of 224 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:48.039 even just the dirt. The potential of every step that you take on the 225 00:18:48.119 --> 00:18:55.000 dirt and on rocks. It's a miracle, people, there's potential even down 226 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:57.880 inside of the very core of the dirt. You walk on let alone the 227 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:03.200 sunshine that shines down. And I totter that all the leaves are little solar 228 00:19:03.480 --> 00:19:08.839 solar panels, and the leaves are like and it's taking in the energy from 229 00:19:08.839 --> 00:19:12.640 the sun and it just makes it into Ah. We just talk and talk 230 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:18.680 and talk about the glory of the fullness of the earth. I want you 231 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:25.079 to see the fullness and the potential and how the earth is filled with goodness 232 00:19:25.079 --> 00:19:32.319 and God owns it. He owns it, nobody else does. He does, 233 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:37.519 and he says the Genesis says that every living thing has its seed within 234 00:19:37.559 --> 00:19:45.160 it. Every living thing, what a masterpiece. Every living thing has the 235 00:19:45.240 --> 00:19:48.440 ability has seed within it to make more of itself. And it's DNA. 236 00:19:48.519 --> 00:19:52.519 And oh my goodness, I could go all all day talking about the fullness 237 00:19:52.759 --> 00:19:57.480 and the just the power and the strength of what is inside of the earth, 238 00:19:57.519 --> 00:20:03.200 the fullness. Everybody say fullness, fullness of the earth. And those 239 00:20:03.240 --> 00:20:08.200 who dwell, those would mean humanity and dwell. Let's let's take that word 240 00:20:08.279 --> 00:20:14.079 dwell. The word dwell comes from quite a few different Greek and Hebrew words, 241 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:18.559 but they mean it means a habitation, abode, to sit down together 242 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:26.599 and be together, to dwell, that's more than just be Dwelling means being 243 00:20:26.680 --> 00:20:32.599 together, being in relationship, being here another one. The one of the 244 00:20:32.640 --> 00:20:37.799 words for dwell is shikan, which is where we get the words chicina glory, 245 00:20:37.839 --> 00:20:41.480 which tells us that God's original intent is that we would not just be 246 00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:45.319 here on earth to live, but that we would be here to dwell with 247 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:48.039 one another, and that He would be here to dwell with us. He 248 00:20:48.200 --> 00:20:52.599 loves the earth because he it was his plan and desire to be here to 249 00:20:52.759 --> 00:20:59.359 dwell with us. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof the world, 250 00:20:59.519 --> 00:21:03.960 and those everyone who is in this earth and dwells in this earth and 251 00:21:04.119 --> 00:21:10.839 is here with him, are his as well. It doesn't matter the color 252 00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:14.000 of your skin, It doesn't matter how much money you have. It doesn't 253 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:17.400 matter what nation you live in. It does not matter. You are his. 254 00:21:18.839 --> 00:21:26.480 You are his. You are his father. God owns it all. 255 00:21:26.119 --> 00:21:33.680 And what do fathers do with all their stuff? Yes, what do fathers 256 00:21:33.720 --> 00:21:37.200 do? They write up a will and inheritance. They give stuff away, 257 00:21:41.240 --> 00:21:48.200 They give it stuff away, They give it as an inheritance. And if 258 00:21:48.200 --> 00:21:52.000 you read through the word the word inherit through the Bible, the word inheritance 259 00:21:52.119 --> 00:21:57.799 is constant. I give you this as your inheritance. So in Deuteronomy, 260 00:21:57.799 --> 00:22:03.359 it talks about how God drew out the boundaries of the nations and he gave 261 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:12.440 them their inheritance of land. So he allotted different nations chunks of his beautiful 262 00:22:12.880 --> 00:22:19.200 earth of land. And so one of those was Israel. Israel got its 263 00:22:19.319 --> 00:22:26.759 allotment, and God promised it to him. It became the Promise Land. 264 00:22:27.039 --> 00:22:32.240 And then when Israel got into the Promised Land, they took their land, 265 00:22:32.599 --> 00:22:37.519 their allotment, their chunk, their spot, and they divided it up, 266 00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:41.880 and each tribe got an allotment or an inheritance. And then out of that 267 00:22:42.119 --> 00:22:48.240 each out of the tribes, each family was given an allotment and an inheritance. 268 00:22:48.079 --> 00:22:52.319 Now, all of a sudden, it's getting real personal. Now it's 269 00:22:52.359 --> 00:23:03.759 getting real personal. This is my allotment. This is my land that God, 270 00:23:03.839 --> 00:23:07.119 who owns everything, was able to give to me. This is my 271 00:23:07.279 --> 00:23:22.279 land. Now, this is my chunk God's in God's economy. In God's 272 00:23:22.319 --> 00:23:30.759 economy, there is life. There's bounty, there's fruitfulness, there's purpose, 273 00:23:30.920 --> 00:23:34.160 there's harvest, there's seed time, there's there's bringing it in the harvest there's 274 00:23:34.240 --> 00:23:40.319 liberation, there's unlocking of all this potential, and there is a release of 275 00:23:40.359 --> 00:23:47.480 everything. That is God's economy. God's economy is an ever growing, ever 276 00:23:47.599 --> 00:23:52.680 expanding, always renewing, always coming forth new stuff, more than enough. 277 00:23:52.160 --> 00:23:57.920 That is God's economy, God's and the earth is the Lord and the fullness 278 00:23:57.960 --> 00:24:06.480 thereof. But we all know that sin came, Sin came in, The 279 00:24:06.640 --> 00:24:11.799 enemy came in. The enemy came in, and with sin came the curse, 280 00:24:11.039 --> 00:24:17.799 and with curse came oppression. Everything that the enemy does is the exact 281 00:24:17.880 --> 00:24:21.720 opposite of what God does. He came into this earth, and he then 282 00:24:21.880 --> 00:24:29.200 became brought along thorns and trouble and difficulty and sweat of the brow, and 283 00:24:29.319 --> 00:24:33.119 all of a sudden, the Earth's fullness and its desire to burst forth with 284 00:24:33.200 --> 00:24:44.200 life was put under an oppression, a heaviness. The enemy comes to do 285 00:24:44.319 --> 00:24:48.759 three things to kill, steal, and destroy. And if God's economy is 286 00:24:49.359 --> 00:24:55.839 more than enough, plenty, bounty, harvest, seed, time, more 287 00:24:55.880 --> 00:25:00.000 and more, just that renewing, that constant just coming, if that is 288 00:25:00.039 --> 00:25:04.039 his economy, then the economy of the enemy is not enough. It's lack 289 00:25:04.480 --> 00:25:14.440 is shortage, and it is broken and there's we're running out. That verse 290 00:25:14.480 --> 00:25:21.599 does not say the earth is the Lord's and the emptiness thereof. That first 291 00:25:21.640 --> 00:25:26.240 says the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. I want to change 292 00:25:26.240 --> 00:25:36.000 your mindset. God has a mindset of enough of fullness, People of God. 293 00:25:36.319 --> 00:25:41.880 We are living right now in a situation in a world in society where 294 00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:45.000 alls they can talk about is we're running out of this and we don't have 295 00:25:45.119 --> 00:25:48.400 enough of that, and where there's we're all gonna die, and it's all 296 00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:51.039 gonna blow up, and it's all this, and it's all that. I 297 00:25:51.079 --> 00:25:53.400 am here to tell you that that is not the truth. When God is 298 00:25:53.480 --> 00:26:02.519 released and the oppression is broken, life comes forth more than enough comes forth. 299 00:26:07.160 --> 00:26:10.400 Now, God does not do his thing. He does not bring forth 300 00:26:10.400 --> 00:26:15.400 all this stuff without me. He put man in the garden. He said, 301 00:26:15.480 --> 00:26:18.400 go tend it, go work it, go subdue it. Come on, 302 00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:25.359 I'm gonna partner with you. God's desire is to tandem with mankind here 303 00:26:25.480 --> 00:26:30.519 on earth and dwell together with us, so that we would bring forth and 304 00:26:30.640 --> 00:26:37.599 release and unlock the potential that God has put into the earth. That is 305 00:26:37.680 --> 00:26:47.799 our job, that is us, that is so us, so our job 306 00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:52.279 is to work with him. A couple of weeks ago, I got up 307 00:26:52.279 --> 00:26:57.440 in the morning and I said to myself self, today's the day. So 308 00:26:57.519 --> 00:27:03.519 I went out to my allotment. I know you all have allotment somewhere, 309 00:27:04.519 --> 00:27:08.480 you have your own inheritance. I went out to my allotment, and I 310 00:27:08.519 --> 00:27:12.039 have a box I built on my allotment, and it's full of really yummy 311 00:27:12.119 --> 00:27:17.920 dirt. And I put some more yummy dirt inside of my allotment and I 312 00:27:17.960 --> 00:27:21.759 started digging it. And the ground was really hard. It was hard. 313 00:27:21.480 --> 00:27:22.759 I had to I had to actually get out of fork and I had to 314 00:27:22.799 --> 00:27:29.279 kind of dig, and I had to break because I knew that I needed 315 00:27:29.319 --> 00:27:33.640 a harvest out of that little square on allotment. So I dug it up 316 00:27:33.680 --> 00:27:37.480 and I worked hard, and I broke the hardness of that soil. And 317 00:27:37.519 --> 00:27:41.680 then I picked all the weeds out, all the things that were growing in 318 00:27:41.720 --> 00:27:44.799 it that wasn't supposed to be, and I got it all cleaned out, 319 00:27:44.799 --> 00:27:49.319 and I took a seed. What a seed. Seed is just a little 320 00:27:49.400 --> 00:27:53.359 thing that I got, just one little thing, but it's what I got, 321 00:27:53.759 --> 00:27:59.119 and it has the most potential in the world in a seed I take 322 00:27:59.240 --> 00:28:02.319 one little seed, and I could either eat it and get a little bit 323 00:28:02.319 --> 00:28:04.279 of nutrition out, but I could take that seed and I can put it 324 00:28:04.319 --> 00:28:10.599 down in dirt. Did I make the dirt? I didn't make the dirt. 325 00:28:11.640 --> 00:28:15.480 The dirt's gods for the earth belongs to the Lord. I take my 326 00:28:15.559 --> 00:28:18.240 seed, and I didn't make the seed. But I got the seed. 327 00:28:18.759 --> 00:28:22.440 See, God wants to work in tandem with me. The seed doesn't get 328 00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:26.839 in the dirt unless I put it in there. I gotta put it in 329 00:28:26.880 --> 00:28:33.839 there. So we worked together, God and I and we tend his amazing 330 00:28:33.880 --> 00:28:36.599 earth. So I take his seed. I didn't make that seed. I 331 00:28:36.640 --> 00:28:40.000 didn't put the genetics for a bean plant in that seed. Take that seed 332 00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:42.119 and I shove it down in the dirt, and I shove the dirt that 333 00:28:42.160 --> 00:28:45.799 I didn't make over it. And then I go get water. Then I 334 00:28:45.880 --> 00:28:48.880 never I didn't make water. I didn't come up with water. God came 335 00:28:48.920 --> 00:28:52.519 up with water. That's a whole nother sermon in and of itself, of 336 00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:56.599 what water is, and it's amazingness. And I put some water on it. 337 00:28:56.839 --> 00:29:00.880 And then eventually I go out there and look, because that's all I 338 00:29:00.920 --> 00:29:06.839 can do. I'm not insure to make that thing grow. Only God can 339 00:29:06.880 --> 00:29:11.559 make that grow. He's the lord of the harvest. He's the lord of 340 00:29:11.640 --> 00:29:14.839 the fullness. But if I don't do my part and take my seat and 341 00:29:14.920 --> 00:29:17.839 put it in the ground, I ain't gonna have a harvest. And I 342 00:29:17.880 --> 00:29:19.880 stood there and I watched and I watched, and after a while, you 343 00:29:19.920 --> 00:29:22.319 wonder, I don't think it's gonna work this time. God, your word 344 00:29:22.400 --> 00:29:26.720 said that seed is gonna keep going. Is it gonna work this time? 345 00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:30.160 I don't know. I don't know oo. And then I get a little 346 00:29:30.160 --> 00:29:36.440 nervous, and I go and sure enough there was a little bit coming and 347 00:29:36.599 --> 00:29:42.119 God brought forth. I didn't make it work. I didn't make that thing 348 00:29:42.759 --> 00:29:51.119 sprout. God does, and his fullness, it's what happens. He brings 349 00:29:51.200 --> 00:29:53.440 forth. And those little plants are about that high. Guess what. Those 350 00:29:53.440 --> 00:29:56.680 things are gonna take over the whole garden. And then I'm gonna have so 351 00:29:56.720 --> 00:30:00.319 many beans I'm not gonna know what to do. I'm gonna have such plenty. 352 00:30:00.759 --> 00:30:03.839 You guys are gonna have to come over to my house and help me 353 00:30:03.880 --> 00:30:10.200 eat green beans. But that's what he wants. He wants us to partner 354 00:30:10.200 --> 00:30:15.680 with him. Second Samuel, twenty three, verses eleven and twelve tell us 355 00:30:15.680 --> 00:30:22.519 of a story of a man who had an allotment and who had an enemy. 356 00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:30.200 This man his name is Shama. Second Samuel, verse chapter twenty three, 357 00:30:30.799 --> 00:30:34.400 verse thirteen. This man was one of David's mighty men. David was 358 00:30:34.480 --> 00:30:40.319 an incredible king who had many wars and had to do a lot of things. 359 00:30:40.799 --> 00:30:44.960 This man, Shama, was one of his mighty men. There's I 360 00:30:45.000 --> 00:30:47.839 don't know how, there's three main mighty men, and then there was a 361 00:30:47.920 --> 00:30:51.559 like twenty others. Not very many got into the Bible, but this guy 362 00:30:51.599 --> 00:30:53.319 got in the Bible. So I'm like, so, what did this mighty 363 00:30:53.319 --> 00:30:57.359 man do? Can I read you what this mighty man did? Okay, 364 00:30:57.359 --> 00:31:02.640 you're ready, Here we go. Second Samuel, chapter twenty three, verse 365 00:31:03.160 --> 00:31:07.039 thirteen. Next to him, which was the first mighty man standing next to 366 00:31:07.119 --> 00:31:12.599 him, was Shama, son of Agee the Hammerright when the Philistines banded together 367 00:31:12.680 --> 00:31:18.359 in a place where there was a field full of lentils, the Israelite troops 368 00:31:18.519 --> 00:31:22.519 fled from them, but Shama took his stand in the middle of the field, 369 00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:27.319 and he defended it and struck the Philistines down, and the Lord brought 370 00:31:27.359 --> 00:31:33.599 about a great victory. Shama was given a plant of a bean patch, 371 00:31:33.240 --> 00:31:40.039 a hunk of land. Remember how much God loves land, who owns the 372 00:31:40.119 --> 00:31:48.039 land and the fullness thereof? And the enemy comes. The enemy came to 373 00:31:48.240 --> 00:31:52.240 strike down Shama and take his bean field and do its work with that. 374 00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:59.200 But Shama said, not on my watch, not in my patch, not 375 00:31:59.359 --> 00:32:05.079 in my inheritance, and not in my allotment, and says that he took 376 00:32:05.119 --> 00:32:10.799 his sword and he beat them back. He did not let the enemy mess 377 00:32:10.799 --> 00:32:17.359 with his allotment or with his inheritance. And I am here to tell you, 378 00:32:17.440 --> 00:32:21.880 people of God, the earth is the Lord's. It's not the enemies. 379 00:32:22.880 --> 00:32:28.119 The earth belongs to the Lord. And I am here to partner with 380 00:32:28.240 --> 00:32:35.160 him to fight for the allotment of land that I have been given. I 381 00:32:35.200 --> 00:32:40.440 was driving to church here a couple of weeks ago, and I'm driving down. 382 00:32:40.559 --> 00:32:45.039 So what is my allotment? What is my allotment? What do I 383 00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:50.519 get? Do I have my little box of beans and that's it. The 384 00:32:50.640 --> 00:32:55.160 Bible says no. The Bible says no. In fact, Psalms says Psalm 385 00:32:55.240 --> 00:33:02.920 too, God says, ask of me for the nations for your inheritance and 386 00:33:04.039 --> 00:33:10.039 the ends of the earth for your possessions. What so my allotment isn't my 387 00:33:10.119 --> 00:33:16.039 little box of beans. My allotment is I can ask for the nations. 388 00:33:16.599 --> 00:33:20.640 I can ask for the ends of the earth. God, you're telling me 389 00:33:21.079 --> 00:33:25.599 that the earth belongs to you, and you want it under your auspices. 390 00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:36.319 You want the oppression of the enemy broken, poverty broken, all of lack 391 00:33:36.799 --> 00:33:40.039 and everything broken. You want your fullness to come forth. Is this what 392 00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:45.279 I'm hearing you say? Lord, not just in my own life, but 393 00:33:45.440 --> 00:33:53.880 in the nations. That's my allotment too. I was driving here a couple 394 00:33:53.920 --> 00:33:59.480 of weeks ago to come to work, and I'm driving down Levy and I 395 00:33:59.599 --> 00:34:00.839 see a young man in the distance. You know, it's pretty straight, 396 00:34:00.880 --> 00:34:05.519 pretty, you know, and he's probably a half a mile down, and 397 00:34:05.640 --> 00:34:07.199 I just thought, oh, I could tell by I could tell he was 398 00:34:07.239 --> 00:34:13.800 a young man. I could tell he was African American. So he had 399 00:34:13.880 --> 00:34:21.159 culture within him. He was filled with that nation's giftings. He was filled 400 00:34:21.159 --> 00:34:24.119 with. And I love the African nations. I love them. I think 401 00:34:24.360 --> 00:34:29.800 they have rhythm like I can't do. They got gifts I don't have. 402 00:34:30.599 --> 00:34:38.960 I love it when they are released from bondage and oppression. So I'm walking, 403 00:34:39.039 --> 00:34:43.159 I'm driving, and I'm just I just had a little happiness and a 404 00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:45.840 little happy dance in my heart and I was just Father, Oh wow, 405 00:34:45.960 --> 00:34:47.960 I you know, he's up and he's running, walking in early in the 406 00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:51.199 morning. I'm getting closer. I'm getting closer. I'm starting to go what 407 00:34:51.880 --> 00:34:58.400 wait, something was wrong? Got a little closer, and I realized his 408 00:34:58.559 --> 00:35:07.559 pants were down around his an goals. His underwear were tattered and falling off. 409 00:35:07.440 --> 00:35:22.760 The shame the image of God was walking down that street under such oppression. 410 00:35:24.760 --> 00:35:30.920 The heart broke, his hair was a mess, and the closer I 411 00:35:30.960 --> 00:35:32.960 got, I could see that he was he was out of his mind. 412 00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:42.920 The mind that God gave him to solve problems and to event invent things, 413 00:35:43.000 --> 00:35:47.320 and and to care for a family and to fight the enemy was gone. 414 00:35:51.440 --> 00:35:57.320 And God said, asked me for the nations, asked me for him, 415 00:35:57.519 --> 00:36:01.679 ask me for him. It's a father. I don't know what to do. 416 00:36:02.760 --> 00:36:05.800 I don't know. And as soon as I kind of got close to 417 00:36:05.880 --> 00:36:08.320 him, he took off into the woods. There was no getting to him. 418 00:36:08.400 --> 00:36:10.599 Otherwise I think I would have pulled my car over and said, can 419 00:36:10.639 --> 00:36:20.880 I please pray for you. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof 420 00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:27.480 and the power of darkness is oppressing the fullness of God in this earth. 421 00:36:27.800 --> 00:36:34.159 And we are to work in tandem with the Lord and to stand in our 422 00:36:34.320 --> 00:36:37.599 bean patch, in our allotment those things that God has given us, and 423 00:36:37.679 --> 00:36:45.159 to defend it against the enemy. To take yours, yes hallelujah, to 424 00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:49.679 take and go to the break the power of curse off it and to release 425 00:36:49.719 --> 00:36:58.199 it. That is our job today, is mission Sunday. I want to 426 00:36:58.199 --> 00:37:04.400 tell you single one of you, you have an allotment. You have an 427 00:37:04.400 --> 00:37:08.199 inheritance, you have been given. The first thing you have is this inside 428 00:37:08.199 --> 00:37:12.639 of you, your soul, your mind, your will, your emotions, 429 00:37:12.679 --> 00:37:15.239 your thoughts, your life. That is your allotment. And I would say 430 00:37:15.320 --> 00:37:19.880 even now, stand up like Shama stood up, and go to war over 431 00:37:19.960 --> 00:37:27.440 your own hearts. Do not let anything rule over you but the Lord God 432 00:37:27.599 --> 00:37:35.960 himself, for this is your first allotment. Secondly, it's your family. 433 00:37:37.119 --> 00:37:40.119 You have an allotment called your family, your husband, your wife, your 434 00:37:40.199 --> 00:37:45.480 children, your grandchildren, your parents. That is your allotment. Go to 435 00:37:45.639 --> 00:37:50.760 war for your allotment, defend your bean patch. Don't let anything, do 436 00:37:50.880 --> 00:37:58.199 anything come in to your allotment. And then I would say, your neighbor 437 00:37:59.000 --> 00:38:04.960 as yourself, I would say, be even so bold to ask for your 438 00:38:05.039 --> 00:38:09.760 city, for your state, for your nation and the nations. And let's 439 00:38:09.800 --> 00:38:14.440 begin to stand up right now. I just all across this room stand up, 440 00:38:14.679 --> 00:38:17.360 and I want to encourage you to take a stand, just like Shama 441 00:38:17.440 --> 00:38:22.159 took a stand in his bean patch and said absolutely not, not on my 442 00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:28.320 watch. In Jesus name, I will defend. I will defend the fullness 443 00:38:28.320 --> 00:38:31.559 of the Lord in this earth that in my allotments. In Jesus's name, 444 00:38:31.920 --> 00:38:36.000 God, I think you right now just go to war right now, because 445 00:38:36.039 --> 00:38:40.360 there's some enemy activity in your allotments. Right now, there's some enemy activity 446 00:38:40.440 --> 00:38:45.000 inside of your family, inside of your soul, inside of your city, 447 00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:50.079 inside of your family, inside of this nation, inside of this earth. 448 00:38:50.079 --> 00:38:53.719 There's some enemy activity. There's oppression. Even now, break it, break 449 00:38:53.760 --> 00:38:57.920 it, break it, break it, break it. Stand like Shama stood 450 00:38:58.239 --> 00:39:02.679 and say not now not here in my being patch, not in my allotment, 451 00:39:04.039 --> 00:39:07.760 not in my inheritance, not in the place that you have given to 452 00:39:07.840 --> 00:39:09.840 me. Father, For all of it is yours, and you've given me 453 00:39:09.960 --> 00:39:19.599 this moment in time. Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. Praise you Father, 454 00:39:19.719 --> 00:39:25.199 say, Father, I am yours. Help me. Let me be yours. 455 00:39:27.199 --> 00:39:34.559 Let me fight for you in Jesus name. Make me a missionary even 456 00:39:34.639 --> 00:39:38.679 today, that I would bring the gospel, that I would bring you, 457 00:39:39.679 --> 00:39:45.079 that I would bring you and your spirit and your fullness into my place, 458 00:39:45.519 --> 00:39:50.880 into my allotment and into my peace of this earth. In Jesus name. 459 00:39:50.920 --> 00:39:52.960 And God, I say, right now, raise your hands to him, 460 00:39:53.079 --> 00:39:58.079 hallelujah, annoying to us. Give us the strength, give us the strength, 461 00:39:58.119 --> 00:40:00.679 give us the nations. Give us Lord, God, give it to 462 00:40:00.800 --> 00:40:05.280 us. We will disciple and we will fight for it. We will defend 463 00:40:05.320 --> 00:40:09.400 it, we will break oppression off of it. In Jesus name. Hallelujah, 464 00:40:09.400 --> 00:40:13.400 halleluh. God. I pray right now for these people. God, 465 00:40:13.440 --> 00:40:15.360 I thank you that you are going to take them into this day, this 466 00:40:15.400 --> 00:40:21.280 week. Lord, give take them into this week. Lord, show them, 467 00:40:21.599 --> 00:40:23.519 show them, show them what to do, where to go, how 468 00:40:23.519 --> 00:40:28.760 to do it in Jesus name, and let's worship our way out