WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.600 --> 00:00:10.560 How y'all doing. Welcome back? You've been gone for two weeks? Oh 2 00:00:10.599 --> 00:00:14.480 it was me. I was gone. Okay, did you missus? Did 3 00:00:14.519 --> 00:00:23.280 you missus? H we uh we um. We were able to watch the 4 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:31.199 services from our RV. So that's pretty cool, don't you think. We 5 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:37.000 uh, we went off on a trip. And anyway, we celebrate you, 6 00:00:37.159 --> 00:00:39.640 We celebrate you. It was awesome to see what was going on. 7 00:00:39.759 --> 00:00:44.399 Elder Joe was preaching with fire and the worship was crazy, and the whole 8 00:00:44.399 --> 00:00:50.000 team and all of you were holding down the fort and the kingdom was continuing, 9 00:00:50.240 --> 00:00:54.280 and we are just blessed and proud of you. Blessed and proud of 10 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:57.600 you. So thank you so much, all of you that allowed us to 11 00:00:57.600 --> 00:01:02.200 get away. We've never gone on a vacation for two weeks in our lives, 12 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:06.519 so and that's a long time. How many of you know that's a 13 00:01:06.519 --> 00:01:11.359 long time. That's a long time. I know when Joel goes on these 14 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:15.040 mission trips about this long, I started kind of freaking out about it. 15 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:19.200 If it goes too long, it's like I started losing it. So I 16 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:23.719 don't know if you all started losing it with us gone, But we were 17 00:01:23.719 --> 00:01:25.879 going a long time, so that was what. We had a great time 18 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:30.319 and it was awesome and again we just thank you for letting us get away. 19 00:01:30.719 --> 00:01:37.640 How many of you have followed us on Facebook or Instagram? Maybe I 20 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:40.840 don't know if I don't know if some of the posts they transfer over or 21 00:01:40.840 --> 00:01:44.280 not. But anyway, we were touring Italy. We were doing it bravely. 22 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:49.599 We rented a camper van and we were actually supposed to be here for 23 00:01:49.719 --> 00:01:52.799 church last week, so we would have seen you. But when we woke 24 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:59.040 up early in the morning, they had canceled our flights. So I had 25 00:01:59.040 --> 00:02:02.159 to jump on the computer and we had seventy three I found two flights to 26 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:07.280 Roam instead of Florence, and we had seventy three minutes to get from our 27 00:02:07.280 --> 00:02:12.080 house to buy those tickets, to get from our house and get on the 28 00:02:12.120 --> 00:02:16.520 airplane. So we made it. And so we didn't see you last Sunday. 29 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:22.080 And that's why we two Sundays ago, two Sundays ago, that's why 30 00:02:22.120 --> 00:02:25.280 we didn't see you, because we were blitzing to the airport as fast as 31 00:02:25.400 --> 00:02:32.639 we could go. We woke up mister Solomon in the back and he ran 32 00:02:32.759 --> 00:02:37.719 us up to the airport. We were breaking all the speed limits by the 33 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:40.800 grace of God, and we got up there and got on that flight, 34 00:02:42.120 --> 00:02:45.960 got to Rome, took a train to Florence and picked up our RV. 35 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:50.039 So we did a crazy thing. We found that in Italy they drive on 36 00:02:50.080 --> 00:02:54.039 the proper side of the road and the steering wheels on the proper side of 37 00:02:54.039 --> 00:02:58.800 the vehicle, and so that was a blessing. So we had this little 38 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:05.080 six speed diesel camper van with all of the amenities of home, and we 39 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:09.599 ran around Italy for eleven days or whatever it was and had a bowl. 40 00:03:09.960 --> 00:03:17.840 We're celebrating our fortieth anniversary and for the most part, we still like each 41 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:23.599 other and that's a big deal. And we're celebrating a really big birthday for 42 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:30.240 her this year as well. It ends with a zero and it starts with 43 00:03:30.280 --> 00:03:32.560 a six, and I don't know if you can figure out the rest of 44 00:03:32.560 --> 00:03:38.439 that, but anyway, so this is this is a really big, really 45 00:03:38.479 --> 00:03:43.000 big year for us, and so we knew we had the mission trip coming, 46 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:46.759 all sorts of summer stuff coming, so we knew we needed to jump 47 00:03:46.840 --> 00:03:53.960 in and make this happen before the tourist season hits Italy like crazy. So 48 00:03:54.759 --> 00:03:59.240 dads, raise a hand all across the building, where's dads each other, 49 00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:00.919 and put a hand on on their shoulders right now, just as they have 50 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:04.080 their hands up, just reach over and put a hand on their shoulders with 51 00:04:04.199 --> 00:04:10.360 Jim and we just want to bless dads this morning. Yeah, lots of 52 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:15.000 criss cross hands going on over there. I see lots of that. Father. 53 00:04:15.120 --> 00:04:17.800 We just shout over the dads. We shout over fathers this morning. 54 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:25.480 That grace has increased the power of the Lord. The ability of the Lord 55 00:04:25.759 --> 00:04:30.199 is theirs. The armament of the Lord is theirs. We just declare, 56 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:34.160 you're blessing on them as they lead, as they guide, as they govern, 57 00:04:34.319 --> 00:04:39.639 as they pastor, as they prophesy, as they provide, as they 58 00:04:39.680 --> 00:04:46.519 protect Holy Spirit, Your richness increases on them in this season in Jesus name. 59 00:04:46.079 --> 00:04:56.319 And everybody said, amen. Amen. When our kids, you know, 60 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:01.040 like all of you, we we want our kids to have abundance. 61 00:05:02.319 --> 00:05:08.680 We've wanted our kids to have more than we ever had and to walk in 62 00:05:08.759 --> 00:05:14.720 abundance in every area of life, and to be protected from garbage, to 63 00:05:14.839 --> 00:05:21.759 be protected from harm, injury, abuse, defamation, hardship. We you 64 00:05:21.800 --> 00:05:26.519 know, we've wanted that for our kids, and so we had this crazy 65 00:05:26.519 --> 00:05:30.040 opportunity come upon us when you know, when they were young. Cadab was 66 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:32.879 fifteen, Cabb's in the back wave a hand, Cadib was fifteen, Solomon 67 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:36.439 was seven, Austin, who was on the drums this morning, was twelve, 68 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:41.199 and we came up with this brainstorm to start a long business and a 69 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:54.879 pressure washing business for the boys. And so it's seventeen years later. Cadibreu 70 00:05:55.000 --> 00:05:59.079 fifteen fourteen, somewhere in their fifteen or fourteen. So we didn't have any 71 00:05:59.240 --> 00:06:01.639 you know, all we had it was just an idea, like an entrepreneurial 72 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:08.319 idea, but we wanted them to have an entrepreneurial like a feel for life. 73 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:13.079 We wanted them to taste of it. And we were also poor. 74 00:06:15.519 --> 00:06:17.800 So we started this church almost thirty thirty one and a half years ago, 75 00:06:18.959 --> 00:06:26.120 and we mortgaged our home a couple times to keep the church alive. Essentially, 76 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:30.000 I don't know if you knew that, but because our salary was low 77 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:35.399 and our ambition for our children was high, so we were making crazy sacrifices 78 00:06:35.800 --> 00:06:40.759 for the church and for our family, and it all paid off. Because 79 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:46.120 God is good. God is the hundredfold God. He is, He is 80 00:06:46.160 --> 00:06:50.319 the Mark ten twenty nine hundredfold God. And so we had this trazy idea 81 00:06:50.360 --> 00:06:54.319 for the boys, and we had another idea for the girl, for Jasmine. 82 00:06:54.360 --> 00:06:56.920 You know, Jasmine's up leading worship often. Many of you know who 83 00:06:56.959 --> 00:06:59.160 she is. She's not here this morning, at this moment. She was 84 00:06:59.519 --> 00:07:02.360 in first service. But you know, she had always wanted to play the 85 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:06.839 harp. We had her in piano instead, and so we had this entrepreneurial 86 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:11.360 idea to get her into a harp. And so we found a harp on 87 00:07:11.399 --> 00:07:14.959 Craigslist. This is years ago, twenty thousand dollars harp on Craig's list, 88 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:18.680 and her and mom drove to San Francisco to get it and to buy it 89 00:07:18.720 --> 00:07:23.040 and to bring it home because it was at a pretty heavy discounted price. 90 00:07:23.639 --> 00:07:27.600 And so we launched her in kind of a harp business, and we launched 91 00:07:27.600 --> 00:07:30.120 the boys in this long business. And this is you know, seventeen years 92 00:07:30.199 --> 00:07:34.839 later, they still do it. They paid, they paid their way through 93 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:43.040 college, they bought all their own cars, and you know, they've just 94 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:50.319 seen abundant, abundant abundance just due to not only what that season gave them 95 00:07:50.360 --> 00:07:56.879 every year this entrepreneurial season. It gives them something like thousands of dollars they 96 00:07:56.920 --> 00:08:01.920 make, but in addition, it gave them an entrepreneurial spirit. And I 97 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:05.600 think God is a lot like this. I think God is more into giving 98 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:13.959 us fishing poles instead of giving us fish. And there's something there's something exciting 99 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:20.519 about using the fishing poles that God uncovers, reveals or shows us. There's 100 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:26.800 something exciting about that. It's actually more exciting to use the fishing pole in 101 00:08:26.879 --> 00:08:31.040 a partnership with Holy Spirit to see what can happen than it is just to 102 00:08:31.120 --> 00:08:39.200 have fish fall out of the sky. So there's something about that partnership with 103 00:08:39.279 --> 00:08:43.240 God. But as much as we yearned for and I know all of you 104 00:08:43.320 --> 00:08:48.519 do, all of you yearn for this, as much as we yearned for 105 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:56.919 abundance for our kids, the Bible says Father yearns for it even more, 106 00:08:58.440 --> 00:09:03.960 even more, even more. I think this is part of the good news. 107 00:09:05.000 --> 00:09:07.360 Part of the good news. It is too good to believe. The 108 00:09:07.480 --> 00:09:11.600 good news is so good that most of us actually don't believe it. Most 109 00:09:11.600 --> 00:09:16.440 of what we believe is that we're going to heaven when we die. When 110 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:20.600 we die, but most of us don't fully embrace the good news of the 111 00:09:20.639 --> 00:09:28.080 good news, because it's so good it's hard to believe. The Bible says 112 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:33.159 in Matthew seven, this is this is Jesus talking, and he's talking about 113 00:09:35.159 --> 00:09:39.600 this issue of God of goodness. And he says to that crowd, it's 114 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:43.519 not to you. But he says to that crowd, if you, then, 115 00:09:43.879 --> 00:09:46.679 though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, 116 00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:54.320 how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who 117 00:09:54.360 --> 00:10:01.960 ask him? No, My emphasis this morning is on the heart of Father, 118 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:07.480 and that the heart of Father toward you is a heart of abundance beyond 119 00:10:07.279 --> 00:10:16.559 anything any of us understand or discern or perceive. That's the message I want 120 00:10:16.559 --> 00:10:20.320 to focus on. That's what I feel like the Holy Spirit wants to say 121 00:10:20.399 --> 00:10:28.360 over you today, wants to speak over you today. But during the first 122 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:35.840 Service sermon and after the First Service, the Holy Spirit really highlighted something about 123 00:10:35.879 --> 00:10:39.120 abundance to me. And it popped out of that passage and it comes out 124 00:10:39.120 --> 00:10:46.159 of the one in Luke fifteen with a prodigal son. And if I don't 125 00:10:46.159 --> 00:10:48.519 get back around to it, I want to say it now and kind of 126 00:10:48.559 --> 00:10:52.279 get it out of the way, because I believe this is a really big 127 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:56.559 part of what Holy Spirit's trying to say. Let's go back to that scripture 128 00:10:56.559 --> 00:11:05.759 if you can. How much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts 129 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:16.120 to those who ask him, to those who ask him, to those who 130 00:11:16.159 --> 00:11:22.440 ask him. It's somewhere probably in my notes, and I don't know if 131 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:24.679 I'll get to all my points. It's already late. We've already had a 132 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:28.919 Holy Spirit bath. I've been a mess both services this morning. I am 133 00:11:30.000 --> 00:11:35.600 soon blown away with the presence of the Lord. His presence is better than 134 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:45.159 anything. But he wants you to get this that um. For the most 135 00:11:45.200 --> 00:11:52.799 part, we we don't partner with the ask. It's like we don't. 136 00:11:54.039 --> 00:12:00.159 We don't partner with the ask with regard to abundance. But the heart he 137 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:03.840 wants us to see that he has toward us is a heart of abundance. 138 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:07.720 It's actually a heart of lavishness. It's a heart of it's a heart of 139 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:11.519 overflow. I'm gonna read us in versus it's a heart that is wasteful. 140 00:12:16.360 --> 00:12:18.759 Most of us grew up in frugality, and you know what I'm talking about 141 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:24.960 like my home was super frugal, like if you spilled the milk, you 142 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:28.039 were going to get a spanking. Like it was that frugal, right, 143 00:12:28.600 --> 00:12:33.840 I mean it was like super frugal. Like my rear is smaller than it 144 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:39.399 would have been because I spilt the milk a lot, so you know, 145 00:12:39.840 --> 00:12:52.960 um, yeah, don't be thinking about that too much. Still holds my 146 00:12:52.000 --> 00:13:00.639 breeches up. But most of us, most of us thinking in terms of 147 00:13:00.679 --> 00:13:09.759 frugality. But the word and the understanding of father and a true father's heart 148 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:15.600 toward us, and the father heart that he calls us to emulate and really 149 00:13:15.639 --> 00:13:22.440 to lean into and abide in and receive is actually a lavish heart. It's 150 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:26.960 actually a wasteful heart. It's really weird. But most of us who grew 151 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:35.600 up with frugality would kail it, call it wasteful because the word speaks supervously 152 00:13:35.919 --> 00:13:46.039 about abundance, about overflow, about too much. Let's look at some of 153 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:52.679 those verses. Can't we do that? John ten ten, You've read it 154 00:13:52.720 --> 00:13:56.519 a thousand times. The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy, 155 00:13:56.639 --> 00:14:03.399 But I've come that they would have life and have it abundantly. The 156 00:14:03.559 --> 00:14:07.759 picture of abundance is overflown. The picture of abundance is more than enough. 157 00:14:15.519 --> 00:14:20.759 Deuteronomy eight. I did a lot of I've drawn a lot of my thinking 158 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:28.480 out of this message and just thinking about Father toward us, out of the 159 00:14:28.639 --> 00:14:35.200 picture of the promised Land. And so I was drawing a little bit of 160 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:37.279 it. We don't have time to go into all of it, but I 161 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:43.480 was drawing some thoughts from that, because the promised Land really shows us God's 162 00:14:43.559 --> 00:14:54.360 heart toward Abraham, and God's heart toward Isaac and Jacob, and God's heart 163 00:14:54.440 --> 00:15:01.080 toward the Christ. And Christ is the seat of Abraham. We've been grafted 164 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:09.919 into Abraham. We are sons by faith of Abraham. And the promised Land 165 00:15:09.039 --> 00:15:18.120 was actually the promise originally to Abraham. And actually that promise and this is 166 00:15:18.200 --> 00:15:22.480 like this is point number six. It will never get to. But the 167 00:15:22.480 --> 00:15:26.440 promise out of Genesis thirteen, it is very interesting. The promise was related 168 00:15:26.480 --> 00:15:37.200 a lot, oddly enough to what Abraham could see. Therefore, it was 169 00:15:37.320 --> 00:15:48.679 related a lot to what Abraham could ask for to In Genesis thirteen, he 170 00:15:48.759 --> 00:15:54.399 says to Abraham, look up, lift up your eyes and look all that 171 00:15:54.440 --> 00:15:58.440 you can see. That's the land I'm giving to you. You know it 172 00:15:58.480 --> 00:16:08.080 still works that way. You can't have what you can't see. That's just 173 00:16:08.200 --> 00:16:15.039 that's points number six. Promilis somewhere. But in Italy they bring you a 174 00:16:15.039 --> 00:16:22.600 lot of bread. I've never I've never ate so much bread and Boston because 175 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:25.759 you know, they don't eat salads in Italy. It's really weird, lots 176 00:16:25.759 --> 00:16:29.919 of bread. I'm giving you a little free bread right now, a little 177 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:41.639 free bread right now, with all with olive oil and psalmic vinegar. Deuteronomy 178 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:44.759 eight sixty nine. Observed the commands of the Lord your God, walking in 179 00:16:44.840 --> 00:16:48.559 obedience to him and revere him. But the Lord your Gods bringing you into 180 00:16:48.600 --> 00:16:53.159 a good land, a land with brooks and streams and deep springs gushing out 181 00:16:53.279 --> 00:16:56.639 into the valleys and the hills. The land with wheat and barley, vines 182 00:16:56.679 --> 00:17:00.519 and fig trees, pal mcgradins, all live oil and honey. A land 183 00:17:00.559 --> 00:17:06.039 where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing. A land where 184 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:10.359 the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills. It's 185 00:17:10.400 --> 00:17:15.200 this land of abundance. It's a crazy land of abundance. Deuteronomy twenty eight 186 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:19.400 eleven. The Lord will grant you abundant prosperity in the fruit of your womb, 187 00:17:19.480 --> 00:17:22.319 the young of your livestock, the crops of your ground, in the 188 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:32.319 land that He swore your ancestors to give you abundant prosperity. This is the 189 00:17:32.359 --> 00:17:40.079 heart of Father toward you, abundant prosperity. So I'm twenty three five. 190 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:44.759 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint 191 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:52.839 my head with oil. My cup has just enough. My cup what, 192 00:17:55.480 --> 00:17:59.480 Oh, that's wasteful. That is that's that cannot be, That cannot be 193 00:17:59.559 --> 00:18:14.119 Christian. That sounds extremely wasteful. My cup overflows, My cup overflows Proverbs 194 00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:18.000 three nine and ten. Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the first 195 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:23.720 fruits of all your crops, and your barns will be filled too filled to 196 00:18:26.640 --> 00:18:34.160 overflowing, and your vats will brim over with new wine. Have you been 197 00:18:34.160 --> 00:18:37.079 asking him for more than enough? What would you do with more than enough? 198 00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:45.240 Have you even been asking for more than enough? This is part of 199 00:18:45.279 --> 00:18:52.200 what he wants to just kind of speak over you today, is that it's 200 00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:57.680 kind of okay if you start asking for more than enough, Because it's his 201 00:18:57.799 --> 00:19:04.680 heart toward you. His heart toward you is more than enough. And I 202 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:07.319 just heard a little accusations say, yeah, but what are you going to 203 00:19:07.400 --> 00:19:11.640 do with that? Yeah? And aren't you going to mess up if you 204 00:19:11.720 --> 00:19:15.319 have that? And who do you think you are? Do you think you 205 00:19:15.400 --> 00:19:27.319 deserve that? But His word over you is more than enough. Psalm sixty 206 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:32.559 five eleven. You crowned the year with your bounty, and your cards overflow 207 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:37.160 with abundance, and it goes on, and it goes on, or no, 208 00:19:37.279 --> 00:19:40.559 it goes on Ezekiel twenty verse six. On that day I swore to 209 00:19:40.599 --> 00:19:44.240 them that I would bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land 210 00:19:44.279 --> 00:19:56.200 that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with molk and honey, 211 00:19:56.279 --> 00:20:07.119 the most beautiful of all lands. What if the Holy Spirit's going before 212 00:20:07.200 --> 00:20:12.160 you, preparing a way for you that is abundant and overflowing and more than 213 00:20:12.279 --> 00:20:21.640 enough. But you are the hindrance, You were the roadblock, You were 214 00:20:21.640 --> 00:20:27.799 the obstacle to his glory. Could that be? Could that be that the 215 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:33.519 Holy Spirit is already He's already made up his mind concerning you, because you're 216 00:20:33.599 --> 00:20:37.200 hidden in the beloved, He's already made up his mind what he wants to 217 00:20:37.240 --> 00:20:44.359 provide for you. But it's your limitations, it's your hindrances, it's your 218 00:20:44.400 --> 00:20:49.119 thoughts, it's your vision, it's it's it's things with you that are keeping 219 00:20:49.119 --> 00:21:02.519 you from partaking of the abundance that Father already wants to shower on you. 220 00:21:02.519 --> 00:21:04.240 You know, you don't have to talk God into more goodness. He has 221 00:21:04.279 --> 00:21:07.880 to talk you into it. Every time you bring a big prayer request to 222 00:21:07.960 --> 00:21:11.839 him, you think you're talking to him into something it's smaller than what he 223 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:17.359 already planned. He's abundantly able to do more than you ask or think. 224 00:21:17.920 --> 00:21:22.839 He's abundantly able to do more than you ask or think. He's abundantly able 225 00:21:22.920 --> 00:21:26.440 to do more than you ask or think. Every time you bring that big, 226 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:30.519 giant prayer request, he's already seeing it is smaller than what he already 227 00:21:30.559 --> 00:21:34.039 prepared. What he would love you to do is come into an intimate place 228 00:21:34.240 --> 00:21:38.319 and listen so that you could see the abundance that he would rather you ask 229 00:21:38.400 --> 00:21:42.119 for. Because the abundance he'd rather you ask for is bigger than what you're 230 00:21:42.119 --> 00:21:47.759 going to settle for. Because all your limitations and all of your mindsets are 231 00:21:47.839 --> 00:21:56.720 framed into the smallness of your request. I want to talk about some of 232 00:21:56.759 --> 00:22:00.319 those hindrances quickly, and it's got to be quick. Number one. I 233 00:22:00.359 --> 00:22:06.559 talked about it three weeks ago when we launched into the Receiving series. Number 234 00:22:06.559 --> 00:22:15.200 one. Hindrance is what we deserve, what we deserve. The enemy, 235 00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:22.759 your upbringing, legalism, perfection, performance based thinking. It's all working to 236 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:29.920 keep you thinking that you should only believe for and only ask, and only 237 00:22:30.000 --> 00:22:42.759 receive what you deserve. But that's not biblical. That's not biblical. You're 238 00:22:42.839 --> 00:22:52.799 justified and he who is justified will be glorified. It's not biblical. You're 239 00:22:52.880 --> 00:22:56.839 hidden in Christ, hidden in the Beloved. Your life is hidden. Who 240 00:22:56.920 --> 00:23:00.839 you were is dead and cautions three three. We have the verse. Who 241 00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:07.440 you were is dead and your life is now hidden in Him. You don't 242 00:23:07.480 --> 00:23:15.880 deserve, are you? You cannot. You cannot see your request, your 243 00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:21.279 future, what gods are damed for you. You cannot see it in the 244 00:23:21.400 --> 00:23:29.799 light of what you deserve according to the flesh, because you are hidden in 245 00:23:29.880 --> 00:23:37.160 him. But the enemy will work over time to keep you bound to that 246 00:23:37.160 --> 00:23:42.599 that will become the lid to what you receive, deserve what you receive. 247 00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:48.240 Number two second hindrance, the second hindrance, and I'm kind of talking about 248 00:23:48.279 --> 00:24:00.160 it now. The second hindrance is what we need and just enough, what 249 00:24:00.200 --> 00:24:07.759 we need and just enough. Yeah, but pastor doesn't Philippians four nineteen say, 250 00:24:07.799 --> 00:24:11.599 and my God shall meet all of your needs according to his riches, 251 00:24:12.200 --> 00:24:17.480 the riches of his glory, and Christ Jesus, I mean, I shouldn't 252 00:24:17.480 --> 00:24:27.000 believe for more than my needs, trying to show you that Father's heart is 253 00:24:27.079 --> 00:24:38.480 beyond your needs, that the abundance that is yours is the riches of his 254 00:24:38.599 --> 00:24:45.400 glory, the riches that belong to Christ Jesus actis biblically. There's only one 255 00:24:45.440 --> 00:25:00.880 place biblically where just enough he is actually the theme of scripture with God. 256 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:06.279 And we see a people walking in just enough, you know where that is 257 00:25:07.599 --> 00:25:15.359 the wilderness, and the wilderness they had just enough and the wilderness they didn't 258 00:25:15.359 --> 00:25:22.480 have abundance. They came out of Egypt and they came into the wilderness. 259 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:23.880 And you know why they were in the wilderness, and maybe you know why 260 00:25:23.960 --> 00:25:29.160 they were in the wilderness because they refused to go into the promise. Why 261 00:25:29.160 --> 00:25:32.599 did they refuse to go into the promise? Because though they came out of 262 00:25:32.640 --> 00:25:41.319 Egypt, they still had Egypt in them. Those who were delivered out of 263 00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:45.599 Egypt couldn't go in the Promise until Egypt was out of them. So the 264 00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:53.400 wilderness period was all about getting Egypt out of them. But the goal was 265 00:25:53.440 --> 00:26:00.960 the Promise. The goal was the promised land. The typology of that experience 266 00:26:00.119 --> 00:26:07.000 is not life. Here on earth is a wilderness and Heaven is a promised 267 00:26:07.079 --> 00:26:12.079 land. That's not the typology. The typology is that when you come out 268 00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:22.480 of bondage, you still have some Bondage in you. When you come into 269 00:26:23.119 --> 00:26:30.480 Christ, you still have some Egypt in you. And as that Egypt is 270 00:26:30.519 --> 00:26:37.599 removed, it's the circumcision of your heart. The last meal of manner and 271 00:26:37.720 --> 00:26:45.599 quail that they had was in Joshua chapter five, and they were circumcised. 272 00:26:48.599 --> 00:26:52.440 All of those of faith were to go in and possess the land, and 273 00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:56.839 they were circumcised at Gilgal they had their last meal, and then they were 274 00:26:56.880 --> 00:27:07.759 to go in and possess their promise of abundance. God never called his children 275 00:27:08.119 --> 00:27:15.559 to adjust enough life. He has called you and ordained that you would have 276 00:27:15.720 --> 00:27:22.160 an abundant life, an overflowing life, a lavish life, This is his 277 00:27:22.279 --> 00:27:27.160 desire, and it's his desire for every person, for every people, for 278 00:27:27.200 --> 00:27:32.279 every nation. This is not an American desire. This is not the American 279 00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:41.240 gospel. This is the gospel of Jesus Christ. It's so good it's too 280 00:27:41.440 --> 00:27:56.000 good to believe. That's how good it is. Listen to Deuteronomy chapter eight, 281 00:27:56.920 --> 00:28:00.640 Truth or four. Remember how the Lord led you all the way in 282 00:28:00.680 --> 00:28:04.920 the wildernesses forty years to humble you and to test you in order to know 283 00:28:06.039 --> 00:28:10.319 what was in your heart whether or not you would keep his commands. He 284 00:28:10.440 --> 00:28:14.079 humbled you, causing you to hunger, and then feeding you with manner which 285 00:28:14.119 --> 00:28:18.119 neither you or your ancestors had known to teach you that man does not live 286 00:28:18.119 --> 00:28:21.279 on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God. 287 00:28:21.799 --> 00:28:25.680 Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these 288 00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:29.640 forty years. Now did God need to know what was in their heart? 289 00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:36.960 Or did they need to know what was in their heart? They're the ones 290 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:40.680 that needed to know what was in their heart so their hearts could be purified, 291 00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:45.079 so God could raise up a generation of faith, because only a generation 292 00:28:45.119 --> 00:28:51.480 of faith could go in and possess their promise. You are a generation of 293 00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:56.240 faith. God's ordagned for you to possess your promise. God's ordigned for you 294 00:28:56.319 --> 00:29:00.079 to be circumcised of heart, to be clear, to be delivered, to 295 00:29:00.079 --> 00:29:03.519 be set free, so that you can go in and possess your promise. 296 00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:15.400 So that's hindrance number two. The enemy will use that hindrance against you time 297 00:29:15.440 --> 00:29:21.960 and time again. Don't get out there too far. Don't be asking God 298 00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:26.839 for too much. Don't be asking for more than your needs. Oh, 299 00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:30.519 that'll mess you up. You do that, you're gonna mess up. Oh. 300 00:29:30.599 --> 00:29:33.319 Don't be looking for a lavish thing now, don't be. Don't be 301 00:29:33.359 --> 00:29:37.680 looking for overflow, don't be looking for abundance. Calm down, What are 302 00:29:37.720 --> 00:29:42.559 you gonna do with all that extra? Come on, now, what are 303 00:29:42.559 --> 00:29:47.720 you gonna do with all that extra? Shut up? I'm gonna do something 304 00:29:47.759 --> 00:29:56.839 good with it. Talk back, Talk back to accusation, talk back to 305 00:29:56.920 --> 00:30:08.000 a lying spirit. Put it under your foot, child of God. Remember 306 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:21.559 the prodical son prodical son Luke fifteen eleven. The frustrated upset, the jealous 307 00:30:21.559 --> 00:30:26.839 elder son who had never sinned. What's going on? What are you doing? 308 00:30:26.400 --> 00:30:30.079 Why are you lavishing? All of this on my brother. I've been 309 00:30:30.160 --> 00:30:37.079 here all along, I've worked for you all along. What did Dad say? 310 00:30:37.279 --> 00:30:41.640 Come on? Now? Everything I have has been yours all along, 311 00:30:41.559 --> 00:30:49.039 but you've never asked for it. What did John fifteen? John fifteen say? 312 00:30:49.640 --> 00:30:59.519 Ask that your joy might be full? Ask that your joy might be 313 00:30:59.599 --> 00:31:07.119 full? Ask? Wouldn't it be a shame if we went to glory? 314 00:31:07.160 --> 00:31:10.119 If you died and went to heaven and found out that your life could have 315 00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:12.960 been totally different? Something different was actually written about you in your book that 316 00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:18.359 you never entered into. Because you, like the senior prodigal son, like 317 00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:30.559 the senior brother, we're afraid to ask. It's afraid to ask. Just 318 00:31:30.559 --> 00:31:33.799 didn't want to ask, didn't want to didn't want to assume, didn't want 319 00:31:33.799 --> 00:31:36.480 to get too lavish, didn't want to get out there, didn't want to 320 00:31:40.319 --> 00:31:47.400 Hello somebody, I'm out of time. We're gonna take communion. I'm just 321 00:31:47.480 --> 00:31:57.039 preaching. Are you happy? Hindrans number three? Hindrance number three. I 322 00:31:57.119 --> 00:32:04.920 might sin or misuse the abundance, so father's keeping it from me. That's 323 00:32:04.920 --> 00:32:08.720 a lie. Did you know Father knows you're not going to be perfect with 324 00:32:08.799 --> 00:32:15.480 the abundance? Did you know that Father knows you're not going to be perfect 325 00:32:15.759 --> 00:32:25.079 with his abundance. Did you know he wants to pour it upon you anyway? 326 00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:31.599 The whole book of Deuteronomy is all about the Promised Land and the abundance. 327 00:32:32.319 --> 00:32:38.480 But in the last chapter Moses, the prophet Moses says in verse twenty 328 00:32:38.519 --> 00:32:44.759 of thirty one, the prophet actually says, I know you're gonna mess up. 329 00:32:46.680 --> 00:32:51.200 I know you're gonna mess up. God knows you're gonna mess up. 330 00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:57.880 He's gonna pour it out on you anyway. When the enemy comes along and 331 00:32:58.039 --> 00:33:02.279 tells you that you're being helped from the abundance of God or the goodness of 332 00:33:02.359 --> 00:33:07.559 God or the overflow of God because of your motives, or because you're impure, 333 00:33:07.920 --> 00:33:10.720 or because you're gonna mess it up, or because you're gonna sin. 334 00:33:12.279 --> 00:33:16.400 I'm guaranteeing right now it's a lie. It's another accusation you need to put 335 00:33:16.480 --> 00:33:27.079 underneath your feet. God knows you're not gonna do things perfectly, and he's 336 00:33:27.119 --> 00:33:30.720 willing to teach you to drive while he pours out the car on you. 337 00:33:32.880 --> 00:33:37.839 Come on, here's the keys. Let's go. But Dad, I might 338 00:33:37.880 --> 00:33:40.200 reckon it might hit some stuff. Let's go. Put put it, put 339 00:33:40.240 --> 00:33:45.240 it in ignition. Let's go. But but but dad, I might not 340 00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:51.720 keep it clean all the time. Take the keys. Let's go. But 341 00:33:51.880 --> 00:33:53.640 dad, it's too cool, it's too much. Take the keys. Let's 342 00:33:53.640 --> 00:34:04.119 go. It's just his hard toward you. It's his herd toward you. 343 00:34:07.559 --> 00:34:13.079 We radiged form how many of how many of you that have bradged children knew 344 00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:19.360 that they would wreck your car or their car or the combination of the two. 345 00:34:22.719 --> 00:34:27.519 So did you did you you know from the natural we learned about the 346 00:34:27.519 --> 00:34:32.320 spiritual? So did you knowing that? Did you knowing that? Say? 347 00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:40.000 But ye, no car in my family? Not giving you a car and 348 00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:45.199 you're not driving mine? No, no, you're just give them the key. 349 00:34:45.199 --> 00:34:51.440 Anyway, let's go, Just go. You're gonna be okay, You're 350 00:34:51.440 --> 00:34:54.159 gonna be okay. Just go, take the car. But I just had 351 00:34:54.159 --> 00:34:59.000 a wreck last week. Take the car. But the week before I totally 352 00:34:59.079 --> 00:35:04.840 take the car. But I'm just gonna make a message. Take the car. 353 00:35:10.280 --> 00:35:19.280 How much more does your father want to pour upon you and overflow of 354 00:35:19.320 --> 00:35:22.519 goodness? How much more does he want to mend your heart? How much 355 00:35:22.559 --> 00:35:25.360 more does he want to meet you? How much more does he want to 356 00:35:25.400 --> 00:35:29.400 fulfill you? How much more does he want to love you? How much 357 00:35:29.440 --> 00:35:36.079 more does he want to lavish upon you? So much that it appears wasteful. 358 00:35:37.920 --> 00:35:51.000 It's wasteful. Overflow means more than I need? Are we serving that? 359 00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:57.159 How we doing it? Because we ran out of down, We ran 360 00:35:57.199 --> 00:36:04.360 out of the stare of room. I mean the tinfoil cups, we ran 361 00:36:05.719 --> 00:36:09.199 the microplastic cups, we ran out of those. Come on, stand with 362 00:36:09.239 --> 00:36:16.320 me this morning, this morning, I want you to hear Father's heart towards 363 00:36:16.360 --> 00:36:34.639 you, because he wants you to receive of his goodness. Well, the 364 00:36:34.679 --> 00:36:40.119 way, this really sounds very selfish. It sounds like prosperity Gospel selfish kind 365 00:36:40.159 --> 00:36:43.400 of a thing. I mean this, I don't know if that's for. 366 00:36:43.480 --> 00:36:47.440 I mean, this sounds a little ridiculous, a little out there. No, 367 00:36:47.639 --> 00:36:55.719 this is Bible. This is the Bible that if you will simply lay 368 00:36:55.760 --> 00:37:02.239 down your sinful life, if you will lay down your selfish life, if 369 00:37:02.239 --> 00:37:08.119 you will lay down your limited life, if you will lay down your cursed 370 00:37:08.360 --> 00:37:15.639 life, if you will lay down your prideful life, that if you will 371 00:37:15.719 --> 00:37:24.880 lay down your deceptive life, that if you will bring your unclean nature to 372 00:37:24.920 --> 00:37:31.760 the cross and leave it there. That he will fit you with a grace 373 00:37:31.960 --> 00:37:37.559 and with an armor, and with an abundance, and with a new DNA 374 00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:40.440 and a new vision and a new perspective. He will fit you with a 375 00:37:40.599 --> 00:37:51.920 resurrected life. And he'll begin to pull the old tapes and the recordings of 376 00:37:51.960 --> 00:37:59.159 Egypt out of you, the desires of Egypt out of you. You won't 377 00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:05.760 any longer be comfortable with small vision. You won't any longer be comfortable with 378 00:38:05.920 --> 00:38:16.679 small prayers. You won't any longer be comfortable with sin and its pleasures. 379 00:38:22.519 --> 00:38:27.159 Did you feel the kiss of the Holy Spirit in't here this morning? The 380 00:38:27.239 --> 00:38:37.920 kiss of the Holy Spirit is so much better than anything. So Father, 381 00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:40.320 we come and we just recognize what you've done for us in Jesus. Stick 382 00:38:40.360 --> 00:38:45.920 to bread because this is his broken body, and his broken body was broken, 383 00:38:47.920 --> 00:38:52.039 and this sounds like too much as well. His broken body was broken 384 00:38:52.119 --> 00:39:00.440 so that yours would not have to be He took up on him self all 385 00:39:00.519 --> 00:39:08.159 that you deserved so that your body would not have to be broken. The 386 00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:19.280 brokenness that I experienced as a believer is not a brokenness of poverty and death 387 00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:24.039 and destruction. And sickness and disease. It's a brokenness of me bringing my 388 00:39:24.199 --> 00:39:35.159 carnal nature to the cross and giving it to him because his body was broken 389 00:39:35.559 --> 00:39:45.679 on my behalf. Let's take it together, Let's thank him that he took 390 00:39:45.800 --> 00:40:00.280 what we deserved in his body on the tree. And the cup is the 391 00:40:00.320 --> 00:40:08.159 blood of the new covenant. The cup symbolizes him laying down his life on 392 00:40:08.199 --> 00:40:13.800 our behalf, cutting a covenant on our behalf with Father, making us one 393 00:40:13.880 --> 00:40:20.079 with Father. That's why it's called common union, communion, common union. 394 00:40:21.400 --> 00:40:24.800 He's brought us into Father, He's brought us into the family. He's brought 395 00:40:24.840 --> 00:40:30.840 us into all of the rights and the privileges of heaven through his blood. 396 00:40:31.119 --> 00:40:37.000 The shedding of his blood on our behalf, the shedding of his blood was 397 00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:43.800 the giving of all, and we enter into that today. So we come 398 00:40:44.320 --> 00:40:55.679 and we give our all. Let's take the cup together. Just thank him, 399 00:40:55.840 --> 00:41:00.159 just thank him. It's too good to believe. The gospel is too 400 00:41:00.159 --> 00:41:07.320 good to believe. The good news is too good to believe. But he's 401 00:41:07.360 --> 00:41:10.360 asking you, would you believe it? Would you believe him? Would you 402 00:41:10.360 --> 00:41:15.199 trust him? Would you trust him so much? Would you believe it so 403 00:41:15.320 --> 00:41:22.800 much? That you would ask him audacious, audacious, bring audacious requests before 404 00:41:22.880 --> 00:41:34.440 him, Bring before him the craziest request. Lift up your eyes, Lift 405 00:41:34.519 --> 00:41:43.519 up your eyes. Let Holy Spirit, vision come upon your eyes. See 406 00:41:43.559 --> 00:41:45.800 what you could not see in the natural realm. He's asking you, like 407 00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:54.480 Abraham, what can you see? How far can you see? I'll give 408 00:41:54.519 --> 00:41:59.639 you what you can see. I'll give you what you can see. Lift 409 00:41:59.719 --> 00:42:06.960 up your eyes, I'll give you what you can see. Holy Spirit, 410 00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:14.800 We abandon hindrances this morning. We set aside blockades to the abundance you've ordained 411 00:42:14.800 --> 00:42:23.840 for us. We welcome right now the breaking off every accusation, every lying 412 00:42:23.840 --> 00:42:37.039 word, every hindrance of our lineage. We welcome the breaking off, the 413 00:42:37.119 --> 00:42:44.280 breaking off, the breaking off of every hindrance. Holy Spirit, we welcome 414 00:42:44.320 --> 00:42:51.599 you bring us into understanding and rejoicing and receiving the fullness of all that Father 415 00:42:51.719 --> 00:43:01.239 has ordained for us, the abundance he desires. Set us apart, set 416 00:43:01.280 --> 00:43:08.679 us apart. We bless you for it in Jesus name, when as the 417 00:43:08.760 --> 00:43:13.440 destiny seemed to calm and help us close. And if you're just here this 418 00:43:13.519 --> 00:43:17.679 morning, reaffirming your walk with God, giving your life to Him, leaving 419 00:43:17.719 --> 00:43:22.880 the known for sure, your sins are forgiven. You're here today leaving a 420 00:43:22.920 --> 00:43:28.519 word from Him or a fresh fire, baptism in the spirit, whatever it 421 00:43:28.559 --> 00:43:31.840 is you're believing. For this morning, altars are going to be open. 422 00:43:31.960 --> 00:43:37.599 I would just encourage you to calm and put a seal on this day. 423 00:43:37.119 --> 00:43:40.400 Put His seal on this day. Let the Holy Spirit put a seal on 424 00:43:40.440 --> 00:43:49.519 this day that you know you leave transformed, strengthened, empowered, changed. 425 00:43:51.360 --> 00:43:52.440 His worship has be gone.