WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:03.040 So Father, we just thank you that you're preparing the 2 00:00:03.080 --> 00:00:08.720 way right now for our summit, our conference, our solemn assembly, 3 00:00:08.839 --> 00:00:10.000 our gathering together. 4 00:00:10.640 --> 00:00:12.039 We just bless you for it. 5 00:00:12.160 --> 00:00:15.119 We know that it's going to be awesome that you've 6 00:00:15.160 --> 00:00:16.879 called us to it, and we give you the praise 7 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:23.640 for it in Jesus' name. And everybody said, the title 8 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:34.840 of my message today is selling out your Inheritance, and 9 00:00:34.920 --> 00:00:41.960 I'm starting out of I got this lozenge in my 10 00:00:42.039 --> 00:00:43.640 mouth and it's too powerful. 11 00:00:44.439 --> 00:00:44.679 Wow. 12 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:52.200 We filled that one with eucalyptus or something. It's a 13 00:00:52.240 --> 00:00:57.479 whole eucalyptus tree in one lozenge. Genesis twenty five, Selling 14 00:00:57.479 --> 00:00:59.479 Out Your Inheritance gis twenty five. 15 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:01.840 This is a little bit. 16 00:01:01.759 --> 00:01:06.159 Of the story of how Jacob came to be. And 17 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:10.519 so it's the story of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Those 18 00:01:10.519 --> 00:01:16.319 are the biblical patriarchs of Israel and of Faith and 19 00:01:16.439 --> 00:01:20.239 of the Christian faith, and so Verse twenty five. Chapter 20 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:25.560 twenty five talks about Isaac and the birth of Jacob. 21 00:01:25.680 --> 00:01:30.959 And so you know that Jacob became Israel. So God 22 00:01:31.079 --> 00:01:35.400 changed his name and he became the father of what's 23 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:37.519 known as the Twelve Tribes of Israel right. So I 24 00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:39.599 want to pick it up at verse nineteen though, and 25 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:42.000 I want to pick up this story, and it's a 26 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:46.760 little bit of the story of how Jacob got his 27 00:01:46.879 --> 00:01:53.239 birthright or how he came into the position of the 28 00:01:53.359 --> 00:01:57.680 lead of the inheritance. So this is part of the story. 29 00:01:58.159 --> 00:02:00.879 I want to just dive into this because I want 30 00:02:00.879 --> 00:02:03.640 you to see what happened, and I want you to see. 31 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:04.560 How powerful this is. 32 00:02:04.599 --> 00:02:06.879 So this is the account of the family line of 33 00:02:06.920 --> 00:02:10.800 Abraham's son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac, and 34 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:14.120 Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebeccah, daughter 35 00:02:14.199 --> 00:02:20.759 of Bethel Weal, the Aramaean Aram and sister of laban 36 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:29.360 are Aramian. Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of 37 00:02:29.400 --> 00:02:32.039 his wife because she was childless. The Lord answered his 38 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:37.199 prayer and his wife, Rebecca, became pregnant. The babies jostled 39 00:02:37.199 --> 00:02:40.520 each other within her, and she said, why is this 40 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:43.159 happening to me? So she went to inquire of the Lord, 41 00:02:43.159 --> 00:02:45.039 and the Lord said to her, two nations are in 42 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:49.360 your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated. 43 00:02:49.439 --> 00:02:52.280 One people will be stronger than the other. The older 44 00:02:52.560 --> 00:02:57.280 will serve the younger. When the time came for her 45 00:02:57.360 --> 00:02:59.800 to give Bertha the twin boys in her womb, the 46 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:01.879 first come out was red, and his whole body was 47 00:03:01.919 --> 00:03:04.879 like a heavy garment, so they named him Esau. After this, 48 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:09.240 his brother came out his hand grasping Esau's heel, so 49 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:13.719 he was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when 50 00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:17.599 Rebecca gave birth to them. The boys grew up, and 51 00:03:17.800 --> 00:03:20.919 Esau became a skillful haunter, a man of the open country, 52 00:03:21.199 --> 00:03:25.319 while Jacob was content to stay at home among the tents. Isaac, 53 00:03:25.360 --> 00:03:29.360 who had a taste for wild game, loved Esau, but 54 00:03:29.479 --> 00:03:34.800 Rebecca loved Jacob. Now I wonder if that love for 55 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:40.080 Jacob was somewhat related to the words she received concerning 56 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:45.599 Jacob and what would happen with Jacob. Because she wasn't 57 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:51.919 maybe favoring so much the firstborn as she normally would 58 00:03:51.919 --> 00:03:55.759 have in this culture, she recognized something was going to 59 00:03:55.879 --> 00:03:59.759 happen with Jacob. Once, when Jacob was cooking, some stew 60 00:04:00.120 --> 00:04:04.159 saw came in from the country, famished, and he said 61 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:06.719 to Jacob, quick, let me have some of that red 62 00:04:06.759 --> 00:04:17.240 stew unfamished, and Jacob replied, first, sell me your birthright. Look, 63 00:04:17.279 --> 00:04:21.079 he said, I'm about to die. What good is the 64 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:26.920 birthright to me? But Jacob said, swear to me first. 65 00:04:27.120 --> 00:04:30.879 So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright 66 00:04:31.120 --> 00:04:34.600 to Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some 67 00:04:34.720 --> 00:04:38.319 little stew. He ate and drank and got up and left, 68 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:45.800 and so Esau despised his birthright. So this is, you know, 69 00:04:45.839 --> 00:04:48.279 it's a great metaphoric story. It's a real story. It's 70 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:51.560 a true story. It's a sad story for Esau. In 71 00:04:51.600 --> 00:04:58.279 many ways. It was part of the tapestry of Jacob 72 00:04:58.399 --> 00:05:02.160 and part of the tapestry of how he became the 73 00:05:02.199 --> 00:05:07.959 air of the promise. It's part of the story. But 74 00:05:08.240 --> 00:05:12.160 it's a sad story for Esau. And there's a metaphor 75 00:05:12.360 --> 00:05:15.680 within the story, like a biblical metaphor, as there is 76 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:18.839 all the way through many of these passages and Genesis, 77 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:23.199 there's a biblical metaphor in the story. And so we 78 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:27.399 can find some things that happen here that transpire in 79 00:05:27.560 --> 00:05:31.879 Genesis with these real life people, though, that give us 80 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:36.839 a metaphoric or a parable reality that we can glean 81 00:05:36.920 --> 00:05:43.480 from and grow from. He sold his birthright for a 82 00:05:43.519 --> 00:05:46.800 bowl of soup. How many of you think he should 83 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:53.240 have done it? No, what's the birthright? 84 00:05:53.279 --> 00:05:53.399 You know? 85 00:05:53.439 --> 00:05:58.560 The birthright represented so many things. It represented his inheritance. 86 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:03.959 Puritance of the firstborn was to be a double portion 87 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:08.360 of any of the others that would be coming into 88 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:11.519 the family, so they would receive a double portion. Now, 89 00:06:11.839 --> 00:06:15.720 I know, when mom and dad wolf pass away, all 90 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:18.680 the kids will be lining up for an equal portion, right, 91 00:06:20.360 --> 00:06:27.199 But in those days, the firstborn would receive the double portion. 92 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:31.279 So it meant double portion, It meant leadership in the family. 93 00:06:31.319 --> 00:06:35.040 The first born became the leader of the family. It 94 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:40.439 meant judicial authority. This is interesting. So authority was granted. 95 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:46.480 The firstborn inherited the father's judicial authority over the family line, 96 00:06:46.839 --> 00:06:51.959 and it meant priesthood. The firstborn became the family priest. 97 00:06:52.800 --> 00:06:56.680 So all of this Esaw was willing to give up 98 00:06:57.680 --> 00:07:02.879 over a bowl of soup, over a bull of soup. 99 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:09.120 And what I find that is just super interesting about 100 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:14.480 the story. Super crazy about this story is that what 101 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:18.000 he was trading away and what he traded away for 102 00:07:19.480 --> 00:07:23.279 it wasn't like a bull of soup is something that 103 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:25.839 he could have easily had a bull of soup wasn't 104 00:07:26.240 --> 00:07:28.480 wrong for him to have a bull of soup, wasn't 105 00:07:28.519 --> 00:07:29.240 illegal for. 106 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:29.759 Him to have. 107 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:35.879 You know where my mind goes, is that are we 108 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:41.759 trading away our inheritance or God's word over our lives, 109 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:46.399 or God's will for us, or God's God's calling of 110 00:07:46.519 --> 00:07:54.759 us for something that is not even sin? Like it's 111 00:07:54.800 --> 00:07:59.800 one thing like David Nearly traded the kingdom and his 112 00:08:00.040 --> 00:08:06.839 calling for his relationship with Bethsheba. Right, and we know 113 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:10.839 that that there was a judgment that came to David, 114 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:14.480 and we know that the first son of the two 115 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:17.879 of them died, and so we know that it harmed 116 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:22.279 the kingdom, that that that whole. But we would we 117 00:08:22.319 --> 00:08:23.879 would look at that and we would say, yeah, but 118 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:26.920 that was sin. That was definitely sin. How many of 119 00:08:26.920 --> 00:08:30.240 you would say that was sin? So you know, we 120 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:31.879 would look at that, we would say, well, that was 121 00:08:31.920 --> 00:08:36.720 that was really a sin issue. And and so you 122 00:08:36.759 --> 00:08:40.639 know this this this is different, but yeah, it's different, 123 00:08:40.639 --> 00:08:43.840 but it's different in a very interesting way because in 124 00:08:44.039 --> 00:08:49.600 this case, Esau was willing to sell his birthright or 125 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:52.919 really the will of God over him or the word 126 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:57.519 of God over him, or his rightful place in family 127 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:05.600 and in literally the leading the lineage of the future 128 00:09:06.399 --> 00:09:11.559 for something that wasn't sin, for something that wasn't sin. 129 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:15.960 And so I'm kind of pondering that because I'm wondering, 130 00:09:16.519 --> 00:09:19.679 you know, is that the case with us when I'm 131 00:09:19.679 --> 00:09:23.840 watching and I know the Lord's dealing with me on 132 00:09:23.879 --> 00:09:28.919 this as well. But when I'm watching the failures or 133 00:09:28.960 --> 00:09:34.120 the public failures or the brought to light failures of 134 00:09:35.679 --> 00:09:38.399 be It, there was new things out about Todd Bentley 135 00:09:38.440 --> 00:09:41.279 this week, and I got people reaching out to me 136 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:43.440 about Todd Bentley this week, and these new things that 137 00:09:43.440 --> 00:09:45.919 we're going to be shared. And then there's the recent 138 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:49.240 issues with Chris Reid. There's the recent issues with Rick Joiner, 139 00:09:49.720 --> 00:09:52.320 there's the recent issues with Mike h. Bickle, there's the 140 00:09:52.360 --> 00:09:55.519 recent issues with So it's just name after name, it's 141 00:09:55.600 --> 00:09:57.919 name after name. It's almost like week after week there's 142 00:09:57.960 --> 00:10:01.679 something new coming out, and I see that stuff happening. 143 00:10:03.039 --> 00:10:05.360 Number One, I feel like this is what the Holy 144 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:09.080 Spirit's saying, is that that's a microcosm of what's happening 145 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:14.120 in the entire body. There's disobedience everywhere. If it's in 146 00:10:14.200 --> 00:10:18.879 our leadership, shame on us for scolding our leaders, like 147 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:23.080 we're something great if it's in the leaders of our 148 00:10:23.159 --> 00:10:27.759 networks and our and our if it's if it's globally like. 149 00:10:28.000 --> 00:10:33.559 Oh my goodness, and so please, please please. 150 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:36.120 I mean, when I see this stuff, because I know 151 00:10:36.279 --> 00:10:39.559 the frailty of my flesh and you don't know it, 152 00:10:39.639 --> 00:10:42.759 but I know it. When I see this stuff, I 153 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:47.440 am I'm like humbled. I'm brought to a contrite position. 154 00:10:49.799 --> 00:10:55.240 I find myself being super empathetic and cautious and careful 155 00:10:55.279 --> 00:10:59.200 and getting on my knees and not posting something new 156 00:10:59.279 --> 00:11:05.960 on Facebook book or railing against them, because if not 157 00:11:06.000 --> 00:11:08.399 for the grace and the mercy of God, there go I, 158 00:11:10.679 --> 00:11:14.039 there go I in some dimension. But again, those are 159 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:18.320 sin dimensions. And yet I think the Lord is wanting 160 00:11:18.399 --> 00:11:23.480 to highlight the things that have a sin dimension, so 161 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:26.399 that we would pay attention to the things that don't 162 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:31.480 have a sin dimension, because I think that we are 163 00:11:31.600 --> 00:11:35.440 forfeiting the blessing of the Word of God over us, 164 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:38.720 or the call of God over us, or the Word 165 00:11:38.759 --> 00:11:42.399 of God over twenty twenty five, or maybe we thwarted 166 00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:46.799 the word of God or wild with inheritance potential. It's 167 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:50.039 the Word of God that is filled with authority, potential, 168 00:11:50.240 --> 00:11:54.399 judicial authority, potential. The Word of God is filled with 169 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:58.799 these things. And we get instruction, and we choose a. 170 00:11:58.720 --> 00:12:05.399 Bowl of soup instead. I do. Now. 171 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:08.399 We choose the bowl of soup because we're hungry. We 172 00:12:08.480 --> 00:12:11.200 choose the bowl of soup because the bowl of soup 173 00:12:11.320 --> 00:12:14.120 is natural, it's normal, it's dinner time. 174 00:12:14.159 --> 00:12:16.039 This is what I do. I eat soup. 175 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:20.240 God, what in the world are you doing with me? 176 00:12:21.879 --> 00:12:25.360 I'm a soup eater. I eat soup. It's soup time. 177 00:12:25.759 --> 00:12:33.720 Can I not have my soup? And this is where, 178 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:37.279 this is where even what we do is we even 179 00:12:37.279 --> 00:12:43.519 compare ourselves among ourselves. We compare ourselves among ourselves to 180 00:12:43.799 --> 00:12:52.799 justify our soup eating. You thought what I'm saying? So 181 00:12:53.039 --> 00:12:55.600 in other words, well, you know, they don't have to 182 00:12:55.600 --> 00:12:57.559 pray all the time. Why do I have to? You know, 183 00:12:58.080 --> 00:12:59.879 they don't have to do this. They don't seem to 184 00:12:59.879 --> 00:13:02.240 do that. They aren't called to this. Well, they get 185 00:13:02.240 --> 00:13:04.240 to watch this. How come I don't get to watch this? Well, 186 00:13:04.279 --> 00:13:06.320 they have that kind of a thing. They have this, 187 00:13:06.440 --> 00:13:09.799 they have that. And so we compare ourselves among ourselves. 188 00:13:10.399 --> 00:13:15.159 But Romans fourteen four says, quit paying attention to one another. 189 00:13:17.159 --> 00:13:22.120 You're only gonna give account unto me. What do you 190 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:33.159 have to do with another man's servant? Quit examining others 191 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:41.840 and justifying your own choices, and it all comes really, 192 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:44.600 it all comes down to obedience. We called him Lord, 193 00:13:44.679 --> 00:13:46.679 but I don't know that we really mean it. This 194 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:55.559 is what he's saying to me, and he's saying to me, Dwaine, 195 00:13:56.240 --> 00:14:00.399 I need you to really mean that I'm Lord, not 196 00:14:00.600 --> 00:14:06.200 just mean that I'm Savior. We all want savior? Do 197 00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:08.720 we want Lord? And again, what I want you to 198 00:14:08.759 --> 00:14:11.200 focus on today, because this is how the Lord's dealing 199 00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:15.440 with us. He wants us focused on things that are 200 00:14:15.600 --> 00:14:19.279 legal to do. Because what happens is we know the 201 00:14:19.320 --> 00:14:22.559 things that are illegal to do, that's the Lord's territory, 202 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:26.279 and we may allow him to chasten us or rebuke 203 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:27.639 us over those things. 204 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:29.320 But the things that. 205 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:32.759 Are legal to do, whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa, That's 206 00:14:32.799 --> 00:14:40.720 where I'm Lord, And so we'll present, we'll present, will 207 00:14:40.759 --> 00:14:42.759 present all sorts of stuff to him. I mean, we're 208 00:14:42.799 --> 00:14:44.919 not gonna lie to you or hanging with girls that do. 209 00:14:45.039 --> 00:14:46.000 I mean, we're. 210 00:14:47.360 --> 00:14:49.399 You know, we're gonna present that stuff to him. Right, 211 00:14:49.480 --> 00:14:54.000 we're gonna you know, I got the ten Commandments down 212 00:14:54.080 --> 00:14:57.960 I know about okay, Lord, all right, okay, none of 213 00:14:57.960 --> 00:14:59.840 that behavior, none of that activity. 214 00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:00.759 Got that down. 215 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:03.440 And of course the Lord's dealing with that at this 216 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:08.279 time as well, because he's preparing us. The spirit of 217 00:15:08.279 --> 00:15:14.080 Elijah is ministering to our hearts so that we prepare 218 00:15:14.159 --> 00:15:19.559 the way of the Lord. So I've got that down. 219 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:22.679 I'm going to bring that to the cross, okay, Lord, Okay, 220 00:15:23.039 --> 00:15:25.279 all right, you're hurting me, houch. 221 00:15:25.399 --> 00:15:26.919 That helps? Okay, thank you. Lord. 222 00:15:27.440 --> 00:15:30.320 Okay, all right, Okay, I know, I know I shouldn't 223 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:34.799 do that. That violates your commandments, and that is my 224 00:15:34.879 --> 00:15:38.320 sinful nature. I'll bring that to the cross. But Lord, 225 00:15:38.320 --> 00:15:39.720 don't be talking to me about. 226 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:40.120 That out her stuff. 227 00:15:46.919 --> 00:15:48.720 But the Bible says, and I looked up a couple 228 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:52.000 verses during worship because they were popping in my brain. 229 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:55.879 Is this okay? Okay? 230 00:15:58.679 --> 00:16:06.039 Like Isaiah thirty twenty one. Isaiah twenty one says, and 231 00:16:06.080 --> 00:16:11.440 your ears will hear a word behind you, this is 232 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:16.360 the way, walk in it, and your ears will hear. 233 00:16:16.440 --> 00:16:19.039 Now it's not your physical ears. He's not talking about 234 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:21.919 your physical ears. Isaiah thirty twenty one. He's talking about 235 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:26.240 your spiritual ears. Will hear the voice of the Lord 236 00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:33.000 as you're moving on a path that pleases him and 237 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:37.360 a path that's unfolding before you that's of him, and 238 00:16:37.600 --> 00:16:40.039 you'll just kind of have this witness this is the 239 00:16:40.080 --> 00:16:40.879 way walk in it. 240 00:16:42.919 --> 00:16:43.799 There's another one. 241 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:46.840 That I pulled up, and it's just such a great 242 00:16:46.879 --> 00:16:49.440 one and it says that he can direct this when 243 00:16:49.440 --> 00:16:51.879 our heart is tender, and what he really wants his 244 00:16:51.960 --> 00:16:55.919 tender hearts. And what happens is the more we kind 245 00:16:55.960 --> 00:17:01.000 of disobey, then the more we row a little bit 246 00:17:01.080 --> 00:17:04.440 of a colllessness over our heart so that we're not 247 00:17:04.720 --> 00:17:09.359 hearing the voice of the Lord or perceiving his ability 248 00:17:09.480 --> 00:17:15.440 to direct us. Husbands, you ever been directed with a 249 00:17:15.519 --> 00:17:16.519 foot under the table? 250 00:17:24.480 --> 00:17:24.880 Husbands? 251 00:17:24.920 --> 00:17:30.240 Have you ever been directed with her eyes like you're 252 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:32.359 doing something dumb and she gives you that look? 253 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:35.880 Right? Okay? 254 00:17:36.000 --> 00:17:39.039 Children? Children, you were all children once? Were you ever 255 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:44.279 directed by mom or Dad's eyes like they give you 256 00:17:44.400 --> 00:17:47.200 the eye right? 257 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:47.759 Right? 258 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:50.119 So this is you know, the Bible says this. The 259 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:54.400 Bible says that our hearts need to be so tender 260 00:17:55.440 --> 00:18:00.319 to him. This is Psalm thirty two eight. I will 261 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:03.240 instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. 262 00:18:03.759 --> 00:18:10.480 I will counsel you with my loving eye. I will 263 00:18:10.519 --> 00:18:15.759 counsel you with my loving eye. The Lord wants our 264 00:18:15.799 --> 00:18:19.240 hearts so tender. But he doesn't want just our sin 265 00:18:19.400 --> 00:18:24.119 presented to him, or our flesh, or our carnality, or 266 00:18:24.240 --> 00:18:31.079 our carnal desires or anything. He doesn't that's not the 267 00:18:31.160 --> 00:18:39.079 limit of lordship. He wants everything presented to him, and 268 00:18:39.240 --> 00:18:43.079 anything less means that as he sends his word, because 269 00:18:43.119 --> 00:18:47.519 woven into his word is an inheritance. Woven into his 270 00:18:47.599 --> 00:18:57.200 word is authority. Woven into his word is priestly empowerment. 271 00:18:57.279 --> 00:19:00.440 Woven into his words is all of this stuff. There's 272 00:19:00.519 --> 00:19:04.200 like a birthright of something special. Woven into all of 273 00:19:04.240 --> 00:19:07.599 his words. The word of his calling over your life, 274 00:19:08.400 --> 00:19:15.440 the word of his calling with your wife, a loas somebody, 275 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:18.880 the word of his calling over your ChIL woven into 276 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:25.599 every word over your life is an inheritance, a birthright 277 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:30.920 of blessing and a double portion. And so he's calling 278 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:33.119 us to no longer. 279 00:19:33.240 --> 00:19:33.359 Now. 280 00:19:33.400 --> 00:19:36.440 I want to talk to you about I want to 281 00:19:36.440 --> 00:19:38.839 talk to you a little bit about and I did 282 00:19:38.880 --> 00:19:41.440 have some stuff in here on Daniel Uh. 283 00:19:42.160 --> 00:19:44.680 But because this is. 284 00:19:44.680 --> 00:19:54.319 The Daniel fath. But I want to talk to you 285 00:19:54.319 --> 00:20:00.039 about I want to talk to you about Baalim. You 286 00:20:00.079 --> 00:20:04.279 ever heard of Bailim? Numbers twenty two, number twenty two. 287 00:20:05.680 --> 00:20:10.920 It says that Israel came up to the place where 288 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:19.200 Moab was and the Moabites got afraid, right, they got 289 00:20:19.240 --> 00:20:22.839 super nervous, They got afraid. Let's read it. Chapter twenty two. 290 00:20:23.119 --> 00:20:26.160 Israelites traveled the plains of Moab and camped along the 291 00:20:26.240 --> 00:20:32.119 Jordan across from Jericho. Now, Beyloch son of Zippor saw 292 00:20:32.359 --> 00:20:35.319 all that Israel had done to the Emirates, and Moab 293 00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:40.000 was terrified because there were so many people. Indeed, Moab 294 00:20:40.079 --> 00:20:42.960 was filled with dread because of the Israelites. The Moabides 295 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:45.119 said to the elders of Midian, this horde is going 296 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:47.759 to lick up everything around us as an ox looks 297 00:20:47.839 --> 00:20:50.559 up the grass of the field. So Beyloch son of Zippora, 298 00:20:50.640 --> 00:20:53.559 who was king of Moab at the time, sent messengers 299 00:20:53.599 --> 00:20:58.599 to summon Baalim, son of Bior, who was at Pethor 300 00:20:58.799 --> 00:21:05.079 near the Euphrates River in his native land. Baylock said, 301 00:21:05.119 --> 00:21:07.240 the people's come out from Egypt. They cover the face 302 00:21:07.240 --> 00:21:08.960 of the land. They've settled next to me. Now, come 303 00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:10.839 and put a curse on these people, because they're too 304 00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:13.599 powerful for me. Perhaps then I will be able to 305 00:21:13.599 --> 00:21:15.279 defeat them and drive them out of the land. For 306 00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:18.079 I know whoever you bless is blessed, in whoever you 307 00:21:18.200 --> 00:21:22.440 curse is cursed. So the elders of Moab and Midian left, 308 00:21:22.599 --> 00:21:27.960 taking with them a fee for divination. Everybody say a fee, 309 00:21:28.079 --> 00:21:32.160 So they took some profit for the prophet, and when 310 00:21:32.200 --> 00:21:36.400 they came to Baylim, they told him what Bylock had said. 311 00:21:36.680 --> 00:21:41.079 Now I want you to see this story. Baalim is 312 00:21:41.119 --> 00:21:44.519 a prophet of God. He's a prophet of God, and 313 00:21:44.559 --> 00:21:48.359 the fame of him is throughout the region. And so 314 00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:51.720 Bylock is like super nervous. He's scared. He sees this 315 00:21:51.839 --> 00:21:56.759 great throng across and he knows that any moment they're 316 00:21:56.799 --> 00:21:59.519 going to attack him like they did the others before, 317 00:22:00.119 --> 00:22:02.079 and that he's going to be wiped out. So he 318 00:22:02.319 --> 00:22:08.519 sends for a prophet to come and curse these people 319 00:22:08.519 --> 00:22:14.079 that have come. But these are God's people. He's the prophet, 320 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:16.359 and there's about to be some prophet. There's a fee 321 00:22:16.400 --> 00:22:19.440 for the divination. And this is kind of the bowl 322 00:22:19.519 --> 00:22:22.960 of the Soup thing is that God's trying to show 323 00:22:23.039 --> 00:22:27.839 us throughout scripture that regardless of the payoff, regardless of 324 00:22:27.880 --> 00:22:31.599 the enjoyment, regardless of the pleasure, even if it's legal 325 00:22:31.720 --> 00:22:36.079 to do, regardless of that which is available, we're always 326 00:22:36.240 --> 00:22:39.319 to choose the word of the Lord. We're always to 327 00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:46.559 choose to follow God. And here in this case, he 328 00:22:46.720 --> 00:22:51.440 illustrates this that if we don't, then there may come chastening. 329 00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:56.000 And I personally have this funny feeling that hundreds, if 330 00:22:56.039 --> 00:22:59.200 not thousands of Christians in the Body of Christ are 331 00:22:59.359 --> 00:23:03.200 under chastening from the Lord, and they don't even realize it. 332 00:23:04.880 --> 00:23:08.559 They haven't discerned it. We are not discerning the chastening 333 00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:12.720 of the Lord. We have hardened our hearts to the 334 00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:18.759 chastening of the Lord. We've literally put a boundary around 335 00:23:18.880 --> 00:23:22.839 everything legal and we've said this is mine, God, don't 336 00:23:22.880 --> 00:23:29.680 mess with it. It's legal to eat, it's legal to sleep, 337 00:23:29.920 --> 00:23:32.559 it's legal to watch television. It's legal to go where 338 00:23:32.559 --> 00:23:35.160 I want to go. It's legal to shop, it's legal 339 00:23:35.200 --> 00:23:39.079 to buy. Everything legal is mine. I'm the Lord of 340 00:23:39.119 --> 00:23:41.880 this territory. I don't even need to ask the Lord 341 00:23:41.920 --> 00:23:52.359 about it, because he gave me lordship over it. And 342 00:23:52.400 --> 00:23:56.480 then this is a very similar situation. It says that 343 00:23:57.000 --> 00:24:02.599 instead of telling them that he wasn't available to prophesy 344 00:24:02.839 --> 00:24:07.640 against the people of God, the very people associated with 345 00:24:07.720 --> 00:24:12.319 the God from whom he received prophetic utterance, instead of 346 00:24:12.400 --> 00:24:16.440 telling them that he told him, just stay the night, 347 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:19.960 spend the night here, and I will report back to 348 00:24:20.039 --> 00:24:24.039 you in the answer with the Lord that the Lord 349 00:24:24.119 --> 00:24:26.799 gives me. And so the Moabide officials spent the night, 350 00:24:27.559 --> 00:24:30.240 and this is a picture of us kind of wrestling 351 00:24:30.359 --> 00:24:32.839 with the leading of the Lord. We kind of wrestle 352 00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:34.680 with it, We kind of struggle with it, we kind 353 00:24:34.680 --> 00:24:36.720 of argue with it. We're kind of like, well, I 354 00:24:36.720 --> 00:24:38.400 don't know if I really show out, I don't know. 355 00:24:39.119 --> 00:24:40.960 We're kind of struggling with it. And then we're kind 356 00:24:40.960 --> 00:24:43.680 of struggling with well, you know, if I don't do it, 357 00:24:43.720 --> 00:24:45.799 you know, am I you know? Is this legal for 358 00:24:45.839 --> 00:24:47.759 me to do? Is it not legal for me to do? 359 00:24:47.920 --> 00:24:49.920 Is it really sin for me to I mean, I 360 00:24:49.920 --> 00:24:52.119 don't know if it's really sin, I don't know. And 361 00:24:52.200 --> 00:24:56.000 so we see this whole wrestling thing going on with 362 00:24:56.279 --> 00:25:01.039 Balam and with this calling. There would have been no 363 00:25:01.119 --> 00:25:03.319 wrestling if there wouldn't have been a fee for divination. 364 00:25:06.319 --> 00:25:09.279 The reason there was a struggle is because of the 365 00:25:09.319 --> 00:25:15.759 reward available for going with them and cursing God's people. 366 00:25:16.640 --> 00:25:17.359 So he struggled. 367 00:25:17.359 --> 00:25:19.599 He struggled to the point where he finally even went 368 00:25:19.640 --> 00:25:21.960 with them. Right, So Balem got up in the morning 369 00:25:22.039 --> 00:25:24.160 verse twenty one, saddled up his donkey, went with them 370 00:25:24.160 --> 00:25:28.559 a bite of visuals. But God was angry with them. 371 00:25:28.720 --> 00:25:32.279 Now this is interesting. He hasn't even cursed the people yet, 372 00:25:32.599 --> 00:25:35.960 he hasn't followed through, He hasn't done anything. But God 373 00:25:36.039 --> 00:25:39.359 knows your heart. God knows that he's wishing he could 374 00:25:39.400 --> 00:25:39.720 do this. 375 00:25:39.880 --> 00:25:40.319 Did you know? 376 00:25:40.440 --> 00:25:45.839 God knows when you're wishing you could do something. God 377 00:25:46.000 --> 00:25:49.000 knows when you're not totally sold out on his word. 378 00:25:49.359 --> 00:25:52.480 God knows when you are holding back on his word. 379 00:25:52.599 --> 00:25:57.480 God knows when you're when you're wrestling with his word 380 00:25:57.640 --> 00:26:01.599 and you're wishing you could disobey his word. 381 00:26:01.720 --> 00:26:02.480 God knows that. 382 00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:05.519 And I'm here to tell you today it doesn't make 383 00:26:05.559 --> 00:26:08.720 God happy. And I don't know if you have room 384 00:26:08.720 --> 00:26:11.279 in your theology for a little bit of unhappiness out 385 00:26:11.319 --> 00:26:15.519 of God? Do you have room in your theology for 386 00:26:15.559 --> 00:26:17.519 a little bit of unhappiness out of God? 387 00:26:18.799 --> 00:26:20.319 Because you know, for years. 388 00:26:20.039 --> 00:26:23.240 We have developed, you know, the God is Love theology, 389 00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:26.200 and we've filled our churches with the God is Love theology, 390 00:26:26.279 --> 00:26:30.680 which is fabulous and wonderful. And I love that we 391 00:26:30.759 --> 00:26:35.759 have developed our churches into a God is Love theology churches. 392 00:26:35.799 --> 00:26:38.160 It's wonderful. It's not just here, it's all over the 393 00:26:38.200 --> 00:26:41.480 planet that there's been a shift toward God is Love. 394 00:26:41.599 --> 00:26:45.359 But have we developed this theology so deep that we 395 00:26:45.400 --> 00:26:49.519 can no longer allow him to rebuke us? If God 396 00:26:49.640 --> 00:26:54.480 rebuked you, would you recognize it? The way chastening starts 397 00:26:54.519 --> 00:26:57.519 if we could draw a graph, could if we could 398 00:26:57.559 --> 00:27:01.400 draw a graph on the whiteboard today, the way chastening 399 00:27:01.440 --> 00:27:03.799 starts is the same way chastening starts at your house. 400 00:27:04.920 --> 00:27:10.720 You know, first you say a honey, come back to 401 00:27:10.759 --> 00:27:16.200