Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, we welcome you right now. Just put your
Speaker 1: hands up and just agree with me. Holy Spirit. We
Speaker 1: welcome you to teach us, to open up the eyes
Speaker 1: of our understanding, to train us in wisdom, train us
Speaker 1: in heaven, tin us in the wisdom of heaven. Holy Spirit.
Speaker 1: We welcome not only the shift of our own hearts
Speaker 1: in you, but we welcome the disempowering and the displacing
Speaker 1: and the overcoming of every thought, doctrine, perspective that we've
Speaker 1: held that is contrary to truth.
Speaker 2: We thank you for your help. Now help us in Jesus'.
Speaker 1: Name, And everybody said a man, hallemlujah.
Speaker 2: He helps us. Amen, he helps us.
Speaker 1: Let's go right away to uh, let's go right away
Speaker 1: to something, because if I don't read the Bible, here's
Speaker 1: what happens is I get all excited, and then if
Speaker 1: I don't read the Bible, we never get to it.
Speaker 1: And then then I assume you know everything, and then
Speaker 1: like three of you don't, so then we get really
Speaker 1: messed up. I know only three of you don't know everything, but.
Speaker 2: But for those three, I have to read this. How
Speaker 2: are we doing here? We are here?
Speaker 1: We are Galatians three. Let's read a couple. Let's read
Speaker 1: Galatians three seven through nine. Understand then that those who
Speaker 1: have faith are children of Abraham.
Speaker 2: Scripture.
Speaker 1: Now that that's that's interesting right there, because we're not
Speaker 1: only children of God by exercising faith, but we become
Speaker 1: children of the father of faith. So the Bible calls
Speaker 1: Abraham the father of faith or the father of those
Speaker 1: who walk by faith. So when we exercise faith in
Speaker 1: Jesus or faith in God and Jesus the Son, then
Speaker 1: we become children of Abraham.
Speaker 2: So we're children of God and we're children of Abraham.
Speaker 2: Is that okay?
Speaker 1: Scripture foresaw, or God foresaw, or those who wrote scripture
Speaker 1: or the prophets foresaw that God would justify, justify means
Speaker 1: make as if you've never sinned. That's an odd thing.
Speaker 1: It's an interesting thing. God would justify the gentiles, Now,
Speaker 1: the gentiles, that's everybody that's not a Jew. That God
Speaker 1: would justify the gentile nations, the gentile people by faith. Scripture,
Speaker 1: the writer subscripture foresaw this was coming back when all
Speaker 1: of our history, all of our ethnic lineage, back when
Speaker 1: they were bound in darkness. The prophets foresaw that God
Speaker 1: would justify us someday that one day gentile nations. He
Speaker 1: theen nations would be justified not through their works, not
Speaker 1: through perfection, but through faith, that God would justify the
Speaker 1: gentiles by faith, announcing the gospel meaning good news. The
Speaker 1: gospel is good news. Announcing the good news, the gospel
Speaker 1: in advance to all these gentile nations, to Abraham saying this,
Speaker 1: this is Genesis chapter twelve. He's going to quote it.
Speaker 1: All nations will be blessed through you. All nations will
Speaker 1: be blessed through you. So and it's not all nations
Speaker 1: in general, it's all the nations who come into faith
Speaker 1: in Christ Jesus. Those nations, as they come into faith,
Speaker 1: they will be blessed. Everybody, say blessed. That is a
Speaker 1: very that's a dangerous word. And say it again, dangerous,
Speaker 1: dangerous because you know, you've been around religion long enough
Speaker 1: that you're called to poverty, you're called to barely get biasm,
Speaker 1: you're called to wormism.
Speaker 2: That we are we experience spiritual rebirth.
Speaker 1: But the truth is that we're to live a life
Speaker 1: of worminess until we go to heaven, because it's in
Speaker 1: heaven that we experience the goodness of God. Well, that's
Speaker 1: not Bible. Sorry to mess with you. It says all
Speaker 1: nations we blessed through you, and it's all the gentile nations.
Speaker 1: It's all those that weren't a part of Abraham previously.
Speaker 1: So those let's go on the verse nine tho who
Speaker 1: rely on faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man
Speaker 1: of faith. So those who rely on faith, not rely
Speaker 1: on their good works, not rely on perfection, not rely
Speaker 1: on the law, not rely on their good their do goodisms.
Speaker 1: Those who rely on faith, faith in who faith in
Speaker 1: Jesus are blessed along with Abraham, the man of blessing.
Speaker 1: Did you know you can destroy your blessing if you
Speaker 1: don't believe you're blessed, Because if you don't believe you're blessed,
Speaker 1: that would be anti faith.
Speaker 2: So you can actually mess up your blessing. Hello, some billion.
Speaker 1: So he redeemed us verse fourteen. He redeemed us in
Speaker 1: order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to
Speaker 1: the Gentiles through Christ Jesus, so that by faith we
Speaker 1: might receive the promise of the spirit. Verse sixteen. The
Speaker 1: promises plural. We're spoken to Abraham and.
Speaker 2: To his seed.
Speaker 1: Scripture does not say to seeds as in plural, but
Speaker 1: to seed meaning and the seeds meaning many people, but
Speaker 1: to your seed meaning one person who is Christ. What
Speaker 1: I mean is this, This is Paul. The law introduced
Speaker 1: four hundred and thirty years later does not invalidate or
Speaker 1: set aside the covenant previously established by God, and thus
Speaker 1: do away with the promise. For if the inheritance depends
Speaker 1: on the law, or fulfilling the law, or the do
Speaker 1: gooding of the law, then it no longer depends on
Speaker 1: the promise. But God and his grace gave it to
Speaker 1: Abraham through a promise verse twenty nine, jumping to the
Speaker 1: end of the chapter. If thus, or therefore, if you
Speaker 1: belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed and heirs
Speaker 1: according to the promise.
Speaker 2: Do you believe that?
Speaker 1: Okay, well you don't have to, because we can close
Speaker 1: in prayer right now. I'm supposed to convince you that
Speaker 1: this is good. Okay, So here's what I want to
Speaker 1: say A couple things here is that what Jesus has
Speaker 1: done is he's linked to us to Abraham and this
Speaker 1: promise to Abraham, starting in verse one and two of
Speaker 1: chapter twelve, but then reiterated in chapter fifteen of Genesis,
Speaker 1: Chapter seventeen of Genesis, Chapter twenty one of Genesis. All
Speaker 1: of those were to Abraham twelve fifteen, seventeen twenty one.
Speaker 1: There's more there, and it pertained to wealth, increase, abundance, sustenance,
Speaker 1: but it also pertained to land. Land is really a
Speaker 1: big deal. And probably land has mentioned more times to Abraham,
Speaker 1: Isaac and Jacob than you've ever thought about, because land
Speaker 1: was in many ways it was their wealth. It was
Speaker 1: their wealth. So but what's happened here? These promises were
Speaker 1: made to him and.
Speaker 2: To his seed.
Speaker 1: So we see that the same promises were then made
Speaker 1: to Isaac, and they were made to Jacob and Abraham.
Speaker 1: Isaac and Jacob are known in scripture as the patriarchs.
Speaker 1: They're the patriarchs of the Jewish people, the Hebrew people,
Speaker 1: the patriarchs of the Covenant of Promises, and God would
Speaker 1: reiterate the promises over and over to them. Genesis twenty
Speaker 1: six Isaac experience as a famine, but God says so anyway,
Speaker 1: and he reaps a one hundred fold harvest in the
Speaker 1: midst of the famine because he follows what God instructs
Speaker 1: him to do so and this was God reiterating the promise.
Speaker 1: So the crazy thing is is that Jesus, Jesus connects
Speaker 1: us back to Abraham. So we could say over here
Speaker 1: that Jesus is connecting us all the way back to
Speaker 1: the Abrahamic promise. And the Bible says that Jesus was
Speaker 1: actually the seed that was promised to Abraham. So that
Speaker 1: means that we're connected to the Abrahamic promise and we
Speaker 1: are partakers of the Abrahamic promise. Now I want you
Speaker 1: to see that because this is it's important for us
Speaker 1: to understand the New Testament and New Testament living. And
Speaker 1: this is the growing kingdom over here, and this is
Speaker 1: your heart garden. Everybody's saying, heart garden, this is your
Speaker 1: heart garden. I got the growing kingdom going right through
Speaker 1: the middle of the heart garden. That's a little bit
Speaker 1: of a first service snaffhu, so we'll just stop it
Speaker 1: right there.
Speaker 2: So this is our heart garden.
Speaker 1: And our topic today again is financial well being, because
Speaker 1: we are very, very very concerned about our financial wellbeing
Speaker 1: and our household well being and all that pertains to
Speaker 1: the sustenance of our life. It's a very big deal
Speaker 1: to us. We spend a lot of our time thinking
Speaker 1: about it and then also laboring to bring forth the
Speaker 1: sustenance and the financial wellbeing that belongs to us, or
Speaker 1: that we can carve out.
Speaker 2: It's a big deal to us.
Speaker 1: And I've outlined ten of these trees of life. There's
Speaker 1: ten trees of life that we've been alluding to. We've
Speaker 1: only gotten to one so far, and that's the financial
Speaker 1: well being tree. And this one is very important. And
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to do, I'm trying to draw these
Speaker 1: two together so you connect this because when we get
Speaker 1: over here into the New Testament, this is the New Testament,
Speaker 1: we have all sorts of interesting thoughts about financial wellbeing.
Speaker 1: And in many many places, and under the influence of
Speaker 1: many theological thoughts, we're told that we are actually called
Speaker 1: to a life of poverty, that we're actually called to
Speaker 1: a life of not enough, or some of us we've
Speaker 1: called and God will use that to keep us humble,
Speaker 1: or maybe we have been told theologically that we're called
Speaker 1: to just a life of giving. We just need to
Speaker 1: be just constantly thinking about giving because we're called to
Speaker 1: a life of giving. And so there's all sorts of
Speaker 1: theological thoughts and most of these thoughts come out of
Speaker 1: the words of Jesus, in the words of Paul. And
Speaker 1: so we've concluded we've taken the New Testament instruction. Over
Speaker 1: here we get New Testament instruction. We've taken the New
Speaker 1: Testament instruction and the New Testament thoughts and thinking. And
Speaker 1: what we've done in many of our theological cases is
Speaker 1: we've isolated the New test intment, and we've isolated the
Speaker 1: instruction or the teaching of the New Testament, and we've
Speaker 1: not connected it to the old and we've not connected
Speaker 1: it to the Abrahamic Covenant, to the Abrahamic promises. Many
Speaker 1: times we get burdened down over here under the Law
Speaker 1: of Moses. The Law of Moses was added to the
Speaker 1: promise the Covenant of Promise. The Law of Moses was
Speaker 1: added to the Covenant of Promise four hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: years after the Covenant of Promise. The Law of Moses
Speaker 1: was added because of transgressions. So transgression was increasing, and
Speaker 1: God added the law untill the Bible says in Galatians
Speaker 1: three Galatians for Romans, for that the law of Moses
Speaker 1: has added until the Seed of Promise would come, when Christ,
Speaker 1: the seed of the promise came. Then he came to
Speaker 1: write the laws of God on our heart. He came
Speaker 1: to write the laws of God on our heart, and
Speaker 1: his Holy Spirit dwelling in us supersedes the law of Moses. Now,
Speaker 1: it's not that we don't teach or train, that we
Speaker 1: don't that we invalidate the laws of Moses. It's just
Speaker 1: that our hearts already supersede that. So I don't take
Speaker 1: the life of my neighbor. I also don't even think
Speaker 1: about it. So the law of the Spirit goes in
Speaker 1: and it converts my heart. It makes my heart soft.
Speaker 1: So I'm not wishing I could take the heart of
Speaker 1: the life of my neighbor. I don't take the wife
Speaker 1: of my neighbor. I don't even think about it, because
Speaker 1: it's not just the doing, which the law addressed the doing.
Speaker 2: It's not just the doing, but the.
Speaker 1: Spirit of the life of Christ within me is retraining
Speaker 1: my heart and causing me to not do such a thing.
Speaker 2: Right, are you with me?
Speaker 1: So the law of Moses was added until the seed
Speaker 1: would come. But what happens is many times that we
Speaker 1: get overly focused on the Law of Moses, or we
Speaker 1: avoid the Covenant of Promise. We don't make the connection
Speaker 1: here between the two and all that God was doing
Speaker 1: during this. And I want to give you an example
Speaker 1: because I think it's possible to it's actually possible to
Speaker 1: actually even prophesy with false prophecy. It's actually possible to
Speaker 1: prophesy falsely if my doctrines are false. Because we don't
Speaker 1: realize it, but most of us we're actually prophesying out
Speaker 1: of the treasure within us. Lots of times the ecstatic
Speaker 1: expression of something prophetic that we really feel it's of
Speaker 1: God actually really interwoven uh to uh the way we've
Speaker 1: been trained in the scripture. Let me let me give
Speaker 1: you example. All across America, there's a church where they
Speaker 1: don't believe that you should have instruments in church. Now
Speaker 1: this church that believes you shouldn't have musical instruments in church.
Speaker 1: They and I'm not talking about this to say that
Speaker 1: they don't have Jesus. Even they might have Jesus. That's okay, right.
Speaker 1: Did you know that you can have Jesus and still
Speaker 1: have false doctrines. That's how merciful and gracious God is,
Speaker 1: Like He'll put up with a lot of chrod and
Speaker 1: still show up and love us. He's putting up with me. Hello, somebody.
Speaker 1: But we have to realize that when this church began,
Speaker 1: they begin based on doctrines and a perspective of scripture,
Speaker 1: and then prophetic words that accompanied those doctrines and those scriptures,
Speaker 1: and then it actually coalesced into people gathering around those doctrines,
Speaker 1: and those doctrines were just based on a limited view
Speaker 1: of scripture where they had isolated the New Testament. And
Speaker 1: here's what they say, that the New Testament doesn't teach
Speaker 1: about instruments, therefore there should be no instruments in the
Speaker 1: New Testament church. Now, it's true that the New Testament
Speaker 1: doesn't teach about instruments.
Speaker 2: So are we in error?
Speaker 1: We had Kenneth on the keys this morning, We had
Speaker 1: Ugo on the.
Speaker 2: Guitar this morning.
Speaker 1: We had all this stuff happening up here, beautiful stuff happening.
Speaker 1: It might have offended some of you. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I was blessed. My ears were singing with joy.
Speaker 1: But are we in error? And again not to I'm
Speaker 1: not naming this group, and I'm not here to harm them.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to help us. Are we in error because
Speaker 1: we have instruments? When instruments aren't mentioned in the New
Speaker 1: Testament at all, or are we taking a liberty we
Speaker 1: shouldn't take, or could it be they have a richer
Speaker 1: presence of the Spirit with them because they've taken a
Speaker 1: note that the New Testament doesn't include instruments, and so
Speaker 1: therefore by not including instruments, they have a higher truth,
Speaker 1: and so they have a richer abundance of the spirit
Speaker 1: in their services.
Speaker 2: What is true? What is true? Are you with me?
Speaker 3: So?
Speaker 1: What they're missing and I want to help you with
Speaker 1: this and we're going somewhere with finances. What they're missing
Speaker 1: is the connection between this and this because before the
Speaker 1: New Testament Church, there's a prophet named Amos, and Amos
Speaker 1: foresaw the New Testament Church, and in the spirit, Amos
Speaker 1: saw a few things happening. Amos saw the Mosaic system coming.
Speaker 2: To a close.
Speaker 1: He saw AD seventy and in eighty seventy he saw
Speaker 1: Jerusalem and Israel destroyed, and the temple sacrificial system brought
Speaker 1: to a close. And this was happening because remember when
Speaker 1: Jesus went into the Holy of Holies with the blood
Speaker 1: of his perfect sacrifice before the Father. It says that
Speaker 1: the veil in the temple was torn by a four
Speaker 1: inch thick veil. It was torn in two, signifying that
Speaker 1: Jesus had opened through his own brokenness of his flesh
Speaker 1: and the shedding of his blood, he had opened up
Speaker 1: the Holy of Holies for us, that we could access
Speaker 1: God through him. And so that means temple sacrifices were
Speaker 1: no longer needed. And sure enough Israel was judged for
Speaker 1: their apostasy, and by eighty seventy the Temple was destroyed
Speaker 1: and Jerusalem was scattered, as well as all of Israel.
Speaker 1: Now let's find that in scripture. Let's go to Amos
Speaker 1: chapter nine, and I want to read this to you,
Speaker 1: and I want you to see this because Amos foresaw this,
Speaker 1: so Amos is seeing this happen. And chapter nine is
Speaker 1: the big one on this. And I'm not going to
Speaker 1: read the whole thing, but chapter nine, starting at verse nine, listen,
Speaker 1: for I will give the command, and I will shake
Speaker 1: the people of Israel among the nations as a grain
Speaker 1: is shaken in a sieve, and not a pebble will
Speaker 1: reach the ground. All the sinners of my people, all
Speaker 1: the sinners of my people, not the covenant keepers, but
Speaker 1: the sinners of my people will die by the sword,
Speaker 1: and those who say disaster will not overtake us or
Speaker 1: meet us.
Speaker 2: That's it's interesting because.
Speaker 1: You get to realize that before the New Testament was written,
Speaker 1: the New Testament, the New Testament, we consider it a
Speaker 1: Bible book now, but you know all those books, right,
Speaker 1: But before it was written, all of these new people
Speaker 1: in the Lord and in New Testament faith, all they
Speaker 1: had was the Old Testament. So they actually quoted this,
Speaker 1: you know, one of them, Paul and Peter actually quoted
Speaker 1: when they say peace and safety, then suddenly destruction will
Speaker 1: come upon them.
Speaker 2: Well, he was quoting adam Amos chapter nine right here.
Speaker 2: Did you know that?
Speaker 1: You didn't know that Jesus came in Matthew twenty eight,
Speaker 1: eighteen and nineteen. He said, all authority is given to me.
Speaker 1: Now go to the nations. Now we have to realize
Speaker 1: all the nations have been under these unclean deities ever
Speaker 1: since Genesis chapter eleven. Ever since Genesis chapter eleven, they've
Speaker 1: been under unclean deities. And that's back when they rebelled.
Speaker 1: And so this is all happening, and he's opening up
Speaker 1: the eyes of the apostles, and he's saying, let's go.
Speaker 2: And so they have a big argue amount.
Speaker 1: About it, and the Pharisees are criticizing them, and everything
Speaker 1: is going bad. They're having all this, and so they
Speaker 1: have their first church council. So the apostles get together
Speaker 1: and they're going to have their first church council in
Speaker 1: Acts fifteen, because they got to solve this because they
Speaker 1: don't know if they should tell all these people to
Speaker 1: be under the law or not, and if they all
Speaker 1: should be circumcised or what they should do.
Speaker 2: Right, So this is what's happening.
Speaker 1: So Acts chapter fifteen, Verse five and six, some of
Speaker 1: the believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees
Speaker 1: stood up and say the gentiles must be circumcires and
Speaker 1: required to keep the law of Moses. And so verse six,
Speaker 1: the apostles and the elders met to consider this question.
Speaker 1: Verse thirteen. When they finished this discussion, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to read to you the discussion. They had seven verses
Speaker 1: of discussion. And then they finished the discussion and James,
Speaker 1: the brother of Jesus, he spoke up to summarize, brothers, listen,
Speaker 1: listen to me. Simon Simon Peter has described to us
Speaker 1: how God first intervened to choose the people for his
Speaker 1: name from the gentiles, because he's telling them about Cornelius's
Speaker 1: house and what's happening, and the words of the prophets
Speaker 1: are in agreement. Now listen, he's going to quote Amos nine.
Speaker 1: He's going to quote Amos nine, the words of the
Speaker 1: prophets that are in agreement with this as it is written.
Speaker 1: After this, I will return after what. After I'm done
Speaker 1: with the people of Israel, After I'm done with the law,
Speaker 1: after I'm done with the mosaic system, after I'm done
Speaker 1: with sacrifice of animals, and I'm installing one lamb. After that,
Speaker 1: I'm going to return. And when I return, I'm going
Speaker 1: to rebuild David's fallen tent, tabernacle, booth and its ruins.
Speaker 1: I will rebuild, and I will restore it that it's ruins,
Speaker 1: I will rebuild and restore that the rest of mankind
Speaker 1: may seek the Lord, even all the gentiles who bear
Speaker 1: my name, says the Lord who does these things things
Speaker 1: known from long ago. Now, I want you to see something.
Speaker 1: This is why the New Testament didn't need to say
Speaker 1: a word about worship.
Speaker 3: God.
Speaker 1: The reason the New Testament didn't need to say a
Speaker 1: word about psalms or songs or hymns or flutes or
Speaker 1: liars or drums or symbols or any such thing is
Speaker 1: right here, because God announced through Amos he was going
Speaker 1: to do it. And then they realized, oh, my goodness,
Speaker 1: he's doing it. And as soon as they made that correlation,
Speaker 1: they understood, Oh, David is the one who tapped into
Speaker 1: the fullness of God in the Abrahamy Covenant.
Speaker 2: And David is the one.
Speaker 1: Who, because of the Abrahaming Covenant, which was a covenant
Speaker 1: of promise by faith and righteousness was granted by faith,
Speaker 1: not through the blood of sacrifice and animals, David tapped
Speaker 1: into something revelatory before Christ came and tasted of the
Speaker 1: Christ before Christ came. And it's David who enjoyed that
Speaker 1: for thirty three years. Now what happened is for thirty
Speaker 1: three years. How long did the Lord live? For thirty
Speaker 1: three years? David who was passionate about the presence of God,
Speaker 1: and Saul was not. Saul was the king before David,
Speaker 1: and Saul took the Ark into battle. He took the
Speaker 1: Ark into warfare, and so then the Ark and that
Speaker 1: displeased the Lord, and so then the ark was stolen
Speaker 1: away by the Philistines, and it was up in a
Speaker 1: hill somewhere, and then God cursed the Philistines, and so
Speaker 1: then they released the ark and it went to Obad
Speaker 1: Edam's house. And then David hears that the Ark is
Speaker 1: up there, and when they install him as king, he's like, I.
Speaker 2: Can't go forward.
Speaker 1: I can't do anything without the glory of called the
Speaker 1: presence of the Lord, the Hikina blessing of God. I
Speaker 1: can't do anything without tapping into the Covenant of Promise.
Speaker 1: And so Holy Spirit gives him a revelation to go
Speaker 1: get the Ark and to bring it to Jerusalem, and
Speaker 1: to go to the highest mountain in Jerusalem and to
Speaker 1: put a ten there a tabernacle, and that tint, and
Speaker 1: that tabernacle was built while the tabernacle continued to exist
Speaker 1: in Gibeon. So in Gibeon they continued to offer sacrifices
Speaker 1: of blood annually with no arc. But David set up
Speaker 1: a tint on the highest mountain in Jerusalem called Zion,
Speaker 1: and there he set up this tabernacle, this tint, but
Speaker 1: there was no blood sacrifice.
Speaker 2: There was only the.
Speaker 1: Sacrifice of worship, the fruit of the lips of two
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty eight worshipers. There were two hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty eight singers, songwriters, worshipers, instrument players, and they had
Speaker 1: a four thousand backup.
Speaker 2: Reserves so they could rotate just like we do.
Speaker 1: Four thousand were in reserve and two hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: eight were on the front line. And they worshiped God
Speaker 1: for thirty three years twenty four to seven, without blood sacrifice,
Speaker 1: but with the sacrifice of the fruit of their lips.
Speaker 1: Listen to some of what they did. Listen to some
Speaker 1: of what they did. I just pulled up one passage.
Speaker 1: Do you see What I'm saying is that the New
Speaker 1: Testament is the Old Testament fulfilled. The Old Testament is
Speaker 1: a picture of what we've entered into. The New Testament
Speaker 1: does not exist on its own. The New Testament is
Speaker 1: a connection to God's beautiful promise that he made to Abraham,
Speaker 1: Isaac and Jacob. And we don't enter into it through
Speaker 1: circumcision or through the Law which was added. We enter
Speaker 1: into the blessing of the Abraham and Covenant not through
Speaker 1: our good works of the law with it, but through
Speaker 1: faith in Christ who was the seed of Abraham.
Speaker 2: Do you see this?
Speaker 1: And so the New Testament is understood through this covenant relationship.
Speaker 1: The power of the New Testament, the grace of the
Speaker 1: New Testament, the provision of the New Testament is understood
Speaker 1: through this beautiful relationship with Abe Abraham. Okay, still here, Okay,
Speaker 1: listen to Psalm forty seven for instance, just one example.
Speaker 1: And by the way the psalms, the psalms are they
Speaker 1: are filled with theology of dominion. They aren't this weak,
Speaker 1: wimpy barely on the Lord ca The psalms are actually
Speaker 1: songs of dominion.
Speaker 2: They speak of the glory of God.
Speaker 1: The dominion of God, the power of God, the victory
Speaker 1: of God. And they the psalms, became the psalter, the songbook,
Speaker 1: the instruction, the understanding of the glory of God and
Speaker 1: how to enter into it. From the time of David
Speaker 1: until about thirty years ago, when we started writing songs
Speaker 1: of defeat and songs of stupidity. Clap your hands, all
Speaker 1: you nations. Well, the nations can't clap their hands unless
Speaker 1: there's a fulfillment to bring the nations in. When this
Speaker 1: was written, the nations didn't clap their hands only one
Speaker 1: nation clapped their hands when this was written. But prophetically,
Speaker 1: in that anointing, where the arc was, where the cherubhim were,
Speaker 1: where the presence of God would literally be hovering for
Speaker 1: thirty three years, and people would be coming and going,
Speaker 1: cheams would be coming and going, and they would worship,
Speaker 1: and they would adore, and they would bow, and they
Speaker 1: would play their instruments, and they would sing, and they
Speaker 1: would prophesy. Here's one of the prophetic words. Here's one
Speaker 1: of the prophetic words. Clap your hands, all u nations
Speaker 1: shout to God with the cries of joy, where the
Speaker 1: voice of triumph, the King James says, for the Lord
Speaker 1: most High is awesome, the great King over the earth.
Speaker 1: He subdues nations under us, people's under our feet. He
Speaker 1: shows our inheritance force the pride of Jacob, whom he loved.
Speaker 1: God has ascended on shouts of joy. Have you been
Speaker 1: to a church lately? Have you been to a church lately?
Speaker 1: God ascends triumphantly to reign and rule and put and
Speaker 1: put enemies under the sons of Adam's feet in the
Speaker 1: midst of shouts of joy, not in the midst of
Speaker 1: yawn's a boredom.
Speaker 3: Shah, thank God, I made it. Here's why I was
Speaker 3: a little later. Oh, I think the Lord.
Speaker 2: They were still serving coffee when I came in. Oh.
Speaker 3: Oh, people are sure kind of allowed in here and
Speaker 3: express it. I don't know if I like this. I'm
Speaker 3: looking for one of those pious churches where where they're silent. Well,
Speaker 3: God won't ascend in that church. God won't ascend in
Speaker 3: that people. God won't ascend in that place. God ascends
Speaker 3: in the shouts of joy. He ascends to triumph over
Speaker 3: a people in shouts of joy.
Speaker 1: I'm running out of time. I haven't even said anything yet.
Speaker 1: We're just getting warmed up. When I grow up, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna preach in African churches, or I can preach all day.
Speaker 1: God has ascended among the shouts of joy that the Lord,
Speaker 1: among the sounding of trumpets, trumpets and a church.
Speaker 2: You've got to be kidding me.
Speaker 1: Sing praises to God, Sing praises, Sing praises to the King.
Speaker 1: Sing praises for God is the King of the earth.
Speaker 1: Sing to him a song of praise God. The Lord
Speaker 1: reigns over the nations. God is sated and has only
Speaker 1: thrown the nobles of the nations assemble, and all the
Speaker 1: people of the God of Abraham, for the kings of
Speaker 1: the earth belong to God, and he has greatly exalted.
Speaker 1: Now I want you to see this, that even in
Speaker 1: that soul which happened right here somewhere, it happened right here,
Speaker 1: thirty three years, little thirty three year window, right here.
Speaker 1: Even in that psalm, he was pointing to Abraham, the
Speaker 1: God of Abraham, and he's pointing to dominion over the nations,
Speaker 1: which was coming. Are you with me so far? And
Speaker 1: I know where I'm down? But that's too men.
Speaker 2: I want to. I want to.
Speaker 1: I want to give you another thought or two. So
Speaker 1: when we hear the Lord talk about don't lay up
Speaker 1: a bunch of treasures on earth and be a hoarder,
Speaker 1: we have to understand everything the Lord said, everything Paul
Speaker 1: said in that nothing they said was to invalidate the
Speaker 1: covenant of financial well being, the covenant of increes, the
Speaker 1: covenant of blessing, the covenant of abundance. It's not a
Speaker 1: covenant of poverty. It's not a covenant of barely get by.
Speaker 1: It's not even a covenant of just enough. It's a
Speaker 1: covenant of abundance. Because through you, every nation will be blessed.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bless you to be a blessing, and through
Speaker 1: you all will be blessed. Well, I can't be blessed
Speaker 1: a blessing if I don't have abundance. I cannot be
Speaker 1: a blessing if I do not have abundance. This is
Speaker 1: the one nation now here. Look, look, look, look, Genesis nine.
Speaker 1: Genesis nine is the flood. Genesis nine is the flood,
Speaker 1: and he's starting over. Genesis ten is the table of nations.
Speaker 1: He divides and names under shem Ham and Jayfath seventy nations.
Speaker 1: Genesis eleven. Genesis eleven is rebellion. The nations rebel against
Speaker 1: God at the Tower of Babel, and they all want
Speaker 1: to go in an uncleaned direction and be under unclean rulers, principalities,
Speaker 1: and powers. Genesis chapter twelve is what's next.
Speaker 2: He goes.
Speaker 1: He says, okay, sixty nine of you, I'm gonna release you,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna raise up one nation, and through the
Speaker 1: seed to that one nation, I'm gonna bring a redeemer.
Speaker 1: And that redeemer is gonna crush Satan's head. And so
Speaker 1: Genesis chapter twelve is the beginning of a new nation.
Speaker 1: You can't look at Abraham as a person alone. He's
Speaker 1: the beginning of God's nation. God said, I'm gonna have
Speaker 1: a nation. I'm gonna have my nation. So God raises up,
Speaker 1: So he goes and finds Abram, who he foresees if
Speaker 1: I talk to this guy, he'll believe me. So he
Speaker 1: goes and brings him out of darkness, and he says,
Speaker 1: leave your father, leave your household, leave your tribe, leave everything,
Speaker 1: and I will make a nation. So these promises over you.
Speaker 1: It's like George Washington. You gotta think of George Washington,
Speaker 1: the founder of our nation. You gotta think Abraham was
Speaker 1: the founder of our nation. And God was saying, don't
Speaker 1: worry about provision. Listen, listen, follow me, Just follow me,
Speaker 1: and I will provide for you. It will blow your
Speaker 1: mind how I'll provide for you. And then he actually
Speaker 1: ties the provision to proving there's a covenant.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna read that to you. Could be the last
Speaker 2: thing I read.
Speaker 1: But he ties the provision to proving that he has
Speaker 1: a covenant, and he ties it to Abraham Isaac Jacob,
Speaker 1: and henceforth, from then on, all of Israel knows that
Speaker 1: this is our inheritance. Our inheritance is financial well being,
Speaker 1: because a nation can't exist without it. A nation can't exist.
Speaker 1: You aren't an individual Christian just going through life, bumping
Speaker 1: through your little Christian experience. You are an ambassador of
Speaker 1: a nation. You are a citizen of Heaven. You're a
Speaker 1: citizen of the Kingdom. You actually are the imbissary of
Speaker 1: a nation. We are a nation of kings and priests.
Speaker 2: You're a nation.
Speaker 1: God has ordained for you to have abundance because that
Speaker 1: is the calling and the anointing on the entire nation.
Speaker 1: You will be the head and not the tail, above
Speaker 1: and not beneath. You will lend and not borrow. You
Speaker 1: will be less going out and coming in all these
Speaker 1: promises or promises to a new nation of which you,
Speaker 1: through Christ to become a member of.
Speaker 2: You're okay, let's leave. Let's read the last verse.
Speaker 1: I want you to stand, and you can stand and rejoice.
Speaker 1: God ascends on a shout. God ascends on a shout.
Speaker 1: God ascends on a shout. So you have to understand.
Speaker 1: I want I want to listen, listen, listen. When we
Speaker 1: get to the New Testament, Jesus and Paul. They don't
Speaker 1: have to teach a thing about wealth, real estate, capitalism, money, sufficiency, abundance.
Speaker 1: They don't really have to teach a thing on it.
Speaker 1: All they have to do is show us that through
Speaker 1: Christ we're connected to Abraham. Alex, don't turn me down, please,
Speaker 1: all we have if you did. All they have to
Speaker 1: do is show that through Christ they're connected to Abraham.
Speaker 1: The moment you realize you're connected to Abraham, you realize
Speaker 1: you're connected to abundance. So the teachings of Jesus are
Speaker 1: very they're very corrective. He's only got a few of them.
Speaker 1: He only said something about money about five times. One
Speaker 1: of them is in Luke twelve. He says there was
Speaker 1: a guy who was very prosperous, and he built more
Speaker 1: and more barns, and he's sad that my life is
Speaker 1: so blessed.
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna take ease of my life.
Speaker 1: And he said that that man was judged because he
Speaker 1: was rich in goods, but not rich toward God. Every
Speaker 1: corrective statement is really about it's for you've entered into abundance.
Speaker 1: You have abundance, You're going to experience abundance. You're gonna
Speaker 1: be abounding in the goodness of God. Don't hoard it,
Speaker 1: don't hearden, don't be a Taiwand that's that's that's all
Speaker 1: he was saying. He just had some corrective words so
Speaker 1: we wouldn't be tiewands, because we already knew. This was
Speaker 1: our promise. Okay, I promised, I promise I'd shut up.
Speaker 1: Here we go, here we go, here we go, here
Speaker 1: we go, Deuteronomy eight. And we'll end it with this
Speaker 1: Sseuteronomy eight, and we'll end it with verse I'll start
Speaker 1: at verse sixteen. He gave you manity eat in the wilderness,
Speaker 1: something your ancestors had never known, to humble you and
Speaker 1: test you so that in the end it might go
Speaker 1: well with you. But you may say to yourself verse seventeen,
Speaker 1: my power and my strength, of the strength of my
Speaker 1: hands have produced this wealth for me verse eighteen. But
Speaker 1: remember it's the Lord, your God, for it is he
Speaker 1: who gives you the power or the ability to produce wealth.
Speaker 1: And so confirms his covenant which he swore to Abraham,
Speaker 1: Isaac and Jacob. Listen, listen, listen, listen. He said this
Speaker 1: over Israel. He's saying this over you today. He gives
Speaker 1: you the power to create wealth, and he's confirming the
Speaker 1: covenant that he's swore or to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
Speaker 1: because you've entered into a covenant that is overladened with promises,
Speaker 1: overladened with promises, and through Christ, you've become an heir
Speaker 1: to that covenant of promise. Father, we thank you today.
Speaker 1: Let's put up our hands and just rejoice. Let's just rejoice. Rejoice, Rejoice, rejoice.
Speaker 2: Father.
Speaker 1: We agree today that broken off of us is theology
Speaker 1: and thinking and arguments that oppose your goodness. Broken off
Speaker 1: of us is mindsets that oppose your goodness. Broken off
Speaker 1: of us are doctrines that oppose your goodness. We agree
Speaker 1: today that those are set aside, that those are disempowered.
Speaker 1: We're no longer listening to those influences. Today we acknowledge
Speaker 1: that we are children of Abraham, children of promise, children
Speaker 1: of blessing, and children of abundance. And we are a blessing,
Speaker 1: and we are a blessing. We thank you for it
Speaker 1: in Jesus' name, and everybody shouted. Let's worship as we
Speaker 1: go church. If you need prayer for anything, come to
Speaker 1: the front. We want to minister to you don't leave
Speaker 1: with a need that isn't met.
Speaker 2: Church