WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.440 --> 00:00:03.520 So I was I feel like this is for us, 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:07.919 But the Lord was working on my heart and he 3 00:00:08.039 --> 00:00:12.599 told me we need to steward his presence when he 4 00:00:12.759 --> 00:00:17.079 comes and gives us these meeting together, him meeting with 5 00:00:17.199 --> 00:00:19.920 us moments like that. It's a holy thing. It's a 6 00:00:19.960 --> 00:00:23.280 special thing. And even as you may be unpacking stuff 7 00:00:23.320 --> 00:00:26.079 that you got like last week, like you may be 8 00:00:26.199 --> 00:00:29.199 still unpacking, do you know what I'm talking about? Like that, 9 00:00:29.600 --> 00:00:33.719 I feel like the Lord is saying we need to 10 00:00:33.719 --> 00:00:38.560 be careful to steward it well. Because if I have 11 00:00:38.719 --> 00:00:41.799 a relationship with my wife, but I don't give her 12 00:00:41.880 --> 00:00:46.920 any care, concern, nor position or place in my life, 13 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:51.000 I'm guessing that probably we might have some marital problems 14 00:00:51.079 --> 00:00:52.240 or marital challenges. 15 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:56.399 And so in the same context as we are. 16 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:03.240 Yoked, connected, attached to the King, really the same thing 17 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:06.920 is true, and that is that if I didn't value 18 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:11.400 my marriage, I could lose it. If I didn't value 19 00:01:11.480 --> 00:01:15.560 when He came and touched me, when there's these special moments, 20 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:18.359 these holy times he comes and does something. 21 00:01:18.480 --> 00:01:24.920 If we're what you don't value, you can lose. 22 00:01:25.799 --> 00:01:27.879 Okay, I'm just throwing it at you because I just 23 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:30.599 feel like there's something like a little bit of weight 24 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:35.879 on that. Okay, so do you know you're living in 25 00:01:35.879 --> 00:01:39.359 one of the most exciting times to be a Christian, 26 00:01:40.599 --> 00:01:41.920 most exciting times ever. 27 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:44.480 I'm going to read you some statistics. These are from 28 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:46.480 the Barnet Group Barnar Research Group. 29 00:01:47.439 --> 00:01:50.719 There's been a forty two percent increase in Bible sales. 30 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:58.560 Gen Z and Millennials have recently surpassed Baby Boomers in 31 00:01:58.680 --> 00:01:59.680 church attendance. 32 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:03.920 Church. Listen to this statistic. 33 00:02:04.200 --> 00:02:08.560 Church attendance has doubled in the past five years for 34 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:18.520 gen Z and Millennials. Don't cheer for this one, but 35 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:22.199 there has been a consistent decline in participation in church 36 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:25.120 rates and in church attendance over the past twenty five years. 37 00:02:26.039 --> 00:02:30.919 With boomers, however, listen to this, there has been a 38 00:02:31.000 --> 00:02:35.879 significant shift in church attendance in who is showing up. 39 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:41.560 Barner Research Group says this about this shift, this is 40 00:02:41.560 --> 00:02:48.240 what it says. It says relational connection, volunteer engagement, and 41 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:55.560 clear discipleship pathways are helping them gen Z Millennials to 42 00:02:55.759 --> 00:03:02.120 build a resilient and lasting faith. That don't sound like 43 00:03:02.159 --> 00:03:05.639 a weak gospel to me. That sounds like a strong gospel. 44 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:09.560 It sounds like a gospel that takes ground. Okay, we're 45 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:13.120 living in an exciting time, and so I'm kicking off 46 00:03:13.159 --> 00:03:16.360 a seven part series. Pastor Dwayne had a great idea, 47 00:03:16.479 --> 00:03:19.479 came up with this, and so our preaching teams, everybody's 48 00:03:19.479 --> 00:03:23.120 gonna take a chunk of this. But Joe's gonna be 49 00:03:23.840 --> 00:03:29.159 a preaching a message on communion, Frank is gonna do 50 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:32.319 the laying on of hands and anointing with oil, Roman's 51 00:03:32.360 --> 00:03:36.120 gonna do the prophetic, Gary's gonna do grace and power 52 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:40.520 for healing, Zach's gonna do supernatural gifts, and Austin's gonna 53 00:03:40.520 --> 00:03:44.000 do worship. So I'm here kind of prime in the 54 00:03:44.039 --> 00:03:48.520 pump today. Okay, so I'm gonna what my goal is here. 55 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:52.039 I'm gonna preach on communion or excuse me, on baptism 56 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:52.800 here in just a little bit. 57 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:55.599 But I want to prime the pump in telling you. 58 00:03:55.520 --> 00:03:57.919 That I believe God is putting a door in front 59 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:03.840 of us of discovery, of discovery. There's stuff for us 60 00:04:03.879 --> 00:04:07.759 to discover in Christ that we don't yet know. And 61 00:04:07.840 --> 00:04:13.199 when we do this, we can uncover fresh streams of revival, 62 00:04:14.240 --> 00:04:20.160 fresh streams of personal revelation. And a substantial growth. 63 00:04:19.839 --> 00:04:20.360 To the house. 64 00:04:21.160 --> 00:04:25.040 Okay, I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago when 65 00:04:25.079 --> 00:04:27.319 I had the opportunity to preach on the Lord's prayer, 66 00:04:27.759 --> 00:04:32.199 And the thing I'd mentioned is that if we only 67 00:04:32.279 --> 00:04:37.279 ascend to understanding biblical truth from a head knowledge standpoint, 68 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:40.040 what will happen is we might be full of a 69 00:04:40.079 --> 00:04:44.240 lot of biblical facts, we might even have some decent doctrine, 70 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:46.839 but we can be very very. 71 00:04:48.759 --> 00:04:50.120 We can be very lacking. 72 00:04:50.480 --> 00:04:55.120 We can be missing something as far as the experiential 73 00:04:55.839 --> 00:04:59.399 move of God, like the understanding something in a way 74 00:04:59.399 --> 00:05:01.720 that He shows it to you that you didn't know 75 00:05:01.759 --> 00:05:07.120 it before. If we said, you know I love my wife, Well, 76 00:05:08.160 --> 00:05:11.560 does somebody who's five know what love means? No? 77 00:05:12.000 --> 00:05:15.480 But you learn what love is when you experience. 78 00:05:15.480 --> 00:05:18.519 The interaction not only with God but with your spouse, 79 00:05:18.680 --> 00:05:21.240 with the sacrifice of giving your life, then you develop 80 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:21.800 what love is. 81 00:05:21.920 --> 00:05:23.600 Right, then you begin to know what that is. 82 00:05:24.279 --> 00:05:27.639 But I'm sharing all of this because I feel like 83 00:05:28.079 --> 00:05:30.839 the Lord is playing a little bit of hide and. 84 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:32.439 Seek with us. 85 00:05:34.519 --> 00:05:37.680 So over these next weeks, do yourself a favor, and 86 00:05:37.759 --> 00:05:42.120 do not settle for head knowledge. Do yourself a favor 87 00:05:42.560 --> 00:05:45.680 and do not accept what you think you know about 88 00:05:45.720 --> 00:05:49.560 an ancient path or an ancient way that we've had 89 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:53.800 in the past that brings life. Don't just say well 90 00:05:54.759 --> 00:05:59.839 I've been baptized once. Well that is good, but there 91 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:02.720 there might be another baptism in store for you, right. 92 00:06:03.920 --> 00:06:06.879 Don't just say well I took communion last week. Well, 93 00:06:07.399 --> 00:06:09.879 God has a capacity to touch you fresh again this 94 00:06:09.920 --> 00:06:10.399 week with it. 95 00:06:10.639 --> 00:06:12.800 Okay. So I really feel. 96 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:15.959 Like there's something very for like our house, our body, 97 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:20.279 where God's gonna do some really miraculous things through this series. 98 00:06:20.319 --> 00:06:23.720 And so and I'm just priming the pump, okay. So 99 00:06:25.639 --> 00:06:31.759 Proverbs twenty five to two. Please, so God conceals. 100 00:06:32.439 --> 00:06:34.639 Actually, I'm gonna do anasp First, it. 101 00:06:34.680 --> 00:06:37.639 Is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But 102 00:06:37.759 --> 00:06:40.759 the glory of kings is to search a matter out. 103 00:06:41.360 --> 00:06:44.639 That's Proverbs twenty five to two. Proverbs twenty five two. 104 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:51.600 Let's put up the passion translation, if you would. God 105 00:06:51.720 --> 00:06:56.000 conceals the revelation of his word in the hiding place 106 00:06:56.040 --> 00:07:00.560 of his glory. But the honor of kings is revealed 107 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:05.600 by how thoroughly they search out the deeper meaning of 108 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:12.519 all that God says. So if God conceals revelation and 109 00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:15.279 a hiding place for his glory and his word. When 110 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:17.040 we get in the word, do you know what happens? 111 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:22.120 Do you know what we get revelation of His glory. 112 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:24.439 You can't get his word revealed to you and not 113 00:07:24.560 --> 00:07:26.439 end up with the glory of God coming and visiting 114 00:07:26.439 --> 00:07:26.879 your life. 115 00:07:27.839 --> 00:07:28.720 Is that making sense? 116 00:07:29.639 --> 00:07:33.240 Like there's something powerful when we search things out for 117 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:36.639 Him that just it wrecks us. 118 00:07:36.920 --> 00:07:38.720 We were not the same after. 119 00:07:41.319 --> 00:07:45.040 So, and I'm gonna this message is gonna have two parts. Okay, 120 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:46.920 first is the priming of the pump. Then I'm gonna 121 00:07:46.920 --> 00:07:50.480 talk about baptism. So in the priming of the pump, 122 00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:55.000 when I knew I was going to be preaching on baptism, 123 00:07:55.399 --> 00:07:58.800 I kept getting woke awoke at night, and I kept 124 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:01.040 getting awoke, and the same thing kept happened to me. 125 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:02.720 And so then I'm like, okay, I got to get up. 126 00:08:03.240 --> 00:08:06.000 And what happened is the Lord started to give me 127 00:08:06.120 --> 00:08:13.120 a picture of the removal of rocks from the well 128 00:08:13.160 --> 00:08:16.600 and then he actually said you need to go and 129 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:21.279 look at the digging of the wells and so and 130 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:23.240 next thing you know, I've got my Bible open, and 131 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:26.720 every single place I can find something on this I'm 132 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:27.079 in it. 133 00:08:27.680 --> 00:08:29.279 And so I'm going to start off here. 134 00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:33.360 My first scripture is Genesis twenty six three through five. 135 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:41.279 So there's a famine in the land of Egypt. Isaac 136 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:45.919 is communing with God. And at the time Isaac is 137 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:49.360 living in Gharaar. There is a Philistine king by the 138 00:08:49.440 --> 00:08:53.240 name of Abimelech who is ruling over this region. Okay, 139 00:08:53.320 --> 00:08:59.759 that's the context through the backstory for it. This is 140 00:08:59.759 --> 00:09:04.720 what the Lord is saying to him. To Isaac, he says, stay, 141 00:09:05.080 --> 00:09:10.000 this is twenty Genesis twenty six, three through five. Stay 142 00:09:10.039 --> 00:09:12.519 in this land for a while, and I will be 143 00:09:12.639 --> 00:09:15.399 with you, and I will bless you. For you and 144 00:09:15.440 --> 00:09:18.639 your descendants, I will give all of these lands, and 145 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:20.039 I will confirm. 146 00:09:19.639 --> 00:09:22.159 The oath I swore to your father, Abraham. 147 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:26.279 I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars 148 00:09:26.279 --> 00:09:29.120 in the sky, and will give them all these lands. 149 00:09:29.159 --> 00:09:32.279 And through your offspring, all nations of the earth will 150 00:09:32.320 --> 00:09:36.639 be blessed. Because Abraham obeyed me and did everything I 151 00:09:36.759 --> 00:09:41.360 required of him, keeping my commandments, my decrees, and my instructions. 152 00:09:42.200 --> 00:09:45.480 So God is declaring that there's going to be a 153 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:48.559 supernatural favor of God, a blessing of God, a hand 154 00:09:48.600 --> 00:09:53.799 of God over his son Isaac. And he's saying, it's 155 00:09:53.879 --> 00:09:58.360 tied to the covenant your father kept. And because your 156 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:02.679 father kept my commandments, he kept my ways, he was 157 00:10:02.759 --> 00:10:05.879 concerned my instructions, my decrees, he was concerned about me. 158 00:10:06.639 --> 00:10:10.039 I'm going to convey that same blessing on you, my son. 159 00:10:10.399 --> 00:10:10.799 Okay. 160 00:10:10.840 --> 00:10:15.879 So that's the dialogue between him and God. So listen 161 00:10:15.919 --> 00:10:19.200 to this. So what does he do based upon that declaration? 162 00:10:20.480 --> 00:10:23.519 This is Gen. Six twenty six, twelve through sixteen. 163 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:29.519 Isaac planted crops in that land and the same year 164 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:35.840 reaped a hundred fold. Because the Lord blessed him, the 165 00:10:35.840 --> 00:10:40.320 man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until 166 00:10:40.360 --> 00:10:42.159 he became very wealthy. 167 00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:47.600 So he's not a little bit wealthy. He's very wealthy. Okay. 168 00:10:48.320 --> 00:10:52.279 He had so many flocks and herds and servants that 169 00:10:52.320 --> 00:10:58.440 the Philistines envied him. So all the wells from his 170 00:10:58.759 --> 00:11:02.080 father's servants that had been dug in the time of 171 00:11:02.120 --> 00:11:05.080 his father Abraham, the Philissines stopped him up. 172 00:11:05.600 --> 00:11:13.679 Say the Philissines stopped up the wells, filling them with earth. 173 00:11:14.360 --> 00:11:17.919 Then Ibimelek said to Isaac, move away from us, for 174 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:20.480 you have become too powerful. 175 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:25.440 God's hand on you. 176 00:11:26.679 --> 00:11:30.080 Actually will make it so that your enemies will envy you. 177 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:34.320 God's hand on you will actually make it so that 178 00:11:34.360 --> 00:11:39.559 the spiritual forces of evil will actually fear you, so 179 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:43.159 that the spiritual forces of evil will actually say, please 180 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:44.320 move away from us. 181 00:11:44.360 --> 00:11:47.919 You're too powerful for me. Do you understand this? 182 00:11:48.399 --> 00:11:51.440 And so some of you in here might actually even 183 00:11:51.480 --> 00:11:55.440 be facing some demonic opposition right now as we speak. 184 00:11:56.000 --> 00:11:58.840 And it's actually because God's hand is on your life, 185 00:11:59.200 --> 00:12:02.000 and it's because his grace is on you, and the 186 00:12:02.000 --> 00:12:05.639 demonic realm is trying to throw arrows at you. You've 187 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:08.399 got a machine downe arrows coming at you. This is 188 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:11.600 not me prophesying this. There's no arrows coming at you. 189 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:14.960 But you could be experiencing something like this. And what 190 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:20.080 happens is that if the spiritual forces of evil out 191 00:12:20.120 --> 00:12:24.759 there are afraid of you, if the spiritual forces of 192 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:29.159 evil are envying you and want your destruction, You're actually 193 00:12:29.200 --> 00:12:32.879 going to face opposition in this life because God's glories 194 00:12:32.919 --> 00:12:41.120 on you. He's declared this over Isaac. And what does 195 00:12:41.159 --> 00:12:44.960 Isaac do? So, Isaac's got some challenges and we'll get 196 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:46.519 into the story. And I'm going to try and do 197 00:12:46.600 --> 00:12:50.639 that pert quick. So Isaac repeats this pattern. Here's what 198 00:12:50.679 --> 00:12:56.039 Isaac does. Isaac builds an altar, pitches a tent, digs 199 00:12:56.039 --> 00:12:59.320 a well, calls on the name of the Lord. He 200 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:04.679 does it again and again. Genesis twenty six, twenty two. 201 00:13:06.399 --> 00:13:09.679 He moved on from there and dug another well. Why 202 00:13:09.720 --> 00:13:15.240 because they keep stopping this stuff up. His adversary, the devil, 203 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:18.519 who rolls around like a roars, he's like a oh, 204 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:22.320 he stinks, but he's got no power. He's been absolutely defeated. 205 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:25.799 And so anything that you're facing the Lord's pastor Dwayne 206 00:13:25.919 --> 00:13:29.720 was prophesying one Corinthians two fourteen, which if you were 207 00:13:29.720 --> 00:13:32.120 to come in my house, there's a huge thing that 208 00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:36.320 is this. It's on the wall, and it's talking about 209 00:13:36.600 --> 00:13:39.679 him giving you the victory, spreading everywhere the fragrance of 210 00:13:39.720 --> 00:13:41.840 the knowledge of him through the victory that he gives you, 211 00:13:42.519 --> 00:13:44.720 like this is the Lord over your life. This is 212 00:13:45.360 --> 00:13:51.000 like this is your life confession, Okay, And so Genesis 213 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:54.399 twenty six, twenty two, he moved on from there and 214 00:13:54.440 --> 00:13:56.639 he dug another well, and no. 215 00:13:56.559 --> 00:13:57.799 One quarreled over it. 216 00:13:58.080 --> 00:14:01.519 He named it Rehoboth, saying, now the Lord has given 217 00:14:01.600 --> 00:14:04.120 us room, and we will flourish in this land. 218 00:14:05.200 --> 00:14:06.360 Let's go to verse twenty four. 219 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:10.120 That night, the Lord appeared to him and said, I 220 00:14:10.159 --> 00:14:13.919 am the God of your father, Abraham, do not be afraid, 221 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:14.799 for I am with you. 222 00:14:14.879 --> 00:14:15.600 I will bless you. 223 00:14:15.679 --> 00:14:18.360 I will increase the number of your descendants for the 224 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:26.200 sake of my servant Abraham. There were promises in store 225 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:30.720 here for Isaac because of the relationship that Abraham had 226 00:14:30.759 --> 00:14:36.600 with God. But God's telling Isaac, you need to go 227 00:14:36.799 --> 00:14:39.639 and dig up some of the wells that your dad 228 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:41.159 had initially. 229 00:14:42.279 --> 00:14:45.120 His servants had originally dug. Are you tracking with me? 230 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:51.799 So why is he telling him to do this? I 231 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:56.799 think anyhow, they need to dig up the well so 232 00:14:56.840 --> 00:14:58.360 the water starts flowing again. 233 00:14:59.559 --> 00:15:04.440 Right. 234 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:11.159 I believe there are elemental components of Christianity where God 235 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:15.799 will move powerfully in these elemental components and he will 236 00:15:15.799 --> 00:15:19.639 bring revival, He will bring transformation, He will show up 237 00:15:19.679 --> 00:15:23.879 in power if we will align with these pathways, these 238 00:15:23.919 --> 00:15:27.879 ancient ways of life, these redigging the well experiences that 239 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:30.159 we're going to be bringing to you as a preaching 240 00:15:30.200 --> 00:15:31.480 team over the next seven weeks. 241 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:33.200 Okay, are you getting me? 242 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:39.480 And I don't have much time to get into this, 243 00:15:39.559 --> 00:15:45.000 but I believe that this is prophetic. If you look 244 00:15:45.080 --> 00:15:47.200 back in these scriptures, what you're going to find is 245 00:15:47.240 --> 00:15:56.159 that Abraham, when he had dug a particular well at Beersheba, 246 00:15:56.679 --> 00:15:59.159 he dug a well, he planted a tree. The tree 247 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:04.519 is a tamara tamarisk tree. How many in here know? 248 00:16:05.840 --> 00:16:07.759 How many in here know what a tamarisk tree is. 249 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:12.360 This is what happened at first service. I was shocked. 250 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:15.120 I was thinking, like ninety percent of you were gonna 251 00:16:15.159 --> 00:16:15.639 raise your hand. 252 00:16:15.840 --> 00:16:22.799 Okay, So so here's the thing. A tamarisk tree is 253 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:30.440 an evergreen tree growing in the desert, in an arid 254 00:16:30.519 --> 00:16:35.559 place where there's almost no water. How does an evergreen 255 00:16:35.679 --> 00:16:39.519 tree grow in the desert and stay evergreen? 256 00:16:42.639 --> 00:16:45.240 Say it again, Dennis, deep roots. 257 00:16:45.279 --> 00:16:49.360 A tamorous tree has a very unique aspect to it 258 00:16:49.519 --> 00:16:54.720 in that it has roots that are terribly deep. And 259 00:16:54.919 --> 00:16:59.399 Abraham planted this tree as a prophetic declaration. 260 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:03.360 Of not what would be. 261 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:09.079 For him, but he was declaring it over the generations 262 00:17:09.200 --> 00:17:13.519 after him, Because that tree isn't planted for your generation. 263 00:17:14.119 --> 00:17:19.160 That tree grows very slowly, very slowly, with really deep roots, 264 00:17:19.559 --> 00:17:23.839 and that tree isn't enjoyed by the generation that actually 265 00:17:23.920 --> 00:17:29.480 planted it. Guess where the final well was that he 266 00:17:29.559 --> 00:17:34.640 started to take the rocks out of. It was the 267 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:38.039 well where the tamarisk tree is there at Beersheba. 268 00:17:38.640 --> 00:17:41.119 That was his dad's declaration. 269 00:17:43.400 --> 00:17:47.119 Over the favor of God, over his lineage, and the 270 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:50.720 people who would walk with God that they represent it. 271 00:17:50.759 --> 00:18:01.759 Do you get it? What was the purpose of redigging 272 00:18:01.759 --> 00:18:09.799 the well so that the water would flow again? Out 273 00:18:09.799 --> 00:18:10.000 of you? 274 00:18:10.920 --> 00:18:17.440 Streams of living water will flow. The well is not 275 00:18:17.559 --> 00:18:21.279 about the well. The well is about who comes out 276 00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:27.720 of the well. Yeah, the well is not about the well. 277 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:30.440 The well is about who flows out of the well. 278 00:18:35.880 --> 00:18:38.000 A few weeks ago, I had an opportunity to preach 279 00:18:38.039 --> 00:18:39.680 here on a Friday night, and the Lord had given 280 00:18:39.720 --> 00:18:42.279 me a prophetic word that I thought was for this house, 281 00:18:42.359 --> 00:18:47.680 my family, and I mentioned that this word was build 282 00:18:47.720 --> 00:18:50.319 the family. And I can't seem to get away from it. 283 00:18:50.400 --> 00:18:52.839 I cannot get away from this thing. It just keeps 284 00:18:52.839 --> 00:18:58.680 coming at me everywhere. And then over the summit, Pastor Dwayne, 285 00:18:58.720 --> 00:19:01.440 I think, asked Ivan or something, do you have a 286 00:19:01.480 --> 00:19:05.720 prophetic or a declarative word for the year, and Ivan said, yeah, 287 00:19:05.799 --> 00:19:10.599 the declarative word for the year is the family. And 288 00:19:10.640 --> 00:19:13.599 it's just literally, I'm like, it's hitting me when I'm 289 00:19:13.640 --> 00:19:14.000 down here. 290 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:17.319 I'm like, oh, man, this is like, this is the 291 00:19:17.359 --> 00:19:18.000 Lord's heart. 292 00:19:20.079 --> 00:19:22.039 Like, if you want to see the heart of God, man, 293 00:19:22.519 --> 00:19:29.160 the family is where the heart of God is. And 294 00:19:31.200 --> 00:19:37.119 there is this unique thing that is multifaceted and multi generational, 295 00:19:38.200 --> 00:19:42.119 and if we don't dig the wells, the next generation 296 00:19:42.279 --> 00:19:43.079 won't get to see it. 297 00:19:49.960 --> 00:19:51.720 Ivan also preached a little. 298 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:54.319 Bit about how when he was young, he had gotten 299 00:19:54.319 --> 00:19:56.880 to go to and be at an event and Kenneth 300 00:19:56.920 --> 00:20:00.640 Hagen Senior was there. He was ministering Leyden his years 301 00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:05.039 and Kenneth Hagen Senior was like prophesying over him and 302 00:20:05.720 --> 00:20:07.920 people were falling out and there was all this stuff happening, 303 00:20:07.960 --> 00:20:08.759 and he was like. 304 00:20:08.680 --> 00:20:11.200 And he was like really old, like really old. Like 305 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:12.920 he was like worried he could be up on the stage. 306 00:20:12.920 --> 00:20:13.519 So old. You know. 307 00:20:13.839 --> 00:20:16.400 That was kind of the interpretation I received from what 308 00:20:16.559 --> 00:20:20.079 Ivan had said, And so I was reflecting a little 309 00:20:20.079 --> 00:20:21.079 bit on this when he was. 310 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:22.680 Talking about it, because. 311 00:20:24.440 --> 00:20:28.240 Kenneth Hagen sor I got touched by some of his 312 00:20:28.359 --> 00:20:32.559 teaching maybe twenty five years ago, and he's you know, 313 00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:36.839 he's one of the fathers of the Word of Faith movement. Okay, well, 314 00:20:37.759 --> 00:20:40.759 we realized that as a movement, but we don't understand 315 00:20:40.839 --> 00:20:42.200 necessarily what started it. 316 00:20:42.680 --> 00:20:44.640 And what started it is he was a. 317 00:20:44.559 --> 00:20:49.799 Teenager, he was paralyzed, he had an incurable blood disease. 318 00:20:50.519 --> 00:20:52.599 People were saying, you're not gonna make it like they 319 00:20:52.599 --> 00:20:55.240 were expecting him to die. Like in a short period 320 00:20:55.279 --> 00:21:00.720 of time, he'd grown up in his perspective of Christianity. 321 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:03.119 What he knew about Christianity. 322 00:21:04.359 --> 00:21:07.440 Was a branch of Christianity that didn't really think that 323 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:11.480 God moved today, that God's not really a healer. God 324 00:21:11.559 --> 00:21:13.440 doesn't work in the same ways that he used to 325 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:16.599 back in the New Testament and what you read of 326 00:21:16.640 --> 00:21:19.000 in the Book of Acts. So what I would call 327 00:21:19.079 --> 00:21:23.160 Cessatianist theology, people who believe that that God. 328 00:21:22.960 --> 00:21:23.960 Doesn't exist today. 329 00:21:24.200 --> 00:21:26.680 Okay, they think that that ended with the death of 330 00:21:26.720 --> 00:21:29.279 the last of the Apostles or the canonization of Scripture, 331 00:21:29.480 --> 00:21:32.839 depending upon what camp they're from. And so I'm sharing 332 00:21:32.880 --> 00:21:36.119 this with you to say that Kenneth Hagen Senior got 333 00:21:36.119 --> 00:21:37.079 a hold of a scripture. 334 00:21:37.279 --> 00:21:38.559 This is the scripture Mark. 335 00:21:38.400 --> 00:21:41.279 Eleven, twenty three and twenty four. If you could put 336 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:56.359 that up for me. Truly, I tell you, if anyone 337 00:21:56.400 --> 00:21:58.559 says to this mountain, go throw yourself into the sea, 338 00:21:58.599 --> 00:22:00.640 and does not doubt in their heart but leaves what 339 00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:03.519 they say will happen, it will be done for them. Therefore, 340 00:22:03.599 --> 00:22:06.640 I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe 341 00:22:06.759 --> 00:22:11.039 you have received it and it will be yours. Believe 342 00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:14.039 you will receive it and it will be yours. So, 343 00:22:14.160 --> 00:22:16.759 all of a sudden, this guy's talking about like speaking 344 00:22:16.799 --> 00:22:21.079 to mountains. Plug for Pastor Dwayne's book. There's a book 345 00:22:21.119 --> 00:22:23.279 in the back written by Pastor Dwayne called Move Your Mountain. 346 00:22:24.480 --> 00:22:27.720 But it's on this it's this kind of teaching. And 347 00:22:27.759 --> 00:22:31.279 so all of a sudden, this man, Kenneth Hagen, Sr. 348 00:22:31.440 --> 00:22:34.720 He starts declaring to the sickness in his body, go 349 00:22:35.279 --> 00:22:36.519 I cast you into the sea. 350 00:22:36.640 --> 00:22:38.079 Get out. I cast you into the sea. 351 00:22:38.400 --> 00:22:40.119 And he was believing in his heart, and he was 352 00:22:40.200 --> 00:22:42.319 ruminating on it day and night, night and day. 353 00:22:42.480 --> 00:22:46.400 And you know what ended up happening. A supernet. 354 00:22:46.440 --> 00:22:48.880 You can go listen to YouTube and him talk about 355 00:22:48.880 --> 00:22:51.440 his healing, but like something in the way of like 356 00:22:51.480 --> 00:22:55.960 electricity came through his body. After standing on this for 357 00:22:56.039 --> 00:22:59.720 a duration of time, I think it was sixteen months, 358 00:22:59.759 --> 00:23:01.519 he was bedridden, if I'm not mistaken. 359 00:23:02.359 --> 00:23:05.960 And what happened is God touched him and he knew. 360 00:23:05.799 --> 00:23:09.119 He was different, so much so that he actually was 361 00:23:09.160 --> 00:23:13.559 afraid to share this with his family because he was 362 00:23:13.680 --> 00:23:17.279 concerned that if he told his family what happened, that 363 00:23:17.359 --> 00:23:19.400 they would actually try and talk him out of his 364 00:23:19.480 --> 00:23:30.200 healing because they don't believe that God does that. Today, 365 00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:33.880 if Kenneth Hagen Senior didn't have God come and visit 366 00:23:33.960 --> 00:23:36.640 him heal him, he wouldn't be one of the fathers 367 00:23:36.680 --> 00:23:38.680 of the Word of Faith movement. Do you know how 368 00:23:38.680 --> 00:23:41.640 many hundreds of millions of us have been blessed by 369 00:23:41.680 --> 00:23:45.079 the Word of Faith movement? Hundreds of millions of people, 370 00:23:45.480 --> 00:23:48.680 maybe billions, I don't know, but definitely hundreds of millions 371 00:23:48.680 --> 00:23:51.359 of people have been blessed by the Word of Faith movement. 372 00:23:52.880 --> 00:23:54.680 Do you think that God brought. 373 00:23:54.640 --> 00:24:00.440 Supernatural healing to Kenneth Hagen's senior just for Kenneth Hagen Senior. No, 374 00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:07.799 he did, but he didn't because he wanted to bring 375 00:24:07.880 --> 00:24:12.240 something forth to an entire generation of people, an entire 376 00:24:12.319 --> 00:24:17.000 group of pastors. He ignited generations of pastors who would 377 00:24:17.039 --> 00:24:17.559 be out. 378 00:24:17.440 --> 00:24:18.640 Teaching on faith. 379 00:24:20.319 --> 00:24:23.599 And it took this touch of God deep in who 380 00:24:23.680 --> 00:24:27.480 he was, where he was so radically transformed. He continued 381 00:24:27.480 --> 00:24:33.079 to preach powerfully well into his eighties, well into his eighties. 382 00:24:36.880 --> 00:24:40.000 There's something by the way of discovering and getting back 383 00:24:40.039 --> 00:24:42.599 on the track of these ancient pasts where God's going 384 00:24:42.640 --> 00:24:45.359 to I believe God's going to move in signs and 385 00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:50.839 wonders and powerfully over our church because of what He's unveiling, 386 00:24:51.240 --> 00:24:54.200 because of the gold that we're mining out, because we're 387 00:24:54.279 --> 00:24:56.960 going to find all the glory that He has hidden 388 00:24:56.960 --> 00:25:02.960 in his word. Thank you, Lord, Lord. 389 00:25:03.680 --> 00:25:07.359 I got to see that. I've even got to see. 390 00:25:07.359 --> 00:25:11.000 If it wasn't for Kenneth Hagen Senior, we wouldn't have 391 00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:12.880 had the summit we just had. Do you realize that 392 00:25:14.240 --> 00:25:16.880 you're watching every almost everything you saw at the summit. 393 00:25:17.319 --> 00:25:20.559 A lot of the stems from his ministry touching other 394 00:25:20.599 --> 00:25:23.720 people and those people touching you, and Pastor Dwayne writing 395 00:25:23.720 --> 00:25:27.599 a book on Move your Mountains, and this particular scripture 396 00:25:27.680 --> 00:25:34.240 right what I'm going to tell you is that there's 397 00:25:34.319 --> 00:25:37.799 something powerful by the way of transference that God's attempting 398 00:25:37.839 --> 00:25:41.599 to do here that He'll continue on with our lineage, 399 00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:44.319 with not only our church, our children, our children's children. 400 00:25:44.960 --> 00:25:47.880 This is more powerful than we know. Like I can't 401 00:25:47.880 --> 00:25:53.279