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Thanks for listening to 34 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:37,959 Speaker 3: our podcast and thanks for supporting the ministry. 35 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:40,440 Speaker 5: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 36 00:01:40,480 --> 00:01:42,039 Speaker 5: blessing and share it with a friend. 37 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:45,039 Speaker 3: We appreciate you and pray for God very best in 38 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:48,520 Speaker 3: your life. God bless you. It's a joy to come 39 00:01:48,560 --> 00:01:51,400 Speaker 3: into your homes and if you're ever in our area, 40 00:01:51,480 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 3: please stop buying be a part of one of our services. 41 00:01:54,440 --> 00:01:56,880 Speaker 3: I'll promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 42 00:01:57,560 --> 00:01:59,600 Speaker 3: I like to start with something funny, and I heard 43 00:01:59,640 --> 00:02:03,040 Speaker 3: about this elderly lady that was close to death. She 44 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:06,080 Speaker 3: had never been married, and she called her pastor over 45 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:09,320 Speaker 3: to talk about our funeral. She said that she only 46 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:13,400 Speaker 3: wanted female pallbearers. Pastor looked at her kind of strange 47 00:02:13,400 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 3: and asked why. She said. The men wouldn't take me 48 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:17,519 Speaker 3: out when I was alive, and they're not going to 49 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:20,440 Speaker 3: take me out when I'm dead. Say it like you 50 00:02:20,480 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 3: mean it. This is my Bible. I am what it 51 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:25,480 Speaker 3: says I am. I have what it says I have. 52 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:28,680 Speaker 3: I can do what it says I can do. Today 53 00:02:28,800 --> 00:02:32,120 Speaker 3: I will be taught the word of God. I boldly confess. 54 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:35,920 Speaker 3: My mind is alert, my heart is receptive. I will 55 00:02:35,919 --> 00:02:39,919 Speaker 3: never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 56 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:43,800 Speaker 3: I want to talk to you today about rest from 57 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:47,560 Speaker 3: your enemies. We all have things that come against us 58 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:51,000 Speaker 3: and try to keep us from our destiny. Most of 59 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:54,720 Speaker 3: what we struggle with didn't start with us. It was 60 00:02:54,800 --> 00:03:01,520 Speaker 3: passed down things like depression, addictions, angered worse. Studies show 61 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 3: how that can get passed from generation to generation. If 62 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:09,400 Speaker 3: your mother was depressed, there's a good chance you'll have 63 00:03:09,440 --> 00:03:13,040 Speaker 3: to deal with depression. If your father was an alcoholic, 64 00:03:13,560 --> 00:03:17,480 Speaker 3: had anger issues, wasn't faithful to his wife, those are 65 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:21,480 Speaker 3: traits that can affect you. Just like a lady that's 66 00:03:21,480 --> 00:03:25,320 Speaker 3: on drugs and gives birth to a baby. That baby 67 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:28,560 Speaker 3: can have the same addiction as the mother. There's no 68 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:32,400 Speaker 3: fault of the babies. It's just life. The good news 69 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,520 Speaker 3: is there is a way to put a stop to it. 70 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:39,080 Speaker 3: What you're dealing with may not have started with you, 71 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:43,440 Speaker 3: but it can stop with you. God wants to give 72 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 3: you rest from those enemies. He wants to put an 73 00:03:46,920 --> 00:03:50,320 Speaker 3: end to what's limiting you. But there's something we have 74 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:55,120 Speaker 3: to do. As long as we accept dysfunction as the norm, 75 00:03:55,480 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 3: it will never change. If you see that addiction, that 76 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:03,600 Speaker 3: that lack and struggle as your lot in life, you'll 77 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:06,200 Speaker 3: not only get stuck, but you'll pass it on to 78 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:09,720 Speaker 3: the next generation. And this is what the Israelites did. 79 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 3: In Judges fifteen, the Philistines had been ruling over them 80 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:18,000 Speaker 3: for forty years. An angel appeared to a young lady 81 00:04:18,400 --> 00:04:20,640 Speaker 3: and said, you're going to have a son. You are 82 00:04:20,680 --> 00:04:24,599 Speaker 3: to name him Sampson. He's going to have supernatural strength. 83 00:04:25,040 --> 00:04:29,159 Speaker 3: He will deliver the Israelites from the Philistines. And as 84 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,640 Speaker 3: he grew up, the Philistines could tell there was something 85 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:36,840 Speaker 3: different about Sampson. Every time they tried to bind him, 86 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:40,280 Speaker 3: he would break those cords. He was a huge threat 87 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:44,839 Speaker 3: to them. So the Philistines circled the Israelites camp and 88 00:04:44,920 --> 00:04:47,720 Speaker 3: were about to attack. The men of Judah went out 89 00:04:47,760 --> 00:04:51,000 Speaker 3: and said, hey, why are you coming against us. We're 90 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 3: not bothering you. We're your slaves. They said, we've come 91 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:59,599 Speaker 3: to get Sampson. He's causing us trouble. Instead of recognizing 92 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:03,040 Speaker 3: that Sampson had been raised up to deliver them from 93 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:07,159 Speaker 3: the Philistines. Instead of saying, yes, this is a new day. 94 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:12,039 Speaker 3: We're not living in mediocrity anymore. We're done being ruled 95 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 3: by this enemy. The Israelites were so comfortable in dysfunction 96 00:05:17,839 --> 00:05:21,720 Speaker 3: they went to Sampson and tied him up. He wasn't 97 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 3: tied up by the enemy. He was tied up by 98 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 3: his friends. They said in verse eleven, Sampson, don't you 99 00:05:28,920 --> 00:05:33,279 Speaker 3: realize the Philistines rule over us? Why are you making 100 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:36,920 Speaker 3: it even worse? They were saying, this is our lot 101 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:40,560 Speaker 3: in life. Sampson has been this way for forty years. 102 00:05:40,640 --> 00:05:43,360 Speaker 3: You really think something's going to change? Just accept it. 103 00:05:43,960 --> 00:05:47,479 Speaker 3: How many times is God sending us a Samson? But 104 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:51,840 Speaker 3: we think like the Israelites. I'll always be lonely, Joel. 105 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 3: I've been this way for years. I'll never break this addiction. 106 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:58,240 Speaker 3: I've had it a long time. I'll never get out 107 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:02,279 Speaker 3: of debt. My family always struggles. As long as you 108 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 3: accept the dysfunction, and even when God sends you away out, 109 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 3: even when a Samson shows up, you'll talk yourself out 110 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:14,760 Speaker 3: of it. Because they were stuck in their thinking, they 111 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,960 Speaker 3: tied up the one that was sent to deliver them. 112 00:06:18,920 --> 00:06:23,000 Speaker 3: Are you tying up your breakthrough, so to speak, tying 113 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:27,280 Speaker 3: up your healing, your promotion, your abundance. Because the dysfunction 114 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:31,960 Speaker 3: is so familiar, it's been that way so long, you 115 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:37,360 Speaker 3: think it's normal to live depressed, addicted, angry, lonely. This 116 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:40,440 Speaker 3: is a new day. You may have been ruled by 117 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 3: those things for years. They may have been passed down 118 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:48,640 Speaker 3: by previous generations, but that is not your destiny. God 119 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:52,440 Speaker 3: sent me as a Samson. He's using my voice to 120 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:55,839 Speaker 3: tell you it's time to break free. It's time to 121 00:06:55,960 --> 00:07:00,760 Speaker 3: rise higher. What's limited you in the past doesn't have 122 00:07:00,839 --> 00:07:04,279 Speaker 3: to limit you in the future. You can break that addiction. 123 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:08,200 Speaker 3: You have the most powerful force in the universe, breathing 124 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 3: in your direction. You can rise out of lack struggle, 125 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:16,720 Speaker 3: not having enough. You have seeds of greatness. You were 126 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:20,160 Speaker 3: created to lend and not borrow. You can be free 127 00:07:20,200 --> 00:07:26,320 Speaker 3: from depression, low self esteem, insecurity. God crowned you with favor. 128 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:29,680 Speaker 3: He put a robe of honor on you. You have 129 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 3: royal blood flowing through your veins. Don't let limited thinking 130 00:07:34,440 --> 00:07:38,160 Speaker 3: keep you from your destiny. You can't think this is 131 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:40,840 Speaker 3: the way it's always going to be, and expect to 132 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:43,720 Speaker 3: rise to the next level. And this is where the 133 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:47,400 Speaker 3: Israelites missed it. They were so afraid of the Philistines, 134 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:50,560 Speaker 3: so convinced they were going to rule them their whole life. 135 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:55,480 Speaker 3: They went to Samson, their friend, their deliverer, and tied 136 00:07:55,560 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 3: him up. When the Philistines saw that he was bound, 137 00:07:59,400 --> 00:08:02,960 Speaker 3: they went over to get him, thought, finally we can relax. 138 00:08:03,720 --> 00:08:06,960 Speaker 3: But the spirit of the Lord came on Sampson. He 139 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:10,560 Speaker 3: broke those chords like they were threads. He picked up 140 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:13,360 Speaker 3: the jawbone of a donkey and wiped out over a 141 00:08:13,440 --> 00:08:19,160 Speaker 3: thousand Philistines. What's interesting is he broke the chains not 142 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:23,640 Speaker 3: of his enemies, but of his friends. God was showing 143 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:27,720 Speaker 3: us Sometimes the people closest to you, the ones that 144 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:30,920 Speaker 3: raised you, your family and friends. They may tell you 145 00:08:31,400 --> 00:08:35,040 Speaker 3: just settle where you are. Don't you know these things 146 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:38,840 Speaker 3: rule over us. You'll never get your degree, you'll never 147 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:43,280 Speaker 3: meet the right person, You'll never break that addiction. Like Sampson, 148 00:08:43,880 --> 00:08:47,200 Speaker 3: they cannot keep you chained up. God has put a 149 00:08:47,280 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 3: supernatural strength on you to fulfill your destiny. Your family, 150 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 3: your friends, your neighbors. They don't know what's in you. 151 00:08:56,240 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 3: They can't keep you from rising higher. They may be 152 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:04,880 Speaker 3: good people, they're sincere, but their vision is limited. Don't 153 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:08,320 Speaker 3: fall into that trap. God has called you to be 154 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:12,240 Speaker 3: a Samson, to deliver your people, to set a new 155 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:16,360 Speaker 3: standard for your family, to break chains that have held 156 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:21,320 Speaker 3: you back. Sometimes it's not our enemies that are limiting us. 157 00:09:21,840 --> 00:09:25,560 Speaker 3: Our friends have tied us up. Everyone close to you 158 00:09:25,640 --> 00:09:29,400 Speaker 3: may not be for you. They can say discouraging things, 159 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:33,839 Speaker 3: just settle Their depression runs in this family. Your dad 160 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,360 Speaker 3: was broke, your granddad was broke. You're gonna be broke 161 00:09:36,400 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 3: to no offense. But they're trying to tie you up. 162 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:44,360 Speaker 3: Are you going to accept the dysfunction, settle for mediocrity, 163 00:09:44,880 --> 00:09:46,839 Speaker 3: or are you going to say I don't think so, 164 00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:50,040 Speaker 3: I'm better than this. I know the power that's in 165 00:09:50,080 --> 00:09:53,480 Speaker 3: me is greater than any force it's trying to stop me. 166 00:09:54,880 --> 00:09:58,560 Speaker 3: When God breathed his life into you, he destined you 167 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:02,280 Speaker 3: to leave you a mar He gave you the power 168 00:10:02,640 --> 00:10:07,000 Speaker 3: to break chains that have held your family back for generations. 169 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:11,959 Speaker 3: He anointed you as a Samson to take new ground. 170 00:10:12,720 --> 00:10:16,640 Speaker 3: Don't let mediocrity become the norm. It may have been 171 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 3: that way as far back as you can see. You 172 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:21,720 Speaker 3: have to draw the line in the sand and say 173 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:24,600 Speaker 3: the buck stops with me. I'm not going to live 174 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:29,160 Speaker 3: tied up. My relatives may have been bound. My friends 175 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:33,080 Speaker 3: may be fine with dysfunction, my coworkers may be okay 176 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:37,600 Speaker 3: with living depressed, angry, addicted, But not me. I'm going 177 00:10:37,640 --> 00:10:41,439 Speaker 3: to be a Samson. I'm going to break chains. I 178 00:10:41,480 --> 00:10:45,600 Speaker 3: know I was born to make a difference. Somebody has 179 00:10:45,679 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 3: to be the first one in the family to not 180 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:52,160 Speaker 3: be addicted, to not get a divorce, to not live 181 00:10:52,200 --> 00:10:55,960 Speaker 3: paycheck to paycheck, to not go around angry and defended. 182 00:10:56,559 --> 00:10:59,400 Speaker 3: Why can't it be you? Why can't you set a 183 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:03,160 Speaker 3: new stand? Why can't you raise great children? Why can't 184 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:07,359 Speaker 3: you have an exceptional career? You're a Samson. You've been equipped, 185 00:11:07,679 --> 00:11:11,440 Speaker 3: you've been in power. God has called you to deliver 186 00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 3: your people. Second Chronicles fourteen, a young man named Asa 187 00:11:17,320 --> 00:11:21,120 Speaker 3: became the new king of Israel. His father had died, 188 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 3: and now he took the throne. He inherited a land 189 00:11:24,920 --> 00:11:29,600 Speaker 3: that was filled with idols, pagan shrines, monuments to different 190 00:11:29,679 --> 00:11:36,600 Speaker 3: kinds of gods. His father passed down compromise, dysfunction, mediocrity. 191 00:11:36,720 --> 00:11:40,240 Speaker 3: That's what he had seen growing up. That was normal 192 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 3: to him. He could have continued it on thought, this 193 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:46,800 Speaker 3: is the way it's always been. Dad was fine with 194 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:50,760 Speaker 3: these idols. Everybody likes worshiping these different gods. I'm not 195 00:11:50,760 --> 00:11:54,839 Speaker 3: going to rock the boat. But Asa understood this principle 196 00:11:55,320 --> 00:11:59,000 Speaker 3: that just because something gets passed down doesn't mean you 197 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:03,080 Speaker 3: have to continue it. Just because somebody close to you 198 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:09,120 Speaker 3: has changed you, so to speak, to compromise dysfunction doesn't 199 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:12,680 Speaker 3: mean you have to stay bound. He knew he was 200 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:16,480 Speaker 3: anointed to be a Samson, that he could break chains, 201 00:12:16,520 --> 00:12:20,800 Speaker 3: that he could take new ground. The scripture says Asa 202 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:27,600 Speaker 3: removed the pagan shrines, he smashed the sacred pillars. He's 203 00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:32,640 Speaker 3: chopped down the asherer polls where the people worshiped. ASA 204 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:37,360 Speaker 3: didn't accept the dysfunction. He didn't let what was passed 205 00:12:37,400 --> 00:12:42,760 Speaker 3: down limit his life. He took responsibility, said, in effect, 206 00:12:43,120 --> 00:12:46,960 Speaker 3: this compromise didn't start with me, but it is going 207 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,920 Speaker 3: to stop with me. He didn't make excuses think that 208 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,800 Speaker 3: he had a reason to live that way. He was 209 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:58,120 Speaker 3: a difference maker. He wasn't passive. He didn't do it quietly. 210 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:02,480 Speaker 3: He smashed the pagan's he pulled up those altars. He 211 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:07,440 Speaker 3: was serious about fulfilling his destiny. And because he did this, 212 00:13:07,960 --> 00:13:12,600 Speaker 3: Verse six says the Lord gave him rest from his enemies. 213 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:16,920 Speaker 3: If you want rest from your enemies, you have to 214 00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 3: do like he did and get rid of negative things 215 00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:24,720 Speaker 3: that have been passed down. As long as you're accepting it, 216 00:13:24,920 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 3: you're going to struggle the bad attitude, the anger, the addiction. 217 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:33,000 Speaker 3: Most likely it didn't start with you. Will you be 218 00:13:33,160 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 3: the ASA and remove it? Will you be the one 219 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:39,280 Speaker 3: to rise up and say, I am not going to 220 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:43,200 Speaker 3: let this anger rule my life anymore. I'm not going 221 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,959 Speaker 3: to accept lack and defeat and struggle as my destiny. 222 00:13:47,480 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 3: I'm not going to learn to live with depression, anxiety, 223 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 3: low self esteem. I'm going to be an Asa. I'm 224 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:57,840 Speaker 3: going to smash those strongholds. I'm gonna pull down those 225 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:02,520 Speaker 3: long mindsets. If you will become an ASA and not 226 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 3: take what was passed down as your destiny, God will 227 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:10,080 Speaker 3: give you rest from those enemies. I talked to a 228 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:13,280 Speaker 3: man that had been an alcoholic for nearly thirty years. 229 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:17,160 Speaker 3: Twenty two years he had had a drug addiction. These 230 00:14:17,200 --> 00:14:20,920 Speaker 3: are the things that keep getting passed down until someone 231 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:24,160 Speaker 3: rises up and decides to be an ASA and do 232 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:28,200 Speaker 3: something about it. Studies show that if your father was 233 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:31,960 Speaker 3: an alcoholic, you are ten times more likely to become 234 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:36,440 Speaker 3: an alcoholic. That's a spirit going from generation to generation. 235 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 3: Ninety percent of the people in prison one of their 236 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:46,160 Speaker 3: parents was incarcerated. Somebody has to rise up and break 237 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 3: the negative cycle. And the reason people tell you that 238 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:54,360 Speaker 3: if your father struggled, you will struggle is because they're 239 00:14:54,400 --> 00:14:57,840 Speaker 3: looking at the wrong father. When you gave your life 240 00:14:57,880 --> 00:15:03,760 Speaker 3: to Christ, you became an creation. There may be a 241 00:15:03,840 --> 00:15:08,120 Speaker 3: lot of negative baggage in your bloodline, but now you 242 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:12,080 Speaker 3: have a heavenly father. You're not limited by the natural. 243 00:15:12,360 --> 00:15:16,960 Speaker 3: You have a supernatural force to help you overcome. This 244 00:15:17,040 --> 00:15:21,040 Speaker 3: gentleman wasn't a religious person, He wasn't raised in church, 245 00:15:21,640 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 3: but one day he got so low, he was so desperate, 246 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:28,560 Speaker 3: he said, God, please help me. He went to a 247 00:15:28,560 --> 00:15:31,760 Speaker 3: bookstore to try to find a book on overcoming addictions, 248 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:34,240 Speaker 3: and he pulled one off the shelf, and this other 249 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:38,040 Speaker 3: book fell on his foot. It's very strange. He didn't 250 00:15:38,040 --> 00:15:40,400 Speaker 3: know what caused it to fall. He picked it up, 251 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:44,040 Speaker 3: and it was my book. He had never seen me, 252 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:47,200 Speaker 3: he didn't know who I am. But he started flipping 253 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 3: through it, reading some passages, and something began to come 254 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 3: alive on the inside. He took it home and learned 255 00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:58,640 Speaker 3: what I'm telling you, that just because something was passed 256 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:02,160 Speaker 3: down doesn't mean you have to continue it. He read 257 00:16:02,160 --> 00:16:05,200 Speaker 3: that book in three days and said from that day forward, 258 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:08,920 Speaker 3: he never touched another drug, never touched the alcohol. He 259 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 3: was set completely free. What happened he became an ASA. 260 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:19,480 Speaker 3: He didn't accept the dysfunction as the norm. When you 261 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:23,240 Speaker 3: make that decision that enough is enough, You're not going 262 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:27,840 Speaker 3: to live addicted, angry, letting things rule you, then God 263 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:31,440 Speaker 3: will help you overcome what you could not overcome on 264 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:35,440 Speaker 3: your own. Joshua said it this way. You will not 265 00:16:35,640 --> 00:16:41,200 Speaker 3: defeat your enemies until you remove these things are there 266 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:44,760 Speaker 3: some things you need to remove. Asa had to remove 267 00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:48,600 Speaker 3: the idols that weren't pleasing to God. This man had 268 00:16:48,640 --> 00:16:53,200 Speaker 3: to remove the alcohol the drugs that were destroying his life. 269 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:56,800 Speaker 3: My father had to remove a poverty mindset that he 270 00:16:56,920 --> 00:16:59,920 Speaker 3: was raised with. If he hadn't done that, I wouldn't 271 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:03,360 Speaker 3: be standing here. You may need to remove the anger, 272 00:17:03,840 --> 00:17:08,480 Speaker 3: the jealousy, the regrets when you say, like this, man, God, 273 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:11,720 Speaker 3: I can't do this on my own. Help me break 274 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:15,960 Speaker 3: this addiction. Help me resist this temptation. God, help me 275 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:20,239 Speaker 3: get rid of this bitterness. When you humble yourself and 276 00:17:20,359 --> 00:17:23,920 Speaker 3: ask God to help you and then take bold steps 277 00:17:24,000 --> 00:17:28,040 Speaker 3: like Asa to remove what's holding you back, God will 278 00:17:28,080 --> 00:17:31,199 Speaker 3: make things happen that you could never make happen. He 279 00:17:31,240 --> 00:17:34,920 Speaker 3: will give you rest from those enemies. Here's the key. 280 00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:39,160 Speaker 3: What you don't put a stop to will eventually put 281 00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 3: a stop to you. If you don't put a stop 282 00:17:41,880 --> 00:17:45,120 Speaker 3: to that bad attitude, it's going to stop you. If 283 00:17:45,119 --> 00:17:47,640 Speaker 3: you don't put a stop to the anger, the addiction, 284 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:52,520 Speaker 3: the regrets, they will keep you from your destiny. If 285 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:55,760 Speaker 3: Asa had not put a stop to the dysfunction that 286 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:59,360 Speaker 3: would pass down, his life would have been a constant struggle. 287 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:06,159 Speaker 3: Always uphill the message. Translation says asa cleaned house. Do 288 00:18:06,240 --> 00:18:09,240 Speaker 3: you need to do some house cleaning? Are you allowing 289 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:11,960 Speaker 3: some things to stay that you know are not good? 290 00:18:12,320 --> 00:18:16,000 Speaker 3: My challenge is put a stop to it before it 291 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:20,600 Speaker 3: stops you. Don't let a critical attitude keep you from 292 00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:24,640 Speaker 3: your purpose. Everybody in your family may be that way. 293 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:30,680 Speaker 3: Recognize that's not normal. Don't learn to function in the dysfunction. 294 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:33,920 Speaker 3: Remove it and God will take you to a new level. 295 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:39,960 Speaker 3: Don't let a lack mentality, a poverty mindset keep you 296 00:18:40,040 --> 00:18:44,000 Speaker 3: in mediocrity. Joel, I'll never have enough. Nobody in my 297 00:18:44,080 --> 00:18:48,359 Speaker 3: family is successful. God wants to give you rest from 298 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:52,080 Speaker 3: that enemy of lack, that enemy of not having enough. 299 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:56,000 Speaker 3: If you will get rid of the limited thinking and 300 00:18:56,080 --> 00:19:00,919 Speaker 3: start having a prosperous, more than enough mindset, knowing that 301 00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:04,640 Speaker 3: favor is surrounding you like a shield, then God will 302 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:09,560 Speaker 3: open the windows of heaven. He'll cause opportunity, blessing increase 303 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:13,639 Speaker 3: to chase you down. But too often we think what's 304 00:19:13,680 --> 00:19:17,440 Speaker 3: on the outside is stopping us. I believe if we'll 305 00:19:17,480 --> 00:19:20,760 Speaker 3: look inside and get rid of what we know is 306 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:24,399 Speaker 3: not good, then we'll see God's favor in new ways. 307 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 3: There was a grandfather that fell asleep one afternoon in 308 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:32,640 Speaker 3: the family room. His grandchildren decided to play a trick 309 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 3: on him. They took some real strong smelling cheese. It's 310 00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 3: very potent, smelled very bad. While he was sleeping, they 311 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:45,880 Speaker 3: snuck over and they carefully rubbed it on his mustache, 312 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:49,119 Speaker 3: right under his nose. In a few minutes, he woke 313 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:53,160 Speaker 3: up and thought, something really stinks in here. He left 314 00:19:53,160 --> 00:19:55,920 Speaker 3: that room and went into the kitchen and thought, boy, 315 00:19:55,960 --> 00:19:59,880 Speaker 3: it stinks in here too. Went to his bedroom, same thing. 316 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:04,280 Speaker 3: Why does it smell so badly? Finally he went outside, 317 00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:07,359 Speaker 3: hoping to get some relief from the stinking. He took 318 00:20:07,359 --> 00:20:10,080 Speaker 3: a deep breath, shook his head, and said, man, the 319 00:20:10,119 --> 00:20:15,439 Speaker 3: whole world stinks. This is what happens when we hold 320 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:19,000 Speaker 3: on to things that we should get rid of. If 321 00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:23,000 Speaker 3: you'll remove the bad attitude, the stink will go away. 322 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:28,000 Speaker 3: If you'll remove the compromise giving into temptations, the stink 323 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:31,760 Speaker 3: will lead. As long as you're allowing it to stay, 324 00:20:31,840 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 3: it's going to follow you everywhere you go. If you 325 00:20:34,920 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 3: live guilty in regrets, beating yourself up for past mistakes, 326 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:43,840 Speaker 3: that's going to stink. Up your office, stink up your attitude, 327 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:48,200 Speaker 3: stink up your relationships. Why don't you remove the regrets? 328 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 3: Why don't you get rid of the guilt. You can't 329 00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:53,959 Speaker 3: do anything about the past, but you can do something 330 00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:58,359 Speaker 3: about right now. Maybe you need to remove the self pity. 331 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:02,880 Speaker 3: You've had some tough breaks, went through a loss, somebody 332 00:21:02,920 --> 00:21:06,640 Speaker 3: did you wrong. If you stay focused on that, your 333 00:21:06,720 --> 00:21:10,400 Speaker 3: life is going to stink. You may not realize it, 334 00:21:10,720 --> 00:21:14,440 Speaker 3: but when you stink, other people can smell it. When 335 00:21:14,480 --> 00:21:18,360 Speaker 3: you're offended, bitter, angry, nobody wants to be around you. 336 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:24,000 Speaker 3: That stink is going to push away new relationships, new opportunities. 337 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 3: Why don't you remove it may have been passed down, 338 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:30,040 Speaker 3: You have a good reason to feel the way you do. 339 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:34,280 Speaker 3: It soured your life long enough. Don't let it continue 340 00:21:34,320 --> 00:21:37,320 Speaker 3: to sour you. The truth is we all have some 341 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:42,240 Speaker 3: stinky stuff, some dysfunction, some regrets. I've learned the people 342 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:46,120 Speaker 3: that keep moving forward, the people that keep enjoying their lives, 343 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 3: are the people that are good at removing the stink. 344 00:21:50,359 --> 00:21:53,640 Speaker 3: Complaining about the stink only makes it sink even more. 345 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:57,840 Speaker 3: If you stay focused on the stink, you're angry at 346 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,840 Speaker 3: the people that hurt you, always thinking about how they 347 00:22:00,880 --> 00:22:04,680 Speaker 3: did you wrong. The problem is that seed can get 348 00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:08,320 Speaker 3: in you. You can become the very thing that you 349 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:12,280 Speaker 3: don't like. When the scripture tells us to not take 350 00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:15,240 Speaker 3: an offense, it's not just so we won't be offended, 351 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:18,320 Speaker 3: so we won't get sour. If we take the offense, 352 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:22,119 Speaker 3: the seed will get in us. We can become what 353 00:22:22,280 --> 00:22:25,520 Speaker 3: they are. That's why it's so important to remove it. 354 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:29,680 Speaker 3: Let it go. God will be your vindicator. God will 355 00:22:29,680 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 3: make up for what you didn't get. How you were raised, 356 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:35,680 Speaker 3: what was passed down. That does not have to keep 357 00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:39,840 Speaker 3: you from becoming who you were created to be. Friend 358 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:42,159 Speaker 3: of mine grew up in a home where his father 359 00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:45,840 Speaker 3: wasn't faithful to his mother. He saw his dad run 360 00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:49,120 Speaker 3: around on his mom, and this young man became very 361 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:53,200 Speaker 3: hurt and confused by it, and over time he got 362 00:22:53,240 --> 00:22:56,639 Speaker 3: to the point where he hated his father. He wouldn't 363 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,240 Speaker 3: be around him, wouldn't speak to him. He couldn't wait 364 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:02,200 Speaker 3: till he got old to leave the house. He went 365 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 3: away to college and eventually got married and had several 366 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:09,879 Speaker 3: children of his own. A few years later, he started 367 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:13,399 Speaker 3: running around on his wife, doing the same thing to 368 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:17,119 Speaker 3: his kids that he hated so much about his father. 369 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 3: That's what happens when we hold on to things that 370 00:23:21,119 --> 00:23:24,320 Speaker 3: we should let go of. The seed can get in us. 371 00:23:25,040 --> 00:23:27,680 Speaker 3: You have to do like Asa and say I am 372 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:32,399 Speaker 3: removing it. I am not living angry, offended, letting this 373 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:36,000 Speaker 3: dysfunction affect me and my children. I'm going to be 374 00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:39,560 Speaker 3: a difference maker. The buck is going to stop with me. 375 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:42,879 Speaker 3: There was a young man in the scripture named Levi. 376 00:23:43,560 --> 00:23:46,600 Speaker 3: He had a lot of issues. He was angry, he 377 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 3: was dishonest, He deceived people. One time, somebody took advantage 378 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,760 Speaker 3: of his sister. It was a big deal. He was 379 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 3: very angry. He went to the city where it took place. 380 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:02,359 Speaker 3: He said to the leaders, everything will be fine. We'll 381 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:06,280 Speaker 3: forgive you if all of the men will be circumcised. 382 00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,800 Speaker 3: Once you do that, then we'll make peace. Act like 383 00:24:09,840 --> 00:24:14,560 Speaker 3: it never happened. They agreed. The men were circumcised while 384 00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 3: they were healing. When they couldn't defend themselves, Levi and 385 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,480 Speaker 3: his men came in and wiped out the whole town. 386 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:27,640 Speaker 3: He had deceived them. What's interesting is Levi's father was Jacob. 387 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:32,439 Speaker 3: You remember, Jacob was a deceiver. He cheated his brother 388 00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 3: out of his birthright, tricked him into trading his whole 389 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:41,280 Speaker 3: inheritance all for a bowl of soup. Now, Jacob's son 390 00:24:41,440 --> 00:24:45,200 Speaker 3: Levi was just like him. But if you go back 391 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:50,720 Speaker 3: one generation, Jacob's mother, Rebeccah, was the same way. When 392 00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:54,200 Speaker 3: her husband Isaac was near death and about to give 393 00:24:54,240 --> 00:24:58,960 Speaker 3: the blessing that belonged to their firstborn son, Esau, Rebecca 394 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,840 Speaker 3: loved Jacob more than Esau. She came up with the 395 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:07,040 Speaker 3: plan to trick Isaac. He couldn't see, he was almost blinded. 396 00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 3: She told Jacob to dress up like Esau. They made 397 00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 3: sure he smelled like his brother. Then she said, now Jacob, 398 00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:17,880 Speaker 3: go in and tell your father that you are Esau. 399 00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,919 Speaker 3: He did this and received the blessing that belonged to 400 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:27,400 Speaker 3: his brother. But the deception, the dishonesty started back with Rebecca. 401 00:25:27,920 --> 00:25:30,959 Speaker 3: God passed down to her son Jacob. He was dishonest. 402 00:25:31,200 --> 00:25:34,960 Speaker 3: Now Jacob's son Levi was the same way. Looked like 403 00:25:35,320 --> 00:25:38,639 Speaker 3: that was going to continue to get passed down. But 404 00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,679 Speaker 3: one day Moses was up on a mountain. He just 405 00:25:41,760 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 3: received the ten commandments, and when he came down, the 406 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:48,520 Speaker 3: Israelites were having a wild party. They had made a 407 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:52,360 Speaker 3: calf out of gold that they were worshiping. When Moses 408 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:55,400 Speaker 3: saw it, he was furious. Here God had just delivered 409 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,720 Speaker 3: them out of slavery, parted the Red Sea. Now these 410 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:03,680 Speaker 3: two million people we're worshiping an idol. Moses pulled out 411 00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 3: his sword and said, who is on the Lord's side. 412 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:10,679 Speaker 3: Of all the people there that day, the leaders of 413 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:14,560 Speaker 3: the different tribes of Israel didn't say anything. Joshua didn't 414 00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:18,479 Speaker 3: say anything, Eron didn't say anything. The scripture says the 415 00:26:18,640 --> 00:26:22,680 Speaker 3: sons of Levi spoke up and said, Moses, we are 416 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:26,040 Speaker 3: on the Lord's side. They were saying, in effect, this 417 00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,520 Speaker 3: is a new day. We are not going to be 418 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:32,160 Speaker 3: defined by our past. We're not going to let how 419 00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:36,000 Speaker 3: our father lived, how our grandfather lived, what our great 420 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:38,880 Speaker 3: grud mother did. We are not going to pass that 421 00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:42,360 Speaker 3: dysfunction down in our family line. We're going to take 422 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:46,560 Speaker 3: a stand and do what's right. That day, they broke 423 00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:51,800 Speaker 3: a generational curse and started a generational blessing. Because of 424 00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:55,520 Speaker 3: that decision, God said, from now on, all of the 425 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:59,199 Speaker 3: priests will come through the tribe of Levi. In the 426 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:03,119 Speaker 3: Book of Genesis, they were cursed by their grandfather in 427 00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,919 Speaker 3: the Book of Leviticus, they were the most blessed, honored people. 428 00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:11,120 Speaker 3: This is what happens when you get rid of negative 429 00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,280 Speaker 3: things that have been passed down. You'll not only have 430 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,440 Speaker 3: rest from your enemies, but you'll set a new standard 431 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:21,480 Speaker 3: for your family. It all starts when you remove what's 432 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:25,840 Speaker 3: holding you back. Do you need to remove anger, remove dishonesty, 433 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:29,560 Speaker 3: remove a wrong mindset. It may not have started with you, 434 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,919 Speaker 3: but it can stop with you. There may be a 435 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:36,520 Speaker 3: lot of negative baggage in your bloodline. God is saying today, 436 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:40,280 Speaker 3: who is on the Lord's side. If you'll rise up 437 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:42,679 Speaker 3: and say that's me, I'm a difference maker, then I 438 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:46,320 Speaker 3: believe in declare like the sons of Levi, God is 439 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,520 Speaker 3: going to promote you and honor you. Like Samson, You're 440 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:52,920 Speaker 3: gonna break chains that have held your family back for generations. 441 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:56,040 Speaker 3: And like King Aesa, God's going to give you rest 442 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:59,919 Speaker 3: from your enemies in Jesus' name. And if you receive it, 443 00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:04,119 Speaker 3: can you say it? Man? Today? We never like to 444 00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:07,480 Speaker 3: close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity to make 445 00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,639 Speaker 3: Jesus the lord of your life. Would you pray with me? 446 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:16,680 Speaker 3: Just say Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come 447 00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 3: into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, 448 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,440 Speaker 3: if you prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 449 00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,600 Speaker 3: born again. Get in a good Bible based church, Keep 450 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:32,359 Speaker 3: God first place. 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