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When you're generous, when you're faithful, your 38 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 5: life is not only going to be more rewarding, more fulfilling, 39 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 5: but that faithfulness, that obedience, is being credited to your 40 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:59,240 Speaker 5: children's account, to your grandchildren, to future generations. 41 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 3: This is Joel and Victoria. 42 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:04,560 Speaker 5: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 43 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:05,240 Speaker 5: the ministry. 44 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:07,720 Speaker 6: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 45 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:09,600 Speaker 6: blessing and share it with a friend. 46 00:02:09,600 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 5: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 47 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:18,320 Speaker 5: your life. Well, God bless you. Great to have you 48 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:21,280 Speaker 5: with us today. I hope you'll stay connected with us 49 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:24,360 Speaker 5: throughout the week. We have a daily podcast that you 50 00:02:24,400 --> 00:02:27,320 Speaker 5: can download, or you can go to our YouTube channel 51 00:02:27,320 --> 00:02:30,360 Speaker 5: and watch the messages anytime, or you can follow us 52 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 5: on social medium. I promise you we'll keep you encouraged 53 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:36,200 Speaker 5: and inspired. But thanks for tuning in. Thanks again for 54 00:02:36,280 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 5: coming out. I like to start with something funny, and 55 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:42,360 Speaker 5: I heard about this man. He was quietly reading the 56 00:02:42,400 --> 00:02:45,560 Speaker 5: newspaper when his wife snuck up behind him and hit 57 00:02:45,639 --> 00:02:47,320 Speaker 5: him on the head with a frying pan. 58 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:49,480 Speaker 3: He said, what was that for? 59 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:51,960 Speaker 5: She said, that was for the piece of paper I 60 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:54,960 Speaker 5: found in your pocket with the name Mary Lou on it. 61 00:02:55,440 --> 00:02:58,000 Speaker 5: He said, oh, honey, that's just one of the horses 62 00:02:58,040 --> 00:03:00,320 Speaker 5: that I bet on at the racetrack last week. 63 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:03,240 Speaker 3: She apologized and went about her business. 64 00:03:03,600 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 5: Two days later, she hit him on the head with 65 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 5: a bigger frying fan. After he woke up, he said, 66 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:12,119 Speaker 5: what in the world was that for? She said, your 67 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:16,480 Speaker 5: horse just called say it like you mean it. This 68 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:19,160 Speaker 5: is my Bible. I am what it says. I am 69 00:03:19,639 --> 00:03:22,040 Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do 70 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:24,800 Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will. 71 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:26,040 Speaker 3: Be talked the word of God. 72 00:03:26,520 --> 00:03:30,960 Speaker 5: I'll boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 73 00:03:31,240 --> 00:03:34,960 Speaker 5: I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 74 00:03:34,960 --> 00:03:38,240 Speaker 5: bless you. I want to talk to you today about 75 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 5: start a blessing. The decisions we make don't just affect 76 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:46,880 Speaker 5: our lives, They affect generations to come. The way you 77 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:50,360 Speaker 5: live can make it easier on your children, or it 78 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:53,360 Speaker 5: can make it more difficult. You can be a stepping 79 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:56,600 Speaker 5: stone for them to do greater things, or a stumbling 80 00:03:56,640 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 5: block that holds them back. No person lives and dies 81 00:04:01,040 --> 00:04:05,240 Speaker 5: unto himself. The blessing and favor that you're walking in today, 82 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 5: it didn't just happen because of you. Somebody went before 83 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:12,800 Speaker 5: you that sowed seeds so you could be blessed. A 84 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:16,840 Speaker 5: praying mother, a grandfather that honored God, a great, great 85 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,719 Speaker 5: relative that you never met, but they gave, they served, 86 00:04:20,920 --> 00:04:23,560 Speaker 5: and now you're reaping a harvest of what they planted. 87 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:27,640 Speaker 5: In the same way, negative things we're dealing with have 88 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:33,160 Speaker 5: been passed down addictions, anger, depression that didn't start with you. 89 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:36,720 Speaker 5: The good news is it can stop with you. You 90 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:39,240 Speaker 5: can be the one to set your family on a 91 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:43,440 Speaker 5: new course. You can start a blessing. You can start freedom, 92 00:04:43,839 --> 00:04:47,560 Speaker 5: you can start wholeness. You can start victory. When you 93 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:51,919 Speaker 5: make decisions that honor God. When you're generous, when you're faithful, 94 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:55,040 Speaker 5: your life is not only going to be more rewarding, 95 00:04:55,400 --> 00:05:00,560 Speaker 5: more fulfilling, but that faithfulness, that obedience is being to 96 00:05:00,640 --> 00:05:04,960 Speaker 5: your children's account, to your grandchildren, to future generations. 97 00:05:05,920 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 3: Just as the negative gets passed down, how much more 98 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:10,200 Speaker 3: the positive. 99 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,320 Speaker 5: We hear a lot about generational curses, But there's something 100 00:05:14,440 --> 00:05:19,279 Speaker 5: called a generational blessing. God is keeping an account of 101 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:23,159 Speaker 5: every good thing you do, the times you forgive when 102 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 5: you could stay bitter, the times you're being your best 103 00:05:26,800 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 5: when nobody's given you the credit. 104 00:05:29,200 --> 00:05:31,000 Speaker 3: That's not being overlooked. 105 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:37,560 Speaker 5: It's accruing mercy, favor, blessing into your family's account. Grandchildren 106 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:40,800 Speaker 5: that have not yet been born, great great grandchildren that 107 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:44,039 Speaker 5: you'll never meet yet, because of you, they will be 108 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:47,920 Speaker 5: born with a blessing on their life, born with favor 109 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:52,039 Speaker 5: they didn't have anything to do with. It's because you 110 00:05:52,240 --> 00:05:56,160 Speaker 5: started a blessing. You took the high road. You broke 111 00:05:56,200 --> 00:06:00,800 Speaker 5: the addiction, you resisted the temptation, you prayed bold prayers. 112 00:06:01,480 --> 00:06:03,839 Speaker 5: Not only are you going to see God take you 113 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:08,479 Speaker 5: where you've never dreamed, but generations later your family will 114 00:06:08,520 --> 00:06:12,200 Speaker 5: be walking in the blessing. Your descendants will see favor 115 00:06:12,360 --> 00:06:16,760 Speaker 5: and victory because of you. How this should challenge us 116 00:06:16,920 --> 00:06:19,920 Speaker 5: to live a life of faith, a life of excellence, 117 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:24,120 Speaker 5: a life of generosity. I want my descendants to do 118 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 5: great things because of me, not in spite of me. 119 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:29,320 Speaker 3: Our children have. 120 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:31,880 Speaker 5: Enough to overcome without adding. 121 00:06:31,640 --> 00:06:33,040 Speaker 3: Our negative baggage. 122 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:35,800 Speaker 5: I want them to look back and say about you, 123 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:39,120 Speaker 5: He put me further down the road. She took our 124 00:06:39,160 --> 00:06:42,400 Speaker 5: family to a new level. They're the reason God blessed 125 00:06:42,440 --> 00:06:47,600 Speaker 5: me so much. Genesis chapter fourteen, Abraham learned that his 126 00:06:47,640 --> 00:06:51,200 Speaker 5: nephew Lot and all of his workers had been captured 127 00:06:51,240 --> 00:06:54,880 Speaker 5: by these bandits. Abraham called his men together to go 128 00:06:54,960 --> 00:06:58,200 Speaker 5: help Lot. They chased after them in the middle of 129 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:01,800 Speaker 5: the night. They attacked them from all different sides. They 130 00:07:01,880 --> 00:07:05,640 Speaker 5: rescued Lot and all of his family and possessions, plus 131 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:07,640 Speaker 5: they gathered up the enemy's spoils. 132 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:09,120 Speaker 3: It was a great victory. 133 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:14,560 Speaker 5: As they were returning, mel Kezedek the high priest met 134 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 5: Abraham to congratulate him. Verse twenty says Abraham gave mel 135 00:07:19,840 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 5: Kezedek a tenth of everything he recovered. 136 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:25,120 Speaker 3: That's the first place. 137 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,960 Speaker 5: In the scripture that we see the tithe ten percent 138 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 5: of our income. Abraham didn't have to do that, it 139 00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:36,240 Speaker 5: wasn't required, but he was a giver. He recognized that 140 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:39,920 Speaker 5: every good thing came from God. That seemed like a 141 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,400 Speaker 5: nice thing to do, just being generous, But it was 142 00:07:43,480 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 5: more significant than that. Abraham had a son named Isaac. 143 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:51,520 Speaker 5: Isaac had a son named Jacob. Jacob had a son 144 00:07:51,640 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 5: named Levi. Levi was four generations from Abraham. The scripture 145 00:07:57,040 --> 00:08:02,000 Speaker 5: says in Hebrews, Levi paid tithes to Melkezedak through his 146 00:08:02,160 --> 00:08:07,080 Speaker 5: ancestor Abraham. For although Levi was not yet born, the 147 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:11,320 Speaker 5: seed from which he came was in Abraham's loins when 148 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 5: he gave the tithe to Melkezedak. This is saying Abraham 149 00:08:16,120 --> 00:08:20,480 Speaker 5: gave that gift he honored God, and his great grandson, 150 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 5: a young man he never met, was credited with paying tithes. 151 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:28,640 Speaker 5: Levi came out of the wound with a blessing he 152 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:31,800 Speaker 5: had nothing to do with. He was born with favor 153 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:36,520 Speaker 5: because his great grandfather was generous. He had this advantage 154 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:40,880 Speaker 5: because someone in his family line, someone that went before him, 155 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:46,320 Speaker 5: started a blessing. When Abraham gave, didn't just bless him, 156 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:50,359 Speaker 5: he didn't just see favor, but that obedience was credited 157 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:55,520 Speaker 5: to Levi's account. Four generations later, God said, I still 158 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:59,439 Speaker 5: remember the good that your great grandfather did. I still 159 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:03,480 Speaker 5: remember how he served me, how he was generous. Now 160 00:09:03,720 --> 00:09:07,560 Speaker 5: I'm going to bless you because of him. The scripture 161 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:11,800 Speaker 5: says in Malachi, when you tithe your income, when you're generous, 162 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,199 Speaker 5: you put God first place, he will open the windows 163 00:09:15,200 --> 00:09:18,920 Speaker 5: of heaven and pour out a blessing that you cannot contain. 164 00:09:19,960 --> 00:09:22,320 Speaker 3: That doesn't just mean that you'll have overflow. 165 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:26,360 Speaker 5: It means you can't contain it in your generation. It's 166 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:29,160 Speaker 5: going to flow down to the next generation, in the 167 00:09:29,200 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 5: next because you honor God, because you do the right 168 00:09:33,440 --> 00:09:37,760 Speaker 5: thing when it's hard, because you give you sacrifice, God 169 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:41,000 Speaker 5: is crediting that to your account and to your family 170 00:09:41,080 --> 00:09:44,600 Speaker 5: line's account, blessings that you cannot contain. 171 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:46,720 Speaker 3: David put it this way. 172 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:51,240 Speaker 5: My cup runs over not just where I have an abundance, 173 00:09:51,480 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 5: but it runs over to my children runs over to 174 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:59,920 Speaker 5: my grandchildren born with an advantage because of you. You started, 175 00:10:01,040 --> 00:10:06,080 Speaker 5: You started freedom, you started abundance. Every right decision you 176 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:09,120 Speaker 5: made is being a crude to your descendants. 177 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:11,840 Speaker 3: Don't get talked out of doing the right thing. 178 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:16,480 Speaker 5: Keep honoring God, keep giving, keep taking the high road. 179 00:10:16,679 --> 00:10:20,400 Speaker 5: You're storing up blessings, storing up mercy, storing up favor. 180 00:10:21,360 --> 00:10:24,120 Speaker 5: I've seen this in my own life. I didn't get 181 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:27,319 Speaker 5: to where I am by myself. People that went before 182 00:10:27,360 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 5: me honored God. My grandmother on my mother's side, was 183 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:35,960 Speaker 5: a godly woman, so kind and loving. She always prayed 184 00:10:35,960 --> 00:10:40,400 Speaker 5: for me. My grandfather, her husband, was a giver. He 185 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:44,559 Speaker 5: lived to help others. He was raised very poor. His 186 00:10:44,640 --> 00:10:47,839 Speaker 5: father died when he was eight. He wasn't treated right 187 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:50,960 Speaker 5: by the people that took him in, but he never complained. 188 00:10:51,640 --> 00:10:55,600 Speaker 3: He was a hard worker. He spent his whole career working. 189 00:10:55,320 --> 00:10:58,720 Speaker 5: At the refinery in Baytown, never missed a day of work. 190 00:10:59,440 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 5: When he re hired, he would come to the church 191 00:11:01,760 --> 00:11:04,719 Speaker 5: during the week and do repairs. I would see him 192 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:08,319 Speaker 5: under the portable buildings working on the plumbing, fixing some 193 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:11,480 Speaker 5: kind of problem. When he passed away at the age 194 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:15,240 Speaker 5: of ninety, six. We found a book where he kept 195 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:19,280 Speaker 5: a record of all of his giving, all handwritten. It 196 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:22,360 Speaker 5: had the date, the amount he gave, and where he 197 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 5: gave it. Thirty dollars to Lakewood, twenty dollars to Central Baptist, 198 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:31,440 Speaker 5: twelve dollars to the Building Fund. Decades of giving listed 199 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:32,320 Speaker 5: in this book. 200 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:35,520 Speaker 3: No wonder I'm blessed. No wonder. 201 00:11:35,520 --> 00:11:38,920 Speaker 5: I've stepped into houses that I didn't build, vineyards that 202 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:42,920 Speaker 5: I didn't plan. People that went before me honored God. 203 00:11:43,800 --> 00:11:48,560 Speaker 5: Now I'm walking in the blessing in part because of them. 204 00:11:48,920 --> 00:11:51,280 Speaker 3: My grandfather couldn't contain it all. 205 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:54,719 Speaker 5: His generation, couldn't hold all that God wanted to do. 206 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 3: His cup ran over and spilled unto me. 207 00:11:58,760 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 5: That's what happens when you're fithful, when you're generous, when 208 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:05,040 Speaker 5: you keep God first place, you start a. 209 00:12:05,000 --> 00:12:07,200 Speaker 3: Blessing that you can't contain. 210 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 5: What God has in mind is much bigger than what 211 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:13,760 Speaker 5: you have in mind. It's not going to be limited 212 00:12:13,800 --> 00:12:16,800 Speaker 5: to your generation. It's going to get passed down to 213 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:21,720 Speaker 5: future generations. Not long before my grandfather passed, he came 214 00:12:21,760 --> 00:12:23,760 Speaker 5: over to our house one evening for dinner. 215 00:12:24,360 --> 00:12:25,800 Speaker 3: Victoria and I had been married for. 216 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:28,440 Speaker 5: A few years and we were living in this two 217 00:12:28,480 --> 00:12:30,360 Speaker 5: story house that we had just built. 218 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 3: He looked around. It was so hard for him to 219 00:12:33,800 --> 00:12:34,320 Speaker 3: take it in. 220 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,600 Speaker 5: He built his house for twenty seven hundred dollars back 221 00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:39,840 Speaker 5: in the nineteen thirties. 222 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:40,880 Speaker 3: They lived there. 223 00:12:40,920 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 5: Their whole life was very comfortable, but very small. He 224 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:47,880 Speaker 5: was so amazed that we had a two story home 225 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:51,160 Speaker 5: and how there was plenty of room. At one point 226 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:54,400 Speaker 5: he came to the back window and saw our garage. 227 00:12:54,480 --> 00:12:57,240 Speaker 5: It was detached from the house, about twenty feet away. 228 00:12:57,679 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 3: He said, Joel, who lives there now? I kind of laughed. 229 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:03,920 Speaker 5: I said, Granddaddy, that's our garage. That's a part of 230 00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:07,800 Speaker 5: our house. He said, my goodness, Joel, you have another building. 231 00:13:08,760 --> 00:13:12,199 Speaker 5: That's what happens when you start a blessing. Your children, 232 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 5: your grandchildren are going to step into blessings favor influence 233 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:21,360 Speaker 5: like you've never dreamed. What you can't contain is going 234 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:24,440 Speaker 5: to spill over unto them. Let me show you how 235 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:30,360 Speaker 5: powerful this generational blessing is. Levi made mistakes in life. 236 00:13:30,400 --> 00:13:33,439 Speaker 5: His sister was taken advantage of by a man named 237 00:13:33,440 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 5: Shechem that lived in another city. Levi was so angry 238 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:41,600 Speaker 5: he wanted revenge, and against his father's advice, he went 239 00:13:41,640 --> 00:13:45,439 Speaker 5: with his brother and killed all the men of that city. 240 00:13:45,600 --> 00:13:48,040 Speaker 3: His father, Jacob was so upset. 241 00:13:48,800 --> 00:13:52,320 Speaker 5: Years later, when Jacob was about to pass, instead of 242 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 5: pronouncing a blessing on Levi, Jacob declared a curse. He said, 243 00:13:57,440 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 5: because you were hot headed and shed so much blood, 244 00:14:00,840 --> 00:14:02,880 Speaker 5: you and your descendants. 245 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 3: Will always be cursed. You will live a hard, burdensome life. 246 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,840 Speaker 5: It looked like he had lost the blessing, lost the 247 00:14:09,880 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 5: favor because of poor choices. 248 00:14:12,520 --> 00:14:14,880 Speaker 3: But years later Moses came. 249 00:14:14,720 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 5: Down the mountain after receiving the Ten Commandments. He saw 250 00:14:18,760 --> 00:14:23,240 Speaker 5: the Israelites worshiping a golden cap, partying, doing all kinds 251 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:26,920 Speaker 5: of wrong things. He was so upset he shouted, who 252 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:30,200 Speaker 5: is on the Lord's side? He was saying, Who's going 253 00:14:30,240 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 5: to take a stand for what's right? Who's going to 254 00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:36,760 Speaker 5: honor God? The scripture says the sons of Levi rose 255 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:40,360 Speaker 5: up and said, we are on the Lord's side. After 256 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:45,640 Speaker 5: being cursed by their grandfather, after their father Levi made mistakes, 257 00:14:46,160 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 5: you would think they had too much going against them, 258 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 5: too much to overcome, But five generations back, their great 259 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:59,880 Speaker 5: great grandfather Abraham honored God, he gave, he sacrificed, and 260 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:02,840 Speaker 5: and that was all accredited to their account. 261 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:06,080 Speaker 3: Moses said to them, from now on, you will be 262 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 3: the priest. You will have the highest positions. 263 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 5: In the book of Genesis, they were cursed by their grandfather, 264 00:15:13,720 --> 00:15:16,880 Speaker 5: but in the book of Leviticus, the Levites were the 265 00:15:16,880 --> 00:15:23,120 Speaker 5: most blessed honored people. This generational blessing will override mistakes 266 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:26,960 Speaker 5: that you've made. It will supersede negative things that were 267 00:15:27,000 --> 00:15:29,600 Speaker 5: said about you. It will put you on a course 268 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:34,000 Speaker 5: for blessing, for favor that cannot be stopped in the 269 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:38,720 Speaker 5: generations to come. Because you started the blessing, your family 270 00:15:38,800 --> 00:15:41,640 Speaker 5: line is going to see God's goodness in ways that 271 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 5: don't make sense. Favor they didn't deserve mercy when they 272 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:50,440 Speaker 5: made mistakes. Maybe you have children, grandchildren that are off course, 273 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:54,560 Speaker 5: family members that are not making good decisions. Don't worry, 274 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:58,240 Speaker 5: they're coming back. The scripture talks about how you can 275 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 5: store up mercy for your children and future generations because 276 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:06,720 Speaker 5: you're doing the right thing. Mercy is going into your 277 00:16:06,760 --> 00:16:10,280 Speaker 5: family line's account. Every time you sing in the choir, 278 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:13,320 Speaker 5: you serve in kid's life, you take care of that 279 00:16:13,480 --> 00:16:14,360 Speaker 5: elderly neighbor. 280 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 3: You just deposited mercy. 281 00:16:16,920 --> 00:16:19,600 Speaker 5: When you go the extra mile at work, you have 282 00:16:19,640 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 5: a good attitude when things aren't going your way. 283 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 3: You sacrifice to give. 284 00:16:24,160 --> 00:16:26,920 Speaker 5: When you could use those funds for something you want 285 00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:29,880 Speaker 5: that doesn't go unnoticed. 286 00:16:29,320 --> 00:16:32,680 Speaker 3: By our God. You're not only going to see a harvest, 287 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:34,680 Speaker 3: but you're storing up mercy. 288 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:39,520 Speaker 5: Twenty three years after David died, his son, King Solomon 289 00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 5: was on the throne. He wasn't making good decisions. He 290 00:16:43,400 --> 00:16:46,800 Speaker 5: married foreign wives and started worshiping their idols. 291 00:16:47,080 --> 00:16:50,160 Speaker 3: He knew better, but he let his guard down. This 292 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 3: could have been the end. We never hear about him anymore. 293 00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,680 Speaker 5: But God said in first King Solomon, I would normally 294 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 5: take this kingdom away from you've done. 295 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:01,480 Speaker 3: Wrong in my sight. 296 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:06,359 Speaker 5: However, I will not do it for your father David's sake. 297 00:17:07,440 --> 00:17:11,879 Speaker 5: David started a blessing, and even after he died, his 298 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:16,280 Speaker 5: children were walking in the blessing. They received mercy because 299 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:19,920 Speaker 5: of how he lived. Three hundred and five years after 300 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 5: David was gone eight generations, one of his descendants was 301 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 5: on the throne. 302 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:27,040 Speaker 3: King Hezekiah. 303 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:31,000 Speaker 5: Jerusalem was surrounded by a huge army and about to 304 00:17:31,040 --> 00:17:35,080 Speaker 5: be attacked. It looked like Hezekiah was done no way out, 305 00:17:35,720 --> 00:17:38,879 Speaker 5: but God sent an angel that destroyed one hundred and 306 00:17:38,960 --> 00:17:42,679 Speaker 5: eighty five thousand of the enemy's troops in a split second. 307 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:46,320 Speaker 3: The army was defeated. Hezekiah's life was spared. 308 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:50,400 Speaker 5: I can imagine Hezekiah said, God, what did I do 309 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:53,680 Speaker 5: to deserve that kind of favor, that kind of protection? 310 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:56,840 Speaker 5: God said, Hezekiah, it wasn't. 311 00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:57,600 Speaker 3: Anything you did. 312 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:01,080 Speaker 5: But there was a man in your family life named David. 313 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 5: He honored me with his life. He started a blessing, 314 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:09,240 Speaker 5: He stored up mercy. Now three hundred and five years later, 315 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:13,520 Speaker 5: you're walking in the favor, the protection, the blessing that 316 00:18:13,600 --> 00:18:17,960 Speaker 5: he deposited into your account. There are people in your 317 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:21,680 Speaker 5: family line that are going to see mercy because you 318 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:26,320 Speaker 5: started a blessing. You're the David. You're honoring God. He 319 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:29,360 Speaker 5: sees you taking the high road. He sees you're going 320 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:31,479 Speaker 5: out of your way to be good to that friend. 321 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:35,240 Speaker 5: He sees you're resisting the temptation. He sees you getting 322 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:38,199 Speaker 5: up early to thank him. He's not only going to 323 00:18:38,240 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 5: show you blessings, but that blessing you're not going to 324 00:18:41,800 --> 00:18:44,480 Speaker 5: be able to contain. It's going to spill over to 325 00:18:44,560 --> 00:18:48,639 Speaker 5: your children, your grandchildren, to people in your family line. 326 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:52,440 Speaker 5: They're going to be born with a blessing because of you, 327 00:18:53,280 --> 00:18:57,160 Speaker 5: Born with favor, because you're a giver, Born with mercy, 328 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:01,240 Speaker 5: because you showed mercy, born within it, advantage, because of 329 00:19:01,320 --> 00:19:05,480 Speaker 5: your faithfulness. I met a man after the service when 330 00:19:05,480 --> 00:19:08,400 Speaker 5: he was in his early twenties. He lost his way 331 00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 5: in life, and he was discouraged and didn't know what 332 00:19:12,040 --> 00:19:16,239 Speaker 5: to do. One evening, he was walking around downtown with 333 00:19:16,359 --> 00:19:19,720 Speaker 5: no purpose. My father was going to an event and 334 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:23,320 Speaker 5: saw him across the street. He felt compassion toward him, 335 00:19:23,320 --> 00:19:26,040 Speaker 5: so he went over there and started talking to him. 336 00:19:26,480 --> 00:19:29,520 Speaker 5: He told him how God had a plan for his life, 337 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:32,359 Speaker 5: how the dreams he'd put on the inside could still 338 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:34,720 Speaker 5: come to pass, and that he had a bright future. 339 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 5: It was like something woke up on the inside. His 340 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:42,720 Speaker 5: passion and purpose came back to life. My father handed 341 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:46,000 Speaker 5: him one hundred dollars bill. He hugged him and walked away. 342 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:50,119 Speaker 5: That young man began to weep. He told how that 343 00:19:50,280 --> 00:19:53,200 Speaker 5: was a turning point in his life. He got back 344 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:56,160 Speaker 5: on his feet. He went back to school and finished 345 00:19:56,160 --> 00:19:59,960 Speaker 5: his college education. He went on to medical school, and became. 346 00:20:00,000 --> 00:20:01,680 Speaker 5: I'm a surgeon today. 347 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:06,359 Speaker 3: He's very successful, a leader in his field. He said, Joel, 348 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:07,000 Speaker 3: I never. 349 00:20:06,880 --> 00:20:09,560 Speaker 5: Got to thank your father, but I wanted to at 350 00:20:09,640 --> 00:20:13,600 Speaker 5: least thank you. He handed me a check for the ministry, 351 00:20:13,920 --> 00:20:16,679 Speaker 5: many times more than the one hundred dollars my father 352 00:20:16,760 --> 00:20:20,840 Speaker 5: gave him. How many times have I looked back and said, 353 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 5: thank you, Daddy, you made my life easier. Thank your Granddaddy, 354 00:20:26,000 --> 00:20:30,679 Speaker 5: your sacrifices put me further down the road. Thank your grandmother, 355 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:34,840 Speaker 5: Thank your mother, your prayers, your love, your devotion has 356 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:38,480 Speaker 5: thrust me where I can't go on my own. I've 357 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:41,600 Speaker 5: had a lot of people put good things into my account, 358 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:44,800 Speaker 5: nothing I had anything to do with. Now, I'm going 359 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 5: to make sure I keep that blessing going. I'm not 360 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,440 Speaker 5: going to compromise and take the easy way out. I'm 361 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 5: not going to live selfishly and only think of me. 362 00:20:55,640 --> 00:20:58,360 Speaker 5: I'm not going to be average. I'm going to be exceptional. 363 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:00,919 Speaker 5: I'm not going to settle for me deiocrity. I'm a 364 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:05,080 Speaker 5: bleed big I'm gonna take bold steps. I want to 365 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:08,359 Speaker 5: live my life in such a way that years from now, 366 00:21:08,720 --> 00:21:12,920 Speaker 5: my children, my grandchildren will look back and say I'm 367 00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:16,200 Speaker 5: better off because of Joel. He was a giver, He 368 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:20,240 Speaker 5: was excellent, he was faithful, He set new standards. How 369 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:23,720 Speaker 5: this should challenge us to be our very best, not 370 00:21:23,880 --> 00:21:30,520 Speaker 5: get sidetracked by petty things, offended, trying to pay people back, compromising, 371 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:34,840 Speaker 5: giving into the same temptations, mediocre. I don't feel like 372 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 5: being my best, Joel, I'm tired. 373 00:21:36,720 --> 00:21:40,679 Speaker 3: No, start a blessing. Make your life count. You are 374 00:21:40,720 --> 00:21:42,560 Speaker 3: affecting generations to come. 375 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:49,199 Speaker 5: You can pass down blessings, favor, generosity, faithfulness, or you 376 00:21:49,240 --> 00:21:55,080 Speaker 5: can pass down dysfunction, bitterness, mediocrity. That may be what's 377 00:21:55,119 --> 00:21:57,680 Speaker 5: been passed to you. You may not have had a 378 00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:00,720 Speaker 5: lot of good things put into your account. That means 379 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:04,320 Speaker 5: you're the one to start the blessing. You're the one 380 00:22:04,320 --> 00:22:07,760 Speaker 5: to start the favor, to start the freedom. God is 381 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 5: counting on you to raise the bar, to take your 382 00:22:10,640 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 5: family to a new level. In the scripture, Isaac's wife, 383 00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:21,120 Speaker 5: Rebecca was very dishonest. She manipulated her children, had her 384 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:24,960 Speaker 5: son Jacob dress up like his brother Esau to trick 385 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:28,879 Speaker 5: their father. She deceived her husband to get her way. 386 00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:33,720 Speaker 5: Her son Jacob turned out just like her. He was deceptive, dishonest. 387 00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:38,000 Speaker 5: He tricked his brother out of his birthright. Jacob's uncle, 388 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:40,600 Speaker 5: a man named Laban, had the same problem. 389 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:42,159 Speaker 3: He deceived Jacob. 390 00:22:42,640 --> 00:22:46,480 Speaker 5: That was a spirit of deception that kept getting passed 391 00:22:46,480 --> 00:22:50,760 Speaker 5: from generation to generation. Wasn't a coincidence that the mother 392 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:52,120 Speaker 5: had it, the son. 393 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:52,760 Speaker 3: The uncle. 394 00:22:53,400 --> 00:22:57,560 Speaker 5: It will continue until someone makes the decision that they're 395 00:22:57,560 --> 00:23:00,320 Speaker 5: going to start a blessing. They're not going to keep 396 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 5: passing down the dysfunction, the addictions, the bitterness. Jacob came 397 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:08,480 Speaker 5: to this point where he was tired of living. 398 00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,359 Speaker 3: That way his whole life. 399 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:14,760 Speaker 5: He'd been a deceiver, tricking people, being dishonest. He wanted 400 00:23:14,760 --> 00:23:17,399 Speaker 5: to make things right. He went down to the brook 401 00:23:17,560 --> 00:23:21,080 Speaker 5: to get alone with God. That night, an angel came 402 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:23,400 Speaker 5: and said, God is changing your name. 403 00:23:23,760 --> 00:23:26,920 Speaker 3: You will no longer be called Jacob, which means trickster. 404 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 5: Your new name will be Israel, which means prince with God. 405 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:34,600 Speaker 5: He left there with a new attitude and a new 406 00:23:34,680 --> 00:23:38,399 Speaker 5: passion to do the right thing. He knew he needed 407 00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:42,200 Speaker 5: to ask his brother Esau for forgiveness. They had been 408 00:23:42,359 --> 00:23:47,520 Speaker 5: estranged for years. When Jacob stole his birthright, Esau was 409 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:51,080 Speaker 5: so angry Jacob had to flee for his life. Now 410 00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,960 Speaker 5: years later, Jacob wanted to return home. The only way 411 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,560 Speaker 5: to get there was to go through the land owned 412 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:02,879 Speaker 5: by Esau. Jacob sent mes with gifts to ask Esau 413 00:24:03,320 --> 00:24:07,320 Speaker 5: if he would see him. Esau agreed, he was coming 414 00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:12,040 Speaker 5: with four hundred of his men. Finally, the big moment arrived. 415 00:24:12,560 --> 00:24:16,080 Speaker 5: Jacob saw Esau coming with all of his men. He 416 00:24:16,160 --> 00:24:18,640 Speaker 5: was about to meet the brother that he had cheated 417 00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:22,440 Speaker 5: and took the double portion from the inheritance that belonged 418 00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:26,480 Speaker 5: to him. I'm sure his adrenaline was flowing. He was 419 00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:31,199 Speaker 5: on edge, wondering how Esau was going to respond. Jacob 420 00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:35,560 Speaker 5: had someone take his family to the side, including his. 421 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:36,800 Speaker 3: Young son Joseph. 422 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,840 Speaker 5: As a little boy, Joseph was watching all this drama 423 00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:41,440 Speaker 5: play out. 424 00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:44,160 Speaker 3: He had, no doubt heard stories how. 425 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:48,480 Speaker 5: His father had cheated his uncle, how Esau was upset, how. 426 00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:49,720 Speaker 3: He wouldn't speak to them. 427 00:24:50,080 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 5: You can imagine how fearful little Joseph was. When Esau 428 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 5: was a couple hundred yards away, Jacob bowed down seven 429 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:03,520 Speaker 5: times in humility. Esau took off running toward him. Jacob 430 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:07,160 Speaker 5: thought that's it, I'm done. But when Esau got to him, 431 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:11,800 Speaker 5: he grabbed Jacob and hugged him. The scripture says he 432 00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:15,639 Speaker 5: threw his arms around Jacob and they kissed. They both 433 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:20,200 Speaker 5: begin to weep. I can imagine Esau looking over and asking. 434 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:23,840 Speaker 3: Who are all these people. Jacob said, that's my family. 435 00:25:24,320 --> 00:25:27,920 Speaker 5: Well, who's that little boy. That's my son, Joseph, that's 436 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,919 Speaker 5: your nephew. I can see Esau walking over and hugging 437 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:35,960 Speaker 5: little Joseph. What Jacob thought would be strife and contention 438 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:40,040 Speaker 5: turned out to be an incredible act of kindness, an 439 00:25:40,040 --> 00:25:45,680 Speaker 5: incredible show of mercy. Fast forward many years later. Now 440 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 5: this little boy, Joseph is a grown man. He's been 441 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:53,960 Speaker 5: betrayed by his brothers, sold into slavery, falsely accused, and 442 00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:58,399 Speaker 5: put in prison. After thirteen years, he was vindicated and 443 00:25:58,520 --> 00:26:02,159 Speaker 5: promoted to the prime minister of Egypt. There was a 444 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 5: great famine in the land, but because of the blessing 445 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:06,800 Speaker 5: on Joseph. 446 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:07,840 Speaker 3: He had great wisdom. 447 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:11,560 Speaker 5: He helped the Egyptians store up food, and they had plenty. 448 00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:15,480 Speaker 5: One day, Joseph's brothers, the same ones that threw him 449 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,840 Speaker 5: into the pit, showed up at the palace looking for food. 450 00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:22,760 Speaker 5: Joseph walked out to meet them, but they didn't recognize him. 451 00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:24,760 Speaker 3: They hadn't seen him in years. 452 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:30,360 Speaker 5: They bowed down before Joseph in respect, in humility. Suddenly, 453 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:34,280 Speaker 5: Joseph's mind flashed back to that time as a little 454 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:38,639 Speaker 5: boy when he saw his father bowed down before Esau. 455 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:43,280 Speaker 5: It's the same scenario playing out, but this time he's 456 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:47,840 Speaker 5: not the little boy, He's in Esau's physition. He remembered 457 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:52,320 Speaker 5: how Esau had mercy on his father, how Esau treated 458 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:56,560 Speaker 5: them with kindness and respect. Joseph looked at his brothers 459 00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:59,200 Speaker 5: when he could have paid them back, when he could 460 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:04,480 Speaker 5: have gotten revenge. Instead, he treated them like Esau treated 461 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:08,399 Speaker 5: his father. The scripture says he threw his arms around 462 00:27:08,440 --> 00:27:14,000 Speaker 5: his brothers, embracing them and kissing them. Notice what God 463 00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:19,960 Speaker 5: passed down mercy, forgiveness, kindness. If Esau would have tried 464 00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:23,440 Speaker 5: to get even paid Jacob back, this scene. 465 00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:24,880 Speaker 3: Would have been completely different. 466 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:29,920 Speaker 5: If he had passed down anger, bitterness, dysfunction, That's how 467 00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:33,440 Speaker 5: Joseph would have responded. It would have gone from generation 468 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:38,440 Speaker 5: to generation. What made the difference. Esau started a blessing. 469 00:27:39,400 --> 00:27:43,000 Speaker 5: Esau said, I am not going to live angry, offended, 470 00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:46,679 Speaker 5: paying people back. I'm going to show mercy I'm going 471 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:52,840 Speaker 5: to model for my family, my children, my nephew's love, kindness, forgiveness. 472 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 5: You may have a good reason to live angry, offended, dysfunctional. 473 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,760 Speaker 5: It's what you've seen modeled or somebody did you wrong. 474 00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:05,720 Speaker 5: You can be an Esau. You can set your family 475 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:09,280 Speaker 5: on a new course. The decisions you may will affect 476 00:28:09,320 --> 00:28:13,720 Speaker 5: generations to come. It just needs someone to start a blessing, 477 00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:18,399 Speaker 5: to start, forgiveness, to start freedom, to start excellence. 478 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:21,160 Speaker 3: Why don't you let that be you. 479 00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,040 Speaker 5: You wouldn't be hearing this if you weren't called to 480 00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:28,280 Speaker 5: help your family come up higher in some way. Let's 481 00:28:28,320 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 5: start passing down good things like Abraham. Let's pass down generosity. 482 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,160 Speaker 5: Let's make it easier on those that come after us 483 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:42,160 Speaker 5: like Esau. Let's break any generational curse, and let's start 484 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 5: the generational blessing. Let's deposit good things into their accounts. 485 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 3: If you'll do this, I. 486 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:52,440 Speaker 5: Believe and declare You're not only going to rise higher 487 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:56,960 Speaker 5: and see God's favor, but like with Levi, your children 488 00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,760 Speaker 5: and future generations. 489 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:00,800 Speaker 3: Are going to have an advantage. 490 00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:04,200 Speaker 5: They are going to be born with a blessing because 491 00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:07,440 Speaker 5: of your faithfulness. They're going to go further. They're going 492 00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,440 Speaker 5: to accomplish more. They're going to become all they were 493 00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:14,200 Speaker 5: created to be in Jesus' name. If you receive it, 494 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:15,200 Speaker 5: can you say amen? 495 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:15,600 Speaker 3: Today? 496 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,680 Speaker 5: I'd like to give you an opportunity to make Jesus 497 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:20,800 Speaker 5: the Lord of your life. 498 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 3: Would you pray with me? 499 00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:28,400 Speaker 5: Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of my sins. Come 500 00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:32,320 Speaker 5: into my heart. I'll make you my Lord and savior. 501 00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,440 Speaker 5: If you've prayed that simple prayer, we believe you got 502 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:37,160 Speaker 5: born again. 503 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,840 Speaker 3: We'd love to send you some information on your new 504 00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:40,560 Speaker 3: walk with the Lord. 505 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,000 Speaker 5: Just text the number on the screen or go to 506 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:46,560 Speaker 5: the website. 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