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And if you're ever in our area, please 32 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 5: stop by be a part of one of our services. 33 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:50,280 Speaker 5: I promise you we'll make you feel right at home. 34 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:53,520 Speaker 5: I'd like to start with something funny, and I heard 35 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,640 Speaker 5: about this minister that died and he was standing in 36 00:01:56,640 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 5: line at the Pearly gates. The man in front of 37 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:04,040 Speaker 5: him was dressed in a loud T shirt, sunglasses, blue jeans. 38 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,600 Speaker 5: Saint Peter asked him his name. He said, I'm Joe Cohen, 39 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 5: taxicab driver, New York City. Peter checked his list, handed 40 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:16,959 Speaker 5: him a gold staff silk robe and said, welcome to Heaven. 41 00:02:17,560 --> 00:02:21,560 Speaker 5: The minister stepped up said I'm Reverend Joseph Snow, pastor 42 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:25,440 Speaker 5: of Saint Mary's Cathedral. Peter checked the list, handed him 43 00:02:25,440 --> 00:02:28,959 Speaker 5: a wooden staff cotton robe. He said, hey, wait, that 44 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 5: couldn't be right. Taxicab driver got a gold staff and 45 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:35,399 Speaker 5: this is all I get. Peter said, sir, up here, 46 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 5: we work by results. When you preached, people slept, but 47 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:44,520 Speaker 5: when he drove, people prayed. Say it like you mean it. 48 00:02:44,960 --> 00:02:47,839 Speaker 5: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 49 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do 50 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be 51 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 5: taught the word of God. I boldly confess my mind 52 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:01,040 Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 53 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:06,200 Speaker 5: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want 54 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 5: to talk to you today about a son, not a slave. 55 00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:15,600 Speaker 5: We've all been through disappointments, had unfair situations because of 56 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 5: negative things in the past, or even mistakes that we've made. 57 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:23,839 Speaker 5: It's easy to forget who we really are, and too 58 00:03:23,919 --> 00:03:28,840 Speaker 5: often we've developed a slave mentality. We think we're at 59 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:32,880 Speaker 5: a disadvantage, so we don't pursue dreams. We don't believe 60 00:03:32,919 --> 00:03:37,000 Speaker 5: for good breaks, we don't pray bold prayers. We live 61 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:40,840 Speaker 5: like we're a slave to the addiction, slave to depression, 62 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:44,560 Speaker 5: slave to mediocrity. But as long as we have a 63 00:03:44,680 --> 00:03:49,880 Speaker 5: slave mentality, it will limit our life. The scripture says, beloved, 64 00:03:50,280 --> 00:03:54,080 Speaker 5: now are you the sons of God. You may have 65 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:57,240 Speaker 5: a lot coming against you, but you are not a slave. 66 00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:02,960 Speaker 5: You are a son, differently than slaves. You may struggle 67 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,000 Speaker 5: with an addiction, but a son says, I have a 68 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:09,880 Speaker 5: right to be free. There may be obstacles in your path, 69 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:13,000 Speaker 5: but a son knows the forces that are for me 70 00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:16,760 Speaker 5: are greater than the forces that are against me. The 71 00:04:16,800 --> 00:04:20,280 Speaker 5: Israelites had been in slavery four hundred years. They were 72 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:25,360 Speaker 5: mistreated and taken advantage of God saw the injustice and 73 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:29,919 Speaker 5: sent plagues on the Pharaoh and his people. Pharaoh finally 74 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 5: decided to let them go. The Israelites headed out toward 75 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:38,440 Speaker 5: the Promised Land. I'm sure they were excited. This was 76 00:04:38,480 --> 00:04:43,320 Speaker 5: a dream come true until Farah changed his mind and 77 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 5: came chasing after them. He got six hundred of his 78 00:04:46,920 --> 00:04:51,480 Speaker 5: fastest chariots, his strongest warriors, and he was quickly approaching. 79 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:55,480 Speaker 5: The Israelites came to a dead end at the Red Sea. 80 00:04:56,080 --> 00:04:59,839 Speaker 5: They had nowhere to go. Pharah was saying, in effect, 81 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 5: you're my slaves. I own you. I'm taking you back. 82 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:09,279 Speaker 5: God was saying you're my sons. I've redeemed you, I'm 83 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:13,000 Speaker 5: taking you forward. I can imagine this debate was going 84 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:16,960 Speaker 5: back and forth. The Israelites were trying to choose who 85 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 5: they were going to believe, you're a son or you're 86 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 5: a slave. That same debate is taking place about you. 87 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 5: One voice is saying you're a slave. You'll never get well, 88 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:32,760 Speaker 5: you'll always struggle in your finances, you'll always be addicted. 89 00:05:33,240 --> 00:05:37,839 Speaker 5: God says you're a son. I've equipped you, empowered you, 90 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:41,920 Speaker 5: and anointed you. Now you get to choose which way 91 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 5: you go. If you believe the lie that you're a slave, 92 00:05:46,120 --> 00:05:48,880 Speaker 5: that you've reached your limits, then it will keep you 93 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:52,720 Speaker 5: from your purpose. But when you rise up and say, 94 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:57,000 Speaker 5: I'm no longer a slave, I'm a son. I'm not 95 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:00,280 Speaker 5: a slave to my past. I'm not a slave who 96 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:03,880 Speaker 5: hurt me. I'm not a slave to addictions, to poverty, 97 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:07,359 Speaker 5: to lack, to depression. I'm a child of the most 98 00:06:07,440 --> 00:06:11,279 Speaker 5: High God. When you know you're a son, you not 99 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:16,000 Speaker 5: only think differently, but you talk differently. Instead of all 100 00:06:16,040 --> 00:06:20,160 Speaker 5: never break this addiction, I am free, I am whole, 101 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 5: instead of I never get good breaks, blessings or chasing 102 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:28,359 Speaker 5: me down. Fever surrounds me. Goodness and mercy are following me. 103 00:06:29,320 --> 00:06:33,159 Speaker 5: Stop thinking like a slave and start thinking like a son. 104 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:37,520 Speaker 5: Not thinking about what you were, what you've been through, 105 00:06:37,839 --> 00:06:42,040 Speaker 5: the mistakes you've made, but start thinking about who you are. 106 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:46,520 Speaker 5: You are free, you are blessed, You are a masterpiece. 107 00:06:46,800 --> 00:06:52,120 Speaker 5: You are victorious. Fro came chasing after the Israelites. In 108 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:56,480 Speaker 5: other words, the past came chasing them. What they'd been through, 109 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,960 Speaker 5: what didn't work out. The past will always come chasing you. 110 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:07,479 Speaker 5: Mistakes you've made, disappointments, failures, hurts saying you're not a son. 111 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,720 Speaker 5: Look what you've been through. Wasn't fair. You prayed and 112 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:14,400 Speaker 5: it didn't work out. The enemy would love for you 113 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:19,960 Speaker 5: to become a slave to your past. Live guilty, discouraged, 114 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:23,600 Speaker 5: with the chip on your shoulder. Don't fall into that trap. 115 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:27,640 Speaker 5: The past doesn't have to hold you back. We've all 116 00:07:27,680 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 5: had negative things happen, things we don't understand. But God 117 00:07:32,280 --> 00:07:36,360 Speaker 5: has beauty for those ashes, He has mercy for mistakes, 118 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:40,600 Speaker 5: He has new beginnings. Nothing that's happened in your past, 119 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 5: nothing that you've done, has to keep you from the 120 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 5: good things God has in store. Don't become a slave 121 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:52,280 Speaker 5: to your past. Quit thinking about it, Quit reliving the hurts, 122 00:07:52,760 --> 00:07:55,840 Speaker 5: quit dwelling on the failures. This is a new day. 123 00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:58,920 Speaker 5: If you will let go of the old, then you'll 124 00:07:58,960 --> 00:08:03,280 Speaker 5: see the new things God has in store. Farah came 125 00:08:03,400 --> 00:08:07,960 Speaker 5: chasing the Israelites because he thought he owned them. He 126 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 5: saw them as his property. You need to tell Pharaoh, 127 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:16,000 Speaker 5: tell the enemy, tell the past, tell the addiction. You 128 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 5: don't own me. I was bought with a precious price. 129 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,840 Speaker 5: I belong to the God who spoke worlds into existence. 130 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 5: I'm not your slave, I'm his son. You have to 131 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 5: know who you are and who you belong to. Fear 132 00:08:33,080 --> 00:08:35,880 Speaker 5: doesn't have any right to you. It doesn't own you. 133 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:40,640 Speaker 5: Poverty doesn't own you. You may have an addiction, but 134 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:44,120 Speaker 5: it doesn't own you. Don't see it as your master, 135 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 5: as bigger, more powerful. You'll never be free. It's temporary, 136 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 5: it cannot stay. Your body is a temple of the 137 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 5: Most High God. You are not a sick person trying 138 00:08:57,880 --> 00:09:02,640 Speaker 5: to get well. You're a well fighting off sickness. You 139 00:09:02,679 --> 00:09:06,080 Speaker 5: are not an addict trying to get free. You're a 140 00:09:06,120 --> 00:09:10,240 Speaker 5: free person fighting an addiction. You're not a poor person 141 00:09:10,480 --> 00:09:14,520 Speaker 5: trying to get ahead. You're a prosperous person fighting off poverty. 142 00:09:14,920 --> 00:09:18,960 Speaker 5: You are not a slave to any negative thing. God 143 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:24,720 Speaker 5: created you to be free, healthy, whole, victorious. Sure we 144 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:27,920 Speaker 5: all have things come against us, but they're not permanent. 145 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,160 Speaker 5: It's just a matter of time before it changes in 146 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:35,640 Speaker 5: your favor. The Israelites, even if they escaped and got 147 00:09:35,679 --> 00:09:39,560 Speaker 5: away from the Pharaoh, in one sense, they would always 148 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 5: be runaway slaves as long as Pharaoh was chasing them, 149 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:47,760 Speaker 5: even though they were free. Thoughts would tell them, you're 150 00:09:47,800 --> 00:09:50,800 Speaker 5: still a slave. You're just a slave that got away. 151 00:09:51,520 --> 00:09:54,320 Speaker 5: Sooner or later, you'll be caught. They would have to 152 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 5: live with that threat that Pharaoh might catch back up 153 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:00,880 Speaker 5: with them. But at the dead end at the Red Sea, 154 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:04,320 Speaker 5: when they had nowhere to go, Moses held up his 155 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:09,719 Speaker 5: rod and the waters parted. These two million Israelites former slaves, 156 00:10:09,880 --> 00:10:13,280 Speaker 5: went through on dry ground. When Pharaoh and the chariots 157 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:16,720 Speaker 5: came chasing, the waters closed up. They were all drowned. 158 00:10:17,640 --> 00:10:22,160 Speaker 5: God not only freed them from slavery, but he eliminated 159 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:25,520 Speaker 5: their oppressor, so they wouldn't have to live with the 160 00:10:25,679 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 5: threat that they might be recaptured and taken back to slavery. 161 00:10:30,720 --> 00:10:35,160 Speaker 5: God didn't want them to see themselves as just runaway slaves, 162 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 5: slaves that had been freed by taking care of the Pharaoh. 163 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:43,960 Speaker 5: He removed that label. They were no longer runaway slaves. 164 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:48,679 Speaker 5: Now they were simply sons daughters of the Most High God. 165 00:10:49,000 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 5: In the same way, God not only freed us from sin, 166 00:10:53,480 --> 00:10:57,800 Speaker 5: from guilt, from depression, from sicknesses, but he took care 167 00:10:58,040 --> 00:11:01,480 Speaker 5: of our enemy. You have to live with the threat 168 00:11:01,559 --> 00:11:06,599 Speaker 5: that you might be recaptured. Your oppressor has been defeated. 169 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:09,960 Speaker 5: The enemy has no power over you. You're not a 170 00:11:10,040 --> 00:11:13,920 Speaker 5: runaway slave, You're a son. But here's the whole key. 171 00:11:14,400 --> 00:11:17,720 Speaker 5: After all God has done for us, freed us from slavery, 172 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:22,000 Speaker 5: defeated our enemy. If you don't see yourself the right way, 173 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:25,400 Speaker 5: it will keep you from your destiny. And this is 174 00:11:25,400 --> 00:11:29,679 Speaker 5: what happened to the Israelites. After seeing God free them 175 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 5: from slavery, deliver them from the Pharaoh, bring water out 176 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:36,480 Speaker 5: of a rock. When they came to the Promised Land, 177 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 5: you think they would be full of faith, ready to 178 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 5: take the land. But when they saw how big the 179 00:11:42,800 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 5: people were, they told Moses, we'll never defeat them. They're 180 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 5: too big for us. Let's just go back to Egypt. 181 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:54,160 Speaker 5: Let's go back to being slaves. They had been in 182 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:58,600 Speaker 5: slavery so long, they had seen so much injustice. Their 183 00:11:58,679 --> 00:12:04,400 Speaker 5: problem was they never quit seeing themselves as slaves. They 184 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:07,640 Speaker 5: didn't think they could live at a higher level. Their 185 00:12:07,679 --> 00:12:11,400 Speaker 5: attitude was, we're just poor, old slaves. We never get 186 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 5: any good breaks. God brought them out of slavery, but 187 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:20,200 Speaker 5: slavery never got out of them. You may have struggled 188 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:22,640 Speaker 5: in an area for a long time, but don't have 189 00:12:22,920 --> 00:12:27,200 Speaker 5: a limited mindset. You have to give God permission to 190 00:12:27,360 --> 00:12:31,680 Speaker 5: increase you. It starts in your thinking. You can't see 191 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 5: yourself as a slave and enjoy the blessings of a son. 192 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:40,320 Speaker 5: If you grew up in lack, not having enough mediocrity, 193 00:12:40,679 --> 00:12:44,080 Speaker 5: don't let that poverty spirit get in you. That is 194 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:47,439 Speaker 5: not who you are. You're the one to break the curse. 195 00:12:47,880 --> 00:12:51,680 Speaker 5: You're the one to set a new standard. God is 196 00:12:51,720 --> 00:13:00,320 Speaker 5: about to lose resources, promotion, ideas, opportunities. Have a vision 197 00:13:00,679 --> 00:13:06,200 Speaker 5: for increase. See yourself as a sun rising higher. You 198 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:10,559 Speaker 5: have seeds of greatness. You are not limited by how 199 00:13:10,600 --> 00:13:14,040 Speaker 5: you were raised, by your family, by what you didn't get. 200 00:13:14,480 --> 00:13:17,480 Speaker 5: You're not a slave to lack You're not a slave 201 00:13:17,559 --> 00:13:21,559 Speaker 5: to depression. You're not a slave to fear. The oppressor 202 00:13:22,040 --> 00:13:26,120 Speaker 5: has been taken care of. Your days of struggle, your 203 00:13:26,200 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 5: days of sickness, your days of loneliness are coming to 204 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:32,800 Speaker 5: an end. God is about to do a new thing. 205 00:13:34,720 --> 00:13:38,960 Speaker 5: He's going to break bondages that have held you back. 206 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:42,840 Speaker 5: Things that have been in your family line for generations 207 00:13:43,240 --> 00:13:46,880 Speaker 5: are about to turn in your favor. Like the Israelites, 208 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:53,520 Speaker 5: after four hundred years of slavery, oppression, injustice, that was 209 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 5: ten generations, nothing changed. They were born into it year 210 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:02,480 Speaker 5: after year, didn't expect anything different. But one day God 211 00:14:02,520 --> 00:14:07,840 Speaker 5: said enough is enough. He supernaturally brought them out. But 212 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:12,680 Speaker 5: that first group that God freed from slavery, that was good, 213 00:14:13,200 --> 00:14:16,680 Speaker 5: but that wasn't God's best. They never made it into 214 00:14:16,720 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 5: the Promised Land because they saw themselves as slaves. But 215 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 5: God didn't give up on them. He didn't say I'm 216 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:28,840 Speaker 5: done with this family. God took their children in. It 217 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 5: was because they had a different mindset. I believe in 218 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:36,640 Speaker 5: your family, you're going to be the generation that goes 219 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:42,840 Speaker 5: into the Promised Land. What your relatives did or didn't 220 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:46,360 Speaker 5: do does not have to stop you. You're going to 221 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 5: see houses that you didn't build, vineyards that you didn't plant, 222 00:14:51,320 --> 00:14:56,840 Speaker 5: opportunities chasing you down, promotion that you didn't deserve blessings. 223 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 5: You can't explain favor that thrust you further then you 224 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:04,320 Speaker 5: can imagine. Now, don't talk to yourself. Out of it, Joel, 225 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:08,320 Speaker 5: not me, man, I've reached my limits. My family always struggles. 226 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 5: Get rid of that slave mentality and start having an 227 00:15:12,000 --> 00:15:17,760 Speaker 5: abundant mentality. See, even though the oppressor has been taken 228 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 5: care of, even though the enemy is defeated, he'll still 229 00:15:20,960 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 5: whisper lies. You're not supposed to be blessed, you'll always 230 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:28,640 Speaker 5: be addicted. What he's really saying is you're a slave. 231 00:15:28,840 --> 00:15:31,800 Speaker 5: Come on, just accept it. Tell him no things. You 232 00:15:31,920 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 5: have the wrong person. I'm not a slave, I'm a son. 233 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 5: I'm blessed. I'm prosperous. I'm a difference maker. I'm going 234 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 5: to set a new standard for my family. We're going 235 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:48,200 Speaker 5: in to our promised land. The other day, a repairman 236 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 5: came over to our house to fix the air condistrin. 237 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:53,840 Speaker 5: He had to come inside and go up in the attic. 238 00:15:54,400 --> 00:15:57,880 Speaker 5: When he came in, he didn't stop by the refrigerator 239 00:15:58,160 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 5: get something to drink, didn't sit on my couch and 240 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 5: watch some television. He didn't go out my back door 241 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:07,600 Speaker 5: and enjoy my backyard. He went straight to the attic 242 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:11,440 Speaker 5: and took care of the problem. He knew he couldn't 243 00:16:11,480 --> 00:16:14,480 Speaker 5: come in and make himself at home. He was there 244 00:16:14,720 --> 00:16:18,720 Speaker 5: as a servant, not as a son. But when our 245 00:16:18,800 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 5: son Jonathan comes in, he doesn't say, Dad, can I 246 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:25,880 Speaker 5: go to the refrigerator and get something to drink? Dad? 247 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:28,720 Speaker 5: Can I sit here and watch some television. He doesn't 248 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:31,920 Speaker 5: ask for permission. He acts like he owns the place, 249 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:38,280 Speaker 5: and the truth is he does. He's my son. Everything 250 00:16:38,360 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 5: I have is his. I like the fact that he 251 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 5: knows who he is. He's confident in what belongs to him. 252 00:16:48,680 --> 00:16:53,440 Speaker 5: So he goes boldly to the refrigerator. The scripture tells 253 00:16:53,520 --> 00:16:57,520 Speaker 5: us to come boldly to the throne of grace, not 254 00:16:57,640 --> 00:17:00,640 Speaker 5: as a servant, not saying God, God, I know I 255 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:04,639 Speaker 5: don't deserve it, God, I know I'm unworthy. If you 256 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:07,080 Speaker 5: want to make God happy, if you want to put 257 00:17:07,080 --> 00:17:10,560 Speaker 5: a smile on God's face, go to him with boldness. 258 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:13,560 Speaker 5: Go to him like he's proud of you, like you 259 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:16,800 Speaker 5: deserve to be there, like he wants to be good 260 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:21,440 Speaker 5: to you. Ask him for your dreams. Pray bold prayers. 261 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 5: You're not inconveniencing him. You don't have to earn God's law. 262 00:17:27,440 --> 00:17:30,400 Speaker 5: You don't have to work for his approval. You don't 263 00:17:30,400 --> 00:17:34,200 Speaker 5: have to pay God back for your mistakes. Never once 264 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:37,879 Speaker 5: has Jonathan come in and said, Dad, I did wrong today. 265 00:17:38,320 --> 00:17:42,080 Speaker 5: I don't deserve to eat here. Let me work for you, 266 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:45,240 Speaker 5: Let me earn the right to have this meal. He 267 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:49,280 Speaker 5: did that. Number one, I check his temperature. Number two. 268 00:17:50,160 --> 00:17:53,600 Speaker 5: As a father, I would be disappointed. I would think, 269 00:17:53,960 --> 00:17:56,800 Speaker 5: doesn't he know he's my son and I want to 270 00:17:56,840 --> 00:18:00,000 Speaker 5: be good to him? Are you trying to earn god 271 00:18:00,000 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 5: God's goodness? Be good enough, work hard enough, then maybe 272 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:09,120 Speaker 5: you'll deserve God's blessings. That's a slave mentality. Why don't 273 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:12,879 Speaker 5: you start believing that you're a son. You're already in 274 00:18:13,000 --> 00:18:17,280 Speaker 5: the family. Jesus said, it is the Father's good pleasure 275 00:18:17,560 --> 00:18:21,560 Speaker 5: to give you the kingdom. God is longing to be 276 00:18:21,640 --> 00:18:25,320 Speaker 5: good to you. Are you living like a son knowing 277 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:27,879 Speaker 5: that you have rights, knowing that God's pleased with you, 278 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:32,080 Speaker 5: or are you living like a slave, feeling unworthy like 279 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:35,679 Speaker 5: you don't deserve God's goodness. In the story of the 280 00:18:35,720 --> 00:18:39,159 Speaker 5: Prodigal Son, the young man asked his father for his 281 00:18:39,240 --> 00:18:43,879 Speaker 5: inheritance and left home. He wasted all the money partying, 282 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:48,399 Speaker 5: living wild, making poor choices. He was so desperate he 283 00:18:48,520 --> 00:18:51,800 Speaker 5: ended up working in a hog pen feeding the hogs. 284 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:55,040 Speaker 5: He became so hungry he had to eat the hog 285 00:18:55,119 --> 00:18:59,359 Speaker 5: food to survive. Sitting in the hogpen, he thought the 286 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:03,520 Speaker 5: servant at home live better than I do. I'm going 287 00:19:03,560 --> 00:19:06,880 Speaker 5: to go back to my father's house after all I've done, 288 00:19:06,920 --> 00:19:09,679 Speaker 5: after this big mess. I know I can't live at home, 289 00:19:10,119 --> 00:19:14,040 Speaker 5: but maybe my father will hire me back as one 290 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:19,080 Speaker 5: of his servants. Because of his mistakes, he stopped seeing 291 00:19:19,160 --> 00:19:23,720 Speaker 5: himself as a son and started seeing himself as a servant. 292 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:28,160 Speaker 5: He thought he didn't deserve his father's goodness. He didn't 293 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:30,840 Speaker 5: think he had a right to be in the family anymore. 294 00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:36,640 Speaker 5: How many of us have disqualified ourselves from God's goodness. 295 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 5: We knew at one time we were a son. At 296 00:19:40,240 --> 00:19:42,520 Speaker 5: one time God was going to help us, favor us, 297 00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:46,919 Speaker 5: bless us, but we made poor choices. We got off course. 298 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:51,880 Speaker 5: Now we believe that lie, that somehow we've gone from 299 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:55,920 Speaker 5: a son to a slave, That God wouldn't have anything 300 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:59,120 Speaker 5: to do with us. This young man got his nerve 301 00:19:59,240 --> 00:20:02,639 Speaker 5: up and had back home. He was prepared for his 302 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:05,640 Speaker 5: father to let him have it, to say, don't even 303 00:20:05,680 --> 00:20:09,200 Speaker 5: think about coming on this property. But as he got closer, 304 00:20:09,600 --> 00:20:12,720 Speaker 5: he noticed his father was standing at the end of 305 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:16,000 Speaker 5: the driveway. It looked like he was looking for him. 306 00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 5: All of a sudden, the father took off running toward 307 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:22,840 Speaker 5: his son. That son thought, oh great, he's going to 308 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 5: stop me before I get on the property. He's gonna 309 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:27,920 Speaker 5: come out here and yell at me. But the father 310 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:32,480 Speaker 5: grabbed him started hugging him, kissing him. The son went 311 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:35,480 Speaker 5: into his speech, Dad, I don't deserve it, but maybe 312 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:37,879 Speaker 5: you can hire me back as one of your servants. 313 00:20:38,600 --> 00:20:42,080 Speaker 5: Father stopped him, said, what are you talking about. Don't 314 00:20:42,119 --> 00:20:45,560 Speaker 5: you know you're my son and you'll always be my son. 315 00:20:46,640 --> 00:20:50,159 Speaker 5: There's nothing you can do to change the fact that 316 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:53,600 Speaker 5: you're a son. When you gave your life to Christ, 317 00:20:53,840 --> 00:20:57,359 Speaker 5: you were born into the family of God. You can't 318 00:20:57,359 --> 00:21:01,639 Speaker 5: get unborn, you can't make a mistake to be, you 319 00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:06,280 Speaker 5: can't get too far off course. You may disqualify yourself, 320 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:11,360 Speaker 5: but God never disqualifies you. Are you living like a slave, 321 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:15,760 Speaker 5: when in fact you're a son. You're trying to convince 322 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:18,680 Speaker 5: God to hire you back as a servant when God 323 00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:22,679 Speaker 5: is saying, go kill the fatted calf. My son is home. 324 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:27,280 Speaker 5: God has already received you back into his family. But 325 00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:29,920 Speaker 5: what if this son would have turned said Dad, no, 326 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:33,840 Speaker 5: I can't accept your goodness. I don't deserve it. Let 327 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:35,840 Speaker 5: me just work out here with the servants to try 328 00:21:35,840 --> 00:21:38,600 Speaker 5: to pay you back. That would have ruined the story. 329 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:41,280 Speaker 5: How many of us are doing the same thing. We're 330 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:45,560 Speaker 5: not receiving God's goodness. We're beating ourselves up for our failures. 331 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 5: We're letting the accuse or convince us that we've somehow 332 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:53,639 Speaker 5: gone from a son to a slave. I love the 333 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:58,080 Speaker 5: fact when this son returned home, the father never brought 334 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:01,320 Speaker 5: up his past, say okay, I'll let you come back, 335 00:22:01,359 --> 00:22:04,960 Speaker 5: but you shouldn't have done that. God is not interested 336 00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:09,280 Speaker 5: in your past. The enemy will work over time trying 337 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:14,000 Speaker 5: to remind you of all your mistakes, make you feel guilty, unworthy. 338 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:18,280 Speaker 5: Don't believe those lies. You're not going to be a 339 00:22:18,359 --> 00:22:22,399 Speaker 5: son when you perform good enough. You're a son right now, 340 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,280 Speaker 5: You're a daughter right now. Why don't you come on 341 00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:29,680 Speaker 5: back into the family, start believing again, start dreaming again. 342 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:34,000 Speaker 5: You can start a party up in heaven. You can 343 00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:37,520 Speaker 5: cause God to turn on the music and begin a celebration. 344 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:41,800 Speaker 5: When he sees you shake off a slave mentality and 345 00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:45,920 Speaker 5: start having a son mentality, he says about you go 346 00:22:46,000 --> 00:22:48,800 Speaker 5: kill the fatted calf. We're going to have a party. 347 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:53,760 Speaker 5: My son, my daughter has come back home. Years ago, 348 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,320 Speaker 5: there was a man in Europe. He saved up all 349 00:22:57,359 --> 00:23:01,080 Speaker 5: of his money to come to America. Months and months, 350 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 5: he finally had just enough to purchase the ticket on 351 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:07,199 Speaker 5: the ship. It was going to take two months to 352 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:11,199 Speaker 5: cross the ocean, so he took a suitcase filled with food. 353 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:15,240 Speaker 5: All he could afford were cheese and crackers. When the 354 00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:18,200 Speaker 5: other people on the ship went to the big, nice 355 00:23:18,280 --> 00:23:21,680 Speaker 5: dining room to have their fancy dinners, he would go 356 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,760 Speaker 5: over into the corner and eat his cheese and crackers. 357 00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:28,399 Speaker 5: This went on day after day. He could smell the 358 00:23:28,480 --> 00:23:31,720 Speaker 5: other food. He wanted to join them so badly, but 359 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,800 Speaker 5: he just didn't have the resources. The last day of 360 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:39,160 Speaker 5: the trip, a man came over said, I can't help, 361 00:23:39,200 --> 00:23:42,760 Speaker 5: but notice you're always over here eating cheese and crackers. 362 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,120 Speaker 5: Why don't you come in and have dinner with us. 363 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 5: Men was kind of embarrassed. He said, I saved up 364 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,960 Speaker 5: all my money, but I only had enough to buy 365 00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:55,000 Speaker 5: the ticket. I didn't have enough to buy the meals. 366 00:23:55,480 --> 00:23:58,800 Speaker 5: The men shook his head, said, didn't you realize the 367 00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:02,200 Speaker 5: meals were in it with the ticket? You had a 368 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,280 Speaker 5: right to be in here with us the whole time. 369 00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:08,800 Speaker 5: I wonder how many of us are missing out on 370 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:12,680 Speaker 5: God's best because we don't realize the meals have been 371 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:16,760 Speaker 5: paid for. We're over in the corner, so to speak, 372 00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:21,359 Speaker 5: like a servant eating the cheese and crackers when God 373 00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:25,520 Speaker 5: is saying you're a son. Step up to the table. 374 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:29,120 Speaker 5: I've paid the price. There's a place with your name 375 00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 5: on it. You may have made mistakes. Forgiveness has been 376 00:24:33,640 --> 00:24:37,440 Speaker 5: paid for, Mercy has been paid for it. You had 377 00:24:37,520 --> 00:24:41,400 Speaker 5: bad breaks, People did you wrong. New beginnings have been 378 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:45,480 Speaker 5: paid for. Beauty for ashes belong to you. Why don't 379 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 5: you come on up to the table. You're struggling in finances. 380 00:24:49,640 --> 00:24:52,919 Speaker 5: Nobody in your family has gotten a head. Don't get 381 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:57,520 Speaker 5: satisfied with cheese and crackers. Abundance has been paid for. 382 00:24:58,119 --> 00:25:03,479 Speaker 5: New levels are in your future. Sometimes, what's holding us 383 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:07,640 Speaker 5: back is we don't really know who we are. We 384 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 5: think we're average, ordinary, when in fact we are royalty. 385 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:17,240 Speaker 5: We are sons daughters of the Most High God. When 386 00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:20,919 Speaker 5: God breathed his life into you, he crowned you with 387 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,400 Speaker 5: his favor. He put a robe of righteousness on you. 388 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 5: He said, You've been fearfully and wonderfully made. Don't go 389 00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:32,439 Speaker 5: through life with a cheese and crackers mentality. Have a 390 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 5: son mentality, an abundant mentality. In the scripture, an angel 391 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:41,119 Speaker 5: told Gideon he was to go out and save the 392 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:45,840 Speaker 5: Israelites from the enemy army that was approaching. Gideon said, 393 00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,400 Speaker 5: I can't do that. I come from the poorest family, 394 00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,680 Speaker 5: and I am the least one in my father's house. 395 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:56,760 Speaker 5: He was saying, you have the wrong person. I'm not 396 00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:00,119 Speaker 5: at the dinner table. I'm eating cheese and crackers. He 397 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,560 Speaker 5: had a slave mentality, I'm at a disadvantage. He didn't 398 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:08,399 Speaker 5: realize he was royalty. A few chapters later, Gideon was 399 00:26:08,440 --> 00:26:12,600 Speaker 5: talking with his enemies. He asked them what the men 400 00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:17,280 Speaker 5: he was trying to find look like. They said, they 401 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:22,800 Speaker 5: look like you, Gideon, like a king's son. Gideon felt inadequate, 402 00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,840 Speaker 5: like he didn't measure up, but even his enemies could 403 00:26:26,920 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 5: see he was a king's son. You may feel like 404 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:34,080 Speaker 5: you're at a disadvantage. He's causing you to shrink back, 405 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:38,520 Speaker 5: not pursue dreams like Gideon. You may not be able 406 00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:42,280 Speaker 5: to see it. But even the enemy knows your royalty. 407 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:46,280 Speaker 5: Even the enemy knows you are destined to do great things. 408 00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,879 Speaker 5: Why don't you put down the cheese and crackers and 409 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:53,400 Speaker 5: step up to who you were created to be. You're 410 00:26:53,440 --> 00:26:57,879 Speaker 5: no longer a slave, You're a son. You used to be, 411 00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:01,280 Speaker 5: maybe a slave to fear, to a addictions, to poverty, 412 00:27:01,320 --> 00:27:05,000 Speaker 5: to depression, but you've been born into a new family. 413 00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:07,479 Speaker 5: When I look at you, you know what I see. 414 00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:12,439 Speaker 5: I see masterpieces. I see royalty. I don't see average people. 415 00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:16,440 Speaker 5: I don't see anyone addicted. I don't see anyone sick 416 00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 5: and weak. I don't see anyone in poverty and lack. 417 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 5: I see blessed people, victorious people, favored people. I see 418 00:27:25,400 --> 00:27:31,600 Speaker 5: king's sons, king's daughters. Now do your part. Shake off 419 00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:35,840 Speaker 5: the slave mentality, start having a son mentality. If you'll 420 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:40,080 Speaker 5: do this, I believe and declare every chain that's holding 421 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:44,920 Speaker 5: you back is being broken. God is going to release, healing, favor, 422 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 5: breakthroughs abundance. You're going to rise higher and become everything 423 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,840 Speaker 5: He's created you to be in Jesus' name. If you 424 00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:58,000 Speaker 5: receive it, can you say it? Men? Today, I'd like 425 00:27:58,040 --> 00:28:01,160 Speaker 5: to give you an opportunity to make Jesus the Lord 426 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:04,520 Speaker 5: of your life. Would you pray with me? Just say 427 00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:11,280 Speaker 5: Lord Jesus, I'll repent of my sins. Come into my heart. 428 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:16,200 Speaker 5: I make you my Lord and savior. If you prayed 429 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,720 Speaker 5: that simple prayer, we believe you got born again. Get 430 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:24,520 Speaker 5: in a good Bible based church, and keep God first place. Victorian. 431 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:27,040 Speaker 5: I'll be right back to speak a blessing over you. 432 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,919 Speaker 4: Start each day off right by having Joel lead you 433 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,040 Speaker 4: in declaring the truth of God's word over your life 434 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,880 Speaker 4: through this powerful thirty one day audio devotional, Say so. 435 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:41,680 Speaker 5: If you're going to go to the next level, you've 436 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:42,400 Speaker 5: got to say so. 437 00:28:43,240 --> 00:28:46,120 Speaker 4: Say so available this month as a thank you for 438 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 4: your support of our ministry, declare the promises of God 439 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:53,240 Speaker 4: over your life today. When you speak words of faith 440 00:28:53,280 --> 00:28:56,560 Speaker 4: and victory, you're setting the course for a victorious life. 441 00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,880 Speaker 5: I've written thirty one promises, one for each day takes. 442 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:02,040 Speaker 5: It's less than a minute. It's a great way to 443 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:05,160 Speaker 5: get the day started. Request this resource. It will help 444 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,280 Speaker 5: you become all God created you to be. 445 00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:11,520 Speaker 4: Request your copy of Say So Today at Joelosteing dot 446 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:14,960 Speaker 4: com or call eight eight eight five six seven Joel. 447 00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:18,040 Speaker 6: Last year and my wife when I were believing to 448 00:29:18,040 --> 00:29:20,600 Speaker 6: purchase our first home together. Now we have no idea 449 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:22,640 Speaker 6: how this was going to happen or how God would 450 00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:25,240 Speaker 6: provide the resources. And even though all the odds were 451 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,880 Speaker 6: stacked against us, we chose to believe God. And I'm 452 00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,080 Speaker 6: so excited to report that we close on our first 453 00:29:30,080 --> 00:29:32,400 Speaker 6: home and that that's the kind of faith this ministry 454 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:33,160 Speaker 6: teaches us to have. 455 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:37,200 Speaker 5: Every week, your support is making a difference. Thanks for 456 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:41,520 Speaker 5: partnering with us, your prayers, your generosity is touching lives 457 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,280 Speaker 5: around the world. 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