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Thanks for listening to our podcast and 37 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:36,840 Speaker 5: thanks for supporting the ministry. 38 00:01:36,959 --> 00:01:39,319 Speaker 3: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 39 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 3: blessing and share it with a friend. 40 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 5: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 41 00:01:43,959 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 5: your life. 42 00:01:55,720 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 4: Will God bless you? It is always a joy that 43 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:00,160 Speaker 4: coming to your home if. 44 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,360 Speaker 5: He come with good news, knowing that God is on 45 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:06,400 Speaker 5: your side, He rewards people that seek after him. Thanks 46 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 5: so much for tuning in today, and if you're ever 47 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 5: in our area, I hope that you'll stop by and 48 00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 5: see us because I promise you will make you feel 49 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:14,960 Speaker 5: right at home. But I like to get started each 50 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:17,200 Speaker 5: week with something kind of funny, so listen to this one. 51 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:20,160 Speaker 5: A professor told his college class that he was going 52 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 5: to prove that God was not real. He said, God, 53 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:25,799 Speaker 5: if you're real, knock me off this platform, and I'll 54 00:02:25,800 --> 00:02:28,520 Speaker 5: give you fifteen minutes to do it. With every minute 55 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:30,800 Speaker 5: that went by, he kept tuning God, saying here I 56 00:02:30,840 --> 00:02:31,239 Speaker 5: am God. 57 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:32,040 Speaker 4: I'm still waiting. 58 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:35,240 Speaker 5: At the last minute, a three hundred pound football player 59 00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:37,840 Speaker 5: walked by and heard what he said. He came charging 60 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:41,079 Speaker 5: into the room hit the professor with full force, sending 61 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:44,040 Speaker 5: him flying off the platform. The professor got up in 62 00:02:44,040 --> 00:02:46,000 Speaker 5: a daze and said, what'd you do that for? The 63 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:48,799 Speaker 5: football player replied, God said he is busy. 64 00:02:48,520 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 4: So he sent me. All right, hold up your bibles 65 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:55,840 Speaker 4: and say it like you inte ready. This is my Bible. 66 00:02:56,200 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 5: I am what it says I am. I have what 67 00:02:58,880 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 5: it says I have. I can do what it says 68 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:04,560 Speaker 5: I can do. Today I'll be taught the word of God. 69 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:09,440 Speaker 5: I boldly confess my mind is alert, my heart is receptive. 70 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:13,360 Speaker 5: I will never be the same. In Jesus's name, God 71 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:16,440 Speaker 5: bless you. You sound great as usual. I want to 72 00:03:16,480 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 5: talk to you today about the legacy that you're leaving 73 00:03:19,720 --> 00:03:21,560 Speaker 5: and about how important it is. 74 00:03:21,720 --> 00:03:23,760 Speaker 4: That we break free from all the. 75 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:28,160 Speaker 5: Negative things that keep getting passed down from generation to generation. 76 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:31,120 Speaker 5: It's just like when you go to the doctor's office 77 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:34,680 Speaker 5: and they ask you for your family's medical history. Do 78 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,160 Speaker 5: you have anyone that's had heart disease? Do you have 79 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:40,280 Speaker 5: any diabetes in your family line? Is there a history 80 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:43,800 Speaker 5: of this sickness or of that sickness? They know that 81 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:46,440 Speaker 5: can be passed down from generation to generation. 82 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:47,880 Speaker 4: And in the same. 83 00:03:47,720 --> 00:03:50,119 Speaker 5: Way, we can pass down a whole lot of other 84 00:03:50,240 --> 00:03:53,320 Speaker 5: junk unless we rise up and do something about it. 85 00:03:53,360 --> 00:03:56,320 Speaker 5: And it's so easy to be passive, and we just think, well, 86 00:03:56,360 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 5: this is just the way my father was. He was 87 00:03:58,960 --> 00:04:01,520 Speaker 5: always hot tempered, and that's why I'm so hot tempered. 88 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:04,160 Speaker 5: I had somebody tell me just the other week how 89 00:04:04,200 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 5: she started having these real bad migraine headaches. And she said, Joel, 90 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:10,840 Speaker 5: I always knew I was going to have them, because 91 00:04:10,880 --> 00:04:14,720 Speaker 5: my mother had them, my grandmother had them. It's been 92 00:04:14,760 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 5: in our family line for as far back as we 93 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 5: can see. The truth is she had already planned on 94 00:04:20,160 --> 00:04:23,680 Speaker 5: having those headaches. She just basically accepted it and made 95 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:25,279 Speaker 5: up her mind to live with it the rest of 96 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:25,920 Speaker 5: her life. 97 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:29,120 Speaker 4: But no, that is not God's best. You can be free. 98 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:31,760 Speaker 5: You don't have to live under the curse. You can 99 00:04:31,800 --> 00:04:34,680 Speaker 5: live under the blessing. And some of you today have 100 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,640 Speaker 5: all kinds of junk in your family's bloodline. 101 00:04:37,960 --> 00:04:39,600 Speaker 4: It's been there for generations. 102 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:46,200 Speaker 5: Divorce, poverty, alcoholism, addictions, negativity. Listen, you've got to rise 103 00:04:46,279 --> 00:04:48,800 Speaker 5: up and do something about that, because if. 104 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 4: You stay passive and just learn to accept. 105 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 5: It, all you're going to do is pass it on 106 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:54,840 Speaker 5: down to the next generation. 107 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:58,160 Speaker 4: And what a shame to perpetuate it when you can 108 00:04:58,200 --> 00:04:59,600 Speaker 4: be the one to put a stop to it. 109 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:02,160 Speaker 5: You need to put your foot down and say no, 110 00:05:02,800 --> 00:05:05,279 Speaker 5: this junk is not going to follow me around. 111 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 4: May have been in my family for. 112 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 5: Years, but I refuse to live negative. I refuse to 113 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,720 Speaker 5: just live with all these addictions. I am coming out 114 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:16,120 Speaker 5: in the name of Jesus. The Bible says they overcame 115 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:18,560 Speaker 5: him by the blood of the lamb and by the 116 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:22,240 Speaker 5: word of their testimony. That tells me we need to 117 00:05:22,279 --> 00:05:26,200 Speaker 5: start talking differently. Quit saying I just can't get ahead. 118 00:05:26,680 --> 00:05:30,040 Speaker 5: I've always been negative. Everybody in my family has had 119 00:05:30,040 --> 00:05:33,479 Speaker 5: these same addictions. Joel, No, your attitude should be this 120 00:05:33,520 --> 00:05:35,839 Speaker 5: is a new day, and I'm drawing that line in 121 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:38,720 Speaker 5: the sand. As for me and my family, we're going 122 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 5: to live under the blessing and. 123 00:05:40,040 --> 00:05:40,719 Speaker 4: Not the curse. 124 00:05:40,960 --> 00:05:44,320 Speaker 5: We're going to experience the good things of God. I 125 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:47,760 Speaker 5: know today I am reaping many benefits because of the 126 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 5: way my parents have lived. My father put a stop 127 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:52,800 Speaker 5: to a lot of the junk that was in our 128 00:05:52,839 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 5: family's bloodline, poverty, defeat, lack, and failure. We would be 129 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:00,720 Speaker 5: under that same curse had he not put his foot 130 00:06:00,760 --> 00:06:03,320 Speaker 5: down and done something about it. And we have to 131 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:07,880 Speaker 5: understand the decisions we make don't just affect ourselves. They 132 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:12,480 Speaker 5: affect our children, our grandchildren, they affect future generations. 133 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:14,560 Speaker 4: And I know today my life is. 134 00:06:14,560 --> 00:06:18,200 Speaker 5: Much easier because I was raised by parents that live 135 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:21,400 Speaker 5: the life of integrity, a life of helping others, a 136 00:06:21,440 --> 00:06:24,480 Speaker 5: life of kindness. And all through the Bible there are 137 00:06:24,600 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 5: examples of where God blessed people because of their parents' 138 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:33,040 Speaker 5: obedience or because of their grandparents' obedience. And the Scripture 139 00:06:33,080 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 5: says here in Deuteronomy thirty, verse nineteen, I set before 140 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:43,760 Speaker 5: you life and death, blessings and curses, therefore, choose life 141 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:48,680 Speaker 5: so that you and your descendants may live. Notice the 142 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 5: choices you make don't just affect you, They affect your descendants. 143 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:58,160 Speaker 5: And we need to learn to think generationally. What am 144 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:04,280 Speaker 5: I passing down? What kind of legacy am I leaving greed, selfishness, 145 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:09,239 Speaker 5: defeat negativity? Or am I leaving a legacy of giving 146 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 5: a legacy of helping others? Am I kind to people? 147 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:16,480 Speaker 5: Do I have a positive outlook? Am I really making 148 00:07:16,520 --> 00:07:19,480 Speaker 5: a difference with my life? I read a story about 149 00:07:19,480 --> 00:07:22,200 Speaker 5: a man by the name of Alfred Nobel. He was 150 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaker 5: the creator of the Nobel Peace Prize, and it's kind 151 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:28,680 Speaker 5: of interesting how it all came about. Mister Nobel was 152 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:32,720 Speaker 5: a sweetish chemist, and he invented dynamite and some other 153 00:07:32,880 --> 00:07:37,080 Speaker 5: very powerful explosives, and most of them were used as 154 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:41,280 Speaker 5: weapons during the war and for other very harmful purposes. 155 00:07:41,720 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 5: And he made a fortune off of this invention millions 156 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:48,800 Speaker 5: of dollars. But one day his brother died and the 157 00:07:48,880 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 5: newspaper accidentally printed his obituary instead of his brothers, and 158 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 5: in it they described him as the man who became 159 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 5: rich by enabling others to kill people in mass unprecedented 160 00:08:03,160 --> 00:08:04,200 Speaker 5: numbers men. 161 00:08:04,280 --> 00:08:06,280 Speaker 4: When he read that, his heart was saddened. 162 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:08,400 Speaker 5: He thought, I don't want to be known for that, 163 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 5: and so he took his fortune and created the Nobel Prize. 164 00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 4: And still to this day. 165 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 5: That prize rewards people for making positive accomplishments that benefit mankind. 166 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 4: And I wonder how many changes we would. 167 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:29,480 Speaker 5: Make if we could read our obituaries today. Friends, This 168 00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:32,400 Speaker 5: is a call to excellence, This is a challenge to 169 00:08:32,559 --> 00:08:36,640 Speaker 5: rise out of mediocrity. Anybody can compromise here and there, 170 00:08:37,160 --> 00:08:40,680 Speaker 5: not forgiving being rude or crushing people to get to 171 00:08:40,760 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 5: the top. That's the easy way out. But what a 172 00:08:43,480 --> 00:08:46,400 Speaker 5: shame to pass that junk down. What a shame to 173 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:49,319 Speaker 5: make it harder on those that come after us. Well, 174 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:51,440 Speaker 5: you say, Joel, it's my life. I can live it 175 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:54,559 Speaker 5: like I want. Yes, that's true, But that's a very 176 00:08:54,600 --> 00:08:58,320 Speaker 5: selfish way to think, because really it's not just your life. 177 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:02,120 Speaker 5: Your decisions affect people around you. You may think it's 178 00:09:02,160 --> 00:09:05,600 Speaker 5: okay to live negative, defeated, full of self pity all 179 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 5: the time, but those poor choices are affecting those around you. 180 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:12,199 Speaker 5: You may think it's okay to be late to work, 181 00:09:12,600 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 5: to be rude to your spouse, or to watch things 182 00:09:15,400 --> 00:09:17,760 Speaker 5: that are going to pollute your mind. But each of 183 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:22,480 Speaker 5: those decisions is affecting people around you. See, people are 184 00:09:22,520 --> 00:09:26,880 Speaker 5: watching you, especially your children. They're taking in every single 185 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:30,320 Speaker 5: thing you do. They are like video cameras with legs, 186 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:32,199 Speaker 5: and they're always. 187 00:09:31,720 --> 00:09:33,400 Speaker 4: In the record mode. 188 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 5: They learn more from what you do than from what 189 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:39,680 Speaker 5: you say, Like that old saying, I'd rather see a 190 00:09:39,760 --> 00:09:43,440 Speaker 5: sermon than hear one. Any day, when you're tempted to 191 00:09:43,520 --> 00:09:47,320 Speaker 5: compromise and just take the easy way out, I challenge 192 00:09:47,360 --> 00:09:52,640 Speaker 5: you to think generationally. Know that every right choice you make, 193 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:53,959 Speaker 5: you are making. 194 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:56,080 Speaker 4: It a little bit easier on those that come after you. 195 00:09:56,559 --> 00:09:59,800 Speaker 5: Every time you resist temptation, every time you go the 196 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:03,400 Speaker 5: extra mile, every time you overlook that fault, every right 197 00:10:03,600 --> 00:10:07,440 Speaker 5: choice you are making an investment into your future. You 198 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:09,959 Speaker 5: are sowing a seed for those that come after you. 199 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:13,720 Speaker 5: I heard somebody put it like this. You never really 200 00:10:13,760 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 5: make a choice alone. You're always taking your father and 201 00:10:18,280 --> 00:10:21,640 Speaker 5: your son with you. In other words, you're always taking 202 00:10:21,679 --> 00:10:24,160 Speaker 5: the future, and you're always. 203 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 4: Affecting the past. 204 00:10:25,600 --> 00:10:28,800 Speaker 5: You affect the reputation of those that have gone before 205 00:10:28,840 --> 00:10:32,319 Speaker 5: you by the decisions that you make today. And so 206 00:10:32,440 --> 00:10:35,040 Speaker 5: when you're tempted maybe to watch something that's a little 207 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:37,800 Speaker 5: bit questionable. Just imagine you got your son on one 208 00:10:37,840 --> 00:10:40,280 Speaker 5: side and you got your father on the other side, 209 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 5: because that's who you're affecting. And I realize we all 210 00:10:43,760 --> 00:10:46,640 Speaker 5: struggle in different areas and you may not have the 211 00:10:46,720 --> 00:10:50,319 Speaker 5: desire to overcome for yourself. You may not really feel 212 00:10:50,320 --> 00:10:53,000 Speaker 5: like digging your heels in and changing and becoming a 213 00:10:53,000 --> 00:10:54,040 Speaker 5: person of excellence. 214 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:55,319 Speaker 4: But I challenge you. 215 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:58,600 Speaker 5: Today, do it for your children, do it for your family, 216 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:02,439 Speaker 5: do it for the future generating. Remember people are watching 217 00:11:02,520 --> 00:11:03,600 Speaker 5: us wherever. 218 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:06,080 Speaker 4: We go, at the office, at the mall. 219 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:08,480 Speaker 5: At the ball field, and they can hear us talk 220 00:11:08,520 --> 00:11:10,720 Speaker 5: the talk, but they really need to see us walk 221 00:11:10,760 --> 00:11:13,560 Speaker 5: the walk. If we're sloppy at work and we lose 222 00:11:13,600 --> 00:11:15,959 Speaker 5: our temper out there on the ball field, and maybe 223 00:11:16,000 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 5: we don't keep our word, then people are not going 224 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 5: to want what we have. The point I'm making is 225 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:26,080 Speaker 5: that our decisions do affect other people. Don't be selfish 226 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:28,520 Speaker 5: and just think about what you want, what's going to 227 00:11:28,559 --> 00:11:29,680 Speaker 5: be the easiest on you. 228 00:11:30,120 --> 00:11:31,360 Speaker 4: Think generationally. 229 00:11:31,920 --> 00:11:35,120 Speaker 5: Think about how it's going to affect your children and grandchildren. 230 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 4: Think about how it's going to affect those around you. 231 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:39,880 Speaker 5: Well, you say, Joel, I don't believe in all that 232 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:43,800 Speaker 5: generational stuff. It's just every man for himself now, with 233 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:46,920 Speaker 5: all due respect, whether you realize it or not, you 234 00:11:46,960 --> 00:11:50,560 Speaker 5: are being affected right now by decisions that people made 235 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 5: many many years ago. Habits that you're dealing with, wrong mindsets, addictions, 236 00:11:56,480 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 5: areas that you're even tempted in. Studies show that we 237 00:12:00,679 --> 00:12:05,320 Speaker 5: produce what we are. In other words, alcoholics produce alcoholics. 238 00:12:05,920 --> 00:12:09,839 Speaker 5: Negative people beget negative people. Parents that have low self 239 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:12,679 Speaker 5: esteem most likely are going to have children with low 240 00:12:12,720 --> 00:12:16,400 Speaker 5: self esteem. I read a study that said over ninety 241 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 5: percent of the people incarcerated today had either a parent 242 00:12:21,080 --> 00:12:24,600 Speaker 5: or a very close loved one incarcerated at one time 243 00:12:24,640 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 5: as well. In other words, most of the time, you 244 00:12:28,160 --> 00:12:31,120 Speaker 5: don't just start out having to overcome some kind of 245 00:12:31,120 --> 00:12:33,920 Speaker 5: temptation or having to break some kind of bad habit. 246 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:37,199 Speaker 5: Very often you can look back and see it somewhere 247 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:40,280 Speaker 5: in your family line. Somebody gave in to it, and 248 00:12:40,320 --> 00:12:42,640 Speaker 5: now you're having to deal with it. And I'm not 249 00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 5: saying to blame the past, I'm not saying to use 250 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 5: that as an excuse, but I am saying you need 251 00:12:48,960 --> 00:12:53,200 Speaker 5: to recognize what's happening and make a conscious decision. I 252 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:55,240 Speaker 5: am not going to be the one to pass that down. 253 00:12:55,400 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 5: I'm going to be the one to put a stop 254 00:12:56,840 --> 00:12:59,120 Speaker 5: to it. I'm going to be the one to choose 255 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:03,400 Speaker 5: the blessing and not the curse, so that me and 256 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:06,720 Speaker 5: my descendants can live. Some of you have had divorce 257 00:13:06,840 --> 00:13:10,080 Speaker 5: in your family line for generations. You look back and 258 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:13,040 Speaker 5: see it with your parents and your grandparents, your aunts 259 00:13:13,080 --> 00:13:15,640 Speaker 5: and uncles. Listen, you can be the one to break 260 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:16,679 Speaker 5: that spirit of divorce. 261 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:19,240 Speaker 4: Don't let the enemy steal your family. 262 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:22,520 Speaker 5: Be on guard to keep strife out of your home. 263 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:26,080 Speaker 5: Do everything you can to keep the peace. Be quick 264 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:29,520 Speaker 5: to forgive. Don't always have to have your way, don't 265 00:13:29,559 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 5: have to be right, put your ego down in order 266 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:35,800 Speaker 5: to save your family. See, you've got to recognize the 267 00:13:35,840 --> 00:13:38,880 Speaker 5: schemes of the enemy. If you look back and see 268 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:42,880 Speaker 5: a long line of alcoholism and addictions, then men, you're 269 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 5: going to have to especially be on guard in those areas. 270 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:47,360 Speaker 5: I don't just sit back and say, well, that's just 271 00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 5: the way my family is. 272 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:48,959 Speaker 3: No. 273 00:13:49,120 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 5: If you'll dig your heels in, and if you'll start 274 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 5: making better choices and start. 275 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:54,520 Speaker 4: Resisting that temptation. 276 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 5: Then you can make it so much easier on your 277 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:00,680 Speaker 5: children and on the future generations. And it may be 278 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:04,559 Speaker 5: difficult at first, you may have to really struggle through it. 279 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:07,520 Speaker 5: But if you'll just keep doing the right thing, not 280 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:09,760 Speaker 5: only will you be blessed, but you will break that 281 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:13,720 Speaker 5: curse in your family. I encourage you to examine your 282 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:16,720 Speaker 5: life and look at the areas where you constantly struggle, 283 00:14:17,040 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 5: and you think, man, why can't. 284 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:19,920 Speaker 4: I get over this? Why do I have such a 285 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 4: tough time with fear? Why I always worry? Why do 286 00:14:22,640 --> 00:14:23,680 Speaker 4: I get so angry? 287 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:28,160 Speaker 5: Many times those have been passed down from other generations, 288 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:31,440 Speaker 5: and you've got to stand strong and take authority over that. 289 00:14:31,880 --> 00:14:33,920 Speaker 5: You got to make a decision with me today that 290 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:36,400 Speaker 5: you're going to live under the blessing and all the 291 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:39,160 Speaker 5: negative things that have been in your family line are 292 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:42,720 Speaker 5: not going to continue. In eighteen seventy four, a member 293 00:14:42,760 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 5: of the New York Prison Board noticed that six people 294 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:48,440 Speaker 5: from the same family were serving in one of the 295 00:14:48,480 --> 00:14:51,560 Speaker 5: New York prisons, and he was very intrigued by it, 296 00:14:51,600 --> 00:14:54,040 Speaker 5: and so he decided to do a study, and he 297 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 5: traced their family line back to a man by the 298 00:14:57,120 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 5: name of Max Jukes. He was born in seventeen twenty 299 00:15:01,480 --> 00:15:04,200 Speaker 5: and he was known around the town as the troublemaker. 300 00:15:04,720 --> 00:15:08,280 Speaker 5: He was an alcoholic, no integrity, no character, and he 301 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:09,400 Speaker 5: didn't believe in God. 302 00:15:09,920 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 4: He married a woman that was just like him. 303 00:15:12,320 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 5: They had six daughters and two sons, and approximately twelve 304 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 5: hundred of their descendants were studied, and among them, three 305 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:24,200 Speaker 5: hundred and ten were homeless, one hundred and eighty wrecked 306 00:15:24,200 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 5: their lives through drug and alcohol abuse, one hundred and 307 00:15:27,840 --> 00:15:31,400 Speaker 5: sixty were prostitutes, one hundred and fifty of them were 308 00:15:31,520 --> 00:15:34,920 Speaker 5: criminals that spent time in prison, seven of them for murder. 309 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:38,400 Speaker 5: They ended up costing the state in today's money, a 310 00:15:38,480 --> 00:15:40,800 Speaker 5: million and a half dollars to take care of them, 311 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:46,160 Speaker 5: and not one of them made any noteworthy contribution to society. 312 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:49,320 Speaker 5: But around that same time another family was studied. It 313 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:52,880 Speaker 5: was the Jonathan Edwards family. You may remember he was 314 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:57,840 Speaker 5: a famous theologian, a pastor, and the president of Princeton University. 315 00:15:58,320 --> 00:16:01,360 Speaker 5: He was born in seventeen o three. He married his 316 00:16:01,400 --> 00:16:05,080 Speaker 5: wife Sarah. They had eleven children. He was a devoted 317 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:08,080 Speaker 5: family man. He loved God and they stayed married thirty 318 00:16:08,120 --> 00:16:12,200 Speaker 5: one years until his death. And approximately fourteen hundred of 319 00:16:12,240 --> 00:16:16,880 Speaker 5: his descendants were studied, and among them, thirteen were college presidents, 320 00:16:17,400 --> 00:16:22,240 Speaker 5: sixty five were professors, one hundred were attorneys, thirty two 321 00:16:22,400 --> 00:16:26,680 Speaker 5: were state judges, eighty five were authors of classic books, 322 00:16:27,200 --> 00:16:32,359 Speaker 5: sixty six were physicians, and eighty held public office, including 323 00:16:32,560 --> 00:16:36,480 Speaker 5: three governors, three United States senators, and one Vice president 324 00:16:36,600 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 5: of the US. Do you notice what a difference it 325 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:42,360 Speaker 5: makes in what is being passed down? And you may 326 00:16:42,360 --> 00:16:44,920 Speaker 5: be here today and you don't have a great family 327 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:48,840 Speaker 5: lineage behind you. Maybe you weren't raised by godly parents 328 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:51,800 Speaker 5: like I was. Maybe all you saw model growing up 329 00:16:51,960 --> 00:16:57,000 Speaker 5: was laziness, abuse, addictions, negativity. But thank God, today is 330 00:16:57,040 --> 00:16:59,680 Speaker 5: a new day, and the good news is you can 331 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:02,760 Speaker 5: be the one to start the godly heritage in your family. 332 00:17:04,359 --> 00:17:07,800 Speaker 4: You can be the one to reverse that puse. That's 333 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 4: exactly what my father did. 334 00:17:10,080 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 5: Daddy's family they were good people, but they didn't know 335 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:16,240 Speaker 5: anything about God. They didn't have any dream for their life, 336 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 5: no vision. They were just very poor people doing their 337 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:23,639 Speaker 5: best trying to survive. My grandmother worked twelve hours a 338 00:17:23,720 --> 00:17:26,920 Speaker 5: day washing people's clothes. She made ten cents an hour, 339 00:17:27,359 --> 00:17:30,600 Speaker 5: and this old defeat and poverty and failure just kept 340 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:34,719 Speaker 5: getting passed down from generation to generation. One day, at 341 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:37,800 Speaker 5: the age of seventeen, Daddy gave his life to the Lord, 342 00:17:38,119 --> 00:17:40,399 Speaker 5: and God called him to preach, and he made a 343 00:17:40,400 --> 00:17:45,200 Speaker 5: decision right then and there that his family would never experience. 344 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:46,199 Speaker 4: The failure that he was raised in. 345 00:17:46,640 --> 00:17:48,879 Speaker 5: He said, Joel, I made up my mind that my 346 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:51,520 Speaker 5: kids would never go to school with holes in their pants, 347 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:54,600 Speaker 5: holes in their shoes, with nothing to eat like I did. 348 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:57,680 Speaker 5: And thank God he rose up and did something about it. 349 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 5: He broke that curse in our family. And as I 350 00:18:00,800 --> 00:18:04,359 Speaker 5: said today, now I know my life, my children's life, 351 00:18:04,359 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 5: my grandchildren will be so much easier because one man 352 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:11,200 Speaker 5: put his foot down and did something about it. The friends, 353 00:18:11,280 --> 00:18:15,840 Speaker 5: you can do the same thing. You can do the 354 00:18:15,920 --> 00:18:19,439 Speaker 5: same thing, whatever area it may be. Inn don't just 355 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:22,560 Speaker 5: keep passing it down. Draw that line in the sand. 356 00:18:23,359 --> 00:18:26,119 Speaker 5: You notice, back in Bible days they took their family 357 00:18:26,200 --> 00:18:29,960 Speaker 5: lineage a lot more seriously than we do today. A 358 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:32,399 Speaker 5: lot of times it not only tells where a person 359 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:35,600 Speaker 5: is from, but it'll tell his whole family line. And 360 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:38,959 Speaker 5: I think it's interesting how so often they prayed to 361 00:18:39,000 --> 00:18:41,760 Speaker 5: the God of Abraham, the god of Isaac and the 362 00:18:41,760 --> 00:18:44,840 Speaker 5: God of Jacob. What they were doing, in effect, was 363 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:48,359 Speaker 5: reminding God who had gone before them. They were saying, God, 364 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:52,280 Speaker 5: you remember my ancestor Abraham and how much he loved you. 365 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:55,920 Speaker 4: You remember Isaac and my great great great grandfather Jacob, 366 00:18:56,040 --> 00:18:58,480 Speaker 4: how they served you and did their best for you. 367 00:18:59,240 --> 00:19:01,720 Speaker 5: And really it's a powerful thing to be able to 368 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:04,680 Speaker 5: look back and say, God, we have served you for generations. 369 00:19:05,119 --> 00:19:07,440 Speaker 5: You may not have that today, but you can get 370 00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 5: it started. You can be the Abraham and your family. 371 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:12,600 Speaker 5: You can be the one to set the tone for 372 00:19:12,680 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 5: the next. 373 00:19:13,000 --> 00:19:16,080 Speaker 4: Few hundred years. Should the Lord terry. That's exactly what 374 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:16,920 Speaker 4: my father did. 375 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:20,040 Speaker 5: Now my grandchildren can look back and say, we're praying 376 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:22,160 Speaker 5: to the God of John Ostein the God of Joel 377 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:25,879 Speaker 5: Ostein the God of Jonathan, Notesteine. You talk about getting 378 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,160 Speaker 5: God's attention, that's a powerful thing. 379 00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:31,760 Speaker 4: Well, you may say, Joel, my family looks more like 380 00:19:31,800 --> 00:19:33,240 Speaker 4: the Duke's family. Man. 381 00:19:33,440 --> 00:19:35,320 Speaker 5: When I look at my family tree, all I see 382 00:19:35,359 --> 00:19:36,200 Speaker 5: is a bunch of nuts. 383 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:40,320 Speaker 4: Now listen, the good news is you can make a difference. 384 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:41,400 Speaker 4: Don't get discouraged. 385 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:44,840 Speaker 5: If you'll keep making right choices day in and day out. 386 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:48,640 Speaker 5: You keep resisting temptation, you keep going the extra mile. 387 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:51,959 Speaker 5: Then one day, if someone were to study your family 388 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,160 Speaker 5: line years from now, they may see ten or fifteen 389 00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:58,600 Speaker 5: generations of mediocrity. But when they come to your name, 390 00:19:58,760 --> 00:20:01,040 Speaker 5: they'll say, hey, look here's where it all turned around. 391 00:20:01,280 --> 00:20:05,760 Speaker 5: Here's where the curse stopped and the blessings began. Friends, 392 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:09,200 Speaker 5: you can make a difference. Some of you need to 393 00:20:09,240 --> 00:20:13,080 Speaker 5: dig your heels in today, quit making excuses, quit settling 394 00:20:13,119 --> 00:20:16,080 Speaker 5: for mediocrity, and say, you know what, the buck stops here. 395 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:19,280 Speaker 5: I'm gonna set a new standing for my family. I'm 396 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:22,960 Speaker 5: choosing the blessing and not the curse. Exodus twenty verse five, 397 00:20:23,040 --> 00:20:26,080 Speaker 5: it says I the Lord your God, am a jealous god, 398 00:20:26,440 --> 00:20:30,679 Speaker 5: visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to 399 00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:34,639 Speaker 5: the third and fourth generation. That tells us right there 400 00:20:35,040 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 5: that our wrong choices can be passed down three or 401 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:40,199 Speaker 5: four generations. And as I said, some of you are 402 00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:44,040 Speaker 5: struggling today because of things your parents have done. Maybe 403 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:46,480 Speaker 5: you couldn't do anything about it at the time, but 404 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:48,000 Speaker 5: thank God you can today. 405 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:50,480 Speaker 4: You don't have to let the defeat continue on. 406 00:20:51,359 --> 00:20:54,920 Speaker 5: I know people that were raised in a very abusive environment. 407 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:56,000 Speaker 4: Man, it wasn't fair. 408 00:20:56,560 --> 00:20:59,199 Speaker 5: But you can either go down that same path and 409 00:20:59,280 --> 00:21:02,359 Speaker 5: live negative, bitter and angry, or you can make a 410 00:21:02,359 --> 00:21:04,960 Speaker 5: better decision. You can make a choice for the blessing 411 00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:07,040 Speaker 5: and not the curse and see things. 412 00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:07,800 Speaker 4: Begin to turn around. 413 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:11,200 Speaker 5: And always remember, if somebody has hurt you and done 414 00:21:11,320 --> 00:21:14,760 Speaker 5: unfair things to you, don't allow them to continue to 415 00:21:14,840 --> 00:21:17,080 Speaker 5: hurt you by hanging on to it and living all 416 00:21:17,080 --> 00:21:18,360 Speaker 5: better on the inside. 417 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:21,560 Speaker 4: That's what happens when we make poor choices. We just 418 00:21:21,640 --> 00:21:23,040 Speaker 4: perpetuate the defeat. 419 00:21:23,720 --> 00:21:26,760 Speaker 5: But watch what happens when we choose the blessings. Watch 420 00:21:26,840 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 5: what happens when we obey God's commands. 421 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 4: It says in Deuteronomy. 422 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:34,879 Speaker 5: God is faithful, and he will keep the covenant of 423 00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 5: mercy with those that love him and obey his commands 424 00:21:39,960 --> 00:21:44,320 Speaker 5: unto a thousand generations. Notice how good God is. When 425 00:21:44,359 --> 00:21:47,280 Speaker 5: we sin and we refuse to change, it can affect 426 00:21:47,280 --> 00:21:51,120 Speaker 5: three or four generations. But when you love God, when 427 00:21:51,119 --> 00:21:54,800 Speaker 5: you make a decision to do what's right, God promises 428 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:59,440 Speaker 5: he will show your family line mercy to a thousand generations. Man, 429 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:03,560 Speaker 5: that's good news. I can sleep well at night knowing 430 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:06,919 Speaker 5: that because I'm trying my best to serve God. I 431 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:10,080 Speaker 5: know he's gonna take care of my children, my grandchildren, 432 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:13,919 Speaker 5: my great grandchildren, down to one thousand generations. That's a 433 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,600 Speaker 5: long time. After that, I'll let somebody else stick up 434 00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:20,080 Speaker 5: four of it. But I'm not saying I'm perfect. We 435 00:22:20,160 --> 00:22:21,320 Speaker 5: all make mistakes. 436 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,919 Speaker 4: But the difference between a sin and an iniquity, like 437 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:26,200 Speaker 4: the first Scripture talked. 438 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,800 Speaker 5: About, is a sin is when we do wrong, we 439 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,119 Speaker 5: feel bad about it, and we say God forgive me, 440 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:34,119 Speaker 5: and we try to do better. But a sin turns 441 00:22:34,160 --> 00:22:37,119 Speaker 5: into an iniquity when we just keep doing it over 442 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:42,200 Speaker 5: and over again. Bad habits, addictions, negative thinking, those are 443 00:22:42,280 --> 00:22:46,600 Speaker 5: all iniquities that can be passed down. But always remember, 444 00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:49,280 Speaker 5: if you love God, and I know you do, if 445 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:52,600 Speaker 5: you have a heart to do what's right, God promises, 446 00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:56,439 Speaker 5: because of your good choices, he's gonna show your family 447 00:22:56,520 --> 00:23:00,040 Speaker 5: line mercy. That means your children or your grandchildren. And 448 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 5: they may get off course a little bit, they may 449 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:05,480 Speaker 5: go down the wrong path, but because of the life 450 00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:09,400 Speaker 5: you have lived, God promises he will not deal with 451 00:23:09,440 --> 00:23:13,120 Speaker 5: them like somebody that did not have a godly heritage. 452 00:23:13,240 --> 00:23:15,919 Speaker 5: He will show mercy because of the life you've lived. 453 00:23:16,640 --> 00:23:19,520 Speaker 5: I think about David. He had this same promise that 454 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 5: a thousand generations would see God's mercy and that someone 455 00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,960 Speaker 5: from his family line would always sit upon the throne 456 00:23:26,000 --> 00:23:30,119 Speaker 5: of Israel. Well, what's interesting is, twenty three years after 457 00:23:30,240 --> 00:23:32,879 Speaker 5: David died, his son Solomon. 458 00:23:32,640 --> 00:23:33,959 Speaker 4: Was living very foolishly. 459 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:37,399 Speaker 5: He wasn't making good choices, and God came to him 460 00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:41,000 Speaker 5: and said, in effect, Solomon, I'm gonna have mercy on you, 461 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,280 Speaker 5: not because of anything you've done, but because of the 462 00:23:44,320 --> 00:23:45,080 Speaker 5: life your father. 463 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 4: David lived. 464 00:23:46,520 --> 00:23:50,560 Speaker 5: Fifty seven years after David was gone, his great grandson 465 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 5: was in a terrible time of crisis. He could have 466 00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:57,640 Speaker 5: easily been killed, but God showed mercy, spared his life 467 00:23:57,720 --> 00:23:58,760 Speaker 5: and protected him. 468 00:23:58,800 --> 00:24:01,359 Speaker 4: And once again, it was because. 469 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 5: Of the promise he made to his great grandfather David. 470 00:24:04,320 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 5: Three hundred and five years after David had died, Hezekiah 471 00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:10,679 Speaker 5: was being threatened by all these enemies in the natural. 472 00:24:10,720 --> 00:24:13,119 Speaker 5: He could have been wiped out, but God showed up 473 00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,800 Speaker 5: and turned it all around, and he said, Hezeki, I'm 474 00:24:15,840 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 5: not really doing it because anything you've done. I'm doing 475 00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:22,560 Speaker 5: it because of the covenant of mercy I made with David. 476 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,880 Speaker 5: Who knows how many times God has shown us mercy 477 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:28,719 Speaker 5: because we had a praying mother, or because we had 478 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:31,159 Speaker 5: a father that loved God, or maybe we had a 479 00:24:31,240 --> 00:24:34,800 Speaker 5: great great great grandfather somewhere that lived a holy. 480 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 4: Godly life. I think about this friend we know years ago. 481 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:39,480 Speaker 4: He was in an. 482 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:43,199 Speaker 5: Outlaw biker game. His mind was so messed up. He 483 00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:45,840 Speaker 5: was addicted to every kind of drug you can imagine. 484 00:24:45,920 --> 00:24:48,639 Speaker 5: He was just living a very rebellious life, always in 485 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:51,040 Speaker 5: trouble with the law, and in the natural you wouldn't 486 00:24:51,040 --> 00:24:52,320 Speaker 5: think there's any hope for him. 487 00:24:52,880 --> 00:24:56,040 Speaker 4: But this young man had a mother that was always praying. 488 00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:59,760 Speaker 5: She was always saying, God, you remember you promised to 489 00:24:59,800 --> 00:25:03,720 Speaker 5: sh oh my children mercy. Well, one day this young 490 00:25:03,760 --> 00:25:06,399 Speaker 5: man got so desperate and he sunk so low. He 491 00:25:06,520 --> 00:25:08,959 Speaker 5: decided he was just going to end his life. He 492 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,680 Speaker 5: was standing in front of a mirror staring at himself. 493 00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:14,320 Speaker 5: He had this bottle of pills and he's just ready 494 00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:17,359 Speaker 5: to overdose. But something down in here told him, don't 495 00:25:17,400 --> 00:25:19,359 Speaker 5: do it. Go to church one more time. 496 00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:22,480 Speaker 4: He hadn't been to church in years and years. He 497 00:25:22,480 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 4: didn't even know. 498 00:25:23,040 --> 00:25:24,960 Speaker 5: Why he did it, but he got on his motorcycle 499 00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:27,639 Speaker 5: and he pulled up to Lakewood. He came into the 500 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:31,200 Speaker 5: service so high he couldn't remember anything he said. All 501 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:33,480 Speaker 5: he could remember is that he felt a love down 502 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:35,760 Speaker 5: in here that he had never really felt before. He 503 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,159 Speaker 5: left the service that day and out in the parking 504 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:40,600 Speaker 5: lot in front of his motorcycle, he got down on 505 00:25:40,640 --> 00:25:43,440 Speaker 5: his knees and he said, God, if you're real, come 506 00:25:43,440 --> 00:25:45,920 Speaker 5: into my life. And do you know that very moment 507 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 5: his life was changed. All those addictions were broken off 508 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,240 Speaker 5: of him. He got his life cleaned up, and today 509 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 5: he's a pastor of a church in town. 510 00:25:54,440 --> 00:25:56,680 Speaker 4: Helping other young people that were just like him. 511 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 5: But I believe that happened in part because he had 512 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:05,320 Speaker 5: a mother that was praying. God showed mercy on him 513 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,720 Speaker 5: because of the life she lived. That's the promise God 514 00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,040 Speaker 5: has made to us up to a thousand generations. I 515 00:26:12,119 --> 00:26:14,720 Speaker 5: love the story of Rahab in the Bible. She was 516 00:26:14,760 --> 00:26:18,240 Speaker 5: a harlot. She came from a long line of immorality. 517 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 5: She studied the people of Canaan. You'll see that they 518 00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,520 Speaker 5: had no regard for God, and it just kept going 519 00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:27,159 Speaker 5: from generation to generation. But one day Joshua and the 520 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:30,920 Speaker 5: people of Israel were about to attack her city of Jericho, 521 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,040 Speaker 5: and so Joshua was sent two. 522 00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:34,440 Speaker 4: Men in to spy out the land. 523 00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:37,280 Speaker 5: And long story short, they ended up needing a place 524 00:26:37,320 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 5: to stay, and so Rahab took them into her home, 525 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:43,359 Speaker 5: and she hid them from her countrymen. 526 00:26:43,840 --> 00:26:46,760 Speaker 4: In other words, she took a stand for what was right. 527 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:49,760 Speaker 5: She made a decision that day that she was going 528 00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:52,080 Speaker 5: to serve the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, 529 00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:55,159 Speaker 5: and the God of Jacob. And because of her simple 530 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:58,080 Speaker 5: act of faith, not only was she and all of 531 00:26:58,119 --> 00:26:59,639 Speaker 5: her family spared. 532 00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,440 Speaker 4: But she broke that curse that had drug her family 533 00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:05,800 Speaker 4: down for so many generations. And I love what happened. 534 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:09,199 Speaker 5: Rahab ended up marrying a Jewish man and they had 535 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,600 Speaker 5: a child named bo As. Bo As married Ruth and 536 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,920 Speaker 5: they had a son named Obed. Obed had a son 537 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:19,400 Speaker 5: named Jesse. Jesse had a son named David, and as 538 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:21,920 Speaker 5: you know, David became the king. And if you look 539 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,560 Speaker 5: back today, you'll see that Rayhab, the former prostitute, is 540 00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:28,919 Speaker 5: in the lineage of Jesus Christ. The point I'm making 541 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,800 Speaker 5: today is, no matter what family you come from, there 542 00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 5: may be a long line of addictions, abuse, bad choice 543 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:36,440 Speaker 5: is negativity. 544 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,160 Speaker 4: But if you will start making good choices. 545 00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:41,840 Speaker 5: If you will take a stand for what's right, then 546 00:27:41,880 --> 00:27:44,520 Speaker 5: you can break that curse over your family. And just 547 00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:48,000 Speaker 5: like Rayhab, you'll begin to see God's blessings and favor 548 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 5: on you and on your descendants. And so my message 549 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:54,359 Speaker 5: to you today is to dig your heels in and 550 00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:57,400 Speaker 5: make a decision that you're gonna live under the blessing 551 00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:04,560 Speaker 5: and not the curse. Amen, don't be passing, don't make excuses. 552 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,040 Speaker 5: You got to rise up and take authority over every 553 00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:09,880 Speaker 5: negative thing that's trying to hold you back. And remember 554 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,720 Speaker 5: every right choice you make. You're so in a seed 555 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 5: for later on. Think generationally, pass down good things, leave 556 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:19,920 Speaker 5: a legacy of faith, a legacy. 557 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,280 Speaker 4: Of serving God with your whole heart. 558 00:28:21,720 --> 00:28:24,600 Speaker 5: If you do that, not only will you see God's 559 00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,800 Speaker 5: mercy for a thousand generations to your family line, but 560 00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:29,920 Speaker 5: God will pour out his blessings in your own life 561 00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:31,600 Speaker 5: and you'll experience his victories. 562 00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:33,960 Speaker 4: Amen. Hey, Amen, Well, let's pray together today. 563 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:38,160 Speaker 5: And we never like to close our broadcast without giving 564 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,240 Speaker 5: you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 565 00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:42,360 Speaker 4: Would you pray with me? 566 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:46,960 Speaker 5: Just say Lord Jesus, I'll repent of my sins. 567 00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:53,720 Speaker 4: Come into my heart. I make you my Lord and savior. Friends, 568 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:55,600 Speaker 4: if you prayed that simple prayer. 569 00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,760 Speaker 5: We believe you got born again. Get in a good 570 00:28:57,760 --> 00:29:00,080 Speaker 5: Bible based church. Keep God first play. 571 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,880 Speaker 4: He's going to take your places that you've never dreamed of. 572 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:07,240 Speaker 6: Thank you for listening to the Joel Lostin podcast. 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