Speaker 1: Hi, it's Joel and Victoria. What a joy to be
Speaker 1: with you today. We always counted an honor. Know that
Speaker 1: we're praying for you and your family. We sure hope
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Speaker 1: I like to start with something funny, and I heard
Speaker 1: about this elderly lady that was close to death. She
Speaker 1: had never been married, and she called her pastor over
Speaker 1: to talk about her funeral. She said that she only
Speaker 1: wanted female pallbearers. Pastor looked at her kind of strange
Speaker 1: and asked why. She said. The men wouldn't take me
Speaker 1: out when I was alive, and they're not gonna take
Speaker 1: me out when I'm dead. Say it like you mean it.
Speaker 1: This is my Bible. I am what it says I am.
Speaker 1: I have what it says I have. I can do
Speaker 1: what it says I can do. Today I will be
Speaker 1: told the word of God. I boldly confess. My mind
Speaker 1: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be
Speaker 1: the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. I want
Speaker 1: to talk to you today about rest from your enemies.
Speaker 1: We all have things that come against us and try
Speaker 1: to keep us from our destiny. Most of what we
Speaker 1: struggle with didn't start with us. It was passed down
Speaker 1: things like depression, addictions, anger, divorce. Studies show how that
Speaker 1: can get passed from generation to generation. If your mother
Speaker 1: was depressed, there's a good chance you'll have to deal
Speaker 1: with depression. If your father was an alcoholic, had anger issues,
Speaker 1: wasn't faithful to his wife, those are traits that can
Speaker 1: affect you, just like a lady that's on drugs and
Speaker 1: gives birth to a baby. That baby can have the
Speaker 1: same addiction as the mother. There was no fault of
Speaker 1: the it's just life. The good news is there is
Speaker 1: a way to put a stop to it. What you're
Speaker 1: dealing with may not have started with you, but it
Speaker 1: can stop with you. God wants to give you rest
Speaker 1: from those enemies. He wants to put an end to
Speaker 1: what's limiting you. But there's something we have to do.
Speaker 1: As long as we accept dysfunction as the norm. It
Speaker 1: will never change. If you see that addiction, that depression,
Speaker 1: that lack and struggle as your lot in life, you'll
Speaker 1: not only get stuck, but you'll pass it on to
Speaker 1: the next generation. And this is what the Israelites did.
Speaker 1: In Judges fifteen, the Philistines had been ruling over them
Speaker 1: for forty years. An angel appeared to a young lady
Speaker 1: and said, you're going to have a son. You are
Speaker 1: to name him Sampson. He's going to have supernatural strength.
Speaker 1: He will deliver the Israelites from the Philistines. As he
Speaker 1: grew up, the Philistines could tell there was something different
Speaker 1: about Samson. Every time they tried to bind him, he
Speaker 1: would break those cords. He was a huge threat to them.
Speaker 1: So the Philistines circled the Israelites camp and were about
Speaker 1: to attack. The men of Judah went out and said, hey,
Speaker 1: why are you coming against us. We're not bothering you.
Speaker 1: We're your slaves. They said, we've come to get Samson.
Speaker 1: He's causing us trouble. Instead of recognizing that Sampson had
Speaker 1: been raised up to deliver them from the Philistines. Instead
Speaker 1: of saying, yes, this is a new day. We're not
Speaker 1: living in mediocrity anymore. We're done being ruled by this enemy.
Speaker 1: The Israelites were so comfortable in dysfunction they went to
Speaker 1: Samson and tied him up. He wasn't tied up by
Speaker 1: the enemy. He was tied up by his friends. They
Speaker 1: said in verse eleven, Sampson, don't you realize the Philistines
Speaker 1: rule over us? Why are you making it even worse?
Speaker 1: They were saying, this is our lot in life. Samson
Speaker 1: has been this way for forty years. You really think
Speaker 1: something's going to change, Just accept it. How many times
Speaker 1: is God sending us a Samson? But we think, like
Speaker 1: the Israelites, I'll always be lonely. Joel, I've been this
Speaker 1: way for years. I'll never break this addiction. I've had
Speaker 1: it a long time. I'll never get out of debt.
Speaker 1: My family always struggles. As long as you accept the dysfunction,
Speaker 1: and even when God sends you away out, even when
Speaker 1: a Samson shows up, you'll talk to yourself out of it.
Speaker 1: Because they were stuck in their thinking, they tied up
Speaker 1: the one that was sent to deliver them. Are you
Speaker 1: tying up your breakthrough? So to speak? Tying up your healing?
Speaker 1: Your promotion, your abundance. Because the dysfunction is so familiar,
Speaker 1: it's been that way so long. You think it's normal
Speaker 1: to live depressed, addicted, angry, lonely. This is a new day.
Speaker 1: You may have been ruled by those things for years.
Speaker 1: They may have been passed down by previous generations, but
Speaker 1: that is not your destiny. God sent me as a samson.
Speaker 1: He's using my voice to tell you it's time to
Speaker 1: break free. It's time to rise higher. What's limited you
Speaker 1: in the past doesn't have to limit you in the future.
Speaker 1: You can break that addiction. You have the most powerful
Speaker 1: force in the universe breathing in your direction. You can
Speaker 1: rise out of lack, struggle, not heaven enough. You have
Speaker 1: seeds of greatness. You were created to lend and not borrow.
Speaker 1: You can be free from depression, low self esteem, insecurity.
Speaker 1: God crowned you with favor. He put a robe of
Speaker 1: honor on you. You have royal blood flowing through your veins.
Speaker 1: Don't let limited thinking keep you from your destiny. You
Speaker 1: can't think this is the way it's always going to be,
Speaker 1: and expect to rise to the next level. And this
Speaker 1: is where the Israelites missed it. They were so afraid
Speaker 1: of the Philistines, and so convinced they were going to
Speaker 1: rule them their whole life. They went to Samson, their friend,
Speaker 1: their deliverer, and tied him up. When the Philistines saw
Speaker 1: that he was bound, they went over to get him. Thought,
Speaker 1: finally we can relax. But the spirit of the Lord
Speaker 1: came on Sampson. He broke those cords like they were threads.
Speaker 1: He picked up the jawbone of a donkey and wiped
Speaker 1: out over a thousand Philistines. What's interesting is he broke
Speaker 1: the chains not of his enemies, but of his friends.
Speaker 1: God was showing us sometimes the people closest to you,
Speaker 1: the ones that raised you, your family and friends. They
Speaker 1: may tell you just settle where you are. Don't you
Speaker 1: know these things rule over us. You'll never get your degree,
Speaker 1: you'll never meet the right person, you'll never break that addiction.
Speaker 1: Like Sampson, they cannot keep you chained up. God has
Speaker 1: put a supernatural strength on you to fulfill your destiny.
Speaker 1: Your family, your friends, your neighbors. They don't know what's
Speaker 1: in you. They can't keep you from rising higher. They
Speaker 1: may be good people, they're sincere, but their vision is
Speaker 1: limited don't fall into that trap. God has called you
Speaker 1: to be a Samson, to deliver your people, to set
Speaker 1: a new standard for your family, to break chains that
Speaker 1: have held you back. Sometimes it's not our enemies that
Speaker 1: are limiting us. Our friends have tied us up. Everyone
Speaker 1: close to you may not be for you. They can
Speaker 1: say discouraging things, just settle their depression runs in this family.
Speaker 1: Your dad was broke, your granddad was broke. You're going
Speaker 1: to be broke to no offense. But they're trying to
Speaker 1: tie you up. Are you going to accept the dysfunction,
Speaker 1: settle for mediocrity, or are you going to say I
Speaker 1: don't think so. I'm better than this. I know the
Speaker 1: power that's in me is greater than any forced it's
Speaker 1: trying to stop me. When God breathed his life into you,
Speaker 1: he destined you to leave your mark. He gave you
Speaker 1: the power to break chains that have held your family
Speaker 1: back for generations. He anointed you as a Samson to
Speaker 1: take new ground. Don't let mediocrity become the norm. It
Speaker 1: may have been that way as far back as you
Speaker 1: can see. You have to draw the line in the
Speaker 1: sand and say the buck stops with me. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to live tied up. My relatives may have been bound.
Speaker 1: My friends may be fine with dysfunction. My coworkers may
Speaker 1: be okay with living depressed, angry, addicted, But not me.
Speaker 1: I'm going to be a Sampson. I'm going to break chains.
Speaker 1: I know I was born to make a difference. Somebody
Speaker 1: has to be the first one in the family to
Speaker 1: not be addicted, to not get a divorce, to not
Speaker 1: live paycheck to paycheck, to not go around angry and defended.
Speaker 1: Why can't it be you? Why can't you set a
Speaker 1: new standard. Why can't you raise great children? Why can't
Speaker 1: you have an exceptional career. You're a Samson. You've been equipped,
Speaker 1: You've been in power. God has called you to deliver
Speaker 1: your people. Second Chronicles fourteen, a young man named Asa
Speaker 1: became the new king of Israel. His father had died,
Speaker 1: and now he took the throne. He inherited a land
Speaker 1: that was filled with idols, pagan shrines, monuments to different
Speaker 1: kinds of gods. His father passed down compromise, dysfunction, mediocrity.
Speaker 1: That's what he had seen growing up. That was normal
Speaker 1: to him. He could have continued it on thought, this
Speaker 1: is the way it's always been. Dad was fine with
Speaker 1: these idols. Everybody likes worshiping these different gods. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to rock the boat. But Asa understood this principle
Speaker 1: that just because something gets passed down doesn't mean you
Speaker 1: have to continue it. Just because somebody close to you
Speaker 1: has changed you, so to speak, to compromise dysfunction doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you have to stay bound. He knew he was
Speaker 1: anointed to be a samson, that he could break chains,
Speaker 1: that he could take new ground. And the scripture says
Speaker 1: Asa removed the pagan shrines, he smashed the sacred pillars.
Speaker 1: He's chopped down the asherer polls where the people worshiped.
Speaker 1: Asa didn't accept the dysfunction. He didn't let what was
Speaker 1: passed down limit his life. He took responsibility. Said, in effect,
Speaker 1: this compromise didn't start with me, but it is going
Speaker 1: to stop with me. He didn't make excuses think that
Speaker 1: he had a reason to live that way. He was
Speaker 1: a difference maker. He wasn't passive. He didn't do it quietly.
Speaker 1: He smashed the pagan shrines, he pulled up those altars.
Speaker 1: He was serious about fulfilling his destiny. And because he
Speaker 1: did this, verse six says the Lord gave him rest
Speaker 1: from his enemies. If you want rest from your enemies,
Speaker 1: you have to do like he did and get rid
Speaker 1: of negative things that have been passed down. As long
Speaker 1: as you're accepting it, you're going to struggle the bad attitude,
Speaker 1: the anger, the addiction. Most likely it didn't start with you.
Speaker 1: Will you be the ASA and remove it? Will you
Speaker 1: be the one to rise up and say, I am
Speaker 1: not going to let this anger rule my life anymore.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to accept lack and defeat and struggle
Speaker 1: as my destiny. I'm not going to learn to live
Speaker 1: with depression, anxiety, low self esteem. I'm going to be
Speaker 1: an ASA. I'm going to smash those strongholds. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pull down those long mindsets. If you will become an
Speaker 1: ASA and not take what was passed down as your destiny,
Speaker 1: God will give you rest from those enemies. I talked
Speaker 1: to a man that had been an alcoholic for nearly
Speaker 1: thirty years. Twenty two years he had had a drug addiction.
Speaker 1: These are the things that keep getting passed down until
Speaker 1: someone rises up and decides to be an ASA and
Speaker 1: do something about it. Studies show that if your father
Speaker 1: was an alcoholic, you are ten times more likely to
Speaker 1: become an alcoholic. That's a spirit going from generation to generation.
Speaker 1: Ninety percent of the people in prison one of their
Speaker 1: parents was incarcerated. Somebody has to rise up and break
Speaker 1: the negative cycle. And the reason people tell you that
Speaker 1: if your father struggled, you will struggle is because they're
Speaker 1: looking at the wrong father. When you gave your life
Speaker 1: to Christ, you became a new creation. There may be
Speaker 1: a lot of negative baggage in your bloodline, but now
Speaker 1: you have a heavenly father. You're not limited by the natural.
Speaker 1: You have a supernatural force to help you overcome. This
Speaker 1: gentleman wasn't a religious person. He wasn't raised in church.
Speaker 1: One day he got so low, he was so desperate,
Speaker 1: he said, God, please help me. He went to a
Speaker 1: bookstore to try to find a book on overcoming addictions,
Speaker 1: and he pulled one off the shelf, and this other
Speaker 1: book fell on his foot. It's very strange. He didn't
Speaker 1: know what caused it to fall. He picked it up
Speaker 1: and it was my book. He had never seen me,
Speaker 1: he didn't know who I am. But he started flipping
Speaker 1: through it, reading some passages, and something began to come
Speaker 1: alive on the inside. He took it home and learned
Speaker 1: what I'm telling you that just because something was passed
Speaker 1: down doesn't mean you have to continue it. He read
Speaker 1: that book in three days and said from that day forward,
Speaker 1: he never touched another drug, never touched the alcohol. He
Speaker 1: was set completely free. What happened he became an ASA.
Speaker 1: He didn't accept the dysfunction as the norm. When you
Speaker 1: make that decision that enough is, You're not going to
Speaker 1: live addicted, angry, letting things rule you, then God will
Speaker 1: help you overcome what you could not overcome on your own.
Speaker 1: Joshua said it this way. You will not defeat your
Speaker 1: enemies until you remove these things. Are there some things
Speaker 1: you need to remove? Asa had to remove the idols
Speaker 1: that weren't pleasing to God. This man had to remove
Speaker 1: the alcohol, the drugs that were destroying his life. My
Speaker 1: father had to remove a poverty mindset that he was
Speaker 1: raised with. If he hadn't done that, I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: standing here. You may need to remove the anger, the jealousy,
Speaker 1: the regrets. When you say, like this, man, God, I
Speaker 1: can't do this on my own. Help me break this addiction,
Speaker 1: Help me resist this temptation. God help me get rid
Speaker 1: of this bitterness. When you humble yourself and ask God
Speaker 1: to help you and then take bold steps like Asa
Speaker 1: to remove what's holding you back, God will make things
Speaker 1: happen that you could never make happen. He will give
Speaker 1: you rest from those enemies. Here's the key. What you
Speaker 1: don't put a stop to will eventually put a stop
Speaker 1: to you. If you don't put a stop to that
Speaker 1: bad attitude, it's going to stop you. If you don't
Speaker 1: put a stop to the anger, the addiction, the regrets,
Speaker 1: they will keep you from your destiny. If Asa had
Speaker 1: not put a stop to the dysfunction that would pass down,
Speaker 1: his life would have been a constant struggle. Always uphill
Speaker 1: the message. Translation says Asa cleaned house. Do you need
Speaker 1: to do some house cleaning? Are you allowing some things
Speaker 1: to stay that you know are not good? My challenge
Speaker 1: is put a stop to it before it stops you.
Speaker 1: Don't let a critical attitude keep you from your purpose.
Speaker 1: Everybody in your family may be that way. Recognize that's
Speaker 1: not normal. Don't learn to function in the dysfunction. Remove
Speaker 1: it and God will take you to a new level.
Speaker 1: Don't let a lack mentality a poverty mindset keep you
Speaker 1: in mediocrity, Joel, I'll never have enough. Nobody in my
Speaker 1: family is successful. God wants to give you rest from
Speaker 1: that enemy of lack, that enemy of not having enough.
Speaker 1: If you will get rid of the limited thinking and
Speaker 1: start having a prosperous, more than enough mindset, knowing that
Speaker 1: favor is surrounding you like a shield, then God will
Speaker 1: open the windows of heaven. He'll cause opportunity, blessing increase
Speaker 1: to chase you down. But too often we think what's
Speaker 1: on the outside is stopping us. I believe if we'll
Speaker 1: look inside and get rid of what we know is
Speaker 1: not good, then we'll see God's favor in new ways.
Speaker 1: There was a grandfather that fell asleep one afternoon in
Speaker 1: the family room. His grandchildren decided to play a trick
Speaker 1: on him. They took some real strong smelling cheese. It's
Speaker 1: very potent, smelled very bad. While he was sleeping, they
Speaker 1: snuck over and they carefully rubbed it on his mustache,
Speaker 1: right under his nose. In a few minutes, he woke
Speaker 1: up and thought, something really stinks in here. He left
Speaker 1: that room and went into the kitchen and thought, boy,
Speaker 1: it stinks in here too. Went to his bedroom, same thing.
Speaker 1: Why does it smell so badly? Finally he went outside,
Speaker 1: hoping to get some relief from the stinking. He took
Speaker 1: a deep breath, shook his head, and said, man, the
Speaker 1: whole world stinks. This is what happens when we hold
Speaker 1: on to things that we should get rid of. If
Speaker 1: you'll remove the bad attitude, the stink will go away.
Speaker 1: If you'll remove the compromise giving it to temptation, the
Speaker 1: stink will lead. As long as you're allowing it to stay,
Speaker 1: it's going to follow you everywhere you go. If you
Speaker 1: live guilty in regrets, beating yourself up for past mistakes,
Speaker 1: that's going to stink up your office, stink up your attitude,
Speaker 1: stink up your relationships. Why don't you remove the regrets.
Speaker 1: Why don't you get rid of the guilt. You can't
Speaker 1: do anything about the past, but you can do something
Speaker 1: about right now. Maybe you need to remove the self pity.
Speaker 1: You've had some tough breaks, went through a loss, somebody
Speaker 1: did you wrong. If you stay focused on that, your
Speaker 1: life is going to stink. You may not realize it,
Speaker 1: but when you stink, other people can smell it. When
Speaker 1: you're offended, bitter, angry. Nobody wants to be around you.
Speaker 1: That stink is going to push away new relie relationships,
Speaker 1: new opportunities. Why don't you remove it may have been
Speaker 1: passed down, you have a good reason to feel the
Speaker 1: way you do. It soured your life long enough. Don't
Speaker 1: let it continue to sour you. The truth is we
Speaker 1: all have some stinky stuff, some dysfunction, some regrets. I've learned,
Speaker 1: the people that keep moving forward, the people that keep
Speaker 1: enjoying their lives, are the people that are good at
Speaker 1: removing the stink. Complaining about the stink only makes it
Speaker 1: sink even more. If you stay focused on the stink,
Speaker 1: you're angry at the people that hurt you, always thinking
Speaker 1: about how they did you wrong. The problem is that
Speaker 1: seed can get in you. You can become the very
Speaker 1: thing that you don't like. When the scripture tells us
Speaker 1: to not take an offense, it's not just so we
Speaker 1: won't be offended, so we won't get sour. If we
Speaker 1: take the offense, the seed will get in us. We
Speaker 1: can become what they are. That's why it's so important
Speaker 1: to remove it. Let it go. God will be your vindicator.
Speaker 1: God will make up for what you didn't get how
Speaker 1: you were raised, what was passed down. That does not
Speaker 1: have to keep you from becoming who you were created
Speaker 1: to be. Friend of mine grew up in a home
Speaker 1: where his father wasn't faithful to his mother. He saw
Speaker 1: his dad run around on his mom. This young man
Speaker 1: became very hurt and confused by it, and over time
Speaker 1: he got to the point where he hated his father.
Speaker 1: He wouldn't be around him, wouldn't speak to him. He
Speaker 1: couldn't wait till he got old enough to leave the house.
Speaker 1: He went away to college and eventually got married and
Speaker 1: had several children of his own. A few years later,
Speaker 1: he started running around on his wife, doing the same
Speaker 1: thing to his kids that he hated so much about
Speaker 1: his father. That's what happens when we hold on to
Speaker 1: things that we should let go up. The seed can
Speaker 1: get in us. You have to do like Asa and
Speaker 1: say I am removing it. I am not living angry, offended,
Speaker 1: letting this dysfunction affect me and my children. I'm going
Speaker 1: to be a difference maker. The buck is going to
Speaker 1: stop with me. There was a young man in the
Speaker 1: scripture named Levi. He had a lot of issues. He
Speaker 1: was angry, he was dishonest. He deceived people. One time,
Speaker 1: somebody took advantage of his sister. It was a big deal.
Speaker 1: He was very angry. He went to the city where
Speaker 1: it took place. He said to the leaders, everything will
Speaker 1: be fine. We'll forgive you if all of the men
Speaker 1: will be circumcised. Once you do that, then we'll make peace.
Speaker 1: Act like it never happened. They agreed. The men were
Speaker 1: circumcised while they were healing. When they couldn't defend themselves,
Speaker 1: Levi and his men came in and wiped out the
Speaker 1: whole town. He had deceived them. What's interesting is Levi's
Speaker 1: father was Jacob. You remember, Jacob was a deceiver. He
Speaker 1: cheated his brother out of his birthright, tricked him into
Speaker 1: trading his whole inheritance all for a bowl of soup. Now,
Speaker 1: Jacob's son, Levi was just like him. But if you
Speaker 1: go back one generation, Jacob's mother, Rebeccah, was the same way.
Speaker 1: When her husband Isaac was near death and about to
Speaker 1: give the blessing that belonged to their firstborn son, Esau,
Speaker 1: Rebecca loved Jacob more than Esau. She came up with
Speaker 1: the plan to trick Isaac. He couldn't see he was
Speaker 1: almost blinded. She told Jacob to dress up like Esau.
Speaker 1: They made sure he smelled like his brother. Then she's
Speaker 1: He said, now, Jacob, go in and tell your father
Speaker 1: that you are Esau. He did this and received the
Speaker 1: blessing that belonged to his brother. But the deception, the
Speaker 1: dishonesty started back with Rebecca. God passed down to her
Speaker 1: son Jacob. He was dishonest. Now Jacob's son Levi was
Speaker 1: the same way. Looked like that was going to continue
Speaker 1: to get passed down. But one day Moses was up
Speaker 1: on a mountain. He just received the ten Commandments, and
Speaker 1: when he came down, the Israelites were having a wild party.
Speaker 1: They had made a calf out of gold that they
Speaker 1: were worshiping. When Moses saw it, he was furious. Here
Speaker 1: God had just delivered them out of slavery, parted the
Speaker 1: Red Sea. Now these two million people were worshiping an idol.
Speaker 1: Moses pulled out his sword and said, who is on
Speaker 1: the Lord's side? Of all the people there that day,
Speaker 1: the leaders of the different tribes of Israel didn't say anything.
Speaker 1: Joshua didn't say anything, Aaron didn't say anything. The scripture
Speaker 1: says the sons of Levi spoke up and said, Moses,
Speaker 1: we are on the Lord's side. They were saying, in effect,
Speaker 1: this is a new day. We are not going to
Speaker 1: be defined by our past. We're not going to let
Speaker 1: how our father lived, how our grandfather lived, what our
Speaker 1: great grud mother did. We are not going to pass
Speaker 1: that dysfunction down in our family line. We're going to
Speaker 1: take a stand and do what's right. That day, they
Speaker 1: broke a generational curse and started a generational blessing. Because
Speaker 1: of that decision, God said, from now on, all of
Speaker 1: the priests will come through the tribe of Levi. In
Speaker 1: the book of Genesis, they were cursed by their grandfather.
Speaker 1: In the book of Leviticus, they were the most blessed,
Speaker 1: honored people. This is what happens when you get rid
Speaker 1: of negative things that have been passed down. I only
Speaker 1: have rest from your enemies, but you'll set a new
Speaker 1: standard for your family. It all starts when you remove
Speaker 1: what's holding you back. Do you need to remove anger,
Speaker 1: remove dishonesty, remove a wrong mindset. It may not have
Speaker 1: started with you, but it can stop with you. There
Speaker 1: may be a lot of negative baggage in your bloodline,
Speaker 1: God is saying today, who is on the Lord's side?
Speaker 1: If you'll rise up and say that's me. I'm a
Speaker 1: difference maker, and I believe and declare like the sons
Speaker 1: of Levi, God is going to promote you and honor you.
Speaker 1: Like Samson, You're gonna break chains that have held your
Speaker 1: family back for generations. And like King Aesa, God's going
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