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Sign up 24 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:15,480 Speaker 4: now at BarkBox dot com slash iHeart. 25 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 2: Hi, this is Joel and Victoria. 26 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:22,280 Speaker 5: Thanks for listening to our podcast and thanks for supporting 27 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:22,959 Speaker 5: the ministry. 28 00:01:23,120 --> 00:01:25,440 Speaker 6: If you enjoy today's message, why don't you be a 29 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:27,039 Speaker 6: blessing and share it with a friend. 30 00:01:27,319 --> 00:01:30,080 Speaker 5: We appreciate you and pray for God's very best in 31 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 5: your life. For God bless you. It is always a 32 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:36,640 Speaker 5: joy to come into your homes. We love you and 33 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:40,000 Speaker 5: we're praying that you're going to have a blessed, prosperous year. 34 00:01:40,600 --> 00:01:42,560 Speaker 5: If you're ever in our area, I hope that you'll 35 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,319 Speaker 5: stop by and visit one of our services. I'll promise 36 00:01:45,360 --> 00:01:47,560 Speaker 5: you we'll make you feel right at home. But thank 37 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:49,920 Speaker 5: you so much for tuning in today. Now, I'd like 38 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,000 Speaker 5: to get started each week with something funny, so listen 39 00:01:52,040 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 5: to this one. A minister bought a new horse and 40 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:58,480 Speaker 5: trained it to respond to praise the Lord meaning giddy 41 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 5: up and Hallelujah meaning woe, and his. 42 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:02,560 Speaker 2: Friends were so impressed. 43 00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:05,120 Speaker 5: He'd shout praise the Lord and he'd take off running 44 00:02:05,360 --> 00:02:07,560 Speaker 5: when he shouted Hallelujah, it'd quickly stopped. 45 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:07,920 Speaker 1: Well. 46 00:02:07,920 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 2: One day, while out riding, the. 47 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:12,640 Speaker 5: Horse got spooked and took off, running straight toward a cliff. 48 00:02:12,960 --> 00:02:16,400 Speaker 5: He frantically yelled woe, but nothing happened. He then remembered 49 00:02:16,440 --> 00:02:18,840 Speaker 5: he taught the horse something different, but couldn't remember what 50 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 5: it was. He shouted, Amen, Glory, Bless God. Finally, right 51 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:25,840 Speaker 5: before the edge of the cliff, he shouted Hallelujah, and 52 00:02:25,919 --> 00:02:28,359 Speaker 5: the horse came to a screeching halt. He breathed a 53 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:33,919 Speaker 5: sigh of relief and said, Praise the Lord. All right, 54 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 5: hold your bibles up and say it like you mean it. Ready, 55 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:39,919 Speaker 5: this is my Bible. I am what it says I am. 56 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,120 Speaker 5: I have what it says I have. I can do 57 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:45,760 Speaker 5: what it says I can do. Today I will be 58 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:49,920 Speaker 5: taught the Word of God. I boldly confessed. My mind 59 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:53,520 Speaker 5: is alert, my heart is receptive. I will never be 60 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:58,760 Speaker 5: the same. I am about to receive the incorruptible, indestructible, 61 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:02,840 Speaker 5: ever living seed of the Word of God. I'll never 62 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:06,480 Speaker 5: be the same, never, never, never, I'll never. 63 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 2: Be the same. 64 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:11,120 Speaker 5: In Jesus' name, God, bless you. You sound great as usual. 65 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:15,080 Speaker 5: We've been talking about breaking the strongholds of the past 66 00:03:15,320 --> 00:03:18,280 Speaker 5: and how negative things can keep getting passed down from 67 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:22,320 Speaker 5: generation to generation. The decisions that we make, they don't 68 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 5: just affect ourselves, they affect our children and their children, 69 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 5: and on and on. And the Bible talks about how 70 00:03:29,480 --> 00:03:33,040 Speaker 5: the iniquity of the fathers can be passed down for 71 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:40,480 Speaker 5: three or four generations. That simply means bad habits, addictions, negativity, 72 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 5: wrong mindsets. Those are all iniquities that can be passed down. 73 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 5: And some of you are struggling in areas right now 74 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 5: because of the choices people have made. 75 00:03:51,280 --> 00:03:52,440 Speaker 2: That have gone before you. 76 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:55,600 Speaker 5: Many times you can look back and see it somewhere 77 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:58,520 Speaker 5: in your family line, and it's so important that we 78 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:02,640 Speaker 5: recognize what's happening and not just be passive and think, well, 79 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:05,000 Speaker 5: this is just the way I am Joel. That's been 80 00:04:05,040 --> 00:04:07,960 Speaker 5: in my family for years and years. No, you need 81 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:08,720 Speaker 5: to rise up. 82 00:04:08,640 --> 00:04:10,240 Speaker 2: And do something about it. 83 00:04:10,240 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 5: It may have been there for years, but the good 84 00:04:12,480 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 5: news is it doesn't have to stay there. You can 85 00:04:14,960 --> 00:04:17,000 Speaker 5: be the one to put a stop to it. You 86 00:04:17,080 --> 00:04:19,520 Speaker 5: can be the one to choose the blessing and not 87 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:22,479 Speaker 5: the curse. There's been a lot of talk recently in 88 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:25,800 Speaker 5: the news about all the research being done to try 89 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,520 Speaker 5: to pinpoint certain genes, and now they're trying to find 90 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:34,480 Speaker 5: out why certain traits are being passed down, traits like addictions, 91 00:04:34,880 --> 00:04:39,120 Speaker 5: eating disorders, even depression. And these researchers can see a 92 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 5: definite pattern, but they can't quite put their finger on it. 93 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 2: Is it genetic, is it environmental? Is it hereditary? 94 00:04:46,680 --> 00:04:49,240 Speaker 5: And sure all those things can play a role, but 95 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:53,600 Speaker 5: I believe the major factor is a spiritual reason. They 96 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:56,839 Speaker 5: call it having some family baggage, but the Bible calls 97 00:04:56,880 --> 00:05:01,440 Speaker 5: it an iniquity. We have to understand the negative things 98 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:05,400 Speaker 5: in our family's bloodline will keep getting passed down from 99 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 5: generation to generation until somebody rises up and puts a 100 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:12,320 Speaker 5: stop to it. And it's interesting how it all got 101 00:05:12,360 --> 00:05:16,520 Speaker 5: started way back with Adam and Eve. They disobeyed and 102 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:20,599 Speaker 5: that decision didn't just affect themselves, it affected their children. 103 00:05:21,320 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 5: Do you know who the first murderer was in the Bible? 104 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:27,200 Speaker 5: It was Adam's son Kin. Do you know who the 105 00:05:27,240 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 5: second murderer was? It was one of Kin's descendants, a 106 00:05:30,640 --> 00:05:34,400 Speaker 5: man by the name of Atlamik. That iniquity kept getting 107 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:38,440 Speaker 5: passed down through generations of Cain's offspring. It was in 108 00:05:38,480 --> 00:05:41,480 Speaker 5: their family line, and many of the things we struggle 109 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:45,679 Speaker 5: with today, it's because somebody somewhere in our family line 110 00:05:45,839 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 5: gave into it and now we're having to deal with it. 111 00:05:48,920 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 2: And no, we. 112 00:05:49,320 --> 00:05:53,360 Speaker 5: Shouldn't use that as an excuse, but we should recognize 113 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,240 Speaker 5: what's happening, and we need to be more determined than 114 00:05:56,279 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 5: ever that we are going to be the ones to 115 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:01,080 Speaker 5: put a stop to it. Talking to this young lady 116 00:06:01,080 --> 00:06:04,280 Speaker 5: the other day, and she struggles with anorexia, and she 117 00:06:04,440 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 5: explained to me how her mother had it, and her 118 00:06:06,839 --> 00:06:09,000 Speaker 5: aunt's had it, and her sisters had it. 119 00:06:08,960 --> 00:06:10,479 Speaker 2: And cousins and on and on. 120 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:14,360 Speaker 5: This one sickness was practically tearing this family apart. 121 00:06:14,920 --> 00:06:17,080 Speaker 2: And listen, that's not just a coincidence. 122 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 5: That's a negative, destructive spirit that keeps getting passed down 123 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:26,359 Speaker 5: and it will continue until somebody makes the choice for 124 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 5: the blessing and not the curse. And that's not just 125 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:33,159 Speaker 5: a physical battle. That is a spiritual battle as well. 126 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:36,039 Speaker 5: You've got to take authority over those things in the 127 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:36,960 Speaker 5: name of Jesus. 128 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:39,559 Speaker 2: We've all heard about the Kennedy curse. 129 00:06:40,000 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 5: The media makes a big deal about it, and it 130 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:46,599 Speaker 5: started way back, even before President Kennedy was assassinated in 131 00:06:46,680 --> 00:06:51,039 Speaker 5: nineteen sixty three. There were other untimely deaths in that family, 132 00:06:51,520 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 5: and of course recently it's come to light with the 133 00:06:54,279 --> 00:06:57,279 Speaker 5: death of his son, John F. Kennedy Junior. And I 134 00:06:57,279 --> 00:07:00,000 Speaker 5: don't believe that that's just bad luck. I don't believe 135 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 5: that's just a coincidence. That is a spiritual force that's. 136 00:07:04,240 --> 00:07:05,720 Speaker 2: Trying to drag that family down. 137 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,800 Speaker 5: And I would encourage you to examine the areas in 138 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 5: your life where you constantly struggle. In the area is 139 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,960 Speaker 5: where it seems like something's trying to drag your family down. 140 00:07:16,560 --> 00:07:22,440 Speaker 5: Maybe it's divorce, poverty, addictions, abused. 141 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:23,680 Speaker 2: Depression, even sicknesses. 142 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:27,680 Speaker 5: I have this friend and practically every male in his 143 00:07:27,840 --> 00:07:30,960 Speaker 5: family has had a heart attack and died by the 144 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:34,120 Speaker 5: time they were fifty years old. And he's about forty 145 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 5: eight right now. You can imagine how uptight and worried 146 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:39,720 Speaker 5: he is. But I told him just what I'm telling 147 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:42,280 Speaker 5: you today. You can be the one to break that curse. 148 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:45,200 Speaker 5: I told him, don't you dare start planning your funeral. 149 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:48,040 Speaker 5: Don't you dare start planning on having that heart attack. 150 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:50,840 Speaker 2: You stand against it. I said, you eat. 151 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 5: Right, you exercise, and you say every day with long life, 152 00:07:55,000 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 5: God is satisfying me and showing. 153 00:07:57,040 --> 00:07:57,960 Speaker 2: Me his salvation. 154 00:07:59,840 --> 00:08:02,480 Speaker 5: You got to make the choice for the blessing and 155 00:08:02,520 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 5: not the curse. You got to recognize what's happening and 156 00:08:05,920 --> 00:08:08,520 Speaker 5: do something about it. Don't just keep passing it down 157 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 5: from generation to generation. And the truth is it may 158 00:08:12,680 --> 00:08:15,400 Speaker 5: not have been from any great wrong that was done. 159 00:08:16,080 --> 00:08:19,600 Speaker 5: Sometimes these things can come just because some event that 160 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 5: has occurred where somebody opened the door to the enemy. 161 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 5: Maybe they opened the door to fear, to anxiety, to worry. 162 00:08:26,560 --> 00:08:29,440 Speaker 5: I heard an interesting story about this young couple and 163 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 5: their son was just starting the first grade. 164 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:33,480 Speaker 2: He was so excited about it. 165 00:08:33,480 --> 00:08:36,720 Speaker 5: It's very outgoing and energetic and had a bunch of friends. 166 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:40,000 Speaker 5: But after a couple of months he started having these 167 00:08:40,040 --> 00:08:43,319 Speaker 5: real bad panic attacks there at the school. He'd get 168 00:08:43,360 --> 00:08:46,480 Speaker 5: all upset and afraid that his parents weren't going to 169 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 5: come back and pick him up, and so they'd have 170 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:51,000 Speaker 5: to get the parents on the phone and they would 171 00:08:51,000 --> 00:08:53,360 Speaker 5: tell him how much they loved him, and of course 172 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:55,200 Speaker 5: they're going to be back as soon as school was over. 173 00:08:55,559 --> 00:08:57,160 Speaker 2: But they just could not calm him down. 174 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:00,000 Speaker 5: That didn't work, and so time after time these parents 175 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:02,760 Speaker 5: would have to rush up to the school and assure 176 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:05,959 Speaker 5: their child that everything was okay, and this family was 177 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:07,640 Speaker 5: the most loving family. 178 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:08,320 Speaker 2: You can imagine. 179 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:11,199 Speaker 5: There was no reason in the natural for the child 180 00:09:11,200 --> 00:09:13,720 Speaker 5: to feel this way. They had never left him any 181 00:09:13,720 --> 00:09:17,320 Speaker 5: place before, never shown him anything except love and affection. 182 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,400 Speaker 5: But it continued month after month, and it got so 183 00:09:20,559 --> 00:09:23,480 Speaker 5: bad that when the child was at home, he would 184 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:26,120 Speaker 5: not leave his mother's side. He would follow her from 185 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:28,440 Speaker 5: room to room, and she went outside, he was right there, 186 00:09:28,679 --> 00:09:31,120 Speaker 5: and if for some reason he couldn't find her, he 187 00:09:31,160 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 5: would just burst into another one of these panic attacks. 188 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 2: And the couple was so frustrated. You know, really it 189 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:37,560 Speaker 2: is just breaking their heart. 190 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:41,200 Speaker 5: But one day the father was talking to his father, 191 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:45,520 Speaker 5: the child's grandfather, and as he explained the situation, it 192 00:09:45,559 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 5: was just like a light turned on in the grandfather's mind. 193 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:51,960 Speaker 5: He said, son, I know exactly what's wrong with your child. 194 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:54,080 Speaker 5: He said, When I was a little boy in the 195 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:57,920 Speaker 5: first grade, my father suddenly died, and I was so 196 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:00,959 Speaker 5: afraid and so scared that when my mother would try 197 00:10:01,000 --> 00:10:03,600 Speaker 5: to walk me to school, I would cry so hard, 198 00:10:03,720 --> 00:10:06,280 Speaker 5: thinking that she may not come back. Many times she 199 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:09,000 Speaker 5: just turn around and take me back home. The point 200 00:10:09,040 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 5: I'm making is that fear didn't originate with that little boy. 201 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:15,920 Speaker 5: It was passed down because of that traumatic event in 202 00:10:15,960 --> 00:10:18,880 Speaker 5: the grandfather's life. I'm not trying to get spooky and 203 00:10:18,920 --> 00:10:22,079 Speaker 5: scare anybody. The point I'm making is that things can 204 00:10:22,120 --> 00:10:24,360 Speaker 5: get passed down that we didn't have anything to do with, 205 00:10:24,920 --> 00:10:27,360 Speaker 5: and you can't just deal with it in the physical sense. 206 00:10:27,679 --> 00:10:29,800 Speaker 5: You can't just try to use your sheer will power 207 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:34,240 Speaker 5: to overcome That is a spiritual battle. This couple begin 208 00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:37,719 Speaker 5: to really pray, and every day they bound the stronghold 209 00:10:37,760 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 5: of fear, and they stood against that curse. 210 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:41,520 Speaker 2: And today that young man. 211 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:44,680 Speaker 5: Is completely set for a living a normal, healthy life. 212 00:10:44,960 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 5: But that's why I encourage you to examine the areas 213 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:51,840 Speaker 5: in your life where you continually struggle. I know people today, 214 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:55,320 Speaker 5: they are living under a spirit of depression, and it 215 00:10:55,400 --> 00:11:00,959 Speaker 5: keeps getting passed from generation to generation. No joy, no victory, enthusiasm. 216 00:11:01,480 --> 00:11:04,520 Speaker 5: I've even seen it in little children. All these other 217 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 5: kids can be out laughing, playing, having a good time, 218 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:11,360 Speaker 5: but this other child is over here, serious and solemn, 219 00:11:11,640 --> 00:11:15,119 Speaker 5: not even enjoying his childhood. That's a spirit of depression. 220 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:18,600 Speaker 5: I've known men that have everything in the world going 221 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:21,640 Speaker 5: for them, a great family, they make plenty of money, 222 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:25,520 Speaker 5: they're accomplishing their dreams, but they're just never really happy. 223 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 2: They're never fulfilled. 224 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:30,440 Speaker 5: It's like something's always bugging them and just stealing their 225 00:11:30,520 --> 00:11:31,840 Speaker 5: joy and peace and victory. 226 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:35,200 Speaker 2: Friends, that's not normal. That is a spirit of defeat, 227 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:37,200 Speaker 2: a spirit of discouragement. 228 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 5: You've got to do like that young couple and rise 229 00:11:40,280 --> 00:11:43,360 Speaker 5: up and stand against it. You can be the one 230 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:46,319 Speaker 5: to break the curse in your family. Don't just sit 231 00:11:46,360 --> 00:11:48,920 Speaker 5: back and say, well, Joe, we've always been negative, or 232 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:52,480 Speaker 5: I've always had this addiction, or everybody in my family 233 00:11:52,520 --> 00:11:55,480 Speaker 5: gets married and divorced two or three four different times. Now, 234 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:57,680 Speaker 5: why don't you be the one to say enough is enough. 235 00:11:58,160 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 5: I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. And 236 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:03,400 Speaker 5: as for me and my family, we're choosing the blessing and. 237 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:04,040 Speaker 2: Not the curse. 238 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:10,079 Speaker 5: Amen, why don't you be the one to stand against 239 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:13,040 Speaker 5: the forces of darkness and to break those strongholds that 240 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:16,240 Speaker 5: are keeping you in bondage. See the scripture says they're 241 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 5: in Proverbs twenty six to two that the curse does 242 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:23,040 Speaker 5: not come without a cause. That means when we have 243 00:12:23,160 --> 00:12:28,360 Speaker 5: issues to deal with, addictions, bad habits, dysfunctions, either we've 244 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:31,720 Speaker 5: made bad choices or somebody in our family line has 245 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:35,199 Speaker 5: made some bad choices. But there's a reason a child 246 00:12:35,240 --> 00:12:38,360 Speaker 5: grows up to become an alcoholic, there's a reason a 247 00:12:38,480 --> 00:12:41,880 Speaker 5: child becomes an abusive parent, there's a reason a young 248 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:45,120 Speaker 5: man is sent off to prison. Doesn't just randomly happen. 249 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:49,800 Speaker 5: Somebody somewhere opened the door to the enemy. If you're 250 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:53,200 Speaker 5: struggling with things today, that does not make you a 251 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 5: bad person. You should not go around guilty and condemned 252 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:01,480 Speaker 5: because you've got some things to overcome. Many times wasn't 253 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:04,880 Speaker 5: even your fault. Somebody else made the poor choices and 254 00:13:04,920 --> 00:13:07,320 Speaker 5: now you're having to deal with it. But I would 255 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:11,200 Speaker 5: challenge you don't use that as an excuse to stay 256 00:13:11,240 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 5: the way you are. You've got to dig your heels 257 00:13:13,520 --> 00:13:16,200 Speaker 5: in and do something about it. And one of the 258 00:13:16,240 --> 00:13:20,760 Speaker 5: first steps to overcoming is to recognize what you're dealing with. 259 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:24,640 Speaker 5: Identify it, don't ignore it, don't just try to sweep 260 00:13:24,679 --> 00:13:26,319 Speaker 5: it under the rug and hope that it's going to 261 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 5: go away. No, you've got to call a spade a spade. 262 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:34,480 Speaker 5: If you're lazy and undisciplined, don't make excuses. Just admit 263 00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:36,680 Speaker 5: it and say, you know what, I'm gonna deal with this. 264 00:13:37,440 --> 00:13:40,600 Speaker 5: If you've got an anger problem, or if you're loosing 265 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 5: your morals, or maybe you don't treat people right, don't 266 00:13:44,080 --> 00:13:45,760 Speaker 5: try to convince yourself that you do. 267 00:13:46,040 --> 00:13:47,400 Speaker 2: Admit it and deal with it. 268 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:51,719 Speaker 5: The scripture says in James five point sixteen, confess your 269 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:55,600 Speaker 5: faults one to another, and pray for one another that 270 00:13:55,679 --> 00:13:58,800 Speaker 5: you may be healed. Notice, you've got to be honest 271 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 5: enough with yourself to confess your faults. And sometimes you're 272 00:14:03,040 --> 00:14:05,800 Speaker 5: gonna have to find a good Christian friend and say, 273 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 5: you know what, I need your help. I'm struggling in 274 00:14:08,280 --> 00:14:10,440 Speaker 5: this area and I need you to pray with me. 275 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:13,360 Speaker 2: So often we do just the opposite. 276 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 5: We think, Man, I'm not gonna tell anybody about this. 277 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 2: What would they think of me. I'd be embarrassed. 278 00:14:18,960 --> 00:14:21,680 Speaker 5: Now, swallow your pride and get the help you need 279 00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:24,440 Speaker 5: so you can be free. I know this man, and 280 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:28,360 Speaker 5: he came out of a very violent, angry home, and 281 00:14:28,440 --> 00:14:32,120 Speaker 5: he ended up getting hooked on drugs and selling drugs himself, 282 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:35,400 Speaker 5: and he was just living a very angry life altogether. 283 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:38,360 Speaker 5: But to make a real long story short, one day 284 00:14:38,400 --> 00:14:41,000 Speaker 5: he gave his life to the Lord and he started 285 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:43,800 Speaker 5: pastoring this church and he was doing great. 286 00:14:43,920 --> 00:14:46,160 Speaker 2: It was growing and growing, and he. 287 00:14:46,120 --> 00:14:49,120 Speaker 5: Was well respected in the community, going all over the 288 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:52,120 Speaker 5: place sharing his story how God had really changed his life. 289 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:55,720 Speaker 5: But what people did not know was that he still 290 00:14:55,880 --> 00:14:59,680 Speaker 5: had a very serious anger problem. God had delivered him 291 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 5: from all all these other bad habits, addictions, drugs, alcoholism, 292 00:15:04,240 --> 00:15:07,400 Speaker 5: but he still really struggled with this anger and he 293 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:10,520 Speaker 5: would never show it in public, but if something went 294 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:13,920 Speaker 5: wrong at home, he'd just go into a fit of rage. 295 00:15:14,040 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 2: I mean, it wasn't normal. 296 00:15:15,400 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 5: He was violent, and he told how he could not 297 00:15:18,360 --> 00:15:22,960 Speaker 5: control it. Many times, the smallest, most insignificant things would 298 00:15:23,000 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 5: just set him off and he would erupt, and he 299 00:15:25,360 --> 00:15:29,320 Speaker 5: was very abusive to his wife physically and verbally. He 300 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 5: would throw things and just treat her so bad, and 301 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:35,680 Speaker 5: really it was a very dangerous situation. And when he 302 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:38,840 Speaker 5: would finally calm down, she would say to him, honey, 303 00:15:39,080 --> 00:15:41,560 Speaker 5: we have got to go get some help. We've got 304 00:15:41,560 --> 00:15:44,520 Speaker 5: to go talk to somebody. About this problem. But he 305 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 5: told how he was too embarrassed. He said, Man, I'm 306 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:51,000 Speaker 5: the pastor of the church. I'm supposed to be the example. 307 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:52,240 Speaker 5: How could I ever. 308 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 2: Tell anybody I've got this terrible problem? 309 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:58,480 Speaker 5: But see the scripture says confess your faults so you 310 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:01,520 Speaker 5: can be healed some of you today. And I don't 311 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:04,600 Speaker 5: mean this wrong, but you will never overcome what you're 312 00:16:04,640 --> 00:16:08,600 Speaker 5: struggling with all by yourself. You've got to find a friend, 313 00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:13,040 Speaker 5: a mentor, a pastor, a counselor find somebody that will 314 00:16:13,080 --> 00:16:17,119 Speaker 5: stand with you, find somebody that will pray with you, find. 315 00:16:16,880 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 2: Somebody that will hold you accountable. 316 00:16:19,600 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 5: The thing you've got to understand is just because you've 317 00:16:22,280 --> 00:16:24,080 Speaker 5: got some things you're dealing with. 318 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:26,280 Speaker 2: That doesn't mean that you're a bad person. 319 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:30,200 Speaker 5: And we have to get past this misconception that because 320 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:33,160 Speaker 5: we love God, we come to church and people look 321 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:35,520 Speaker 5: up to us and man, we're supposed to be perfect. 322 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:37,800 Speaker 2: Now, it doesn't always work that way. 323 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:40,920 Speaker 5: And if you have an anger problem today, or if 324 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 5: you have a problem watching things that you shouldn't, maybe 325 00:16:43,960 --> 00:16:46,920 Speaker 5: you've got some kind of hidden addiction, or maybe you're 326 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:48,720 Speaker 5: in a relationship. 327 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:51,080 Speaker 2: You know you shouldn't be in. Let me challenge you. 328 00:16:51,160 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 5: Don't try to beat that on your own, and don't 329 00:16:54,080 --> 00:16:57,760 Speaker 5: hide it because you're too embarrassed. Find a good Christian 330 00:16:57,920 --> 00:17:02,800 Speaker 5: person that will stand in faith with you. And I'm 331 00:17:02,840 --> 00:17:05,199 Speaker 5: not saying that you have to announce it to the world, 332 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:07,880 Speaker 5: but you need to find one person that you can 333 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:11,359 Speaker 5: really trust, and as you do your part, God will 334 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:15,280 Speaker 5: help you to overcome this. Pastor told how the reason 335 00:17:15,480 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 5: that he wouldn't tell anybody for a long time was 336 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:21,119 Speaker 5: because he thought something was wrong with him. He couldn't 337 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 5: understand how God had delivered him from all these other 338 00:17:24,040 --> 00:17:27,560 Speaker 5: bad addictions, but he still had this serious anger problem. 339 00:17:27,960 --> 00:17:31,440 Speaker 5: And he told how when he was enraged, even when 340 00:17:31,480 --> 00:17:34,440 Speaker 5: he was out of control, deep down on the inside, 341 00:17:34,520 --> 00:17:37,280 Speaker 5: he would be saying to himself, why am I doing this? 342 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:39,600 Speaker 2: Why can't I stop? What is wrong with me? 343 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 5: The problem was that anger had been in his family 344 00:17:43,880 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 5: line a long time. It wasn't as easy to overcome 345 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:49,600 Speaker 5: as some of those other habits, and he had to 346 00:17:49,600 --> 00:17:52,040 Speaker 5: get past the fact of what everybody was going to 347 00:17:52,119 --> 00:17:54,320 Speaker 5: think of him. And he went and got some health 348 00:17:54,760 --> 00:17:57,800 Speaker 5: and as he confessed his faults and as he stood 349 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:02,120 Speaker 5: against the forces of darkness, set him free completely today. 350 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:04,240 Speaker 5: He's one of the most kind, gentle people you will 351 00:18:04,240 --> 00:18:08,160 Speaker 5: ever meet, and in the same way, you can beat anything. 352 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:10,040 Speaker 2: That's come against you. Doesn't matter what it is. 353 00:18:10,280 --> 00:18:13,160 Speaker 5: There's no addiction that's too hard for our God. There's 354 00:18:13,240 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 5: no stronghold that he can't set you free from. Doesn't 355 00:18:16,640 --> 00:18:19,040 Speaker 5: matter how long you've had it, doesn't matter how many 356 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:20,560 Speaker 5: times you've tried and failed. 357 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:21,880 Speaker 2: Today is a new day. 358 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 5: And if you will be honest with yourself and recognize 359 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:29,120 Speaker 5: what you're dealing with and find somebody to hold you accountable, 360 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:32,000 Speaker 5: then you too can start living under the blessing and 361 00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:34,480 Speaker 5: not the curse. You can break that junk off of 362 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:35,560 Speaker 5: you and off. 363 00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:38,960 Speaker 2: Of your descendants. You may be here today and you were. 364 00:18:38,880 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 5: Raised in a home just like this man, where it 365 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:44,639 Speaker 5: was violent, angry, negative, abusive. 366 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:47,480 Speaker 2: Maybe all you saw a model growing up. 367 00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:52,040 Speaker 5: Were bad habits, addictions, and abuse, but don't use that 368 00:18:52,160 --> 00:18:55,399 Speaker 5: as an excuse to stay the way you are. You 369 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:58,280 Speaker 5: may have been dealt a very tough hand in life 370 00:18:58,320 --> 00:19:01,760 Speaker 5: to deal with. Maybe the way you were raised is the. 371 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:03,480 Speaker 2: Reason you act a certain way. 372 00:19:03,760 --> 00:19:05,760 Speaker 5: That may be the reason you get angry and you 373 00:19:05,800 --> 00:19:09,000 Speaker 5: really struggle, But thank God you don't have to stay 374 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:09,440 Speaker 5: that way. 375 00:19:10,200 --> 00:19:12,280 Speaker 2: Let me challenge you to take. 376 00:19:12,160 --> 00:19:16,200 Speaker 5: Responsibility for your actions. God has given you your own 377 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:20,520 Speaker 5: free will. You can choose to change. You can choose 378 00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 5: to set the new standard, and every right choice you 379 00:19:24,119 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 5: make you start to overturn the wrong. 380 00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:28,200 Speaker 2: Choices that other people have made. 381 00:19:28,760 --> 00:19:31,960 Speaker 5: Every time you resist that temptation, you are one step 382 00:19:32,000 --> 00:19:35,240 Speaker 5: closer to your victory. You may have a very negative 383 00:19:35,400 --> 00:19:38,520 Speaker 5: history behind you, but you don't have to perpetuate it. 384 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,359 Speaker 5: We can't change the past, but we can change the 385 00:19:41,400 --> 00:19:48,239 Speaker 5: future by making right choices today. But the sad thing is, 386 00:19:48,560 --> 00:19:52,359 Speaker 5: most of the time, hurting people end up hurting other people. 387 00:19:52,720 --> 00:19:55,320 Speaker 5: You would think when we come out of a negative environment, 388 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:58,399 Speaker 5: we would be so quick to change. You hear people 389 00:19:58,440 --> 00:20:01,359 Speaker 5: say it all the time, gonna raise my kids like that, 390 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:04,679 Speaker 5: or I'll never treat my wife the way my father 391 00:20:04,800 --> 00:20:08,280 Speaker 5: treated my mother. But the truth is, more often than not, 392 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:11,480 Speaker 5: we end up doing exactly what we said we'd never do. 393 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:15,520 Speaker 5: It's because that spirit is being passed down. If you 394 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:19,480 Speaker 5: were raised in an angry, violent home, unless you rise 395 00:20:19,600 --> 00:20:22,320 Speaker 5: up and break that thing, there's a real good chance 396 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:25,639 Speaker 5: you will treat your children the same exact way. I 397 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:29,400 Speaker 5: know people that were abused physically and verbally growing up. 398 00:20:29,840 --> 00:20:32,199 Speaker 5: And you would think since they suffered so much and 399 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:34,800 Speaker 5: went through all that pain, they would stay far away 400 00:20:34,840 --> 00:20:35,199 Speaker 5: from it. 401 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 2: But all the studies. 402 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:39,840 Speaker 5: Tell us people that have been abused are the most 403 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:41,320 Speaker 5: likely to become abusers. 404 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:42,560 Speaker 2: Why is that. 405 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:45,800 Speaker 5: It's not because they want to they know how destructive 406 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:50,160 Speaker 5: it is. It's because that negative spirit keeps getting passed 407 00:20:50,200 --> 00:20:53,240 Speaker 5: down from generation to generation. But thank God, you and 408 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:55,879 Speaker 5: I can do something about it. The Scripture says in 409 00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:59,359 Speaker 5: Ephesians that our fight is not against flesh and blood, 410 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:01,560 Speaker 5: but we fight in the spiritual realm. 411 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:05,160 Speaker 2: It is a spiritual battle. You've got to rise up and. 412 00:21:05,119 --> 00:21:08,000 Speaker 5: Say I'm taking authority over this thing, and i Am 413 00:21:08,040 --> 00:21:11,800 Speaker 5: not going to live this way. And always remember, greater 414 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:14,000 Speaker 5: is he that's in you than he that's in the world. 415 00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:17,440 Speaker 5: That means you can do what you need to do. 416 00:21:17,440 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 5: Don't just sit back and accept the status quo. No, 417 00:21:20,880 --> 00:21:24,119 Speaker 5: rise up and do something about it. We can't change 418 00:21:24,200 --> 00:21:27,720 Speaker 5: the events of the past, but we can change our futures. 419 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:27,960 Speaker 3: Now. 420 00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:29,760 Speaker 5: I don't know about you, but I want to make 421 00:21:29,800 --> 00:21:32,239 Speaker 5: it easier on my children. I want to make it 422 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 5: better for my grandchildren and for future generations. What I 423 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:41,360 Speaker 5: find interesting is women that were raised in abusive environments 424 00:21:41,640 --> 00:21:44,000 Speaker 5: where they weren't treated right by their father or by 425 00:21:44,000 --> 00:21:46,879 Speaker 5: the men in their life, when they grow up, most 426 00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:49,480 Speaker 5: of the time they will be attracted to a man 427 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:53,600 Speaker 5: just like that, somebody that continues to abuse and mistreat them. 428 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:58,160 Speaker 5: Studies tell us that women very often will marry somebody just. 429 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:00,240 Speaker 2: Like their father's. 430 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:03,119 Speaker 5: So important fathers that we go out of our way 431 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:07,240 Speaker 5: to love and respect our wives. Our children should see 432 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:10,960 Speaker 5: us being kind and courteous. You should open the car 433 00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 5: door for your wife, do everything you can, knowing there's 434 00:22:14,359 --> 00:22:17,400 Speaker 5: a very good chance your daughter is going to gravitate 435 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:21,680 Speaker 5: to somebody that's just like you. I know Victoria's father, 436 00:22:21,800 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 5: he treated her like a queen. I mean when she 437 00:22:24,200 --> 00:22:27,439 Speaker 5: was going up, he was so kind and considerate and loving. 438 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:29,680 Speaker 2: He still is to this day. When she used to live. 439 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:31,320 Speaker 5: At home, he'd go get her car filled up with 440 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 5: gas ford, bring her breakfast in bed, anything she needed. 441 00:22:35,040 --> 00:22:36,080 Speaker 2: He was always there. 442 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:39,080 Speaker 5: And I know I'm not perfect, I'm probably not like that, 443 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:41,679 Speaker 5: but I hear Victoria saying all the time, Julie is 444 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:44,680 Speaker 5: just like my father. But see, that's what I want. 445 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,040 Speaker 5: My children to see. I want them to see me 446 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:50,680 Speaker 5: being good to my wife, loving her, respecting her, going 447 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:55,239 Speaker 5: out of my way to be good to her. I 448 00:22:55,359 --> 00:22:58,760 Speaker 5: know that is planning a seed in their heart. I 449 00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:01,520 Speaker 5: know that's what my is going to expect out of 450 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 5: a man. That's what I want to pass down to 451 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,000 Speaker 5: future generations. But really, when we hear a message like 452 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 5: this today, we've got to be careful that we don't 453 00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:13,719 Speaker 5: get out of balance and just blame everything on the past. Well, 454 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,840 Speaker 5: you know, it's not my fault, it's how I was raised. No, 455 00:23:16,960 --> 00:23:19,800 Speaker 5: don't fall into that trap. So many people play the 456 00:23:19,800 --> 00:23:23,480 Speaker 5: blame game today. Well I'm depressed because my mother was depressed, 457 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,080 Speaker 5: or I can't break these addictions because everybody in my 458 00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:30,760 Speaker 5: family has these addictions. No, take responsibility for your actions. 459 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,080 Speaker 5: You may have had some unfair things in the past 460 00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:36,919 Speaker 5: that have made it more difficult on you, but your 461 00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:40,440 Speaker 5: attitude should be I'm not gonna sit around and moan 462 00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:43,240 Speaker 5: and complain about how I was raised or about. 463 00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:44,159 Speaker 2: How somebody treated me. 464 00:23:44,840 --> 00:23:47,119 Speaker 5: No, this is the life God has given me, and 465 00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:48,600 Speaker 5: I'm going to make the very most of it. 466 00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:49,800 Speaker 2: I'm gonna start making. 467 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:54,840 Speaker 5: Good choices starting today. I have never seen a day 468 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,760 Speaker 5: when people pass the blame as much as they do today, 469 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:01,359 Speaker 5: you hear excuses all the time. Well, I'm angry because 470 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 5: you made me angry, or I didn't pay my bills 471 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,280 Speaker 5: last month because I didn't get that raise I was expecting. 472 00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,360 Speaker 5: Our ladies, have you ever heard this one? I'm irritable 473 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:15,200 Speaker 5: today because it's my time of the month. I've got PMS. 474 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:23,160 Speaker 5: What does that stand for? Pretty mean, sistery. But please understand, 475 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:26,760 Speaker 5: the message today is not about passing the blame. Well, 476 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 5: I always knew something was wrong with me. Jeel told 477 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:30,360 Speaker 5: me it's. 478 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:33,679 Speaker 2: My parents' fault. No, that may be part of it. 479 00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:36,160 Speaker 5: But what I'm also telling you is you can do 480 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 5: something about it. And we've heard a whole lot about 481 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:42,440 Speaker 5: the generational curse, but what's just as important is our 482 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 5: generational choice. 483 00:24:44,240 --> 00:24:46,160 Speaker 2: We don't have to stay the way we are. 484 00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:52,439 Speaker 5: And some of you today, all you've seen model growing 485 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:56,880 Speaker 5: up was defeat and mediocrity, people that didn't pay their bills, 486 00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:01,720 Speaker 5: arguing in strife, abuse and addiction. And if you're not careful, 487 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:04,119 Speaker 5: you'll just think that's the norm and you'll do the 488 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:08,240 Speaker 5: same thing. The problem is the culture you were raised 489 00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:11,760 Speaker 5: in was not right that culture was negative. You can't 490 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:14,000 Speaker 5: just sit back and accept it. You got to set 491 00:25:14,000 --> 00:25:17,400 Speaker 5: a news standard. You got to take responsibility for your 492 00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:20,920 Speaker 5: actions and don't just do things because that's all you've 493 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:23,959 Speaker 5: ever seen done. I heard about this couple that just 494 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:27,239 Speaker 5: recently had gotten married, and the young man noticed that 495 00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,199 Speaker 5: when his wife would cook a ham, she would always 496 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 5: cut the ends off the ham. And he thought that 497 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,719 Speaker 5: was so strange, and he wondered why she was wasting 498 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,400 Speaker 5: that part of the ham. And one day he got 499 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:39,199 Speaker 5: his nerve up and he asked her, honey, why do 500 00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:41,520 Speaker 5: you cut the ends off the ham? And she said, well, 501 00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 5: my mother made the best hands in all the world, 502 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,399 Speaker 5: and she always cut the ends off the ham. He said, well, 503 00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:48,000 Speaker 5: I understand, but do you know why she did it? 504 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 2: She said no. 505 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:51,440 Speaker 5: He said, well, let's call your mom up and ask. 506 00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,200 Speaker 5: So they called her up and said, hey, you know what. 507 00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:55,239 Speaker 5: My wife cuts the ends off the ham. And she 508 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 5: said she does it because you did it. 509 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:57,280 Speaker 2: Why do you do it? 510 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:00,359 Speaker 5: And she said, well, my mother made the best in 511 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:02,719 Speaker 5: all the world, and she always cut the ends off 512 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:04,840 Speaker 5: the hand. He said, why, understand that, but do you 513 00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,040 Speaker 5: know why she did She said no, I have no 514 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:09,840 Speaker 5: idea said once, let's call up grandmother. And so they 515 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:11,720 Speaker 5: call the grandmother up and he explained it all, my 516 00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,399 Speaker 5: wife cuts the ends off because your daughter does. And 517 00:26:14,440 --> 00:26:16,360 Speaker 5: she said she does it because you do it. Can 518 00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,359 Speaker 5: you please tell us why did you always cut the 519 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 5: ends off the hand? Grandmother laughed and said that's easy 520 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:30,159 Speaker 5: because my pen was too little. The point I'm making is, 521 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 5: don't just do what you've seen people do before. Find 522 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:38,800 Speaker 5: out why you're doing things. If you can get serious 523 00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:42,280 Speaker 5: one more minute. Some of you today you're allowing strife 524 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:45,240 Speaker 5: and discord in your home. There's always this arguing and fighting, 525 00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,159 Speaker 5: and it's because it's the way you were raised. But 526 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,159 Speaker 5: understand that's not God's best. Why don't you set a 527 00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 5: new standard. Some of you don't pay your bills on time. 528 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:57,280 Speaker 5: You don't have the integrity you should, and it's because 529 00:26:57,320 --> 00:27:00,120 Speaker 5: nobody in your family did. But please, don't just do 530 00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,399 Speaker 5: the same thing. Why don't you raise the bar. Some 531 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,320 Speaker 5: of you always negative and critical, and it's simply because 532 00:27:05,359 --> 00:27:07,640 Speaker 5: you came out of such a negative environment. You don't 533 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,240 Speaker 5: know any better. But no, don't pass that junk down. 534 00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:12,359 Speaker 5: You've got to choose the blessing and not the curse. 535 00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:15,160 Speaker 5: And so my message to you today is dig your 536 00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:17,040 Speaker 5: heels in and put a stop to any of the 537 00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:19,840 Speaker 5: negative junk that's in your family's bloodline. May have been 538 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:22,080 Speaker 5: there for years and years, but today is a new 539 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:24,280 Speaker 5: day and you can be the one to make a difference. 540 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:27,560 Speaker 5: And remember this is a spiritual battle. You've got to 541 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,520 Speaker 5: take authority over all the strongholds. 542 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:31,199 Speaker 2: That are keeping you in bondage. 543 00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:33,200 Speaker 5: One of the first things you got to do is 544 00:27:33,280 --> 00:27:36,400 Speaker 5: recognize what it is, identify it, get it out in the. 545 00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:37,439 Speaker 2: Open and deal with it. 546 00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,040 Speaker 5: Friends, God has a place of victory in store for 547 00:27:40,119 --> 00:27:40,840 Speaker 5: every one of you. 548 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,040 Speaker 2: And you may come from a long line of negative things, 549 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:46,880 Speaker 2: but always know this. Every right choice you. 550 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,800 Speaker 5: Make, you are turning around the wrong choices other people 551 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:53,920 Speaker 5: have made. So pass down only good things. Take responsibility 552 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,720 Speaker 5: for your actions. If you do that, you'll see God's 553 00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,639 Speaker 5: blessings in favor and you'll experience the victories He has 554 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 5: in st Amen. 555 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:02,119 Speaker 2: How many of you received it this morning. 556 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,439 Speaker 5: We never like to close our broadcast without giving you 557 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,360 Speaker 5: an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life. 558 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:10,480 Speaker 2: Would you pray with me? 559 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:16,200 Speaker 5: Just say Lord Jesus, I repent of my sins, come 560 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:17,360 Speaker 5: into my heart. 561 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:19,639 Speaker 2: I make you my Lord and savior. 562 00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:23,200 Speaker 5: Friends, if you've prayed that simple prayer, we believe you 563 00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:26,120 Speaker 5: got born again. 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