WEBVTT 00:00:03.306 --> 00:00:05.528 I'm just going to get right into a short message. 00:00:05.809 --> 00:00:08.513 I heard you say the word short, so that's a hint. 00:00:08.513 --> 00:00:11.063 I'm just going to share a short message. 00:00:11.063 --> 00:00:29.634 So I just want to draft off of things that Neil and Steve said last night, so powerful, laying the foundation of the Word of God, and Steve just teed up the ball for me I could swing with my eyes closed and hit it tonight because, just to kind of quick recap, how many were not here last night? 00:00:29.634 --> 00:00:30.842 You were not here last night. 00:00:30.842 --> 00:00:34.793 Okay, dismissed, I'm kidding. 00:00:34.793 --> 00:00:36.759 No, just a quick recap. 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:44.627 And Steve just kind of tracked kind of the history of Trinity through the generations and talked about Abraham and Isaac and Jacob. 00:00:44.627 --> 00:01:05.734 And it was just powerful because this morning, you know, we shared about Joseph and I feel like now the emphasis on the next gen is the fact that you know he kind of symbolized the founding fathers as the Abrahamic kind of team, and Neil and Steve, the Isaacs, and everybody laughed because it was full of laughter. 00:01:05.734 --> 00:01:20.191 And then comes the multiplication, jacob, and he likened this current generation to the Jacob generation where there was definitely multiplication and growth and all the things that went with it. 00:01:20.191 --> 00:01:31.471 But then you know Jacob had 12 sons, and so we're going to kind of key in on one of those sons tonight and I want to talk about barriers to building in the last days. 00:01:31.471 --> 00:01:37.084 I'm going to key in in just a minute on Joseph, because we talked about him today, about carrying the bones of Joseph into the future. 00:01:37.084 --> 00:01:41.581 But I'm going to open with a New Testament verse and then we're going to go to the Old Testament. 00:01:41.581 --> 00:01:47.593 But it's one that you all know and usually it's really great to preach this, you know, in January, first week of January. 00:01:47.593 --> 00:01:51.046 But I want you to contextualize it into like this is where we're headed. 00:01:51.486 --> 00:02:14.150 When Paul said in Philippians, chapter 3, verse 12, not that I've already obtained this or I'm already perfect, but I press on to make it my own because Christ Jesus has made me his own Brothers, I do not consider that I've made it my own, but one thing I do Say, one thing, one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and straining forward. 00:02:14.150 --> 00:02:15.854 I like that to what lies ahead. 00:02:15.854 --> 00:02:16.401 That's a picture. 00:02:16.401 --> 00:02:27.225 That word in the Greek is a picture of a runner running a race, coming to the tape at the very end and there's a bunch of guys coming and they just push their chest out, they strain just to kind of make it to the finish line. 00:02:27.225 --> 00:02:29.068 That's the end time, church. 00:02:29.068 --> 00:02:33.713 We're in a race, we're straining because all these things are coming against us. 00:02:33.713 --> 00:02:35.656 There's competition to the left and to the right. 00:02:35.656 --> 00:02:45.419 And Paul says this one thing I do Forgetting what's behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press like that. 00:02:45.419 --> 00:02:54.471 Dioko in the Greek means I press, I pursue, I push and I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call. 00:02:54.471 --> 00:02:58.604 How many of you know we're in an upward call, there's an updraft. 00:02:58.604 --> 00:03:02.770 Okay, we're all on our way in the upward call of Christ. 00:03:04.780 --> 00:03:14.264 And so I like I don't have it on the screen, but the next verse he goes let those of us who are mature think this way, and if in anything you think otherwise, god will reveal it. 00:03:14.264 --> 00:03:29.891 In other words, if we're not thinking correctly we talked about thinking today our mentalities, those internal shifts where God's fiddling with our internal structures, internal mentalities, if you're not thinking the right way, it says, god will reveal that to you also. 00:03:29.891 --> 00:03:31.025 That's where the prophetic comes in. 00:03:31.025 --> 00:03:40.747 When we're not thinking right, when we need diorthesis, when we need reformation, god comes to reform and he reforms our thinking first and he reveals it prophetically. 00:03:40.747 --> 00:03:49.603 I was just talking to someone right before the service and he said you know, you prophesied over me a while back and when you first were sharing some things you go just to make any sense to me at all. 00:03:49.603 --> 00:03:53.311 And I said that's the sign of a true prophecy. 00:03:53.311 --> 00:03:54.860 It's like what? 00:03:54.860 --> 00:04:01.846 Where God comes in and scrambles your brain, upsets everything you ever knew and totally leaves you in bewilderment with lots of questions. 00:04:01.846 --> 00:04:02.967 That's a prophetic word. 00:04:02.967 --> 00:04:04.992 Say what just happened. 00:04:04.992 --> 00:04:07.985 Bewilderment with lots of questions that's a prophetic word. 00:04:07.985 --> 00:04:08.549 Say what just happened. 00:04:08.549 --> 00:04:10.235 God is fiddling with our mentalities and getting us ready for what's next. 00:04:10.256 --> 00:04:15.087 So we're going to go to Genesis, chapter 49, and I want to just focus for just a minute on a prophecy. 00:04:15.087 --> 00:04:17.973 It's the prophecy of Jacob. 00:04:17.973 --> 00:04:41.048 So, as Steve teed it up last night talking about Abraham Isaac and Jacob, we're going to go now to the next gen, because if Tyler and these great elders are representing the Jacob movement and multiplication, there's something that comes out of that and we're going to see this as Jacob gathered his 12 sons and began to prophesy in Genesis, chapter 49. 00:04:41.048 --> 00:04:49.117 In the first verse he says Jacob called his sons and said gather yourselves together that I may tell you what shall happen to you in the days to come. 00:04:49.117 --> 00:04:51.142 How many get excited when you hear language like that. 00:04:51.142 --> 00:04:56.682 Let's all get together, gather together so we can tell you what's about to happen. 00:04:56.682 --> 00:05:00.072 Only the church can actually say that with a strain of truth. 00:05:00.072 --> 00:05:04.447 Fortune tellers, soothsayers and all the prognosticators can't really. 00:05:04.447 --> 00:05:13.002 They can make it up, they can fake it, but only those that have the Holy Spirit can say we know the future, the future lives in us. 00:05:13.002 --> 00:05:14.788 Right, it's the Holy Spirit. 00:05:14.788 --> 00:05:16.651 Jesus said he'll show you things to come. 00:05:16.651 --> 00:05:19.466 So we're tapping this along with Jacob tonight. 00:05:19.466 --> 00:05:23.182 He's calls the 12 together, begins to prophesy over all 12 of his sons. 00:05:23.182 --> 00:05:25.206 But I want to focus on Joseph tonight. 00:05:25.206 --> 00:05:29.591 I want to focus on this one that actually scripture focuses on. 00:05:29.591 --> 00:05:31.836 Take it over into verse 22,. 00:05:31.920 --> 00:05:33.723 And he begins to prophesy about Joseph. 00:05:33.723 --> 00:05:36.449 He said Joseph is a fruitful bough. 00:05:36.449 --> 00:05:39.300 A fruitful bough by a spring. 00:05:39.300 --> 00:05:40.923 His branches run over the wall. 00:05:40.923 --> 00:05:45.353 The archers bitterly attacked him, shot at him and harassed him severely. 00:05:45.353 --> 00:05:48.185 Yet his bow remained unmoved. 00:05:48.185 --> 00:05:52.072 His arms were made agile by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob. 00:05:52.072 --> 00:06:08.581 From there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel, by the God of your father, who will help you by the almighty watch, who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb. 00:06:08.581 --> 00:06:20.863 The blessings of your father, jacob, are mighty beyond the blessings of my parents, isaac and Rebecca, up to the bounties of the everlasting hills. 00:06:20.863 --> 00:06:34.584 May they be on the head of Joseph and on the brow of him, who was watch, set apart from the other eleven, set apart from his brothers. 00:06:38.389 --> 00:06:45.156 I believe this character, joseph, prophetically is a type and a shadow of the end time church. 00:06:45.156 --> 00:06:47.807 I believe he was set apart. 00:06:47.807 --> 00:06:51.108 I believe the end time church is a little different. 00:06:51.108 --> 00:06:54.108 Like I said, weirdness will be comfortable for us. 00:06:54.108 --> 00:07:05.389 There's characteristics of blessing but also characteristics of withholding, if you look at the prophecies over the 12, jacob's prophecy. 00:07:05.389 --> 00:07:08.704 But the Joseph tribe, I believe, is a prototype of the end-time church. 00:07:08.704 --> 00:07:11.089 I believe it's a prototype of Trinity. 00:07:11.089 --> 00:07:17.031 I want you to see yourself as a prototype end-time church that God is shaping and forming. 00:07:17.031 --> 00:07:23.680 We carry the bones of the past that got us here, but now we're ready to launch into the future with the word of the Lord. 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:31.048 And I want you to look through these characteristics verse by verse, for just a minute, back in verse 22, of what a Joseph tribe looks like. 00:07:31.048 --> 00:07:36.930 The Joseph generation is here and they're standing on our shoulders, as we learned this morning. 00:07:37.420 --> 00:07:44.766 Verse 22, joseph, first of all, is a fruitful bough, one of the signs of the end time church, one of the signs, I think, of Trinity. 00:07:44.766 --> 00:07:47.745 You're going to be fruitful and missional. 00:07:47.745 --> 00:07:54.103 Fruitful and missional, it's a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring. 00:07:54.103 --> 00:07:56.750 Watch his branches run over the wall. 00:07:56.750 --> 00:07:58.821 We got to keep sending out missionaries. 00:07:58.821 --> 00:08:07.163 I was stunned to look at the trivia the other night, mark, when you shared that it's like wow, 70 plus missionaries sent out. 00:08:07.163 --> 00:08:08.747 That's fantastic. 00:08:08.747 --> 00:08:12.581 There's some mega churches that never even come close to that. 00:08:12.581 --> 00:08:14.185 You know, that's fantastic. 00:08:14.185 --> 00:08:16.651 But we got to keep going because the nations are hungry. 00:08:16.651 --> 00:08:18.262 The nations need the gospel. 00:08:18.262 --> 00:08:23.651 So here we find this Joseph tribe fruitful why? 00:08:23.651 --> 00:08:25.935 Because they're found by a spring. 00:08:25.935 --> 00:08:31.146 They're found by the well, the well of the water, of the word, as Neil brought out so well last night. 00:08:31.146 --> 00:08:40.489 We've got to stay close to the water to get nourished and to grow and be fat and sassy, the things of fruitfulness that God wants. 00:08:40.489 --> 00:08:44.039 You'll never be fruitful unless you're by a well Right. 00:08:44.039 --> 00:08:47.847 We're called, then, to be fruitful and go over the wall. 00:08:47.847 --> 00:08:48.809 Let's go. 00:08:48.809 --> 00:08:50.354 Verse 23. 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:52.988 Now, when that happens, the devil gets mad. 00:08:52.988 --> 00:08:55.221 Verse 23,. 00:08:55.221 --> 00:08:57.269 The archers bitterly attacked him. 00:08:57.269 --> 00:09:00.207 The Joseph end time church, get used to it. 00:09:00.207 --> 00:09:01.110 You're going to get attacked. 00:09:01.110 --> 00:09:03.063 We're getting attacked everywhere. 00:09:03.063 --> 00:09:04.730 And buckle up, baby. 00:09:04.730 --> 00:09:12.389 There's an election coming and then the backlash from whatever happens in November, and then we get into. 00:09:12.389 --> 00:09:15.442 You know, the next six months are going to be crazy and the archers are ready. 00:09:15.442 --> 00:09:18.510 They want to shoot at anything that goes against. 00:09:18.510 --> 00:09:20.023 You know the flow of the Antichrist. 00:09:20.023 --> 00:09:20.703 So here we are. 00:09:20.703 --> 00:09:24.900 The archers bitterly attacked him, shot at him, harassed him. 00:09:24.900 --> 00:09:27.004 Christians are being harassed all over the world. 00:09:27.065 --> 00:09:33.741 Watch, yet his bow remained unmoved. 00:09:33.741 --> 00:09:34.625 How many of you know? 00:09:34.625 --> 00:09:35.426 We have a weapon too. 00:09:35.426 --> 00:09:38.500 There's archers out there ready to shoot at us. 00:09:38.500 --> 00:09:38.981 But guess what? 00:09:38.981 --> 00:09:40.404 We got some weapons too. 00:09:40.404 --> 00:09:43.111 And the weapons of our warfare come on somebody. 00:09:43.111 --> 00:09:47.729 They're not carnal, but they are mighty through God, to the pulling down of strongholds. 00:09:47.749 --> 00:09:50.193 So his bow remained unmoved. 00:09:50.193 --> 00:09:56.466 Watch, his arms were made agile by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob, the mighty one of Jacob. 00:09:56.466 --> 00:10:04.214 So it's the Jacob generation that must get the weaponry and the arms strengthened for war in the next gen. 00:10:04.214 --> 00:10:05.966 We've got to teach them about spiritual warfare. 00:10:05.966 --> 00:10:13.510 I think what Brooke was picking up in the worship is like there's a powerful need of intercession over the next generation. 00:10:13.510 --> 00:10:14.432 Like never before. 00:10:14.432 --> 00:10:15.754 We say like never before. 00:10:15.754 --> 00:10:17.847 Probably every generation says well, like never before. 00:10:17.847 --> 00:10:19.788 Probably in the 30s and the 40s they're going like never before. 00:10:19.788 --> 00:10:21.547 I don't know, but yeah, like never before. 00:10:21.547 --> 00:10:23.186 This is our generation. 00:10:23.186 --> 00:10:37.895 So we've got to prepare them for war because they're going to get attacked, and they're getting attacked in ways we never even saw possible with the internet and social media and all the bullying and all the stuff that they have to put up with. 00:10:37.895 --> 00:10:40.543 But the hands and the arms are made strong and agile by the mighty one of Jacob. 00:10:40.543 --> 00:10:43.231 From there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel. 00:10:43.231 --> 00:10:43.934 That's powerful. 00:10:43.934 --> 00:10:46.701 A Joseph church will be a target. 00:10:46.701 --> 00:10:48.663 Get shot at. 00:10:48.663 --> 00:10:50.745 The word is be prepared. 00:10:50.745 --> 00:10:57.510 So when they go to camp not just we're going to go to camp and play games and have all this fun you know what Somewhere in the camp I just loved. 00:10:57.671 --> 00:10:59.412 A couple years in a row I came to your camp. 00:10:59.412 --> 00:11:00.874 I loved it, man. 00:11:00.874 --> 00:11:02.294 I was renewed like the eagle. 00:11:02.294 --> 00:11:04.336 My youth was renewed. 00:11:04.336 --> 00:11:08.764 Two years ago, 22, I came here. 00:11:08.764 --> 00:11:16.548 Then I went to a camp out in Montana with like three or four churches and then I did our youth camp with like five, six hundred and, oh my gosh, that was the best summer of my life. 00:11:21.821 --> 00:11:28.125 We've got to prepare the next gen, prepare them for war. 00:11:28.125 --> 00:11:34.804 And then here's the thing, the next gen church. 00:11:34.804 --> 00:11:38.528 I think this end time church we're going to see blessings like we've never seen. 00:11:38.528 --> 00:11:44.351 God's going to pour out, blessings that are going to blow our mind, and I could give you stories. 00:11:44.440 --> 00:11:46.808 But there's things happening in the world of generosity. 00:11:46.808 --> 00:11:50.086 You know, there's a lot of money out there. 00:11:50.086 --> 00:11:53.445 He said money Boy, what a flop. 00:11:53.445 --> 00:11:56.849 We've had a great weekend until now and now he's talking money. 00:11:56.849 --> 00:11:58.445 Well, you know what? 00:11:58.445 --> 00:12:01.006 God is not poor. 00:12:01.006 --> 00:12:07.652 There's a lot of money out there and there's a gift that we don't cultivate very well in the body of Christ, out of Romans 12. 00:12:07.652 --> 00:12:12.844 We say, oh wait, prophecy, let's cultivate, prophecy, let's cultivate your singing and worship gift. 00:12:12.844 --> 00:12:13.788 Let's cultivate. 00:12:13.788 --> 00:12:15.054 Your preaching, let's cultivate. 00:12:15.054 --> 00:12:16.481 What about your giving gift? 00:12:16.481 --> 00:12:18.491 There's the gift of giving in Romans 12. 00:12:18.491 --> 00:12:29.570 There's people that God has called to be givers and we've got to create opportunities to train them and create opportunities for them to exercise their gift, because it's there, they're going to have it. 00:12:30.230 --> 00:12:31.894 I'm just saying that that's what's going to happen. 00:12:31.894 --> 00:12:32.461 Why? 00:12:32.461 --> 00:12:39.465 Because part of the Joseph end time tribe is going to walk in an unbelievable blessing, because God said so. 00:12:39.465 --> 00:12:52.083 Watch this, the Almighty who will bless you verse 25, with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouch beneath, that's earthly blessings. 00:12:52.083 --> 00:12:55.793 And the blessings of the breast and of the womb, that's the family. 00:12:55.793 --> 00:13:00.035 All these blessings, heavenly blessings, earthly blessings, family blessings. 00:13:00.035 --> 00:13:05.211 The blessings of your father are mighty beyond the blessings of my parents. 00:13:05.299 --> 00:13:13.027 Those boys were rich, abraham had some chips, abraham had a lot of animals and stuff, and Isaac did all right too. 00:13:13.027 --> 00:13:14.129 And these guys were tithers. 00:13:14.129 --> 00:13:15.841 You know, as we're tithing, all started. 00:13:15.841 --> 00:13:19.692 They understood this and this has to trickle down into the next generation. 00:13:19.692 --> 00:13:21.422 It's going to happen. 00:13:21.422 --> 00:13:30.950 He said up to the bounties of the everlasting hills, watch, may they be on the head of Joseph and on the brow of him. 00:13:30.950 --> 00:13:33.984 Watch, who was set apart from his brothers. 00:13:33.984 --> 00:13:36.390 Blessings, that's the pattern. 00:13:36.390 --> 00:13:41.442 The pattern of Jacob was to instill blessings on the head of Joseph. 00:13:41.442 --> 00:13:44.369 The end time church, that's you, trinity. 00:13:45.751 --> 00:13:46.614 I thought I'd get one amen. 00:13:46.614 --> 00:13:48.725 Come on, one, sandy, help me out. 00:13:48.725 --> 00:13:50.370 One amen, please. 00:13:50.370 --> 00:13:52.903 Are you that tired? 00:13:52.903 --> 00:13:54.508 All right, we're going to ramp it up. 00:13:54.508 --> 00:13:55.610 Three points and I'm done. 00:13:55.610 --> 00:13:57.844 Three points and a poem, all right. 00:13:58.764 --> 00:14:03.181 Three barriers, though, to building what God wants to build in the last days. 00:14:03.181 --> 00:14:23.751 If some of this is really what God wants, and there's going to be archers and there's going to be warfare and we need to see the blessings of God come there's barriers to all this that Joseph had to overcome himself, and we need to overcome them too, and number one is this the first barrier is letting hurts and offenses become a barrier to what God wants to do in the future. 00:14:23.751 --> 00:14:28.649 That is one of the biggest hindrances in the human sector and all of humanity. 00:14:28.649 --> 00:14:31.206 Hurts and offenses, and that's the devil's arrows. 00:14:31.206 --> 00:14:33.044 You know it says the archers want to shoot. 00:14:33.044 --> 00:14:37.187 You know what he shoots Fiery darts, the fiery darts of the wicked one. 00:14:37.187 --> 00:14:54.365 His number one arsenal is to fire accusation he's the accuser of the brethren and to fire darts of accusation and cause there to be hurt and, ultimately, unforgiveness in the body of Christ, because he says that's going to cripple that army. 00:14:54.365 --> 00:14:57.059 I can knock them down Now. 00:14:57.100 --> 00:15:01.652 Joseph went through this, and the commentary comes out of Psalm 105. 00:15:01.652 --> 00:15:14.548 In Psalm 105, we see that the psalmist gives a really keen commentary on what Joseph had to go through in his own life, and he says in Psalm 105, verse 17,. 00:15:14.548 --> 00:15:17.809 He sent a man ahead of them, joseph, who was sold as a slave. 00:15:17.809 --> 00:15:22.609 His feet were hurt with fetters, his neck or literally his soul in the Hebrew. 00:15:22.609 --> 00:15:29.063 His soul was put into a collar of iron until what he had said came to pass. 00:15:29.063 --> 00:15:38.796 He got that great prophetic word right, but until, say, until some of you are living in, until the land of, until, until it came to pass. 00:15:38.796 --> 00:15:47.582 The word of the Lord tested him. 00:15:47.582 --> 00:15:48.628 The testing was can he forgive his brothers? 00:15:48.628 --> 00:15:50.837 That was the ultimate test and that's the one he passed at the very end of the story. 00:15:50.837 --> 00:15:51.220 You know the story. 00:15:51.220 --> 00:15:55.370 But this whole idea of his soul came into iron, restriction. 00:15:55.370 --> 00:16:00.251 His soul, his mind, his will, his emotions came into iron. 00:16:00.251 --> 00:16:01.885 That was the test. 00:16:01.885 --> 00:16:19.602 That was the troubling, that was the fiery darts that the enemy was wanting Joseph to turn his heart into bitterness and unforgiveness and so to overcome that, he and his wife have children and the firstborn of Joseph. 00:16:19.764 --> 00:16:21.106 Now we're going another generation. 00:16:21.106 --> 00:16:21.918 Can we go deeper? 00:16:21.918 --> 00:16:22.760 Come on. 00:16:22.760 --> 00:16:28.823 Now we're talking children's church, all right, we're talking nursery, but his firstborn son he named Manasseh. 00:16:28.823 --> 00:16:29.296 Why? 00:16:29.296 --> 00:16:31.344 Because it meant forgetfulness. 00:16:31.344 --> 00:16:34.677 He said I'm going to have a living reminder. 00:16:34.677 --> 00:16:37.783 I'm going to name the next generation. 00:16:37.783 --> 00:16:50.360 On behalf of what I had to go through to make sure it doesn't get into the next generation, I named my firstborn son Forgetfulness I'm going to forget what is behind. 00:16:50.380 --> 00:16:52.200 That's what Paul said right Forgetting that which is behind. 00:16:52.200 --> 00:16:59.880 That means forget the past and the hurts, and he had to forget what his brothers did to him and he had to forget all the things that attacked him. 00:16:59.880 --> 00:17:02.206 He wanted a reminder. 00:17:02.206 --> 00:17:04.075 I'm going to forget the hurts in the past. 00:17:04.075 --> 00:17:04.656 I choose that. 00:17:04.656 --> 00:17:06.942 So they named their firstborn Manasseh. 00:17:08.526 --> 00:17:11.622 Can't let the hurts and the offenses we all have them why? 00:17:11.622 --> 00:17:12.428 We talked about flesh? 00:17:12.428 --> 00:17:13.255 Remember we talked about the bones. 00:17:13.255 --> 00:17:15.939 Bones is what you get when all the flesh rots away. 00:17:15.939 --> 00:17:28.039 And so when all the flesh is rotted away, the bones we carry the bones, but some of that flesh has to do with our own agonizing over hurts, offenses and dealing with unforgiveness. 00:17:28.039 --> 00:17:28.582 That's flesh. 00:17:29.575 --> 00:17:35.248 Secondly, another thing that's a barrier to building is not stretching our faith out for fresh vision. 00:17:35.248 --> 00:17:39.458 This is what's exciting about a 50th anniversary or any kind of anniversary. 00:17:39.458 --> 00:17:40.782 There's more to come. 00:17:40.782 --> 00:17:43.251 We had a great time rehearsing history. 00:17:43.251 --> 00:17:51.624 We had a great time today talking about how we're going to proceed from the present by carrying the bones of structure and all the good stuff that's in Trinity. 00:17:51.624 --> 00:17:53.166 But now it's like what's next? 00:17:53.166 --> 00:17:55.155 Well, we got to stretch our faith out. 00:17:55.155 --> 00:17:57.738 You can't rest on past faith. 00:17:57.738 --> 00:18:01.801 You've got to stretch your faith out for new vision, fresh vision. 00:18:01.801 --> 00:18:09.828 We're going away with the staff this week and we're going to be talking about some things and, who knows, god might drop some fresh vision into your staff this week. 00:18:09.828 --> 00:18:19.411 So pray for them, pray for your staff, pray for Pastor Tyler, pray that God just drops some fresh vision and we need faith to fulfill that Again. 00:18:19.431 --> 00:18:25.948 Philippians 3, reaching forth, paul says straining forward for the mark of the prize, of the high calling. 00:18:25.948 --> 00:18:27.038 That mark is skopos. 00:18:27.038 --> 00:18:28.141 In the Greek it means the target. 00:18:28.141 --> 00:18:28.843 What's our target? 00:18:28.843 --> 00:18:30.046 Trinity, what's our target? 00:18:30.046 --> 00:18:31.376 We got a good 50 years behind us. 00:18:31.376 --> 00:18:32.940 What's our target for the next few years? 00:18:32.940 --> 00:18:41.810 Coming up, and not only just for you to contend, you and say, you know, we're going to give to this, we're going to give that, and y'all are kind of the cream of the crop here. 00:18:41.810 --> 00:18:43.036 But like, what about the next gen? 00:18:43.036 --> 00:18:44.138 What are they looking for? 00:18:44.138 --> 00:18:46.203 How are they going to invite their friends? 00:18:46.203 --> 00:18:49.701 Do they have enough vision to say, hey, our church is going to be doing this? 00:18:49.701 --> 00:18:51.065 Hey, our church does this. 00:18:51.065 --> 00:18:53.901 You need to come on Friday night or whatever night youth meets. 00:18:54.423 --> 00:18:58.413 The most powerful way that we reach people is personal invitation. 00:18:58.413 --> 00:18:59.415 That will never get old. 00:18:59.415 --> 00:19:01.260 Can't be replaced by the internet Now. 00:19:01.260 --> 00:19:03.086 The internet is number two, just so y'all know. 00:19:03.086 --> 00:19:06.240 And so you got to reform your thinking right away. 00:19:06.240 --> 00:19:07.464 I can't use the internet, that's all. 00:19:07.464 --> 00:19:08.477 That's the worldly stuff. 00:19:08.477 --> 00:19:09.900 They say that about TV, right? 00:19:09.900 --> 00:19:14.875 So yeah, that's where they live, that next gen. 00:19:14.875 --> 00:19:16.016 They live on screens. 00:19:16.016 --> 00:19:17.798 They're screen-agers, not teenagers. 00:19:17.798 --> 00:19:18.919 They live. 00:19:18.919 --> 00:19:20.840 The game is played online. 00:19:20.840 --> 00:19:22.102 So we got to reach them. 00:19:22.102 --> 00:19:26.227 And we got to come up with ideas and fresh vision to reach the next generation. 00:19:26.227 --> 00:19:30.611 So we need input from the next generation Reaching forth, contending for it. 00:19:30.951 --> 00:19:33.174 Blessings, the blessings God said you can have. 00:19:33.174 --> 00:19:37.083 You're not going to get them if you don't have fresh vision for what's next. 00:19:37.083 --> 00:19:42.182 And the third one is not guarding against apathy, and I think we talked about Tyler was just talking about that. 00:19:42.182 --> 00:19:43.339 We can't be apathetic. 00:19:43.339 --> 00:19:45.803 You can't rest on the laurels of 50 years. 00:19:45.803 --> 00:19:46.304 Well done. 00:19:46.304 --> 00:19:47.759 We say well done. 00:19:47.759 --> 00:19:48.381 But now what? 00:19:48.381 --> 00:19:53.642 Don't get apathetic, don't say we've arrived, don't be spiritually apathetic. 00:19:53.642 --> 00:20:01.499 So to do that, joseph and his wife had another baby. 00:20:01.499 --> 00:20:01.940 They're second born. 00:20:01.960 --> 00:20:06.578 Ephraim comes along and they named him out of the root word was fruitfulness, but his name literally means double fruitfulness. 00:20:06.578 --> 00:20:22.609 Double fruitfulness, I think I believe, with the blessings from heaven above and the blessings of the deep and the blessings of family, the breast and the womb, I believe we can contend for a double blessing, double fruitfulness the next 50 years. 00:20:22.609 --> 00:20:33.127 I don't know, I don't want to be here in 50 years, but anyway, let's believe that the next season for Trinity Church will have double fruitfulness. 00:20:33.127 --> 00:20:33.950 Wouldn't you want that? 00:20:33.950 --> 00:20:35.882 We don't want to say well, we just want to grow a little. 00:20:35.882 --> 00:20:37.616 You want to go to the average 5% to 10%. 00:20:37.616 --> 00:20:38.397 That's a good growth rate. 00:20:38.397 --> 00:20:41.260 Let's double, why not? 00:20:41.260 --> 00:20:42.843 Amen, let's double. 00:20:42.962 --> 00:20:43.864 I got three people that want to. 00:20:43.864 --> 00:20:47.548 You could do it, just call in more workers. 00:20:47.548 --> 00:20:49.371 You got to believe more workers, invite more people. 00:20:49.371 --> 00:20:50.171 You can't do it all. 00:20:50.171 --> 00:21:04.674 There's so many people out into the kingdom. 00:21:04.674 --> 00:21:05.994 Number two want to find their destiny and they actually want to do something for God. 00:21:05.994 --> 00:21:06.653 Here we are, best opportunity. 00:21:06.574 --> 00:21:07.294 So one more little trick. 00:21:07.294 --> 00:21:14.704 The trickster Jacob had up his sleeve, and you all know this We'll go back to chapter 48, actually, because Joseph brought then his two sons, manasseh forgetfulness and Ephraim fruitfulness. 00:21:14.704 --> 00:21:17.423 He brought them for the blessing, the blessing of Jacob. 00:21:17.423 --> 00:21:21.082 And so tonight we're going to bring the young people up here and we're going to bless them. 00:21:21.082 --> 00:21:24.438 We're going to bring them to old grandpa. 00:21:24.438 --> 00:21:28.224 Grandpa Jacob gets ready to bless them. 00:21:28.265 --> 00:21:32.997 But Jacob was a conniver, he was a trickster, that was in his nature. 00:21:32.997 --> 00:21:40.403 And though he was half blind and couldn't see, and, getting old, he said I got one more trick up my sleeve. 00:21:40.403 --> 00:21:51.271 And sure enough, when Joseph brought his two sons up there, you know, the blessing of the right hand was the double portion the firstborn gets the blessing of the right hand and the secondborn gets the left hand. 00:21:51.271 --> 00:21:56.661 But you know, when they put the boys in front of him, he switched hands, didn't he? 00:21:56.661 --> 00:22:06.395 And he put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, the blessing of the first wife. 00:22:06.395 --> 00:22:07.157 Well, he'd been through that before. 00:22:07.157 --> 00:22:08.520 He said I got away with it once, I'm going to try it one more time. 00:22:08.520 --> 00:22:10.125 He stole the birthright from his brother. 00:22:10.945 --> 00:22:16.526 And so, in the sovereignty of God and for destiny of all times, jacob switched hands. 00:22:16.526 --> 00:22:27.298 He crossed over and put his right hand of blessing upon the head of the fruitful one, the fruitful generation, and said you're going to get a double portion of fruitfulness. 00:22:27.298 --> 00:22:29.565 And I believe in this hour. 00:22:29.565 --> 00:22:32.051 I really believe we can do that. 00:22:32.051 --> 00:22:35.338 I believe we can stretch forth our faith. 00:22:35.338 --> 00:22:40.896 I believe we can cross over now from 50 years of well done to the next 50. 00:22:40.896 --> 00:22:48.684 And we can just cross our hands over, we can press toward the mark and we can put our hands on the next generation for a double portion. 00:22:48.684 --> 00:22:49.385 Would you like that? 00:22:50.635 --> 00:22:57.963 When Elisha was getting ready to watch Elijah be taken up from him, he called out and he said I want one thing, I want one thing. 00:22:57.963 --> 00:22:58.164 He goes. 00:22:58.164 --> 00:23:05.583 What is the one thing he goes I want a double portion of your anointing, I want a double portion. 00:23:05.583 --> 00:23:06.585 It's like how do you get that? 00:23:06.585 --> 00:23:11.317 Basically, he's saying I want the portion of the firstborn, I want that portion, I want that. 00:23:11.317 --> 00:23:11.817 I want to do that. 00:23:11.817 --> 00:23:12.598 And you know he did. 00:23:13.039 --> 00:23:13.681 But here was the catch. 00:23:13.681 --> 00:23:21.897 He said if you see me, if you see me as I'm being taken up from you, you can have it. 00:23:21.897 --> 00:23:22.559 What does that mean? 00:23:22.559 --> 00:23:27.588 He said I'm going to baffle mortality in a few minutes. 00:23:27.588 --> 00:23:32.276 I'm going to do something no other human is going to do, but there's going to be one other human that's going to do it. 00:23:32.276 --> 00:23:38.848 He's going to break out of mortality and be taken up from you. 00:23:38.848 --> 00:23:41.983 He said if you can see that value, not just see me. 00:23:41.983 --> 00:23:51.926 If you see me and all the values of the coming resurrection of the human race, that will totally break the illusion of mortality. 00:23:51.994 --> 00:23:53.540 How many know mortality is just an illusion. 00:23:53.540 --> 00:23:54.726 It's not real. 00:23:54.726 --> 00:23:56.532 Are you with me? 00:23:56.532 --> 00:23:56.994 Are you breathing? 00:23:56.994 --> 00:23:58.161 I stole that from Neil. 00:23:58.161 --> 00:24:01.345 Are you breathing? 00:24:01.345 --> 00:24:02.770 I stole that from Neil. 00:24:02.770 --> 00:24:03.634 Are you breathing? 00:24:03.634 --> 00:24:09.439 This mortal life is a temporary illusion to eternity, which is reality. 00:24:09.439 --> 00:24:10.340 Ultimate reality is eternity. 00:24:10.340 --> 00:24:24.185 And so Elijah said if you can see me as I'm being taken up from you, you can have a double portion, because that's what it's going to take an ability to see the risen Christ who has broken mortality, broken sin. 00:24:24.185 --> 00:24:26.797 He's broken through that for us. 00:24:26.797 --> 00:24:32.717 If we can see that for the next generation, they can have a double portion, they can walk with that. 00:24:32.717 --> 00:24:35.835 How many want to give it to them tonight, don't you just want to give it to them? 00:24:35.835 --> 00:24:38.241 All right, let's stand up, let's bring. 00:24:38.241 --> 00:24:43.624 I don't know how you want to orchestrate this, tyler, but let's get some younger people up here.