WEBVTT 00:00:00.100 --> 00:00:03.903 Let's lift our Bibles up, wave them around, make Jesus glad, the devil mad. 00:00:03.903 --> 00:00:07.725 Say this together, say, heavenly Father, I'm so glad this morning. 00:00:07.725 --> 00:00:17.745 I'm glad for what you've done for me through the blood and I know where the blood is applied the power can flow. 00:00:17.745 --> 00:00:29.344 The power of the Holy Ghost is here today to meet every need of mine, to meet every need of my friends, my church members. 00:00:29.344 --> 00:00:33.427 Lord, we're together in one place and in one accord. 00:00:33.427 --> 00:00:39.344 Thank God for the Holy Ghost, thank God for miracles. 00:00:39.344 --> 00:00:45.875 In Jesus' name, amen, praise God, Junior High can be dismissed. 00:00:45.875 --> 00:00:50.719 This morning You're gonna have a class and we're gonna have a class. 00:00:50.841 --> 00:00:52.219 Let's look at Psalm 133. 00:00:52.219 --> 00:00:54.219 I read that to open the service. 00:00:54.219 --> 00:00:57.804 Some of you weren't here, so we'll read it again together, psalm 133. 00:00:57.804 --> 00:01:03.246 And also, while you're checking, get Galatians, chapter three, in front of you. 00:01:03.246 --> 00:01:06.802 Psalm 133,. 00:01:08.227 --> 00:01:14.725 David is writing here and he said Behold how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity. 00:01:14.725 --> 00:01:37.608 It is like the precious ointment upon the head that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard, that went down to the skirts of his garments as the dew of Hermon and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion, for there the Lord commanded the blessing even life forevermore. 00:01:37.608 --> 00:01:42.087 So notice how precious unity is. 00:01:42.087 --> 00:01:48.006 You know, years ago God gave me this little formula love plus unity equals miracles. 00:01:48.006 --> 00:01:52.388 And of course it's right here in the scripture. 00:01:52.388 --> 00:01:55.683 I mean, you know, they didn't have the agape love like we do. 00:01:55.683 --> 00:01:58.948 They didn't have, they weren't spiritually alive. 00:01:58.948 --> 00:02:04.420 In the old covenant they had the blood of bulls and goats. 00:02:04.420 --> 00:02:07.067 That made them acceptable to God. 00:02:07.067 --> 00:02:13.903 It just meant that if they did everything according to the law they wouldn't die, you know. 00:02:13.903 --> 00:02:18.087 So they approached God with trembling and with fear and with trepidation. 00:02:18.087 --> 00:02:25.539 But we've got a better covenant, found upon better promises, and we get yourself mixed up with the old covenant. 00:02:25.539 --> 00:02:30.508 We've got the new covenant, but what God said about it is the same today. 00:02:30.508 --> 00:02:38.683 Unity is so precious it has to be contended for the more people you've got. 00:02:38.683 --> 00:02:47.379 I liked what one Jewish guy said he's saved, he's what they call a completed Jew, a messianic Jew. 00:02:47.379 --> 00:02:51.865 But he said you know, you get 10 Jews together you have 11 opinions. 00:02:51.865 --> 00:02:54.520 He said that about the Jews. 00:02:54.520 --> 00:02:58.685 I'm not Jewish so I wouldn't say that, but I mean he said it, thought it was funny. 00:02:58.685 --> 00:03:05.929 No, unity is so precious it's worth to be contended for. 00:03:05.929 --> 00:03:06.681 All right. 00:03:06.741 --> 00:03:11.888 And then let's turn over to Galatians, chapter three, talking about verse seven. 00:03:11.888 --> 00:03:43.923 No you therefore, that they that are of faith, the same of the children of Abraham, and the Scripture for seeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel under Abraham, saying indeed, shall all nations or all heathens that are not Jewish, see that's what that means Be blessed, indeed, abraham. 00:03:43.923 --> 00:03:45.748 Shall all the heathen be blessed. 00:03:45.748 --> 00:03:50.431 All right, and then we move down to chapter verse 13. 00:03:50.431 --> 00:03:55.925 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us. 00:03:55.925 --> 00:04:07.909 For it is written blessed is everyone who hangeth on a tree, so that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. 00:04:09.001 --> 00:04:13.443 So I wanted to share a message entitled believe the blessing. 00:04:13.443 --> 00:04:19.019 Believe the blessing, don't believe the curse. 00:04:19.019 --> 00:04:19.341 Why? 00:04:19.341 --> 00:04:23.819 Because the curse existed in the old covenant. 00:04:23.819 --> 00:04:27.350 The old covenant had curses associated with their covenant. 00:04:27.350 --> 00:04:42.047 They had blessings and curses, and when they went into the Promised Land, they had the priest stand on Mount Gerizim and on Mount Ebel and from one mountaintop they declared the blessing of the covenant on the other mountaintop. 00:04:42.120 --> 00:04:47.702 But if you don't do the covenant, then this is the curses and Deuteronomy 28,. 00:04:47.702 --> 00:04:52.447 You've got verses one through 14 tell you what the blessings are. 00:04:52.447 --> 00:04:55.509 Blessings are you in the country, blessed in the city? 00:04:55.509 --> 00:04:56.584 Blessed in the coming out? 00:04:56.584 --> 00:04:57.447 Blessed in the coming in? 00:04:57.447 --> 00:04:59.425 Blessed in your basket in your store? 00:04:59.425 --> 00:04:59.987 Blah, blah, blah. 00:04:59.987 --> 00:05:06.649 Well, we love to read those first 14 verses, but then after that, 15 through 66, is the curses. 00:05:06.649 --> 00:05:10.548 And, man boy, there's a whole long list of curses. 00:05:10.548 --> 00:05:12.827 I mean, you got to have another arm extension. 00:05:12.827 --> 00:05:20.843 If you're going to down your arm, you're going to have to have another four foot arm on there, because it's long, lots of curses. 00:05:20.843 --> 00:05:23.406 Christ redeemed us from the curse. 00:05:23.406 --> 00:05:25.624 You don't have any curses. 00:05:25.624 --> 00:05:27.463 Glory to God. 00:05:29.483 --> 00:05:40.567 And of course, here in Psalm 133, speaking about the old covenant, speaking from David's viewpoint, he said where there was the unity there, the Lord commanded the blessing. 00:05:40.567 --> 00:05:51.848 They just did the Father's heart good to see His people walk in unity with each other, which is why they had so much trouble, because they had a hard time walking together. 00:05:51.848 --> 00:05:55.002 They couldn't walk in harmony with each other, much less with God. 00:05:55.002 --> 00:05:58.206 Look at our society today. 00:05:58.206 --> 00:05:58.882 It's broken. 00:05:58.882 --> 00:06:01.204 You've got people that have an. 00:06:01.204 --> 00:06:06.569 I mean, you know, did we go crazy overnight or something? 00:06:06.569 --> 00:06:12.569 And everything has totally changed in the last couple of years, since Biden took over. 00:06:12.569 --> 00:06:20.168 I mean it's like an altered reality has sprung up and all of us are being accused of being so crazy. 00:06:20.168 --> 00:06:21.865 And no, we're not crazy. 00:06:21.865 --> 00:06:27.202 And so you know we. 00:06:27.202 --> 00:06:28.247 He's where. 00:06:28.247 --> 00:06:31.500 There's unity there. 00:06:31.500 --> 00:06:33.389 The Lord commanded the blessing. 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:40.398 The Jewish people had to be highly um, they had. 00:06:40.398 --> 00:06:49.127 They had to have a pattern of that in their lives to reinforce that idea, because, again, they were spiritually lost. 00:06:49.127 --> 00:06:51.831 And so they had their, their Shabbat. 00:06:51.831 --> 00:06:57.019 You know the Sabbath, they kept the Sabbath and, uh, you got churches trying to keep the Sabbath for what? 00:06:57.019 --> 00:06:58.257 We're not under the law? 00:06:58.257 --> 00:07:00.879 Christ is the end of the law for righteous. 00:07:00.879 --> 00:07:04.298 Why in the world would you go to church on Saturday and say you're keeping the Sabbath? 00:07:04.298 --> 00:07:14.720 Number one, you can't do it Cause you don't have a kitchen that's equipped to cook the food correctly, to beat to meet all of the requirements? 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:21.100 I mean, if you only knew what it took just to eat, you'd give all that up quick. 00:07:21.100 --> 00:07:26.617 If that's what it takes to go to heaven, keeping the law, I mean, they couldn't do it and we can't do it. 00:07:26.617 --> 00:07:27.778 We don't have to do it. 00:07:27.778 --> 00:07:32.033 Jesus redeemed us from the curse. 00:07:32.033 --> 00:07:36.779 He's the end of the law for righteousness. 00:07:36.779 --> 00:07:43.680 So, but anyway, uh, they had to have all these, these traditions. 00:07:45.185 --> 00:07:49.704 Jewish fathers, every Shabbat, every Sabbath day, bless their children, bless their children. 00:07:49.704 --> 00:07:57.413 They pronounced a blessing over their children every, every Sabbath, and that's a good thing. 00:07:57.413 --> 00:07:59.687 I think we ought to bless our kids more often than that. 00:07:59.687 --> 00:08:12.242 Uh, the p patriarchs before they died, at the time of their passing, they would gather their children together and they would bless them. 00:08:12.242 --> 00:08:23.507 To think about Jacob, you know, he, he took the sons of Joseph and he and he put his hands on him and he crossed his hands. 00:08:23.507 --> 00:08:25.480 Remember, oh, no, daddy, it's that the other way. 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:26.673 No, let it be this son. 00:08:26.673 --> 00:08:27.360 I know what I'm doing. 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:29.809 I'm not, I don't have Alzheimer's, I'm doing it. 00:08:29.809 --> 00:08:31.545 This is the way I need to do it, right here. 00:08:31.545 --> 00:08:33.870 And so he did. 00:08:33.870 --> 00:08:37.510 He blessed the sons of Joseph before he died. 00:08:37.510 --> 00:08:42.730 Moses, before he died, blessed the 12 tribes. 00:08:44.465 --> 00:08:50.799 The priests would release the blessing over the people through the laying on of hands. 00:08:50.799 --> 00:08:59.600 Do you know that the laying on of hands conducted and and was a way for the blessing to be transmitted over to God? 00:08:59.600 --> 00:09:04.360 I'm so glad that we have the laying on of hands alive and well in this church. 00:09:04.360 --> 00:09:07.259 We lay our hands on everything it moves. 00:09:07.259 --> 00:09:10.139 If it's not moving, we kick it and uh so, uh. 00:09:10.139 --> 00:09:14.297 If the Jews had that, then we have Hebrews eight, six. 00:09:14.297 --> 00:09:26.476 We have a better covenant found upon better promises, and we need to be highly exercised and highly, uh, influenced by the idea that we are blessed. 00:09:26.476 --> 00:09:29.320 We're not trying to get blessed, we have already been blessed. 00:09:29.320 --> 00:09:33.638 The blessing has already been released. 00:09:33.658 --> 00:09:39.589 Where, in the spirit realm, or what I like to say, the call of the Lord, the blessing is available to you and I. 00:09:39.589 --> 00:09:45.591 It's available for our faith to reach up and grab it and bring it into this realm right here, the here and now. 00:09:45.591 --> 00:09:55.999 Some people call it the nasty now and now, but I mean, oh, we don't have to say that, it's the here and now. 00:09:55.999 --> 00:09:56.519 Are you with me now? 00:09:56.519 --> 00:09:57.775 So Jesus took our curse. 00:09:57.775 --> 00:10:01.080 We have the blessing in and through Christ. 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:03.019 We have the blessing in and through Christ. 00:10:03.019 --> 00:10:04.898 We have the blessing in and through Christ. 00:10:04.898 --> 00:10:05.744 It's in Christ. 00:10:05.864 --> 00:10:10.779 It's not about deserves, it's not about earning it. 00:10:10.779 --> 00:10:13.980 It's not about whether we've been good little kids, good little boys. 00:10:13.980 --> 00:10:14.722 Have you done anything? 00:10:14.722 --> 00:10:14.943 You know? 00:10:14.943 --> 00:10:16.529 Blah, blah, blah and all that kind of stuff. 00:10:16.529 --> 00:10:24.658 No, jesus was good enough for us and we're blessed already. 00:10:24.658 --> 00:10:25.311 We have. 00:10:25.402 --> 00:10:28.750 But, pastor, it says, might that we might, that we might receive. 00:10:28.750 --> 00:10:30.304 You know, we might or we might not, we'll see. 00:10:30.304 --> 00:10:31.596 The might is not on God's side. 00:10:31.596 --> 00:10:34.662 It's not about the good little kids, it's not about God's side. 00:10:34.662 --> 00:10:36.268 It's already done. 00:10:36.268 --> 00:10:38.736 The might is on our side. 00:10:38.736 --> 00:10:40.725 Do we have the faith to appropriate the blessing? 00:10:40.725 --> 00:10:53.246 That's why I'm preaching this and it really ties right in with the last four messages on redemptive realities, because and I well, I could just make this redemptive reality number five if I wanted to. 00:10:53.307 --> 00:11:00.967 But I wanted to separate the, the foundation scriptures and have a different take on the same subject. 00:11:00.967 --> 00:11:02.325 Essentially, why am I doing this? 00:11:02.325 --> 00:11:10.830 Because I'm not living in this world right now where everything is coming apart and many in the church are discouraged. 00:11:10.830 --> 00:11:23.663 Many in the in the church are living far below where they could be living, because they're not fully engaged in the idea that they're blessed. 00:11:23.663 --> 00:11:31.980 And being blessed has nothing to do with the interest rate, it has nothing to do with the inflation rate, it has nothing to do with the foolishness that's going on. 00:11:31.980 --> 00:11:35.104 I'm blessed, oh my God. 00:11:35.104 --> 00:11:46.062 I want I mean I want to get you so filled with that idea that you could get beaten into a greasy spot out on the pad, out on the sidewalk and the breezy spot and say I'm blessed. 00:11:46.062 --> 00:11:53.688 So believe the blessing. 00:11:55.320 --> 00:11:56.750 You know, here we've read this in verse eight. 00:11:56.750 --> 00:12:05.158 I want to go back and look at it, because the blessing is the heart of the gospel, the gospel is the good news. 00:12:05.158 --> 00:12:09.996 Right, and look what Paul said to the Galatians, who you know. 00:12:09.996 --> 00:12:20.018 The Galatians had departed from the faith and went back to Judaism, and so he's having a kind of lay, a foundation all over again that they once had. 00:12:20.018 --> 00:12:24.104 And then somebody went in there and started preaching a bunch of junk to him. 00:12:24.104 --> 00:12:32.750 I know a pastor right now that I mean, I know him very well, I've fellowshiped with him, I know him and he's gone back to just Judaism. 00:12:32.750 --> 00:12:38.543 He's got church on Saturday and trying to keep the Jewish dietary laws. 00:12:38.543 --> 00:12:40.730 Now Just going backward out of what we have. 00:12:40.730 --> 00:12:42.115 Are you nuts? 00:12:42.115 --> 00:12:45.730 What pill did you take? 00:12:45.730 --> 00:12:49.730 What person did you hear that polluted you? 00:12:49.730 --> 00:12:51.777 It's amazing. 00:12:51.777 --> 00:12:55.730 Oh, I value what we have, what we believe around here. 00:12:55.730 --> 00:12:58.710 I value what the Word of God is to us. 00:12:59.912 --> 00:13:09.730 So it says here in verse eight and the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached the gospel unto Abraham back then, and what was that gospel? 00:13:09.730 --> 00:13:15.817 In thee shall all nations be blessed, see, blessing that's called the gospel. 00:13:15.817 --> 00:13:18.417 When did that happen? 00:13:18.417 --> 00:13:21.714 Well, you know right, let's turn, just to keep you in place in Galatians. 00:13:21.714 --> 00:13:27.061 Turn back to Genesis 12. 00:13:31.855 --> 00:13:34.710 You know, abraham was the first Hebrew. 00:13:34.710 --> 00:13:38.750 God told him to leave his father and mother and go to a country I'll show you. 00:13:38.750 --> 00:13:40.856 He didn't even and he left not knowing. 00:13:40.856 --> 00:13:50.663 He left or country he was in of the Caldeans and he didn't know where he was going. 00:13:50.663 --> 00:13:51.565 But he obeyed. 00:13:51.565 --> 00:13:54.458 But he did some partly right, partly wrong. 00:13:54.458 --> 00:13:58.499 He took his family with him, his father and lot, his nephew. 00:13:58.499 --> 00:14:06.639 That that was a snare and we're still paying the price for that disobedience. 00:14:06.639 --> 00:14:08.750 But God doesn't remember that part. 00:14:08.750 --> 00:14:12.750 God just gives him credit for, for leaving not knowing. 00:14:13.272 --> 00:14:14.576 He's the apostle of faith. 00:14:14.576 --> 00:14:19.813 Abraham is, I'll tell you, god's merciful, but anyway. 00:14:19.813 --> 00:14:41.014 So he says here, and he said verse two, or verse one the Lord said unto Abram, get thee out of thy country, from your kindred, from your father's house, unto a land I will show you and I will make of thee a great nation and I will bless thee and make thy name great and thou shalt be a blessing, wow. 00:14:41.014 --> 00:14:43.697 So there it is blessing. 00:14:43.697 --> 00:14:49.638 And the next verse I will bless them and bless thee and curse those that curse thee. 00:14:49.638 --> 00:14:54.205 And in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed how? 00:14:54.205 --> 00:14:56.397 By faith in Christ. 00:14:56.397 --> 00:14:58.677 See, I'm not Jewish. 00:14:58.677 --> 00:15:14.625 I can't lay hold on that covenant from a Jewish standpoint, but since I trusted Jesus as my Lord and my savior, I'm now the seed of Abraham, and all the, all the blessings and all the promises that God gave to Israel are mine, Plus more. 00:15:14.625 --> 00:15:17.018 Oh, come on, let's praise him. 00:15:18.193 --> 00:15:32.696 Oh, yes, you know, when I read in my Bible that that that Isaiah turned the clock back for Hezekiah to let him know that he wasn't going to die, you know how will I know? 00:15:32.696 --> 00:15:34.091 I'm not going to die, I'll turn. 00:15:34.091 --> 00:15:36.717 I'll turn the clock back an hour. 00:15:36.717 --> 00:15:43.730 I mean, can you imagine the power available in that? 00:15:43.730 --> 00:15:49.690 I mean just just to decree that the sundial, it just stopped going and went back An hour. 00:15:49.690 --> 00:15:53.537 The sun moved Backward. 00:15:53.537 --> 00:15:56.730 I wonder what that did to the tides. 00:15:56.730 --> 00:16:02.073 I wonder what the animals thought Huh, what's going on? 00:16:02.073 --> 00:16:07.750 And how about Joshua? 00:16:07.750 --> 00:16:17.591 I mean, joshua got, he ran out of daylight, killing the enemies, and said you know, moon, stand still, sun, stop, stop. 00:16:17.591 --> 00:16:22.620 He stopped time for a day, stop time. 00:16:22.620 --> 00:16:27.620 Oh, I tell you the power that they had in their covenant. 00:16:28.750 --> 00:16:31.869 We have plus, when are we gonna act like it? 00:16:31.869 --> 00:16:33.049 When are we gonna believe it? 00:16:33.049 --> 00:16:34.610 See, believing is an action verb. 00:16:34.610 --> 00:16:37.850 It's not just mentally saying, oh, that's pretty good. 00:16:37.850 --> 00:16:42.796 I kinda like no, we gotta act like it, we gotta appropriate it, amen. 00:16:44.951 --> 00:16:49.903 So let's look at Luke 24. 00:16:49.903 --> 00:16:51.475 I wanna show you this one. 00:16:51.475 --> 00:16:57.481 This is cool, talking about the blessing and how it's meant to be transferred. 00:16:57.481 --> 00:16:59.697 I mean, we ought to be blessing people. 00:16:59.697 --> 00:17:06.458 We can bless them with the gospel, we can bless them with healing, we can bless them with information that they don't have. 00:17:06.458 --> 00:17:12.038 Luke 24, this is talking about Jesus. 00:17:12.038 --> 00:17:16.957 He's just about ready to be lifted off the planet, going back to heaven after the resurrection. 00:17:17.950 --> 00:17:24.978 He's spending time with his disciples and verse 50, he led them out as far as to Bethany and he lifted up his hands and blessed them. 00:17:24.978 --> 00:17:26.113 Just get a picture of this. 00:17:26.113 --> 00:17:28.019 Now, here they are. 00:17:28.019 --> 00:17:31.636 He lifted up his hands and he blessed them. 00:17:31.636 --> 00:17:33.473 And then what happened? 00:17:33.473 --> 00:17:36.313 And it came to pass. 00:17:36.313 --> 00:17:45.739 While he blessed them I mean he's still blessed them he was parted from them and carried up into heaven. 00:17:45.739 --> 00:17:46.520 Can you imagine? 00:17:46.520 --> 00:17:47.742 I mean, here he is. 00:17:47.742 --> 00:17:49.194 He said I bless you. 00:17:49.194 --> 00:17:49.938 And he just whoo. 00:17:51.876 --> 00:17:55.502 And they're standing there and they start grieving. 00:17:55.502 --> 00:17:56.230 They lay on the ground. 00:17:56.230 --> 00:17:58.740 They just have a pity party. 00:17:58.740 --> 00:18:03.076 Is that what the scripture says? 00:18:03.076 --> 00:18:12.705 No, now before, they were kind of upset John, chapter 14, he had to comfort them. 00:18:12.705 --> 00:18:14.829 Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. 00:18:14.829 --> 00:18:16.568 You believe in God, believe also in me. 00:18:16.568 --> 00:18:17.763 I'm going to prepare a place for you. 00:18:17.763 --> 00:18:20.348 Where I am, you can be also. 00:18:20.348 --> 00:18:23.430 So they were real bummed out about Jesus leaving them. 00:18:23.430 --> 00:18:24.863 But here they're. 00:18:24.863 --> 00:18:25.609 What does it say? 00:18:25.609 --> 00:18:34.349 And they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy and were continually in the temple praising and blessing God. 00:18:34.349 --> 00:18:39.085 They didn't have any separation anxiety, they didn't have any pity party. 00:18:39.085 --> 00:18:43.150 They were so impressed to be blessed. 00:18:43.150 --> 00:18:44.950 Are you blessed or not? 00:18:44.950 --> 00:18:47.410 See, we ought to be rejoicing. 00:18:47.410 --> 00:18:48.855 We'll be rejoicing all the time. 00:18:48.855 --> 00:18:53.395 We ought to have the biggest smiles on our face instead of just the big old frown. 00:18:53.395 --> 00:18:59.962 I mean, it's hard, it's easy to frown because there's a lot to frown at, but we can be blessed. 00:18:59.962 --> 00:19:07.801 If you think about the blessing, then you're smiling, then you're rejoicing, all right. 00:19:07.801 --> 00:19:12.640 So he left and they rejoiced, all right. 00:19:12.640 --> 00:19:13.662 So blessing defined. 00:19:13.990 --> 00:19:17.272 I looked it up in the Webster's 1828 dictionary Hard cover man. 00:19:17.272 --> 00:19:18.517 It's a big, old, huge book. 00:19:18.517 --> 00:19:19.559 I don't have a lot of those. 00:19:19.559 --> 00:19:21.050 You just run out of place Space. 00:19:21.050 --> 00:19:24.916 Back in the old days used to have libraries and houses. 00:19:24.916 --> 00:19:26.589 There were big old shelves and everything. 00:19:26.589 --> 00:19:27.955 I've just got a little bit of space. 00:19:27.955 --> 00:19:33.036 So a big old book like that, I can't have a whole bunch of those but I do invest that one. 00:19:33.036 --> 00:19:34.094 That's a good one to have. 00:19:35.750 --> 00:19:44.474 And the modern dictionaries have a whole lot of words in there that are just redefined and I don't believe in that. 00:19:44.474 --> 00:19:47.338 I don't believe God ever lost the idea of language. 00:19:47.338 --> 00:19:49.256 I think the language doesn't change. 00:19:49.256 --> 00:19:51.999 People change, ideas change. 00:19:51.999 --> 00:19:53.836 The spirit of this age changes. 00:19:55.210 --> 00:20:00.619 But anyway it says in there blessing means to consecrate by the sprinkling of blood. 00:20:00.619 --> 00:20:07.458 It comes from a German word, blostjah, that means blood sprinkled. 00:20:07.458 --> 00:20:09.113 So now we know why. 00:20:09.113 --> 00:20:41.917 When Aaron or the priests were consecrated to be high priest we talked about this a few weeks ago that they'd shed the blood of the ram and they'd take that ram's blood and they'd anoint the head and they'd anoint the right thumb and the right great toe and then they would put the anointing oil on there and then they would sprinkle them with the blood and sprinkle them with the oil. 00:20:41.917 --> 00:20:43.501 And I said what was that the blessing? 00:20:43.501 --> 00:20:46.876 See, they were blessed to be a blessing. 00:20:46.876 --> 00:20:49.133 Are you with me now? 00:20:50.529 --> 00:20:53.018 It also means set apart for holy purposes. 00:20:53.018 --> 00:21:05.316 It means to pronounce holy, happy, successful, prosperous, to pronounce divine favor, advantage and promotion. 00:21:05.316 --> 00:21:08.275 I can kind of relate to that. 00:21:08.275 --> 00:21:11.297 Does it have anything to do with the economy? 00:21:11.297 --> 00:21:14.423 Does it have anything to do with the inflation rate? 00:21:14.423 --> 00:21:20.717 See, I mean, you know, we can talk ourselves right out of the blessing by complaining about everything. 00:21:20.717 --> 00:21:26.419 We go to the store oh, this used to be $75 and now it's 150. 00:21:26.419 --> 00:21:28.683 You know what I say? 00:21:28.683 --> 00:21:30.054 I say well, I got plenty of money. 00:21:30.054 --> 00:21:31.558 I'm so blessed. 00:21:31.558 --> 00:21:34.057 My blessing exceeds the rate of inflation. 00:21:34.057 --> 00:21:36.978 I've got more left over now than I did before. 00:21:36.978 --> 00:21:39.817 Why don't you just start saying that? 00:21:39.817 --> 00:21:42.097 Why, because you've got a revelation of the blessing. 00:21:42.097 --> 00:21:48.256 Yes, god's not hindered by this economy, he still owns all of it anyway. 00:21:48.256 --> 00:21:51.517 Some of these people are gonna find that out. 00:21:51.517 --> 00:21:53.758 Maybe some of them will find it out too late. 00:21:55.329 --> 00:22:01.634 So in the Amplified it says highly favored to be envied. 00:22:01.634 --> 00:22:04.974 Yeah, to be envied. 00:22:04.974 --> 00:22:08.118 Yes, fortunate, happy. 00:22:08.118 --> 00:22:10.251 Listen to this one. 00:22:10.251 --> 00:22:14.760 Spiritually and materially prosperous, yes, amen. 00:22:14.760 --> 00:22:18.397 You can't separate money from the blessing. 00:22:18.397 --> 00:22:21.016 The blessing means more money. 00:22:21.016 --> 00:22:23.497 Get it into your thick skull. 00:22:23.497 --> 00:22:24.114 Listen. 00:22:24.114 --> 00:22:28.430 Quit listening to these people that come against the prosperity message. 00:22:28.430 --> 00:22:29.895 There's no prosperity message. 00:22:29.895 --> 00:22:32.913 It's the gospel, doofus, can you read? 00:22:32.913 --> 00:22:34.858 They can't read. 00:22:36.029 --> 00:22:38.699 I had a guy confront me there a few months ago. 00:22:38.699 --> 00:22:41.009 Are you one of those prosperity preachers? 00:22:41.009 --> 00:22:44.336 I said, well, I preach the gospel, the same gospel that Jesus preached. 00:22:44.336 --> 00:22:46.529 He preached the gospel to the poor. 00:22:46.529 --> 00:22:47.994 What's the good news, fella? 00:22:47.994 --> 00:22:50.336 Good news you're poor. 00:22:50.336 --> 00:22:51.073 Keep at it. 00:22:51.073 --> 00:22:52.557 You're doing a great job. 00:22:52.557 --> 00:22:57.977 Keep eating mud bricks. 00:22:59.900 --> 00:23:13.824 Yeah, we had children in Haiti after Ike went through there and destroyed their little town and all they had to eat was mud that they put a little salt in and baked it in the sun and they were so hungry. 00:23:13.824 --> 00:23:14.950 They eat mud bricks. 00:23:14.950 --> 00:23:17.549 Yeah, that's supposed to glorify God. 00:23:17.549 --> 00:23:19.449 No, a thousand times. 00:23:19.449 --> 00:23:23.361 No, I'm gonna do everything I can to stop that. 00:23:23.361 --> 00:23:27.650 And we have Got electricity there, got a school there. 00:23:27.650 --> 00:23:29.989 They've since shut it down because of all the roving gangs. 00:23:29.989 --> 00:23:32.820 Well, you know, you do what you can. 00:23:32.820 --> 00:23:35.269 There's still thousands of churches there. 00:23:35.269 --> 00:23:37.681 I know they're making a difference. 00:23:37.681 --> 00:23:39.450 Brother Max is there. 00:23:39.450 --> 00:23:40.582 I think still might be there now. 00:23:40.582 --> 00:23:42.309 He was going recently. 00:23:42.309 --> 00:23:45.105 I don't know if he's come back already or not. 00:23:45.186 --> 00:23:47.950 But Glory to God, I'll tell you, the gospel is the remedy of it. 00:23:47.950 --> 00:23:53.493 So Proverbs 10, 22,. 00:23:53.493 --> 00:23:57.030 The blessing of the Lord, it make us rich, and he added no sorrow with it. 00:23:57.030 --> 00:24:05.839 So let's not, let's get rid of this religious idea that somehow, some way, we have to feel guilty about being rich. 00:24:05.839 --> 00:24:06.384 What is rich? 00:24:06.384 --> 00:24:10.234 Just having an abundant supply, having more than enough. 00:24:11.308 --> 00:24:12.785 I'm not saying that to condemn anybody. 00:24:12.785 --> 00:24:16.845 If you're right now living paycheck to paycheck, doing the best you can, I've been there. 00:24:16.845 --> 00:24:22.854 In fact, I didn't have a paycheck for a long time, so I know what it's like to live with no paycheck. 00:24:22.854 --> 00:24:26.540 So I'm not I'm not saying or preaching anything. 00:24:26.540 --> 00:24:27.184 I haven't lived through. 00:24:27.184 --> 00:24:28.188 I've lived through it. 00:24:28.188 --> 00:24:30.273 But the point is I lived through it. 00:24:30.273 --> 00:24:36.153 I got on the other side of it, and this word is what got me on the other side of it. 00:24:36.153 --> 00:24:40.509 Amen, glory to God. 00:24:41.527 --> 00:24:42.672 So we're blood blessed. 00:24:42.672 --> 00:24:46.799 See, the blessing is tied to the blood. 00:24:46.799 --> 00:24:47.964 The blood of what? 00:24:47.964 --> 00:24:49.353 The blood of Jesus. 00:24:49.353 --> 00:24:53.976 The blood of Jesus speaks better things than that of April. 00:24:55.567 --> 00:24:59.865 So there's a Greek scholar by the name of FF Bosworth. 00:24:59.865 --> 00:25:09.505 I read his book when I first got saved, just a few months old, and the Lord heard about FF Bosworth and it was kind of quite a challenge to read that book. 00:25:09.505 --> 00:25:13.696 It's about that thick and Christ the healer. 00:25:13.696 --> 00:25:18.224 I highly recommend you read it, cause there's a whole lot of books out today. 00:25:18.224 --> 00:25:22.794 I mean some of them are good and some of them are not so good, really not worth the read. 00:25:22.794 --> 00:25:24.805 But that book is worth the read. 00:25:24.805 --> 00:25:28.736 I mean it builds a scriptural foundation for healing. 00:25:28.736 --> 00:25:33.491 Christ the healer goes back into the Greek language, the Hebrew language. 00:25:33.491 --> 00:25:47.711 It's powerful and he once said, ff Bosworth, leader of the Pentecostal, simply as of God, it's impossible to claim by faith a blessing You're not sure God is offering. 00:25:49.964 --> 00:25:56.086 It's impossible to claim by faith a blessing that you're not sure that God is offering, see. 00:25:56.086 --> 00:25:58.334 So how do you know that God is offering? 00:25:58.334 --> 00:26:01.354 Well, you know, it's obvious, healing is already done. 00:26:01.354 --> 00:26:05.290 So you can always claim your healing, always. 00:26:05.290 --> 00:26:06.715 You don't have to wait. 00:26:06.715 --> 00:26:10.390 You don't have to wait for prayer, you don't have to wait for me, you don't have to wait for anybody. 00:26:10.390 --> 00:26:12.028 You can claim your healing. 00:26:13.105 --> 00:26:15.373 If you've got a financial need, you don't have to wait. 00:26:15.373 --> 00:26:17.152 You can claim that need. 00:26:17.152 --> 00:26:26.835 You can speak that need out and say I believe I've received that by such and such date, because my God knows how to take care of me in grand style. 00:26:26.835 --> 00:26:28.250 Where is that in the Bible? 00:26:28.250 --> 00:26:35.170 Well, it's just another version of my God supplies all my needs, according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus. 00:26:35.170 --> 00:26:38.349 Well, it's just the needs. 00:26:38.349 --> 00:26:39.127 Well, you know what? 00:26:39.127 --> 00:26:42.993 According to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus. 00:26:42.993 --> 00:26:45.069 I want you to read that part of the verse. 00:26:45.069 --> 00:26:48.277 Amen. 00:26:48.277 --> 00:26:51.406 So once you. 00:26:51.406 --> 00:27:03.413 But there are times when you just need to spend some time in prayer to reinforce about things that are not written in the Bible, something maybe you desire but you're not sure. 00:27:03.413 --> 00:27:09.244 So you can get sure by just walking according to the witness of the Holy Spirit. 00:27:09.244 --> 00:27:12.958 He's on an inside of you, amen. 00:27:13.005 --> 00:27:20.115 Years ago I was in a rent house for eight years, building houses and a high rent West University place. 00:27:20.115 --> 00:27:26.016 I had a 670,000 at the time. 00:27:26.016 --> 00:27:37.273 It's probably about 3 million now, but at the time $670,000 house under construction and I'm living in a rent house and I was perfectly satisfied for eight years. 00:27:37.273 --> 00:27:44.906 But there came a day when my landlord didn't pay the maintenance fee and so it was going to get foreclosed on and I had to. 00:27:44.906 --> 00:27:49.813 I was faced with having to move and by that time we had started the church. 00:27:49.813 --> 00:28:00.326 The church was a year and a half old and I'm going to have to go buy a house, and so we I won't go through the whole thing, but I mean I just went out looking, looking, looking, looking. 00:28:00.365 --> 00:28:03.634 I was looking at used houses. 00:28:03.634 --> 00:28:05.428 You know, lived in houses. 00:28:05.428 --> 00:28:07.555 Every one of them stunk. 00:28:07.555 --> 00:28:11.807 You know, if you're going to put your house on the market, make sure it doesn't stink. 00:28:11.807 --> 00:28:15.510 You know, have it fumigated or whatever. 00:28:15.510 --> 00:28:16.931 I mean I couldn't believe it. 00:28:16.931 --> 00:28:18.951 These are nice houses and they stunk. 00:28:18.951 --> 00:28:27.126 You walk in there and say I ain't living here, not buying this One house. 00:28:27.126 --> 00:28:30.330 I won't say where it's right here in the neighborhood, close by. 00:28:30.330 --> 00:28:34.770 And cause we wanted something close by, we didn't want to drive across town. 00:28:34.770 --> 00:28:37.691 We're pastoring the church, we didn't want to waste time in traffic. 00:28:37.691 --> 00:28:39.951 We had a chance to just live right out here. 00:28:40.065 --> 00:28:53.517 So we looked at a house and says well, I don't know if you're going to like this, it's decorated kind of weird and walked in it's that pink carpet, what they call dusty rose carpet, all over this house. 00:28:53.517 --> 00:28:56.652 And it was already above our budget. 00:28:56.652 --> 00:29:00.576 We had a budget, you know, and it was above our budget. 00:29:00.576 --> 00:29:04.455 I said this place and it stunk to high heavens. 00:29:04.455 --> 00:29:14.154 I mean, it was empty, people had moved out of it, dirty, stinking pink carpet, and Tyle even had a pink tinge to it in the entry hall. 00:29:14.154 --> 00:29:15.470 I mean, what do you do with it? 00:29:15.470 --> 00:29:16.710 You have to remodel the whole way. 00:29:16.710 --> 00:29:18.872 You have to tear everything out and start over. 00:29:21.525 --> 00:29:29.993 Anyway, one day I walked through a house that was just being framed up in an area that I didn't know was even existed. 00:29:29.993 --> 00:29:31.371 I didn't even know there was a subdivision. 00:29:31.371 --> 00:29:40.491 I thought it was a finished subdivision, but I kept driving past it, driving past it, and one day the Holy Ghost just prompted me to go in and I started driving through the streets. 00:29:40.491 --> 00:29:43.048 I said, well, this is an interesting place, look at this place. 00:29:43.048 --> 00:29:49.391 And I came upon this house that was being framed up and I needed to buy a house. 00:29:49.391 --> 00:29:52.334 But I wasn't dreaming about buying a brand new house. 00:29:52.334 --> 00:29:54.933 I was trying to find something finished we could move into. 00:29:54.933 --> 00:30:02.934 And I got out of the car and I walked up and the slab was about this high on the right-hand corner. 00:30:02.934 --> 00:30:11.152 So I had to kind of grab the studs and step up into what was the master, one of the two master closets. 00:30:11.152 --> 00:30:14.153 And the minute my foot sat on the slab. 00:30:14.153 --> 00:30:17.433 Inside that master closet, the Holy Ghost hit me. 00:30:17.433 --> 00:30:20.152 I almost fell down right there. 00:30:20.152 --> 00:30:23.852