WEBVTT 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:03.665 Let's lift our bibles up, wave them around, make Jesus glad, the devil mad. 00:00:03.665 --> 00:00:07.889 Let's say this together Say heavenly Father, I'm so glad to be here today. 00:00:07.889 --> 00:00:11.025 I will be glad in you. 00:00:11.025 --> 00:00:15.509 I am glad because of redemptive truth. 00:00:15.509 --> 00:00:31.515 My life is built not on the world's philosophies, not on the spirit of this age, but it's built on the reality of your blood and of your Word. 00:00:31.515 --> 00:00:36.470 We thank you for revelation today of our bloodline. 00:00:36.470 --> 00:00:47.746 Where the blood is applied, the power is able to flow, and your power is flowing through my life to change those things that need to change. 00:00:47.746 --> 00:00:50.902 In Jesus' name, amen. 00:00:50.902 --> 00:00:52.027 I already preached my message. 00:00:52.027 --> 00:00:52.942 We can go home now. 00:00:52.942 --> 00:01:00.926 Great God, Turning your bibles, please, to 1 Peter, chapter one, and Romans, chapter eight. 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:15.343 We're going to read our foundation scriptures on the series of messages that I've been bringing that, if you'll get it in your heart, it'll change your life, it'll change results. 00:01:15.343 --> 00:01:17.784 You don't like your results. 00:01:17.784 --> 00:01:22.888 Start thinking about what I'm talking about, because it's God's Word. 00:01:22.888 --> 00:01:26.087 Verse Peter one, verse 18,. 00:01:26.087 --> 00:01:35.367 For as much as you know, see, there's some things we have to know, and when I mean know, I don't mean knowing or brain tissue. 00:01:35.367 --> 00:01:38.108 I'm talking about knowing in our heart and our spirit. 00:01:38.108 --> 00:01:44.489 It takes a while to get things of the spirit into your heart or into your spirit. 00:01:44.489 --> 00:01:56.787 It's easy just to gain casual knowledge of things here at a time or two, and yeah, I agree with that, yeah, yeah, but it's got to get down in there. 00:01:57.781 --> 00:01:59.579 Jesus said the words that I speak to you. 00:01:59.579 --> 00:02:02.790 They are spirit and they are life. 00:02:02.790 --> 00:02:04.465 You can't learn them in Bible school. 00:02:04.465 --> 00:02:09.109 You can learn about them, but Bible school can't give you a revelation. 00:02:09.109 --> 00:02:12.679 You're in charge of that. 00:02:12.679 --> 00:02:14.707 You have to meditate on the Word. 00:02:14.707 --> 00:02:40.790 For as much as we know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation, received by tradition, from your fathers, but understood, you were redeemed past tense, with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. 00:02:40.790 --> 00:02:54.870 And then in Romans eight, one of my favorite scriptures in the whole Bible Romans, chapter eight, verse 32. 00:02:54.870 --> 00:03:08.659 He that spared not his own son but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also, with him, freely give us all things? 00:03:08.659 --> 00:03:11.875 And the new English Bible says it this way. 00:03:11.875 --> 00:03:19.149 And with this gift, how can he fail to lavish upon us all he has to give? 00:03:19.149 --> 00:03:22.497 So these messages are. 00:03:23.843 --> 00:03:26.252 We're talking about redemptive realities. 00:03:26.252 --> 00:03:28.500 Redemptive realities. 00:03:28.500 --> 00:03:30.340 This is the third in the series. 00:03:30.340 --> 00:03:32.508 We have one more next week. 00:03:32.508 --> 00:03:34.610 And why realities? 00:03:34.610 --> 00:03:37.123 Why realities? 00:03:37.123 --> 00:03:40.426 Well, because you know, jesus said I'm the way, the truth and the life. 00:03:40.426 --> 00:03:42.568 No man coming to the Father but by me. 00:03:42.568 --> 00:03:44.788 The word truth there really means reality. 00:03:44.788 --> 00:03:48.949 He is reality, his word is reality. 00:03:48.949 --> 00:03:52.527 Notice, when we sang this morning, we sang about redemptive truth. 00:03:52.527 --> 00:03:59.504 Every song had to do with foundation Cornerstone. 00:03:59.504 --> 00:04:02.004 God can't fail. 00:04:02.004 --> 00:04:04.058 Why do we think that he can't fail? 00:04:04.058 --> 00:04:08.884 Because we have a covenant that's based on the blood of Jesus. 00:04:08.884 --> 00:04:12.002 See, without revelation of the blood of Jesus, you just you have. 00:04:12.002 --> 00:04:13.808 You have shifting sand. 00:04:13.808 --> 00:04:26.846 You can know the Bible in your brain, but until you get a revelation of what the blood has done, is doing and will do, then your foundation is gonna be mushy. 00:04:27.920 --> 00:04:29.827 Homebuilder I was a homebuilder for 25 years. 00:04:29.827 --> 00:04:45.247 I know, I know what happens when a foundation is not properly placed, because everything that's built on it after that is no good If it's not prepared properly, if the ground under it's not prepared properly. 00:04:45.247 --> 00:04:52.406 I remember over in Teranova some of you live in Teranova I used to build houses in Teranova. 00:04:52.406 --> 00:05:04.235 I remember one time I had a house I won't tell you what street it's on, but I started, you know, I was ready to pour the slab. 00:05:04.235 --> 00:05:10.266 I cleared the lot and you know, when you clear a lot you've got all those root balls. 00:05:10.266 --> 00:05:10.961 They go. 00:05:10.961 --> 00:05:12.206 Oak trees and everything. 00:05:12.206 --> 00:05:19.161 Pine tree has a taproot, oak trees got a big, you know, phyllo roots, and anyway, either one and we'll leave a big vacant, big void. 00:05:19.161 --> 00:05:21.964 And so you've got to get dozer work in there and haul some dirt in there. 00:05:21.964 --> 00:05:31.083 You've got to compact it and get it prepared properly Before you ever start building the foundation, the ground underneath. 00:05:31.083 --> 00:05:34.124 That has got to be good, I mean, it's got to work. 00:05:35.920 --> 00:05:39.064 So this is about, you know, like about October, which is a little bit. 00:05:39.064 --> 00:05:41.365 You know, you're getting into the rainy season. 00:05:41.365 --> 00:05:44.447 November, december, january, february gets cold and rainy. 00:05:44.447 --> 00:05:47.327 The ground just never really dries out much. 00:05:47.327 --> 00:05:52.930 A lot of people don't realize, but we get 50-some odd inches of rain a year in Houston. 00:05:52.930 --> 00:06:08.004 And so anyway, here I was and I had the ground opened up, you know, and the dozer guys were there and it rained and I hauled some more dirt in there and I covered it over. 00:06:08.004 --> 00:06:14.264 Finally I got the slab, the form set, and they were out there digging the beams and it rained again. 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:19.702 And now the beams where you know it's gonna be poured. 00:06:19.702 --> 00:06:27.305 The concrete's gonna go down in those beams, and you put steel in those beams and that's the outside of the slab, and then it's got interior ones too. 00:06:27.305 --> 00:06:32.127 Well, they're all full of water and I don't even have plastic on it yet. 00:06:32.127 --> 00:06:33.404 I haven't gotten that far along. 00:06:33.404 --> 00:06:37.745 So I had to wait, let it dry, let it dry, let it dry, and it just never would dry out. 00:06:39.639 --> 00:06:43.067 And I went over there one day, and I was, and it finally got dry enough. 00:06:43.067 --> 00:06:45.908 I thought, well, is it dry enough to kind of get started? 00:06:45.908 --> 00:06:47.524 Can I get started, I mean? 00:06:47.524 --> 00:07:02.367 And so I got in the bottom of one of the and again, I hadn't covered it up with plastic yet and I got over here in the outside beam and I jumped like this and it went whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, like Jello. 00:07:02.367 --> 00:07:22.970 I won't tell you what the address is, but no, I mean, I don't know how many thousands of dollars I spent taking all that out and digging it all again, and of course it took a lot more concrete by the time I finally I didn't pour the slab till like March. 00:07:24.839 --> 00:07:32.646 And it's sitting there, sitting there, sitting there eating my lunch, paying interest on money that I can't even get the house built. 00:07:32.646 --> 00:07:33.983 Are you with me now? 00:07:33.983 --> 00:07:34.980 Why did I do it? 00:07:34.980 --> 00:07:36.887 Because I cared about the foundation. 00:07:36.887 --> 00:07:38.074 I didn't want to pour that. 00:07:38.074 --> 00:07:41.028 I didn't want to pour that concrete over Jello. 00:07:41.028 --> 00:07:47.985 And of course that house, it's still standing, there's no brick cracks and it's built right. 00:07:49.841 --> 00:07:53.788 It takes effort to build a foundation long story for a part. 00:07:53.788 --> 00:08:01.569 But you're gonna have to take some time to dig deep and find out what your covenant has to say. 00:08:01.569 --> 00:08:05.889 So your faith is built on understanding of the word. 00:08:05.889 --> 00:08:10.408 So you've gotta have thorough understanding of what the blood has done, what it's doing now. 00:08:10.408 --> 00:08:13.807 It's doing something now cause it's up in heaven in the mercy seat. 00:08:13.807 --> 00:08:15.245 He's our propitiation. 00:08:15.245 --> 00:08:26.091 And then, of course, what it's gonna continue to do for all eternity the blood, everybody say the blood. 00:08:27.519 --> 00:08:40.409 So we talked about the prodigal son and the story of the prodigal son, and we named the two boys, bubba and Junior, and we found out Bubba knew something about his inheritance. 00:08:40.409 --> 00:08:47.750 He claimed it, he made a demand and, daddy, he didn't beg daddy, he didn't petition down, I mean, he didn't sue daddy. 00:08:47.750 --> 00:08:51.462 He just said give me the portion of goods that falls under me. 00:08:51.462 --> 00:08:52.884 And daddy went ahead and wrote him a check. 00:08:52.884 --> 00:08:58.325 And while he's writing him a check, he wrote Junior a check for twice as much, cause he gets a double portion. 00:08:58.639 --> 00:09:09.123 We went all through that and he goes off and he wastes his inheritance on righteous living and he just feels so bad, he feels so condemned. 00:09:09.123 --> 00:09:15.527 He's eating with the hawks and when he came to himself, man, I wish I was back home. 00:09:15.527 --> 00:09:18.424 I could at least eat three squares and have a place to sleep. 00:09:18.424 --> 00:09:20.461 I know what. 00:09:20.461 --> 00:09:27.288 I'll go back to my father and I'll say you know, father, I'm no longer worried because your son, just give me three squares and some room and board. 00:09:27.288 --> 00:09:28.826 I'll work for you the rest of my life. 00:09:28.826 --> 00:09:32.029 You don't, you know, you don't even have to call me son. 00:09:32.029 --> 00:09:37.427 He had it all figured out, father, I've sinned before heaven and before you. 00:09:37.427 --> 00:09:59.029 Before he could get it out, his father saw him coming a long way off, came and embraced him, left him, kissed him and said and in the middle of his long speech he said bring the best robe, bring the best robe, get some shoes for this boy's feet and get the signet ring and put it on his hand and kill the fatted calf. 00:09:59.029 --> 00:10:03.096 Because this, my son, was lost and now is found this. 00:10:03.096 --> 00:10:09.357 My son was dead and is alive, hallelujah, and let's have a party. 00:10:10.995 --> 00:10:19.976 Now we've discovered, you know, in week one, where the fact is is that the power is activated, is activated where the blood is applied. 00:10:19.976 --> 00:10:26.788 They go together the blood and the glory, or the blood and the Holy Ghost, or the blood and the spirit, or the blood and the power. 00:10:26.788 --> 00:10:28.697 You know they're all interchangeable terms. 00:10:28.697 --> 00:10:31.623 It all depends on whether we've applied the blood. 00:10:31.623 --> 00:10:33.029 What is the blood? 00:10:33.029 --> 00:10:39.360 It's the terms of our covenant, is the currency that was paid for us to be free. 00:10:41.190 --> 00:10:48.477 Hebrews 912 says you know, not by the blood of bulls and calves, but by his own blood. 00:10:48.477 --> 00:10:55.719 Jesus entered in one time to the Holy place, having obtained eternal redemption. 00:10:55.719 --> 00:11:07.264 For us, amplified says permanent deliverance, complete redemption, everlasting release. 00:11:07.264 --> 00:11:13.029 I mean, it's not just a partial, it's not just kind of, you know, through a little something at it. 00:11:13.029 --> 00:11:26.332 No, he's got something on which we can have a basis to believe for God, to what lavish upon us all he has to give Junior. 00:11:26.332 --> 00:11:28.678 A lot of Christians are like junior. 00:11:28.678 --> 00:11:39.096 Junior had the double portion and yet he's mad about Bubba coming home after blowing he, he, he. 00:11:39.438 --> 00:11:41.029 Your son is home and he blew your living. 00:11:41.029 --> 00:11:44.009 Well, it wasn't his living, his living, not my living. 00:11:44.009 --> 00:11:44.873 I gave it to him. 00:11:44.873 --> 00:11:47.460 He got all tangled up. 00:11:47.460 --> 00:11:50.918 You never kill for me, you much as a skinny goat. 00:11:50.918 --> 00:11:51.780 What are you talking about? 00:11:51.780 --> 00:11:52.804 All I have is yours. 00:11:52.804 --> 00:11:54.009 All I have is yours. 00:11:54.009 --> 00:11:58.009 Jesus said that All I have is yours. 00:11:58.009 --> 00:12:04.438 If God has it, it belongs to you and I, and he wants to lavish that upon us. 00:12:04.438 --> 00:12:09.539 He's not interested in you being sick half the time. 00:12:09.539 --> 00:12:15.440 We talked about himself, took our infirmities and carried our sicknesses last week. 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:18.331 He's not. 00:12:18.331 --> 00:12:29.823 He's not satisfied with you being sick for a while, then getting your healing, and then have it come back on you next six months after that and just cycles and cycles over and over. 00:12:29.823 --> 00:12:35.998 He wants to lavish upon you everything he has to give, and he gave everything. 00:12:35.998 --> 00:12:36.575 He's already. 00:12:36.575 --> 00:12:39.957 At fact, he's already lavish, it's already poured out. 00:12:39.957 --> 00:12:43.029 It's waiting for us to do what to receive it. 00:12:43.029 --> 00:12:45.018 That's what we're working on. 00:12:45.018 --> 00:12:46.436 We're working on our receivers. 00:12:46.436 --> 00:12:50.798 The church has not received everything it's got coming. 00:12:50.798 --> 00:12:56.990 I said the church has not received everything that it has coming. 00:12:56.990 --> 00:13:10.009 My job is to make sure you receive it and give you the information that you need and the revelation that you need to lay hold and lay claim to what's yours, amen. 00:13:11.293 --> 00:13:21.802 So you know, junior, when they got a hold of the bloodline, the revelation of their bloodline, I mean, you know Bubba just entered right back into the family business. 00:13:21.802 --> 00:13:34.001 He didn't waste any time out there working with the hired help branding the cows eating at the chuck wagon, waiting for his paycheck on Friday. 00:13:34.001 --> 00:13:36.577 Now he's writing the paycheck. 00:13:36.577 --> 00:13:38.836 He's the pay master. 00:13:38.836 --> 00:13:41.677 He's the guy sitting at the desk going. 00:13:41.677 --> 00:13:43.600 I've approved that bill. 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:46.437 Send it on out to the vendor. 00:13:46.437 --> 00:13:49.018 More cattle feed. 00:13:49.018 --> 00:13:51.029 Can you imagine how much cattle feed they have to supplement? 00:13:51.029 --> 00:13:58.921 You know this West Texas is kind of dry and dusty out there, not enough grass for the cows to eat, so you got to supplement them. 00:13:58.921 --> 00:14:00.505 Call some money. 00:14:00.505 --> 00:14:01.769 What's he going to do? 00:14:01.769 --> 00:14:03.495 Ask daddy, no, he's going to just go. 00:14:03.495 --> 00:14:07.359 No, I'm going to sign the check with my signet ring. 00:14:07.359 --> 00:14:12.029 It's time for us to sign some checks, amen. 00:14:12.029 --> 00:14:20.029 So when a revelation of the bloodline showed up, that's when you had music and dancing. 00:14:20.029 --> 00:14:21.436 The glory fell. 00:14:22.452 --> 00:14:25.009 Last week we talked a lot about substitution identification. 00:14:25.009 --> 00:14:32.542 Everybody say substitution Identification On those two hinges. 00:14:32.542 --> 00:14:45.582 The door of redemption swings on those two hinges If you don't have any revelation of Jesus as your substitute, if you don't identify with him and he identifies with you, and you know all about that. 00:14:45.582 --> 00:14:48.025 You're not going to have but partial results of any. 00:14:48.025 --> 00:14:54.844 So we've got to understand that we're in Christ because he's in us. 00:14:54.844 --> 00:14:57.980 He was in us when we were yet sinners. 00:14:57.980 --> 00:15:05.029 Christ died in our place, and we found out last week, the same sacrifice that took care of our sin, took care of our sicknesses. 00:15:05.029 --> 00:15:07.970 We established that out of the Word of God. 00:15:07.970 --> 00:15:12.905 We ought to be just as easy to receive your healing as it is to receive your forgiveness. 00:15:12.905 --> 00:15:16.029 Amen, it shouldn't be a big deal. 00:15:16.029 --> 00:15:17.476 It shouldn't be a big. 00:15:17.879 --> 00:15:20.029 Oh, you don't know what the doctor, I don't care what the doctor said. 00:15:20.029 --> 00:15:22.009 I know what Dr Jesus said. 00:15:22.009 --> 00:15:23.962 I know what the reality. 00:15:23.962 --> 00:15:25.029 This is the reality. 00:15:25.029 --> 00:15:29.485 Doctors deal in the natural, but we have reality here. 00:15:29.485 --> 00:15:31.009 And what are they? 00:15:31.009 --> 00:15:32.375 They're spirit. 00:15:32.375 --> 00:15:35.678 Every healing has got to begin in your spirit. 00:15:35.678 --> 00:15:41.645 It's got to begin with your knowledge of what your covenant has said about it. 00:15:41.645 --> 00:15:43.029 Okay, all right. 00:15:43.552 --> 00:15:46.029 So, and we talked about some common theories. 00:15:46.029 --> 00:16:06.926 See, your faith has got to be built on something besides theory, and so I shared with you three common theories that I've run across in 35 years of ministry, talking to people about things and especially about healing Excuses, really for people that people use not to receive what they. 00:16:06.926 --> 00:16:09.157 You know they mean, well, they've been. 00:16:09.157 --> 00:16:11.029 You know they were taught theories instead of the Word. 00:16:11.029 --> 00:16:15.020 I'm going to teach you what the Word says, because what the Word's reality? 00:16:15.020 --> 00:16:18.029 The Word is reality, Amen. 00:16:19.014 --> 00:16:21.306 So today I'm going to get into this subject. 00:16:21.306 --> 00:16:22.029 2 Corinthians, chapter 8. 00:16:22.029 --> 00:16:27.029 Some of you know where I'm headed already, but we need to hear it. 00:16:27.029 --> 00:16:30.736 2 Corinthians, chapter 8, verse 9. 00:16:30.736 --> 00:16:36.398 Everybody say I deal in facts. 00:16:36.398 --> 00:16:38.948 The facts are the Word of God. 00:16:38.948 --> 00:16:40.998 That's reality. 00:16:40.998 --> 00:16:45.559 See, see, you know, quit listening to this world, quit listening to the Fed. 00:16:45.559 --> 00:16:51.395 I mean these guys crazy, he doesn't know what he's doing. 00:16:51.395 --> 00:16:57.029 Anyway, 2 Corinthians, chapter 8, verse 9. 00:16:57.811 --> 00:17:08.429 For we know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that you, through his poverty, might be rich. 00:17:08.429 --> 00:17:08.869 Notice the word might. 00:17:08.869 --> 00:17:12.025 There A lot of people say, well, he might and might not. 00:17:12.025 --> 00:17:13.009 You know, might be rich, might not. 00:17:13.009 --> 00:17:16.029 Well, the might is on you. 00:17:16.029 --> 00:17:20.029 Jesus is already poured out rich to you. 00:17:20.029 --> 00:17:28.707 Rich is available, and the reason it's might is because are you going to believe it, are you going to access it by faith? 00:17:28.707 --> 00:17:31.038 You've got to have some faith. 00:17:31.038 --> 00:17:34.029 Just like you have to have faith to get forgiven, you've got to have faith to get healed. 00:17:34.029 --> 00:17:36.929 You've got to have faith to have faith, to have faith. 00:17:36.929 --> 00:17:53.403 You've got to have faith to have your financial needs met, and I'm going to tell you about some avenues of financial blessing a little bit later in this message so you can kind of understand some of the differences between them. 00:17:53.403 --> 00:18:00.823 A lot of people just throw it all in one sack and pour it out, you know, and get confused as they go down the road. 00:18:00.823 --> 00:18:09.059 You have access to so much that you haven't received and I'm just zealous for you know. 00:18:09.342 --> 00:18:11.009 I think about what Mordecai told Esther. 00:18:11.009 --> 00:18:13.955 He said you know, who knows for such a time as this. 00:18:13.955 --> 00:18:17.782 We've come into the kingdom for such a time as this. 00:18:17.782 --> 00:18:21.660 No one has lived in the last days till now. 00:18:21.660 --> 00:18:24.858 I heard Billy Brim say this about 20 years ago. 00:18:24.858 --> 00:18:28.480 She said no one has ever passed her to church in the last days. 00:18:28.480 --> 00:18:49.463 And it just exploded in me because I began to realize the differences between me and Brother Osteen, me and some of the people that I fed on all the years and all yeah, I mean I got a foundation from them, but I mean there's some things that God had to add to my arsenal because we are getting right down to the wire. 00:18:49.463 --> 00:18:57.535 I'm not going to prophesy a date, okay, I know better than to do that but he's coming soon, got a whole lot of work to do. 00:18:57.535 --> 00:19:02.029 So might and I like the message Bible. 00:19:02.029 --> 00:19:04.721 I know it's not really a trend, you know it's it's. 00:19:04.721 --> 00:19:11.029 It's not a translation, it's just kind of a interpretation, but I like it, it's really good. 00:19:11.511 --> 00:19:12.717 Let me just read this one to you. 00:19:12.717 --> 00:19:16.096 You're familiar with the generosity of our master, jesus Christ. 00:19:16.096 --> 00:19:24.682 Rich as he was, he gave it all the way for us and one stroke he became poor and we became rich. 00:19:24.682 --> 00:19:29.761 Can you see substitution and identification? 00:19:29.761 --> 00:19:32.818 He was our substitute. 00:19:32.818 --> 00:19:46.029 He took our sin, he took our sickness, he took our lack, he took our poverty and gave us his righteousness. 00:19:46.029 --> 00:19:51.681 He gave us his health and he gave us all he has to give. 00:19:51.681 --> 00:19:56.029 That's what the father told junior. 00:19:56.029 --> 00:19:57.867 All I have is yours. 00:19:57.867 --> 00:19:59.516 You could have had anything. 00:19:59.516 --> 00:20:01.384 What are you worried about? 00:20:01.384 --> 00:20:03.596 A skinny goat, for you can get a fed one. 00:20:03.596 --> 00:20:07.202 You can get a whole cow if you want it. 00:20:07.202 --> 00:20:09.457 It's yours. 00:20:09.457 --> 00:20:21.334 All I have is yours and if God has it, it belongs to you and I because we're joint heirs with Christ, heirs of God, romans 8, 17. 00:20:21.334 --> 00:20:23.106 We're joint. 00:20:23.106 --> 00:20:26.435 We're joint means equal heirs with Christ. 00:20:26.435 --> 00:20:29.404 Oh glory, come on, lift your hand on that one. 00:20:29.404 --> 00:20:35.433 Yeah, I'm just telling you, you've got things that are sitting around waiting for you to claim. 00:20:40.997 --> 00:20:44.525 The unclaimed blessings department is masses. 00:20:44.525 --> 00:21:00.637 The unclaimed blessings department is patrolled by demon powers Trying to keep you out of there, trying to keep you from even knowing about it. 00:21:00.637 --> 00:21:04.385 They're just running up and down the aisles here. 00:21:04.385 --> 00:21:06.773 You've got blessings stacked all the way to the ceiling. 00:21:06.773 --> 00:21:09.065 Just think about Home Depot or Lowe's. 00:21:09.065 --> 00:21:10.258 You've been in Home Depot. 00:21:10.258 --> 00:21:11.840 It goes way up there and you've got to have a ladder. 00:21:11.840 --> 00:21:13.048 You know get up to the top. 00:21:13.048 --> 00:21:22.329 You know they got it stacked up Like that's just our unclaimed blessings department just stacks and stacks and stacks of things that we haven't claimed. 00:21:22.586 --> 00:21:24.684 And when you get in there, the devil's going to try to keep you. 00:21:24.684 --> 00:21:25.845 He's going to try to run you out. 00:21:25.845 --> 00:21:27.045 He's going to try to buffalo you. 00:21:27.045 --> 00:21:30.845 He's going to try to say you're proud and that you have no business wanting, that. 00:21:30.845 --> 00:21:32.892 You have no reason to have that kind of thing. 00:21:32.892 --> 00:21:35.064 No one should have an AR-15. 00:21:35.064 --> 00:21:38.634 I think we ought to have a whole box car full of AR-15. 00:21:38.634 --> 00:21:55.025 Amen, all right, so I'll get into the gun control thing. 00:21:55.025 --> 00:22:03.984 Come on. 00:22:03.984 --> 00:22:08.450 Jesus called this the gospel to the poor In Luke, chapter 4, 18,. 00:22:08.450 --> 00:22:13.354 He said the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he's an onyb to number one on the list. 00:22:13.354 --> 00:22:15.528 Preached the gospel to the poor. 00:22:17.565 --> 00:22:20.394 I had a guy giving me a hard time about prosperity. 00:22:20.394 --> 00:22:21.366 He saw my shoes. 00:22:21.366 --> 00:22:26.511 See, I got a new pair on today. 00:22:26.511 --> 00:22:31.008 Every time I see really a good-looking pair of shoes, well, I buy it. 00:22:31.008 --> 00:22:33.570 Well, why would you do that? 00:22:33.570 --> 00:22:34.969 Because I haven't got enough. 00:22:34.969 --> 00:22:39.828 When I get enough, I'll quit, I'll shift it over to something else. 00:22:39.828 --> 00:22:48.107 I knew when I bought this jacket the other day that Gladys would not like it because it's so wild and big old plaid. 00:22:48.107 --> 00:22:54.787 She had her way of just being a navy blue blazer and a white shirt. 00:22:54.787 --> 00:22:59.810 And I do have a navy blue blazer. 00:22:59.810 --> 00:23:04.670 I wear it maybe every six months or so, but mostly I like plaid. 00:23:04.670 --> 00:23:05.346 I like color. 00:23:05.346 --> 00:23:10.428 When I read about heaven, they've got colors that we've never seen. 00:23:10.428 --> 00:23:15.030 I want a pair of shoes with colors that never seen. 00:23:15.030 --> 00:23:18.789 And I said well, what do you believe? 00:23:18.789 --> 00:23:20.630 You believe in the poverty gospel? 00:23:20.630 --> 00:23:25.113 I mean, can we help anybody with the poverty gospel? 00:23:25.113 --> 00:23:26.630 Hey, good news. 00:23:26.630 --> 00:23:29.153 God is so proud of you for being porks. 00:23:29.153 --> 00:23:30.307 Keep at it. 00:23:33.587 --> 00:23:34.913 I've been where poverty is. 00:23:34.913 --> 00:23:37.012 I've been to the Colonias in Mexico. 00:23:37.012 --> 00:23:38.150 I've been in India. 00:23:38.150 --> 00:23:39.451 I've been in Philippines. 00:23:39.451 --> 00:23:40.949 I've been in these huge cities. 00:23:40.949 --> 00:23:43.910 20, 30, 40 million People live there. 00:23:43.910 --> 00:23:45.893 They're stacked on top of each other. 00:23:45.893 --> 00:23:52.936 They're all standing out with their hand out trying to get some kind of something to live on. 00:23:54.388 --> 00:23:56.095 Don't tell me poverty is a virtue. 00:23:56.095 --> 00:23:57.190 It's not a virtue. 00:23:57.190 --> 00:23:59.111 It is not a fruit of the spirit. 00:23:59.111 --> 00:24:02.689 When you look at the fruit of the spirit, poverty is not one of them. 00:24:02.689 --> 00:24:08.829 Jesus was never poverty stricken until he went to the cross. 00:24:08.829 --> 00:24:11.909 He always had plenty. 00:24:11.909 --> 00:24:14.891 He had plenty for his taxes and peers. 00:24:14.891 --> 00:24:17.932 He had plenty to feed 20,000 people. 00:24:17.932 --> 00:24:20.432 He had plenty to feed 16,000 people. 00:24:20.432 --> 00:24:28.030 He had plenty to be the full-time supply of 70, full-time ministries and their families. 00:24:28.030 --> 00:24:33.329 Don't tell me he was so rich he had to have a treasurer. 00:24:33.329 --> 00:24:37.969 Oh, jesus was poor. 00:24:37.969 --> 00:24:39.990 He had not a place to lay his head. 00:24:39.990 --> 00:24:41.569 That's not talking about poverty. 00:24:41.569 --> 00:24:47.009 It's talking about he's a traveling preacher and sometimes in between towns he had to spend the night outside. 00:24:47.009 --> 00:24:52.369 I guarantee if he lived today he'd have a jet. 00:24:52.369 --> 00:24:56.730 He would fly wherever he wanted to. 00:24:56.730 --> 00:24:59.230 He would have a whole. 00:24:59.230 --> 00:25:03.509 If he had to spend the night somewhere, it'd be at the Ritz or someplace. 00:25:03.509 --> 00:25:09.709 He's not broke, he's the king of kings. 00:25:09.709 --> 00:25:14.503 Where did they get this? 00:25:14.503 --> 00:25:15.769 It's just tradition. 00:25:15.769 --> 00:25:23.088 They've appreciated the blood, the price it paid to set us free. 00:25:27.885 --> 00:25:36.949 Romans 1.16-17 says the gospel is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believe it, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile. 00:25:36.949 --> 00:25:48.469 It's the power of God unto salvation, salvation and salvation includes healing and includes finances, financial supply. 00:25:48.469 --> 00:25:51.130 It's the power of God. 00:25:51.130 --> 00:25:53.069 God gave. 00:25:53.069 --> 00:25:56.371 Moses, told the Jewish people before they went into promised land. 00:25:56.371 --> 00:26:06.369 He said you shall remember the Lord, your God, for it is he that giveeth thee power to get wealth that he may establish his covenant, which he swear unto the fathers as it is this day, deuteronomy 8, 18. 00:26:06.369 --> 00:26:10.388 Well, if he gave Jews the power to get wealth, how much more the church. 00:26:10.388 --> 00:26:14.010 We're identified with him, we're one with him. 00:26:14.010 --> 00:26:16.548 They weren't one with him, we're one with him. 00:26:16.548 --> 00:26:20.505 Hallelujah. 00:26:20.505 --> 00:26:22.128 Some of you are going to get this this afternoon. 00:26:24.002 --> 00:26:30.590 So we've got to base our faith on the blood and on the word, not just our ability, our education. 00:26:30.590 --> 00:26:33.472 You know our resume. 00:26:33.472 --> 00:26:36.965 I mean, listen, none of that is really that important. 00:26:36.965 --> 00:26:38.810 Does it have a place? 00:26:38.810 --> 00:26:54.611 Yeah, I'm not against education, I'm not against having a good at resume and all of that kind of thing, but let me tell you something bottom line is that God is the one that gives you power, and that power is the gospel, the good news to the poor. 00:26:56.284 --> 00:27:09.673 A few years ago God rearranged my theology a little bit and he let me know that poverty is really a bigger term than what we've been led to believe, because, let's, I mean, I've been around the world. 00:27:09.673 --> 00:27:11.982 This is a wonderful place to live in America. 00:27:11.982 --> 00:27:14.750 It's getting worse every day, but it's still good. 00:27:14.750 --> 00:27:19.644 It can be salvaged, not too late. 00:27:19.644 --> 00:27:22.900 I said it's not too late. 00:27:22.900 --> 00:27:30.269 But he said poverty is the inability to meet the needs of the gospel. 00:27:30.269 --> 00:27:42.671 So in that sense we're all poverty stricken because we have not met the needs of the gospel, because we haven't sent enough preachers to go preach in places where Jesus has not been named. 00:27:42.671 --> 00:27:46.209 We haven't supported properly the ones that have already gone. 00:27:46.209 --> 00:27:58.250 Every time I get a letter from our orphanage there in Africa, I just I'm just touched by the need, the need, the need. 00:27:58.250 --> 00:28:01.086 They got just a big old, long list of needs. 00:28:01.086 --> 00:28:06.068 They need roofs on just about every building they have. 00:28:06.068 --> 00:28:08.628 This violent rainstorm washes out their wall. 00:28:08.628 --> 00:28:10.076 It messes their security up. 00:28:10.076 --> 00:28:16.724 They've got all kind of transits trying to get back in there, you know, steal from them and everything else and get their crops and all of that kind of thing. 00:28:16.724 --> 00:28:26.088 I mean, you know, it's just, and that's just one place that we have invested over 10 years we've been given into that region. 00:28:26.088 --> 00:28:27.701 Well, there's more that we need to do. 00:28:31.000 --> 00:28:47.542 I was in a squatters village outside of Renosa one time years ago, almost 35 years ago, and it was a place, you know, where they'd squatted and so the government sent bulldozers out to bulldoze some rough roads through there. 00:28:47.542 --> 00:28:50.679 When I mean roads, it's just nothing to it. 00:28:50.679 --> 00:29:03.602 There's no road, it's just a clearing where they could drive their water trucks and dump water in a 55 gallon drum ever so often through the colonial, through the village. 00:29:03.602 --> 00:29:05.227 Call it a village, it's not a village. 00:29:05.227 --> 00:29:06.128 There's no buildings. 00:29:06.128 --> 00:29:08.263 There is one building, a church. 00:29:08.263 --> 00:29:22.155 It's about as long as that front row and about eight foot wide, with a bench on one side and a bench on the other and a dirt floor and a tin roof and concrete blocks. 00:29:22.155 --> 00:29:25.467 Everything else in that place is cardboard. 00:29:25.467 --> 00:29:33.667 If you're fortunate, piece of plastic, sleep under a piece of plastic. 00:29:33.667 --> 00:29:41.788 Every now and then you'd see a dwelling that had a little bit of a tin, piece of tin, or maybe even aluminum. 00:29:41.788 --> 00:29:45.366 I mean, it's dirt poor. 00:29:45.366 --> 00:29:51.883 And they're having a drink out of that 55 gallon drum Hot. 00:29:55.241 --> 00:29:59.201 And the pastor of the church was a woman about 40 years old. 00:29:59.201 --> 00:30:08.423 She had a dirty dress on, she had mud on her face and I looked at her and she had the glory of God coming out of her face. 00:30:08.423 --> 00:30:10.671 I couldn't get my eyes off of her. 00:30:10.671 --> 00:30:14.880 If I'd had a million dollars I would have given it to her right on the spot. 00:30:14.880 --> 00:30:39.883 She's over there preaching the gospel to her people For the anointing the joy of the Lord all over her God in that little church building where these people were gathered and she preached in her language and we got a little interpretation from one of our guys who was the missionary for that region. 00:30:39.883 --> 00:30:43.541 He's the one that took us to this place. 00:30:45.487 --> 00:30:46.549 Poverty everywhere. 00:30:46.549 --> 00:30:51.421 They need the gospel to the poor, oral Roberts told me in 2005. 00:30:51.421 --> 00:30:55.121 He said, john, the gospel to the poor is the guts of the gospel. 00:30:55.121 --> 00:30:59.161 What does it mean to be the God? 00:30:59.161 --> 00:31:00.765 It means it's the center core. 00:31:00.765 --> 00:31:04.724 It means without that you can't preach anywhere. 00:31:04.724 --> 00:31:07.863 How can they hear without a preacher? 00:31:07.863 --> 00:31:11.260 How can they hear unless they be sent? 00:31:11.260 --> 00:31:13.326 They have to be sent. 00:31:13.326 --> 00:31:16.002 Sent means more than just bye, bye. 00:31:16.002 --> 00:31:18.470 It means you're sending them with money. 00:31:18.470 --> 00:31:25.426 Oh, we need more money and we don't apologize for asking for it. 00:31:25.426 --> 00:31:29.647 We don't apologize for giving it out and letting you know what the needs are. 00:31:29.647 --> 00:31:45.185 It's the guts of the gospel and the good news is you've got the power to attain it and to get it For such a time as this. 00:31:45.185 --> 00:31:48.223 We come into the kingdom Now. 00:31:48.263 --> 00:31:52.103 Poverty is often a mindset, it's a way of thinking. 00:31:52.103 --> 00:31:53.807 You know we're raised in different ways. 00:31:53.807 --> 00:31:58.396 You know your daddy, your mama, you're raised in all kind of different background. 00:31:58.396 --> 00:32:03.401 Sometimes we get those ideas from well meaning parents, well meaning families. 00:32:03.401 --> 00:32:06.229 They mean well, but they don't know anything about the gospel. 00:32:06.229 --> 00:32:09.446 What I'm giving you is the good news. 00:32:09.446 --> 00:32:12.928 It is the power. 00:32:12.928 --> 00:32:19.582 I said it is the power and this is a year of the power. 00:32:19.582 --> 00:32:29.587 So you know a stronghold of wrong thinking based on ignorance. 00:32:29.587 --> 00:32:31.984 You know about ignorance. 00:32:31.984 --> 00:32:33.573 Ignorance is the devil's playground. 00:32:33.573 --> 00:32:36.063 The devil is able to use ignorance against people. 00:32:36.063 --> 00:32:40.263 Ignorance can be total, it can be partial, or it can be ignorance. 00:32:40.263 --> 00:32:43.701 Sometimes we just let things slip. 00:32:43.701 --> 00:32:45.006 Sometimes we get offended. 00:32:45.006 --> 00:32:57.227 I've seen people get offended at some of our teachers that demonstrate and they preach on giving and receiving on a regular basis. 00:32:57.227 --> 00:33:02.369 And I've seen people get offended because they're flying around in jet or fly around in jet Well, what do you have? 00:33:02.940 --> 00:33:05.165 And have a donkey. 00:33:05.165 --> 00:33:06.250 What's wrong with a jet? 00:33:06.250 --> 00:33:07.301 You get there faster. 00:33:07.301 --> 00:33:10.376 Have you been to the airport lately? 00:33:10.376 --> 00:33:15.421 Would you like to fly somewhere next to somebody that's got a comfort animal? 00:33:15.421 --> 00:33:17.607 That's a baboon? 00:33:17.607 --> 00:33:24.103