WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:02.799 Reach down and pick up our Bibles, lift them up, wave them around. 00:00:02.879 --> 00:00:05.839 Let's wave those Bibles and make Jesus glad, the devil mad. 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:14.160 Let's say this together and say, Heavenly Father, I'm so glad to be here in the presence of people with like precious faith. 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:19.600 And above that, in your presence, the Holy Ghost is here. 00:00:19.839 --> 00:00:26.800 And so I yield myself to the plan of the Holy Ghost for this appointed time. 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:28.800 I'm not here by accident. 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:40.399 I'm not just here just because I've got a divine appointment, and I believe I receive the light that I need in Jesus' name. 00:00:40.719 --> 00:00:41.200 Amen. 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:47.679 You can be seated, please, and let's turn our Bibles to a couple of places we've been camped out on. 00:00:47.840 --> 00:00:53.119 Revelation 21 and also Joshua chapter 3. 00:00:53.520 --> 00:01:02.399 And we will read our foundation scriptures because I've been, this is a fourth message on 2026, the year of new things. 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:05.040 The year of new things. 00:01:05.200 --> 00:01:12.879 This is a prophetic revelation of what God is expecting this year for us, and I believe for many in the body of Christ. 00:01:12.959 --> 00:01:16.560 It's not just for us, but it's absolutely for us. 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:22.480 John on the Isle of Potmos, here in chapter 21, verse 5. 00:01:23.359 --> 00:01:31.040 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. 00:01:32.159 --> 00:01:38.480 And he said unto me, Write, for these words are true and faithful. 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:45.439 And, you know, so it was spoken by the Lord so that it could be written. 00:01:45.680 --> 00:01:47.040 John wrote it. 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:50.079 And he wrote it so we could speak it. 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:52.159 Because these words are true and faithful. 00:01:52.719 --> 00:02:01.120 We need to be saying all the time, you know, I'm looking in, I'm beholding, I'm I'm I'm catching on to what God is making new in my life. 00:02:01.359 --> 00:02:02.879 And so we've been through all of that. 00:02:02.959 --> 00:02:06.799 I don't want to go through everything I've gone through in the first three weeks. 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:08.560 But let's go back to Joshua. 00:02:08.639 --> 00:02:09.599 And I read that verse. 00:02:09.680 --> 00:02:11.120 I knew it was for us. 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:14.080 Back in December, I came across that verse. 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:16.879 I knew God was speaking about this year. 00:02:17.280 --> 00:02:23.360 And then when I went to Galveston to pray, uh I thought about Joshua chapter 3. 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:25.599 We'll start reading with verse 1. 00:02:26.159 --> 00:02:35.120 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and they removed from Sheetam and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over. 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:51.120 And it came to pass after three days that the officers went through the host, and they commanded the people, saying, When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priest the Levites bearing it, then you shall remove from your place and go after it. 00:02:51.439 --> 00:02:59.199 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure, that is about a half a mile. 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:11.120 And come not near unto it that you may know the way by which you must go, for you have not passed this way heretofore. 00:03:11.919 --> 00:03:24.960 And so we've been studying along these lines, and uh I'm preaching these series of messages in order to build your faith for the new things in 2026 that God wants to do for you. 00:03:25.439 --> 00:03:32.639 And simultaneously, what he wants to do for us individually, he also wants to do some new things for us collectively. 00:03:33.199 --> 00:03:40.639 You know, I tell you, when you get to places that you have to cross over, you know, there are natural barriers that you face in life. 00:03:40.719 --> 00:03:42.560 Then there are supernatural barriers. 00:03:42.719 --> 00:03:46.479 The devil and demon power set up for you. 00:03:46.960 --> 00:03:50.240 And uh, you know, you have to overcome by faith. 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:54.479 See, faith is a switch that turns on the power of God. 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:58.639 And so we know that faith begins where the will of God is known. 00:03:58.800 --> 00:04:02.319 You've got to do your part in finding out specifically. 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:06.400 You know, we this is this Bible contains the general will of God. 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:12.240 This, if you'll walk with the word, the logos, you'll generally be in the will of God. 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:14.879 But no, you know, we need more than that. 00:04:15.039 --> 00:04:18.000 We need a specific will of God. 00:04:18.079 --> 00:04:19.199 It's called the Rhema. 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:23.120 Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Rhema of God. 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:26.399 That word word is rhema, which means God breathed. 00:04:26.879 --> 00:04:32.560 God is going to take of this logos if we spend time in it and prayer. 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:39.199 He's gonna take of that logos and he's going to give us specific instructions. 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:41.120 And that's what I'm talking about. 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:42.480 You hearing from God about. 00:04:42.560 --> 00:04:44.800 I can't hear from God for you. 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:53.519 Uh if, you know, you're not you're not a bunch of robots, you're independent agents, you have an independent souls, your soul has got to get willing. 00:04:53.920 --> 00:04:58.560 You're so, you know, we're we're we're born again, our spirit, we're spirit, soul, and body. 00:04:58.720 --> 00:05:00.000 So we're spirit beings. 00:05:00.079 --> 00:05:04.800 We live in a body, and we have a soul or a mind, a will, and intellect. 00:05:05.279 --> 00:05:08.800 Your spirit's born again, born of the spirit. 00:05:09.279 --> 00:05:10.240 You're a new creature. 00:05:10.399 --> 00:05:11.519 Old things are passed away. 00:05:11.600 --> 00:05:13.519 Behold, all things are become new. 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:16.160 But now your body's the same body. 00:05:16.240 --> 00:05:19.839 You had when you were lost, your mind is the same brain tissue. 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:21.279 It's got thought patterns. 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:26.560 We dealt with a little bit about in that in our series on love on Wednesday nights. 00:05:26.639 --> 00:05:28.959 We talked a little bit about it in the first session. 00:05:29.199 --> 00:05:40.240 How that in 40 years of ministry I've come across people that got Swiss cheese in their souls, holes, gaps, hurts that have been wallpapered over. 00:05:40.319 --> 00:05:45.279 I told about my wallpaper hanger that covered over a hole in the wall. 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:47.279 You know, hell me up. 00:05:47.360 --> 00:05:48.639 I'm trying to finish the house. 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:53.759 And he, you know, he said, Oh, I'll just wallpaper up to the hole, and then the sheetrockers can patch it. 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:55.519 Well, no, he wallpapered over the hole. 00:05:55.680 --> 00:06:01.279 No, and the sheetrocker didn't know where the hole was, and so he left, and there I'm behind schedule. 00:06:01.600 --> 00:06:08.000 See, a lot of people, I've met a lot of people that have wallpapered over the hurts in their life, and it's holding them back. 00:06:08.079 --> 00:06:09.920 It's caused them to plateau out. 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:11.920 They've gone as far as they can go. 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:13.040 It's an obstacle. 00:06:13.199 --> 00:06:22.480 Well, you know, we're gonna, you know, if you find out how much God loves you, He's not held anything back for your success and your blessing. 00:06:22.720 --> 00:06:28.079 So faith begins where the will of God is known, and so last week we talked about getting God's perspective. 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:30.639 That's what God's how God looks at everything. 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:32.000 We get God's perspective. 00:06:32.079 --> 00:06:34.399 You know, they they had to get God's perspective. 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:37.759 You're gonna cross the Jordan at flood stage. 00:06:37.839 --> 00:06:40.079 Oh man, that was intimidating. 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:43.839 So that they couldn't pass in their own flesh. 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:52.560 They couldn't get through there without God, they couldn't get through there without the priests having enough faith to set their foot right in the flood waters. 00:06:52.639 --> 00:06:59.360 And as soon as their feet sat in the flooded Jordan, it stacked up and they passed over on dry ground. 00:06:59.839 --> 00:07:04.800 How many of you are going to be passing over these obstacles this year and breaking through? 00:07:05.600 --> 00:07:06.240 Amen. 00:07:06.639 --> 00:07:14.720 And so we get God's perspective, and then we believe in and speak it, and our faith is the switch that turns on the power of God. 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:24.879 I'm telling you, as soon as they believed and followed and did what they were instructed to do, I mean, God's power stacked that water up and they walked over on dry ground. 00:07:25.839 --> 00:07:29.839 And then, of course, we found out that not only that, they got prominence. 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:37.040 Everybody on the other side of the river that they came into heard about them, heard what God had done, and they were afraid. 00:07:37.680 --> 00:07:45.360 See, the first generation, these people's parents, these people's fathers, they were all afraid of the enemy. 00:07:45.519 --> 00:07:47.279 They were all afraid of the ice. 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:51.759 But this generation, praise God, they got a revelation. 00:07:52.079 --> 00:07:54.319 No, they're afraid of us. 00:07:55.439 --> 00:07:57.279 All right, y'all following me now. 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:05.759 So the reason I'm paying so much attention to Israel and telling their story is found here in 1 Corinthians chapter 10. 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:06.720 Real quick, let's turn over. 00:08:06.959 --> 00:08:08.560 It's worth us looking at it. 00:08:08.800 --> 00:08:16.480 I want you to get this and remember it because the Old Testament is good for us to read. 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:18.079 I don't, I don't. 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:26.160 Now, you know, you've heard me speak, we ought to spend most of our time in the epistles because that's a part of the Bible that is specifically to the church. 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:32.879 But things are written about Israel that are that are uh beneficial to us. 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:37.360 And it says here about Israel in verse 5. 00:08:37.440 --> 00:08:38.320 Here's Paul. 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:42.159 And Paul is Paul is talking to a carnal church. 00:08:42.559 --> 00:08:44.960 This is a church that had a lot of sin in it. 00:08:45.039 --> 00:08:46.799 They came out of the occult. 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:49.279 You know, uh pharmacia. 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:55.279 You know, it's the occult, and the occult is is mixed in with drugs. 00:08:55.440 --> 00:08:57.120 You want devils, get on drugs. 00:08:57.200 --> 00:08:58.559 You'll get plenty of devils. 00:08:59.440 --> 00:09:02.240 And uh thank God we can get delivered from that. 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:11.360 But uh he he just he he he knew that they needed the truth, and so he's talking about Israel in verse 5. 00:09:11.440 --> 00:09:17.360 But with many of them, that is Israel, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. 00:09:18.399 --> 00:09:27.200 Now these things were our examples, to the intent that we should not lust evil things as they lusted. 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:34.159 Neither should we be idolaters as were some of them, as it is written, the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play. 00:09:34.399 --> 00:09:41.519 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. 00:09:41.840 --> 00:09:47.039 Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. 00:09:47.360 --> 00:09:48.799 Neither murmur ye. 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:54.080 Now notice he put murmuring in the same class as all these other things, you know. 00:09:55.120 --> 00:10:01.679 Got to be careful what comes out of your mouth when you're critical and murmuring and complaining, especially when you complain about God. 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:08.080 Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. 00:10:08.399 --> 00:10:15.360 Now, all these things happened unto them for ensamples or types. 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:24.240 And they are written for our admonition on upon whom the ends of the world or the ends of the age are come. 00:10:24.799 --> 00:10:27.200 Now, this is written almost 2,000 years ago. 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:31.519 We're 2,000 years down the road now from this verse. 00:10:32.159 --> 00:10:35.519 You talk about the ends of the age or upon uh this generation. 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:38.080 We can see the signs of Jesus coming. 00:10:38.159 --> 00:10:40.320 We know it can't be much longer. 00:10:40.720 --> 00:10:45.039 I'm not here for a date, but I know he's coming and he's coming soon. 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:46.960 And we ought to be ready. 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:52.799 So these things are written for our uh uh admonition or our warning. 00:10:53.759 --> 00:11:00.000 And they're in samples, or really, when you look up that, it means example, but it also means something. 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:05.679 It means it means a statue, or it means a memorial. 00:11:06.240 --> 00:11:10.320 I mean, it's memorialized in Scripture so we can learn from their mistakes. 00:11:10.399 --> 00:11:19.039 Now, you know they did some good things, and those are memorialized, and we can we can follow after the good things too, but the bad things are for us as well, because why? 00:11:19.279 --> 00:11:27.840 Because your flesh is just like their flesh, and your unrenewed mind is like theirs too, because you're if they were tempted, you can be tempted that same way. 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:31.759 See, so that's why he's writing into the this letter to the Corinthians. 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:38.559 So uh they had a 40-year delay in God's plan because of their unbelief. 00:11:38.879 --> 00:11:42.639 Some of us may be just a little bit behind. 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:55.519 We have not heard, we have not spent enough time in the word and prayer to find out God's perspective, and so we might be uh facing some plateaus in our careers, plateaus in our finances. 00:11:55.679 --> 00:12:05.440 Maybe, you know, you've come up to a level and you can't seem to break through, and uh you've you've got a level in your health, but you still got some things, you know, that with your health. 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:08.159 You know, Jesus didn't come to just do a little bit. 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:14.080 His blood didn't just wasn't shed uh, you know, at Calvary just to do a partial thing. 00:12:14.320 --> 00:12:16.080 He came to do the whole thing. 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:20.960 We've got available to us perfect health, we've got available to us riches. 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:24.320 I mean, we can have enough abundance in our oh there he goes. 00:12:24.399 --> 00:12:26.000 He's one of those prosperity preachers. 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:27.519 Yeah, I'm a prosperity preacher. 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:28.000 What are you? 00:12:28.159 --> 00:12:30.080 A poverty preacher? 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:31.759 You can't do anything when you're poor. 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:32.559 I've been there. 00:12:32.720 --> 00:12:37.759 You can't do anything when you're poor, you can't help anybody, you can't even help yourself. 00:12:38.879 --> 00:12:42.639 No, I tell you, God wants you blessed and he wants you to be a blessing. 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:43.360 Amen. 00:12:44.159 --> 00:12:50.320 So uh this generation here, though, crossed over the Jordan at flood stage. 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:54.399 They built two memorials, one in the river and one on the other side. 00:12:54.720 --> 00:12:56.559 And then we talked about it last week. 00:12:56.639 --> 00:13:00.879 They all circumcised the males because they hadn't been since they were born in the wilderness. 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:02.559 They weren't circumcised yet. 00:13:02.799 --> 00:13:07.440 And circumcision was the mark in their flesh of the covenant they had with God. 00:13:08.240 --> 00:13:10.080 And so, what does that mean to us? 00:13:10.240 --> 00:13:15.519 It just, in fact, let's look at Joshua back there again. 00:13:17.679 --> 00:13:20.159 We're gonna be reading some more in Joshua in a minute. 00:13:20.320 --> 00:13:22.080 Joshua chapter 5. 00:13:22.480 --> 00:13:29.440 I didn't mention this verse last week, but you know, they it wouldn't seem to be wise to go over in the enemy's camp. 00:13:29.519 --> 00:13:38.960 I mean, right down the down the road is is Jericho, the greatest fortified city in the known world at that time, the walls so thick that they drove chariots on the top. 00:13:39.919 --> 00:13:41.360 They're an armed camp there. 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:43.440 They're right across the way. 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:50.080 And and here you are circumcising all your warriors, and they can't do anything until they're healed up. 00:13:50.399 --> 00:13:54.720 Well, you know, God told them to do that, and it took faith for them to do that. 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:56.559 Took faith for Joshua to do that. 00:13:56.639 --> 00:13:58.720 He had to believe that yes, they're gonna be protected. 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:01.600 See, they were more afraid of Israel than Israel afraid of them. 00:14:02.159 --> 00:14:04.879 They didn't dare touch them while they're getting well. 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:19.039 And notice what here in verse 9, and the Lord said unto Joshua, this day, the day when he circumcised all the males, this day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. 00:14:19.600 --> 00:14:24.799 Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day, which means rolling. 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:27.679 God rolled the reproach of Egypt. 00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:28.720 What are you talking about? 00:14:28.879 --> 00:14:32.639 Well, you know, they did not have the mark of the covenant. 00:14:33.039 --> 00:14:36.480 They looked just like uncircumcised humanity. 00:14:36.639 --> 00:14:41.120 They look like everyone else who was not in covenant with God Almighty. 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:43.279 In fact, he's the Lord of all the earth. 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:47.919 God, I mean, you know, he wasn't just the God of Israel, he's the God of all the earth. 00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:51.440 The earth is the Lord's in the fullness thereof. 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:56.720 I know the devil has power over his people, but I'm telling you, God owns everything. 00:14:58.639 --> 00:15:00.480 And he, we're in covenant with him. 00:15:00.720 --> 00:15:01.840 They were in covenant with him. 00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:04.559 So that they so what did that mean? 00:15:04.639 --> 00:15:09.919 Well, they no longer had anything at all to do with slavery. 00:15:10.240 --> 00:15:12.000 They had nothing to do with Egypt. 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:14.879 Now they're mark wearing the mark of the covenant. 00:15:14.960 --> 00:15:16.879 They are God's covenant people. 00:15:17.120 --> 00:15:20.399 They're looking to God and not to man. 00:15:20.480 --> 00:15:21.519 Are you with me now? 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:26.159 The reproach, the shame of Egypt is rolled off of them. 00:15:26.240 --> 00:15:29.679 And now they are looking in themselves differently now. 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:31.600 It's a new thing. 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:32.960 Can you see that? 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:34.559 See, this is what we're doing. 00:15:34.639 --> 00:15:39.919 We're getting our minds ready to be willing to do something that's not comfort zone for a lot of us. 00:15:40.159 --> 00:15:44.879 There's gonna be some things that God's gonna speak to you, and you're gonna say, oh, wait a minute. 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:47.519 Yeah, you might have a little pause. 00:15:47.919 --> 00:15:49.600 Let's get out of the comfort zone. 00:15:49.679 --> 00:15:53.600 Let's get over there where if God doesn't help you, you're gonna fail. 00:15:53.759 --> 00:15:58.960 Anyone can just stay in the boat, but Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water for a little while anyway. 00:15:59.600 --> 00:16:00.720 Are you with me now? 00:16:02.480 --> 00:16:11.519 So uh we have to be willing to change in 2026 to fully identify with our Father in heaven. 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:16.399 Now, today we're gonna pick up with verse 10 here, Joshua chapter 5, verse 10. 00:16:16.559 --> 00:16:17.679 Let's keep reading. 00:16:17.759 --> 00:16:19.600 I want to get into some other things. 00:16:19.679 --> 00:16:29.440 Now, if you haven't been here uh for any of these messages, I I uh, you know, you need to hear those messages, and you need to hear them more than just once. 00:16:29.600 --> 00:16:36.000 I mean, listen to it one time all the way through, then listen to it the second time with pen and take some notes. 00:16:36.159 --> 00:16:44.559 I mean, that's a level of what you need to give this word in order to receive the fullness of it. 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:55.840 You know, I'm just thinking about uh Paul told the Romans there in Romans 14, he said, I'm sure when I come, I'll come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ. 00:16:56.080 --> 00:16:57.519 The fullness of the blessing. 00:16:57.679 --> 00:17:01.600 See, a lot of people, like I said before, they just have some of the blessing. 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:06.799 They're kind of blessed in their health, they're kind of blessed in their finances. 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:11.200 I mean, if you live in America, you're really blessed compared to the rest of the world. 00:17:12.640 --> 00:17:16.799 But you know, there's a fullness of blessing that we hadn't even touched yet. 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:19.200 I want the whole thing. 00:17:19.279 --> 00:17:22.960 I don't want to leave any of the blood of Jesus on the ground unclaimed. 00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:23.839 Are you with me now? 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:27.519 All right, chapter 5, verse 10. 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:35.839 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal and kept the Passover on the 14th day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho. 00:17:36.240 --> 00:17:43.440 And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the Passover, unleavened cakes and parched corn in the selfsame day. 00:17:43.680 --> 00:17:48.319 And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land. 00:17:48.480 --> 00:17:51.200 Neither had the children of Israel manna any more. 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:55.039 But they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. 00:17:55.279 --> 00:18:07.119 And it came to pass when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there stood a man over against him with a sword drawn in his hand. 00:18:08.000 --> 00:18:14.160 And Joshua went unto him and said unto him, Art thou for us or for our adversaries? 00:18:14.799 --> 00:18:21.519 And he said, Nay, but as the captain of the host of the Lord, I am I now come. 00:18:21.759 --> 00:18:23.359 Am I now come? 00:18:24.000 --> 00:18:25.440 Am I now come? 00:18:25.599 --> 00:18:26.960 See the strategy in that. 00:18:27.119 --> 00:18:38.400 He didn't show up earlier, he didn't show up in the wilderness, he didn't show up on this side of the Jordan, he didn't even show up during the circumcision, he showed up right then. 00:18:39.119 --> 00:18:40.559 Now I've now come. 00:18:41.359 --> 00:18:42.319 I've now come. 00:18:42.480 --> 00:18:50.000 And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and did worship and said unto him, What saith my Lord unto his servant? 00:18:50.160 --> 00:18:52.240 And the captain of the Lord's host. 00:18:52.720 --> 00:18:53.920 See, what is the host? 00:18:54.160 --> 00:18:56.400 It's the armies of heaven, it's the angels. 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:00.799 He's the Lord of hosts, he's the Lord of the armies of heaven. 00:19:01.200 --> 00:19:08.400 And he said unto Joshua, loose thy shoe from off thy foot, for the place whereon thou standest is holy. 00:19:08.640 --> 00:19:10.480 And Joshua did so. 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:18.480 Now, folks, this ain't no angel here, because an angel would not have received his worship. 00:19:18.960 --> 00:19:21.759 An angel would not have said, Take your shoes off. 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:24.000 The ground is holy where I'm at. 00:19:24.960 --> 00:19:28.799 See, this is Jesus in his pre-incarnate form. 00:19:29.839 --> 00:19:33.119 He hadn't showed up yet, but now he's come. 00:19:34.319 --> 00:19:37.440 When is now, right before they hit Jericho. 00:19:38.160 --> 00:19:42.000 They're gonna need Jesus with the sword in his hand. 00:19:42.079 --> 00:19:43.359 Are y'all with me now? 00:19:44.559 --> 00:19:46.480 Who else said, take your shoes off? 00:19:46.559 --> 00:19:51.039 Well, God out of the burning bush told Moses, take your shoes off, boy. 00:19:51.920 --> 00:19:53.519 Place where you're standing is holy. 00:19:53.599 --> 00:19:54.319 So he was right. 00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:57.680 See, this is Jesus, this is God showing up in a different form. 00:19:57.839 --> 00:20:00.319 Now, God has been in the camp all this time. 00:20:01.039 --> 00:20:11.359 He's been with them, the pillar of fire at night, the cloud by day, and then after a while, then they were, in fact, they'd failed a few times and sinned and asked for quail and all of that. 00:20:11.599 --> 00:20:17.759 And after that, after all of that, they this is after the Red Sea, God was with them in that in that form. 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:20.160 And God said, Look, I want a Shekinah with them. 00:20:20.640 --> 00:20:23.519 Take an offering and build me a house. 00:20:24.559 --> 00:20:29.200 And they and and Moses took an offering of Israel back in Exodus 25. 00:20:29.279 --> 00:20:30.079 You can read about it. 00:20:30.160 --> 00:20:38.559 They brought gold and silver and they brought jewels and they brought blue and purple and scarlet and goat's hair and badger skins. 00:20:38.640 --> 00:20:40.079 Where in the world did they get all that? 00:20:40.160 --> 00:20:41.039 From Egypt. 00:20:41.440 --> 00:20:43.759 When they left Egypt, buddy, they left rich. 00:20:43.839 --> 00:20:45.839 When they left Egypt, they brought a stuff. 00:20:46.079 --> 00:20:48.720 I'm telling you, transfer of wealth like we've never seen. 00:20:49.200 --> 00:20:52.240 We're gonna have another transfer of wealth that's coming up here. 00:20:54.480 --> 00:20:56.240 Types and shadows. 00:20:57.119 --> 00:20:57.680 Types. 00:20:57.839 --> 00:20:58.640 Why is it written? 00:20:58.799 --> 00:20:59.839 Our admonition. 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:02.559 I'm telling you, there's gonna be a transfer of wealth. 00:21:03.359 --> 00:21:07.200 He said, I want a Shekinah, I want to dwell among my people. 00:21:07.359 --> 00:21:10.319 I can't just float around in the atmosphere and manifest. 00:21:10.400 --> 00:21:12.400 I want a place, a resting place. 00:21:12.559 --> 00:21:16.400 So they built the tabernacle in the wilderness out of all that stuff. 00:21:16.480 --> 00:21:22.160 And I mean, you know, there was all the stuff that they had that they that they brought willingly. 00:21:22.559 --> 00:21:26.240 And so that's what that's what the priests bore. 00:21:26.319 --> 00:21:28.559 And what did they put in inside the ark? 00:21:28.640 --> 00:21:31.039 Well, they put Aaron's rod that budded. 00:21:31.119 --> 00:21:32.880 It had almond blooms on it. 00:21:33.039 --> 00:21:37.359 They put that rod in there, they put some of the manna in there. 00:21:37.440 --> 00:21:45.839 You know, they they put stuff in there to memorialize what God had done in the wilderness, and so now his presence dwelt in that in that box. 00:21:47.279 --> 00:21:51.200 And every now and then, when he showed up at the tent's door, they knew they'd messed up. 00:21:51.279 --> 00:21:57.039 Usually his shekinah didn't show up until they had sinned, and then he would show up and they'd repent. 00:21:57.759 --> 00:21:59.680 So that was a form of the Holy. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:01.119 Ghost guiding them. 00:22:01.279 --> 00:22:03.440 Every believer, this is types and shadows now. 00:22:03.519 --> 00:22:10.319 Listen, every believer, whether you're filled with the Holy Ghost or not, every believer has a right to be led by the Spirit and is led by the Spirit. 00:22:10.480 --> 00:22:13.920 If they can identify that leading, they can be led by the Spirit. 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:23.039 But you know, there's there's one thing that Jesus said you, you know, you don't go into the world and try to preach the gospel without waiting on the baptism of the Holy Ghost. 00:22:23.119 --> 00:22:28.720 You need to be filled and flooded with the Holy Ghost, with the evidence of speaking in other tongues. 00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:36.880 And if you don't have that, you're not going to probably get everything that God's got for you because the baptism is where you have the power. 00:22:38.480 --> 00:22:40.319 And see, they didn't have the power. 00:22:40.400 --> 00:22:44.880 They had the power in partial manifestation to get where they needed to go. 00:22:44.960 --> 00:22:48.079 But from this point on, they needed the power to do what? 00:22:48.319 --> 00:22:51.359 To dispossess the enemy from off of their land. 00:22:52.160 --> 00:22:55.039 They had to go in and they had to annihilate these people. 00:22:55.200 --> 00:22:57.359 God told them to go in and annihilate. 00:22:57.599 --> 00:22:59.039 And they were going to need what? 00:22:59.279 --> 00:23:01.359 Power, not just regular power. 00:23:01.519 --> 00:23:01.759 Why? 00:23:01.920 --> 00:23:08.240 Because everybody they faced was greater and more powerful than they were in the natural. 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:11.279 That's why they needed the great equalizer. 00:23:12.799 --> 00:23:15.920 Really, he's not an equalizer, he's a superiorizer. 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:20.400 There's nobody, nobody matches his power. 00:23:20.559 --> 00:23:21.440 Nobody. 00:23:21.920 --> 00:23:23.599 Nobody matches his power. 00:23:24.880 --> 00:23:27.920 So I want you to see these new things now. 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:29.519 I see these new things. 00:23:29.680 --> 00:23:32.799 First of all, they passed over Jordan at flood stage. 00:23:32.880 --> 00:23:33.759 That's new. 00:23:34.400 --> 00:23:36.160 And the priests had something to do with it. 00:23:36.319 --> 00:23:38.640 See, before when they passed the Red Sea, what was that? 00:23:38.720 --> 00:23:44.160 Well, that was that was uh uh Moses stretching out his rod. 00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:47.680 But this time now you had the ministry involved. 00:23:47.759 --> 00:23:53.519 You had the priests, and they're stepping out there with their feet in the water and it piles up, so that's a new thing. 00:23:53.599 --> 00:23:55.920 They get on the other side, they're circumcised. 00:23:56.319 --> 00:23:57.759 That's a new thing. 00:23:58.079 --> 00:24:11.279 And they eat the prom the Passover, they celebrated Passover for the first time in the promised land, looking back to the time when they were delivered from Egypt and they had the blood on the doorposts and the threshold covenant. 00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:15.680 The blood was across the threshold, and it protected them from the death angel. 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:23.680 The death angel went through Egypt and killed the firstborn of all the heathen, but over the houses of Israel, he passed over. 00:24:23.839 --> 00:24:25.680 They celebrated for the first time. 00:24:26.079 --> 00:24:26.640 What were they? 00:24:26.720 --> 00:24:30.079 They were, the promise was you've got a promised land, you're gonna go to the promised land. 00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:31.519 Now they're in the promised land. 00:24:31.599 --> 00:24:33.279 Can you imagine the rejoicing? 00:24:33.440 --> 00:24:37.440 Can you imagine the kind of joy they had when they celebrated that Passover? 00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:40.000 Oh, I'm telling you, they were on cloud nine. 00:24:40.079 --> 00:24:42.319 They were over the moon, as they say. 00:24:43.119 --> 00:24:46.000 And so then that was that was a first-time thing. 00:24:46.240 --> 00:24:49.119 And then the next thing is that they ate of the corn. 00:24:49.680 --> 00:24:51.599 They didn't plant it, they just ate it. 00:24:51.680 --> 00:24:57.920 I mean, they found storehouses full of the old corn that was stored, and they just opened it up and ate men, they ate corn. 00:24:58.079 --> 00:25:04.400 And they ground some of it up and made cakes, and they had all ever all the food they needed that they didn't have to grow. 00:25:04.480 --> 00:25:04.960 Oh, man. 00:25:05.200 --> 00:25:05.839 And then what? 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:07.279 The manna quit. 00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:09.279 Why did the manna quit? 00:25:09.359 --> 00:25:11.200 Because manna was the food for slaves. 00:25:11.359 --> 00:25:19.359 Manna was the food for uh stiff-necked, uncircumcised Jews that didn't know how to follow orders. 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:21.039 Are y'all with me now? 00:25:21.119 --> 00:25:22.400 Are y'all getting this new? 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:25.039 I'm talking about these new things that happened to Israel. 00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:27.599 We've got some new things we hadn't touched yet. 00:25:27.920 --> 00:25:31.200 How many of you want the new things that he's got? 00:25:32.240 --> 00:25:33.599 Some of you don't care. 00:25:33.759 --> 00:25:35.599 All right, well, praise the Lord. 00:25:35.920 --> 00:25:37.039 Give me yours. 00:25:38.000 --> 00:25:39.759 I got a use for it. 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:48.400 So now they've got power to possess their inheritance by dispossessing the enemy. 00:25:49.119 --> 00:25:52.640 So, now let's just keep uh reading here. 00:25:53.519 --> 00:25:55.599 In chapter 6. 00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:59.759 The very first military objective is Jericho. 00:25:59.839 --> 00:26:01.440 I mean, you I you just got a last. 00:26:01.839 --> 00:26:04.240 I mean, God's got a sense of humor, you know. 00:26:04.480 --> 00:26:11.599 I mean, because, you know, you know, 40 years before they they sent out 12 spies. 00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:15.680 The 12 spies came back with the fruit of the of the land, you know. 00:26:15.839 --> 00:26:18.960 And and ten of the spies uh had a bad report. 00:26:19.039 --> 00:26:19.839 You know, they came back. 00:26:19.920 --> 00:26:23.440 Yeah, this is just like he said, it's a land that flows with milk and honey. 00:26:23.599 --> 00:26:25.920 It's a good land, and and here's the fruit of it. 00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:28.319 Nevertheless, we'd be not able. 00:26:28.640 --> 00:26:32.880 There's giants in the land, and they got cities walled up to heaven. 00:26:32.960 --> 00:26:34.160 Who, what were they talking about? 00:26:34.319 --> 00:26:35.759 They're talking about Jericho. 00:26:36.319 --> 00:26:38.400 They were talking about Jericho. 00:26:38.480 --> 00:26:41.519 They saw Jericho when they passed the river. 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:49.920 It's just there's very few places you can pass in there, and that's when it's not in flood stage, they pass through there, and there's Jericho right there. 00:26:50.000 --> 00:26:51.119 That's what they were talking about. 00:26:51.279 --> 00:26:55.920 They were deathly afraid of Jericho, so God said, first on my hit list, Jericho. 00:26:56.240 --> 00:26:58.319 Oh, come on, lift your hand right now. 00:26:58.480 --> 00:27:01.920 The thing we've been terrified of is what we're gonna overcome. 00:27:02.079 --> 00:27:05.680 The thing that we've been hesitant about, we're gonna run right through it. 00:27:05.759 --> 00:27:07.599 We're gonna run through the troop. 00:27:08.079 --> 00:27:09.359 Glory to God. 00:27:12.000 --> 00:27:12.640 Woo! 00:27:13.599 --> 00:27:15.359 All right, chapter 6, verse 1. 00:27:15.440 --> 00:27:18.640 Now Jericho was straightly shut up because of the children of Israel. 00:27:18.720 --> 00:27:28.319 I mean, they had they pulled in the ladders, they closed the gates, and they're behind the walls, shaking in their boots, or their sandals, or whatever they had. 00:27:28.400 --> 00:27:28.880 All right. 00:27:30.000 --> 00:27:36.160 And the Lord said unto Joshua, see, I have given thee. 00:27:37.039 --> 00:27:38.079 Past tense. 00:27:38.319 --> 00:27:43.039 See, God, God cause a thing that be not as though it more. 00:27:43.200 --> 00:27:44.640 He speaks in past tense. 00:27:44.720 --> 00:27:47.599 You're always trying to get something, but God already gave it to you. 00:27:48.480 --> 00:27:50.160 I said, God already gave it to you. 00:27:50.319 --> 00:27:53.920 He's already given you everything that he's got in store for you this year. 00:27:54.000 --> 00:27:55.119