SPEAKER_00: Reach down and pick up our Bibles, lift them up, wave them around.
SPEAKER_00: Let's wave those Bibles and make Jesus glad, the devil mad.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: And above that, in your presence, the Holy Ghost is here.
SPEAKER_00: And so I yield myself to the plan of the Holy Ghost for this appointed time.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not here by accident.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: You can be seated, please, and let's turn our Bibles to a couple of places we've been camped out on.
SPEAKER_00: Revelation 21 and also Joshua chapter 3.
SPEAKER_00: And we will read our foundation scriptures because I've been, this is a fourth message on 2026, the year of new things.
SPEAKER_00: The year of new things.
SPEAKER_00: This is a prophetic revelation of what God is expecting this year for us, and I believe for many in the body of Christ.
SPEAKER_00: It's not just for us, but it's absolutely for us.
SPEAKER_00: John on the Isle of Potmos, here in chapter 21, verse 5.
SPEAKER_00: And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.
SPEAKER_00: And he said unto me, Write, for these words are true and faithful.
SPEAKER_00: And, you know, so it was spoken by the Lord so that it could be written.
SPEAKER_00: John wrote it.
SPEAKER_00: And he wrote it so we could speak it.
SPEAKER_00: Because these words are true and faithful.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: And so we've been through all of that.
SPEAKER_00: I don't want to go through everything I've gone through in the first three weeks.
SPEAKER_00: But let's go back to Joshua.
SPEAKER_00: And I read that verse.
SPEAKER_00: I knew it was for us.
SPEAKER_00: Back in December, I came across that verse.
SPEAKER_00: I knew God was speaking about this year.
SPEAKER_00: And then when I went to Galveston to pray, uh I thought about Joshua chapter 3.
SPEAKER_00: We'll start reading with verse 1.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure, that is about a half a mile.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: And simultaneously, what he wants to do for us individually, he also wants to do some new things for us collectively.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: Then there are supernatural barriers.
SPEAKER_00: The devil and demon power set up for you.
SPEAKER_00: And uh, you know, you have to overcome by faith.
SPEAKER_00: See, faith is a switch that turns on the power of God.
SPEAKER_00: And so we know that faith begins where the will of God is known.
SPEAKER_00: You've got to do your part in finding out specifically.
SPEAKER_00: You know, we this is this Bible contains the general will of God.
SPEAKER_00: This, if you'll walk with the word, the logos, you'll generally be in the will of God.
SPEAKER_00: But no, you know, we need more than that.
SPEAKER_00: We need a specific will of God.
SPEAKER_00: It's called the Rhema.
SPEAKER_00: Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Rhema of God.
SPEAKER_00: That word word is rhema, which means God breathed.
SPEAKER_00: God is going to take of this logos if we spend time in it and prayer.
SPEAKER_00: He's gonna take of that logos and he's going to give us specific instructions.
SPEAKER_00: And that's what I'm talking about.
SPEAKER_00: You hearing from God about.
SPEAKER_00: I can't hear from God for you.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: You're so, you know, we're we're we're born again, our spirit, we're spirit, soul, and body.
SPEAKER_00: So we're spirit beings.
SPEAKER_00: We live in a body, and we have a soul or a mind, a will, and intellect.
SPEAKER_00: Your spirit's born again, born of the spirit.
SPEAKER_00: You're a new creature.
SPEAKER_00: Old things are passed away.
SPEAKER_00: Behold, all things are become new.
SPEAKER_00: But now your body's the same body.
SPEAKER_00: You had when you were lost, your mind is the same brain tissue.
SPEAKER_00: It's got thought patterns.
SPEAKER_00: We dealt with a little bit about in that in our series on love on Wednesday nights.
SPEAKER_00: We talked a little bit about it in the first session.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: I told about my wallpaper hanger that covered over a hole in the wall.
SPEAKER_00: You know, hell me up.
SPEAKER_00: I'm trying to finish the house.
SPEAKER_00: And he, you know, he said, Oh, I'll just wallpaper up to the hole, and then the sheetrockers can patch it.
SPEAKER_00: Well, no, he wallpapered over the hole.
SPEAKER_00: No, and the sheetrocker didn't know where the hole was, and so he left, and there I'm behind schedule.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: It's caused them to plateau out.
SPEAKER_00: They've gone as far as they can go.
SPEAKER_00: It's an obstacle.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: So faith begins where the will of God is known, and so last week we talked about getting God's perspective.
SPEAKER_00: That's what God's how God looks at everything.
SPEAKER_00: We get God's perspective.
SPEAKER_00: You know, they they had to get God's perspective.
SPEAKER_00: You're gonna cross the Jordan at flood stage.
SPEAKER_00: Oh man, that was intimidating.
SPEAKER_00: So that they couldn't pass in their own flesh.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: And as soon as their feet sat in the flooded Jordan, it stacked up and they passed over on dry ground.
SPEAKER_00: How many of you are going to be passing over these obstacles this year and breaking through?
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: And then, of course, we found out that not only that, they got prominence.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody on the other side of the river that they came into heard about them, heard what God had done, and they were afraid.
SPEAKER_00: See, the first generation, these people's parents, these people's fathers, they were all afraid of the enemy.
SPEAKER_00: They were all afraid of the ice.
SPEAKER_00: But this generation, praise God, they got a revelation.
SPEAKER_00: No, they're afraid of us.
SPEAKER_00: All right, y'all following me now.
SPEAKER_00: So the reason I'm paying so much attention to Israel and telling their story is found here in 1 Corinthians chapter 10.
SPEAKER_00: Real quick, let's turn over.
SPEAKER_00: It's worth us looking at it.
SPEAKER_00: I want you to get this and remember it because the Old Testament is good for us to read.
SPEAKER_00: I don't, I don't.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: But things are written about Israel that are that are uh beneficial to us.
SPEAKER_00: And it says here about Israel in verse 5.
SPEAKER_00: Here's Paul.
SPEAKER_00: And Paul is Paul is talking to a carnal church.
SPEAKER_00: This is a church that had a lot of sin in it.
SPEAKER_00: They came out of the occult.
SPEAKER_00: You know, uh pharmacia.
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's the occult, and the occult is is mixed in with drugs.
SPEAKER_00: You want devils, get on drugs.
SPEAKER_00: You'll get plenty of devils.
SPEAKER_00: And uh thank God we can get delivered from that.
SPEAKER_00: But uh he he just he he he knew that they needed the truth, and so he's talking about Israel in verse 5.
SPEAKER_00: But with many of them, that is Israel, God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness.
SPEAKER_00: Now these things were our examples, to the intent that we should not lust evil things as they lusted.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
SPEAKER_00: Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
SPEAKER_00: Neither murmur ye.
SPEAKER_00: Now notice he put murmuring in the same class as all these other things, you know.
SPEAKER_00: Got to be careful what comes out of your mouth when you're critical and murmuring and complaining, especially when you complain about God.
SPEAKER_00: Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.
SPEAKER_00: Now, all these things happened unto them for ensamples or types.
SPEAKER_00: And they are written for our admonition on upon whom the ends of the world or the ends of the age are come.
SPEAKER_00: Now, this is written almost 2,000 years ago.
SPEAKER_00: We're 2,000 years down the road now from this verse.
SPEAKER_00: You talk about the ends of the age or upon uh this generation.
SPEAKER_00: We can see the signs of Jesus coming.
SPEAKER_00: We know it can't be much longer.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not here for a date, but I know he's coming and he's coming soon.
SPEAKER_00: And we ought to be ready.
SPEAKER_00: So these things are written for our uh uh admonition or our warning.
SPEAKER_00: And they're in samples, or really, when you look up that, it means example, but it also means something.
SPEAKER_00: It means it means a statue, or it means a memorial.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's memorialized in Scripture so we can learn from their mistakes.
SPEAKER_00: 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?
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: See, so that's why he's writing into the this letter to the Corinthians.
SPEAKER_00: So uh they had a 40-year delay in God's plan because of their unbelief.
SPEAKER_00: Some of us may be just a little bit behind.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: You know, Jesus didn't come to just do a little bit.
SPEAKER_00: His blood didn't just wasn't shed uh, you know, at Calvary just to do a partial thing.
SPEAKER_00: He came to do the whole thing.
SPEAKER_00: We've got available to us perfect health, we've got available to us riches.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, we can have enough abundance in our oh there he goes.
SPEAKER_00: He's one of those prosperity preachers.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm a prosperity preacher.
SPEAKER_00: What are you?
SPEAKER_00: A poverty preacher?
SPEAKER_00: You can't do anything when you're poor.
SPEAKER_00: I've been there.
SPEAKER_00: You can't do anything when you're poor, you can't help anybody, you can't even help yourself.
SPEAKER_00: No, I tell you, God wants you blessed and he wants you to be a blessing.
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: So uh this generation here, though, crossed over the Jordan at flood stage.
SPEAKER_00: They built two memorials, one in the river and one on the other side.
SPEAKER_00: And then we talked about it last week.
SPEAKER_00: They all circumcised the males because they hadn't been since they were born in the wilderness.
SPEAKER_00: They weren't circumcised yet.
SPEAKER_00: And circumcision was the mark in their flesh of the covenant they had with God.
SPEAKER_00: And so, what does that mean to us?
SPEAKER_00: It just, in fact, let's look at Joshua back there again.
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna be reading some more in Joshua in a minute.
SPEAKER_00: Joshua chapter 5.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: They're an armed camp there.
SPEAKER_00: They're right across the way.
SPEAKER_00: And and here you are circumcising all your warriors, and they can't do anything until they're healed up.
SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, God told them to do that, and it took faith for them to do that.
SPEAKER_00: Took faith for Joshua to do that.
SPEAKER_00: He had to believe that yes, they're gonna be protected.
SPEAKER_00: See, they were more afraid of Israel than Israel afraid of them.
SPEAKER_00: They didn't dare touch them while they're getting well.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day, which means rolling.
SPEAKER_00: God rolled the reproach of Egypt.
SPEAKER_00: What are you talking about?
SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, they did not have the mark of the covenant.
SPEAKER_00: They looked just like uncircumcised humanity.
SPEAKER_00: They look like everyone else who was not in covenant with God Almighty.
SPEAKER_00: In fact, he's the Lord of all the earth.
SPEAKER_00: God, I mean, you know, he wasn't just the God of Israel, he's the God of all the earth.
SPEAKER_00: The earth is the Lord's in the fullness thereof.
SPEAKER_00: I know the devil has power over his people, but I'm telling you, God owns everything.
SPEAKER_00: And he, we're in covenant with him.
SPEAKER_00: They were in covenant with him.
SPEAKER_00: So that they so what did that mean?
SPEAKER_00: Well, they no longer had anything at all to do with slavery.
SPEAKER_00: They had nothing to do with Egypt.
SPEAKER_00: Now they're mark wearing the mark of the covenant.
SPEAKER_00: They are God's covenant people.
SPEAKER_00: They're looking to God and not to man.
SPEAKER_00: Are you with me now?
SPEAKER_00: The reproach, the shame of Egypt is rolled off of them.
SPEAKER_00: And now they are looking in themselves differently now.
SPEAKER_00: It's a new thing.
SPEAKER_00: Can you see that?
SPEAKER_00: See, this is what we're doing.
SPEAKER_00: We're getting our minds ready to be willing to do something that's not comfort zone for a lot of us.
SPEAKER_00: There's gonna be some things that God's gonna speak to you, and you're gonna say, oh, wait a minute.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you might have a little pause.
SPEAKER_00: Let's get out of the comfort zone.
SPEAKER_00: Let's get over there where if God doesn't help you, you're gonna fail.
SPEAKER_00: Anyone can just stay in the boat, but Peter got out of the boat and walked on the water for a little while anyway.
SPEAKER_00: Are you with me now?
SPEAKER_00: So uh we have to be willing to change in 2026 to fully identify with our Father in heaven.
SPEAKER_00: Now, today we're gonna pick up with verse 10 here, Joshua chapter 5, verse 10.
SPEAKER_00: Let's keep reading.
SPEAKER_00: I want to get into some other things.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, listen to it one time all the way through, then listen to it the second time with pen and take some notes.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's a level of what you need to give this word in order to receive the fullness of it.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: The fullness of the blessing.
SPEAKER_00: See, a lot of people, like I said before, they just have some of the blessing.
SPEAKER_00: They're kind of blessed in their health, they're kind of blessed in their finances.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, if you live in America, you're really blessed compared to the rest of the world.
SPEAKER_00: But you know, there's a fullness of blessing that we hadn't even touched yet.
SPEAKER_00: I want the whole thing.
SPEAKER_00: I don't want to leave any of the blood of Jesus on the ground unclaimed.
SPEAKER_00: Are you with me now?
SPEAKER_00: All right, chapter 5, verse 10.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land.
SPEAKER_00: Neither had the children of Israel manna any more.
SPEAKER_00: But they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: And Joshua went unto him and said unto him, Art thou for us or for our adversaries?
SPEAKER_00: And he said, Nay, but as the captain of the host of the Lord, I am I now come.
SPEAKER_00: Am I now come?
SPEAKER_00: See the strategy in that.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: Now I've now come.
SPEAKER_00: I've now come.
SPEAKER_00: And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and did worship and said unto him, What saith my Lord unto his servant?
SPEAKER_00: And the captain of the Lord's host.
SPEAKER_00: See, what is the host?
SPEAKER_00: It's the armies of heaven, it's the angels.
SPEAKER_00: He's the Lord of hosts, he's the Lord of the armies of heaven.
SPEAKER_00: And he said unto Joshua, loose thy shoe from off thy foot, for the place whereon thou standest is holy.
SPEAKER_00: And Joshua did so.
SPEAKER_00: Now, folks, this ain't no angel here, because an angel would not have received his worship.
SPEAKER_00: An angel would not have said, Take your shoes off.
SPEAKER_00: The ground is holy where I'm at.
SPEAKER_00: See, this is Jesus in his pre-incarnate form.
SPEAKER_00: He hadn't showed up yet, but now he's come.
SPEAKER_00: When is now, right before they hit Jericho.
SPEAKER_00: They're gonna need Jesus with the sword in his hand.
SPEAKER_00: Are y'all with me now?
SPEAKER_00: Who else said, take your shoes off?
SPEAKER_00: Well, God out of the burning bush told Moses, take your shoes off, boy.
SPEAKER_00: Place where you're standing is holy.
SPEAKER_00: So he was right.
SPEAKER_00: See, this is Jesus, this is God showing up in a different form.
SPEAKER_00: Now, God has been in the camp all this time.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: And after that, after all of that, they this is after the Red Sea, God was with them in that in that form.
SPEAKER_00: And God said, Look, I want a Shekinah with them.
SPEAKER_00: Take an offering and build me a house.
SPEAKER_00: And they and and Moses took an offering of Israel back in Exodus 25.
SPEAKER_00: You can read about it.
SPEAKER_00: They brought gold and silver and they brought jewels and they brought blue and purple and scarlet and goat's hair and badger skins.
SPEAKER_00: Where in the world did they get all that?
SPEAKER_00: From Egypt.
SPEAKER_00: When they left Egypt, buddy, they left rich.
SPEAKER_00: When they left Egypt, they brought a stuff.
SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you, transfer of wealth like we've never seen.
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna have another transfer of wealth that's coming up here.
SPEAKER_00: Types and shadows.
SPEAKER_00: Types.
SPEAKER_00: Why is it written?
SPEAKER_00: Our admonition.
SPEAKER_00: I'm telling you, there's gonna be a transfer of wealth.
SPEAKER_00: He said, I want a Shekinah, I want to dwell among my people.
SPEAKER_00: I can't just float around in the atmosphere and manifest.
SPEAKER_00: I want a place, a resting place.
SPEAKER_00: So they built the tabernacle in the wilderness out of all that stuff.
SPEAKER_00: And I mean, you know, there was all the stuff that they had that they that they brought willingly.
SPEAKER_00: And so that's what that's what the priests bore.
SPEAKER_00: And what did they put in inside the ark?
SPEAKER_00: Well, they put Aaron's rod that budded.
SPEAKER_00: It had almond blooms on it.
SPEAKER_00: They put that rod in there, they put some of the manna in there.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: And every now and then, when he showed up at the tent's door, they knew they'd messed up.
SPEAKER_00: Usually his shekinah didn't show up until they had sinned, and then he would show up and they'd repent.
SPEAKER_00: So that was a form of the Holy.
SPEAKER_00: Ghost guiding them.
SPEAKER_00: Every believer, this is types and shadows now.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: If they can identify that leading, they can be led by the Spirit.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: You need to be filled and flooded with the Holy Ghost, with the evidence of speaking in other tongues.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: And see, they didn't have the power.
SPEAKER_00: They had the power in partial manifestation to get where they needed to go.
SPEAKER_00: But from this point on, they needed the power to do what?
SPEAKER_00: To dispossess the enemy from off of their land.
SPEAKER_00: They had to go in and they had to annihilate these people.
SPEAKER_00: God told them to go in and annihilate.
SPEAKER_00: And they were going to need what?
SPEAKER_00: Power, not just regular power.
SPEAKER_00: Why?
SPEAKER_00: Because everybody they faced was greater and more powerful than they were in the natural.
SPEAKER_00: That's why they needed the great equalizer.
SPEAKER_00: Really, he's not an equalizer, he's a superiorizer.
SPEAKER_00: There's nobody, nobody matches his power.
SPEAKER_00: Nobody.
SPEAKER_00: Nobody matches his power.
SPEAKER_00: So I want you to see these new things now.
SPEAKER_00: I see these new things.
SPEAKER_00: First of all, they passed over Jordan at flood stage.
SPEAKER_00: That's new.
SPEAKER_00: And the priests had something to do with it.
SPEAKER_00: See, before when they passed the Red Sea, what was that?
SPEAKER_00: Well, that was that was uh uh Moses stretching out his rod.
SPEAKER_00: But this time now you had the ministry involved.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: They get on the other side, they're circumcised.
SPEAKER_00: That's a new thing.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: The blood was across the threshold, and it protected them from the death angel.
SPEAKER_00: The death angel went through Egypt and killed the firstborn of all the heathen, but over the houses of Israel, he passed over.
SPEAKER_00: They celebrated for the first time.
SPEAKER_00: What were they?
SPEAKER_00: They were, the promise was you've got a promised land, you're gonna go to the promised land.
SPEAKER_00: Now they're in the promised land.
SPEAKER_00: Can you imagine the rejoicing?
SPEAKER_00: Can you imagine the kind of joy they had when they celebrated that Passover?
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I'm telling you, they were on cloud nine.
SPEAKER_00: They were over the moon, as they say.
SPEAKER_00: And so then that was that was a first-time thing.
SPEAKER_00: And then the next thing is that they ate of the corn.
SPEAKER_00: They didn't plant it, they just ate it.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, man.
SPEAKER_00: And then what?
SPEAKER_00: The manna quit.
SPEAKER_00: Why did the manna quit?
SPEAKER_00: Because manna was the food for slaves.
SPEAKER_00: Manna was the food for uh stiff-necked, uncircumcised Jews that didn't know how to follow orders.
SPEAKER_00: Are y'all with me now?
SPEAKER_00: Are y'all getting this new?
SPEAKER_00: I'm talking about these new things that happened to Israel.
SPEAKER_00: We've got some new things we hadn't touched yet.
SPEAKER_00: How many of you want the new things that he's got?
SPEAKER_00: Some of you don't care.
SPEAKER_00: All right, well, praise the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: Give me yours.
SPEAKER_00: I got a use for it.
SPEAKER_00: So now they've got power to possess their inheritance by dispossessing the enemy.
SPEAKER_00: So, now let's just keep uh reading here.
SPEAKER_00: In chapter 6.
SPEAKER_00: The very first military objective is Jericho.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you I you just got a last.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, God's got a sense of humor, you know.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, because, you know, you know, 40 years before they they sent out 12 spies.
SPEAKER_00: The 12 spies came back with the fruit of the of the land, you know.
SPEAKER_00: And and ten of the spies uh had a bad report.
SPEAKER_00: You know, they came back.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, this is just like he said, it's a land that flows with milk and honey.
SPEAKER_00: It's a good land, and and here's the fruit of it.
SPEAKER_00: Nevertheless, we'd be not able.
SPEAKER_00: There's giants in the land, and they got cities walled up to heaven.
SPEAKER_00: Who, what were they talking about?
SPEAKER_00: They're talking about Jericho.
SPEAKER_00: They were talking about Jericho.
SPEAKER_00: They saw Jericho when they passed the river.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: That's what they were talking about.
SPEAKER_00: They were deathly afraid of Jericho, so God said, first on my hit list, Jericho.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, come on, lift your hand right now.
SPEAKER_00: The thing we've been terrified of is what we're gonna overcome.
SPEAKER_00: The thing that we've been hesitant about, we're gonna run right through it.
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna run through the troop.
SPEAKER_00: Glory to God.
unknown: Woo!
SPEAKER_00: All right, chapter 6, verse 1.
SPEAKER_00: Now Jericho was straightly shut up because of the children of Israel.
SPEAKER_00: 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.
SPEAKER_00: All right.
SPEAKER_00: And the Lord said unto Joshua, see, I have given thee.
SPEAKER_00: Past tense.
SPEAKER_00: See, God, God cause a thing that be not as though it more.
SPEAKER_00: He speaks in past tense.
SPEAKER_00: You're always trying to get something, but God already gave it to you.
SPEAKER_00: I said, God already gave it to you.
SPEAKER_00: He's already given you everything that he's got in store for you this year.
SPEAKER_00: You just don't know it yet.
SPEAKER_00: You haven't, you haven't re you haven't seen it to receive it yet.
SPEAKER_00: See, I see, I have given thee.
SPEAKER_00: Glory to God into your hand, Jericho and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valor.
SPEAKER_00: They did have mighty men.
SPEAKER_00: But he had given them into his hand.
SPEAKER_00: And so then, I'm not gonna breed all of it, just you know, read it later.
SPEAKER_00: But he gave him the strategy on how they were gonna take the city.
SPEAKER_00: Now, this is a unique strategy.
SPEAKER_00: Uh it's unusual.
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't even look like militarily, it doesn't look like anything you would ever do if you're a military person.
SPEAKER_00: Uh, you wouldn't warn the enemy that you're here now.
SPEAKER_00: Here we are.
SPEAKER_00: But that's exactly what they did.
SPEAKER_00: God said, All right, what you do, now you get, you know, you get your warriors and get them out front, and then behind them you get the trumpeters, seven trumpeters, and then you get the Ark of the Covenant, and you get the rear guard, and you go out there, don't say a word, don't say one word, don't don't utter a word, just go in silence, march around that Jericho, march all the way around at one time, blowing the trumpets.
SPEAKER_00: You know, here we are.
SPEAKER_00: Eat your heart out, take a shot if you like.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, you know, all the way around.
SPEAKER_00: Now we know from Rahab early on, you know, the two spies went in.
SPEAKER_00: And Rahab hid the two spies because they heard that they were there and they were looking for them to kill them.
SPEAKER_00: And Rahab hid them and said, Look, I'm gonna hide you, but when you come, I mean everybody here is melting.
SPEAKER_00: They they've they heard about what God did at the Red Sea.
SPEAKER_00: Well, that was 40 years before.
SPEAKER_00: For 40 years, they've been nervous and scared of Israel coming.
SPEAKER_00: And here, here you've got these 10 uh spies that were so nervous they they said, we not able.
SPEAKER_00: We're like grasshoppers in their sight, and we're grasshoppers in our own side.
SPEAKER_00: Well, yeah, you're gonna die like a grasshopper right here on the spot.
SPEAKER_00: God killed all ten of them right there on the spot.
SPEAKER_00: The rest of everybody that agreed with them, they died in the wilderness over a 40-year period.
SPEAKER_00: See, God hates unbelief.
SPEAKER_00: Let's please God and walk by faith.
SPEAKER_00: I'm not saying he's gonna kill you, but I am saying that when you don't receive what God gives you, you can shorten your life.
SPEAKER_00: You can open the door to Satan to steal your life.
SPEAKER_00: Are you with me?
SPEAKER_00: So uh he and so they walked around there in broad daylight and and warned them, hey, we're here, and then went back home.
SPEAKER_00: And you can imagine what was going on behind those walls.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, they're going, what?
SPEAKER_00: What they're here?
SPEAKER_00: What what are we doing?
SPEAKER_00: And day two, same thing.
SPEAKER_00: Day three, the same thing.
SPEAKER_00: All the way through day six.
SPEAKER_00: By day seven, they're beside themselves.
SPEAKER_00: They're looking for a therapist, they're looking for a shrink, or they're looking for anybody that can help them have a night's sleep.
SPEAKER_00: They hadn't slept in seven days.
SPEAKER_00: And here, the seventh day, now it's different.
SPEAKER_00: The seventh day, they're gonna march around the same thing.
SPEAKER_00: Don't say a word, total silence, but have the trumpets blowing, go back around, and on the seventh revolution, you're going down seven times this time.
SPEAKER_00: One, two.
SPEAKER_00: Can you imagine how long that took?
SPEAKER_00: And all those warriors are just melting up there, they're shaking in their boots.
SPEAKER_00: And then finally, on the seventh revolution, Joshua said, Shout for the Lord has given us the city.
SPEAKER_00: And so they rose up this great shout, and the Bible says that the walls fell down flat.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody say the walls fell down flat.
SPEAKER_00: In verse 5.
SPEAKER_00: Well, it says in my margin, the the wall of the city, this is what God told him was gonna happen.
SPEAKER_00: And what God told him was gonna happen happened exactly like he said.
SPEAKER_00: The word flat means under it.
SPEAKER_00: In other words, the walls are so thick they can't fall out.
SPEAKER_00: And even if they did, if they falled out, fell outward, they'd still be what, seven, eight foot tall?
SPEAKER_00: Solid, you know, rock, stone, or something.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, it'd be hard to get in there.
SPEAKER_00: No, they recessed, they they fell under the ground.
SPEAKER_00: It's supernatural.
SPEAKER_00: Somehow the walls just went woo like that, and they went straight into the city and annihilated it.
SPEAKER_00: Now God told them ahead of time, said, now this city is accursed or devoted.
SPEAKER_00: It means like the tithe is the first tenth, it's devoted to God.
SPEAKER_00: You don't touch it, you don't spend it for yourself.
SPEAKER_00: If you do, you're cursed with a curse.
SPEAKER_00: Malachi.
SPEAKER_00: A lot of people don't realize they're walking way below what God wants for them because they haven't learned how to tithe and give God the first tenth.
SPEAKER_00: It's devoted, it's his, it belongs to him.
SPEAKER_00: Give it back to him.
SPEAKER_00: You haven't given anything, you're just returning what's his.
SPEAKER_00: And it takes faith to do that, especially in this economy.
SPEAKER_00: It's getting better, but it's not where it needs to be yet.
SPEAKER_00: But it it, you know, if you're a tither, then you're then you're blessed.
SPEAKER_00: And then the giving, you start to, when you give over and above the tithe, you get multiplication back.
SPEAKER_00: So this is a type of that.
SPEAKER_00: In other words, uh, this city, he said, don't touch anything in it.
SPEAKER_00: It's got gold and silver.
SPEAKER_00: Put all the gold and silver and and the and the riches in the treasury of the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: And don't touch the garments, don't take anything for yourselves.
SPEAKER_00: But surely if you do, you'll be cursed.
SPEAKER_00: And this whole nation will be cursed.
SPEAKER_00: It'll be an automatic curse on the nation if anybody takes what belong is devoted as a curse.
SPEAKER_00: You see what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_00: So, so uh they went in and they they defeated uh Jericho.
SPEAKER_00: And uh all the all the riches uh of that place went into the treasure of the Lord.
SPEAKER_00: They had they had financing.
SPEAKER_00: You know, it took money to do what they did.
SPEAKER_00: And God had a plan for the finances of Israel and the way that He had was gonna lead these millions of people.
SPEAKER_00: You've got millions of people.
SPEAKER_00: You've got to be able to lead them, you've got to be able to provide for them, you've got to be able to show them what's right.
SPEAKER_00: You've got to be able to go into the next city down the room down the road and and dispossess uh those by possess uh possess your inheritance by dispossessing those.
SPEAKER_00: So uh yet another obstacle is defeated.
SPEAKER_00: Now we won't get into AI, we'll get into that next week.
SPEAKER_00: Next week I'm planning on laying hands on everybody in the church.
SPEAKER_00: And if you don't want hands laid on you, well, you don't have to come up here, but I want to impart to you the fullness of the blessing so that you can begin to uh walk in a knowledge of what God has for you individually and for what God has for us corporately.
SPEAKER_00: And we'll share some things about AI and what happened, why that didn't work.
SPEAKER_00: Uh I don't want to get into that today.
SPEAKER_00: We've got a lot we we're gonna do next week.
SPEAKER_00: But uh uh suffice it to say that God created us to overcome.
SPEAKER_00: And uh, you know, in John 16, 33, Jesus said, In the world you shall have tribulation.
SPEAKER_00: You're gonna have trouble, you're gonna have obstacles, you're gonna have things that come against you, they're gonna have uh things that that you don't want.
SPEAKER_00: It's gonna happen.
SPEAKER_00: It comes with a territory in the world.
SPEAKER_00: You shall have it's not.
SPEAKER_00: I used to have that.
SPEAKER_00: When I first got saved and started the word of faith, I just thought nobody taught me this.
SPEAKER_00: I just assumed wrong.
SPEAKER_00: I thought, you know, if I can just get enough faith, I'll never have any trouble.
SPEAKER_00: Actually, it's the opposite.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, the more you know, the bigger threat you are, and the more the devil's gonna oppose you.
SPEAKER_00: I mean, Paul said, there's a great door and effect shall open unto me, and there are many adversaries.
SPEAKER_00: You know, he didn't say, and it's gonna be a smooth sailing.
SPEAKER_00: And so um, in the world, he said, you shall have tribulation, obstacles, trouble.
SPEAKER_00: But be of good courage.
SPEAKER_00: I have overcome the world.
SPEAKER_00: I like to amplify it.
SPEAKER_00: I have conquered it for you, I have deprived it of its ability to harm you.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, glory to God.
SPEAKER_00: See, we're created to overcome.
SPEAKER_00: I like uh John, uh 1 John 4, 4, greater is he that's in me than he that's in the world.
SPEAKER_00: See, that's what they had when they when the when the captain of the host showed up with a drawn sword.
SPEAKER_00: They had the they had the greater one.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they had they had God along with uh, but now a different a different manifestation.
SPEAKER_00: There's there's three in one: God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost.
SPEAKER_00: We need all three.
SPEAKER_00: And so um uh Philippians 4 13, I can do all things through Christ who strengtheneth me.
SPEAKER_00: Quit saying I can't do that.
SPEAKER_00: Yes, you can.
SPEAKER_00: You can do all things through Christ.
SPEAKER_00: And I came across a confession that Brother Hagin had in his Faith Food.
SPEAKER_00: How many of you have faith food and you read that?
SPEAKER_00: Say it's part of my daily uh thing, so you probably came across it too this past week.
SPEAKER_00: But for those of you that didn't, I'm gonna read it because it's just so good.
SPEAKER_00: It's so it fits with what we're doing right now.
SPEAKER_00: And it's entitled Strengthened, and it's based on Psalm 27.
SPEAKER_00: The Lord is the strength of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?
SPEAKER_00: Uh and also Romans 9, 33, whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
SPEAKER_00: And so here his he wrote this confession out.
SPEAKER_00: The language of faith says, I can do all things in Christ.
SPEAKER_00: The Lord strengthens me.
SPEAKER_00: I cannot be conquered, I cannot be defeated.
SPEAKER_00: If a natural force comes against me, it can't defeat me because there aren't enough natural forces in all the world that could conquer the Christ who dwells within me.
SPEAKER_00: Greater is he who is in me than who he that is in the world.
SPEAKER_00: I am fortified from within.
SPEAKER_00: I've learned how to put Christ to work for me and in me.
SPEAKER_00: I have dwelling in me the Spirit of God who raised Jesus from the dead.
SPEAKER_00: I have God's wisdom, strength, and ability in me.
SPEAKER_00: I'm learning how to let that wisdom govern my intellect.
SPEAKER_00: Doesn't it make you feel like a giant killer?
SPEAKER_00: That's what you are.
SPEAKER_00: I'm learning how to let that wisdom govern my intellect.
SPEAKER_00: I'm letting God speak through my lips.
SPEAKER_00: I'm daring to think God's thoughts after him.
SPEAKER_00: He is the strength of my life.
SPEAKER_00: Whom shall I fear?
SPEAKER_00: God has made me greater than my enemies.
SPEAKER_00: God has enabled me to put my heel on the neck of weakness, fear, and inability.
SPEAKER_00: I stand to declare that whosoever believeth in him shall not be put to shame.
SPEAKER_00: Therefore, I cannot be put to shame.
SPEAKER_00: Come on, lift your hand right now.
SPEAKER_00: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_00: Now that's how you talk this year.
SPEAKER_00: That's how you start talking all the time.
SPEAKER_00: Don't just talk like that in church, talk like that everywhere.
SPEAKER_00: Are y'all with me now?
SPEAKER_00: Glory to God.
SPEAKER_00: Come on, let's lift our hands right now.
SPEAKER_00: Father, we thank you for the good things that you have, the new things that are in store for us.
SPEAKER_00: And we give you praise that the captain of the host is with us, the Holy Ghost, the greater one.
SPEAKER_00: We have access to the greater one.
SPEAKER_00: In the name of Jesus.