1 00:00:08,760 --> 00:00:11,480 Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Love Quest International 2 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,600 Church podcast, where we seek to love all nations, equip the 3 00:00:14,600 --> 00:00:17,560 church, mobilize the equipped, and serve all. 4 00:00:17,880 --> 00:00:21,080 We're super glad you're joining us from whenever and wherever 5 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:23,760 you're at in the world. Welcome to the family to get 6 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:26,440 your Bibles ready, get some water, get some coffee, maybe 7 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:28,640 some tea, and get ready to receive. 8 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:39,320 Let's get into it. Well, it's so great to see you 9 00:00:39,320 --> 00:00:41,280 here today. It's going to be a good day. 10 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:46,680 We're going to continue along the message that we started just 11 00:00:46,680 --> 00:00:49,480 a couple of weeks ago on family matters. 12 00:00:51,120 --> 00:00:58,040 So we started with the family that God intended in the first 13 00:00:58,040 --> 00:00:59,800 week. And then last week, Elder John 14 00:00:59,800 --> 00:01:06,080 spoke about family forgiveness as a powerful statement, 15 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:08,920 forgiveness, the forgiveness that we have. 16 00:01:10,400 --> 00:01:15,400 And now we're going to continue with family matters on the 17 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:23,200 subject of it runs in the family, it runs in the family. 18 00:01:23,880 --> 00:01:26,280 You know, there's certain things that run in the family. 19 00:01:26,440 --> 00:01:31,360 All right, and, and sometimes those things are genetic, right? 20 00:01:31,360 --> 00:01:34,600 There's certain certain hairlines that run in the 21 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:38,440 family, right? Certain heights that run in the 22 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:44,200 family. There's certain sometimes people 23 00:01:44,200 --> 00:01:47,920 have these tweaky little thumbs that they can bend and and have 24 00:01:47,920 --> 00:01:51,440 double jointed, right? You've seen that there's things 25 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:55,000 that run in the family, and then there's sometimes the things 26 00:01:55,000 --> 00:01:58,800 that run in the family that, you know, we can just catch these 27 00:01:58,800 --> 00:02:04,160 habits. You know, there's certain areas 28 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:07,760 of activities that we run in the family. 29 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:14,000 Sometimes what runs in the family begins because somebody 30 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:16,800 in the family wants to learn a new skill. 31 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:19,600 So now music runs in the family. Yeah, they may have been 32 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:23,760 musically inclined, but now because this person started 33 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:27,280 piano or this person started in singing and now that runs in the 34 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,040 family. Because in the family they heard 35 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:30,840 singing, they heard all these things. 36 00:02:31,040 --> 00:02:34,720 And that became part of what the family is, you know, at 37 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:38,120 Christmas time, or they gathered together around a piano because 38 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:40,840 that's just something they do. Is it runs in the family. 39 00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:47,640 My, my ma, my grandma on my mum's side started doing 40 00:02:47,640 --> 00:02:53,560 elocution and diction and public speaking as a way of winning 41 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:55,240 money because at that time they'd have these little 42 00:02:55,320 --> 00:02:58,800 contests in Australia for that. And so she made money from 43 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:03,120 getting a poem and, and reading it with articulation and, and, 44 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:06,200 and very good diction. And so therefore that starts to 45 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:11,120 run in the family, except for the first few weeks I was here 46 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:16,920 in Canada, I remember I'd met this incredible lady from Canada 47 00:03:16,920 --> 00:03:23,280 and just beautiful. And yeah, it's amazing. 48 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:27,440 And anyway, we'd met in Australia. 49 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:29,800 Then six months later I came to visit in Canada. 50 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:36,960 And I had not been to Canada before and I didn't realise I 51 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:41,920 had an accent. You ever have that not realising 52 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:46,480 you have an accent? And I had gone into Walmart to 53 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:51,080 get some lights, but back then I didn't say it that clearly or 54 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:54,120 without much diction. And so I had gone in. 55 00:03:55,040 --> 00:03:58,800 I was a where? Where are the lights? 56 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:05,640 This poor lady looks at me. I said the lights. 57 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:10,200 Where are the lights? She's like locks, the locks, the 58 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:13,160 locks are down here. No lights, lights. 59 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:20,040 And I point up lights. Oh, lights. 60 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:24,600 Oh, anyway, I don't know how I got into that story. 61 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:29,040 Bless the Lord, OK, But it runs in the family. 62 00:04:29,960 --> 00:04:34,160 It runs in the family. Now, my children are Canadians, 63 00:04:34,160 --> 00:04:36,680 so they can be understood in Canada, which is fantastic. 64 00:04:36,960 --> 00:04:41,480 Fantastic. So today we're going to address 65 00:04:42,560 --> 00:04:47,240 what it means to have areas in your family line that can be 66 00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:49,400 negative, that need to be broken. 67 00:04:51,640 --> 00:04:54,000 And you might be asked to the question, why am I repeating 68 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,280 negative family habits? What it like sometimes you like? 69 00:04:57,840 --> 00:05:00,120 How did I end up sounding like my dad? 70 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:01,680 How did I end up sounding like my mum? 71 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:06,320 How did I end up catching that habit, that thing that I didn't 72 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:08,920 like then or or it wasn't something I thought was part of 73 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:13,600 who I was, but I've had this habit or this negative aspect 74 00:05:14,960 --> 00:05:17,480 and how do I hit reset on family hurt? 75 00:05:20,320 --> 00:05:27,200 How do I hit reset? In Exodus 34, verse six and 76 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:30,320 seven, it says, and the Lord passed by before him. 77 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:33,200 Now what's happening here is Moses is at the top of Mount 78 00:05:33,200 --> 00:05:36,480 Sinai and he asked to see the Lord. 79 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:39,320 And so it says. And the Lord passed by before 80 00:05:39,320 --> 00:05:44,920 him and proclaimed the Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and 81 00:05:44,920 --> 00:05:53,320 gracious, say, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and 82 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:58,400 abundant in loving kindness and truth, keeping mercy and loving 83 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:01,880 kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and 84 00:06:01,880 --> 00:06:05,840 transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the 85 00:06:05,840 --> 00:06:10,040 guilty visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children 86 00:06:10,440 --> 00:06:14,760 and the children's children to the third and 4th generation. 87 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:20,480 So here we have this fascinating verse where he talks about his 88 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:22,120 kindness. He talks about his mercy, he 89 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:28,280 talks about His grace, talks about the way he sheds his, his 90 00:06:28,280 --> 00:06:33,000 loving kindness for thousands. And yet it would seem that He 91 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:37,240 might be visiting the sins of the fathers on the children. 92 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:45,800 But this term visiting actually means to observe, to see the 93 00:06:45,800 --> 00:06:53,240 impact of sin for generations, to observe the generational 94 00:06:53,280 --> 00:06:57,640 impact of sin. You see, He is merciful and 95 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:02,520 gracious, He is forgiving, and He is abundant in loving 96 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:08,120 kindness, but He notices the impact of sin. 97 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:15,560 The impact of sin in a generation goes down the line 98 00:07:15,560 --> 00:07:22,680 until it is interrupted. You've probably heard this term 99 00:07:22,680 --> 00:07:27,800 many times here at Lovequest. You can be the interruption in 100 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:33,040 your bloodline. Interrupt the bloodline, 101 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:36,680 interrupt that pattern, that negative pattern. 102 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:44,600 You're an interruption, your interruption to this line of of 103 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:50,440 chaos or perhaps hurt. Perhaps there are areas in the 104 00:07:50,440 --> 00:07:54,880 family that of anger and you're like, I never thought I'd be 105 00:07:54,880 --> 00:07:59,360 like that. And yet it's come through the 106 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:02,480 line. You are the interruption. 107 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:13,880 Genesis 12 we start to see a pattern of negative impact even 108 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:16,480 here in Abraham. Now Abraham is known as a man of 109 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:21,920 faith and obedience. He is known to be a one who was 110 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:25,680 faithful to the Lord. And yet in this one area there 111 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:30,840 was a pattern. Genesis 12 verse 10 it says then 112 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:34,480 a famine came to the land. Abram went down to Egypt to 113 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:36,440 live. It was a hard famine. 114 00:08:37,240 --> 00:08:41,280 As he drew near to Egypt, he said to his wife, Sarah, look, 115 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:43,960 we both know that you're a beautiful woman. 116 00:08:48,520 --> 00:08:51,520 Gentlemen, that is a good idea to say that to your wife. 117 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:52,760 OK. All right? 118 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:57,240 Just take that note. That's a positive you can take 119 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:01,920 out of this message. All right, look, we both know 120 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:04,920 you're a beautiful woman. When the Egyptians see you, 121 00:09:04,920 --> 00:09:08,880 they're going to say, aha, that's his wife, and kill me, 122 00:09:11,040 --> 00:09:14,480 but they'll let you live. Do me a favour, tell them you're 123 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:17,080 my sister. Because of you, they'll welcome 124 00:09:17,080 --> 00:09:22,840 me and let me live. When Abraham arrived in Egypt, 125 00:09:22,840 --> 00:09:25,960 the Egyptians took one look and saw that his wife was stunningly 126 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:30,160 beautiful. Pharaoh's Princess raved over 127 00:09:30,160 --> 00:09:32,840 her to Pharaoh, and she was taken to live with Pharaoh 128 00:09:32,840 --> 00:09:36,520 because to live with Pharaoh because of her. 129 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:40,560 Abram got along very well. He accumulated sheep and cattle, 130 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:44,000 male and female donkeys, men and women servants and camels. 131 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:48,360 But God hit Pharaoh hard because of Abraham's wife, Sarai, and 132 00:09:48,360 --> 00:09:52,840 everybody in the palace got seriously sick, and Pharaoh 133 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:55,880 called for Abraham. What's this that you've done to 134 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:58,160 me? Why didn't you tell me that 135 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:01,120 she's your wife? Why did you say she's my sister? 136 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:03,960 So that I'd act. I'd take her as my wife. 137 00:10:03,960 --> 00:10:06,600 Here's your wife back. Take her and get out. 138 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:15,120 Abraham set the standard of lying and deceit. 139 00:10:20,320 --> 00:10:24,000 He had made an acceptable, what he believed an acceptable 140 00:10:24,000 --> 00:10:26,520 position. But it was a position of lying 141 00:10:26,520 --> 00:10:31,120 and deceit. Now in Genesis 12, it's actually 142 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:33,600 at the beginning of his journey with the Lord. 143 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:40,000 But we actually see this story repeated in Genesis 20 when he 144 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:42,960 goes to garage and does the same thing with Abimelech. 145 00:10:44,760 --> 00:10:48,800 And that is after he didn't counted God, after he'd had the 146 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:51,560 change of name from Abraham to Abraham, after he had 147 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:54,640 encountered the presence of the Lord. 148 00:10:54,880 --> 00:10:59,080 And yet he still fell into this position of lying in deceit. 149 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:05,360 Lying in deceit was the symptom of the root. 150 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:14,120 The root was the fear of man. See, sometimes that thing that 151 00:11:14,120 --> 00:11:19,480 you're dealing with is a symptom and your root is found actually 152 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:22,120 in fear. The root is found in 153 00:11:22,240 --> 00:11:25,640 insecurities. The root is found in a, a, a 154 00:11:26,640 --> 00:11:33,720 trauma, but not knowing how to deal with it, it's a symptom and 155 00:11:33,720 --> 00:11:39,120 we have to get to the root. There are situations where 156 00:11:39,120 --> 00:11:43,280 people have had have fear in their life and that fear was 157 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:48,280 rooted in an insecurity that grip them. 158 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:54,520 And we get to the root of it through Christ. 159 00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:58,680 We get the root of it through the work of the Holy Spirit. 160 00:11:59,000 --> 00:12:03,760 We get to the root because God's not interested in just trimming 161 00:12:03,760 --> 00:12:09,080 the top and and taking away the view of what it might have been. 162 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:11,800 He wants to get to the root because he wants you whole. 163 00:12:13,360 --> 00:12:16,120 He wants to get to the root because his plan for you is 164 00:12:16,120 --> 00:12:20,200 wholeness. His purpose for you and for your 165 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:27,600 family is wholeness. Wholeness in every part. 166 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:34,800 So we see in Genesis 26, Isaac, Isaac is Abraham's son. 167 00:12:35,080 --> 00:12:39,200 So Isaac stayed in garage. When the men who lived there 168 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:42,240 asked Isaac about his wife Rebecca, he said, she's my 169 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:44,680 sister. Hang on. 170 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:47,680 This happened before, right? Right. 171 00:12:49,440 --> 00:12:51,800 He was afraid to say she is my wife. 172 00:12:53,920 --> 00:12:59,120 He was afraid. Afraid. 173 00:13:01,480 --> 00:13:05,560 It's the same root. The fear of man. 174 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:09,560 It was the same root with the same fruit. 175 00:13:11,400 --> 00:13:13,840 But we deal with the root. We deal with the fruit. 176 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:19,040 So Isaac said Indira Yep and said she is my sister. 177 00:13:19,120 --> 00:13:21,040 He was afraid to say she is my wife. 178 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:24,600 He thought they will kill me to get her because she is so 179 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:28,600 beautiful. But sometime later, Abimelech, 180 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:32,240 king of the Philistines, looked out his window and saw Isaac 181 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:36,120 caressing Rebecca. Immediately Abimelech called for 182 00:13:36,120 --> 00:13:39,240 Isaac and exclaimed, She's obviously your wife. 183 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:42,360 Why did you say she is my sister? 184 00:13:46,240 --> 00:13:49,720 Route? Because I was afraid someone 185 00:13:49,720 --> 00:13:52,040 would kill me to get her from me. 186 00:13:52,320 --> 00:13:56,920 Afraid, Isaac replied. How could you do this to us? 187 00:13:57,120 --> 00:14:00,000 Abimelech exclaimed. One of my people might easily 188 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:02,160 have taken your wife and slept with her, and you would have 189 00:14:02,160 --> 00:14:05,960 made us guilty of great sin. Then Abimelech issued a public 190 00:14:05,960 --> 00:14:08,560 proclamation. Anyone who touches this man or 191 00:14:08,560 --> 00:14:15,360 his wife will be put to death. So Isaac had continued the 192 00:14:15,360 --> 00:14:19,400 family family line activity of lying in deceit. 193 00:14:24,630 --> 00:14:27,630 And then Isaac reaped the sowing of lying in deceit. 194 00:14:31,870 --> 00:14:34,470 When Isaac had two children, Esau and Jacob. 195 00:14:36,070 --> 00:14:40,750 Esau was a a hunter. He he loved going out in the 196 00:14:40,750 --> 00:14:44,950 field and he's a hairy man and rugged. 197 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:48,600 It it says a hairy man in the Bible says a hairy man. 198 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:53,960 I'll tell you how hairy he was. Yeah, that's not not that way, 199 00:14:53,960 --> 00:15:02,840 But yes. And and Jacob wanted the 200 00:15:02,840 --> 00:15:05,160 blessing. But Jacob was the youngest son 201 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:10,640 and I was to go to Esau. So Isaac had told he sort of go 202 00:15:10,640 --> 00:15:13,640 out and and get some game. He was old at the time, blind, 203 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:15,800 and he said his time to die was soon. 204 00:15:15,800 --> 00:15:19,720 So he told his eldest son to go out and get some game, make some 205 00:15:19,720 --> 00:15:20,640 food. And then I'll give you a 206 00:15:20,640 --> 00:15:23,960 blessing because he loved the the food that that Esau would 207 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:25,520 would get when he went out hunting. 208 00:15:27,320 --> 00:15:31,880 And then Rachel, Rachel, Isaac's wife, actually says to Jacob, 209 00:15:32,280 --> 00:15:36,160 quick, you can get the blessing. We just got to do this. 210 00:15:36,160 --> 00:15:39,840 Just follow exactly what I said. They get a goat, they kill it, 211 00:15:39,840 --> 00:15:43,160 they make the food and then they take some of the goat hair. 212 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:48,120 Yes, he was that hairy. And they put that on the back of 213 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:54,960 of Jacob's neck and on his arms, so that if if Isaac was to touch 214 00:15:54,960 --> 00:16:00,680 him, he would think it was Esau. And so we see he comes in, he 215 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:06,760 deceives his father, and he receives the blessing and the 216 00:16:07,720 --> 00:16:14,000 lying in the seat that had happened through Isaac came back 217 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:20,200 to him through his son, and he reaped that. 218 00:16:21,760 --> 00:16:24,240 Genesis 26 tells the story in verse 36. 219 00:16:24,240 --> 00:16:28,480 It says Esau exclaimed. No wonder his name is Jacob, for 220 00:16:28,480 --> 00:16:32,320 now he has cheated me twice. First he took my rights as the 221 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:34,800 first born, and now he has stolen my blessing. 222 00:16:35,760 --> 00:16:37,840 Oh, haven't you saved even one blessing for me? 223 00:16:37,840 --> 00:16:41,720 He said to Isaac. And then from verse 41, from 224 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:45,800 that time on Esau hated Jacob because their father had given 225 00:16:45,800 --> 00:16:49,080 Jacob the blessing. And Esau began to scheme. 226 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:51,440 I will soon be mourning my father's death. 227 00:16:51,680 --> 00:16:54,640 Death. Then I will kill my brother 228 00:16:55,160 --> 00:16:58,600 Jacob. So now the lying and the deceit 229 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:02,240 that had begun in Abraham, continued in Isaac, had now 230 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:09,280 reaped and sown deceit back to them, but also division and also 231 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:19,560 a murderous heart. It was running in the family and 232 00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:30,280 it had to break. It was a pattern of deceit that 233 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:36,800 left a trail of scars. And yet many great things happen 234 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:39,600 through this line. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 235 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:41,320 This is what I love about the Bible. 236 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:43,360 The Bible doesn't just give you the rosy picture. 237 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:47,240 The Bible tells you the stuff that they should never have 238 00:17:47,240 --> 00:17:52,880 done. It's not putting this image out 239 00:17:52,880 --> 00:17:58,280 there that everything was easy. It says, yeah, this, this 240 00:17:58,280 --> 00:18:07,740 actually happened. And these led to a pattern of 241 00:18:07,740 --> 00:18:11,780 deceit that left scars in their life, separation and family. 242 00:18:13,740 --> 00:18:17,740 And it wasn't until later in his life that Jacob had himself been 243 00:18:17,740 --> 00:18:19,780 deceived by his father-in-law. Again. 244 00:18:19,780 --> 00:18:21,300 It just keeps going in circles, right? 245 00:18:23,900 --> 00:18:27,020 And then he had an encounter with the Lord where he wrestled 246 00:18:27,020 --> 00:18:29,500 the Lord and asked for his blessing. 247 00:18:32,440 --> 00:18:36,080 And after that time he went and he actually met Esau, his 248 00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:40,240 brother. And in that moment there was 249 00:18:40,240 --> 00:18:47,200 restoration. In that moment, what had become 250 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:51,120 division, what had become hurt and pain had begun to heal. 251 00:18:57,050 --> 00:19:00,290 Now I want to give you an example of a positive line. 252 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:11,760 Funny enough, same line. It's actually one of one of the 253 00:19:11,760 --> 00:19:14,280 descendants of Levi, who is one of the sons of Jacob. 254 00:19:18,720 --> 00:19:22,520 In First Chronicles 16, we hear about Asaph. 255 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:27,000 Who's heard of Asaph before? Good amount of you. 256 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:32,520 OK, good. King David appointed Levites to 257 00:19:32,520 --> 00:19:36,000 minister before the Ark of the Lord and to celebrate by calling 258 00:19:36,000 --> 00:19:38,960 to mind and thanking and praising the Lord, the God of 259 00:19:38,960 --> 00:19:43,400 Israel. Asaph was the chief next to him. 260 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:47,880 Zechariah Jazeel, Jay-Z. That'll do. 261 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:54,840 Shimmy, Ramoth, Jaheel, Matataya, Ilya, Banaya, Edom and 262 00:19:54,840 --> 00:19:58,520 JL who were to play harps and liars. 263 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:04,080 Asaph was to sound the symbols. And then on the day David's 264 00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:08,960 first entrusted, then on that day, David's first entrusted to 265 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:12,960 Asaph and his brethren the singing of thanks to the Lord as 266 00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:16,480 their chief task. So here's Asaph. 267 00:20:16,600 --> 00:20:19,480 Asaph is of the line of the Kohathites. 268 00:20:19,800 --> 00:20:23,080 One of the sons of Levi was Kohath, and that group of people 269 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:26,520 were responsible when responsible for the sacred 270 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:30,360 things in the Tabernacle during the time of Moses and the sacred 271 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:32,320 things when it became the temple. 272 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:38,400 And here he was appointed now by David and his job, his primary 273 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:42,680 role is to be in the House of God and to thank God, praise 274 00:20:42,680 --> 00:20:46,000 God. That was his primary role. 275 00:20:50,360 --> 00:20:52,800 And now we see here in Two Chronicles 5. 276 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,880 So that was under King David, now under King Solomon at the 277 00:20:55,880 --> 00:20:59,400 time of the temple dedication, it reads in verse 12. 278 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:02,640 And all the Levites who were singers, all of those of Asaph, 279 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:06,640 Heman and Jedathan, with their sons and their kinsmen arrayed 280 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:10,040 in fine linen, having symbols, harps and liars, stood at the 281 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:14,160 East End of the altar, and with them 120 priests blowing 282 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:16,360 trumpets. So this is at Solomon's 283 00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:20,040 dedication. So we see, here's Asaph now with 284 00:21:20,040 --> 00:21:25,680 his sons doing the same thing, praising God, leading people in 285 00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:29,640 the praise of God who runs in the family. 286 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:39,080 Now we know the story of Israel is broken one and they end up 287 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:43,440 going into Babylon into exile. Then when they're returning from 288 00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:47,480 exile, there's a group of them will come back and say we've got 289 00:21:47,480 --> 00:21:49,640 to rebuild the temple because it had been destroyed. 290 00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,960 And we read here in Ezra chapter 3 after they had built the 291 00:21:54,960 --> 00:22:02,760 foundation of the temple. This is almost 450 years plus 292 00:22:03,600 --> 00:22:07,720 later. And when the builders laid the 293 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,720 foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests stood in their 294 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:16,440 vestments with trumpets, and the Levites, sons of who Asaph with 295 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:20,360 their symbols to praise the Lord after the order of David, king 296 00:22:20,360 --> 00:22:24,440 of Israel. So now you've got hundreds of 297 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:34,360 years of faithfulness because I ran in the family, he ran in the 298 00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:41,120 family, Praise ran in the family, thanking God ran in the 299 00:22:41,120 --> 00:22:45,080 family. And that position of 300 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:50,720 faithfulness was still there, still there, come on, still 301 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:55,880 remain, still persistent, still as energetic, still as the 302 00:22:55,880 --> 00:23:05,080 heartfelt. Some 12 generations later, the 303 00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:11,120 faithfulness of God, a pattern of faithfulness, left a trail of 304 00:23:11,120 --> 00:23:21,320 praise. You see, there's a breakthrough, 305 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:25,280 and when the breakthrough happens, transformation is 306 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:31,120 available for the whole family, for the whole family. 307 00:23:37,050 --> 00:23:40,730 Let's turn now to acts. We're talking in the New 308 00:23:40,730 --> 00:23:45,000 Testament. Paul had been imprisoned in the 309 00:23:45,040 --> 00:23:51,520 city of Philippi, and they've been imprisoned for no wrong of 310 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,000 their own. But they had caused some trouble 311 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:58,320 because they were telling people about Jesus, and they were at 312 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:03,840 the midnight hour, they were locked in their chains in the 313 00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:08,520 deep part of this cave in their prison. 314 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:13,000 And what were they doing? Complaining, right? 315 00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:16,320 Complaining, saying, oh, my goodness, why there's so many 316 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,280 rats? Is that right? 317 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:20,440 No, no, no, no. Thank you. 318 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,000 Thank you, Pastor Dylan, for remembering the story. 319 00:24:23,120 --> 00:24:26,280 I appreciate that. No, they were praising God. 320 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:31,600 They were praising God. And then verse 26, suddenly 321 00:24:31,600 --> 00:24:35,280 there was a massive earthquake and the prison was shaken to its 322 00:24:35,280 --> 00:24:38,080 foundations. All the doors immediately flew 323 00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,520 open and the chains of every prisoner fell off. 324 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:44,240 The jailer woke up to see the prison doors wide open. 325 00:24:45,160 --> 00:24:47,920 He assumed the prisoners had escaped, so he drew his sword to 326 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:50,840 kill himself. But Paul shouted to him, Stop, 327 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:52,920 don't kill yourself, we are all here. 328 00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:59,480 Then he brought them out. And our sirs, what must I do to 329 00:24:59,480 --> 00:25:03,320 be saved? They replied, Believe in the 330 00:25:03,320 --> 00:25:07,480 Lord Jesus and you will be saved along with everyone in your 331 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:20,000 household. Verse 34, it says the jailer 332 00:25:20,000 --> 00:25:24,920 brought them into his house, set a meal before them, and he and 333 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:30,600 his entire household rejoiced because they all believed in 334 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:35,000 God. You see, this is the promise. 335 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:42,160 Yeah, there's challenges, yes, there there's difficulties. 336 00:25:42,280 --> 00:25:44,720 Yes. Sometimes you might be the one 337 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:48,520 who needs to be the light in your household, but there's a 338 00:25:48,600 --> 00:25:51,560 transformation available for your whole household. 339 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:57,440 Cornelius was the same in Acts chapter 10, where the whole 340 00:25:57,440 --> 00:26:02,400 household was filled with the Spirit and baptized a whole 341 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:07,720 household. God's in the transformation 342 00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:16,680 business, and here the jailer had a new generational norm of 343 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:27,790 faith and wholeness that runs in the family, a whole new norm, a 344 00:26:27,790 --> 00:26:32,070 whole new way of living, a whole new expectation of faith and 345 00:26:32,070 --> 00:26:37,670 wholeness. In two Timothy chapter 1 and 346 00:26:37,670 --> 00:26:43,000 verse 5, Paul's writing to Timothy and he says, I remember 347 00:26:43,000 --> 00:26:47,600 your genuine faith for you share the faith that first filled your 348 00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,840 grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice. 349 00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,880 And I know that same faith continues strong in you. 350 00:27:00,120 --> 00:27:03,280 It starts somewhere it can start with you. 351 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,040 It starts somewhere it can start with you. 352 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:10,920 It starts somewhere. It can start with you. 353 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:14,920 It starts somewhere it can start with you. 354 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:24,600 The breakthrough. The freedom. 355 00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:37,280 Freedom from anger, freedom from divorce, freedom from addiction. 356 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:51,920 It starts with you, my Gran. On my so I talked about Ma. 357 00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:53,960 Now I got Gran. We had Gran, we had ma. 358 00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:58,000 It was simple that way. Anyway, Gran was my dad's mom 359 00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:08,640 and when this was in the 19 mid 1940s, my dad was about 3, my 360 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:14,800 uncle would have been about 5. And her husband left her, 361 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:23,840 divorced her, went with a another woman and at the time 362 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:27,440 she was being pressured by her family. 363 00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:33,800 She had two young sons, no great means to be able to take care of 364 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:40,000 them. And they said, put your kids in 365 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,920 adoption, put them in care. You can't do that. 366 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:44,520 You can't. You can't take care of them. 367 00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:46,000 You're not going to be able to do it. 368 00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:58,840 And she said, no, I trust God, it's better that they be with 369 00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:08,190 me. She interrupted rejection. 370 00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:24,280 She interrupted the possibility of harm of I wasn't wanted that 371 00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:30,480 she was a woman of faith in in the introduction to one of my 372 00:29:30,480 --> 00:29:38,040 dad's books, he tells a story about how 1 winter they'd run 373 00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:42,680 out of wood and they had no money, but he didn't know that 374 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:46,560 he was about 5 or 6 years of age. 375 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:52,840 And so they grant said, look, we're going to go and get some 376 00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,520 wood. That's called a declaration of 377 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:58,920 faith when you don't have the money for the wood, as you say, 378 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:03,680 OK, we're going to go and get the wood and they need to get 379 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:07,040 there by a certain time because to get the wood for the delivery 380 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:09,280 for that night. But the last delivery that came 381 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:18,080 out of, of, of firewood and they started walking, no finance. 382 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:22,920 They started walking, nothing seemed clearly available. 383 00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:26,760 They just started walking, walking through the park. 384 00:30:29,120 --> 00:30:31,560 Not sure how God's going to provide, not sure how what that 385 00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:34,520 conversation is like. Not sure how to have that 386 00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:37,240 conversation with the person who's providing the word. 387 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:42,120 Can you just give me the word? As they're walking, the wind 388 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:48,120 blew up and there was something that hit Gran's leg. 389 00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:50,160 And so she bent down and picked it up. 390 00:30:51,200 --> 00:30:56,160 It was a £10 note, exactly what she needed. 391 00:30:57,760 --> 00:30:59,760 And so she went the rest of the way rejoicing. 392 00:31:03,040 --> 00:31:08,480 You see, the right decision is not always the easiest decision, 393 00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:18,320 but it can be a decision that breaks or keeps you from having 394 00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:24,760 something into your bloodline. And what happened was now it was 395 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:26,840 a bloodline of faith that believed God. 396 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,040 There were stories of faith where God had provided. 397 00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:37,240 She raised two men who both went through university, both got 398 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,680 degrees, one became an architect, one got a degree in 399 00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:44,440 economics and then gave that up 10 years later to join the 400 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:51,680 ministry full time. She held on to Isaiah 54 verse 401 00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:54,800 5. God is my husband. 402 00:31:59,360 --> 00:32:04,080 God is my husband. He will care for me. 403 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,000 He will keep me. He will hold me. 404 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:16,080 Now she wasn't perfect, but you know what she was? 405 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:22,320 She was someone who believed God, believed God was able, 406 00:32:22,320 --> 00:32:26,240 believed God could. And the way she spoke about her 407 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:35,680 husband was never negative. And so now my dad is 55 years 408 00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:47,670 married to my mum. But it was a decision. 409 00:32:47,910 --> 00:32:50,350 And today you have an opportunity to make a decision. 410 00:32:51,670 --> 00:32:54,230 If there's areas in your life you're like, no, there's I need 411 00:32:54,230 --> 00:32:56,880 breakthrough in this. There's areas in your life where 412 00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:00,080 you can see negative repercussions coming through the 413 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,120 family. Your decision is faith. 414 00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,240 Your decision is believe God. Your decision is to say yes 415 00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:08,480 today. Today I make a stand. 416 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,120 Today I make a stand that I am not going to fall into those 417 00:33:11,120 --> 00:33:15,240 same traps, those same traps. There's wholeness for me. 418 00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:18,640 There's wholeness in my life. There's wholeness for the way I 419 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:23,320 live. You can be the lowest in your 420 00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:26,800 family. Begin your generational change. 421 00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:34,680 Hallelujah. Apostle Terence spoke a couple 2 422 00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,520 Sundays ago when he began the message and he talked about 423 00:33:37,520 --> 00:33:40,680 God's plan. God's plan is covenant centered 424 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,160 that your family would be covenant centered. 425 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:50,640 You have a family that is covenant centered to Corinthians 426 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:53,600 3. Verse 6 says He has enabled us 427 00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:55,360 to be ministers of His new covenant. 428 00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:59,560 This is a covenant not of written laws, but of the Spirit. 429 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:04,000 The old written covenant ends in death, but under the new 430 00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:11,159 covenant, the Spirit gives life, life. 431 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:16,320 That's what we're walking in. That's what we have access to, 432 00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:20,560 the life of Christ, the life of the resurrected Jesus life. 433 00:34:24,560 --> 00:34:29,480 The beginning of breaking out of the the family habits you're 434 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:33,480 trying to break is to step into the covenant of life that you 435 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:37,239 have in Jesus, to lay a hold of the promises of God. 436 00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:42,520 Lay a hold of that which God has given you that life in Christ 437 00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:46,480 Jesus to step into the promises of God. 438 00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:54,080 You know, perhaps you're had a family history where there's 439 00:34:55,280 --> 00:35:00,200 difficulty in, in, in mental illness or, or, or difficulty 440 00:35:00,200 --> 00:35:04,560 in, in confusion or what's the promises of God? 441 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,800 Two Timothy 17 says God's not giving you a spirit of fear, but 442 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,640 of power and of love and of a sound mind. 443 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:17,080 So a clear mind is part of the covenant for you and you can lay 444 00:35:17,080 --> 00:35:23,080 a hold of that today. God's plan for your family is 445 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:27,280 covenant centred. God's plan is identity aware. 446 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:33,240 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ Jesus, he is a new 447 00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:36,440 creation. All things have passed away. 448 00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:39,200 Behold, all things have become new. 449 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:46,520 When you receive Jesus, when you stepped into the covenant with 450 00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:50,920 Jesus, when you said Jesus, I believe in you, I'll trust in 451 00:35:50,920 --> 00:35:53,880 you. You can be Lord of everything in 452 00:35:53,880 --> 00:36:00,480 my life. Now you have a new identity, a 453 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:03,160 new way of living, a new way of seeing, a new way of 454 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,640 understanding. That identity is found in 455 00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,720 Christ. Old things have passed away. 456 00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:15,280 Behold, all things are new. The old way is gone, the new way 457 00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:19,760 has come. A way of life, hope, faith, 458 00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:25,480 belief, peace, self-control. The life of Christ, the life of 459 00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:29,680 the Spirit in you. This is the identity we now have 460 00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:32,800 in Jesus Christ. This is the identity, the 461 00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:38,200 identity that is ours because of what Jesus completed in his 462 00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:41,160 death and resurrection. This is the life we have. 463 00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:47,880 God's plan is spirit LED. But I say walk and live 464 00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:52,040 habitually in the Holy Spirit, responsive to and controlled and 465 00:36:52,040 --> 00:36:55,120 guided by the Spirit. Then you will certainly not 466 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,480 gratify the cravings and desires of the flesh. 467 00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:12,040 God's plan is your family's spirit LED walking by the 468 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:15,720 Spirit. Do you know how to deal with 469 00:37:15,720 --> 00:37:21,520 some of those challenges and those fractures, those hurts and 470 00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:26,280 those pains? Be led by the Spirit of God. 471 00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:31,080 Listen to the Spirit of God. Live a life where the fruit of 472 00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:37,600 the Spirit is at work. Have a life LED where we walk by 473 00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:43,000 the Spirit. God's plan for you and for your 474 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:49,960 family is that you are Spirit LED and God's plan is 475 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:56,440 generationally aligned, generationally aligned to 476 00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,040 Timothy 15. I'll repeat that scripture. 477 00:37:59,640 --> 00:38:02,160 I remember your genuine faith for you. 478 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:07,920 Share the faith that first filled your grandmother Lois and 479 00:38:07,920 --> 00:38:12,000 your mother Eunice and I know that same faith, same faith, 480 00:38:12,240 --> 00:38:16,720 same faith, same faith. That same faith continues strong 481 00:38:16,720 --> 00:38:21,160 in you. The same faith continues strong. 482 00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:24,640 The faith. Same faith, same faith. 483 00:38:30,410 --> 00:38:42,200 Perhaps today you've wondered how can I see my family come 484 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:45,680 back? How can I see breakthrough? 485 00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:53,080 How can I reset? The answer to is today. 486 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:58,880 And the answer is through Christ, Through Jesus. 487 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,440 Today you might be the Timothy where someone went before you a 488 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:13,120 couple of generations ago and LED the way. 489 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,640 Maybe you're Eunice and and your parents helped establish 490 00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:22,880 something that was new and transformational in Faith in 491 00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:27,080 Hope. Or maybe you're Lois and you're 492 00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:31,240 making a decision that your family will not go that same 493 00:39:31,240 --> 00:39:34,520 direction. It ends with me. 494 00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:39,480 It ends with me today. It ends with me. 495 00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:44,880 I will not be the one who continues down the path that is 496 00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,480 broken. I will not continue down a path 497 00:39:48,000 --> 00:39:51,000 where I'm separated. I'm not going to continue the 498 00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:56,880 path separated from Jesus. Today's the day. 499 00:40:02,690 --> 00:40:05,610 And perhaps like Elder John spoke about last week. 500 00:40:07,240 --> 00:40:15,360 The first step is forgiving those in your family because 501 00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:18,280 many of them did the best they knew how. 502 00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:27,800 And it starts with forgiveness, and then it continues in 503 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:34,720 covenant, allowing the Lord and His promises to be who I am, 504 00:40:37,120 --> 00:40:45,880 allowing His identity, how He sees me to be my identity, that 505 00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:50,800 I'm no longer held by these traumas, these pains, these 506 00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:52,560 hurts. I'm no longer held by 507 00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:55,280 addictions. I'm no longer held by these 508 00:40:56,480 --> 00:41:01,600 memories, but I'm transformed by the power of God. 509 00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:15,640 The power of God is here. The Spirit of the living God is 510 00:41:15,640 --> 00:41:26,000 at work here right now. The Spirit of God is able to 511 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:29,000 search the deep heart parts of our hearts. 512 00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:37,240 Scripture says the Word of God is the sword of the Spirit that 513 00:41:37,240 --> 00:41:41,360 divides between soul and spirit, bone and marrow, that is the 514 00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:48,400 finer parts of life. The Holy Spirit is at work in 515 00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:56,040 the deepest parts, not to condemn but to bring wholeness, 516 00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:05,240 not to separate but to bring completion in your relationship 517 00:42:05,240 --> 00:42:12,680 with Him. So today, if there's something 518 00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:18,120 where the Lord is working on you, he's bringing something 519 00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:23,600 that needs to come to an end. He's bringing up something to 520 00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:26,600 remind you that it's time for that to finish. 521 00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:28,680 It's time for that door to close. 522 00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:30,840 It's time to interrupt the bloodline. 523 00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:38,760 Today, call on Him. Today's the day. 524 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:42,560 Today is the day of your salvation. 525 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:44,280 Today is the day of your deliverance. 526 00:42:44,440 --> 00:42:47,600 Today is the day of freedom. Today is freedom day. 527 00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:51,480 The power of God is available right now. 528 00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:58,800 Today is decision day. Decision day. 529 00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:04,720 I will live my life in faith, believing God. 530 00:43:07,280 --> 00:43:11,680 I will walk out my life in the identity he won for me. 531 00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:18,280 Not that I received from family, not that I received from 532 00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:22,680 history, not that I received from any other part, but only 533 00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:32,040 Jesus. Today is the day, today is the 534 00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:32,880 day. Lord. 535 00:43:32,880 --> 00:43:37,400 Thank you Lord, search my heart. Search our hearts, Lord. 536 00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:43,480 Lord, we want to hear you. We want to walk in your 537 00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:47,880 fullness, your wholeness, your completeness, to walk in the 538 00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:49,560 identity that you've called us to. 539 00:43:50,840 --> 00:43:55,160 Father God, I thank you today touch hearts in this place. 540 00:43:55,560 --> 00:43:59,120 Thank you Lord. Today people will make a 541 00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:06,040 decision that they are going to walk out the calling, the 542 00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,720 fullness, and they'll believe you. 543 00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:15,600 Today they're severing ties that have held them back. 544 00:44:15,720 --> 00:44:20,960 Today they're severing the ties. They're severing off those 545 00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:28,960 habits, those those thought patterns, Lord, they're severing 546 00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:35,320 ties with them to walk in the completeness of Jesus today with 547 00:44:35,320 --> 00:44:37,680 severing ties. Thank you, Lord. 548 00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:41,760 You're the God who is more than able, Lord, You're the God of 549 00:44:41,760 --> 00:44:44,400 freedom. You're the God who brings brings 550 00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:46,360 wholeness. You're the God who delivers. 551 00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,320 You're the God who sets free. Today is the day. 552 00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:55,280 I thank you, Lord. Today we're not waiting any 553 00:44:55,280 --> 00:45:00,240 longer today we're not holding back today. 554 00:45:01,160 --> 00:45:05,560 You're at work today. Thank you, Lord. 555 00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:11,320 Today it's broken off. Those things have held us back. 556 00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:18,920 They're broken in today. Lord, thank you, Holy Spirit of 557 00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:21,960 God, moving hearts. Lord, make revelation. 558 00:45:22,240 --> 00:45:25,520 Lord, bring us a understanding. Shine a light. 559 00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:31,160 The people will come into the understanding of the issue and 560 00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:34,800 then coming to the fullness of Christ as their solution. 561 00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:41,000 I thank you Lord, for today. Lord, we praise you that you're 562 00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:44,720 at work. We praise you that you're at 563 00:45:44,720 --> 00:45:47,200 work. Lord, thank you, Lord. 564 00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:49,120 What runs in the family now is faith. 565 00:45:49,920 --> 00:45:52,120 What runs in the family is belief in God. 566 00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:54,840 What runs in the family is my identity in Jesus. 567 00:45:54,920 --> 00:45:57,440 What runs in my family is hope in Christ. 568 00:45:57,520 --> 00:46:01,080 What runs in the family is a family dedicated to praising 569 00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:03,000 God. What runs in the family is a 570 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:04,720 family that shouts the goodness of God. 571 00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,920 What runs in the family is the rejoicing in the goodness of 572 00:46:07,920 --> 00:46:11,160 God. What runs in the family is the 573 00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:15,120 hope of Christ. What runs in the family, it runs 574 00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:18,200 in the family. It runs in the family, it runs 575 00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:20,680 in the family Lord, it runs in the family. 576 00:46:22,360 --> 00:46:28,400 Thank you Lord God, for the power of God to walk by the 577 00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:35,520 Spirit and walk in your light. We thank you today in Jesus 578 00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:46,560 name, Amen. Thank you so much for tuning 579 00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:49,120 into this week's sermon. We pray you were challenged, 580 00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:52,680 equipped and encouraged. Make sure to follow us on all 581 00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:55,880 platforms. That's love quest Intl church. 582 00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:58,360 We out here for real. We're really doing it. 583 00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:01,360 That's Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok. 584 00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:03,800 You can find us anywhere you need to find us. 585 00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:05,840 But until next time, you know the drill. 586 00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:09,080 You know the motto, get your love fixed man and we'll see 587 00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:09,720 y'all real soon.