1 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:10,560 The truth is, we're coming up on Christmas, and you're about to 2 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:15,240 spend Christmas with people that you love deeply but can barely 3 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:19,120 stand, and you're going home to a war zone with wrapping paper. 4 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:20,000 Come on. 5 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:24,400 And you got the relative, you know, who can basically ruin a holiday 6 00:00:24,400 --> 00:00:25,520 with one sentence. 7 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:26,480 Am I the only one? 8 00:00:27,360 --> 00:00:31,120 You got the parent who still talks to you like you're 14 years 9 00:00:31,120 --> 00:00:31,440 old. 10 00:00:32,060 --> 00:00:35,860 Got this sibling who hasn't apologized in 10 years but still 11 00:00:35,860 --> 00:00:39,500 expects hugs and selfies like nothing ever happened. 12 00:00:39,740 --> 00:00:44,860 And under all of that is one question that almost no one is asking 13 00:00:44,860 --> 00:00:45,340 out loud. 14 00:00:45,340 --> 00:00:48,060 But I'm going to be that guy that just says it out loud. 15 00:00:48,060 --> 00:00:51,820 God, if you're good, why did you put me in this family? 16 00:00:52,140 --> 00:00:58,180 Can somebody say, well, if you're good, why did you put me in 17 00:00:58,180 --> 00:00:58,780 this family? 18 00:00:59,410 --> 00:01:01,170 And so here's where we're going. 19 00:01:01,170 --> 00:01:04,690 Number one, why your family is so dysfunctional. 20 00:01:04,850 --> 00:01:08,970 Number two, what God's designed for a godly, spirit filled 21 00:01:08,970 --> 00:01:11,410 family actually is according to the scriptures. 22 00:01:11,810 --> 00:01:16,170 And number three, you know why God put you in the middle of your 23 00:01:16,170 --> 00:01:16,530 family? 24 00:01:16,530 --> 00:01:18,690 Because there is a reason for that. 25 00:01:19,090 --> 00:01:23,490 And how you become the breaker instead of the next victim for everything 26 00:01:23,490 --> 00:01:24,770 that got handed down. 27 00:01:24,930 --> 00:01:28,330 You know, if you lean in and you stay all the way till the end 28 00:01:28,330 --> 00:01:32,950 of this message, you're gonna the things in your family differently 29 00:01:32,950 --> 00:01:36,350 and you're gonna understand your assignment in your family. 30 00:01:36,590 --> 00:01:39,150 So I want you to open your Bibles now to Genesis. 31 00:01:39,550 --> 00:01:42,430 Genesis is not just the beginning of the world. 32 00:01:42,750 --> 00:01:47,990 Genesis is the beginning of gender, marriage, sex, family, parents, 33 00:01:47,990 --> 00:01:50,430 grandparents, inheritance and legacy. 34 00:01:50,590 --> 00:01:54,190 I mean, Genesis shows two things at the same time. 35 00:01:54,510 --> 00:01:58,830 God's design for family and how fast human beings can wreck it. 36 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:03,080 So in inherit your freedom, I talk about how if you trace just 37 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:07,720 three generations, you are connected to 14 people whose choices 38 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:10,160 are shaping your life right now. 39 00:02:10,640 --> 00:02:15,440 I mean, every time a grandfather actually chose unforgiveness, 40 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:17,760 it echoed down into you. 41 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:22,560 Every time even a great grandmother chose addiction, it left 42 00:02:22,560 --> 00:02:24,800 a mark on you that traveled down. 43 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:29,040 Every time someone chooses rage, poverty, thinking, or control, 44 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:33,500 it gets woven into what I call your generational genetics. 45 00:02:33,500 --> 00:02:36,460 And we're talking spiritually, not just physically. 46 00:02:36,780 --> 00:02:41,740 There's something that people call the actual five generation rule 47 00:02:41,740 --> 00:02:43,100 that I write about in my book. 48 00:02:43,340 --> 00:02:48,140 I mean, one life of faithfulness or one life of rebellion 49 00:02:48,380 --> 00:02:53,820 can echo three, four, or even five generations down the line. 50 00:02:54,060 --> 00:02:58,460 And you see families like Jonathan Edwards line, it's filled 51 00:02:58,460 --> 00:03:00,740 with preachers and professors and leaders. 52 00:03:01,460 --> 00:03:03,980 And then you got families like Max Juke's line. 53 00:03:03,980 --> 00:03:06,700 That's Marked by crime, poverty, and addiction. 54 00:03:06,700 --> 00:03:07,620 And you see that. 55 00:03:08,020 --> 00:03:11,300 So why is your family so dysfunctional? 56 00:03:11,860 --> 00:03:12,500 Let me tell you. 57 00:03:12,500 --> 00:03:15,380 Because your story did not actually start with you. 58 00:03:15,620 --> 00:03:19,020 You are living in the compounded interest of decisions 59 00:03:19,020 --> 00:03:20,100 that you didn't make. 60 00:03:20,340 --> 00:03:23,800 But dysfunction is not the only thing that passes down God. 61 00:03:23,950 --> 00:03:27,630 Gifts and callings passed down, too, because the mantle never 62 00:03:27,630 --> 00:03:28,670 dies with the man. 63 00:03:28,910 --> 00:03:31,310 And so there can be generational blessings. 64 00:03:31,310 --> 00:03:34,910 And even if they messed up, you can actually break the curse 65 00:03:34,910 --> 00:03:38,430 through the blood of Jesus and receive a blessing that they were 66 00:03:38,430 --> 00:03:39,950 supposed to receive. 67 00:03:40,270 --> 00:03:42,950 How many of you actually believe that with me today. 68 00:03:42,950 --> 00:03:44,790 Come on, let me hear you out there. 69 00:03:44,790 --> 00:03:46,110 Don't be quiet on me. 70 00:03:46,350 --> 00:03:46,990 Come on. 71 00:03:47,390 --> 00:03:49,470 So Genesis, chapter four. 72 00:03:49,470 --> 00:03:54,110 Now, it shows different lines developing different abilities. 73 00:03:54,190 --> 00:03:58,110 And this blew me away as I was in a deep study for my book about 74 00:03:58,510 --> 00:04:00,750 generational patterns and cycles. 75 00:04:00,910 --> 00:04:05,270 So if you look at verse, chapter 21, it says, his brother's 76 00:04:05,270 --> 00:04:06,350 name was Jubal. 77 00:04:06,990 --> 00:04:10,990 He was the father of all those who play the lyre and the pipe. 78 00:04:11,070 --> 00:04:12,590 This is the 21st verse. 79 00:04:12,910 --> 00:04:16,680 So one branch of the family becomes musical, and then another 80 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:20,120 becomes skilled with livestock and agriculture. 81 00:04:20,280 --> 00:04:24,040 Then another branch becomes pioneers in bronze and iron. 82 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:27,480 That means that the same bloodline that carried addiction 83 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:30,680 may also carry entrepreneurial gifting. 84 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:35,640 The same line that carried rage may also carry prophetic passion. 85 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:39,720 I mean, the enemy does not waste time attacking what he knows 86 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:40,600 has no future. 87 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:43,400 He attacks what carries destiny. 88 00:04:43,480 --> 00:04:44,040 Come on. 89 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:47,360 Why does it feel like all hell breaks loose around marriage and 90 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:47,630 kids? 91 00:04:47,780 --> 00:04:48,060 Kids? 92 00:04:48,060 --> 00:04:49,060 I'm going to tell you. 93 00:04:49,140 --> 00:04:52,660 Because Satan hates family more than you hate your family. 94 00:04:52,740 --> 00:04:54,260 Chat, group chat. 95 00:04:55,220 --> 00:04:55,780 Come on. 96 00:04:55,780 --> 00:04:58,180 When you're single, the battle's real. 97 00:04:58,340 --> 00:04:58,900 Come on. 98 00:04:58,900 --> 00:04:59,620 Single people. 99 00:04:59,940 --> 00:05:03,940 But when you marry, warfare is going to begin to escalate. 100 00:05:04,020 --> 00:05:06,980 When you have kids, it goes to the next level. 101 00:05:07,300 --> 00:05:11,340 Because now the enemy can hit three and four generations at the 102 00:05:11,340 --> 00:05:12,020 same time. 103 00:05:12,420 --> 00:05:16,460 So for those of you with families, you got to understand the 104 00:05:16,460 --> 00:05:18,340 enemy's not just attacking you. 105 00:05:18,940 --> 00:05:22,700 He's attacking the bloodline and trying to multiply his efforts. 106 00:05:22,780 --> 00:05:25,060 I feel a grace on this message right now. 107 00:05:25,060 --> 00:05:28,300 Y' all need to share this with somebody so they can get this word, 108 00:05:28,460 --> 00:05:31,180 because people don't talk about this in the church enough. 109 00:05:31,500 --> 00:05:35,260 You know, the Bible tells you that this is not just how people 110 00:05:35,340 --> 00:05:35,740 are. 111 00:05:35,980 --> 00:05:38,220 This is actually spiritual war. 112 00:05:38,620 --> 00:05:41,460 As a matter of fact, when you go all the way to Ephesians, chapter 113 00:05:41,460 --> 00:05:45,940 6, verse 12, it says, for we do not wrestle against your aunties, 114 00:05:45,940 --> 00:05:48,220 your cousin, your brother, your grandma. 115 00:05:48,220 --> 00:05:52,260 I know that it feels like you do, but you are warring against rulers 116 00:05:52,980 --> 00:05:56,980 against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over the 117 00:05:56,980 --> 00:05:57,940 present darkness. 118 00:05:57,940 --> 00:05:59,380 Does anybody believe that? 119 00:05:59,620 --> 00:06:04,260 Against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. 120 00:06:04,420 --> 00:06:08,180 I mean, that means that your fight is not ultimately with your 121 00:06:08,180 --> 00:06:12,860 mother in law, with your ex, with your dad, or even with your 122 00:06:12,860 --> 00:06:13,300 sibling. 123 00:06:13,300 --> 00:06:17,780 The real fight is with unseen powers that would love to keep your 124 00:06:17,780 --> 00:06:19,220 family bound up forever. 125 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:23,440 And so in the book I talk about this obvious assault on the 126 00:06:23,440 --> 00:06:28,000 family because you see broken homes, you see fatherlessness, you 127 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,920 see single moms, they're totally overloaded right now and 128 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:36,000 overwhelmed kids, starving not just for food, but they're starving 129 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:38,720 for love, they're starving for blessing. 130 00:06:38,800 --> 00:06:43,040 You know, I was at my friend Mark's house and he lives in Manhattan 131 00:06:43,280 --> 00:06:45,120 and he's a Jewish brother. 132 00:06:45,540 --> 00:06:48,660 And he actually had me come over to his house for Shabbat. 133 00:06:48,980 --> 00:06:50,980 And it was a wonderful experience. 134 00:06:51,620 --> 00:06:54,580 And we begin to go through the rituals that they do. 135 00:06:54,580 --> 00:06:58,020 And Shabbat obviously being Friday evening. 136 00:06:58,100 --> 00:07:01,419 And the Jewish people say, we're gonna take a 24 hour Sabbath 137 00:07:01,419 --> 00:07:03,780 and we're gonna rest and refrain from work. 138 00:07:03,940 --> 00:07:07,140 But there was a powerful moment where he said, okay, Mike, 139 00:07:07,140 --> 00:07:11,350 I want you to get up now and I want you to place your hands on the 140 00:07:11,350 --> 00:07:12,590 heads of your daughters. 141 00:07:12,750 --> 00:07:16,630 And so I had Bella there and I had Everly there, and then he placed 142 00:07:16,630 --> 00:07:19,870 his hand on the heads of his children and he said, now what we 143 00:07:19,870 --> 00:07:23,950 do is we bless our children and we pray over our children. 144 00:07:24,510 --> 00:07:26,110 And this is an ancient prayer. 145 00:07:26,110 --> 00:07:30,350 And he began to pray that prayer that his dad prayed and his 146 00:07:30,350 --> 00:07:33,030 grandfather prayed and his great grandfather and great great 147 00:07:33,030 --> 00:07:33,710 grandfather. 148 00:07:33,870 --> 00:07:38,150 And I just, I couldn't help but to cry because as I was standing 149 00:07:38,150 --> 00:07:43,210 in Mark's home and I laid my hand on my daughter's head and Lord, 150 00:07:43,530 --> 00:07:46,010 I'm the first one to ever pray for my children. 151 00:07:46,010 --> 00:07:49,410 My daddy didn't pray for me and my grandfather didn't pray for 152 00:07:49,410 --> 00:07:51,690 him, and my great grandfather didn't pray for him. 153 00:07:51,690 --> 00:07:53,330 But Lord, it stops with me. 154 00:07:53,330 --> 00:07:57,530 And Lord, I know that I'm not a Jew, but Jesus, you were a Jew 155 00:07:57,610 --> 00:08:01,050 who actually died so the Gentiles could get grafted in. 156 00:08:01,050 --> 00:08:04,570 And I'm one of those wild olive branches that got grafted into 157 00:08:04,570 --> 00:08:05,130 the tree. 158 00:08:05,290 --> 00:08:08,890 Now, come on, are there any Gentiles who are thankful for Jesus? 159 00:08:08,970 --> 00:08:13,110 And I said that same blessing for Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and 160 00:08:13,340 --> 00:08:14,300 that same covenant. 161 00:08:14,300 --> 00:08:17,340 God, you've established it with me through the blood of Jesus. 162 00:08:17,340 --> 00:08:19,340 And I just begin to pray for my daughters. 163 00:08:19,500 --> 00:08:23,660 You know, there's kids though that are just craving for the blessing 164 00:08:23,660 --> 00:08:24,380 of a dad. 165 00:08:24,460 --> 00:08:25,860 The Prayers of a dad. 166 00:08:25,860 --> 00:08:27,580 Come on, let me tell you. 167 00:08:27,580 --> 00:08:31,540 One in three children in America, they're born to unmarried 168 00:08:31,540 --> 00:08:32,060 parents. 169 00:08:32,780 --> 00:08:35,180 It's not a judgment, it's a fact. 170 00:08:35,340 --> 00:08:38,860 About half of children will live in a single parent home at some 171 00:08:38,860 --> 00:08:39,180 point. 172 00:08:39,260 --> 00:08:42,980 That means 50% of the thousands of people that are watching 173 00:08:42,980 --> 00:08:45,010 me right now came from broken homes. 174 00:08:45,720 --> 00:08:47,000 I was the product of that. 175 00:08:47,240 --> 00:08:51,920 Millions of kids are food insecure and they have a toxic relationship 176 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:54,520 with food because of the trauma in the home. 177 00:08:55,080 --> 00:08:58,920 And listen, you can't solve this with one person in Washington, 178 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:00,840 in the government trying to solve it. 179 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:04,680 We mobilize like crazy over physical hunger. 180 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:06,160 Oh, we gotta feed the poor. 181 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:07,880 And we do that at B1 Church. 182 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:12,440 But we often ignore the fact that kids are starving for a father's 183 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:16,040 blessing, a mother's presence, and a united home. 184 00:09:16,430 --> 00:09:19,630 That's why it brought me to tears when I heard that this sermon 185 00:09:19,630 --> 00:09:23,710 series has already caused at least two marriages to be restored. 186 00:09:24,030 --> 00:09:28,670 Now, not every story can have that ending, and sometimes even divorce 187 00:09:28,670 --> 00:09:29,750 is justifiable. 188 00:09:29,750 --> 00:09:30,510 We know this. 189 00:09:30,670 --> 00:09:33,710 But Satan's strategy is very simple. 190 00:09:33,950 --> 00:09:36,670 Confuse gender, mock marriage. 191 00:09:36,910 --> 00:09:39,390 Replace covenant with convenience. 192 00:09:39,790 --> 00:09:44,670 Turn sex into recreational sport instead of a covenantal glue. 193 00:09:44,910 --> 00:09:48,810 Normalize divorce as a reset button instead, instead of a wound 194 00:09:48,810 --> 00:09:50,410 that bleeds through generations. 195 00:09:50,650 --> 00:09:54,010 And if he can break your home, he can break your heart. 196 00:09:54,090 --> 00:09:58,330 And if he can break your heart long enough, he'll eventually stop. 197 00:09:58,490 --> 00:10:01,690 You'll stop believing that God is a father who loves you. 198 00:10:01,850 --> 00:10:04,010 And this is what many of you come from. 199 00:10:04,250 --> 00:10:08,410 This is not just a personality clash with people in your family. 200 00:10:08,730 --> 00:10:12,650 This is spiritual warfare against demons that are trying to 201 00:10:12,650 --> 00:10:16,850 sabotage what the destiny that you have within your life and your 202 00:10:16,850 --> 00:10:17,850 family's life. 203 00:10:18,380 --> 00:10:22,340 Now, let's contrast that with God's actual design, though, because 204 00:10:22,340 --> 00:10:25,020 the world's blueprint for family sounds like this. 205 00:10:25,260 --> 00:10:27,020 Well, I'm gonna do what feels good. 206 00:10:27,020 --> 00:10:29,180 And if it's hard, I'm just gonna walk away. 207 00:10:29,580 --> 00:10:31,580 You know, kids are the center of the home. 208 00:10:32,140 --> 00:10:34,860 Whoever screams the loudest runs this house. 209 00:10:35,340 --> 00:10:39,020 Extended family gets more loyalty than my own spouse. 210 00:10:39,020 --> 00:10:40,780 That's the way the world's doing it. 211 00:10:41,020 --> 00:10:44,860 But God's blueprint in Genesis and the rest of scripture is one 212 00:10:44,860 --> 00:10:50,800 man, one woman before God in covenant, filled with the Holy Spirit, 213 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:55,440 raising children who know that they're loved, that they're being 214 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:58,160 disciplined, and they're sent on assignment. 215 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:03,360 I mean, Genesis, chapter 2, verse 24 and 25, it's very clear. 216 00:11:03,440 --> 00:11:07,880 Therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold 217 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:11,880 fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh and the man 218 00:11:11,880 --> 00:11:14,530 and his wife were both naked and not ashamed. 219 00:11:14,530 --> 00:11:16,570 And come on, you've heard that scripture before. 220 00:11:16,890 --> 00:11:18,330 I mean, that's the order. 221 00:11:18,650 --> 00:11:20,970 Leave cleave, become one. 222 00:11:21,370 --> 00:11:25,370 A huge part of the breakdown today is that we have reversed God's 223 00:11:25,370 --> 00:11:26,650 order of priority. 224 00:11:26,810 --> 00:11:28,090 According to scripture. 225 00:11:28,250 --> 00:11:34,490 I mean, God's order is God first, then marriage, and then children, 226 00:11:34,970 --> 00:11:36,330 then extended family. 227 00:11:36,570 --> 00:11:40,130 And in many homes, the functional order is children at the 228 00:11:40,130 --> 00:11:45,440 center, marriage on the side, God for the emergencies, and extended 229 00:11:45,440 --> 00:11:47,120 relatives as dictators. 230 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:48,080 Oh, come on. 231 00:11:48,080 --> 00:11:50,200 I'm getting all up in your family mess right now. 232 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:50,800 Am I right? 233 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:53,680 I mean, you see it every day. 234 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:58,800 Every decision revolves around the kids scheduling, the kids preferences, 235 00:11:58,880 --> 00:12:01,120 the kids moods, how they feel. 236 00:12:02,080 --> 00:12:06,480 Mom and dad, they never have date nights, they never pray together, 237 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:11,080 they never talk deeply unless it's about logistics or bills. 238 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:11,920 Come on. 239 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:15,160 And when children become the center of the home, I mean, listen, 240 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:16,840 marriages start to fall apart. 241 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:20,120 And I know some of you don't believe that, but deep down inside, 242 00:12:20,120 --> 00:12:21,080 you know it's true. 243 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:25,160 And when your son's travel team and your daughter's activities 244 00:12:25,720 --> 00:12:29,640 get more passion than the covenant of marriage, your family 245 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:31,080 is out of order. 246 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:34,600 I mean, I'm telling you this as a father in the faith and somebody 247 00:12:34,600 --> 00:12:38,320 that's read this book and knows that God did not design your 248 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:42,100 home to be a child centered kingdom. 249 00:12:42,660 --> 00:12:46,500 He designed it to be a God centered covenant where children 250 00:12:46,660 --> 00:12:50,060 are loved, children are disciplined, which, by the way, is 251 00:12:50,060 --> 00:12:50,940 a form of love. 252 00:12:50,940 --> 00:12:54,500 Can I get an amen from some parents in the chat right now? 253 00:12:55,540 --> 00:12:57,620 And they're launched into their purpose. 254 00:12:57,780 --> 00:13:01,940 And the reason why I have to say this is because I go out into 255 00:13:01,940 --> 00:13:06,020 public and I see the parents that are afraid to discipline their 256 00:13:06,020 --> 00:13:06,340 children. 257 00:13:06,580 --> 00:13:09,660 Oh, you know, little Timmy, you know, he's real. 258 00:13:09,740 --> 00:13:12,060 He has a lot of preferences, and he's really. 259 00:13:12,220 --> 00:13:15,260 It's like, no, no, listen, what he needs is discipline. 260 00:13:15,820 --> 00:13:19,460 And how I know that is I didn't have a dad, and my mom said, 261 00:13:19,460 --> 00:13:22,100 I'm gonna be your dad and your mom and I'm gonna discipline you. 262 00:13:22,100 --> 00:13:23,500 And I think I turned out all right. 263 00:13:23,980 --> 00:13:26,220 And discipline is also a form of love. 264 00:13:26,380 --> 00:13:28,540 I mean, we're disciplined by God. 265 00:13:28,540 --> 00:13:32,420 His love comes in the form of a yes, but it also comes in the form 266 00:13:32,420 --> 00:13:33,060 of a no. 267 00:13:33,060 --> 00:13:34,540 Can I get an amen on that? 268 00:13:35,150 --> 00:13:40,110 And so in my book, inherit your freedom, I talk about Naboth's 269 00:13:40,110 --> 00:13:40,670 vineyard. 270 00:13:40,910 --> 00:13:45,710 And when you go to Kings, chapter 21, and it's verse three, 271 00:13:46,350 --> 00:13:47,550 this is what it says. 272 00:13:47,710 --> 00:13:53,070 But Naboth said to Ahab, the Lord forbid That I should give you 273 00:13:53,150 --> 00:13:56,030 the inheritance of my fathers. 274 00:13:56,190 --> 00:14:00,270 You know, we talk about the Ahab spirit, the Jezebel spirit, 275 00:14:00,270 --> 00:14:01,630 this demonic spirit. 276 00:14:01,790 --> 00:14:03,390 Well, it's very simple. 277 00:14:03,870 --> 00:14:05,870 Ahab was not disciplined. 278 00:14:06,030 --> 00:14:09,470 Ahab wanted what he didn't fight for what he didn't work for. 279 00:14:09,630 --> 00:14:13,870 Ahab, listen, he wanted to get it without having to earn it. 280 00:14:13,950 --> 00:14:15,590 This is the story of Ahab. 281 00:14:15,590 --> 00:14:18,990 This is the what happens is when you don't discipline your kids, 282 00:14:19,150 --> 00:14:22,550 when your kids don't have to earn it, when your kids just get 283 00:14:22,550 --> 00:14:25,790 what they haven't been disciplined for, they can end up 284 00:14:25,790 --> 00:14:27,470 receiving an Ahab spirit. 285 00:14:27,710 --> 00:14:31,990 And so literally it says, the Lord forbid that I should give you 286 00:14:31,990 --> 00:14:33,790 the inheritance of my fathers. 287 00:14:34,340 --> 00:14:38,340 Now, Naboth's vineyard, it wasn't just real estate. 288 00:14:38,580 --> 00:14:41,380 It was a multi generational inheritance. 289 00:14:41,540 --> 00:14:45,300 It was land that was cultivated by the discipline and 290 00:14:45,300 --> 00:14:47,940 the hard work of his fathers for generations. 291 00:14:48,100 --> 00:14:51,780 And King Ahab offers to buy it and give him another field. 292 00:14:51,860 --> 00:14:53,460 And Nabal's like, no, no, no. 293 00:14:53,460 --> 00:14:57,020 Because the vineyard is my father's inheritance. 294 00:14:57,020 --> 00:15:00,980 And some of you are trading your vineyard for a vegetable garden. 295 00:15:00,980 --> 00:15:04,070 You're trading God's best for mediocrity. 296 00:15:04,470 --> 00:15:06,230 And you cannot compromise. 297 00:15:06,310 --> 00:15:08,310 How you exit is how you enter. 298 00:15:08,470 --> 00:15:12,230 And you may have compromised this year, but you're ending this 299 00:15:12,230 --> 00:15:13,750 year, not compromising. 300 00:15:13,830 --> 00:15:17,430 And you're gonna step into the new year saying, God, I will not 301 00:15:17,430 --> 00:15:20,310 trade a godly marriage for temporary attention. 302 00:15:20,630 --> 00:15:21,270 Come on. 303 00:15:21,990 --> 00:15:26,790 I'm not trading a praying home for endless activities but no altar. 304 00:15:26,790 --> 00:15:29,750 I'm not trading purity for secret addiction. 305 00:15:29,830 --> 00:15:33,670 I'm not trading children's spiritual inheritance for we had 306 00:15:34,450 --> 00:15:38,210 Christmas morning but never saw revival in the living room. 307 00:15:38,290 --> 00:15:41,570 Can somebody just put their hands together if you're not gonna 308 00:15:41,570 --> 00:15:42,970 compromise coming into this. 309 00:15:42,970 --> 00:15:43,210 Yeah. 310 00:15:43,210 --> 00:15:46,130 I feel some anointing upon this message right now. 311 00:15:46,610 --> 00:15:50,410 God's design is not keep the kids entertained. 312 00:15:50,410 --> 00:15:51,490 Here's an iPad. 313 00:15:51,650 --> 00:15:55,930 God's design is raise arrows that fly further than I ever could 314 00:15:55,930 --> 00:15:57,170 into the enemy's camp. 315 00:15:57,330 --> 00:16:00,960 I mean, Psalm 127, verses 30. 316 00:16:01,440 --> 00:16:03,280 It's verses three through five. 317 00:16:03,440 --> 00:16:04,400 It says this. 318 00:16:04,480 --> 00:16:06,720 You cannot deny what I'm saying right now. 319 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:11,280 Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit 320 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:16,200 of the womb, A reward like arrows in the hand of a warrior are 321 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:17,920 the children of one's youth. 322 00:16:18,080 --> 00:16:21,280 Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them. 323 00:16:21,440 --> 00:16:25,720 He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies at 324 00:16:25,720 --> 00:16:26,200 the gate. 325 00:16:26,200 --> 00:16:28,720 Look at it for yourself in Psalm 127. 326 00:16:29,390 --> 00:16:32,590 Children are not the center, they are arrows. 327 00:16:33,070 --> 00:16:35,230 And arrows are meant to be aimed. 328 00:16:35,230 --> 00:16:36,230 And Released. 329 00:16:36,230 --> 00:16:37,590 That's what you do with arrows. 330 00:16:37,590 --> 00:16:39,630 You aim them and you release them. 331 00:16:39,790 --> 00:16:42,590 I'm aiming Bella and I'm releasing her. 332 00:16:42,590 --> 00:16:45,630 I'm aiming Everly and I'm releasing her. 333 00:16:45,950 --> 00:16:48,950 Now when you go to Matthew chapter one, I'm gonna bring this 334 00:16:48,950 --> 00:16:49,430 all together. 335 00:16:49,430 --> 00:16:50,750 I hope you're flowing with me. 336 00:16:50,910 --> 00:16:52,510 We're going deep into the scriptures. 337 00:16:52,910 --> 00:16:57,550 Most people skip this chapter because it has a word, Begats. 338 00:16:58,030 --> 00:16:58,670 Begats. 339 00:17:00,030 --> 00:17:03,790 But this is Jesus family Christian Christmas photo. 340 00:17:04,750 --> 00:17:09,390 And because you're seeing now his design, this is no filter on 341 00:17:09,390 --> 00:17:09,950 that photo. 342 00:17:10,430 --> 00:17:13,750 And you know, you look back the old family photos and you see 343 00:17:13,750 --> 00:17:16,990 the people who passed away, and you see people who have your 344 00:17:16,990 --> 00:17:18,590 eyes, your ears, your hair. 345 00:17:18,670 --> 00:17:23,110 And you see that now Jesus lineage is captured in Matthew chapter 346 00:17:23,110 --> 00:17:23,310 one. 347 00:17:23,310 --> 00:17:24,030 Let me go there. 348 00:17:24,700 --> 00:17:28,700 Cause I wanna show you something that I saw that I could 349 00:17:28,700 --> 00:17:29,580 not unsee. 350 00:17:29,900 --> 00:17:34,380 Matthew chapter 1, verses 1 through 3 basically says this. 351 00:17:34,620 --> 00:17:41,060 It's the book of the genealogy of Jesus, the son of David, the son 352 00:17:41,060 --> 00:17:41,740 of Abraham. 353 00:17:41,820 --> 00:17:46,540 Now, the only way that Jesus could legitimately be the Messiah 354 00:17:46,540 --> 00:17:49,100 is if he was of the line of David. 355 00:17:49,340 --> 00:17:51,500 And so this has to be established. 356 00:17:51,500 --> 00:17:55,570 The genealogy was the way of confirming to a Jewish audience that 357 00:17:55,570 --> 00:17:57,170 he was in fact the Messiah. 358 00:17:57,490 --> 00:18:00,570 Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac the father of Jacob, 359 00:18:00,570 --> 00:18:05,090 Jacob the father of Judah and his brothers, and Judah the father 360 00:18:05,090 --> 00:18:09,650 of Perez and Zerah, by Tamar and Perez the father of Hezron, and 361 00:18:09,650 --> 00:18:11,090 Hezron the father of Ram. 362 00:18:11,330 --> 00:18:14,610 And you're probably like, what does that have to do with anything 363 00:18:14,610 --> 00:18:15,530 you just said? 364 00:18:15,530 --> 00:18:16,450 And I'm confused. 365 00:18:16,450 --> 00:18:17,250 Stay with me. 366 00:18:17,730 --> 00:18:23,500 This genealogy includes names that would have been so deeply scandalous 367 00:18:23,820 --> 00:18:26,860 in the first century, 2,000 years ago, when they heard this, 368 00:18:27,580 --> 00:18:30,380 I mean, they literally would have been gasping in the audience 369 00:18:30,780 --> 00:18:32,740 with just the names being mentioned. 370 00:18:32,740 --> 00:18:34,620 I'm gonna give you just four of them. 371 00:18:35,099 --> 00:18:37,020 Cause you heard the word Tamar. 372 00:18:37,180 --> 00:18:40,700 Tamar marries Judah's son, he dies. 373 00:18:41,020 --> 00:18:42,540 She's left childless. 374 00:18:43,020 --> 00:18:46,300 According to custom, she should have given another son to, 375 00:18:46,880 --> 00:18:48,000 you know, carry on the line. 376 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:52,800 But she's neglected, so she disguises herself as a prostitute, 377 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:57,800 sleeps with her father in law, becomes pregnant with twins, and 378 00:18:57,800 --> 00:19:01,160 then when Judah finds out she's pregnant, he wants her punished 379 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:04,080 until he realizes that he's actually the father. 380 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:08,680 You talk about some Maury Povich, Ricki Lake, some crazy Oprah 381 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:09,760 Winfrey level stuff. 382 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:10,960 This is messy. 383 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:16,240 And God actually says, leave her name in the Messiah's family 384 00:19:16,320 --> 00:19:16,720 line. 385 00:19:18,180 --> 00:19:20,900 All right, we're going somewhere with this Rahab. 386 00:19:20,900 --> 00:19:25,780 Second, Rahab is a Canaanite, a Gentile A prostitute. 387 00:19:26,020 --> 00:19:31,060 In Joshua, chapter two, she hides Israelite spies, lies to protect 388 00:19:31,060 --> 00:19:33,860 them, and then is spared when Jericho falls. 389 00:19:33,860 --> 00:19:35,620 She becomes part of Israel. 390 00:19:35,780 --> 00:19:36,420 Okay. 391 00:19:37,060 --> 00:19:38,060 She's a Gentile. 392 00:19:38,060 --> 00:19:38,900 Keep that in mind. 393 00:19:39,140 --> 00:19:43,780 Marries into the covenant people of God and ends up in Jesus 394 00:19:43,780 --> 00:19:44,820 genealogy. 395 00:19:44,900 --> 00:19:49,930 And In Hebrews chapter 11, she is literally listed as a hero of 396 00:19:49,930 --> 00:19:52,290 faith, y'. 397 00:19:52,290 --> 00:19:52,370 All. 398 00:19:52,370 --> 00:19:56,090 This should be so encouraging to all of us with a past, because 399 00:19:56,170 --> 00:19:58,730 every sinner has a past, but guess what? 400 00:19:58,730 --> 00:20:01,050 They also have a future through Jesus. 401 00:20:01,130 --> 00:20:01,690 Come on. 402 00:20:01,690 --> 00:20:05,930 Every saint has a past, but we've also got a future through Jesus. 403 00:20:06,090 --> 00:20:07,290 Let's look at Ruth. 404 00:20:07,530 --> 00:20:12,210 Ruth is a Moabite from a nation that Israel was not supposed 405 00:20:12,210 --> 00:20:13,370 to even marry. 406 00:20:14,210 --> 00:20:15,490 She's widowed, poor. 407 00:20:15,730 --> 00:20:19,250 She clings to her mother in law, Naomi, which kind of, to be 408 00:20:19,250 --> 00:20:21,490 honest with you, might have been a little codependent. 409 00:20:21,810 --> 00:20:27,090 And through her loyalty and faith, God crafts her into Israel. 410 00:20:27,170 --> 00:20:30,650 I mean, she marries Boaz and becomes the great grandmother of 411 00:20:30,650 --> 00:20:31,570 King David. 412 00:20:32,050 --> 00:20:36,610 And then you got Bathsheba and y' all know her name, nasty. 413 00:20:37,970 --> 00:20:40,370 2 Samuel 11 tells the story. 414 00:20:40,450 --> 00:20:41,170 You know it. 415 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:43,880 She sleeps with David, sleeps with her. 416 00:20:45,400 --> 00:20:50,120 He has her husband killed and the first child that they have together 417 00:20:50,600 --> 00:20:54,240 through that, I mean, let's just call it what it was. 418 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:55,880 Adulterous relationship. 419 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:58,760 This stuff you ain't hearing at your other church. 420 00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:02,640 By the way, whenever you think that you messed up and you're like, 421 00:21:02,640 --> 00:21:04,960 God, it's irreparable God. 422 00:21:04,960 --> 00:21:05,440 I just. 423 00:21:05,440 --> 00:21:07,560 I can't believe I've done all these heinous things. 424 00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:09,800 Why don't you just start reading your Bible a little bit more? 425 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:13,070 You're gonna be comforted by how much the legends and faith scre 426 00:21:13,620 --> 00:21:15,140 and how bad they screwed up. 427 00:21:15,460 --> 00:21:18,780 I'll tell you what, no matter how deep and how dark you think your 428 00:21:18,780 --> 00:21:22,500 story is, there's somebody in the Bible who did worse than you. 429 00:21:22,500 --> 00:21:24,100 But God took them even higher. 430 00:21:24,340 --> 00:21:26,820 And God is no respecter of persons. 431 00:21:26,820 --> 00:21:31,140 And if God did it for them, he'll do it for you if you stay available 432 00:21:31,300 --> 00:21:32,180 and willing. 433 00:21:32,180 --> 00:21:32,580 Come on. 434 00:21:32,580 --> 00:21:35,380 Does anybody believe what I'm saying right now? 435 00:21:35,700 --> 00:21:40,500 You know, God basically chooses the son of their. 436 00:21:40,500 --> 00:21:43,260 Their later son that their relation. 437 00:21:43,260 --> 00:21:44,260 Think about what I'm saying. 438 00:21:44,260 --> 00:21:48,300 David and Bathsheba's relationship was initiated by adultery. 439 00:21:48,860 --> 00:21:52,860 Their first child dies, and then later they have another child 440 00:21:52,860 --> 00:21:57,740 named Solomon that God not only chooses to be king, but to continue 441 00:21:57,820 --> 00:22:02,540 the line that leads to Jesus and to even build the temple in Israel. 442 00:22:02,620 --> 00:22:04,900 So you can't tell me that God. 443 00:22:04,900 --> 00:22:05,420 Oh, I. 444 00:22:05,730 --> 00:22:08,050 There's somebody listening right now that. 445 00:22:08,050 --> 00:22:11,970 That A woman that's listening right now that their child was the 446 00:22:11,970 --> 00:22:13,170 product of adultery. 447 00:22:13,330 --> 00:22:16,370 And you've been beating yourself up over it, and you've been. 448 00:22:16,370 --> 00:22:18,930 You've been feeling shame and condemnation. 449 00:22:19,090 --> 00:22:23,010 But I'm here to remind you of what God did with Solomon. 450 00:22:23,010 --> 00:22:26,610 And if God did it with Solomon, your kid might be a prophetic 451 00:22:26,610 --> 00:22:27,570 Solomon as well. 452 00:22:27,570 --> 00:22:31,890 God will take your biggest mistakes and use them for his greatest 453 00:22:31,890 --> 00:22:33,860 glory through your mistakes. 454 00:22:33,860 --> 00:22:36,100 Does anybody know what I'm talking about? 455 00:22:36,660 --> 00:22:38,780 Man, there's something different about this sermon, y'. 456 00:22:38,780 --> 00:22:38,940 All. 457 00:22:38,940 --> 00:22:40,260 I hope you're getting these notes. 458 00:22:40,260 --> 00:22:41,860 There's something different about this one. 459 00:22:42,100 --> 00:22:45,380 I mean, listen, Matthew doesn't hide any of this. 460 00:22:46,260 --> 00:22:49,780 This is how I know that Jesus is the Messiah. 461 00:22:49,780 --> 00:22:54,100 Because Matthew, chapter one, verses 15 and 16, says you've got 462 00:22:54,100 --> 00:22:58,460 Eliad, the father of Eleazar, and Eleazar the father of Matthan 463 00:22:58,460 --> 00:23:01,500 and Matthan, the father of Jacob and Jacob, the father of Joseph, 464 00:23:01,500 --> 00:23:05,960 the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called the 465 00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:06,280 Christ. 466 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:09,960 So if you put it in modern language now. 467 00:23:10,040 --> 00:23:11,480 So I'm gonna help y' all out. 468 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:14,280 Jesus family tree is wild. 469 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:19,079 It's complicated, it's scandalous, and it's generationally 470 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:19,800 messy. 471 00:23:20,120 --> 00:23:22,360 Why is that good news for all of us? 472 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:27,320 Because it proves your family scandal does not cancel your Savior's 473 00:23:27,320 --> 00:23:27,640 plan. 474 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:33,220 God uses broken people and broken families to birth breakthrough. 475 00:23:33,380 --> 00:23:34,780 Come on and listen. 476 00:23:34,780 --> 00:23:38,740 In the book, I say, what if I told you that your genealogy has 477 00:23:38,740 --> 00:23:40,820 been awaiting your arrival? 478 00:23:41,380 --> 00:23:44,700 I mean, that you have been born with a purpose and you've been 479 00:23:44,700 --> 00:23:45,860 born with a task. 480 00:23:46,100 --> 00:23:48,260 Matthew, chapter one, verse 17. 481 00:23:48,580 --> 00:23:49,620 Just follow it. 482 00:23:49,780 --> 00:23:55,540 So all the generations from Abraham to David was 14 generations. 483 00:23:55,700 --> 00:24:00,910 And from David to the deportation to Babylon, 14 generations. 484 00:24:00,990 --> 00:24:05,550 And from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ, 14 generations. 485 00:24:05,710 --> 00:24:07,550 That's Matthew, chapter one, verse 17. 486 00:24:07,790 --> 00:24:11,230 And it's probably not hidden, but let me break this down for you, 487 00:24:11,230 --> 00:24:15,429 because it's such a deep, prophetic biblical revelation that 488 00:24:15,429 --> 00:24:16,390 cannot be ignored. 489 00:24:16,390 --> 00:24:18,590 This is such a crazy, prophetic word. 490 00:24:18,670 --> 00:24:22,430 That's three sets of 14, six sets of seven. 491 00:24:22,750 --> 00:24:27,960 When Jesus arrives, it's like the seventh seven, which means that 492 00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,960 Jesus is the ultimate Sabbath rest. 493 00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:39,800 Generations of striving, generations of failure, generations 494 00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:43,360 of trying to fix the family by human efforts. 495 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:48,440 And then Jesus shows up and says, I am the rest your family has 496 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:49,840 never been able to find. 497 00:24:52,010 --> 00:24:54,330 I'm the rest they couldn't find in alcohol. 498 00:24:54,490 --> 00:24:56,970 I'm the rest they couldn't find in opiates. 499 00:24:56,970 --> 00:24:59,130 I'm the rest they couldn't find in sex. 500 00:24:59,370 --> 00:25:02,730 I'm the Rest that they couldn't find in dead religion. 501 00:25:02,890 --> 00:25:07,050 I am the rest that your family's never been able to find. 502 00:25:07,850 --> 00:25:10,890 He doesn't just change your life individually. 503 00:25:11,290 --> 00:25:14,650 He changes the meaning of your whole family story. 504 00:25:15,530 --> 00:25:17,130 So let's answer this question. 505 00:25:17,870 --> 00:25:22,550 If my family is this dysfunctional, why did God put me 506 00:25:22,550 --> 00:25:22,910 here? 507 00:25:23,710 --> 00:25:25,870 Listen, I've thought that question many times. 508 00:25:26,030 --> 00:25:27,950 Why couldn't I just had a good father? 509 00:25:28,990 --> 00:25:31,070 Why couldn't I just have a normal family? 510 00:25:31,630 --> 00:25:33,310 Why did I have to move all the time? 511 00:25:33,870 --> 00:25:35,550 Why was there so much brokenness? 512 00:25:35,550 --> 00:25:37,230 Why was there so much arguing? 513 00:25:37,470 --> 00:25:39,630 Why was everybody always fighting each other? 514 00:25:40,350 --> 00:25:40,870 Listen. 515 00:25:40,870 --> 00:25:43,470 Because somebody in your bloodline had to be first. 516 00:25:44,510 --> 00:25:47,790 In my story, I'm the son of an absent father with a criminal record 517 00:25:47,950 --> 00:25:48,910 in addiction. 518 00:25:49,150 --> 00:25:51,630 I didn't grow up seeing his face every day. 519 00:25:52,510 --> 00:25:56,350 I didn't have him teaching me how to shave, how to work, how to 520 00:25:56,350 --> 00:25:58,670 be a husband, how to be a loving father. 521 00:25:58,670 --> 00:26:00,830 And years later, I became a father. 522 00:26:00,910 --> 00:26:04,830 I held my newborn daughter, Bella, and I felt a love that I had 523 00:26:04,830 --> 00:26:06,110 never experienced before. 524 00:26:06,590 --> 00:26:09,950 I went home from the hospital and suddenly had a realization. 525 00:26:09,950 --> 00:26:12,940 My father probably never felt this for me. 526 00:26:13,340 --> 00:26:17,980 I collapsed on the bathroom floor in tears and vomit, wrestling 527 00:26:17,980 --> 00:26:21,380 with a lifetime of father wounds that all came crashing in 528 00:26:21,380 --> 00:26:22,060 in a moment. 529 00:26:22,220 --> 00:26:24,620 And later, alcohol got a grip on me. 530 00:26:24,700 --> 00:26:26,460 My wife left with my daughter. 531 00:26:26,620 --> 00:26:30,620 I came home to an empty house, realizing I was about to repeat my 532 00:26:30,620 --> 00:26:31,500 father's story. 533 00:26:31,660 --> 00:26:35,340 And my daughter would grow up without me, the same way that I grew 534 00:26:35,340 --> 00:26:36,780 up without my dad. 535 00:26:36,860 --> 00:26:38,910 I knew the Bible at that point. 536 00:26:38,910 --> 00:26:42,550 I had been brought into ministry as a pastor before all this 537 00:26:42,550 --> 00:26:43,110 went down. 538 00:26:43,350 --> 00:26:48,310 And so how did the devil succeed in getting me to the same 539 00:26:48,310 --> 00:26:50,150 destination by a different road? 540 00:26:51,030 --> 00:26:52,630 I mean, that's how the devil will work. 541 00:26:52,710 --> 00:26:57,830 He's got a GPS coordinate, and he's gonna get you to that same cycle 542 00:26:57,990 --> 00:26:59,270 by a different means. 543 00:26:59,270 --> 00:27:00,670 And it's crazy to think about. 544 00:27:00,670 --> 00:27:03,990 Cause I thought to myself for years, I'll never be like my dad. 545 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:07,760 And what happens is every time I go to church, that demonic GPS 546 00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:08,960 says rerouting. 547 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:11,920 I said, I'll never abuse my wife. 548 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:13,440 I'll never fight her like that. 549 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:14,960 And I'm going to be a real man. 550 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:16,920 And then the GPS says rerouting. 551 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,800 And the devil will do anything and everything he can to get you 552 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:23,280 to the same pattern, the same cycle, the same repetition. 553 00:27:23,360 --> 00:27:25,440 Even if he's got to take you another road. 554 00:27:26,240 --> 00:27:28,480 I mean, that was the moment that I understood. 555 00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:33,160 If I don't let God break this in me, my daughter will bleed from 556 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:35,200 wounds that I never let God heal. 557 00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:38,000 Every family has that moment. 558 00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:42,400 Every generation has the opportunity for a breaker. 559 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:46,240 So when I was writing inherit your freedom, I started to outline 560 00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:49,880 a process to step into that breaker role number one. 561 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,960 I said, you need to confess what runs in your family. 562 00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:57,440 Because for me, I knew I was confessing the word of God, but I 563 00:27:57,440 --> 00:27:59,600 had never confessed what runs in my family. 564 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:04,590 And I begin to teach people in my book to make two columns. 565 00:28:04,750 --> 00:28:07,670 One column with the negative behaviors and patterns that you've 566 00:28:07,670 --> 00:28:11,670 inherited and another column with the opposite, the good patterns 567 00:28:11,670 --> 00:28:12,510 that you inherited. 568 00:28:12,750 --> 00:28:14,030 The redeemed version. 569 00:28:14,030 --> 00:28:15,310 God is calling you to. 570 00:28:15,630 --> 00:28:19,310 Because as I begin to think about my family, I villainized my 571 00:28:19,310 --> 00:28:19,630 father. 572 00:28:19,630 --> 00:28:21,790 But there were many good traits from him too. 573 00:28:22,110 --> 00:28:24,830 So I had to ask God, show me what those things are. 574 00:28:24,910 --> 00:28:28,350 Because blessings can come through the bloodline, not just curses. 575 00:28:28,900 --> 00:28:35,060 And you know, lust becomes covenant love and true intimacy basically 576 00:28:35,540 --> 00:28:37,380 can be exchanged in that moment. 577 00:28:37,540 --> 00:28:39,700 Poverty becomes generational wealth. 578 00:28:39,700 --> 00:28:44,739 There's like a redeeming of it and true stewardship addiction becomes 579 00:28:44,739 --> 00:28:47,060 basically being addicted to the right things. 580 00:28:47,220 --> 00:28:51,140 Being addicted to your calling, your creativity, your serving 581 00:28:51,300 --> 00:28:54,500 your control actually can turn into trust. 582 00:28:55,060 --> 00:28:57,060 Profanity can become prophecy. 583 00:28:57,060 --> 00:28:58,420 Does anybody believe that? 584 00:28:58,660 --> 00:29:01,140 I mean, abandonment can become adoption. 585 00:29:01,220 --> 00:29:03,060 And you reach out for other people. 586 00:29:03,300 --> 00:29:05,060 So, you know, here's the thing. 587 00:29:05,300 --> 00:29:08,540 Right now, even as you're listening to me, name it in your 588 00:29:08,540 --> 00:29:08,900 mind. 589 00:29:09,620 --> 00:29:10,820 Name it in your mind. 590 00:29:10,820 --> 00:29:13,540 Everybody watching online, everybody in the room. 591 00:29:13,780 --> 00:29:20,660 It's divorce, rage, witchcraft or the occult, porn addiction, alcohol. 592 00:29:21,140 --> 00:29:23,700 I mean, religion without power. 593 00:29:23,860 --> 00:29:28,740 Some of you have that anxiety, fear, poverty, emotional shutdown. 594 00:29:29,060 --> 00:29:32,820 You cannot cast out what you keep protecting. 595 00:29:33,620 --> 00:29:36,900 God cannot heal what you refuse to reveal. 596 00:29:38,260 --> 00:29:41,060 Number two, repent and renounce. 597 00:29:41,620 --> 00:29:44,820 Stop being hospitable to what's killing you. 598 00:29:45,300 --> 00:29:48,860 You know, in the book I talk about how the Holy spirit confronted 599 00:29:48,860 --> 00:29:53,430 me about counterfeit comforts, things like worry and comfort eating. 600 00:29:54,070 --> 00:29:58,470 You know, I just couldn't stop eating because it felt normal. 601 00:29:58,710 --> 00:30:00,630 I mean, those things ran into my family. 602 00:30:00,630 --> 00:30:02,150 This is how they survived. 603 00:30:02,550 --> 00:30:04,790 But demons and destructive patterns, they. 604 00:30:04,790 --> 00:30:08,430 They often feel like this, they feel familiar because we've 605 00:30:08,430 --> 00:30:12,710 had these, they've had these long term leases in your family line 606 00:30:13,030 --> 00:30:14,790 and you've gotta make the decision. 607 00:30:15,670 --> 00:30:21,300 I will not be the halfway where demons walk into my kid's life. 608 00:30:21,700 --> 00:30:23,460 I'm not gonna be the conduit. 609 00:30:23,860 --> 00:30:26,500 And you know, that's what repentance and renouncing is really 610 00:30:26,500 --> 00:30:30,740 doing, is I'm not gonna be the bridge between demons. 611 00:30:31,940 --> 00:30:35,700 And it's when you say with your mouth, this stops with me. 612 00:30:36,100 --> 00:30:39,940 Whew I feel the anointing all over this number three I write about. 613 00:30:40,100 --> 00:30:42,980 You need to learn how to rebuild and protect your vineyard. 614 00:30:43,380 --> 00:30:45,300 Bring Naboth back into your mind. 615 00:30:45,540 --> 00:30:48,260 His vineyard was his father's inheritance. 616 00:30:48,260 --> 00:30:49,700 And Ahab tried to. 617 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:51,920 He offered alternative land. 618 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,760 Naboth said, you know, the Lord forbid that I should give you 619 00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:57,600 the inheritance of my fathers. 620 00:30:57,840 --> 00:31:00,080 In other words, he was forbidding it. 621 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:03,800 And so this Christmas, some of you are being offered trades by the 622 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:04,320 enemy. 623 00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:08,000 Trade your sobriety just for one drink at the family party. 624 00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:12,160 Trade your purity for just one DM to make you feel better. 625 00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:15,640 Trade your consistency in church for just one season where 626 00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:16,560 you take a break. 627 00:31:17,290 --> 00:31:20,810 Trade your children's spiritual legacy for just one holiday 628 00:31:20,810 --> 00:31:23,850 where we stop being, you know, the serious ones. 629 00:31:23,850 --> 00:31:24,170 No. 630 00:31:24,170 --> 00:31:24,490 No. 631 00:31:25,050 --> 00:31:27,130 You are the one who says, no deal. 632 00:31:27,450 --> 00:31:28,050 No deal. 633 00:31:28,050 --> 00:31:29,130 I forbid this. 634 00:31:29,210 --> 00:31:31,850 This vineyard stays in my family. 635 00:31:32,090 --> 00:31:34,010 You're not just breaking curses. 636 00:31:34,090 --> 00:31:36,050 You're now starting the blessings. 637 00:31:36,050 --> 00:31:36,530 Come on. 638 00:31:36,530 --> 00:31:38,250 Is there anybody who's like, I'm ready. 639 00:31:38,570 --> 00:31:40,090 I've been breaking curses. 640 00:31:40,090 --> 00:31:41,930 Now I'm about to start the blessings. 641 00:31:42,090 --> 00:31:43,850 That's what I feel for this new year. 642 00:31:43,850 --> 00:31:45,850 For many of you, you've been tested. 643 00:31:45,850 --> 00:31:47,290 Now you're about to be blessed. 644 00:31:47,370 --> 00:31:48,050 You went through. 645 00:31:48,050 --> 00:31:49,190 You've been stretch. 646 00:31:49,190 --> 00:31:50,790 Now you're about to be blessed. 647 00:31:50,870 --> 00:31:54,230 Your kids and your grandkids, they're going to inherit prayers 648 00:31:54,470 --> 00:31:57,910 that they never prayed, but you bathed them in those prayers 649 00:31:57,910 --> 00:31:59,030 in the midnight hour. 650 00:31:59,190 --> 00:31:59,710 Come on. 651 00:31:59,710 --> 00:32:03,310 Favor that they didn't earn, but you earned it because you came 652 00:32:03,310 --> 00:32:05,110 out of that test pure as gold. 653 00:32:05,430 --> 00:32:09,270 Freedom that they didn't fight for because you decided to be the 654 00:32:09,270 --> 00:32:14,430 first one to say yes to God at this level so that they can go to 655 00:32:14,430 --> 00:32:15,350 a higher level. 656 00:32:15,350 --> 00:32:15,970 Come on. 657 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:18,440 Somebody shout unto God with me. 658 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,480 I feel the presence of God all over this right now. 659 00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:22,680 Hey, do this. 660 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:24,760 Everybody jump to your feet with me right now. 661 00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:25,120 Come on. 662 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:26,360 We're about to end this thing. 663 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,080 Cause I feel anointing all over this. 664 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:29,880 Come on. 665 00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:32,640 In my book, inherit your freedom. 666 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:36,440 I have everybody take a challenge, and we're gonna do this 667 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:36,840 challenge. 668 00:32:36,840 --> 00:32:39,440 It's gonna feel awkward, but sometimes you gotta do something 669 00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:40,920 different to get something different. 670 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:45,120 And the Lord told me to have all of V1 Church and everybody watching 671 00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:47,290 online begin to do this with me. 672 00:32:47,290 --> 00:32:47,650 Why? 673 00:32:47,890 --> 00:32:49,890 Because I'm gonna actually. 674 00:32:50,690 --> 00:32:54,210 I'm gonna put something in the spirit realm right now that you can 675 00:32:54,210 --> 00:32:55,610 reference back to y'. 676 00:32:55,610 --> 00:32:55,770 All. 677 00:32:55,770 --> 00:32:59,730 I just got back from Israel, and as I was teaching through Israel, 678 00:32:59,730 --> 00:33:03,610 all the locations preparing for this next year, we're doing a 679 00:33:03,610 --> 00:33:06,970 huge series called Journey with Jesus. 680 00:33:06,970 --> 00:33:08,930 And I want you to lock in for it. 681 00:33:09,730 --> 00:33:12,250 Three months with Jesus going fully in depth. 682 00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:17,960 But I was in Jerusalem, and I was on the Mount of Olives, and I 683 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:20,560 begin to look down, and there's a Jewish graveyard. 684 00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:24,480 And upon the Jewish cause, these are like these. 685 00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,280 Basically, their caskets are above, you know, the ground, and 686 00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,960 they're like these stone features. 687 00:33:30,960 --> 00:33:35,440 And upon each, the top of each one were all these little rocks. 688 00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:36,240 Little rocks. 689 00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:40,000 And it reminded me that one of the traditions of the Jewish people 690 00:33:40,620 --> 00:33:43,260 is they put a stone in a place for remembrance. 691 00:33:43,580 --> 00:33:46,700 This is what Joshua did when they came into the Promised Land. 692 00:33:46,700 --> 00:33:50,580 He said, let's all pile up a big pile of stones so that when the 693 00:33:50,580 --> 00:33:53,460 future generations, they look and they say, what are those stones? 694 00:33:53,460 --> 00:33:54,300 What do they mean? 695 00:33:54,860 --> 00:33:56,780 They represent God's faithfulness. 696 00:33:56,780 --> 00:33:58,940 There was a great victory that was won here. 697 00:33:59,340 --> 00:34:02,860 And so right now we're gonna do something like that, and we're 698 00:34:02,860 --> 00:34:03,060 gonna. 699 00:34:03,060 --> 00:34:06,380 This is gonna be different because we're gonna put a stone here 700 00:34:06,380 --> 00:34:09,740 for remembrance so that your children could say, what does that 701 00:34:09,740 --> 00:34:10,100 mean? 702 00:34:10,260 --> 00:34:11,180 What was happening? 703 00:34:11,180 --> 00:34:14,980 And you tell them, oh, what this represents is this represents 704 00:34:14,980 --> 00:34:18,660 a picture of what's possible, where God has taken me. 705 00:34:18,900 --> 00:34:21,300 And so I'm going to challenge you in a few moments. 706 00:34:21,380 --> 00:34:23,700 And we're about to pray after we do this. 707 00:34:23,860 --> 00:34:26,860 And this might be weird, but the Lord told me to do something 708 00:34:26,860 --> 00:34:31,300 different today because, you know, for me, I can't take a picture 709 00:34:31,540 --> 00:34:32,500 with my family. 710 00:34:34,029 --> 00:34:37,389 Most of my family on my father's side have passed away, and 711 00:34:37,469 --> 00:34:38,189 they're gone. 712 00:34:38,509 --> 00:34:39,949 I can't take a picture with them. 713 00:34:39,949 --> 00:34:42,589 Some of you are mourning the family members that aren't here this 714 00:34:42,589 --> 00:34:42,909 year. 715 00:34:43,309 --> 00:34:45,149 But see, there's another family. 716 00:34:45,309 --> 00:34:46,829 We have a spiritual family. 717 00:34:47,309 --> 00:34:49,108 And there's many of you that you don't like. 718 00:34:49,108 --> 00:34:51,789 The way that you look, you don't like your weight, you don't 719 00:34:51,789 --> 00:34:52,389 like your face. 720 00:34:52,389 --> 00:34:54,749 I know I struggle with those things myself. 721 00:34:55,069 --> 00:34:58,429 I've had a lot of issues with my personal view of myself. 722 00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,960 But sometimes you gotta put a stone there for remembrance, to say, 723 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:04,120 we may not have fully arrived yet. 724 00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:06,760 But listen, I'm not where I used to be. 725 00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:07,440 Come on. 726 00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:08,680 God is not done with me. 727 00:35:56,731 --> 00:36:01,291 And he who began a good work in me will see it through until completion. 728 00:36:01,451 --> 00:36:04,091 Baby, I may not be in Egypt anymore. 729 00:36:04,091 --> 00:36:05,611 Thank God I'm not in Egypt. 730 00:36:05,611 --> 00:36:07,811 But I also may still be in the wilderness. 731 00:36:07,811 --> 00:36:10,931 But sometimes, before you get to the Promised Land, you gotta put 732 00:36:10,931 --> 00:36:14,371 a stone in the wilderness so that people can mark what God has 733 00:36:14,371 --> 00:36:14,651 done. 734 00:36:15,251 --> 00:36:17,931 So right now I'm helping you get to your next journey because 735 00:36:17,931 --> 00:36:20,211 we're gonna put a stone here for remembrance. 736 00:36:20,211 --> 00:36:22,931 And in a few moments, I'm gonna ask that every single one of 737 00:36:22,931 --> 00:36:26,051 you at all seven campuses and even those of you watching online, 738 00:36:26,131 --> 00:36:31,010 take a picture of yourself as a memorial to say, on this day, God 739 00:36:31,010 --> 00:36:32,851 began to set something in motion. 740 00:36:32,851 --> 00:36:35,331 And then you're gonna compare it back a year from now. 741 00:36:35,331 --> 00:36:36,851 You're gonna look at how God. 742 00:36:36,851 --> 00:36:38,211 How far God took you. 743 00:36:38,531 --> 00:36:41,171 You know, this is a before picture. 744 00:36:41,801 --> 00:36:45,801 Before the breakthrough, before the blessing, before the favor, 745 00:36:45,881 --> 00:36:50,521 before the marriage, before the reconciliation, before the supernatural 746 00:36:50,521 --> 00:36:54,081 healing in your body, before every demon leaves your home. 747 00:36:54,081 --> 00:36:54,401 Before. 748 00:36:54,401 --> 00:36:55,881 This is a before picture. 749 00:36:55,961 --> 00:36:57,481 And we're gonna do that right now. 750 00:36:57,481 --> 00:36:58,041 Come on. 751 00:36:58,121 --> 00:36:59,641 So take out your phone. 752 00:36:59,881 --> 00:37:01,641 Turn that camera on yourself. 753 00:37:02,041 --> 00:37:04,201 As a matter of fact, I'm gonna do it while you do it. 754 00:37:04,521 --> 00:37:07,641 And on the count of three, I want you to get it ready. 755 00:37:08,341 --> 00:37:08,781 Come on. 756 00:37:08,781 --> 00:37:11,781 Not for Instagram, but for your grandchildren. 757 00:37:11,781 --> 00:37:12,421 Come on. 758 00:37:13,541 --> 00:37:14,821 I'm gonna post this online. 759 00:37:14,821 --> 00:37:16,741 Cause I feel some grace all over this. 760 00:37:16,901 --> 00:37:17,901 Are you all ready? 761 00:37:17,901 --> 00:37:18,421 Come on. 762 00:37:18,421 --> 00:37:19,221 Take your phones. 763 00:37:19,621 --> 00:37:22,501 This is our Christmas family photo together. 764 00:37:22,821 --> 00:37:26,181 And we are gonna make a memorial and say, this is my before 765 00:37:26,341 --> 00:37:26,901 picture. 766 00:37:27,061 --> 00:37:29,141 Cause I know help is on the way. 767 00:37:29,381 --> 00:37:32,181 I know that financial breakthrough is on the way. 768 00:37:32,181 --> 00:37:33,701 This is my before picture. 769 00:37:33,781 --> 00:37:38,111 Before I move into the house, before I get the lease, before I 770 00:37:38,111 --> 00:37:39,031 sign the papers. 771 00:37:39,031 --> 00:37:39,551 Come on. 772 00:37:39,551 --> 00:37:40,271 This is it. 773 00:37:40,351 --> 00:37:44,111 Because I am that one that my family line has been waiting for. 774 00:37:44,271 --> 00:37:45,271 I am that one. 775 00:37:45,271 --> 00:37:46,711 I am the breaker in my family. 776 00:37:46,711 --> 00:37:47,111 Come on. 777 00:37:47,111 --> 00:37:47,951 Hold that phone. 778 00:37:48,031 --> 00:37:48,551 Get ready. 779 00:37:48,551 --> 00:37:50,831 I'm gonna count to three, and we're gonna take this picture. 780 00:37:51,311 --> 00:37:54,191 One, two, three. 781 00:37:54,191 --> 00:37:54,831 Come on. 782 00:37:57,791 --> 00:37:58,311 Come on. 783 00:37:58,311 --> 00:37:59,391 Take that picture. 784 00:38:01,951 --> 00:38:06,761 Now, when you look at that picture, a year from now, this is 785 00:38:06,761 --> 00:38:09,001 what you're going to actually begin to say. 786 00:38:09,001 --> 00:38:11,801 And I'm prophesying this over each and every one of you. 787 00:38:12,921 --> 00:38:15,881 That was the day that our bloodline changed. 788 00:38:16,281 --> 00:38:18,681 Some of you are at your lowest point right now. 789 00:38:18,841 --> 00:38:20,921 You're battling addiction right now. 790 00:38:20,921 --> 00:38:23,641 Your marriage is hanging on by a thread right now. 791 00:38:23,721 --> 00:38:26,041 Your kids are far from God right now. 792 00:38:26,281 --> 00:38:28,041 Take the picture anyways. 793 00:38:28,281 --> 00:38:32,201 Because this version of you is not the final version of you. 794 00:38:32,441 --> 00:38:33,181 Now, come on. 795 00:38:33,571 --> 00:38:35,731 If you're comfortable, I want you to do this. 796 00:38:35,731 --> 00:38:37,011 Put your hand on your heart. 797 00:38:37,251 --> 00:38:40,451 Put your hand on your heart right now, because the Holy Spirit 798 00:38:40,451 --> 00:38:43,091 is beginning to encourage you. 799 00:38:43,091 --> 00:38:44,451 And I'm about to pray. 800 00:38:44,531 --> 00:38:45,691 And we're gonna pray together. 801 00:38:45,691 --> 00:38:48,531 And then we're gonna worship into this next level. 802 00:38:48,691 --> 00:38:49,331 Come on. 803 00:38:49,651 --> 00:38:51,251 Say this with me, Father. 804 00:38:51,411 --> 00:38:51,891 Come on. 805 00:38:51,891 --> 00:38:52,851 Say it boldly now. 806 00:38:52,851 --> 00:38:54,131 Say it as loud as you can. 807 00:38:54,211 --> 00:38:59,731 Father, in the name of Jesus, I confess the sins that run in my 808 00:38:59,731 --> 00:39:00,051 family. 809 00:39:02,631 --> 00:39:04,871 I confess the patterns of addiction. 810 00:39:06,231 --> 00:39:13,511 I confess the patterns of rage, the patterns of fear, the patterns 811 00:39:13,511 --> 00:39:19,751 of perversion, the patterns of poverty, the patterns of witchcraft, 812 00:39:20,631 --> 00:39:23,111 the patterns of religion without power. 813 00:39:24,471 --> 00:39:27,761 I repent for partnering with them. 814 00:39:28,641 --> 00:39:32,481 I renounce every spirit behind them. 815 00:39:33,441 --> 00:39:38,801 By the blood of Jesus, I break every generational curse. 816 00:39:40,081 --> 00:39:47,241 I refuse to trade my vineyard for a moment of pleasure, for a moment 817 00:39:47,241 --> 00:39:50,401 of comfort, for a moment of approval. 818 00:39:51,361 --> 00:39:52,561 Come on, say this with me. 819 00:39:52,561 --> 00:39:56,271 I receive your design for my family. 820 00:39:57,151 --> 00:39:59,871 Make my home spirit filled. 821 00:40:00,671 --> 00:40:08,071 Use me as the breaker so my children and grandchildren inherit 822 00:40:08,071 --> 00:40:08,751 freedom. 823 00:40:09,470 --> 00:40:12,631 Come on now, let's say this and let's get as wild as we can when 824 00:40:12,631 --> 00:40:13,391 we say this. 825 00:40:13,631 --> 00:40:19,151 As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. 826 00:40:19,391 --> 00:40:23,711 Come on now, let out a shout and a roar across this nation right 827 00:40:23,711 --> 00:40:24,031 now. 828 00:40:24,511 --> 00:40:24,991 Come on. 829 00:40:24,991 --> 00:40:26,671 Serve notice on the devil. 830 00:40:26,751 --> 00:40:29,471 Come on, shout unto God if you believe it. 831 00:40:29,951 --> 00:40:30,991 Hallelujah. 832 00:40:33,471 --> 00:40:34,511 Come on now, look at me. 833 00:40:34,511 --> 00:40:34,991 Look at me. 834 00:40:34,991 --> 00:40:36,311 Everybody look at me right now. 835 00:40:36,311 --> 00:40:38,631 Come on, just look at me real quick. 836 00:40:38,631 --> 00:40:39,311 Look at me. 837 00:40:40,271 --> 00:40:46,111 You didn't choose your family, but God chose you for your family. 838 00:40:46,911 --> 00:40:52,001 And when he chose you for that family, he was not punishing you, 839 00:40:52,241 --> 00:40:53,841 he was trusting you. 840 00:40:54,241 --> 00:40:58,681 You are not just from your family in Christ Jesus. 841 00:40:58,681 --> 00:41:00,321 You are for your family. 842 00:41:00,721 --> 00:41:02,321 You're their curse breaker. 843 00:41:02,321 --> 00:41:03,841 You're their intercessor. 844 00:41:03,841 --> 00:41:07,601 You're their first chapter of a brand new story. 845 00:41:07,841 --> 00:41:10,321 And I know it hasn't been easy. 846 00:41:10,321 --> 00:41:11,761 I know it's been hard. 847 00:41:11,761 --> 00:41:15,841 But it's going to be worth it when you see God do what only he 848 00:41:15,841 --> 00:41:17,081 can do through you. 849 00:41:17,081 --> 00:41:19,481 Come on, let's just begin to worship right now. 850 00:41:19,481 --> 00:41:21,331 Lift up your voices unto God. 851 00:41:21,561 --> 00:41:23,961 Come on, worship curse breakers, let's go.