Jacob - Birthrights and Blessings

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- I love when the Holy Spirit just starts

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to tie the bow on things.

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And you're like, okay, now like David didn't know

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I was teaching on birthrights and blessings,

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but his whole thing there was on blessing

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and some of the words that have been spoken this morning,

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I can't tell you how many times this morning

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I've heard somebody say something about blessing.

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And so I love when we just kind of can settle our spirits

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in under the Holy Spirit and allow him to just minister

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the things that he wants to minister, you know?

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So this, today we are going to jump forward.

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I tell you what, I miss our teens today,

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our little worship leaders.

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And we have, they're on a retreat of their own this weekend

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and we miss them and we pray that the Lord

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is just messing them up in the most amazing ways.

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I pray for Doug and Jody and James and Dana

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and all the leaders and that the Lord would just pour out

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over them this weekend.

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I'm so excited for them and Pastor Kevin

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and some of the others are ministering in East Tennessee

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this weekend and we miss them as well.

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But you know what?

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God has a word for us today too, you know?

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So Father bless them, use them today.

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And Father I pray that you be with us today.

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We are going to be talking about birthrights and blessings.

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Okay, the assignment was Jacob, but I don't really like him.

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(congregation laughing)

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I'm just gonna put that out there.

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He did some stuff that made you go, "What?"

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And he's one of the ones that God used.

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But fortunately for us, people look at us sometimes

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and go, "What?"

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Yeah, that's one of the ones that God used too, you know?

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So anyway, he eventually gets it right.

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But in the beginning, I'm just kinda like,

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"What's up with this guy?"

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And so we changed the title.

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We took his out of the big part and put it on the little part

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and we're gonna stand up and we are gonna read

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a passage of scripture together,

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then we're gonna jump into the word.

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Genesis 25, 21 through 34, if you brought your Bible,

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I think this is really important.

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That way you can look and make sure

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that we're telling you the truth here.

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All right, here we go.

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Isaac prayed to the Lord on behalf of his wife

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because she was unable to have children.

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And the Lord answered him and his wife, Rebecca, conceived.

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And the Lord said to her, "Two nations are in your womb

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"and two peoples will be separated from your body.

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"And one people will be stronger than the other

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"and the older will serve the younger."

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When the time came for her to give birth,

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the first to come out was red,

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his whole body like a hairy garment, so they named him.

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Does anybody else get the image of animal from Muppets

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when you read that?

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I'm just asking for a friend.

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Anyway, after this, his brother, now wait a minute,

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I corrected that and then I took the R back out

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because it just seemed appropriate

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that his bother came out rather than his,

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(audience laughing)

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it should say his brother, but his, okay.

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"His brother came out with his hand grasping Esau's heel,

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"so he was named Jacob.

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"The boys grew up and Esau became a skillful hunter,

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"a man of open country,

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"while Jacob was content to stay home among the tents.

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"Isaac loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob."

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How messed up is that?

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I'm just saying, if you have favorites, you don't tell 'em.

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(audience laughing)

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"Once when Jacob was coating some stew,

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"Esau came in from the open country famished.

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"He said to Jacob, 'Quick, let me have some of that stew,

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"'I am famished.'

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"Jacob replied, 'First, sell me your birthright.'

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"That was random.

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"'Look, I am about to die,' Esau said.

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"'What good is birthright to me?'

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"But Jacob said, 'Swear to me first.'

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"So he swore an oath to him,

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"selling his birthright to Jacob.

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"Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew.

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"He ate and then drank and then got up and left and this.

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"So Esau despised his birthright and won final."

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Watch out for the Esau syndrome,

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trading away God's lifelong gift

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in order to satisfy a short-term appetite.

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Father, thank you for the truth of your word.

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It's pretty clear, Lord Jesus, if we just grab hold of it,

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let our hearts be wide awake to learn from you this morning.

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Lord, let my stuff fall in your stand.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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- Amen. - Amen.

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Okay, I'm already a little convicted

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over saying I didn't like Jacob.

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Not terribly much, but just a little bit.

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But here's the beautiful part of it.

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We are doing the greatest stories ever told,

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not the greatest people ever talked about.

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We're talking about their stories.

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And I love that God uses ordinary people

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to tell extraordinary stories.

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And that tells me that he can use us

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to do extraordinary things with these little ordinary lives,

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with these little ordinary gifts that we have

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as they are imparted by him.

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You know, I always thought,

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does everybody know the story of Jacob and Esau?

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If so, let's go to lunch.

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We're out of here.

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Jacob and Esau from the very beginning,

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you know, I'll look at this and I do this thing.

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And if you walk by my office during the day,

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I apologize in advance because I look at some

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of these stories and I have this mental thing going on.

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And it'd be like a story of intrigue,

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birthright stolen, blessings captured, lies,

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deceit, parental favoritism.

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Join us this week for The Supplanter.

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Because that's what they are, man,

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they're these stories that should have been a mini series.

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You know, it's like if Lifetime would just grab hold of it,

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it should be a story.

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But the Lord is teaching us through these things.

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But I always thought, you know, when Esau,

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was he dramatic or what?

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I need to eat or I'm gonna die.

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This is the right service for that message, isn't it?

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But he's, I mean, he's so dramatic.

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It's like, what does birthright matter to me

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if I starve to death standing right here?

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And man, Jacob just goes, "Well, sell me your birthright."

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How long had he been carrying that

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for it to come out like that?

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I mean, seriously, the abundance of the heart,

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the mouth speaks, "Sell me your birthright

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"and I'll give you this bowl of beans."

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How ridiculous!

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Seriously, who does that?

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We do.

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(congregation murmuring)

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We do.

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We know the promises and the things

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that the Lord has promised us,

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the things that he's spoken over us and given us,

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and he's going, "This is the way," walk in it,

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and we're like, "Yeah, but this looks so much better

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"over here and I'm famished."

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Oh, I would never sell my birthright.

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Some of us don't even know what our birthright is.

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But all the time, God gives us opportunities

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and he speaks things over us and we choose a different path

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because that path just feels better to our flesh.

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I wanna be fed now.

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So I always thought when he sold that,

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when he traded that, when the brothers did that,

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when Jacob deceived him, I always thought,

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"Well, that's why Jacob would go in and get the blessing,"

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and all of that stuff that had happened to him.

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But birthright and blessing

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are two completely different things.

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Birthright and blessing are two completely different things.

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Birthright, birthright was given,

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assigned to the firstborn son,

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which is why it says birthright.

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By right of birth, the firstborn was given a double portion.

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A firstborn was given the name.

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He would be the one that carried the name forward.

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He would automatically become the new patriarch of the family

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all of these things and they were related to family

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because birthright is about family.

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Birthright names the patriarchs, doubles the portions.

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It makes you the name carrier.

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You are the one that is gonna carry on the tradition.

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You are that one.

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So when Esau traded it for soup, for beans,

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it was the equivalent of him going,

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"I'm changing my name.

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"Now I don't wanna carry these traditions forward.

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"I don't wanna carry these things forward."

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And that always concerned me because it says,

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Esau despised his birthright.

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And I'm like, "How do you despise your birthright?

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"How do you despise it?"

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I mean, I have a warped and wonderful history.

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My family, those that are not in jail

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are really doing well, but they didn't always do that.

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I mean, I have a lineage.

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I was told first service, Mario would be very proud

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'cause I did find out that we have a Chicago mafioso person

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in my bloodline.

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I just thought you'd appreciate that.

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(audience laughing)

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He's no longer with me.

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(laughing)

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I mean, to despise your birthright.

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Yeah, I might have some prostitutes in my background

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and some addicts and some alcoholics and some stuff,

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but you know what else I got?

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I have a whole lineage of the kindest,

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most soft-hearted, calloused hand farmers and poorer.

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I have the most wonderful musicians and singers

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and songwriters in my lineage.

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And see, we can choose to focus on this

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or we can choose to focus on that.

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But regardless, I am breathing because a man and a woman

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decided to bring me into this world

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and the Lord allowed me to come.

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How could I ever despise everything that they've done

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to bring me to the place that I am?

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And as good or as bad as your parents were,

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they were just people.

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They were dealing with their own stuff.

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But to despise everything,

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and I thought, how does that even make sense?

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And then he began to show me,

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it says he bazawed his birthright.

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He disdained it.

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It was basically him going, "Whatever."

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He counted it of little value.

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Do you count your family of little value?

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Do you count those that God has surrounded you with?

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The everything that he's poured into your life,

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do you value it?

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Is it important to you or is it a small thing to you?

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And it matters.

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You know what's interesting to me?

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Is that we don't see at all.

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We do not see at all Esau being super upset

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about losing that birthright.

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He said he got up from the table and went on his way.

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We don't see that at all over the birthright.

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That tells me he might've had some family issues

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because he didn't value it.

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It wasn't important to him.

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But your family's important to the Lord.

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And he put you in it with purpose.

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And you might just be the one that speaks healing into it.

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You don't know what God will do.

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But if he has placed you

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in the middle of a dysfunctional family,

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show them what functioning looks like.

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Show them what walking with Jesus can do for their lives.

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Don't just totally separate yourself

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unless the Lord tells you to be that light in that place.

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Change the bloodline, man.

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Draw a line across it.

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Draw a line across it.

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But it's always struck me as interesting

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that Esau just, he didn't seem too upset about it.

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Oh, but we see something he's getting ready

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to be upset about because birthright is one thing,

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but blessing is another.

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Blessing was both prophecy and divine decree

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and it passed on breath.

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So we see Jacob and Esau later in life.

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It comes time and Isaac calls for his son to come.

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He wants to speak a blessing over him.

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And that was when Rebekah decided it would be really cool

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to just, let's pretend that Jacob is Esau

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so the spoken blessing can be spoken over Jacob

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instead of Esau.

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What mama does that?

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I mean, seriously, come on.

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We're gonna cut some skins

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and we're gonna put some hair on your arms

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and we're gonna put the scent of the field on you

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so that you can go and deceive your aging

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heart of sight father.

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But that's what they do.

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And he goes in and he feeds his father

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and Jacob waits and he gets the blessing.

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Now here's the thing too.

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Blessing passed from the father

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is based on everything he had in terms of possession,

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in terms of wisdom and in terms of power.

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This one wasn't about stuff.

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This was an invoked blessing

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and guys blessing in the word of God,

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there's nothing like it and I'm not talking about stuff.

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Here let me bless you with this gift card.

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Here let me bless you with whatever.

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No, this is a spoken word breathed over people

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and it was invoked and it activated

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when the breath hit the air.

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It wasn't activated until it was spoken.

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I can look at Tina and I can think in my mind,

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Lord bless her, Lord cover her.

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But until I go, be blessed in the name of Jesus.

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Be blessed, your children will rise up and call you blessed.

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You are the head and not the tail.

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You are above and not beneath.

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You are a teacher.

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You are a daughter of the most high God.

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Go and do everything that he created you to do.

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That's released towards you.

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I can't retrieve that.

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I can't retrieve that.

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A breath blessing and something that has to happen

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in that moment is that the receiver has to understand

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the authority of the blesser to bless.

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The blesser to bless and so when that's spoken,

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it's activated and then Tina gets a choice now

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whether she wants that to be activated over her life.

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And I see you teaching.

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I see you pouring.

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Again, I know you were a teacher previously.

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You're still a teacher.

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And I see that over her and when I speak it,

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it isn't because I created it.

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It's because I know it in my spirit

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because the Holy Spirit has already spoken that over her.

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And the breath blessing that is invoked, that is released.

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And he does this.

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This is what Jacob goes in and he gets.

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Isaac says, may God give you heaven's due

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and earth's richness, grain and new wine.

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May nations serve you, your brothers bow down to you

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and may those who bless you be blessed

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and those who curse you be cursed.

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And Jacob receives that blessing

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because it's spoken and it's out there.

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And as soon as the blessing is spoken,

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Jacob gets up and he leaves and in comes Esau.

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Who's cooked for his dad.

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And Isaac says, I just gave away the blessing.

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Who did I just bless?

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And the word tells us that Esau cries out in anguish.

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He cries out in anguish.

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And he says, Father, do you have a blessing for me?

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Father, what about me?

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And Isaac says, I have blessed him and he will be blessed

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because it had already been released over him.

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I blessed him and he will be blessed.

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The things that are breathed over our lives,

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the things that are spoken over our lives

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get activated over our lives.

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I blessed him and indeed he will be blessed.

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And Esau might not have wept over his birthright.

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He might not have wept over the double portion

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or losing his name or losing the right

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to be the patriarch of the family.

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But at this, he says he wept aloud.

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He wept aloud because see blessing is irrevocable.

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Blessings irrevocable.

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You can't retrieve it.

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So doesn't that make you just wanna release it

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over the lives of people?

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Doesn't it make you wanna just speak blessing over people?

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What if we began to start sentences with,

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I bless you in the name of Jesus.

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I bless you in the name of Jesus.

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I bless you.

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I pray that you would be filled, your home would be filled

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with the peace of God and that you would have the wisdom

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to make every right decision that would cause your life

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to be the best it could ever be.

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I bless you in the name of Jesus.

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I can't give that to them, but I can release it

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through the Holy Spirit in the name of Jesus

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over their lives.

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And here's the thing, it's not like I'm making up something

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for somebody.

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These are things he's already spoken over you

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in his word.

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In the book of Genesis alone,

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there's more than 80 spoken blessings.

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This book right here is filled with spoken blessings.

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And the very first one, you might not have recognized it

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as a blessing, but when God speaks to Adam and Eve,

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and he says, go, be fruitful and multiply,

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have dominion over this thing.

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Was that not a blessing?

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Instruction comes in blessing form too, you know that?

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But from beginning to end throughout the word,

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it is the activation of a blessing over these lives.

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I had somebody in my office recently,

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and her words were,

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I don't think anybody has ever said anything good over me.

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I don't think anybody has ever thought I would be anything.

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I don't think, and I'm sitting there going,

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God, she just needs someone to speak life over her.

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And that's what I was beginning to do.

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Because some of us have had so many negative things

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breathed over our lives.

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And let me tell you something, it works the same.

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You can speak curses over people's life.

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People who would never cuss in the Southern slang.

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I'm not a cusser.

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No, but you might be a curser.

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If you speak things over people or about people,

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understand that you have a God,

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you have a Father whose breath,

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whose words created universes.

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And you are created in his image.

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And the word tells me that there is life

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and there is death in the power of the tongue.

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What do you think that means?

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You can speak life, or you can speak death.

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You can speak blessing, or you can speak curse.

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You ever wonder sometimes why your child is struggling

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when all you're doing is talking about their struggle?

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What if you begin to speak something differently about them?

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You know what?

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I don't know if I ever told you this, Hal,

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close your ears.

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(audience laughing)

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It was probably 20 years ago.

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He had done something, I'm sorry,

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I probably did whatever it was.

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But we had had like a little spat.

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We're not fighters, that's just not who we are.

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But we had had some kind of argument and I got mad at him.

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I know, it's shocking.

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And given how kind I am, I'm speaking it over me.

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And I walked into the kitchen and mumbled under my breath.

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I'm sure none of you have ever done that.

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But I walked into the kitchen and I was mad at him.

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I'm gonna face this direction.

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And standing there, I just went, "Oh, he is such a jerk."

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And as soon as I said it, the Holy Spirit went,

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"You have what you say.

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"You have what you say."

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And for the next couple of days, I know he didn't know

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what I had done to him.

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But he was so unhappy.

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He was so dissatisfied.

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He was grumpy and grouchy.

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And I was walking around going,

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"He is the head and not the tail.

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"He is the priest of my household.

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"He is kind and he is generous

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"and he thinks I'm amazing, Lord."

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And I thought about throwing in that.

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And he gives me cash all the time.

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But I didn't.

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What the Lord used that to do is to go,

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"Be careful what you speak over your spouse.

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"Be especially careful what you speak to your spouse.

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"Don't curse them.

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"Bless them because you will get what you say.

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"You will get what you say.

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"So many are desperate for the breath blessing."

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So how many of you have ever had negative things

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spoken over you or to you?

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Mm-hmm.

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You ever had anybody ridicule you,

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tell you you're worthless?

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Not gonna amount to anything?

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Were they wearing a uniform and have a badge

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when that happened?

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(laughs)

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That has impact.

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That impacts us.

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Even when we try to think that it doesn't,

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I mean, some of the words that were spoken over me

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by my father, man, I still have to sometimes go,

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"Nope, that's not what my dad says.

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"That's not what my father says."

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And to begin to speak life over that.

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And I just wonder how many need a breath blessing

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spoken over your life?

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Who needs somebody to just look at you and go,

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"Oh, I see the prophetic in you, Chris.

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"I see the worshiper in you, Chris.

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"I see the frustration that you have sometimes

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"because you wanna go so deep with the Lord."

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And my encouragement to you would be go, go deep.

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Go do what he's called you to do.

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Write the songs, do the things that you know

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that he's destined you to do 'cause it's in there.

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It's in there to have that breath blessing.

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Now let me take it to the next level.

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Let me take it to the next thing.

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If breath blessing releases and activates something

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in our life, now let's read this passage in that context.

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And again, Jesus said to them, "Peace be with you.

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"As the Father has sent me, so also I am sending you."

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When he had said this, he breathed on them and said,

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"Receive the Holy Spirit."

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Was there ever such a breath blessing as this to go,

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"Receive the Holy Spirit."

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Receive the Holy Spirit.

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And that breath, I believe it activated everything

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on the planet.

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I believe as it went into effect, I believe the ground shook.

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I believe the thunder was in the distance.

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I believe the cloud the size of a man's hand became huge

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in that moment.

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And I just believe that when Jesus spoke

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and breathed over them and said,

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"Receive the Holy Spirit," everything changed

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from then to now.

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Now what about this one?

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"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ

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"who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing

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"in the heavenly places."

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He has already, let me, okay, here it goes right here.

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Look here.

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(speaking in foreign language)

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It literally means he has pronounced blessing

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from the place of God and angels through breath blessing.

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He has pronounced from the place of God and angels

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a breath blessing over your life.

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He's already speaking it.

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How?

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Through Christ, in Christ, Jesus.

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All of these blessings are being spoken over your life.

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And I'm not talking about monetary things,

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though he does provide, but the word goes on to tell us

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this blessing provides wisdom and holiness and knowledge

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and understanding on and on and on this list goes

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about the things that have been spoken over you

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from a place of God and angels.

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From a place of God and angels.

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Jacob and Esau hit the point in their lives

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where God is getting ready to fix things.

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Esau has a pretty rough life, but the Lord blesses him.

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Every blessing we get is from him,

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and we know he's a little bit blessed

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because when Jacob goes to meet him,

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he has several hundred men with him,

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and he obviously has been covered a bit.

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But Jacob is feeling it.

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He knows what he's done to his brother.

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He's stolen his birthright, he's deceived him,

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and he has received the blessing.

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He's taken the name, he's the patriarch of the family now.

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And so he's getting ready to come face to face

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with his brother for the first time.

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And Jacob in his fear divides his family

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and sends some in this direction and some in that direction

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because he is basically assuming

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that Esau's gonna kill him.

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And so the night before, it says that he's in his tent,

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and it says he wrestled with the Lord.

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Have you ever wrestled with the Lord?

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Have you ever had the Lord tell you something

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and you can't receive it or you don't receive it

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and you go back and forth and back and forth?

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And you know Jacob had to be going,

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"I know what I did to him.

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"I know what I stole, I know what I took.

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"I know what I've cost him.

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"Lord, please don't let him kill my family.

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"Don't let it."

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You know, sometimes our lack of faith shows.

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So he wrestles all night long with this man,

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with this Lord, with the Lord.

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And then the, and he's like, "You gotta let me go."

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And the man, the angel touches his hip

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and puts it out of joint.

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And Jacob tells him, "I will not let you go

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"until you bless me.

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"I will not let you go until you bless me."

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I'm sure he was thinking, "Don't let him kill me."

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But God's plan and blessing is so much different,

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it's so much better because what he does in that moment

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is he renames him.

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Does anybody need to be renamed?

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Have you been a liar?

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Have you been a cheat?

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Have you been a deceiver?

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Have you been an addict?

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Have you been all of these things?

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Because see, the world loves to name us

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and we love to name ourselves.

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But God calls us something different.

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God calls you his son.

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God calls you his daughter.

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God covers you.

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He sees you as completed.

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And so in that moment, in Jacob's desperation,

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he gets his hip touched.

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And the Lord says, "From this point forward,

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"you'll be known as Israel."

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So yeah, your brother's not gonna kill you,

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but you're gonna be the father of nations.

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You're gonna have, think about it, man.

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In that tent, he had no idea

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if he would breathe past tomorrow.

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But when you go down the story after the blessing

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that he wouldn't let go of him until he got the blessing,

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after that, he had a new name.

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He had a new identity.

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And he would have 12 sons that would shape the nations

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from then to now.

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That's what a blessing does.

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That's what a blessing does.

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And I just cannot help but think,

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it is time to start breathing blessing over one another.

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Can I get the worship team?

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Last week when Pastor Kevin was teaching

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and I was sitting right there where Caitlin is,

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I had this thing hit me in my spirit

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and I didn't really know the direction

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I was gonna go with my teaching,

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but I did after that,

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because what I saw in my spirit was this.

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I'm gonna need some elders,

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because what I saw in my spirit was this.

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We had elders, remember what I said

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about recognizing the authority of the blesser to bless.

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And I could just see our elders lined up right here.

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And one after the next, after the next came.

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And they began with,

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"In the name of Jesus Christ, I bless you."

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And then they began to speak over the lives of the people.

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And I don't know how God wants to do that this morning,

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but I wanna be obedient in that.

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So if I could have the elders and their wives

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come and line up here for a second.

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Joshua, can you come?

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So many of us raised our hands

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when we said we've had these things spoken over us.

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Now elders, guys, wives, look at me for just a second.

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I know the Holy Spirit resides

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on the inside of each and every one of you.

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And I know that the Holy Spirit is gonna give you words

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that are gonna break chains, that are gonna break yokes,

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that are gonna break the power of some words

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over some people's lives today.

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So do what he's equipped you to do.

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Bless them in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Can you stand with us?

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We're gonna sing the blessing.

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And if you raised your hand,

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even if you think you're healed,

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if you raised your hand, I want you to come

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and I want you to receive your blessing this morning

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and have life spoken over you in the name of Jesus.

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Jesus, Father God, I thank you, Lord,

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that you are sending a blessing,

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a breathed over breath blessing for your people today.

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Lord, give us wisdom as we go into it in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Jesus.

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(gentle music)

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(gentle music)

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[music fades out]