Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Possessing our inheritance

Possessing our inheritance
Pastor Bracken

Eph 3:1  This is why I, Paul, am in jail for Christ, having taken up the cause of you outsiders, so-called.
Eph 3:2  I take it that you're familiar with the part I was given in God's plan for including everybody.
Eph 3:3  I got the inside story on this from God himself, as I just wrote you in brief.
Eph 3:4  As you read over what I have written to you, you'll be able to see for yourselves into the mystery of Christ.
Eph 3:5  None of our ancestors understood this. Only in our time has it been made clear by God's Spirit through his holy apostles and prophets of this new order.
Eph 3:6  The mystery is that people who have never heard of God and those who have heard of him all their lives (what I've been calling outsiders and insiders) stand on the same ground before God. They get the same offer, same help, same promises in Christ Jesus. The Message is accessible and welcoming to everyone, across the board.
Eph 3:11  All this is proceeding along lines planned all along by God and then executed in Christ Jesus.
Col 1:12  thanking the Father who makes us strong enough to take part in everything bright and beautiful that he has for us.
2Pe 1:2  Grace and peace to you many times over as you deepen in your experience with God and Jesus, our Master.
2Pe 1:3  Everything that goes into a life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God. The best invitation we ever received!
2Pe 1:4  We were also given absolutely terrific promises to pass on to you--your tickets to participation in the life of God after you turned your back on a world corrupted by lust.
Act 26:16  But now, up on your feet--I have a job for you. I've handpicked you to be a servant and witness to what's happened today, and to what I am going to show you.
Act 26:17  "'I'm sending you off
Act 26:18  to open the eyes of the outsiders so they can see the difference between dark and light, and choose light, see the difference between Satan and God, and choose God. I'm sending you off to present my offer of sins forgiven, and a place in the family, inviting them into the company of those who begin real living by believing in me.'
Act 20:32  "Now I'm turning you over to God, our marvelous God whose gracious Word can make you into what he wants you to be and give you everything you could possibly need in this community of holy friends.

Rom 8:16  God's Spirit touches our spirits and confirms who we really are. We know who he is, and we know who we are: Father and children.
Rom 8:17  And we know we are going to get what's coming to us--an unbelievable inheritance! We go through exactly what Christ goes through. If we go through the hard times with him, then we're certainly going to go through the good times with him!


Gal 3:29  Also, since you are Christ's family, then you are Abraham's famous "descendant," heirs according to the covenant promises.

Gal 4:6  And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"
Gal 4:7  So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if a son, then an heir through God.

Rom 4:13  For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith. 1Co 2:9  But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"
1Co 2:10  these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.
1Co 2:11  For who knows a person's thoughts except the spirit of that person, which is in him? So also no one comprehends the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.
1Co 2:12  Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.
1Co 10:11  Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.

In the old testament Canaan is a type of inheritance today.

They had a promised land - we have a land of promises they were lead by Joshua we are lead by Jesus

Caleb meands bold 4 Truths concerning Caleb's life

The Spirit of Dominion
The Spirit of Declaration
The Spirit of Determination
The Spirit of Demonstration

Jos 14:6  Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me.
Jos 14:7  I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.
Jos 14:8  But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the LORD my God.
Jos 14:9  And Moses swore on that day, saying, 'Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.'
Jos 14:10  And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.
Jos 14:11  I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming.
Jos 14:12  So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the LORD said."
Jos 14:13  Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
Jos 14:14  Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.


Possessing our inheritance part 2  Pastor Bracken

It's up to us to set in motion what God has for us!
Eph 1:11  In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
Act 20:32  And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
1Co 10:11  Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.
Jos 14:6  Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me.
Jos 14:7  I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.
Jos 14:8  But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the LORD my God.
Jos 14:9  And Moses swore on that day, saying, 'Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.'
Jos 14:10  And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.
Jos 14:11  I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming.
Jos 14:12  So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the LORD said."
Jos 14:13  Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
Jos 14:14  Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.
4 Truths Concerning Caleb's Life

1. The spirit of Dominion-Num 13:2  "Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief among them."


Gen 1:26  Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."

Eph 2:5  even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved—

Psa 8:4  what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?
Psa 8:5  Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.
Psa 8:6  You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet,
Mat 28:18  And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.
1Jn 4:17  By this is love perfected with us, so that we may have confidence for the day of judgment, because as he is so also are we in this world.

God want us on a quest to become all he has for us

You Release authority through your speech!

2. The spirit of Declaration- Num 14:24  But my servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendants shall possess it.

WE all have to make some changes in life to possess and walk in our inheritance

2Co 4:13  Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, "I believed, and so I spoke," we also believe, and so we also speak,

Num 13:30  But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it."


Possessing your inheritance Pt. 3


Eph 1:11  In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
Act 20:32  And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

Jos 14:6  Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me.
Jos 14:7  I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.
Jos 14:8  But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the LORD my God.
Jos 14:9  And Moses swore on that day, saying, 'Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.'
Jos 14:10  And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.
Jos 14:11  I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming.
Jos 14:12  So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the LORD said."
Jos 14:13  Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.
Jos 14:14  Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.

Caleb means bold

4 truths concerning Caleb's Life

The spirit of dominion
The spirit of declaration
The spirit of determination
The spirit of demonstration

Num 24:14  And now, behold, I am going to my people. Come, I will let you know what this people will do to your people in the latter days."

We all have to make some changes in life to possess and walk in our inheritance

2Co 4:13  Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, "I believed, and so I spoke," we also believe, and so we also speak,

Num 13:30  But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it."

The spirit of declaration say's what God says in a difficult situation

Possessing your inheritance pt 4

Eph 1:11 ESV  In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,

Act 20:32 ESV  And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.


Jos 14:6-14 ESV  Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me.  (7)  I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.  (8)  But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; yet I wholly followed the LORD my God.  (9)  And Moses swore on that day, saying, 'Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance for you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.'  (10)  And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, just as he said, these forty-five years since the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. And now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.  (11)  I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming.  (12)  So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the LORD said."  (13)  Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.  (14)  Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.

4 truths concerning Caleb's Life

The spirit of dominion
The spirit of declaration
The spirit of determination
The spirit of demonstration

3. The Spirit of determination

Jos 14:11 ESV  I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me; my strength now is as my strength was then, for war and for going and coming.
2Co 1:20 ESV  For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why it is through him that we utter our Amen to God for his glory.
Php 2:13 ESV  for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure. ( Motivation &  determination)

4. The spirit of demonstration

Jos 14:12 ESV  So now give me this hill country of which the LORD spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakim were there, with great fortified cities. It may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out just as the LORD said."

That Mountain represented 2 things
1. What God had promised
2. That enemies had his territory- his stuff

The spirit of demonstration is not based on what you want

Rom 8:32 ESV  He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

You are going to have capture your inheritance- do it!

Pro 10:4 ESV  A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

Pro 12:24 ESV  The hand of the diligent will rule, while the slothful will be put to forced labor.


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