The Seven Pillars (Part 5) - Generational Transfer & People Of The Abrahamic Covenant - Rod Mills

This is a series on the 7 Pillars of the AeroNova spiritual family, the DNA markers of who God has called us to be as a people.
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 As we continue to dive deeper into the third pillar, New Testament community, we discuss generational transfer and friendship with God and how the two cannot be separated. Our personal relationship with God has an incredible impact on future generations.

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I'm going to start our recording here. And we'll come back to some of this that we're talking about today. And we won't teach us long today since we've gone quite a bit longer. But I want to tell you that I'm really enjoying this series. And And matter of fact, let's just review. We're talking about the seven pillars. I'm going to call it this today. I call it several different things. The Seven Pillars of the Friends of Jesus, I believe the Friends of Jesus is a movement the Lord is doing in the earth. And that's probably a big statement right now. But it's movement of the Holy Spirit in the earth that he's doing among people. And everything that he does that spreads start small. And I believe the Friends of Jesus movement, is what we're really a part of. And some people don't call it that. And some people call it other things. But the Friends of Jesus movement, as I understand it, for us as a spiritual family, is undergirded by seven pillars. Those are like DNA markers that characterize us as a spiritual family. So that's kind of the the thought on this. And the first pillar is prayer, Jesus says that, My house shall be called a house of prayer. And he actually is quoting from the Old Testament. So prayer is the first pillar. Now normally, prayer goes with the spiritual disciplines, because prayer is one of the many spiritual disciplines, we separate that out as the first pillar, because we believe prayer is so important. And then the second pillar is the spiritual disciplines. And there's many of them. We talked about a lot of those I probably went too long that week, because I wanted to say, as many as I could, and that wasn't an exhaustive list. There's more. But then last week, we started on pillar three, which is, you could call this different things. But it's a call to New Testament community. I call it becoming a people who are deeply relational, and spiritual living and spiritual family. So a lifestyle of being deeply relational, a lifestyle of spiritual family, that is New Testament community, much of the Western Church has lost this, not intentionally, no one really intended to. But as the church has become more and more businesslike, it has become more and more organizational, less and less organism. And so this is really a call back to the organism of the family of the church living a spiritual family. And then last week, we introduced several subtopics, that I believe are critical to this particular pillar of living deeply relational spiritual family lives or what we call New Testament community. One, the first one was spiritual family, which I'm going to talk about that in every pillar, you get tired of hearing me talk about it, but I'll tell well, you won't. But I it's so important spiritual family and close community number one, number two, love Jesus style. Now, what is love Jesus style, Jesus says, He gives us a new commandment to love as He has loved the disciples. And so we see that Jesus only loved the disciples in community. That's the way he lived. He did not live outside deep relationships. He lived in spiritual community, and those that he imparts his love to, literally he did it as a spiritual family. They live together, they, I don't mean they all live in the same house because they usually weren't in house, one house, but they traveled, they work. They live, they ate together, they were in spiritual family. So that's what I mean by love Jesus style. The next one we talked about was generational transfer and friendship with God, you can't separate the two. How many of you believe that? The older I get, the more I believe that you cannot separate generational transfer from friendship with God. I'm talking about transfer of friendship with God. Right. So in other words, transfer of faith and walking with God, I that is virtually impossible to transfer without friendship with God. And we'll deep delve deeper into that today, another subtopic, spiritual fathers and mothers and that comes up in a couple of the pillars. Another topic that we won't talk about today, but we're going to talk about that's part of living deeply relational lives and spiritual family is spirit. ritual friends, you might want to write this down spiritual friendship. Now when we talk about spiritual friendship we're talking about with one another spiritual friendship, and guild based living. Gil guil. De you can look that up, we have the men's wisdom guild. That's where we're seeking to live that out even more spiritual friendship and guild based living. We'll talk more about that on a different week. We won't have time to even get close to that this week. And then something we talk a lot about acts 242, New Testament worship, what is New Testament worship? Well, you guys, I've touched on this often, but it's more than teaching apostolic teaching. It's more than apostolic prayer, we would talk about that. It's also fellowship and breaking of bread. But when we say it's fellowship and breaking of bread, it is a spiritual fellowship and a spiritual breaking of bread, not just physical. And we'll talk about that more. All right. So last week, we started to introduce this concept of generational transfer, and friendship with God. I will tell you that I believe this is one of the most important topics in this whole series. If you have loved ones, this is not about me, I believe you should get them to listen to this teaching on the teaching library when it comes out. I believe it's that important. I believe if you have loved ones here, and they're not in the room, you probably should go get them. Now, I'm just saying that I believe this is critically critically important to grasp. And, you know, it's not one of those things that us guys are really good at this, you know, you teach a point you got got it. And it's like, no, that's not the way it works. This is not one of those things you learn in five minutes kind of thing. You know, it's something that we, we really develop and cultivate. So I'm going to continue what we began to talk about last week, from Genesis chapter 18. And I'll read the passage again, Genesis chapter 1817, through 19. Now, there's no way for us to cover all this today. So we'll have to continue it on our next installment later. So keep in mind, this is not going to be inclusive. And the Lord said, ship now this is what God says about people that he's friends with. When we read this, don't read this as if Abraham is the only one who can have these privileges to walk with God. The Scripture teaches us that all of these things were written for our instruction. Not so we can read it and go, Oh, yeah, they could all do that. But I can't do that. Right. That's what we call a disease called, but they were in the Bible syndrome. That's where you read the Bible, and you go, but they were in the Bible, that can't happen to me. That's a disease. That's a disease of doubt. That's not from the Lord. When we read the Bible, the whole reason why it's written is for our instructions so we can live and walk this way. So when you see this when we read this, think of yourself and your own friendship with God, and what God might do or say, so the Lord says, and he says this out loud, in front of Abraham, to the other two men, I think it was the other two men that he was with at the time, which we think are angels. He says, Shall I hide from Abraham, what I am doing? Since Abraham, shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him. He's repeating his covenant with Abraham, Earth from earlier in Genesis. And here's the key verse 19, Genesis 1819, for I have known him, in order that he may command His children, and his household after him, that they keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice that the Lord may bring to Abraham what he has spoken to him. Now, just as a matter of a brief review, this is what we talked about last week. God directly connects his relationship with Abraham, to Abraham's ability to impart the ways of God to future generations. Did you catch that? His ability to impart the ways of God to future generations is directly connected to the friendship He has with God. The power of generational transfer is sourced in close relationship with God and it's imparted through family. Right. This is a family context. God imparts it through family, he imparts it through physical family and he imparts it through spiritual family, there are some things that I cannot impart to you, from a microphone or from a teaching library or from a broadcast. That's that that is put out there on the internet and different places in the world. There are certain things that I cannot impart to you. Okay? It's not because those things are not powerful. It's because they have to have the right kind of power lines to be delivered. Right. And there are some things that are imparted in those relationships. This is why Paul emphasized the importance of spiritual fatherhood, which we won't get as much into today. But this is why he was saying that as though you have 10,000 instructors in Christ, you have not many fathers, he was speaking to them as a spiritual father. And I used a, an electrical illustration to try to help us see this last week, you can go back and listen to that if you're if you want to explore that more. So we examined God's words and God's intent here closely. And the Lord mentioned several things that he intended to do as the result of his relationship with Abraham, his close relationship with Abraham, supernaturally empowered Abraham to do several things. Now, here's the part where we were I get into trouble. And I think probably many of us, we forget that word supernatural. Some of this is supernatural, not physical. Many of these things are supernaturally powered. They are not physically powered, yes, we do things in the physical. But there's a supernatural power that enables this transfer to happen this impartation of a walk with God, or faith. So Abraham, so keep this in mind, as we're looking at this. There is both the natural and the supernatural, there is both the physical and the spiritual. And they must work in tandem together in order for generational transfer to happen. Now, what is keep this back off for a minute, where are we talking about today, we're talking about God's call to us as a people and to the people in the Friends of Jesus order and movement to be people who are deeply relational in our head operating in spiritual family, because we are people of generational transfer. Now, I'm very passionate about this, because growing up, I have so many friends and people I love dearly, who lost the faith of their fathers. And so if to me, it's very passionate, I'm very passionate about it. Some of them are gone today, they're dead. And to be honest with you, I don't have a good feeling, or, or a really strong sense that they're in heaven. This is tragic. This is very tragic. For families who are given faith, we cannot lose this faith in our generations, we cannot lose it. In the name of Jesus. There are there is so much heritage and inheritance that's offered to generations. And on a spiritual level, I'm using a physical illustration. Literally, there are children walking away from inheritances that are like their families in the spirit are multibillionaires in the spirit in their walk with God in the what they have been given. And I'm gonna tell you, we will be held accountable to the light we were given. We some people were not given much light, they will be held accountable to that light that they were given that truth they were given. But there are some who've been given great light and great wealth and great riches in the kingdom. And these things have been squandered. And so for us as God's people, one of the things that's so important to us is to is to really be faithful in transferring these inheritances to children. I'm not just preaching to parents of young children. I'm not just preaching to parents, because some of us will be parents if we're not already. We're also speaking to those who have grown children because we are contending for them to impart these generational transfer of walking and knowing God. Abraham's, so Abraham's close relationship with God empowered him to teach the ways of the Lord to His children. Now, the word used here God uses this like God is speaking in the Hebrew to Abraham, and it's recorded in the book of Genesis. The word is command, and we'll talk about this word briefly. But it really carries several meanings command, instruct and teach. It's really all of those. And he speaking concerning this transfer and impartation to the next generation, but we understand and I keep saying it, it's Abraham's close relationship with God that in Howard him, it wasn't because Abraham had all the best parenting books. It wasn't because Abraham had met the, you know, some dude that was the master parent or you know, or something like that. It was his walk with God. Now that equals a lot of things that might equal reading a book for you and me. But ultimately it was his intimacy with God, his walk and friendship with God, that empowered him to to be able to impart this to future generations. The next one, Abraham's close relationship with God empowered him to teach the ways of the Lord, to catch it in the Scripture, his household after him. Now that's different. Are you tracking with me, this is different household after him, is speaking more than just to his children. Now, his household after him is speaking to the whole family of that next generation and the generations that follow this word. If you go in and study this word household, he's saying Abraham will be able to impart to his entire households. It's not because it's not because of his skills or what have you. It's his walk with God, he's going to impart he says, first to his children, then he says, to his household after him. So now God just broadened the promise and the power and said, Now, you're the entire household of your children, you can impart, you can cause that generational transfer to happen as well. So it's not just to his children, but their entire families, and the family of families that follow him. So if let me give you this example, if you met Beth, and I, some of you've known us for a long time, if you met us 678 years ago, and we said, our household, who would our household been at that time, many of you knew us, when our household was Beth and I, and our five children. Now, if you made us, and by the way, household is it's not a legal term, it's not this is not the same term that when the IRS says who lives in your house, right, because the number of exemptions living under your roof, that's not what it means. Now, our household is our family, those same children, their spouses and their children. Right, our household has grown, our household is bigger, even though we don't all live under the same physical roof. This is our household. So the impartation grows and becomes an entire household. The impartation is to future generations beyond his children. Now, we're gonna get into some exciting stuff. Maybe today, maybe next week was how much time we have, because we're not gonna go too long. But it's one thing to impart to one generation. It's another thing to impart to four generations. Right? And we'll see that both in the Old Testament and the New Testament, in the impartation, is to future generations beyond his children. In other words, the supernatural force and power of his relationship with God would press divine encounters, and importations into follow on generations after his own children. That Do you believe this? Do you believe that your personal relationship and friendship with God will invoke divine encounters in your grandchildren and your great grandchildren? It will, it will. Even there, this is miraculous and how it works, because it's not based upon how well I do certain things, even though that's important. My relationship with God, God will choose to encounter people because of his relationship with other people. You want to study someone is really fascinating King David, study how many times God did certain things in the kings of Israel, even when they were wicked, because of his relationship and covenant with David. Now, a lot of people point to the covenant but the covenant is rooted in relationship. The Covenant came because of his relationship, David's relationship with God. Sometimes we look at this through religious lens, and we get so religious that we lose the core heart piece of it. And the heart piece is that David was on the backside of mountains for years, and he came into close intimacy with God and the Lord goes, you know, now I know God was thinking far ahead before David was born. I understand that But God was was moved by David's heart toward him. And he says, I think I'm gonna make this young man King. Because he wanted to, because he could do it. Because he loved David, because he liked David, because he was close to David. Because David pursued him. He was it wasn't like, well, you've done a good job, I'll give you a reward, I'll make you king. That's not the way it was. It's his heart connection with David. And now we read all these passages through the Old Testament, God did this because of his covenant, David because of his relationships, he, it's his covenant, but in in the inside that covenant is a relationship, right? So when we talk about the covenant of marriage, it's not about a document. It's about the relationship, that covenant is wrapped up in the relationship, and the relationship is close, and so forth. So I think you, you kind of get the point there, God will do things for future generations. Now, where is one of the times I briefly mentioned this from time to time, one of the most remarkable places this happens is in Genesis, when Jacob comes upon a place and he camps out for the night, and he goes to sleep, and he has an encounter with God, and realizes there's a dimensional gateway in that place where angels are ascending and descending. And he says, surely this is the house of God. And I did not know it is what he says. What he didn't know either, was that Abraham had built an altar in that place. Abraham had worship God in that place. And what happened was, when Jacob got there, he more than intersected a geographical location, he intersected the relationship of his grandfather with God Himself. And God chose the place so that we could see that it wasn't about the geography it was about he intersected a relationship that God had with his grandfather and his grandfather had with God, even though in the natural, he did not know it. This is the power of friendship with God. God will bring divine encounters into future generations, both physical generations and spiritual generations and spiritual families, and people. And he will do it simply because he loves you, you personally, he'll look back. And he'll go, I remember that time when Mike reached out to me, and he loved me. And he said this to me. You see, God is very sentimental. He, he God loves with all of his heart, not 90%, not 9%, not 1%, he loves with everything inside of him, he loves. And so he's so creative, he's always thinking up good things to do. You know, he's always looking at how can I bless my son, my daughter, and there are things in the heart of God he will do, and future generations, both in natural families and in spiritual families. And he will do it because of your personal relationship with God, or maybe perhaps a covenant that you have with him, that came out of that relationship. This is the uniqueness of God, that this is the Oh, my prayer is that God will open our eyes to see the kind of relationship he desires with you. I'll tell you this lie of the enemy, that you can't be a spiritual giant that you can't be close to God unless you're a pastor, unless you're famous or unless you're this and unless you're that none of that is true. None of it is true. God, you look at who has walked with God in the ages, those men that the women that Brad was reading about, we don't even know their names. And yet, there's some of the closest people to God in history. It doesn't matter that there's no history books on the earth written about them. Because there are eternal books written about them that we hear about in the Revelation of John. They, their testimonies, and their history will be spoken for many generations into the new creation and in eternity. You want to legacy quit worrying about what man thinks about you. Quit worrying about what the books say about you. Quit worrying about what social media if you want to legacy, be concerned about what the books of heaven are writing about you because they are writing your story. Just think how the people in the old times of the Old Testament would have lived in acted if they had known their lives were on display to the entire world. And yet our lives are on display before the entire heavens and hell. All of creation, our lives are on display. And the books are being written now. Your legacy is being written When you pray in the secret place and you walk with God, the books are being written, and exploits that God does through you, he will do. And there may not be a lot of people know, just like the testimony I shared with you guys a little while ago, and may not be a whole lot of people know that our dear brother was healed of a brain tumor in this very room. That's okay. Heaven knows. And he's well today, right? That's what matters. It doesn't matter. Who knows, I don't care if it's on Instagram, social media, it doesn't matter. Because heaven knows. And a lot of times Jesus even like to keep a secret. He'd say up, don't tell anybody. Now I know he had reasons they didn't always do that. We understand. But the point is that your legacy is being written now. And your friendship with God has extraordinary supernatural power, because God is involved. And because he takes it personal. And because he does many things that are that are beyond the impossible in the natural world. We see this happen in David's descendants I mentioned that so we we looked at Jacob, we see it happen. And Jacob, because of Abraham's relationship, we see it happen and David's descendants because of David's relationship with God, Abraham's close relationship with God also empowered him to impart get this, the foundational character of God Himself to His future generations. So you say, Rod, how do you know that? Because it says in verse we read righteousness and justice. This is very fascinating. We don't have time to do a study on it. But I'll read the passage again. He says, For I have known Him in order that he may command his children in his household after him, that they may keep the way of the Lord. And then this looks like just like, oh, yeah, to do the right thing. No, this is what he says, to do righteousness and justice. Now, these two words here. thy righteousness and justice of God in the nature of God, are, are mentioned by so many people in scriptures, that there are literally hundreds of doctoral dissertations written and studied on these two, these two qualities, and how they issue from the very nature of God himself, and how they are literally the foundation of all authority that God has in the earth. So what you see as righteousness and justice may just seem like two terms, that when I read this years ago, I just thought, oh, yeah, do the right thing. It's way more than that. I want to explore a couple, these qualities of God Himself, our foundation, to all of his rule, and his leadership, all of it. They are so ingrained in the nature of God, where does righteousness and justice come from? They come from God, because this is his way before he ever created anything. Before there was ever a created world. The righteousness and justice of God existed, because they are in the nature of the eternal God who has always been. I'd like to read a passage you might want to jot this down. Psalm 8914. Psalm 8914. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. mercy and truth go before your face. So what does he say righteousness and justice are? foundation of what though? Now, this doesn't mean that righteousness and justice are the concrete blocks underneath of physical chair. Right? Righteousness and justice. Literally. If you take one away, the throne of God itself crumbles. It is literally stabilized on these two qualities. And these two character qualities come from God Himself. If you remove any of these, they fall down. Now, our society today does not talk a lot about righteousness. But they talk a lot about justice. But let me tell you, and there's some good books written on this. It is not God's justice. It is partially God's justice. But it's been distorted and redefined. So when you hear the world say, justice, they're not talking about God's justice as he defines it. They're talking about their justice as they define it. So don't make the mistake of reading these and labeling them with what the world says righteousness or justice is. So just be careful with that. Psalm 97, two clouds and darkness surrounds him. You all know there. When God shows up it, the Bible says that Heaven and Earth fled away from him. Then revelation, literally because the intensity of God, he says clouds and darkness surrounds him. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne. Just in case we thought David got it wrong, or the Psalm has got it wrong. Here we have it again in Scripture just in case. Said again another verse, Psalm 99, verse four, the king's strength also loves justice, you have established equity. Now, equity does not mean equity that we understand equity either. Equity means uprightness, straightness, integrity, that's if you look it up in the lexicon, that's what that Hebrew word means. You have executed justice and righteousness in Jacob. Wow. Isn't that interesting? That God, he literally releases the qualities that are inside of him into the people and the families that he's in relationship with. God relates to families, not just individuals. This is why the scripture says in the New Testament, you and your whole household shall be saved. Because God wants to save households. God wants relationships with family, God wants you guys know, I encourage family, we encourage family to do ministry together. And I you know, in the first few years, we were doing this in some circles, I was getting criticism, because people were saying, well, that's nepotism. And I said, Exactly, that's exactly what it is. Because that's what God is about. He works in families. He says, I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, right? He didn't say I am the God of Abraham, in the name some dude, Abraham doesn't know and some, not that he's not the God of other people. But the point is that God works in families, if you're doing ministry, and I hope all of you are, and you know what we want to take you everywhere we go, we want to do ministry all over the world, you're ready to do something, you don't have to just sit at home, right? But when you do, bring your family, you don't have to bring your whole family start out and say, well, let's get someone in our family involved. And then get them involved in ministry, and help them walk alongside of you and then get another one help them a lot walk alongside of now I'm not saying thrown to the wolves, some people are not ready for certain things. And some people are ready for certain things. But the idea is that we serve together, we love God together, we walk with God together. This is a family enterprise, spiritually and physically. This is a family enterprise. This is what we do. We are a tribe, if you will, in the kingdom of God. And in that tribe, there are many families. And those families all have unique qualities, abilities. But ultimately, God wants to relate to you as a family. He doesn't just want to give you the promises. He says, let's talk about your family, and how I can bless your family, how we can walk together, how we can enter into the next season and open up destiny, right? Because God doesn't want to just open up destiny, his destiny to one person in the family. He's wanting to do it with many. And there are many things he will do simply because of the way he feels about you. And because you contend, and because you believe the Bible is filled with people who are blessed because of someone else. Right? Because of God's relationship with Him. The entire Abrahamic covenant is founded on this principle, in Genesis chapter 12. Remember what God said to Abraham, he goes, he says, I will bless you. And then you the nations of the earth will be blessed. And then he repeats this same principle here that we read. So what God is saying is, I will bless my people, and the nations of the earth will be blessed because of my people. Now, this is not just to Abraham's physical children. This is also to Abraham spiritual children. Paul teaches us that we are all sons of Abraham, even the ladies, we are all sons of Abraham, right? Don't get caught up with the gender piece. We're all the Bride of Christ too. But we are all sons of Abraham by faith because we were grafted into the tree of the family of God. You know, the teachings of Paul on this. If you don't, maybe we'll do a teaching at some time. But we are part of the recipients of the Abrahamic covenant. We live under all the blessings of the Abrahamic Covenant. God says, I will bless you. He's talking to Abraham, but he's also talking to all of his descendants. And we are you remember what the scripture said in the New Testament. The Sands of this See in the stars of the heavens, that we are the sons of promise that have been grafted in. So we receive that covenant of Abraham because we live in that family. By grace, we live in that family through Jesus Christ. And so as sons of Abraham, we not only God does He say, I will bless your family, but he says you will be a blessing to the nations of the earth. Now, guys, it's hard to be a blessing if you're not blessed. Right? How can you impart something that you don't have? So God is blessing us, as sons of Abraham in the family, he's blessing us because of our relationship with him because of his relationship with Abraham. And then he begins to bless our descendants, spiritual descendants and physical those that we're investing into and loving. He's blessing them also. Because we are walking with Him, according to the promises that he shows the pattern that he shows us in Genesis, chapter 19. Wow, do you love this? Man? I do. I can tell you're eating it up. I love it. I love this. Because literally, I'll tell you, if you haven't figured out yet, you just one the biggest lottery of all time, right? Like literally come on. Literally, we have been, we have received the greatest possible blessing that we could ever receive in our lives. This honor that we have to live this way and to live into it, and to experience it in fullness. Psalm 1063, blessed are those who keep justice. And he who does righteousness at all times, all time, you'll see these go together. These two words, the two Hebrew words, said doc, for righteousness, measure pot for justice or judgment. You know, we've lost the churches lost a lot of the theology of mish pot, and that is Judgment, the LORD. Listen, the Lord judges, the Lord is to be feared. And the reason why is because he loves people, even when God brings severe judgment in the earth, even when he's done that it's been because of his love for humans. This is so important for us to see in the nature and quality of God. And I'll close with this. Because we're not going to have time next week, we'll get more into studying this word command, you're gonna love it. I'm telling you, when we dig into this, you're absolutely going to love it. Abraham's close relationship with God empowered him to receive the fulfillment of all of God's promises to him. Now, I want to read that passage again, so that you'll connect this for a moment, and we could see it, for I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him. That they may keep the word of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice. Now, here's the last phrase that the Lord may bring to Abraham, what he has spoken to him. I have known good friends over the years, who the way they receive the promises of God is they go like this, they go, Well, if God wants me to have that gift, he'll give it to me. If God wants me to have that inheritance, he'll give it to me. And then they just go about their way in life. They do what they were already doing. That is not the way to receive the promises of God. Can I get an amen out there? Yeah. The he literally God lays out in his in his word to Abraham, he lays out the way you receive the promises, is you reach out that it's an active reception. It's an active apprehension of the promises of God. So if you notice this, many of the promises of God are not like Amazon. Like you don't go, well. If God wants me to have the promise, it'll just show up at my front door. Many of the promises of God don't work that way. Because we're thinking like 21st century people, instead of thinking like Bible century people. They didn't have Amazon back then. It was an agricultural society. When God spoke to a farmer and he goes, I'm going to bless you and I'm going to give you a great, great fruit in your household. He didn't go, oh, I don't have to plan anything. I don't have to tell the soil. I'm just gonna sit here and wait for all the all of the corn to grow in the beautiful vegetation or you know, the vegetables and all of that. The farmers knew you didn't just go Oh, yeah, thank you, Lord. You're gonna bless me and wake up the next morning and there's a huge crop in the field. They understood in agricultural society, that the way they receive the blessings was they engaged in what God had called them to do and to be so many of the promises of God are not received because they're approached from a passive route. reception instead of active reception, and what God teaches us, in his words to Abraham here is that we know him, we walk in friendship with him, then we command our children and future generations spiritual and physical, to keep the way of the Lord. We walk in righteousness and justice, and we impart that to those generations. And then the promises of God start to materialize out of thin air, they start to materialize out of that obedience, they start to materialize out of that relationship. They start to materialize out of the prophetic that speaks those things that aren't as though they were the Scripture says, they start to materialize out of people who live by faith and no longer live by natural abilities. They start to materialize in our lives, because we're living according to the powers of the age to come. Even now and today. Amen. Man, I love this. Oh, I love it. Don't you just love him? God is so cool. Everything about him is cool. And I know cool is not the best word. It's just one word. But there's just he's a lot of things. But this is active reception of the promises of God. Right? Brother, when you graduate in a couple of weeks, that didn't just come to you because you sat down there at Fort Hood and says, Well, Lord, if You want me to be it, send me a badge in the mail. That's not the way it works. Right? You had to step out in faith. You had to you had to risk things on God, you had to literally take a chance. This is the nature of the kingdom. You had to put your money on God, you had to put everything on him and trust in Him. And when we sang that song today, I tell you, I love the words. I wasn't real fan fond of the tune, but that's just my own personal issue. But I love the words. And I said, Man, this is so true. You could trust him. You can trust God. Let's pray. Lord, we want to thank you that we are sons of Abraham. That by promised by faith, the Scripture teaches us Paul teaches us sons of promise we've been grafted in, we're honored and humbled to be recipients of this. And now Lord, help us to walk like our father, close to you in deep relationship. And we pray Lord, for divine encounters and intersections, with many in our generations, and many in our spiritual generations, and many in the nations of the earth that we love, and speak to. Oh how awesome it is to know you how awesome it is to be friends of God. And Lord, if we are not to the place of friendship yet, like the disciples were in the early years, help us come to that place and development where you said to them, I no longer call you servants I now call your friends, Lord, teach us to live this way in you that we may be recipients of all of the promises of God. 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