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Claiming Your Inheritance
Unlock the keys to your spiritual inheritance and transform your life with divine wisdom! Have you ever wondered what it truly means to be an heir of God? Join us as we explore profound biblical teachings, starting with Moses' guidance to the Israelites in Deuteronomy 11, and embrace the abundant promises outlined in Romans and Colossians. As we celebrate Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, we delve into the significance of God's promises and how they continue to impact our lives today.
Lift our Bibles up, as is our custom, wave them around, make Jesus glad, the devil mad. Let's say this together Say Heavenly Father, I'm so glad for this night. Thank God for the Word of God, thank God for the Holy Ghost, thank God for revelation, knowledge that builds my faith, that causes me to become more and more fruitful. In Jesus' name. Amen. Let's look in Jesus' name. Amen. Let's look in our Bibles. We've got several places. First, we're going to start with Deuteronomy, the 11th chapter, and while you're turning, find Romans 8 and Colossians 1. But we'll start with Deuteronomy 11. And this is Moses speaking to the children of Israel. Of course, deuteronomy means the second giving of the law, so he's repeating all of the revelation to the next generation that is about to go into the promised land.
Speaker 1:Deuteronomy 11, verse 10. For the land whither thou go in to possess it is not as the land of Egypt Go in to possess. It is not as the land of Egypt from whence you came out, where thou sowest thy seed and watered it with thy foot as a garden of herbs. But the land whether you go to possess it is a land of hills and valleys and drinketh water of the rain of heaven, a land which the Lord thy God careth for, heaven, a land which the Lord thy God careth for. The eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year or the head of the year, even unto the end of the year. And it shall come to pass, if you shall hearken diligently unto my commandments, which I command you this day to love the Lord your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul, that I will give you the rain of your land in its due season, the first rain and the latter rain that thou mayest gather in thy corn and thine oil. And then skip down to verse 21. And verse 21, that your days may be multiplied and the days of your children in the land, which the Lord swear unto your fathers to give them as the days of heaven upon the earth.
Speaker 1:Boy, think about that last statement. We can have days of heaven upon the earth, all right. And then in Romans 8, we'll turn over there. Romans, chapter 8, verse 16. The Spirit itself or himself beareth witness, with our spirit, that we are the children of God. And if children, then heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs or equal heirs with Christ. And then the last one, colossians 1, verse 12, giving thanks unto the father which hath made us meet or made us worthy to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light, who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son, in whom we have the redemption, his dear son in whom we have the redemption. We have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness, or I should say the remission of sins.
Speaker 1:So tonight I wanted to share a message entitled Claiming your Inheritance. Claiming your Inheritance. We're teaching this tonight. It happens to be a Wednesday evening and it's the beginning of Rosh Hashanah, the Feast of Trumpets, and this is the time that is spoken of in Deuteronomy 11, where God from the beginning of the year, or the head of the year. The head of the year is tonight, the Jewish calendar. This is the Jewish new year. The head of the year is tonight, the Jewish calendar, this is the Jewish new year. And so all year, you know, we see that Moses is underscoring the fact that God's eyes are upon the inheritance that he has reserved for his children, israel.
Speaker 1:And of course, their inheritance was the land. You course their inheritance was the land. You know, their inheritance was the land. Now the Bible says in Romans 8 that since we're born again, we're children of God. We're heirs, co-heirs with Christ. We're heirs of God, and so in the Old Testament God spoke of the land as Israel's inheritance. It had to be possessed by dispossessing. It had to be inherited by disinheriting. You know, it was not vacant. It had people on it that God had said no, you can't have it, this belongs to my kids. And in that land all that they needed was going to be provided by God giving rain. He said it's not like the land you came out of Egypt. You watered it with your foot. They had foot-powered irrigation in Goshen that was the Nile River Delta, and what they did is they developed a system of irrigation. Egypt is very arid land. They had no rain to speak of, like an inch and a half, two inches per year. So if you wanted to have a crop there, you had to water it yourself, so they would run pipes down to the river. They had this foot-powered irrigation. So the more that they had foot power, the more they tread upon these foot-powered pumps, the more moisture that they could supply to their crops and the more prosperous they could be. Of course they're slaves toward the. You know, they they didn't, they weren't really prosperous, they just had they grew their food.
Speaker 1:But he, he's telling them, this new generation, he says it's not going to be like that in Israel. No, the Israel, the land, it drinks in the rain of heaven. So God is, as long as they obey God's covenant, then God is going to send the former and the latter rain. They're going to have the maximum amount of of increase. And so then you know that's a, that's a type and shadow of salvation by grace. We're not, we're not saved by our works. Do we have good works? Yes, we have good works, but they're proof that we are saved. They're not our salvation. We can't get saved by good works, and so that's what this all means. So notice that God monitored all year, from the head of the year to the end of the year. He cared for, he looked longingly for their inheritance, he watched Israel carefully to see if they would obey his covenant, and he cared for their land, he cared for their prosperity. He does the same with us.
Speaker 1:The Bible says in Hebrews 8, 6, we have a better covenant found upon better promises. And so it's this. And just notice, it says the days of heaven upon the earth. Well, if that was a promise for Israel and we've got a better covenant, you can begin to see then that God wants us to have life and have it more abundantly. Jesus said I come to give you life so that you might have it more abundantly Super abundant in quantity, superior in quality. I mean sounds like heaven to me, and so I think we can probably agree.
Speaker 1:You know that sometimes we need to raise our sights. We can get kind of victim-minded and we can get kind of battle-minded and even battle-weary. I mean, there's a lot of resistance to us in life. And Jesus said in the world, you'll have tribulation. And he said be of good courage. I've overcome the world. I've deprived of its ability to harm you. I've conquered it for you.
Speaker 1:And so tonight, claiming your inheritance, on this Rosh Hashanah evening, which you know I was thinking about this evening and then, five years ago, on Rosh Hashanah in 2019, we had a powerful word from God. I had actually been preaching along claiming your inheritance the Sundays preceding that, and then, on that night, I mean the Holy Ghost said you know, you're going to look back on this time next year and you're going to see that this is the greatest year you've ever lived. The greatest year yet. How many of you remember the greatest year yet? Well, that was five years ago, and you know, and he was talking about the year 2020. And, of course, we all know what happened in the year 2020.
Speaker 1:That was the year of the pandemic. That was the year where a lot of the churches closed. That is the year where a lot of people died of COVID, even Christians Beginning. Then, all the way through, for another two years or so, you know, we had to go through all of this fake business about the jabs and about this. You know, experimental gene therapy they renamed it as vaccine. There's no such thing. It's not a vaccine, and we stood against all of that. And really, I mean, when we look back on it, it looked like a tough time. It's no such thing, it's not a vaccine, and we stood against all of that. And really, I mean, when we look back on it, it looked like a tough time. But you know, because we had God's perspective, god, you know, god gave us his thoughts on that year. He said this is going to be the greatest year yet and when I look back on it, it really was.
Speaker 1:This church grew in its footprint, it grew in its influence. It grew in its influence, it grew in its notoriety. I mean, we became known all over the country because of our stand of staying open during COVID. You know, you remember, you know the Washington Post called us renegade pastors. You know, because we stayed open. And so I want to take you back to that time, five years ago. And then now here we are. We've got another fresh word that we were given by the Pays when Dr Guy Pay was in the church last Sunday, a week ago, last Sunday. Aguipe was in the church last Sunday, a week ago, last Sunday, he prophesied a day of restoration and acceleration and speed. You know, we've got something to believe God for right now, and so I just want to stir you up, I want to pick that word up, like we did the greatest year yet, and let's just keep on going. You know, this could be the greatest year yet.
Speaker 1:I believe, in this countdown before Jesus comes back, each year should be greater than the year before. Each year, we should be lifting our sights and finding more and more of our inheritance and gaining it and claiming our inheritance, and so you know. So this, this inheritance? See, it's not. It's not a promise, it's a finished fact. We have this inheritance, you know. You know we're promised heaven. Heaven is a promise and we don't have heaven. We can have days of heaven on the earth, but it's still not heaven. Heaven is heaven and so heaven is a promise. But guess what? Healing is not a promise. Healing is a finished fact. By his stripes we were healed. Deliverance is a finished fact. Salvation is a finished fact. That's not a promise, that's a fact. But yet we know that in our inheritance, the things that our inheritance stands for, we know that there can be those who are, you know, there can be trespassers on our land, so to speak.
Speaker 1:I used this back five years ago and I'm reminded to use it again tonight. You know, I had a friend of mine when I grew up in Refurio, texas. His family had a family ranch. They called it a ranch, I think it was close to 100 acres. It was out on the road between Refugio and Ostwell. It was kind of pretty close to Copano Bay and those different bodies of water and a wooded area, a lot of deer on it, but it was it was it sided up? It's it's main boundary on, on the backside of the hundred acres was the Thomas J O'Connor ranch, which was a massive ranch. I mean it had, I mean I don't know how many hundred thousand acres. I mean they owned all the land, from there all the way to the bay and all around the bay.
Speaker 1:I mean you talk about a paradise. I mean it had oil production on it. There were oil wells on it, there were cattle. They ran a bunch of cattle, thousands of head of cattle, and then besides that you've got all of the wildlife. You've got deer and turkey and you've got all kinds of predators. You've got coyotes and you've got, you know, cougars. We would call them mountain lions, but there's no mountains down there. So it's the same animal, it's a lion, it's a cougar. You didn't want to run across a cougar Every now and then you'd hear them holler man. I mean it'd give you chills.
Speaker 1:But those ranchers, that massive ranch, they had to enforce their fence line and they would send regularly pickups down that fence line to make sure it was repaired properly and if it was broken or if it was cut. If it was cut, they knew they had what A trespasser. So then they would send helicopters. They had helicopters that they would fly their fence line and fly their property. And they were looking for what they were looking for trespassers.
Speaker 1:And so if you allow trespassers onto your property, what's going to happen pretty soon is they're going to become poachers. They're going to kill your cattle and steal them. They're going to kill your wildlife. They're going to kill your cattle and steal them. They're going to kill your wildlife. They're going to start treating your property like their property. And if you don't do something about the trespasser, they turn into poachers. And if you don't do anything about the poachers, they turn into squatters. They turn into squatters, I tell you, they'll build a little cabin out there and the next thing you know, they're living on your property. Well, in the state of Texas there's a certain law that, basically, if somebody establishes squatting rights on a piece of property, they can actually get title to it and you can't get rid of them. So it was in their best interest then to stop it at the trespassing stage.
Speaker 1:You see, it's the same thing with us. We've got an inheritance. It's not land, it's our healing, it's our salvation, it's our deliverance, it's our prosperity. And there are trespassers, there are demon powers that try to get on our property and they're going to try to not only trespass, they're going to try to steal. And if we let them trespass and steal, they're going to try to not only trespass, they're going to try to steal. And if we let them trespass and steal, they're going to turn into squatters. And so you know, in order for us to claim our inheritance, we've got to dispossess the squatters, we've got to dispossess anything that's on it that's there illegally. So the land is our inheritance.
Speaker 1:You know a lot of people think our inheritance is heaven. Well, no, heaven is not our inheritance because you know, that's not something that we're going to have to possess, it's a gift. You know, in the case of Israel, that can't. You know, the land of Israel wasn't a type of heaven because there were giants in the land. There's no giants in heaven, there's no walled cities in heaven to keep us out.
Speaker 1:So what is our inheritance? Well, it's a type of our rights and privileges available to us when we receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost, the Bible. Jesus said you shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you. Jesus said you shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you. And so we need the power, the supernatural power of the baptism of the Holy Ghost, to possess our inheritance, amen. So every believer then has authority, but we need the dunamis. We need that dunamis. It's kind of like being a cop and you've got a uniform and you don't have a gun, you don't have a service weapon. You're not going to be very effective. I mean, you know some people nowadays, they just don't recognize the authority of the uniform. You need something that shows that you've got an enforcement tool and you can enforce some things when you've got, when you've got that weapon.
Speaker 1:And so we need the weapon of the Holy Ghost, the dunamis, power of the Holy Ghost to enforce and to kick the enemy, kick squatters off of our land, to kick trespassers and poachers off of our land. Every aspect of our inheritance the devil opposes. He's going to try every way in the world to talk you out of claiming your inheritance, because if he can do that, he can get you to live a life where you're stuck doing without what Jesus' blood paid for. And so we have to stand up and claim, by faith, our inheritance. And so we have to stand up and claim, by faith, our inheritance. And so praise God. You know, when you look at Romans 1.16,. Let's turn back over to Romans real quick. It's not too far back In Romans 1.16, talking about claiming your inheritance. For I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth, to the Jew first and also to the Greek Notice. It is the power of God, the dunamis. The gospel of Christ is the dunamis of God unto salvation.
Speaker 1:And when you read the Schofield Bible, the Schofield notes, under the word salvation that is the Greek word soteria. And it means more than just going to heaven. It means the Schofield note says it means and Schofield was a Greek scholar it means deliverance, safety, preservation. See, isn't that awesome. It means healing and soundness and health. And it means provision, both material and financial provision, and soundness and health. And it means provision, both material and financial provision, and you get to take that in. See, it's the power of God unto all those things.
Speaker 1:Salvation means more than just going to heaven. See, some people just read their Bible. They hit the high spots and they think that's all there is, just going to heaven. Well, that's the main thing. If you miss that, you've missed the whole thing. But yet it means more than that we have the rest of these things, which are part of what our inheritance, that we must claim. They're not going to just fall on top of us. We have to know they belong to us and we have to contend for them. Amen.
Speaker 1:I just want to stir you up. I mean, here we are, the Jewish New Year, it's the head of the year and God is in heaven and he's looking over your life, he's looking over your inheritance, he careth for your inheritance, he gave it to you. He paid a price. The book of Colossians said the blood of jesus. It's what made us worthy and gave us that inheritance. Jesus blood was shed for our inheritance. So the currency of our inheritance was the blood of jesus.
Speaker 1:I mean, if we don't, if we don't collect our deliverance, our safety, our preservation, if we don't claim our deliverance, our safety, our preservation, if we don't claim our healing and our soundness and our health, if we don't receive our provision, both materially and financially, then what has happened? Well, the blood of Jesus, as far as we're concerned, in some manner has been depreciated. We just left it undone. And you know, I tell you I don't want to leave one thing undone and one thing unreceived that Jesus bought and paid for. I mean, I sound like a broken record here lately, but we've got this word and I mean many of us have been going a long, long time. Maybe some of us have been going for years without some of these things. We've been contending for them and contending for them and they haven't come around yet. Well, listen, I just believe we're living in the day of restoration.
Speaker 1:If you weren't here Sunday, be sure and get the media and listen to that message, because it backs up what Dr Guy Pay preached for us, and he delivered it with demonstration of the Spirit. I mean he had gifts of the Spirit flowing, the whole two services to back up what he was saying. So I want us as a church to receive and to get on top of this right now. But this is the time, this is ahead of the year, this is Rosh Hashanah, the Feast of Trumpets. Notice that word talks about the former and the latter rain. We talked about that Sunday as well in the book of Joel. Oh, I mean it's all tied together.
Speaker 1:Folks, I just want to keep you encouraged, I want to build your faith that we are looking at our greatest days, Jim being just ahead of us, and so we have to claim that is. What does it mean to claim it? It means that we have to appropriate it by faith. We have to speak words of faith and we have to do actions that line up with our words. You know, if we're going to talk the talk, we got to walk the walk. We got to act like the Bible is true, amen.
Speaker 1:And so let's go back here to Colossians now and let's settle a few things. We say these things, but the Word says them. And if we say the same thing as the Word now, we're able to come up and, with boldness, claim our inheritance. We can run off the trespassers, we can run off the poachers, the thieves and, more importantly, we can run off the supernatural squatters. I mean, some of these demon powers want to squat. They want to occupy territory in your thinking, they want to occupy territory in your body so they can bring infirmity, long-lived infirmity. No, we got to drive them out, amen.
Speaker 1:And so what does it say? It says verse 12, colossians 1, 12, giving thanks unto the Father, who's made us worthy to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light. See, we are heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, equal heirs. In other words, that means if God has it, it belongs to us, and we know Jesus has it, we know he does. Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness? That word power isn't a powerful word, it's authority, jurisdiction and control. The power of darkness, see, darkness has no authority. It has no jurisdiction that's another word. It has no jurisdiction over us. It has no control over us. We've been bought. What was the currency? The blood of Jesus. We've been redeemed. When the currency? The blood of Jesus. We've been redeemed. The Bible. When the Bible uses the word redeemed, see, it means to buy back, it means to pay to free by payment of ransom. We were under the power of the devil when we were lost, but once we got saved, we were ransomed. The ransom was paid and the power, authority, jurisdiction and control of the devil was canceled over us.
Speaker 1:He has no Bible or legal right to trespass. You know, sometimes we've just got to do our homework and we've just got to put some no trespassing signs out. Now you know I was talking about the Thomas J O'Connor Ranch. Now you know, one thing that homeowners do and landowners do is they post, they do a post. We had some property next door and we had to post it because we had a neighbor that kept on coming across our fence and he was dumping garbage on our property. And we had a witness that saw him dump a bunch of garbage on our side of the fence. And so we called the sheriff on him and he said, look, I can't do anything because you don't have your property posted. You need to put a posted sign no trespassing.
Speaker 1:Ever so often, and that was just the city ordinance. We're out here in Harris County, we're not in rural Texas, we're in, we're in the city limits of a big city. And so, yeah, we went out and we posted some signs and then, you know, we cleaned that up and, sure enough, in a little while he did it again. So we were able to give him some trouble. We called and complained to the sheriff. He came out and gave him a ticket.
Speaker 1:And you know why did we do that? Well, because we had to enforce our borders. We couldn't let this guy keep doing that. I mean, what's he going to do next? Come over all the way over to the church and do something in our parking lot? You know, we had to teach him how to respect our property line, and so that's what we have to do, we, over our lives. We need to put a no trespassing sign.
Speaker 1:Devil, this means you. No sickness is going to cross this line. No, no, you know. No bondages, no demons are going to come across this line. This is no trespassing. So so, anyway, number one trespassing. So anyway, number one we have deliverance, safety and preservation. The enemy has no more jurisdiction over us. We have healing, soundness and health.
Speaker 1:First, peter 2.24, by whose stripes you were healed. I like what Brother Hagin told the devil one time. He says I don't need to get my healing, jesus already got it for me. I don't need to get it, he got it for me and it's mine. I have it. See those words.
Speaker 1:What are you doing when you speak those words? Well, you got to know them and you got to believe them first of all. But then, when you do, you're claiming, you're putting a sign out on your body and you're saying devil, you can't trespass on my body. This, in fact, my body doesn't even belong to me, it belongs to God. I've been bought with a price. You don't have any authority, you don't have any jurisdiction to put sickness and disease on me. You have no right to do it and I forbid this and I demand you to leave. In Jesus' name, praise God. I know you've heard these things before, but we've got to do our own house cleaning.
Speaker 1:A lot of times we're begging God to do things for us that we already have the authority to do. If we would just claim our inheritance and then, of course, provision, provision is ours, you know. I just 2 Corinthians 8, 9,. We all know the grace of our Lord, jesus Christ, that though he were rich, yet for our sakes he became poor, that we, through his poverty, might be rich. The word might is not on God's side, it's on our side. Rich doesn't mean a certain amount of money, it just means having an abundant supply. So it's just as the same as we're healed, we're rich. It's the same transaction. It happened at the same time. It happened at the cross.
Speaker 1:Jesus was made poor on the cross. He wasn't poor before that. He had enough to take care of his family. He had enough to take care of. At one time he had 70 full-time preachers in his ministry he took care of. At one time he had 70 full-time preachers in his ministry, he took care of them. Now, he wasn't poor until the crucifixion. That's when he became poor. He took on us poverty and he was buried in a borrowed tomb. He had no clothing. I mean, they stripped him naked and crucified him. I know we have these little symbols and pictures of him hanging on the cross, but he was naked, he had no clothes. So he was stripped bare for us in our place, and so we don't have any reason to do without, because Jesus paid for us to have an abundant supply and so we don't have to pray.
Speaker 1:When you know these things, you don't even have to pray for money, you don't have to pray for healing, you don't have to pray for deliverance, you don't have to pray for travel and mercies. I never pray for God to protect me on a trip. I claim it. I never do that. I mean, if I'm flying, I lay hands on the plane, as I'm going in the cockpit, I just touch it with my hand. I say in the name of Jesus. When I'm sitting in my chair, in my seat, I start talking and I said I lose the angels to surround this plane. They're escorting me to my you know destination.
Speaker 1:When I'm coming in for a landing, I'm saying well, devil, here I am, there's nothing you can do about it. I'm landed. So you know, I don't pray, I don't ask God. Oh, let's pray for travel and mercies. Oh, let's pray. Oh, let's pray that God. No, I don't need to do that, I just appropriate it by faith. I claim my inheritance and you can too. You don't have to beg. You claim it by knowing your inheritance, what belongs to you, and using the name of Jesus. So let's claim our inheritance, all the more as we go into this brand new year. Here it is Rosh Hashanah, the Feast of Trumpets and glory to God. Let's lift our hands and receive the Word of God tonight. Thank you, lord. I hope you, lord, I hope you receive this. Be encouraged. Hallelujah, no matter what it looks like, hallelujah. We're people of means, we're people of inheritance. Glory to God, hallelujah.