9/05/2021 || Altars: I Am Changed || Pastor Justin Bridges || 9am

[Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] so [Music] faith is our victory that overcomes the world faith this life of faith is not a message this life of faith is not a movement this life of faith is not a fad it's about coming to god but it's not about pursuing a result it's about pursuing him it doesn't matter what it looks like on the outside it doesn't matter what your what you might be facing right now but it's saying i'm going to seek god i'm coming to god god is my answer and i'm solely dependent upon him it was something that went off on the inside of him he had now had a revelation of who god is he had a revelation of what he had a right to he had a revelation of the promises of god in a revelation of what needed to change in a revelation of his calling of his purpose his destiny but it all came out of this word [Music] he who comes to god he who comes to god he who comes to god he who comes to god this is about coming to god life of faith is about pursuing it's about ever learning it's about ever discovering him [Music] you are here moving in our midst we worship you we worship you you are here working in this place we worship you we worship you you are here moving in our midst we worship you oh god we worship you you are here working in this place we worship you [Music] my god that is who you are [Music] we make miracle work promise keep light in the darkness [Music] [Music] you are here healing every heart [Music] we worship you god we worship we worship [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] he wants to hear your voice this morning [Music] [Music] around [Music] hallelujah [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is is [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] i'm gonna make some noise in this place come on open your mouth and give him a prayer hallelujah oh you can do better than that you can do better than that [Music] he said i sent my word [Music] it shake your no motion so we're here coming and going come on you want to give him a praise for that [Music] this is demonic and god said i've given you power to tread over every enemy so we're training over corona you have no bubble shot he can't say we're not asking and we're not begging we're commanding you to bow [Applause] at the mighty name of jesus [Music] every symptom clear up [Music] [Music] to clear out the hospital clear out the children hospital in the name of jesus healing is flowing healing is flowing in the hospital rooms kind of oceanic you never stop [Music] you never stop how much [Music] know [Music] [Music] and shaving them all is [Music] is [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] lord we praise you you are way maker that is who you are it's not just what you do that is who you are that is your character [Music] faithful god that is who you are you are faithful faithful to heal faithful to restore faithful to save faithful to deliver faithful to protect faithful to love thank you jesus [Music] you dance [Music] and you sing [Music] lord i'm [Music] this love is [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] but i'm [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] jesus [Music] [Music] in captioning [Music] [Music] you [Music] [Music] is by you is [Music] how how great is your love for me deep and wide how deep how how great is your love for me oh how deep how deep [Music] how wide [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is is [Music] is [Music] [Music] how you love me how you love me how you love [Music] he loves with perfect love he loves with perfect love it's who he is [Music] cause i am a child of god i'm no longer a slave to fear no i'm not cause i am a child of god come on no i'm no longer a slave to fear cause i am a child of god oh no because i am a child of god come on [Music] you'll rescue my fears [Music] me so i could stand and sing that i am a child of god [Music] a child of god oh come on lift up the victoria's shed hallelujah [Applause] bless the lord bless the lord bless the lord hallelujah we bless you lord glory hallelujah [Music] any children of god in the house say i am a child of the most high god and give him another praise hallelujah [Applause] let that get down on the inside of you that should be revelation this morning i'm a child of god [Music] hold on hold on for a minute i'm a child of the most high god what can man do to me that's what he was telling joshua a matter of fact [Music] every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon i have given you [Music] every place that the soul of your foot treads upon he's given you not coronavirus he hasn't given it every place it's so it's treading upon in fact i don't even call it corona virus anymore because that means crown corona means crown [Music] which put you put on a king there's only one king in my life [Applause] the king of kings and the lord of hosts and the lord of the angel armies and i get that we're you know heaven's our home we're just we're just sojourners we're just foreigners in this land but he's given us dominion here meaning that every place the tread of our foot shall go he has given us so when i walk this place right here has been given to me that means i've got authority and i've got dominion over everything that every place i go in i've been given that authority by jesus the lord of hosts [Music] and he goes on to say no man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life as i was with moses so also i will be with you i will not leave you nor forsake you [Music] and so psalm says a thousand may follow my side ten thousand at my right hand but but it shall not come near me [Music] so it just depends on where you're getting your news from i get my news from the good news [Applause] [Music] but if you want cnn to be your pastor then go ahead do you want fox news to be your pastor then listen to them because they're sowing seed don't shout me down when i preach a good this morning your word just shout just a minute ago have i not commanded you be strong and of good courage is i'm just exhorting you for a minute timothy says that the last days will be hard to deal with and hard to bear [Music] that's not bad news it tells us how it's going to be so that we can walk victorious and and that we can understand that we're child sons and daughters of god and that everywhere the souls of our feet treads is ours that hasn't changed he says do not be afraid nor dismayed for the lord your god is with you wherever you go say this god is with me everywhere i go everywhere the soul of my foot treads [Applause] it's mine god's given me authority god's given me dominion god's given me power he's given me the name above every name and i use that name jesus and i speak to the mountain in the name of jesus hallelujah well give him one more good shout this morning you may be seated [Music] seated this morning it's good to see everybody i've been out for a bit on business but i'm back like the terminator my mic cut out oh here we go i'm back like the tominada we're going to receive our ties and offerings this morning are you all good this morning is the joy of the lord still your strength okay it says in proverbs that the blessing of the lord makes it says it makes truly rich the blessing and he adds no sorrow to it and the amplified says neither does toiling increase it now when when adam sinned god told him cursed is the ground that you walk on and then toil you'll eat of it and what that word means if you study it out it means that you are the sole provider and you and you work with this worrisome uh it even used the word irksomeness that you're the only means to a lit making a living but that's not true for the christian and so that's what jesus came to restore the galatians the blessing of the lord and he says that it will now come on the gentiles and so he got that back for us that the lord had blessed man and gave him dominion and authority and so when jesus comes on the earth and he's preaching he says consider the lilies of the field they neither how they grow they toil not now it's not talking about that we don't work because we know that that's not biblical either but it's just saying that we don't work knowing that we're our only source of provider god is our source he is our provider and that's what jesus was dealing with in matthew chapter 6 was saying hey seek first the kingdom and all these things will be added to you the birds of the field i feed them how much more will i feed you and so he says that the lilies of the field they grow the blessing is provided so that we can grow so that we can increase and the the lilies of the field says they don't toil in other words this growth is in the blessing and it says neither do they spin and so i was meditating on this and the lord reminded me of peter and when jesus peter had fished all night and he had offered his boat to jesus so that jesus could preach and when jesus got done jesus said launch out and y'all know the story launch out into the deep for a catch cast out your nets basically what he was telling peter was in peter's mind eric paraphrased is do the same thing that you just did all night that's what he was telling me so you want us to do the same thing that's what he said master we fist all night we've toiled we fished all night we caught nothing so jesus is saying do the same thing that you did last night so in peter's mind he had to get past his own natural thinking but this time was different because he had a word from the lord and the anointed one and his anointing was in the boat the blessing was in the boat amen and peter you know people uh talk about how it said net jesus said launch out your nets and he let down the net so we get into all that but with less effort on his part with the blessing and the holy spirit spoke to me the other day and he gave me this little simple phrase he said the same effort that caught nothing caught everything with the blessing it wasn't that peter worked harder because he had worked all night but this time was different because the blessing of the lord was on this thing he had the word of the lord and so that means that there are things that maybe we've done in the past we should never say well we've already tried that and it didn't work okay well maybe it was the wrong time maybe you didn't have a word from the lord to do it at that time but now the blessing along with your part and your your growth is there you don't know how you grow it's the blessing that does it you neither toil nor spend but your father in heaven does it amen you receive that this morning father we thank you for these givers today lord we thank you that there's freedom in the house lord that there's freedom there's joy here lord i thank you that there's freedom to give father we thank you lord that there's freedom of the word of god that goes forth today and we give you glory and honor today in jesus name and we all said amen ushers go ahead and receive the offering and at this time i'd like to invite our choir to come and sing this morning would you give give a hand to our choir this morning [Applause] [Music] [Applause] me [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i am [Music] i'm [Applause] is [Music] i'm [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i am [Music] [Music] oh [Applause] oh is [Music] um is oh hallelujah hallelujah thank you father hallelujah lord we lift you up in this place today we thank you for your goodness and your faithfulness thank you that there's a spirit of joy in this house this morning there's an expectancy in this house this morning hallelujah the lord is good and his mercy endures forever amen if all you have to have to praise him about because you know that you're not going to hell then give him a shout of praise this morning hallelujah thank you father hallelujah hallelujah sometimes you you're like well well pastor it's really it's been a bad week it's been a bad day it doesn't matter what the day might look like i know that i'm going to heaven and i'm going to live forever hallelujah hallelujah see sometimes we have to get the joy of our salvation back you know you just have to just sit back and think wait a minute where did the lord bring me from uh you know annette and i we were praying the other morning there was something the the lord was uh and and she went back and and and when when when where she was saved and she went back to that moment that time and and i've done that in my life i'll go back to that time when i was healed in my sister's living room and i'll go back and that same presence that same ability that same power would just come on me as it did that very first day so you need to remember what god has brought you from you need to remember what that day that you truly made jesus the lord of your life that day that sometimes it could have been a gradual process or a gradual time but but but but but you know that way man something happened something changed amen the joy of your salvation get back to get back to that and and have a praise in your heart no matter what might might what it might look like in the natural amen wow i'm excited to bring the word this morning now i better yet are you excited to hear the word [Applause] you see you have to expect the word you have to expect if you came here with no expectation then then you just really wasting your time hallelujah and it maybe if you you came here and you're like you're just well i'm just going because my wife wanted me to come i'm just going because of this and just well i believe in the midst of that the holy spirit is going to invade your heart this morning amen amen well i've been talking about altars altars are we learning some things about altars you know we talked about altars and we we talked about the altar is always a place of mercy the altar is not a place of judgment it's a place of mercy especially in the new testament now i'm not going to go off on this rabbit show so to speak but i think someone needs to hear this in corinthians chapter 11 it says that we should judge ourselves so we would not be judged god's not judging you now we know that there is a great throne judgment that we will all stand before one day but in this dispensation of grace that we're living in because of jesus god's not judging your sin he judged your sin through jesus but corinthians says unless the man judged himself see that's where that's where you know where people really got off with the whole grace message and realize that and well you know repentance isn't for today no repentance is for today repentance is just going in different direction pursuing after god not pursuing what what your flesh wants to do or what your natural wants to do but according to corinthians says lest a man judge himself he won't be judged so so if i judge what i'm doing as being wrong because i know it's wrong then what happens i'm not going to be judged but if you refuse to judge yourself see that's why we we have to we have to understand the purpose of the altar that's the that's the place where we judge ourselves that's where we judge ourselves the altar we learned that that in the in the old testament we learned that yeah they had an altar outside the temple and they had an altar inside the temple and we saw in hebrews chapter 13 it says we have an altar and it says therefore we go unto him who was crucified outside the gate it's all about jesus and it says then it says and through him we come in and we constantly give praise and we glorify his name so the altar isn't a place anymore the altar is a person and it's jesus so whether we come to a a a piece of furniture like this or we're in our car or next to our bed or or wherever it is understanding that jesus is the altar so if i come to this i'm coming to jesus and we learned that the altar this was a couple weeks ago when the altar was a place where we celebrate the finished works of jesus wow hallelujah if you have your bibles turn to second corinthians chapter 6 and you can also turn to psalms chapter 129 psalms 129. thank you father some chat i'm sorry second corinthians chapter six verse four it says and he said this is solomon and this is that when he's at the altar and he's dedicating the temple he says and blessed be the lord god of israel who with his hands fulfilled that which he spoke with his mouth on the second crown i'm sorry second chronicles sorry sorry it started with a c it's the old testament corinthians maybe [Music] it's all right i guess i get back in the spirit see you all was in the spirit i wasn't so second chronicles chapter 6 and he said blessed be the lord god of israel who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spoke with his mouth to my father david saying and this was his blessing over the people and this is what he's decreeing and declaring over all the people that are standing there at the dedication of the temple and he brings up his father and he said blessed be the lord god who hath with his hands fulfilled that which he spoke with his mouth i i believe that there's promises that god has given you there's promises that god has given us as a church in 2021 that this is a year of abundant overflow amen this is a year of recovery restoration in recompense can i get amen this is a year of firsts right this is a year where we will see the outpouring of the goodness of god like never before like never never before so those are promises to us as a body of believers these are promised to us throughout the word of god and it says that god would do fulfill with his hands what he spoke with his mouth i believe god is working on something for you today i believe god that's working in your life today i believe that he is even then even though you can't see it i believe he's working on some things in your life today amen i believe he's working on your children today i believe he's working in your marriage today i believe he's working in your finances i believe he's he's moving and maneuvering some things to get you to your promised land to get you to your wealthy place i i thank you that god is i believe god is opening some doors for you i believe there's some things that he is doing with his hand that he had spoken with his mouth [Applause] do you believe that this morning do you believe that this morning but i believe that there was times that god was trying to do some things in justin's life and there was some things that he was trying to work with his hands that justin was working with his hands instead of allowing god to work with his hands richard you with me let's look at psalms 129 to say father thank you for fresh perspective about who i am in jesus name there's some things over over a course of time of pastoring that the lord will have me revisit and there are some things that i believe that um we need to go back and hear again and it's been a number of years since i've maybe addressed it's not going to not repreaching a message or anything but but there's some topics and some different things that i believe that the lord wants to focus on some things and i believe this morning is one of those mornings but here psalms 129 verse 1 says many a time have they afflicted me from my youth may israel now say verse 2 says many a time have they afflicted me from my youth now did he say that because because he forgot he already said it once or he's saying it for emphasis he's saying it for a particular reason because he's wanting the reader or the singer of the psalm to to understand something how many people love a good story do you love a good story i love a good story but you know good stories what makes a good story a good story because it has a it has a good ending right now now here it says many a times so this wasn't just one time this was many a time [Music] many a time wow i've had some many a time many a time have they afflicted me from my youth may israel say many a time have they afflicted me from my youth yet they've not prevailed against me now see i love that i love i love a good story because a good story has a good ending it's so good to know that he tells us that many a time had they been afflicted that the word afflicted means to be bound up it means to be oppressed it means to be hemmed in on every side it means to be beaten repeatedly many a time had they afflicted my youth may israel now say many a time have they afflicted me my youth may israel now say but then israel says yet they've not prevailed against me say this he has not prevailed against me many a time have they afflicted may israel say may israel say so now we're talking about a people group we're talking about a nation and we're talking about a group of people so this affliction has come against a group of people that the enemy has constantly tried to overtake and overcome to destroy to keep from their promise now israel how did israel how did israel get its beginning israel got its beginning through abraham who gave birth to a promise isaac who then gave birth to jacob who jacob became israel let's go to genesis chapter 25. many a time have they afflicted me from my youth i want to ask you a question as we get into this this morning what has afflicted you from your youth what has afflicted you from your youth what has what have you battled your whole life from your youth what tactic has the enemy used to keep you small to keep you back what emotions or circumstances has tried to that has tried to lay hold of you that has affected your future what same old merry-go-round has the enemy tried to keep you on yet never fulfilling your purpose and never experiencing of what true joy really means what has afflicted you from your youth what has tried to pressure you and bind you up from your youth to keep you back from all the things that god has made available may israel now say now like i said this comes from jacob and looking at jacob jacob had a brother named esau and i'm i wish i had time to just go through about seven eight chapters with you and read word for word because there's a lot of great stuff about the life of jacob but understanding that isaac gave birth to twins and it's it's interesting that their name wasn't given to isaac and rebecca by god they named them who who who named isaac god did name meaning he shall laugh god even even had to start with abraham by changing his name from abram to abraham see god needs to get involved with your identity but yet but yet god's identity or jacob and esau's identity god wasn't involved with her identity their parents were and their name and their names ended up becoming their identity now think about it here esau is the first one out and and and he comes out and he's read all over and he's hairy and and they say esau which means rough i mean just think just think if your mama named you by what you look like when you came out of the womb i mean think about it i mean hey i've seen some really cute babies and i've seen some hey what's the name alien [Applause] sorry peanut i mean i mean think about it i mean i didn't say you look like an alien i'm just saying i'm just saying that you know when they come out it's like you know they come out purple i mean is there is there another word for not sure i mean whiny and then here now esau was named for for his appearance but jacob was named for his actions what was his actions he was holding on to his brother's heel and so she called him they called him jacob meaning sir planter meaning man this is the actual definition means one that wrongfully and illegally seizes hold of another's place meaning you meaning the your success is going to be based on your ability to deceive to get your promise meaning i want to get the blessing but i don't want to do it the right way and here there but but really not maybe when we were when we were born but how often has our identity been shaped through our appearances and through our actions he's an alcoholic oh he's an abuser she's this he's that failure loser poor skinny fat short tall all these labels you know you you think of the you think of the different people like you know that the one boxer that that was world was a world champion and yet the only thing they can remember him by because he said no mas you don't remember all his great victories they don't remember all the the great the great things that he had he had won but they they remember based on his actions because he said no moss how do we we we are affected by by either our appearance or you know black white brown red all these different things and and the label and the world is constantly putting labels on us vaccinated unvaccinated mass no mask democrat republican independent all these different all these different labels to try to put us in something other than what god has labeled us and made us to be i don't care if you're vaccinated or unvaccinated just follow god be led by god i don't believe you can create one thing for all people that's my that's my opinion so what we have to understand is we can't allow the enemy to shape our identity and so so what happened with jacob is is then understand jacob then his mother got involved with his identity his mother was the one that said hey why don't you do this deceived his brother out of a bowl of beans deceived and got his birthright then oh it's time for the blessing okay all right you know isaac's blind and said okay all right put put a bunch of hair on your arms jacob put a bunch of hair in your hand so so when he he feels you and touches you then he's going to put his hand on you and he is going to bless you jacob is now becoming his identity but it was hell he helped shaped it by his mother so we can have we can have influences in our life that will try to make us what we were never meant to be friends family there's a lot of different directions i can i can go in that direction but but the bottom line is is he was stepping into what he was never meant to be he was meant to be someone that was going to carry on a nation in a group of people on behalf of the creator of the universe and because of his deceit he had to run he had to run from his brother esau well i guess i never read genesis 25 but so go ahead and go to genesis 28. i kind of just told you it told you their names but genesis 28 now here jacob has been running he's running from his brother esau because of his deceit in verse 11 says and he came to a certain place and he stayed there overnight because the sun was set taking one of the stones of the place he put it under the head and laid down there to sleep and he dreamed that there was a ladder set up to on the earth in the top of it reached to heaven and the angels of god were ascending and descending on it and behold the lord stood over and beside him that's the amplified stood over in beside him and said i am the lord the god of abraham your father and the god of isaac i will give to you into your ascendants the land on which you're lying and your offspring shall be as countless as the dust of the sand of the ground and you shall spread abroad to the west the east the north the south and by you and your offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed and bless themselves meaning through you jacob you you know when he said north south east and the west he didn't leave any direction out right so he was saying out of you all the families of the earth will be blessed and by them they'll bless themselves then verse 15 says and behold i am with you i am with you and will keep watch over you with care i'll take notice of you wherever you may go and i will bring you back to this land for i will not leave you until i have done all of which i have told you god is going to fulfill with his hands what he spoke with his mouth what is god trying to do he's speaking into him because he wants to start changing his identity he's wanting him to start seeing something different it's not about what he can do in his own ability but it's about what god can do and here he's laying on this rock so to speak in and what we end up seeing is this rock ends up becoming an altar that he builds unto god amen let's read it here hallelujah and verse 18 and jacob rose early in the morning and he took the stone he had put under his head and he set it up for a pillar a monument to the vision in his dream and he poured oil on its top in dedication and he named the place bethel the house of god by the name of the city because the name of the city was laws at first then jacob made a vow saying if god will be with me and will keep me in this way that i go and will give me food to eat and clothing to wear so that i may come again to my father's house in peace then the lord shall be my god and this stone which i have set up as a pillar a monument shall be god's house a sacred place to me and of all the increase of possessions that you give me i will give the tithe to you wow so we see in this place we see out of this visitation we're seeing jacob create an altar i want you to understand an altar is a place what does he say he saw angels ascending and descending and god stood there and stood beside him i want you to know that wherever you make god an altar you're under an open heaven you are under an open heaven when you call unto him he answers what was happening jacob was getting his mind off of of running and started god getting his mind on god and this was starting the change of his identity let's go to genesis chapter 32. now remember he's jacob and he's a deceiver so after he has this visitation of the lord so to speak and he builds this altar yet he goes into the land that his father told him to go into and he goes there and he comes across this lady at a well and he and he and he sees her and and rachel and he sees her and he he finds out who the father is and his name's laban and and yet what happens he says if you know i'll do whatever i can for this young lady i'll do everything anything i can and he says okay well if you work for me for seven years i'll give you my daughter oh he said okay i can i can do that i can i can work for seven years he works seven years they get to the wedding night you know just alcohol is not a good thing just saying just saying amen [Music] and you know he wakes up the next morning and it's the ugly sister [Music] i didn't say that the bible said that i mean at least they didn't say alien i mean sorry and here it is it's you know and it's like but i wanted i wanted that one well if you work for me another seven years so what happened jacob was receiving and walking in the harvest of his deception so now his identity now became his harvest and he wasn't just a deceiver but now he was being deceived see the enemy just doesn't want you to go down the wrong wrong wrong wrong path he wants you to now do what others did to you all based on identity all based on identity 14 years later he's finally leaving and he he he now knows about his brother esau and esau now has he's got a band of people he's got a group of people he's been blessed then all in the midst of this jacob is trying to figure it out he's trying to come up with the best case scenario why because he's always leaned on his ability to get the blessing and not god what was he doing what do you mean by that pastor what happened he said well if i send this band out first and i have a bunch of gifts for esau then you know then you know i think it will start softening up a little and then then he's going to come across the other band of my family and they're going to give some more gifts and by the time i show up he's going to embrace me and it's going to be all good what's happening it's still that deceit working i'm not saying that i'm not saying the the bible said that was being deceptive i'm deceptive i'm just saying i'm seeing how he's operating he's trying to maneuver and manipulate favor what what is he doing he is he's embracing the identity even though he's following god and he's seen great blessing and and god's hands on his life and and you and i i've seen god do some great things in my life but yet there's still some areas in my life that that i need to get out of the way so i can step into a greater level and and so what do we see here in genesis chapter 32 verse 22 it says and he rose up that night and he took his two wives and his two women servants and his the 11 sons and he passed over the fort of jaboc and he took them and he sent them over the brook and sent over all that he had and he sent over that he had and jacob was left alone identity changes when we truly get alone with god now you're not going to say see an altar right here in this particular place but i believe it can be considered a place of an altar and when he got alone sometimes we have to get alone so we can allow our minds in our world to stop shaping our identity where we stop allowing our past to shape our identity and it said when he got alone and it said he wrestled a man with wit with him until the breaking of the day and when he saw that he prevailed not against him he touched when the when the when he the one that was wrestled and saw that he did not was not coming up against him he touched the hollow of his thigh and the hall of jacob's thigh was out of joint and he wrestled with him and what does jacob say and he said let me go no so the angel says this and he said let me go for the day breaketh and he said i will not this is jacob i will not let you go except you blessed me now get this this this is an encounter with god i'm not going to let you go see this is a this is a they they call this they they say a man but if you go back to genesis chapter uh i think 16 verse 7 or genesis 17 it says the angel of the lord and it talks about that this is actually jesus because they call him a man and here he is he's wrestling and he's having this encounter and and he says i'm not gonna let you go until you bless me now wha bless me man he already had a bunch of cattle a bunch of sheep oxen he already had a huge family all he had pretty much he took everything laban had so he has wealth he knows he knows abraham and isaac have have land he knows he knows god's already told him what's going to be his but yet he's still crying out for this blessing i i'm not going to let you go until you bless me why he was tired of who he had been he was tired of his identity because because what did what did the angel of the lord say to him what was the blessing and he said unto him what is thy name and he said jacob and he said thy name shall be called no more jacob but israel for as princes hath the power with god and with men and has prevailed i mean your no your name is going to be no longer defined by what you've been but now your name is going to be defined as one that prevails with god meaning you've tried to prevail because of your deceit but now you're going to prevail because i am with you and i'm on your side just like that day that you saw jacob's ladder angels going up and angels descending down and you saw that i was by your side don't let me go until you bless me what was the blessing the blessing was a name change which is an identity change let's go to genesis 35. i'm running out of time genesis 35 now god labeled him that in genesis 32 but yet he still hasn't received the name yet verse 1 says and god said to jacob arias go up to bethel and dwell there and make there an altar to god who appeared to you when you fled from the presence of esau your brother what is he saying go back to the place where you laid your head on that stone go back to that place go back to the house of god see you've got to go back god's the answer god's the answer then jacob said to his household and to all who were with him put the unless this put away the strange gods that are among you and purify yourself and change your garments it's a whole other message see it wasn't just it wasn't that he had put away the strange gods there's some things we need to put away verse 3 says let us arise and go up to bethel and i will make there an altar to god who answers me in the day of my distress and was with me wherever i went he answered me in my distress and was with me wherever i went so they gave to jacob all the strange gods they had in their earrings which were worn as charms against evil in their ears and jacob buried and hid them under the oak verse 5 and they journeyed and the terror from god fell on the towns round about them and they did not pursue the sons of jacob wow meaning the presence of the glory of god was on them so much so that all the people around them saying don't touch them god's with them wow there's so much good stuff in the word in the bible and there and jacob came to luz that is bethel which is at the land of canaan he and all the people with him and there he built an altar and he called the place el bethel for there god revealed himself to him when he fled from the presence of his brother let's look at verse 9. and god in a distinct invisible manifestation this is the amplified appeared to jacob again when he came out of padan aram and he declared a blessing on him now what is the blessing again god said to him your name is jacob sir planter you shall not be called jacob any longer but israel shall be your name so he called him israel and god said to him i am god almighty be fruitful and multiply a nation and company of nation shall come from you and king shall be born of your stock the land which i gave abraham and isaac i will give to you and to your descendants after you and i will give you the land then god ascended from him in the place where he talked with him and jacob set a pillar in the place where he had talked with god a pillar of stone and he poured a drink offering on it and poured oil on it and jacob called the name of the place where god had talked with him bethel house of god what happened he went back to the altar but what did god say you're not jacob you're israel i believe as you go to the altar god's always going to speak to your future not to your past god's always going to speak to who you are now what you not what you were yesterday it's not about going back and remembering and rehearsing all the negative things in your life but who are you who has god made you today jacob now let's go back to psalms 129. psalms 129 first one many a time have they afflicted me for my youth may israel now say many a time have they afflicted me from my youth yet they've not prevailed against me wow if you look at we look at the life of jacob he was afflicted from his youth based on identity but what does it say not prevailed against me why because god changed him to israel one that prevails with god verse 3 the plowers plowed upon my back and they made long their furrows what does that mean the plowers plowed what is a furrow those are you know i grew up in a town where there's a lot of farming and and you know corn fields they have these rows they have these rows in the fields those are furrows was it saying the enemy has plowed upon my back the enemy has put you down the enemy has tried to sow you into wrong ground the enemy has tried to sow wrong things in you the enemies tried to give you a wrong identity the plowers tried to plow over my back and said they made long referrals but verse 4 says the lord is righteous the lord sees what the enemy has tried to do your entire life i want you to know he's righteous he's just the lord is righteous now listen to this he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked he cut us under the cords of the wicked wow see with the enemy try to afflict them from the youth plow over them what does this say the lord is righteous and he cut asunder the chords of the wicked the very things that have tried to shape your life control your life what those cords are are those those straps that would go to oxen that would plow and they would try to control the oxen they would control the oxen and it would dictate where the oxen would go but what is god saying the lord is righteous and what did he do he cut asunder the things that would try to shape your identity and to control your life he cut us under the cords of the wicked it doesn't matter what your identity has been it doesn't matter what your past might look like or even your part in them i want you to know that if you yield to him yeah many a time has he afflicted you from your youth but i declare over you i declare a heritage of faith i declare everyone watching that it will not prevail against you his his his tactics his plan his identity for you will no longer prevail against you any longer i'll close with this thought i won't turn there in matthew chapter 16 go ahead and stand to your feet hallelujah thank you father matthew chapter 16 jesus is talking to the disciples and he he asked them a question remember jesus is the altar we have an altar jesus asks a question he says who do men say i the son of man am who do men say that i am he said well some say you're john the baptist some say you're elijah but but he says but who do you say that i am what did peter say he said thou art the christ the son of the living god wow you're christ you're the anointed one you are the anointed one that isaiah 10 verse 27 is describing and in talks about that he destroys every yoke and he removes every burden that he takes off every yoke he removes he removes every burden he takes off he destroys him he you are the christ the son of the living god and what does jesus say he goes he goes blessed are you simon because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you but what my father which is in heaven and upon this revelation i will build my church and what the gates of hell will not what prevail prevail against it i want you to know that your identity is no longer based on your appearance or your past actions your identity is in jesus name you are christ the son of the living god and it's upon this revelation that the gates of hell will not prevail against it your identity is no longer failure your identity is no longer poverty your identity is no longer loser your identity i am a child of god you were once you were once not a people but now you are the people of god you have a new identity and i love what colossians says it says set your affection on things that are above where christ sits and it goes in and says that your life is hid with christ in god my life is hid with christ in god meaning at the altar i have a new identity at the altar i have a new identity when i go to the altar i'm going to receive my identity go to the altar on a continual basis and let his word and him give you a fresh identity because i'm telling you it's not what people have labeled you it's not what you may have tried to label yourself but it's knowing that you are chosen you're a peculiar people you're a holy nation it's a hard concept for us to think about because we view ourselves from our past i am holy because he he's holy wow see we base the feeling of holiness based on just that of feeling based on absence of turmoil or absence of whatever it might want to be but the understanding is i'm holy because he's holy i'm a child of god and because i'm a child of god i prevail with god thank you father thank you father just everyone lift your hands maybe you're here today and you say pastor i need a i need a fresh new identity i know it's already 10 26 but not necessarily worried about time you say pastor i need a fresh identity i'm living out what i've labeled myself i'm living out what other people have labeled me and i'm ready i'm ready to shake this identity off i'm ready i'm ready for that new name i'm ready thank you father hallelujah i think it's isaiah 65. i think isaiah 65 oh thank you father lord where is that heavenly father thank you jesus verse 15 there it is the last half of that verse says in the amplified it says but he will call his servants by another name as much greater than the former name as the name israel was greater than the name of jacob [Music] wow if you hear this morning you say pastor i need a fresh new identity i'm ready to put some things behind me and i'm ready to take on a different name just come to the altar just come to the altar cassie can you come and accompany joseph hallelujah thank you jesus [Music] hallelujah lord we praise you father we praise you father hallelujah lord thank you jesus [Music] thank you father hallelujah can i have some guys a vic can you get behind corki here also it can have some ladies get behind each of the other ladies up here since there's some more people that you just need to come up here [Music] you know jacob had to wrestle i mean it was a it was a just it was something that wasn't just [Music] it might take it might take a press just to to make it up here because the enemy's trying to tell you you're worried about what people think you're worried about what other people think of you hallelujah hallelujah thank you father thank you jesus hallelujah thank you lord thank you jesus let's sing that i guess just since there's a few more people that need to come up so the altar is a place where he said he ascends and descends [Music] i am a child of god [Music] hallelujah pray for them i'm no longer [Music] people standing behind them place your hand on them [Music] [Music] hallelujah thank you jesus i am a child of god [Music] i am a child new things new things so we come to the altar today and we receive of new things new things new things new things new things that we would know an outpouring of your goodness like we've never known before the things that have kept back the greater the things that have kept back the more oh father we give to you we give to you lord we uproot those words we uproot the words that someone has spoken over them and into them we uproot the words the words the words that may have tried to define them or shape them in a way that they were never meant to be shaped oh thank you father oh hallelujah i thank you that that man that man they called him the the man that was at the tomb and he was labeled he was labeled a certain thing lord i thank you that that when jesus left him he was no longer labeled that he was no longer labeled that but now he was labeled the evangelist he was labeled the evangelist oh father when the woman when the woman with the issue of blood we know her as the woman of the issue of blood but when she left jesus she was no longer could be labeled the woman with the issue of love because she was now free in every way oh father we thank you for it [Music] you'll see church [Music] come on let this song of triumph let this song of try and fill this house you split the sea you split the sea so i could walk right through my fears [Music] you rescued me so i could stand and sing i am a child of god oh you split the sea right ahead you split [Music] new things new things new things [Music] yes i am a child of god this i am a child [Music] [Music] we love you jesus we love you jesus [Music] it's his presence right there in his glory to be clothed in his glories that his glory would clothe you to where everyone at tarleton will see the glory of god on you [Music] oh father we we release every label the enemy is pushing on the body of christ even denominational labels [Music] we resist every label the enemy would try to define us [Music] because every [Music] every identity every because when the enemy defines he confines [Music] so we only receive hmm [Music] what you define because when you define you refine see the enemy when anybody defines he confines but when god defines he's refining to make us pure like gold [Music] thank you father that's not just for big here but that's for that's for everyone hallelujah that's that's that's everyone we have to shake off the labels that the world is trying to confine and entrap the body of christ and the world we have to let his word define us because when that happens we are then refined hallelujah thank you father hallelujah give him a shout of praise hallelujah thank you father do you have something [Music] just that we're not defined by failures and i just still sense you're right there were some more people that should have come up and if you don't have to come up but you're not defined by your failures god doesn't even remember him so sometimes we've got to take that identity and that is who we are that's it it's that simple god sees us as his child and that's it it's that simple so those old failures just let them go god god is big enough to cover our failures amen amen amen like now i have to do announcements hallelujah give nikki [Applause] just some reminders before you go about this week there's no corporate prayer on monday because of labor day so enjoy your families enjoy each other next sunday is thrive groups so we'll be getting together at our home group so if you haven't found a home group yet get on jump online here jupiter.com and check out all the thrive groups pick one go have a good time children and youth will be here on the grounds and then biker weekend is coming up with dr savelle and jesse duplantis yes it's going to be a great time so september 17th 18th and 19th that'll be a friday saturday and sunday so we won't have wednesday service that week so plan on coming out friday and saturday and not missing one minute amen so those will be outdoor services so check for all those times and everything online and then our anniversary church we're having an anniversary so that'll be on october sunday october 17th so after the morning service when we have one service that day so make sure you mark your calendars because if you come at nine you'll be way early if you come 11 you'll be way late okay so check online for that on october 17th sunday we'll have a service with a picnic after and yes those of you sitting in the room wondering we are having the taste off again this year so you can find all of the details about the taste off for those of you that smoke ribs or do cookies or cakes or pies the taste stuff is online and you can sign up for that now what i was going to say is none of us are leaving this morning the way we came in amen yes pray let's praise god praise god praise you god praise your lord those of you that came up those cords are broken broken did you hear pastors say he cut them those cords are cut so go free amen and go give them jesus amen amen [Music]

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Published: Sun Sep 05 2021