Preparing To Enter A New Year Pt. 1

open your Bibles with me to the book of Joshua at chapter number five the book of Joshua at chapter five brothers could you turn there's air-conditioning off my head here you're just gonna have to suffer with me because I can't preach with a tear on my head it fogged my horn up I don't I don't have no defogger with me right now yes sir with chapter five when all the kings of the Amer rights west of the Jordan and of the Canaanites about the sea to the east period that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the children of Israel while they crossed over their hearts melted and that was no longer any breath in them because of the children of Israel at that time the Lord said to Joshua will make Flint knives and circumcise the children of Israel a second time so Joshua made Flint knives and circumcise the children of Israel at the heel of the foreskins called the Gibby off ha aramis now this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them all the male's who came out of Egypt who were men of fighting age had died in the wilderness along the way after leaving Egypt all of the people who had come out was circumcised but all the people born in the wilderness along the way after leaving Egypt were not circumcised the children of Israel had traveled 40 years in the wilderness until all the people the men of fighting age who came out of Egypt died because they did not will be the Lord the Lord had sworn not to let them see the land that he had sworn to their fathers to give us a land flowing with milk and honey yet he raised up their descendants in their place these men Joshua was circumcised for they were uncircumcised they had not been circumcised along the way so when the entire people was completely circumcised they stayed where they were in the camp until they healed the Lord said to Joshua today I have rolled the weight of disgrace of Egypt from upon you so the name of that place is called Gilgal even to this day the children of Israel camped in Gilgal and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening on the plains of Jericho the day after the Passover the eighth of the produce of the land unleavened bread and roasted grain with trail of weeds the manna stopped the day after they ate from the produce of the land and the children of Israel no longer had manna that year they ate what the land of Canaan yield ended thank you you may be seated the grass withers and the flower thereof falleth away but the word of our God shall stand forever I want to talk this morning about preparing to enter a new year preparing to enter a new year this passage finds the children of Israel having just crossed over the Jordan River to enter into the land of Canaan let me rehearse for you their history they were in bondage for over 400 years and every night they went to sleep crying to the Lord for over 400 years to send them a deliverer God sent them Moses born of Yosha bed and ham Ram floated in the Nile River raised in the house of Pharaoh to deliver them from Egyptian bondage God sent plagues upon Egypt and then God in that last plague the death of the firstborn said to Moses to tell the people to sprinkle blood on the doorposts and on the lentils fell at midnight the death angel will fly over in every house that does not bear the threefold blood mark death will occur when the Death Angel passed over every firstborn died except those in the house of Israel and then Pharaoh relented and let the children of Israel go out of Egypt and they are on their way to the land of promise and Pharaohs hordes are behind them God who is leading them by a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night leads them in their procession out of Egypt and when Pharaoh's chariots are in hot pursuit the fire and the leadership of God that was before them now goes behind them and it is now light on Israel side and darkness on Egypt side God leads them to the Red Sea and when they get there their mountains and valleys on the right and the left the Red Sea is in front of them Pharaoh's army is behind them and they start crying to Moses you brought us out here in this wilderness you should have left us in Egypt where there are no graves in Egypt that you left us to die in this wilderness and Moses stops crying to the Lord and the Lord says to Moses why are you crying to me use what you have in your hands and Moses stretched forth that rod and the Red Sea open and the children of Israel went over the bed of that sea on dry ground when every Israelite had crossed over the Red Sea Pharaoh's army in hot pursuit God waits until they are in the middle of the sea and the same waters that open for Israel close on the Egyptians and their dead bodies wash up on the seashore and Moses sister Miriam sings a new song God is a man of war he fought many battles and he's never lost one and Jehovah is his name their sandals would not wear out their clothes would not wear out when they got hungry God fed them with bread manna from heaven when they were thirsty God watered them with water from Iraq and then they started learning about the manner and and the sweet water they wanted meat and so God sent quail and they had so much of it the scripture says it was running out of their nose because God over provided because of their murmuring God protected them God strong-armed God's outstretched hand brought them out of Egyptian bondage and now they are on the precipice of the Promised Land Moses the servant of God is dead and God buries him in the fair Hills of Moab and raises up a leader by the name of Joshua and he says to Joshua as I was with Moses I wish I had a Bible reader so also will I be with you wherever your feet shall pass I will give you good success when the feet of the priests who are carrying the Ark of the Covenant touch the brim of the waters the waters at the Jordan open at flood stage then the children of Israel walked through the Jordan on dry ground just like they had walked through the Red Sea but there's now a generation who does not know Moses Noah Moses God there is the second generation who is in almost in the promised land with no Egypt experience God kept Israel well there's a crowd now who does not remember I need help to preach right here God kept them God protected them God led them God spared them God provided for them but there's now a crowd who can't remember someone ought to help me here there's a crowd now coming to church who can't remember well well well well maybe you have selective amnesia you have some form of a spiritual dimension you you act like you don't know and so your carnality your freshly mess your worldliness turns you off from the things of God we don't go to church like we used to go to church we don't shout and praise God in church like we once did we don't give God the glory we don't shout God's praises like we once did because of some spiritual dimension some folk in here act like you don't know you act like you can't remember when you were down and he picked you up you act like you can't remember when you were broken he paid your bills you were lost and he came and found you you were sick and He healed you about it all God did for you how dare you come in this new year and act like you can't remember they were these disease relights they were people of the Lord then people of the law and they are about to be people of the land there are people of the Lord they were people of the law because they received it at Sinai and they are about to be people of the land the great promises God made to their fathers to Abraham Isaac and Jacob are about to be realized by the people of Israel they have finally arrived at the promised land their days of wandering are over the days of possessing the land have arrived but before they are ready to go into the Promised Land there are some preparations they must make and brothers and sisters this morning just as God challenged Israel just as God challenged Israel to prepare to move deeper into the promised land there are some steps that we have to take if we would move deeper into 2015 four days into the year is not enough to gauge your faithfulness another I was having passed enough days have them gone buy enough months having pads for you to talk about how faithful you been so God's got to do some stuff up front he can't wait till December to do what he's got to do in January because if you would go deeper into God that's some preparation you've got to make and the first one there four of them I don't have time for two of them in this service the first is the step of consecration Israel is kept in the very heart of enemy territory and the first command that God gives Israel is that all men are to be circumcised circumcision was a physical sign used to identify all male descendants of Abraham the foreskin of the male penis was removed when the child was eight days old and that was a physical act that parted towards a spiritual reality circumcision was painful the male sex organ the foreskin was removed and that was a sign of the Abrahamic covenant they had to be circumcised to identify themselves with the Covenant something had to be cut away in order for them to identify with the Covenant some skin had to be removed in order to be an active participant in the Covenant you have to have some skin in the game somebody gonna help me preacher in a minute the reason why you don't love Church like your other love Church it's because you ain't got no skin in the game it hasn't cost you anything I wish I had my 7:30 cry and when praise doesn't cost you anything it's cheap it's orchestrated it's staged it's managed because you come by it with no sacrifice and deliver me from folk who come by praise with no sacrifice deliver me from folk who come to church and haven't got any skin in the game cuz they're always complaining they're always murmuring they're always griping because while all of this stuff we have didn't cost you anything but the reason why I praise God with such enthusiasm I got some skin in the day my praise is costly I've gone through some pain to get to where I am and the only way you can praise God loudly you've got to have some skin in the game let me see if I can make it plain he told Joshua that there is a generation who's about to go in the Promised Land without identification and you don't want nobody following you that you can't identify they gonna say that one more time there'll not be anybody in this church that can identify with the blood of Jesus Christ because there's no such thing as a Christian without any sacrifice he said take this this generation and get a flint knife let me let me let me help you with that not not a scalpel but a stone that's been ground into a knife and take their penis and Cuddy that's just as Israel was required to remove from their bodies a piece of flesh as a sign that they were a part of the Covenant we must remove from our knives anything that stands between us and total surrender if it does not glorify God if it does not edify the church cut it off if it does not make you grow in the Lord cut it off if it's members of your family cut them off if it's friends in your circle cut them off if it's a desire that does not please God if it's a habit that stop you from growing in God cut it all off the quiet on me here this morning the reason the reason the partner the prosperity gospel is so popular the reason that easy believe ISM and and their therapeutic deism that we hear coming out of a whole lot of pulpits causes so many people to gravitate towards it it demands no sacrifice everybody wants to hear preaching that tells you how good you are and you can have your best life now and you can walk into your destiny and you can walk into your wealthy place you can name and claim whatever blessings you want that's cotton candy that's that's that's popcorn which syrup all over it and if you eat a steady diet of that in a ratchet teeth and if it rots your teeth you can't chew your food if you can't chew your food you can't digest it if you can't digest that you can't groove it's time for you to get off for milk and stop eating the meat of the word of God the church is not where she ought to be because we got too many people with a pacifier in their mouth stop let your feelings get hurt about everything stop worrying about who likes you and who does not like you stop worrying about who's on your side and who's not on your side grow up grow Oh one of one of my favorite preachers name mystical you got to be young like me to know who mystically mr. Koo say stop your crying - I don't need all that I wish I had somebody young Izumi could help me preach right here everybody ain't gonna like you matter of fact other folks are thinking about that business they're not thinking about you they got their own concerns they got their own families they got their own responsibilities the world does not revolve around you stop complaining stop murmuring stop whining you're not going to make it in this year with last year's mentality anything that does not glorify God in your life cut it heart that there might be some people in your family that you will have to detox from get out of that toxic situation stop making them make you feel bad because you're being blessed no I'm not I'm not apologizing because it's because of how God is blessing me because I'm obedient to God's Word and with my obedience comes God's blessings and so I'm not gonna make you make me feel bad cuz I'm trying to live right you spend all your money on foolishness and nonsense and the Lord blesses me to keep mine and you think I ought to give all mine be yours and my family I gotta cut you off am i helping somebody today that's some friends who are always dragging you down with that drama with that mess with that foolishness cut em off mute that College deep friend them on Facebook since the Lord led me to that I had a I had a warm friend of mine say that mean that they had to completely get off Instagram and and Twitter and Facebook and all of that because they didn't know how many stupid people they knew and and they had to get out get off all that social media because you don't know how many foods are in your life when you count it all up when you when you figure it honor when you get through with all that drama you've wasted 45 an hour and a half minutes of your life on stuff of no consequence there's some things you got to cut off listen for Israel it was the circumcision of the flesh but for the child of God is a circumcision of the heart flesh was removed for Israel but God has to remove our fleshly desires from our heart because if you go walk with God you gotta consecrate your heart you gotta clean up your life you've got to make sure that your walk with God is a consecrated one come out from a mother and be separated since the Lord modify the deeds of the flesh crucify kill the deeds of the flesh so that you might walk in the light of God yeah that's that's consecration but that's a whole you're too long that's the second thing I'm gonna get the other two in the next service but the second thing they had to do was not only consecration but now that's a period of confirmation not only must God consecrate you but now God must confirm that you belong to him now get this brothers and sisters they are in the midst of enemy territory war is imminent because they cannot possess the land until they route the enemy they've got to destroy their enemies with an act of warfare but they just got circumcised they have just gone through pain but they got to fight they got to war but they can't walk they've got to fight but they're still in pain somebody ought to help me preach it and when you read first there mate it's right here in the text when you read first number so when the entire people was completely circumcised they stayed where they were in the camp until they were here since God inflicted the pain God has to bring about the healing brothers and sisters if God is ever gonna use you you got to go through some pain I want to put that on somebody's schedule right now but if your new year's resolution is to grow deeply in the Lord they have more faith and to grow deeper in your prayer life and and to have a closer walk with God let me put this on your mind pain is in your forecast because God can't use you greatly until he's hurt you deeply I wish I had a witness in I said to you earlier on purpose that there's no sound more pleasing in gaussians then the sounds of saints who've been delivered people who've been through trials been through tests you don't need a praise leader to tell you to give God the glory you don't need no preacher to tell you to lift your hands in the sanctuary you don't need a man to try to elicit some emotional response from you when God has kept you when God has provided for your needs when God has helped you to take care of your children by yourself when God has opened the door and made a way when it like there was no way nobody's got to tell you to give God any prayers the sound that you raise in the sight and the presence and the hearing of God is the sound of deliverance cuz you know that it was nobody and you got nothing to do with a choir role it don't have anything to do with the Bible understanding and appropriate you just know for yourself that the pain that I'm going through it's gonna take God to heal me have a got a witness here my brothers and sisters whenever there's healing that has taken place scars are left behind and some of us have got some scars from 2014 don't cry about your scars that's a sign that you've been healed because only God knows how to heal you in the deep wounded places in your personal life I need some worshipper here this morning that's been wounded by pain suffered because you've tried to follow Jesus with your whole heart given God the best in service and you've been lied on and misused you've been criticized and talked about behind your back not because you've done anything wrong you've just been trying to serve God they criticize how you praise they mock and laugh at you because you make so much noise on Sunday morning well they don't know that there's a history behind your hallelujah that's a reason you praise God with such enthusiasm there's a reason why you open your mouth so loud that's a reason why you don't care who's preaching you don't care what choir is in the choir loft you know cab is the first second third or fourth Sunday you just woke up this morning with your mind stayed on Jesus because you got so much to thank God for you know what is a confirmation that God has consecrated you that after you get healed you come and give God some praise after God blesses your life with what you've asked them for and listen some of us have gotten some things we didn't even ask for I wish I had a witness here God has heard some prayers in this congregation but then God has given you some of the stuff that you didn't even ask for and so since God lets you get up this morning it doesn't matter who you're sitting next to it doesn't matter of them mocking you and criticizing you because you're making noise in the sanctuary you got your own personal testimony of how God has already confirmed you now in order for God to heal you you got to go through some pain have a got a witness here in order for God to give you a shout of praise you've got to go through a season of suffering the only way you can come out on the other side with a hallelujah you've got to go through some pain and some suffering and I'm asking the Lord if you got to hurt me that heal me if you got to bruise me to bless me if you got to knock me down to raise me up if you got to take me out to bring me in I am flying Oh Lord I heard your voice I wish I had somebody to help me is there anybody here came through some difficult trials just a few days ago last year was not long ago four days into the new year it's not enough time for you to talk about what you've already been through this year but you got a testimony of what you came through last year last year you were sick and the Lord healed you last year you were down and the Lord raised you last year you had some dark days but God shined the light in your life last year you were looking for a job and this morning God is still blessing you you may not have everything you want but you sure got everything you need because God's been good to you if the Lord opened doors for you I wish I had a witness in if the Lord made a way for you and you don't mind praising his name it's just four days into the new year but God's been good already I said God's been good already if he doesn't do anything else he's already and open the door he's already made a way now I need some shouders here this morning who can remember last year when you cried out to the Lord didn't he come to see about you didn't he come to your rescue didn't he make her way out of no way didn't he hear your body didn't he touch your spirit didn't he dry your tears didn't he put food on your table didn't he put clothes on your back didn't he give you a cha-cha-cha is there anybody here got a praise this morning is there anybody here came to worship God this morning this may be your last Sunday this may be your last opportunity you might not even make it to next Sunday so right now in this place give God praise which a hold huh tell God thank you for rescuing me thank you for delivering me thank you when I was on my way to hell Jesus died didn't he die he died on an old rugged close but bright early Sunday morning he got up with all power is that I anybody here know he's got all power why don't you grab somebody why don't you find somebody not just anybody not just any old body find somebody look like they've been born again find somebody look like they've been washed in the blood grab somebody tell him you don't know like I know moans all I don't know what tomorrow will go bang but I know who's gonna bring tomorrow he walks with me he talks with me he tell me I am his own the job we said is there anybody here got real job I mean real job you don't care who likes you you don't care who's looking at you you don't care who calls you you don't care who's your facebook friend you don't care who's talking about you you've got real child cuz the Lord save you shake somebody the hand and ask them do you have John do you have John then come out to help me shout them in come on help me magnify come on help me lift him up come on help me call his name no easel listen they they couldn't fight they couldn't fight because they were healing from the circumcision so when the enemy shoulder God fought for me and if you go get the victory this year it's not cause you went to college it's not because you got a job it's not because you live in the suburbs God's got to fight for you he will phyto man yes he will yes he will he will fight you battle because the battle is not your it's the Lord

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Keywords: Reverend Terry Anderson Pastor Lilly Grove Missionary Baptist Church Houston Texas

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Length: 42min 56sec (2576 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 04 2016