The Principles and Process of Generational Transition | Dr. Myles Munroe

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Myles Munroe provided by Monroe global incorporated and Monroe global.com we transform followers into leaders and leaders into agents of change we hope that this message is a blessing to you as you advance your life and discover your purpose now let's go into the message I want you to write this down your notes please take notes quickly I want her there for address the subject the principal and the process of generational transfer the principal and the process of generational transfer it's amazing that sometimes we don't understand the the times we are living in there was a nation that god was impressed to it or should I say a tribe that impressed God Israel had 12 tribes and one of them God specifically said was the most important one and it was not Judah he said that tribes name was Issaquah and God specifically told us why it's a car was so important among all the 12 tribes he said they had two things that the other tribes didn't have they were the smallest tribe matter of fact and he didn't have an army and yet they were the most important tribe he said they were important because number one they understood the times and number two therefore they knew what to do he said that's why they are the most important tribe in Israel they understood the times and then because of that they knew what they should be doing one time Jesus told the people in the community that he was living among especially the religious leaders he said you do not know the times of your visitation in other words it's possible for you to be living in a moment and don't understand the moment therefore you don't know what you should be doing at that moment we have entered a moment in history as a country this moment has to do with our nation and God always thinks about nations the principle of nation was created by God God established nations and he establishes nations for a reason therefore the Bahamas was not established by a group of men who sat around a table they were being used by a greater divine power to accomplish a goal that was divine therefore the Bahamas was established by God in heaven before it entered earth and there was a timing for that as a matter of fact I think it's important to understand that the nations created by God began when God first created Adam God intended for earth to have one nation and that nation was to be headed by the Adamic race and all nations therefore our products of God Malachi chapter 12 verse 21 it says in the name in his name the nations will put their hope we put our hope in so many other things but God says I want the nation to trust me how do we know that God created Nations let's read a verse that you heard earlier in this celebration Acts chapter 17 verse 24 can we read it together out loud please read the God who made the world and everything in it is the lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by man's hands and he is not served by human hands as if he needed anything because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else next verse from one man he made every nation of men that they should inhabit the whole earth and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live next verse and he says God did this so that men would seek Him and perhaps reach out to him and find him though he is not far from each one of us for in him we live and move and have our economy as some of your own poets have said we his I want you to write down what that verse just told us specifically I pulled them out for you number one why did God create Nations well first of all write it down God says he created nations number two he creates the nations for a time it says he sets the time for them that means every nation has a time and there's something it has to do within that time there are nations that have died some nations are dying their time is up next he says nations are composed of God's choice you just read the Bible says he chooses who will live in them very few of us originate from the Caribbean probably none of us we were moved by something either by a boat or aircraft brought us here somewhere in history so he chose to create a country called the Bahamas out of people from different places and he's still adding to this nation from different places next he says nations are located by God's choice it says he chooses who would be in them and where they should be the Bahamas was located by God we are in AU strategic location by divine order and I don't think even our government understands the importance of our proximity to the nations around us we're not using our location but God also says something else he says that he creates a nation write it down so that men may what seek him the purpose for a country is for people to find God that is clear in the Bible so when people come to your country do they see God do they feel the presence of God are your policies in your legislation reflecting God is your culture reflecting God natures like the Canaanites under Hittites and the jebusites no longer exists do you know why they began to worship idols they began to sacrifice their babies dipped in goat's milk they burned their children on the altar they killed young women who were 12 years old as sacrifices to to Tamala in other words God says look if you have a culture that doesn't represent me I will wipe you from the earth we cannot find these nations any more so when your country begins to sacrifice babies we call it abortion you are tampering with the very life of your country don't think that you are immune to dissolution by God God can dissolve a country we cannot find a Moabitess do you know that the land of Canaan Canaan should I say this Canaan was the black son of noir that means the African heritage grew the land of Canaan guess who took it over God told Moses I will take you to the land of Canaan for the people that have defiled the land they began to worship demons they began to offer up sacrifices to gods they burned their children in Canaan the Canaanites became evil and God gave their land to somebody else if you don't introduce God in your lands other people to take over your country Nancy says so that men may reach out to him that's why God made a country and that men might find him he says that's why God makes a nation that men might depend on God not they're geniuses it is me he says who give you life and breath it's not the investor it's not the the business banker that moves in to hire a couple of people he said it is me who gives you life never tie your life up to a barrel that can go dry connect to an eternal God who never runs out in other words he says create a culture that induces introduces men to God I want you he says as a nation to make sure everything you do will establish moral standards that expose God's nature any country with a moral code that doesn't represent God will be dissolved and we don't learn from history we still don't get the message and some of the things we're doing right now is so important that we need to be checking what we are making as far as decisions and law look at it revelations 9 5 verse 9 let's read together please and which your blood you purchase men for God from every tribe and language and people and nation you have made them to be what a kingdom of priests and to serve the Lord and they will reign on well the earth in other words God says I created nations that they may be a kingdom of priests for me look at the book of Psalm 2 verse 1 read it please go why do the nation's conspire and the people imagine vain things the kings of the earth take their stand read it aloud and the rulers gathered together against the Lord and against his anointed one let us break their change they say and throw off their fetters another way let's get rid of God we don't want no one to tell us what to do we don't want God in our politics we don't want God in our legislation let's break off this so-called spiritual bondage we need to be free and God says they conspire against him that means they make laws right in the face of God that are diametrically opposed to what God wants very day look at the next verse read out loud please Psalm 2 4 read and 1 enthroned in heaven laughs the Lord scoffs at them then he rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath saying I have installed my King on Zion my holy hill because I'm gonna ignore your laws and still bring Jesus you're gonna come to the point where you realize he's still the way for national development can I hear an amen go ahead and give God a hand a nation therefore is a component created by God and every nation must have these States write them down a common language common values common covenant common culture common moral standards and common respect they must have these things in common and that means that a nation must have a commitment to unity and the key to nation building is it must have a national purpose a national vision a national divine reference that's important in other words they must refer all of their legal decisions to a higher power number four they must have a national moral code they must have a national value system they must have a national social consciousness and they must have a national spirit of love and respect for one another is what nations have made it up look at Psalm I mean Genesis rather 12 verse 12 read verse 1 then the Lord said to Abraham read aloud then the Lord said to Abraham leave your country your people and your father's whole soul and go to the land I will want to show you as a land of Canaan next verse I will make you into a great nation there was a nation already in the land in other words God could cancel your country you don't even know it's canceled and foreigner start coming in you don't know your time is over I'm soo more later they are more than you God sent Abraham not to empty land he said unto a land that I Canaanites Moabites Jabba says Hittites in other words God could fire you and you still on the job when you start doing evil gotta slowly take over your country and you'll find foreigners in the House of Assembly Abraham I'm giving you a nation a land that other people live in he said look at the next verse 3 I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you I'll make your name great and you will be a blessing and I will bless those who bless you and I will curse those who curse you and all the people of the through you will be blessed I'll bless the nation through your nation in other words God created the nation of Israel to be a blessing to the nation's to be a standard to the nation's look at Deuteronomy 4 verse 6 read observed then carefully for this will show you your wisdom he says and understanding the nations who will hear about your laws and decrees and they will say what surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people what other nation is so great as to have their guards net of them the way the Lord our God is near to us whenever we pray to Him look at verse 8 read aloud and what other nation is so great as to have such righteous laws and decrees as this body of law I am setting before you today God says what makes you different is the laws you create nations are making laws that are very dangerous right now look at the next verse read although the whole earth is mine you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation these are the words you are to speak to the Israelites in other words I want a nation not a church not a religion I want to build a nation he said look at Psalm 33 verse 12 read blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and the people who chose by him to be his inheritance look at Psalm 33 16 read no King is saved by the size of his military army and no warriors saved by his strength so law enforcement ain't gonna save our criminal problems you can build the defense force all you want cause that that ain't gonna save your country you can put bars on your window and put electrical cameras everywhere cuz that's it ain't gonna save your country your strength will not save you he says we spend billions of dollars in the world and countries trying to build armies and build security Gaza that won't keep your city I'm the only one that will protect your country look at Psalm 33 read but the eyes of the Lord are on those to failure God says you don't need more war weapons you need to fit God to come back to your country people ain't afraid of God no more and gossiped therefore that's why you need a lot of police dogs a lot more police cars you need a lot of army weapons because you don't fear God what's this meat again the eyes of the Lord will be upon the country who fears him on those whose hope is in his unfailing love to deliver them from death and keep them alive in the middle of economic crisis clap clap according to God I know this sound very stupid sometime but according to God if you fear him he'll turn your economy around among all the nations some what happened in your country you may discover oil in your backyard if you fear God if you family says I will keep you from farming that means other nations will fall into wreck economically but you would be preserved because of what fear of God I wish and hope that our prime minister would declare one day this week a day of fasting and prayer and give us a holiday just to pray not to dance and wine our hips up but to pray why if we fear God again he says I'll turn the economy around y'all actually you'll believe with just God you just read in the Bible the fear of God will protect you from work farming he says as economic crisis look I probably 11:14 read for the lack of guidance a nation for that means they lack good counsel they keep making bad decisions because they get wrong counsel from wrong people they hire more wrong consultants the nation will fall but in the presence of many good advisors he says worth victory is sure in other words you need to check the kind of people getting counsel from you know all nations want to be successful don't they that's why I be saying you know macho and bahama line you want to march on to greatness every country wants to be successful and what is the key or the key is the national success I want to show you where we are right now I want to very quickly from our Constitution preamble it says whereas 481 years ago the rediscovery of the bond founded the islands rocks and keys heralded the rebirth of the new world I want to focus on one word in this now and whereas the people of this family violence recognizing that the preservation of their freedom realize a freedom will be guaranteed by national commitment to self-discipline industry loyalty unity and an honor and an abiding respect for Christian values and the rule of law now I want you to focus on the word freedom the goal here is freedom let me prove that look at the next statement in the Constitution it says what now know ye therefore we the inheritors and the successors of this family of islands recognizing the supremacy of God and believing in the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual we thereby proclaim in solemn praise the establishment of a free yes that word free again every page is free free free for everybody freedom free democratic sovereign nation founded on spiritual values and in which no man woman or child shall never be what slave and bondsman to anyone or their labor exploited for their lives or their lives frustrated by deprivation now I want you to notice that this whole thing is about freedom you know why the Bahamas used to be a slave colony I tasted it just a little bit my father's here this morning he's 89 years old he knew what it was to really be oppressed I remember when we couldn't drive on West right by the hotel that's being built there was a bar across there like Lyford key we couldn't drive beyond that some of you young people don't know that that was a that's got like the key start it started right there where the hotel is and we would go driving on Sunday mornings I mean suddenly evenings after church my father would take us in that big car and let me reach if he had to stop the police says turn around you can you couldn't go along Bay Street why only white folks can live there they say apartheid I remember when no one could go to Queens College except they were white when I'm in the Queen's College we were just a few of us and we got in because of our grades being exceptional not because they liked us on the governor to make them take us in I tasted that I remember when we were going walking down a Bay Street we had to walk past some places quickly because they would say what are you doing around here restaurants we couldn't go in they had a sign in the back say blacks only that was in the Bahamas so you could go in the back and get served you couldn't go to the front you couldn't sit in the restaurant only white folks could sit there you folks don't know that I went through that there were movies place in this city where you couldn't go to the movies only whites they said whites only to the movies so ran movies came here we couldn't go see them there's only four white people I'm not prejudiced and they tell you the facts so when they say freedom in this constitution they're saying look this had never happened again and some of y'all when it was supposed to be dancing this morning he was cute man I was dancing because I remember them thanks man 40 years later is a generation I don't have my last dance because I made it to a generation where we were free from that now I want to change something very important here God always promises freedom while you in the land of slavery God Tolkien of Israel there's a land with milk and honey he told him that when they were in bondage God always gives you promise about light when you are in darkness secondly God always raises up a deliverer to bring you out of physical oppression physical oppression but here's the problem God never takes oppress speak directly to freedom write that down God will never take oppressed people directly to freedom never if you study history he never took him direct to freedom because their mind is a problem and I want to say this right now the Bahamas is not free yet we are delivered don't confuse the two in other words God will always lead people into a stage of deliverance a period where he gives them an opportunity to learn how to live in freedom because freedom is a difficult place to live and it took them 40 years to make it to that point do you understand at times and when they reach 40 years God says if you didn't change your mind I'm gonna kill you it's found in the Bible he gives you 40 years to change your thinking from black crab to no crab he gives you 40 years to transform your thinking from killing your own brothers and sisters from stopping their progress from hindering their advancement he gives you 40 years to change your mind I know exactly where we are as a matter of fact here's what I believe may be helpful XS 13 verse 17 let's read aloud go when Pharaoh camel read aloud when Pharaoh let the people go God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country even though that was shorter stop reading now I fan I went to Egypt some years ago and we went from Egypt to Israel we flew from Tel Aviv to Cairo it took 20 minutes when I landed I was confused I said to my guide why are we here so quickly he says well it takes 40 days to walk from Cairo to Tel Aviv now let me say it slowly it takes 40 days to walk from Egypt to Canaan 40 days God says I'm gonna take them too short way read the next segment he says for if they face war that means responsibility pressure struggles they might change their minds and return to slavery oh boy there are some people today who still want to go back causes I could take you there in 40 days but it's not your location I'm concerned about it's your mentality read the next works verse 18 so God led them around the desert who led them God he he led them around a desert road toward the Red Sea he led him into a test to check their minds it says the Israelites went up out of Egypt armed for battle they know how to fight they never had a army in otherwise you got on suit and can't calculate you put on a fine dress but you still can't run a bank armed but they know where to fight can't fight we look good but we ain't able to handle it and they still believe you can't own a hotel they still believe you can on the bank they stipulate you can own an organization that's global they say just get a job and make beds and weed the yard they say in your shoot wheat the yard dress but can't fight are you listening to me Casas I'll endure the long way listen God is more concerned about your transformation than he is about your look relocation because I don't want you to go to Canaan yet because you ain't got the Canaan mentality so I'm gonna keep you in this desert for 40 years God that promise is always demand preparation God will never give you what you don't qualify to manage they couldn't manage freedom so he put them in a classroom called Sonia for 40 years but see we can get them to be trained mentally to handle responsibility and they fail the test they actually fail the test as a matter of fact true freedom imposes more law and demands more work and requires more respond better than slavery freedom is taking responsibility for your own life and we don't want to do that we still believe that the foreigner is smarter the investor is more intelligent and so we give them all kinds of perks all kinds of opportunities and we still don't trust our own people because we are fighting the despair of you ain't responsible yet we got behaviour with PhDs who cannot be permitted to run a bike I mean that folks who come at a high school in charge of them 40 is stay with me please can't sleep on this today I'm telling you now this heavy stuff transformation is more important than relocation write it down in other words mental freedom is more important than physical deliverance nothing can curve can corrupt Kane and more than Egyptian slavery thinking that's why Canaan demands conversion the enemy of freedom is a slave mentality and freedom is so special God will keep you out of it until you get the freedom mentality in other words you need to change the mentality in order to enjoy the relocation God always provides when you are in deliverance that's why we survived for the years we still can't believe how we made it our tourism industry boomed in the last 40 years and we can't take credit for that it's a miracle that a country would just rock and sand has six million tourists that can be wiped out in one day so we got to be careful it's a miracle God provides miracles and deliverance he gave them free food free clothing free water from a rock gave them free healing from a snake on a pole everything was free right miracles and deliverance but when the forty years is up the manor stops the water doesn't come into rock anymore and the snake dies that means you got to go dig your own Wells plant your own farms and you better eat properly take it your own body what He is God will never take a people to the land of freedom and tell he has taken the land of oppression out of their minds in other words God is willing to wait for the right generation to go into the land of freedom and he will wait if he has to wait 40 years can I put it to you this way God always raises up a new leader to take the people into freedom when the people arrive in the land of freedom the miraculous stops and the work begins in the land of freedom you must grow your own food you must show your own clothing and build your own homes in freedom you must fight your own battles oh boy he's still calling for foreign help you know when they came out of Egypt they didn't fight a single person God killed a whole army of Pharaoh by himself they never fought but when they went into the land of Canaan the first day the first thing Joshua saw who was Jericho and the first thing he saw was a man dressed in an armor the first thing Moses saw was a burning bush a miracle the first see Joshua saw was a man in armor a fighter God was saying okay and Joseph and Moses time early as everything is a miracle in Joshua time he better fight your way to get with you what you need and Joshua had to fight to possess the land in other words there must be the breaking of the chain mentally write this down please out loud I want you to write this down then what is the responsibility of freedom freedom is a tough place we're about to enter it 40 years means that we are about to leave the wilderness and cross over 40 years always is the mob that gives us in Scripture for a generational cross let me prove that for you yes the verse you probably never saw before and write this down please i'ma talk about 44 minute I'll show you a verse 40 is the number in the Bible generation matter of fact generation is the fullness of national service God gives you 40 years for national service that means to serve your country after that you better have done your job I'll prove that in a minute number three generation is the completion of one phase and the transfer to another that's what 40 means 40 also means the number of succession 40 also means the number of transfer 40 also means the number of transformation that means if you don't change at 40 God gets rid of you let's see if this is true read second Samuel 5 verse 4 read David was thirty years old when he became King and he reigned how long 40 years in Hebron he reigned Judah for seven years six months and the Jerusalem he reigned all over Israel for 33 which makes 40 and then David died look at the next verse first Kings 1142 reed-solomon reign in Jerusalem how long 40 years then he rested with his father's and was buried in the City of David his father and Rayborn his son what succeeded him all of them at 40 still not convinced try one more Psalm 95 we can read for 40 years God says I was angry with this generation I said they are a people whose hearts go astray they have not known my ways so I declare by an O God is flaring i watch this he shall never enter that land God's warmer kill all of them because they would not change their mentality the people who have been in leadership in our country for all of 70 now if you calculate they came out of Egypt so the scent of the slave ship is still in their nostrils so mentally they can't make the cross over they are good people be nice now better they are good people they have a tremendous desire to cross over but they just can mentally make it sometimes we call them bankrupt of ideas look I just read it to you God says when you reach 40 you're supposed to back on the side unless somebody has taken 40 years back on the side in other words God says at 40 you are beyond thinking creatively now so you keep bringing up the old system the old methods the old style same or rehash why because you are stuck in the old generation give God a hand for a new revelation coming we have to get this right i prophesy now that the next general election cannot reappoint the same leaders impossible I'm telling you by divine design that's impossible every leader in the Bible finished at 40 and they succeeded and by the way David didn't wait till he died to give it to Solomon Solomon and wait till he died to give it to rainbow in other words you don't wait till you die you give it to them while you're living here son take it to the next level I'm stuck does anybody hear young people come on say Amen we need somebody's supposed to get a revelation 40 years means time up either you change or die oh boy I gotta pray for me look at this there's no greater burden than freedom that's why God says you got to be free to get into freedom in other words everyone cries for freedom but few of them understand it that's why we can't get there freedom is like love and beauty it's it you can't understand it but you know it when you feel it it's strange the human spirit wants to be free we have a desire to be free but here's what I want to close on today there's a picture of a dog tied to a post this dog is a real dog this is a picture of a dog that had an experiment by a psychologist they tied the dog to a snake with a chain then they place food in front of the dog when they placed it just far away that he couldn't reach it and the dog was so hungry he dashed toward the food but all of his strength already Jack leaped the chain yanked his net back and he choked but he looked at the food he was so hungry he jumped at it again and he choked and he jumped at it again and he choked and he kept jumping at the food but it was too far away and his net began to wear against the chain and then blood began to show up on his neck and he felt the pain and the dog decided the pain is too great it's greater than the food so the dog refused to move that dog looked at the food after they lost the chain he was free but he was afraid to go to the food because he remembered the pain he was free but he refused to go to the food because he remembered the pain see the problem is the memory of the pain are we afraid to believe we can do great things at 40 yes we are you're gonna apply for a certain type of business to your own government and they will say to you you can't do that they would tell you you can do it how do they know that they don't know that but they've been tied to the stake so long and they were told no for so long they believe that that that they can reach the food write this down please this is very important we can die in the presence of resources Africa is suffering from this right now the wealthiest continent on Earth is Africa and yet it's the poorest you can die in the presence of plenty even though you call yourself free the memory is more powerful than the chain in other words the chain is still in your mind in other words we are tied to a stake our social and economic and religious conditioning ties us to an invisible stake and positions does not guarantee disposition you change your position but your disposition is still the same in other words new does not guarantee change without mental transformation you can go to a new place but continue to do the old things what you feed your soul determines your quality of life and it is an D it did decrease your freedom in essence freedom is a result of mental adjustment not relocation the turn of Israel never made it to Canaan their location was changed but the mentality never did 40 years they were still thinking the same way I want to show you something about these people you know it is if it is possible to be delivered and not free deliverance is the physical relocation of liberation of a person it removes your your environment of oppression deliverance the separation of the slave from the physical condition of slavery deliverance is is just physical relocation or the breaking of something physical we must never confuse the difference which will be slave for your freedom as a matter of fact oppression is the cancellation of self-determination make my life anymore this is called breaking the spirit oppression produces a deep spirit of dependency and lack of self-determination when you are in slavery you become dependent on the master and you ki afraid to think for yourself that's why creativity is never among slaves because the master thinks for them they were not trained to think about solving their own problems with new ideas a slave mentality is never created write that down a slave mentality thinks about pain but planning slave mentality always thinks of what cannot be done why it can't be done the pain your mental state is more important than your physical state you are truly not free until your mind is liberated this is why at 40 as a country we must deal with our question what are we mentally freedom is first a mental condition before it is a physical can statement this was the foundation of the freedom statement of Jesus Christ he never says that some of us set you free he say you shall know the truth truth is what knowing the true there's a mental experience you will know the truth about yourself something supposed to happen in your mind and then you are free I became free when my mind then discover who I was in Christ my whole life changed so my books are now in 122 countries now in 67 languages and they are reading all over the world they're putting me on TV now and I still live on the island here why because they have to stop being a bohemian you got to become a global citizen singer if you're gonna be free from this small mental mentality in the Bahamas you could own a bike you could own your own fishing company with big boats ten of them you couldn't run a hotel and own it but they say you can't why they're stuck to the chain forty years late is it possible to do it 40 years later you know your member state is more important in your physical state I want to show you a scripture and then a statement I want you to write write this down no one is more dangerous than a mountain man with a valley mentality can I quote it again no one is more dangerous than a mountain man with a valley mentality we own the mountain now you know but our mind didn't make it it's still in the valley change gone mind still set one of the things that I learned is that deliverance is not freedom it prepares you for freedom you're not free until your mind is free your mind can only be free by the discovery of the truth about yourself freedom is not the absence of law freedom is actually requirement of more law of discipline and responsibility deliverance provides you the opportunity to be free when God delivered those people out of Egypt they weren't free it took 40 years and give him a check to see if they are ready for freedom and they didn't make it write this down please sir Sir Winston Churchill said it so well he said the price of greatness is responsibility you want to be great you got to become responsible for your own future design and believe that you can actually design your own future this is why I believe that the the greatest prototype we have about slavery is the turn of Israel coming out of Egypt this photograph I got from the internet supposed to be depicting the Israelites in slavery and I thought about this it is easy to exist in slavery than to live in freedom some people are so busy trying to get over their past they don't have time to live their future there is no freedom without responsibility and I like what Philippians 3 says verse 13 this one thing I do I what forget the things behind me we are still dragging the wait mentally of our past now I want to reward you you should now forget your past but don't carry it with you because the children need the past to appreciate the future tell them the story it's important can I put it this way when your spirit is broken you have no more desire to go to the future and what slaves dread the most is a broken spirit you stop trying you stop wanting to achieve greatness look at this picture that's us at 40 in prison in the mind mental slavery can last for 40 years a generation 40 days and 40 years from freedom the Israelites took 40 years to walk 40 days ladies and gentlemen the shortest distance between two points is what straight line so the short way was 40 days they gonna go straight to freedom Canaan God says you know something I need to fix their heads so what God did was this God took them in this little area here called Sonia he just took him in circles for 40 years they went in circles 40 years and why God got these people walking for 40 years in the land right there doesn't know you ain't ready for that yet mm-hmm Bahamas right there but not not this all thinking going in there I'm gonna kill all y'all right here in the desert and if you read the Bible the Bible says God led them around for 40 years in the wilderness and he even fed them heal them protected them but didn't take them in because God feeding you doesn't mean you go in in Georgia to operate their muscle suit basic laughs okay some of y'all saying pastor Myles is this in the Bible Exodus chapter 13 17 read go when Pharaoh let the people go God did not lead them on the road through the Philistine country though that was shorter again if they face war he said they might change their mind look at verse 18 so God led them around the desert toward the Red Sea God set them up in other words God wanted to take them away from oppression mentally now let's read what I call the six benefits of oppression I did say it the benefits of oppression number one read it the oppressor protects you number two the oppressor fights for you number three the oppressor thinks for you number four the oppressor provides for you number five the presser plans for you number six the oppressor makes the oppressed depend on him there you go that's the benefits that's the Bahamas sixty years ago the oppressor makes you useless he destroys thinking they used to fly peanut butter and cheese to us some of you don't remember this and days to come and bring it out in the neighborhood and be in town from the British they said give us Jesus and plenty peanut butter free things to pave the roads they got there that ship out there taking care of us we were just like children so they told us you don't need education so there was no schools for us why you don't need education just need to learn how to do plan gain and then some islands grow cordon that's it why education we don't think for you you don't need to think that's why we love oppression oppression is so attractive because it makes you lazy we sang that night when this fly came down and the new flag went up her body was shouting all of a sudden we realize oh we have to run our own country now mm-hmm we got to build our own economy now oops we gotta build our own education system now we can't even have our own curriculum oh oh we got to believe that our people can do this in other words responsibility is the result of freedom the oppressor makes you lazy I want you to read a couple verses before we pray numbers 11 verse 4 read the rabble with them began to crave other food and again the Israelites started wailing and said if only we had meat to eat we remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost also the cucumbers and the melons and the leeks and the onions and the garlic at no cost but now we have lost our appetite we need we never see anything but mana but God provides take the bread that is in the Bible let's go back to the good old days free peanut butter free cheese free paving roads by the British money free Sunday school quarterly is from Tennessee free Anglican worship books from England how about your own book in other words we would be so dependent we can't even think of a new industry in the Bahamas the last industry was given to us was given us by congi Joe and be still Gladys wait we ain't smart enough yet to develop another one please listen yo yo don't understand my language right please he says they said we remember the fish that costs nothing why can't you get a boat and catch your own fish can your own fish export your own fish we got over six billion dollars worth of fish in our in our oceans right now we're at an import because it costs too much to can to even think of a canning factory it's just too complicated because the Egyptian mentality is still in charge I'm so glad you here young man I hope that you can get into leadership of this country and believe that nothing is impossible write this down it is not what you are that holds you back it's what you think you are not that holds you back what you see and what you hear are small things compared to what you think the mentality forty years last chance again this is interesting God can empower our minds but you must empower your will the human will is the most powerful force on earth and God is able to deliver the people from the power of Pharaoh but not from the power of their own minds the most difficult thing in life I've learned is to try and change a human's mind it's almost impossible I want you look at this picture for a minute here's a man holding on another man I want to demonstrate this can you come here my son I want to show you all the mentality can you lay down on that stage for me please can you come here my son just lay down I want to see this visually can you hold him down go in the front good now go on the other side yeah I want to camera say okay hold him down just you're gonna hold it down now here's the problem I'm gonna let you see this on the board you cannot hold a man down without staying down with him that's the Bahamas in some cases right here in most cases you go to a bank the fellow who tell you no look like you come on clap anyhow you got insurance company the fella who don't want pay you what you paid on them years look like you you go to get a business license the fellow who across the table ask you what you want listen for this thing for you can't do this this too big for you and the guy who owned you down that's why he's still there he gotta get promoted because he holding people back I'm gonna show you how this works now now I'm go he's he is committed to holding him down right but I'm over here I'm calling him I want to promote you to CEO now here's your position bigger pay more money car perks vacation whoa now you gotta make a decision that's why people gotta get the boat in the Bahamas forty years we still holding people now in other ways in the past beasts are pulling down it's worse now we holdin up take neighbor forty days and forty years is up is that's enough this is it we got to change everything right now you dance over this week yeah dance but on Thursday morning God has a clock that goes off there'll arm rings that's it forty is up what you're gonna do now if you let him go you can get ahead let him go look I'll help him up help him up how's that the hey man you Bahamian come on get the other hand you help your brother up man the power of the oppressor is what ignorance if they can keep you ignorant of the truth about your ability they can impress you it's my prayer for you today that you would remember that there is no freedom responsibility I'm gonna give you a list very quick of the ten effects of oppression number one irresponsibility number two the hatred for hard work number three the spirit of laziness number four the spirit of fear number five the spirit of low self-esteem number six the spirit of poor self-concept number seven the spirit of selfishness number eight the spirit of lack of creativity number nine the spirit of distrust you don't trust your own people and number ten a lack of initiative you wait for people to tell you what to do that's what oppression produces that mentality it's a interes one and those are the things we're still battling with we are struggling to get out of the desert and at 40 years we need to be remembered and we need to forget that we came from I want to read a verse of scripture Exodus 14 verse 21 read then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land the waters were divided and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground with a wall of water on each side look at verse 2 3 in the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses the same guy would just let him free you know when I get people talk bad about sir Lyndon I get angry and the folks are talking back ain't done nothing y'all better clap and clap all those Bohemians he's our Father the Bible never says to honor your perfect father it says honor your father once you identify who Moses is you better be careful remember Miriam you start talking bad about the person who delivered you God will kill you causes it matter if I'm gonna kill you Miriam your brother imperfect but he's a deliverer the same guy that set him free what are they doing they murmuring let's see what they said they said well if only we had died by the Lord's hands these people must be crazy you see when a pressure of freedom hits they want to die could you imagine people crying for freedom for 430 years they're finally free and their first complaint is you want to go back mental damage with the next statement if only we had died by the Lord's hands in Egypt there we sat around parts of meat and ate all the food be warded but you have bought us out here in a free Bahamas to starve this man set them know he delivered them from slavery they said you set us up to kill us we want to go back to garlic and onions at least it was free excess 16 14 and the Lord said to Moses I will rain down bread from heaven for these people they have to go to each day and gather enough for themselves in other ways I'll take it I'm in deliverance I'll take a look at verse 4 to Rami angry your clothes did not weigh around your feet did not swell during those 40 years know that in your heart that as a man disciplines his son so the Lord God will discipline you why you mind so much the most ungrateful people I guess in the radio stations this week I'd turn it off anybody they didn't do this they didn't do that 40 years man everything negative cause it's you know gonna make it you didn't even appreciate the free food I kept your shoes for 40 years didn't wear out that's a miracle a your clothes he said didn't know for 40 years same clothes for 40 years God please give us that material again mirakl they're complaining they want to go back to slavery hmm let me just show you one more verse numbers 14 read then the Lord said to Moses how long will these people treat me with contempt how long were they refused to believe me in spite of all the miraculous signs I have performed for them yes my conclusion the wilderness is the Institute of discipline the last 40 years I was trying to get us to discipline ourselves to change our thinking about ourselves and about him they wouldn't get their lesson they never got the lesson the wilderness is the University of work it trains you to work for yourself now you work for the master for 40 years now you're gonna work for yourself he says learn how to be responsible 40 years means that you are now responsible for your own future look at the Book of Numbers 14 21 read out loud come on read it yourself go nevertheless as surely as I live and as surely as the glory of the Lord fills the whole earth not one of the men who saw my glory and the miraculous signs I performed in Egypt and in the desert but who disobeyed me and tested me 10 times not one of them will ever see the promised land God is swearing him a killer I told you all he said you killed him y'all think I was choking now read why he said he's not gonna take him in read why he said they tested him and didn't know B are we gonna make it over not one who has treated me with contempt will ever see it I don't know about you but I going over now I got to talk for yourself you know Lord I'm going over I changed my mind do you want gonna kill me in this desert I'm willing to change my old thinking crossing over look at the way it ends numbers 14 - but because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly I will bring him into the land he went to and his descendants heard the land the only two people who survived the desert who need to was Caleb and Joshua hey buddy else got killed no I would explain to you why God kept for 40 years God kept for 40 years because it takes 40 years for a new generation to grow up so when God bought him out he took him in circles for 40 years he was waiting for their children to drop out he kept them forty years because he wanted what was in their loins so he kept them going in circles for 40 years until he got the next generation of people who never were in Egypt and the Bible says when those children were born then God killed all the parents okay here we go y'all still don't believe me a the Bible says look at this go to the land when a slave becomes king let me read it again woe to the country when your leaders think like slaves whoa means damned it's a horrible word it means that you are damned that mister country is damned if the leaders think still like slaves doesn't listen the Bible and those princesses feast in the morning in other ways all they want to do is up their gift fat drink liquor and be big food early in the morning wasting time I mean got no dream for the country God says go to that land and some of your Bible yes the Bible said there forty years we still drinking and eatin lot of food in the morning in the morning supposed to be working we have in feasts he says blessed are you o lion who's King is of noble birth whose princesses eat at a proper time that means you work for us then ye and you eat with your work for I did my research on this state by statement eaten in the morning it actually is a Hebrew idiom it actually means you eat other people's food because you never work for that see you work on a day then you eat but that statement means you eat first which means that you didn't work for that import ninety percent what are we exporting do you know how you measure the wealth of a country it's called GDP gross national productivity so country is as wealthy as a productivity of the people so you ain't producing nothing then you ain't rich if you keep important everything you pull 40 years later we still have 90 percent I'm so glad we got a young women in here who would be Prime Minister's I can't get a yelling Michelle with me come on I'm so glad we see young men in here who will be Prime Minister's and they were changed the entire country you believe that go ahead and give God a hammer 40 years transformation so Joshua was not born in Egypt Joshua got his stories from Moses Moses told Joshua about this slavery thing and how they were oppressed Joshua listened Joshua got to know the god of Moses a young man and then God told Moses you're not gonna go over why your mentality still ain't quite there because you still cuss in the rock they're very wrong they're fed and gave you water you've now cursing at it your mentality ain't right he said so I can't take you over he said but lay her hands on Joshua he would take the people over the people who were not born in Egypt forty years so Moses brought Joshua put him before the people laid his hands on him and said you shall take the people over Joshua said okay got it and the Bible says that Moses died God took him on the mountain buried him no one knows where his grave is today thank God the last chapter of Deuteronomy says and Moses went up to the mountain and was no more and the Lord said to Joshua now take these people over read my lips Moses is dead listen to me please most important moment he said Joshua Moses is dead so take the people the children over to the promised land that's the way the book ends when you turn the page the first chapter is Joshua chapter 1 it says and the Lord said to Joshua Moses is dead now wait a minute you told me that before you're telling me again two different statements though the first referring to a person don't miss this Joshua Moses is dead that's the person chapter one Oh Joshua Joshua Moses is dead that's the era thank you once again for listening to this message as we hope that it has been a blessing to you our goal is to show you new paths and opportunities so that you can discover your purpose it is your love support and partnership that makes Monroe global possible please visit us online at

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Published: Tue Jan 08 2019