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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I don't care how long you've been down in the
gut as a man, how long you've been defeated as
a man. Jesus Christ is standing over you today said
get up.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Doctor Tony Evans says, You've been positioned by God for
a special purpose.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
So it's time to take your stand and be the
man and father God has called you to be.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. Blessings come from God,
but not just from God. Today Doctor Evans will touch
on the importance of the blessings we pass on and
what to do if they were never passed on to us.
Let's join him as he begins.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
In our passage.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Today we have a son begging for the blessing of
his father.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Esau is begging for a blessing. Now, you must.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Strip your mind about the casual use of the word
bless We say, you know, God bless you, I bless you.
We use the word fairly casually today many times. But
when Esau was asking Daddy to bless him, he wasn't
just saying, Daddy say I bless you. No, the blessing
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was speaking about something else. It was speaking about the
continuity of the covenant. A symbol for the word blessing
was covenental continuity. It is my hope that every head
of a household here has a will. If you do
not have a will, you're not operating responsibly. A will
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simply says, this is what I want to happen with
what I've been entrusted with to pass on to the
next generation. Not having a will is not gonna keep
you from dying. Many people say, well, I don't like
to deal with wills because it reminds me of death.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well, you need to be reminded.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
It is the point that the man wants to die,
and after that the judgment. It is irresponsible not to
have a plan that you make rather than a plan
that's some court makes for you. So a will is
bequeathing forward that which you have accumulated in your time
on earth.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
You will it forward.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
A will speaks of an inheritance, usually related to stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
All of us, as parents.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Should want our children to be better off than we are.
The problem is that we only think of better off in.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Terms of stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
We think of better off in terms of money or clothes,
of housing, or you know, the other physical features of life,
and certainly inheritances include that. But the blessing in the Bible,
while it included stuff, included much more because the blessing
included the divine stamp that was placed on the next
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generation from the previous generation. And in the scripture, you
lived and you looked for the blessing. In our story,
Jacob the younger wants the blessing, so he concocts a
plan with his mother, Rebecca, to steal the blessing from
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the older son, Esau. And so, while Esau went out
to hunt to get food in order.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
To bring it back to his father for him to
get the blessing.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Rebecca told Jacob, look what you do is you go
get me a goat. I'll cook the meal. You go
put on your brother's clothes because your father can't see it,
says his eyes were dim. He won't be able to see.
You go in there with your brother's clothes, and you
bring the meal that your brother's supposed to bring and
let him bless you. So he goes puts on his
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brother's clothes. He walks in. His father Isaac says, who's that?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Who's that? Who's that. Jacob says, no, it's me.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
It's Esau, your oldest son, he says, come close to me.
He says, now you feel like Aesau, but you sound
like Jacob, and so he blesses him. I'll talk about
that in the moment. All I want you to get
now is how critical the blessing was. He was willing
to join partners with his mama against his daddy in
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order to get it because.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
This thing involved his future.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Throughout the Bible, God praises Jacob and not Esau.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Even though Jacob is doing the wrong thing.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
The question is why, Well, you need chapter twenty five
to answer that. If you go back a page to
chapter twenty five, verse twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
When the boys grew up, so they're younger.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
In chapter twenty five, when the boys grew up, Esau
became a skillful hunter, a man of the field.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Jacob was a peaceful man living in tents. Now.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for game,
because he's the athlete, and Rebecca loved Jacob. When Jacob
had cook stew Esau came in from the field and
was famished, starving. So Esau says to Jacob verse thirty
please let me have a swallow of that red stuff there,
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for I am famished.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Verse thirty one. Jacob says, first, sell.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Me your birthright, sell me the rights of the firstborn,
and I give you some meed Esau said, behold, I'm
about to die. I'm so hungry. So of what use
is a birthright to me? If I'm a solve to death?
And Jacob said, first, swear to me that you'll give
me your birthright the rights of the first born. So
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he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lintl stew, and he
ate and drank and rose and went on his way.
Here it is thus Esau despised his birthright. Esau thought
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so little of his birthright he was willing to give
it up for some food. As far as Esau was concerned,
stay with me. There was no connection between my birthright
and my blessing. My birthright is over here and my
blessing is over there. But when you read Hebrews Chapter twelve,
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Verses sixteen and seventeen, it says, don't be like the
immoral godless Esau, who sold.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
His birthright for food.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
In other words, the problem with Esau is he.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Was only present oriented.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
He only wanted what he wanted now because he wasn't
thinking about the future.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Later. He says, I'm hungry now. I want some food now.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Give it to me now, and I'll deal with later
when later comes, because I'm starving right now. One of
the problems we have among men is their present oriented
I'm not happy now. I don't want the responsibility now.
It's all about now. It's not all about now. It
is about you passing forward the blessing that is the
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divine statement of God from you, to you and through you,
because you are future oriented. But far too many men
are present oriented, and so because they do not think
beyond themselves, they abandon their families, abandon their children, become irresponsible,
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refuse to turn around because they are abandoning the blessing,
which is future oriented. He just wanted food now, he says, Father,
bless me, because that's what the father is supposed to do.
He's supposed to pass it on, pass on God to
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me and all the stuff that goes with that. But
pass that on to me.
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Now. What did the.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Blessing include In chapter twenty seven. We're told he says,
here's the blessing, my son, Verse twenty eight and twenty nine.
May God give you of thedow of heaven, of the
fatness of earth, of the abundance of grain and wine.
May people serve you, and nations bow down to you.
May you be master of your brethren, and may your
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mother's sons bow down to you. Curse it as he
who curses you, and blessed of those who bless you.
God reached all the way back to the Abraham and Covenant.
Abraham passed out on the Isaac Isaac and now passing
it on to Jacob, where it should have been passed
on to Etho, who turned away his birthright. The blessing
was future inheritance from God. Please notice the language, May
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God do this, May God do that, May God do this,
May God do that. See that's where the blessing is missing.
We're just saying I want you to do this, and
I want you to do that. Oh, you want to
be a doctor, you want to be a lawyer, you
want to be an engineer, you want to be a teacher.
Nothing wrong with that, But the blessing was what God
would do.
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I want God to do this.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I want God to do that, want God to do
the other I want.
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It was about God, God, God, God, God.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Not just what I want for you or what you
want for you, but what God wants for you. That
was the blessing because it would happen because of God.
The heart of the blessing was passing on divine favor.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Notice the content of the favor. The content of.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
The favor is that God is going to set things
up for you. God is going to go in front
of you, and when He does that, you will be
myster He says, people will serve you. I love being
a man. I simply wake up in the morning excited
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to be a man. Okay, now let me tell you
why I love being a man. I love being a
man because I get to name things. See, before there
was a woman and before there was children, God told
Adam to name things. Says God brought the animals to Adam,
and whatever he named.
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Them, that was its name. God didn't name him. God
brought them.
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Which is what's wrong with prosperity theology because that tells
you to name things God didn't bring.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
So that's not what I'm talking about.
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But God brought the animals, and he named them. He
called the elephants and the dogs, and the cats, and
the and it is, and he named them.
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And whatever he name them, that's was his name. He
even named his woman.
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Because God brought Eve, and he said she shall be called.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
So he even naming things.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
That's why you should be proud of ladies to carry
your husband's name, because he's supposed to name you. When
a man is operating under the blessing and under the
Covenant and under the rule of God, he gets to
name things and moster things within the sphere of his calling,
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not anything within the sphere of what God brings. But
God has to bring it. And when you bless the
next generation, you're giving God.
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Permission to bring it for their good.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
It was a declaration of divine favor, of divine provision,
of divine protection, and of divine dominion.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Doctor Evans will return with more of our message in
just a moment, including a look at why so many
of us are still begging for our blessings. First, though,
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today's lesson. Here's doctor Evans.
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Whenever you see a caterpillar, it's got a glorious future.
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Now I know what you're looking at right now.
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Much when I think cocoons is gonna be pretty and
it's going to take flight, You've got a generation of
children who don't take flight.
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They're still crawling because they've never been blessed.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
They've never had the blessings stand over them to affirm
them and to speak God into them, not just stuff
for them, but God into them, who will bring them
the appropriate stuff. Your will must be more than stuff.
My will must be more than stuff. It must be
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God and the transfer of divine favor. Now that's a problem.
The problem is how do you reverse a curse into
a blessing. Deuteronomy twenty five five says God turns curses
into blessings. Perhaps you were raised and you feel like
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you've been living under a curse as a man. You've
been living, not under divine favor as a man. God
turns curses in the blessings. I love the story of
Jabaz in First Chronicles, chapter four, verses nine and ten.
All you hear about his jabas mother, no mention of
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his father.
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Far as we know. He's the son of a single parent.
And his name means pain, means pain. He was in pain.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Every time you called his name Jabaz. He's hearing the
word pain because that's what it means. Says he was
born in pain. We don't know what the pain was,
we don't know how long pain lasted, but it became
his identity because that's what you called him every time
you looked at him.
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You said, pain, pain.
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So he was living an unblessed life for whatever reason.
And then he prayed this prayer, Lord, bless me, indeed,
because even though he didn't have an earthly father too,
bless him, he had a heavenly father who could.
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And he said, bless me, indeed. You know what he
was saying with indeed, I was made.
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For more than this. I was made to be more
than this. I was made to live a better life
than this. I'm not satisfied with my human name, pain,
he says, Expand my borders. He was saying to God,
I'm not satisfied with my station in life. Give me
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more capacity. I was made for more than this. All
that you would be with me, he says. I can't
do this without you. It's got to be God centered.
Keep me from evil. Put a restraining order on the devil.
You know the beautiful part about that, it says. And
God answered his prayer. And God answered his prayer. When
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I was growing up in Baltimore, we went duck pin bowling.
I don't do much of that anymore. Duck pin bowling
is with the small ball, not the big one. You
put your fingers in, and it's a small one and
it was the Lafayette Bowling Alley, so once a month
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on Saturday.
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We would go there. Now, things were pretty RinkyDink back
in the hood.
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Okay, this wasn't high class bowling, and a lot of
times machines didn't fully work, so it wasn't sophisticated as today,
and so pins sometimes all of them wouldn't get picked up,
so some would still be laying down. The other time
machine would pick him up, and one would drop out
of it and fall back down. I told you this
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is the neighborhood, all right. So we went to duck
Port Bowl. But you know what, there was this guy.
Now you couldn't see him. All he could see is
his feet, and all he went was from lane to
lane picking up pins that the machine couldn't get. So
he running into this lane, running to that lane, running
to this lane. He picking up stuff that got knocked down.
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And if the.
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Machine couldn't pick up, so the next person to bowl,
I don't care how long you've been knocked down. I
know somebody who can pick you back up and set
you right again, because he wants you to have the blessing,
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the forward moving favor of God. Commuted to you, so
you can commute it to yours.
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I love all the Rockies, but really love Rocky five.
Rocky five.
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Rocky is retired because he's gotten bruised and beaten.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
The eye is bad. He can't fight anymore. Rocky five.
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He comes across a young upcoming fighter named Tommy Gunn,
and Tommy Gunn has admired Rocky Balboa as he followed
his career, and so they meet and become friends, and
he says to Rocky Balboa, Rocky Italian Stallion, where you
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where you train me? Like? I said, Well, yeah, I
can stay in the fight game by helping you, So yeah,
I'll train you.
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So Rocky work with him.
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And Tommy Gunn goes up the ladder, up the ladder,
up the ladder, and becomes the heavyweight champion of the
world due to the influence of Rocky Balboa. The movie
comes down to the last fifteen minutes. The whole movie
zeros in on that last fifteen minutes. See Tommy Gunn
has now become the champion of the world and has
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gotten to his head. So he's gotten a lot of money, man,
He's got a lot of attention, a lot of notoriety.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
In the news.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
So Tommy Gunn is is living large and he doesn't
need Rocky anymore. In fact, he gets belligerent with Rocky
in that last fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
They're in a gathering and Tommy Gunn.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Hits Rocky Balboa's wife's husband, his brother in law, I mean,
he clocks him and knocks him down because of some
argument they were having. Then Tommy Gunn insaults Rocky and
insults Rocky Sun. Then Tommy gun dares Rocky to do
anything about it. Rocky tears off his shirt and the
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rumble begins. They out in the street fighting each other.
It's a street fight. The problem is Tommy Gunn is
too young, too strong, and too fast, and so while
Rocky is doing the best he can, he can't keep
up with this young guy. And so it comes down
to a punch that Tommy gun throws and he hits
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Rocky and he sends Rocky down in the gutter, beaten man.
While in the gutter, While down and out, Rocky remembers
up on the screen above his head. It shows what
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he's thinking. So he thinks back to Rocky one and
Rocky two, and he remembers the Pollo Creed and how
he fought and became champions of the world.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
And when he remembered a Pollo Creed, he tried to
get up but he couldn't.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Then he remembered Club A Lang Rocky three, and our
club A Lang had beaten him, but how he fought
back to win back the championship. And when he remembered,
he tried to get up but he couldn't. Then he
remembered Ivan Dlago and how he went over to Russia
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and defeated him on his own turfs. And he remembered that,
and he tried to get up but he couldn't. But
then he remembered somebody else. He remembered his old coach, Mickey.
Now Mickey had died in Rocky form, Mickey was already dead,
but he remembers Mickey when Mickey was standing over him saying,
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get up, get up, cause Mickey loves you.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Now, that's when the music came on.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Dam don don don don don da dadam dna daand
don music comes on, and Rocky Balball he stands up,
he shakes it off. Tommy Gunn is walking off in
the distance. Rocky bal Ball looks in the distance and says, Yo,
come one more round. He found strangth he didn't have,
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and power he didn't possess, and he was able to
defeat the young buck. Why was he able to defeat
him because he remembered somebody who had died, who had
then't come.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Alive again to remind him of what he could do.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I don't care how long you've been down in the
gutter as a man, how long you've been defeated as
a man. Jesus Christ is standing over you today saying,
get up, Get up, because Jesus loves you, so it's
time to take your stand and being the man and
father God has called you.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
The Big Doctor.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Tony Evans talking about the power of the blessing that
grows out of our connection with Christ and a lesson
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we wanted to stop. When we're in trouble, we wanted
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can mean even more than that. I hope he'll join
us
I don't care how long you've been down in the
gut as a man, how long you've been defeated as
a man. Jesus Christ is standing over you today said
get up.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Doctor Tony Evans says, You've been positioned by God for
a special purpose.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
So it's time to take your stand and be the
man and father God has called you to be.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. Blessings come from God,
but not just from God. Today Doctor Evans will touch
on the importance of the blessings we pass on and
what to do if they were never passed on to us.
Let's join him as he begins.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
In our passage.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Today we have a son begging for the blessing of
his father.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Esau is begging for a blessing. Now, you must.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
Strip your mind about the casual use of the word
bless We say, you know, God bless you, I bless you.
We use the word fairly casually today many times. But
when Esau was asking Daddy to bless him, he wasn't
just saying, Daddy say I bless you. No, the blessing
(01:21):
was speaking about something else. It was speaking about the
continuity of the covenant. A symbol for the word blessing
was covenental continuity. It is my hope that every head
of a household here has a will. If you do
not have a will, you're not operating responsibly. A will
(01:45):
simply says, this is what I want to happen with
what I've been entrusted with to pass on to the
next generation. Not having a will is not gonna keep
you from dying. Many people say, well, I don't like
to deal with wills because it reminds me of death.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well, you need to be reminded.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
It is the point that the man wants to die,
and after that the judgment. It is irresponsible not to
have a plan that you make rather than a plan
that's some court makes for you. So a will is
bequeathing forward that which you have accumulated in your time
on earth.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
You will it forward.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
A will speaks of an inheritance, usually related to stuff.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
All of us, as parents.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Should want our children to be better off than we are.
The problem is that we only think of better off in.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Terms of stuff.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
We think of better off in terms of money or clothes,
of housing, or you know, the other physical features of life,
and certainly inheritances include that. But the blessing in the Bible,
while it included stuff, included much more because the blessing
included the divine stamp that was placed on the next
(03:08):
generation from the previous generation. And in the scripture, you
lived and you looked for the blessing. In our story,
Jacob the younger wants the blessing, so he concocts a
plan with his mother, Rebecca, to steal the blessing from
(03:32):
the older son, Esau. And so, while Esau went out
to hunt to get food in order.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
To bring it back to his father for him to
get the blessing.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Rebecca told Jacob, look what you do is you go
get me a goat. I'll cook the meal. You go
put on your brother's clothes because your father can't see it,
says his eyes were dim. He won't be able to see.
You go in there with your brother's clothes, and you
bring the meal that your brother's supposed to bring and
let him bless you. So he goes puts on his
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brother's clothes. He walks in. His father Isaac says, who's that?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Who's that? Who's that. Jacob says, no, it's me.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
It's Esau, your oldest son, he says, come close to me.
He says, now you feel like Aesau, but you sound
like Jacob, and so he blesses him. I'll talk about
that in the moment. All I want you to get
now is how critical the blessing was. He was willing
to join partners with his mama against his daddy in
(04:39):
order to get it because.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
This thing involved his future.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
Throughout the Bible, God praises Jacob and not Esau.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Even though Jacob is doing the wrong thing.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
The question is why, Well, you need chapter twenty five
to answer that. If you go back a page to
chapter twenty five, verse twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
When the boys grew up, so they're younger.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
In chapter twenty five, when the boys grew up, Esau
became a skillful hunter, a man of the field.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Jacob was a peaceful man living in tents. Now.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for game,
because he's the athlete, and Rebecca loved Jacob. When Jacob
had cook stew Esau came in from the field and
was famished, starving. So Esau says to Jacob verse thirty
please let me have a swallow of that red stuff there,
(05:45):
for I am famished.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Verse thirty one. Jacob says, first, sell.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Me your birthright, sell me the rights of the firstborn,
and I give you some meed Esau said, behold, I'm
about to die. I'm so hungry. So of what use
is a birthright to me? If I'm a solve to death?
And Jacob said, first, swear to me that you'll give
me your birthright the rights of the first born. So
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he swore to him and sold his birthright to Jacob.
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lintl stew, and he
ate and drank and rose and went on his way.
Here it is thus Esau despised his birthright. Esau thought
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so little of his birthright he was willing to give
it up for some food. As far as Esau was concerned,
stay with me. There was no connection between my birthright
and my blessing. My birthright is over here and my
blessing is over there. But when you read Hebrews Chapter twelve,
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Verses sixteen and seventeen, it says, don't be like the
immoral godless Esau, who sold.
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His birthright for food.
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In other words, the problem with Esau is he.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Was only present oriented.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
He only wanted what he wanted now because he wasn't
thinking about the future.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Later. He says, I'm hungry now. I want some food now.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Give it to me now, and I'll deal with later
when later comes, because I'm starving right now. One of
the problems we have among men is their present oriented
I'm not happy now. I don't want the responsibility now.
It's all about now. It's not all about now. It
is about you passing forward the blessing that is the
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divine statement of God from you, to you and through you,
because you are future oriented. But far too many men
are present oriented, and so because they do not think
beyond themselves, they abandon their families, abandon their children, become irresponsible,
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refuse to turn around because they are abandoning the blessing,
which is future oriented. He just wanted food now, he says, Father,
bless me, because that's what the father is supposed to do.
He's supposed to pass it on, pass on God to
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me and all the stuff that goes with that. But
pass that on to me.
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Now. What did the.
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Blessing include In chapter twenty seven. We're told he says,
here's the blessing, my son, Verse twenty eight and twenty nine.
May God give you of thedow of heaven, of the
fatness of earth, of the abundance of grain and wine.
May people serve you, and nations bow down to you.
May you be master of your brethren, and may your
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mother's sons bow down to you. Curse it as he
who curses you, and blessed of those who bless you.
God reached all the way back to the Abraham and Covenant.
Abraham passed out on the Isaac Isaac and now passing
it on to Jacob, where it should have been passed
on to Etho, who turned away his birthright. The blessing
was future inheritance from God. Please notice the language, May
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God do this, May God do that, May God do this,
May God do that. See that's where the blessing is missing.
We're just saying I want you to do this, and
I want you to do that. Oh, you want to
be a doctor, you want to be a lawyer, you
want to be an engineer, you want to be a teacher.
Nothing wrong with that, But the blessing was what God
would do.
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I want God to do this.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I want God to do that, want God to do
the other I want.
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It was about God, God, God, God, God.
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Not just what I want for you or what you
want for you, but what God wants for you. That
was the blessing because it would happen because of God.
The heart of the blessing was passing on divine favor.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Notice the content of the favor. The content of.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
The favor is that God is going to set things
up for you. God is going to go in front
of you, and when He does that, you will be
myster He says, people will serve you. I love being
a man. I simply wake up in the morning excited
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to be a man. Okay, now let me tell you
why I love being a man. I love being a
man because I get to name things. See, before there
was a woman and before there was children, God told
Adam to name things. Says God brought the animals to Adam,
and whatever he named.
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Them, that was its name. God didn't name him. God
brought them.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
Which is what's wrong with prosperity theology because that tells
you to name things God didn't bring.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
So that's not what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
But God brought the animals, and he named them. He
called the elephants and the dogs, and the cats, and
the and it is, and he named them.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
And whatever he name them, that's was his name. He
even named his woman.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Because God brought Eve, and he said she shall be called.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
So he even naming things.
Speaker 1 (11:30):
That's why you should be proud of ladies to carry
your husband's name, because he's supposed to name you. When
a man is operating under the blessing and under the
Covenant and under the rule of God, he gets to
name things and moster things within the sphere of his calling,
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not anything within the sphere of what God brings. But
God has to bring it. And when you bless the
next generation, you're giving God.
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Permission to bring it for their good.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
It was a declaration of divine favor, of divine provision,
of divine protection, and of divine dominion.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Doctor Evans will return with more of our message in
just a moment, including a look at why so many
of us are still begging for our blessings. First, though,
today's message is part of Tony's current series, The Spiritual Toolkit.
This ten lesson collection will help get you equipped for
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today's lesson. Here's doctor Evans.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Whenever you see a caterpillar, it's got a glorious future.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Now I know what you're looking at right now.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Much when I think cocoons is gonna be pretty and
it's going to take flight, You've got a generation of
children who don't take flight.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
They're still crawling because they've never been blessed.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
They've never had the blessings stand over them to affirm
them and to speak God into them, not just stuff
for them, but God into them, who will bring them
the appropriate stuff. Your will must be more than stuff.
My will must be more than stuff. It must be
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God and the transfer of divine favor. Now that's a problem.
The problem is how do you reverse a curse into
a blessing. Deuteronomy twenty five five says God turns curses
into blessings. Perhaps you were raised and you feel like
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you've been living under a curse as a man. You've
been living, not under divine favor as a man. God
turns curses in the blessings. I love the story of
Jabaz in First Chronicles, chapter four, verses nine and ten.
All you hear about his jabas mother, no mention of
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his father.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Far as we know. He's the son of a single parent.
And his name means pain, means pain. He was in pain.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Every time you called his name Jabaz. He's hearing the
word pain because that's what it means. Says he was
born in pain. We don't know what the pain was,
we don't know how long pain lasted, but it became
his identity because that's what you called him every time
you looked at him.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
You said, pain, pain.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
So he was living an unblessed life for whatever reason.
And then he prayed this prayer, Lord, bless me, indeed,
because even though he didn't have an earthly father too,
bless him, he had a heavenly father who could.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
And he said, bless me, indeed. You know what he
was saying with indeed, I was made.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
For more than this. I was made to be more
than this. I was made to live a better life
than this. I'm not satisfied with my human name, pain,
he says, Expand my borders. He was saying to God,
I'm not satisfied with my station in life. Give me
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more capacity. I was made for more than this. All
that you would be with me, he says. I can't
do this without you. It's got to be God centered.
Keep me from evil. Put a restraining order on the devil.
You know the beautiful part about that, it says. And
God answered his prayer. And God answered his prayer. When
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I was growing up in Baltimore, we went duck pin bowling.
I don't do much of that anymore. Duck pin bowling
is with the small ball, not the big one. You
put your fingers in, and it's a small one and
it was the Lafayette Bowling Alley, so once a month
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on Saturday.
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We would go there. Now, things were pretty RinkyDink back
in the hood.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
Okay, this wasn't high class bowling, and a lot of
times machines didn't fully work, so it wasn't sophisticated as today,
and so pins sometimes all of them wouldn't get picked up,
so some would still be laying down. The other time
machine would pick him up, and one would drop out
of it and fall back down. I told you this
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is the neighborhood, all right. So we went to duck
Port Bowl. But you know what, there was this guy.
Now you couldn't see him. All he could see is
his feet, and all he went was from lane to
lane picking up pins that the machine couldn't get. So
he running into this lane, running to that lane, running
to this lane. He picking up stuff that got knocked down.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
And if the.
Speaker 1 (17:39):
Machine couldn't pick up, so the next person to bowl,
I don't care how long you've been knocked down. I
know somebody who can pick you back up and set
you right again, because he wants you to have the blessing,
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the forward moving favor of God. Commuted to you, so
you can commute it to yours.
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I love all the Rockies, but really love Rocky five.
Rocky five.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Rocky is retired because he's gotten bruised and beaten.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
The eye is bad. He can't fight anymore. Rocky five.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
He comes across a young upcoming fighter named Tommy Gunn,
and Tommy Gunn has admired Rocky Balboa as he followed
his career, and so they meet and become friends, and
he says to Rocky Balboa, Rocky Italian Stallion, where you
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where you train me? Like? I said, Well, yeah, I
can stay in the fight game by helping you, So yeah,
I'll train you.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
So Rocky work with him.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
And Tommy Gunn goes up the ladder, up the ladder,
up the ladder, and becomes the heavyweight champion of the
world due to the influence of Rocky Balboa. The movie
comes down to the last fifteen minutes. The whole movie
zeros in on that last fifteen minutes. See Tommy Gunn
has now become the champion of the world and has
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gotten to his head. So he's gotten a lot of money, man,
He's got a lot of attention, a lot of notoriety.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
In the news.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
So Tommy Gunn is is living large and he doesn't
need Rocky anymore. In fact, he gets belligerent with Rocky
in that last fifteen minutes.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
They're in a gathering and Tommy Gunn.
Speaker 1 (19:44):
Hits Rocky Balboa's wife's husband, his brother in law, I mean,
he clocks him and knocks him down because of some
argument they were having. Then Tommy Gunn insaults Rocky and
insults Rocky Sun. Then Tommy gun dares Rocky to do
anything about it. Rocky tears off his shirt and the
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rumble begins. They out in the street fighting each other.
It's a street fight. The problem is Tommy Gunn is
too young, too strong, and too fast, and so while
Rocky is doing the best he can, he can't keep
up with this young guy. And so it comes down
to a punch that Tommy gun throws and he hits
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Rocky and he sends Rocky down in the gutter, beaten man.
While in the gutter, While down and out, Rocky remembers
up on the screen above his head. It shows what
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he's thinking. So he thinks back to Rocky one and
Rocky two, and he remembers the Pollo Creed and how
he fought and became champions of the world.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
And when he remembered a Pollo Creed, he tried to
get up but he couldn't.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
Then he remembered Club A Lang Rocky three, and our
club A Lang had beaten him, but how he fought
back to win back the championship. And when he remembered,
he tried to get up but he couldn't. Then he
remembered Ivan Dlago and how he went over to Russia
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and defeated him on his own turfs. And he remembered that,
and he tried to get up but he couldn't. But
then he remembered somebody else. He remembered his old coach, Mickey.
Now Mickey had died in Rocky form, Mickey was already dead,
but he remembers Mickey when Mickey was standing over him saying,
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get up, get up, cause Mickey loves you.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
Now, that's when the music came on.
Speaker 1 (22:12):
Dam don don don don don da dadam dna daand
don music comes on, and Rocky Balball he stands up,
he shakes it off. Tommy Gunn is walking off in
the distance. Rocky bal Ball looks in the distance and says, Yo,
come one more round. He found strangth he didn't have,
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and power he didn't possess, and he was able to
defeat the young buck. Why was he able to defeat
him because he remembered somebody who had died, who had
then't come.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Alive again to remind him of what he could do.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
I don't care how long you've been down in the
gutter as a man, how long you've been defeated as
a man. Jesus Christ is standing over you today saying,
get up, Get up, because Jesus loves you, so it's
time to take your stand and being the man and
father God has called you.
Speaker 3 (23:12):
The Big Doctor.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
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we wanted to stop. When we're in trouble, we wanted
to end. We call that victory, well, God calls it
victory two. But tomorrow doctor Evans will point out it
can mean even more than that. I hope he'll join
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