December 21, 2025 • 41 mins
As Christmas approaches and families gather, many people feel the weight of unresolved pain, generational dysfunction, and unspoken questions about why their family story looks the way it does. In this prophetic and deeply pastoral message, Apostle Mike Signorelli addresses the real spiritual battle behind family conflict and reveals why God intentionally placed you in your family line.
Teaching from Genesis, Matthew 1, Psalms, Ephesians, and the life of Jesus, this sermon exposes how patterns of addiction, rage, fear, fatherlessness, poverty, and compromise travel through generations, and how the blood of Jesus empowers one person to stop the cycle. You’ll discover that dysfunction may be inherited, but destiny is appointed, and God often chooses one willing person to become the breaker for an entire bloodline.
This message unpacks:
🔥 How generational curses and blessings are formed
🔥 Why the enemy targets marriage, children, and legacy
🔥 God’s original design for family, covenant, and order
🔥 How discipline, blessing, and spiritual leadership shape future generations
🔥 Why Jesus’ own family line proves redemption is stronger than scandal
🔥 What it means to protect your vineyard and refuse destructive trades
🔥 How confession, repentance, and renunciation activate real freedom
Apostle Mike shares raw personal testimony, biblical depth, and prophetic insight to help listeners understand their assignment within their family. You were not placed where you are by accident. You were trusted with the responsibility of breaking what others could not and starting what future generations will live in.
This message calls believers to stand, confess, renounce, rebuild, and step into their role as intercessors, curse-breakers, and legacy carriers. Your story does not end where your family’s pain began.
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The truth is, we're coming upon Christmas, and you're about to
spend Christmas with peoplethat you love deeply but can barely
stand, and you're going hometo a war zone with wrapping paper.
Come on.
And you got the relative, youknow, who can basically ruin a holiday
with one sentence.
Am I the only one?
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You got the parent who stilltalks to you like you're 14 years
old.
Got this sibling who hasn'tapologized in 10 years but still
expects hugs and selfies likenothing ever happened.
And under all of that is onequestion that almost no one is asking
out loud.
But I'm going to be that guythat just says it out loud.
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God, if you're good, why didyou put me in this family?
Can somebody say, well, ifyou're good, why did you put me in
this family?
And so here's where we're going.
Number one, why your family isso dysfunctional.
Number two, what God'sdesigned for a godly, spirit filled
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family actually is accordingto the scriptures.
And number three, you know whyGod put you in the middle of your
family?
Because there is a reason for that.
And how you become the breakerinstead of the next victim for everything
that got handed down.
You know, if you lean in andyou stay all the way till the end
of this message, you're gonnathe things in your family differently
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and you're gonna understandyour assignment in your family.
So I want you to open yourBibles now to Genesis.
Genesis is not just thebeginning of the world.
Genesis is the beginning ofgender, marriage, sex, family, parents,
grandparents, inheritance and legacy.
I mean, Genesis shows twothings at the same time.
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God's design for family andhow fast human beings can wreck it.
So in inherit your freedom, Italk about how if you trace just
three generations, you areconnected to 14 people whose choices
are shaping your life right now.
I mean, every time agrandfather actually chose unforgiveness,
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it echoed down into you.
Every time even a greatgrandmother chose addiction, it left
a mark on you that traveled down.
Every time someone choosesrage, poverty, thinking, or control,
it gets woven into what I callyour generational genetics.
And we're talking spiritually,not just physically.
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There's something that peoplecall the actual five generation rule
that I write about in my book.
I mean, one life offaithfulness or one life of rebellion
can echo three, four, or evenfive generations down the line.
And you see families likeJonathan Edwards line, it's filled
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with preachers and professorsand leaders.
And then you got families likeMax Juke's line.
That's Marked by crime,poverty, and addiction.
And you see that.
So why is your family so dysfunctional?
Let me tell you.
Because your story did notactually start with you.
You are living in thecompounded interest of decisions
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that you didn't make.
But dysfunction is not theonly thing that passes down God.
Gifts and callings passeddown, too, because the mantle never
dies with the man.
And so there can begenerational blessings.
And even if they messed up,you can actually break the curse
through the blood of Jesus andreceive a blessing that they were
supposed to receive.
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How many of you actuallybelieve that with me today.
Come on, let me hear you out there.
Don't be quiet on me.
Come on.
So Genesis, chapter four.
Now, it shows different linesdeveloping different abilities.
And this blew me away as I wasin a deep study for my book about
generational patterns and cycles.
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So if you look at verse,chapter 21, it says, his brother's
name was Jubal.
He was the father of all thosewho play the lyre and the pipe.
This is the 21st verse.
So one branch of the familybecomes musical, and then another
becomes skilled with livestockand agriculture.
Then another branch becomespioneers in bronze and iron.
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That means that the samebloodline that carried addiction
may also carry entrepreneurial gifting.
The same line that carriedrage may also carry prophetic passion.
I mean, the enemy does notwaste time attacking what he knows
has no future.
He attacks what carries destiny.
Come on.
Why does it feel like all hellbreaks loose around marriage and
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kids?
Kids?
I'm going to tell you.
Because Satan hates familymore than you hate your family.
Chat, group chat.
Come on.
When you're single, thebattle's real.
Come on.
Single people.
But when you marry, warfare isgoing to begin to escalate.
When you have kids, it goes tothe next level.
Because now the enemy can hitthree and four generations at the
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same time.
So for those of you withfamilies, you got to understand the
enemy's not just attacking you.
He's attacking the bloodlineand trying to multiply his efforts.
I feel a grace on this messageright now.
Y' all need to share this withsomebody so they can get this word,
because people don't talkabout this in the church enough.
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You know, the Bible tells youthat this is not just how people
are.
This is actually spiritual war.
As a matter of fact, when yougo all the way to Ephesians, chapter
6, verse 12, it says, for wedo not wrestle against your aunties,
your cousin, your brother,your grandma.
I know that it feels like youdo, but you are warring against rulers
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against the authorities,against the cosmic powers over the
present darkness.
Does anybody believe that?
Against the spiritual forcesof evil in the heavenly places.
I mean, that means that yourfight is not ultimately with your
mother in law, with your ex,with your dad, or even with your
sibling.
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The real fight is with unseenpowers that would love to keep your
family bound up forever.
And so in the book I talkabout this obvious assault on the
family because you see brokenhomes, you see fatherlessness, you
see single moms, they'retotally overloaded right now and
overwhelmed kids, starving notjust for food, but they're starving
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for love, they're starving for blessing.
You know, I was at my friendMark's house and he lives in Manhattan
and he's a Jewish brother.
And he actually had me comeover to his house for Shabbat.
And it was a wonderful experience.
And we begin to go through therituals that they do.
And Shabbat obviously beingFriday evening.
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And the Jewish people say,we're gonna take a 24 hour Sabbath
and we're gonna rest andrefrain from work.
But there was a powerfulmoment where he said, okay, Mike,
I want you to get up now and Iwant you to place your hands on the
heads of your daughters.
And so I had Bella there and Ihad Everly there, and then he placed
his hand on the heads of hischildren and he said, now what we
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do is we bless our childrenand we pray over our children.
And this is an ancient prayer.
And he began to pray thatprayer that his dad prayed and his
grandfather prayed and hisgreat grandfather and great great
grandfather.
And I just, I couldn't helpbut to cry because as I was standing
in Mark's home and I laid myhand on my daughter's head and Lord,
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I'm the first one to ever prayfor my children.
My daddy didn't pray for meand my grandfather didn't pray for
him, and my great grandfatherdidn't pray for him.
But Lord, it stops with me.
And Lord, I know that I'm nota Jew, but Jesus, you were a Jew
who actually died so theGentiles could get grafted in.
And I'm one of those wildolive branches that got grafted into
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the tree.
Now, come on, are there anyGentiles who are thankful for Jesus?
And I said that same blessingfor Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and
that same covenant.
God, you've established itwith me through the blood of Jesus.
And I just begin to pray formy daughters.
You know, there's kids thoughthat are just craving for the blessing
of a dad.
The Prayers of a dad.
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Come on, let me tell you.
One in three children inAmerica, they're born to unmarried
parents.
It's not a judgment, it's a fact.
About half of children willlive in a single parent home at some
point.
That means 50% of thethousands of people that are watching
me right now came from broken homes.
I was the product of that.
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Millions of kids are foodinsecure and they have a toxic relationship
with food because of thetrauma in the home.
And listen, you can't solvethis with one person in Washington,
in the government trying tosolve it.
We mobilize like crazy overphysical hunger.
Oh, we gotta feed the poor.
And we do that at B1 Church.
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But we often ignore the factthat kids are starving for a father's
blessing, a mother's presence,and a united home.
That's why it brought me totears when I heard that this sermon
series has already caused atleast two marriages to be restored.
Now, not every story can havethat ending, and sometimes even divorce
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is justifiable.
We know this.
But Satan's strategy is very simple.
Confuse gender, mock marriage.
Replace covenant with convenience.
Turn sex into recreationalsport instead of a covenantal glue.
Normalize divorce as a resetbutton instead, instead of a wound
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that bleeds through generations.
And if he can break your home,he can break your heart.
And if he can break your heartlong enough, he'll eventually stop.
You'll stop believing that Godis a father who loves you.
And this is what many of youcome from.
This is not just a personalityclash with people in your family.
This is spiritual warfareagainst demons that are trying to
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sabotage what the destiny thatyou have within your life and your
family's life.
Now, let's contrast that withGod's actual design, though, because
the world's blueprint forfamily sounds like this.
Well, I'm gonna do what feels good.
And if it's hard, I'm justgonna walk away.
You know, kids are the centerof the home.
Whoever screams the loudestruns this house.
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Extended family gets moreloyalty than my own spouse.
That's the way the world'sdoing it.
But God's blueprint in Genesisand the rest of scripture is one
man, one woman before God incovenant, filled with the Holy Spirit,
raising children who know thatthey're loved, that they're being
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disciplined, and they're senton assignment.
I mean, Genesis, chapter 2,verse 24 and 25, it's very clear.
Therefore, a man shall leavehis father and his mother and hold
fast to his wife, and theyshall become one flesh and the man
and his wife were both nakedand not ashamed.
And come on, you've heard thatscripture before.
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I mean, that's the order.
Leave cleave, become one.
A huge part of the breakdowntoday is that we have reversed God's
order of priority.
According to scripture.
I mean, God's order is Godfirst, then marriage, and then children,
then extended family.
And in many homes, thefunctional order is children at the
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center, marriage on the side,God for the emergencies, and extended
relatives as dictators.
Oh, come on.
I'm getting all up in yourfamily mess right now.
Am I right?
I mean, you see it every day.
Every decision revolves aroundthe kids scheduling, the kids preferences,
the kids moods, how they feel.
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Mom and dad, they never havedate nights, they never pray together,
they never talk deeply unlessit's about logistics or bills.
Come on.
And when children become thecenter of the home, I mean, listen,
marriages start to fall apart.
And I know some of you don'tbelieve that, but deep down inside,
you know it's true.
And when your son's travelteam and your daughter's activities
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get more passion than thecovenant of marriage, your family
is out of order.
I mean, I'm telling you thisas a father in the faith and somebody
that's read this book andknows that God did not design your
home to be a child centered kingdom.
He designed it to be a Godcentered covenant where children
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are loved, children aredisciplined, which, by the way, is
a form of love.
Can I get an amen from someparents in the chat right now?
And they're launched intotheir purpose.
And the reason why I have tosay this is because I go out into
public and I see the parentsthat are afraid to discipline their
children.
Oh, you know, little Timmy,you know, he's real.
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He has a lot of preferences,and he's really.
It's like, no, no, listen,what he needs is discipline.
And how I know that is Ididn't have a dad, and my mom said,
I'm gonna be your dad and yourmom and I'm gonna discipline you.
And I think I turned out all right.
And discipline is also a formof love.
I mean, we're disciplined by God.
His love comes in the form ofa yes, but it also comes in the form
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of a no.
Can I get an amen on that?
And so in my book, inherityour freedom, I talk about Naboth's
vineyard.
And when you go to Kings,chapter 21, and it's verse three,
this is what it says.
But Naboth said to Ahab, theLord forbid That I should give you
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the inheritance of my fathers.
You know, we talk about theAhab spirit, the Jezebel spirit,
this demonic spirit.
Well, it's very simple.
Ahab was not disciplined.
Ahab wanted what he didn'tfight for what he didn't work for.
Ahab, listen, he wanted to getit without having to earn it.
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This is the story of Ahab.
This is the what happens iswhen you don't discipline your kids,
when your kids don't have toearn it, when your kids just get
what they haven't beendisciplined for, they can end up
receiving an Ahab spirit.
And so literally it says, theLord forbid that I should give you
the inheritance of my fathers.
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Now, Naboth's vineyard, itwasn't just real estate.
It was a multi generational inheritance.
It was land that wascultivated by the discipline and
the hard work of his fathersfor generations.
And King Ahab offers to buy itand give him another field.
And Nabal's like, no, no, no.
Because the vineyard is myfather's inheritance.
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And some of you are tradingyour vineyard for a vegetable garden.
You're trading God's best for mediocrity.
And you cannot compromise.
How you exit is how you enter.
And you may have compromisedthis year, but you're ending this
year, not compromising.
And you're gonna step into thenew year saying, God, I will not
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trade a godly marriage fortemporary attention.
Come on.
I'm not trading a praying homefor endless activities but no altar.
I'm not trading purity forsecret addiction.
I'm not trading children'sspiritual inheritance for we had
Christmas morning but neversaw revival in the living room.
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Can somebody just put theirhands together if you're not gonna
compromise coming into this.
Yeah.
I feel some anointing uponthis message right now.
God's design is not keep thekids entertained.
Here's an iPad.
God's design is raise arrowsthat fly further than I ever could
into the enemy's camp.
I mean, Psalm 127, verses 30.
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It's verses three through five.
It says this.
You cannot deny what I'msaying right now.
Behold, children are aheritage from the Lord, the fruit
of the womb, A reward likearrows in the hand of a warrior are
the children of one's youth.
Blessed is the man who fillshis quiver with them.
He shall not be put to shamewhen he speaks with his enemies at
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the gate.
Look at it for yourself inPsalm 127.
Children are not the center,they are arrows.
And arrows are meant to be aimed.
And Released.
That's what you do with arrows.
You aim them and you release them.
I'm aiming Bella and I'mreleasing her.
I'm aiming Everly and I'mreleasing her.
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Now when you go to Matthewchapter one, I'm gonna bring this
all together.
I hope you're flowing with me.
We're going deep into the scriptures.
Most people skip this chapterbecause it has a word, Begats.
Begats.
But this is Jesus familyChristian Christmas photo.
And because you're seeing nowhis design, this is no filter on
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that photo.
And you know, you look backthe old family photos and you see
the people who passed away,and you see people who have your
eyes, your ears, your hair.
And you see that now Jesuslineage is captured in Matthew chapter
one.
Let me go there.
Cause I wanna show yousomething that I saw that I could
not unsee.
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Matthew chapter 1, verses 1through 3 basically says this.
It's the book of the genealogyof Jesus, the son of David, the son
of Abraham.
Now, the only way that Jesuscould legitimately be the Messiah
is if he was of the line of David.
And so this has to be established.
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The genealogy was the way ofconfirming to a Jewish audience that
he was in fact the Messiah.
Abraham was the father ofIsaac, Isaac the father of Jacob,
Jacob the father of Judah andhis brothers, and Judah the father
of Perez and Zerah, by Tamarand Perez the father of Hezron, and
Hezron the father of Ram.
And you're probably like, whatdoes that have to do with anything
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you just said?
And I'm confused.
Stay with me.
This genealogy includes namesthat would have been so deeply scandalous
in the first century, 2,000years ago, when they heard this,
I mean, they literally wouldhave been gasping in the audience
with just the names being mentioned.
I'm gonna give you just fourof them.
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Cause you heard the word Tamar.
Tamar marries Judah's son, he dies.
She's left childless.
According to custom, sheshould have given another son to,
you know, carry on the line.
But she's neglected, so shedisguises herself as a prostitute,
sleeps with her father in law,becomes pregnant with twins, and
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then when Judah finds outshe's pregnant, he wants her punished
until he realizes that he'sactually the father.
You talk about some MauryPovich, Ricki Lake, some crazy Oprah
Winfrey level stuff.
This is messy.
And God actually says, leaveher name in the Messiah's family
line.
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All right, we're goingsomewhere with this Rahab.
Second, Rahab is a Canaanite,a Gentile A prostitute.
In Joshua, chapter two, shehides Israelite spies, lies to protect
them, and then is spared whenJericho falls.
She becomes part of Israel.
Okay.
She's a Gentile.
Keep that in mind.
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Marries into the covenantpeople of God and ends up in Jesus
genealogy.
And In Hebrews chapter 11, sheis literally listed as a hero of
faith, y'.
All.
This should be so encouragingto all of us with a past, because
every sinner has a past, butguess what?
They also have a futurethrough Jesus.
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Come on.
Every saint has a past, butwe've also got a future through Jesus.
Let's look at Ruth.
Ruth is a Moabite from anation that Israel was not supposed
to even marry.
She's widowed, poor.
She clings to her mother inlaw, Naomi, which kind of, to be
honest with you, might havebeen a little codependent.
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And through her loyalty andfaith, God crafts her into Israel.
I mean, she marries Boaz andbecomes the great grandmother of
King David.
And then you got Bathsheba andy' all know her name, nasty.
2 Samuel 11 tells the story.
You know it.
She sleeps with David, sleepswith her.
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He has her husband killed andthe first child that they have together
through that, I mean, let'sjust call it what it was.
Adulterous relationship.
This stuff you ain't hearingat your other church.
By the way, whenever you thinkthat you messed up and you're like,
God, it's irreparable God.
I just.
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I can't believe I've done allthese heinous things.
Why don't you just startreading your Bible a little bit more?
You're gonna be comforted byhow much the legends and faith scre
and how bad they screwed up.
I'll tell you what, no matterhow deep and how dark you think your
story is, there's somebody inthe Bible who did worse than you.
But God took them even higher.
And God is no respecter of persons.
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And if God did it for them,he'll do it for you if you stay available
and willing.
Come on.
Does anybody believe what I'msaying right now?
You know, God basicallychooses the son of their.
Their later son that their relation.
Think about what I'm saying.
David and Bathsheba'srelationship was initiated by adultery.
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Their first child dies, andthen later they have another child
named Solomon that God notonly chooses to be king, but to continue
the line that leads to Jesusand to even build the temple in Israel.
So you can't tell me that God.
Oh, I.
There's somebody listeningright now that.
That A woman that's listeningright now that their child was the
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product of adultery.
And you've been beatingyourself up over it, and you've been.
You've been feeling shame and condemnation.
But I'm here to remind you ofwhat God did with Solomon.
And if God did it withSolomon, your kid might be a prophetic
Solomon as well.
God will take your biggestmistakes and use them for his greatest
glory through your mistakes.
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Does anybody know what I'mtalking about?
Man, there's somethingdifferent about this sermon, y'.
All.
I hope you're getting these notes.
There's something differentabout this one.
I mean, listen, Matthewdoesn't hide any of this.
This is how I know that Jesusis the Messiah.
Because Matthew, chapter one,verses 15 and 16, says you've got
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Eliad, the father of Eleazar,and Eleazar the father of Matthan
and Matthan, the father ofJacob and Jacob, the father of Joseph,
the husband of Mary, of whomJesus was born, who is called the
Christ.
So if you put it in modernlanguage now.
So I'm gonna help y' all out.
Jesus family tree is wild.
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It's complicated, it'sscandalous, and it's generationally
messy.
Why is that good news for allof us?
Because it proves your familyscandal does not cancel your Savior's
plan.
God uses broken people andbroken families to birth breakthrough.
Come on and listen.
In the book, I say, what if Itold you that your genealogy has
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been awaiting your arrival?
I mean, that you have beenborn with a purpose and you've been
born with a task.
Matthew, chapter one, verse 17.
Just follow it.
So all the generations fromAbraham to David was 14 generations.
And from David to thedeportation to Babylon, 14 generations.
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And from the deportation toBabylon to the Christ, 14 generations.
That's Matthew, chapter one,verse 17.
And it's probably not hidden,but let me break this down for you,
because it's such a deep,prophetic biblical revelation that
cannot be ignored.
This is such a crazy,prophetic word.
That's three sets of 14, sixsets of seven.
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When Jesus arrives, it's likethe seventh seven, which means that
Jesus is the ultimate Sabbath rest.
Generations of striving,generations of failure, generations
of trying to fix the family byhuman efforts.
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And then Jesus shows up andsays, I am the rest your family has
never been able to find.
I'm the rest they couldn'tfind in alcohol.
I'm the rest they couldn'tfind in opiates.
I'm the rest they couldn'tfind in sex.
I'm the Rest that theycouldn't find in dead religion.
I am the rest that yourfamily's never been able to find.
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He doesn't just change yourlife individually.
He changes the meaning of yourwhole family story.
So let's answer this question.
If my family is thisdysfunctional, why did God put me
here?
Listen, I've thought thatquestion many times.
Why couldn't I just had a good father?
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Why couldn't I just have anormal family?
Why did I have to move all the time?
Why was there so much brokenness?
Why was there so much arguing?
Why was everybody alwaysfighting each other?
Listen.
Because somebody in yourbloodline had to be first.
In my story, I'm the son of anabsent father with a criminal record
in addiction.
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I didn't grow up seeing hisface every day.
I didn't have him teaching mehow to shave, how to work, how to
be a husband, how to be aloving father.
And years later, I became a father.
I held my newborn daughter,Bella, and I felt a love that I had
never experienced before.
I went home from the hospitaland suddenly had a realization.
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My father probably never feltthis for me.
I collapsed on the bathroomfloor in tears and vomit, wrestling
with a lifetime of fatherwounds that all came crashing in
in a moment.
And later, alcohol got a gripon me.
My wife left with my daughter.
I came home to an empty house,realizing I was about to repeat my
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father's story.
And my daughter would grow upwithout me, the same way that I grew
up without my dad.
I knew the Bible at that point.
I had been brought intoministry as a pastor before all this
went down.
And so how did the devilsucceed in getting me to the same
destination by a different road?
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I mean, that's how the devilwill work.
He's got a GPS coordinate, andhe's gonna get you to that same cycle
by a different means.
And it's crazy to think about.
Cause I thought to myself foryears, I'll never be like my dad.
And what happens is every timeI go to church, that demonic GPS
says rerouting.
I said, I'll never abuse my wife.
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I'll never fight her like that.
And I'm going to be a real man.
And then the GPS says rerouting.
And the devil will do anythingand everything he can to get you
to the same pattern, the samecycle, the same repetition.
Even if he's got to take youanother road.
I mean, that was the momentthat I understood.
If I don't let God break thisin me, my daughter will bleed from
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wounds that I never let God heal.
Every family has that moment.
Every generation has theopportunity for a breaker.
So when I was writing inherityour freedom, I started to outline
a process to step into thatbreaker role number one.
I said, you need to confesswhat runs in your family.
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Because for me, I knew I wasconfessing the word of God, but I
had never confessed what runsin my family.
And I begin to teach people inmy book to make two columns.
One column with the negativebehaviors and patterns that you've
inherited and another columnwith the opposite, the good patterns
that you inherited.
The redeemed version.
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God is calling you to.
Because as I begin to thinkabout my family, I villainized my
father.
But there were many goodtraits from him too.
So I had to ask God, show mewhat those things are.
Because blessings can comethrough the bloodline, not just curses.
And you know, lust becomescovenant love and true intimacy basically
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can be exchanged in that moment.
Poverty becomes generational wealth.
There's like a redeeming of itand true stewardship addiction becomes
basically being addicted tothe right things.
Being addicted to yourcalling, your creativity, your serving
your control actually can turninto trust.
Profanity can become prophecy.
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Does anybody believe that?
I mean, abandonment can become adoption.
And you reach out for other people.
So, you know, here's the thing.
Right now, even as you'relistening to me, name it in your
mind.
Name it in your mind.
Everybody watching online,everybody in the room.
It's divorce, rage, witchcraftor the occult, porn addiction, alcohol.
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I mean, religion without power.
Some of you have that anxiety,fear, poverty, emotional shutdown.
You cannot cast out what youkeep protecting.
God cannot heal what yourefuse to reveal.
Number two, repent and renounce.
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Stop being hospitable towhat's killing you.
You know, in the book I talkabout how the Holy spirit confronted
me about counterfeit comforts,things like worry and comfort eating.
You know, I just couldn't stopeating because it felt normal.
I mean, those things ran intomy family.
This is how they survived.
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But demons and destructivepatterns, they.
They often feel like this,they feel familiar because we've
had these, they've had theselong term leases in your family line
and you've gotta make the decision.
I will not be the halfwaywhere demons walk into my kid's life.
I'm not gonna be the conduit.
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And you know, that's whatrepentance and renouncing is really
doing, is I'm not gonna be thebridge between demons.
And it's when you say withyour mouth, this stops with me.
Whew I feel the anointing allover this number three I write about.
You need to learn how torebuild and protect your vineyard.
Bring Naboth back into your mind.
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His vineyard was his father's inheritance.
And Ahab tried to.
He offered alternative land.
Naboth said, you know, theLord forbid that I should give you
the inheritance of my fathers.
In other words, he wasforbidding it.
And so this Christmas, some ofyou are being offered trades by the
enemy.
Trade your sobriety just forone drink at the family party.
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Trade your purity for just oneDM to make you feel better.
Trade your consistency inchurch for just one season where
you take a break.
Trade your children'sspiritual legacy for just one holiday
where we stop being, you know,the serious ones.
No.
No.
You are the one who says, no deal.
No deal.
I forbid this.
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This vineyard stays in my family.
You're not just breaking curses.
You're now starting the blessings.
Come on.
Is there anybody who's like,I'm ready.
I've been breaking curses.
Now I'm about to start the blessings.
That's what I feel for thisnew year.
For many of you, you've been tested.
Now you're about to be blessed.
You went through.
You've been stretch.
Now you're about to be blessed.
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Your kids and your grandkids,they're going to inherit prayers
that they never prayed, butyou bathed them in those prayers
in the midnight hour.
Come on.
Favor that they didn't earn,but you earned it because you came
out of that test pure as gold.
Freedom that they didn't fightfor because you decided to be the
first one to say yes to God atthis level so that they can go to
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a higher level.
Come on.
Somebody shout unto God with me.
I feel the presence of God allover this right now.
Hey, do this.
Everybody jump to your feetwith me right now.
Come on.
We're about to end this thing.
Cause I feel anointing allover this.
Come on.
In my book, inherit your freedom.
I have everybody take achallenge, and we're gonna do this
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challenge.
It's gonna feel awkward, butsometimes you gotta do something
different to get something different.
And the Lord told me to haveall of V1 Church and everybody watching
online begin to do this with me.
Why?
Because I'm gonna actually.
I'm gonna put something in thespirit realm right now that you can
reference back to y'.
All.
I just got back from Israel,and as I was teaching through Israel,
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all the locations preparingfor this next year, we're doing a
huge series called Journeywith Jesus.
And I want you to lock in for it.
Three months with Jesus goingfully in depth.
But I was in Jerusalem, and Iwas on the Mount of Olives, and I
begin to look down, andthere's a Jewish graveyard.
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And upon the Jewish cause,these are like these.
Basically, their caskets areabove, you know, the ground, and
they're like these stone features.
And upon each, the top of eachone were all these little rocks.
Little rocks.
And it reminded me that one ofthe traditions of the Jewish people
is they put a stone in a placefor remembrance.
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This is what Joshua did whenthey came into the Promised Land.
He said, let's all pile up abig pile of stones so that when the
future generations, they lookand they say, what are those stones?
What do they mean?
They represent God's faithfulness.
There was a great victory thatwas won here.
And so right now we're gonnado something like that, and we're
gonna.
This is gonna be differentbecause we're gonna put a stone here
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for remembrance so that yourchildren could say, what does that
mean?
What was happening?
And you tell them, oh, whatthis represents is this represents
a picture of what's possible,where God has taken me.
And so I'm going to challengeyou in a few moments.
And we're about to pray afterwe do this.
And this might be weird, butthe Lord told me to do something
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different today because, youknow, for me, I can't take a picture
with my family.
Most of my family on myfather's side have passed away, and
they're gone.
I can't take a picture with them.
Some of you are mourning thefamily members that aren't here this
year.
But see, there's another family.
We have a spiritual family.
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And there's many of you thatyou don't like.
The way that you look, youdon't like your weight, you don't
like your face.
I know I struggle with thosethings myself.
I've had a lot of issues withmy personal view of myself.
But sometimes you gotta put astone there for remembrance, to say,
we may not have fully arrived yet.
But listen, I'm not where Iused to be.
Come on.
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God is not done with me.
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And he who began a good workin me will see it through until completion.
Baby, I may not be in Egypt anymore.
Thank God I'm not in Egypt.
But I also may still be in the wilderness.
But sometimes, before you getto the Promised Land, you gotta put
a stone in the wilderness sothat people can mark what God has
done.
So right now I'm helping youget to your next journey because
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we're gonna put a stone herefor remembrance.
And in a few moments, I'mgonna ask that every single one of
you at all seven campuses andeven those of you watching online,
take a picture of yourself asa memorial to say, on this day, God
began to set something in motion.
And then you're gonna compareit back a year from now.
You're gonna look at how God.
How far God took you.
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You know, this is a before picture.
Before the breakthrough,before the blessing, before the favor,
before the marriage, beforethe reconciliation, before the supernatural
healing in your body, beforeevery demon leaves your home.
Before.
This is a before picture.
And we're gonna do that right now.
Come on.
So take out your phone.
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Turn that camera on yourself.
As a matter of fact, I'm gonnado it while you do it.
And on the count of three, Iwant you to get it ready.
Come on.
Not for Instagram, but foryour grandchildren.
Come on.
I'm gonna post this online.
Cause I feel some grace allover this.
Are you all ready?
Come on.
Take your phones.
This is our Christmas familyphoto together.
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And we are gonna make amemorial and say, this is my before
picture.
Cause I know help is on the way.
I know that financialbreakthrough is on the way.
This is my before picture.
Before I move into the house,before I get the lease, before I
sign the papers.
Come on.
This is it.
Because I am that one that myfamily line has been waiting for.
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I am that one.
I am the breaker in my family.
Come on.
Hold that phone.
Get ready.
I'm gonna count to three, andwe're gonna take this picture.
One, two, three.
Come on.
Come on.
Take that picture.
Now, when you look at thatpicture, a year from now, this is
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what you're going to actuallybegin to say.
And I'm prophesying this overeach and every one of you.
That was the day that ourbloodline changed.
Some of you are at your lowestpoint right now.
You're battling addictionright now.
Your marriage is hanging on bya thread right now.
Your kids are far from Godright now.
Take the picture anyways.
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Because this version of you isnot the final version of you.
Now, come on.
If you're comfortable, I wantyou to do this.
Put your hand on your heart.
Put your hand on your heartright now, because the Holy Spirit
is beginning to encourage you.
And I'm about to pray.
And we're gonna pray together.
And then we're gonna worshipinto this next level.
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Come on.
Say this with me, Father.
Come on.
Say it boldly now.
Say it as loud as you can.
Father, in the name of Jesus,I confess the sins that run in my
family.
I confess the patterns of addiction.
I confess the patterns ofrage, the patterns of fear, the patterns
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of perversion, the patterns ofpoverty, the patterns of witchcraft,
the patterns of religionwithout power.
I repent for partnering with them.
I renounce every spirit behind them.
By the blood of Jesus, I breakevery generational curse.
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I refuse to trade my vineyardfor a moment of pleasure, for a moment
of comfort, for a moment of approval.
Come on, say this with me.
I receive your design for my family.
Make my home spirit filled.
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Use me as the breaker so mychildren and grandchildren inherit
freedom.
Come on now, let's say thisand let's get as wild as we can when
we say this.
As for me and my house, wewill serve the Lord.
Come on now, let out a shoutand a roar across this nation right
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now.
Come on.
Serve notice on the devil.
Come on, shout unto God if youbelieve it.
Hallelujah.
Come on now, look at me.
Look at me.
Everybody look at me right now.
Come on, just look at me real quick.
Look at me.
You didn't choose your family,but God chose you for your family.
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And when he chose you for thatfamily, he was not punishing you,
he was trusting you.
You are not just from yourfamily in Christ Jesus.
You are for your family.
You're their curse breaker.
You're their intercessor.
You're their first chapter ofa brand new story.
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And I know it hasn't been easy.
I know it's been hard.
But it's going to be worth itwhen you see God do what only he
can do through you.
Come on, let's just begin toworship right now.
Lift up your voices unto God.
Come on, worship cursebreakers, let's go.
The truth is, we're coming upon Christmas, and you're about to
spend Christmas with peoplethat you love deeply but can barely
stand, and you're going hometo a war zone with wrapping paper.
Come on.
And you got the relative, youknow, who can basically ruin a holiday
with one sentence.
Am I the only one?
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You got the parent who stilltalks to you like you're 14 years
old.
Got this sibling who hasn'tapologized in 10 years but still
expects hugs and selfies likenothing ever happened.
And under all of that is onequestion that almost no one is asking
out loud.
But I'm going to be that guythat just says it out loud.
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God, if you're good, why didyou put me in this family?
Can somebody say, well, ifyou're good, why did you put me in
this family?
And so here's where we're going.
Number one, why your family isso dysfunctional.
Number two, what God'sdesigned for a godly, spirit filled
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family actually is accordingto the scriptures.
And number three, you know whyGod put you in the middle of your
family?
Because there is a reason for that.
And how you become the breakerinstead of the next victim for everything
that got handed down.
You know, if you lean in andyou stay all the way till the end
of this message, you're gonnathe things in your family differently
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and you're gonna understandyour assignment in your family.
So I want you to open yourBibles now to Genesis.
Genesis is not just thebeginning of the world.
Genesis is the beginning ofgender, marriage, sex, family, parents,
grandparents, inheritance and legacy.
I mean, Genesis shows twothings at the same time.
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God's design for family andhow fast human beings can wreck it.
So in inherit your freedom, Italk about how if you trace just
three generations, you areconnected to 14 people whose choices
are shaping your life right now.
I mean, every time agrandfather actually chose unforgiveness,
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it echoed down into you.
Every time even a greatgrandmother chose addiction, it left
a mark on you that traveled down.
Every time someone choosesrage, poverty, thinking, or control,
it gets woven into what I callyour generational genetics.
And we're talking spiritually,not just physically.
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There's something that peoplecall the actual five generation rule
that I write about in my book.
I mean, one life offaithfulness or one life of rebellion
can echo three, four, or evenfive generations down the line.
And you see families likeJonathan Edwards line, it's filled
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with preachers and professorsand leaders.
And then you got families likeMax Juke's line.
That's Marked by crime,poverty, and addiction.
And you see that.
So why is your family so dysfunctional?
Let me tell you.
Because your story did notactually start with you.
You are living in thecompounded interest of decisions
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that you didn't make.
But dysfunction is not theonly thing that passes down God.
Gifts and callings passeddown, too, because the mantle never
dies with the man.
And so there can begenerational blessings.
And even if they messed up,you can actually break the curse
through the blood of Jesus andreceive a blessing that they were
supposed to receive.
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How many of you actuallybelieve that with me today.
Come on, let me hear you out there.
Don't be quiet on me.
Come on.
So Genesis, chapter four.
Now, it shows different linesdeveloping different abilities.
And this blew me away as I wasin a deep study for my book about
generational patterns and cycles.
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So if you look at verse,chapter 21, it says, his brother's
name was Jubal.
He was the father of all thosewho play the lyre and the pipe.
This is the 21st verse.
So one branch of the familybecomes musical, and then another
becomes skilled with livestockand agriculture.
Then another branch becomespioneers in bronze and iron.
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That means that the samebloodline that carried addiction
may also carry entrepreneurial gifting.
The same line that carriedrage may also carry prophetic passion.
I mean, the enemy does notwaste time attacking what he knows
has no future.
He attacks what carries destiny.
Come on.
Why does it feel like all hellbreaks loose around marriage and
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kids?
Kids?
I'm going to tell you.
Because Satan hates familymore than you hate your family.
Chat, group chat.
Come on.
When you're single, thebattle's real.
Come on.
Single people.
But when you marry, warfare isgoing to begin to escalate.
When you have kids, it goes tothe next level.
Because now the enemy can hitthree and four generations at the
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same time.
So for those of you withfamilies, you got to understand the
enemy's not just attacking you.
He's attacking the bloodlineand trying to multiply his efforts.
I feel a grace on this messageright now.
Y' all need to share this withsomebody so they can get this word,
because people don't talkabout this in the church enough.
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You know, the Bible tells youthat this is not just how people
are.
This is actually spiritual war.
As a matter of fact, when yougo all the way to Ephesians, chapter
6, verse 12, it says, for wedo not wrestle against your aunties,
your cousin, your brother,your grandma.
I know that it feels like youdo, but you are warring against rulers
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against the authorities,against the cosmic powers over the
present darkness.
Does anybody believe that?
Against the spiritual forcesof evil in the heavenly places.
I mean, that means that yourfight is not ultimately with your
mother in law, with your ex,with your dad, or even with your
sibling.
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The real fight is with unseenpowers that would love to keep your
family bound up forever.
And so in the book I talkabout this obvious assault on the
family because you see brokenhomes, you see fatherlessness, you
see single moms, they'retotally overloaded right now and
overwhelmed kids, starving notjust for food, but they're starving
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for love, they're starving for blessing.
You know, I was at my friendMark's house and he lives in Manhattan
and he's a Jewish brother.
And he actually had me comeover to his house for Shabbat.
And it was a wonderful experience.
And we begin to go through therituals that they do.
And Shabbat obviously beingFriday evening.
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And the Jewish people say,we're gonna take a 24 hour Sabbath
and we're gonna rest andrefrain from work.
But there was a powerfulmoment where he said, okay, Mike,
I want you to get up now and Iwant you to place your hands on the
heads of your daughters.
And so I had Bella there and Ihad Everly there, and then he placed
his hand on the heads of hischildren and he said, now what we
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do is we bless our childrenand we pray over our children.
And this is an ancient prayer.
And he began to pray thatprayer that his dad prayed and his
grandfather prayed and hisgreat grandfather and great great
grandfather.
And I just, I couldn't helpbut to cry because as I was standing
in Mark's home and I laid myhand on my daughter's head and Lord,
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I'm the first one to ever prayfor my children.
My daddy didn't pray for meand my grandfather didn't pray for
him, and my great grandfatherdidn't pray for him.
But Lord, it stops with me.
And Lord, I know that I'm nota Jew, but Jesus, you were a Jew
who actually died so theGentiles could get grafted in.
And I'm one of those wildolive branches that got grafted into
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the tree.
Now, come on, are there anyGentiles who are thankful for Jesus?
And I said that same blessingfor Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and
that same covenant.
God, you've established itwith me through the blood of Jesus.
And I just begin to pray formy daughters.
You know, there's kids thoughthat are just craving for the blessing
of a dad.
The Prayers of a dad.
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Come on, let me tell you.
One in three children inAmerica, they're born to unmarried
parents.
It's not a judgment, it's a fact.
About half of children willlive in a single parent home at some
point.
That means 50% of thethousands of people that are watching
me right now came from broken homes.
I was the product of that.
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Millions of kids are foodinsecure and they have a toxic relationship
with food because of thetrauma in the home.
And listen, you can't solvethis with one person in Washington,
in the government trying tosolve it.
We mobilize like crazy overphysical hunger.
Oh, we gotta feed the poor.
And we do that at B1 Church.
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But we often ignore the factthat kids are starving for a father's
blessing, a mother's presence,and a united home.
That's why it brought me totears when I heard that this sermon
series has already caused atleast two marriages to be restored.
Now, not every story can havethat ending, and sometimes even divorce
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is justifiable.
We know this.
But Satan's strategy is very simple.
Confuse gender, mock marriage.
Replace covenant with convenience.
Turn sex into recreationalsport instead of a covenantal glue.
Normalize divorce as a resetbutton instead, instead of a wound
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that bleeds through generations.
And if he can break your home,he can break your heart.
And if he can break your heartlong enough, he'll eventually stop.
You'll stop believing that Godis a father who loves you.
And this is what many of youcome from.
This is not just a personalityclash with people in your family.
This is spiritual warfareagainst demons that are trying to
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sabotage what the destiny thatyou have within your life and your
family's life.
Now, let's contrast that withGod's actual design, though, because
the world's blueprint forfamily sounds like this.
Well, I'm gonna do what feels good.
And if it's hard, I'm justgonna walk away.
You know, kids are the centerof the home.
Whoever screams the loudestruns this house.
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Extended family gets moreloyalty than my own spouse.
That's the way the world'sdoing it.
But God's blueprint in Genesisand the rest of scripture is one
man, one woman before God incovenant, filled with the Holy Spirit,
raising children who know thatthey're loved, that they're being
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disciplined, and they're senton assignment.
I mean, Genesis, chapter 2,verse 24 and 25, it's very clear.
Therefore, a man shall leavehis father and his mother and hold
fast to his wife, and theyshall become one flesh and the man
and his wife were both nakedand not ashamed.
And come on, you've heard thatscripture before.
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I mean, that's the order.
Leave cleave, become one.
A huge part of the breakdowntoday is that we have reversed God's
order of priority.
According to scripture.
I mean, God's order is Godfirst, then marriage, and then children,
then extended family.
And in many homes, thefunctional order is children at the
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center, marriage on the side,God for the emergencies, and extended
relatives as dictators.
Oh, come on.
I'm getting all up in yourfamily mess right now.
Am I right?
I mean, you see it every day.
Every decision revolves aroundthe kids scheduling, the kids preferences,
the kids moods, how they feel.
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Mom and dad, they never havedate nights, they never pray together,
they never talk deeply unlessit's about logistics or bills.
Come on.
And when children become thecenter of the home, I mean, listen,
marriages start to fall apart.
And I know some of you don'tbelieve that, but deep down inside,
you know it's true.
And when your son's travelteam and your daughter's activities
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get more passion than thecovenant of marriage, your family
is out of order.
I mean, I'm telling you thisas a father in the faith and somebody
that's read this book andknows that God did not design your
home to be a child centered kingdom.
He designed it to be a Godcentered covenant where children
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are loved, children aredisciplined, which, by the way, is
a form of love.
Can I get an amen from someparents in the chat right now?
And they're launched intotheir purpose.
And the reason why I have tosay this is because I go out into
public and I see the parentsthat are afraid to discipline their
children.
Oh, you know, little Timmy,you know, he's real.
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He has a lot of preferences,and he's really.
It's like, no, no, listen,what he needs is discipline.
And how I know that is Ididn't have a dad, and my mom said,
I'm gonna be your dad and yourmom and I'm gonna discipline you.
And I think I turned out all right.
And discipline is also a formof love.
I mean, we're disciplined by God.
His love comes in the form ofa yes, but it also comes in the form
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of a no.
Can I get an amen on that?
And so in my book, inherityour freedom, I talk about Naboth's
vineyard.
And when you go to Kings,chapter 21, and it's verse three,
this is what it says.
But Naboth said to Ahab, theLord forbid That I should give you
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the inheritance of my fathers.
You know, we talk about theAhab spirit, the Jezebel spirit,
this demonic spirit.
Well, it's very simple.
Ahab was not disciplined.
Ahab wanted what he didn'tfight for what he didn't work for.
Ahab, listen, he wanted to getit without having to earn it.
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This is the story of Ahab.
This is the what happens iswhen you don't discipline your kids,
when your kids don't have toearn it, when your kids just get
what they haven't beendisciplined for, they can end up
receiving an Ahab spirit.
And so literally it says, theLord forbid that I should give you
the inheritance of my fathers.
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Now, Naboth's vineyard, itwasn't just real estate.
It was a multi generational inheritance.
It was land that wascultivated by the discipline and
the hard work of his fathersfor generations.
And King Ahab offers to buy itand give him another field.
And Nabal's like, no, no, no.
Because the vineyard is myfather's inheritance.
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And some of you are tradingyour vineyard for a vegetable garden.
You're trading God's best for mediocrity.
And you cannot compromise.
How you exit is how you enter.
And you may have compromisedthis year, but you're ending this
year, not compromising.
And you're gonna step into thenew year saying, God, I will not
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trade a godly marriage fortemporary attention.
Come on.
I'm not trading a praying homefor endless activities but no altar.
I'm not trading purity forsecret addiction.
I'm not trading children'sspiritual inheritance for we had
Christmas morning but neversaw revival in the living room.
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Can somebody just put theirhands together if you're not gonna
compromise coming into this.
Yeah.
I feel some anointing uponthis message right now.
God's design is not keep thekids entertained.
Here's an iPad.
God's design is raise arrowsthat fly further than I ever could
into the enemy's camp.
I mean, Psalm 127, verses 30.
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It's verses three through five.
It says this.
You cannot deny what I'msaying right now.
Behold, children are aheritage from the Lord, the fruit
of the womb, A reward likearrows in the hand of a warrior are
the children of one's youth.
Blessed is the man who fillshis quiver with them.
He shall not be put to shamewhen he speaks with his enemies at
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the gate.
Look at it for yourself inPsalm 127.
Children are not the center,they are arrows.
And arrows are meant to be aimed.
And Released.
That's what you do with arrows.
You aim them and you release them.
I'm aiming Bella and I'mreleasing her.
I'm aiming Everly and I'mreleasing her.
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Now when you go to Matthewchapter one, I'm gonna bring this
all together.
I hope you're flowing with me.
We're going deep into the scriptures.
Most people skip this chapterbecause it has a word, Begats.
Begats.
But this is Jesus familyChristian Christmas photo.
And because you're seeing nowhis design, this is no filter on
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that photo.
And you know, you look backthe old family photos and you see
the people who passed away,and you see people who have your
eyes, your ears, your hair.
And you see that now Jesuslineage is captured in Matthew chapter
one.
Let me go there.
Cause I wanna show yousomething that I saw that I could
not unsee.
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Matthew chapter 1, verses 1through 3 basically says this.
It's the book of the genealogyof Jesus, the son of David, the son
of Abraham.
Now, the only way that Jesuscould legitimately be the Messiah
is if he was of the line of David.
And so this has to be established.
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The genealogy was the way ofconfirming to a Jewish audience that
he was in fact the Messiah.
Abraham was the father ofIsaac, Isaac the father of Jacob,
Jacob the father of Judah andhis brothers, and Judah the father
of Perez and Zerah, by Tamarand Perez the father of Hezron, and
Hezron the father of Ram.
And you're probably like, whatdoes that have to do with anything
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you just said?
And I'm confused.
Stay with me.
This genealogy includes namesthat would have been so deeply scandalous
in the first century, 2,000years ago, when they heard this,
I mean, they literally wouldhave been gasping in the audience
with just the names being mentioned.
I'm gonna give you just fourof them.
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Cause you heard the word Tamar.
Tamar marries Judah's son, he dies.
She's left childless.
According to custom, sheshould have given another son to,
you know, carry on the line.
But she's neglected, so shedisguises herself as a prostitute,
sleeps with her father in law,becomes pregnant with twins, and
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then when Judah finds outshe's pregnant, he wants her punished
until he realizes that he'sactually the father.
You talk about some MauryPovich, Ricki Lake, some crazy Oprah
Winfrey level stuff.
This is messy.
And God actually says, leaveher name in the Messiah's family
line.
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All right, we're goingsomewhere with this Rahab.
Second, Rahab is a Canaanite,a Gentile A prostitute.
In Joshua, chapter two, shehides Israelite spies, lies to protect
them, and then is spared whenJericho falls.
She becomes part of Israel.
Okay.
She's a Gentile.
Keep that in mind.
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Marries into the covenantpeople of God and ends up in Jesus
genealogy.
And In Hebrews chapter 11, sheis literally listed as a hero of
faith, y'.
All.
This should be so encouragingto all of us with a past, because
every sinner has a past, butguess what?
They also have a futurethrough Jesus.
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Come on.
Every saint has a past, butwe've also got a future through Jesus.
Let's look at Ruth.
Ruth is a Moabite from anation that Israel was not supposed
to even marry.
She's widowed, poor.
She clings to her mother inlaw, Naomi, which kind of, to be
honest with you, might havebeen a little codependent.
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And through her loyalty andfaith, God crafts her into Israel.
I mean, she marries Boaz andbecomes the great grandmother of
King David.
And then you got Bathsheba andy' all know her name, nasty.
2 Samuel 11 tells the story.
You know it.
She sleeps with David, sleepswith her.
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He has her husband killed andthe first child that they have together
through that, I mean, let'sjust call it what it was.
Adulterous relationship.
This stuff you ain't hearingat your other church.
By the way, whenever you thinkthat you messed up and you're like,
God, it's irreparable God.
I just.
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I can't believe I've done allthese heinous things.
Why don't you just startreading your Bible a little bit more?
You're gonna be comforted byhow much the legends and faith scre
and how bad they screwed up.
I'll tell you what, no matterhow deep and how dark you think your
story is, there's somebody inthe Bible who did worse than you.
But God took them even higher.
And God is no respecter of persons.
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And if God did it for them,he'll do it for you if you stay available
and willing.
Come on.
Does anybody believe what I'msaying right now?
You know, God basicallychooses the son of their.
Their later son that their relation.
Think about what I'm saying.
David and Bathsheba'srelationship was initiated by adultery.
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Their first child dies, andthen later they have another child
named Solomon that God notonly chooses to be king, but to continue
the line that leads to Jesusand to even build the temple in Israel.
So you can't tell me that God.
Oh, I.
There's somebody listeningright now that.
That A woman that's listeningright now that their child was the
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product of adultery.
And you've been beatingyourself up over it, and you've been.
You've been feeling shame and condemnation.
But I'm here to remind you ofwhat God did with Solomon.
And if God did it withSolomon, your kid might be a prophetic
Solomon as well.
God will take your biggestmistakes and use them for his greatest
glory through your mistakes.
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Does anybody know what I'mtalking about?
Man, there's somethingdifferent about this sermon, y'.
All.
I hope you're getting these notes.
There's something differentabout this one.
I mean, listen, Matthewdoesn't hide any of this.
This is how I know that Jesusis the Messiah.
Because Matthew, chapter one,verses 15 and 16, says you've got
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Eliad, the father of Eleazar,and Eleazar the father of Matthan
and Matthan, the father ofJacob and Jacob, the father of Joseph,
the husband of Mary, of whomJesus was born, who is called the
Christ.
So if you put it in modernlanguage now.
So I'm gonna help y' all out.
Jesus family tree is wild.
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It's complicated, it'sscandalous, and it's generationally
messy.
Why is that good news for allof us?
Because it proves your familyscandal does not cancel your Savior's
plan.
God uses broken people andbroken families to birth breakthrough.
Come on and listen.
In the book, I say, what if Itold you that your genealogy has
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been awaiting your arrival?
I mean, that you have beenborn with a purpose and you've been
born with a task.
Matthew, chapter one, verse 17.
Just follow it.
So all the generations fromAbraham to David was 14 generations.
And from David to thedeportation to Babylon, 14 generations.
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And from the deportation toBabylon to the Christ, 14 generations.
That's Matthew, chapter one,verse 17.
And it's probably not hidden,but let me break this down for you,
because it's such a deep,prophetic biblical revelation that
cannot be ignored.
This is such a crazy,prophetic word.
That's three sets of 14, sixsets of seven.
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When Jesus arrives, it's likethe seventh seven, which means that
Jesus is the ultimate Sabbath rest.
Generations of striving,generations of failure, generations
of trying to fix the family byhuman efforts.
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And then Jesus shows up andsays, I am the rest your family has
never been able to find.
I'm the rest they couldn'tfind in alcohol.
I'm the rest they couldn'tfind in opiates.
I'm the rest they couldn'tfind in sex.
I'm the Rest that theycouldn't find in dead religion.
I am the rest that yourfamily's never been able to find.
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He doesn't just change yourlife individually.
He changes the meaning of yourwhole family story.
So let's answer this question.
If my family is thisdysfunctional, why did God put me
here?
Listen, I've thought thatquestion many times.
Why couldn't I just had a good father?
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Why couldn't I just have anormal family?
Why did I have to move all the time?
Why was there so much brokenness?
Why was there so much arguing?
Why was everybody alwaysfighting each other?
Listen.
Because somebody in yourbloodline had to be first.
In my story, I'm the son of anabsent father with a criminal record
in addiction.
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I didn't grow up seeing hisface every day.
I didn't have him teaching mehow to shave, how to work, how to
be a husband, how to be aloving father.
And years later, I became a father.
I held my newborn daughter,Bella, and I felt a love that I had
never experienced before.
I went home from the hospitaland suddenly had a realization.
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My father probably never feltthis for me.
I collapsed on the bathroomfloor in tears and vomit, wrestling
with a lifetime of fatherwounds that all came crashing in
in a moment.
And later, alcohol got a gripon me.
My wife left with my daughter.
I came home to an empty house,realizing I was about to repeat my
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father's story.
And my daughter would grow upwithout me, the same way that I grew
up without my dad.
I knew the Bible at that point.
I had been brought intoministry as a pastor before all this
went down.
And so how did the devilsucceed in getting me to the same
destination by a different road?
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I mean, that's how the devilwill work.
He's got a GPS coordinate, andhe's gonna get you to that same cycle
by a different means.
And it's crazy to think about.
Cause I thought to myself foryears, I'll never be like my dad.
And what happens is every timeI go to church, that demonic GPS
says rerouting.
I said, I'll never abuse my wife.
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I'll never fight her like that.
And I'm going to be a real man.
And then the GPS says rerouting.
And the devil will do anythingand everything he can to get you
to the same pattern, the samecycle, the same repetition.
Even if he's got to take youanother road.
I mean, that was the momentthat I understood.
If I don't let God break thisin me, my daughter will bleed from
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wounds that I never let God heal.
Every family has that moment.
Every generation has theopportunity for a breaker.
So when I was writing inherityour freedom, I started to outline
a process to step into thatbreaker role number one.
I said, you need to confesswhat runs in your family.
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Because for me, I knew I wasconfessing the word of God, but I
had never confessed what runsin my family.
And I begin to teach people inmy book to make two columns.
One column with the negativebehaviors and patterns that you've
inherited and another columnwith the opposite, the good patterns
that you inherited.
The redeemed version.
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God is calling you to.
Because as I begin to thinkabout my family, I villainized my
father.
But there were many goodtraits from him too.
So I had to ask God, show mewhat those things are.
Because blessings can comethrough the bloodline, not just curses.
And you know, lust becomescovenant love and true intimacy basically
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can be exchanged in that moment.
Poverty becomes generational wealth.
There's like a redeeming of itand true stewardship addiction becomes
basically being addicted tothe right things.
Being addicted to yourcalling, your creativity, your serving
your control actually can turninto trust.
Profanity can become prophecy.
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Does anybody believe that?
I mean, abandonment can become adoption.
And you reach out for other people.
So, you know, here's the thing.
Right now, even as you'relistening to me, name it in your
mind.
Name it in your mind.
Everybody watching online,everybody in the room.
It's divorce, rage, witchcraftor the occult, porn addiction, alcohol.
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I mean, religion without power.
Some of you have that anxiety,fear, poverty, emotional shutdown.
You cannot cast out what youkeep protecting.
God cannot heal what yourefuse to reveal.
Number two, repent and renounce.
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Stop being hospitable towhat's killing you.
You know, in the book I talkabout how the Holy spirit confronted
me about counterfeit comforts,things like worry and comfort eating.
You know, I just couldn't stopeating because it felt normal.
I mean, those things ran intomy family.
This is how they survived.
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But demons and destructivepatterns, they.
They often feel like this,they feel familiar because we've
had these, they've had theselong term leases in your family line
and you've gotta make the decision.
I will not be the halfwaywhere demons walk into my kid's life.
I'm not gonna be the conduit.
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And you know, that's whatrepentance and renouncing is really
doing, is I'm not gonna be thebridge between demons.
And it's when you say withyour mouth, this stops with me.
Whew I feel the anointing allover this number three I write about.
You need to learn how torebuild and protect your vineyard.
Bring Naboth back into your mind.
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His vineyard was his father's inheritance.
And Ahab tried to.
He offered alternative land.
Naboth said, you know, theLord forbid that I should give you
the inheritance of my fathers.
In other words, he wasforbidding it.
And so this Christmas, some ofyou are being offered trades by the
enemy.
Trade your sobriety just forone drink at the family party.
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Trade your purity for just oneDM to make you feel better.
Trade your consistency inchurch for just one season where
you take a break.
Trade your children'sspiritual legacy for just one holiday
where we stop being, you know,the serious ones.
No.
No.
You are the one who says, no deal.
No deal.
I forbid this.
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This vineyard stays in my family.
You're not just breaking curses.
You're now starting the blessings.
Come on.
Is there anybody who's like,I'm ready.
I've been breaking curses.
Now I'm about to start the blessings.
That's what I feel for thisnew year.
For many of you, you've been tested.
Now you're about to be blessed.
You went through.
You've been stretch.
Now you're about to be blessed.
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Your kids and your grandkids,they're going to inherit prayers
that they never prayed, butyou bathed them in those prayers
in the midnight hour.
Come on.
Favor that they didn't earn,but you earned it because you came
out of that test pure as gold.
Freedom that they didn't fightfor because you decided to be the
first one to say yes to God atthis level so that they can go to
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a higher level.
Come on.
Somebody shout unto God with me.
I feel the presence of God allover this right now.
Hey, do this.
Everybody jump to your feetwith me right now.
Come on.
We're about to end this thing.
Cause I feel anointing allover this.
Come on.
In my book, inherit your freedom.
I have everybody take achallenge, and we're gonna do this
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challenge.
It's gonna feel awkward, butsometimes you gotta do something
different to get something different.
And the Lord told me to haveall of V1 Church and everybody watching
online begin to do this with me.
Why?
Because I'm gonna actually.
I'm gonna put something in thespirit realm right now that you can
reference back to y'.
All.
I just got back from Israel,and as I was teaching through Israel,
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all the locations preparingfor this next year, we're doing a
huge series called Journeywith Jesus.
And I want you to lock in for it.
Three months with Jesus goingfully in depth.
But I was in Jerusalem, and Iwas on the Mount of Olives, and I
begin to look down, andthere's a Jewish graveyard.
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And upon the Jewish cause,these are like these.
Basically, their caskets areabove, you know, the ground, and
they're like these stone features.
And upon each, the top of eachone were all these little rocks.
Little rocks.
And it reminded me that one ofthe traditions of the Jewish people
is they put a stone in a placefor remembrance.
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This is what Joshua did whenthey came into the Promised Land.
He said, let's all pile up abig pile of stones so that when the
future generations, they lookand they say, what are those stones?
What do they mean?
They represent God's faithfulness.
There was a great victory thatwas won here.
And so right now we're gonnado something like that, and we're
gonna.
This is gonna be differentbecause we're gonna put a stone here
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for remembrance so that yourchildren could say, what does that
mean?
What was happening?
And you tell them, oh, whatthis represents is this represents
a picture of what's possible,where God has taken me.
And so I'm going to challengeyou in a few moments.
And we're about to pray afterwe do this.
And this might be weird, butthe Lord told me to do something
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different today because, youknow, for me, I can't take a picture
with my family.
Most of my family on myfather's side have passed away, and
they're gone.
I can't take a picture with them.
Some of you are mourning thefamily members that aren't here this
year.
But see, there's another family.
We have a spiritual family.
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And there's many of you thatyou don't like.
The way that you look, youdon't like your weight, you don't
like your face.
I know I struggle with thosethings myself.
I've had a lot of issues withmy personal view of myself.
But sometimes you gotta put astone there for remembrance, to say,
we may not have fully arrived yet.
But listen, I'm not where Iused to be.
Come on.
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God is not done with me.
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And he who began a good workin me will see it through until completion.
Baby, I may not be in Egypt anymore.
Thank God I'm not in Egypt.
But I also may still be in the wilderness.
But sometimes, before you getto the Promised Land, you gotta put
a stone in the wilderness sothat people can mark what God has
done.
So right now I'm helping youget to your next journey because
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we're gonna put a stone herefor remembrance.
And in a few moments, I'mgonna ask that every single one of
you at all seven campuses andeven those of you watching online,
take a picture of yourself asa memorial to say, on this day, God
began to set something in motion.
And then you're gonna compareit back a year from now.
You're gonna look at how God.
How far God took you.
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You know, this is a before picture.
Before the breakthrough,before the blessing, before the favor,
before the marriage, beforethe reconciliation, before the supernatural
healing in your body, beforeevery demon leaves your home.
Before.
This is a before picture.
And we're gonna do that right now.
Come on.
So take out your phone.
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Turn that camera on yourself.
As a matter of fact, I'm gonnado it while you do it.
And on the count of three, Iwant you to get it ready.
Come on.
Not for Instagram, but foryour grandchildren.
Come on.
I'm gonna post this online.
Cause I feel some grace allover this.
Are you all ready?
Come on.
Take your phones.
This is our Christmas familyphoto together.
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And we are gonna make amemorial and say, this is my before
picture.
Cause I know help is on the way.
I know that financialbreakthrough is on the way.
This is my before picture.
Before I move into the house,before I get the lease, before I
sign the papers.
Come on.
This is it.
Because I am that one that myfamily line has been waiting for.
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I am that one.
I am the breaker in my family.
Come on.
Hold that phone.
Get ready.
I'm gonna count to three, andwe're gonna take this picture.
One, two, three.
Come on.
Come on.
Take that picture.
Now, when you look at thatpicture, a year from now, this is
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what you're going to actuallybegin to say.
And I'm prophesying this overeach and every one of you.
That was the day that ourbloodline changed.
Some of you are at your lowestpoint right now.
You're battling addictionright now.
Your marriage is hanging on bya thread right now.
Your kids are far from Godright now.
Take the picture anyways.
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Because this version of you isnot the final version of you.
Now, come on.
If you're comfortable, I wantyou to do this.
Put your hand on your heart.
Put your hand on your heartright now, because the Holy Spirit
is beginning to encourage you.
And I'm about to pray.
And we're gonna pray together.
And then we're gonna worshipinto this next level.
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Come on.
Say this with me, Father.
Come on.
Say it boldly now.
Say it as loud as you can.
Father, in the name of Jesus,I confess the sins that run in my
family.
I confess the patterns of addiction.
I confess the patterns ofrage, the patterns of fear, the patterns
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of perversion, the patterns ofpoverty, the patterns of witchcraft,
the patterns of religionwithout power.
I repent for partnering with them.
I renounce every spirit behind them.
By the blood of Jesus, I breakevery generational curse.
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I refuse to trade my vineyardfor a moment of pleasure, for a moment
of comfort, for a moment of approval.
Come on, say this with me.
I receive your design for my family.
Make my home spirit filled.
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Use me as the breaker so mychildren and grandchildren inherit
freedom.
Come on now, let's say thisand let's get as wild as we can when
we say this.
As for me and my house, wewill serve the Lord.
Come on now, let out a shoutand a roar across this nation right
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now.
Come on.
Serve notice on the devil.
Come on, shout unto God if youbelieve it.
Hallelujah.
Come on now, look at me.
Look at me.
Everybody look at me right now.
Come on, just look at me real quick.
Look at me.
You didn't choose your family,but God chose you for your family.
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And when he chose you for thatfamily, he was not punishing you,
he was trusting you.
You are not just from yourfamily in Christ Jesus.
You are for your family.
You're their curse breaker.
You're their intercessor.
You're their first chapter ofa brand new story.
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And I know it hasn't been easy.
I know it's been hard.
But it's going to be worth itwhen you see God do what only he
can do through you.
Come on, let's just begin toworship right now.
Lift up your voices unto God.
Come on, worship cursebreakers, let's go.
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