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Why Your Portion Matters | Joshua 13:15-33 | Pastor Diego Mesa
July 24, 2025 · 56 min
Series Patria Sermons July 24, 2025 · 56 min · Patria Sermons
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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
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The Importance of Community and Boundaries 0:00 Well, amen. It's, good to see everyone here tonight and, what I know about, our Wednesday, Fresh Start service is these are people who like to eat twice a week.0:14 1 meal is not good enough, so, but there might be some that this is, you work on Sunday, so this is your first time this week. But either way, thank you so much. I'm just of the opinion, you0:26 know, the Bible says, in Hebrews the tenth chapter, it says in these last days, people will be forsaking themselves in the house of God. It says as you see the0:38 day approaching, do not cease to becoming to church and in the presence of God. Church helps us raise our godliness, our spirituality, our morality. This is where0:49 we get godly examples of what a marriage should be, of what a man of God should be. Community is found within the walls of the church. And here's what I know about the future, whether it's1:01 because of AI or technology, it's gonna become more of a lonelier generation than ever before, that are gonna live isolated life and distant lives, and all the psychologists1:13 and psychiatrists are telling us that of this, Gen Alpha generation, and how they have socially distanced. I think, COVID just exposed1:25 that and put it on the planet to stay and you're gonna have to fight for community. You're gonna have to fight for community and community brings so much safety and protection and usually people that1:37 have community in their lives are just simply happier people. And so coming to church is part of that. Plus, it's it's a kind of a commandment God told us to do, so at the end of the day, because1:49 Jesus told you to do it, that's a good reason to do it. Now before I pray, introduce the subject, and preach, I have to ask you to pray for me and to forgive me. Because I'm a little bit angry2:01 right now, and I don't know that I'll be able to minister the word of God under the anointing of God by being angry. So you have to pray for me. So, I know you're just absolutely confused, your mind is2:13 so serious right now, it's ridiculous if I could take a picture of you. Okay, So you know that I'm just a really health buff eater, okay? So I decided to make me the best organic pizza2:25 on the planet. So my crust was made out of, broccoli that I had shedded by my hand, Okay? And then it was made, with cauliflower that I2:36 cut and created the base of the crust. Are you with me? Yes. And then I put some bone broth in there to stick, some some eggs and a little bit of of salt in there, and a little bit of olive2:48 oil. And then I let it cook to create the base. And then I put some organic tomato paste on there, and then I put all, what did I put on? I didn't put all of this, I put mushrooms on there. I,3:00 cooked some salmon and put that as my protein on there. I cut, I went into Sprouts and bought a pineapple. And I cut a pineapple and put it on there. Doesn't that sound wonderful? And I got3:12 a plate and I said, oh my God, I made so much, this will last me 3 days, this is awesome. I'll be eating this for the next 2 or 3 days. And so, I I I ate my plate.3:24 Let's pause for a moment. On Wednesdays, Enzo and Ezra come over and lovely Cindy watches them at the house. But emphatic, the3:35 trouble is, I love Enzo, and I love Ezra, but they bring their dog Bruno, and we gotta watch Bruno. And you know where this is going. I don't they call3:47 this a Bernadoodle. He's a stupid dumadoodle. Because that guy jumped on the oven and ate my pizza.4:01 So if anybody'd like a free Bernadoodle, I'm gonna get rid of that dog, and my son's up there in the front row. I said, don't ever bring that dog by. Don't ever bring him again. He's4:13 gonna come missing. I got my labs back there. He gonna meet the homies for the gangsters from Montebello. Next time he comes over, that little diva, duva, little preppy dog, he gonna get introduced to some little4:24 homie cheese, some chocolate browns that are come jump on him. Anyways, oh well, I gotta start from scratch. Here we go. See, you are so serious, you thought I4:36 was really angry at sin in my life or something. Anyways, Joshua the thirteenth chapter. Joshua the thirteenth chapter. Father, bless our time in the word today. We just thank you for the word of God and we appreciate4:48 all that the word will minister to us with practicality that we could go home and live out tonight, even tomorrow to better serve you. In Jesus' name, let's stand for the reading of God's word. Here we go. We're5:00 in Joshua, and we're in chapter 13, in the middle part of the chapter. We're gonna highlight just a few verses. It says this, to the tribe of Reuben's descendants by their clans,5:11 Moses gave the border of the Reubenites, was the Jordan and its plains. This was the inheritance of the Reubenites by their clans with cities and their settlements. To the tribe5:23 of the Gadites by their clans, Moses gave this as their territory territory, Jazar, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Amorites,5:36 Arar, near Rapah. This was the inheritance of the Gadites by the clans with the cities and their settlements. And to have the tribe of Manasseh, that is to have the5:47 tribe of Manasseh's descendants by their clans, Moses gave. These were the portions Moses gave them on the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan east of Jericho. But Moses5:59 did not give a portion to the tribe of Levi. The the Lord, the God of Israel, was their inheritance, just as he had promised them. You may be6:11 seated. You know, I have a a brother who's 18 months, younger than me, his name is Brian. And, if you grow up in a home with siblings,6:23 you are always trying to measure yourself against each other. And you're always trying to make sure that you your parents equally proportion out the presents,6:36 the foods, the desserts, the clothing, the rooms, the beds, whatever it is, you're trying to make sure that nobody gets ripped off. Like why did my6:48 brother get a bit more dessert than me? Kinda thing. You know, and then you're measuring yourself by your brother. Why is he taller than me? And I'm shorter than him. You're always trying to measure yourself. So we had7:00 chores and, the amazing, I had to do the front yard and Brian got to do the backyard. And I used to think that I still today believe that I got the raw end of7:11 the7:11 deal, because the front yard used to take so much longer than the backyard. And my dad required so much more of the front yard because it was so visible. Where the backyard, my7:23 brother just simply mowed it, and that was it. Where I had to edge, I had to pull weeds, I had to hedge, I had to do all the extra, and I used to think that I got the wrong end of7:35 the deal. Well, sometimes if you're not watchful and mindful, those childhood competition and measuring and proportioning out can7:47 come into our adult lives, where we now compare ourselves to someone else, who they married, the kind of house, what city they live in, the level of income they have. In the body of7:59 Christ and in the church, we're measuring ourselves and comparing ourselves with their talents and their gifts and how God uses them. And sometimes that could get us to a place in our hearts8:11 where we believe in entitlement, that we deserve something just because, or it makes us unappreciative, and we are not content or satisfied with what God gave8:23 us. And sometimes we think that we are less than or getting ripped off because I've been through a divorce and you haven't been through a divorce. And my wife was8:35 unfaithful to me, and your wife has not been unfaithful to you. So I got the raw end of the deal, and your children are serving the Lord, and my children are running the streets8:47 living like the devil. I got the wrong end of the deal. I've been passed over on 3 promotions, and look at you. You've gotten 3 promotions, and we8:59 graduated the same year. We have the same college background, but you make I'm just kinda preaching right now. And we get caught up in that comparison9:11 and that measuring out and that proportioning out. Let me give you the last image and then I'm gonna launch this. Let's just say we had a giant piece of your9:23 favorite pie. Yell out to me your favorite kind of pie. Apple. Apple pie, I heard. Key lime. Key oh, jeez. Key lime pie.9:32 Cheese cake. Sweet potato.9:35 Cheesecake, sweet potato. Okay, listen, we're gonna portion that pie out by cutting it, okay? Alright? And the reality is is that you have the option of cutting your own9:46 piece or turning the knife over to God and say God, you cut my piece for me. And that's the difference in maturity. Most of us are9:58 gonna take the knife and cut our piece based upon our stomach's need, our wants, and our likes. And as you mature in the kingdom of God, God asks you, take the the the10:10 the knife out of your hands, put it in my hands. I know the portion that is best for you so that you don't get obese. And I'm not talking about obese10:22 naturally. I'm talking about sluggish and fat spiritually, in your emotions. So let's talk about what we just read in Joshua.10:34 Now we have the allocations of land mass as they have entered into the land of Canaan and have begun to conquer enemies. Now these10:46 12 tribes, 12, like, 12 families begin to divide it up based upon what Moses promised, but Joshua will now10:58 deliver it to them. It was a promise from Moses, and now Joshua would begin to cut up that mass of land and begin to allocate. And you saw a few of those11:10 allocations that were given in the land, or the territory, or the inheritance. Here's the first thought that I like to look at today that teaches us what we just read. After the11:22 conquering of the land, after you conquer the land, after you conquer your enemies, after you conquer the opposition, now comes payday. Now comes the reward. Now comes11:34 the paycheck. But please see the order. The order is this, you must first work for it before you get the reward. You must first invest in it. You must11:46 put the time and the energy, the sowing, the conquering. You must be obedient first. You must be responsible first. You must live differently first. Now you get to rest.11:58 Now you get to reap. Now you get to inherit, now you get to retire, now you get peace. Amen. We get in trouble when we do it in reverse.12:10 We get in trouble when we're doing it in reverse. We can't inherit if we first not invested. And that's what we need to tell this young generation that wants to make12:22 million dollars on being a social popularity on on social media. And just have them, you know, x amount of million. And I'm gonna say they can't, but12:34 the odds are just so limited. And so people wanna work less than ever before, but get the big paycheck. And that goes against the grain in which God created us. Work is12:46 not a curse. See, some of you don't believe that. That's why you don't work. Because you believe it's a curse. Work is very self fulfilling. It's12:58 validating. It allows me to use my talents and my gifts. I realize there are people that don't like their jobs. That's a reality. But once you work at a job that fits your gift13:09 mix, your purpose, you feel like you're adding to society, then it's very, very self fulfilling.13:17 But I13:17 wanna just share with you, the Bible says this, do not be deceived, God is not mocked. Whatsoever a man sows, that will he reap. So if you are not reaping what you want in your marriage, or in13:29 your health, or in your finances, then you've not sowed enough. Don't expect just blessings to come because you say a prayer. You have to work toward that. You have13:41 to invest that. You have to sow that. Nobody loses natural weight overnight. It takes a long time sometimes. I know you wanna just push13:52 those epic in you and lose it in 30 days, but that's not healthy. I know. God, that guy's always up in my business. I don't know why he's14:04 always up in my business. The Bible says if you are willing and obedient, you're gonna eat the good of the land. God wants you to eat the good of the land. He wants you to enjoy life. He wants you to have a fruitful14:16 life, a bountiful life, a life of increase. But you have to sow by being willing and obedient. The Bible says in Genesis, so the heavens and the earth and everything in them14:27 were completed. And on the seventh day, God completed his what? His work that he had done. And he rested on the seventh day. Notice it didn't say he rested, then14:39 he worked. You work then you can rest. You work and then you can play. You don't play and then work. See, there are 3 amens because I'm14:51 just not sure that you understand this. The bible says, you will surely eat what your hands have worked for. You will be happy and it'll go well. That's what God15:03 wants for every person.15:05 He15:05 wants us to be happy and he wants it to go well with us. But we've got to put in the time and the work. So they had to put in the work of conquering those enemies.15:17 They had to put in the work of obeying Joshua, their leader. They had to walk the land and they had to go through all that airy, all the energy, all the emotion, but now they're beginning to15:29 have an inheritance. Yes. They're beginning to have an inheritance. That's what God wants for us. The second thing I learned from this is that God creates boundaries for them,15:41 divisions for them, allotments and allocations, and that's what God does for us. So there'd be a little map here to just show you wow, that's well, anyways, just15:53 see all the colored areas there? I thought it'd be a little bigger than that, but, that that's that's all the tribes in there, and that was the land that was being allotted16:05 to them. So the map reveals Israel, but this broadened land where 12 tribes where the the land of Canaan, it it consists of Palestine, Lebanon,16:17 Syria, Jordan, and the tip of Egypt. All of that land was Israel. Well, I just gave you a revelation there. All of that land Israel owned. The16:28 12 tribes own that land, But God made allocation of that land. He gave boundaries. What am I trying to tell you?16:40 A life without boundaries leads to chaos, feuding, and fighting. God wants you to have freedom, but he wants you to live a life of boundaries.16:53 Boundaries are good. I need boundaries for relationships or you're gonna get burned. I need boundaries on spending my money or I'm gonna go in debt. I need boundaries17:05 with my emotions, what I think on, or or or I'm gonna get in trouble. I need boundaries on my mouth. I need boundaries for my eyes. I'm talking to17:16 somebody today. I need boundaries for my ears. I need boundaries for my hands. This is not to control your life. This is to protect your life.17:29 And God divided boundaries. He said Reuben, you go over there. Gad, you go over. And if you look at it, there were different sizes of acreage that were given. And Gad could've said, that's not17:40 fair. Why did Reuben get so much land? Right. God, you're not a just God. God, you're not a fair God. Yeah, he is. He gave you some land. Right. He17:52 gave you health. He gave you a marriage. He gave you breath. Yes. How what are you doing comparing to somebody else in in in in land disbursements, in inheritances, in blessings, or18:04 whatever that might be in that? God challenges us to always live in boundaries or you and I are gonna get in trouble.Show more In this video 0:00 The Importance of Community and Boundaries18:07 God as Our Portion and Provider40:31 Eternal Perspective and Salvation
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