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Inheritance Unlocked | Joshua 17:1-6 | Pastor Sammy Rodriguez
August 28, 2025 · 42 min
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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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Before we jump into what we're gonna be doing, I want to just take a a moment to honor our senior1:05 pastors, our leaders, pastors Adam and Ashley Mesa. Can we put our hands together? Anytime I get the chance or any of our team you hear that, it's because we have a culture of honor. It's1:17 not because we have to, it's because we're honored to get the moment to share the word from this stage. And we don't take it for granted. We actually believe this is a God moment given from our senior leaders1:29 and we're grateful for their leadership. So if you love your pastor's leadership of Adam and Ashley, can you put your hands together 1 more time? And, if we haven't got the chance to meet, I'm kinda like1:41 1 of your crazy cousins, Puerto Rican cousins that is. You know, hey, I'm pastor Sammy, Rodriguez. And I, like I said before, I'm fired up. I even brought a sweat rag because I feel like we about to go1:53 in. Okay? So someone touch a neighbor and say, we going in. Alright? We're about to go in on this word. And a few different things. 1, I believe that you're gonna be encouraged.2:04 Okay? Tonight. Everybody say encouraged. Encouraged. And I believe that God wants you to leave built up, not beat up. Alright? So I believe you're gonna leave built up. Okay? Even though maybe you2:16 were hitting someone on the driveway. Better get your hands off your kid. You know what I'm saying? But then you're you're we're back. We're back. We got our church face on. And but I believe you're gonna be encouraged2:25 and you're gonna be built up. But also, I believe you're gonna be challenged. Somebody say challenged. Challenged. And pastor Adam did an incredible job bringing a word, a full word this last Sunday. As he always does,2:37 but you're gonna be challenged to walk in what you're called to walk into. Amen? And I believe tonight you're gonna be activated. Somebody say activated. Activated. And why I feel excited, I always feel excited if2:49 you know me. But why I really feel excited for this is because we have a little, kind of who's gonna be preaching each week. And technically I wasn't supposed to be preaching, this week, but 1 of the pastors on our team,3:01 pastor Aaron said, hey, actually can you fill in for this week? And he text me when I was suffering for the Lord in Hawaii. You know, someone's gotta do it. Amen. You know? I said, here we are. Send us Lord. Alright? So3:13 my wife and I went on on a teaching trip and brought our kids. We have a 3 year old and a 1 year old. We love them so much, but we were so tired. Even more tired after the trip, if you are a parent of young kids, give me3:24 an amen. You know, right? Amen. They're they're sleeping already. That's why they it wasn't that loud. But anyways, I I I say all this to say, Pastor Aaron texted me, hey, can you cover this? And why I believe it's a3:35 great moment is because that same day, everybody say same day. Same My wife was teaching the women that we were teaching to. Broke into guys and girls the exact same chapter and story3:47 that that that I'm gonna be preaching on tonight. And and and not only that, was she had a God dream, a God dream years ago preaching on this passage and on3:59 these daughters. Come where where are my ladies in the room? Ladies in the room, say amen? Yeah. Or go yeah. Or whatever way you wanna do it. Alright? Because this is a story about 5 daughters that changed the4:11 course of history. Right. Yes. Right. It's a beautiful story. But my wife had a dream about this story in Joshua 17 and Numbers 27 that it was all about fighting for your inheritance. And4:23 even tonight I felt this activation. There's always here, but I felt this activation of faith in the room. Even in worship, even as pastor Heron was leading us in the miracle moment, as pastor Daniel was leading us in4:34 worship with the team, I believe there's faith for change. Can I get an amen? Amen. So why don't we jump on in? The title of my message tonight is this, is inheritance unlocked.4:45 Inheritance unlocked. Now you gotta remember this, goats take notes. Okay? Alright. So so just keep that in your What does that mean? That just means Just ask a young person, what's a goat? Know, it's the greatest of all4:55 time. So if you wanna remember what you're saying and what we've talked about, I wanna encourage you to take notes in your journal or on your phone. But it's inheritance unlocked. I looked this up briefly, and did you5:07 know that inheritance is mentioned close to 50 times in the book of Joshua? 50. That's because if you look at the end of Joshua and go to the next book of Judges, what happens is5:19 just because you inherit something doesn't mean it's all gonna be happily ever after. I'm I'm preaching to somebody. Come on somebody. Just because you inherit something doesn't5:31 mean it's all gonna work out how it's supposed to look. And the reason why even I believe it's mentioned 50 times, 50 the number of Jubilee. We're about to talk about 5 daughters, the number of grace. 50 grace5:42 upon grace is because it's important for us to understand just because you inherit something doesn't mean it's gonna go as planned unless we are actively moving forward to say this is how I'm gonna walk out my5:54 inheritance. The next book right after Joshua is Judges. And Judges is all about the people doing what was right in their own eyes. We look throughout this whole book of Joshua and6:06 it says there's still people dwelling in the land. And here's what's important about that. Is that if we don't kick those people out of our land, we might fall into worshiping the same idols that they6:17 worship. And so I wanna encourage you about this. The reason we're kinda pounding on inheritance in Joshua is because we have to be reminded if we don't fight for it, will lose it.6:30 And so here we come into a story that's historic. That's the first time ever, and we're gonna jump right in. You ready to jump in? In in Patria, if this is your first time, we stand for the reading of word. We only got 66:41 verses, but why don't we stand up all together and let's read this out. It says this. In Joshua 1 17 1 through 6, it says, then the allotment, and we're gonna have fun with the names. Okay? We'll see what happens.6:53 You know, we'll fail together. Amen. Alright. Then the allotment was made to the people of Manasseh for he was the first born of Joseph to Machir the first born of Manasseh, the father of Gilead were allotted Gilead and7:04 Bashan because he was a man of war. And the allotments were made to the rest of the people of Manasseh by their clans. Abiezer, Helek, Israel, Shechem, Hefer, okay,7:16 Shemida, okay, well we're gonna talk about Hefer a little bit, but dang, dang, someone mom and dad, please don't do that. Okay, moving on. Alright. These were the male descendants of Manasseh, the sons of Joseph by their7:26 clans. Now Zalephahad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Makir, the son of Mana I'm I'm killing it. Okay. Moving on. That's how I was in bed. Had had no sons. Somebody say no sons. No sons. But only7:38 daughters. Somebody say only daughters. And these are the names of his daughters. Mahlah, Noah, Hagla, Milkah, and Terzah. They approached Eliezer the priest and son of7:50 Nun, and the leaders, and said the Lord commanded Moses. Somebody say commanded. Commanded. The Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance along with our brothers. So according to the mouth of the Lord, he gave them8:02 an inheritance among the brothers of their father. Thus thus there fell to Manasseh 10 portions besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is on the other side of the8:13 Jordan. Because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance along with his sons. Somebody give me an amen. Amen. And the land of Gilead was allotted to the rest of the people8:26 of Manasseh. Stay standing with me. Lord, we pray that tonight you would speak to us. Lord, that that that only your words would go forth, that I would move out the way, and that you speak to us about unlocking our8:36 inheritance in Jesus name. And everybody said, amen and amen. Go ahead and grab your seats. You know, was thinking about inheritance unlocking, and I was thinking about almost in the sense of like access,8:48 you know. And my next year will be 20 years in full time ministry for me. I know I started when I was 5. Moving yeah, yeah, you can clap. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I started when was 17. I'll be9:00 37 next year. It'll be 20 years. And part of my ministry that I got the chance to do was I got to fly a lot and travel to different countries. And 1 thing that you do if you fly a lot and you travel, you sign up with a9:12 certain group because when you have access to their group and you hit different markers, you get an inheritance or you get access from them and some really incredible perks. So some9:23 places if you fly long enough, they'll upgrade you to first class. Somebody say, Jesus take the wheel. You know what I mean? Some places you get access through a group to a lounge. So I don't9:35 know if you've ever walked around in the airport and you see the lounge opens and all like, you know, like some some posh people all speaking in a British accent inside. You know what I mean? That's what that's what you9:45 get access. You get access to that. You get access to different seats and all these beautiful things. And I remember 1 time I was traveling with 1 of my buddies who was brand new to the travel game. But he was already9:56 traveling 5 or 6 years, but he never recorded his points. So even though he had access to these places, he never went into these places. He was sitting in the back by the bathroom10:08 next to 2 people in the middle seat, holding his breath saying, Lord Jesus, take the You know what I mean? And I told him, did you know you could sit up front? Did you know you had access to the free snacks in the in10:20 the lounges? There's even some that have showers and and you gotta get a massage. Did you know that he had no idea that he had access? For years he was flying something. He10:32 had no idea what he had an access or an inheritance to. Wow. And here's my challenge to us, myself included. How much of us in in our walk with the Lord do we walk with Jesus and we10:44 enter into the gate of salvation, but we never explore the kingdom of God. And we enter into this place and we say, thank you God, we're saved. We're we're we're we're saved from hell. Amen. But10:55 we put, we set up our tent right by the gate of salvation when God says, when he came he said the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Yeah, you could clap at11:07 church, go ahead, you could clap at church, that's alright. And here's what I wanna tell you is I wanna talk to you about what it means to truly walk out and live in your inheritance. I love this.11:19 It's it's on the screen right here. I love this because even their names preach a story. Okay? I wanna I wanna encourage you. Heifer, the grandfather, his name means pit hole and dug11:31 out. Zalephahad, his father, the the father of the daughters means shadow of fear. So the grandfather means living in a pit. The father's, Zelophehad, his name meant shadow of11:43 fear. But let's look at what the daughters names mean. The first daughter means weakness or sickness. But how many you guys know God's power is perfected in our weakness? Can I get an amen from 5 people? Yeah. Noah11:55 means movement and rest. Hagla means patriarch and persistence. Milkam means queen. And Terzah means delight and pleasure. Can I get an amen? Amen. From the pit to the shadow to weakness12:07 to royalty to delight, God redeems a legacy. Come on, I'm preaching to somebody. I need to use this. And I feel like what God wanted to do even tonight12:19 was for some of us that we've come from a legacy that our family's just known to be in the pits or or we just have such there's a shadow of my family who's following me around. And I believe that God wants to let you12:30 know in the same way he did for the daughters, he's gonna redeem your legacy. Come on. In the same way he did for the daughters, he's gonna do for your kids and your grandkids. Can I get an amen? And12:43 I love this. The first point I want you to write down is this. Point number 1 is this. Know your inheritance. Know your inheritance. Because the truth12:54 is if the daughters didn't know their inheritance, how could they fight for their inheritance? How could they go up to Joshua and Eleazar and say, you've gotta give us the land. This is I want you13:06 to understand this. This has never been happened before in the history of the world that daughters inherited property because the father had no sons. You imagine the conversation with13:18 the 5 daughters. You know they were even talking to some other daughters and they said, well it never happened for me, so it probably ain't gonna happen for you. And those 5 daughters did not let what everybody else said13:30 hold them back. They didn't care about their reputation. They said, the worst they could say is no, but the best they could do is change the law. That's good. And the daughters didn't listen to anyone else. Here's what I13:41 wanna encourage you to hear is that word inheritance in the original language, it's not on the screen, but I want you to listen. It means to receive a possession, to inherit a possession. Meaning more than land,13:53 it's about heritage, a lot of possession, perpetual gift of God. It carries both legal. Somebody say legal. Legal. It carries legal weight, which means land rights and covenantal weight, which is a God14:05 given destiny. The daughters knew that God had promised and refused to let it be forgotten. I wanna encourage you, you need to know your inheritance.14:17 But what's beautiful about this is it didn't start there. You you we saw in in in Joshua 17, we saw where the daughter said, just as God commanded Moses, will you give us14:29 our land? And they got their land. But here's what's beautiful. We have the recording of the story in the book of numbers. It'll be on the screen. Says in numbers 1, and we're gonna read this. You can stay seated because14:39 we got a few verses to read. I love it. But I want you to catch the heart of this moment. Then drew near the daughters of Zalephahad, the son of Hepher, son of Gilead, son of Makir, son of Manasseh. I got it down. From14:49 the clans of Manasseh, son of Joseph. The names of his daughters were Ma, Ma, you see, Ma, Noah, Hoglot, Milkah, and Terzah. And they stood before Moses and before Eleazar and the priests and before the chiefs15:01 and all the congregations at the entrance of the tent of meeting saying, pause. So here's what you gotta understand. Right before they're going into the promised land, right before Moses is getting ready to pass away,15:13 this is when the daughters initially come to Moses and the priest. Okay? If you're following me, I'm following you. I'm following you. Let's keep going. Our father died in the wilderness. Verse 3, this is the daughters.15:24 He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against the Lord in the company of Korah, but died for his own sin. And he had no sons. Why should the name of our father be taken15:36 away from his clan because he had no sons? Give to us a possession among our father's brothers. Moses brought this case before the Lord. Okay. I want15:48 you to we're gonna keep reading. But I want I want you to I want you to hear this moment real quick. Don't assume what God is saying. We need to bring things to the Lord. I'm I'm I'm a say it again. I'm a say it again.15:59 This has never happened in the history of Israel's nation, in the history of the world where a daughter has gotten an inheritance. They come with this outlandish thing. How about we get the inheritance? What16:11 Moses does is biblical. Somebody say biblical. Biblical. It's something that we can lean in on. Is that he does not commit the sin of presuming what God would do and what God would say.16:23 I'm preaching right now. Come on somebody. Listen to me. Sometimes what happens is when our traditions, when when when when when our our our cultures, when our things get challenged and we're like16:35 no no no. That that that's not the way we've ever done. That's not And and we heard even pastor Adam when he talked about all the different chairs and and the different And then removing of certain chairs to make more16:43 room. Sometimes when traditions are the way it is, it's easy for us to say no, no, no. We're not doing that. But what Moses did was when the daughters came before him, even though it's not it's16:55 never been happened in the history of of the world, in the history of Israel, Moses brought it to the Lord. Amen?17:02 Amen.17:02 And we must in the same way when things come to us that are challenging us, we must as well take it to the Lord. We must as well not assume, but bring it to God. Amen?17:14 Amen. Let's keep going. Verse 6. Moses brought the case before the Lord. And the Lord said to Moses, the daughters of Zaleph had a right. You shall give them a possession of an inheritance among their17:26 father's brothers and transfer the inheritance of their father to them. And you shall speak to the people of Israel saying if a man dies and has no sons, then you shall transfer his17:38 inheritance to his daughter. And if he has no daughters, then you shall give his inheritance to his brothers. And if he has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his father's brothers.17:50 And if his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to the nearest kinsmen of his clan, and he shall possess it. And it shall be for the people of Israel. The people of who? Israel. The people of18:02 who? Israel. Israel. A statue and a rule as the Lord commands Moses. I wanna encourage you with something else, and we're gonna get into a few more things. But I love it because the 5 daughters are from the tribe18:13 Manasseh. But when they came forward and all they were they weren't asking for an inheritance from other tribes. They were asking for their inheritance, which was theirs. But when they got it from not only just18:25 from Moses, but when God spoke to Moses, Moses said, this is from the Lord. What does Moses say? He says, change the laws for all of Israel. What what am I what am I saying right here? Listen.18:37 What you're fighting for for your family isn't just for your family. What you're fighting for for yourself isn't just for yourself. Come on. What you're believing for and what you're wanting to walk in isn't just for18:47 you. What if it could affect our whole church? What if it could affect our whole region? Come on. What if it could affect our whole nation? You never know. You never know.18:59 The daughters, their purpose wasn't that, But what they did was they said, give us our inheritance and it changed the law for a whole nation. Maybe your obedience could affect the whole nation. Come on. Maybe you're19:11 you're fighting for your inheritance could affect the whole nation. Can I get an amen? Amen. And here's the thing. I told you I was gonna do that. I almost knocked off my mic. Okay.19:23 I'm sweating more than I was after doing announcements and baby dedication and praying that my daughter doesn't run across the stage. She, you know, this Sunday and it will came over. Okay. Here's the thing is I want you19:33 to look at this. Okay. If we don't know our inheritance is this, there's a few things you can't fight for what you don't know belongs to you. If you don't know your inheritance, you19:45 can't fight for what you don't know belongs to you. Ignorance will rob you faster than the enemy will. Okay. That'll that that that's gonna come. Listen listen. In Hosea19:57 it says my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. Yes. Some of us are being robbed of our inheritance because we're ignorant20:08 of what God has spoken to us. And then here here's the truth. Is is the truth is if we knew what our inheritance was, the things that matter to us won't matter because we're focused20:20 and worried about our inheritance. Amen? Can I give you 2 more? Can I give you 2 more? Should we skip? I'm gonna give you 2 more. It's alright. The next 1 is this. If you don't know what's yours, you'll settle for20:31 leftovers. I told you I was gonna challenge some of us. Come on. Some of us, we we don't know what our inheritance is, and all we're doing is we're eating leftovers in every relationship. Maybe that's in20:42 our dating relationships. Uh-oh, don't look around. All we're left with is leftovers. All we're left with is that because we don't know we are a son or daughter of God.20:55 And we're left with leftovers. The daughters could have lived quiet passive lives. Instead, they knew what God said and stood on it. AKA they stood on business.21:07 It's for the young people or business. I love it because if we don't know our inheritance, we can't walk in it. But here's another thing that I want you to think about. Where can we get it wrong?21:19 Can I challenge you a few more times? We know the stats of our fantasy football team, but not the promises of God. Oh. Maybe that's just for me because I'm starting fantasy. Lord, please let me remember your promises.21:31 Amen. Okay. We know the latest update on our bank account, but not our eternal inheritance. Can I come for somebody today? Because I say, can I challenge you today? Is that okay? I challenge you a little bit. Let's do 221:42 more. 2 more. We care more about a promotion at work than our position in Christ. No 1 in this room, that's for everybody else, you know, that didn't come. Okay? This isn't for isn't for us, this is21:54 for the people outside. We stress over what people think of us more than what God has spoken over us. And the truth is when we know what our inheritance is, we don't care what anyone else22:05 would say. And I wanna challenge you with this. I want I want I you to ask you this question. Are you preparing for what you're praying for? I'm a say it again. For myself and the people in the22:17 back. Are you preparing for what you're praying for? Because a lot of times what happens is we're we're praying for it, we're believing it. But let let's say you know, it's a it's a maybe it has to do with the22:28 relationship. A single person, God please bring wifey. You know what I mean? But you're not you're not like cleaning up your act. You know what I mean? You never learned how to make the bed. How's wifey gonna come if you22:38 can't even make the bed? But you're praying for wifey. Can I get an amen? Amen. You're praying, God, give me a business. I wanna I wanna coach teams. But but but you're in negative in your bank account. You're not even22:48 honoring God with your account. And the truth is we might pray for it, but are we preparing for it? Right. And I wanna encourage you is that knowing your inheritance makes you focused on what you're23:00 supposed to be focused on. And the majors will be major and the minors will be minor. Amen? Amen. We need to know our inheritance. Not only do the daughters know their inheritance, the second point23:12 which we'll get to in a second. Let's read verse 4. It says, they approached. Everybody say approached. Approached. Say it like you mean it. Say approached. Approached. Eliezer the priest, and Joshua the23:24 son of Nun, and the leaders, and said, the Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance along with our brothers. So according to the mouth of the Lord, he gave them an inheritance among the among the23:36 brothers of their father. Point number 2, I want you to write down is fight for your inheritance. Fight is coming up right now on the count of 3. 1, 2, 3,23:48 Shekinah. Amen. Hallelujah. Look at that. Power of God. Point number 2 is fight for your inheritance. Somebody say fight Fight. For your inheritance. For your inheritance. I love this because23:59 that word approach in the original language, it actually means this. It actually means to draw near with boldness and often in a priestly worshiply language. And what I love about it is that it was24:11 5 sisters. It wasn't 1 sister trying to get the whole inheritance. It was 5. The biblical number 5 means grace. Everybody say grace. Grace. They did it together, arms in arm,24:23 walking together. Good saying, we might get rejected but we also might get an inheritance. They fought. They fought for their inheritance. And they didn't come in in a fearful way. They didn't come in like Moses, maybe24:35 I'm here. No, it said they approached and that word was was with boldness. They said that as often a priest or in worship, they said I know my inheritance even though they might not know it. I know my inheritance and I'm24:47 willing to fight for it and show up on this ground so that Moses and the priest will give me my inheritance. I love it because the daughters show us what it means. It means 5 means24:58 grace, empowerment, and favor. Amen? Yes. I love it because in fighting for your inheritance, I feel like the daughters had these 3 things that challenge us and invite us into it. They had25:10 clarity. Somebody say clarity. Clarity. They stood on God's word in Numbers, 6 and 7. We're not going there. But it actually says, God commanded. Moses sought the Lord and God commanded. We just read that verse. So they25:21 had clarity. Somebody say clarity. Clarity. The second thing was they had consistency. They waited and asked again years later, still believing. From Numbers 27 to Joshua 17. And this might25:33 be for someone here. I know it's all for for all of us, but this might specifically be for someone where you have known your inheritance and you have fought for your inheritance, but it's been a few years. Am I talking25:45 to anybody? Just me? Okay. Cool. And it says that it from Numbers 27 to Joshua 17, it's been 7 years. And it says for 7 years, not only did they contend for it for, but they believed in25:56 it. They were consistent and they were faithful. They waited and they asked again and again and believed that God spoke it and God would fulfill it in his timing. Amen? They fought for it.26:09 And the third 1 is they had confidence. They boldly approached and trusted God's justice to prevail. Amen? There's multiple ways that we could currently fight for26:20 it besides those 3 things. We could fight for our inheritance today in prayer. We could fight for it in purity. We could fight for it in perseverance. We could fight for it in priorities, and we could fight for it in26:31 people. And here's the thing that I feel when I was praying, today, because I had this all all mapped out. But this afternoon before going in, I felt the Lord impressed on my heart is that some of us have lost our fight.26:44 Mike Tyson has a famous line. He says, everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. And some of us have had a plan and life has punched you in the face. And it's bewildered you. It's shocked you. If26:56 you ever watch any of those heavyweight boxings, moments, whenever someone gets tagged, they're and they can't see and that's why they're dancing around because everything is distorted.27:08 Life has hit some of us in a way where it's distorted us. And we're not sure if we wanna get back in the ring and fight again. And here's what I wanna encourage you with. And and when when the Israelites were27:20 talking about walking to their promise and after they were freed from Egypt, after they were freed from from slavery, when they were in the wilderness, what they did was was they had a cloud by27:31 day. They had fire by night, which means a cloud by day. They weren't getting burnt. Right? It was nice and and shade. It felt good. Fire by night. They weren't too cold. It said they had manna coming down from the from27:43 the heavens. Even when they complained about it, they had quail that came. They were like, I don't want all this bread. Too much, you know, gluten, God. And and like, fine, here's some quail. Fine, you know. And and they27:53 had all this stuff. Their clothes never wore out. Right? Their their their their their never wore out. But on the verge when they crossed in come on, this is when they crossed into the promised land. The28:05 moment their feet moved from the Jordan and went to Gilgal in the promised land. It said that the fire left, the cloud left, the food stopped, the clothes started to wear out, and they had to start fighting.28:17 What am I saying? Is that for some of us, we need to realize the closer you're getting to your promised land, the more the fight intensifies. And you thought, no, no, no, I'm a stay back in the wilderness where there's28:29 fire and clouds and it's cozy and the glory cloud comes down and all this food is here. But the truth is God is moving you into the fight. And some of us, we've lost our fight. We've28:41 lost our ability to believe. We've lost our ability to take what is ours. And what God wants to encourage you to do is to fight again. To believe again.28:53 Because you're on the verge of your inheritance. Don't think, don't Let's not always blame the devil. Right? We always The devil. The devil. My car broke down, that devil. Right? You know, like29:05 she she flipped me off the devil. Know, but like we're always blaming the devil. Right? Maybe you're about to enter your promise land and the devil knows. So he wants to distract you. And29:17 so what God wants us to do is he wants us to learn to fight even after we're punched. Fight even when things don't go our way. Will you continue to fight just29:28 like the people of Israel? They continued to fight. Their promised land wasn't just given to them on a silver platter. They said, here's your promised land. You gotta29:40 fight. Amen? Can I I'm gonna give you 1 more point? Here it is. Joshua 17 verse 6. Not only do we know our inheritance, not only do we fight for our inheritance, but I love this.29:52 Because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance along with his sons. Third point I want you to write down as pastor Julio gets ready to play and it just feels like the Holy30:04 Ghost is back in the room. The third point I want you to write down is walk in your inheritance. Not only are we knowing our30:16 inheritance, not only are we fighting for our inheritance, but it says the daughters walked in their inheritance. I love this part right here. Because what did they do? They30:28 did 3 things. They broke norms. Their obedience shifted culture. It was the first time daughters received the land. They changed the rules. Their faith became a testimony for others to30:39 follow and they lived fulfilled. Inheritance isn't just received, it must be lived in. Amen? And here's what I wanna 1 more little challenge and then we're gonna30:51 go. We're we're gonna we're gonna land the plane. But I'm Puerto Rican, so my land in the there might be 7 landings. Okay? So like we'll see. Some of us I want you to hear this. This is a loving thing that that31:03 that I I'm taking as well. But some of us are complaining about what we once prayed for. Right. You prayed for years for kids, and now you're complaining about your31:15 kids. Right. You prayed for years about a house, Now you're complaining about the house. You prayed for years for a job, and now you can't stand your coworkers.31:27 When did the blessing become the burden? When when did that happen? When when when when and and that happens when we lose perspective.31:37 Yes.31:38 We we all do that. I challenge you because we all do that. We all sometimes move the blessing out and we put it as a burden. But we need to remember what God gave us is the blessing. And31:49 even though there's work involved and that's why I love this book because it talks about the inheritance. But as you read through Joshua, which I know you have, it talks about people that would still dwell there.32:02 And it says that they couldn't kick them out so they made them slaves. Can I encourage you with something? Do not make slaves in your life to to that the areas that you can't32:13 conquer. So if it's an area of purity and you're like, can't get it out of my life. I'm just gonna make it a slave in my life. It will come back. Right. It's gonna come back in your life and it's gonna conquer you. The32:24 truth is the Israelites did not send out the people in certain areas and it came back to bite them. So what I wanna encourage you is that in our inheritance is this, Is32:36 not only do I want you to know it, not only do I want you to fight for it, but I want you to walk in it. I have these keys up here. 1 of these keys are house keys,32:48 and 1 of these keys are car keys. Not my keys, but just as a metaphor. And, it's almost like I'm talking think about it like I'm talking to pastor pastor Kenny. Look at this house. I got this house, man. I33:00 got this house. I'm so excited. Pastor Kenny's like, amen. You know how he's amen. You know? And he's like super grateful. And then he's like, when can I come over? I'm like, I don't know. I haven't been in it. I've had33:11 these keys for 10 years, but I've never been in it. But I got the keys. Look, look, I got the keys. I've known it. I fought for it. I finally got the house. Same thing with the car. What if I'm like, look at this brand33:22 new car. I love it. I love it. But I never drove it off the lot. And the truth is for some of us, we've known our inheritance. Right? We fought for it and once we finally received it, but we33:33 haven't walked in it. And until I furnish the house and until I drive the car, what is an inheritance? And for some of us, just like I said from before, we've we've walked in salvation, but we've never33:45 walked around the kingdom and walked in our opportunity and walked in what God has for us. And so all we're doing is we're holding keys. We're just holding keys, but we're not33:57 operating in the gift that God has through our inheritance. It's the same way I have this last 1 up here. I have this diploma. Di diploma. Sorry. It's a doctorate for the studies in the book of34:09 Joshua. It's fake. Okay. But imagine I'm like, man, I went to school, 17 years, baby. I went to school. You're like, amen. And and and what if every year I came up to you? Look at my34:20 diploma. Look at it. Look at it. But I never built anything. If I was a lawyer and never built a law firm what would I be doing just holding this? If I was a doctor and I needed to work for a hospital but all I showed34:31 you was this but I never walked out in what I once fought for and believed for. And why I'm belaboring this point is because I think for some of us in this room, you've34:43 known it, you fought for it, you've even received it, but you haven't walked in it. And I believe tonight you're gonna walk in it. I believe God wants you to walk in your inheritance. I believe34:54 God wants you to drive that car. I believe God wants you to move into that house. And maybe it's because that shadow of fear like Heifer and Zelophehad. Right? There your family came from a pit and that shadow35:06 follows you around. So you don't wanna go into your inheritance because you believe you might repeat the same cycles as your generational line. But what God wants to let you know is35:18 that the the price he paid for on the cross is greater than any mistake your family can make. And it doesn't mean you got you don't have to deal with things. It doesn't mean you don't have35:30 to go to things like life classes and forward and do all these things. But what it does mean is that he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. And what35:42 I I hope to encourage all of us tonight is that we don't just have these keys and this diploma, but that we start to live life. And we start to walk in our inheritance. I'm I'm35:53 ending here. I promise you. I promise you. That was my second 1. So you know there's a few more. No. I'm just kidding. Okay. I just want you to look at this real briefly because not only are we talking about the36:03 daughter's inheritance, we're talking about ours. It says our inheritance in Christ. Without Christ, there's fear. In Christ, our inheritance is faith and power. Without Christ, there's36:14 condemnation. In Christ, there's justification. Without Christ, the wages of sin is death. With Christ, the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus, our Lord. Without Christ, there were slaves to36:26 sin. With Christ, we're walking in freedom for the for who the son sets free is free indeed. Next 1. Without Christ, we operate in a world of hate, and we operate in hate. In Christ, we are36:38 operating in the gift and the culture of love. Without Christ, we are orphaned. In Christ, we are adopted. Without Christ, we are perishing. And with Christ, we are imperishable and eternal. Can I get an amen?36:49 Amen. So I wanna encourage you on these 3 things. To unlock your inheritance. Do you know your inheritance? Will37:01 you fight for your inheritance? We'll do these questions and then we'll do this. Do you know your inheritance in Christ? Are you willing to fight for it under God's grace? And will you persist in it37:13 until you walk in it so others can follow? Amen? Amen. Here's what I wanna do. We're gonna get a moment every time we have a service. We give a moment for salvation for37:25 those who wanna give their life to the Lord for the first time or for the last time. The greatest inheritance you could ever receive is eternal life. Romans 6 23 says, the wages of sin is dead. The gift of God is eternal37:35 life in Christ Jesus our Lord. It says in Romans 10, it says, if we confess with our mouth and believe in our heart, we shall be saved. Amen? Before I I I go into that salvation moment, I wanna give a special just a37:47 brief moment of prayer for for a group of people. If if you heard this message and something stirred in you, and maybe you need to know your inheritance, or maybe you need to fight for it, or maybe you need to37:59 walk in it. Maybe it's 1 of them, 2 of them, or all 3 of them. If that's you, can I just ask you to stand right now? Just stand right now where you're at. I want you to stand and I wanna pray for you. Yeah. Yeah. Amen.Show more
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