2020 was the most unusual year of my life – do you think God is trying to speak to us and get our attention?
I suggest that God is calling through all of the events of the last year for a generation that will enter the Promised Land!
The earth is going through birth pains right now and there is an opportunity to enter into the Promised Land if we will be a generation of faith!
The enemy wants to rob us of hope and vision to keep us from entering into our God ordained destiny.
It is impossible to enter if you cannot see what God is doing – Theology and History
God had a destiny for the Israelites when He brought them out of Egypt it was the destination of the Promised Land.
For us, that destiny is tied to America.
America and the Promised Land
From the first pilgrims to puritans were pursuing the dream of the Promised Land, of a city whose builder and founder is God!
Hebrews 11:8–10 (NKJV) — 8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to the place which he would receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. 9 By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; 10 for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
The American dream of the city of God has been a battle of vision from the beginning.
5 grains of corn
King Phillip’s war
Troubles often got America back on track.
Many Christians like to proclaim that we are citizens of Christ’s Kingdom and therefore nations do not matter, but this is simply a lack of understanding of God’s design in creation and biblical law.
Civil government was instituted by God after the flood
4 types of government ordained by God: Self, Family, Church, Civil
All are covenant relationship with God and established by God
To love and be covenantally committed with regard to self, family church and state
God started the birth of the nation through the Tyrant King George III, prepared for it through a great awakening and birthed us through a war for independence
If we are awake in the Spirit, we can see that God that we are living in a time where a birth can happen or be aborted.
The Promised Land
God intended His culture and government to replace the fallen government and culture of Canaan
God gave them the land, but they had to go in to possess it.
Joshua and Caleb vs. the rest of the Israelites
The GOSPEL and the conquest of the Promised Land.
Judges and the conquest of the Promised Land
Judges 1:1–2 (NKJV) — 1 Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass that the children of Israel asked the Lord, saying, “Who shall be first to go up for us against the Canaanites to fight against them?” 2 And the Lord said, “Judah shall go up. Indeed I have delivered the land into his hand.”
Judges 1:4–7 (NKJV) — 4 Then Judah went up, and the Lord delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand; and they killed ten thousand men at Bezek. 5 And they found Adoni-Bezek in Bezek, and fought against him; and they defeated the Canaanites and the Perizzites. 6 Then Adoni-Bezek fled, and they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and big toes. 7 And Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to gather scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has repaid me.” Then they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died. (Total and Complete Victory)
Judges 1:8 (NKJV) — 8 Now the children of Judah fought against Jerusalem and took it; they struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire.
Judges 1:10–11 (NKJV) — 10 Then Judah went against the Canaanites who dwelt in Hebron. (Now the name of Hebron was formerly Kirjath Arba.) And they killed Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai. 11 From there they went against the inhabitants of Debir. (The name of Debir was formerly Kirjath Sepher.)
Judges 1:12–15 (NKJV) — 12 Then Caleb said, “Whoever attacks Kirjath Sepher and takes it, to him I will give my daughter Achsah as wife.” 13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, took it; so he gave him his daughter Achsah as wife. 14 Now it happened, when she came to him, that she urged him to ask her father for a field. And she dismounted from her donkey, and Caleb said to her, “What do you wish?” 15 So she said to him, “Give me a blessing; since you have given me land in the South, give me also springs of water.” And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the lower springs.
Judges 1:19 (NKJV) — 19 So the Lord was with Judah. And they drove out the mountaineers, but they could not drive out the inhabitants of the lowland, because they had chariots of iron.
Not Drive Out – Dwell Among – Driven Out By
Judges 2:1–3 (NKJV) — 1 Then the Angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said: “I led you up from Egypt and brought you to the land of which I swore to your fathers; and I said, ‘I will never break My covenant with you. 2 And you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall tear down their altars.’ But you have not obeyed My voice. Why have you done this? 3 Therefore I also said, ‘I will not drive them out before you; but they shall be thorns in your side, and their gods shall be a snare to you.’”
Thus, the book of Judges explores the reality of sin in two of its aspects (not two sins, but two aspects of sin itself). First, making covenant with the Canaanites is associated with spiritual adultery. The image is that of the Canaanites being in their sides. This is in the kingly area, where Adam needs a helper meet for him, but the Canaanites are no proper helpmeets for these new Adams in their new garden. Second, not removing the altars is associated with idolatry. The image is that of the Canaanites being a snare. This is in the priestly area, where Adam needs to reject the serpent who attacks his foot. The Canaanites are like a serpent in the path.
The City of God vs. the City of Man
The Great Commission and the Conquest of the Promised Land
Daring to believe, hope and expect God to give us the land.
Seeking God for opportunities
Embracing the Kingdom in the 4 governmental areas
Self-government – the King’s Way
Seeking God for personal growth
Humility, Love, Boldness, Wisdom, Clarity of Vision
Standing in Christian Liberty
Trusting God
Being thankful to God
Believing in the sacrifice of Christ
Total life transformation – recalibration
Who do you believe God is calling you to be – enter your promised land
Family Government
Church
The power of God
The Holy Spirit
Civil
We dream and we build
God has given the dream
The blood of Christ has given us the promised land.
Taking the Promised Land
Will We Be the Believing or Unbelieving Generation?
The ancient Roman Empire and the birth of the church
Galatians 3:5 (NKJV) — 5 Therefore He who supplies the Spirit to you and works miracles among you, does He do it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
