Study Notes

FOUNDATION STATEMENT: We have to develop a redeemed mindset, a total victory mindset.  We’ve have to think blessed not cursed.  – Galatians 3:13

 

I.      The children of Israel (Deuteronomy 7:8, 9:26)

A.    God delivered from over 400 years of bondage

1.     That’s all they had ever known

2.     They saw evil thing after evil thing happen to the Egyptians and when the left they left with their stuff

3.     They thought, talked, and acted like that never happened

a.    Red sea unbelief-Exodus 14:11-12; No water unbelief-Exodus 15:24; No food unbelief-Exodus 16:24; No water unbelief-Exodus 17:3; Numbers 14:1-Giant unbelief;

B.     The children of Israel had been redeemed from the bondage of Egypt, but because they didn’t think redeemed and talk redeemed they were a redeemed people living in bondage

1.     They were people who had been freed, but were still living in bondage

2.     The cell door was unlocked and opened, but in they stayed in the cell

3.     They’re out, but they’re talking, thinking, and acting like they’re in

C.    They didn’t walk in the fullness of that redemption because of their talking, thinking, failure to resist, and opening the door to the things that they were redeemed from

II.     The words of our mouth

A.    Let the redeemed of the Lord says so (Psalm 107:2)

1.     Don’t ever talk the curse

2.     You’re not going to be out, you’re out now – Galatians 3:13-Christ hath redeemed us

a.    Don’t talk like you’re still under the curse---Get the future tense out of your vocabulary

3.     Joel 3:10 – Let the weak say I’m strong

a.    Let the sick say I’m healed; Let the poor say I am rich; Let the defeated say I’m victorious

b.    Talk like the redemption is complete, true, and so (Romans 4:17)

B.     Even though you are redeemed your mouth can cost you walking in the redemption that Jesus provided

1.     The Children of Israel (Numbers 13-14)

a.    It was God’s will for them to go in to the promise land and that land was rightfully theirs (Exodus 33:1-3, Numbers 13:2)

1)       God said I’ll send an angel in the midst of you and drive the people out the promise land and I give that land to the children of Israel – This is God’s will

b.    They said they couldn’t go into the land (Numbers 13:26-29, 31-14:4)

c.     Joshua and Caleb said they could go in (Numbers 13:30-31, 14:7-9)

d.    They didn’t get what God said, they got what they said (Numbers 14:28-34)

1)       Redemption can be God’s promise, plan, and will for your life and at the same time the words of your mouth can keep that redemption from coming to pass

2.     Zacharias (Luke 1:7-20, 28-38,45)

a.    Zacharias’ question was full of unbelief

1)       He was a Jewish priests and he had probably been hearing about Abraham and Sarah and their story his whole life

2)       God shut his mouth to keep him from stopping His plan from coming to pass

b.    Mary said be it unto me according to your Word

1)       There was a performance of the things told to her

C.    The level of the redemption that you walk in will be effected by the Words of your mouth

1.     You are redeemed from sickness, lack, debt, defeat, fear, depression, discouragement and every other part of the curse.  That’s God’s plan and will for your life.  However, the words of your mouth will greatly effect that level of redemption that you walk in and see manifest in your life. 

2.     The Power of your words

a.    Proverbs 18:21 – Every word you speak counts

b.    Mark 11:23 – You get what you say, not what God says

c.     James 3:1-5 – Wherever YOUR words go your life goes; not God’s words

3.     A person can be saved and totally redeemed from the curse, but still talk cursed and unredeemed and he will not have what Jesus did for him and God said about him, he’ll have what he says

a.    Too often we speak to transmit information when we should be speaking to transmit and release faith

III.   Limited-Cursed thinking (A non-prosperous soul)

A.    They limited God with their limited thinking (Psalm 78:1-54)

1.     1-Their problem started here because they didn’t spend time with God’s words to get His thoughts

a.    8,10,37-They weren’t steadfast in his covenant

2.     9-They turned back in the day of battle because of their small thinking

3.     12-16,23-29-These weren’t people who hadn’t seen the power of God work

4.     19-20-They spoke against God and his words and revealed their limited thinking

a.    Yeah we know God did that, but can he do this

5.     22,32--No faith

6.     35-They remembered not that God was their redeemer

7.     36-They flattered God with their mouths – Oh yes all things are possible with God

a.    Part of the problem in this area is self-deception

8.     41-42-They limited God with their limited thinking (that’s why they turned back-small thinking)

a.    You can limit God in the redemption you walk in with small thinking

9.     42-54-They forgot the God they served 

B.     We have to commit to engage in the process to change our way of thinking to match his (Isaiah 55:8-11)

1.     We’ve just been hearing about how God thinks, but failing to engage the process necessary to change our way of thinking to match His

a.    Numbers 11:24 – Is God’s hand waxed short

b.    Genesis 18:14 – Is there anything to hard for God

c.     Isaiah 50:2 – Is God’s hand shortened that it cannot redeem?

2.     God works with big thinkers when people thought big the power of God worked big

a.    Abraham, David, Moses, Three Hebrews, Daniel, Jesus

C.    The level of redemption that you walk in will be effected by the level thinking

1.     Proverbs 23:7 – As a man thinks in his heart so is he

a.    It doesn’t say as God thinks about a man so is he or as God has redeemed a man so is he

b.    A man can be completely redeemed from the curse and still think cursed and unredeemed and as he thinks so is he

1)       EX: Your redeemed from a life of borrowing, but do you think like that

c.     The more your thinking changes to line up with your redemption the great level of redemption you’ll see in your life

1)       The more redeemed you think, the more redemption you’ll see manifest

2.     3 John 2 – You’re not going to prosper and be in health as God as said or as you are redeemed

a.    You’re going to prosper, be health and walk in your redemption even as your soul prospers

b.    A man can be completely redeemed from the curse, but a non-prosperous soul will keep him in bondage to it

3.     Numbers 13-14 – Their limited thinking kept them out of the promised land

a.    What has your limited thinking kept you out of?                                

IV.   A failure to resist

A.    James 4:7

1.     This does not the say the devil will flee from you because you’re redeemed

a.    It says he’ll flee from you because you the redeemed resist him

b.    A person can be completely redeemed from the curse and not resist it through their failure to resist it, they’ll live in bondage to it

2.     What you don’t resist will not flee; what you are not resisting you will not see fleeing

a.    What you tolerate will linger

b.    When you begin resisting the enemy begins fleeing

c.     Ephesians 4:27-One way people give place to the devil is they don’t resist him

3.     Resist – To stand against or oppose something; demonstrate the attitude of one who is fiercely opposed to something and therefore determines that he will do everything in his power to defy it’s operation

B.     Romans 12:9-You’ve got to hate the curse

1.     Abhor – Two Greek Words 1) Away, 2) An intense dislike, an aversion, or a repugnance to something --- Those two words mean – A person who hates something so extremely that he literally backs away from it in disgust

a.    Evil – Anything that is full of destruction, disaster, harm, or danger

b.    Believers have wanted to hate the sin, but some how be okay with the evil that comes from the sin

2.     In our carnality we’ve learned to tolerate and live with the curse

a.    Living under the curse is unacceptable and we resist it

b.    The curse in your life is not just effecting you, but effecting those who you are called to reach

3.     You got to develop an absolute holy hatred for the curse (Hebrews 1:9)

a.    Hate (NT-Miseo) – Hatred that can turn violent, a radical, violent, aversion to something, repugnant, disgusting, revolting, repulsive, and nauseating, to hate, to abhor, to find utterly repulsive, it describes a person who has a deep seated animosity, who is antagonistic to something he finds, to be completely objectionable, he loathes the object and rejects it entirely

C.    You can’t just resist; you have resist steadfast in faith (1 Peter 5:9)

1.     How are you resisting? Have you taken a stance of faith against it?

2.     Abraham was strong in faith; weak faith won’t get it

3.     Weak spirits and weak faith as a result of lack of time in the word has led to us not resisting (Romans 10:17, 1 Timothy 4:6)

a.    As a result we haven’t been firm and immovable long enough to see that curse and enemy flee

D.    The level of resistance you have towards the curse will determine the level of redemption that you walk in your life

1.     You can be totally redeemed from the curse, but if you don’t resist it, it will continue to work and manifest in your life

V.    Opening the door to the curse in our lives

A.    The curse doesn’t just show up (Proverbs 26:2)

1.     Causeless – Devoid of reason, without cause, for nothing, undeservedly

a.    Deuteronomy 28:15 – The curse came through disobedience

2.     In the word there will be tribulation (John 16:33)

a.    Tribulation – Pressure, distress, affliction, challenges

b.    There’s a difference in tribulation and living under the bondage of the curse

B.     Satan needs permission to work in your life (1 Peter 5:8)

1.     I don’t permit him to devour me

2.     If he could just devour anybody he wouldn’t be seeking whom he may devour

C.    Fear opens the door to the curse

1.     Isaiah 54:14 – Fear is the connector to the oppression

2.     Job 3:25 – The thing Job feared the most came upon him

3.     Matt 14 – Peter didn’t fall until he opened the door through fear

4.     Luke 8:49-50, Ephesians 4:27-Jesus was telling Jairus to close the door

5.     1 John 4:18, 5:18-If you’re out of love you’re into fear and available

D.    The level of redemption you walk in will be directly related to your availability to the curse

1.     You can be totally redeemed from the curse, but that curse is still in the Earth and available for those who are going to walk into it

2.     You can be redeemed from it, but walk right back into it

VI.   How to live free from the curse (Psalm 91)

A.    He’s talking redeemed (Psalm 91:2-3)

B.     He’s thinking redeemed (Psalm 91:7-8)

C.    He’s resisting (Psalm 91:2,4,10)

D.    He’s not opening the door to the curse (Psalm 91:5,14)