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"Shechem ... A study of Faith"
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Speaker 1: 0:49

In the name of. Jesus In the name of Jesus. Well, praise the Lord everybody, and welcome to Apostolic Mentoring. I greet you in the mighty name of Jesus from the state of Michigan. We are so excited about what God is doing through Apostolic Mentoring all around the world.

Speaker 1: 1:56

I'm so excited to bring to you a cool announcement. You guys know that Apostolic Mentoring is making a massive global impact. We have a multilingual weekly Apostolic Mentoring session. As a matter of fact, today our primary language on the Zoom channel and the Facebook live and YouTube live is Spanish, with our precious sister Albrecht. But in the background, on four other channels, we have four other languages of Apostolic Mentoring available. On Zoom we have Pastor Akka in Geneva, switzerland, translating to German. We have Sister Constance from Geneva, switzerland, translating to French. We have Pastor Borges all the way from Brazil, translating to Portuguese. And we have my dear friend Brother Yaqub that is translating to Arabic. I'm excited to let you know.

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Just to give you a statistical idea of how great of an impact that Apostolic Mentoring is making globally, I'm notified this week that our podcast is in the top 2.5% of all podcasts globally. I didn't even know that. I didn't know until I got the email from the podcast monitors. I received an email from the podcast stars of the government. I don't know who they are. God has blessed Apostolic Mentoring to be in the top 2.5% of podcasts globally.

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If you're not connected with the podcast, I want to encourage everybody to go on your favorite podcast platform and search for Apostolic Mentoring and subscribe. You can go on to the Apostolic Mentoring Podcast platform. You can see that all of our podcasts are listed by language, so you can find the language that you're looking for. If you need Apostolic Mentoring in Spanish, it's there. If you need it in French, it is on the Apostolic Mentoring Podcast platform.

Speaker 1: 6:47

God is getting ready and already doing great things all around the world. If you didn't know the mission of Apostolic Mentoring, let me tell you today. Our mission is equipping millions to reach billions, and God is helping us to do that every single Monday at 1pm Eastern time. We are so excited to have a great guest with us today and, of course, you guys know how much Sister Robinette and I love the Jackson family in Arlington, tennessee. These are some of the most genuine good apostolic people in the world and they have been dear friends of ours for a very long time. Well, dr Jackson was a dear friend of ours for a very long time.

Speaker 1: 8:26

And then he finally married the most amazing lady and now they're better friends. Our friendship was limited until he got this great lady, but Sister Jackson is with us today. As I told you last week, she's the better Jackson. We had Dr Jackson with us again last week talking about the Fife-Oed Ministry, and now this week we get the better Jackson. And she has also written a book and the book is called Shechem. It's called Shechem.

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Now you're doing great.

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Sister Aldred, don't worry, I'm going to put this book in the chat right now. My wife loves this book. My wife made this the very first book that she was going to use for her devotion this year. This link is to the book that she wrote.

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It's on Amazon for $15.

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And here's what we're going to do for all of our guests today, the first 10 people to share apostolic mentoring today and send me a message that you shared it immediately.

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We're going to give you a free copy of this book.

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You got to share it and then you got to message me so that I can see what order these things got shared and I will get this book out to you quickly. But no matter what, even if you get a free copy of this book, you need to go to Amazon and buy this book right now. These are some of God's great apostolic warriors, and I would like to also ask everybody on apostolic mentoring to copy this link to Sister Jackson's book and share it on your social media page.

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And I would like to ask you to copy this link and share it with your friends on Sister Jackson's book. And you know how much I love the partnership of faith.

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So let's share everything that God has put into Sister Jackson's heart to do, and let's make this available to everybody that we are connected with personally. Sister Jackson, we love you, we thank God for your ministry and your voice in this generation, and we want you just to take your liberty and speak whatever the Lord tells you to speak.

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Thank you so much for the Robinette. We appreciate your family and I'm so excited to be with you all today. Now I am a teacher by nature, so this may be a little bit different format, so I just want to share with you today what the Lord has given me. So I have been raised in the apostolic faith all of my life.

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I'm a fifth generation apostolic, raised in a pastor's home, and I had been through situations in my life where I've had to trust the Lord, so I thought that I knew what it meant to fully rely on him. Then I became a mom. My husband and I have twin boys, and our younger twin was diagnosed with autism and developmental delay, and so that diagnosis and the challenges that came with it caused me to rely on the Lord in a new way, and I had to trust him in a way that I had never had to do before. It also caused me to reexamine what the Bible actually says about faith and trust and what it means to be in covenant with the Lord. So the Lord directed me through my study of scripture to a place called Shechem.

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And as I studied the encounters that took place in Shechem, I gained a deeper understanding of this covenant. The Lord showed me the true blessing of this covenant and how that is ultimately our security in life. So today I just want to give you an overview of what I learned in Shechem. I'm going to share the encounters and scripture that took place and what that means for us as covenant keepers. So the first mention of Shechem is in Genesis, when Abraham builds an altar. This altar was built in response to the revelation of the one true God. When God extended the invitation to follow me, abraham's response was an altar and alters were built as a means of worship, but it was also a place of sacrifice and death. An animal had to die in order to complete the sacrifice.

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So to truly worship God, we must die to ourselves and we fully submit every part of our lives to God. So in Shechem, Abraham committed to following the Lord in obedience and faith. So after he built the altar, the Lord initiated his covenant with Abraham. Raymond Woodward teaches that the covenant is comprised of three parts the promise, the blood and the seal. So we can see that in this covenant that God initiated with Abraham, he promises Abraham land, children and blessing. He then tells Abraham to cut certain animals in half and God passed between the pieces of the animals, which was the second part, the blood. And finally, the Lord required Abraham and all the males in his house to be circumcised. This was the outward, physical sign of the spiritual covenant and it served as the seal of the covenant.

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So in Shechem we find Abraham entering the covenant through obedience and faith. Years later, his grandson, jacob, would also build an altar there. Now, jacob, he gets a lot of criticism because of his earlier life choices. When we're first introduced to him, he is conniving and scheming to get the blessing and birthright, and if we examine his conversations with God, we see negotiation. So Jacob brings his own. If you will do this for me, then you will be my God. And it seems as if Jacob trusts circumstances more than he trusts God's sovereignty. He wants to control as much of life circumstances as he can. All throughout his life. He reacts in fear to circumstances beyond his control. Fear is always the motivating factor behind many of his choices, and it's also interesting that whenever he refers to God, he never calls him my God.

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He says the God of my fathers, or the God of Abraham and Isaac, but never does he say, my God until after.

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He spends the night wrestling with an angel or with God, and I think what he was wrestling with that night was submitting his desire for control to God's sovereignty. I think that he was questioning can I trust this covenant promise from God when it is literally all that I have? So after that wrestling matches over and his name has now been changed to Israel, he goes to Shechem, and it's in Shechem where he builds an altar, and he names this altar the God of Israel, and this is the first time in scripture that he actually identifies himself as belonging to God. He's not just my daddy's God, but now he is my God. Jacob also purges his family from idolatry. Here. He buried all the false gods his family brought with him, underneath the tree in Shechem.

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So continuing on in our story years later.

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Jacob buys property in Shechem and uses it for his sheep.

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He sends his son Joseph to check on his brothers and you know the story.

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Joseph ends up in Egypt, where he experiences much suffering. But even though Joseph had much suffering in his life, he still expressed hope. Abraham is a testament to faith, but as Abraham is to faith, joseph is to hope. The Bible says that tribulation works with patience and patience, experience and experience hope. This passage perfectly sums up Joseph's lie.

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He experienced family trauma, hurt, abandonment, unjust accusations but in each circumstance he patiently remained faithful to God and over the course of his life he was able to see.

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Those experiences revealed God's faithfulness.

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And that is what gave him hope.

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Now, hope is not a wish for good things to happen or for a specific outcome, but it has its foundation in who we trust in, not in what we wish for Our God, who is always faithful. Now it's common in religious circles to use Joseph's promotion as a promise for someone who is going through a trial to just hang on because God is getting ready to elevate them to the palace. Now that may explore a stirring sermon, but it may be false hope Because if we look at this story we see the purpose was not for personal gain or glory. It was not validation or vindication. Joseph himself recognized that the purpose was to save much people alive, including his own family and the lineage of Jesus Christ. Our hope is not in one day the whole world knowing our story, but it's knowing that God is using our story to accomplish his. The purpose of the journey from the pit to the palace, mountain to valley is to bring glory to God.

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And it's to bring his kingdom to earth. Others who were around Joseph experienced the blessings of God because of his faithfulness. When we are in covenant with God, he will use our life for the same purpose, and it was this hope that, I think, made Joseph tell his descendants to carry his bones to the Promised Land.

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And it was in this hope that Joseph tells his family to carry his bones back.

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Hundreds of years later, Joshua, one of his grandsons down the line, buried his bones in the land of Shechem.

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And many years later, Joshua brought the bones of Joseph and buried them in the city of Shechem.

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The last place that Joseph traveled to as a free man became his final resting place, and it is the first place that his earthly body will be resurrected. So next up is Joshua. Joshua not only buried the bones of Joseph and Shechem, but he built a memorial to the Lord there too. Once the Israelites entered the Promised Land, joshua brought them all together at Shechem. He read their entire history to them, including all 613 laws. He divided the Israelites into two groups. One group shouted blessings that would come if they obeyed the law, and the second group shouted cursings that would come upon them if they did not obey the law. Then he later gives his famous charge to choose who they would serve, and Shechem is where he declares that, as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. After the Israelites pledge and promise to serve the Lord, Joshua builds them a memorial as a reminder of their covenant.

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After the Israelites declare that they will serve the Lord, Joshua builds a memorial as a reminder of their covenant.

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So, after the Israelites conquered the land and the promised land was divided among the twelve tribes the city of Shechem was designated as a city of refuge. Shechem was to be a place of mercy where the guilty could go to find asylum. The Bible instructed the Israelites to build roads so they would have access to mercy.

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The Bible declared that they would like to build roads to reach the city where they were known as the Mercy.

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And Jewish law also demanded that they continually keep the roads clear of any obstruction.

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The Law of Judges also declared that the road was outside of any obstruction.

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The Lord was serious about making sure his people had access to mercy. So in my research I found that the Coethites lived in Shechem. Now, they were the branch of the Levites who were in charge of ministering the mercy in the sanctuary city. Now, not only that, but they were also in charge of caring for the holy things in the tabernacle.

Speaker 3: 38:05

This included the Ark of the Covenant, which had the Mercy seat as well. So the Coethites were involved in ministers of mercy in the city and also in the Tabernacle. Now, in order for the priest to get into the Mercy seat to obtain mercy, he had to go through a holiness process.

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Now, in order for the priest to get into the Mercy seat to obtain mercy, he had to go through a holiness process.

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And we know that, just as the priest had to go through that process, we also have to pursue holiness, for we won't see God without it.

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So holiness is the process that helps us keep our hearts clear from anything that would prevent access to mercy.

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The holiness is a process that keeps our hearts clear from anything that would prevent access to mercy.

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Pride, fear, shame, sin these can all keep us from accepting the mercy, and it can keep us from extending mercy to those who need it. Holiness is required. For the same reason, keeping the roads to Shechem in passable condition were required. The road to mercy is a two-way street. We need to keep it clear for us, but also for others. In both Shechem and the Tabernacle, it was the co-athites who prepared the way to mercy. In the Tabernacle, the guilty could find forgiveness of sins but not remission. In Shechem, the guilty could find asylum but not freedom. They could find safety but not freedom. Only at the death of the High Priest could the guilty go back to his home. Through Jesus Christ, who is our High Priest, we find forgiveness of sin.

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We escape the penalty of sin we find freedom with the infilling of his spirit and we become a new creation. Holiness is a reflection of that new birth experience. It involves our speech, appearance and conduct. It is not to show off our own righteousness, but it's an invitation for others to meet his righteousness. Our lives should point the way to the city of refuge. Holiness is a daily process that happens when we daily wash ourselves in the Word and let it transform our lives. So the next encounter in Shechem involves Rehoboam.

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After King Solomon died, his son, rehoboam, gathered people in Shechem, but he did not pledge to obey the covenant like Joshua did. Instead, he vows to deal harshly with the people. So the people revolted and Israel was split into two kingdoms, the north and the south. So Rehoboam was king of the southern kingdom and Rehoboam became king of the northern kingdom, which included the city of Shechem. Now Rehoboam chose to live in Shechem and make it his capital city.

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But there was one small problem, or a big problem Jerusalem was in the southern kingdom and that's where everyone traveled to worship at the temple. Rehoboam was fearful of losing his power possibly his life did not want his people to travel to Jerusalem to worship, so he built his own altar in Bethel. This would allow the people to worship a god without crossing the border into the southern kingdom. He created a false god, a false narrative, and ignored God's laws and instructions for worship. He anointed priests who were not Levites and made up his own festivals, and so the people began to worship at this altar in Bethel, and the end of his life is actually very tragic. What he had hoped to avoid ultimately faced him in the end. He went into battle with the southern kingdom and although he had twice the resources, the Bible tells us that he lost the battle, never recovered and he died.

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Rehoboam's downfall was that he did not trust the covenant or the god of the covenant. He failed to see the purpose of God's command, so he neglected to follow them. But once he removed the requirements of the law and reintroduced idolatry to the Israelites, the nation became unrecognizable as the holy people dedicated to God. As Rehoboam demonstrated, once we start removing principles from the Bible because they're inconvenient, we become our own God, and the problem with that is there are some battles that can only be won through the supernatural work of the spirit, and if we are on the throne rather than God, then we're cutting ourselves off from the flow of the supernatural. He is Jehovah and he makes provision for those who acknowledge him as Lord.

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And the final mention of Shechem that I want to talk about today is in the New Testament. This is at the location of Jacob's well where the Samaritan woman has come to draw water. Jesus appears to her there as God manifest in the flesh. And it is here in Shechem where Jesus declares to this woman and to humanity for the first time that he is the Messiah. Just as the woman was coming to draw water, jesus was drawing not only her, but an entire people group to him.

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And Jesus wanted them to have the opportunity to be reconciled to him just as the Jews were. And Jesus wanted them to have the opportunity to be reconciled to him just as the Jews were.

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So the reason he spent two days in Samaria talking about water and a new way to worship was because he was planting a seed about the Holy Ghost.

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Just as the Lord spent two days there with the Samaritan talking about this water, planting a seed with them, just as the Jews the Holy Ghost that would be poured out after his death and his resurrection.

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On the day of Pentecost, only the Jews were present for that initial outpouring of the Holy Ghost. The Samaritans worshipped elsewhere, so they were not in Jerusalem when the Holy Ghost fell After the day of Pentecost. When Philip travels to Samaria and preaches Christ to them, they respond by being baptized in Jesus' name and receiving the Holy Ghost. This is the water that they would drink and never thirst again. This was a new way to worship. I'm going to share my screen just a second, if I can. Is that working? Can you see the screen?

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No.

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Okay, maybe I did it wrong.

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Sister Jackson, I just made you a co-host, so you should be able to share your screen now.

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Okay.

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Now is that working Okay.

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So perhaps it is coincidental that the first place Jesus chose to identify himself was in Shechem.

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Possibly it was a coincidence where the Lord Jesus decided to rebel in the same way in Shechem.

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The home of Abraham's altar and Israel's altar.

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It was the house of the house of the altar of Abraham.

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The location of Joseph's bones and Joshua's memorial stone. Hundreds of years after Abraham stepped foot into the Promised Land, Jesus arrives on the scene. But Jesus was not the last in a long line of biblical patriarchs to hollow the grounds of the Shechem. Jesus said in John chapter 8, before Abraham was, I am. Jesus wasn't the last, but he was actually the first. The God first initiated the covenant with. Abraham has appeared in the flesh as Christ, the fulfillment of that covenant. As Jesus Christ, he represented all three components of the covenant.

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As God he spoke the promises.

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As Jesus Christ, he shed his blood for our sins. As Jesus Christ, he became the seal of his own covenant, when we are filled with his spirit. So this covenant that began in Shechem has now come full circle. Remember God's covenant promised to Abraham that all people on earth would be blessed through him. This is what God was referring to the blessing of the Holy Spirit. It was not just for the Jews only. Paul stated in Galatians, chapter 3, verse 8, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith. Preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand saying in you shall all nations be blessed.

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God's plan was not just to bless Abraham with physical blessings, but his goal all along has been to reconcile humanity to a relationship with him. Jesus Christ opened the way for everyone, regardless of ethnicity, gender or status, to enter into this covenant with him. No one is excluded from this covenant. So what does this mean for us who are covenant keepers? The Bible tells us in 2 Corinthians that he is given to us the ministry of reconciliation. Jesus isn't sitting on a well and check him today. Instead, he has tasked us with the ministry of reconciliation. We are to be his ambassadors. We are to partner with him to bring his kingdom to earth.

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Every person represents a soul that Jesus died to say so they deserve a chance to hear the truth. Since he has given us the word of reconciliation, we should speak the truth in love and humility. We should be willing to extend the love of Jesus and the peace of his care to those who are searching for what this covenant provides. So, whether we find ourselves in a pit or a palace, a mountain or a valley, our lives should point people to the city of refuge. We should bring his presence into every situation that we encounter. Thank you so much for being on today and listening to my journey through Shechem, I'm just going to pray a prayer for each of us that the Lord would help us to be his ambassadors. Let's pray together.

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As every person on the Zoom call today, I pray we'll be intentional about being your ambassadors on earth.

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I pray that we would be sensitive to the leading of your spirit. Lead us to those who are searching for what this covenant provides, or give us the boldness and the confidence to speak the truth in love, the word of reconciliation.

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Lord, give us that new word that we need to speak. Lord, your word of reconciliation and your convenience, lord.

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Use each of us, god, to bring your kingdom to earth, and may we bring your presence into each of our situations.

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Help each of us to be witnesses of your power, and may we bring to each of us your kingdom.

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Thank you, jesus. I'm going to turn it over to the Robinette.

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We give it to brother Robinette.

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Praise the Lord everybody.

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Glory to God, all brothers.

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Oh, my goodness, what a spirit of revelation that is on this call today. I was thinking as sister Jackson was praying over us. A scripture jumped in my mind.

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In the first John, chapter three, the Bible says that behold, we are the sons of God. In the first scripture of John, 3, it says now we are sons of God.

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The Bible says that, behold, we have become partakers of the divine nature. We have this the ministry of the king is now our ministry. This is what Mark chapter 16 is all about. Jesus is not sitting on a rail in Shechem anymore, but by spiritual birth, he resides inside of us. And in that spiritual birth, in that infilling of the Holy Ghost comes, not just power but comes ability and permission to be the extension of the ministry of Christ in this world. The ambassadors of Christ were sitting on the rail today.

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We are the hands, the voice, the feet of the vision and the mission of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

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Hello, what a word we received today. I say it all the time and I know some people don't like it, but I'm going to say it anyhow I'm not sure you can be saved just going to church. If we don't become disciples of Christ, if we don't become the Christ that's sitting on the rail in Shechem, you can't receive and not give. I question what you've received if you don't have a passion to give, I wonder if you need to receive it again, if something's not compelling you to be an ambassador of Christ, if you don't have a burden to be an ambassador for Christ in this world. You need the Holy Ghost again, because the first thing the Holy Ghost did in us was make us witnesses. On the day of Pentecost, there's a baptism of boldness that comes with the Holy Ghost, for the purpose of being ambassadors and disciples of Christ.

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Everywhere we go.

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I'm bringing Shechem with me. I am Shechem. Can I say that, sister Jackson, is that even right? I am the Shechem. I bear the city of refuge with me. I bear mercy with me.

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I bear the miracle of being power of the King with me. Matter of fact, just three nights ago we ordered pizza at our house in Columbus, ohio, and the pizza lady came up the stairs onto our porch and because I'm always trying to be the Shechem, I said come on inside, it's too cold to handle this money out here. The pizza lady walks into the doors of my home, immediately, starts weeping. She said I don't know what's in this place or who you people are, but I feel something I've never felt before. Welcome to Shechem baby, welcome to refuge, welcome to mercy, welcome to the Kingdom. I have the power, permission and ability of the King to operate as an ambassador. I said set the pizza on the counter.

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I said we're going to lay hands on you and pray right now.

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This is not the exception to the rule. This is the kingdom rule. When I order pizza, there's a divine purpose with that delivery person. When I go to the grocery store, there's a divine purpose at that cash register. I went out, sister Jackson. I went out before Christmas and I took all of my Dunkin Donuts friends a copy of my book. I went to the car wash and gave all of the shifts a copy of my book. I went to the dog doctor place and took all of their staff a copy of my book. I went to the airport and took all of my Delta friends a copy of my book. This is not the hour to be hidden in the shadows. You can't be saved in the shadows. You've got to get in the light, you've got to step into the light. When you step into the light, you can't sit still, you can't be silent. You better check them with you, you better. The city of refuge with you, you better the mercy with you, you better the authority of the kingdom with you.

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Nobody is ever hidden in the shadows that are testimony with telling. You've got to realize you are all of God for doing the purpose in this hour of the church. This is why the Bible said the people that do know that God shall be strong and do exploits.

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When you have.

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When you know the Lord and you've been born again of the spirit, you prove that you are in power through the kingdom when you become the ambassador of his kingdom. That's what Daniel was saying in Daniel, chapter 11. Nobody should have to wonder if you know the Lord. People that do know that God shall be strong and do exploits.

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What does that mean?

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My God, get up off the pew and do something. Teach a Bible study. Pray for the pizza people in your house. Reach out and lay your hands on the cash register lady and pray for her. Declare your testimony.

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Speak the word.

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Be witness of the mercy of God, be witness of the freedom and forgiveness of the kingdom. Come out of these shadows. Do some spiritual push ups, do some exploits. Stop telling somebody else's testimony, get your own. God wants you to have your own testimonies.

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That's the purpose of apostolic mentoring.

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Equipping millions to reach billions. Don't just be a listener on apostolic mentoring.

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You are the apostolic ministry.

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God wants to use every single one of you. The divine purpose of the kingdom is not to have a small inforbing elite, apostolics. The divine purpose of the kingdom is that every believer would act like believers. These signs shall follow them that believe, but these signs don't follow people hiding in shadows. Insecurity in the teeth today, just choke out the spirit of insecurity that's got you hiding in the shadows and say greater is he that is in me.

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I don't care about the most testimonies. I love for the tone, but I want to be strong. You don't get testimonies until you open your mouth. You don't get testimonies until you invite the pizza driver into your house. I remember just a few months ago, bishop Stark and I were traveling through the Atlanta airport together and I was standing at the counter talking to a man. There were a bunch of flight delays. One of the Delta team members was trying to help us and I said before you do anything else, brother, I want to lay my hands on you and pray for you right here in the airport.

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When I prayed for him the other Delta employee walked over and said we'll pray for me too. And then another one over and said don't forget me, friends. I go to the same Delta lounge every time I go through the Atlanta airport. Why? Because I bear the city of refuge and I'm working on people. When I walk into that Delta lounge, they don't even ask for my information anymore. They just say hey, pastor, how are you? I bring them copies of my book. I come in praying for them. Everybody in the line is looking at me like who is this guy? I'm the ambassador of the king. I come with permission, ability and authority. I don't wait in lines. I come as a representative of the king. You don't know the king, get in line, but I bear witness of the king. That's how we reach billions in this hour. It's time to get out of the shadows.

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Do exploits. I'm out of control. Sister Jackson, what a word. Wow, did you see what Sister Alvinette just put?

Speaker 1: 1:19:37

it in.

Speaker 3: 1:19:40

She put a little check mark.

Speaker 1: 1:19:46

That means I'm finally right. I got it right. Be quiet, that's what she's trying to say. I'm hanging out in brother Dunning's office. He's got a big sword over here.

Speaker 3: 1:20:15

I'm ready for war. Let's go.

Speaker 1: 1:20:17

I don't know how much this sword costs, but it looks expensive. All right, you know what guys? This is just a taste of Sister Jackson's book. Right in the chat, brothers and sayers, our great missionary to Germany is putting a link to the photo and the Amazon link to Sister Jackson's book. Please, please, please, push on that link. Go get her book right now. Buy one for everybody in your church. That's what y'all to do. Add it to your church libraries, buy ten books and give them away so that people can grow in their faith and to exploit in the kingdom. Well, my God, let's do this thing. What a great session. Before we close today, I do want to pray for our missionary to Switzerland. Sister Hackenbrook is in Australia, is in Alaska right now. She is such a critical part of this apostolic mentoring team.

Speaker 3: 1:22:11

They have scheduled her for a back surgery on the 5th of February, but God can take care of that right now.

Speaker 1: 1:22:21

And everybody who's watching from all around the world on our live feed on Facebook and YouTube. Why don't you stretch forth your hands towards the screen right now and let's just pray the prayer of faith by the authority of the Word of God?

Speaker 3: 1:22:49

By the power of the name of Jesus Christ, by the power of the Holy Ghost that is here now.

Speaker 1: 1:22:57

I command healing in the sister Hackenbrook's body. Be healed right now, in Jesus' name. Let every disc in her back be set in the right place In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name, hallelujah, praise God. Praise God. Well, I know we're 30 minutes past our closing time almost. Let's blame that on Dr Jackson. We'll blame it on him. Brother Sayer said that was 20 minutes of fire. Well, we love you all. God bless you. Brother, who would it be with us next Monday? Why don't you take yourselves off mute, say goodbye and we'll catch you all next Monday, 1 pm Eastern time.

Speaker 3: 1:24:15

Love you brother Robin, greetings.

Speaker 2: 1:24:20

Love you, love you.

Speaker 3: 1:24:25

Love you.

Speaker 1: 1:24:26

Love you, love our YouTube audience, our podcast.

Speaker 3: 1:24:30

Love you. See you all next week. God bless you.