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what He's showing me in my heart.
I'm not sure if I can say what
I see in my heart.
May God help me to say what I
see in my heart.
This next message, we're going to call it
A Vision That Motivates.
That word motivate means move to action.
A vision that moves us to action.
Proverbs 29, 18, Where there is no vision,
the people perish, but he that keepeth the
law, happy is he.
A biblical example of this portion of scripture
comes out of the days when Samuel the
prophet was alive.
The Bible says that in Samuel's day, Israel
was in a sad state of affairs.
The ministers had lost out with God.
The ministers had compromised the word of God.
And compromise was creeping in in every direction.
And according to God's word, God reveals the
whole sad situation in these clear words, but
short words.
There was no open vision in those days.
These words say it all, even though there
are chapters of sad commentary describing the situation
there in Samuel's day.
This little statement gives the whole thing in
a nutshell.
There was no open vision and the people
were perishing.
What is a vision?
A vision is a mental image imprinted upon
the heart by the Spirit of God.
It is that which we see with the
eyes of our heart.
Paul said it this way in 2 Corinthians
3, 3.
He used the words, written with the Spirit
of the living God on the fleshly tables
of the heart.
Oh, I love that verse.
Oh, that God would write by the Spirit
of the living God upon the fleshly tables
of our hearts.
A vision is a spiritual revelation of the
mind and will of God.
It usually comes by Scripture.
As we read in the Spirit, note that,
as we read the word of God in
the Spirit, dreams and visions flame up within
us.
Amen?
That's where vision comes from.
You know, I looked up the word dream
in the Hebrew.
I was shocked the first time I looked
at it.
I thought, no, surely that can't be right.
But then when I thought a little bit
more, I thought, yes, that is right.
The Hebrew word dream means to make healthy
and to be strengthened.
You know, I pondered that a bit and
I thought, yes, that is exactly what a
dream or a vision does.
It makes me healthy.
It makes me strong.
It motivates me.
I mean, a man with a vision, you'd
be surprised what a man will do when
he gets a vision.
He's got energy that he didn't know he
had.
A vision is an ideal or an aspiration
that makes us healthy and strong.
That's how dreams work.
When a man has a vision, he comes
alive.
He is filled with energy.
His whole being is consumed with what he
sees and wants.
Amen?
This verse that we read in Proverbs is
probably the most famous verse in the Bible
on the subject of vision.
It reveals the present day problems in America
to a T.
We are in a state where there is
no open vision.
God's people do not see as God sees
and we are perishing.
And by the way, that word does not
mean go to hell.
Let me paraphrase Proverbs 29, 18 for you
as I studied it out word for word.
Here's my paraphrase of it.
Where there is not a spiritual seeing of
God's will in the heart, the people will
cast off restraint, go naked and live like
savages.
What a commentary of this land where we
live.
Degenerated America.
Can it be?
Can it be that there were revivals in
this land where thousands and hundreds of thousands
got converted?
But hey, the people go naked and live
like savages.
In America, we must get captivated with a
view of God's will and hold the eyes
of our heart upon it until it motivates
and activates us to keep God's law again.
We must notice the steps downward in this
whole matter of degeneration of a society.
First of all, the heart cools.
Watch it, brothers and sisters.
Then we stop walking close to God.
From there, our spiritual sight dims.
Soon it is gone.
Then we begin to cast off restraints.
And I'm telling you, I've been a pastor
for 25 years.
I have watched that happen.
I've been shocked at what I have seen
people do.
The restraints they have cast off.
But it all goes way back to when
the heart began to cool.
The steps upward work the same way.
Man, if you want to get a vision,
you must get right with God.
Number one.
Then, as the heart gets right with God,
it begins to sigh and cry to God
to open my eyes.
Lord, the spirit reveals.
Then comes motivation.
We obey and happiness and order is the
blessing of our lives.
That's how it works.
Going the other way, let's consider a little
of the inner dynamics of a God-breathed
vision.
God moves His people through vision.
When God wants to do something, He always
begins with a vision.
Whether it's something in your life or whether
it's something in a church's life, He begins
with a vision.
So, in a sense, what you see today
is where you will be in five years.
Because God moves His people through vision.
That's how God works.
That's the inner dynamics of this whole thing.
With Abraham, God gave him a promise.
That promise had a vision in it.
Abraham began to see God's will.
God began to call the things that be
not as though they were.
And Abraham believed God and had an exciting
adventure because of it.
That's the way God works.
He calls the things that be not as
though they already are.
And maybe you're sitting here this morning and
you say, Oh my, things are not too
good a shape at my house.
Hey, that's okay.
We serve a God who calls the things
that be not as though they already are.
By faith.
By faith, brothers and sisters.
By faith.
That's how God works.
In Deuteronomy chapter 28, we see that God
gave His people a corporate vision.
Promises bursting with a vision.
And those who obeyed found it just as
God said it would be.
A vision to the people of God.
If you obey me and hear my voice,
I will bless everything you do, God said.
What a beautiful vision.
To motivate somebody to action.
This inner dynamic applies to our homes also.
The Bible is pregnant with verses about the
home.
God wants to breathe Rimas into our hearts
that we may know what His will is
for our families.
God wants to do that.
The New Testament word for vision is Rima,
the Greek word.
That word Rima simply means this.
God takes His written word by His Spirit
and speaks it to my heart.
There's something very powerful about God taking His
written word and by His Spirit speaking it
to my heart.
When God does that, you know it, by
the way.
You know it when God does that.
It does things to you.
It makes you go places where you wouldn't
go.
It will make you do things you never
dreamed you never knew.
Because God's word has His grace and power
in it.
Oh God, give us a Rima for our
children, for our families.
This week, Joel prophesied of the days when
the Spirit of God would be poured out
upon God's people.
The result?
A people filled with dreams and visions.
This happened on the day of Pentecost.
The anointing and the visions that came from
that anointing caused those people to fill Jerusalem
with the doctrine of Christ.
They couldn't help themselves.
I mean, the authorities threatened them and they
said, What can we do?
We've got to obey God, not man.
We cannot but speak the things we've seen
and heard.
We can't help ourselves.
Why?
We saw something and it has motivated us.
That's what I'm talking about.
God needs to do that in our hearts
concerning our families.
We still live in the age of this
outpouring of God's Spirit.
And God wants to fill our hearts with
dreams and visions for our homes.
He is waiting to give us more than
we would even ask or think, I guarantee
it.
God has an inheritance for us.
And it's a beautiful, spiritual inheritance that He
has already given to us.
Yea, there's much more to come.
But we are not living in the good
of what He has already given to us.
But that inheritance, God wants us to realize
it in our lives and pass it on
in living reality to the next generation.
Praise God.
I think we've lost the meaning of inheritance
here in America.
Now when we hear the word inheritance, we
think lands, money, you know, and the old
grandfather clock that great-great-grandfather had and
passed down to everybody else.
We think of that when we think of
an inheritance.
When you look into the Word of God,
you'll find out that word inheritance meant a
whole lot more than a piece of dirt.
Bless God.
Or some piece of money.
It meant so much more than that.
When God speaks about inheritance, He's talking about
passing down the heritage of a godly relationship
with a living God from generation to generation.
That's what God has as an inheritance.
He wants to give it to us.
He wants to impart it to us in
living reality that we may pass it down
to the next generation.
They may take it and pass it to
the next generation.
It's God's will.
For every one of us that He do
that.
God says far more about spiritual inheritance in
His Word than He does about the physical.
When we look at the illustration of the
land of Canaan, think about the land of
Canaan.
Yes, Canaan was a real place.
It was a physical place.
Yes, God gave them physical pieces of land
and houses and all those things.
But there's more.
There's more insight into the land of Canaan
than just that dirt over there in the
land of Israel.
I'm telling you, the land of Canaan was
a type and shadow of a New Testament
abundant, overflowing, spirit-filled life.
That's what the land of Canaan is, my
brothers and sisters.
And God wants us by grace through faith
to go into the land and possess it
so that our children can have it after
us.
My dear brothers and sisters, do we have
any idea what God wants to do with
our children if we would simply wake up
and get right with God ourselves and begin
to live in the reality of this beautiful,
overflowing, abundant life, which is the land of
Canaan.
God wants to pass it on to our
children.
Oh, but we must have it in our
own lives first.
I like this verse in Numbers chapter 14
and verse 24.
It's talking about Caleb.
He's my hero.
I like Caleb.
Listen to what God says about Caleb in
light of what I just said.
God says, but my servant Caleb, my servant
Caleb, amen, he had another spirit with him
and hath followed me fully.
This is what he says about him.
Him will I bring into the land where
unto he went and his seed shall possess
it.
Oh, I love that verse.
I love that.
May God make us like Caleb.
God was speaking prophetically there.
They weren't in the land of Canaan yet.
This is the book of Numbers.
Amen.
God was speaking prophetically of Caleb because God
knew what was in Caleb.
Caleb was a man who wholly followed the
Lord, his God.
There was another spirit in Caleb than those
other spies that went into the land and
came back with all those doubts and fears
and all that unbelief and all that complaining
and grumbling.
There was another spirit in Caleb.
It was the spirit of the living God,
the same spirit that energizes every one of
our hearts and lives even today.
God says, I want you to have the
heart like Caleb has and I will bring
you into the land and your seed shall
possess it.
Amen.
Oh, what a beautiful promise.
That thing speaks life to my heart when
I read it and his seed shall possess
it.
Let's go for it.
Brothers, sisters, as I see in the Bible,
there are two ways that God builds the
church and I believe them both.
We must follow both paths or we will
never come to the fullness of the stature
of Christ that Paul mentions in Ephesians chapter
four.
We must follow both of these ways.
These ways are this.
Number one, we must raise our families for
God.
Number two, we must win a lost and
a dying world.
If we will follow those two paths, God
will build a church.
The gates of hell shall not prevail against
it.
If we will follow those two paths, God
will build a church, a beautiful church.
These two are intricately tied together and we
will see this more as we go through
the week.
God will show us more clearly what it
means.
Proverbs 1130 expresses both of these ways so
clearly.
Consider these words.
The fruit of the righteous is a tree
of life and he that win his souls
is wise.
That's both ways.
Both ways.
The fruit of the righteous is a tree
of life.
That's a godly generation coming up out of
them.
And he that win his souls is wise.
That's reaching the lost world around us.
So beautiful.
We know that generations of trees come from
one tree.
Amen.
Generations of trees come from one tree.
In fact, generation of trees come from one
seed.
Sheila, stop and think about that.
This is an awesome reality when applied to
our families, to the kingdom of God.
A righteous tree will produce seed that will
grow into righteous trees and on and on
it goes.
And thus the church is built this way.
This is part of the plan of God.
The church has missed it.
They missed it.
And the children are going into the world
in mass.
That's one way that God builds the church.
The other part of the verse.
He that win his souls is wise.
And there's a whole sermon in this.
And you know how I feel about that.
But a consecrated church will go into the
world and preach the gospel to every creature.
We must do both of these.
We will get lopsided if we choose one
or the other.
There are churches who went whole hog after
evangelism and they lost their children to the
world in the midst of it.
And there are other churches who hovered around
their children, their precious little children, and protected
them in such a way that they just
turned into a dead religion.
And we don't want that either.
We want both.
And we will see as we go.
They are very intricately tied together.
And in reality, you can't have one if
you don't have the other.
God has us in a corner.
Let us win our children to a wholehearted
love for Christ and go with them and
win the world.
Amen.
This is God's plan.
Turn with me to Psalm 78.
Give ear, O my people, give ear to
my law.
Incline your ears to the words of my
mouth.
I will open my mouth in a parable.
I will utter dark sayings of old which
we have heard and known and our fathers
have told us.
We will not hide them from their children,
showing to the generation to come the praises
of the Lord and his strength and his
wonderful works that he hath done.
For he established a testimony in Jacob and
appointed a law in Israel which he commanded
our fathers, that they should make them known
to their children, that the generation to come
might know them, even the children which should
be born, who should arise and declare them
to their children, that they might set their
hope in God and not forget the works
of God and keep his commandments.
There we see God's plan for the children
so beautifully laid out in these verses.
God commands the fathers.
Sorry, fathers, but that's what the Bible says.
God commands the fathers to enter into this
beautiful propagation of the faith down to the
next generations.
We are responsible.
Our task is to pass the faith on
to our children.
Not a religion, but a living, breathing, vibrant
Christian faith to the next generation.
Then they will rise up and do the
same.
And on and on it goes.
This is God's plan.
Let's look at the four generations here in
these verses.
First of all, he commanded our fathers.
That's one generation that they should make them
known to their children.
That's the second generation that the generation to
come might know them, even the children that
should be born.
That's the third generation who should arise and
declare them to their children.
That's the fourth generation.
Do you get it?
I mean, look, if we follow this, it
never ends.
It never ends.
Think about it.
Grasp it.
If we follow this, it never ends because
it just keeps on going and going.
And one generation gets the next and the
next and the next.
So the one thing that will stop that
chain.
And we all know what it is.
See how godly fathers in Israel looked at
their responsibility.
They received the reward of many godly generations
when they followed this pattern.
They received the rewards.
Let's look at seven godly generations here this
morning.
And as we look at them, it's very
easy to see why David was a man
after God's own heart.
In Matthew, chapter one, four through six.
Hear these words.
Now let's look at these seven generations of
men that we just listed here.
Nason.
Nason was a prince in Israel.
The Bible says he was renowned in the
congregation.
He was the head of Judah.
All the tents of Judah were placed around
Nason's tent.
He was the leader of 74,000 fighting
men.
And he raised a son, according to Psalm,
chapter 78, whose name was Salmon.
Salmon married Rahab, the harlot, whose faith was
so beautiful that God recorded it in the
Bible.
The testimony of Salmon's son, Boaz, speaks volumes
about the kind of home that Salmon had.
He raised his son, Boaz, according to Psalm
78.
Boaz, there's more in Boaz than we can
take in these few minutes that we have.
Boaz was famous in Israel.
He was known as a mighty man.
He was a man of much character.
He married virtuous Ruth.
Many prophetic words surrounded the marriage and the
birth of a child that came from Boaz
and Ruth.
Obed was born to them.
Obed grew up in a godly home.
One of the ones like Psalm 78 describes,
he had a holy grandmother named Naomi and
his father was Boaz.
Obed married and had a son.
His name was Jesse.
Jesse had eight sons and two daughters.
He was a devout man.
His testimony of his godly home is seen
throughout the Scriptures.
Samuel was impressed with all eight of his
sons.
Don't forget that.
Jesse was a mighty man according to Psalm
112.
And his sons were mighty in the land.
He had a son named David.
And David made Jesse even more famous in
Israel.
David was the shepherd boy, the giant killer.
He was a mighty man.
He was the king.
He was a prophet.
He was the psalmist.
He was the anointed of God.
His name is mentioned one thousand times in
the word of God.
David's name.
David had a son named Solomon.
He was king over Israel.
He was the builder of the temple.
He was the leader over Israel during the
most dynamic part of the history of Israel.
He was the wisest man in all the
earth.
He wrote the book of Proverbs and others.
These are seven generations to back up Psalm
78, verse 1 through 7.
Seven godly generations.
Only the Spirit of God can help us
to grasp the depths of the meaning of
what I just read.
Only the Spirit of God can help us
to see the power of that.
You're here today.
Where will your generations be in seven generations?
Good question.
Let's look at five generations.
Abraham was the friend of God.
He was the father of all who lived
by faith.
He walked with God and he was perfect.
And he had a son.
A miracle son named Isaac.
Isaac was the son of promise.
He yielded his life up to God and
to his father and allowed his father to
put him on the altar for sacrifice.
Isaac trusted God and believed his promises and
spoke prophetic blessings over his son Jacob and
they all came to pass.
Jacob, the supplanter, wrestled with God all night
and was called Israel.
The prince who had power with God and
power with men.
He was patriarch of Israel.
His godliness impressed Pharaoh in his old age.
This man was a mighty man.
He had a son named Joseph.
Joseph was the dreamer of dreams.
Dreams that came true.
Joseph was the preserver of life for all
of Israel.
He was a godly servant who became a
king.
He was a man of character and he
was a type of Christ in the Bible.
Joseph had a son named Ephraim.
Ephraim walked in the prophetic blessings of his
grandfather.
He was famous in Israel and prospered in
the ways of God.
That's five generations.
God said to Abraham, walk before me and
be thou perfect.
And I will bless you and I will
bless your seed after you and your seed
shall inherit this land.
And I will bless all the nations of
the world through you.
God said that to Abraham.
Let's look at four generations and then we'll
move on here.
Amram.
He was one of the sons of Levi.
He was father of Moses, Aaron and Miriam.
He must have done much right in order
to have those three.
Aaron, Moses and Miriam.
By faith, he and his wife saw God's
call upon Moses and trusted God, casting their
son away.
Only to receive him back again.
Amram had a son named Aaron.
Aaron was the spokesman for Moses.
He was the first high priest.
He trusted God to lead Israel in the
tabernacle worship.
He had two godly sons, Eliezer and Ithamar.
Eliezer was the son who followed his father
as the high priest.
His life was more clear even than his
father Aaron's life.
And he had a son named Phinehas.
Phinehas was a man of God.
He put away evil, immorality in Israel.
He received a blessing from God for that
on every generation of his descendants.
Think about it.
He followed his father Eliezer as the high
priest.
And he was a faithful man all his
days.
Seven generations.
Five generations.
Four generations.
How many more examples do we need to
see that what God says works?
And if God did it for them, God
can do it for me.
Amen.
Bless God I don't have to be a
hippie anymore.
I've changed the direction and the heritage of
my family.
Look at these beautiful lists.
We need to take fast hold upon these
biblical examples for our own families.
Let the word priests be mixed with faith
and bring forth profit to our households.
It is possible for even you to sow
labor.
So as to see many generations of godly
children rise up and serve the living God.
It's possible for you.
Hallelujah.
Some of us have eye disease.
How's your vision this morning?
What do you see?
This is where it all begins.
Brothers and sisters.
This is where it begins.
And listen to me.
It is not enough for you to sit
here today and say, Oh, amen brother Denny.
Wow.
Good.
Now that's good stuff.
Amen.
I see it.
I agree.
It's not enough for you to do that.
That thing must be burning in your heart
when you leave this place.
It's got to be burning in your heart
two weeks from now.
It has to be burning in your heart
on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
It's got to be there.
It's not enough for you to be thrilled
with what you just heard.
It must be in your heart in order
for it to be in your children and
your children's children.
So again, we must sigh and cry to
God that God would give us a vision
that we would see what he wants to
do with our children.
But some of us have eye disease.
How are your eyes?
The Apostle John addressed this subject with the
church at Laodicea.
Remember them?
They were the lukewarm church.
They thought they had everything together.
They thought they were rich and increased with
goods and in need of nothing.
And God said, you're poor and naked and
blind.
He said, you have an eye disease.
You can't see.
Maybe we have an eye disease.
The Laodicean church had been hot and full
of reality at one time, but they lost
their vision.
Slowly, their love cooled.
Slowly, the heart began to get clouded over.
Slowly, they lost their vision.
And guess what?
The church at Laodicea was slowly casting off
restraints.
Just casting them off.
So much so that God didn't come in
and say, you're poor and naked and wretched
and blind.
You don't see anymore.
They lost their vision.
He even told them they were naked.
Amen?
He even told them they were naked.
Just like it says, and the people shall
go naked and live like the heathen.
What did God say through John to the
church at Laodicea?
He said, anoint thine eyes with eye salve
that thou mayest see.
You have an eye disease, oh Laodicean church.
Go get some holy heavenly eye salve and
anoint your eyes so that you can see.
If you could see, you wouldn't be living
the way you're living.
If you could see, you wouldn't do what
you've been doing.
If you could see, you wouldn't be neglecting
your children.
If you could see, go to God and
get some heavenly eye ointment and anoint your
eyes with that ointment so that you may
be able to see God.
Then he ends with pleading words with the
church of Laodicea.
Words, pleading words for true reality.
He says to them, behold, I stand at
the door and knock.
Surely you'd think they'd be able to hear
him.
I stand at the door and knock, says
God.
If any man hear my voice, is there
anything more precious than that, brothers and sisters?
If any man hear my voice and open
the door, I will come into him and
I will sup with him and him with
me.
That's it.
See, that's what God is saying.
That's what he was saying to the Laodiceans.
That's what he's saying to us.
I want you to enter into the land.
The land of reality.
The land of blessing.
The land that's flowing with milk and honey.
The land of Canaan.
The land of reality.
The land of a life in Christ and
God.
Enter into the land.
And God says, oh, you'll hear my voice.
I will sup with you and you will
sup with me, like John said.
Truly our fellowship is with the Father and
with his Son, Jesus Christ.
Amen?
Oh, my dear brothers and sisters, somehow God
has to help us and take us beyond.
You know, we see this thing way too
much with the nuts and the bolts of
it.
I'm telling you, we do.
We see it way too much that way.
This whole thing of raising a family is
an utter spiritual thing.
And so many of God's people are trying
to make the whole thing happen without it.
And guess who gets the brunt of it?
Too strong?
What kind of friend would it be who
would stir you with words of what a
vision can do, but wouldn't tell you how
to get a vision?
This is how you get a vision.
You sit here today and you say, I
have no vision.
Where does this guy see all this stuff?
I don't have any vision.
It's time to repent.
It's time to break your heart before God.
It's time to go get some eye salve
and put it on your eyes.
And stay there and wait before God until
the eye disease begins to heal and you
begin to see.
Oh, it's beautiful up here, brothers and sisters.
It's beautiful.
You know, in Beulah land, blue skies, lovely
clouds.
Oh, it's beautiful up here.
Get some of that eye salve and put
it on your eyes till you can see
visions come from God.
He is the author of every one of
them.
If you have no reality, you will find
it very hard to hold on to all
the things that I'm going to tell you
this week.
You will find it very hard.
You'll get stirred up a little bit and
go home with a new resolve and lose
it in two or three weeks.
But if you have a vision, you don't
even need to listen to me the rest
of the week.
All the how to's of instruction will not
reach if there is no vision to sustain
you after you go home.
Ephesians chapter three and verse 20 gives us
these words.
These are some of the most encouraging words
in the Bible.
Hear them.
God is able.
That word means full of power.
God is full of power, able to do
exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or
think according to the power that worketh in
us.
Wow.
Look at that.
Let us get ourselves in the place where
this power that worketh in us is working
in us personally.
And then the sky is the limit, brothers
and sisters.
Let us get ourselves in the place so
that this power that worketh in us is
working in us personally.
Like Paul said, according to the spirit that
worketh in me mightily.
Beautiful words.
Mightily.
God wants to do that for you.
God doesn't just do that for Apostle Paul.
He does it for every single child of
God.
Don't you think he would do it for
you for the sake of your children that
he might raise up a godly seed who
would be prophets and Nazarites all across the
land and world?
Surely God would do that for you.
Only believe.
All things are possible.
Only believe.
All things are possible.
Only believe.
Where are you at with the Lord?
Strong word.
Yes, strong word.
But where are you at with the Lord?
Remember, we came.
We came to do business with God.
We came saying, God, change my life forever
while I'm here.
Do you have eye disease?
I just make this plea with you.
You have some time today to do something
with that eye disease.
And if I were you, I would do
something with that eye disease today because there's
a lot more coming.
I'd hate to sit through it all and
look at it all like this.
I'd hate to do that.
Fourteen meetings, twenty-eight sessions, looking at it
all with eyes like this, glimpsing through the
crack of your eye while the puss is
holding most of it closed.
You know, I see a little bit of
what he's saying.
I see it.
Yeah, I can see what he's saying here.
I see it a little bit.
Oh, God needs to open our eyes, brothers
and sisters.
Do you have eye disease?
You need to get right with God, my
brother, my sister.
There are people here who would be glad
to counsel with you this week.
You make your need known.
Brother Emmanuel, Brother Aaron, you make your need
known.
God wants to meet your need so that
you can see.
Let's stand for prayer.
Oh, God, our Father, we stand in awe
at what we have heard.
I have heard Thy voice, O Lord, and
I was afraid.
I have heard Thy voice and I tremble,
Lord.
We acknowledge Your voice this morning, Lord.
We plead for a clearer sound.
We just commit each one of these families
to You.
Work our work in every one of our
hearts, God.
In Jesus Christ's name, amen.