What Will YOU Leave Behind?

Hmm, some of you have been here. And it is nothing easy. Have y'all ever been to an estate sale? You've heard of those estate sales. A lot of times you have those when either you can't do the whole yard sale. Mom and dad are gone. Maybe your husband's gone. Maybe your wife is gone. Maybe it was a slow, slow death. Or maybe out of literally nowhere. One day started with life in it and hope. And all kinds of other things. I just they couldn't figure it out. When the call came in, you gotta be kidding me. What is I mean I've made this notification, I don't know how many times. As a police officer. 2 30, 3 o'clock in the morning. 1 o'clock in the afternoon. I've gone to homes, I've gone to work places. And I've had to say the hard news up front. Hey, um, are you so-and-so's wife, husband, mother, father, parents, grandmother, wife, girlfriend, whatever. This is exactly how I used to do it. Well, we'll use the name Robert. Robert, we'll use the name Sean, because this happened to Sean. Sean was involved in an automobile accident tonight, and unfortunately, he did not survive his injuries. He died in the crash. How many of you have been there? So now I'll ask again. I'll ask the question again. It seems like such a stupid question. Have you ever been to an estate sale? You know, that's where strangers walk through a house that isn't theirs. They pick up a woman's good dishes, you know, the ones she so proudly protected. And she she only used them at Christmas. You know, when all the kids were there. Some of the cousins and nieces and nephews came, and it was big and it was fun and it was loud. Lots of laughter. And then she and some of the girls would be in the kitchen cleaning everything up and laughing and talking and sometimes crying and sometimes praying. And then they would very carefully put those dishes back in the china closet and smile. These dishes. You know, they'd flip them over. The hagglers, you know. They'd want to make a deal. My father did this. This is what he did. There's no shame in it. It's what he did. He bought and resold. Buy low, sell high. You know how it goes. And the guy's walking through, he's looking and he flips the plates over looking for a price. Hey, well, that's high. That's too much money. I can't make any money on that. Or even if I like it for my own house, I, you know, not gonna pay that. Not for somebody else's used dishes. A man haggles over the tools that hung on another man's garage wall for 50 years. You can see the kind of dirt outline around the tool. You see the spot where he hung it up on the little hang thing and and it tapped on the bottom. They left a little mark. After 50 years, it wore almost all the way through the pegboard. Sometimes it swung a little bit. Left that little pendulum mark. Those tools, you know. He got a lot of them from his grandfather. And they came with a story. And that story was told, and it was told, and it was told.

And then we come to the family Bible. A big old family Bible. You know the ones. Really big. Way bigger than this one.

Sometimes they would they some of the really good ones would have the old ones would have an ornate hard wooden cover carved. Beautiful gold leaf paint. Oh yeah, sure. It was a it was dusty. Because mom or grandma didn't. Well, she just wasn't she didn't get around as good. And you know, she noticed for a lot of years. And she would dust it. But then she kind of was confined to a chair, to her bed, and that seemed to be the least of the worries of the kids and grandkids coming in. They open the people walking through the house, the strangers, perfect strangers. Didn't know or don't even care about the people that live there. They open that family Bible and they see all this writing and they look. Wow. 1927. This thing was written in 1927 or you know published? Built? I mean it's a work of art. I mean, I'm not willing to pay more than two dollars for it. Oh. Family and marriages and and deaths. Births. They're all filled out with different ink. And the handwriting started out really good. And then over time it got worse. And the total strangers. They said, I'll I'll give you two bucks for it. I'm really only interested in the cover. Nobody in their house has room for it. What in the world would they do? They don't have a table that they could sit it on like grandma, grandpa, mom, or dad. Well, that's why most of the time the family's not ever there. At the estate sale. Emotions. You want to hang on to it. You're offended that anybody would even ha deign to offer you two dollars for that. Back in 1927, it was probably worth maybe $15. And it was a huge purchase, but somebody said, hey, it's worth it. The salesman that came through selling them said, this is gonna record all your stuff for your family. And they're gonna say, just like in the old days, right? 1927. They were saying just like in the old days. Family history. Somebody has to write it down. And then the auctioneer. He says, or the estate sale person says, All right, we'll take two dollars for that. You know, because you like the cover. And by Sunday night, what started on a Saturday morning, by Sunday night, a whole life, a whole life fits in a dumpster sitting at the curb, and Monday morning at 6.30 or 7. The neighbors are gonna fuss when they hear a bunch of noise. They're gonna go to their front window and they're gonna watch the life and the memories of their neighbors be carried away to the dump. Hey, maybe maybe you've stood in that house. I don't know your life. Maybe it was your mom's, your dad's. And the inevitable question came. Oh the question. Of course we'll ask. We're sitting looking out there. All this stuff that. All the memories. And it's in a dumpster. It's all the stuff nobody else wanted. Nobody in your family wanted it or could use it. And so the question came.

What will I leave behind?

What will I leave behind? Here's what the back half of Joshua says tonight. The best thing you'll ever pass on. The best thing you will ever pass on was never yours to begin with. It was given to you, held in trust, and no one can even sell it. I'm living through this now. I have stuff for sale trying to thin out. And it's valuable stuff. I mean valuable, valuable. And even when I change the price to free. Can't even sell it. Maybe you're the man who worked 40 years, right? Up before dawn, paycheck every Friday, never missed a mortgage payment. Some of them were tight. And now you're asking what it all adds up to? A pension? A pension, after 40 years, is a lot smaller than you thought it would be. Covers a lot less stuff. A truck? Maybe a few photos and envelopes? With the dates and the times on them? Or maybe what keeps you up? Maybe it isn't stuff at all. Maybe it's your kids, your grandkids, your nieces or your nephews. Whether the faith that held you together, you held you together, will be one more thing nobody wants when you're gone. This week, we walked the part of Joshua. Most people skip this part, but we walk through it. If you missed it, go back and listen. It's free. Long lists of cities and borders and tribes. But every list is about one thing: inheritance. Who receives it? Who passes it on? And what lasts. This is True Word, Faith for Life with Dr. Sean. I'm Sean. Welcome to the Sunday summation and deepening. Every weekday, we take one passage to one hurt. Tonight we step back, look at the whole week together, and we go deeper than any morning had time for. Now let me say this. This is also a first because this is the first time I told you I I wanted to make the on TruewordfaithforLife.com, True WordfaithforLife.com, I wanted to make the blog and the study guide a much better resource for you. 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And the war was over a land God had already called given. Thirty-one kings went down in a single list. And God told an old man, You're old. And there remains yet very much land. Monday, one day. Tuesday, an 85-year-old named Caleb. He walked up with a promise 45 years old. He asked for the hill country where the giants lived, and he drove out those same three giants who scared Ishrael into the desert. His daughter Aksa. Well, she asked her father for, she asked her father for springs, and she got them. Wednesday. Seven tribes sat in camp on land they already owned. Joshua asked, How long will you put it off? The sons of Joseph asked for more room and got handed an axe. One more room, clear you some land. And Joshua took his own inheritance last, after everyone else had theirs. Thursday, God named six cities of refuge where a person who killed, without meaning to, well, they could run there. And they could stand at the gate and they could tell the story straight and they could live. When the high priest died, that person went home. And Israel nearly started a civil war over an altar by the Jordan until someone went and asked, What's this thing about? And Friday at Shechem, Joshua told the nation, Choose this day whom you will serve. And they promised, he warned them, You are. Not able to serve the Lord, for he is a holy God. A stone heard every word. Joshua died at 110 years old, and Joseph's bones, carried out of Egypt and across the desert, were laid to rest at Shechem. Now, on the surface, the back half of Joshua is a land survey. But underneath it's the story of what God gives and what lasts. The way I see it, there's five threads. Lay the weak side by side, and you see the five things that happen to an inheritance. Well, might as well start at number one. Thread one. An inheritance has to be taken up. By the way, I forgot to say, number one, hello to everyone listening live in the live chat. Welcome, welcome, welcome. I'm so glad to have you. Um, it's good to have everybody here. Susan and Linda and Robbie and Miss Colleen and oh my goodness. Kiki, good to see you. Kiki, thank you for coming back. I encourage you to listen and be encouraged to this. Listen and be encouraged. You you might just find a blessing. Might have happened across the blessing. And everyone else listening, but not clicked in the live chat. Or if you're listening on playback, welcome. I'm so glad that you're here. Truly. So, thread number one: an inheritance has to be taken up. God called the land given in chapter one, and the war still took years. Joshua 11, verse 18. Joshua made war a long time with all those kings. Those wars were hard reading, too. Oof. They were a specific judgment at a specific time after centuries of God's patience with Canaan. Genesis 15, verse 16. They belong to Israel's particular covenant history. They're not a license for our violence. In the middle of the fighting, God told Israel to hamstring the horses and burn the chariots. Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. God burned those chariots. He burned those chariots. God burned what Israel would have trusted instead of him. A long fight. Oh my. Long fight isn't proof God has left you. I see some comments and and and and and maybe alluding to the feeling that you feel like God has left you, and I get it. I get it. Some of these days it's easy to feel that way, but I assure you, if you are in Christ, I'll give you an opportunity to solidify that here in a little bit. But I'm telling you, a long fight, a great struggle, isn't proof that God has left you. Sometimes it's the road into what He's already given. Thread number two, an inheritance is claimed with the whole heart. Joshua 14, verse 8, Caleb says, I wholly followed the Lord my God. The Hebrew picture here is a vessel filled to the brim. Nothing held back. I gave it all. Jesus paid it all. All to him I owe. Right? Remember that song? He paid it all. That was a hymn. He paid it all. All to him we owe. Nothing held back of ourselves either. Caleb. He was 40 when God promised him the hill country. His feet had walked that hill country. He was 85 when he got it. And in between, he fought for everyone else's land first. Listen to how he asked. I think it's fascinating. Joshua 14, verse 12. It may be that the Lord will be with me and I shall drive them out. Wasn't a demand. Wasn't a doubt either. A man who knew the victory was God's to give. Caleb was 85 and still asking God for the hard ground. Can you imagine? And his daughter learned it from him. Aksav, remember her? She had been given land in the Negev, the Negev Desert, the dry south. And in that country, land without water couldn't feed a family, let alone a flock. So she asked her father for springs. She wasn't asking for more. She was asking for what made the gift fruitful. Sometimes we don't have because we don't ask. Thread number three: an inheritance can be left unclaimed. Oh. It's big business in that. Unclaimed inheritances. Joshua 18, verse 3. How long will you put off going to take possession of the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you? The Hebrew picture's hands going limp. It's the same route God used in chapter 1 when he promised Joshua, I will not leave you. God never loosened his grip on Israel. Israel loosened its loosened its grip on the gift. When Joseph's tribe said there wasn't enough room, Joshua said, Then clear the forest. God gave Israel the land, but the axe was still theirs to swing. And right beside that complaint, the text sets five sisters. The daughters of Zelofad asked Moshe or Moses for their father's inheritance years before. And God said they're right. But in Joshua 17, they show up again and they claim it. Thread number four, if you're counting, an inheritance is kept open for the one who falls. Joshua 20. Picture a man whose axe head flies off the handle and kills his neighbor. He didn't mean to do it. It was his friend, the dead man's nearest kinsman is now coming after him because he says, I don't care how long you've been neighbor to my dad. I don't care how long we've been friends. I don't care how much fruit and lambs and whatever and what all and salt we've shared. I don't care how much olive oil we've shared over the years. I don't care how much fresh wine we've shared over the years. Your axe flew off and it killed my kin, and I'm coming for you. The Hebrew calls him the Goelhadam, the Avenger of Blood. To the man, he runs to a city of refuge and stands at the gate. Now, the modern left will say, see, where, you know, you Bible people, this is scriptural, scriptural Bible, sanctuary cities. No, no, no. No, it's not. It isn't. It's a horrible misrepresentation of scripture. Horrible. Not remotely related. But in this case, the man unintended. Hey, I didn't know the axe handle and the axe were losing their grip. I didn't feel it when I was swinging it. But all of a sudden I did the one hit. And then when I drew back, it went off. And it hit, and I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. Oh well, sorry. Doesn't cut it. So the man runs to a city of refuge and stands at the gate. In the ancient world, the gate was the courtroom. The elders sat there to hear the cases. He explains what happened, and if the congregation judges it was not murder, they take him in. And he stays until the death of the high priest. And then verse 6 says the man slayer may return to his own town and to his own home. His own home. His family's land. The refuge didn't just save, it just didn't just save his life, it kept the road open back to his inheritance. The one who killed without meaning to. Apples and artvarks here. This is a total, had no knowledge at all. Your cow suddenly takes crazy, goes through the fence, and tramples the neighbor's child. There's never a problem with the cow. But you've got to go to the city of refuge. This is the one who killed with without meaning to, went home. This is when that when that high priest died, that was the time limit. And then you went home. Thread number five, I don't know if you're counting, but here we are. An inheritance is handed on or lost in one generation. Joshua 24, verse 15 choose this day whom you will serve. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. When Israel promised, Joshua warned them, You are not able to serve the Lord, for he is an holy God. Their pledge couldn't be a moment's enthusiasm covering divided loyalties. A holy God can't be served halfway. Israel served the Lord all Joshua's days, and the days of the elders after him. Then Judges 2, verse 10. There arose another generation after them who did not know the Lord. Look, you can't choose for your children, but you can choose in front of them. So there they are. Taken up, claimed, left unclaimed, kept open, and handed on. Every one of those turns on one Hebrew word. Hey, if you just found us, you're wondering what your life will leave behind and whether any of it lasts. Joshua lands, Joshua's land survey answers that tonight. God bless you, Sean spelled correctly. The word, I told you, it rests on one word. Nachhala. Nachalah, inheritance. It runs all through Joshua 13 to 19. Every tribe gets his nachala. To us, inheritance means stuff. But to an Israelite, a nahalah was the family itself rooted in the ground. It's where your father was buried and your grandchildren would be born. It was your name. It was your bread, your place in the covenant. Your place in the covenant people. Lose the land and your family could vanish from Israel. And here's what made Israel different from the nations around it. In the ancient world, a king granted land to a loyal servant and carved the grant on a boundary stone. The land became the servants, but Israel's king never signed over the title. Leviticus 25, verse 23. The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine, for you are strangers and sojourners with me. What you leave behind was never really yours. It was always held in trust. So how was the land handed out? Not by grabbing, by lot before the Lord at Shiloh. Joshua 18, verse 10, Proverbs 16, verse 33 says this way: the lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord. And by measuring line, Joshua 17, verse 5 says, Ten portions fell to Manasseh. The Hebrew word for those portions is Chavalim, measuring cords. The rope surveyors stretched across a field to mark a family share. Now listen to David in Psalm 16, verses 5 and 6. The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup, and you hold my lot. The lines have fallen for me in the pleasant places. Indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance. Portion. Lot, lines, inheritance. Those are the words of Joshua's land survey. Even the verb matches. The lines fell for David the way the portions fell to Manasseh. David takes the language of the allotment and says, My lot is God Himself. My measuring line fell on him. That idea already had a home in Israel. It was with the tribe of Levi. Remember, we talked about this. Joshua 13, verse 33. To the tribe of Levi, Moshe or Moses gave no inheritance. The Lord God of Israel is their inheritance. Numbers 18, verse 20, God says it to Aaron directly, I am your portion and your inheritance among the people of Israel. Levi got towns to live in, scattered through the other tribes, but no tribal territory. Every other tribe got hills and valleys and springs. Levi got God. God gave one tribe, no land of its own, and it was the richest tribe in Israel. David, a man of Judah, reached for Levi's portion and made it his own confession. No one can sell him. What happened when a family lost its land anyway, through debt or drought or disaster? The law named who would win it back? Leviticus 25, verse 25. If your brother becomes poor and sells part of his property, then his nearest redeemer shall come and redeem what his brother has sold. The nearest redeemer is the Goel. It's the same family word we met at the city of refuge. The nearest kinsman carried two separate duties. Answer for a family member's blood. And buy back a family's lost land. That second duty is what Boaz carried out in Ruth IV. He bought back the field of Naomi's dead husband, Lemelech. So the family's name wouldn't vanish from its inheritance. When a family lost its inheritance, the nearest kinsman, the Goel, came to buy it back. One more layer. Rest. Joshua 11, verse 23 says the land had to rest from war. Chapter 21, verse 44 says, the Lord gave them rest on every side. That rest was real. And yet. Chapter 13, verse 1. There remains yet very much land. Judges 1 lifts the cities, never taken. Lists the cities never taken. And Hebrews 4, verse 8 says something stunning. For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day. Later on. The rest God gave Israel was real, and it was not finished. But some of the unfinished land was God's design. Exodus 23, verse 30 Little by little I will drive them out from before you until you have increased and possessed the land. Little by little. God past the inheritance to the size of his people. So when you ask what you'll leave behind, Joshua says three things. What you hold, you hold in trust. The deepest portion you'll ever have is God Himself. And the rest, the rest you've been longing for is real, but it's still Ed. And here's how that answers the question you came here with tonight. You can't leave your children faith like a piece of property, but you can leave them a witness to the God who became your portion. Hebrews 1, verse 2 says, God has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed the heir of all things. Yeshua is the heir. Every hill, every valley, every Nachalah in Joshua belongs to him. And he told a story about that in Mark 12. A man planted a vineyard and leased it to the tenants. He sent, listen, servant after servant to collect the fruit, and they beat them and sent them away. Finally, he sent his beloved son. And the tenants said, This is the heir. Come, let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours. Mark tells us the leaders. Mark tells us the leaders knew he told that story against them. And within days, they did kill him. They thought killing the heir would make the inheritance theirs. Hebrews 9, verse 15 tells us what God did with that death. He is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them. That death and that resurrection is the death of Jesus Christ, Yeshua Hamashiach, a death that redeems so that the come on, somebody, somebody, a death that redeems so that the called received the inheritance. That's the Goel's second duty, the one Boaz carried out. And Hebrews 2, verse 14 says, Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things. Yeshua took on our flesh and our blood, he became our nearest kinsman, so he could buy back what we had lost, and we could never rebuy. So we could never afford it. The heir died, so the inheritance could be yours. Romans 8, verse 17, and and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ. And the rest that remains, in Greek Joshua's name and Yeshua's name are the same. Joshua the son of Nun gave Israel real rest in the land. Yeshua the Messiah, Yeshua Hamashiach, offered what Joshua never could. Matthew 11, verse 28 Come to me all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Now, guard something here. When Paul says Gentile believers become heirs, he doesn't say Israel loses its inheritance. Ephesians 3, verse 6 says the Gentiles are fellow heirs alongside. God promised Abraham's children the land as an everlasting possession. In Genesis 17, verse 8 and Romans 11, verse 29, it says this: the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. The nations aren't seizing Israel's Nachalah. They're being welcomed into the family that holds it. Now, I started this whole thing off with the estate sale. You remember that? The sad looking around and 1 Peter 1, verses 3 and 4. He has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, unfading, kept in heaven for you. Imperishable. Nobody's gonna flip it over looking for a price. Nobody's gonna haul it to the curb. An estate sale can empty out the house. Oh, absolutely it can. Of course it can, but it cannot cancel the resurrection. You're not leaving behind an estate, you're inheriting a kingdom. If that gave you hope that what you leave behind can last, and you're listening if you're watching on any other channel, go over to True Word Faith for Life with Dr. Sean Shaw N's YouTube channel. Click on that. It's the one with about 4,000 subscribers. And click on subscribe, click on the little bell for all notifications, thumbs up, blah, blah, blah. If it wasn't important, I wouldn't say it. Trust me. Nothing I hate worse than to say that stupid thing. But if I don't, you won't. And then I'm telling you, they it's the way the algorithm works. Here's your step for this coming week. There always is. It has three parts. First, take inventory of your real inheritance before Tuesday. Sit down with Psalm 16, open it up, really and truly open it up and write down three things. You can look, I keep telling you, I'm going to show you my little notebook. It's my little notebook, and then my I'm going to show you next time, if I can remember it, my my beautiful little journal that that uh my son and daughter-in-law gave me, and they gave me this pen, which I carry around. See that right there? Well, you can't see it. It's this pen. It's called a lamy pen. It's a fountain pen. Love it. Love it. I don't write well anymore, but I love this pen and I love the journal they gave me. But I write different things than that, but I write things I need to remember in this one here. To-dos and whatnot. I want you to sit down, whatever journal or piece of paper or legal pad or whatever you want to do. Before Tuesday, now I'm I'm recording this live on Monday. No, this is Sunday. I have it written right there in big old letters, too. Today is Sunday, November 1st. Doei. Anyway, before Tuesday, sit down with Psalm 16 open and write down three things God has given you that no estate sale could ever sell. Maybe it was a rescue. I can't tell you how many times God has rescued me. I haven't deserved it any other times. A healing. Listen, I'm a very sick man. I'm in bad, bad shape, but I've had lots of healings. I was supposed to be dead at 47. I'm 61 years old right now. I'm not sure what the truth.377, I don't know what your purpose is, but maybe listen. Maybe, you know, you put on your YouTube channel this this what you're saying, because I don't, I don't, I don't get why you're even putting that there. If you could read some of the comments I see sometimes in the chat. Some of the ones you can see because they don't violate the rules, but some of them you can't see, but I can still see them. And some don't make any sense at all. And maybe there's a purpose, maybe there's a good um redeemed purpose in that, but I don't know what it is yet. Look, I've I have been healed from so many things. There's no way in this world. Every medical person that dealt with me has said, Man, you're not gonna make it. Sat us down, Miss Colleen and I, several times and said, Hey man, get your affairs in order. TikTok. It's reality. He's healed me more than I deserved. He's rescued me more than I deserved. He's healed me more than I deserved. And you know what? He's kept more promises that I've never deserved for him to keep his promises. But here's the thing: God never breaks his promises. Then I want you to read. That's the list, man. It's three things. List the three things God has given you that no estate sale could ever sell. A rescue, a healing, a promise kept. Then read verse six out loud over that list. The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places. Now, number two. Do the thing that you've put off for the people who came. These people who are coming after you, your kin. Your lineage. Joshua 18, verse 3. How long will you put it off? Hey, look, maybe it's the last will and testament. Maybe it's the medical directive, the health care power of attorney. Or maybe it's just the call to the lawyer in the first place. Hey man, I gotta do some stuff. I gotta, I gotta get some decisions down so that my kids, my nieces, my nephews, my kinfolk, my best friend don't have to make these hard decisions for me. Maybe it's sorting one closet so your children don't have to. Listen, half the time they don't want your junk, I'm telling you. Offer it to them now while they're alive. Say, hey, if you've got space for this, would you like this? What in this house do you really, really, really, really want? And you'll find most of the time the kids are like, look, I got no room for it. Appreciate it. I appreciate seeing it all my life, but and no offense, but I can't use that. Amen, Zimmero 8. Amen. Robbie, amen. Robbie's been healed so many times, he's been rescued more times than he can count. Amen. We are in a club. Do the hard thing. Even as simple as a closet, going through the closet, so your kids don't have to. Don't put a spiritual gloss on work your family will otherwise have to do in grief. Don't add to the list of things that they have to do after you're gone. Pick one and finish step one before Thursday. Third, I want you to write your Joshua 24. If you did it Friday, send it. Remember, I said to do it, do it by Friday. If you did it Friday, send it. If you didn't write it this week, one page to a child or a grandchild or somebody you call nephew or niece. Maybe a younger believer who has no family to tell them about God's faithfulness. Long ago, here's where I came from. Here's what God did. Here's when I chose him. As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. And every morning this week, say the names of the people you hope will inherit your faith out loud to God. You can leave a letter, of course. You can leave a letter, but only God can give someone a living faith. So hand them your witness and hand them to Him. I have for you a challenge and a choice. Tonight some of you are tired from a fight that just won't end. Hear Joshua 11. A long fight isn't proof God has left. If you've been leaning on a chariot, burn it. Either way, keep walking. Some of you have stopped asking God for anything because you think you're you're too old. I want you to hear Caleb ask for the mountain. Some of you have your hands hanging slack, calling it waiting. I'm just waiting on the Lord. Hear Joshua 18. Pick up the axe. Some of you are running from harm you never meant to do. I want you to hear Joshua 20. Run to the gate. Your high priest has died, and the road home is open. And some of you did mean it. The cities of refuge were never a loophole for that. But Yeshua is not a loophole, a savior. Confess it. Make right what you can. Come to the great high priest who receives repentant sinners. Yes, Caramel Dragon Z, I am more than happy to answer your question, but here's what I want you to do. Um here's what I want you to do. I would like for you to go to TrueWordfaithforLife.com. TruewordfaithforLife.com is right on the screen. The Trueword Faithful Life is right on the screen.com and click on contact. And that goes for anybody. If you have questions or comments, anything like that, put it right there. Um and and I will get back to you. As soon as I receive it, I'll get back to you. True WordFaith for Life.com, contact. I promise you, I'll get back to you. Look, some of you are afraid your faith will die with you. And you you've said, and I remember what Mama Max said to me. Two weeks before she died, I'd used every day of my leave. I was a police officer then, and I'd used every day of my vacation. And I was there in that little Tennessee town, and we were sitting out front, and we were just watching everything, and she was turning slow. She was weak from cancer, and she said, listen, because you're so close to our family, people are gonna watch how you react to me dying. Be faithful. I'm gonna be in heaven. When I close my eyes, I'll be healed and made whole. I know in whom I've believed. Listen, her faith story will never die because she lived it, she told it. Hear Joshua 24. Choose out loud in front of them. Tell your kinfolk, tell your friends about God and what he's done in your life. You don't have to preach a sermon, just tell your story. You can spend the rest of your life filling a house that will end up in an estate sale, or you can receive that the inheritance that's imperishable, and spend the rest of your life handing on the witness to a life of faith in God. You you can there is a place. It's easy. Here, look, I'm gonna do it for you. I'm gonna do this for you. This is the death knell. Faith for life.com. Backslash contact. The best of my ability, I've typed it out. Looks a lot like that. Easy peasy. You bet. Listen, the deed will change hands. God's faithfulness will not. Oh, the world can change. Everything's gonna change, everything changes. But God's faithfulness, it will never change. Whose lot has fallen to you tonight? Choose. My friends, prayer isn't asking for an easy journey. Hello, Tammy. Good to see you. Prayer isn't asking for an easy journey, it's asking for a strong back. Pray with me, Adunai. Adunai Halloween. You are our portion. We confess we've spent our lives building what will not last. Filling closets, counting what we own, worrying about who'll get what. But tonight we open our hands. Everything we hold, we hold in trust from you. For those of us in a long fight, burn whatever we've trusted instead of you, and give us strength to keep walking into what you've given. For those of us who we feel too old, help us to be like Caleb. Let us follow you wholly until the end and still ask for the mountain. For those of us with slack hands, I pray that you put an axe in them. For those of us running from harm we never meant, bring us to the gate and take us in. For our children and our grandchildren, you kept Joseph's promise across the centuries, keep faith with them too, and bring them home. Let our witnesses outlive us. Thank you for Israel, whose inheritance you have never revoked, and thank you for welcoming the nations as fellow heirs. And most of all, Father, thank you for Yeshua. Thank you for the cross and the empty grave. Thank you for Yeshua Jesus Christ, the heir whose death redeems us, our kinsman who bought back what we lost, and who gives the rest that still remains. I pray this in his name. Amen. Fracman 55 says, Why do I always cry when I talk to my Savior? But I feel loved so deeply. It's been that way most of my life. I'm an old man waiting for the rapture. Can't wait to see my Lord Jesus. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Well, first of all, thank you for listening. I'm honored to have you listen. Second of all, you ain't the only old man that cries when he talks to his Savior. You're in good company. Or maybe I'm in good company because sometimes when I talk to the Lord, I'm so overcome with gratitude. I don't deserve anything that he's given me. I really don't. I so appreciate his faithfulness. Hey, listen, if you've if you've never received this inheritance, folks, you can receive it today, tonight, whenever you're listening to this, live or on playback. You didn't earn it, I didn't earn it. You can't buy it. An inheritance is given, and the heir himself is offering you a share. Whatever you've built, whatever you've lost, whatever you've done, his lot can fall to you right now. Listen, place your faith in Christ. Tonight. Don't wait. Don't wait. Live or on playback. Don't wait. Handle this. You ready? It's as simple as this. Pray this and believe it. You're talking with Yeshua Jesus Christ. He is that Redeemer. Are you ready? Pray this with me right now. Yeshua, I need you. I believe you died for me and you rose from the grave. I surrender my life to you today. Please forgive me. Fill me. Lead me. My life is yours. In your name. Amen. Amen. You pray that prayer tonight? It's some good, it's some that's some good stuff. You pray that prayer tonight? That's some good stuff. I'm telling you right now. That makes me so happy. I can't even believe it. I get people that contact us every single, every single week, and they say, hey, when you when you did that, when you said that, I prayed with you. And I'm I'm telling you, there's something different in my life. I'm trying hard not to screw up. I'm trying not to go back on the hurts, habits, and hang-ups and and all that, but I'm asking him help for, and I'm, but I'm trusting him. We're in it together. Listen, you're not a guest here anymore. You're not a tenant. You're an heir. Type my portion in the comments below or in the chat so that we can rejoice with you. We'll pray for you by name this week. Contact me through truewordfaithforlife.com. Contact. I put it in the chat there. Then tell one believer what you did tonight. One somebody you trust. Tell them out loud. Find a church family that opens the scriptures and loves Israel and sit with them next Sunday. Open Psalm 16 every morning this week. It's your deed. Amen. Amen. I'm glad you found us too. It's an honor to have you. We'll be here Monday through Friday, 7 a.m. Eastern Standard Time until the Lord calls me home or he comes back for us. And every Sunday night, 6 30. Amen. Amen. Jane Kiba 4961. Amen. Praise God. Placed her faith in Christ. I'm telling you right now, I live for that. Right there. Right there. Don't tell me. Little things don't mean a lot, folks. They mean everything. Glory to God. Glory to God. There's a city on a hill that burned, and chariots were there in ashes. There's an old man in the hill country standing where the giants used to live. There's a forest cleared by hand and a gate that opened for the one who never meant the harm. And there's Shechem. Abraham heard the promise there. Jacob bought ground there. Israel renewed the covenant there and a stone, heard every word. Joseph asked that his bones leave Egypt. Exodus 13, verse 19 says, Moshe or Moses carried them. Israel kept the request for generations, because God's promise outlived Joseph. And on Jacob's ground at Shechem, Joseph finally came home. The lines have fallen for you in pleasant places. Your lot is in his hands. Someone you love is staring at a house full of things and wondering what it all comes to. Send them this episode tonight. Tell them that the best inheritance cannot be sold. And listen, if you missed a morning this past week, every day of Joshua is waiting in the Joshua playlist on YouTube, waiting on the true word faith for life, Monday through Friday, through the Bible in the year. It's on a bunch of playlists there, or just go to the live tab. They're all right there. Or on your favorite podcast platform. They're all there. They're all free. Now I'm going to pray a blessing over you. It's called the Iranic or Priestly Blessing. I want you to receive it in his heavenly name. I'm nobody special. I'm going to pray it over you. And I'm going to pray it in first in Lashon Hokadesh, which is Hebrew, the language of God. Then I'm going to translate it for you. It's it's quick. It's there. You ready? May the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord make his face shine upon you and be gracious to you. May the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace. Shalom Beshem Yeshua. Until tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. Shalom.