Like Ephraim and Manasseh [Part 2]

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Any faithful Hebrew patriarch on the Sabbath day will say to his sons. May the Lord make you like Ephraim and Manasseh, I think that Dave Jesus had all these little children, he's bless and then and then he said with a smile on his face, knowing all that is to come. And he saying. May the Lord make you like Ephraim and Manasseh, strange as you might envision the there be a prophetic blessing to be spoken over the sons of Israel on a regular basis there might be something like may the Lord make you like Abraham, a mighty man of faith that you have faith like Abraham and I will not be a blessing.

Or maybe the same may the Lord make you like Moses, a worker of signs and wonders, and great courage to lead people in the direction of God. May the Lord make you like David, who was a man after God's own heart, and the king of Israel. May the Lord make you like Solomon wiser than any man on earth, but instead the blessing that is spoken is may you be like Ephraim and Manasseh, and we don't hardly know who Ephraim and Manasseh in a strange strength that may the Lord make IT for my Manasseh.

I think they were once removed from even the main tribes of Israel were the great things that they even do the Lord make you like Ephraim and the primary blessing to be spoken. Amazing thing about it is it is spoken to an individual so you got one child or one person using the Lord make you individually like Ephraim and Manasseh make you like to people Ephraim and Manasseh you together. You be like them. That's strange to what what is this what's this all about what in the first place you if you go try to figure this out. You realize there's something up once again with older and the younger and older somehow missing what should've come to him and the younger getting what shouldn't have come to an end. You see it over and over this this incredible exchange that's that's that's taking place so that that's that's going on and and so there's got to be part of of what is make you like Ephraim and Manasseh, think of the really understanding to look at their names.

Ephraim and Manasseh, Manasseh is born first. Joseph is been through so much pain so much agony and his firstborn son he names Manasseh, which has to do with forgetting and and and means something like her. Sounds like for forgetting my troubles. In other words, like I have been through all of this adversity, but look what the Lord has done it has been as though he has made me to forget the pain of the past and then his second born is Ephraim and Ephraim means is sounds like twice fruitful. Maybe Joseph was just saying I got a second sign, so it may be fruitful the person is maybe fruitful the second.

It could be just that simple was embodied in the name Ephraim is is your fruitful and you will be fruitful. See, that's the promise of God is are there two things that are going on here. There is there there is the fact that the Lord has made me to forget my troubles but he's also made me fruitful. He has caused me to be able to be healed of the memories and now he is he is he is making me fruitful in the land and and there's a promise to instill in front of me. I have forgotten what is behind on pressing on towards what is in front of me on her so I can move on with this is saying is that when when when the Hebrew patriarch is awesome. His hands and he say make you like Ephraim and Manasseh happens blessing of Christ, the firstborn, the blessing this should only man from Christ is put upon the younger and younger is getting what he didn't deserve know what you are and here's the thing about Christ. Every person, every person in this world. Christ you have trouble with have troubles. People despise you people lie about people that hard to go through difficult things to be traumatic experiences. In this world you have trouble. But he's a particular overcome the world. And here's the distinction between Christ and not that we have troubles and he didn't even more trouble than we right nobody know by then no by has been persecuted like Jesus was persecuted, Joseph was despised by his own family and Jesus came into that which was his own his own did not receive him and Joseph was Joseph was of mere flashing mortal human.

It is a good boy and yet he was.

He was mocked and he was he was he was ostracized and esteemed not as painful and Jesus is been through everything we've been through what happens us so we go through difficult things in life those wounds come because of our sin nature.

What we tend to do is make a sinful response to the pain that's inflicted against us that sin nature inside of us causes us to take offense causes roots of bitterness to grow up to poison us inwardly and not just our sin nature but just our sheer frailty of not being able to understand what is happening to us.

So when we get rejected in life. When we face things in our own families. Even when were little children are minds don't understand it and what happens is our minds. We either form judgments, we form. We form vowels and our spirit about about how to live our life that are ungodly dark truck trying to deal with.

Why have I been through all this trouble using why have I been through all this adversity and this pain in your mind tries to deal with. It makes sense with what it does is that the troubled pain associated with gets lives into your soul to become a party or psyche, it becomes becomes part of the fabric of your soul and and and our responses to all the different pain that we experience have come through either our sin nature or our immaturity by which we don't know how to process it. We don't know the meaning behind it. We don't understand. You see we are all child if somebody hurts your abuse, your something you don't know why they're doing it so you assume with her. Something wrong with me where one because there was something wrong with you. You just didn't understand it was somebody else's sin and and all of this gets tangled up into our minds and therefore our minds are filled with a lot of wrong thinking. Our soul has been in and in and grafted into it and then the pain of the past, but Christ was different Christ with everything that you and I went through except when Christ went through it. Once the form judgment in his heart. What did you take a spirit of a fit. Why was he just confused by and making wrong ungodly thought patterns develop no strongholds ever developed. In his mind. No, no sinful responses because there was no sin in Christ. So he understood what and he understood it to the point that even hung on the cross and said father forgive them. They don't know what they're doing. He knew that it was opening come into it so he would be treated by sinful people in these different ways.

He never internalize and sit with her must be something wrong with me, so his thinking. Never was clouded never became impure and never became distorted what was so important about that is it because his thinking was never distorted and he was able to keep his eyes on the cross and fulfill his destiny and he didn't live his life in response to his own negative thought patterns because of all the pain in the past what happens us. What happens is all the pain in our life. We either have a sinful response to a thinking about it that's associated with it and that pain is so great and is there any lives on an arm memory, and here's what I believe God offers to you.

I believe he offers a great exchange. I believe what he offers is the right hand should only been upon his firstborn, Jesus, and the second born is you asked me right will have more teaching moment from today's important series of the reindeer from Alan Wright Ministries for quite some time now and God has used every one of us messages broadcast hadn't really hit home, and special rates in gratitude of more than talking every symbol of the most powerful messages each year. The first time I put into gathering. One special album when you make a gift to Alan Wright Ministries. This night we went to Alan Wright's top 10 CD album, a digital download. Are you ready for some good means make your gifting to discover God's grace afresh with Alan Wright's top tank at the first decade the gospel is shared when you get to Alan Wright Ministries.

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I believe that God heals memories. Now God can heal a memory is because God is so smart and so big and so transcendent because he's not confined by time, God is not in time. Is he is an eternity in eternity is not a long period of time is something categorically different. It's outside of time. You know what that means. It means that God is able to be at every moment of your life at every moment of your life at any time during your life. I know it sounds strange but God can be with me when I was four years old. Even though right now 45 years old he can.

He is still at that place happened to me. I believe I believe that God has come in and they're still to be healed, but many of the memories are healed is not that the memories not there is that my response to that memory has been forever altered.

So when I'm a fourth-grader and I don't know why my dad is leaving home. Understand the dynamics that make a marriage break. All I know is it he's my little limited. Immature mind and my sin nature knows to do with that is to think maybe something wrong with me and establish somehow with our family and how does this affect who I am in the world and my destiny in the world and probably other people got rejected many of her even more easy got all going on. Jesus was there. He understand, and in fact he can be there right now he he's outside of all of this and I think what happens is when you come to Christ switch you to be able Alan to live your life free of all the sinful responses to the pain of your life. I'm not saying I race all the pain back pain was real. I didn't even give Jesus a life without pain, but he gave him mine and he was sincerely through the son of God, so he was able to live his life without ever associating negative things and and and internalizing negative messages because that he knew who he was. You are so I don't just feel a little bit better about past and muscle as his plan for the Holy Spirit to heal you where all them go through pain.

God is so good. Joseph realized that have been through so much as anything that Joseph demonstrated in his life that his soul somehow remained whole, so that when he encountered his brothers.

He demonstrated by saying I forgive you new minute for the God kind and also carry a sinful response to all this pain my life in God has healed my memories. I've forgotten my troubles so my firstborn's name Manasseh, but have second born in the name him twice fruitful because seek God doesn't just want to heal you of the pain associated with your memories of traumatic things that are destiny is not just to get healed are destiny is to be fruitful in this world remain in me and I'll remain in you, and you will bear much fruit, your destiny is to be bearing fruit for the kingdom of God, and there are good works that he is prepared for you to do from the foundation of the world there so much. God wants to do through us. Not that our name will be in lights or something platform, but through our sphere of influence in our corner of the God is going to use you to bless you. He wants to bless you with the fruit of his spirit, love and joy and peace, patience and kindness and goodness, gentleness and self-control to bless you with the fruit of the spirit. He wants to bless you with productivity for the things that he calls you to do when God calls you to do something. His plan is for you to prosper at it. To succeed at it when he takes it to a promised land. This plant is where you put your foot to take background what he knows is what happens to us is that the devil uses our past to keep us so locked up in the memory of previous in our previous failure to previous hurt our previous trauma. That's the only thing that can keep us from the promised land. And I think it is healed enough of the past so we forget our troubles. Then we can move on and be twice as approvals so I want to make you see holes to be forgotten. So you can be twice fruitful you ever thought you knew abundantly exceedingly above and beyond what you could ever ask you not thinking clearly combines liberated so that God can use us for everything. That's why that's why Jacob without knowing it just acted under the function of the Holy Spirit to show us what was coming.

I will give you the blessings that should adjustment for Christ. I will give you the mind of Christ we got the same spirit of Christ had if you did his mind. You start understanding how Jesus could be so audacious to say how the Revelation just progresses and profit when you preface, you don't even know what you're saying is galloping so you can't fully window Lord spoke to Jeremiah he said I will leave them beside streams of water on a level path where they will not stumble, because I'm Israel's father Jacob's father. I'm Israel's father and Ephraim is my firstborn son, you see what's happening now in the Revelation by the time of Jeremiah gets around the way the Lord is talking.

Jesus forgotten that Manasseh was the firstborn values and Ephraim is my firstborn son. That means means that in Christ you have just as complete access to the father is Christ himself ever. Therefore, boldly with confidence into the throne of grace. You are fully completely 100% his son just like air somewhere down the line out know you a priority and crossed over and you now have become sons and daughters and if you get the spirit of God in you. The first thing you happens is the Spirit himself testifies with our own spirit that we are God's children. As the competition going on the voice of the sin nature. The voice of the world, and the voice of the tempter is always trying to tells were not fully sons and daughters, but the Holy Spirit is always speaking to us testified you are like Ephraim and Manasseh, they warning part of the tribes, but they got adopted by Israel and were children they were heirs. Heirs of God and coheirs Christ as goodness and Helen teaching blessing God offers everyone like Ephraim stick with us. Alan will be back here in just a moment with more on this in some additional insight of the radio from Alan Wright Ministries for quite some time now is used every one of this message is broadcast hadn't really hit home, and special rates in gratitude of more than talking of radio assembled the most powerful messages each year. The first time I put into gathering. One special album when you make a gift to Alan Wright Ministries? We want to give you Alan Wright's top 10 CD album digital download. Are you ready for some good news make your gifting to discover God's grace afresh with Alan Wright's top 10. The first decade the gospel is shared when you get to Alan Wright Ministries. This broadcast is only possible because of listener financial support.

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We will send you to get a special offer. We are happy to send this to you as I thanks from Alan Wright Ministries. Call us at 877-544-4860 877-544-4861 come to our website past Rowan.work Alan. What good news and the blessing God offers everyone so don't let the enemy tell you you're not good enough. You're not fully us, not fully, a daughter enough yet right right right Daniel. This story absolutely one of the most beautiful, mysterious, intriguing stories in all the Bible of the blessing of Ephraim and Manasseh, and how this is the blessing that was to be spoken over all of Israel and symbolically spoken over every single believer and I just want to say this personally to anyone who is hungry right now to receive it. That I want to speak words of blessing. May you your life be, as Ephraim and Manasseh, may your life be lived out of the assurance that you receive the blessing in Christ that you never deserve but is most surely yours because of simple faith in him, and may it be that you forget yesterday's troubles and become twice as fruitful as you ever imagined the blessing Ephraim and Manasseh, today's good news message is a listener supported production Alan Wright Ministries