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This podcast is brought to you by Coteau Holmes Fellowship church with sermons from 1990s to 2000s
We owe everything to when Jesus hung on that cross because of what he done. When he became a curse, we're freed from my sin, even made it possible now that I can receive his spirit. I can be baptized in the Holy Ghost and I can receive all the blessings that Abraham had. We all were under the curse. I mean, we were spiritually dead and in sin and headed for hell.
Mike Robicheaux:That's curse from God. But thank God Jesus Christ came along and paid the became a curse for me. I I received spiritual life. He became a curse. He's bored that I might be free.
Mike Robicheaux:Now I'm no longer under the curse, and now the promise of Abraham is gonna come upon me. We preach, you know, you gotta do this and you gotta do that. And you can't do this, you can't do that. There there there are certain new guidelines, but do you know we gotta learn the other side of it too? We gotta learn what Jesus did for us.
Mike Robicheaux:You know, for the last 3 Sundays last Sunday, but the minister, but 2 Sundays before that, I ministered along the line, which I'm going to continue on again today, that Jesus became a curse for me that I might receive the blessings of Abraham. I mean, we got to preach it. I mean, if we're going to preach a balanced gospel, we gotta preach all the word of God. And he paid for my sins. And thank God that was the greatest blessing.
Mike Robicheaux:Because you see, when he set me free from my sin, he set me free from Satan's dominion. I'm no longer bound by sin. I'm no longer oppressed in my mind. I'm no longer have all the troubles and heartaches and worries I had before because Jesus Christ set me free. But how did he set me free?
Mike Robicheaux:He didn't just turn a lock loose. He took my place literally, and he took all the punishment that I was supposed to get. And he took it upon himself. Now he says, now you can go free. And then that last time I'd ministered, I'd ministered about the area of sickness and disease.
Mike Robicheaux:Jesus paid for it. It's up to us to learn how to walk in his ways and believe him for it, but I'm just telling you what his will is.
Mike Robicheaux:It's not God's will for his children to be sick and diseased. And let me look at the last well, there's a lot more things, but
Mike Robicheaux:the third we're going to look at in this area is he doesn't really want to see his children in poverty. Well, we're going to look at what the Bible has to say. I guarantee you'll be balanced. Amen. Because we gotta watch it because you see in the last day, one of the last day, false doctrines they would have, it says, and we might get to read a little later, in 1st Timothy the 6th chapter is that they have, perverse, teaches of perverse, teaching perverse things.
Mike Robicheaux:And one of the things they teach is gain is godliness. And there's a lot of that. The prosperity message, you know, unbalanced. You know, you claim it. You name it.
Mike Robicheaux:Claim it. You get it. It don't work. There's a balance to it. It is one.
Mike Robicheaux:That's one thing that opened my eyes because I was involved a lot in that. You know, gain is not godliness. That doesn't prove you wholly by how much you possess. There's a balance to it. There's a right way and there's a wrong way.
Mike Robicheaux:But we're going to turn look in acts the 3rd chapter and begin right there. In acts the 3rd chapter, amen. If Jesus paid for something, don't you think you ought to get it? Well, if Jesus paid for it, I mean, if he suffered for it, don't you think we ought
Mike Robicheaux:to
Mike Robicheaux:try to appropriate what he paid for? I mean, we've done pretty good with salvation because that's the most thing that's preached. We put but you know the word salvation means more than than the deliverance of the soul and deliverance from sin. You read and look it up in the Greek. It means, you know, it means, you know, to be free from your sins, to be to be saved, you know, spiritually saved.
Mike Robicheaux:But it also means to be healed. It also means to do good and it also means protection. It's a whole bunch of things what salvation really means. But let me read you these things. The apostle Peter, when he was preaching into in this congregation or this this group of people he had and you know he called them to repentance and needed a baptism of the Holy Ghost and he brought up the scripture of the very thing that they were looking for.
Mike Robicheaux:That was the Messiah. But I want to start in Acts 3 and verse 22. This is Peter speaking. For Moses truly said unto the father, the prophet, shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren like unto me, him shall you hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass that every soul which will not hear that prophet, and that prophet is Jesus Christ, shall be destroyed from among the people.
Mike Robicheaux:Now that's that's bad. That's that's bad when people refuse to follow Jesus Christ. The the their end is destruction because the only lifesaver there is in this world is Jesus Christ. Yea, and all the prophets from Samuel and those that followed after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days. You are the children of the prophets, talking about the Jewish nation, and of the covenant which God made with our father saying unto Abraham, in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed.
Mike Robicheaux:Unto you first God having raised up his son Jesus sending him to bless you in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. Now, listen to this. God sent Jesus into this world to bless the people, never to curse them. He didn't come into the world to condemn the world which is, you know, he came. He really he literally gave his life to save this world.
Mike Robicheaux:Not everyone's gonna be saved. We know that. But which ones are? Which people are gonna be saved? But the ones that believe.
Mike Robicheaux:Amen. Oh, thank you. Those that believe are blessed in turning away every one of you from his iniquities. Once he takes all your sins and once you give him your sins and he does away with them, you just don't know all that it really brought you. Like number 1, thank God the burden of sin is gone.
Mike Robicheaux:Release from it. Satan has no more claims on my life. Turned away. It turned away that curse and I was able for my body to be healthy. I got a divine right now because of Jesus Christ.
Mike Robicheaux:If if Satan attacks me, if I get sick, I can go to my father in a full confidence, you know, faith and ask the Lord for healing, and I can expect it, not because of what I've done, but because Jesus came to bless me. And this week we're gonna look at it. I got just as much right to ask God to meet my needs. And we're gonna look at it. Let's look in Galatians the 3rd chapter.
Mike Robicheaux:I want you all to look at this scripture one more time. We looked at it quite a bit already, but in Galatians the 3rd chapter I'm trying to make the word of God sink in. God's a blesser. He only curses people who refuse to hear his word and reject his word. But those who are obedient and walk in his ways, he blesses them.
Mike Robicheaux:Galatians, the 3rd chapter, you all probably could almost say these verses by heart by now. Christ has redeemed me from the curse of the law. Being made a curse for us as it is written, it curses everyone that hangeth on the tree that the blessings of Abraham might come on the Gentiles. That's us. That that that's you and me.
Mike Robicheaux:He said that the blessings of Abraham might come on the Gentiles cross because of what he done. When he became a curse, freed me from my sin, he even made it possible now that I can receive his spirit. I could be baptized in the Holy Ghost and I can receive all the blessings that Abraham had. Because you see, it says in the 29th verse, if you be Christ, then are you Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise. Now that word troubled me.
Mike Robicheaux:I'll be using that word quite a bit today. You know, I used to thought that was hairs. I didn't know. I thought Easter bunny was scriptural, but found out Kathy corrected me and it's heirs. It's not hairs.
Mike Robicheaux:Okay? So now you all understand, you know, now I come to understand what that means. If if I'm an heir, that means I got, an inheritance coming to me. A big one do. Wait till you get to find out what you got.
Mike Robicheaux:Well, let's go to the Lord in prayer before we open up some more in the word. Father, we thank you for today. We thank you for your goodness, your kindness, and your mercy. And father, I bind every religious, lying, deceitful spirit in Jesus name that would hinder, Lord, your people from growing in you and, Lord, from having misconceptions of the word of God. Father, let us look at the word as it speaks to us that we might be set free Lord God from Lord from misunderstandings of your bible.
Mike Robicheaux:We might be free as children of the living God in Jesus name. Amen and Amen. Well, the Bible says that, if if if I belong to Jesus Christ, then I'm Abraham's seed and and I'm an heir according to the promise. How many know what the promise is? Well, that's one of them.
Mike Robicheaux:Well, let's look it up. Maybe let's find out. He starts in Genesis 12th chapter, and let's look it up and remember, don't just hear part of what I'm teaching. Hear it all. Okay?
Mike Robicheaux:Don't because that's a lot. That's what happened a lot of time. You only hear certain parts and and you don't hear it all. Genesis, the 12th chapter. Genesis, the 12th chapter.
Mike Robicheaux:God chose out Abraham. He was a gentile just like we were in the beginning, okay? God from Ur of the Chaldees and and, he bought Abraham out, and and he made a promise with him. He was gonna be the 1st in the lineage of bringing the Hebrew nation into existence from which Jesus Christ would come into existence into this world where he would bless all the nations. Let me start in in
Mike Robicheaux:in in
Mike Robicheaux:in in the second verse. Okay? This is the call and the promise to Abraham. Genesis 12 verse 2, and I will make thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, thou shalt be a blessing. And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee, and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
Mike Robicheaux:Let me tell you this one thing why Abraham was so blessed. He was a friend of God. Abraham knew how to talk to God. And the main reason the Bible says Abraham received eternal life is because he believed God. When God spoke to him, he believed him.
Mike Robicheaux:He said, well, leave your your family, leave your household, you know, your father's household and go to land. I'm a show you. He just picked up and did as God told him to do. And every time he told him he believed all that, he said, no, he needed a son for for an heir. Give you a son.
Mike Robicheaux:He had to wait 25 years, but the Bible says that he believed God. Now, there's some place you can read in the Bible. He he drifted and made mistakes. But the thing the main point about Abraham, he believed God and his his belief was counted unto him for righteousness. Even when God demanded that his son take him in and sacrifice, he still believed God that God was gonna see him through.
Mike Robicheaux:Wondering if he had to raise him from the dead. He was a man of faith. Okay? That's number 1. We got to remember that.
Mike Robicheaux:First, you have to be a friend of God. You have to belong to him. But God did only he didn't only have a spiritual relationship with God. That's the beginning of it. Remember that.
Mike Robicheaux:He blessed everything he put his hand to. Let me read you just a little bit a little, another part of it. I want you to read in chapter 24, part of the blessing. I'm not remember, we looked at I don't read in here another day where Abraham was sick. That that's another that's another thing.
Mike Robicheaux:We looked at that last week. God promises us healing. But look at this. Genesis, chapter 24. Here's where, Abraham desired a wife for his son, Isaac, and he sent one of his servants out.
Mike Robicheaux:And, you know, his servants, you know, found Rebecca. And listen what when she he went to her household and he described what Abraham was like. Okay? Verse 35, Genesis 24 and verse 35. And the Lord has blessed my master greatly.
Mike Robicheaux:He has become great and has given him flocks and herds and silver and gold and menservant and maidservants and camels and asses and I mean, you know, you name it. He had everything. You know, the Bible says that Abraham was probably one of the richest men at his time. Let me just ask you this. Why was he rich?
Mike Robicheaux:He's blessed. Right? Okay. I'm just trying to show you a principle. We're gonna we're gonna learn some things today.
Mike Robicheaux:So we see that Abraham's blessing not only in covered, covered his spiritual state, his physical state, but his financial state. You read that in the Bible? Did I make that up? The promise to Abraham. The bible says we're heirs of God according to the promise.
Mike Robicheaux:We we inherited we we got the blessings of Abraham, it says. Right? He had a spiritual walk. I mean, he had spiritual life. Right?
Mike Robicheaux:He had eternal life. That's number 1. And he had health. He had a covenant with God, and he had financial he had wealth. He had it.
Mike Robicheaux:I mean, you can't deny it. The Bible says that because God blessed him. You can read everywhere in his life. I ain't going all the way through it again, but you can read in his life everyone realized that God was with with God was with Abraham, and that's the reason why he was blessed. You can look at Job.
Mike Robicheaux:Job was a man that feared God. Even the devil himself knew he couldn't touch him because he said, you know, he said, you put a head round about him, Lord. Job was one of the richest men at this time. Abraham's son, Isaac, inherited everything he had. He was blessed.
Mike Robicheaux:His other son of Isaac, Jacob, was blessed. Right? They all inherited the covenant. They were all blessed. You can't deny what the Bible says when when when the Bible says of God blessing someone in the Old Testament, he blessed them with, you know, with material wealth.
Mike Robicheaux:It's in the Bible. I mean, I ain't making it up. I did read that. Okay? But the bible says that if we don't walk in God's ways, if we become disobedient to his voice, then the bible says then a curse would come upon them and us.
Mike Robicheaux:But this is what I want to read. I want you to start doing Deuteronomy the 8th chapter because listen what it says. This is what you have to understand. The bible says that Jesus became a wild curse. Well, now that I showed you a little bit of what the blessing is like, let me add this is what we're gonna look at in a little while.
Mike Robicheaux:Let me ask you what is the curse? We looked at it before. The curse, for one thing, was spiritual death. We looked at last time I taught on it, part of the curse was was, sickness and disease, was it not? That's what the bible says.
Mike Robicheaux:Well, let's go in Deuteronomy, but I'm a start in the 8th chapter. I'm just skimming through a few verses before I, get to something. In Deuteronomy, the 8th chapter, God was telling while they were still in the wilderness and they were headed for the promised land, god was promising them he's gonna bring them into a land, all they do is drive out the enemy. They'd have houses they didn't have to build, good houses, venues they wouldn't have to plant, wells already dug. They'd have silver.
Mike Robicheaux:They'd have gold. God was gonna bless them materially. You can read it all through this chapter almost. But there was a warning about it. Let me start in the 17th verse.
Mike Robicheaux:And thou say in thine heart my power and the might of mine hand has got me this well. That's the condition most of the world is. Bible most people in the world says, well, I work for it. I gather this mind. But people forget the main part about with God.
Mike Robicheaux:It says in the 18th verse, but thou shalt remember the Lord thy God for it is he that giveth thee power or the ability to get wealth
Mike Robicheaux:that
Mike Robicheaux:he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers as it is to this day. And who their fathers were? Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You know what the blessings of Abraham was? Part of it was material blessing.
Mike Robicheaux:You can read the rest of the chapter where he's talking about what he'd give them everything they needed. Okay? Let me let you go now into Deuteronomy 28th chapter. Deuteronomy 28th chapter. I hope you're listening with your ears.
Mike Robicheaux:I'm trying to teach you something. Any person who walks with god will be blessed.
Mike Robicheaux:Will
Mike Robicheaux:be. I'm a have to teach you how to look at it, but they will be blessed. Even in the old testament, you cannot deny when people the children of Israel walked in these ways, he blessed them under the reign of David and Solomon. I mean, it was the most prosperous kingdom probably there ever was on the face of the earth. Just the temple that they built to the Lord was in Istanbul.
Mike Robicheaux:How do you say that? In Istanbul. In Istanbul. In Istanbul. Something I had it almost right.
Mike Robicheaux:In Estevo. In Estevo. I didn't know I had it right. In Estevo. But anyhow, no one knew the value of just how I mean, it was it was built with with some of the the, you know, I mean, that kind of wood.
Mike Robicheaux:It was overlaid. The whole thing was overlaid with gold. Can you imagine the inside the inside of it? Some of it was solid brass. I mean, you name it.
Mike Robicheaux:It's the the the wealth of it was I mean, there's no way even to this day, I don't think they can estimate how much it was worth. In fact, if they say if it exists in this day, it would be, like, let's say, the 7th wonder of the world. It was something else. But where did all that come from? His people gave to it.
Mike Robicheaux:Where did the people get it? God gave it to them. They were blessed. The bible said he made silver to be as it it was like pavement, you know, like rocks on the pave. They were so I mean, they were blessed.
Mike Robicheaux:I mean, there's no other way I could say it. As long as they walk in God's ways, God always calls them to be blessed. And but he warned them at any time that you quit serving me, then cursings are gonna come. Remember, I'm saying Jesus became a curse for us. So if we don't understand what the curse is, we can't understand about the blessings.
Mike Robicheaux:Well, let me start in, in the 28th chapter. I wanna start in the second verse. He says, you know, he went on the first verse. Read it later. He said, if you keep my commandments, you know all things I command you.
Mike Robicheaux:2nd verse says, and all these blessings shall come on thee and shall overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God. Blessed shall that be in the city. And Let me tell you, that's something that that look at you. We can compare it to our country. Look at the cities.
Mike Robicheaux:They're cursed. I mean, with with poverty and and sickness. You just name it. But back then, when God blessed the city, it was blessed. It was prosperous.
Mike Robicheaux:Blessed in the city, blessed shall I be in the field. You know what that means. Everything prosper not there. Blessed to be the fruit of thy body. It's not only your children, that means your health.
Mike Robicheaux:The fruit of thy ground, the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thine kind, the flocks of thy sheep. Blessed shall be thy basket in store. Blessed shall I be when thou comest in. Blessed shall I be when thou goest out. Let me go a little bit further down.
Mike Robicheaux:The 11 verse, and the Lord shall make thee plenteous in goods and the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy cattle and the fruit of thy ground and the land which the Lord swear unto thy fathers to give thee. The Lord will open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain into thy land in his season, to bless all the work of thine hand, and thou shalt lend unto many nations. Thou shall not borrow, And the Lord shall make thee the head, not the tail. Thou shall be above only, and thou shall not be beneath. If thou hearken to the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I commanded this day to observe and to do them.
Mike Robicheaux:Man, listen. You can't deny part of the blessings he gave to the nation of Israel was he blessed them materially. I mean, it's it's plain. It's not spiritualized. He means literal, material blessings.
Mike Robicheaux:But then he goes on and he says in the 15th verse, but it shall come to pass, if thou will not hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God to observe to do all his commandments, and his statutes, I command thee this day, then all these cursings shall come upon thee and overtake thee. Now this is what he said in the 16th verse. Cursed shall thou be in the city. Cursed shall thou be in the field. Cursed shall be thy basket and thy store.
Mike Robicheaux:Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, the fruit of thy land, the increase of thine kind, the flocks of thy sheep. Cursed shall I be when thou comest in. Cursed shall I be when thou goest out. I mean, it just goes on and on and on. I'm gonna be skipping around to just to show you some more of the cursings.
Mike Robicheaux:In the in the 31st verse it says, thine ox shall be slain before thine eyes, thou shalt not eat thereof, thine ass shall be violently taken away from before thy face, and thou shalt not be restored to thee. Thy sheep shall be given unto thine enemies, and thou shalt have none to rescue them. Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look and would and fail with longing for them all the day long, and there shall be no might in thine hand. And the fruit of thy land and of thy labor shall a nation which thou knowest not, eat up, and thou shall be only oppressed and crushed always. Again, let's go a little bit further down in the 38th verse.
Mike Robicheaux:Listen to this. 38th verse says, and thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and thou shalt gather but little in, for the locusts shall consume it. Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them, but thou shalt neither drink of the wine nor eat of the grapes, for the worms shall eat them. And thou shalt have olive trees throughout all our coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with oil, for thine, olive shall castest fruit. Man, he goes on and goes on.
Mike Robicheaux:Let me drop on down, to the 44th verse. And he shall lend to thee, and thou shall not lend to him, for he shall be thy head, and thou shall be the tail. And he goes on and he goes on. How about the 47th verse? Because thou servicest not the Lord thy God with joyfulness and gladness of heart for the abundance of all things, Therefore, shalt thou serve thine enemies, which the Lord shall send against thee in hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, in one of all things.
Mike Robicheaux:And he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, till he has destroyed thee. I mean, I'm gonna you can go on through the whole thing. He has a whole list of cursing. And you know what? We've all sinned and come short of the glory of God.
Mike Robicheaux:So you know what we should all have? Cursings. And you know what? We all were under the curse.
Mike Robicheaux:In sin and headed for hell. That's curse from God.
Mike Robicheaux:But thank God Jesus Christ came along and paid the became a curse for me. I've been I received spiritual life. And thank God, and when I thank God for that, thank God what Jesus redeemed me, but when I was under the curse, sickness and disease could have its way with me. But thank God Jesus became a curse for sickness and disease. Now I don't have to have it.
Mike Robicheaux:Now also, when I was under a curse, I was under a curse of poverty. It's in there. I just read it to you. Hello? But now because Jesus took that curse, broke that curse over me, I don't have to.
Mike Robicheaux:Well, let me go. We got some more things to learn. None of us. The curse should be on us right now, but I just read, Jesus became a curse. And listen, as us as Gentiles, we weren't even in the race for god's blessings.
Mike Robicheaux:You know that? Those those covenants and promises were all through the Jewish nation, but thank god Jesus became a curse that even to us gentiles the promises would come unto us. And thank god, listen, he became a curse, he bored that I might be free. Now I'm not no longer gonna curse, and now the promise of Abraham is gonna come upon me. Alright.
Mike Robicheaux:We got scripture for that. Well, let's look in 2nd Corinthians 8th chapter. We'll look at a few verses of scriptures. We're going to sift through all of this and we're going to get the right perspective on it. Because right away when I start saying God bless you, people start seeing dollar signs, Rich, yachts, mansions.
Mike Robicheaux:You gotta understand what he's talking about. He does want to bless you. Oh, you don't know. The Bible says if he gave his only son, how much more shall not with him he give us all things. There ain't nothing God wouldn't give you.
Mike Robicheaux:Nothing. You know, I myself, I'm Richard and Sam Walton. I am. All the Rockefellers put together. All them Arab sheets sheets.
Mike Robicheaux:Anyhow, I'm rich in all of them. I'm telling you. You know why? Because I'm an heir. Heiress.
Mike Robicheaux:Heiress. Heiress. Heiress. Heiress. Heiress.
Mike Robicheaux:I guess. Women are heiress. Right? Okay. I'm an heir, not a heir.
Mike Robicheaux:I'm an heir. I'm telling you, when Jesus Christ comes, you see, as of right now, the prime he's just so rich. He's up in heaven building me a mansion. I mean, what the Rockefellers live in is shacks compared to what mine's coming up. And he's coming pretty soon, limousine driven chariots, and, he's coming to get me.
Mike Robicheaux:I'm trying to buy Jesus said, he said, I'm going away to prepare a place for you and build your mansion. That where I am, there it may be also. And you know what? I was reading my bible and I I found out that, what Jesus owns, he made it all. You know?
Mike Robicheaux:If I'm a heir with him, that means whatever he got, it belongs to me too. I'm a I'm a joint heir with him. You know how much that is? People say, oh, you're talking about something in the future. Well, if you had little children, someone left you a big, big inheritance, but you couldn't have it till you're 21 years old, does that mean you don't have nothing?
Mike Robicheaux:No. You got it all. You just got a certain time. Well, let me tell you. It's all what Jesus did for me.
Mike Robicheaux:Look, it's all I mean, where I'm gonna live at, the streets are gonna be paved and go over here at Blacktop. There's no there's no wishful thinking. My doors are made out of solid pearls. Man, can you imagine the way she's gonna have to eat up there? Man, seafood gumbo there.
Mike Robicheaux:Oh, lord. But it's real. I'm not it's not some pie in the sky. Jesus paid for my spiritual well-being. When I get to heaven, I'll be redeemed from all you know, I'm redeemed right now.
Mike Robicheaux:Starting when I believe in you, I'm redeemed from all sin. I'm going to heaven and live eternally, but it's you got to understand it's it's a place of blessing, but I can have it now. There's a storehouse open unto me. Let me read you another verse of script in 2nd Corinthians 8th chapter. Most people don't believe this scripture, but it's still in the bible.
Mike Robicheaux:You read it carefully in your own spare time. I got so much to cover. I don't have time to get into all of it. But the 8th chapter talks about giving and receiving. Okay?
Mike Robicheaux:The 9th verse says this, for you know the grace of our lord Jesus Christ that though he was rich how many of you believe he was rich? Amen. Well, that's that means when he was in heaven. You know what he owned? Everything there is, he made it.
Mike Robicheaux:It's his. He was rich, and yet for your sakes, he became poor. That ye through his poverty might be rich. Now, let's look at this verse for just a little while because the first thing people, you know, say heretic heresy. You're pulling things out of context, but let let me read you something.
Mike Robicheaux:When people say, well, they believe this in like in 2nd Corinthians 102521 says, for he made him who knew no sin to be made sin for us, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. People believe that that Jesus was made sin that I might be made righteous. It's not fair, doesn't make sense, but that's what happened. Okay? Same thing with with sickness.
Mike Robicheaux:It says in Matthew 8 17, he himself took my infirmities and bore my sickness. He took that upon himself that I wouldn't have to bear it. You can believe that. Yeah. But it's hard for people to believe this part that Jesus was made poor or took our poverty upon himself that we might be made rich.
Mike Robicheaux:That's what it says. But some people might say, well, you dummy. If Jesus was made poor, then I might be made rich. Why is there so much poverty all around here? Makes sense, Well, some people said, if Jesus was made, bore my sins and if Jesus was made sin, then I might be made the righteousness of God in Christ.
Mike Robicheaux:Why is there so much sin around? Didn't Jesus pay the price for sin? Why why? Because people don't believe in Jesus. Right?
Mike Robicheaux:If there's if Jesus, took upon himself our sicknesses and our disease, why is there so much sickness in this world? They got more today than they've ever had. Even with all the modern medical science, there's more sickness and disease than they've ever had than any in the history of the world. Why is there Jesus paid for it? Why isn't it for those that believe and belong?
Mike Robicheaux:Without faith, it's impossible to please god. We gotta work learn how god works. But, why is it when we start saying, well, there's so much poverty, Jesus couldn't have meant that? Oh, isn't it maybe we just don't believe it? And here's what the bible said.
Mike Robicheaux:Anyhow, people modern day Christianity or churchianity says, well, you're reading it wrong. What it means right here is that Jesus became poor when he came to the church. He became poor spiritually. Spiritual. Okay.
Mike Robicheaux:Let's see. If Jesus became poor spiritually, if someone is spiritually poor, could you raise the dead? If you were spiritually poor, can you feed 5,000 with a little boy's lunch? If you're spiritually poor, can you heal the sick, cast out devils, and do miracles? No.
Mike Robicheaux:It takes someone that's not spiritually dead, but very much spiritually alive. Wouldn't you say? Become poor, like he says, materially. He did. Then the Bible said in Matthew 8:20, he told when someone said, well, we're gonna follow you wherever we go.
Mike Robicheaux:But he told me, you know, the foxes have holes and the birds of the air have nests, but the son of man has not weared till they say he didn't own a house on this earth. Didn't own nothing. It seemed like all he owned was the clothes that was on his back. When he died, he was buried and he had a borrowed tomb. He just used it for a while.
Mike Robicheaux:Anyhow, but, you see what I'm trying to say? Jesus did become poor when he walked this
Mike Robicheaux:earth compared to what he had in heaven. Why? This is what the Bible is saying.
Mike Robicheaux:Why did he become poor? You see, what I'm trying to say is we only want to take part of God's blessing. See, Lord, you do your part. Like like like the man who's walking along the road, you know, with a sack of potatoes and along came one of the farms, he'd offer them a ride and so he hopped up there and put the sack of potatoes on his laps and brought along. He said, why don't you put the sack of potatoes on down in the back?
Mike Robicheaux:I said, you can carry all this time. He said, no, no. I figured it's good enough to pick me up, give me a ride. I'll hold it the rest of the way. A lot of people like that with God's blessing.
Mike Robicheaux:Well, you is good enough to save my soul. I'll keep the sickness and the poverty. But what if the Bible is right? And what if Jesus paid for it? Do we have a right to believe him for better?
Mike Robicheaux:Or is it like people say like
Mike Robicheaux:with sickness, well, God blessed me with sickness, well, God blessed me with sickness. Well, God blessed me with sickness.
Mike Robicheaux:Well, God blessed me with sickness. Well, God blessed me with sickness. Well God blessed me with sickness? That's not that's not scriptural. If Jesus healed the sick when he when he walked this earth and Bob says he's the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Mike Robicheaux:And I looked at it last week, he said he only did what the will the law the law formed it. He only did the will of God. Why should we walk in that will? Well, anyway, a lot of people got wrong thinking. They say, well, I want to
Mike Robicheaux:be poor like Jesus was. What do
Mike Robicheaux:you think about that? But was Jesus really poor? Materially, it might seem like, but he wasn't poor. But anyhow, let let me some people say this, you know, I gave up everything to follow Jesus, and that's what his disciples said. Let's quickly turn in, Mark the 10th chapter.
Mike Robicheaux:Somehow we slowed down a lot. I don't know what y'all done, but
Mike Robicheaux:Mor, Mor,
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Mike Robicheaux:Mor, Tim. Listen, that's the same thing, and its own and Peter began to say to him, lo, we have left all and followed follow the But this is what Jesus said. Jesus answered and said, Verily, I'm saying to you, there is no man that has left house or brethren or sisters or father or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my sake, and the gods, or not receive a 100 fold now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands with persecutions, and in Okay. Let me turn now in Luke, the 18th chapter. Luke, the 18th chapter.
Mike Robicheaux:Luke 18. I'll read it a little bit different way. Luke 18 in verse 28. And Peter said, lo, we have left all and followed thee. And he said unto them, verily I say unto you, there is no man that is left house of parents or brother or wife or children for the kingdom of God's sake who shall not receive manifold more in this present time and in the world to come, life everlasting.
Mike Robicheaux:Well, let me bring it into context now. Okay? He was talking about little possessions. We do receive abundant more. If you gave up anything for the gods, for the, it works that way.
Mike Robicheaux:I'm just telling you. I know I experienced it. It ain't like a lot of people said, well, Lord, if it's mine, I want it. Well, first of all, I get priorities. Right.
Mike Robicheaux:And he was talking about right here. There was a rich young ruler that came
Mike Robicheaux:to Jis. And he asked Jisus. In fact, this is where it came from. Let me go
Mike Robicheaux:back to Jisus. Certain rule I ask
Mike Robicheaux:him saying, Good master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? And Jesus
Mike Robicheaux:said to him, why call this thou me good? There is none good save 1. That is God. Commit adultery. Do not steal.
Mike Robicheaux:Do not bear false witness. I don't know thy
Mike Robicheaux:father and thy mother. And he said, all these have I
Mike Robicheaux:kept my youth. And when Jesus heard him say these things, he said unto him, yet lackest thou one thing. Sell all that thou hast distribute unto the poor, and thou shall have treasure in heaven and come and follow me. And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful for he was very rich. And what Jesus was saying, in in Mark the 10th chapter, Jesus loved him.
Mike Robicheaux:He was
Mike Robicheaux:a sincere young fellow. He did keep all the commandments except the only 2 Jesus
Mike Robicheaux:didn't talk about. That was why I have no other gods before him. See money was this young man's god. So he said, well, if you want eternal life, you're gonna have to give up your god and, you know, sell what you have and come and follow me. Put me first.
Mike Robicheaux:But he couldn't do it. He could not part. He could not part with his riches. And that's when Jesus went to 24th verse and Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful and he said, how hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God? Ah, you see that, but I see I told you that we can't have nothing.
Mike Robicheaux:For it is easier for a camel to go through the needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. And when they heard that, they said, who then can be saved? And he said the things which are impossible with men are possible with God because God does save rich people as well as poor people. In fact, sometimes it's easier to save rich people and poor people. Because a lot of poor people think they're suffering on this world.
Mike Robicheaux:That's the reason God's gonna save them. No. God saved everybody on the same basis, their belief in Jesus Christ, whether you're rich or poor. What you see if you read in Mark 10th chapter, when Jesus told them this about how hardy shall a rich man enter the kingdom of heaven, They couldn't believe what Jesus was saying because they always understood the blessing of Abraham, which is to come under the Jewish nature, which is material. And And that's when he says, well, there's no one who ever gives anything for him or the gospel's sake, he'll not bless.
Mike Robicheaux:You see, if that rich young ruler would have gave what did what Jesus said, you know, he'd probably got back a 100 times more than what he had before, but he couldn't give what he had in the first place, so he couldn't get no more. But the only reason you see the Lord demanded this of him because he knew that those riches had him. That was it. They held his life. That was his God.
Mike Robicheaux:That was it. They held his life. That was his God. But there's the next chapter over in in in Luke, the 19th chapter. It says this about another man man named Zaccheus, which was the chief among the publicans and he was Rich.
Mike Robicheaux:Rich, rich, rich. When the Bible says that he was well off, he was the head of the tax collectors. I mean, he was probably very crooked too. But anyhow, he knew he had a lack in his life. He wanted to see Jesus, heard Jesus was coming.
Mike Robicheaux:We know the story. He He ran up into sycamore tree so he could see Jesus. Jesus came up through the tree and said, Zacchaeus, unclimb that tree. Come on down and and, you know, I gotta go today I gotta be at your house. And, you know, he man, he gladly went to his home and prepared a meal for Jesus.
Mike Robicheaux:And and, you know, while he was talking to Jesus, this is what what Zacchaeus said in in in the 8th verse. And Zacchaeus stood and said unto the lord, behold, lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold. And Jesus said unto him, this day his salvation come to his house, forasmuch as he also is the son of Abraham, for the son of man has come to seek and to save that which was lost. How come this rich man, he didn't say give everything you got away?
Mike Robicheaux:He didn't have to. He was already willing to say, Lord, if he takes me, I'll give it everything if that's what you want. You see, there was a change in this person's heart. You see, God doesn't always require you to give up everything you got, but he knows your heart. You know, that's probably why a lot of people don't come to the Lord who is rich.
Mike Robicheaux:They say, Well, God's gonna make me give it up. He probably would. If you get Scott a whole tone, he probably would. But for those people who says, Lord, whatever it takes, I'm gonna follow you. You'll probably let you keep it.
Mike Robicheaux:Probably bless you more to go with it. But anyhow, you see the difference between the 2 is the heart of a person, but how how can God bless a person? But anyhow, people have always said, I want to be poor like Jesus. That's wrong because the Bible says we're supposed to be like Jesus is today. How is Jesus?
Mike Robicheaux:In 1st John 417, because as he is, so are we in this world. Hi. It's Jesus. Ephesians 26. He's raised us up together and made us to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
Mike Robicheaux:In the right hand of God. Anyhow, you know how God's gonna meet all our needs? The world says, well, it's according to my ability what I can do, what I can produce. Right? The Bible said in Philippians 4/19, but my God shall supply all your need according to his riches and glory.
Mike Robicheaux:And your you see, if it's according to my ability. I can only do so. Certain times. There's certain times you can't do.
Mike Robicheaux:Now, don't get me wrong. The Bible says especially being a Christian, we can't be lazy
Mike Robicheaux:and expect God to bless us. The hand of the diligent make it rich. Laziness is a curse. In fact, in even the New Testament Bible said if a man won't work, he shouldn't
Mike Robicheaux:eat.
Mike Robicheaux:We should work. It should work. And God blesses the work of our hand. But you see, we gotta understand this. Our needs do include finances and material needs.
Mike Robicheaux:Right? They do, included. As well as our need is spiritual, physical, there's material needs, he said. And this is partly what he means. He'll supply my needs according to his riches and glory.
Mike Robicheaux:And if this is what it means and and if our needs aren't financial and material, why do we stand spend the greatest part of our life trying to get it? Well, isn't it funny? When when God says he wants to heal you, get sick? Go Everyone don't get sick. Go to the doctor and try to get rid
Mike Robicheaux:of them.
Mike Robicheaux:They say God gave them. If God gave it to you, keep it and pray for more. But why they say God wants them poor but they educate themselves, We had God don't want to bless them. Why do people fight against the will of God? Is that not right?
Mike Robicheaux:Why not just quit working and become extremely poor and and I mean busted and wouldn't you glorify God better? Just like people say about sickness. I mean, if you're sick and dying and all crippled, wouldn't that glorify God better than you being healthy and strong? That's what religion says. But it's funny, when Jesus walked dirty, he healed the sick and said they glorified.
Mike Robicheaux:You can get to heaven, poor. It's not he paid for? Amen. Why not? If all your needs would include financial material, then they are.
Mike Robicheaux:You do need finances to live in this world. God knows that. He knows you need some material possessions. You do need to live in a
Mike Robicheaux:house, don't you? I mean, you do need certain things. I mean, you
Mike Robicheaux:do need certain things. I mean, you do need certain things.
Mike Robicheaux:I mean, you do need certain things. I mean, you do need certain things.
Mike Robicheaux:I mean, you I mean, you do need certain things. But it's according to his riches and and this is what we're going to get into a little bit. Jeezus said this in Matthew 633, but see the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added to you. But what things he's talking about? Read the verses before.
Mike Robicheaux:He said don't be like the other nation, the Gentile nation. They spend all their time seeking for what they're going to wear, what they're going to eat. Material being, you said, but no. No. If you're a Christian, seek me first, and I promise you all these things will be added unto you.
Mike Robicheaux:Well, he's talking about material things. He even said, Look at the lilies of the field. They don't worry about nothing. God pulls them better than all of us. He said, Look at the birds of the air.
Mike Robicheaux:They don't go around worrying about where they're going to eat. God feeds them. I mean, that's quite a storehouse we got, Okay. Listen to this. And this is probably the greatest thing to remember if you want God to bless you.
Mike Robicheaux:I'll show you how it works. 3rd John 2. Beloved, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper. It's God's will for you to prosper materially and being healthy. It's God's will for you to be healthy even as your soul prospered.
Mike Robicheaux:And that's the key. People forget about that last point. If you if you're born again, you get filled with the Holy Ghost. You follow after God with all your heart. Your soul prospers.
Mike Robicheaux:I mean, your relationship with God really is a true relationship. The rest of it is going to follow. You have help and you also have every need met. But see, I've seen a lot of people do it though. And they said, man, God's gonna make me rich, but they don't give no that's just from there on.
Mike Robicheaux:God wants to be rich today. That's their goal in life. They go out to be rich. And they forget all about the spiritual. Forget going to quit going to church, quit reading the Bible, quit praying.
Mike Robicheaux:Don't see them at prayer meetings. And they wonder why it don't work. You read it but it don't work. Well, if you do what the Bible says, if your soul prospers, then the rest will prosper. And listen what he said in Luke 1232.
Mike Robicheaux:Fear not little flock for it is the father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom of God. God wants to give you You know what makes God happy to see his children prosper? Well, he said in Psalm 3527, let them shout for joy and be glad who favor my righteous cause. Yea, let them say continue. Let the Lord be magnified who has pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
Mike Robicheaux:Psalm 3719. They shall not be ashamed in evil time and in the days of famine, they shall be satisfied. And I'm trying to tell you this thing because you got to understand, it's not God's will for you to suffer lack get bad. The economy could collapse. And if all our hope is on what we possess and not in God, well, our supply is gone then.
Mike Robicheaux:But if your faith is in God knowing that God says I will meet your need, be met when no other way can. When the rest of the world is starving, you can
Mike Robicheaux:have your needs made. That's especially when
Mike Robicheaux:Psalm 34 verse 8. Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. Trusted in him. Oh, fear the Lord, you his saints, for there is no want to them that fear him. The young lions do lack and suffer hunger, but they that seek the Lord shall not want or lack any good.
Mike Robicheaux:You see, there's a you see, there's a you'll never, never not have your needs met. Oh, it's going to be it's just like your but you got to step up by faith. I say, well, I know I'm saved, but I believe in Jesus. Same thing with sickness. Sometimes, you know, you believe the Lord for you.
Mike Robicheaux:Sometimes you might get sick. You try. Sick? No. You have a right to go before the throne of God and say, no.
Mike Robicheaux:Jesus paid for it and you stand in faith. You know you got healing. Same thing it is with God's, supply and of your needs. You might be tried, something is God's will, there's no way you can stand in faith to believe God. I mean, I write.
Mike Robicheaux:No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly. Understand these words. When we
Mike Robicheaux:walk in his ways and do what he says to do, he gives what he says he's gonna give. He'll produce. And they say, well, that's a holy person. Well, let me ask you, you know, when this when these thoughts came popular during the dark ages when the Bible was locked away from all people, and that's the way you please. But that was when the Bible was taken away.
Mike Robicheaux:Remember? But what did the Bible teach us? Didn't Jesus say, now, a few minutes after you'd continue my word and you would know truth? And truth would bring you into bondage. Oh, it sets you free.
Mike Robicheaux:Okay. Don't you think it'd be a lot easier if you had your needs And he wants to, if you find out he wants to. I think it's better like that. Then, your and your and your and all these things shall be taken away from you. Wait, that's the way the church used to interpret it.
Mike Robicheaux:If you follow God, everything will be taken away from you. And you said all these things shall be added, not taken away. Added to you. And what it was you Let me quickly finish this up. Every time you find something good in the Bible, someone's going to rise up and say that's not for us today.
Mike Robicheaux:Out, man, Jesus saved me. I believed in him. He washed me. Oh, no, no, no, no. You got to stay in this thing here and die with us.
Mike Robicheaux:Man, they come against it when people get happy with the Lord and find salvation. I mean, you start talking about healing. Oh, no. No. No.
Mike Robicheaux:That's not for us today. That was for back in the days of the apostles. But how come when God says, now God will meet all your needs, people still say saying, oh, no. No. God, it's not for today.
Mike Robicheaux:But the Bible says, Jesus became a curse for me that I might receive the blessing of Abraham. If he did it for my salvation, he did it for my healing, he did it for my material well-being. Okay? Abraham's blessing was 3 fold: material, physical, and spiritual. Does that mean God's going to make us rich?
Mike Robicheaux:Yeah. Does that mean God's going to make you a millionaire? No. Money, but faith and God can get it done. Some things money can't buy.
Mike Robicheaux:I mean, you did I mean, if the economy collapsed, you could have 1,000,000 and 1,000,000 if you just ain't got it. They ain't
Mike Robicheaux:got it. Damn got it. Damn. But if God if you're rich in God, if you have
Mike Robicheaux:faith in God, you don't you don't you don't When he wrote to the church, he said, thou sayest thou rich and increased with goods. We said, don't show you blind and naked and miserable and poor. It's not what we see with the eye. It's out of windows, you know, skyscrapers. That was it was all.
Mike Robicheaux:But why if we could follow the Lord, it don't matter what economic, conditions are. Timothy 6 10, it's the love of
Mike Robicheaux:money that is the root of all evil.
Mike Robicheaux:Some have coveted after talking to Christians that have erred
Mike Robicheaux:from the faith and have pierced themselves
Mike Robicheaux:through with many sorrows. It's when people do have the love of money to such an extent that they put the law at second and pursue their goal of getting rich that they from the faith and they miss God altogether. It's not wrong to have money. It's wrong for money to have you. Cattle on a 1000 hills.
Mike Robicheaux:Oh God. And sometimes you got to pray and say, Lord, sell one of your cattle. I need the money. And giving her some, the money and her kids buying her all their needs and leaving his own wife and kids with nothing.
Mike Robicheaux:But that's
Mike Robicheaux:what people accuse God of. They say, well, God doesn't want you anybody who makes the world rich. You really read the whole story. It lasted about 9 months and when it was over with, after his testing was over with, God gave him back twice as much as he had before. Well, if he was out of God's will, I thought it was in God's will.
Mike Robicheaux:1st place. It was the thief that came to kill, to steal, and to destroy. God, Jesus said, I've come you might have life and have it more abundant life does mean having your needs met. It does mean if it's wrong to be prosperous and God is guilty of that sin. Now when he borrowed Peter's boat, they fished all night and didn't catch up.
Mike Robicheaux:After he let him use it to go back out and fish and loaded him down with 2 boatloads. He bought
Mike Robicheaux:a little boy's lunch. How much he
Mike Robicheaux:got back? Twelve baskets. That's a pretty good deal, wasn't it? But people say, well, I give to God. I don't think he'll give back to me.
Mike Robicheaux:My, my, my God's not standing. My, my, my God's not standing. It's not his will for you to be in poverty. Poverty in the bottom of this is a the penalty for that. You can prosper in the work of your.
Mike Robicheaux:And that curse is broken. You don't have to stay then In fact, I'll read it to you. I'll know it all already. Like I said last time, Matthew 7 verse 11, if you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly father or your father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? And I mean, my kids I don't know.
Mike Robicheaux:Maybe I'm different than most people. If if I at all could, I sure don't want to see my my kids in rags and and if I had the ability to Do you all feel the same way? I mean, if you had the ability to help your kids to keep them out of poverty, wouldn't you do all you can? They're well clothed, you know, they're people accused God of worst and worst and something? We ask God to bless us.
Mike Robicheaux:He curses us. We ask God to heal us. He gives us sickness. We ask God to save us. He sends us to That's what religion teaches.
Mike Robicheaux:That's what religion teaches.
Mike Robicheaux:I've read
Mike Robicheaux:a prayer or something like that. I asked him
Mike Robicheaux:for health,
Mike Robicheaux:he gave me sickness.
Mike Robicheaux:I asked him for wealth,
Mike Robicheaux:he gave me poverty. Man, that's the most unscrupulous thing I ever read. It's not scriptural. He's on our side.
Mike Robicheaux:But see,
Mike Robicheaux:that's how the devil is always handling. He always twists things around and and gets all tangled. See, I'm just trying to show you what God's will. You might be sick, but it's not God's will. We learn how to believe him.
Mike Robicheaux:The Bible says all these promises are for his children, for the believers. Same thing it is with spiritual death. It's for believers, those that believe in Jesus Christ. Because we might not be getting there now, because we might not be standing in a place where we want to be. Maybe we don't have the help we desire.
Mike Robicheaux:Maybe we don't have, you know, the material needs we desire. Would that mean it's not God's will? What are we doing to get there? That's why the Bible says as we grow with him, we will get more. To him that hath shall more be given.
Mike Robicheaux:To him that hath not or doesn't use what they have shall be taken away even that which he has. It's the bible. He wants to bless you. He loves you. I just can't see me loving my kids and want to see them sick and poor and going to hell.
Mike Robicheaux:Neither does God. Amen. Anyhow, I'm trying to teach you the word of God. I'm trying to teach you the will of God for your life. He's on your side.
Mike Robicheaux:Jesus said, the thief has come to kill, steal, destroy, but I'm coming that you might have life and have it more abundant, an abundant life. That is his will for you. And let me tell you something, that world are dead and religion, church, and anti is gonna try to steal it from you. That's why you better stick to the Bible. Don't stick to popular opinion.
Mike Robicheaux:Stick to the Bible. Amen. Father, in Jesus' name, we thank you for today. Lord, we come together because we love you, Lord. And, Lord, we wanna learn your word.
Mike Robicheaux:You said if we love you, we keep your sayings. And, Lord, you told us, Lord, that if we'd love you with all our hearts and put you first, Lord, that, Lord, is just we just can't help but being blessed because you came for this reason to bless those that believe in you. And father we thank you lord God. Lord for the riches father believing in our lord Jesus Christ. That our lives now are complete lord.
Mike Robicheaux:And lord the hunger we once had lord you filled it lord. Could you said if we believe in Jesus, we'd never hunger and we'd never thirst spiritually, physically, and financially. Thank you, Lord. You promised it. You're not a man that you should lie.
Mike Robicheaux:Neither the son of man that you should repent. Have you not spoke it? Will you not bring it to pass? Father, we thank you that you will. As we learn to walk in the ways of faith, father, we thank you that you're gonna meet every need that we have.
Mike Robicheaux:In Jesus name,