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Hey, family. Before we get into the message, Taylor and I wanted to invite you into something big happening right here at Social Dallas. God has given us an incredible 90,000 square foot building and we're believing for $6 million to break ground to make it home.
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Yes, and every dollar moves dirt. If this ministry has ever blessed you or spoken to you at any season, would you prayerfully consider partnering with us? Your generosity, it helps us turn this building into a home where people will meet Jesus for generations.
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Absolutely. You can give@so socialdallas.com give or click the link in the description because we are almost home to kick off the new year. I can think of no better voice than the voice you're going to hear today. I don't know how our church is so favored, but we just are and favor ain't fair because we're going to hear from a global voice today.
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Shout out.
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She is a gift to the capital C church and she's been a gift to our church. This is not her first time here. She is family. As a matter of fact, she is our Australian auntie. Come on, somebody. We love Christine Cain. Nobody can preach like her. I watched her on Saturday at Passion conference preach to 45,000 college students. But I'm so glad she's at Social Dallas today. So come on, church, would you welcome back. Christine Kanish comes to set our year off. Right.
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Well, Social Dallas, let me just say.
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There is nowhere else I'd rather be on the first Sunday of 2026 than at Social Dallas. Because, you guys, what the Lord is doing in this place is absolutely phenomenal. When Pastor Robert and Taylor texted me and said, you know, I don't know if this is possible, but can you be with us? I went to my husband. We are moving heaven and earth because I want to be in the house where God is in this place on the first Sunday. And when Pastor Robert put up the vision, because we're almost home. And you know, the fact is, when I saw what we're going to, I went to my husband. You better sow a significant seed right now because I want to sow, which we did, because I'm like, I want to be a part of that future because I don't know, sometimes you could be in the midst of a miracle and not even so, as someone from the outside that's walked in here, I need you to know that you are in the midst of a mighty, mighty move of God. Don't miss it. Get on board. Stay on board. Continue to propel forward. Pastor Robert and Taylor Nick and I. I am married to the single most ravishing piece of masculine flesh on planet Earth. He's here. But we do love you dearly. We've known them for years. And I thank God for how he's used Pastor Robert around the world. But what is being built here? You know, he's gone around the world. The world is coming to this place. Let me just say that this is like what is happening here. Your eyes have not even seen, your ears have not even heard, nor has it entered into your heart the thing that God has for this house in the future. So I'm excited, but you know, I have like three and a half minutes they've given me to. So I'm both Greek and a woman and I only speak three ways, hard, fast and continuously. So you better strap yourself in. I've got a word to kick us off in 2026. I turned 60 this year. So I am excited about that and I am owning every minute of it. So I am celebrating for the entire 52 weeks. Who said I'm gonna like, if you just. I'm not dead yet. At 60 you can celebrate every year. And I am starting right now with our very, very first meeting here. So I want you to sit down, we're gonna dive into the Word. And my husband is number 12 of 13 children sitting there in the front row. His mother had 15 full term pregnancies in 17 years. Taylor, all the girls just crossed their legs in the room. They're like, like, no, this is not possible. Yes. And so there was no television in that part of Australia. That's all I'm saying. But I'm glad she didn't stop. But my mother in law, she never thought you were a woman until you like popped out 10. So I would have to take, I've got two daughters. I would take Catherine Bobby and I'd say, this is Catherine Bobby and she is my Alpha. And then I would take Sophia Joyce, you know, our 20 year old. And I go, this is Sophia Joyce and so Katherine Bobbie is our Alpha and Sophia is our Omega. And this is the beginning and the end of my childbearing years. So that's it. We're going to start 20, 26 in Deuteronomy, chapter 6. I just want to read quickly verses 20 to 23. Sorry, I'm sitting here. I love your. I love this venue.
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Do you love this venue?
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I'm going like this because I'm using a different Bible. And the frustrating thing is when you use a different Bible and you're a Preacher, they move all the books of the Bible around and so it is just so, so. Verse 20. This is the word of the Lord. It says, when your son asks you in the future, what is the meaning of the decrees, statutes and ordinances that the Lord our God has commanded you? Tell him. We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt.
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But the Lord brought us out of.
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Egypt with a strong hand before our eyes. The Lord inflicted great and devastating signs and wonders on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his household. But he brought us out from there in order to lead us in and give us the land that he swore to our fathers. So here we are. And the Lord's saying in the future, in 2026, on the 1st of January of 2026, when you're at Social Dallas.
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And there's a whole bunch of people.
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That show up and they say, what.
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Is this whole deal about? Why on earth on the first Sunday.
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Of the year would you be in church?
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Why have you all gathered? In light of everything that's happening in.
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The world, economic, politically, socially, morally, environmentally, everybody. Have you noticed that the whole world's lost their ever loving mind? I mean, not here in Dallas, you're normal. But I'm from California, so pray for us. But the whole world, well, you've, you have half of California here now. We have all moved.
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And so the fact is though, that.
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The world is crazy.
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So sometime in 2026, when everyone's saying, what is all this about? I want you to tell them that your God has been so faithful that there was a time where you were slaves in Egypt under Pharaoh, but God did mighty signs and wonders, and he brought you out of bondage, out of.
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Slavery, out of captivity for one purpose. He brought you out to take you in.
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He brought you out to take you in. Remind the church in 2026 that God did not just bring us out, that we would do laps around Mount Sinai.
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For 40 years and end up dying.
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In a wilderness, never inheriting the promise that he has for us, but he brought us out to take us in. Now, over the last decade, there's been a lot of obstacles, a lot of challenges, a lot of hurdles that would kill, cause us to die in the wilderness rather than go in and possess the promise. But let me just say, in 2026, the tipping point has been reached. We are no longer going to be doing laps around Mount Sinai, going around the same old obstacles, the same old hurdles, the same old challenges. We're going out.
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We came out for one purpose, to go in and possess the promises that God has for us. Scripture tells us that all the promises of God are in Christ Jesus. Guess what? Yes and amen. The word of God is full of the promise of God. And so many believers are living so far beneath the promise that God has for them, accepting what society says, well, you know what? Because of your background, you can't have this. Because of your economic situation. You're never gonna step into that because your family has always had a history of addiction or pornography or broken. Just going to have to come under that. But our God says, no, no, no.
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I brought you out to take you in. I brought you out of bondage, out of slavery, to take you in to freedom.
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I come from a background many of you know where I was left in a hospital, unnamed and unwanted. And for. My birth certificate doesn't have a name on it. It says child's Name unnamed. Number 2508 of 1966. Just a number, not an eight. I was the victim of childhood sexual abuse for a decade plus in my life. I should not be standing here today. I should not have a marriage of 30 years, two daughters that by God's grace, are flourishing. But I am looking for a husband. If anyone's like, for one of them, she's 23, awesome woman of God. And as long as he's got a job, money in the bank, loves Jesus, Please come and see me after the service. But I am all about it. I'm a Greek woman. We're into arranged marriages. You know what I mean? Back in my days, it was like, here is, you know, two tomatoes and a cucumber for your daughter and a cow. But, you know, I want more than that. And so the issue is that I could have spent my whole life talking about the trauma of my past, talking about the pain of my past, validating.
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Why my marriage won't work. Making Nick pay for something he never did to me because of what someone.
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Else did to me 50 years ago. Making my daughters pay for something they've.
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Never done because of my own brokenness.
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My own woundedness, and my own refusal.
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To deal with things in my life. And I could have done laps around Mount Sinai and say, well, you know, I never went in because you don't know what happened to me. And I could be starting 20, 26, the year that I'm gonna celebrate 60 years and still be talking at 60 about what happened to me at 10 and still be living like a victim, even though I was set free decades.
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Ago when I came to faith in Christ. So a lot of us have forgotten that we're supposed to go in. In Deuteronomy, chapter one, the Bible says it's an 11 day journey from bondage to freedom, from slavery into the promised land. Canaan was the promised land.
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Now it is 11 day journey.
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Scripture says, and it says this now.
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It came to pass in the 40th year.
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Welcome to most Christians. We take a meta, what should be a metaphorical 11 day journey and we turn it into a 40 year life on this earth.
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Every single person that came out of.
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Egypt should have went into Canaan. Every single one.
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There was nothing more anointed, more gifted, more talented, more favored about Joshua and.
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Caleb, who were the only two that came out, that went in. Every one of them should have gone in. Every single Christian. It's not just Christine Caine. Is it something about her personality, you know, well, she overcame that in her past as if somehow it's a personality. Victory's a personality type. It's because you know what, she must be an 8 on the Enneagram. I'm not just in case you're wondering. But anyway, so she must be a high D on the disc profile. She's got to have man. That's just her strength on the strength. That's just like her love language. As if freedom is a personality type.
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Freedom is not a personality type. It's a blood type. It's the blood of Jesus Christ of Nazareth that set every believer free. And all the promises of God are in Christ Jesus. Yes, and amen. Therefore, if you are in Christ Jesus.
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All those promises are as readily available for you as they are for me. But we're living in a society where the victim narrative has become an industry, a cottage industry, and people getting their identity and their income from what happened to them. And they're making that bigger than what Jesus did for them. And if you and I could elevate.
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What Jesus did for us, we would.
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Walk in the freedom that he has for us. So we're going to start on the first Sunday of 2026 in Joshua chapter five, because here we are, the children of Israel had a whole generation had died in the wilderness and can I just say, a generation of murmuring, grumbling and complaining Christians. They're going to die in the wilderness. But there's a generation of us that are saying we are moving on. We are not staying where we are. I'm glad for the last decade that you have murmured, grumbled and complained about everything. Well, you are going to die in the wilderness. I taught my kids one of the first things, two first things Things I taught them. The first phrase I taught them, you think it's something spiritual, like, as you know, something very Christian was suck it up, sailor. And so we would be in airports. Cause we travel, we do about 300 hotel nights a year all around the world. And so we're there and the kids would, I go, suck it up, sailor.
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And my little daughter's mummy, I don't want to suck it up.
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And so then the other one would be if they would murmur, grumble and complain because the plane is late or something would happen. I go, sophia, the children of Israel died in the wilderness because they murmured, grumbled and complained.
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And so, mommy, I don't want to die. I don't want to die.
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She's like, Jesus. Even now, if I said to my kids, what happened to the children of Israel? Okay, Mum, they died.
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They died.
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And so most Christians die not because the blood of Jesus is not powerful enough to overcome, but we prefer our murmuring, grumbling and complaining and our victim narrative than we do the freedom that we have in Christ. And in fact, we've created such an industry to it in the last decade that many Christians have forgotten that the purpose of coming out is to go in and that there are promises that we are supposed to inherit and we can walk in victory. That doesn't mean perfect. That doesn't mean there's not residue from our past, but it does mean that we are more than conquerors through Christ Jesus and we can walk in victory. And wouldn't it be just like God to take an unnamed, unwanted, abused, adopted chick from the back of Sydney, Australia, and say, you know what, Christine, I'm.
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Not only gonna bring you out, set you free and put you in, but now you are going to turn around.
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And you're going to open up the prison doors for those that are still bound in human trafficking. You're going to set a generation free that is still in bondage. Because that's what God does. See, that's what more than a conqueror is. It says, no, no, no, it's not just about me. But now I'm going to turn around and set another generation free. Can I just tell you, every time we put a trafficker in jail, every time we rescue a young man or woman out of trafficking, I just think, devil, you can stick that in your pipe and smoke it. I bet you wish you left me alone. I feel like Joseph, who actually stood before his brothers in Genesis, chapter 50, verse 20, and he said, you meant this for evil against me, but God meant it for this very Purpose to.
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Save many, many people alive. And we need a generation of Christians that will testify again to the victory working power of God. That our God is more than able, that our God is a healer, our God is a deliverer, our God is a savior. Instead of wandering around the wilderness creating a cottage industry to victimhood.
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There'S one thing about acknowledging trauma and pain and suffering very validly, thank God, because there was a generation in the church that just didn't do that, that didn't help. But there's another thing to building an idol out of that and somehow insinuating that that has more power than the blood of Jesus that was shed at Calvary. People will be saved by what? The blood of the lamb? The word of our. I want you to hear this, not the story that we post on social media. There's a difference between a testimony and a story. And we've built such an industry around tell your story, tell your story, but there's no victory in that story. And so we have to keep telling the same old story for 40 years with no victory, just so we could sustain the platform that we built. When, if you have a testimony, you can stand here at 60 and say, let me tell you what happened to me when I was 10 and when I was 15.
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But let me tell you about how my Savior set me free and he delivered me and he healed me and he gave me victory. On the other side of it, where is a victorious, overcoming Christian, Christian church that actually believes that God is who he says he is and that God.
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Can do what he says he can do. So you don't have to deny your trauma to overcome your trauma. And you don't have to build a monument to your trauma so someone believes that you had trauma. And so we need a generation that is hungry to go in again. So in Joshua, chapter five, the children of Israel, whole generation had to die. I'm really happy. Cause I think that has happened. Tipping points happened. You can stay in the wilderness, but we're going in 2026 Social Dallas. Oh, no, no, we're going in. There's a promised land that God has for us. So what do you do? Because now, you know, if you go to Joshua, chapter four, you see that they crossed the River Jordan. They got the memorial stones. It's all happened. So now they're actually feet on the promised land. That's what I'm picking up today in the 14 minutes and 42 seconds. Here we go. Feet are on the promised land. You expect certain things when you've crossed over You've gone through the wilderness, come out of slavery, you're expecting certain things. Joshua 5 is probably not what you're expecting. So I want you to see they are no longer in Egypt, no longer in the wilderness, crossed the River Jordan. We're Now @Joshua5 says, when all the Amorite kings across the Jordan to the west and all the Canaanite kings near the sea heard how the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they crossed over, that they lost heart and their courage failed because of the Israelites. At that time, the Lord said to Joshua, make flint knives and circumcise the Israelite men again. So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelite men at Gibeah Haloth. This is the reason Joshua circumcised them.
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All the people who came out of.
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Egypt who were males, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness along the way after they had come out of Egypt, though all the people who came out were circumcised. None of the people born in the wilderness along the way were circumcised after they had come. Welcome to 2026. First Sunday. That's right. The chief preacher is talking about a lot of cutting.
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For the Israelite wandered in the wilderness.
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40 years until all the nations men of war who came out of Egypt had died off because they did not obey the Lord. So the Lord vowed never to let them see the land. He had sworn to their fathers to give us a land flowing with milk and honey. He raised up their sons in their place. It was these Joshua, circumcised.
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So what happened?
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Obviously, a generation of Israelites that had come out of bondage and slavery, they had had their own circumcision. They had had their own cutting away.
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But another generation was born in the wilderness that had not had a circumcision. They had not had a cutting. So now we're in the promised land. Obviously, we've not crossed Jericho yet, but we're in Canaan. We're no longer in the wilderness. We're not in Egypt. After 400 years of slavery, 40 years of being in the wilderness, now we're finally, we're here, 2026, we've touched the land.
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And the Lord says, oh, yeah, now you're going to go in and possess what I've already inherited for you. But this is the deal. The first thing that has to happen before you step any further is you've got to have your own cutting away. Because a generation had been circumcised and then another generation came through that had not been circumcised. Here's my point. You cannot get into your promised land based on the price that was paid by the generation before you. Every generation must have their own circumcision and pay their own price. Every generation. And we've had a generation trying to get into a spiritual promised land without a cutting. And you can't possess without a cutting. There has to be a circumcision, a consecration. And what is happening is as we are ready to launch into this year, and let me just say the spiritual tectonic plates of the earth have shifted. It's a new day. No matter what you might see around you, they've shifted. But you're not going to go in until you have your own circumcision. And I don't know, let me give you some Bible, some New Testament for this. In Hebrews, chapter 12, it says, Therefore then, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside what the weights and the sin that so easily ensnares us. And the fact that the writer to the Hebrew says weights and sins uses two different words, suggest to me there's two different meanings here. And what might you need to let go in 2026? And it could be a weight. And a weight is not necessarily a sin. It could be a good thing. It's gotten you this far, but it's the very thing that's now hindering you from going there. It might be a level of serving in church. It's been good, good. But the fact is your next level of breakthrough is to now elevate it at this level. It could be a level of giving. You've been giving tithing faithfully, and the Lord's like, that's good, but you want to break through into the next level now you've got to start giving here. This level has now become an anchor, a weight that's holding you back. We could go in every area of life, or it could be a sin. I mean, I know in our therapeutic culture in 2026, we don't like to use that word sin. It's just like, I'm okay, you're okay. We just all have struggles. But it'd be like me going to the doctor when I had thyroid cancer and the doctor going, oh, Christine, you just got a little cold. You just got a little throat irritation. Go get some dayquil on the way home. You would call that medical malpractice. If the doctor knew what the Disease was and didn't give me the ailment for the disease, but gave me something that was going to actually just let me die. And because we've been too scared to use the sin word, we have said to a generation, take some Tylenol when they need to get that cancer cut out by the blood of Jesus, that's what needs to happen and bring freedom to a generation.
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That's.
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That's what we need to do. So I wonder what needs cutting. I could spend all session on this, but I do want to just keep going. If we go through, we're just going to have Bible study this morning. That's all it goes on. It says in verse nine, after the entire nation had been circumcised, I do not even want to think what they did with. Anyway, they stayed. I want you to see this. They stayed where they were in the camp until they recovered. Pause. First thing, you got to have a cutting away at the start of 2026. Second thing, they stayed until they were healed. What we have is a generation going.
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Okay, I've had my cutting. I'm posting about it tomorrow. I need to be elevated the next day.
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But here, the children of Israel needed a moment to heal. And what we want to do is.
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To instantly go out there.
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And then we wonder why we collapse a year or two or three years later, because we never had our healing on this side. When I snapped, my ACL tore, my MCL tore, my meniscus had a hamstring graft. The doctor came in to me, the pt, and he said, christine, your injury happened. It was a major skiing injury, he said, but it happened in an instant and it was painful. He said, now, technically, your right knee is stronger than your left knee with a hamstring graft, but because of all the scar tissue around that, it's going to take you months and months of intense therapy for you to get all of your full movement back in your knee. And this is what the physical therapist said to me, Christine, most people don't fully recover from the kind of surgery and injury that you had because it was so great. It's not that they can't. It's just you have to understand that the pain of recovery is going to be far greater than the pain of the injury. And so, Christine, you can make a choice. You can recover completely or partially. You can recover quickly or slowly. It's entirely up to you. The degree to which you are willing to embrace the pain of recovery is the degree to which you will recover in 2026. The degree to which you are willing to embrace the pain of recovery is the degree to which you will recover. I'd love to tell you that I came out on an altar call one day, someone spat on me. I fell over and got back up and went, whoa, I'm healed after all that abuse, all that pain and all that suffering. But it was embracing the process of recovery. The circumcision and cutting happens, and then you need time to heal. You don't have to brand it, market it, or platform it, or monetize it. You can just go into the prayer closet with Jesus and heal. And heal. So the first thing, they had to have a cutting away. The second thing, they needed time to heal. And then Scripture says, when Joshua was, oh, no, we won't go there. We'll go into verse 10. While the Israelite camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they observed the Passover. On the evening of the 14th day of the month, they observe the Passover. Man, I just want to rip apart every verse today. The Passover is symbolic of Jesus and the price he paid for us. And Scripture is telling us that before the children of Israel went in to.
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Fully possess Canaan, the promised land, 430.
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Years later, they stopped to fill themselves in the new covenant. Be with Jesus, to remember. Even when we're going in to possess the next phase of the promise that God has for us, it's actually not about us. It's all about Jesus. When we're talking about moving and we're nearly home, but we've still got a couple of years to go, can I just tell you, that's not about buildings and lands and renovations. It's about Jesus. Because people are gonna encounter Jesus. People are going to be healed by Jesus. People are going to be delivered by Jesus. People are going to be set free by Jesus. Every time it comes to the next phase of possessing the promise of God for our lives, we gotta stop and fill ourselves with Jesus. They kept the Passover. And then Scripture tells us that manna, it goes on. It says, and the day after Passover, they ate unleavened bread and toasted grain from the produce of the land. And the day after they ate from the produce of the land, the manna ceased.
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Since there was no more manna for.
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The Israelites, they ate from the crops of the land of Canaan.
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That year, the manna ceased. After 40 years of God supernaturally providing a certain way, he says, I'm not doing it that way anymore. Actually, you didn't even need faith for that anymore. Because you just wake up and there it was. And you've operated according to that paradigm for long enough. Now you actually haven't been in faith for years. Because this is how God always does it. This is the formula. This is the mantra. This is how it happens. So the Lord's saying, you know what? The manna has ceased. Because how I do things in the promised land is very different to how I did things in the wilderness. You see, in the promised land, Joshua, you're going to dig your own wells and you're going to plant your own corn. I'm going to tap into that potential that I put on the inside of you. And we're going to partner together with the eternal principle of seed, time and harvest and sowing and reaping.
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I'm not just going to drop it out of the sky for you anymore. And that's why a wilderness Christian never understands a Promised land Christian. And that's why a wilderness church will never understand a Promised land living church, because survival Christianity never understands abundance. Christianity condemns it, judges it, calls it by a lot of names. But if you want to be a Canaan, a promised land living Christian, because all the promises of God are in Christ Jesus. Yes, and amen, then you're going to have to learn the man has ceased. Famous seven last words of the church.
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We've never done it that way before.
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But the man has ceased. I'd love to do a whole week on just that. What in your life this year? The Lord's like, you know what? We're not doing that same old formula again. I'm gonna tap into what I've put on the inside of you. When a partner together, you've been expecting me to drop it. And God in his grace does that. That's okay when you're in the wilderness. But he's saying, no, no, that's not what we do in the promised land. It's a different way of operating. I think I'll get one more in. Says here. Now we'll go to chapter six. Now, Jericho was strongly fortified because of the Israelites. No one leaving and entering. The Lord said to Joshua, look, I have handed Jericho its king and its best soldiers. Over to you. Hang on a minute. He says, now I'm going to go a bit old school. I had memorized this in the new King James back in the day. Now the city of Jericho had been tightly shut up. No one came out and no one went in.
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And the Lord said unto Joshua, see, I have given you this city. Now it's so interesting to me. They are now in the promised land. What do you do at the outset of 2026 when, man, you were one of the faithful people? You didn't die in the wilderness? With everything that's been going on in the last 10 years, you're like, God, I'm crossing over. I've got my memorial stones.
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I'm here.
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I've had my circumcision. I've given it time to heal. I filled myself with Jesus. I'm moving on. What do you do when the first thing you see in the promised land you're expecting milk and honey? You've been faithful, you've been sowing, you've been serving, you've been obedient to the word of God. What do you do when you've done it all right and the first thing.
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You see in the promised land is thick, impenetrable walls? God, I was expecting milk and honey, and I got that cancer diagnosis. I was expecting milk and honey, and my marriage is falling apart. I was expecting milk and honey, and that child is still so far away from you at the outset of the year. God, I was expecting milk and honey. What do you do when you start your year and there's a wall and you were never expecting the wall? And the Lord said unto Joshua, and he says unto us, I need you to see beyond the wall to the promise on the other side.
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He says, see, I've already given it to you. And somewhere in the last few years, we've lost our sight. And instead of being a people of faith who walk by faith and not by sight, we become a people that are walking by sight and not by faith. And we're limiting God based on what we see. But the Lord's saying, I need you to see the promise on the other side. This is what you have to understand about faith. Church primarily.
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C
More than anything else, faith is predicated on trust, not understanding.
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D
And so many of us are trying to understand how God's going to do it, what God's going to do. But the walls of Jericho came down. Hebrews tells us, by faith, not by any understanding. There is no way you can rationally understand what God is doing in so many areas of our life. We can't work out how it's going.
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C
To happen in 2026.
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D
What we need to do is be a people of faith that know the character of God, that know the nature of God, that understand that our God is good, he does good, that our God is faithful, that all the promises of God are in Christ Jesus. Yes, and amen. And our walls will come down. We will see beyond the wall to the promise. We will trust our promise keeper to bring down every wall in our life. In 2026 we're going to stop talking about the wall. We're going to stop analyzing the wall. We're going to stop obsessively ruminating about the wall. We believe by the power of the blood of the Lamb that our walls will come down by faith in Jesus name.
- [32:50]
C
The Lord said to Moses, when you people ask you 2026, why should we bother? What is this whole deal about? I want you to remind them that I brought them out to take them in Social Dallas. Let's make 2026 the year we're going to in to possess the promises of God in Jesus name. In Jesus name. Friend, I wonder if you know this God that I'm talking about. Not do you know about him, but do you know him. Friend, you were created by God for a relationship with God. It's Jesus that connects us to God and it's Jesus that connects us to the grace of God. And if you don't know him in this place, I just want to give you the opportunity just before we wrap up to address the spiritual condition of your life. The opportunity to put Jesus Christ first in your life. Maybe you've never been in an environment like this. You know, a friend lied to you and said, let's go to a club. And you're like, yes, what is this? You are here in the divine timing, the divine plan and the divine purpose of God. Maybe you once walked with God, but if you're honest, today you've been away from God, cold in your heart. Friend, I want to encourage you today. Stop running from him, come home to him. Make your peace with him. Put Jesus Christ first in your life. Listen, I stand before you as a woman that's going to be 60 this year. And I could tell you the same Jesus that saved and delivered and healed this unnamed, unwanted, abused, adopted chick from the back of Sydney, Australia, that same Jesus is in this room today. And he is ready to forgive you of all of your sins and give you up brand new life today. I just want every head bowed and every eye closed. And if you say to me today, Chris, I want this very first Sunday of 2026, I want to make my peace with God. I want to get my life right with Jesus Christ. Christine, I want to say yes to Jesus this Sunday, either for the very first time or I've been away from.
- [34:49]
D
God, cold in my heart.
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C
But I want to say yes to Jesus. If that's you, I want to pray with you. Just right there, right where you stand, a very simple but powerful prayer. If you say, Chris, would you include me in that prayer to say yes to Jesus this morning? Would you just raise your hand wherever you are, just so I could see? Thank you. I could see hands going up everywhere. Keep them up really, really high. Keep them up high. This is so wonderful. Our first service of 2026. So many of you saying yes to Jesus. I'm gonna give you 10 more seconds. Yes, Christine. I wanna say yes to Jesus this morning. Keep that hand up high. There are dozens and dozens of you. I'm going to pray a prayer. I want the whole room to pray this out loud after me, especially those of you with your hands raised. The rest of us, we are going to add our faith to your faith as you say yes to Jesus this morning. So, Church, pray this out loud after me. Dear Jesus, I've raised my hand this morning because I recognize my need for you. I'm sorry that I've been living my life my own way. And he goes ignoring you. I'm sorry that I've sinned against you. And I ask today that you would forgive me for all of my sins, that you would give me a fresh start today and a hope for the future. I want to be a Christian, a follower of Jesus Christ, every single day for the rest of my life. Jesus. Jesus, I receive your forgiveness. I receive your love. I receive your grace. Thank you. Amen. Come on, Church, let's thank God for people say yes to Jesus. This morning. You're also making.