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Recap meetings with Nigel this past week!

Hands up of everyone who attended at least one night with our meetings with Nigel over the past week?

Now, hands up of everyone who received something from Lord during these meetings?

(This could vary: a healing (whether physical, spiritual, or emotional), a word of knowledge, a breakthrough of some sort in your life that you have been struggling with, etc.)

I shared with you the Wednesday night before Nigel’s coming to us, that my heart for Revival, was not directly linked to seeing the signs and wonders, per se, but I want to see new salvation brought in this house.

(This could vary

THAT IS WHAT I WANT TO SEE! AMEN?!

You see, true revival (an awakening), could break out at any time and any place!

Tell of Preacher and the Septic Tank!

This morning, I would like to talk with you about “how” and “what” you and I do with the impartations, such as we recieved while Nigel was here with us.

(That is, what do we do with these blessed gifts of healing, restoration, wisdom and purpose, such as the Holy Spirit was giving as He moved amongst us during this past week?)

Let me take that same question a step further, especially since we have been talking recently about stewardship and our accountability to God.

What are you doing with all of the gifts that you have been entrusted by God throughout your life?

(Your finances/job, your family/children, your health, and your time here!)

So, we are going to look at a couple of words this morning that have a specific theme/meaning and then apply this to our own lives and let Holy Spirit speak to us about these things.

AMEN?!

Introduce the words, “primogeniture” and “patrimony”.

Primogeniture - Word not found in the Bible; derived from the Greek translation of the Hebrew word for firstborn.

Primogeniture refers specifically to the exclusive right of inheritance which belonged to the firstborn male.

Patrimony - Inheritance from a father or ancestor.

It is synonomous with the “birthright”.

BIRTHRIGHT - Right or privilege belonging to the firstborn son in a Hebrew family.

The eldest son ranked highest after the father and in the father’s absence had the father’s authority and responsibility.

The birthright meant not only the honor of family leadership but also a double portion of the estate as an inheritance.

If a man had two sons, his estate would be divided into three portions, and the older son would receive two.

If there were three sons, the estate would be divided into four portions, and the oldest son would receive two.

The oldest son also normally received the father’s major blessing.

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In polygamous Israelite society the birthright belonged to the actual firstborn of the father and could not be transferred to the son of a favorite wife without just cause.

So we are going to look at the birthright, large and in part this morning and then use this little nugget of knowledge by applying it to our own lives.

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Probably the more popular Biblical account of the word, birthright, is seen within the story of Jacob and Esau, right?

Now, real quick, before I talk specifically about Jacob and Esau, I wanted to make mention of something that you will find in their story in .

Here is what I wanted to say.

There are several accounts listed in the Bible of where we see barren women.

(Women who are unable to have children.)

And out of these women, we see God bringing forth some of the patriarchs of the Bible and even the direct lineage that our Lord and Savior Jesus came from!

(Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Rachel, Manoah and his wife, Hannah and Elkanah and Elizabeth and Zacharias.)

The main point here is this; how many people here have ever, in your life, (or maybe even right now), have been praying for something and have felt isolated and on your own?

Like God isn’t hearing or answering your prayers?

MENTION OF HOW WE HAVE THE FAST FOOD MENTALITY vs BUY THE LAND, GROW IT AND MAKE IT YOURSELF TIME-FRAME PRAYER LIFE!

How many of you know and understand what tells us?

Continue with the account of Jacob and Esau and the birthright.

(Mention of the story of Esau and Nimrod.)

The end result, was that Esau saw little value in his inheritance, his birthright (his primogeniture/patrimony); thus the Bible states in Genesis that, “Thus Esau despised his birthright”.

(He saw little value in in, compared to what he wanted.)

He squandered and let go of what was his.

for the temporal!

Jacob then took his father’s blessing as we see in and completed the process that was both a deceitful act, but also a foretold one.

(Remember, before birth, Rebekah was told by the Lord in

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This whole account in the Bible is chocked up full of moral lessons for us.

Jacob was already foretold to be the one that would have the birthright, by God, yet he and his mother deceitfully took it into their hands to make it happen!

(Has God said something would come about in your life and yet you didn't want to wait for it and took matters into your own hands?)

Jacob had to lie to cover a lie in order for this to take place.

(That is the big issue with lying; its a web of deceit that you will get caught up in!)

The deceit did cost Jacob: HE NEVER SAW HIS MOTHER AGAIN, HIS BROTHER WANTED HIM DEAD, HIS UNCLE LABAN DECEIVED HIM, HIS LIFE WAS RIDDLED WITH DIFFICULTIES.

(“Be sure your sin will find you out.”)

It was with the blessing and the birthright (primogeniture) that Jacob (Israel) prospered and went forth and had 12 sons who became the 12 tribes of Israel.

Jacob valued the birthright and the blessings came forth!

The use and understanding of the birthright, existed long before the LAW was ever given to Moses.

In fact, it was implemented by man for the survival of the family’s land, possessions and family lineage.

The eldest son would carry the mantle and authority to overlook and protect the family and keep it going.

Thus, with this responsibility, came the double portion as a reward!

However, with the account of the Exodus, something happens that would lead up to the greatest event in all of the world’s history!

God says this in ,

This statement, “ Israel is my firstborn son”, becomes important, because of what God was about to to do for His people and also because of what He would require from them for it!

Look at what God says in ,

Because God had spared the firstborn of Israel during the passover of the death angel in Egypt, (to all who were faithful and did as He had commanded that is), He now claimed rights to the firstborn of all that came thereafter.

In Numbers we see God speaking to Moses about this subject and He says to Moses, “For all the firstborn males are mine.

On the day I struck down all the firstborn sons of the Egyptians, I set apart for myself all the firstborn in Israel, both of people and of animals.

They are mine; I am the Lord.”

Now look what God does next as a provision for this, “And the Lord said to Moses, “Look, I have chosen the Levites from among the Israelites to serve as substitutes for all the firstborn sons of the people of Israel.”

So, basically, what God did is this; He assigned to Himself, the tribe of Levi to serve under Aaron in the priestly line, instead of taking all of the first born sons of Israel for His own.

Then, the firstborn of all clean animals were given as a sacrifice and all unclean (including humans) were to be redeemed by a payment of five shekels of silver, given to the Levites.

Are you starting to understand this a little better?

The clean animals (those that God had said were good and acceptable for sacrifice before Him), were automatically set aside and used as a sacrifice.

The unclean animals and all human males, had to be redeemed with payment, as set by God!

So, only the blood of a clean sacrifice was allowable and thus all other first-born animals, including the humans, were to be redeemed for the Lord.

Only the priests from the tribe of Levi could perform the sacrifices for the Lord.

Now, God institutes the actual “law” of primogeniture (the firstborn) as we see in , in which God clearly states that this shall be observed by all and done fairly, so that discrimination of the father for one child over another is not allowed.

The first born son was to get the double portion, period!

God assigned the law of primogeniture (the first-born status) to all of Israel for fairness to and to designate who would receive the authority and ownership of the father of the house, God also set a system of payment for redeeming the unclean which belonged to Him and He designated who would be responsible for making the sacrifices and collecting the payment for the redemption, (the Levites/priests).

There are quite a few examples within the OT of where the true state or right of the firstborn, was not followed.

(Isaac and Ishmael, Jacob and Esau, David and his brothers, Solomon and his brothers).

The main thing to understand is that God set the law for man as equality from man to man, not man to God.How many know that God does things for His own purposes, that are different than how we would or might do them?

It was an understood claim of ownership and authority that man could relate to and operate within, so that one day the true picture of “first-born” status could be embraced by the whole world through the one whom the Bible calls, the “firstborn” of all creation”!

This is why its important to note that God called the nation of Israel, His “firstborn son”.

Israel was not the first of all nations, yet, by election, God chose them as His own and thus the authority and power would reside in and through them as given by the Father of the house to the firstborn son!

This was to ensure that the promise made to Abraham and to Isaac and Jacob would go forth and be able to affect all of the world; all nations.

(There is only one way that primogeniture could affect every nation equally as promised by God and that promise came exactly as God had stated it would when He told the serpent, all the way back at the fall of Adam and Eve in the garden in ,

and between your offspring and her offspring;