Passion Fruit'

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Passion Fruit'

• Loving-kindness and
• Discipline from
• Father God

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God is Our Father

• What is the true character of a father?
• We all need to establish this in our spirits.
• He is the same yesterday, today and forever.

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Exodus 346/7

• The Lord! The Lord! A God merciful and gracious,
  slow to anger, and abundant in loving-kindness
  and truth, keeping mercy and loving-kindness for
  thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression
  and sin .. (Amplified Bible)

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HESED

• LOVING-KINDNESS
• Mercy, love, grace, favour, steadfast love,
  reliability and much more.
• It is strength, steadfastness and love combined.

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Hesed relationships

• Personal involvement and commitment in a
  relationship beyond the rule of law.
• Huge generosity of heart.
• It is one of the most important terms in the
  vocabulary of Old Testament (Vines)

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Hesed and Covenant

• Covenant - the strongest form of relationship
  unto death.
• Hesed is released between the parties in
  covenant. It carries the feeling of generosity
  and mercy.

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HESED

• COVENANT
• FAITHFULNESS

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Gods Character Hesed!

• Hesed is one of the most central characteristics
  of the character of a true father.
• God offers his hesed to His people who need
  redemption from sin, enemies and trouble.
• Psalm 136 almost every verse says,His mercy and
  hesed endure forever

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Hesed for Eternity!

• Gods hesed is even bigger than his covenant with
  his people and Israel.
• It will continue even when the human covenant
  partner is unfaithful and must be
  disciplined.

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The other part ofExodus 34 6/7!!!!!!

• forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin,
  but who will by no means clear the guilty,
  visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
  children and the childrens children to the third
  and fourth generation.

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Shock Horror!

• Can this really be the character of a Father full
  of Hesed?
• Yes - because he trains us through MASAR -
  DISCIPLINE!

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MASAR DISCIPLINE

• Masar teaches us how to live correctly in the
  fear of the Lord.
• It trains us for abundant life!
• Its fruit is honour, life, wisdom and the
  pleasing of The Father.
• Lack of Masar is death, poverty and shame.
• It includes correction, and suffering the
  consequences of rebellion and disobedience.
• 2 Timothy 316

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Sowing and Reaping

• What is sown, will be reaped.
• Galatians 67 - Do not be decieved and deluded
  and misled God will not allow himself to be
  sneered at. For whatever a man sows, that and
  that only is what he will reap.

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Sin can be reaped on the Cross

• Confession of sin and heartfelt repentance cause
  the sin and its curses to be reaped on the
  Cross, and finished forever!

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Generational Reaping

• We reap the blessings of our family and our
  society every day - transport, water, sewerage,
  police, hospitals, schools etc.
• BUT we also reap the EFFECTS of sin over our
  families and nations.
• Satan uses generational sin more than almost
  anything else, to afflict individuals, families,
  groups, churches, cities, regions and nations.
  (John Sandford)

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What is generational iniquity?

• An inherited weakness in our walls of
  protection.
• An alcoholic father - the son has to guard
  himself in that area.
• G. I. needs to be confessed and repented for so
  the curses are reaped on the Cross.

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The pathways of generational iniquity

• 1.Physical Genes - patterns of sickness down the
  family line, eg heart problems, asthma etc. May
  be due to sinful practices - nearly always
  follows Freemasonry.
• 2. Modelling the sinful patterns of behaviour of
  our parents, relatives.

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Pathways (2)

• 3. Judging others - causes us to be judged. We
  become like what we are criticising in others.
• 4. We then make inner vows (covenants) such as,
  I will never treat my kids like my mother
  treated me. And then we do!

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Pathways (3)

• 5. The spirit realm sees the weaknesses in the
  walls of our bloodline, and tempts us in those
  areas.
• Unrepented sin leaves open doors in the spiritual
  realm.

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FAMILY PATTERNS
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HOW DO WE GET FREE?

• Oct 30th draw out your family tree and write
  down the patterns of sin and sickness
• Nov 7th sign up for a tick-off sheet, and spend
  the time in the week in repentance.
• Nov 14th at 2pm for those who signed up, we will
  have a time of cutting the curses, deliverance
  and blessing.