Driving Away the Vultures — Brian Guerin

Okay, give you a quick opportunity to give. You should have an offering envelope on your seats and we're really excited with all the Lord's doing. So we're only four months in as a church and so grateful, look, he's already been healing bodies, seeing the lost saved, being taught and trained by the word and falling more in love with Jesus as we grow as a family together deep in him and just wanna give you an opportunity to give.

If this is not your house, you don't wanna tithe here, you wanna save that for where you attend. But we'll pray and here in a second, we'll just, you can go ahead and bring up the baskets if you don't mind, that'd be great.

And after we pray and you fill them out, you'll have the opportunity to give in the baskets. You could be gracious and let each other out of the aisles. And then we also, as you can see, have ways to give online with the QR code.

Online, Ascend Church ATL, I think backslash give, forward slash, I always get that. Is that forward slash? Forward slash. Yeah, we don't backslide, I need to remember that. We forward. And text to give.

So yeah, and I'm really excited. Many of you are thinking, man, what are y 'all doing? Y 'all can't fit in here. Yeah, so part of that, if anybody was at the formal dinner last night, just was amazing.

Yes, look, we'll have pictures out and the students just look like a million bucks. I mean, they were just walking the runway and turning. No, not really. But everybody looked amazing. I got a tie on my son Judah, it's a miracle.

Milestones. But it was just incredible. So proud of our team that put that on. It was just seamless. And bro, Caleb, do you mind sharing? Sorry to put you on the spot. Look, this is Caleb Seal. I believe him and his beautiful wife and children will be here soon.

They're out of state currently still. But look, you can't get, a lot of our students, they're just dangerous. You just can't let them, you can't let them out of your sight for one second. And so the catering team that was hired out to serve the dinner, sure enough, Caleb's all lost over there prophesying, healing the sick and stuff.

But if you don't mind sharing with them that precious story, I guess Virginia and whatever else.

Yeah, so quick funny part. So I went to prophesy over this lady, Miss Virginia. I don't know if she's here or not, but I had a picture of her son and she doesn't have a son. So that was fun. She has a daughter.

So completely missed it. I was like, well, you got a kid, like there's a good start. And so it went to prophesy over her. And then I got a word of knowledge about her leg. And so she had some really bad, like trouble with her leg and Jesus completely healed her leg and she's flipping her leg back and forth.

Then she went and got her other catering team, two or three of them. And they're like, look what happened. You won't believe it. So we got to pray over them too.

Yeah. Wow, come on. Come on Jesus, so, so good. The Lord's just moving it so powerfully. Love Caleb, look, man. He just walks in such humility, loves the Lord deeply and so proud of all of our students.

But any of you that were over there last night saw that we began construction. There's an event center for many of you that don't know, another building back here, 11 ,000 square feet. And even if the Lord puts it on your heart this morning to sow towards that, we're breaking ground.

So greatly appreciated, or prayer or both would mean so much. Because as you can see, we're slowly going in that direction. Definitely with our conferences first, as this is kind of what happens every conference and then our church is looking like it may go there too, pretty quickly.

So anyway, let's pray. And I want to believe for the Lord to open up the heavens over your life financially and bless you in return. Galatians 6 says, as a man sows, shall he reap? Luke 6 says, the measure you give will be measured, given back to you.

Press down, shaken together, running over. We're gonna believe for increase and abundance. So God, thank you for each and every one, these amazing families, men and women of God here today and online across the world, our extended family.

I pray that you'd bless them right now as they give into your word, your kingdom, your soil, what you are doing. You build your church, God. Help us just obey well and be glorified in return. God, I pray for an increase over their lives, the blessing of heaven, the windows of heaven to open up, that the favor of God would increase like never before.

Like never before, that there'd be a supernatural shift over our lives, even in the workplace. And with revelation, ideas, and in business and in the marketplace, everything we'd put our hand to would be blessed, going in the city and out and so forth and so on, be glorified through our lives, Lord, that we may love you well and represent you well in the earth.

In Jesus' name, amen. Amen, awesome. We're gonna play a short Academy video and then you can give, you can put it out. You know, we really need to adhere to a life that walks in the word, of course, but also the manifest presence of God.

You know, the Bible says the letter alone kills, but the spirit brings life. And man, we need his presence. But sometimes you can get a little top-heavy through knowledge and you start to lack presence, tangible, intimate, relational presence.

And may we always be a people that abide in him. Sometimes you get around people, you're like, man, there's something on them. And then you start to talk about Jesus and you realize, okay, I get it now.

They abide deep in the vine. This bunch is like no other. We're starting to see the Lord's for real raising up his bride for his son. And they mean business, but yet it's so beautiful. Going deep in community together, both online and in person, deep in the word, the spirit falling madly in love with Jesus.

Praise Jesus. It's awesome. You guys get to see what I see the whole time. You know all this, are you watching that? Oh, it's perfect. It's perfect. That's so cool. You can be sneaky peeking my notes though.

You know what I'm saying? I'm teasing. Do you have small font, Shireen said. That's brilliant. Shireen walks in that Solomonic wisdom. Watch when I shrink it up. Y 'all can't see that. I'm totally teasing.

The Sacrifice, the Vultures, and the Promises of God

Okay, I wanna talk to you from my heart. Try and condense it, but make it good. And then like I said, hopefully we'll land it with communion and step into a window together in the Lord. I'll touch on it again later towards the end, but communion's so powerful.

I wanna raise your expectation. Literally, it's a real-time window to encounter the Lord that was given us a command in scripture. Super, super important. But I wanna pick up from last week, if anybody was not here, just to recap, because I'm kind of, this is sort of like an unofficial, official, oh, thanks babe, series.

My daughter brought my Joe. If I need that. But anyway, it's kind of, I wasn't planning it, but it's working this way towards like a series, I guess. But last week in Genesis 15, some of you may have remembered that was with us, I touched on, can you maybe turn me up a little bit?

Or I guess I'm used to hearing the stage monitors. That's probably what it is. Can you guys hear me good? Oh, good, okay. With Abram, you know, he is, just comes off the back end of running in with Melchizedek.

He's got Lot, Lot's tagging along, the blessing of God, but he's left the land of Ur, going to who knows where. Can you imagine? Sarah's like, hey, Abram, what are we doing? He's like, I don't know, really.

Just, I just know he said to leave. And has God ever put you in that spot? You're like, babe, just trust me. She's like, I don't know if I trust you. I didn't hear what you heard. And it's just this whole, like, and the Lord's sitting back, kind of just getting, you getting to be entertained.

Hey, y 'all definitely see that. I really landed over here. So I don't know why he does that. But typically he does not show you the end from the beginning. And it's really in his goodness and kindness and love.

But you fast forward, and Abram gets into this dialogue with the Lord. And he says, look, you know, God's like, look, I will be your reward. Exceedingly great reward. Don't worry. He says, don't fear.

Abram's like, amazing, thank you, Lord. But how practically is that gonna work out? Because in our day and age, an inheritance can only be obtained through an offspring. I don't have anything. And other than the servant of my house.

And so he begins to dialogue with the Lord. And Abram says, how will I know? God says, bring me a three-year-old heifer, three-year-old female goat. It's very specific, super calculated. Male ram, turtledove, and a young pigeon.

And I broke it down all last week. It was a little bit more top-heavy with teaching. But this week, hopefully, I wanna bring more, let it hit home with us, how that applies. And I explained how the three years, I believe, was a depiction of the three years of Jesus' earthly ministry.

They all were cut in two, which is only done in sin offerings. Burnt offerings go out of their way in Leviticus, like I think one, to where you do not separate the turtledove or the pigeon totally apart.

It's a burnt offering. It's the life of submission given up. And so this whole thing where God foreknew what Abram's about to step into with his mistakes and his yieldedness. And he just covers it all in the blood of Jesus.

It's incredible. It's just this incredible thing that blew my mind, how God's like, look. And after that chapter is when they produce Ishmael and then obey and produce Isaac, and everything starts to play out.

And I feel like God was like, look, my son's been crucified before the foundations of the earth. Everything's in him, everything. Your mistakes are covered, your obedience is empowered, and your offspring is blessed and multiplied all through him.

Soon as you get outside of that covenant, the new covenant now we're talking about, nothing works. It's all in him, and that's where I'm really getting at. And I wanna reiterate again, I touched on this last week, but I never condone loose living.

So when I say your sins have been covered, biblically it's truth, but also you have to match them up to all the other verses that talk about live holy, be perfect as he's perfect, be holy as he's holy.

Throw off those sins that so easily entangle you. We walk a highway of holiness, but sometimes you make mistakes and produce Ishmaels in trying to walk out the will of God and end those. He's like, yep, I saw that coming.

Already had Jesus crucified for all of it, and it's amazing. And so there's this, we can turn there, Genesis 15. Genesis 15, and there's this one verse that we may camp out on the next three weeks. This very unique, it's a unique verse, but I just see so much there.

So verse nine, God says to him, he says, bring me a three-year-old heifer, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a turtle dove, and a young pigeon. Then he brought all these to him, cut them in two down the middle, and placed each opposite the other, but did not cut the birds in two.

And verse 11, this is what we're gonna touch on. And when the vultures came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away. You say, what in the world? But it's so powerful. I saw this verse fresh. I was like, oh my gosh, this is so key.

Again, from a New Covenant lens, the driving way of the vultures in our life is absolutely vital, and I wanna touch on this. I'm excited, and I pray it changes all in a deep way. This morning, I can see it from so many angles, but this morning, I'm gonna begin on the prospering in all things from 3 John 1 -2, but being whole in our body, whole in our soul, walking in the fullness of God, because this whole conversation is about the inheritance, what Abram's supposed to walk in.

The New Covenant Fulfillment of Abram's Sacrifice

How many of you wanna walk in the fullness of what God has for you? Well, what God's basically saying is, look, okay, you wanna know for sure how you're going to inherit it? Look at my son. It's all there.

Any mistake you're about to make, it's gonna be covered there, because I foreknow it and I love you, and I see you perfect through my son. Breath is right there, man, that felt good. Number two, any of your obediences, your proper yieldings and followings that's me anyway, it'll be empowered there.

It's all through him. Then the fruit from your obedience, I'll bless and multiply, guess how? Through him. That's what the conversation is. But there's this unique window of time of where the crucifixion happens that I believe this is the first real depiction of in a beautiful way of the Lord.

Two, that brings the promises about, but if you read in this, it says, as soon as he set the sacrifice out, vultures came to take it away. And Abram, he had to play the part of driving away the vultures until later the fire and smoke came and flowed through the parts.

When the fire and smoke came, it was done, it was finished. It was sealed. And if you read before the sacrifice, God tells Abram, he says, oh, this is the land I intend to give you. It's still up for grabs.

But when the sacrifice of the Lord is focused upon, and Abram does his part of keeping the vultures away from taking that sacrifice, the fire and smoke hits, and then he says, this land is yours. It's a big, big deal.

It goes from potentially to tangible and real and accessible and now. And so a lot of the promises of God, what am I to inherit, Lord? How am I to know this is to be? He's gonna always point you to Jesus.

It's all there, it's all there. Beautiful thing is we live on the hindsight of the new covenant. It is finished, those three words. It's done. These guys were walking out the projected blueprint of what was to come.

So he's gonna point you there, but often in life, vultures come, and I'm gonna, again, hit it from a new covenant lens, and if we don't drive them away, that fire and smoke can never seal it. And the inheritance and promise is always up for grabs.

And we'll get to heaven one day, and he'll be like, no, no, I prophesied that. You heard the prophecy. That word was real. I gave it. That package was hovering over you, waiting to be unlocked. But you didn't drive the vultures away, and it never got unwrapped and accessible.

So we're trying to go in every area of life from what is intended to be to obtaining. Does that make sense? And so it says, and when the vultures came down on the carcasses, Abram drove them away. I was thinking that this is funny.

Not very spiritual, but kind of connects. So I grew up just of vultures. I'm thinking nowadays, like, don't drive them away. Give me a .22 long rifle, you know what I'm saying? Just take them out. You should have seen me one day, they had some type of, I don't know birds well, but they had one on the church out there, and I was like, oh, uh-uh, no, sir.

They're taking my sacrifice. No, I'm teasing. But so Judah was with me, and we're picking like those burgundy rocks out of the flower beds. I'm like, yeah, and I'm just slinging them. He's like looking down at me like, finally I got one close enough, they flew off.

But I'm thinking, kill them. So anyway, it's funny just to bring you back. I'll bring you back into my upbringing just for fun. So you all know I grew up in Louisiana. Josh would appreciate this, my man, from Wisconsin hunts and stuff.

And so if you grew up in Louisiana, you typically either fish or hunt or both, or you grew up in the wrong state, like something. It's just what you do. You got pelagons, you're looking for snakes, like just what we do.

And so we grew up on, right backed up to endless woods, a ditch, snakes, turtles, whatever. And it was funny, I didn't know that it was illegal, I think, maybe it wasn't back then, but to kill like birds and stuff.

So we had pelagons and we'd like just go hunting for points in competition. Nowadays, I would only eat what we kill. And so I just thought it was funny because my parents, we would get lost out in the woods with our pellet guns and just go off building bamboo huts and whatever.

And I remember like a Cardinal was like five points, Blue Jays 10. I know y 'all are like, no, I didn't know any better. So my friends, we're like, we had it mapped out, this competition. Squirrels were like 20 points, rabbits like 100.

Oh, well, sorry, Mary's like, oh, I thought she was like. And so I'll never forget, we would just pack some snacks. My brother, he had a sweet like M16 lookalike pellet gun and the butt of his gun would open up, we could stuff snacks in there, we'd just be going all day.

And we'd come back with our collection, my poor mom, we'd line up Sparrows, Robins, I mean, just be like 10, 15, 20, you know? My mom would come out and be like, what in the world? That destroyed like all of everything beautiful.

And so, but we're not trying to do that anymore, we're trying to kill vultures from a new covenant. But I remember it was funny, because we'd be out there, sun's going down and my dad, you may remember this, that he had an air horn, it was brilliant.

He'd be like, dinner will be ready, we'd still be out there, just getting lost in the woods. And all of a sudden you hear, and he'd fire it from the house and we'd come all rustling out of the woods and eat dinner, count up our little winnings.

So, but anyway, this is real key, you know, out of the inherent word of God, spirit breathed through men, penned. He goes out of his way to put this mysterious verse of like, hold on a second, vultures come out of the sky and Abram goes out of his way to drive them.

He's basically protecting the sacrifice. He's got to watch it. I'm even thinking he can't even take quick restroom breaks, nothing, he's got to protect, it's very vital that this thing gets sealed. And often in our life, especially a new covenant lens, what Jesus has done, it is finished, it's done.

The sacrifice is done. That's why God did it with Abram before he even started. He says, it's all done. You don't even know mysteriously hidden in this that I see your mistake you're about to make. But I've got that covered, I've got your obedience, blessed, offspring, multiplying, all of it.

So God's so good, he like, gave it to us like the winning treasure map from the start. But sometimes in our life to access the promise versus it being potential takes the driving way of vultures for that fire and smoke to come and seal it.

And so I want to hit some verses and then pray and then next week we'll kind of build upon it. But I just think it's so vital that we make sure we do this because listen, I've been graced to travel a good bit.

I just, meaning I see a lot, hear a lot of humanity, ethnicities, countries, all that. And as a common theme amongst mankind in the body of Christ, if we're not careful, we love to lean upon the veneer like what's seen on the outside, the gifts, the prophecy, the this, that, which we love and teach and preach.

You heard Caleb goes for it, but he walks in such humility. There's more depth and character. You saw how at first he told you his mistake. He's not trying to impress you. He walks in humility as a man of character.

I love that. And, but also in some of these things, if you can prophesy the house down, read somebody's mail, but you can't drive vultures away, I'm telling you, you'll never walk in what all God intends for you.

I've seen it, I've been around it for years. I've traveled places year after year after year. And I'll see certain ones, they're very gifted on the veneer, on the outside. But in everyday life when nobody's watching, if you can't drive vultures away, you will stay in less than what God intends.

And you just always wonder why. You start forming false theologies to make an understanding for why you're in that season. And we're gonna get to heaven one day and God will be like, man, you see my son, look at him.

Holes are still in his hands to this day, glorified. It was finished, but we've got to, there's a reliance upon our part of driving the vultures away. So let's go to first Matthew 13. Because I think a beautiful kind of parallel in the New Covenant is the birds of the air that steal the seed, which is the word.

Isn't that interesting? I think you can kind of see it there as well. Matthew 13, verses three and four, I'm teasing. Verse three, then he spoke many things to them in parables saying, behold, a sower went out to sow and he sowed.

Some seed fell by the wayside and the birds came and devoured them. And if you jump down to 18 and 19, this is where Jesus makes it literal to his disciples. That was just the parable side to it. Last verse, 18 and 19.

Therefore, hear the parable of the sower. When anyone hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart. This is he who received the seed by the wayside.

The wicked one, the vultures, they come to try and take away, and who is the word? Jesus, the seed is the word, and in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God. You can see this whole, almost like the crucifixion in the depiction of the sacrifice before Abram is a picture of the Lord.

And he is the word, and the vultures of the sky, their entire life, the enemy's trying to snatch us from your life before the fire and smoke can come. And it's so important, Mark chapter four. It's in all the synoptic gospels, this parable.

Mark chapter four, again, verses three through four. Listen, exclamation mark. Jesus is like, listen, this is very important. Behold, a sower went out to sow, and it happened as he sowed that some seed fell by the wayside, and the birds of the air came and devoured it.

Because you know vultures, they don't come around and just look at the sacrifice. They're coming to partake of it and remove it. And if that gets removed from our life, the power is gone, the powerful forgiveness of the Ishmael's, the power of empowerment upon the obedience in Isaac, the power of blessing and multiplication upon our Isaac, all that.

If the covenant gets taken, the power is gone. And so, also, verses 14 through 15, still in Mark four. We're going to the literal. Jesus says, the sower, verse 14, the sower sows the word, and these are the ones by the wayside where the word is sown.

I like Mark and Luke a little better, because watch, it says, when they hear Satan comes immediately and takes away the word that was sown in their hearts. It's demonic, these vultures, and they come often through the thoughts of men.

Remember Peter, he says, no, Lord, nobody will crucify you. Seems so innocent, pure and true. Vultures come through believers all the time. Not that you get real skeptical and all that, but you just, you kill them, you shut them down right away.

When anything even smells like a vulture, I go out of my way to destroy it. In my own mind, if I hear it around my kids, I will destroy it, behead the thing. It's very detrimental. It comes to take away the sacrifice.

But Peter, no, Lord, nobody. Remember, he was basically trying to take away the sacrifice. He goes, get behind me, Satan. You have the mind of man. Peter's like, man, that's tough. And that's what it does.

These vultures come, and they're always trying to disconnect what Jesus has done. Because listen, man, if we get this, this new covenant, it really, really is finished. I think we say it, we have the bumper stickers and the t-shirts, it's for real.

It's for real. And you find some believers that know it, and are vulture killers, and the smoke and fire constantly comes, and bam, bam. The inheritance they walk in is like no other. They live the thing.

Not out of arrogance at all, because they know their dependency upon the Lord. It's all in the sacrifice. I have nothing to do with it. That's why I've got to destroy the vultures and get them out of here.

Got to protect him. He's my everything. Everything's there. And Luke chapter eight. How many of you love the Bible? Love the word. Love the word. Verses four through five. And when a great multitude had gathered, and they'd come to him from every city, he spoke by a parable.

Verse five, a sower went out to sow his seed, and as he sowed, some fell by the wayside, and it was trampled down, and the birds of the air devoured it. Now, verses 11 through 12, the literal. Now, the parable is this.

The seed is the word of God. Those by the wayside are the ones who hear. Then the devil comes and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. And I love, even in these, you know, this is the passage where it says if the seed goes in deep, that some go on to produce 30, 60, and 100 fold.

But if those vultures come and steal the sacrifice before it's sealed, all of the 100 fold gets taken out of the picture. And if we're not careful, he can, he'll come down on any part of the sacrifice that applies to your life that you'll let him.

You know, you didn't see Abram calling for angels to do it. He had to do it. We have to drive him away. And in the new covenant, it looks more like the renewal of the mind. So vital. This unlocks the fire and smoke coming and sealing it.

Renewing the Mind to Access the Finished Work of Christ

But so I have some analogies here that I just wanna talk to you from my heart. But I have here, the word is what renews the mind to unlock the already paid in full sacrifice of the Lord. Through his death and resurrection, everything was paid for.

It is finished, it's done. That's why Abram did that before. He sealed the deal before he even started into the journey. He bore all of our iniquities, sickness, disease, and so forth and so on. I have here, it's like the door is the promise.

If you can picture a door here. I remember our academy night, I had a real door up here one time. One time I was on a skyjack in here. I'm not kidding. I was like way up by the lights. And we were bringing shaka-laka-bop-bop, just praying I didn't fall.

But I was trying to give a visual. But it's like the door, can you imagine a door is the promise. The key is the sacrifice that opens that door. And the renewed mind is what actually puts the key into the door to unlock it.

And that renewed mind is the clearing out of the vultures. And I'm telling you, I've seen it, man. People can dream, vision, shaka-laka, and I knew this and I saw that and I love it. Do more, please.

But vultures come and we're just like sitting there. And they're like, gah, coming out of the sky. Gah, constantly. How does a vulture sound? I have no idea. It's gotta sound a little more wicked than that, though.

That sounded kind of pretty, yeah. Like rah, maybe rah, something wicked. But if we're not careful, we just start complaining, getting out of ungratitude. Anything outside of the Word that's unrenewed and not covenant, vultures, here they come.

They're just looking for a doorway. Do we need to be on eggshells? No, no, we live freedom in life. But boy, we're ready to take out a vulture in a heartbeat. We live this way. I'm telling you, your children, all of it.

I will on purpose, anything that gets said that's not the Word, I'll obliterate it. Get out of my garden, no weeds. Because that's what disconnects the sacrifice. That's what disconnects what's already been paid.

And so I have here, once that lock is unlocked and the door is opened, everything that was paid for goes from a mere promise to an accessible reality. I touched on that already. The vultures, which are the thoughts, belief patterns, and ideologies of the enemy, do all that they can to take away what the sacrifice of the Lord has already purchased by his virgin birth, death, and resurrection.

It's sealed it all. It's sealed it all. And so let's go to 3 John 1, 2, please. 3 John chapter one, verse two. And I just wanna springboard from this, maybe over the next few weeks, we'll see how long it takes.

Because how many of you know, if we're not walking in all that God intends for us, we're not reflecting truly his son? You know, I think sometimes when we talk about accessing promises, some of us are like, hold on, let's just stay on the deeper things, intimacy with the Lord.

And he's like, yeah, but if you love me, you'll obey me. Do you know what I'm saying? There's plenty that wanna claim deep intimacy in the talk and all, but if you're not walking in the promised land, you're in disobedience.

And you're not really reflecting his son. We've gotta get into the milk and honey. We've got to get into the land. And if we, so some of this stuff really matters. It is deep and intimate. And so 3 John chapter one, verse two says this, and I think it's John the Beloved.

I think he might know a thing or two. Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things, be in good health, even as your soul prospers. We all know this and love it, quote it. Again, I'd love to touch, though, that there's a may in there, meaning it can stay in the not accessible realm, that God's intentions don't become reality.

But he's praying. He literally says, I pray that you may prosper in all things. And is that financially? Oh, yeah, but it's many other things. It's all things. And so that's another thing, till you start talking about financial, which I'm gonna hit a lot this morning.

People get all, hold on, you're getting off into the tangible, worldly things. No, I'm getting into kingdom things. Actually, I believe God's people, it's all over the world. The wealth of the wicked's stored up for the righteous.

We should be walking, prospering in all things. This is just the word. If you wanna let a vulture come in and tell you otherwise, go for it, but you're gonna wonder why a big cloud of lack is always hovering over you.

I'm not getting under your cloud with you. When I talk to you, I'm gonna have an umbrella, and I'll be like, and I'm gonna talk to you real fast, and I'm getting out of the way. Yeah. You know what I mean?

And you're like, I don't know, but, and the vultures are just pounding the sacrifice in your life, you know. But this is the word. But I love, watch this, what he, I'll turn there, 3 John 1, 2. Watch what he solidifies that verse with right after.

It's all about the truth, and knowing the truth, and walking in the truth. It's the renewed mind. This is how, he basically says, look, I pray that you prosper in all things, be in good health, even as your soul prospers, total soul, whole in your soul.

And then he jumps straight in to watch this. Basically, this is how you do it. For I rejoice greatly when brethren came and testified of the truth that is in you. Just as you walk in the truth, I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.

You see the connection? Meaning, if we don't walk in truth, what's already been done, a life free of vultures, everything he just prayed's not gonna happen. I pray that you may, but by the way, how you really unlock this and stay in this lifestyle is truth, and I'm telling you over and over in about two verses, and so it's super key.

But also, I love John, you don't need to turn there, I'm gonna move quick now. John 8, 31 through 32. John 8, 31 through 32. Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed him, if you abide in my word, you are my disciples indeed.

And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Now I wanna go over what the New Covenant vultures really look like, and kind of try and uncover them, and just hit a bunch of verses, and we'll see where we will go.

Doubt, Unbelief, and Fear as Spiritual Vultures

But I can see three main ones for sure, I believe there's many others. But the title, if you could give the attributes of these vultures in the New Covenant would be doubt, unbelief, and fear. And these come straight at the word, straight at the seed of the word, straight at the sacrifice.

And if they land on that sacrifice, you're not gonna get to heaven one day and start pointing fingers at Jesus, the Father, or the Holy Spirit. And be like, but, but, but, they're gonna be like, the Father and the Holy Spirit are gonna be like, are the holes still in Jesus' hands?

Oh yeah, they're still there. I don't know what you're talking about, but I can see at this point in time, this chapter of your life, you weren't driving vultures away. We gave you the word. And we were trying to send the fire and smoke and seal it all.

And make what was a promise come into reality, but you didn't, you know. And so doubt, unbelief, and fear. This morning I'm gonna mainly hit the prospering in all things. Kinda condense it for the sake of time.