You Are Irreversibly Blessed

Flow regardless of your mistakes

Does Jesus deserve to be blessed?

Give up more for Jesus

How much is enough?

OT - temporary righteousness based on the🩸of Animals

Our part - believe

We Are Irreversibly Blessed

Balak (King of Moab) solicited the services of a professional hitman named Balaam to curse the children of Israel so he could defeat them. He heard about what they had done to the Amorites and the whole city was terrified of them Israel.

Balaam 

It was said that whomever Balaam blessed was blessed, and whomever he cursed was cursed.

Balaam and Balak stood in a high place overlooking the encampment of the children of Israel.

. When Balaam opened his mouth to curse, he ended up blessing the people of Israel!

When Balaam opened his mouth to curse, he ended up blessing the people of Israel!

Numbers 23:11 ESV

And Balak said to Balaam, “What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and behold, you have done nothing but bless them.”

Numbers 22:35 ESV

And the angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but speak only the word that I tell you.” So Balaam went on with the princes of Balak.

No curse can come on you

You are free from gen curses

Galatians 3:13–14 ESV

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”— so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.

the children of Israel did nothing to defend themselves against Balak.

Psalm 121:4–8 ESV

Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.

Know what God doesn't see

Numbers 23:21 NKJV

“He has not observed iniquity in Jacob, Nor has He seen wickedness in Israel. The Lord his God is with him, And the shout of a King is among them.

Was there iniquity in Israel? (When God used the word “Jacob” here, He was referring to all the children of Israel.) 

Was there any sin in Israel? Or was everybody in the encampment perfect? 

If you were to zoom in from the top of the mountain into the encampment of Israel, you would probably hear all kinds of murmuring and complaining against Moses and his leadership.

Notice that God did not say there was no sin or iniquity in His people. 

He simply said He did not see it.

Same thing with us!

Under the old covenant, the Israelites enjoyed a temporal covering through the animal sacrifices, but for us, the atonement and payment for all our sins by Jesus Christ is eternal. 

Under the old covenant, the Israelites enjoyed a temporal covering through the animal sacrifices, but for us, the atonement and payment for all our sins by Jesus Christ is eternal. 

That is why God does not observe sin and iniquity in you nor has He seen wickedness in you. 

When God looks at you today, He sees you as a righteous, forgiven, healed, favored, blessed, accepted, and beloved son or daughter because of the cross of Jesus. 

Now, do you see yourself as God sees you?

Now, do you see yourself as God sees you?

Know themselves too well

Takes faith

Seeing Jesus - Peter waking on💧 

You are precious in Jesus' eyes👀 

We are God's bling 

Breastplate high priest wore - Jesus is our high priest

The names of the twelve tribes of Israel are engraved on each of the stones.

12 stones - represents God's people

Precious stones

Exodus 39:9–14 ESV

It was square. They made the breastpiece doubled, a span its length and a span its breadth when doubled. And they set in it four rows of stones. A row of sardius, topaz, and carbuncle was the first row; and the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond; and the third row, a jacinth, an agate, and an amethyst; and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper. They were enclosed in settings of gold filigree. There were twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel. They were like signets, each engraved with its name, for the twelve tribes.

Names engraved - our names are forever engraved - kept close to His ♥️ for all eternity

Overcomers

Revelation 12:10–11 ESV

And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God. And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.

Our testimony - the testimony of Jesus

It's about how Good sees 

gems sparkle under💡 

Radiate with beauty

Numbers 2:2–32 ESV

“The people of Israel shall camp each by his own standard, with the banners of their fathers’ houses. They shall camp facing the tent of meeting on every side. Those to camp on the east side toward the sunrise shall be of the standard of the camp of Judah by their companies, the chief of the people of Judah being Nahshon the son of Amminadab, his company as listed being 74,600. Those to camp next to him shall be the tribe of Issachar, the chief of the people of Issachar being Nethanel the son of Zuar, his company as listed being 54,400. Then the tribe of Zebulun, the chief of the people of Zebulun being Eliab the son of Helon, his company as listed being 57,400. All those listed of the camp of Judah, by their companies, were 186,400. They shall set out first on the march. “On the south side shall be the standard of the camp of Reuben by their companies, the chief of the people of Reuben being Elizur the son of Shedeur, his company as listed being 46,500. And those to camp next to him shall be the tribe of Simeon, the chief of the people of Simeon being Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai, his company as listed being 59,300. Then the tribe of Gad, the chief of the people of Gad being Eliasaph the son of Reuel, his company as listed being 45,650. All those listed of the camp of Reuben, by their companies, were 151,450. They shall set out second. “Then the tent of meeting shall set out, with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camps; as they camp, so shall they set out, each in position, standard by standard. “On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim by their companies, the chief of the people of Ephraim being Elishama the son of Ammihud, his company as listed being 40,500. And next to him shall be the tribe of Manasseh, the chief of the people of Manasseh being Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, his company as listed being 32,200. Then the tribe of Benjamin, the chief of the people of Benjamin being Abidan the son of Gideoni, his company as listed being 35,400. All those listed of the camp of Ephraim, by their companies, were 108,100. They shall set out third on the march. “On the north side shall be the standard of the camp of Dan by their companies, the chief of the people of Dan being Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai, his company as listed being 62,700. And those to camp next to him shall be the tribe of Asher, the chief of the people of Asher being Pagiel the son of Ochran, his company as listed being 41,500. Then the tribe of Naphtali, the chief of the people of Naphtali being Ahira the son of Enan, his company as listed being 53,400. All those listed of the camp of Dan were 157,600. They shall set out last, standard by standard.” These are the people of Israel as listed by their fathers’ houses. All those listed in the camps by their companies were 603,550.