Gateway Church's Podcast
Honor Releases Inheritance
Special guest Russell Evans teaches the foundational principle of the kingdom: honor. Through a lifestyle of honor, you can daily walk out His kingdom.
If you like your Bibles, I want you to turn in your Bibles to John chapter 4, verse 43-54. I've been doing a series in my own church on the supernatural lifestyle. How many know that God has called you not just to live natural, but add super to your natural, to add extra to your ordinary, so that we bring heaven to this planet? How many know that heaven is in you and God wants to release it out of you? You know, John 737 says out of your innermost being will flow rivers of living water. What I love about the church is that the church should be the most living place on the planet because it represents the most living creation of the world God, you know. God is, He is life, there's no death in God, He is life. And Jesus said that He is the way, the truth and the life, and so I believe church should be the most life-filled place on the planet. I actually think church should be a bigger party than the NFL game, than the college game, than the bar NBA game. I think we should celebrate more in church than we do about winning an NBA title because where else can you go with a whole heap of people in His presence? Celebrate. Jubilee, God is all about jubilee, jubilee in Jesus is 24/7, 365 days a year. And so I've been doing this series on the miracles of Jesus and I come to the second miracle, recorded miracle of Jesus and it's out of this scripture and it's in John 4, 43, and it says, "At the end of two days when Jesus went on to Galilee," next verse, he said that a prophet is not honored, everyone say honored, in his home, you say it's so good, honored, that is awesome, in his own hometown. Now Jesus is setting up what he's about to do, the word honor. I want to speak to you this morning on honor because I believe honor is the foundation of the kingdom. I'll show you what I mean. To get saved we need to honor what Jesus has done in the Word of God so we become a Christian. If you want to have unity you have a house of honor. If you want to be blessed financially you honor God with your wealth. If you want to be a person who sees miracles you honor the God of miracles, honor is a foundational truth of the kingdom. When we talk about honor you think about your household in one of the Ten Commandments is honor your father and mother so it may go well with you and you live a long life. Think about as a child if you honor your parents the house is peaceful, if you don't honor your parents there's strife, honor is a kingdom principle or a kingdom foundation that sets up everything else in the kingdom, honor is so critical. To the point where Jesus says here he was not honored in his hometown and then in verse 46 it says there was a government official in nearby Capernaum whose son was very sick and when he heard that Jesus has come from Judea to Galilee he went down and begged Jesus to come to Capernaum to heal his son it was about to die. He begged Jesus another word a version of that or an interpretation of that is he prayed or he humbled himself. See honor is saying I understand what's in somebody and I honor it to receive what they have. Tonight I want, well this morning it's tonight in Australia. In this morning when we honor we release an inheritance. When children honor their parents you release an inheritance from your parents. See many times I've been brought up in the church all my life been in the body of Christ seen the who's who and the Christians who have seen so many people come and go but what I've discovered is when you honor you release an inheritance. It's that people sometimes go well I like that style and I don't like that style and I like that so I'll honor that but I won't honor that because I don't like how they do that. But if we had people in the body of Christ who instead of look that style or look that personality start looking at what was in people and the Bible says if you're born again if Jesus lives in you that Christ in you the hope of glory. If we honor the Jesus in somebody or the God in somebody we release the inheritance that they carry. If everyone in the body of Christ did that we would release an inheritance that we couldn't contain. Honor not only releases an inheritance but it also releases generational inheritance and generational blessing. You think about it. God said to Abraham he said see the stars in the sky that's your inheritance. Now Abraham was only going to live for a certain time and he was old and Sarah was old and they produce a child they produce Isaac they only have one son of the promise. They don't have the billions of stars they only have one son of the promise. Abraham could have said well I thought there were going to be billions but he only had one. So what did Isaac do? He honored what was the promise on his father's life and he produced two Jacob and Esau. What did Jacob do? He honored what was on Abraham which was on Isaac and he received twelve. So it went from one to two to twelve. What happens when you honor you release a generational inheritance that multiplies and now we are the seat of Abraham and his blessing rests on us and now there's billions of children of the promise that have come into existence because of honor. You think about Elijah and Elijah is there and he's an incredible prophet. He has miracles and he says it's not going to rain and it doesn't rain and then he says it's going to rain and they go up to Mount Carmel and there's all that that happens and Elisha says to Elijah I want what you have in other words I want to receive an inheritance I'm going to honor what you carry so that generations can hear it again. And Elisha says okay if you follow me if you see me when I go then you'll receive it. So Elisha's following around Elijah everywhere he wouldn't give Elijah a free moment because he so wanted the inheritance that Elijah carried. And Elisha is there and the other prophets say go home Elijah have a rest but Elisha says no I've got to get the inheritance that Elijah has. Elisha even says go home but Elisha says no I've got to capture what happens here and so there he is and Elijah gets taken to heaven and his mantle falls and it comes on Elisha and the Bible says Elisha does double what Elijah did. The sad thing is nobody honored what was on Elisha's life and carried what he had. It stopped and in fact Elisha's life was so powerful that even in his death when they put a dead body on his bones the dead body came alive because what he carried but nobody said hey I want what you have I'm going to honor what's in your life. That's how honor works. And so here Jesus comes the government official comes and he begs Jesus and Jesus says will you never believe in me unless you see miraculous signs and wonders. Jesus is sort of pushing him aside I said will you never believe in me unless you see miraculous signs and wonders and you know people come to me at times and say look I've got my son they're sick they're in hospital could you come and pray for them and and you know what I want to do is straight away get up and leave that place and go pray for them because that's that's the heart sometimes that you carry you want to be there and here is this man begging Jesus and Jesus says would you believe in me unless you see miraculous signs and wonders he didn't go okay let's go Billy Joe let's go let's go walk down the street and I'm coming to your house he doesn't do that so what does a royal official do get offended like many Christians do when God doesn't answer your your problem right away you know so many people well I came to came to church and you know you know I asked them to do that but they didn't do that and so I'm going to another church if we got so many people who changed church in the body of Christ you know I love this church because church is about influencing community and that's what you're doing here and so many people get offended in live and God hasn't called us to be offended he's called us to honor and so there he is and he doesn't get offended he didn't go hey I'm a royal official I'm a nobleman you're a carpenter you should come no the Bible says the official pleaded Lord please come now before my little boy dies listen to what Jesus does he said then Jesus told him go back home your son will live he didn't say hey I'm coming he said go back home your son will live and listen to what the man's response said and the man believed what Jesus said and started home wouldn't it be awesome if everybody in the body of Christ believe what Jesus said wouldn't that be awesome oh my my son's on drugs but God says that's for me in my house they will serve the Lord he might be a situation I'm facing right now but I'm going to believe that he's going to turn around and he's going to come and serve Jesus I've been diagnosed with sickness I'm going to believe what God says by his stripes I am healed would it be would it be awesome places everybody believed I tweeted today well yesterday and I said you know the supernatural life so as is at the end of our belief we are called believers of Christ it'd be good if we did what our name says believe Christ everyone and as I said I've been brought up in the church all my life you know my mum she was a she just passed away went to to be with Jesus in heaven and you know she is a person who knew the Bible we were taught the Bible we're Bible believers if God says it it is what we believe and we used to call her the walking concordance because she knew the Bible she she would give my brother and myself incentives to to read the Bible that should say I'll give you a new tennis racket if you read John all of John and remember this memory verse that memory verse so we did that because we like playing tennis and so you know my dad would be in the middle of the sermon and he'd go Lorraine what where was that scripture and should tell him where that scripture was she could quote you scripture we had scripture all over our walls in our house we had plaques with scripture you know as for me in my house we all serve the Lord I'm more than a conqueror through Christ who gives me strength you know I can do all things when I was naughty she would come and put these posters in my room you know written in hand children obey your parents in the law for it is good she we would have scripture in the bathroom fear not for I am with thee we'd have scripture everywhere we had scripture on this little piece of wood well wasn't that little it was about that long and on this little bit well this piece of wood and it would have spare the rod and spoil the child and on the other side it had I need the every hour and and I should have put out the end of it Jesus wept and so did I been brought up in the church seen so many things happen in church you know in fact I was told I tell people if there was a chance choice between who would discipline me whether be mum and dad it always be dad because he'd feel sorry for me remember one time I stayed away from school because I felt the call of the Lord to witness to the arcade places and because everyone's a missionary to this school but who's gonna win the ones who aren't at school and there's so many hurting people there and so I said yes to the Lord not really yes to my flesh and I went to these arcades and came home the first day and mum said what did you do at school and I thought well we played a game that added up school so that's like math and I said well we did math and then there was like a sporting game there so that was sports so we did sports and what else you do and there was sort of science fiction sort of games and so that was like science and and so every day in the first day it worked really well so I thought I'd try it the second day and the third day and then come to the seventh day and come home and on the seventh day God did not rest mum asked me how school was and I did the whole thing and she said well what's this she shows a letter from the school that saying I hadn't been at school for seven days and I'm like oh my friends stole the school stationary and they've written bogus letters to the parents and she goes I rang the school I said oh he did she said yes and I said oh you're beautiful mum oh I know you're 45 but you really look 30 and you know you're just you don't need it you don't Botox wasn't around then but you don't need anything you're just beautiful she says wait in the bedroom for your father so I'm in the bedroom and I'm doing deals with God I'm saying God if you keep that rod from me I'll serve you I'll be a missionary for a week just to make up the seven days and and my dad walks in and he's got the stick and he's crying he's crying think about it he's crying with the stick in his hand and then he says this is going to hurt me more than it's going to hurt you I said dad give me the stick you bend over and let's see if that's okay and our parents we say some dumb things at times like do you want a spanking what's a kid going to say yeah give me one you know but I bet I've had the fortune that life have been bought up with awesome people and but I've seen people in church life who come in and and you hear about you hear their passer or the or a gas or a preacher come in or they begin to preach the word and they begin to say I believe a city will be one and people yes amen and and they some of those people over a period of time allow cynicism to get in and allow disappointment to get in and allow small thinking to get in and and they hear their same statements and they go yeah heard that before whatever because they've stopped honoring the word this man believed Jesus at what he said and if we'd have a people in the body of Christ that would believe what God says and when it's declared because there's something powerful about the declared word of the Lord and when it's declared you see the world wasn't thought into existence it was spoken to existence you form your world through your words and this man is there and he believed what Jesus said I say to our church you know you can come to church and and you preach the word and and it's those who believe what's said is actually receive the inheritance of what's said it's those who who sip bit with a cynical mindset and cross their arms see what they're doing is they're honoring the whatever instead of honoring the God of the promise because every generation's had whatever just this generation has more of a with an attitude whatever Thursday saying whatever will be will be every generation's had whatever it's what you honor is what you walk towards I'll give you an example of this beginning of last year God gave me a prophetic word he said it's a year of favor now my church could have gone whatever or they went yes and amen and that's what they did then we had Bishop T.D. J.'s come and preach on favor they went yes and amen they knew in your gracious releasing of Pastor Robert come and preach the blessed life and they went yes and amen and we honored what was said and our giving in our church went up 75 percent within a 12 month period what happened at the end of that 12 months I asked our church who's had a job promotion who's had a new job who's had financial breakthrough this year would you stand your feet 90 percent of our church stood why did that happen because of honor this year I've declared the year of supernatural and I remember in a meeting I said that God was healing people's eyes and God was going to heal a whole heap of people's eyes now we got a lot of international students in our church and you know they do a lot of studies so they always wear glasses and so one service 40 percent of the the church stood because our international students in that meeting and and we're there begin to pray and begin to believe in and there were people who could have sat back well I've stood for healing before and it didn't work or they go yes and amen to that word that's for me I honor the word a lady stood she hadn't seen for 20 years properly she had to wear contact lenses and the next morning she put a contact lenses in and she couldn't see she took them out and she looked at the trees and saw detail like she'd never seen for a long time she went to the doctors they said you have 20 20 vision we're we're just amazed at what happened and all of a sudden people begin to honor the word you see by the way the word testimony in the old testament means do it again and every time there's a testimony declared and there's an honoring of that testimony it releases something into the atmosphere for God to do it again when there's an honoring of what God does it actually brings inheritance and then it becomes generational inheritance and then it becomes multiplication that's why honor is so critical in our life everybody honors they either honor skepticism negativity or small thinking and they receive the fruit of skepticism negativity and small thinking if you honor what God says you receive what he says a few weeks after that lady was ill it's people started getting healed all over the place there was a man who had for 20 years had 90 had only 3% sight in one eye because 20 years ago he had a wood chip fly out of a a lathe and hit him in the sight in the eye and he lost 97% of his sight in that one eye they had to put a valve in his eye to stop it to help it not get glaucoma and for 20 years he's had 3% sight he heard the word of the Lord he honored it and said yes that's for me he's there and as his hands are lifted high he saw a vision of this wood chip flying out and he saw a hand go up and stop it he opened his eye and he could see completely totally the same as the other eye he turned to his wife and he goes which eye is I forgot and which eye have I got a problem with because I can see well in both she looked into his eye and saw that the valve that was in his eye had disappeared had it completely gone and miracles begin to break out all over the place why because of honor we honored God's word in fact in fact just quickly right now I believe the same spirit that rose Christ from the dead is here right now if you need a breakthrough in your eyesight we're just going to agree just for a moment if you need a breakthrough in your eyesight would you stand your feet right now you need a breakthrough and we're going to agree we're going to honor the word of God right now in Jesus name ready here we go in the name of Jesus we thank you God you've done it in the past and we release it again we speak 2020 vision in a people's situations we declare to these eye conditions that they be healed in the name of Jesus we thank you Jesus for what you've done and we expect what you're about to do and we declare miracle after miracle after miracle after miracle and if you believe that in this place give the Lord a hand of praise amen amen amen amen amen amen you can be seated you can be seated you see it doesn't have to be this oh it just happens like that trust me people are going to get healed of that you're going to get testimony of that I have great faith for that right now in fact there are people here and you have a problem with asthma and God is healing you right now and an asthma is being healed and we agree right now if you have asthma just lift your hand and we're going to agree with you that Jesus heals you right now in the name of Jesus we declare to every asthma to go in the name of Jesus we speak to these these are this condition to go and we speak great breathing in the name of Jesus someone's shoulder up here is getting healed right now the power of God is here we honor what God said now I've got to quickly go the Bible says that he walked he started on home had the word he didn't have the report of the word coming to pass so he starts walking he's walking through the day at the beginning when God gives your word it's exciting but I've discovered the further you get away from that word the further of time it becomes between that word sometimes the enemy comes in and says did he really say didn't you come to get Jesus to go to your house and you and he just said you go and he's walking and he would have had to walk through the dark of night you see what happens is in the dark of night spiritually emotionally physically whatever situation you go through the enemy comes in and says does he really say what keeps you walking to your promises the honor of the word that was spoken over you and the word that God declared in his in the in the word of God and so through the night he's walking through the dark you see people you might be going through some dark time my encouragement to you is honor what God says about your life walk to the promise don't walk even though you walk through the valley of the shadow of death don't fear evil just keep walking to your promise because surely goodness and mercy are waiting for you and and his presence and his life and his power is there in every situation but what keeps you going is the honoring of what he said he still hadn't received the miracle until the next day or the miracle or or had already happened but he hadn't heard about it and that's what happens many times God's already done it in fact he did it on the cross he says it is finished and it is done it's but sometimes there's a walking towards the promise for the promise to come into fruition in our life and it's honor that keeps us walking that way so many people at times when they go through stuff and the devil comes in and says did he really say they go off on paths and get distracted or sit down in their problem instead of saying no God said so I'm keep going I'm stepping forward I'm gonna honor what he said and when we do the miracles come our way so my encouragement to you this morning is honor the inheritance in people honor it to see a generational blessing honor what the word of God says and keep living according to what God says and he who has started a good work will complete and he will bless you and he will prosper you and he will cause his face to shine upon you and this morning if we're honors of honor is of God's word come on let's give the Lord a hand of praise in this room right now and thank him for what he is to do hallelujah