And then when my life turns into a dumpster fire,
“Please save me, I need something” and then once you receive it you go back to doing whatever you want to do.
Hey fam, it's Rachel. Today on Crack Your Bible
We need to talk about the fact that today in the church,
especially out in the West, they try to demonize all the masculine
qualities about God and they try to feminize God so that he's not offensive to the outside world.
We have a very lukewarm
church that wants to be a friend of the world and in doing so they're holding up a God that doesn't
exist. And when you hold up a God that doesn't exist- this fake God that's just an
amalgamation of all the things that don't offend the outside world- you're not going to see the power of God,
you're not going to see the Holy Spirit move through people, you're not going to see miracles and
you're going to see exactly what we see in the church today: a huge gender
imbalance where it's mostly women and men are nowhere to be seen. That’s exactly what we have in the church today, because
they try to demonize
masculinity- the patriarchy- and we need to see who God really is,
we want to see
what God actually
will do, and how do we do that? By deep diving into his word, and when we go look at his name and the names
that he puts on places, we see that we don't serve a weak and wimpy God. We serve El Shaddai, “The
Destroyer”. Now before we get started make sure you hit “subscribe”, with the bell, with the parentheses
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So we are in Genesis chapter
14 and if you haven't been with us as we go verse by verse through
Genesis 14, make sure you hit
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Because we have a weak and watered-down Jesus being taught in our church a weak and watered-down God
being taught in church people don't believe that God will do big things in their life,
they don't actually know who God is and there's a reason for that, it's because the church doesn't want to offend outside people.
But we need to realize who God really is, because when we realize who God really is we understand our authority in Christ
Jesus, and one of the ways that we get to know
who God is is by reading his word, and when you look at the names of places in the Bible
you are going to see words of knowledge come out,
you are going to see blessings come out, you are going to see what God actually says about himself, and how he
reinforces promises over and over and over again
simply by looking at the names of places and people in Scripture. Now names are important in the Bible
and so often in our own culture, we just make up whatever goofy names that we want to give kids.
You have these like very popular names and it goes in waves;
people don't really consider what they are naming their child, but in Hebrew
the culture is completely different and when you are going to name a child, especially in ancient Israel,
you're not just giving them a name because it's popular it sounds cooler,
unique and it has a really annoying spelling that your kid is going to hate you for.
No, you are giving a name because it has meaning, because there’s a blessing on it, because there’s a word of knowledge, because there
are characteristics of that name that you want imbued on your child. And it's not just people,
when God names places he carries the same connotation.
Now whenever God meets a person and there's this big to-do with that person,
you're going to see a name change and that is because God is
imbuing that person with a new blessing, with a new word of knowledge, with new
characteristics; he's putting himself on that person, they are being imbued with the Holy Spirit.
You see God putting his signature- his name- on that person when he changes those names.
So we see Abram goes to Abraham, Sarai to Sarah. We see Jacob go to Israel,
we see Saul go to Paul in the New Testament.
Because names have meaning, they have words of knowledge,
they have
blessings on them, and I'm gonna keep repeating this over and over and over again because I want you to get this down on the
inside: names have meaning, names are important. They tell you
characteristics about that person or that place and it is very true when it comes to the Bible.
So I'm reading Genesis 14 and for the past month and a half, I've just been
tripping up when I get to Genesis 14:17 because
remember Abram had just gone out and defeated four giants- four giants who had defeated five other giant kings
in a war that had been going on for two years. And in this war, for two years,
Abrams only family member Lot,
his nephew, gets kidnapped by these giants, and so do all of his people
that are underneath him. And these people are super wealthy- like the Saudi royal family-
super, super wealthy; and
for two years, he's caught in the crossfire of this. Like, you think your life is stressful?
Imagine being in the crossfire of giants going to war! Like, this is just a disaster. And
we see that Abram comes into an agreement with God and under the cover of darkness with
318 men that are born in Abraham's household, they go and they defeat these four kings,
they take back Lot and all of his stuff and all of his people, and then
Abram goes and meets the king of Sodom at this place called the Valley of Shaveh.
Now remember he could not have done this without God,
it is only through God that he- a human, a mere mortal- was able to defeat these Nephilim-
hybrid-Rafaam kings. It is impossible for a man to do that on his own, especially with
318 men.
So what took over two years of just constant fighting was over in one night when God came into the mix. And
afterwards Abram is at this place called the Valley of Shaveh, and I'm like “God, I know there is something here,
I know there is something here because you're not just telling me this name for no reason especially because it has two names”.
This place is called the Valley of Shaveh and it says in parenthesis: (that is, The King’s Valley).
So I started looking this up and I'm like, “God, tell me something about this place,
let me know what the word of knowledge is about this place”.
So I go online and all the sites say “Shaveh” just means “a flat ground”, “a plane”, and
I was like, “Okay, but let's look at the root word because you wouldn't just name a plane ‘flat ground’”.
Well, the root word of “shaveh” is “shavah”
and it means “to agree with”. And what did Abram just do, what did he just finish doing?
He came into an agreement with God and just defeated
these giant enemies.
He came into an agreement with God and
he defeated these giant enemies- the Giants in his life.
This is what Shaveh is, it is proof text that when you come into agreement with God (the root of
that word is “to come into an agreement”,
“to be like”, “to agree with”) and once you agree with God, that is the foundation,
you’re going to have a level plane, things are going to be flat. When you come into an agreement with God
he will make your ways flat, he will put your foot on level ground,
he's the one that goes before you and turns the rocky places level. And
I want you to remember this because so often
we only see God as this weak and wimpy God,
we see him as this loser boyfriend that we have no relationship with. We don't spend time with him,
we don't talk to him, we don't care what he has to say to us. We don't care if he needs time with us,
it's just, “I'm going to do me and then when my life turns into a dumpster fire
‘Please save me, I need something!’” and then once you receive it you go back to doing whatever you want to do.
And that's not who God is, that's not how we're supposed to behave
towards God. So as I'm reading, I'm
reading scripture about all these different places where God talks about how he's going to make the rough places
level, and you see just this warring God, and it's a God that we don't see taught in church.
Satan loves that your church doesn't talk about the strength of
God, the power of God; how he goes out as a warrior before us to make our paths straight.
And this is a huge problem because like I said before, names are so
important and one of the names of God is “El Shaddai”.
Now so often in churches, you'll hear it means “the many-breasted God” and “God will supply all my needs”.
And yes, it does say in Scripture that God will supply all of our needs according to his riches and glory,
but that's not what El Shaddai means. El Shaddai means “God The Destroyer”. Now
so many people will be shocked by that because they always hear that El Shaddai means “many-breasted God”
and it doesn't, that comes straight from paganism- this feminist deity
which would have multiple breasts all over her supplying you with milk- but you're not a baby.
You're not a child. You need meat, not milk. God is not feeding you milk,
God is ready for you to have meat and God on the battlefield wants you to have the beef jerky
of the Gospel,
he wants you to be taught the hard truths of the Bible that are
difficult to digest and impossible for infants to digest, he doesn't want you to be a baby and
he's not breastfeeding you, he's out there being The Destroyer God. Now El Shaddai,
the reason people will say that means “many-breasted God” is because in Hebrew “shad” means “breast”. But the real root word of
“Shaddai”, for “El Shaddai”, is “shadad”.
El Shaddai means “the one who
overpowers”, “the one who plunders”, “the one who makes desolate”. He's “The Destroyer”. That's what ”shadad” means, and
that's the root word of “El Shaddai”. And that is who we worship, that is the God that we worship, and
he has these masculine traits. And throughout scripture
we see a powerful God who goes before us, he goes into battle on our behalf.
We see that he did that for Abram in Genesis 14;
he's the one that went into battle to defeat those kings. Abram couldn't have done that by himself,
that was all on God, and we see that God does these things. In Isaiah 42
he says: “I will lay waste to the mountains and the hills, I will dry up all their vegetation;
I will turn their rivers into
islands, and
dry up the pools. And I will lead the blind in a way that they do not know, in paths that they have not known
I will guide them. I will turn the darkness before them into light, the rough places into level ground.
These are the things that I do, and I do not forsake them.”
God is out doing battle for you,
but before he'll go into battle for you- before he'll make that place level ground-
you're going to have to come into an agreement with God.
You want the things that God wants, because he lives on the inside of you, and this is one of the reasons that people need
to understand names, and they need to understand the power of God.
It's not okay for you to say, “Well in my mind, I see God as this”.
No, we need to see God for who he really is;
we need to worship God in spirit and in truth. And God is not a weak
God, God is not a wimpy God. We need to recognize and honor the fact that God is
powerful, he is almighty, he is
destructive, he is a jealous God and
his zeal is for his people.
We see this with Jesus as he's whipping people out of the temple. You know, everyone always thinks of Jesus as this weak, hippie dude;
he's not, he's taking a cat-o'-nine-tails
and whipping people out of the temple. “Zeal for your house consumes me”-
this is the kind of God that we worship And when we are adopted into gods family
we take on his “shem”. That is the Hebrew word for “name”- “shem”. I pronounce it ”shem” so you guys don't get confused,
but when we take on God's shem we take on his name, because his Spirit lives on the inside of us.
We're not known by those old qualities that we possessed anymore, we don't have those old promises anymore;
we have a new promise on us, we have a new word of knowledge,
we have new qualities that he's put on us when we take God's name.
We want to come into agreement with God because when we come into an agreement with God, we're seeing: “not my will, God,
but your will be done on earth as it is in heaven, and because these are the things that you want,
I want those things, too. I want my heart to be after the things that move you, God. That's what I want.”
It's important to remember that in Malachi
God talks about how “My name is to be feared among the nations”. This name-
not just Yahweh, not just Adonai, but also El Shaddai-
we need to realize the power that comes behind that name. Because when we do we realize that,
when we receive God's name,
we also receive those qualities because we are God's child,
we've been adopted in as sons through Jesus Christ into God's family. And not only are we heirs according to the promise as
Galatians 3 talks about, but we receive all of those same blessings and those attributes.
When we become a child of God we take on his name. His name is on us forever and
those names have qualities, they have
abilities, they have blessings. They have words of knowledge on them and we receive those as God's child and
when we receive those things, we now have the authority that comes with his name.
You know in the story of the prodigal son, God puts a signet ring on our finger- on the prodigal son’s finger-
that's showing the authority that he's been given and that that signet ring has a name on it. “I'm doing this in the
authority of the person whose name is on this ring”- God's given us that same authority.
We have that same authority, we are acting in his name,
we are acting in the name of El Shaddai when we go out and we tear down spiritual strongholds.
You know Ephesians 6 tells us: “We wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities,
against powers, against spiritual wickedness in heavenly places”. We are utilizing, we are harnessing the power of El Shaddai.
When we come into agreement with God
he gives us a name,
he makes our paths straight. When you realize that it is nothing for God to destroy the
mountains in your path, to destroy the giants in your life,
you're going to be able to have big faith for big things and that's what I want you to have.
I don't want you to go out praying weak prayers. I don't want you to go around
worshipping this false idea of who God really is. I want you to be able to go out and have the faith that moves mountains.
Because we have God's name, we’re able to do these things. When Jesus says,
“I'm giving you this authority, if you say to this mountain ‘be plucked up and thrown into the sea’ it will obey”,
it's because God has that ability and he's transferred it to you. El Shaddai,
The Destroyer, has that ability and as his child
you have the same authority to do those things. And I want you to recognize these things.
These are things that we need to celebrate and get excited about, but we also need to be fearful of this because when we
recognize, “if God can do this to giants and God can do this to mountains, what can he do to me?”.
Because it is a
fearful thing to fall into the hands of God and it is time that Christians wake up and recognize who God is because
Proverbs 1:7 tells us that “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”,
and if you don't fear God,
then you don't trust God. If you don't trust God to
be able to do the things that he says that he's going to do- to destroy your enemies-
you are not going to be able to go walk around in victory. The kingdom of God is not a matter of
talk, but of power.
You know over in 1st Corinthians, Paul says in Chapter 16,
he says, “Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong”.
How can we do those things- be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power? We are able to do these things because
we have his name on us, because we have the qualities of God on the inside of us, because we've been adopted
into his family, because we have a new name. We've been changed,
we now have those qualities on the inside of us because we are his children,
so we need to start acting like it.
We need to stop acting like children of this fake non-existent God, that's weak and wimpy.
We need to go out there in the power of the Spirit that lives inside of us, in the Spirit of El Shaddai.
So that's what I wanted to share with you, and make sure you check out these videos right over here because
we can't fight off the schemes of the devil unless we know God's Word, utilizing that sword of the Spirit,
so make sure to check out those videos right over here. And I would love it if you would “like”, subscribe and share, and I
will talk to you later. Bye!