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I want to go to First Samuel Chapter ten

and I want to read one verse of

scripture verse three then you shall go

on forward from there and come to

terrible tree of table are there three

men are going up to God at Bethel

they’re going to meet with God at Bethel

Bethel it means the house of the Lord

and they’ll meet you one will be

carrying three young goats another would

be carrying three loaves of bread and

another would be carrying a skin or a

bottle of wine and I want to take this

scripture and I want to preach a message

that I hope that you will get a hold of

and remember because it can set you free

I think sometimes we over complicate the

gospel and we need some new revelation

some new deep insight when the truth is

we don’t even understand what it means

to be saved and free I think the number

one weapon that the enemy uses against

the believer is condemnation and guilt

there’s nothing more that he would love

to do than to keep you in guilt and

condemnation feeling unworthy feeling

unaccepted feeling even especially when

you come to the house of God like you

can’t really sing and worship God and

praise God like you want to because you

have a guilty conscience so this story

that I’m going to share today is very

important because I think it has a

hidden message in it God told song to go

at a certain place and he would

encounter three men and notice what he

said about him he said one of the men

would be carrying three goats and the

other one would be carrying a bottle of

wine wine speaks of the blood jesus said

this wine represents my blood that will

be shed for you then the other man will

be carrying three loaves of bread bread

speaks of the body of Christ the

sacrifice his body would be offered on

the cross jesus said if the communion

meal the Last Supper this bread rep

since my body so you have one carrying

the blood he’s focusing on the blood the

other ones focusing on the only the

sacrifice of the body that Jesus by His

stripes were healed he was wounded for

our transgressions in his body took my

sin my shame he’s focusing on that and

they’re all going to the house of the

Lord

ones focusing on the blood he’s got a

jug of the of the blood the others got

three loaves of the body he’s he’s

thankful faulty the Cross has done but

there’s one that’s going to the house of

the Lord and he’s got three goats and

they’re squirming and the smell of the

goats is all over him while he’s going

to the house of the Lord I think that

those goats speak of sin they speak of

guilt and condemnation because in the

Bible goats are always in a type of our

sin they represent our our sins and the

things that we do and have done that are

not pleasing to the Lord

those three goats I believe represent

three times the first three times that

goats are mentioned in the Old Testament

the first time that goats are mentioned

it’s the story of Jacob and how he

wanted to steal the birthright from his

father who was old and blind and he said

the only way I can steal it is if I

pretend to be my older brother Esau who

was a hairy man the Bible said that

Jacob and his mother conspired against

the old man that they would get his

blessing and here’s what they did they

fixed a soup and put goat meat in it

your Bible said and then his mother said

now he will know that you’re not Esau if

you don’t go get the skin of that goat

that has the hair on it and put it on

the back of your neck and put it on your

arms and put it on your hands and when

you go in and he’s laying on his

deathbed he’s going to reach up and he’s

going to feel behind your neck and he’s

going to fill on your arms and your hand

because he knows that Esau is supposed

to get the blessing he’s the oldest and

and if you’re not Harry he won’t he

won’t give you that blessing and he

deceived his father

so the first goat represents the goat of

deception and when you get involved in

deception in lies when you begin to

deceive your parents when you begin to

deceive people when you begin to deceive

and lie and pretend to do one thing and

you’re doing another there is an aroma

that attaches itself to you and when you

go to church and you begin to try to

worship in the house of the Lord it’s

hard to worship carrying the goat of

deception with you and that goat and

that aroma of that goat will never leave

you as a matter of fact that deception

that he played on his own father came

back to haunt him because his

father-in-law

Laban deceived him you remember he

married Leah thought it was beautiful

Rachel woke up the next morning when he

lifted the veil and he was married to

the wrong daughter he got deceived just

like he deceived his own father Jacob

was involved in deception and I’m saying

to you when you get involved in

deception there is a lingering awareness

that comes to you when you are lying

when you’re deceiving when you are doing

wrong it’s hard to come to God’s house

and not feel guilt and not feel

condemnation deception is a is a very

very condemning thing I heard the joke

about a Texas Ranger who was after a man

down south of the border that had robbed

a bank and he finally tracked him down

into a bar and he went into this bar

this this Texas Ranger and he came up

behind the man and he pulled out his gun

and put it up to his head and he said if

you don’t tell me where the money is

that you robbed from that bank I’m going

to kill you right here right now trying

to scare the man and the man said no

comprendo I can’t I can’t speak English

I don’t speak English

and the Ranger said is there anybody

here that can tell him what I’m saying

and a man stepped up and he said I can

he said I speak English and Spanish and

I’ll translate he said you tell him if

he doesn’t tell me I’m going to I’m

going to end his life right here he said

that he began to interpret and say to

him that he wants to know where you put

the money and the man said please tell

him I am so sorry please tell him I know

I’ll tell him exactly where it is and he

told him to go to certain Street and

behind the third tree the money was

buried and there you’ll find it and tell

him please don’t hurt me please don’t

shoot me I’m just I’m just glad to turn

it over to him and the Ranger said What

did he say

and the interpreter said he said my name

is one perdone and I am a very brave man

and I am not afraid to die today

that is called deception and when you

deceive and you lie you may get by with

it a little while but that goat is going

to bring in a Roma with it that will

hinder you in the house of the Lord and

then there’s the goat that’s found in

Genesis 37 it’s the goat of jealousy

that one you can’t take the goat of

jealousy to the house of the Lord and

try to worship if it’s with you it’s

going to hinder your hands you can’t get

them up and praise God you’ll find a

guilty conscience and a heart that

condemns you I thought about how that

Joseph’s brothers in Genesis 37 saw the

coat of many colours on their brother

and they became jealous of him and they

ripped the coat off and threw him in a

pit and the Bible said they took that

coat of many colors and they slew a goat

and they dip the blunt the coat in the

blood of a goat and they took it back to

their father and said something horrible

an animal has killed Joseph and you’ll

never see him again

it was the coat of jealousy and when

that coat of jealousy was dipped in the

blood of a goat it represents the second

goat of jealousy it’s hard to get a

blessing when you’re always

tell us of people and envious of people

and in strife with people and angry with

people and why don’t I get to sing the

song and why do they get to do this and

why does that happen for them and not

for me and jealousy is cruel and

jealousy destroys marriages and destroys

lives and destroys people’s hearts and

people get jealous of the blessing of

God on other people you shouldn’t do

that the Bible said rejoice when people

rejoice and weep when people weep you

know why you rejoice because it’s their

time right now but if you rejoice your

season is coming – but so many people

get jealous and then there’s one more

goat that I want to talk about the third

time then the goat is found in the Old

Testament is connected to immorality in

Genesis chapter 38 there’s a third goat

that shows up in the in the Bible the

first three goats the first one was a

goat of deception the second one was a

goat of jealousy and the third one was a

goat of immorality because the Bible

said Judah had gone to a foreign town he

had lost his wife he was lonely he was

in a place farm from people who knew him

and he got in a vulnerable moment he

fell to temptation and he saw a

prostitute he didn’t know that it was

Tamar his own daughter in law that had

dressed up to deceive him and disguised

herself and the Bible said he went to

the prostitute and he said I want you to

be with me how much is your price and

notice what a price was the scripture

said her price she said will cost you

one goat it’s the goat of sexual

immorality and when you give yourself to

sexual immorality that goat and the nd

and the aroma of that goat lingers and

stays on you and then when you try to go

to the house of the Lord and get in the

presence of God and get in to the

presence of our Lord if you go and you

still have that goat of immorality on

him it will hinder you it will condemn

you you will feel condemned

you will feel guilty and that’s what the

enemy wants he wants you guilty he wants

you condemned he wants you focusing on

the goats and some people they come to

church hurting their goats they they

don’t come focusing on the blood they

don’t come focusing on the cross they

don’t come focusing on the sacrifice of

Jesus Christ because here’s the bottom

line and you all act real holy but all

three of those goats have showed up in

everybody’s life in this room at some

point in your life and what we are not

called to do is bring those goats to the

house of God with us because there has

been a sacrifice for our sins named

Jesus he has shed his blood and died and

we don’t have to come to church with

guilt and condemnation hitched up to our

past carrying the goat of jealousy

carrying the goat of strife carrying the

goat of immorality carrying the goat of

all of the deception and the deceptive

ways that we’ve been living we don’t

have to do that I want you to know that

the fourth time that the goat is found

isn’t in the story of Samson he married

a blissing girl not a not a Hebrew girl

a full listing girl and anytime a child

of God marries a child of the devil

they’re going to have trouble with their

in-laws and when he married her the

Bible said that the question was asked

what is my gift and the scripture said

that he gave a goat

anytime you marry an unbeliever listen

to me young people anytime you marry an

unbeliever you can register for your

gifts that your wedding to be at Macy’s

our are at Target are at Nordstrom’s but

you’re not going to get those gifts only

you’re going to get the gift of a goat

because that is going to bring into your

life a smell and an aroma of sin that

that marriage is not going to be blessed

because the Bible said do not be

unequally

yoke together all of us have sinned all

of us have failed now here’s where I

want to be right now when you sin the

Holy Spirit will come with conviction

but the devil will come with

condemnation and he wants you to pick up

the goats of your sin and carry them to

the house of the Lord and sit in a

service like this and feel guilt and

feel shame and feel condemnation and

just accept the fact that you’ll never

measure up and you’ll never be good

enough but you have to let the blood of

Jesus Christ wash you and cleanse you

I’m not going to carry that goat anymore

I don’t have to carry that goat on my

journey the rest of my life and every

time I go to the house of God I have to

pick up a bunch of goats and go in and

some of you we don’t have Al’s big

enough for the herd of goats that you

bring every time you come in you need to

exchange that goat for a jug of wine the

blood of Jesus Christ and the body of

Christ and understand that he has paid

the price to take your sins away hich

those goats up to the hitching post of

Calvary and walk away and say he has

forgiven me to remember my sins no more

everybody take a praise break and praise

Him just one moment that we don’t carry

the goats of shame guilt and

condemnation take a moment and praise

him for that Paul said it like this

now therefore Romans 8 in 1 there is no

condemnation to them that are in Christ

who walk not after the flesh but after

the spirit no condemnation you have to

let the blood of Jesus Christ wash you I

heard somebody tell me this one time

and I thought that is not right they

said I know I’m forgiven but I still

have to pay I know there are

consequences to sin and sometimes the

consequences we have to live with

we don’t ever have to pay for our sin

again because the blood of Jesus Christ

did not put down a down payment against

our sins and then you have monthly

payments on the same sin every month the

blood of Jesus Christ has completely

removed your sin and you’re not paying

for your sin anymore it is finished he

paid it all and you are forgiven and you

are cleanse and quit carrying the goats

so many of you are overloaded with goats

it’s hard to get away from those goats

and forgive yourself

sometimes for the bad choices and the

stupid things that you did but God’s

will for you is not to carry those goats

the rest of your life there’s a

difference when Jesus comes he lifts the

shame he lifts the condemnation the

Bible said the joy of the Lord is our

strength and you can’t have real joy

when you’re overloaded with guilt and

condemnation Jesus said he whom the Sun

sets free is free indeed

I don’t know if y’all really hearing

what I’m saying this morning but I

believe down to my toes that I am

totally free of the goats of the past

they have no power over you or over me

say I’m free indeed the scripture said

whosoever is forgiven much loves much in

other words the devil doesn’t want you

to feel forgiven because he knows if you

feel forgiven your rent you you’ll

ratchet up your love for God the more

you understand I really am forgiven the

more it makes you whom he who’s forgiven

much loves much and so the enemy wants

to put shame and guilt and condemnation

to put you down because then you don’t

really feel in real connected and

intimate in love with Jesus that’s what

our worship is all about it’s a

celebration it’s a party it’s a result

braiding the fact that I am so forgiving

God has cast my sins in the sea of

forgetfulness to remember them no more

and he’s put up a no fish inside and

refuses to ever be reminded of our sins

you don’t know like I know what he’s

done for me and it’s time you found a

parking place a hitching post for all

those goats that you’re carrying you

need the trader man now now now here’s

the big part of this message that I

wanted to get to and in the most

important part three different times

there is a repetition of the same verse

in the Old Testament about goats God

says it and is so important to God that

he says it three different times he says

now you can eat goat if you want to but

he said when you prepare it listen to

these words don’t see the word seed

means Bowl or cook a young goat the King

James says a kid in his mother’s milk

now the Jews don’t eat milk milk and

dairy products in the same Neil because

of this scripture to this day but he

didn’t say don’t eat beef don’t eat

chicken he said don’t eat goat in his

mother’s milk goats have to do with our

old load of sin goats have that he’s

going to separate in the New Testament

the goats from the goats from the lambs

and so goats represent our sin our load

of condemnation now listen to what he

said he said you can’t

cook the young goats in the goat of his

mother in the milk of his mother no

teenager no child should be cooked in

the mistakes of their father or their

mother some of you have had parents that

didn’t live for God some of you have had

dads who were alcoholics and drug

addicts some of you had moms who were

terrible examples and and but living a

moral life but the word of the Lord to

you is you don’t have to end up being

cooked in the milk of your mom

or your father or the life that they

live God said you don’t have to end up

like them the problems of the generation

before you can’t cook you God said don’t

cook the kid in the Mama’s milk if you

want to live for God’s you can live for

God if you want to stand for God’s you

can stand for God if you want to be

victorious you can be victorious

and it doesn’t matter if anybody in your

family ever lived for God God says I

won’t let them cook you in the sins of

your family and your mom and your dad

and all those crazy people they don’t

have to be transferred you don’t have to

be an addict you don’t have to be

divorced you don’t have to be separated

from your children you don’t have to be

a bad father

just because they were mama can’t stop

you daddy can’t stop you Devils can’t

stop you sin can’t stop you addiction

can’t stop you because there’s something

more powerful than the goats it’s the

blood of the lamb of Jesus Christ and it

takes away the sins of the world

somebody give Him praise for the blood

in this room this morning hallelujah

hallelujah and I’m here today to

announce to you that you don’t have to

keep the goats you don’t have to be over

low

with goats but when you come to Jesus

Ian here’s here’s the last point of this

message get it all you read about in the

Old Testament is goats goats goats goats

but then you move into the New Testament

and John is standing in the muddy rivers

of Jordan and he says what the blood of

bulls and goats could not do behold the

Lamb of God that takes away the sins of

the world you can you can trade the

goats in for a lamb and when you leave

this place today you can hitch the goats

up at the cross and say you’re not

following me guilt and condemnation when

I go to the house of the Lord I don’t

bring the shame of my past the guilt and

the condemnation of my sins Jesus Christ

the Lamb of God what the blood of goats

couldn’t do the blood of the lamb has

done he has taken my sins away thank you

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