Pastor Matt Hagee – “The Power of ‘If'”
Your life is determined by the quality of your choices. You can choose to be blessed or choose to be cursed. We live in a world that is standing at a crossroads. Those who want to live a life based on truth, and those who are willing to accept a lie. How did we allow this to happen? One choice at a time.
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how many of you realize that the quality
of your life is determined by the
choices that you make in your life if
you don’t like the way things are going
you can choose to change
them and in the Bible we’re given on a
daily basis choose choose you this day
whom you will
serve each and every one of us have an
opportunity to interject ourselves into
the matter of the world that’s going on
around us and it simply begins when we
decide that we choose to be blessed
according to what the Bible gives us as
his promises based on our
obedience the Bible is a very simple
book to understand and it’s sometimes
not very easy to follow how many of you
realiz simple isn’t
easy how many of you are
married it was simple I
do we’ll move right
along the Bible gives us a very clear
choice obedience brings a blessing
Disobedience brings a curse today I want
you to know that I
choose to be blessed amen if you found
Deuteronomy 28: 1 and 2 read them with
me the Bible says now it shall come to
pass if you diligently obey the voice of
the Lord your God to observe carefully
all his Commandments which I command you
today that the Lord your God will set
you high above all nations of the earth
and all these blessings say that again
and all these blessings shall come upon
you overtake you because you obey the
voice of the Lord your God now let’s
read verse 15 in the same chapter but it
shall come to pass if you do not obey
the voice of the Lord your God to
observe carefully all his Commandments
and his statut which I command you today
that all these curses will come upon you
and overtake you heavenly father today
we open your
word let it be a mirror to our
soul let us see the consequences of the
choices that we’re making in this nation
and recognize that each and every one of
us have a
responsibility to choose you because you
have given us all
things let us have the courage today to
live righteously before your throne that
we may walk in a path of blessing here
on this Earth it’s in Jesus name we pray
and ask all of God’s children said amen
you may be
seated we live in a world that’s caught
at a Crossroads you see the graphic
behind us it’s an individual who seems
to have a choice to make One path leads
to blessing the other path leads to the
burden of a curse and everything that he
has in his future is writing on one word
if how many of you have ever laid up at
night wondering and contemplating your
ifs what if I wouldn’t have said
that what if I wouldn’t have ate
that the reality of our if is that most
of the time it’s in retrospect we’re
looking back at what we should have done
versus what we did do but there are
times when we get the opportunity to
consider the if that is before us and
know the outcome predicated on the
choice we
make in the Bible God gives us this
opportunity and what we need to remember
is that the if is always in us it is
never in
him read 2 chronic
7:14 it says if my people the if is not
in God the if is in us he’s waiting on
our humility he’s waiting on our
willingness to call upon him why so he
can heal our land and let me tell you
something Church our nation is in
desperate need of
healing and it’s the kind of healing
that’s not going to come from a
candidate or a political party or a
stimulus plan or a check in your mailbox
it’s the kind of healing that won’t come
from a vaccination it’s the kind of
healing that can only come from the King
of Kings and the Lord of lords Jesus
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Christ right now we’re at a Crossroads
and the if is in us we read the if in
Deuteronomy 28 verse one if you will
obey it’s echoed in Deuteronomy
28:15 if you will not obey the choice is
ours right now in this nation standing
at this Crossroads we get to make the
decision are we going to live our lives
based on the truth of God’s word or are
we going to live our lives built on
lies because when we consider what’s
going on in our nation right now and we
ask the question how did this happen we
can do a number of things we can talk
about the political points we can point
fingers at the people we think are to
blame or we can open up God’s truth look
at it like the mirror of the soul that
it is and understand that the reason we
are here is because we chose
this we chose to kick God out of our
society we chose to remove him from our
schools we chose to push him out of
government we chose not to take him home
with us from church and live for him
throughout the week we chose
this and having made this choice we’re
now embracing the consequence of that
choice because the reality is is rather
than live in truth we’ve denied the
truth we’ve denied the fact that it is
he who made us and not we ourselves
we’ve chosen to ignore the truth that
says righteousness exalts a nation but
sin is a reproach to any people we’ve
chose to turn our back on a God who has
blessed us and ignore the things that
his mighty hand has done in this nation
we’ve chosen to hack at the branches
around the problem instead of getting to
the root of the problem and turning back
to the god of Abraham Isaac and
Jacob today we have a choice to
make and the if is in
us if we choose to obey God will bless
if we choose to
disobey then we embrace the
curse because I promise you this God
keeps his
word he keeps it to the righteous and he
keeps it to the
wicked and often times we want to
pretend like the only portions of it
that he’ll keep are the portions we
like but that’s not what the Bible says
the book of Deuteronomy is Moses’s
Farewell
Address he’s
120 and I’m speaking from experience
there comes an age when individuals lose
what we call the
filter there comes a point in life where
individuals say you know what I don’t
care about your feelings I’m going to
tell you what I
think and I’m pretty sure that at 120
Moses’s filter is
charred often times when we open the
Bible we put on an Old English accent
I’m assuming because we have a King
James Version
and we believe that everything is spoken
in some Shakespearean Elizabethan tone
of
politeness but that’s not how I hear the
book of
Deuteronomy Moses knows that he’s not
going into the promised land Moses knows
that he spent the last 40 years burying
a generation that disobeyed God and now
he’s speaking to the children and the
grandchildren of that
generation Moses understands what’s at
stake here and he spends his last
moments with them basically saying here
are all the mistakes that your fathers
made don’t repeat
them he said they worshiped a golden
calf we worship the one true God they
neglected to teach you the statutes and
the law you diligently train and teach
your
children verse and chapter and chapter
and verse Moses goes through everything
that the children of Israel must do if
they’re going to possess the promis of
God in their life and it all comes to a
head in the final verses in Deuteronomy
30 verse 19 he says today I have set
before you life and death blessing and
cursing
choose now in a conversation we’d say
well who wouldn’t choose life but how
many thinking they’re choosing life
pursue
death how many Desiring to be blessed
disobey and embrace the curse
as old as this story is it’s 4,000 years
old but it’s just as recent as your last
breath why because the choice is still
ours we still have a decision to
make Moses begins his conversation in
Deuteronomy 1 veres
1-3 he says it is 11 days journey from
HB by the way of Mount Mount SE to
cadesh
barnea and then in Deuteronomy 1:3 he
says and now we’re in the 40th year now
if you hear this in the Old English it’s
it’s 11 days from Horeb to cadesh Baria
and now we are in our 40th
year that’s not how I think Moses said
this because when you understand the
biblical geography and what Moses is
saying he’s saying look this is Mount
Horeb this is the first place we stopped
right after we got out of the Red Sea
and it’s 11
days not two weeks not two
months not 10 months it’s 11
days from where we started to where we
should have
finished cadesh Baria is the most
southern tip of the promised land it
should have taken us less than a pay
period to get from where we started to
where we ended
but what I hear Moses saying is now
we’re in our
40th
year and I am tired of
all of
you so listen up and listen
good because
I’m I ain’t got no time for this
now you hear it how you want to hear it
but believe me it has more impact in my
soul when I hear it that
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Liberty and what Moses spins the entire
conversation saying is it should have
been so
easy but we’ve made it so
hard we should have been here so long
ago but we did didn’t get there because
we don’t
believe an entire generation went from
Millions to a few hundred, thousand
because God buried them in the
wilderness based on their
unbelief and as old as the story is how
many people in this room today and how
many of you watching you live your life
walking towards the promise of God but
never possessing it because of your
unbelief what does the Bible say
he who doubts will receive
nothing if you’re going to please God
you have to come to him with
faith that means that you have to
believe how many people live their life
so close to the promise of his provision
but they don’t believe enough to sew the
seed how many people live their life in
the depth of their sorrow rather than
receiving his Joy because they won’t let
go of the past believing he’s not strong
enough to cleanse them from
unrighteousness how many people live
their life tormented in fear because
they don’t believe that God has not
given us a spirit of fear but of power
and of love and of sound
mind remember the if is never in
God it’s always in
you don’t take your if and blame it on
him how many people if God loved me I’d
never go through that pain if God was
there for me I’d never suffer this way
if God then I wouldn’t struggle and if
God then he would provide and if God the
if is not in him the if is in
you Paul put the if to rest when he said
in Romans chapter 8 seeing that he has
not held anything but freely offered up
his only begotten son what shall we say
of these things if God be for us then
who can be against us I’m here to tell
you today that the God who created
heaven and earth the one who calls the
Stars by name who holds the mountains in
a scale and the hills in a balance he is
in love with you he is for you he’s
fighting for you he’s believing for you
he’s provided for you he’s given his
angels charge over you you have nothing
to fear because he is the god who makes
a way where there seems to be no way
he’s The God Who will move mountains
he’s The God Who will part the Red Sea
he’s The God Who will open up the
windows of heaven and provide he’s the
god that said no weapon formed against
you would Prosper he’s The God Who said
I’ll prepare a table for you in the
presence of your enemies he’s The God
Who said if you go to the heavens I am
there and if you go to the depths I am
there you cannot Escape me my hand is
upon you my blessing ings are for you my
goodness and mercy is chasing after you
child of God you have nothing to fear
because the Great Mighty God is on your
side and knowing all of
this we still
struggle is God really for
me absolutely Don’t make me say it again
the if that we have to
address is whether or not we will
obey because there’s only two
options
obedience or
Disobedience and we often don’t like the
idea of only two
options we’ve kind of become a cafeteria
culture where we want several options
and we get to choose piece by piece how
we want the plate to
look but remember we did not create
ourselves we are
created therefore we don’t get to write
the rule book we just have to read it
and apply
it in the Bible there’s only two options
life or
death
blessing or curse
obedience or
Disobedience the reason that we struggle
to comprehend this is because we live in
a society where there is no judgment on
the
disobedient Peter addressed it in the
New Testament he said do not think that
God has slack concerning his
promises and often times we want to
believe that what Peter’s talking about
is his promises of goodness to us Peter
is saying no no no no God is Not slack
concerning his promise of judgment we’ve
turned our back on a god of order and
now we live in chaos
we live in so much chaos the New
Testament says that in the last days
lawlessness will abound and one of the
mantras that we hear chanted in the
streets is to defund the police let me
tell you something defunding the police
is not a political issue defunding the
police is a demonic idea and it should
stop we’ve turned our back on the god of
love and now our streets are filled with
hate so what do we do
if one choice took us away from God then
another Choice can bring us back to God
and it is time for us to turn back to
the god of the Bible to turn back to the
God who loved us and gave himself for us
to turn back to the one who has cleansed
us from all unrighteousness to turn back
to the one who said this is the way walk
in it that God is not the god of your
choosing that God is the one who sits
upon the throne who is King above of
Kings who is Lord above Lords his name
is King Jesus and he is great and
greatly to be
praised the if is in
US often times we waste energy asking
when when will things get better when
will God move when will Revival come I
believe that God is sitting in heaven
looking at us asking the same question
when will you return to me when will you
call upon me when will you humble
yourself and ask me when will you stop
looking to candidates and start looking
to the King of Kings when will you stop
complaining and start praying when will
you stop acting as if you believe and
start behaving like you believe stop
asking for God to make a change and
become the change that God needs made
because there’s consequences in these
choices Deuteronomy 28:
1-14 all these
blessings blessed in the city blessed in
the field blessed in the basket blessed
in the bowl blessed in your going out
blessed in you’re coming in the head and
not the tail above only and not beneath
you’ll lend to many and borrow from none
all the nations of the world will call
you blessed if someone comes against you
in One Direction God will disperse them
in seven directions because God God is
with you his goodness and mercy will
overtake
you my how we love to count those
blessings but then get to verse
15 and from verse 15 to verse
68 God says here’s the consequence of
Disobedience for several verses he
cancels everything that is
extended instead of being blessed in the
city you’re cursed in the city instead
of blessed in the field you’re cursed in
the
field we see what’s going on in the
world that we’re living in today and we
wonder what can we do about it who are
we let me tell you something the power
that we possess together in unity in
Jesus
name it’s greater than any government
force on the face of the
Earth because it’s endorsed by the
authority of the name that is above
every
name and he said what you bind on Earth
I’ll find in heaven and what you loose
on Earth I’ll loose in
heaven now the last time I checked I’ve
never found a government official who
could raise the dead make the lame leap
in the blind sea but the one we call
upon when we pray he did all of that and
much
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more so what you have to do and I have
to do is simply this
choose choose you this day whom you will
serve
if you choose God and you obey his word
you choose to be
blessed if you choose to live on your
own in your way according to your plan
accomplishing your will what you need to
know and be forewarned
of biblically you’ve embraced the
curse but
naturally you need to understand you’re
not enough
you are not enough to be your own
provider you are not enough to heal to
cleanse to make a way to protect to
defend to live in the fullness of joy
with peace that surpasses all
understanding you can’t get any of that
done but he
can so choose you this day whom you will
serve I’m here to tell you as for to me
and my
house we choose to serve the Lord would
you stand in his presence
today with every head bowed and every
eye closed you say Pastor I’ve
seen the curse of disobedience in my
life I see it in my physical body I see
it in my finances I see it in my
emotions I feel it in my
spirit and I realize today that I need
to make a different choice
choice I need to
choose to obey his word I need to
choose to live in faith believing I need
to choose a path that leads to blessing
so that I don’t have to carry around
this burden
anymore if that’s you and today you want
to make that decision to choose him then
right where you are I Want You To Hold
Your Hand high in the
air and I want everyone under the sound
of my voice to repeat this prayer with
me Lord Jesus Christ Lord Jesus Christ
today I choose you today I Choose You I
choose your will I choose your will over
my way over my way I choose your word I
choose your word and it’s
truth over the world that I live in
world I live today in
faith I
receive your forgiveness your for for
trying to live on my own trying to out
outside of your promises outside your
promis today I
choose to obey you toy you and to
believe for your blessings in my life
thank you for your faithfulness and all
that you have given me all and now today
in Jesus
name I receive I receive now I want you
to tell the Lord where you receive his
Blessing open your mouth and say father
I receive your blessing in my marriage I
receive your blessing over my children I
receive your blessing in my physical
body I receive your blessing in my
business wherever you need to see his
hand move I assure you he already knows
about it he just wants to hear from you
as in faith believing you turn back to
him father today in Jesus name I pray
for every person in this room who’s
calling upon you in faith
believing today in Jesus name I pray for
this nation
that the righteous would humble
themselves and that you would heal our
land that your hand would move in such a
mighty way that even the unrighteous
would recognize that the god of Heaven
sits upon the throne and his King above
kings and Lord above
Lords now today in faith
believing we receive the answers to
every prayer that has been prayed in
this
place because the god that we serve is
well a
to hear and to do exceedingly abundantly
above all that we could ask think or
imagine in Jesus name we pray all of
God’s children said amen now give the
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