I Want A Lamb In My House
INTRODUCTION
God’s revelation to Abraham was about his future and that his children would become great and his seed innumerable. God begin to make it known to Abraham that the Lord was going to make a great nation from his lineage. God spoke this to Abraham when he was childless, causing Abraham to question the Lord. This makes it apparent that God will talk to us about the future. God told Abraham what was going to happen in his life. God spoke to Abraham about vast numbers when he had nothing. He spoke to Abraham about being great when he was a nomad looking for a city. God spoke to Abraham about his seed when he had no seed – because God is not intimidated by your present situation or circumstances. God wants to fill you with vision and passion about a blessed future even when you are living in a stressed present.
God also revealed to Abraham that his people would go down to Egypt for 400 years – a direction that does not look right direction but rather is a detour a different way – but afterward the nation will come out strong and prosperous with great substance. Believers must learn to deal with the detours of life. There are detours that take us away from our dreams, goals, and plans. There are detours that create painful memories, agonizing sleepless nights, and temptations to quit. Anybody can make it when all is well; it is traveling the detours when we get in trouble. It is when we have to take a detour that we stop paying tithes, praying with the family, start watching programs that lead to lust, and lessen our faithfulness to God’s house. We must learn to make it through the detours, because it’s not what you go through; it’s how you come out. Israel came out after 400 years, but they came out blessed, with great substance. You may be destined for the palace but there are pits and prisons on the way, there are detours everywhere. It doesn’t matter that you were in the pit or the prison; all that matters is that you make it to the palace! The Egyptian experience is never pleasant, good, fun, enjoyable, but we need it. We need it to learn to lean on Jesus; we need it to learn how to pray, worship, and live in gratitude. God will take the detours in your life and bless you greater than you ever thought. Egypt was just a place, not a destiny. It was just a detour on the road to the Promised Land. You may be in Egypt, but you need Egypt to learn how to pray and to worship. You can’t really worship until you’ve had a detour in your life. It is impossible to realize at the time but Egypt is a good thing. God uses the detour to take us to the destination.
I need a lamb in my house because:
(1) There is a Curse;
(2) To Break the Curse;
(3) To Bless my House.
I. To Bless my House-
Because There is a curse is on my house – Because of a famine that affected the then known world, Israel was forced to detour to Egypt. Because of Joseph, the 12 tribes of Israel were saved from the destitution of the famine. God used one man to save a nation. God took a man who was rejected, scorned, cast away, stripped of his inheritance and through that one man saved a nation. When there arose a Pharaoh who did not know Joseph, Israel became slaves. They built for Raamses. They labored for another man’s vision; they lived and died under affliction. They were servants: birthed to be kings but living as slaves. They were not meant to build houses for someone else. God told them I will give you houses you didn’t build, but they are building someone else’s dream. It is frustrating to live someone else’s dream. They were meant for Canaan, but they are slaves in Egypt. Please notice for 10 generations, each slave produced another slave. Each generation of slaves produced another generation of slaves. One generation lived in chains and passed the chains to the next generation. It is possible to infect the next generation with the poison of our own bondage.
II. Break the curse from my house –
Break the curse from my house – Before God delivers a nation, He delivers a person. Moses was born under the curse but God pulled him out so he could break the curse. God did not want Moses to grow up believing he was a slave. God put him in the king’s house so he would know how to act before the king. When he was a baby God directed the situation so they put him in an ark and floated him down the Nile. Crocodile’s, boats, and hippos, O MY! BUT, THE SAFEST PLACE IN THE WORLD IS THE WILL OF GOD! God manipulated the affairs of his life. You are where you are right now because God directed the scenes of your life. God put Moses in the palace to get the education of a king not a slave. Moses was connected to Israel by blood but not by experience. He learned a new way of thinking. In Goshen, they are passing a chain, but Moses is wearing a crown! It is impossible to break the curse if you believe you are a slave. In order to break the curse on our homes, we must break the curse in our minds.
III. Bless my house forever and ever –
Bless my house forever and ever – Deliverance always has two parts, 1st God brings you out of the situation, and then God brings the situation out of you. The text says this shall be the beginning. Do you really believe you can have a new beginning? God said this is going to be a new start, right in the middle of the year, God can give a new beginning. It’s time for a new beginning. It’s time for a new home, new marriage, new joy, and new happiness. Not in things, but in me. You do not have to pass the chain from one generation to another. God said “get a lamb for your house.”
CONCLUSION:
The night air suddenly becomes chilled and frigid. An unwelcome force makes it way through the highways and byways of Egypt. The silence of the night is pierced with lamenting cries of anguish and pain as one by one the firstborn of every house drops lifeless to the ground. Mothers hold little children in their arms as tears flow down their faces and sobs shudder their body. Fathers fall to their knees holding in their arms the sons and daughters who were so alive moments before. The death angel spares none. The death angel feels no pity. The death angel slays the first born of every house. The death angel is coming after my home. He is not after you he is after your house. The death angel will not just affect one generation, but every living generation will lose the firstborn. What can I do? How can I stop this deadly fiend from destroying my house, my marriage, my children, my future, and my family? What do I need? A lamb? If I have a lamb in my house I can stop death at the door? How can a lamb resist such a powerful foe? The lamb must die for the house. You mean if I take the blood of the lamb and put the blood of the lamb on my house, my house will be safe? You mean the lamb can die so my family can live? You mean the lamb can take the place of my family? I understand now; the lamb that is innocent must die to protect the guilty. “Surely He has bourn our grieves and carried our sorrows, He is smitten of God and afflicted. He was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our peace was upon Him and with His stripes we are healed.” But, do I have to kill the lamb? Why do I have to kill the lamb? God will use me to break the curse of the enemy on my house. I must experience the Lamb myself, no one can do it for me, and I must get the blood on my hands. If I am going to save my house I must act myself, I must experience the Lamb myself. Where do I put the blood? On the door, yes on the access point. I must cover the entryway so the enemy cannot get in to my family. Everything that would allow the enemy into my house I got to cover with the blood. I’ll cover my past, my failures, depression, sins, bad debts, lack of forgiveness, cursing, lies, hatred, envy, jealousy, malice, lust, greed, stealing, I’ll cover everything with the blood and there is no place the enemy can get in to my house. If I have the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world I have power to cover my house. I can stand in the gap for my house; I can save my house with a Lamb. I want a Lamb in my house.
Charles Scott is the Director of Stewardship Ministries for the Pentecostal Church of God. He also serves as the Administrative Assistant to the General Secretary, an adjunct faculty member for Messenger College and Manager of the Pentecostal Church of God Extension Fund. Charles is completing a Bachelor of Science degree in General Business at Missouri Southern State University and holds a Doctorate of Theology from the School of Bible Theology, San Jacinto, California.
God’s revelation to Abraham was about his future and that his children would become great and his seed innumerable God wants to fill you with vision and passion about a blessed future even when you are living in aa stressed present.
