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Flourishing in the Household of Faith
Ronald K. Powell, Ph. D., Th. D.
Pastor and Founder of
Crosswinds International
INTRODUCTION
- In Times of Trouble....Everything Is Going to Be ALL-RIGHT in the Household of Faith... You say how can we be sure?
- The world is imploding and systems are failing. Christians must turn to God and forsake the world. In doing so the collapse will not come nigh your house. Do we have Scriptural Evidence of this?
Our Text:
Exodus 12:1-13 (KJV) 1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: 4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: 6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. 7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. 8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. 10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. 11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover. 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD. 13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
- Psalm 92:12-15: "The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing; to show that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him."
1. Flourish (Hebrew) = to flower, blossom, bloom, break through, spread out
2. Enter into a state of prosperity
3. Increase in wealth, favor and honor
4. Grow vigorously and exuberantly, enlarge and expand
5. Become extremely successful
- Proverbs 14:11: "The house of the wicked shall be overthrown; but the tabernacle of the
upright shall flourish."
- Psalm 52:8: "I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God forever and ever."
1. Green (Hebrew) = flourishing
- Psalm 112:3: "Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness
endureth forever."
- Jeremiah 17:7-8: "Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.
For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river,
and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the
year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit."
- Leaf shall be green-prospering, thriving, flourishing
2. NLT: "...Their leaves stay green [and flourishing], and they never stop producing
fruit."
3. MSG: "...They're like trees replanted in Eden, putting down roots near the rivers-
never a worry through the hottest of summers, never dropping a leaf, serene and calm
through droughts, bearing fresh fruit every season."
H. Psalm 36:7-9 (AMP): "How precious is Your steadfast love, O God! The children of men
take refuge and put their trust under the shadow of Your wings. They relish and feast on the
abundance of Your house; and You cause them to drink of the stream of Your pleasures. For
with You is the fountain of life; in Your light do we see light."
I. Song of Solomon 2:4: "He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me
was love."
J. Proverbs 11:28: "He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a
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