You Can Rewrite Your Family Name
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You can redeem your family name. When you think of a family, you think of a name. Instantly something is attached to that family name. And what will be your legacy? I I’m preaching today a story I have never preached on until last Sunday and this Sunday. In all the years that I’ve been preaching and the more that I look into it, the more I see.
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I saw in the scripture the fact that God can break cycles in families. that just because a father decides to rebel against God doesn’t mean that the rest of the family, the seed, the sons, the daughters have to go that direction. The story is told and set in Numbers chapter 16. And we’ll we’ll get to it in just a moment.
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But these two young, we think that it was two young boys, two sons of Kora are noticing an increasing negative bitter anger spirit, constant complaining, and they’re powerless to stop their once spiritual father, once mightily anointed and used of God father, who has now become resentful and bitter and offended and hurt at Moses, at Aaron, and at God himself.
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They’re powerless to stop their father’s wounded spirit. The Bible talks about in one of the books that the fathers eat grapes and the children suffer the sourness of those grapes. They eat sour grapes and the children are affected by the sour grapes that the fathers eat. This is an amazing story of the potential for that to happen.
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But these sons are watching their father being transformed into a monster. An angry angry man re who is upset at everything about the house of God. Their father was the cousin of Moses and Aaron. He was of the chosen by God tribe of Levi. He and his family to be chosen, handpicked, cut out, separated from the rest of the congregation and chosen to be leaders in the tabernacle in the wilderness. this sacred beauty.
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Every time that the tabernacle moved, he had to pack it up. And he was the one that would was given the specific different tribes had different things that they were to do when they would were moving through the wilderness. But it was the Kora and his family who had the the items, the furniture, the holy furniture that was dedicated, these things are so holy that if any unauthorized person even touches the brazen altar, even touches the the brazen uh wash pan, even touches the incense altar, if anyone unauthorized,