A Vineyard and the Inheritance: Part 1

1 Kings 21

Jezebel is a foreigner/ she is outsider to the Israelites, which are God’s people on the earth. She enters into the kingdom bringing her ways and beliefs which are against the ways of God. She is a spiritual intruder and she wants to affect God’s plan by introducing her ways into God’s people.

God’s whole plan on the earth hinges on having a people that carry His truth, His image, and His glory upon the earth. It’s because of His love and His grace that He created us to be part of His plans. He did it because He is love and there is no better place for love than within a family unit—God wants an eternal family.

He wants to have a relationship with us. So He created this physical realm as a place for the physical to exist, but the physical journey is a test, and the response in the physical, has a direct impact on the spiritual/ eternal inheritance that He has planned for His children.

In Adam, God gave man power and authority over the physical realm. This was God’s creation and He entrusted its well being to Adam. The spirit of the serpent was already in existence, and like Jezebel in the story, his plan was to intrude. Whether this fallen angel, as a spiritual being possessed the serpent or transmuted into the image of a serpent, I do not know and don’t really care. All I know is that he was a spiritual creation that had rebelled against God at a time somewhere in the past. He was not content as a creation of God and instead wanted to be above God, and so he rebelled against God. Through his rebellion, he brought about his own spiritual death and now, he sees Adam and this new creation. He sees Adam’s authority and he wants it, so he takes on the form of the physical enters, so he can steal the spiritual. He failed his test and now he wants Adam and us to fail ours. Snake analogy from last pm.

Flesh and blood cannot and will not inherit the kingdom (1 Corinthians 15:50); therefore, we will be tested in the physical before entering into the eternal.

So the story has a setting, a physical place where a spiritual battle is taking place—like a garden, a vineyard, a church, a workplace, a home, a family. And then a spiritual intruder disguised in a physical body with plans to steal, kill and destroy.

And the only way that it can enter and cause trouble is if the will in the natural gives permission to the demonic in the spiritual and Adam does, and Adam brings in death, chaos, confusion and rebellion into the narrative of God. The serpent was an outsider, looking for a way into the plan of God. The serpent is always looking for a way into the plan of God and Jezebel is the opening of the serpent’s intrusion into God’s kingdom on earth during this time of Israel’s history. We must remain vigilant:

1 Peter 5:8

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:

God has a plan for the human race and He is looking for people that will be His people and help Him bring His plan to fruition. There will be opposition, there will be tribulation, but praise God, He is worthy of it all. For from you are all things and to you are all things. You deserve the glory….

We’ve talked enough about Jezebel recently. She isn’t the topic of this message. But she, like the serpent is the intruder on the outside given permission to come on the inside to cause trouble in the kingdom.

The topic of this message is Naboth’s inheritance. God has a plan for His people. His people are His family. According to the New Testament, the son’s of God have received an inheritance.

Matthew 21:33-41 is a good parable to describe what I mean by inheritance and the intrusion by evil to steal it. READ

The direct context is that God entrusted Israel with His vineyard, but religion killed the Son and tried to steal His inheritance. The serpent will use Jezebel, false prophets, Pharisees, false doctrine, the enticements of the world…whatever he can use to steal the inheritance and to spoil the harvest of God.

If you’re saved this morning, you have protection from the deception Satan plans. If you’re truly saved, you’ve experienced God’s entry into your physical realm. He spoke and you responded and invited Him in. He is there now and wants to protect you from the intrusion of the enemy.

Something happened in your heart and like Jesus told Nicodemus, you may not know where a specific breeze originated from but you can feel it’s effects, so it is when a person is regenerated, when a person is truly cleansed by the washing of regeneration and their life is transformed, it is the result of a supernatural move of the Holy Spirit.

Titus 3:5

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

There is a fountain filled with blood Drawn from Immanuel’s veins; And sinners, plunged beneath that flood, Lose all their guilty stains:

The dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day; And there may I, though vile as he, Wash all my sins away:

If this person continues to grow in truth, and protects the presence of God and God’s will for their lives, the spiritual transformation will be manifest outwardly by the fruit of the Spirit being produced in their lives. Love, joy, peace, longsuffering, goodness, faith, self control, patience, kindness, … these are outward, physical manifestations of a supernatural work of the Holy Spirit. In our new life with Christ, the word says that we’ve been healed, delivered, set free, sanctified. The blood of Jesus cleanses us and makes us a completely new person.

That is really my message this morning. As new creations in Christ, we have received an inheritance of promises. These promises include the future, but they are also true for today. It’s important that we understand that Jesus came to restore to us what Adam lost in the fall to Satan.

This is important! Just as Ahab wants to steal Naboth‘s vineyard and inheritance, Satan wants to steal the inheritance of the saints. He wants to make a deal and if that doesn’t work Jezebel through seduction or violence will try to steal. They want to steal God’s plan for the church and they want to steal, God’s plan for our individual lives. Satan wants to offer Christian a deal. He wants you to serve yourself and trade in your inheritance, exchange what you want in place of the Lord’s plan for your life.

Both Naboth’s name and his home town have spiritual significance

Naboth= fruits

Jezreel= sown of God

To be sown of God means that God planted the seed. This means that the land was God’s, that Naboth was called by God to bear or bring forth fruit for God, and in the story, Ahab wants to take from Naboth what belongs to him. Look at Naboth’s response:

1 Kings 21:3

And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee. REPEAT

The land is very important to God. There is a scripture in Leviticus where God tells His people not to sell the land:

Leviticus 25:23

The land shall not be sold for ever: for the land is mine; for ye are strangers and sojourners with me.

There is quite a statement being made here.

1. The land is God’s and His people Israel are instructed not to sell it.

2. He explains to them that they are fellow strangers and travelers in the land with Him.

3. While the land belongs to God, He refers to Himself as a stranger

4. The context is God created it and gave it to Adam. Adam lost it, and now God, finding others that will trust and obey His word, is taking it back one piece at a time. His creating the nation of Israel was a plot of land that He used as territory to produce an inheritance through Jesus and says, “Do not sell my land.”

5. The land He is giving them a land has been invaded by inhabitants that were polluting it with their occult practices, and it’s still going on today. He is sending them in to conquer and take over control of the land Leviticus 18:25-27.

6. Adam allowed a deceptive lie to bring darkness into the realm that God had given Him to have authority over. The result of Adam’s decision not only caused a personal problem with sin, but it also brought sin into the land

7. Now, thousands of years later, God is giving land back to His people Israel and He is saying, “Right now, we are strangers together in our own land [it’s bigger than this. It’s bigger than Israel. It’s the whole world, the whole Earth, but it starts here with Israel, it starts here with Naboth’s vineyard, it starts here with Shammah’s pea patch (2 Samuel 23:11), it starts here with your house and family, it starts here with this church and anyone willing to join us in this area and hopefully we will be able to help other churches see it also,  but we’re taking it back one piece at a time, one step at a time. God would say, “You have to trust me. I have a plan. Don’t sell the land. The land is mine. I’m taking back what belongs to me, and I’m allowing you, my people, to work with me, while I’m taking it back.” But you can’t let the snake into the garden and you can’t let Jezebel into the kingdom.

8. Now, Ahab wants Naboth to do what Adam did. Ahab wants Naboth’s vineyard, he wants Naboth’s fruits, he wants Naboth’s inheritance, but Naboth’s said: 1 Kings 21:3 And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee

• Adam gave Satan a foothold  through disobedience

• Ahab gave Jezebel a foothold when he transgressed the written word of God and married an unbeliever.

• Paul said don’t give place to the devil, which means a foothold to the devil

Satan infiltrated God‘s kingdom, but God is reclaiming it all through the lives of His people.

His plan includes partnering with people that He has given authority and dominion on the earth to occupy until He comes. When you, as a born again believer with the Spirit of God in you, believe God and pray God’s will, it has power on earth. When you, a Spirit filled believer work with God by planting seeds of truth on earth, it has the power of heaven behind it, it’s going to bring a harvest, you don’t have to see it, you just need to believe it. Story of what Stephen told me

I believe that true Christianity is us walking with God and reclaiming the land, advancing the Kingdom of God, learning His word, believing His word and doing His word. If Jesus said:

Matthew 28:19-20

19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

Then that is what we believe, teach and do

If Jesus said:

Luke 10:19-20

19 Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you. 20 Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

Then that is what we believe, teach and do

If Jesus said:

Mark 16:15-19

15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. 16 He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned. 17 And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; 18 They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

Teach it, believe it, do it

God created Adam and Eve in the image and likeness of God. And God told them to reproduce after their own kind and to have dominion over the earth and to spread His glory over the earth. Sin may have changed man’s image (Genesis 5:3), but it didn’t change God’s plan. Sin may have caused them to lose their authority and stripped them naked of God’s glory. But Jesus gives believers His glory (JN 17). Sin may have left them banished outside the presence of God in the darkness of night, but God has a plan of grace, and He’s looking for a people that will finish the race.

He started showing us the plan by clothing Adam and Eve with the skins of an innocent animal:

Romans 6:23

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

God created the earth for Adam to reproduce and replenish the earth with the image and glory of God. Satan offered light and life but his lie brought death and darkness. Now, with the power that he’s taken from Adam, he fills the earth with his plans. Then comes Jesus:

John 1:14

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

John 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

READ John 1:1-13

And conclude w/ the Luke 19:11 parable

Jezebel

There is an alluring spirit of seduction connected to Jezebel. The result of her seduction is that she draws God’s people way from Him and His truth. As spiritual blindness ensues, the seductive spirit gains more power over the life of the believer. The goal of this seduction is to dethrone the power of God at any level that it can. In the individual by separating your heart from the Lord. In the home, by removing the man’s spiritual authority, in the church by removing the Pastor’s spiritual authority. The main purpose is to take the heart of the people away from God. We know this because the word teaches that there were … prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty, and the prophets of the groves four hundred, which eat at Jezebel's table. 1 Kings 18:19

The spirit of Jezebel desires to wrest control of the spiritual authority given by God. I believe many times, we look at a particular person (women) in the physical, and we may say she has a spirit of Jezebel—but I believe often times, when women have this spirit They don’t even realize that they are operating in it.

For instance, Eve was deceived by the serpent. She transgressed the word of the Lord— spiritually, she took into her self the spirit of rebellion —she received a lying spirit. Her influence over Adam was used to steal Adam’s  positional authority.

Listen, there is no question that Adam was weak. No question he wasn’t acting like the positional man that he was called by God to be. But let’s not pit Eve against Adam. Let’s not pit Adam against Eve. Instead, let us view the entity behind the scenes: his schemes, wiles, and trickery behind the whole deception.

The serpent doesn’t care about Adam or Eve. The serpent wants the power that has been given to them by God. The serpent will always be the serpent. He attempted to exert authority and elevate himself over God. Jesus saw him fall like lightning to earth. Now, a new heaven, and a new earth. He sees the creation. He sees the dominion and power given to Adam, and he wants that. The closest proximity that he can gain advantage against this man is through the wife. He is using her as a tool to gain access to the delegated authority over God, and co-regent upon the Earth. He uses her to get between the man and his God.

1 Kings 21:25

But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

1 Kings 16:32-33

32 And he reared up an altar for Baal in the house of Baal, which he had built in Samaria. 33 And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the LORD God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.

Ultimately, it’s purpose is to gain control of power over government and will never stop, because it wants God’s authority for it has a lust to rule over God’s kingdom. This spirit desires to seduce the world away from God:

Revelation 17:1-2

1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

The seduction away from truth: flirtation- behaviour intended to arouse sexual feelings or advances without emotional commitment; coquetry

Proverbs 7: wisdom and understanding are the sisters of the children of truth. The strange woman is the harlot that lurks in the dark trying to seduce and entice God’s people away from truth and ultimately destroy them. Jezebel was a stranger and came with seductive religious practices. Her dad was a Sidonian king. The Syrophoenecian woman’s daughter was possessed with a devil for a reason. These people worshipped Baal and Asherah. There is a direct connection to lustful sexual practices with this Canaanite religion. The proverbs 7 woman was found in a place that the man of God should have never been. She allures him through seduction that is painted with enough spirituality that it seems okay, and the sin part smells good, looks good and promises to feel good, but in the end, it’s result is an arrow to the liver….

This woman is contrasted with wisdom in chapter 8 the proverbs 8 woman is named wisdom. She is the sister or kinswoman Solomon was talking about in chapter 7. Unlike the the 7 woman, who hides in the dark in the twilight of night, wisdom sets up shop at the top of the hill, where the paths all converge, in the gate of the city where everyone is doing business out in the open and she says:

Hear; for I will speak of excellent things;

and the opening of my lips shall be right things.

For my mouth shall speak truth;

and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

All the words of my mouth are in righteousness;

there is nothing froward or perverse in my lips

Froward means crooked. Isaiah 27 explains that God will one day destroy Leviathan the crooked serpent.

Revelation 2:20-22

Spirit of Jezebel in the church— I cannot prove my position any more than another person could prove theirs, but I have no reason to believe that this was a literal woman named Jezebel. It seems to me that the very essence of what is being said is comparing what Jezebel did to what the teachings of this prophetess did. The result was spiritual fornication, an introduction of occult practices into the house of God. She taught them to eat things sacrificed to idols. Now, let’s understand this food… offered to idols is talking about meats that have ritualistically invited demons in, the animal is  sacrificed and then eaten and the idea is that the demon is given access through this ritual into the vessel of the person.

How is this that much different than the church celebrating Halloween, Easter, or Santa Clause? How is this much different than the church allowing the spirits of secular music into their person? This is what Catholicism did with Mardi Gras. Nowadays, we don’t even care about that. We act like going to a Marci Gras parade is perfectly normal behavior.

Revelation 2:20-22

20 Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. 21 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. 22 Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.

God has given us great promises in Christ. He has given us an inheritance. It’s important that we study to show ourselves approved. It’s important that we are mindful about God’s word and that we do not allow the enemy to have his way with us.

Jezebel wants to steal the inheritance of God:

1 Kings 21:1-7 Ahab wants Naboth’s (Fruits) vineyard. Naboth doesn’t want to give up his inheritance. Jezebel takes it by force.

1 Kings 21:3

And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.

Ephesians 1:16-23

16 Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; 17 That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: 18 The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, 19 And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, 20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, 21 Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, 23 Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.

• The other side resulting in humans destroying themselves.

One spirit is life – – the other death and destruction.

The character behind this is Jezebel. She was an outsider. She was not one of them. She brought from the outside her witchcraft practices that she received from her father– – Sidonian kings

She infiltrates with her seductive ways – – make up ( ) – – not trying to turn this into legalism and no make up, but the context is that she was going to sway and attempt to gain authority through seductive ways.

The spirit of Jezebel desires to steal from a man, his spiritual authority that was given to him by God. I believe many times, we look at a particular person (women) in the physical, and we may say she has a spirit of Jezebel – – but I believe often times, when women have this spirit They don’t even realize that they are operating in it.

For instance, Eve was deceived by the serpent. She transgressed the word of the Lord – – spiritually, she took into her self the spirit of rebellion – – she received a lying spirit. Her influence over Adam was used to used to steal Adam’s  positional authority.

Listen, there is no question that Adam was weak. No question he wasn’t acting like the positional man that he was called by God to be. But let’s not pit Eve against Adam. Let’s not pit Adam against Eve. Instead, let us view the entity and schemes, wiles, trickery behind the whole occurrence.

The serpent doesn’t care about Adam or Eve. The serpent wants the power that has been given to them by God. The serpent will always be the serpent. He attempted to exert authority and elevate himself over God. Jesus saw him fall like lightning to earth. Now, a new heaven, and a new earth. He sees the creation. He sees the dominion and power given to Adam, and he wants that. The closest proximity that he can gain advantage against this man is through the wife. He is using her as a tool to gain access to the delegated authority over God, and co-regent. Upon the Earth. He uses her to get between the man and his God.

Now, there is a counterpart that I believe God has shown me where the man reacts towards his sister – – Amnon. He threw laws for his own flesh injects a spirit into her where she loses all self-worth. Her beauty is stained. Her purity is torn. She is left outside. Her spirit fractured.

Back to Jezebel. She was not one of them. Spiritual warfare always begins with a spiritual foothold. Satan has no power over us until we allow him a place. The sacrifice of Jesus gives us access to the promises of God. In Christ— we have victory.

Jezebel‘s plan is to bring her influence from the outside— the world—into the inside—let’s just say the people of God. Once she accomplishes the fracture between God and the man (person). The spirits now have access to wreak havoc.

Harlot’s vs Wisdom— Proverbs seven vs proverbs eight.

Harlotry tactics: physical deception: her attire is obvious yet, he still wants it – – she makes sin look good (Egyptian linen… Cinnamon, aloe, spices – – she brings the feeling that it’s not that big of a deal. The good man (the husband) is on a long journey.

In a moment, he opens himself to a separation from God and God‘s purpose over his life – – he takes a liver shot!

Jezebel ultimately wants to steal the inheritance – – Naboth’s vineyard

Fast Car

Song by Luke Combs

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You got a fast car

And I want a ticket to anywhere

Maybe we make a deal

Maybe together we can get somewhere

Any place is better

Startin' from zero, got nothin' to lose

Maybe we'll make something

Me, myself, I got nothin' to prove

You got a fast car

And I got a plan to get us out of here

Been working at the convenience store

Managed to save just a little bit of money

Won't have to drive too far

Just across the border and into the city

And you and I can both get jobs

Finally see what it means to be living

See, my old man's got a problem

He live with the bottle, that's the way it is

He said his body's too old for workin'

His body's too young to look like his

So mama went off and left him

She wanted more from life than he could give

I said, somebody's got to take care of him

So I quit school and that's what I did

You got a fast car

Is it fast enough so we can fly away?

Still gotta make a decision

Leave tonight or live and die this way

So I remember when we were driving, driving in your car

Speed so fast, I felt like I was drunk

City lights lay out before us

And your arm felt nice wrapped around my shoulder

And I-I, had a feeling that I belonged

I-I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone

You got a fast car

We go cruisin' to entertain ourselves

You still ain't got a job

So I work in the market as a checkout girl

I know things will get better

You'll find work and I'll get promoted

And we'll move out of the shelter

Buy a bigger house, live in the suburbs

So I remember when we were driving, driving in your car

Speed so fast, I felt like I was drunk

City lights lay out before us

And your arm felt nice wrapped around my shoulder

And I-I, had a feeling that I belonged

I-I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone

You got a fast car

I got a job that pays all our bills

You stay out drinking late at the bar

See more of your friends than you do your kids

I'd always hoped for better

Thought maybe together you and me'd find it

I got no plans, I ain't going nowhere

Take your fast car and keep on driving

So I remember when we were driving, driving in your car

Speed so fast, I felt like I was drunk

City lights lay out before us

And your arm felt nice wrapped around my shoulder

And I-I, had a feeling that I belonged

I-I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone

You got a fast car

Is it fast enough so we can fly away?

Still gotta make a decision

Leave tonight or live and die this way