Speaker: Pastor Neil Lindwall

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Potentiality is: latent qualities or abilities that may be developed and lead to future success or usefulness.

All Matter, Matters. 

NIV Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Deut. 10:14.

All Matter Belongs to The Master.

NIV Psalm 24:1 The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it;

NIV Colossians 1:16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.

No Matter Should Ever Master You.

NIV Matthew 6:12 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

NIV 1 John 2:15-17 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them.

NIV 1 John 5:21 Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. 

Back to Joshua & the 1^st City Jericho.

He was one of the original 12 spies sent to Canaan. Numbers 13:4-16 Joshua was originally named Hoshea (“salvation”) but Moses changed his name to Joshua (“Yehoshua” = Yahweh is salvation). His name reminds us of the right Kingdom attitude, humble dependence.

ESV Joshua 6:18-19 But keep away from the devoted things, so that you will not bring about your own destruction by taking any of them. Otherwise you will make the camp of Israel liable to destruction and bring trouble on it. 19 All the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron are sacred to the Lord and must go into his treasury.”

Devoted things = ḥērem (from 2763a / ḥāram, "devoted (to God), designated for divine judgment – typically "dedicated" to total destruction, extermination") – properly, devoted thing, devotion, ban. See 2763a (ḥāram). – Helps Lexicon.

1. thing hostile to theocracy, and therefore (in the strictest application) to be either destroyed, or, in the case of certain objects (e.g. silver and gold, vessels of brass and iron Joshua 6:19, 24), set apart to sacred uses; … 

2. … anything devoted to sanctuary under specially stringent conditions Leviticus 27:28

3. devotion, ban, involving destruction; … Excerpts from The Brown Drivers Briggs Lexicon.

Devoted Things = Herem (חֵרֶם). Often translated as "accursed" or "devoted to destruction," but its root meaning is "to shut oneself off" or "to ban from common use."

• Sacred: It means something is so "holy" (set apart) for God’s judgment or God’s treasury that it is "off-limits" to humans.

• Possession: It means something that is holy to the Lord, belonging to Him.

Three Big Reasons for the “Herem” of Jericho:

• Divine Judgment: 

• Spiritual Quarantine: 

• The "Firstfruits" Principle: 

In Kingdom Physics, Mindset Matters.  

The First Determines the Rest.  

NIV Malachi 3:6-9 “I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed. 7 Ever since the time of your ancestors you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord Almighty. “But you ask, ‘How are we to return?’ 8 “Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ “In tithes and offerings. 9 You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me.

NIV Malachi 3:10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.

The Story of Ellen Marrs:

“I don’t like this, you don’t understand how hard it is, I tried, something always comes up, something always happens. It’s like saying to someone ‘just lose weight’”

5 Months later she said: “I struggle with my weight, I had to Quit the Gym & Started Running. We Cancelled Cable & Played Games as a Family Instead. Sure Enough, Car Broke Down! $1,200 Repair. But a Refund Check Came in the Mail in the Exact Amount of the Repair. Check was a Refund for Something Years Prior We Didn’t Even Remember. They Were Finally Approved for Foster Parenting.” They Adopted Several

Prove the Promise.

The 90-Day Tithe Challenge, a Laboratory of Faith

"Matter is just Potential until it is released."

Challenge Terms:

1. I understand this form must be completed and received by the Light House Church Finance Team prior to the beginning of the Three-Month Giving Challenge Period.

2. I understand my household qualifies for participation because we have not been tithing for the last three months.

3. I understand I cannot seek a refund prior to the end of the Three-Month Giving Challenge Period.

4. I understand I cannot seek a refund for any contributions made prior to the beginning of the Three-Month Giving Challenge Period.

5. I understand any request for a refund must be received by the Light House Church Finance Team within 30 days of the end of the Three-Month Giving Challenge Period.

6. I understand that any offerings not made online during the Challenge toward my tithe must be paid by check or in a completed offering envelope for tracking purposes.

7. I would like to test God’s faithfulness by accepting the Three-Month Giving Challenge. I agree that for the three-month period, my household will contribute to God, through Light House Church, a tithe equal to 10% of our income. At the end of the three-month period, if I am not convinced of God’s faithfulness to bless my life as a result of my obedience to His Word, then I may request a refund of the full amount of contributions I made during the 90-day period.

Let Us Know If You’re Willing to Commit to Pray for those taking the Challenge.