Unbreakable Week 7： The Land of Promise

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Week seven of the Unbreakable series turned to one of the most contested questions surrounding Israel: the land. Pastor Brian worked through three biblical foundation stones about ownership and authority, traced the land's history through a series of maps, and then brought the whole conversation home to a personal question about the territory God has given each person in Christ. The sermon opened...

Read together

1. Psalm 24:1 foundation stone that all the earth belongs to the Lord
2. Daniel 4:35 God does as he pleases among angels and people, no one can stop him
3. Genesis 12 God appears to Abram and promises to give the land to his descendants
4. Leviticus 25:23 the land must never be sold permanently because it belongs to God, people are tenant farmers
5. Genesis 15:18 God promises land from the river of Egypt to the Euphrates
6. 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, you were bought at a price and do not belong to yourself
7. Song of Solomon 7:10 I am my lover's and he claims me as his own, used to describe belonging to God

What was said

• Read around Leviticus 25 this week to understand the Year of Jubilee and what it means that God calls himself the owner of the land.
• Sit quietly and ask the Holy Spirit to show you any area of your life where the enemy has been trespassing on territory God has actually promised you.
• Go back and watch one of the earlier conversations in the Unbreakable series to build context for what Brian has been walking through on Israel.
• Write down one promise from Scripture that belongs to you as part of your inheritance in Christ, and keep it somewhere you will see it this week.
• Fill out a prayer request card and drop it in the wooden box at Tribe so the leadership team can carry whatever you are carrying with you on Monday.

Talk about it

1. Brian talked about a voice in his head telling him he was like Don Quixote, jousting at windmills by staying on this topic. Have you ever felt that kind of internal pressure to drop something you believed God was leading you toward? What did you do with it?
2. Psalm 24:1 says the earth is the Lord's and everything in it. Brian pointed out that this should feel as obvious as water to a fish, yet it carries real weight when applied to land, property, homes, children, and talents. What is the hardest area of your life to genuinely hold as belonging to God rather than yourself?
3. Brian described the round-pen horse demonstration at Diamond Cross Ranch, where the horse was free to do what it wanted but not free from the consequences, and Grant's goal was simply for the horse to join up with him. Where do you see that pattern playing out in your own walk with God?
4. Looking at the maps of the region from Abraham's day through 2023, the borders shifted repeatedly through war, treaty, empire, and political agreement. Brian's conclusion was that borders drawn without God are lines drawn against God. How do you think about that statement, and where do you push back on it or find it convincing?
5. At the close of the sermon Brian turned the land conversation inward, saying that a sound mind, healing of the heart, and security in God are territory God has already given to each believer, and that the enemy tries to talk us out of what is already ours. Is there an area of your life where you feel like that trespassing is happening right now, and what would it look like to actually possess that ground?