1 00:00:02,520 --> 00:00:05,560 Speaker 1: Hello, I'm Jensen Franklin, and I'm so glad you're watching 2 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:09,600 Speaker 1: Real America's Voice, and I want to encourage you today 3 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:12,800 Speaker 1: to know that normally, I know you're used to seeing 4 00:00:12,840 --> 00:00:15,880 Speaker 1: the news being broadcast twenty four hours a day all 5 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 1: over the world, but the founder of this network wanted 6 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:24,400 Speaker 1: to take some time on this Sunday and bring some 7 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: good news to all the other news. What you do 8 00:00:27,440 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 1: with the next few moments can affect the years ahead 9 00:00:31,160 --> 00:00:34,919 Speaker 1: of your life. Selean in, listen to this message. I 10 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 1: believe it's going to speak to you, and you're going 11 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:41,240 Speaker 1: to encounter a God who loves you and cares about 12 00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:56,400 Speaker 1: you this very moment. Genesis chapter twelve. Now the Lord 13 00:00:56,520 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: said to Abram, get out of your country, from your family, 14 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:03,680 Speaker 1: from your father's house to the land. I'll show you. 15 00:01:03,800 --> 00:01:06,200 Speaker 1: I'll make you a great nation. I will bless you. 16 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,480 Speaker 1: I will make your name great. You shall be a blessing. 17 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:16,640 Speaker 1: This is the beginning promise of the nation of Israel 18 00:01:16,680 --> 00:01:21,040 Speaker 1: that would bring the Messiah through the line of the 19 00:01:21,120 --> 00:01:24,600 Speaker 1: tribe of Juda Jesus Christ. It was all in this 20 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:30,880 Speaker 1: God speaking to a man, And you shall be a blessing, 21 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 1: and I will bless those that bless you, and I 22 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 1: will curse those that curse you. And in you, all 23 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:46,560 Speaker 1: the families of the earth shall be blessed. And Abram 24 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:49,880 Speaker 1: departed as the Lord had spoken to him, and Lot 25 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:54,040 Speaker 1: went with him. And Abram was seventy five years old 26 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:59,320 Speaker 1: when he departed from Haron. I want to go to 27 00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:05,880 Speaker 1: the fourteenth chapter of Genesis quickly. Verse twelve says they 28 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: took Lot. Abraham's calls him his brother, but he's saying 29 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:15,360 Speaker 1: he's my blood. He was actually technically Abraham's Abraham was 30 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:22,600 Speaker 1: his uncle. Lot was the nephew in the family relationship. 31 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:29,239 Speaker 1: And when Abram heard this that his brother was taken captive, 32 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 1: he armed three hundred and eighteen trained servants who were 33 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:38,440 Speaker 1: born in his own house, and went in pursuit as 34 00:02:38,480 --> 00:02:42,960 Speaker 1: far as Dan verse sixteen. They brought back all the goods, 35 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:48,080 Speaker 1: brought back his brother Lot his goods. All the women 36 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 1: and the people noticed. Verse seventeen, the king of Sodom 37 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:57,560 Speaker 1: came out to meet him. King of Sodom came and 38 00:02:57,639 --> 00:03:00,520 Speaker 1: it tells us in a moment that he made him 39 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:04,800 Speaker 1: an offer. And we also have the King of Salem, 40 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:08,200 Speaker 1: which was Michael Zadakaus our first introduction of him. I'm 41 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:09,880 Speaker 1: going to make sense out of all of this in 42 00:03:09,919 --> 00:03:12,760 Speaker 1: a moment. And he brings him wine, and he brings 43 00:03:12,840 --> 00:03:16,359 Speaker 1: him bread as the priest of God, and he accepts 44 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: what he offers. He doesn't accept what the King of 45 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:25,519 Speaker 1: Sodom offered, but he receives the bread and the wine. 46 00:03:25,560 --> 00:03:28,960 Speaker 1: We know in the first few chapters of the Bible 47 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:35,040 Speaker 1: is the very communion meal that we just celebrated, that 48 00:03:35,160 --> 00:03:39,000 Speaker 1: Christ would enter into and pass over with his disciples, 49 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: beautiful types and shadow. How can anybody doubt the truth 50 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:48,960 Speaker 1: of God's word? Writers writing centuries apart, and yet hand 51 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:53,720 Speaker 1: in glove. It's just amazing to me. The prophecies and 52 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:59,320 Speaker 1: verse eighteen. Then Michael Zadak, king of Salem, brought the 53 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 1: bread and the world, and he said, blessed be Abraham, 54 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,600 Speaker 1: Blessed be God most High, who delivered your enemies into 55 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:11,000 Speaker 1: your hand. This is interesting, first time titheing is mentioned. 56 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 1: And he gave him a tithe of it all. This 57 00:04:14,640 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 1: is Abraham. There was no law, there was no Moses. 58 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:20,600 Speaker 1: This was Abraham. Something in him said, of the portion 59 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 1: that I have received, I want to give this man 60 00:04:24,200 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 1: a tenth who is the priest of God very powerful. 61 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 1: Now the King of Sodom said to Abraham, give me 62 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 1: and take the goods for yourself. And Abram said, listen 63 00:04:37,400 --> 00:04:39,920 Speaker 1: to that, give me and take, give me and take. 64 00:04:40,160 --> 00:04:44,680 Speaker 1: See one voice, the voice of this King of Sodom 65 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 1: is give me, and you take. But the other one 66 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: is bringing the bread and the wine. And Abraham said 67 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:56,360 Speaker 1: to the King of Sodom, I've raised my hand to 68 00:04:56,440 --> 00:04:59,120 Speaker 1: the Lord Most God that possess it, the Lord God 69 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:02,520 Speaker 1: most High, the possessor of heaven and earth. And i 70 00:05:02,560 --> 00:05:06,720 Speaker 1: will take nothing, not even a shoe strap. I will 71 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 1: not take anything from yours, lest you should say I 72 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:16,600 Speaker 1: have made Abraham rich in verse fifteen or verse one 73 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:20,679 Speaker 1: of chapter fifteen. Now after these things he just turned 74 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:26,760 Speaker 1: down incredible riches and wealth verse fifteen. And after these 75 00:05:26,880 --> 00:05:31,320 Speaker 1: things the word of the Lord King saying, do not 76 00:05:31,480 --> 00:05:37,800 Speaker 1: be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your exceeding great reward. 77 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:44,279 Speaker 1: And I'll notice this next verse. And Abram said, Lord God, 78 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:49,760 Speaker 1: what will you give me? Seeing I go childless on 79 00:05:49,920 --> 00:05:52,520 Speaker 1: a stop there, I know I read a lot. I'll 80 00:05:52,560 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 1: sum it all up in this message, and I'll give 81 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:58,480 Speaker 1: you my tite on just a moment but this is 82 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:02,800 Speaker 1: a text that deals with especially chapter twelve of the 83 00:06:02,839 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 1: calling of Abraham. What a powerful thing it is to 84 00:06:07,279 --> 00:06:11,240 Speaker 1: be called of God. I remember when his calling voice 85 00:06:11,520 --> 00:06:16,680 Speaker 1: found me. I trembled. I knew God had spoken to 86 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:20,480 Speaker 1: me to preach the gospel. It's a powerful thing when 87 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:25,080 Speaker 1: God calls you. And Abraham heard God call him. It's 88 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:30,159 Speaker 1: even more astounding that he was not a home of faith. 89 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:34,920 Speaker 1: His father was an idol worshiper. There was no sacrifices, 90 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 1: there was no teaching of Jehovah God, there was none 91 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,440 Speaker 1: of that in his life. And yet he heard God 92 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,800 Speaker 1: clearly call him. And when God called him and gave 93 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:52,040 Speaker 1: him a ridiculous, seemingly over the top demand to leave 94 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:57,479 Speaker 1: his family, to leave his friends, to leave everything that 95 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:03,440 Speaker 1: was familiar, everything that was secure, financially, in every other way, 96 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:08,440 Speaker 1: pack it up, get your family, and move. And he 97 00:07:08,480 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 1: didn't even tell him where it was going. I move 98 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:13,600 Speaker 1: in the direction, and I'll let you know when you 99 00:07:13,720 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: get there. And this man of extreme devotion, Abraham, the 100 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 1: father of faith. Hebrews calls him the father of us all. 101 00:07:27,920 --> 00:07:34,280 Speaker 1: He began to follow that voice. He walked away to 102 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 1: follow in obedience to God. He put the world behind 103 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:42,800 Speaker 1: him that he had come out of. He heard a 104 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 1: voice calling, and he came out of the world that 105 00:07:46,240 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 1: he was in. Everything changed for him at the calling 106 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: of God. If you ever encounter Jesus Christ and he 107 00:07:54,720 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: calls you and he saves you as he will, if 108 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 1: you'll call on him, he will call you out of 109 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:05,160 Speaker 1: the world that you're in. You do not stay the same. 110 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 1: You do not just continue now after praying a prayer 111 00:08:10,240 --> 00:08:13,600 Speaker 1: in the same lifestyle. He calls you out. It's a 112 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 1: beautiful picture of the world that you were in into 113 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 1: a brand new life. If any man being Christ, he 114 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: is a new creation. The old things have passed away. 115 00:08:24,080 --> 00:08:27,840 Speaker 1: And behold all that I live now for you. I'll 116 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:32,600 Speaker 1: give up everything I have for you. I'm selling out 117 00:08:32,640 --> 00:08:36,560 Speaker 1: to you. This is not some casual Christianity that you 118 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 1: just kind of love the Lord and do your own 119 00:08:39,240 --> 00:08:46,520 Speaker 1: thing all week long. This is this extreme devotion, this 120 00:08:46,880 --> 00:08:51,440 Speaker 1: heart felt faith that says, I believe in you more 121 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 1: than anything I can see, and I will chase after you. 122 00:08:57,280 --> 00:09:00,319 Speaker 1: And the Bible said he began to build altars, built 123 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: seven altars. I preached on all of those altars one time, 124 00:09:04,240 --> 00:09:07,319 Speaker 1: and he built altars every place God took him, he 125 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:10,680 Speaker 1: would build an altar and offer a sacrifice, and he 126 00:09:10,800 --> 00:09:15,480 Speaker 1: kept building them all of his life, and then something happened. 127 00:09:15,760 --> 00:09:19,520 Speaker 1: Lot was with him. God didn't call Lot. But Lot 128 00:09:19,640 --> 00:09:22,960 Speaker 1: was a smart man because he said, if I don't 129 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:25,520 Speaker 1: have the favor of God, I'm going to get around 130 00:09:25,559 --> 00:09:28,280 Speaker 1: somebody that does have the favor of God. If the 131 00:09:28,360 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 1: blessing is not on me, I'm gonna get around somebody blessed. 132 00:09:31,880 --> 00:09:34,079 Speaker 1: If you're the smartest one in your group, you need 133 00:09:34,080 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 1: to get a new group. You need to get around 134 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 1: somebody who knows something you don't know. And Lot to 135 00:09:40,320 --> 00:09:43,600 Speaker 1: his to his you know, we need to give him credit. 136 00:09:43,880 --> 00:09:47,520 Speaker 1: He followed this guy. He knew this guy, and he 137 00:09:47,559 --> 00:09:51,040 Speaker 1: got he wasn't spiritual. But you know, sometimes you can 138 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:54,960 Speaker 1: only walk with somebody who's walking with God so far, 139 00:09:55,240 --> 00:09:57,559 Speaker 1: and then you'll miss it. You got to have your 140 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 1: own walk. It's good. See a Lot was a man 141 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:03,720 Speaker 1: that was following a man who was walking with God. 142 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:06,600 Speaker 1: And there's a difference between that and you having your 143 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 1: own walk with God. But it'll help you until you 144 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:14,400 Speaker 1: get your own. At some point, I can't I can't 145 00:10:14,440 --> 00:10:16,880 Speaker 1: take you on the journey if you don't start walking 146 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:20,959 Speaker 1: your own walk and talking your own talk with Jesus. No, 147 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:24,640 Speaker 1: Bama's prayers can't get you there. You've got to pray yourself. 148 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 1: You walk with people that walk with God, but God 149 00:10:27,640 --> 00:10:32,280 Speaker 1: wants to walk and talk with you. And Lot reached 150 00:10:32,320 --> 00:10:35,959 Speaker 1: a point where he really missed it because the scripture said, 151 00:10:36,000 --> 00:10:39,080 Speaker 1: as Abraham went along, I didn't have time to read it. 152 00:10:39,080 --> 00:10:41,680 Speaker 1: In the next chapter and chapter thirteen it said God 153 00:10:41,760 --> 00:10:45,040 Speaker 1: blessed him and he was had cattle, and he had 154 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:50,719 Speaker 1: wealth and his lot his nephew. Just because of association. 155 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:53,680 Speaker 1: I'm telling you, check out the kind of people your 156 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:57,840 Speaker 1: friends are a photograph of your future. Who you hanging 157 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:00,000 Speaker 1: out with? What kind of people do you run with? 158 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:03,200 Speaker 1: Do they love God with all of their heart? Are 159 00:11:03,240 --> 00:11:06,480 Speaker 1: they honoring God with their life with their substance? Are 160 00:11:06,480 --> 00:11:11,679 Speaker 1: they good people? Amen? And the scripture said a Lot 161 00:11:12,200 --> 00:11:15,880 Speaker 1: began to prosper so much that there was a fight 162 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:22,840 Speaker 1: between the herdsmen of Lot, the nephew and the uncle Abraham. 163 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: And Abraham, being a peacemaker, said, hey, we're brothers, let's 164 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:36,520 Speaker 1: not fight. Let's not have a family squabble over material things. 165 00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:40,559 Speaker 1: You choose it should have been the lesser making being 166 00:11:40,600 --> 00:11:44,040 Speaker 1: told what to do by the elder and the guy 167 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:49,760 Speaker 1: Abraham that God had called. But instead this young little 168 00:11:49,760 --> 00:11:53,800 Speaker 1: fool named Lot thought he knew everything. Watch him now 169 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:56,760 Speaker 1: he doesn't have a walk with God. And he looks 170 00:11:57,200 --> 00:12:01,680 Speaker 1: at the green pastures that were head towards Sodom and Gamara, 171 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:06,120 Speaker 1: and he says, I'll take that land to feed my cattle, 172 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:10,320 Speaker 1: and you take that way, which was the desert. And 173 00:12:10,400 --> 00:12:13,440 Speaker 1: it looks like Abraham's going to lose and Lot is 174 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:18,280 Speaker 1: going to win. But watch Lot goes towards Sodom and Gamara, 175 00:12:18,520 --> 00:12:22,079 Speaker 1: and temporarily he prospers, and for a little while he 176 00:12:22,160 --> 00:12:25,360 Speaker 1: does well, and man, it looks like he's on top 177 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:28,320 Speaker 1: of the world. And he ends up in Sodom and 178 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:33,720 Speaker 1: Gamara and his family does too, and Abraham's out in 179 00:12:33,760 --> 00:12:37,480 Speaker 1: the desert. But while he's in the desert, God says, 180 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 1: come out of your tent. And he walks out of 181 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:43,240 Speaker 1: his tent, and he says, look up into the sky 182 00:12:43,400 --> 00:12:47,040 Speaker 1: and see the stars. As the stars are in heaven, 183 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 1: so will your seed be and the sand. Pick it 184 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,760 Speaker 1: up in your hand, and can you count these numbers? 185 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:58,360 Speaker 1: There's natural Israel and spiritual Israel. There are two things 186 00:12:58,400 --> 00:13:01,160 Speaker 1: on God's mind always. I don't care what you hear. 187 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:04,040 Speaker 1: I don't care what podcast you listen to. I don't 188 00:13:04,080 --> 00:13:06,319 Speaker 1: care what the news says. I don't care what the 189 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:09,959 Speaker 1: United Nation says. There are two things on God's mind 190 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:14,439 Speaker 1: all the time. Number one, natural Israel, the Nation of Israel, 191 00:13:14,679 --> 00:13:18,480 Speaker 1: the Jewish people. Number two, Spiritual Israel, the Church, the 192 00:13:18,520 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 1: stars of heaven, those of us who have been born 193 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:25,120 Speaker 1: again and engrafted by the cross and the blood of 194 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:29,199 Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. And any time you separate from either one 195 00:13:29,280 --> 00:13:33,520 Speaker 1: of those two things you, I will bless those that 196 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 1: bless you. I will curse those that curse you. True 197 00:13:36,840 --> 00:13:40,280 Speaker 1: of the Church, true of the Nation of Israel. Not 198 00:13:40,440 --> 00:13:43,960 Speaker 1: that we condone everything everybody does, and every leader, of 199 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:48,679 Speaker 1: course not. But the right to have the land and 200 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: the right to be a people that has the right 201 00:13:51,840 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 1: to exist is given by God. It's prophecy. When you 202 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:03,640 Speaker 1: see all nations turn against them, it's being fulfilled right 203 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:15,440 Speaker 1: before your eyes every day. Hello, I'm Jensen Franklin, and 204 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:18,640 Speaker 1: I want to welcome you to Real America's Voice. There's 205 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:21,000 Speaker 1: something that's going to happen. I believe as you watch 206 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:25,360 Speaker 1: this program, lean in listen, and let's see what God 207 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:37,840 Speaker 1: can do in your life. Now, watch this. While Abraham 208 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 1: is hearing from God. The Bible said that an evil 209 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: king and his soldiers attacked Sodom and Gamara, and guess 210 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:52,840 Speaker 1: who was there, Lot and his family, and they kidnap them. 211 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:58,520 Speaker 1: They kidnapped Lot and his family. And when Abraham heard 212 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:05,600 Speaker 1: the news, the scripture said, he assembled his servants, his 213 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:12,040 Speaker 1: greatest fighting men. He took three hundred and eighteen and 214 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:16,600 Speaker 1: he said, we're stopping everything we're putting down. I don't 215 00:15:16,640 --> 00:15:21,479 Speaker 1: care how busy we are, because we have a family 216 00:15:21,680 --> 00:15:26,280 Speaker 1: member who is being held hostage by Hell, and we're 217 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:32,240 Speaker 1: going to get him out of that situation. The first 218 00:15:32,320 --> 00:15:36,160 Speaker 1: recorded battle in the Bible was when a man was 219 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 1: willing to go to battle for his family. It is 220 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:45,360 Speaker 1: not a coincidence. It is not a happen chance. It 221 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:49,000 Speaker 1: is not an accident that the first battle in the 222 00:15:49,080 --> 00:15:53,200 Speaker 1: Bible is not over real estate, over land, over borders, 223 00:15:53,520 --> 00:15:56,880 Speaker 1: It is not between nation and nation. It is a 224 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 1: man who saw one of his relatives who had been 225 00:16:00,880 --> 00:16:06,400 Speaker 1: taken hostage by evildoers, and something in his heart said, 226 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 1: I must go fight for my family. I'm telling you 227 00:16:11,160 --> 00:16:16,400 Speaker 1: today that there's no battle more important than the battle, 228 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:18,920 Speaker 1: and the first time it's mentioned in the Bible, lets 229 00:16:18,960 --> 00:16:22,920 Speaker 1: you know the priority. There's no battle more important than 230 00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:26,920 Speaker 1: the battle for the family. You have to fight for 231 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:30,760 Speaker 1: your family. You have to fight for your marriage, You 232 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:34,160 Speaker 1: have to fight for your children. You have to fight 233 00:16:34,520 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 1: for your babies when the enemy thinks he's gonna hold 234 00:16:38,040 --> 00:16:43,480 Speaker 1: them hostage with alcohol or drugs or some horrible situation. 235 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:47,880 Speaker 1: We don't just hope for things to get better. We 236 00:16:48,160 --> 00:16:53,320 Speaker 1: are to go to war spiritually, and we are to pray, 237 00:16:53,640 --> 00:16:56,680 Speaker 1: and we are to call on God because we have 238 00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:01,080 Speaker 1: a promise. He's the God of our family. Our family 239 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:05,320 Speaker 1: should mean more to us than our own hurt feelings. 240 00:17:05,840 --> 00:17:09,480 Speaker 1: Your family should mean more to you than being offended. 241 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 1: And who won't call first in all the nonsense, I 242 00:17:14,440 --> 00:17:16,840 Speaker 1: tell you, who's gonna call first, the one that's got 243 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 1: a prayer life, because if you pray, God will say 244 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:23,040 Speaker 1: for guilt. If you pray, you can't pray long until 245 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:26,760 Speaker 1: you bump right into that situation and you recognize God 246 00:17:26,840 --> 00:17:29,399 Speaker 1: won't hear another thing I have to say. If I 247 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:33,000 Speaker 1: don't do right, I'm preaching better than y'all. Letting on 248 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:37,560 Speaker 1: this morning. The first battle in the Bible was about 249 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:44,000 Speaker 1: the need to stop fighting one another and fight the devil. 250 00:17:44,400 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 1: For our families. Fight Hell. The spirit of Sodom wants 251 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:53,080 Speaker 1: to take them, but Hell can't have them. Hallelujah. As 252 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:56,639 Speaker 1: for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. 253 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:59,160 Speaker 1: And I just want the enemy to know that if 254 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:01,960 Speaker 1: you believe on the Lord Lord Jesus Christ, you shall 255 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:06,439 Speaker 1: be saved and your house. So let's go down to 256 00:18:06,520 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 1: the enemiscount. Let's take back what he's stolen from us. 257 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:14,720 Speaker 1: Let's claim the sons and the daughters. Let's claim those 258 00:18:14,800 --> 00:18:18,360 Speaker 1: on drugs. Let's claim them. Let's get serious about it. 259 00:18:18,560 --> 00:18:22,640 Speaker 1: Let's reach out, Let's go for it. Let's recommunicate, Let's 260 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:27,959 Speaker 1: get involved with it. Get a burden for it. Hollelu 261 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:33,160 Speaker 1: I want God to do something in our families today. 262 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:37,680 Speaker 1: I want God to touch our kids today. I want 263 00:18:37,720 --> 00:18:42,520 Speaker 1: God to have men and moms and dads and grandparents 264 00:18:42,520 --> 00:18:45,520 Speaker 1: that are ready to go to war today and say, 265 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:49,560 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be casual about eternity and salvation. I 266 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:53,240 Speaker 1: need a burden for my family again. I've almost forgotten 267 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:57,520 Speaker 1: that God made me a promise concerning my seed, just 268 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:03,240 Speaker 1: like Abraham, go to war for your family, for your marriage, 269 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:07,720 Speaker 1: for your children. Abraham was willing to put everything aside 270 00:19:08,440 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 1: for God and his family. He's devoted, he's dedicated, he's committed, 271 00:19:18,080 --> 00:19:21,880 Speaker 1: and when a family member is in trouble, everybody ought 272 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:26,680 Speaker 1: to get concerned in the family. If your daughter, if 273 00:19:26,720 --> 00:19:29,480 Speaker 1: your son, if your wife, if your husband is being 274 00:19:29,560 --> 00:19:35,000 Speaker 1: held hostage. In Jesus' name, we are all family. We're 275 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:37,879 Speaker 1: part of the body of Christ, and we want to 276 00:19:37,880 --> 00:19:40,920 Speaker 1: fight with you for him. I prayed for they ever 277 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:45,520 Speaker 1: got here today, that anyone who's been held hostage by Satan, 278 00:19:45,520 --> 00:19:49,919 Speaker 1: when they walk through these doors, the power of God 279 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:52,960 Speaker 1: would arrest their souls and that they would be born 280 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:57,399 Speaker 1: again before they leave this service. When a family member 281 00:19:57,480 --> 00:20:01,719 Speaker 1: is in trouble, pray for him. I love this, and 282 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:07,200 Speaker 1: you know what happened. The scripture said that the king 283 00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:15,760 Speaker 1: that had conquered them, when Abraham got there, he defeated them. 284 00:20:15,800 --> 00:20:19,679 Speaker 1: He wiped them out. He took his nephew Lote back 285 00:20:20,160 --> 00:20:23,320 Speaker 1: and he left with him and his family for a season. 286 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:26,720 Speaker 1: They ended up back there, unfortunately, but he took them out, 287 00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:30,919 Speaker 1: but the king of Sodom came out. I love Abraham 288 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:33,919 Speaker 1: because he said, I'm gonna fight for my family and 289 00:20:33,960 --> 00:20:37,439 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna make a deal with the devil. The 290 00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:41,520 Speaker 1: king of Sodom came out and he said, here I'm 291 00:20:41,520 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 1: gonna take and you're gonna take the spoils from this battle, 292 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:47,600 Speaker 1: and here I want you to take them. And I 293 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:51,959 Speaker 1: love Abraham. Abraham, think of the discernment of this. Think 294 00:20:52,240 --> 00:20:55,160 Speaker 1: had he taken that wealth, he was going to go 295 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:58,600 Speaker 1: start a nation and it would have been built off 296 00:20:58,640 --> 00:21:01,680 Speaker 1: of the riches of Sodom and Gamar. That's all how 297 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:06,000 Speaker 1: the devil wanted to go. But Abraham said, I'm not 298 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 1: for sale. And he said, I refuse all the wealth 299 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:16,680 Speaker 1: that you're offering me. I refuse it because I don't 300 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:21,000 Speaker 1: want it, said, and I won't even take a shoelace 301 00:21:21,119 --> 00:21:26,440 Speaker 1: from you, lest it be said. You made me rich 302 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:29,520 Speaker 1: and gave me the resources that I needed to do 303 00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,639 Speaker 1: God's plan for my life. I tell you, if you 304 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 1: don't watch it, the world will. You'll buy into the 305 00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:41,520 Speaker 1: lives of materialism and things above God, and when you do, 306 00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:45,359 Speaker 1: you can lose your soul. We're not shocked anymore. We're 307 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:50,159 Speaker 1: seeing in real time that people have sold their whole 308 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:55,000 Speaker 1: souls to the devil, their talents, their giftings like Jesus. 309 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:58,200 Speaker 1: They were taken to a mountain and Satan said, bow 310 00:21:58,320 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 1: down and worship me, and I'll give you fame, I'll 311 00:22:01,560 --> 00:22:05,159 Speaker 1: give you fortune. But here was Abraham. He said, I 312 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,879 Speaker 1: won't take a thing from you. I'm not gonna do it. 313 00:22:09,119 --> 00:22:12,879 Speaker 1: And he walks away. He doesn't have what he needs. 314 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:17,280 Speaker 1: He's living, not doing anything but obeying God, fighting for 315 00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:22,440 Speaker 1: his family, saying no to the world. And that's where 316 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:26,040 Speaker 1: the story changes and the words come at the beginning 317 00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:30,959 Speaker 1: of the chapter. Now, after these things, after he walked 318 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:33,840 Speaker 1: away from the life he was in, after he gave 319 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:37,679 Speaker 1: up all for Christ, after he went through it looks 320 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:41,440 Speaker 1: like loss after loss. After he turned down the big 321 00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:47,639 Speaker 1: contract because he knew it wasn't God's will for his life, 322 00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:55,159 Speaker 1: he turned and after these things, it says that that 323 00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:59,720 Speaker 1: night the Lord came in a vision and said, do 324 00:23:00,160 --> 00:23:03,399 Speaker 1: not be afraid, Abraham, Wat's this when you give up 325 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:09,000 Speaker 1: stuff for God? I am your shield, I am your 326 00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:14,919 Speaker 1: everybody say the next three words exceeding great reward. And 327 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 1: Abraham said, Lord God, what will you give me? Seeing 328 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:25,679 Speaker 1: I go childless? You know what he was saying. He 329 00:23:25,840 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 1: was saying, I hear you, and I believe you, and 330 00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:33,560 Speaker 1: you are my shield, and you are my exceeding great reward. 331 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:37,520 Speaker 1: But you made me a promise way back there, and 332 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,920 Speaker 1: I don't see it happening. I don't see it coming 333 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 1: to pass. But after these things, I thought God was 334 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:50,679 Speaker 1: going to show up. After these things, he said, I'll 335 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:54,920 Speaker 1: be your great reward. What about the promise? Abraham said, 336 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 1: and this is what I'm preaching on. What about that 337 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:03,560 Speaker 1: which hasn't been done that you told me you would do? 338 00:24:05,119 --> 00:24:08,520 Speaker 1: He said, I've put everything in order, I've done everything 339 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:12,240 Speaker 1: you told me to do. Lord, How will I know? Lord? 340 00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 1: I believe, one man said in the New Testament like this, Lord, 341 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:21,640 Speaker 1: I believe. Help thou my unbelief. It's one of those moments. 342 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 1: How can you believe and be full of unbelief at 343 00:24:26,840 --> 00:24:29,800 Speaker 1: the same time. I believe. It's days of belief and 344 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:34,400 Speaker 1: days of unbelief. Really, when you're walking with God and 345 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:37,240 Speaker 1: you know that he's given you a promise, there will 346 00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:39,520 Speaker 1: be days of belief where you know it and you 347 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:42,600 Speaker 1: believe it. And I can remember, like even with the 348 00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:45,360 Speaker 1: raising of a family and stuff, there were days when 349 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:48,520 Speaker 1: I believed, and then there were days when the enemy 350 00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:52,719 Speaker 1: would hit so hard everything would happen. That was the 351 00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,680 Speaker 1: opposite of the promise, And I would have days where 352 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:59,240 Speaker 1: I was honest where I said, well, I don't know, God, 353 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,560 Speaker 1: I don't know, but deep down inside I still believe. 354 00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:14,960 Speaker 1: But help my unbelief because I'm wavering right here. Hello, 355 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:17,439 Speaker 1: I'm Jensen Franklin, and I want to welcome you to 356 00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,920 Speaker 1: Real America's voice. If you'll give me the next few 357 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:24,639 Speaker 1: moments and listen, you're going to have the opportunity, I 358 00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:31,320 Speaker 1: believe to have a moment that can change your life. 359 00:25:39,480 --> 00:25:41,800 Speaker 1: There are days when you feel like it's going to happen, 360 00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:46,680 Speaker 1: and there's days when you wonder, where is God? How long? 361 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,720 Speaker 1: O Lord? How do I know this thing is going 362 00:25:49,760 --> 00:25:54,320 Speaker 1: to happen? If you believe He's not a man and 363 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,400 Speaker 1: he can't lie, I just believe. You need to get 364 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,520 Speaker 1: a clap in your hands right now. How you know? 365 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:03,440 Speaker 1: You just have to settle it. You just have to say, 366 00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:07,600 Speaker 1: I don't care what you show me. I know God 367 00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:12,040 Speaker 1: is not a man that he can lie. How will 368 00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 1: I know? God said, all right, here's your sign, and 369 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:21,440 Speaker 1: he tells him to take five animals. He says, take 370 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:26,120 Speaker 1: a ram, and take a heifer, take a lamb, take 371 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:32,119 Speaker 1: a turtle, dove and take another bird, and he says 372 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:37,640 Speaker 1: a young pigeon. And he says, you take those three animals, 373 00:26:38,320 --> 00:26:41,920 Speaker 1: not the birds. But take those three animals and cut 374 00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 1: them right down the middle, and lay half of the 375 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:48,919 Speaker 1: animal on one side, and cause me to have a 376 00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:52,639 Speaker 1: middle ground and a path to come to you to 377 00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:57,240 Speaker 1: confirm that I'm going to bring the promise concerning your family, 378 00:26:57,480 --> 00:26:59,880 Speaker 1: because you went to war for your family. I want 379 00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 1: let you go to war for your family. A watch, 380 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:07,760 Speaker 1: I'm almost where I want to be. And the scripture said, 381 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:14,080 Speaker 1: that's when once he had done everything he knew to do, 382 00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:18,399 Speaker 1: he sat down and he waited. I'm preaching today on 383 00:27:18,480 --> 00:27:25,080 Speaker 1: when the waiting comes. He's waiting and waiting and waiting. 384 00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:31,679 Speaker 1: The worship is not going to waste. The prayers that 385 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:36,760 Speaker 1: he prayed is not going to waste. The sacrifice is 386 00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:42,560 Speaker 1: not going to spoil. But I need you to wait. Wait. 387 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,240 Speaker 1: They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. 388 00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,119 Speaker 1: They that wait upon the Lord shall run and not 389 00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,680 Speaker 1: be weary, walk in, not faint. Wait on the Lord, 390 00:27:55,760 --> 00:27:59,440 Speaker 1: and be of good courage, and he will strengthen your 391 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:05,440 Speaker 1: heart and see Abraham. He's now prepared everything and done 392 00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 1: exactly with great devotion everything God told him to do. 393 00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:14,200 Speaker 1: He's surrendered and given up everything. And here he goes 394 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:24,639 Speaker 1: deeply devoted. And instead of God showing up, guess what 395 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:31,840 Speaker 1: the Bible said happened. Buzzards and vultures showed up. They 396 00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:37,359 Speaker 1: invaded the space. And when the vultures came down on 397 00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:46,880 Speaker 1: the carcasses, Abraham drove them away. Something in Abraham said, 398 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:51,000 Speaker 1: while I'm waiting, I am not about to let you 399 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:56,960 Speaker 1: steal the promise of God. I have sacrifices of praise 400 00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:02,200 Speaker 1: laid out, I have prayers ofcrifice laid out. I have 401 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:06,440 Speaker 1: been obeying God the best I know, laid out here. 402 00:29:06,680 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 1: And here comes not God. But right before the breakthrough 403 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 1: comes the vultures, who are whispering, it's dead. You know 404 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:20,640 Speaker 1: they're only attracted to dead things. They show up, the vultures, 405 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:25,520 Speaker 1: and the buzzards start flying in from all over the place. 406 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:31,760 Speaker 1: The buzzard of bad news says, you did all of 407 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:37,720 Speaker 1: this for nothing. The buzzard of bad report, the buzzard 408 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:41,200 Speaker 1: of a bad X ray, and it just says, just 409 00:29:41,280 --> 00:29:45,880 Speaker 1: give up. The buzzard of a phone call that child 410 00:29:46,320 --> 00:29:50,240 Speaker 1: is in jail, or that child is back on drugs. 411 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:54,240 Speaker 1: That it's buzzards that come that say give up. Now, 412 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:59,200 Speaker 1: it's not gonna happen. It's too late forget it. You 413 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:02,240 Speaker 1: have to get to that place where the buzzards of doubt, 414 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:07,920 Speaker 1: the buzzards of depression, haidelujah. I'm gonna drive them away 415 00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:12,360 Speaker 1: this morning, the buzzard of fear. He has not given 416 00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:15,920 Speaker 1: you the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, 417 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:20,440 Speaker 1: and of a sound mind, the buzzard of faith, haillelujah. 418 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:26,640 Speaker 1: In circumstances, more than God drive it away. I don't 419 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:30,320 Speaker 1: walk by what I see. I walk by faith, not 420 00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:37,520 Speaker 1: by sight. Those vile vultures, old buzzards, try to trip 421 00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:41,080 Speaker 1: you up in your trust. They try to make you 422 00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:45,760 Speaker 1: start to doubt the promise of God. Abraham declared a 423 00:30:45,920 --> 00:30:49,880 Speaker 1: battle on those vultures. He said, you're not going to 424 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:53,680 Speaker 1: steal and create an atmosphere of death when God said 425 00:30:53,720 --> 00:30:57,280 Speaker 1: we would have a promise of life. And he began 426 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 1: to drive those buzzards away. If he got a stick 427 00:31:01,560 --> 00:31:03,840 Speaker 1: or a torch, I don't know what he used, but 428 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:07,400 Speaker 1: he drove them away. They kept coming, trying to steal 429 00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:12,959 Speaker 1: what God had promised. God wants to give you a 430 00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:20,120 Speaker 1: revival of your confidence, a revival of knowing that what 431 00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:24,920 Speaker 1: He promised he is able to perform. I believe that 432 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,960 Speaker 1: God will do it. I believe that God will show up. 433 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:33,840 Speaker 1: I believe that when the buzzards show up, I'm gonna say, 434 00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,480 Speaker 1: get off my prayers. I'm gonna drive them away from 435 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:41,440 Speaker 1: my promises. I'm gonna drive them away from my prophecies. 436 00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,360 Speaker 1: Do you know when we were in the old Church, 437 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:47,200 Speaker 1: there were prophecies that went forth. I was thinking about 438 00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:49,160 Speaker 1: this the other day. I have one of them on 439 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 1: that I framed that I look back on every once 440 00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,640 Speaker 1: in a while and it amazes me. But there would 441 00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:58,800 Speaker 1: be people who would come through and just prophesy the 442 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,720 Speaker 1: word of the Lord. You have to drive And I'm 443 00:32:02,760 --> 00:32:06,200 Speaker 1: so glad that I held on to those promises in 444 00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:10,560 Speaker 1: the church, held on to all those prophecies that went 445 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:14,680 Speaker 1: way back for generations. We are where we are today 446 00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:20,080 Speaker 1: because we drove those buzzards off. Keep the buzzards at 447 00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:25,440 Speaker 1: they You can't have my marriage, you can't have my children, 448 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,320 Speaker 1: you can't have my grandchildren, you can't have my wife, 449 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:33,120 Speaker 1: you can't have my husband. Somebody needs to get that 450 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:35,920 Speaker 1: fight back in you to say to those buzzards sent 451 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:39,800 Speaker 1: from hell to destroy your family, I will go to 452 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 1: war for my family. I will not let you have 453 00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:47,320 Speaker 1: my son, my daughter. You can't have them. You will 454 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,800 Speaker 1: release them from the hold of that hostage that you 455 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:55,080 Speaker 1: have on them. In Jesus's name, I'm preaching right now. 456 00:32:55,440 --> 00:33:03,080 Speaker 1: It's not a time to turn into pity city. You know, 457 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:08,400 Speaker 1: over at the North campus where my office is, we've 458 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:13,400 Speaker 1: been having a problem. I don't know where they've come from, 459 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:21,200 Speaker 1: but we have buzzards. They're huge birds, and they sit 460 00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:24,120 Speaker 1: up on the cross of the old building down there, 461 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,840 Speaker 1: and they perch up on the cross and it's almost 462 00:33:28,040 --> 00:33:32,360 Speaker 1: like it's an omen or something. I look up there 463 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:36,280 Speaker 1: sometimes when I'm pulling out to come preach down here, 464 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:39,520 Speaker 1: I'll be backing up and those old birds, buzzards will 465 00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:44,040 Speaker 1: be sitting on the cross. And I've told the guys 466 00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:47,000 Speaker 1: I want them to do something about it. I said, 467 00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,200 Speaker 1: can we put some razor blades up there? I don't know. 468 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,480 Speaker 1: I don't know what we can do. No, we can. 469 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:58,760 Speaker 1: I don't want peta out here, amen, but I'll if 470 00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:04,680 Speaker 1: you look up, what do about vultures and buzzards. I 471 00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:07,840 Speaker 1: want to give you what they say. Will get rid 472 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:16,120 Speaker 1: of them. Number one, eliminate the purchase. They won't stay 473 00:34:16,160 --> 00:34:22,560 Speaker 1: anywhere they can't find somewhere to perch. Remove anything they 474 00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:29,800 Speaker 1: can perch on. Prayerlessness is a perch, Pitiful little weak, 475 00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:34,760 Speaker 1: praise is a perch. Give no place to the devil. 476 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:37,799 Speaker 1: This is the day the Lord has made. I will 477 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:44,080 Speaker 1: rejoice and be glad In't it? How helujya. You got 478 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:47,319 Speaker 1: to get rid of the purchase. Some of you just 479 00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:51,959 Speaker 1: let the devil come in your home and perch. He's 480 00:34:52,000 --> 00:34:55,120 Speaker 1: all in the house. You have to say you're not 481 00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:59,120 Speaker 1: welcome here. I'm driving you out. My children are going 482 00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,800 Speaker 1: to live for the Lord. That's I am gonna see 483 00:35:01,800 --> 00:35:04,400 Speaker 1: salvation in every one of them. And I you know, 484 00:35:04,480 --> 00:35:07,359 Speaker 1: I said that when I was fighting those buzzards, and 485 00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:10,239 Speaker 1: they're all living for the Lord. This morning, to God 486 00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:16,440 Speaker 1: be the glory. No buzzard is gonna perch on my 487 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:24,399 Speaker 1: house and my family. God is good and he gives 488 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:28,520 Speaker 1: us victory. But you have to say, to those thoughts 489 00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:33,399 Speaker 1: of fear and negativism and and and defeat, you're not 490 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:38,080 Speaker 1: gonna perch here today. Depression. You're not gonna perch here today. 491 00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:41,000 Speaker 1: I put on the garment of praise for the spirit 492 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:46,600 Speaker 1: of heaviness, remove the purchase, the purchase, and then listen 493 00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:50,839 Speaker 1: to this. They said, you need an effigy E F 494 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:56,640 Speaker 1: F I G y. What is it? Effigy? It's something 495 00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:02,960 Speaker 1: that looks like what you want to not come. You 496 00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:07,960 Speaker 1: make something like a scarecrow and you hang it upside down. 497 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:12,520 Speaker 1: It's what the Native Indians would do when they called 498 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:16,480 Speaker 1: a cowboy or something on their property. They would dispose 499 00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,440 Speaker 1: of them and hang them upside down. And even in 500 00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:25,560 Speaker 1: wars the Japanese, in Korean Wars, things like this. There's 501 00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:29,120 Speaker 1: well documented. They would hang a person and it would 502 00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:32,640 Speaker 1: say to the soldiers there to create fear that if 503 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:35,040 Speaker 1: you come here, the same thing that happened to them 504 00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:39,920 Speaker 1: is gonna happen to you. Well, you've got past victories, 505 00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:44,400 Speaker 1: and you ought to say to the present vultures that 506 00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:47,319 Speaker 1: are telling you God's not faithful, you ought to hang 507 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:50,239 Speaker 1: up some of those past victories and say, I just 508 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:52,839 Speaker 1: want to remind you that the Lord did it then 509 00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:56,120 Speaker 1: and he'll do it again. I'm not gonna let you 510 00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:59,680 Speaker 1: rule in rain. No, No, you're not gonna come in 511 00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:02,880 Speaker 1: with fear and your assaults, but I'm gonna drive you 512 00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:06,080 Speaker 1: out with the faithfulness of God. I'm gonna tell you 513 00:37:06,160 --> 00:37:09,400 Speaker 1: all my life. He has been faithful all of my 514 00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:13,480 Speaker 1: life since he called me. He's been my provider. And 515 00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:19,240 Speaker 1: I'm not gonna fear now. Hallelujah. Or somebody who's got 516 00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,760 Speaker 1: something from the past, you can hold up and say, devil, 517 00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:25,680 Speaker 1: that's what you said last time. Look what the Lord 518 00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:35,440 Speaker 1: has done. He fought my battle. You know some of 519 00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:41,000 Speaker 1: you been sitting on your hands the whole service, but 520 00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:54,600 Speaker 1: you wouldn't be here if God hadn't fought your battle. Hello, 521 00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,080 Speaker 1: I'm Jensen Franklin, and I want to welcome you to 522 00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:00,200 Speaker 1: Real America's voice. And maybe you've been going through through 523 00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:03,480 Speaker 1: some things and you've had moments that have discouraged you, 524 00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:06,359 Speaker 1: or maybe you just feel like you've messed up and 525 00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:10,120 Speaker 1: you can't recover. This message is for you. I believe 526 00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:24,640 Speaker 1: it's gonna speak to you this very moment. You have 527 00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:29,880 Speaker 1: to hang it up and say, devil, your liar. The 528 00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,400 Speaker 1: last time you tried to destroy me didn't work. And 529 00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:35,279 Speaker 1: here's another one. You know what they said. They said, 530 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,600 Speaker 1: if you want to get rid of the vultures. You 531 00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:40,719 Speaker 1: know what you need to do. This is exact where 532 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:49,319 Speaker 1: they used pyrotechnics. Get you some fire. That's what I want. 533 00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:53,120 Speaker 1: I want to blow torch. So if I see them 534 00:38:53,200 --> 00:38:57,240 Speaker 1: up there on a Sunday morning telling me that nobody's 535 00:38:57,280 --> 00:38:59,439 Speaker 1: gonna get saved and it's gonna be a dead, dry, 536 00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:02,120 Speaker 1: service free chapel, I just want to I want to 537 00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:07,120 Speaker 1: have so much fire. Jesus said, I'll baptize you with 538 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:10,600 Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost and fire. Now when I get up 539 00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,880 Speaker 1: here and I sing, and we sing, and the praise 540 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:18,000 Speaker 1: team sings, and we got We need fire in our worship. 541 00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:21,960 Speaker 1: We need fire in our preaching. We need fire in 542 00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:27,560 Speaker 1: our relationship. We need a passionate, fiery relationship with Jesus. 543 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:32,080 Speaker 1: That's what the devil fears. He took note of them. 544 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:41,200 Speaker 1: They had been with the Lord God showed up. Now 545 00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:45,759 Speaker 1: let me close this sermon. They came early, and that's 546 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,600 Speaker 1: never good because people start running for the exit. Amen, 547 00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:53,720 Speaker 1: but let me finish this sermon. You can stand up, please, 548 00:39:56,080 --> 00:40:12,000 Speaker 1: but don't leave. The Bible said that suddenly, thick darkness 549 00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:18,000 Speaker 1: came after he drove them away, and a flaming torch 550 00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:25,040 Speaker 1: started it's like the invisible man was carrying it. It 551 00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:30,120 Speaker 1: was God. And he walked between the sacrifices and all 552 00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:36,560 Speaker 1: you could see was a flame of fire, driving away 553 00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:45,040 Speaker 1: the vultures of death and doubt and discouragement. And God said, 554 00:40:45,160 --> 00:40:49,040 Speaker 1: this is it. You will have a son. His name 555 00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:53,080 Speaker 1: will be Isaac, and he'll have a son named Jacob, 556 00:40:53,160 --> 00:40:58,600 Speaker 1: and Jacob's name will be changed to Israel. And I 557 00:40:58,680 --> 00:41:02,000 Speaker 1: will do a work, and I will save the world. 558 00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:07,680 Speaker 1: And it came because you knew what to do while 559 00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:13,560 Speaker 1: you were waiting. You drove away those vultures. The last 560 00:41:13,560 --> 00:41:15,759 Speaker 1: thing they said on the internet that will get rid 561 00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:22,040 Speaker 1: of those vultures is noise. That's called praise, that's called 562 00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:26,800 Speaker 1: thank you Jesus. And I don't know who I'm preaching 563 00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:29,759 Speaker 1: to today, but I know one thing that I am 564 00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,920 Speaker 1: directed to do. I am directed to tell every father, 565 00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:37,560 Speaker 1: every man in this house that you need to drive 566 00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,280 Speaker 1: away the buzzards that are telling you to leave that home, 567 00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,640 Speaker 1: or leave that family, or give up on that son, 568 00:41:42,760 --> 00:41:45,520 Speaker 1: or give up on that daughter. And you need to 569 00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:48,040 Speaker 1: say to every mother. I say to every mother in 570 00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:51,120 Speaker 1: this room today that don't you ever give up on 571 00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:54,520 Speaker 1: your babies, because you have great power to drive away. 572 00:41:54,800 --> 00:42:00,600 Speaker 1: Don't give those buzzards a place to perch on fire. 573 00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:04,640 Speaker 1: This morning makes some noise. This morning be filled with 574 00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:09,160 Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. He never comes with discouragement, He never 575 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:13,200 Speaker 1: comes with unbelief and doubt. He is the spirit of truth, 576 00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,600 Speaker 1: and he wants to fill us with faith. For our families. 577 00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:22,560 Speaker 1: If your marriage is in trouble, don't you let those 578 00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:31,240 Speaker 1: buzzards set up of divorce. Run them off. Say Satan, 579 00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:37,399 Speaker 1: you're a liar, because greater is He that's in us. 580 00:42:39,560 --> 00:42:46,160 Speaker 1: So if you're here today and you feel like the 581 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:50,200 Speaker 1: first battle in the Bible was for a man's family, 582 00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:54,520 Speaker 1: that ought to be first in your life, my family. 583 00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,600 Speaker 1: If you'd say, pastor, I need God to do something 584 00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:06,880 Speaker 1: in my family today. I want that fire. I want 585 00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:10,520 Speaker 1: to be stirred up. I want to drive the buzzards 586 00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:16,080 Speaker 1: of death away. In Jesus' name. If that's you, I 587 00:43:16,120 --> 00:43:18,000 Speaker 1: want you to get out of your sink, come and 588 00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:21,239 Speaker 1: stand in proxy for your family. May be a son, 589 00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:24,399 Speaker 1: maybe a daughter, maybe a husband, maybe a wife. May 590 00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,439 Speaker 1: be someone that you love, but they're on your heart, 591 00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,360 Speaker 1: and even while I'm preaching, you've thought about them over 592 00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:34,640 Speaker 1: and over and over. This is you. This is for 593 00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:40,000 Speaker 1: you and your family. Hiaintluia. I told them in the 594 00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:42,360 Speaker 1: first service. I wanted them to sing this song because 595 00:43:42,400 --> 00:43:46,279 Speaker 1: I feel like you move the mountain. I've seen you 596 00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:50,520 Speaker 1: do it before, and he'll do it again. So come 597 00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:54,799 Speaker 1: and come as families come, as husbands and wives come, 598 00:43:54,840 --> 00:44:00,000 Speaker 1: as brothers and sisters come. Maybe there's just terrible divise 599 00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:04,520 Speaker 1: all the things Satan thrives in and loves. Let's just 600 00:44:04,680 --> 00:44:08,600 Speaker 1: drive those buzzards away. Drive them away with the phrase, 601 00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:12,200 Speaker 1: don't come and be silent, but come and lift up 602 00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:15,600 Speaker 1: your hands and say God, here's my family, and here 603 00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:19,040 Speaker 1: I am, and I need one of those Abraham blessings. 604 00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:25,200 Speaker 1: Maybe there mean held hostage by an addiction, hostage by shame, 605 00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:29,680 Speaker 1: hostage by an altar and lifestyle. But God is greater. 606 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:35,480 Speaker 1: There's nothing he can do. Lift those hands and begin 607 00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:40,600 Speaker 1: to worship him. Say Lord, I receive this word today. 608 00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:49,319 Speaker 1: I see sing a church and I believe you know 609 00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:53,000 Speaker 1: if you'll sing the song, it'll come live you man. 610 00:44:53,680 --> 00:45:03,640 Speaker 1: You mean away? Well now was done? Di cut. I 611 00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:08,960 Speaker 1: see you. I've seen you move. You moved every mountain, 612 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:14,600 Speaker 1: and I believe you try that buzzer dry that buzzer 613 00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:17,359 Speaker 1: off of your house, off of your family, off of 614 00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:30,239 Speaker 1: your child, was God off of your marriage, your purposiness, greatest, 615 00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:42,200 Speaker 1: your thing on not chilling you. This is my comp 616 00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:47,680 Speaker 1: Let God restore your pumplics. He's still gonna do it. 617 00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:52,240 Speaker 1: Let God restore your confidence. That's a big word this morning. 618 00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:56,879 Speaker 1: I wrote it in my notes, a revival of confidence, 619 00:45:57,400 --> 00:46:00,520 Speaker 1: not in you, in God, not in you and his 620 00:46:00,760 --> 00:46:15,840 Speaker 1: promise every head and bottled every eye clothes. If you 621 00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:20,400 Speaker 1: know God sent you here this morning and you're running 622 00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:24,120 Speaker 1: from God, you don't know them as your Lord and savior. 623 00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:26,600 Speaker 1: You don't know if the rapture took place or you 624 00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:30,920 Speaker 1: died and went into eternity. That your name is written 625 00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:33,920 Speaker 1: in the Book of Life. You can know that. You 626 00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:38,840 Speaker 1: can know it without a doubt. You can be forgiven 627 00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:44,000 Speaker 1: and cleansed. And I just defy the buzzards off of 628 00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:47,640 Speaker 1: your life that say you have to be held hostage 629 00:46:47,719 --> 00:46:52,160 Speaker 1: by the sin and the shame of yesterday. Jesus wants 630 00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:55,520 Speaker 1: to pull you up and pull you out and give 631 00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:58,759 Speaker 1: you life and give it to you more abundantly. Has 632 00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:01,120 Speaker 1: to pray for me. I need to get right with God. 633 00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:05,760 Speaker 1: I want to know that I'm right with God this morning. 634 00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:08,960 Speaker 1: If that's you, boldly lift your hand as high as 635 00:47:09,000 --> 00:47:12,680 Speaker 1: you can right where you're standing. Wonderful, wonderful, raise it 636 00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:17,680 Speaker 1: high and unashamed. This is a powerful moment at every campus, 637 00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:20,680 Speaker 1: wherever you are, this is that moment. Now, if you 638 00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:24,160 Speaker 1: see someone with their hand raises, keep it up, reach 639 00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:26,680 Speaker 1: over and lay your hand on their shoulder, just as 640 00:47:26,719 --> 00:47:29,120 Speaker 1: an act of support, and say, I'm standing with you 641 00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:33,040 Speaker 1: right now. Everybody in the room. Pray this prayer. Everybody. 642 00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:38,080 Speaker 1: Words matter. Words are how you get. If you confess 643 00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:40,600 Speaker 1: with your mouth and believe in your heart, you shall 644 00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:45,800 Speaker 1: be saved. So pray these words. Say to Jesus, Savior, 645 00:47:46,800 --> 00:47:51,200 Speaker 1: cleanse me, wash me. Thank you for the blood that 646 00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:56,960 Speaker 1: you shed. It cleanses me. And I come by your 647 00:47:57,120 --> 00:48:03,200 Speaker 1: grace and receive the guilt of salvation. I am forgiven. 648 00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:09,000 Speaker 1: You love me, and you have cleansed me of all unrighteousness. 649 00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:14,080 Speaker 1: I stand here today. I believe the promise that you 650 00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:18,040 Speaker 1: are Lord, that you died and you rose from the dead, 651 00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:22,080 Speaker 1: and you're coming back again. And I'm going to be 652 00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:26,600 Speaker 1: ready write my name in the book of life, and 653 00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:33,879 Speaker 1: I receive you as my savior. In Jesus' name, All rejoice. 654 00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:38,399 Speaker 1: Heaven just took a praise break. The angels just took 655 00:48:38,440 --> 00:50:32,680 Speaker 1: a praise break. A t stop looking care