"Cave of Couples" with Jentezen Franklin

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fizzle to sizzle you've taken this car which is made for a racetrack the Autobahn and you're going off-roading that is precisely what we've done with this incredible difficult sacks for more information or to partner with us in rescuing victims of human trafficking visit us online at Jenson Franklin or RG or call us at 888 eight eight eight three four 73 so I want you to look with me in the book of Genesis chapter 23 at a remarkable little passage of Scripture that I pray God burns into your heart like he has mine in verse 17 and so the field of Ephraim was in McFeely which was before men the field the cave which was in it all the trees the fields the border surrounding were deeded to Abraham as a possession verse 18 in the presence of his sons verse 19 and after this Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah everybody say Meg pilla Machpelah means Mac cave pila double the cave of double or the cave of couples that's what I want to talk about the cave of couples how do I get there how do I keep my marriage together and when this life is over we made it all the way to the cave of couples where Abraham and Sarah they started their journey together they ended their journey together in the cave of couples Isaac and Rebecca started their journey together and the Bible said they were buried in the cave because the parent set the example the next generation said that matter for not getting alone our parents modeled for us that we need to stay together they were buried in the cave of couples Isaac and Rebecca followed the example and were buried in the cave of couples and then Jacob and Leah were buried in the cave of couples how in the world do we get through this life two totally different people and end in the cave of couples Adam and Eve were the first couple that we read about in the Bible God made them a couple the word mate is used to refer in the animal kingdom the mate of a monkey the mate of a lion it can also be used that about the softness missing that where's the mate of that sock where's the shoe the other shoe but when he describes in Genesis the woman he calls her the helpmeet meed that is not a mispronunciation or some kind of trench you no difference in translation that is a specific word for a specific reason is interesting God called the wife the help meat not help mate help meet em et the hebrew word is is a neither knees ER it's the word from which we get evan easer now the word evany czar if you live in the south if you live in the south somewhere in your town there's a Baptist Church called Ebenezer Baptist whether you know what it means or not it's there I guarantee Vera heard of Ebenezer Baptist I thought so well that's the story and this is so important so just stay with me that's the story of when Israel was fighting the Philistines and they were about to wipe them out and God started throwing hell stones from heaven and delivered God's people and as a memorial the Bible said that they built a memorial to God and they called it ever which means to build nezer Abba nezer the nezer part means divine help to build with divine help in other words the only way we made it through the battle we went through was with divine help and when God speaks of the wife he says she is sir your divine help she's in that's why the Bible said whoever finds a wife or divine help finds favor with the Lord you're going to win or lose your battles depending on whether or not you've got some divine help in your corner you've got some divine help praying for you when you go to your job you've got some divine help in that wife helping you raise those children you've got some divine help in that wife building that career and that business God says without her the divine help that you need will not be there you better cherish her you better appreciate her you better love her because she is your easer she'll ease your burdens women are multipliers women are incubators women increase anything you give them if a man gives a woman a seed she'll incubate it she'll multiply it she'll increase it and nine months later she'll give him back a baby you give a woman your your bachelor's pad after you get married she'll incubate it multiply it increase it you get furniture you get curtains you get a house it'll look you know it won't look like a battle zone from the Battle of Armageddon it will look like something got ahold and she'll multiply it and give it back to you you give a woman trouble she'll incubate it multiply it press down shaken together and running over shall she give it back to you but don't you ever forget she's a multiplier she's your divine help look at your wife and say you are my divine help some women fight depression because their husbands are successful they build huge corporations or they really win in whatever field they're in succeed and they're made almost to feel unimportant and unnecessary and just everybody's about I'll speak in my own life everybody you know they talk about whatever little success I've had they'll they almost can't ignore your family your wife they always are behind the things the truth is without my divine help this ministry wouldn't be here I wouldn't be holding a microphone we better never forget that it's a lie you are important you do matter you can make a difference you're the difference of whether he wins or loses your husband needs divine help in a human package except the Lord build the house they that labor labor in vain except the Lord builds your home you're laboring in vain and God said my the way I'm gonna build it is I'm gonna give you divine help and you better treat her right because she's your anointing she's your favorite how you treat her will determine how I listen to your prayers that's an actual scripture in the Bible she's your divine help and it when you get to thinking that you're really something and you're ignoring her belittling her competing and and acting as though you've done it don't you ever forget she is your divine help and unless the Lord builds the house we're striving together we're praying together we're dreaming gather we're doing the Lord's wheel together we're raising kids together we're building a house together we're doing life together so important a couple in love a spiritual union together so here's the here's the here's the deal Sarah and Abraham started out on a spiritual journey that was remarkable we talked about Abraham but we have to remember Sarah's the one who gave birth to the promise she was his divine help and she died at the age of a hundred and thirty seven actually she was a hundred and twenty seven and he was shot that she died and you know why he was a hundred and thirty-seven and he thought he would die first that's why we buy insurance policies because usually the men die first he bought a cave so big that it was three hundred seventy-five feet by five hundred feet large enough to literally hold hundreds of couples one scholar said it was large enough to hold all of the original children of Israel which were twelve children of Jacob plus Isaac plus Abraham and his and their wives it all of them could have been buried but what is interesting is only three generations kept the marriage covenant serious enough to make the journey back and be buried in the cave of couples by the fourth generation marriage apparently potentially possibly it just wasn't important enough to be to be to make it even though we started the rest of the family said we're going to lose this tradition of starting out together and being buried together and I think we need to understand that we are we're setting the example for our children that that so much is is is hanging on us so much is depending on us so much is absolutely attached to us that if we go down our families go down listen let me tell you something this is interesting do you know that the atom is the smallest portion of matter that you can get down to everything's made of matter everything I'm holding everything you see is matter and if you could reduce down to the smallest portion of what matter is it's one atom and you cannot divide an atom and get half in half because if you take an atom and you split the atom you don't get half and half people think if we get a divorce we'll just split and you get half and I get half and you get the boy and I get the girl and you get the you get the house and I get the condo and you get the truck and I get the car and you get the dog and I get the cat and that's how Mary that's how you end a marriage that's not when you split it out Adam you know what happens don't you that's how we have the Adam bump because when you split an atom it doesn't split evenly it it splits all the atoms around it when you split your marriage it doesn't just affect you too but it destroys and devastates all that is is one atom being split and it attacks everything around it that's what divorce does that's what splitting up does it decimates cousins and aunts and uncles and families and loved ones they're decimated because to split that's what the enemy wants to do to your marriage into your home and you have to have a made up mind I'm going to the cave of couples arm-in-arm hand-in-hand head heart and heart side by side we're going to stay together it's not a one-man show I don't want I don't want a man cave I want a couple's cave I don't understand men who go off and leave their wives all the time it's okay to go off and have fun with your buddies everyone's want but my god when you're doing everything you're not a man cave you're a couple cave you ought to do everything together as much as you can every once in a while get with the guys and go do this and do that but you shouldn't have any friend that matters more than her notice that pilla means double everybody say double if you stay together if you make it to the cave a couple you get a cave of couples you get double you get double the strength you get double the protection over your children and your grandchildren you get double the favor of God you get double the prosperity you get double them the Bible said one can put a thousand to flight to ten thousand that means you that's that's oh that's you you become ten times stronger sir when you and your wife are standing together I know you're big I know you bad I know you got it all together dear lady but you are ten times stronger when your husband is standing with you there's something about the person who has that that made that spouse with them you've become one is it that puts a thousand to ten thousand you're 10 times stronger think about your family is under 10 times the protection when you are together the enemy cannot destroy the home that says we're going to the cave of couples and divorcing going to get our marriage and it's not going to get our children's marriage and our children's children's man by the grace of God we will not quit well you don't understand what's happened you don't know what I've been through fight for what's left I don't care how bad the enemy has devastated I don't care if there's been infidelity I don't care what this is this is the real things that people deal with you've been shot you've been hurt you've been broken but I'm telling you that God can heal God can restore God can fix God can bring that God fight for what's left the enemy may have attacked your family but it's not perfect families that make it to the cave of couples its families that have been through hell but they got the grace of God and they said we'll fight for what's left and God gave them the grace to recover it all hallelujah give God a great shout of praise if you believe he restores what the enemy tried to take Abraham made it Isaac and Sarah maiya and Rebecca made it Jacob and Leah made it to the cave of couples and none of them were perfect Abraham was a liar yes he lied don't you know she was disappointed in him read your Bible Isaac was a luster Abraham was a liar and Jacob was a loser so God said I'm the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob I'm the God of liars lustres and losers if you give me your family you got any of those stuff in your home cause just give me all the lies give me all the less give me all the losers I can touch it with my grace and I can make winners out of that house and I can bless that house and I can anoint that house if you don't praise God Barak so cry out it's the truth you don't have to give up you don't have to quit we're going to the cave of couples I'm not divorce is not an option that's not something we can talk about and look to and I'm telling somebody by the anointing of God in this conference the enemy's power is going to be broken off of your family and what the devil thought was cursed and doomed God's going to turn into a blessing for generations give God a great praise if you believe in grace grace grace there's so much on us you know so much is hanging on and so much is connected to us so much as so much that if the atom of your marriage splits it doesn't just split you to husband and wife but it splits everything around you it decimates families and children homes this nail that I have appear this nail represents your marriage so this is a test this nail represents you and your wife you and your spouse you and your husband this nail is you and your husband this is a portrait of Jesus and through the cross through the nails the blood that He shed you and your spouse enter into a relationship with Jesus Christ where his blood covers you where his blood says what has started for richer for poorer in sickness and in health here's the big words till death do we part we're going all the way to the cave of couples and once you enter into Christ you have his grace his power his forgiveness his anointing his Holy Spirit on your relationship but it's not just you and your mate that have entered into Christ but you've got so many responsibilities and you've got the pressures of life and you've got bills that have to be paid and and and and it begins to just begins to hang on you and then something happens life just begins to happen maybe one of the children get sick or you go through cancer with a relative a family and it's another strain and you feel the stress of it and it's hanging on that relationship and now the financial pressure begins to have impact on this this in Christ's marriage home and family not only that but there's nothing you know people who lose a child people who lose in an accident I've walked through many in this church who lost tragically a child and the enemy decimates that those marriages because their pain is connected to one another because they lost a child to cancer or a car wreck and now suddenly that it's pulling on them it's pulling on them and then you know if you get married and everything's good and then she gets pregnant and then she gets pregnant again and then she gets pregnant yeah I should say y'all get pregnant not she it takes two to tango and end up and she's pregnant and and there's pressure and then there's pressure at work oh the pressure of work you just don't understand me Charisse you just don't understand the pressure I'm under how many times does you have you heard me you just don't know what it's like to have to preach Sunday it's ons an exam it's an essay every week dear God do you understand the pressure I live under woman then dad dies mom dies loved ones die funerals and it just gets heavier and more and more is pulling on you and the whole family because because notice the nails going down if you notice that and then then everything's hanging on you and suddenly the whole family falls to pieces the whole marriage falls to pieces the whole everything because here's the reason why and I want to tell you why you know why it couldn't handle all the things that were hanging on it was too shallow the only way to handle life as it gets heavier and heavier and heavier you got to go deeper and deeper and deeper into Jesus we got something greater that'll hold us together we got every time life comes we're gonna go deeper into him we don't let trials and troubles and issues and problems stop us we go deeper into him he's the answer and I don't care what's hanging on you when you get in him you can handle it you've got a great praise if you know that there's a rock that you can build your house on and it'll stand let's stand up on our feet so I wrote this down and I want to close with it I want you to look at your if you're a man look at your divine help in a human package and I want you to say these words me and you are going to end our journey together I love you you're my divine help you're the easer of my life we'll be buried together we were married together we said till death do we part and nothing's gonna ever change that don't you ever question it don't you ever worry we're not a perfect couple we're not flawless but we've got grace say this say this now I make you a vow God gave you to me and I'll make you this pledge we're gonna end the journey at the cave of couples no quitting no giving up we just will go deeper into Jesus no matter what life brings we are together forever give God a great praise right now and you better kiss her if you got any sentence or hug or something I didn't say make a baby I said seem people calm down all right every head bowed every eye closed how many of you got this word in your heart that I'm going to the cave of couples it's not an option for me it's not an option if you're in this room we ever had bound every eye closed and you say Jensen I'd love to just pray a prayer I just love to know that I've been forgiven everybody pray this prayer out loud just say these words Lord Jesus I surrender to you I'm giving you these days with my mate and we're ten times stronger because we're standing here saying God heal everything wrong everything broken restore back to us anything we've lost I receive answers I receive words from God say I'm forgiven and I am loved by God through Jesus Christ give the biggest praise you can right now with your gift of $45 or more we want to send you Sex Lies and promises a four DVD set including messages from Jenson Franklin and Eden Lisa young I could if I wanted to be a rapper say if you've gone from sizzle to fizzle here's how you go back from fizzle to sizzle you've taken this car which is made for a racetrack the Autobahn and you're going off-roading that is precisely what we've done with this incredible gift call Saks for more information or to partner with us visit us online at Jenson Franklin oor Jie or call us at 888 eight eight eight three four seventy three at free Chapel our mission is simple to inspire people to live for Jesus with incredible worship and messages from our pastor Jentezen Franklin you'll leave encouraged to thrive throughout the work week we offer many opportunities for you and your family to grow to connect with others and to serve the community our hope 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Length: 28min 30sec (1710 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 13 2016