Cross Fit | Pastor Jentezen Franklin

Leviticus the sixteenth chapter verse eight then Aaron should cast lots for two goats one lot for the Lord and the other for the scapegoat I'll stop there for the sake of time and then go over to verse 21 and Aaron shall lay hands on the hurt on the head of the live goat everybody say the live goat and confess over the iniquities of the children of Israel all the transgressions concerning their sins putting them on the head of the goat and shall send it away into the wilderness by the hand of a fit man the King James says a fit man or the translation I was reading says it's suitable I liked the wording of the King James a fit a fit man I'll give you my title in just a moment but the fitness industry is a twenty seven billion dollar industry I shared this little information during the fast but I want to now apply it to a message to lean in for a moment but 80% of those who join at the beginning of a new year a fitness center will quit by the second week of February February though dropout fitness centers sell memberships on the expectation this is pretty remarkable that only 18 percent will continue to use them beyond February and if everybody showed up who has memberships they would not be able to contain the people but they know they just know statistically people get excited about the idea of being fit but it just doesn't last only 1% lasts a year in a fitness center only one in five will go longer than a month so you buy it and you sign up and you're in and you're excited for max of about three to four weeks listen to this those who sign up and join a fitness center but never go are a fitness centers best customer the elaborate machinery the sleek sexy TV commercials that if you buy this piece of equipment or you join this Fitness Club you'll get that sculpted body it'll make you the envy of everybody around you and yet most people if we told the truth are in love with the idea of being fit but we lack the discipline that it takes and I'm saying we so smile we lack the discipline that it takes to really be fit only 18 percent will use that Fitness membership more than a couple of months and then they just fall away it's a good idea we think to be a fit man but we lack the discipline in this scripture something amazing is taking place there is a search going on for a fit or suitable man for a certain task that is critically critically important it means blessing a curse it means life or death it means incredible good things happening to families are bad bad things happening to families under the Old Covenant it's the day of atonement atonement means to appease to forgive to pardon to purge to cancel out at 1 min is how atonement is spelled that that somehow there's something that's going to be done on this day that will make people who are far from God at 1 meant with God again get God back to man so God divine designed an Old Testament system that is a shadow of something great to come that we celebrate this morning he said you are to take two goats the high priest is to take two goats on the day of atonement an offer as a sin offering it took two goats one was not sufficient it was one offering but it required two goats and I'm gonna tell you why the first goat was called the Lord's goat everybody say the Lord's go the reason it was called the Lord's go is it was offered as a sacrifice for sin it had to meet the price of the justice of God and God had said the soul that sins must die secondly without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sin so the first goat had to die it had to die it's blood had to be shed and so they would kill it and it represented taking an offering sin offering and and forgiveness of sin for every sin that was committed then there was a second goat that was called the scape goat as sca PE we would call it the escape the escape goat and this is an interesting scene and I want you to picture it in your mind the high priest would get with every family and it would take sometimes weeks and weeks and months leading up to the big day of atonement when the animal one would die and one would be set free and and what he would do with the living goat is the families would come one by one and present themselves to the high priest and they would confess out loud every sin they had committed over the past 12 months the children the parents the grandparents you can imagine this confession service where all the people were standing around it produced a certain amount of anxiety and I'm sure embarrassment among the people imagine how husband's we're looking at wives you did what and why as we're looking at husbands and taking wedding bands off and and children were looking at their parents you did what what kind of parents are you and then children were confessing out loud while that was happening why was that necessary let's say this is the goats the escape goat the high priest would lay his hands on the head of that goat transferring everything they were confessing out of their mouths through his hands into that goat that goat was taking every sin that family had committed and they would stand there until they had complete we confess to him every sin they could think of and I'm sure that there were tears and I'm sure that there were sorrows and I'm sure that there was weeping the priest would lay his hands on that goat transferring the sins into that goat and then the goat would be taken by a fit man he had not just any man he had to be a fit man because of the task the task was very very not any man would do not any man could handle it not any man not not any man could just survive the wilderness experience because he had to take it so far away that he could never find its way back would bring a tremendous curse on the people if the goat that all of the sins of the camp had been transferred onto somehow came back it would be the tragedy of tragedies so catch it the first goat had to shed its blood and died and it was used for forgiveness of sin but the second goat was used for the removal of sin freedom from sin though release from sin separation from sin it was taken away I just need to preach that it's not enough to come to Jesus and get your sins forgiven there is this is why the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is so powerful because it took two animals one had to die and one had to live you had to have the blood of the sacrifice er and you had to have the life of the Liberator to take the sin away and look at look at my Jesus he dies as the sacrifice er but three days later he rises back to life as the liberator and says I can take you I can take this out of your life you don't have to be bound to see it I'm glad you got forgiveness of sin but you can be free from addiction free from condemnation free from shame and guilt free from alcoholism somebody's watching me by television and you've almost wanted to put a gun to your brain because the enemy's told you you can never be free but Jesus cannot only forgive your sin he whom the Sun sets free is free indeed he can liberate you from sin somebody give God praise if you believe it's the truth let me give you an illustration of what I'm talking about see I could back up in the parking lot and I could hit your car and mess your car up and you could say to me if you were a nice person pastor it's okay I forgive you I have a bad dent in my fender but I forgive you you don't have to pay for it you are forgiven that's what the first goat did but the dent is still there but if there was some way that I could not only be forgiven of it but somehow the dent could be taken out and taken away how awesome would that be this is what Jesus did for you when he died and rose from the grave when you get to heaven they'll open the books and there will be no proof nothing there but the blood of Jesus that has cleanse you from all your sins and the proof is gold the death is gone the first coat was to forgive you for it the second goat was to separate you from it I'm glad you gave your heart to the Lord but if you went right back to what you were doing living just like you were living you have not experienced the Savior in his fullness when you really get saved there is separation there are things that leave your life if you didn't look if you didn't lose nothing you didn't you didn't get nothing if you didn't leave nothing you didn't get nothing you don't get saved to stay in the field that you were rescued out of that separation matters and so there's a search trying to find a fit man who can escort the goat so far into the wilderness fit man who who nobody will would never told the name of a fit man even though this ceremony happened once a year so you have to decide if you're gonna be fit or famous sometimes you can't be famous and popular and be a fit man sometimes you can't be a fit father and be famous with your kids because sometimes you know a higher good and because you know a higher good that they're youth and inexperience doesn't know you have to be willing to be perceived as a bad father but really you're being a good father because you know the higher good sometimes God is perceived as being a bad god but but he who knows everything sees a higher good he's working and even when when it looks like he's a bad god he's really a good god cause he knows where everything's gonna end up in the end and and so and so they're there they're looking we've got to find a fit man not a famous man not a player we need a fit man we need a man who is fit he won't get any praise he won't get any honor his name will never be mentioned but he will be he will be fit the word fit means suited for the task proper and decent capable of surviving the environment ready and willing to sacrifice morally mentally physically sound headed into the wilderness with a goat that carried all the sins of the people and the whole thing was upon him to get that goat so lost that it could never with its instinct find its way back to where it bent it had been so well taken care of he's going into a lonely land he's not going to be famous he's going to be lonely he's going into a land of a thirst and hunger and fatigue it's wearisome it's a wilderness experience and God says that's the kind of man that I need I don't need a famous man I don't need any man any man won't do I gotta have some fit men we need some fit men we need some fit fathers we need some fit mothers we need some fit preachers we need some fit people who-who are willing to walk through the wilderness and willing to do things that other people aren't willing to do because they want to please the Lord a man who would find his way back home after he got the goat lost because if you're not careful is possible to lose yourself while you're trying to help somebody else he's got to bear the goat and take it so far away and while you're trying to help everybody else with their stuff you're losing yourself a man who could get the sin bearing goat lost without getting himself lost in the process every free-range goat has a strong homing instinct they inherently have the ability to to navigate like GPS back to the place where they were nurtured and fed and taken care of and that's just like our sins our sins want to come back our sins want to come back on our family generational deep the Bible said they're not gonna come back like they were either when the evil spirit is cast out the Bible said it goes and gets seven more spirits and it says we're going back to our house he calls your home his house and he says I'm bringing seven more and so this is a type of sin trying to come back trying to come back trying to come back and the fit man is doing everything he can a fit man is somebody who wants it out once those curses out wants that addiction out because it's not just about you but it's about what will come on your house on your children if that goat ever starts trotting back into if they ever looked up and saw that goat trotting back in he had a little red ribbon tied around one of his horns oh my god we'll lose the battles the crops will die we'll go through famine we're gonna be conquered by our enemies they knew the tragedy if that thing made it back how important was this fit man how important the greatest horror of Horace would be if that goat or that sin made its way back to that family to that camp the chief concern for a fit man was his family was his children was his home was his people all of the blood of atonement would be wasted if it comes back and so many times we ask God for forgiveness of sin and his shed blood and death has paid for that forgiveness of sin but then there comes this thing of being filled enough with the Holy Spirit that we get liberated from sin and we put sin a separate way from us this little thing of just praying a prayer and then live in any way you want to folks that is not Bible salvation salvation requires separation from iniquity and wickedness and evil and known sin and transgression the fit man really needed to love God he had to be trusted he didn't need to be unfit meaning not morally and mentally suitable lacking good judgment couldn't stand the pressure of a hostile environment you're fit man you can get in a hostile environment but it doesn't change who you are you can go to the office party and everybody can be doing whatever they're doing and you go in there and you do your thing because you need to do it but it doesn't change who you are wherever you go you're a fit man you don't want those goats to come back because if they come back they're gonna find your children and and it's gonna get greater than and these bondage is gonna get greater on that house you don't want that stuff back get the goats away from my family was the cry of the end of the fit man lot was an unfit man lot would not separate himself from Sodom and Gomorrah even though their sins vexed him he would not put any distance between he and his family from iniquity and the Bible said he lost his wife and she turned into a pillar of salt lost his two children he failed two horrible sexual immorality all of that because a man was unfit I've been preaching all of that to get to where I am right now the tragedy and the truth is this in the Old Testament there was never a fit man who was strong enough to keep that goat away from the camp every year it would come back or they would have to do it all over again they could never completely remove it all they would do is go through the routine again and it would come back and they would send it out and it would come back and they would send it out once a year once a year once a year but something begins to happen the Old Testament is a shadow of better things to come and just as they were searching for a fit man God the Father set on the throne and he looked down and he said the priest can't fix it the blood of goats and lambs can't fix it Hebrew said the blood of goats and lambs it's not possible that it can take away the sins of the people I need me a fit man wonder can I find an angel this worthy can't find an angel can I find Abraham no he lied can I find David know he was an adulterer is there anybody in heaven worthy is there any fit men then Jeremiah takes the telescope of prophecy and looks down and he gives a prophecy he says I see something coming on the earth and in those days sins shall be salt for but not found he said there's coming a day there's coming a day when their sins will be taken so far away that it won't keep coming back and coming back and cursing and cursing but there will be a fit man who will show up on planet earth and he will forever remove David got an insight and he said let me tell you what this fit man Cummings gonna do he said as far as the East is from the west so far has he removed our transgressions from us if you'd have said North Pole to South Pole you could measure them but he said east to west there's no measuring that and he said there's somebody coming I don't know his name I don't know who he is but there's gonna be such a fit man that he's not just gonna forgive the sin by his death and by his blood but he's gonna by his life his resurrection take the sin away and those men might seek for it it will never be found again guess who I'm preaching about I'm preaching about your Jesus he's gonna be fit and here's the title of my little sermon I've been so excited to give you this time he's CrossFit [Applause] I'll get happy over that you know you [Applause] that's my Jesus his name shall be called Jesus for he shall save his people from their sin the penalty of sin the bondage of sin the addiction of sin he'll give them the release of sin there'll be new creations the old things have passed away that's gone the old me is over and I am a new creation because Jesus made me CrossFit I got the fit man in me and he makes me fit enough to say no to the wrong and yes to the right give God a big praise if you believe it took two goats in the Old Testament but it only took one lamb in the New Testament John the Baptist said behold the lamb of God that takes away sins of the world I'm preaching today a radical gospel I'm telling you that when you truly get CrossFit you are not satisfied to just ask for forgiveness and let the thing come back and come back and come back but there is something in you when the fit man fills you with his glory and with his power it says I want you Holy Spirit to take this out of me take this addiction out of me take this fear out of me take this torment out of me take this suicide spirit out of me and take it away and I don't ever want it to find me again and Jesus you'll never be fit enough with willpower you'll never be strong enough with I'm gonna try to be a good person again you gotta get the four you must be born again you gotta get the fit man in you then he'll change you on the inside there's a king in the Bible by the name of Ahaz and his father and his father's father wicked wicked wicked wicked wicked the Bible said that they they caused their children to pass through the fire they burned children to demon gods as human sacrifices and a has who was a a child sacrifice idol worshiper had a boy named Hezekiah and Hezekiah had an encounter with his God and just because your father was not a fit man or your grandfather or your mother or your grandmother just because they never did right here's the beauty of this thing Hezekiah was raised in a family of demon worshipers witchcraft sorcery offering children's blood is sacrificed to demons gods but Hezekiah said just because they weren't fit doesn't mean I can't be fit just because they couldn't hold their marriages together and all they had was addiction in prison and bondage and death and nobody wins and nobody's happy and nobody I am not under the curse I am under the blessing and a blessing starts here and now because I'm CrossFit I surrender to Jesus I take up my cross and he says I'll bless you and the curse can't come back to your house those goats are gone forever shout now if you believe what I'm preaching [Applause] some of you keep dating goats need let God find you a fit man keep going back to him they keep coming back honey honey honey Livie baby I've changed baby I've changed he's a goat and you need to separate put him out why would you pay for the cow if the milk is free you're better than that you're better than that you're a child of the Most High God and he's got a fit man he's got a fit woman for you he's got somebody who's going to help you raise a household of faith that has the blessing and not the curse of generational immorality God has come today to break the curse off of your life and to set you free not just forgive your sins but set you free he is your sacrificer but he is your Liberator and whom the Sun sets free is free indeed [Applause] I'm so glad the gospel that I preach doesn't make false promises if you want to be free from alcohol you can be free if you want to be free from sexual immorality you can be free and won't clean how the fit man in you is greater than he that is in the world and if you'll feed that fit man listen to this I found out something my son-in-law been in California heard me preach this message I preached it out there a few weeks ago and he sees a big workout guy Bennis and he's got a lot you know he works out good and he's got a good body and all that and and and he said Jensen you know what's amazing about that message he said this is a statistical fact he said it's only 20% of what you do in the gym that makes you fit 80 percent is diet we all we always thought it's all about those stupid machines if I just go in there and do those machines and then go eat pizza I'd be fine but but but it's only 20% of what you do in the gym and 80% of what you eat so you got a fit man in you name Jesus if you really want to be free let's quit making excuses for immorality and sin and wickedness let's stop it let's get some separation back in the church let the church be the church if you're a horse run like a horse if you're a fish swim like a fish and if you're a Christian for God's sake walk like a Christian live like a Christian have convictions like a Christian and say no to sin and the goats like a Christian I'm sorry I'm preaching the truth today and the truth is go set somebody free we're not playing games this is the gospel believe it and you'll be saved but don't take it and believe it and you'll be down that's the dust [Applause] it's the gospel we're talking about heaven or hell not your self-esteem heaven or hell let me tell you something if it's you good if it's if it's if it's 80% what I eat and I got a fit man in me if I'll feed him right [Applause] if I feed him I'll feed him greater is he here comes that old goat and before he could come and go as he pleased but now the anointing is strong in your foot and you can just kick it out of your life and say get away and if you come back I got a ball bat if that don't work I got a rifle now cuz I've been praying in tongues and feeding the inner man I'm full of the Holy Spirit I'm not playing Church anymore I won't free them I won't victory I don't want to play Church anymore feel better [Music] this is what I do this is what God called me to do I speak what he gives me and now it's on you now it's on you what will you do with this lamb what will you do with this one who bled and died and then rose again so that you wouldn't have to live with excuses but he says I can separate you from who you are take you to a place where he can never find you again if you'll let me stand your feet at every but ever campus all of our people in the overflows wherever you are debris head bound every eye closed and please know one movie very reverent right now the Holy Spirit is doing a mighty mighty work here today I sense it I sense what can wash away my say nothing but the blood of Jesus what can make me whole again nothing but the blood of Jesus so I'll cherish the old rugged cross and I don't know the rest of to my trophies at [Music] I will clean I will clean - they will be CrossFit when the trumpet sounds Changez you better get CrossFit you better get things out of your life that you know the Holy Spirit is not pleased with see it one more time so [Music] [Music] well [Music] [Music] every head bowed every eye closed at every campus everyone watching me on television everyone watching me on the Internet this is a sacred holding if you're a teenager you're listening to me if your husband or wife a single parent college student businessman businesswoman you don't know you're ready to face the Lord you don't know that your sins are forgiven and that you have been set free you've been released you've been changed you've been born again you're a new crea you don't know that you don't sense that it's not real to you this is your alter ego this is not another person's this is yours you will face guy if you never hear the gospel again you have heard it so clearly today that you could stand before the judgment before the Sun Goes Down and God would require this message of him and you would be judged on whether or not you're fit not by your works but by the cross did you let the fit man Jesus Christ in your heart when my spirit drew you in that series this is your moment this is your honor this is your place Esther you're talking to me and I sense God's anointing I need a change in my life please pray for me don't want to get right to God today pray for me but would it be cross me to pray for me that's you boldly raise your hand right where you're standing all over this room the ends are by them all over this room that's fantastic all the way up to top balcony see way up in the top all the way down through throughout the church in the overflows in the campuses even right there at home watching by television to slip your hand up God season God safely the whole time I've been preaching today have been so aware that somebody would be watching me on television who the enemy has told you to take your life but jesus said I came to give you life and give it to you more abundantly this is your service this is your moment this is your time you need to go to the phone and dial the number that's on the screen somebody's gonna pray with you somebody's gonna introduce you to your best friend his name is Jesus and he'll never leave you and he'll never forsake you and he still has a plan for your life he still has a plan every one of you in this room who raised your hand and you meant business we're gonna sing this course one more time and when we do it every campus I want you to get out of your seat if he could hang on the cross if he could die and rise again for you you can publicly acknowledge you need him and if you invite him he'll come and live in you today it's gonna happen miracles are about to happen people about to get set free from addictions and bondages the Holy Spirit is here to do it every one of you that raised your hand wherever you are they overflow so right here in this room wherever you are at every at every campus get out of your seat come forward we're gonna we're gonna wait on you come on right now this is don't negotiate in your mind don't say I don't have to do that it doesn't take that just do what I'm asking you to do I know [Applause] we'll break this first step you take bondages will break the first step you take freedom will begin to run to you the father will begin to run the one step back home to he'll come on they're coming they're coming they're coming Church cut your hands and celebrate this amazing miracle come on come on come on for you there's room for you down here if the Holy Spirit is telling you to come you need to forget about everything everybody else don't worry about what they say get out of that seat humble yourself he tried the cross for you he was cross spit for you and now he says if you want to follow me take up your cross deny yourself tonight and walk down that aisle Jesus will honor you Jesus will write your name in the book of life come on come on come on man I feel this come on somebody's hearing am I all of the spirit on your life this morning you can be free from alcoholism you can be free you can be free from the man you hate come to Jesus today to comb this is your freedom come one more time everybody the singing it one more time with somebody [Music] shooting [Music] those of you in this altar I want you to look at me just a moment look at me just a moment first of all God is so rejoicing he's been chasing you a long time not to hurt you not to get you not to take life from you and fun and enjoyment you've tried now and you know it just as a satisfying at some point you can try it all and it leaves you with a tremendous void an emptiness Jesus has been saying I'm not coming today to put you in a box and tell you to you gotta live a bunch of this that and the other I just want to have a relationship with you I just want to be your best friend I just want to guide you cuz I got you a fit man or fit woman I got a plan for your life I got I got it all I knew what I was doing when I created you for your mama and daddy hooked up I had you in mind had a plan for your life [Music] so right now we're going to pray this mass prayer across our campuses everybody in the room is gonna pray this prayer out loud and Jesus said the Bible said in Romans the Apostle Paul said if you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that Jesus died and God raised him from the dead you'll be safe the Bible says whoever calls upon the name of the Lord shall be safe so he's gonna forgive your sin and I want you to let the Holy Spirit so fill you that the fitt man will come in and begin to separate you from your sins begin to separate you and then you then you remember that diet feed on the word of God go get rid of some trash in your life go get rid of the drugs go get rid of the stuff you might even have to put some people out of your life for season you can go back and see them when you get strong but right now you need to you need a little wilderness experience you need a little isolation so that you can become a fit woman a fit man you don't need those people they'll take you out those old goats don't need to come back they come back stronger every time and they're after your life that's why so many are dying on opioids there that these things get stronger and stronger these are demons they're using those peels not that the peels are demonic but but the enemies using that stuff they're tools of destruction God sets us free take it far away and never never never cannot go come back if you get the fit man in you I'm not talking about more willpower now I'm talking about more Jesus suck a bucket that's full of water and if you drop something heavier than the water the water splashes out but when Jesus drops and all that other stuff just splashes out he gets so big that it's both um can't stay in the same place you ready you ready he's not playing games cuz he died for this moment he knew you would be standing here when he was hanging on the cross he knew you would be standing here this morning you would walk down that huh so here we go he doesn't make false promises he's gonna forgive you and set you free you ready everybody pray this prayer Jesus you are Lord you died you were the blood sacrifice that forgives all my sins but then you rose again you're the life liberator that takes away my bondage my shame my guilt my fear my addiction and it can't find me I'm free you're my Liberator I'm free and in Jesus name I'm forgiven and I'm free praise the Lord give Jesus the biggest praise [Applause] whoa hallelujah [Applause] angels are rejoicing your name is written in the book of life you're going to heaven all around you are people and they have a new translation kind of Bible that you'll be able it's not like these and vowels and Alice you'll be able to understand it we want to give you that it's free it's free of charge we just want to give it to you top of that we've got something called next steps that you need to go immediately into don't mess around going immediately into it it'll teach you what to do next and it matters what you do next this is a journey you gave the devil all kinds of opportunities you didn't know how to drink when you first started going to the bar you didn't know how to you didn't know how to dance you learned all kinds of things let Jesus teach you some new things all right y'all ready for the blessing lift your right hand up now may the Lord bless you and keep you may the Lord make his face shine on you may the Lord be gracious unto you but he lift up his countenance upon you and may he give you peace and a blessed blessed blessed resurrection week we'll see you right here Wednesday night we'll see you right here Friday at noon don't forget the Friday at noon is going to people let's show a physical demonstration of the parking lot packed at noon that Jesus is Lord of our lives show up show up at one of our campuses and celebrate Jesus we love you guys have a great week hey get the word out there thank you the book is doing absolutely amazing a buy one for friends send one to a relatives tell people about it it's happening it's a miracle I don't have time to tell you about it but it's happening god bless you we love you all have a great week those of you who prayed in this altar thank you we love you we're praying for you we're proud of you god bless you we leave here today I wanted to remind you once again that Pastor Jensen's book is still available wherever books are sold so you make sure you get yourself a copy and not just for yourself but for someone that needs an encouraging word on love as well but as you heard pastor Jensen concluding service today that we have our Good Friday service here at our Gainesville campus in fact out of all of our campuses throughout the southeast and so we invite you to join us but if you cannot join us where you are we invite you to join us at being a part of our online campus 12:00 noon Eastern Standard Time so we hope that you would join us for this incredible opportunity as we celebrate and remember what Jesus did but then of course this coming Sunday our Easter our special Easter service at all of our campuses but you joining us online it's going to be a powerful powerful time that I promise you it's going to transform your life but we love you so much we're thrilled that you join us here today for service and we will see you this Friday at 12 noon [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause]

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Length: 46min 57sec (2817 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 26 2018