Family Heroes | Jentezen Franklin

the following program is sponsored by friends and partners of Kingdom connection when you know that your family is saved and you are saved you are a hero and you are a success no matter what else you don't do if you do that you are if you have your Bibles open them with me to the book of Hebrews chapter 11 and I want you to see with me three different verses that I want to highlight some people that God says are heroes and I want you to see in Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 7 by faith Noah being divinely warned of things not yet seen moved with godly fear and preparing an ark for the saving of his household or his family by which he condemned the world and became the heir of righteousness which is according to faith and then in verse 23 of the same chapter by faith Moses when he was born was hidden three months here's the key to the whole verse by his parents they're really it's really giving credit to his parents and because they saw that he was a beautiful child mom you saw that when I was born I was a beautiful child and they were not afraid of the king's command I was I was a very pretty child and then verse 31 by faith the harlot Rahab did not perish with those who did not believe when she had received the spies with faith Hebrews chapter 11 is God's Hall of faith in Hebrews chapter 11 God lifts certain names of people who distinguished themselves in the kingdom of God by the feats that they accomplished he lifts those names and it actually Hebrews chapter 11 actually becomes heavens roll call of outstanding winners outstanding achievers men like David who slew the giant and it lists the things that they did men like Joshua who prayed with such fervency and faith that the Sun Stood Still men like Samson who defeated a thousand Philistines with the jawbone of a donkey and it lists them these heroes of faith and the amazing accomplishments the Bible says that some of them defeated armies and the odds were stacked against them some of them took cities some of them accomplished things like raising the dead and performing miracles like Elijah when he prayed and reigned after three years of famine began to pour from heavens at the sound of his prayer and his faith and yet in the middle of all of these amazing accomplishments we see three names that I've highlighted that really seem out of place they really should not be there in the Hall of Fame Hebrews chapter 11 they don't fit the hero status except for one thing that they did the one thing is common in both in all three of these people and all three of these groups and that one thing was the thing in God's eyes that made them notable and he said I want them in my book of Heroes Hebrews chapter 11 is all three of them saved their family they didn't have mega miracles they didn't have mega churches they didn't have mega faith to take cities or to conquer Giants or to defeat odds of thousands of soldiers coming against them like some of the men in Hebrews chapter 11 but these people had faith and they were heroes in God's eyes because their faith calls not only that they would be saved but that their families would be saved God thinks if you're getting your family saved that you're doing something just as great as Samson just as great as Gideon just as great as David just as great as Abraham if you are teaching and winning and bringing and causing your family to know who Jesus is God says you're a family hero in my eyes and what you're doing is just as great as what all of those people did that I just described they deserved to be in God's Hall of Fame right next to people who did big magnificent things and all they did was win their families first of all I want us to look at Rahab it's so shocking to see Rahab and the Bible says it plain the harlot is mentioned in Hebrews chapter 11 she was a harlot she was a prostitute she and our modern times would be a stripper or a dance a lap dancer and that's very plain and Andrew and rude almost to say that in a public audience and yet God put that detail so that he could say to anybody listening to me that there is nothing in your family's background that is more powerful than God's grace and God's merci and it doesn't matter where you came from God can turn you and your family into heroes for his kingdom sake because Rahab didn't just get in Hebrews chapter 11 as a harlot when you find her in Matthew chapter 1 in the genealogy of Jesus it doesn't say the harlot Rahab it just says Rahab what happened grace covered her past and grace took a messed up dysfunctional family and made them calls Jesus Christ to play a part in Jesus Christ coming into the earth you remember the story of the two spies everybody say two spies then two is the number of witnesses the Bible said in Corinthians that out of the mouth of two or three witnesses every word must be established so two has to do with the fact that they were coming to her house and they realized that the king was on to them they were spying out the city of Jericho before Joshua and his army took it and when the King heard that there were strangers in the city they knew they had to hide and they came to the harlots house and they said we are here and we need you to hide us in your house and she said let's make a deal she said I will hide you in my house if you will give me what I ask you and she could have asked for money she could have has asked for titles she could have asked for property she asked for none of those things when she was able to ask whatever she wanted notice what she asks for she said I want you to save me and I want you to save all my household and then she starts naming it in Joshua she says I want you to save my fat my father my mother my brother's my that something a prostitute has the audacity to say I know my family's messed up I know I'm bad I know we have a terrible reputation but if I take you in you represent the promise of household salvation and if I hide you in my house if I hear word that says me and my house can be saved and I dared take you in and hide you you gotta promise me that you will save not only me but I want all my family all of them in the house say and they said you let us out of this window with a rope and tie a scarlet cord on the window that you led us out of and then notice what they said get your family in the house and make sure they stay in the house your job is the fastened the cord that word fastened means to nail it down and then make sure you keep your family in the house all she did to be a family hero was got she got her family in the house and the house represents church and God says you are raised to hero status if you can get your family in the house because in the house there's miracles and in the house there's protection and in the house under the blood the red scarlet cord various salvation there is deliverance there is freedom there is all that you need but you got to get them in the house the parents your job is to get them in the house Church should not be optional Church is not something you hit skip and miss church is not something that is the lesser of the priorities this is life or death this is talking about your family making it to heaven what could be more important soccer isn't more important ball games aren't more important nothing the world has to offer is more important when you know that your family is saved and you are saved you are a hero and you are a success no matter what else you don't do if you do that you are a success in God's eyes she was a hero she saved her family and all she did was make sure they were in the house are your kids and kid pat your kids in youth group your kids in now let me tell you about another one Noah Noah didn't do anything but save eight people his whole life God gave him a commission when he had five hundred candles on his birthday cake which tells me some of you're sitting out there and saying I waited too late I lived in sin I didn't bring him to church and it's too late no it's not Noah's got a message for you Noah was five hundred when God said I need you to build an ark for the saving of your family his kids were grown and God said it's never too late to save your family it's never too late to build an ark of safety it's never too late to see God intervene and and cleanse your family of the sins of generations so he said God what do you want me to do and God said I want you to build an ark for the saving of your family he had eight family members and I loved the fact that when he started building that art your Bible says he made his children get involved in art building so the reason and the great thing that he did and the reason he was a hero is Rahab got her family in the house in church but he got his family involved in the work of the church the work of the kingdom everyone those children grew up with a little hammer and nail and soul and while other families were preoccupied with other things their children were involved in building the church the ark they had him involved in kid pack they had him involved in youth ministry they had him involved in the music they had him involved in the drama they had him involved in in all kinds of they had him running cameras they that's what I'm preaching to you one of the keys to seeing your family save is get them involved insist on it Noah was a family hero because God's cause was the center of his family life when I think about boatbuilding I think about the fact that if you're not building that Ark of salvation every time you come to church every time you tithe every time you worship every time you prioritize the Lord's Day and you teach by example your children we go to church you're building an ark of safety for your family I don't want my children when judgment comes on this earth to be treading water are grabbing for driftwood I want to have by the time I release them at least I provided an ark of safety that they know what truth is you see that old boat was rectangular ugly 75 feet long God gave the design of it God didn't say build it like you feel he said here's how you do it do it exactly like I tell you 70 feet long 45 feet wide 35 feet high three strip decks not four if you build four it'll tip over I'm building this boat for the storm I'm building this this is the good old gospel ship this ain't the little cruise liner this isn't your little party the party ship this the this this is this one's built for the storms that are gonna come to every family and you build this Ark and you'll survive the storm by the way that art was pitched on the outside with tar and on the inside can you imagine I love the fact that if it's pitched on the outside you better have it on the inside that if you want to see your family safe what you're pitching publicly better be what you're living privately and it's not enough to be sealed up on the outside and come one day a week on Sunday and raise your hands but if those kids don't see you pitched Monday through Saturday and see you read the Bible and see you pray and see you call on Jesus that are you just pitched publicly or are you pitched privately and I'm so thankful that when Jesus comes again and judgment covers this earth if we do what Noah did we too will rise but it won't be just us it will be our family and if I can get my family to heaven I am a success it means more to me than money it means more to me than houses and land it means more to me than cars and material things it means everything to get my family ready for the coming of the Lord clap your hands and say man somebody he was a success because he got his family involved in the cause of God she was a success Rahab because she got her family in the house and lastly I want to talk about Moses parents because the Bible said that he had a father and a mother were given their names in the book of Exodus I think the man's name was M around that was Moses father and his mother was named jakob ed they were phenomenal parents listen to me all they did was when the pharaoh put out a decree to kill all the boys the Bible said that they did not agree like other families to turn their child over but they hid him if you want to be a family hero hide your family don't let their innocent little ears and eyes be exposed I know you can't hide them forever I know they're gonna go off and go to college and all of that but in the formative years that you have them you are too them you are to shelter them you are to guard them you are to make sure that their eyes and their ears and their mind and the heart these little bitty children don't expose them to things that that they don't they don't need to see and they don't need to hear and they don't need to know keep them hide them have some convictions have something about you that says weird we're going to have some modesty we're gonna have some purity that hide them from cussing and filthy language in your home hide them in those formative years then she said at some point I can't hide him anymore I got to release him into the Egyptian system but I'm gonna make him a little basket out of bulrush and bulrush is something that alligators are allergic to and she said I'm gonna send him down the river into the Egyptian system but what I build and wrap around in that little basket my faith my prayers my lifestyle my my example is going to so go with him that when he gets down there and they teach him in Egypt there's 800 God's and he ought to worship all of them he's gonna be the man that were right in the beginning was God he's gonna be the man that's going right in Deuteronomy 6 behold the Lord our God is one Lord he's gonna be the one that's going right Genesis and Exodus and numbers the first five books of the Bible it was written by Moses and he was educated in Egypt but the basket that his mother built for him in the time that she hid him in the time that she mentored him in the time that she babysat him and she she did and I don't have time to tell that read your Bible but she got to keep him and was paid by Pharaoh's daughter to keep him and feed him and she wasn't just feeding him milk she was feeding him and wished for Jesus Jesus Jesus and he got in that boy and when he got old enough he said I'd rather have the reproach with God's people than to live in the palace with Pharaoh somebody's shout right now if you believe there's power in hiding our children I preached in South Africa one time and the pastor took me in Cherise on a safari after we preached the the conference and one thing they tell you about gazelles is they have a secret code to the fonz the their babies their the baby deer that the adults have little spots or brown places on their ears on the back of their ears and the reason that is so is because when they're in high grass and sometimes that grass grows up this high where they feed that they can just the parents look at me just a moment the parents can blend in to the atmosphere of the environment so much so that the little fawns can't see their the mother deer and the father deer but if they have those marks of distinction when they lift their head and perk up their ears they know there's a lion approaching and they will stop and quickly shift directions and even though it's hard to see them because of the environment they're in those marks of distinction saved the next generation of deer because the parents have marks of distinction from the lion they're saved do your mom and dad have marks of distinction the little ones that are following you do you have a walk with God do you have a sanctified something about you that when it's all said and they've seen Jesus and the example that you follow that flees from evil is it being is it being transferred to a new generation you need marks of distinction that you've been Bible said they took note of the disciples they had been with Jesus whatever the faults are in their many in this dad and in this husband when it's all said and done that nobody who's lived with me and I'm not bragging on myself it's the grace of God but I can honestly say I've done my best to live a life that has marks of distinction that daddy loved God daddy love God supremely daddy lives what he preached he didn't pitch something publicly and live something different privately when I'm dead and gold my children will have seen marks of distinction on me and on their mother how about you how about you you're starting that being in service right here right now and God's looking for family heroes it just takes one it just takes one to begin a miracle in a family and he's calling you to be that one in your family nobody used to choose where they are born when they're born or what family they are born into I was born in Honduras my father had bended our family and I've only talked with him a few times in my life my mother immigrated to the United States when I was little in hopes of building a better life for us I lived with grandparents but they did not want to take care of me and my sister sometimes they would even beat us I've always heard stories of the United States but I never thought I would get there when I was six my sister and I were kicked out of our house so we traveled with my aunt and baby cousin to the United States there was a long trip traveling by buses crossing rivers and sleeping in buses and motels about the Red Cross the river into the United States I was immediately separated from my aunt and cousin by immigration but I still was with my sister that was four years ago and I still haven't seen my mother I really miss her since I came to the United States I've been I used for tomorrow where they have been taking really good care of me I get to a lot of good food I get to go to school and I've been taught how to not do bad things anymore and I accepted Jesus Christ as my savior I miss my mom but I get to talk to her on the phone someday I hope to see her again so I can give her a big hug and she can know that we are together and safe here in the United States my name is Jaime and I'm the youth of tomorrow in our closing moments today I am so excited to share with you about a brand new project we have just begun we're partnering with youth for tomorrow an incredible Christ centered ministry that is feeding and sheltering unaccompanied minors you're seeing in the news the big debate about our border situation but the bottom line is we need to be the body of Christ as I heard the stories firsthand of these children it broke my heart and I knew that we had to do something I spoke with one young girl who arrived in the United States pregnant she had been raped there are thousands of stories of girls thousands of stories of children that whose lives have been changed for the glory of God as they came to this campus and we're building a new home there we need your help we need your support I want you to pray about sewing a special seed and is that this is the very heartbeat of God James put it like this the book of James he said an 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Length: 28min 32sec (1712 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 10 2019