"The Greatest Love Story" with Jentezen Franklin

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in Spartanburg and so your best gift of $1,000 or more and receive the complete right people right place right plan 2015 collection including the four CD series an autographed copy of Jensen's best-selling book the accompanying devotional and will also place your name or the name of a loved one on our history makers commemorative wall in honor of your faith and partnership there's no greater investment we can make together than in building the Church of Jesus Christ and reaching souls join us as we step out in faith and connect to what God is doing in Spartanburg South Carolina and the 120 nations that we reach around the globe through Kingdom connection I will serve thee because I love you have gained even life too me this is my testimony I was nothing before you found me and you you have gay living life to me whoa that's all I have to offer bro there's so many rules but there's hope that's what he done Oh come Oh it's why you a fun life to me put your hands together crazy come on in clapping praise the Lord Braes alone you have your Bibles I'd like for you to open them with me to the book of Hosea the Old Testament Hosea chapter 1 let me tell you what was taking place Hosea was a preacher and a woman in the story named Gomer was a prostitute so this is a story about a preacher and a prostitute immediately I have your attention and Hosea was a we we call him he's just a good man he was a young preacher he wasn't up standing leader an outstanding preacher he was a man of God he was pure he was clean he was keeping himself we would say he was unspotted by the world life of integrity a life of purity and an up and coming very known preacher and like a lot of young people who make the decision to stay in church and serve the Lord they dream of one day they keep themselves and hold themselves back for one person you know Hosea was not practicing safe sex with girlfriends he was having no sex is called abstinence in this generation needs to learn about it and God says I've heard your prayer one day I found your wife it's time to get married enjoy married life praise God which one is she Lord is she that cute blonde in the praise team is she is she that is she that brunette that new young girl in the youth group I like her I thought she was looking at me is that the one Lord I know she's gonna be a good church girl the Lord says oh I want you to go down to a certain Street on the wrong side of town and I'm gonna show you which one I want you to marry and he thinks to himself well that's a that's a rough area over there Lord but all praise God under what it is she's a she's got a kitchen she's feeding the hungry and she's has an outreach and she's missing people that that are down and out she's on the wrong side of town but I'm sure it's a little ministry she's open he goes over and when he gets there he sees prostitutes call girls harlot sex trafficking on the corner and they're standing a girl with fishnet pantyhose high heels tight many many many many leather skirt biblical blouse lo and behold she's smoking a cigarette and the Lord says to the preacher there's your wife marry her it's a story not just of the fact that he married her because God told him to because if it had just married her because God told him to all that is is obedience and submission to what God told him to do but it's more than that what what is astonishing about this scripture is it says he married her and he loved her it's it's the power of God's love in the story of Hosea and Gomer it's the power and story of our love that God has for us it's not just that Jesus Christ was willing to go to the cross and die if all he would have done is gone to the cross for your sins and my sins that would have been an act of submission and an act of obedience to the will of the Father but John 3:16 says that he did not do it as an act of submission he did it because he so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever would believe on him would not perish but have everlasting life it's a story God said in other words Hosea I want you to preach and Illustrated sermon with your life of how much I love the world by you marrying a prostitute and in the same way that you love her even though she is not faithful to you I won't people to understand my love is not based upon their performance its based upon the fact god doesn't love you because you come to church on Sunday morning God doesn't love you because you're paying your tithes God doesn't love you because you sing in a praise team or I preach that's not why he loves me he loves me and he loves you because we are people and God loves people that's it it has not you bring nothing to the picture you see Jesus was the spotless Lamb the upstanding sinless preacher and you and I were the prostitute we were the unholy the unclean the unworthy we brought nothing of value to the relationship it has nothing to do with what we bring it has all to do with the fact that the Lord left his luxury in heaven to come down to the dirty streets of our world to save and marry and redeem us by his blood it's an astonishing love it's an incomprehensible love that God has for you and I and just like Hosea loved the prostitute Jesus the god of glory died on a cross to manifest I don't just want to remove your sin to do it I love you the miracle is not that he died the miracle is that he loved you he loved you just like you are and then life happens they have a baby and Hosea's ministry starts growing and you know things pick up at the church and he's going and the ministries growing he's spending more and more time in the church and she's resentful and and she's mad because she's at home with the baby all day long and where are you and you're not and on top of that she's upset because she's kind of let herself go and her body is not what she what it used to be in her eyes she's not pretty anymore and you understand the background she came from you under stand it was all about her sex appeal and and now in marriage you know it's not just that all the time and and so now she she's not hearing her husband desire her like those other men and so she's not getting the attention and and she's at home and she decides I've got to do something and he's not he's ignoring me he doesn't have time he doesn't praise me and he doesn't love me and so she goes to the gym and she starts working out and there's a cute trainer there and I'm gonna add lib just a little bit there there's a cute trainer there and he he begins to help her and he's touching her back as she's doing her setups and he's gently strategically placing his hand on her leg as she's working out and there's something the chemistry is going on there and then she decides to friend him on Facebook and they begin to go back and forth just talking you know because he listens to me talks to me shows me attention my husband doesn't do that he's too busy and this is how the enemy does it you see and no marriage is safe from that and she decides that you know I'm what I'm missing is better than what I have and so one day she goes to the gym and he says hey let's go have lunch and they start having lunch and the next thing you know it turns into a full-fledged affair and before it's over it's not just one man but it's multiple men she goes right back to what he married her and saved her from now she's having multiple multiple affairs with man after man after man and and yet God comes to him again and God says to him I want you I want you to go to her she ends up in sex trafficking this is all in your Bible now I'm back in the scripture and she has a pimp who is who is trafficking her and has her own an auction block selling her body for money to anyone who will pay the price and God says to him and I want you to notice it he says in Hosea 2 in verse 4 14 I will allure her I will speak comfortable to her and I will give you speaking to Hosea and Gomer I will give you a valley in the valley of Achor I will give you a door of hope I want you to listen to me carefully the family the marriage is in a valley of Achor the word a-kor means trouble and when the marriage is in trouble and when the family is in trouble God said I'll give a door of Hope I mean I don't know of any marriages that would be in more trouble than this marriage that the Bible was talking about when there are multiple multiple multiple affairs and the Bible said God said I'm making a promise to you and to all the families of the earth because Aitkin are of the valley of Achor is where akin and his family were stoned to death so that it's family trouble it's where the family was stoned to death and they were in the same valley of Achor and the Bible said but I'm going to give a door of hope this is God's promise to every family here I don't care what the enemy is trying to do to your marriage what he's trying to do to your family I don't care how severe the sin or the destruction has been in your family God says I give you a in the valley of trouble I give you a door of hope that's why job chapter 14 and verse 7 said there's a hope for there's hope for a tree that if it be cut down it will sprout again verse 9 but at the sin of water it will bud in other words if if if you've been through divorce and you've been cut down if if you've been through sickness and it's cut you down unemployment trouble in your family and it's cut the family tree down at the scent of water God says it's bad as the cut is and into the family tree and maybe there's been an affair maybe there's been all kinds of stuff that's gotten in the family and the enemy is trying to cut the family tree down but I will put in that valley of trouble for every family a door of hope I won't just do that but at the sin of all it will live again and water is the Spirit of God I'm saying to you today that love never fails I'm saying to you that there are two ways to make a great marriage and to have a great marriage number one do everything right good luck with that number two walk through the valley of trouble together until you find the door of hope listen to me we all say things that are cruel we all mess up we all sin here's how you do marriage you when you get in the valley of trouble in your marriage and in your family you don't abandon one another you walk through the valley of trouble until you find the door of hope so you apologize you repent you make up you cry you forgive and then you mess up again and then you apologize and you repent and you make up and you hold on to each other and you find the door of hope and then you mess up and you say things and you get in arguments and you disagree and you mess up and you find the door of hope as long as you stay together God says I don't care what kind of valley of trouble your marriage your family gets in if you will stay together and keep walking through that valley I won't leave you there I'll always give you a door of healing the door of hope for you and your family so here he is he's buying a woman who has gone so low that she's now standing on an auction block being sex trafficking to the highest bidder and you would think that that would be enough but here's the as as you do this this is how I love Israel and he says no longer will you call me he says this to his wife that he's remarrying over and over and over even though you've done the thing over and over oh I forgive you and I love you and he says I will not be called bit below which means master but homey YCJA which means husband in other words I'm not purchasing you to be my slave I don't want you calling me master when I take you home I want you to call me husband I restore you fully I forgive you completely I am your husband I'm not ashamed of you I'm not humility love you call me husband call me is shy he doesn't want a relationship of slave and master he wants a relationship of bride and bridegroom and he purchased her and he bought her and he loved her and what I'm saying to you is in the Bible names determine people's character Hosea means deliver in that interesting but Gomer means complete she's a streetwalker a prostitute but her name means she's supposed to be so much more God says you see a prostitute I see a preacher's wife you see I used unworthy unclean never be anything I see someone that my grace can get a hold of and you see her incomplete but her name means complete and God says I see her complete and here's the point if you're pointed in the right direction your direction is more important than your present location and you may have all kinds of issues but if you turn and change directions and move toward the Cross God's love will not abandon you and maybe you're not there yet maybe you haven't got free from everything yet but if you're moving in the right direction the love of God will not let you go it will not let you abandon you and then walk away from you because your direction is more important than your location you may be you may be moving slow but if you're moving there the love of God is going to get you there love never fails that's why Jeremiah 29 he said I know the plans that I have for you plans of good and not evil listen to give you an expected end I don't look at where you are I know where my grace is taking you and I will not abandon you with my love if he's in Surrey and verse seven that you've been rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend what is the breadth and the length and the depth and the height and to know the love of Christ he's saying the love of God is so great that you can't find a bottom you can't find the top you can't go this way or that way and find the end of it he just loves you over and over and I love how when you preach like this church people like to act like do you know how many times since I married him at the age of 16 and got born again and gave my life to him I wish I could tell you that I've never gone back and never said done thought anything I shouldn't the truth is I'm just like that prostitute and that I have failed the Lord and you have to over and over and over and over and his love says go again go again go again I won't leave you I'll never forsake you I'll never let you go no man can pluck you out of my hand that's the love of God last point some of you it's hard for you to clap on that because I have read I understand I've been born again I've changed my ways but I'm just telling you if we put your stuff up on that screen and people with the who I never drink oh my god and God was that people would be sigh didn't know they would and God would be saying I didn't know that either because the last thing I have in my records is he repented and he asked for forgiveness and the blood of Jesus the love of God cleanses us from all unrighteousness that even that's the truth or we're working our way to heaven and good luck with that everybody thank him for the love of God come on faking for the love of God that'd make me want to seeing more it makes me want to serve him more it makes me wanna levy more it makes me want to be thankful I found complete I'm completing him stand up on your feet and clap and thank God for his love so here's the bottom line I read this this week on a plane it said when the judges ruled then during the book of Judges when the judges ruled there was a famine in the land you ever read that anytime judges rule there's a famine but the day that we turn to mercy and grace and the love of God there's blessing there's forgiveness there's healing and here's the point that I conclude with gomer like to be with hosea because he made her feel whole he didn't bring up her past he didn't talk about her he loved her and that's the way God loves you every head bowed every eye closed but why don't you respond for God so loved the world look at that verse 17 he came not to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved there it is if you're in this room and you would say pastor Franklin pray for me I need Jesus Christ to cleanse me I didn't know he loved me that much I thought that I thought that I had disqualified myself but this is the message God loves you and he will never stop loving you and if you move in his direction his love will get you and transform you and change you into the image of Jesus Christ pastor pray for me I need the love of God to wash me and cleanse me and redeem me today I want to marry him I want my issue I pray for me if that's you boldly raise your hand right where you're standing all over this room come on do it be bold get that hand up all over this room there's a hand there's a there's a hand there pastor I need to change I'm in the valley of trouble and I need the door of Hope pray for me raise that hand high and unashamed every one of you that raised your hand I'm going to ask you to boldly get out of your seat and walk down that aisle and stand right down here I'm going to lead you in a prayer and the door of hope you're gonna find Jesus said I am the door and the door of hope it's going to be discovered in your life today here they come come on here they come come on here they come come on come on I feel this church I feel this I feel this that's awesome that's awesome that's awesome that's it that's it that's it love is the answer forgive the key to life is given and forgiven the key to marriage is giving and forgiving giving and forgiving it's continual giving and forgiving giving and forgiving giving and forgiving come on come on come on come on get in as close as you can we're gonna pray everybody in this altar lift your hands toward heaven and say yes I I marry you from this day forward I receive you as my Lord Jesus Yeshua I call on your name and I ask you to save me cleanse me again you'll never give up on me I'm nervous the reason I haven't responded is I'm afraid I'll go back to it but I've heard a message today that when I'm weak you're strong when I don't have the strength your love comes again and again and again and today just move me in the right direction and I'm going to rely on your love and I'm going to rely on your grace and by your grace I am free you didn't save me to put me in religious chains but you saved me to free me and I receive freedom from every addiction from every chain of shame I am free in Jesus name now lift your hands and thank him for the great love of God life is real vivid alive beating breathing it happens behind closed doors and out in front there's joy there's laughter and chaos lifelong friendships are forged love is found moments cherished and never forgotten life is a gift and together we are real family real friends real people experiencing real life is free chapel this program has been brought to you by the friends and partners of Jenson franklin media ministries for more information on this broadcast or for additional resources go online at Jensen Franklin dot o-r-g

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Length: 28min 30sec (1710 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 12 2015