"Three Lessons From Lucifer's Fall" with Jentezen Franklin

the following program is sponsored by friends and partners of Kingdom connection in the book of ezekiel the 28th chapter it talks about Lucifer and the pipes and timbrels and musical instruments that were created inside of him it talks about how that he was created to worship how that he was created to praise God and today I want to talk to you about three lessons from Lucifer's fall you see the devil was not always a devil he used to be Lucifer the anointed cherub but there was a day when he chose to become the devil the question that I have is what transformed an angel a worshiping angel into a devil it happened when he made a choice one day in heaven that many people make in their life and so today I want to talk to you about the lessons of Lucifer's fall for you see there are forces that would oppose and minimize our worship most of those forces are are not forces on the inside are the outside the people in the world don't care how much we praise a matter of fact the loss Luvdisc come to a lively church where the people know how to praise God the forces that minimize worship and praise are inside not outside I just want to declare today that I was born in the fire and I can't live in the smoke I have to have a church that is alive in praise 1st Peter chapter 2 and verse 9 is powerful but you are a chosen generation you are a royal priesthood you are a holy nation you are a peculiar people why that you should show forth the praises of him who has called you out of the darkness into this marvelous light he said the reason that God chose you and anointed you and sanctified you and delivered you is that you would show forth praise to a dark world in other words praise is our purpose we were raised to praise he brought you from death to life to worship the Bible said let everything let everything let everything that has breath praise the Lord God breathed on mankind in the book of Genesis gave him the breath of life but before he left the earth the Bible said after he had resurrected from the dead Jesus breathed on the disciples and said receive the Holy Ghost in other words the breath is the Holy Spirit and what he's saying is when he says let everything that has breath let everything that has the Spirit of God in them be appraiser be a worshipper if you've got the life of God and you been praise the Lord that is the commandment of the Scriptures we were justified to glorify we were liberated to love him he took that weed out of your hand so you could clap him and praise God he took those sin shackles off your feet so you could dance he took that profanity out of your mouth so you could shout and sing and praise him glorify God with your body and your spirit which are gods in other words you've been washed to worship you've been redeemed to rejoice you've been delivered to dance you've been set free to sing and I'm here today to defend old-fashioned worship I'm here to say that we haven't outgrown it and I'll never lay it down I'm here today to say that we need to put aside everything that would hinder us from being true worshipers and even on a Sunday morning we ought to lift our voice and give God praise because we have been redeemed everybody who's got from God praise him right now I don't care who you are my heart's desire is that my children and my grandchildren not be raised in a dead church as long as I've got strength there's gonna be some tongue talking as long as I've got strength there's gonna be some shouting as long as I've got strength there's gonna be some glory to God hallelujah if they're not embarrassed to cut up in a club I'm not embarrassed to shout and praise God on a Sunday morning on national TV all around the world he's the best thing that ever happened to me I will bless the Lord for the rest of my life and if you like it you better do it if you want a Duke warm Church just sit there but if you want a church where God is moving then become a praising Church hallelujah God's church has got to remain powerful in praise and if you like it you better do it too many churches have it in their past but they don't have it in their present praise is a serious Bible subject and when you get to heaven you're gonna shout just like I've been screaming it's a serious Bible subject it's not cheap it's not shallow it's not something to make fun of it's not something to make light out of all those Pentecostals or whatever we're not Pentecostals we're spirit filled believers I refuse to be put in any camp I'm a Jesus follower fanatic I'm a fan of the Lord Jesus Christ and I'll never stop shouting his prey you know but but but there's people that make light off it make fun of it even in the church David's wife rebuked him for the way he was Bible said he brought back the Ark of the Covenant was dancing before the Lord with all of his might and his wife said you're embarrassing me cut it out and he said I've got a message for you sweetheart I don't care if you like it or not I wasn't dancing for you I wasn't thinking about you when I was dancing with the Ark on my shoulder I was thinking about the one who who raised me from the from the pasture to the palace I was thinking about the one who gave me that lion rug in my bedroom and that bear rug on my barn and gave me that giants head in my trophies case that's the one I was praising that's the one I was dancing and all around you or ex drug addicts and ex jailbirds and ex alcoholics and when they praise God been thinking about you they're thinking about when they were bound and now they're free they're thinking about when they couldn't help themselves but Jesus reached down his hand and raised them and set them free everybody who's got a past and you're thankful it's over give God a praise hey teach your new generation how to praise the Lord granny you can't get quiet now Lucifer has not always been the devil there was a time when he was the anointed cherub and he was created with music and worship in him but Lucifer had a problem that most musicians have he thought music was the main thing and he tried to make music the main thing and dethrone God one-third of the musicians and singers and worshippers of heaven tried to kick God off the throne and make music the main thing music is not the main thing music is all we're doing is pointing you to the main thing and he's the one who sits on the throne he's the most important we don't need unsanctified talent we don't need beer Beth beer breath celebrities I like it when you look at me like that that just that just Spurs me on we need anointed singers and musicians who spend time in prayer not just on the stage but they prayed and they've salt God when they get up they're not just doing a gig and playing a chart but the worshiping God because it sets an atmosphere that drives Devils crazy when David played his heart the devil got crazy and went out of soul and jumped out demons go jumping out windows and if you got the devil in your house learn how to praise God walk through there praising God depression will flee demons will flee somebody shout and praise God this sounds like old-fashioned preaching doesn't lucifer was the choir director the worship leader until iniquity was found in him and he was dismissed demoted and distance from the throne of God forever without possible restitution without repentance possible whatever he did so take God off that God said you'll never get in my presence again what did he do what did he do his sin his inward sin was pride self exaltation and rebellion but notice how that sin inwardly manifests outwardly it may not be the way you think it wasn't as big of a deal as you think but what turned an angel into a devil rebellion self exaltation and pride but how does it manifest outwardly it manifests outwardly when he said as of today I will no longer worship God I will be worshipped and in that moment the anointed cherub became a devil the day he decided I'm not going to be appraiser and the way that pride manifests itself is to not praise so don't look down your nose too much some of you hadn't said as much as an Amen the whole service and notice how pride self-exaltation and ego manifests refusing to worship and at that moment he was hurled out of heaven at the speed of lightning I beheld Satan fall from lightning Jesus fall as lightning from heaven jesus said at the speed of 186,000 284 miles per second the only thing that can keep you notice this the only thing that can keep you in a spiritual atmosphere is to praise and worship God the day you decide I'm not gonna worship God you get out of God's presence a fish cannot exist without water the human body cannot exist without oxygen and a Christian cannot live long without praising and worshipping God sooner or later you're gonna have to praise God sooner or later you're gonna need to learn how to clap your hands and say hallelujah praise God thank you Jesus I love your Lord glory to God sooner or later if you don't you won't be in God's presence and if you don't get in God's presence you die I got to hold on to my swag your swag doesn't mean nothing to God when someone listen when someone ceases to worship they begin to solicit worship notice that when Satan ceased to worship God the next thing you see him doing is in matthew chapter 4 he goes to Jesus in the wilderness and he says fall down and worship Me because when we refuse to worship then we begin when when we don't worship Jesus we begin to solicit worship for ourselves and you're never more devil-like than when you say praise me notice be honor me everybody seen me everybody being all of me when people don't worship God most of them most of them are wanting praise for themselves God said heaven is not big enough for two objects of worship so you're getting now I'll be worship and in Jude chapter 1 it says that the Angels that kept not their first estate number one were cast down so when you refuse to worship here it is quick now in my last five minutes the lesson of Lucifer's fall when you refuse to worship you get down you go down there's nowhere to go I've noticed that people who will not worship and refuse the worship always are down they're not happy they're not joyful they are down down down they're always in a valley they're always in a struggle if you want to be a down Christian then just be too proud worship number two the Bible said and they were bound in chains the Angels that kept not their first estate Jude chapter 1 and they were bound in chains notice that once the enemy takes praise from you you go down just like the angels did when they were cast out of heaven you get bound in chains you start going back to your iniquities back to your former life everybody say I'm not bound say it again I'm not bound say Jesus set me free and I refuse to go back to being bound especially with religious chains Lucifer became the devil when he quit worshipping God listen if you don't praise God you will become something you don't want to be I don't always feel like shouting and praising God but I doubt Jesus felt like being spit on and carrying a cross and beaten the Bible commands to weep with those that weep and to rejoice with those that rejoice do you understand that's a Bible commandment that if anybody on your row starts rejoicing you are commanded to rejoice with them and if you don't you're breaking the Scriptures but I don't even know what we read y'all so about we'll figure that out later if anybody breaks out in a praise you just start supposed to now look around you is anybody you are commending you've figured out on a cup of coffee after the service but if anybody gets happier on a break out all over the place hallelujah your preachers happy I bet the balcony up there how about the overflow how about anybody laughs screaming praise God the Bible commands you to praise God with me rejoice with them that rejoice we don't want to hear your whiny mess the Bible the Bible said elders should not be given to much wine have you ever read that I want to put an H in there we shouldn't be given to much wine when when when when and when how you doing man wine what you need to rejoice look at your neighbor and say God told me to shout with you so I only know what you're shouting over but if you shout out shout now test them here's how you test your neighbor you say hide a say that hide a and if they say lujah you're sitting by the right person if you say thank you say thank you and then look at them and they say Jesus y'all got something going on and Jesus will show up on that row but if you look at them and they just sit there like a not on the log you're in trouble you're in the wrong section turn to somebody and say will you praise our King with me I'm rejoicing rejoice with those hallelujah it's the joy of the Lord and it is our strength not whining praising somebody praise him right now you've been down too many days you've been depressed too many days put on the garment of praise for the spirit of heavens let me finish amen my god you remember my little story you remember a little story about North Carolina at the Air Force Base where the planes land they got a big billboard that says pardon the noise it's the sound of freedom look over at your neighbor and say I just put up a sign you need to read it here I go pardon the noise this that is anybody free think about where the Lord brought you from I don't care how much money you have I don't care if you're a millionaire if God's been good to you you need to praise him with all your heart now here's the third lesson and it's the big one keep standing notice that when Lucifer stop praising the Lord one third of the Angels stop praising the Lord with him you see if you don't worship you encourage somebody else to not worship what would happen if every teenager got so full of the holy spirit because because you either through your worship encouraged worship are you like Lucifer when you don't worship one third look at you and especially if you're a leader and especially if you dress good and look cool and look nice and got some influence your influence is either you being used by Satan or God you don't have you you're just a dummy standing there what I learned at a young age is I could influence the youth group with my praise I want to say to the parents I want to say that the dad's I want to say to the moms I want to say to the grandparents we can't afford to have any services or we don't have real worship going on in the house because because God is raising up a new generation when I held my grandbaby in my arms last night the thought really hit me this babe has never been in a Holy Ghost service yet and bless God we got some more coming I guarantee you because that baby is gonna get in a Holy Ghost service now some of you what is that well god bless your little heart you need to experience that too there's nothing like God's people getting free there's nothing like gears flowing and shouts corine and people rejoice in it deliverance breaking down walls of religion and chains that hold us back from miracles so so if you don't worship you encourage your family not to worship if you don't worship you encourage your husband your wife not to worship your children yeah the reason the reason we have the reason we have so many use sickles is because we have so many popsicles one will tell you something we're living in a wicked world and we better realize our weapons are not carnal and one of the greatest weapons we've got is the weapon of praise when you're down you can praise your way out of the valley you can praise the devil out of your teenagers you can praise the devil out of your marriage there's something about praise that drives Satan crazy we're replacing him when we praise the Lord now watch this I'm through so here's the summary the lesson of Lucifer's foam well this is a big one what you don't turn into praise turns into pride and we were never created the higher we go up the more we're supposed to defer the praise to God the glory to God the honor to God and the more God blesses you you're not supposed to get more prideful and more look at me and I don't have to worship like those lowly people you were just nothing and God picked you up and blessed you and to whom much is committed I don't know who I'm preaching to but I guess I'm saying you still need to get broken you still need to have tears you still need to bow down and say you're the King of Kings you're the Lord of lords and all my achievements I throw at your feet and give you the glory because what you don't turn into praise will eventually turn into pride and pride will cause you to have a fall God's gift are wonderful things and dangerous things especially when you're super talented so the more God raises you the more people honor him turn that praise and give it to God or it'll turn into pride and destroy I'm going to pray with you in just a moment I believe today's message is so important it's God's Word and God's Word is always sent to build us up and to speak courage into our spirit you may be afraid you may be facing challenges like net like never before or maybe discouragement you know the longer I live I believe the greatest weapon the enemy uses against a christian is discouragement because you're never really defeated until you're defeated on the inside and the enemy knows that and that's why the Bible said David encouraged himself in the Lord when he faced great challenges he learned to be to praise the Lord he learned to put on the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness when life gets heavy become appraiser and that's why it's so important and even when life is good even when you're on top of the world it what you don't turn into praise will eventually turn into pride let's give God all the glory let's give God all the praise and if you don't know him as your Savior today that's why we bring this telecast week after week we want to tell people Jesus really 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Length: 28min 31sec (1711 seconds)

Published: Sun May 10 2015