What Great Faith Can Do | Jentezen Franklin

the following program is sponsored in part by friends and partners of jensen franklin media ministries welcome to kingdom connection i'm pastor jensen franklin and it's an honor to share a message with you today from god's word i believe there was something captured in this message that god's going to bring alive in your heart it's exactly what you need to hear today god's word is going to speak to you [Applause] i'm reading from matthew the seventh chapter in a certain centurion servant verse 2 who was dear to him some translations say whom he loved was sick and ready to die so when he heard about jesus he sent elders of the jews to him pleading with him to come and heal his servant when they came to jesus he begged him earnestly saying that the one for whom he should do this they said was deserving or he's worthy listen to the reason verse 5 for he loves our nation and he has built us a synagogue these are the elders of israel saying this is why he's worthy is he loves the nation and he's built us churches we would say then jesus went with them and when he was already not far from the house the centurion sent friends to him saying to him lord do not trouble yourself i am not worthy that you should enter into my roof therefore i did not even think myself worthy to come to you but speak the word say the word and my servant will be healed for i also am a man placed under authority having soldiers under me and i say the one come and he comes and one go and he goes and one do this and do that and they do it listen to verse 9 when jesus heard these things he marveled at him it's the only place in all the bible that's found he marveled at him it didn't happen for any of the disciples it didn't happen for any of the miracles it didn't happen for any other occasion in all the holy bible where god marveled at him who was him a centurion a roman soldier he marveled at him and turned around and said to the crowd that followed him i say to you i have not found such great faith not even in israel and those who were sent returned to the house and the servant was well who had been sick this amazing story happened as jesus walked off of preaching perhaps the most famous sermon he would ever preach the sermon on the mount the sermon of beatitudes he had just taught one of the great things of that message to love your enemies to do good to those who oppress you and now he walks off of that sermon platform in the mountains of the northern part of jerusalem and he walks into his hometown of capernaum and the elders of israel come and they say go to this roman soldier's house and pray for his servant pray for him because he loves this country pray for him because he's given enormous resources and build us a synagogue and he's not even one of us he's a gentile he's a roman soldier a part of the people who are oppressing and who are are absolutely over stepping over and on us and we are under their dominion and control and jesus said just talk love your enemies jesus said just talk pray for those who do wrong and now it's kind of like i guess he might have thought well i just preached that i might as well go but it's interesting that the thing that they came and said he's worthy of a miracle because he loves our nation number one we ought to love israel number two and he's built our church he's given of his enormous resources and we wouldn't have our synagogue without this man using the resources that that that he has and a church is our synagogue was just where the law was taught it's just where the morality and the morals of the old testament were taught the ten commandments were taught the five books of the old testament were taught and he liked that he liked that better than the religion of the romans and what i want you to understand is there's there's three quick things that cause this man to stand out this is what great faith can do that's what i'm preaching on this is what great faith can do this man had three things that caught the attention of jesus and called him to and caused him to marvel the word marvel means to be astonished the word marvel means to be amazed and to stand in awe one translation said to take the breath away can you imagine god in the skin a human man veiled in flesh was so moved not by a preacher not by a disciple not by a rabbi not by a scholar of the torah not by someone who who who performed great miracles but a man who was not even i want to call him a non-religious man exercised so much faith in what jesus who he was and what he was able to do that jesus said i'm not impressed with titles and i'm not impressed with religion and i'm not impressed with how many scriptures you can quote and how many praise songs you sing that you really don't mean because you really don't believe that god will do anything that he hasn't that was beyond normal but when he saw a non-religious guy look at him and say don't come to my house they said he's worthy but he said i'm not worthy and the closer i get to you because as jesus started getting close to his house the closer you get to jesus anything in you that's proud in anything in you that's arrogant and anything inside of you that says i'm worthy look at me i'm wonderful god ought to bless me i don't understand why you haven't answered my prayer i did this i gave my i did that i did that i did that any the closer you get to jesus the more you see your own sinfulness and the more you see his holiness and the more you understand i'm not worthy you're the worthy lamb that was slain and everything i get i deserve only because of your blood and the cross and the death and the resurrection of jesus christ i don't deserve anything well we've been going to church all these years and god ought to do something for you don't deserve anything all of your righteousness is his filthy rags but when you look at him and you say his blood deserves a miracle his blood deserves my family being saved his on his suffering on the cross absolutely is worthy of a healing in my life worthy is the lamb and when this man a non-religious man said when jesus was getting close to his house notice what he loved he loved his country he loved the country that he was in i just want to pause and i want to say i still love america i still love the red white and blue i still get tears in my eyes when i see a mother get a flag and know that her son died for their name i still love the national anthem and i stand for it and put my hand on my heart i'm not ashamed to say i love this is the greatest nation in the world there's none like it [Applause] he loved the nation he was in notice what else he loved he loved the church and he gave to build it of himself and he loved his servant what kind of person marvel's jesus astonishes jesus number one a person who has great love for his country for israel for not only that but he loved he he he loved the synagogue he loved the church he loved it it was the center we ought to we ought to make church it still ought to be something we cherish and then he loved his servant i read something interesting this week when i was looking into this a centurion was someone who was over at least a hundred soldiers that were under him a centurion in the roman army was someone who was not allowed to be married when he was elevated to that position it meant that he would give up the right to be married and have a family because he knew eventually he would be sent to foreign soul because the roman empire was ever expanding and he would be required to stay and be stationed at that place for up to 20 years never to come back home from that place that he had been assigned to and so servants and people that he took with him became like family to them often one commentary said they were their family and so when one of his servants whom he loved got sick he loved him and jesus was astonished and marveled at this man because of his great love but secondly his great humility because the elder said he's worthy for you to go in his house and do a miracle but the man said in the text i didn't even feel worthy to come to you and now that you're coming to me i don't feel worthy that you would come under my roof i got a sneaky suspicion he probably was thinking to himself i've got i've got altars and images and statues to gods that i burn incense and make blood sacrifices to just like all the romans did they're all in my home they're all out in my yard and in my garden i i worship all kinds of gods and he's a holy he is god in the flesh he is i i sense this is this is the god of all gods the king of all kings and i'm not worthy that he would come in that's humility humility says lord i'm not worthy but you're worthy and then lastly he had great faith and when jesus approached his house and they told him what the man said he said just tell him to speak the word only and my servant will be healed what he was saying was i know who you are and jesus the bible said did something that the angels couldn't make him do the sun the moon the stars could not make him do nobody in the scriptures made him do nothing that happened in all of creation made him marvel it never says after he'd created something or he did something or he performed some miracle and god marveled on his throne the only time that god almighty marveled is when he saw a non-religious man who recognized who he was behind that veil of flesh listen and the power of his spoken word to do what he said it would do and the bible said that it took the breath away of jesus for a moment it stunned him it astounded him and god or jesus marveled he stepped back and said wow not in all of israel with all these religious people have i ever seen faith like this the only thing that can make god be astonished and and stun god and marvel god is a mere man who recognizes who he is and that the power of what he says he can make it happen and he said go because your servant is healed and they went back and the servant was healed a non-religious man believed and it marveled jesus a mere man could make god almighty marvel and when jesus marvels it ought to make us meditate on why anybody that can marvel god blow god's mind the magnificent earth full of mystery and beauty sea life plant life animal life human life the physical body the earth is just his footstool the star teres is able to swallow up 64 million suns greater than the one sun that we have over earth the star epsilon is 3 000 times the size of our sun our closest star to planet earth is 26 trillion miles away the furthest star is 59 trillion miles away we are just a speck planet earth in the big picture of all of god's creation but none of that stuff marvels god none of that stuff astonishes god god is not impressed as a matter of fact this blows my mind when god got ready to take credit for all creation he and he and he wanted to mention i made the stars too this is what he said he used five words he made the stars also no big deal i created all living thing and by the way just as a footnote i made the stars also that's how big and bad i am so nothing nothing in this universe made god marvel but when a man when a woman went a mother when a dad when a teenager when a young person stands up and says i believe what god has spoken to me he's going to bring the past god says oh my goodness i'm astonished they believe it they don't just say it they believe it they don't just sing it they believe it does anybody want to astonish jesus by believing his word hallelujah when you stand and you say lord i'm still confident i don't see it i don't feel it i don't understand it i don't have answers but i'm still confident i still trust you i still praise you i still honor you you make jesus christ be astonished and stunned see's parting the the red sea becoming like jell-o i'm sure there was a little snotty-nosed kid in the in the children of israel when they were walking through on dry ground that had to poke it one time and it was it was just it would just tremble and shake like jello standing up on both sides and they're walking across but god did not marvel a donkey opened his mouth and and preached to the prophet balaam and god did not marvel a whale swallowed a man for three days and spit him up afterwards and he came out like a like a raisin with no hair and all shriveled up and and came out preaching no eyebrows you know all those acids had eaten everything away and he's just that he looked like some kind of weirdo but he repent i would have repented if i saw that but god did not marvel an axe head doing the backstroke across the jordan river and god did not marvel a bush burning and lighting up in the wilderness and saying take off your shoes shoes shoes shoes you're standing on holy ground ground ground i would marvel but burning bushes didn't marvel god 26 thousand tons of manna every morning at the tent door of the israelites for 40 years didn't marvel god water coming out of rocks didn't marvel god dead men being raised like lazarus didn't marvel god but when someone says lord speak the word only and i don't know how you're gonna provide i don't know how you're gonna deliver i don't know how you're gonna work a miracle but i believe in you and your ability to get it done come on somebody with a shout of praise the devil didn't think you'd come to church and praise god like you're praising him that makes heaven marvel [Applause] oh jehoshaphat got a bad bad letter from sennacherib evil king he said i've got 600 chariots of iron and i'm going to run all over you he sent it in a letter he took the letter to the temple put it on the altar looked up to heaven and said god we we got mail because you put me here and i know you're good and i know you're faithful and i know you love me and i don't understand this attack and i don't understand this letter i don't understand this x-ray i don't understand this news i don't understand these dark days but i know you're working all things together for the good and so god said well i tell you what to do jehoshaphat take the praise singers and tell them to get out on the front line don't send any weapons with them just give them a tambourine and give them a harp and give them a violin give them a guitar and a saxophone and and and and tell them to get out there and do nothing but talk about how good i am and how merciful i am and how i'm a generational god and my mercy endures from one generation to another don't care what the times bring don't care what the culture brings don't care what time what evil brings don't care what antichrist wants to bring bring it on greater is he that is in us than he that is in the world [Applause] and the bible said when they got out there and they started praising god that's why what we're doing in here it's more than the loud annoying person behind you while you're trying to soak it all in no sometimes you don't understand that's a former alcoholic that's a former jailbird that's the one on your right over there look at him he's a former alcoholic that one was a manic depressive that one was lost that one was sick and diana coveted but here they are in church this morning you don't know why people are so noisy you need to leave them alone maybe the bible said rejoice with them that rejoice uh-oh that means if anybody on your road starts rejoicing you have a biblical mandate to jump in and say i don't even know what we're shouting about but let's go let's go i'm praying today that this message has really touched your heart we don't ever leave the broadcast without giving a chance to respond to the voice of the lord to pray with people to let people know that you can call the number on the screen and let us agree with you in prayer i'm not i'm not going to apologize for saying god can do anything he can save anybody he can deliver you from any situation and you can start living the life that you were created to live jesus came that you might have life and have the abundant life it's eternal and it's his promise just pray this prayer with me right now say lord jesus i need you i cry out to you i i've come to an end of myself and what i can do and i need your help i need your grace i need your love i need your forgiveness so lord i surrender all to you today i give you my life my family my future my mistakes the good part the bad part i put it all in your hands heal me and help me and save me in jesus name i pray amen and amen and lord i pray for healing i pray for all who are sick right now i pray for those in hospitals and those who have loved ones who are in bad shape maybe covet maybe other issues but he is the lord that heals you and i speak healing and help to your body encouragement to your soul some somebody's watching me today and it's been such a long it's been one hit and one blow after another but god sees you today he knows where you are he sees the bed you're lying on and you've been on for a while and this is not the end hallelujah in the name of jesus rise and be healed glory now somebody's being healed right now this is your turn around this is where the miracle that jesus bought when his back was beaten by his stripes you are healed the prophet isaiah declared receive that healing and lord i pray for families in jesus name heal broken homes by the power of jesus name satan i rebuke you off of that house off of that marriage off of that home off of those children i plead the blood of jesus over whatever homes i'm in all over the world i i draw a bloodline on those homes and i rebuke the devourer the liar the deceiver in jesus name be healed in your mind be healed in your heart be healed in your spirit in your body in jesus name now this is why we're on tv because the lord i didn't plan all that the lord is healing people right now and you know it and you're in tears because you know that some of the words that i just said that's how i know when the lord stuff just comes like that and it's the lord and he's confirming to you this is not your end i'm i you have many more years with long life he's going to satisfy you and show you his salvation i'd love to hear your story so let us know what god is doing if he's if he's touched you you need to need to claim that miracle and i don't have any agenda in that except it encourages us to hear when god has done something great thank you god bless you we'll see you next time this program has been sponsored by friends and partners of jensen franklin media ministries we hope you've enjoyed this teaching by jensen franklin and thank you for your continued support of this ministry your prayers and financial support make these programs possible for more information about this message and other ministry resources visit us online at jensenfranklin.gov you

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Length: 27min 7sec (1627 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 27 2021