Your Failure is Not Final | Jentezen Franklin

the following program is sponsored by friends and partners of Kingdom connection I want to talk to you for a few moments tonight on something a little bit different for me in a conference like this I've done a lot of these and our conference and other conferences like this and I know I know what I'm supposed to do but also know when God deals with me in an unusual way and he has about this service I believe that the price for a full life is mistakes mistakes are the price for a full life that you have to pay if you learn from them I believe that hell wants to mainly you and mock you with your mistakes but heaven wants to make you and transform you by your mistakes failure should not become a prison house where you're held hostage the rest of your life by your mistakes that's not God's voice that's not God's will that's not God's plan for you and I'm not naive my wife who is here whom I love more than anything in this world my five children might might my two grand three grandchildren and growing and I can't help but understand that the enemy wants us to think that our failure is final because I've seen us go through things where the enemy tried to take us out by a failure or a mistake or a terrible choice I want you to understand that your mistakes and this is what I'm preaching on if you need a sermon title this is it your mistakes are not final your failure is not final rejoice not over me o my enemies for when I fall I will rise again when I sit in darkness the light will come take a moment in praise God for that amazing truth it's right out of the Bible I want somebody to hear me clearly you might have made a mistake but you're not one you might have failed but you're not a failure you might be down but down is not your destiny there is a resurrection coming to your dream to your life to your call to your purpose you might and here's what I really feel like saying I'm just gonna go on and say it because the truth is sitting among us or young men and young women who were here last forward and between then and now you fallen you've messed up you did something you wanted it you had to have it you had to try it and you did it you experimented with drugs and alcohol and now you're addicted you you had to try and now you've lost your purity or your virginity and the enemy if you could if you could go back you would give anything to go back and change that night or that place or that situation changed everything in your life I feel for this generation because when I was coming up you know pretty much if we stayed away from sin sin for the most part I'm not I mean we were always tempted we were flesh we had off but but but but it's different for your generation because if we stayed away from sin sin basically didn't bother us I mean I mean if you wanted pornography you had to go to a 7-eleven you had to go to the guy at the counter you had to tell him you want some porn in front of a bunch of people while they're all waiting in line they would all look at you like you were a perv and then he would go back to a back shelf that was only behind the counter and he would get you a porno magazine and and then before he would give it to you he would say how old are you but this generation doesn't have that sin has become brazen and bold sin is stalking you sin is after you I feel for you I'm not here to throw stones I'm not here to cut you down because the truth is 68% of all men according to the latest statistic look at porn at least once a week 18% of all women look at porn once a week one out of every five searches on the web is porn related so is that what we're going to talk about no that's not what we're going to talk about righteousness is not permission to sin but righteousness is permission to come back home you might have fallen and you might have failed and you might have made a mistake but you are not a mistake and God will never define you by the worst mistake and choice you made in life critics will attackers will haters will people will but God will never define you by you worst mistake and I need you to think him that great is his mercy towards us if you love him praise him just a minute I'll keep moving I love the story of Simon Peter I love the fact that God loved him after he messed up that's why when the angel appeared at the tomb the angel said Jesus wants me to specifically name one of the sites of the disciples by name he said go tell my disciples and Simon people to meet me in the upper room the same guy who denied Christ the same guy who lied the same guy who cut a man and got violent the same guy who failed and failed miserably he said you tell my disciples and you tell Peter he named him specifically I believe because he wanted his critics to hear I'm still I do believe in my good disciples but I also still believe in my fallen disciples and I'm here to preach to some people who've messed up and the enemies told you your call is over you're blessed your dream is is shredded you don't have any hope you don't have any future but God brought you to this conference just to let you know that there is restoration available for you and he still has his hand on your life take a praise break and thank him I'll keep moving I'll keep moving in this something that it was Simon Peter who preached on the day of Pentecost he didn't choose the other eleven he chose the one who messed up there's a guy in Acts chapter 20 called Eutychus and while he was preaching this guy was in the third balcony and he was sitting in the window and he had in other words straddling the window and he had one foot outside and one foot in the church and he fell asleep and fell out of the church and fell down three stories and everybody said he's dead they sent some uh sure's to scrape his body up and go bury him but I love the story of the Apostle Paul the Bible said he left the church service where he was preaching and ran to that man named eutychus you know why his name was eutychus cause you to cuss to if you had have fallen all the way out of the window you cuss over but he failed all the way down and they were ready to scrape him up and throw him away and say he's worthless he was in church serves him well he shouldn't have been half in and half out let's just mark him off he knew better he got it listen you might have got what you wanted but you don't have to keep what you've got you serve a God who says I'll make all things new come on his shout with me just a minute praise Him just a minute I feel something stirring in here just praise in just a minute I love what Paul said the Bible said Paul fell on him and he held him and he said these words they're still life in him and that's what I've come to prophesy and preach to tonight that some of you have fallen some of you did it some of you messed up but the Lord sent me to tell you there's still life in your dream there's still life in your call there's still life in your purpose there's still life in what God has called you to do his name is Steve Wynn he is a billionaire according to Forbes magazine he lives in Las Vegas Nevada and he has made just billions of dollars off casinos that he owns and hotels he's most famous as a builder but I want to tell you something that happened to him that I think speaks to your life tonight into he's a he's a lover of art and he bought a painting for 50 million dollars this painting is called larell le re ve which in French is the dream and that's a picture honor he paid 50 million dollars because it was painted in 1932 by a man by the name of Pablo Picasso and he paid 50 million dollars for that painting 50 million young not because he's just an art collector he loved that painting because it was called the dream and it meant something emotionally to him because he said when I started I had nothing but a dream to build and to do something with my life and and that painting I've always I've always wanted to own it and when he got it he bought it for 50 million dollars he held onto it for five years he would put it in the lobbies of his expensive hotels in Vegas and and the customers and the people who were there gambling or going to shows or just you know traveling and doing stuff they would get to see the dream in person by Picasso but something happened just five years later even though he loved the dream he had a chance to get to other paintings that he had always wanted to own and a man from New York City who is an investment banker named Cohen mr. Cohen called him and said I want to own the dream and I will buy it from you and they got to negotiating and he said I'll buy it for one hundred and thirty nine million dollars five years later he made what is that eighty something million dollars eighty nine million dollars off of this and so steve wynn because he so was emotionally attached to this this painting steve wynn said i'm gonna have a party before they take the dream to New York City from Las Vegas and they all came to the hotel where he was throwing this big party and everybody's having a big time true story Steve Wynn gets up and he has an eye disease and he has problem scene so he can't really measure distance well and that night to celebrate the dream he had it on an easel beside him this painting and he got to talking and he moves his arms a lot and as he was talking in front of some of the most famous and wealthy people in the world he accidentally lost his equilibrium he began to stumble and when he did he fell back and to catch himself his arm went against the painting that was on the easel and he ripped his arm right through a hundred and thirty nine million dollar dream and the dream was torn the dream was ripped the dream was destroyed people could not believe their eyes he got on the phone and he called the man in New York City and he said I am so sorry the dream has been destroyed I had an accident I don't know how I could have done it I don't know how I could be how I fail I don't understand I couldn't catch myself and I missed the dream up as falling but he said to that New York investor don't worry I want to buy it back from you I will pay you what you paid me a hundred and thirty nine million that must not get in anybody's hands and you can't just take it now and because it's been damaged and put it in some back closet somewhere I want that in my hands because I'm not just an art collector Steve Wynn said I am a art lover and I must have it and I'll pay I'll lose 89 million dollars if you will let me take the damage dream true story took it the guy mr. Cohen said you're crazy but I'll give you the torn painting you just lost tens of millions of dollars true story Steve Wynn because of his love for that painting began to search the whole world to find what's called an art surgeon or an art restorer and when he found it he found a man in Europe he flew him over and the man began to look he looked at the torn dream he looked at the painting that had been destroyed called the dream and he made this final analysis he said I can fix it as a matter of fact when I get through with it from the front nobody will be able to even tell that it's ever been damaged before because I see it I see how I can do it it's gonna take me at least a year it's gonna take some time it's not gonna be instant it's not gonna be quick the word restoration doesn't just have restorer in it it has rest in it because if God's really gonna restore your life after your dreams have been torn to pieces you've got to give him a little time you got to give him moments like you're giving him this weekend and little by little he begins to piece your life back together and you may not be all that you want to be yet but you just wait till though if you put what you've got left into the nail-scarred hands of Jesus don't put it in in anybody's hands put the can Torn dream in Jesus hands and he said he said now from the front and sure enough one year later he brought it back and even the greatest art inspectors in the world came and looked at the painting called the dream after it had been restored and they all agreed it's perfect absolutely so if you looked at it what everybody saw out front looked like it had never been through what it had been through but he did tell Steve Wynn however if you turn it around it's going to be ugly it's going to have repair work and restoration work and people will see this but those who know the real story will know that the reason it looks like this out front is because it's been restored on the inside from the inside out I don't know who I'm preaching to tonight but I feel like the Lord is saying when I get through with you you're not gonna look like what you've been through you're not gonna look like abuse you're not gonna look like you failure you're not gonna look like a mistake you're not gonna look like a bad choice and there's a lot of us in ministry people look at my family I've got a gorgeous wife I've got beautiful children and this is what you see when we stand up here but if you want to see the real picture of the Franklin family there it is but out of the mistakes comes ministry and out of the pain comes anointing and out of the sorrow out of the ashes comes beauty don't say you want God to use you if you're not willing to go through this you to see the stars on Jesus body Oh his name is beautiful oh this is beautiful but you ought to see what he made and what he went through so we could have this but he was wounded for your transgressions he was bruised for your iniquities the chastisement of your peace was upon him by His stripes you are healed you are whole you are restored God is saying I still have plans for your life and they'll say this but because of what you've been through you'll learn to praise me in your pain anybody can praise and when you're on top of everything anybody can praise Him when everything's perfect but when you learn to praise God when your life looks like this I promise you he'll turn your weeping into dancing and he'll restore the dream and here's the best part of this little sermon I'm done but this is it you're not gonna believe this so check it out when the service is over not while I'm preaching the same guy in New York City cold steve wynn a year later and he said I've seen and I've heard and I want that painting I told you I'd pay a hundred and thirty nine million but that was before it was torn but now that it's been restored I'm willing to go to a hundred and fifty five million it's worth more after it's been through the tearing and after it's been through the pain and after it's been through the mistakes and after it's been through the failure after the dream has been torn if it comes back if it'll get back up if you don't let Jesus restore it it'll be it will only increase not decrease in value Wow do you understand what I'm telling you let me close with this verse it's in Proverbs a righteous man a righteous woman here's the definition of righteousness a righteous man falls seven times a day turn to somebody say I had no idea how holy and righteous you were my god he just described you a righteous man or woman falls seven times a day righteousness is not determined by how many times you fall the rest of the verse goes on and says but rises again righteousness is determined after you've had the failure do you get back up do you turn it into praise do you turn your pain into praise because if you will he will restore you and out of your ashes will come beauty I promise you I don't know where did I take a little time but out of the ugly thing will come beauty I believe the Lord has sent me to tell you today that your failure is not final some of you who have been through a broken marriage or some terrible addiction and the situation in your life has just ripped you to pieces today if you are ready to get right with God if you feel far from it and it seems like your dreams have been torn to pieces I want you here today to just make a decision to take up your cross and follow Jesus and put your broken dreams in the hands of the one who can heal and restore wherever you are watching this program pray with me right now say Lord Jesus just say these words Lord Jesus I call on you you are the one who can take the broken pieces and make something beautiful out of my life I surrender to you Jesus Lord I pray for every person who just prayed that prayer every person watching whose family or life in some way has been shredded may the power of restoration and healing flow to those lives homes and situations in Jesus name I pray amen this is the reason that we preach the gospel on television the reason why we are here preaching today people need to hear the power of the gospel and I want to ask you to join us with an urgent need that we have to build a home for teenage girls who are struggling with addiction maybe you can help us with a $1000 gift it's a three hundred thousand dollar project and we need your help we want to get it done this summer please give today and help us everything that we do we say and promise we do because we know that's what God expects of us my announcers go share how you can be a part of this miracle there was a fourteen-year-old girl whose grandmother was struggling with her because she was being very rebellious she began to talk to me about how at her age age 14 she had learned how to be shot up using a needle with meth by an older man so we took this young lady in so I'm Nikki and I'm 14 years old before life was not easy I started smoking when I was six years old what later my addiction was my mom was never there neither was my dad he denied me her brother got adopted out and after he smoked in about when I was 9 or 10 I started hanging out with the wrong group of people and I was doing acid your parents are supposed to be your biggest supporters and my parents would think a couple months before I got here I lost my best friend which led me to try and mess and then December 2nd I came here the Holy Spirit just touched me okay explain and just know I have this joy I work with these kids over here this is the big blessing I'm here with my mom me and my mom have a great relationship in school I was filling all my grades I mean all of them I passed eighth grade I'm going into high school God has broke me out of my cell to talk to other people and now I know what I'm gonna do I'm gonna serve God and I'm gonna wait for him the rest of my life with your help we can work with these teenage girls what they don't have to end up 30 or 40 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Length: 28min 30sec (1710 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 16 2019