This is “Acres of Diamonds Part 2: Buy Into This”. Your victory comes from proper placement! Stop chasing the wind, and start trusting that God has you in the right place at the right time. In part 2 of this series with Jentezen Franklin, you’ll discover success is a four-letter word: STAY. While everyone else is selling out, we’re buying in! To hear more inspiring messages from Jentezen Franklin, visit http://jentezenfranklin.org/watch?cid… & subscribe to this channel: http://goo.gl/yfkXHy
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what do you mean quiet down i’m not
going to say all that
i’m buying into praise and worship i’m
buying in the prayer i’m
buying into sacrifice like never before
i’m more fanatical than i’ve ever been
you have your bibles i’d like for you to
open them with me to the book of
jeremiah chapter 32 there is an amazing
text i’ve never preached on this before
but i want to share this in verse 25
and you have said to me oh lord god
by the field for money
and take witness yet the city has been
given to the hand
of the chaldeans and the word of the
lord came to jeremiah saying
behold i am the lord the god of
all flesh is anything
too hard for me what
i want you to see in this text is you
need to understand what was taking place
they were being invaded the chaldeans
were
were the babylonians and they were
coming and taking
over the whole city the whole nation was
being lost they were about to go into 70
years of captivity
under nebuchadnezzar and
everybody knows that then it’s kind of
like you remember if you
if you’ve been around long enough if
you’ve studied history
it’s like in in vietnam when it became
obvious
that the war was lost to a degree
that everybody’s trying to get out of
the
city and this is the exact setting
of that they’re selling everybody’s
selling everybody’s selling
they’re selling and in the middle of
that god comes to jeremiah and he says
by the field
i want you to buy this land because i
gave you this land
i gave you this field i gave you this
farm
i gave my people a land flowing with
milk and honey
and yes it looks bad and yes it looks
like
that you should probably sail but what i
love about this story is god told him to
buy
when everybody else was selling god told
him there’s some things you need to hold
on to that everybody else is letting go
of
and you need to be careful that when
your ship comes in you’re not at the bus
station
you need to be careful that you don’t
walk away from acres of diamonds that
god has in your marriage and in your
family and in your calling
and in your purpose because of a season
of discouragement when it looks like
that and especially when the pressure’s
on and everybody else is doing it
just because everybody else is selling
out doesn’t mean we need to sell out we
need to buy
in when they’re selling out to our faith
to the
to the principles of this book to prayer
to the truth of god’s word
let others go the other way let others
say we don’t need
faith we don’t need god we don’t need
the bible we don’t need
jesus christ let them sell it cheaply
if they want to but i’m buying in i’m
buying
in i’m buying in
your ship is coming in it’s what i’m
preaching
i’m telling you that the ships of prayer
are coming in if you won’t walk away
the ships of vision are coming in the
ships of dreams
are coming in the ships of holy
aspirations and purpose
they will come in if you will stay where
god has called you
to stay and sometimes that requires when
others have given up
and others have tried and failed and
nobody in your family’s held a marriage
together and everybody
the history of the family is divorce
divorce divorce but somewhere in that
family you can get christ in that house
and you can say we are not selling out
we’re buying in
like never before in june chapter 1 in
verse 13
it’s an amazing verse god is pronouncing
judgment severe punishment on the angels
that did not keep their first estate you
remember the bible teaches
i don’t have time to proof text it read
your bible for yourself
but the bible the bible teaches that
lucifer was in heaven and one-third of
the angels
followed him and there is a a severe
punishment
that is pronounced in the book of jude
it only has one chapter
and and and one of those verses verse 13
has a severe
punishment for those angels that did not
stay
around the throne where they were
supposed to be but they
exited with lucifer and he says this he
says that he has reserved them in
darkness
in a place in their own shame
because they were wandering stars what
wandering stars he called the angels
that kept not
that position that they were created to
be in
wandering stars why such
severe punishment they’re held in chains
a star is defined as a fixed point
much of the world in ancient bible days
was led by the stars they had to
navigate the men at sea
by the stars because it’s a fixed thing
it doesn’t wonder
it doesn’t shift because it doesn’t feel
like staying where it is
it’s it’s it’s not a wondering star star
was not designed
to be moving all over the place much of
the world was led
wise men the only way they found jesus
thank god it wasn’t a wandering star but
it was a star that just
burned bright over the stable and the
wise men found it
in ministry people won’t find jesus
if we become wondering stars that we’re
not really committed and we’re not
really sold out and we’re not really
serious about taking the gospel to the
world
the characteristics of a star is it is
to burn
and it is to shine and it is not to move
it is to be
fixed it is to get its direction and
stick with it
and not change are you a wondering star
are you committed to the house of god
are you committed to the word of god
are you committed to prayer are you
committed to living for jesus christ
our strength is in when we take a stand
when we make a stand for god make sure
you’re present when your answer comes
nothing’s going to shake me nothing’s
going to alter me
i’m buying the field others are
having an auction others are selling
everything
don’t you know they were selling land
cheap cheap cheap
and here’s one guy if you read that
story god told him said
not only do i want you to i don’t want i
just don’t want you to just buy it
i want you to get the title d i want you
to bury it in the property
and yes you’re going to go through a
tough time for the next 70 years
but when you come back you’re going to
dig it up and you’re going to hold it up
and all these people who are trying to
get land
you’re going to say i never gave up on
what god
promised me and i’ve got a title deed to
it that’s in your bible
in jeremiah 32
you have to do that with the promises of
god
god told jeremiah when everybody else
wants to sail
you buy the conditions
that you’re in now are not permanent
so just put your foot down and say we’re
not going anywhere
god gave us this marriage god gave me
this family
and it may be tough right now but the
conditions are not permanent
they’re just temporary i’ve got a
contract
i believe on the lord jesus christ then
you shall be blessed and your household
i’ve got a contract as for me and my
house
we will serve the lord so it doesn’t
matter what hell’s trying to do
i’ve got a contract
we have to our problem in this
generation
is we want to lease it we want to rent
but not buy joseph of arimathea is one
of my favorite
characters because in the bible he had a
tomb
and and he he wasn’t dead yet and jesus
needed a tomb
but he really he really didn’t need a
permit you know a tomb is not something
you rent
a tomb if somebody moves in it they’re
there for life
but he understood something that you
need to understand he understood
i’ll let you use this because it’s just
going to get dark for three days
and on the third day he’s coming out and
maybe in your situation it’s dark right
now and it doesn’t look good right now
and every voice in your head is saying
give up and
walk away and you can’t get free and
that alcoholism is destroying you and
you there’s no way out
but i’m telling you that if you’ll get
committed and buy
in to the gospel and buy into the truth
of god’s word
he’ll bring you out it’s going to happen
just stay there god told jeremiah i want
you to buy
in a time of selling many people are
selling the truth now look at this verse
proverbs 23 and verse 23 says
by the truth everybody read it out loud
buy the truth and do not sell it
now that means that new generations are
going to come
new morals are going to come new ideas
are going to come
but i want you to buy the truth and when
everybody
else is selling selling no i don’t
believe that anymore no i don’t believe
marriage is between a man and woman no i
don’t believe there’s nothing wrong with
getting drunk
i don’t believe there’s nothing wrong
with slipping out on your wife a little
bit that’s old and
archaic those old dumb christians when
everybody’s selling
he says i want you to buy the truth i
don’t much believe there’s a hell in a
heaven i don’t know if there’s any
eternal life
i don’t know if salvation is really that
important it’s that important and you
better buy
the truth and sell it not give the lord
praise if you know i’m preaching
the truth
you know some churches are selling out
the book of acts
you know the book of acts is a book of
miracles and i i’m not going to sell the
book of acts to meet the modern day
politically correct church world
this church was built on the power of
god
and we’re not interested in being nice
and pretty
we’re interested in seeing lives changed
for the glory of jesus christ
we need the power of the holy spirit we
need
miracles in the church jesus christ the
same
yesterday today and forever i’m not
selling that i’m not selling that to be
in your clique
i’m not that needy that i want to be in
your clique
if i’ve got to give up the power of the
cross the power of the blood of jesus
that’s not for sale there’s some
non-negotiables
a lot of people are selling conviction
of sin
uh-oh they’re selling it
but we need to buy it a lot of people
are selling praying in the spirit and
the gifts of the spirit
they’re selling it cheaply but i’m not
selling it i’m buying into it
a lot of people are selling sacrifice
they think all church
is is to come and see it and
everything’s about you but
church is about sacrifice church is
about taking up your cross
church is about and and if you don’t
watch it you think it’s all about giving
to you but but but but we’re i’m not
going to sell my sacrifice
i believe that it matters and while some
are selling
worship and freedom in worship
we need to buy it we need to shout more
we need more hand waving hallelujah we
need more hand clapping
we need we we need more dancing and
leaping and rejoicing
i am not ashamed of it my
lord you didn’t you don’t know like i
know
what is done for me why would i quiet
down i have more than i’ve ever had
i’m more blessed than i’ve ever been why
would i get quiet
now
i don’t care who’s here i don’t care who
comes
i don’t care if the president comes i
want him to get in a good service like
this if he does
i’m not selling that for the appeasement
of people
the apostle paul said we don’t come to
you with enticing words of man’s wisdom
but in demonstration of the power of god
with selling out people selling out
i remember when our church started
growing
um we were over on browns bridge and
it’s just a you know a handful of people
and god started blessing
we had to knock the wall out and we
couldn’t
we had to dig you all remember any of
y’all
that were still alive back then um we
had what we called the bottomless pit
because we had parking then we rented
the place beside us and
cleaned it off and had parking we had
parking everybody’s parked up on the
grass
and then there was the bottomless pit it
was back behind the fellowship hall and
it was straight down
and you needed a four-wheel drive just
to get out of there but it was
filled with cars i’ve never seen
anything like it it was crazy
but you know when the church started
growing i had to cross a bridge in my
mind
because people started coming from every
direction
and it felt like that some were
trying to pull at who we were and what
god had called us to do
and if you would just tone it down if
you would just
i like franklin jensen’s sermons but
but but if the music and if this and if
the people
are too excited and it doesn’t take all
of that
and i just made up my mind at some point
i’m not selling
this i’m not selling this
and you know what the lord spoke to me
he said never forget this
he said he said worship will never
cause any people to leave
that you need
and if one leaves god will send a
hundred in their place
he’ll say pardon the noise it’s the
sound of freedom
what do you mean quieting down i’m not
going to sell that
i’m buying into praise and worship i’m
buying into prayer i’m buying into
sacrifice
like never before i’m more fanatical
than i’ve ever been
we’ve got we’ve got
more to praise god for than we’ve
ever had we need more fiery preachers we
need more fiery churches
if you’ve sold your worship you need to
buy it back
you can’t heat an oven with a snowball
i don’t care how powerful you are i
don’t care how rich you are
i don’t care how important you are if
you’ve sold your worship for those
titles
david was king of israel took his king
robe off
and danced before the lord with all of
his might when he got the ark of the
covenant back
he was saying there’s a king higher than
me there’s a force higher than me
i have all this stuff but i take it off
and i worship the king of kings
and the lord of lords everybody take a
praise break and give god
thanks let the enemy know
he won’t take your worship
praise god
i like that man in second samuel 23
his name was shama he was one of david’s
mighty men
and the bible said when the philistines
invaded he stood
in a pee patch that’s what lentils are a
ground full of lentils
he stood in a ground full of he stood in
a pee patch
now and notice what it said and go back
and everybody else
fled all the others fled it says in the
next verse
and while the others fled he stationed
himself
in the middle of a pea patch and
defended it and killed the philistines
and the lord brought a great victory
here’s a guy standing out there
in a field it’s nothing but peace but he
kind of had this attitude
you know i see them selling and they’re
selling and there’s an auction over
there yep
and they’re selling they’re selling
everybody’s selling but he said i think
i’m gonna buy this field
because if i give the philistines my pee
patch they’re gonna come
get my corn and if they come and get my
corn they’re gonna take my okra
and then they’re gonna come after my
collard greens and nobody’s taking my
collard greens
so i’m just gonna stand right here in
this field
and i’m gonna fight if you don’t stand
for something you’ll fall for anything
there comes a time when you have to
stand
don’t care what they say don’t care what
they do
i’m gonna stand for truth i’m going to
stand for the gospel
hallelujah take another praise break i’m
preaching myself
i’m telling you that we need this
morning to celebrate
one of the greatest victories in the
world
you know what one of the turn to
somebody say i’m going to tell you one
of the greatest victories in the world
do it turn i depottize you
turn to some one of the greatest
victories in the world here it is
i’m still here
i may not have the greatest testimony i
may not be brother righteous sister
holiness
but you know what i’m still here i may
have problems i may have
weaknesses i may be struggling but look
at me in the house of god on a sunday
morning
i’m praising him i’m still here
others others who were better than me
are not here
others who were smarter than me are not
here but i’m
still here oh somebody shout with me
somebody celebrate i’m still here
i’m bought in
[Applause]
i thought about simon peter
if i could interview simon peter why do
you think the lord chose you to preach
on the day of pentecost
3 000 people converted mass crusade
whole city turned upside down for christ
why did he choose you out of all the
disciples
i think simon peter would say i don’t
have any idea
he called me a s he called me satan one
time
you remember when he tried to get tried
to go to the cross and simon
said no lord that’s not necessary he
said get thee behind me satan
you don’t speak the things of god
why did he use you i don’t know i fell
asleep
in a prayer meeting in the garden of
gethsemane i was snoring it was this
last few hours
and i slept through the whole thing i’m
not a super saint
i was in the middle of a miracle and i
started drowning
bubbles holding his hand up you remember
he walked on the water for a little bit
but then he started drowning
see we think it’s our our her i’m just
so holy you’ll never be holy
i’ll tell you what god looks for
somebody that’ll buy it buy in
i’m coming my family’s all messed up but
i’m coming
i had struggles this week but i’m coming
i you might have beer breath
you might have weed smells all in your
clothes and everybody around you high
because
you came this morning but i’m so glad
you’re here this is your kind of church
this is why we’re here all you got to do
is just keep coming he’ll watch you
he’ll cleanse you he’ll forgive you
he’ll raise
you and he’ll make you a shining star
for the kingdom
[Applause]
so so so
not many people’s conviction list is
getting longer
they’re getting shorter and shorter and
shorter and shorter and shorter
it’s time to buy in and quit selling out
everything
selling out i don’t believe that anymore
i don’t believe that anymore i don’t
believe
why don’t you buy in god can change your
life
when you buy in you believe that
you believe i preached the truth to you
today stand up on your feet
no one moving in and out very reverent
now at every campus
a miracle’s about to take place
it’s time to sell out your soul to jesus
and buy in and say i’m tired
of this halfway stuff i’m buying in
i’m going i’m coming to the cross and
i’m going to be here
i’m going to be faithful i’m going to do
what god’s called me to do
every head bowed and every eye closed
all over this room
if you hear the lord speaking to you
today
saying this is your service this is your
word
this is your moment this is your hour
today is the day of salvation and if
you’re backslid if you’re far from god
if you don’t know you’re right with god
this moment is for you pastor franklin
pray for me
i know i’m not right with god and i need
to get right with god and i’m ready to
surrender
to the lord today if that’s you boldly
raise your hand right where you’re
standing i want to see it all over this
room wonderful wonderful wonderful great
great great at every campus raise your
hand high keep it up keep it high
keep it up keep it high raise it high
unashamed that’s it
say i’m going to buy in i really haven’t
bought in i’m going to buy in today
i believe the cross i believe the blood
i believe the name of jesus
is the power of god everybody at every
campus say these words
lord jesus i surrender my life to you
i believe in you i’m buying in
i know other people are selling out i
know other people have turned to other
religions
but i’m buying into the cross i’m buying
into the blood
i still believe there’s no other name
but the name of jesus and i still
believe
that the blood of jesus cleanses me from
all my sins
i still believe that there’s a place
called heaven
and i can have eternal life if i’ll put
my faith
in jesus christ now say i’m in lord
say this i’m all in lord i’m bought in
now lift your hands and praise him we’re
going to praise him just another minute
oh we thank you lord praise god
[Music]
in our closing moments i want to share
with you one of the unprecedented
opportunities
that god has opened up for this ministry
over the last several years
the work that we’re doing in israel is
absolutely critical
the eshkol region borders the gaza strip
and it’s plagued by near constant
rockets
and chaos and here we’re building
the eshkol region trauma center
we’ve broken ground on it and it’s under
construction
as i speak i believe that we are
fulfilling the biblical prophecy
of isaiah that he spoke about in the
40th chapter when he said
comfort ye comfort ye my people
i’m only going to ask you to seek the
lord
and see what he would have you do with
your help
we will finish this in just a few months
and have a grand dedication there in the
holy land
and you’ll have a memorial for your
family
in the holy land that says to god i
have loved the nation of israel i
believe god will pour out blessings on
you like you’ve never seen before
please do your very best we need your
help on this project
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well cherise and i are so excited about
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this is going to be the most special
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trips like this
it’s a form of blessing israel it’s a
form of saying i’m blessing
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i’m blessing the people
and when you do that there’s a blessing
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