Blessings That Outlive You | Jentezen Franklin

Abraham was one of the most significant men in the history of the world, but he was not a perfect man. When faced with a famine, he moved in fear instead of faith. Any time you make decisions out of fear, you will mess up. But when you make a decision out of faith, it will not just go well with you but can affect future generations. To hear more inspiring messages from Jentezen Franklin, visit http://jentezenfranklin.org/watch?cid… & subscribe to this channel: http://goo.gl/yfkXHy Tell us more about what’s going on in your life: Let us pray with you: https://jentezenfranklin.org/contact?… Share your testimony to encourage us and others: https://jentezenfranklin.org/contact?… See our outreach programs: https://jentezenfranklin.org/outreach… Stay Connected to Jentezen Franklin:   / jentezen     / jentezen     / jentezenfranklin   Donate to help us share the gospel around the world through Kingdom Connection broadcasts and other humanitarian outreaches: https://jentezenfranklin.org/donation…

and I want to talk to you today about

passing on a blessing that outlives you

did you know that’s

possible did you know that it’s possible

to pass on a blessing that can outlive

you I’m going to start out you’re going

to wonder where in the world am I going

but I know I can get there cuz I did it

in the first service so uh uh I was

wondering myself but we but we got there

but I want you to look with me in

Genesis chapter

12 this is God speaking to Abraham I

will make you a great

nation I will bless

you I will make your name great your

family name will be

great and you shall be a blessing that’s

that’s the that’s the definition of

being great is when it’s not just about

you and I will bless those who bless you

and I will curse him who curses you

speaking of the nation of Israel and in

you all the

families of the Earth shall be blessed

God blesses you to make you a

blessing don’t miss that and now I want

to go down to

verse let’s go down to verse 10 and

there was a famine in the land and Abram

went down to Egypt to dwell in the

famine was severe in the land and it

came to pass as he came close to

entering Egypt that he said to Sarah his

wife indeed I know that you’re a woman

of beautiful countenance by the way she

was 70 something years old when he said

that and she was the Bible says she was

a a gorgeous beautiful woman at the age

of 70 so much so he says this in verse

12 therefore it will happen when the

Egyptians see you that they will say

this is his wife and they will kill me

but they will let you live now this is

the strangest thing youve ever seen

next please say that you are my sister

this is Abraham saying this to his wife

when they come to kidnap you they’re

going to kill me if they know I’m your

husband so I need you to I need you to

propagate a a lie here for my sake I

want you I want you to see it’s holy and

as mighty and as awesome as Abraham was

his name his literal name means father

the book of Hebrews the Hebrews 11 the

Hall of Fame calls Abraham the father of

our faith but I want you to see the

other side the Bible is a brutally

truthful book and it doesn’t just give

us the successes of people it shows us

in the weakest worst moments he’s having

one please say that you’re my sister

listen that it may be well with me for

your sake

and that I may live because of

you and it was when Abram came into

Egypt the Egyptians saw the woman that

she was very beautiful and I won’t take

time to read we’ll stop right there and

I’ll sum it up in a

minute but the very thing he predicted

happens Abraham is the most one of the

most if not the most significant men he

certainly is one of the most

significant men in the history of the

world and I want you to see patterns I

want you to see Cycles I want you to see

something that maybe you’ve never seen

in this that in our

families the old saying that came from

the 1600s like father like son like

mother like daughter there are traits

and we’re not here to beat up men this

morning we’re here to build up men this

church is about building up

men and I want to touch some things

today of what are you passing on and

what will outlive

you because God has a plan for our

families in Genesis

12 the text said that there was a famine

where they were and in fear Abraham

makes a decision every time Abraham

makes a decision in faith it’s a good

decision every time Abraham makes a

decision in

fear I’m afraid and I’m panicking and

I’m going to do this and I haven’t

prayed about it I haven’t asked God

about it I haven’t I’m just under

pressure and we got to do something the

famine is hitting everything’s drying up

we’re going to go to Egypt did he ask

God no did he pray about it no did he

did he seek God’s counsel no he made

major decisions in life out of fear not

out of

faith and when he did they were

disastrous and

so he he takes his wife to Egypt and

just like he predicted the Egyptian

princes saw his wife how gorgeous she

was they went to pharaoh and they said

you want this woman in your

herum and when they come to take her he

says now honey I’ve got this great idea

I know you love

me and I know you don’t want to see me

suffer and any harm come to me so I want

you to tell them when they come that you

are my sister

and I’m going to tell them that you are

my sister that it may go well with

me and you’ll become a part of an evil

Pharaoh’s

herum he’s going to abuse you he’s going

to do all kinds of things to you but

take one for the

team it’s going to be fine I’ll be

okay I’m going to really miss

you how many of you know this man needs

some marriage counseling right here

that my life may be spared for your sake

talk about

selfishness what a Gody that my life may

be spared I’m doing this for you honey

I’m giving you to another man to be God

only knows what and it’s all because I’m

so unselfish that I’m going to keep

myself for you

alive and the bble said that before he

could consummate before Pharaoh could

consummate and abuse that woman that he

brought into her Palace named

Sarah that God sent a plague if you read

the rest of that chapter sent a plague

to Pharaoh’s house and a plague came on

pharaoh and his whole house and he says

get out of my house I don’t want you he

something is

wrong now the reason this is so

important is because God had made a

promise to

Abraham the promise that God had made to

Abraham was that you’re going to have a

child and that that child is going to be

called Isaac and out of Isaac will come

a child named Jacob and Jacob’s name

will be changed to a nation’s name

called Israel that boy will have 12 sons

and they’ll become a mighty nation

called Israel and out of that Nation

will come one boy that will be born

David will be coming out of the tribe of

Judah one of the boys names was Judah

and he’ll have a descendant named Mary

and Mary will have a descendant named

Jesus all of this is hanging by a

thread and God is in heaven saying

Abraham don’t give your wife to another

man because the seed that’s coming from

your family is going to bless all the

families of the earth and he almost gave

that Miracle of that family away I guess

what I want to say to you who are here

today is please don’t give your wife

away please hold on to her you have no

idea the blessings that are connected to

us standing strong in our marriages was

it a good idea no it was not a good

idea God put plague on Pharaoh’s

house and God stopped it God stopped it

from taking place the beautiful thing

about God is when we make a covenant

with him and that’s what Abraham did

under the old Covenant he shed the blood

of an animal and he said God in heaven I

make a covenant with you and God said

that’s the blessing you that you heard

me read at the beginning of this message

that I’m going to bless you and out of

you all the blessings of families will

flow and the enemy tried his best

through a stupid decision to destroy

that whole purpose and plan of God for

that family and you would

think that if God spared you I I cannot

imagine when when he released Sarah and

Abraham I wonder I wonder if that was

not a new form of birth control for

about two months there I’m just curious

I’m not sure but but but I I don’t know

if they made up real quick but but but

God completely stopped a disaster from

taking place and you would think Abraham

would never do that again right how many

of you men would do that again if I

offered Sharice up to somebody to make

myself safe she would stab me in the

liver with a knife she she would she

would she would say you don’t need to

fear Him you need to fear me

I will I will cut you I will hurt you

she would I cannot imagine this

situation but even crazier than that I

cannot imagine him doing it again but

you’re not watching I want you to see

Cycles now cycles that start occurring

once you let the enemy into the family

it’s a cycle and I’m going to give you

the bad news first and then I’m going to

give you the good news then you go to

Genesis chapter 20 it’s 20 years later

this is pretty amazing ladies Sarah is

now 90 something years old and this is

what it says quickly and Abraham

journeyed to the south 20 years later

and he goes to a place called guer and

the next verse says and Abram said of

Sarah his wife it’s the old

Switcheroo I’m going to tell them you’re

my sister they’re going to come and

they’re going to say you’re beautiful

and I want you to go along with the

secret little

lie and he does it

again you would think that they would

learn but he’s a man and that’s what men

do you would think they would learn the

first time I’m just going to throw this

in for free you would think that Target

would have learned from Bud Light and

you would think that that that the

Dodgers would have learned from Target

and

budlight and you would think the White

House would have

learned flying to some other flag above

the flag of the United States but what

you don’t learn sooner or later you’re

going to

learn that God’s word is

right and everything else else is wrong

and there is a difference between men

and women regardless of what the

university

says I know that to be a

fact and the reason he did this again is

because he’s a man and we just do things

over and over and over and over and

there’s a difference we had four

daughters Courtney Carissa Caroline

Connor and then Drake came along and it

seemed like all the time Sharice would

ask me about Drake she knew all about

she had a PhD in what girls do but she

knew nothing about what boys do and she

would say is that normal for him to do

that is that normal he I want to say all

the things I I I would say well is that

normal he he he he’d just be out in the

yard he’d just start peeing just just

pee he he’d be walking down the mall pee

in a plant just I said that’s what boys

do that’s what men would do if they

wouldn’t get arrested this just

something about it that is very U manly

or freeing and that’s how Adam

did and then when we come of age we have

to stop but that’s why we start hunting

so that we can go back out in the woods

and do it again it’s just what men do

leave us alone we don’t want to be like

you and I want you to watch this though

Watch God’s Amazing Grace this guy does

the same thing over and he’s and he’s

even having his wife enter into a secret

lie that is a

family cycle and pattern that is doing

everything it can to steal kill and

destroy the destiny and the purpose of

this family and the Bible said that

ailec took Sarah thinking that she was

Abraham’s sister and that night before

he could lay his hands on her and

violate her this is what your Bible says

it said and the Lord came to AMC in a

dream and said to him I love the

subtlety of God you’re a dead

man God is calling somebody right

now to whom the to the bail

toes it might be Heaven

calling you that’s what you ought to get

for letting your phone but know but Lord

have mercy you are a dead

man because of the woman that you’ve

taken and he looks

out and he says I did this out of the

Integrity of my heart I didn’t know he

had more Integrity than Abraham

had and he looks out and he calls Sarah

in and he says now look I didn’t know

that your brother or your husband or

what whatever

this crazy thing y’all got going on I

don’t want to be in the middle of it and

he gives them silver and gold and sends

them

away God intervenes

again God intervenes and breaks the

pattern and the cycle and you would

think that it’s over you’re not going to

believe this I’m I’m almost where I want

to be I’m going somewhere and I’m going

to get there quick but go to one more

verse Genesis 26 Abraham and Sarah just

as God

promised by the way that ABC said get

out of my house and he sent her away and

then she got pregnant at 99 years

old she gets pregnant from

Abraham and the scripture said in

Genesis 26 they had a son named Isaac

and he married a girl named Rebecca who

is extremely beautiful

beautiful and the sun now begins to do

question was Isaac born when they played

those little tricks when they

lied he wasn’t even there there was a

cycle there was a

pattern spiritual curse that was being

passed down and propagated

through and I’m going to show you that

in a moment and so Isaac gets in a a

Strange Land and he says to his wife say

that you’re my sister for I there it is

I’m afraid I’m making decisions out of

fear instead of Faith it’s a bad

decision God saved him too because God

had the plan they would have the son

named Jacob that would become the nation

of

Israel the point that I want to make

today that there seems to be something

possible about iniquity and sin that we

can so establish a pattern in a cycle

that it can be passed from father to son

from mother to daughter to from family

to family from generation to

generation and just as a generational

curse can be passed under the New

Covenant that Jesus established on the

cross of Calvary he cancelled all the

curses and he says when you receive my

blood upon your life and when you

receive my blood upon your family I

break these

cycles and that gener and just like a

generation can alcoholism it it can go

skyrocketing from generation to

generation the percentage of a person in

the Next Generation being bound by it

and becoming an alcoholic can can be

crazy if you look at it even

statistically I’m not even talking about

biblical thoughts I’m talking about the

same thing with with anger the same

thing with with uh evil that same thing

it just gets passed down in a cycle and

what the father and did the children the

sons begin to do the the violence the

anger the screaming all of it sin pass

from one to

another there are good things about it

in inherently genetically if your

parents are great athletes

congratulations there’s a good chance

that you’re going to be a great athlete

if your parents are musical there’s a

good chance that they talk about

neurological past and somewhere down a

generation I’ve not found my musician

yet in my family but I believe it’s in

the little grandchildren but somewhere

there’s some music genes in this blessed

family somebody’s going to learn how to

play somebody’s going to learn how to

sing I’m convinced of that they talk

about neurological patterns in your

brain that can go for generations and

then suddenly it wakes up in a

generation that was put there they have

scientific studies on this what am I

trying to

say I’m saying just as trauma can be

passed just as addiction can be passed

so can sobriety just as Brokenness can

be passed so can wholeness just as

trauma can be passed so can the power

and the grace of God it can be passed

pass and today we need to understand

that what God has provided through Jesus

Christ what he has done on the

cross if sin and iniquity can be

transferred from children to

grandchildren how much more can the

blessing of Faith the blessing of

worship you’re not wasting your time

this morning the blessing of honoring

God and bringing your family to church

and opening the Bible every deed

produces a seed every deed I do to draw

closer to God every deed produces a seed

in the Next

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