Contend For Your Faith | Jentezen Franklin

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hello I’m Jensen Franklin and I want to

welcome you to Kingdom connection today

in this nation of America we find

ourselves in a crucial moment in history

we’re living in a time when the Bible is

being called evil and the Very Act of

preaching is labeled as hate speech by

some it’s a heavy reality but we can’t

sit on the sidelines this election it’s

up to us the church the body of Christ

to take a stand and to defend our faith

one powerful way we can do that is to

vote and to vote for what the Bible

stands for vote Pro lifee vote pro

Israel and vote for capitalism it’s time

to rise up speak out and reclaim our

faith in every area of Our Lives I want

you to open your Bibles to the book of

Jude it’s the book right before the Book

of Revelation and I want you to read

with me a special in instruction that I

believe is for the time we’re living in

let’s go to God’s word

together together we’re inspiring people

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Jensen

Franklin the book of Jude I’ll begin

reading with verse three beloved while I

was very diligent to write to you

concerning our common

salvation I found it necessary to write

to you exhorting he wanted to write

about common salvation he wanted to go

in and preach on the Virgin birth the

death the crucifixion the resurrection

of Jesus Christ but he says God God is

shifted me and I found it necessary to

write to you exhorting

you to

contend earnestly for the faith which

was

once delivered to the Saints for certain

men have crept in unnoticed who long ago

were marked out for this condemnation

ungodly men who turn the grace of our

God into lewdness and deny the only Lord

God and our our Lord Jesus

Christ and verse 6 says and the angels

that did not keep their proper domain

not left their own Abode he has reserved

in Everlasting chains of judgment for

that great day as Sodom and gomorah the

cities round about in similar manner

these having

themselves having given themselves such

an important phrase having given

themselves over there is a point where

you give yourself over to to a lifestyle

to sin to to wickedness you give your

there’s a there’s a place where people

is no longer convicted it’s no

longer feeling bad it’s no longer the

conscience screaming you give yourself

over it’s a powerful powerful statement

I need to preach on that sometime that’s

not what I’m preaching on but notice

it and they have given themselves over

to sexual immorality and gone after

strange flesh and are set forth as an

example serving the Vengeance of Eternal

fire likewise also King James says these

filthy dreamers defile the flesh reject

Authority and speak evil of

dignitaries and then I I want you to

notice that verse one more time contend

verse three I earnestly exhort you to

contend earnestly for the

faith the reason you have to contend for

the faith is because there are those who

are the whole book is about false

teachers who come in and begin to preach

a different gospel the Bible Now by many

is regarded as an evil Evil

Book it’s filled with According to some

sexism racism homophobia

oppression to today to be moral is not

to obey the

Bible but rather to oppose the Bible by

many people who profess themselves to be

wise I believe that the United States of

America historically is where the Book

of Judges is there’s an interesting

historical comparison that I want to

show you for the next few moments the

Book of Judges covers the first 300

years of the nation of Israel and we are

in our

248th year we’re coming up on our

250th year in just two years so we’re in

the same era that Israel was in being

300 years old

and the same things that were happening

in that Society in the Book of Judges to

a nation that was founded by God blessed

by God were seen happen in our Nations

it was in that season that God raised up

a deliverer a mighty deliverer by the

name of Samson he was the 12th judge of

Israel and the final judge of Israel

they would ultimately Ely elect a king

but it was Samson who served as the

judge he served in a position that the

people had put him

in it’s interesting when you look at

Samson and the condition of Israel in

the Book of Judges and where we are as a

nation it’s kind of curious that Samson

was incredibly strong and resilient

the Bible tells us that the war that he

fought was against the

Philistines who are the ancestors of the

Palestinians and the area of land that

Samson rose up and fought over is

clearly described in the Book of Judges

I think it’s the 16th chapter where it

says he went down to Gaza to fight it

actually says that he went to Gaza which

is the Gaza Strip that Israel is

fighting for even as we speak he went

there to fight in the Book of Judges

people did not care what was right in

God’s eyes they only did what was right

in their own

eyes the Bible gave them warning after

warning for example Deuteronomy 6:18 do

what is right and good in the sight of

God Deuteronomy 12:25 do what is right

in the sight of the Lord Deuteronomy

12:28 do what is good and right in the

sight of the Lord Deuteronomy 13:18 do

what is right in the sight of the Lord

your God Deuteronomy 21:9 do what is

right in the sight of the Lord God

warned his people over and over and over

to do what was right not in their eyes

not how they saw things not how they

felt about things not how emotionally or

whatever but do what is right in the

eyes of God he said in Deuteronomy 12:8

you shall not do according to all that

you’re doing here today everyone doing

whatever is right in his own eyes and

then you move into the Book of Judges

and the theme according to theologians

of the whole book of judges in complete

Defiance to what God told them over in

over and over don’t do what’s right in

your eyes do what’s right in God’s eyes

and then in judges 17 and6 and judges 21

and 25 it says and everyone did what was

right in his own

eyes and when a nation begins to be

filled with people and especially in the

church that say I can do what is right

in my eyes even if it goes against what

is right in God’s eyes they are in a

crisis moment in Samson’s life he was

the last judge and he serves as a

painful example of doing what is right

in your own eyes and how devastating it

can be this I believe it is a summary of

what and where we are in America the

Bible said in judges 14 And1 notice his

eyes now God has said over and over

don’t do what what is right in your eyes

do what is right in my eyes but here we

go in judges 14 And1 Samson saw one of

the daughters of the Philistines he saw

her judges 14 and3 Samson said to his

father get her for me listen to the

words for she is right she is right in

my eyes judges 14 and7 she was right in

Samson’s eyes not in God’s eyes don’t

don’t just marry somebody because they

look right in your

eyes you better marry somebody that

looks right in God’s

eyes judges 16 And1 Samson saw a

prostitute and went with her he saw the

prostitute and he said this is looks

right he was a Nazarite he was keeping

rules and he was set aside but when you

start going with what is right in your

eyes and ignoring what is right in God’s

eyes

that is when trouble is inevitable and

later in life there’s a tragic plot

twist to the story of Samson because

Samson who didn’t do what was right in

God’s eyes but did what was right in his

own eyes had his

eyes gouged out by the

Philistines they plucked his eyes out

because when you don’t do what is right

in God’s eyes and you keep doing what is

wrong in God’s eyes there are always

consequences and it’s amazing to me that

in judges 16 and verse

28 when Samson’s hair began to grow back

because we want to throw Samson in the

pile of losers but actually he hit rock

bottom and when he hit rock bottom in

the prison grinding meal his hair began

to grow back his Covenant with God his

relationship with God began to grow back

and the Bible said that they took him to

the Temple of Da of the Philistines to

make fun of him to make sport of him and

suddenly the the young lad puts his

hands on the pillars of the temple and

he in a moment of final Triumph from

defeat and From the Ashes he pushes on

those pillars the strength and anointing

of God hits him and he tears down the

home of the the the house of worship of

the Philistines and suddenly Revival

hits the nation of Israel and that would

bring about the greatest Prophet Israel

has ever had Samuel the word said that

not one of his words fell to the ground

Samson was a political leader who did

what was right in his own eyes not God’s

eyes but I think God for the fact that

God says I choose people I knew he had

problems I knew he had issues but I’m

going to use him and he ends up in the

Hall of Fame and God’s Hall of Fame in

the New Testament in Hebrews chap 12

he’s one of the heroes because God is a

God who wouldn’t give up on a man who

was a war womanizer a man who had so

went with prostitutes he went to a

brothel in the middle of the day your

Bible says that he was a gambler he had

a g he gambled with the wedding party of

30 wicked men who came to his wedding

and said if you tell me the riddle you

have to give me 30 outfits of garments

and the scripture said that they gambled

and and and they got they went to

Delilah I don’t mean to get into this

but here I go they got into Delilah they

go into Delilah and they said tell us

his secret and that’s when the secret

stuff started telling cuz they told it

and to make a long story story short he

got mad and killed them all amen but he

had a crazy temper he he had all kinds

of

issues but God said I’m not done with

him and I chose him and I didn’t ask

your permission that’s who I chose what

do you

do the Bible said that in this time

frame the second thing that happened is

they began to worship along with Jehovah

they worship two demon gods baale and

Ashera baale was a male God and Ashera

was a female god baale means the god of

Fame the god of money the god of success

in America we’re seeing these things

Fame popularity success and money bigger

in our eyes than doing what is right in

God’s eyes and then Ashera was a demon

of lust she represented pleasure sex

Beauty and seduction today in the

western culture we have an invasion of

the porn industry and sex trafficking

and prostitution and friends with

benefits and even in the church there is

fornication and sexual immorality and

Young young people hooking up and and

and people who are not valuing marriage

but saying we’ll just move in and try it

out and live together and I’m not here

to beat up on people but I’m here to

preach the truth of God’s word we must

be careful we must be careful when sin

becomes so easy that we no longer have a

conscience that even bothers us When sin

is mentally and verbally

defended there’s something wrong

churches are woke pastors are afraid of

criticism Christians are willing to

compromise on everything and do what is

right in my eyes it’s all right if I

want to get drunk in my eyes it’s all

right if I want to commit adultery in my

eyes it’s all right if I’m if I want to

live with my lover in my eyes it’s all

right to get an abortion I want but what

about in God’s

eyes you cannot be

biblical and not be political what do

you mean Daniel was biblical and Daniel

was political he affected the whole

political system when he went before

Nebuchadnezzar with the anointing of God

on him and he broke through the powers

of the enemy and walked through the fire

Hallelujah and came out unburned because

God was with them in the fire Esther was

political but she was biblical and you

can’t be biblical without it mixing into

your politics so don’t tell me to stay

out of it everything we are is supposed

to be biblical including the

political you see the lines have been

drawn by the word of God

gender has been drawn by the word of God

there’s only two options male and female

marriage has been drawn by the line of

God one man with one woman for life that

is God’s plan that is God’s Will and

it’s the right way will God forgive

divorce yes but the one you’re in you’re

responsible for make it work and quit

jumping from bed like a

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like a jumping bean

amen sex is solely for married

heterosexual couples that’s the line

that’s been drawn so I but I see like I

see it like this and here’s how we don’t

care how you see it you are wrong the

Bible is right and you better do it

God’s ways these things still matter

it’s still Purity still matters the word

of God still

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matters saying today that we must

contend for the faith I looked that word

up contend it means to exert intense

effort that’s not something laid back

the church can’t be silent the church

can’t be quiet the pool pits can’t be

quiet we are to we are contending for

the faith now we’re hearing another

gospel he said did you notice what he

said he said in Jude he said be careful

because evil men who are lustful will

creep in one one translation said like

like like that of an alligator that just

creeps into the water there’s a lot of

creeps amen they’re creeping they’re

creeping in saying that that that that

the mutilation of genitalia is fine and

that you that you we should use the

government should usurp authority over

parents they should have no say so if an

8-year-old feels like that if they’re

born a male and they want to be a female

and they want to have surgery a 9 10 13

14 do you understand these are perfectly

healthy teenagers and young people going

through things that we all went through

confusing things sometimes and they

don’t need surgeries and they don’t need

all kinds of

uh doctrines of devils being taught to

them in their mind they need to cont we

need to contend for the faith when you

see this stuff taking over you have to

contend for the

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faith the word contend denotes strous

struggle expend one’s energy in order to

Prevail sexual sin of every sort is

happening and he says listen one

translation said to fight standing upon

the thing which is under

assault to

fight standing upon the thing which is

under assault do you not understand that

there is a demonic pressure that is

coming on all of us to blur the line of

the word of God to erase the line to

give more and more territory and at some

point folks if you’re real Christian

this see there are fake Christians

that’s what Jude was calling out he said

they’re creeping in they’re lustful

they’re saying that that that that that

the real gospel is one of Tolerance of

sin not repentance of

sin and they will even even even use

some of these things when you see people

running for office and their main issue

is I promise you that I will allow you

to kill babies all the way up to

birth what is going on that’s the main

issue that’s the main

issue and the world and the church says

it’s okay it’s not okay in your eyes it

might be okay but it’s not okay in God’s

eyes because he said before you were in

your mother’s womb I formed

you I knew

you and I called you to be a prophet to

the

Nations contend against Godless

government Christian pastors hear me

today who declare that you’re going to

avoid political issues and you’re never

going to stand up because you don’t want

to split your congregation

one day you’re going to stand before the

Lord I I tell you what if I lose people

for telling the truth I’m okay with that

and I don’t want to I don’t want anybody

to think if you don’t vote like I vote

that I don’t love you and that you don’t

belong here that’s you that’s you that’s

you between you and God but I must

contend for the faith I must contend and

stand on that word and defend

it we can disagree but but we can’t

change and edit this book it is what it

is in the eyes of

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God it’s time for us as the Bible says

in Jude chapter one and verse three to

contend for our faith to stand up and to

do what is right not in our eyes but in

God’s eyes we cannot separate our

Biblical views and values from our

voting this is the most important

election in American history I encourage

you to look at the platforms of the

parties look at the people who are in

the parties and what they stand for and

then vote whoever is closest to biblical

values we need it in this nation let’s

turn back to God I want to ask every

viewer that’s watching me right now that

knows that you need to get right with

God this is the moment that you need to

be on the right side and that is I

believe knowing that you have secured

your faith in Jesus Christ and all you

have to do is ask so pray this prayer

say Jesus cleanse me and forgive me wash

me and save me and my family in times

like these we need the solid rock to

build our life Upon Jesus Christ and

Lord I want to be ready I want to be

ready should you come or should you call

me home and I receive you as my savior

today in Jesus name if you prayed that

prayer dial the number that’s on the

screen or go online and correspond with

us and let us know what God has done in

your life well as many of you know the

past 5 years we’ve been building

life-saving projects in the nation of

Israel especially in southern Israel and

the eso region I ask our partners at the

Jewish National Fund what was the

greatest need to help the 177,000

residents in the region and they said

that we’re going to push back the

darkness of hate and anti-Semitism with

light Jesus said I am the light of the

world and whoever follows me will never

walk in darkness but will have the light

of Life we’ve been called to be the

light in the darkness and that’s why

we’ve committed the single largest

amount of funding in our history to

partner with the Jewish National Fund to

rebuild and renew the whole ESO region

this is a $15 million three-year project

and phase one is all about safety that’s

why we’re building civil defense centers

and over 800 safe houses making sure

every family in the region has a safe

room in case of terrorist attacks please

make a stand and join with us to support

the the nation of Israel together we’re

fulfilling biblical Prophecy in the holy

land and remember Genesis 12 and verse

three I will bless those that bless

Israel I want to be on that blessing

side watch this and see how you can get

involved on October 7 Israel was

attacked by the dark Forces of Hamas it

was the worst massacre of the Jewish

people experienced since the Holocaust

the eshal region in southern Israel was

attacked directly

women faced unspeakable atrocities

infants were assassinated numerous

families were burnt alive and both

mothers and their babies and Holocaust

survivors were abducted to the Hamas

tunnels in Gosa and now we stand at a

pivotal moment poised to provide a

Lifeline for the people of eskal who

continue to be attacked by terrorists

every day Jens and Franklin media

Ministries recently committed the

largest amount of funding ever towards

the initiative light over Darkness phase

number one provides physical safety that

is why we are building civil defense

centers and over 800 safe houses making

sure every family in the region has a

safe room in case of terrorist attacks

this is home Israel is our place this is

the safest place we can be and this safe

room became our little Safe Haven it’s

something that every single person in

our area needs I can’t stress it enough

that it saved Our Lives it saved my

husband’s family life on in the 7th of

October and it will continue to save

lives when you give to a project like

this there is a promise for you found in

Genesis 123 I will bless those who bless

you Israel together we can demonstrate

that Faith combined with Collective

action can illuminate the darkest

moments and Forge a brighter more

hopeful future for the Holy

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