This is “Eliminate Plan B from Forward 2023”. People don’t quit if they only have one option. The main reason people quit is that they have an alternate plan in mind. But that very thing you are holding onto is holding you down and preventing you from going up. If you’re going to live by faith, you must cut the ropes to option B! Satan is trying to weaken your determination to keep going. You must make the decision today to cut the rope to plan B and stick to God’s plan. To hear more inspiring messages from Jentezen Franklin, visit http://jentezenfranklin.org/watch?cid…
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look with me in your Bibles
to Acts chapter 27. let’s go down to
verse 30. and as the sailors were
seeking to escape
from the ship
when they had let down the skiff or the
Lifeboat into the sea
under pretense
that word pretense means they were
pretending
like they were putting out anchors from
the prowl
Paul said this to the Centurion and
soldiers unless these men stay in the
ship they cannot be saved
this is a strange verse verse 32 then
the soldiers cut away the ropes
of the Lifeboat or the skiff and let it
fall off
and I’m preaching tonight on eliminate
Plan B
in 1853 America hosted the world’s first
world fair in New York City
they built a beautiful exhibition Hall
called Crystal Palace
but they built this Crystal Palace it’s
the World’s Fair the first one
and the latest and greatest inventions
were to be showcased it was a massive
room like this room
and there was an inventor there by the
name of Elisha Otis
he was the inventor of the first
elevator safety break
and he was a brilliant man when it came
to
advertising his product
here’s what he did
he actually built a platform
from the roof of the building there were
thousands of people like this room and
imagine that suddenly you look up and
there’s a platform up in the sky they
actually have a picture of it
and this man Elisha
Otis he he built this platform
and he began got the whole attention of
thousands of people as he was over top
of them
and he did something very dramatic it
was an amazing sales pitch
he had a man on the side who had a sharp
ax and big muscles
and as he was standing there and he was
saying who he was and he said I have
invented a break that will catch an
elevator and not let it fall and kill
people and nobody believed him and at
that moment he turned
and he looked at the axe man and he said
Cut the Rope and the man swung the ax
and when he cut the rope the platform
began to fall
and suddenly every person in the room
began to grasp for breath and gasp for
breath and they begin to to to
scream and they didn’t know what was
going to happen and sure enough the
elevator break kicked in and the
platform stabilized and the world
thought everybody thought in that room
that if he cut the rope he would go down
but the truth was
if he would just have the courage to Cut
the Ropes that were holding him back
an elevator would take us higher than we
could ever imagine human beings could go
in an elevator
recently there was a story in the
newspaper that said America is becoming
a nation of quitters
as long as you have a plan B you are you
are someone who has in the back of your
mind I can always quit and revert to
plan d
Jesus did not die for you to have one
foot
in his kingdom and one foot on Plan B in
case you give up everything for him and
it doesn’t work out it will work out
you’ll go higher not lower he’ll release
you to high places that you never
dreamed you could go when you surrender
everything and eliminate Plan B
in Acts chapter 27 there were Sailors on
the ship
who wanted to abandon ship and who
wanted to give up
they said to themselves and the Bible
said they that Paul told them
I know that we’re in a storm let down
anchors and they catch this now and they
pretending
to let down anchors
let down a Lifeboat
they were
on the good old gospel Shield
and in that moment the Apostle Paul
discerned exactly what they were
thinking
and he says I’ve had an angel Stand By
Me This Night
and he said I know you’re pretending and
the Lord sent me to tell you except you
stay on this ship
you will never be where you thought you
would be because Plan B is not the
answer God’s way is the answer God’s
plan is the answer
the alternative is not the answer
I don’t know what your intentions are
after this conference
I don’t know what next week holds maybe
you got somebody that you’re planning to
go off to the beach with and you don’t
know what you’re going to get into I
don’t know what you’re planning about
next year in school but the Holy Spirit
sent you to this conference to cut some
ropes off of you so that whatever comes
your way you won’t give up you won’t
give in you will not jump ship because
those roads are coming off of you
tonight if you believe that give the
Lord a great praise right now
it’s time to let the Holy Spirit cut
some Roots off of your mind off of your
body off of your past cut some ropes of
Shame cut some ropes of condemnation I
don’t care what you’ve done I don’t care
how bad you’ve messed up God can cut the
rope and sever the soul ties from the
wrong people and the wrong places and
the wrong choices and you can go up in
his elevator to a new place of freedom
and joy and truly standing cleansed by
the blood of Jesus Christ
Goodbye Mr dope man
I’m cutting that rope
goodbye wrong friends I love you and one
day I might get to come back and be good
friends with you but I’m Gonna Cut the
Rope after forward conference and I’m
going to let God build me up so strong
that if I get around it it won’t get in
me I’ll be a light I’ll be powerful for
God you have to cut the rope we can
shout we can get up here and raise our
hands and pretend but it’s not until you
cut some rope some of you need to cut
the rope of alcohol cut it
oh I didn’t come to play games tonight
the Lord is ready to do something you’re
pretending and I know you say Well That
Sent Me to Hell no it’s not going to
send you to hell it’s going to send you
to heaven a lot sooner than you want to
go though and it’s time for you to cut
some roads and get free come on somebody
take a praise break and say Lord cut
some ropes off of me cut some depression
off of me cut some fear off of me cut
some addictions off of me
in Ezekiel chapter 8 and verse 16.
the Bible
said that Ezekiel had a division and he
went into the temple with this vision
and the Bible said he said I saw there
25 men with their backs to the temple
and their faces out toward the east
and they were worshiping the sun I want
you to look at me just a moment I want
you to imagine that this beautiful
piece of art or whatever that is right
there
is the holy of holies
in the temple
this is what your Bible says Ezekiel Saw
in the temple
he saw 25 young men in the temple
but they were not facing the Ark of the
Covenant they were not facing the
presence of God they were in the temple
but they were looking
out
toward
the world
they were in the right place
but they were looking in the wrong
direction
and it’s possible to be in the right and
I just want to preach a minute the
church is the right place
being with your youth group at forward
conference is the right place
reading the word of God is the right
place I don’t care what any Professor
tells you being in God’s presence is the
right place there’s no place like this
place surely the presence of the Lord is
in this place this is the right place
I was raised in church my parents are
were my dad’s gone on to be with the
Lord my mother’s still with us and boy
they taught us to be a part of church
and so I grew up in church and I grew up
playing musical instruments in church
and all I ever knew was church
but when I hit 15
I was in the temple
but I felt a little shift and a little
turn and it seemed like the world just
looked more and more and more attractive
to me and I had friends pulling on me
and I had peer pressure pulling on me
and I I was getting invites to parties
and just everything just looked so much
more exciting out there in the world
I started working at a Chinese
restaurant
I’d bust the tables and clean the tables
off
and they served wine in this restaurant
and
all my friends were drinking
all my friends were partying and all my
friends were getting drunk and hiding
sleeping with one another
I started just I just felt a turning I
was still in the temple I still went
ever I did I still went to church I was
even participating I was playing musical
instruments
but while I was in the temple
I started getting me a little
little Lifeboat
an escape boat
and sometimes on Sunday night when the
Holy Spirit would really move
I I would think about I was in the
temple but I was looking in the wrong
direction because I knew a party was
coming that Friday night
I knew what I was going to do
I had it all in my mind and I was
fooling everybody
and I started getting the wine off those
tables and I just drink it
I just drink if they left a half a cup
I’d drink it if they left a half a glass
I’d drink it you know teenagers are
crazy y’all are crazy I didn’t I didn’t
care about germs I didn’t care about
is wine
and I wanted to feel the buzz I liked it
and the more I did it the more I liked
it
there was a boy that worked there with
me about the same age he and I together
would do that
sometimes he would bring weed and we
would smoke the weed
now I want you to realize Satan was
lying to me saying you ought to take
this this this this little Escape boat
right here
I didn’t know the plan God had for me I
didn’t know I’d be standing in an arena
in Atlanta
for 20 years in this Arena preaching to
thousands and thousands of teenagers I
had no idea
later the Holy Spirit I had no
but the enemy said you need Plan B and
I’ll never forget it we didn’t we I was
raised in a preacher’s home and we
didn’t have any money or anything we
didn’t get to go on big Vacations or
anything like that ever
the thing we did was we went to Church
of God camp meeting
and we got to stay in a hotel and it had
a swimming pool
and I snuck me a bottle of wine this is
crazy I put the bottle of wine in the
bail of my tenor saxophone listen how
talk about pretending I knew my parents
knew I was acting shady
they knew something was off with me they
could tell in my spirit because you
ain’t fooling nobody when you’re
pretending
so I got smart I said I know they’ll
check my suitcase
so I’m gonna tell them I’m gonna play my
saxophone in the band at camp meeting
praise the Lord praise the lord I can’t
wait till after this service on Friday
night I’m gonna go back to the room and
I’m gonna get my bottle of wine up I
wrapped it up in a hotel
towel
while out of the hotel went down after a
Friday night camp meeting service went
to the pool and I started drinking and
oh I was feeling good and then one of my
relatives walked around the back way saw
me
called my daddy Billy Franklin
two weeks after camp meeting
he came in and he took his big long belt
I was 15 years old and he beat the red
wine out of my behind
he didn’t wait on me to cut the ropes
Cut the Ropes for me and I want to say
thank God for some people some parents
who will stay in your business they love
you they’re telling you the truth and
you need to listen because the enemy I’m
telling you I I know I know I know I
know everybody does everything now but
that’s all right we’re going to cut the
rope
we’re gonna cut the rope
we’re gonna cut the rope somebody throw
up your hands see nobody don’t want to
get excited about this yet but the holy
spirit is going to cut some ropes
in Acts chapter 19.
the Holy Spirit sent such a Revival see
we can’t we can’t just have good
services
and many of those who practice Magic
witchcraft
sorcery
satanism
talking to crystals
say answers
playing with white magic black magic
just playing with it reading occultic
books
those demons haven’t died
some of them have come the forward
conference but greater is he that is in
us and he that is in the world and we’re
going to cut those demonic ties off of
your life you don’t have to be a slave
you don’t have to look in the mirror and
hate yourself you don’t have to go and
kill yourself you don’t have to listen
to those demons that say you don’t
matter and nobody loves you we’re gonna
cut that rope tonight
and many of those who practice magic
brought their books together and burned
them in the sight of them all
and they counted up the value
and it totaled 50
000 pieces
silver
and you know what the Lord said to me
after he saved me I didn’t know I didn’t
know to do this he said I want you to
take all that music that you partied to
because if you keep listening to it
there is a soul tie that takes you back
to that moment and that place where you
were committing sins to that music
and I can hear that music now
but as a new Christian
it was connected to a spirit that I knew
could destroy me
and until the Lord
severed those cords in my life
and for a season
he said I want you
to cut all the ropes
cut all the people that keep you get
around them and there’s something in
them that pulls you down Cut the Ropes
and in that moment
that’s when God marked me
when I said yes
and it was not legalism it was not I
could it had something to do with giving
Jesus my everything
and I know this is a different message
and I know some of you
may not understand everything I’m saying
but the Holy Spirit knows how to talk to
you about the roots that are holding you
down because the thing that I want you
to understand more than anything else is
I promise you when the holy spirit says
cut it loose
if you’ll do it
and even more powerful if you’ll let him
do it tonight
the elevator is going to open
and he’s going to take you up
to a place that he has for you
that you’ve never been before
I think tonight
it’s time to
it’s time to eliminate Plan B
Cut the Ropes of Shame
Cut the Ropes of pretending
Cut the Ropes
of cutting
Cut the Ropes here’s a big one I can’t
believe I wrote this down Cut the Ropes
of cussing
Cut the Ropes of being a systematic liar
pretending
there’s no joy in that there’s no
freedom in there it’s when you sell out
to Jesus and you cut the rose
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