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give him glory and honor and praise give
glory and honor and praise you be healed
in the name of Jesus in your body you be
healed in your mind of depression
hopelessness
Darkness worry
torment you be healed in your
family contention strife
you be healed in your marriage you be
healed in your
future your future shall be
brighter path of the righteous grows
brighter and brighter not darker and
darker he is life and he is in this
place today do you believe
that incredible you can be
seated if you have your Bibles you can
open them with me for a few moments
we’ll go wherever the Lord wants us to
go and be
done I’m reading from Judges chapter 17
I’ll begin reading with verse 6 Judges
chapter
17 in those days there was no king in
Israel everyone did what was right in
his own
eyes that’s a dangerous time in a nation
when everybody does what was right and
we don’t have a king
named
Jesus and now there was a young man from
Bethlehem in
Judea of the family of Judah notice it
mentions his
family he was a levite which means he’s
in the L lineage of priest and he and he
started staying there and the man
departed from the city of Bethlehem of
Judea to stay wherever they could find a
place and then he came to the mountains
of ephra him in the house of Micah as he
journeyed or some translations say so
journeyed it’s an interesting
word Micah said to him where do you come
from she said to him I am a levite from
Bethlehem in Judea and I’m on my way
somewhere else is what he’s saying to
find a place to
stay mic said to him dwell with
me dwell with me and be a father and a
priest to me and I will give you 10
shekels of silver per year a suit of
clothes and your
substance shelter food so the levite
went in the levite notice big big word
was
content he was content to dwell with the
man the young man came like one became
like one of his sons to
him so Micah consecrated the levite and
the Young young man became the priest
and lived in the house of
Micah then Micah said now I know that
the Lord will be good to me since I have
a levite as a
priest you read the next chapter and he
set up an
idol in his house started worshiping it
and he said it’ll be all right it’ll be
all
right I’ve got me a hired
priest doesn’t matter how I worship who
I worship what I
worship I can worship
idols I have hired me a priest from
Bethlehem
Judea and in that moment this man had to
make a
decision was was he going
to was he going to basically sell
out his faith that he knew was
right to worship
another
God for contentment for security for 10
sheckles of silver per
year a change of
clothes and in some Bibles it says over
that
section when the priest became a
professional
you and I’m preaching today on I refuse
to be a
professional because we’re New Testament
priests you are and I am you think the
preacher is the only one that’s a priest
but the Bible said in the Book of
Revelation we’re all Kings and Priests
unto our
God and sooner or later you’re going to
have to make the same decision that this
young man had to
make who are you going to serve and who
are you going to love and are is your
faith in
God is it is it are you a professional
meaning when I say professional I don’t
mean that he was A Cut Above like a
professional
athlete in that moment he decided it
would become a profession for
him not a
passion it would become a job for him
not a
joy it would become
a life not the
life it would become something that was
taught but it would not be really really
treasured all week long you’d come here
a little teaching and then go back and
forget about
it and every Christian we’re living in a
defining time where playing church is
over and if you’re for sale and the
enemy can make you cont
tent he will make you a bargain and you
can become a lukewarm Christian if you
want
to are you one of those Christians
that’s become a professional
Christian you do your
duty you’ve become
content where’s the
passion where’s the longing where’s the
yearning where’s that move of God that
matters more than silver or
gold I’m a blessed man God has blessed
me mightily but I can tell you I am not
a professional I don’t care how blessed
I get I can’t trade out I’d Rather Have
Jesus I’d rather and I don’t know if you
have to choose sometimes but I do
believe your heart your heart has to be
holy committed to Jesus Christ and then
he can trust
you
when’s the last time God broke you
loose when’s the last time your your
your tears were streaming down your face
I don’t care who you are because you
were so overwhelmed at the fact that God
is so good and so precious and so mighty
that the world can’t give it and the
world can’t take it away
everybody give him a hand clap of praise
and
I notice that this young man was from
Bethlehem
Judea and he decided to Journey or so
Journey away from that in the opposite
direction he came from Bethlehem Judea
little tiny little Country Bumpkin
little town in Israel those poor
ignorant people who worship God they
they look at them look at them they
don’t have nothing they don’t know the
big lights of Sodom and gomorah they
don’t know all the world has to offer
look at that little little dinky place
called Bethlehem Judea it’s a picture of
the church and it’s a picture of a
generation of kids that have been raised
in the
church and then they decide to so
Journey or Journey down another path
because I’m tired of I’m tired of that
life I don’t want that life and you’ve
taken it for granted is the
truth I’ve I’ve preached long enough to
seen this thing go full circle I’ve seen
people be in church raised in church
leave go out go off the University party
Live It Up always sin leaves you in
shambles always sin leaves you broken
always sin in takes more than you want
to give always it ends up so so dark and
I’ve seen them come back home and I’ve
seen them and they’re even in this room
here today and they can say truly I
didn’t really appreciate where I came
from I just want to preach that
Bethlehem Judea is still a wonderful
place to be
from I’m so glad I was raised in church
I’m so glad that I came up in church I’m
so glad that I was taught little songs
from my childhood to
bi I’m so glad my mom and my daddy
raised me in church we went to church on
Sunday morning we went to church on
Sunday night we went to church on
Wednesday night we went to prayer
meeting we went to this we went choir
practice I didn’t know how to play no
musical instruments I got in the choir I
had to learn musical instruments in
church everything about my life I am
nothing but old church boy I’m from
Bethlehem Judah which means praise and
I’m telling you if if you’ve been raised
that way and you’re listening to me
preach right now you’ve been raised in
this thing you are ruined go on out go
to your University let some Godless
Professor tell you that the Bible’s a
lie and God isn’t real and how ignorant
those people are but I want to Proclaim
name Bethlehem Judea is a blessing if
you’ve been raised by Christian parents
you got a granny who knows how to pray
it’s not a curse it’s a blessing I don’t
believe I believe this boy was saying I
can’t wait till I get 18 I can’t wait
till I get out of this old dumb
religious mess over here can’t do this
can’t do that I’m gonna go out I’m going
to do everything I want to
do preaching better than y’all letting
on
it’s still a good
place woo I we all shout right there a
minute it’s still in in in in times like
these I’m glad I got one stable thing in
my life if I can just get to the house
of God if I can bring all my mess and
all my problems and all my burdens and I
can get in The Presence of
Jehovah
he wipes my tears away he picks me back
up he says you can do all things through
me get up and try again and you can walk
out of this place saying I am more than
a conqueror through Jesus Christ take a
praise break wherever you are and give
God some glory for Bethlehem Judea the
church
every step you take away from God is a
step
down Jonah stepped down from japa to
Tarsus he went down and then the Bible
said he went down into the ship he went
down and then he went down into the
ocean he went down and then he took
another step and went down into the
fish’s belly down down down down
down every step you take away from the
church every step you take away from the
faith of your father or your mother or
whoever had faith in your F every step
you take in the opposite direction of
what you know what they had you know
they had a walk with God every step you
take away from
that because culture will curse it
culture will tell you you’re crazy I
believe that that this priest was like
the modern Ministry today probably had a
rainbow flag out outside the
church a Hired
Gun just say what we want you to say
don’t say what we don’t want you to say
if you don’t know by now this ain’t that
church we just want to say what the Lord
says it’s not about us it’s not about us
it’s about what does this book say this
book says Thou shalt not lie Thou shalt
not steal Thou shalt not kill Thou shalt
not take the name of the Lord thy God in
vain blankety blank blankety blank Thou
shalt not go into a drug store and take
up to
$999 and run out with it in the street
as long as you don’t take $1,000 you
can’t be arrested what have we come to
this is a generation that has lost its
way there’s nothing good to to come from
going in a different direction
away from Bethlehem
Judea and I’m telling you we’re living
in a time where we need to say again the
fact that there’s a there’s hundreds and
hundreds and hundreds of children on the
lower level of this building having
their brain indoctrinated with the Bible
and the word of God and I’ve been
telling our team I want I want to go
back to old school I want Bible
memorization I want them to know the
Books of the Bible I want them to be
able to quote the scripture left and
right I said I want you I I want them to
win big prizes I want them when they
graduate from high school if they can
quote the books of the Bible and
everything else we can get them a
scholarship we can send them to a Bible
school or some good college we’re not
going to send them to some woke place
where they’re told God isn’t real and
mock everything that’s ever good in our
society oh come on and help me pre
preach just a minute we got to get it
back we got to get it in our children
Deuteronomy 6 talk about it in the
morning talk about it in the afternoon
talk about it in the house talk about it
in the car talk about it all day long
pra Jesus speak Jesus lift up
Jesus this casual Christianity being a
professional Christian come on kids get
get get in the church hurry up hurry up
and when we get over let’s get out of
here and then it’s then it’s right back
turn the radio on to blankety blank
blankety
blank what is wrong with us he’s a holy
God he deserves he deserves our whole
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heart I I know I know I know but see
this is this is what you don’t know I’ve
been doing this a long time and I’ve
watched the little uh nicey nicy church
I’m tired of nicey nicy peeeee Herman
Christians we need a Revival we need
young people to see the glory of God we
need the Holy Ghost to fall on the house
until they are filled with the spirit
and so filled with the vision of God for
their life that culture can’t turn
around and I don’t know who I’m
preaching to but I want to know are
there any Christians listening to me who
refuse to be a professional I want
passion I want fire I want anointing I
want love for God above
all I want to pray for miracles in your
home and in your life I believe that God
can still save your family I believe
that God can restore your mental health
and give you power over depression and
fear and torment Lord in the name of
Jesus I pray for every person watching
me people who are being attacked
mentally people who are being oppressed
and having mental health struggles I
speak healing and health to their mind
to their bodies Lord stretch forth your
hand to heal cancer and heart disease
and
all kinds and manner of sickness and
Lord I just believe you’re a restorer of
families and homes put back together
what Satan has tried to destroy I plead
the blood of Jesus over you and we call
it done by faith and if you don’t know
him as your savior say Jesus save me
cleanse me by your blood I call on your
name wash me and restore me in your
mighty name Jesus amen and amen man
praise God I’d love to hear from you if
you feel like the Lord speaking to you
today and maybe you’re a backslider
that’s watching this and you’ve come
back to the Lord that’s why we are here
we have this mission to reach and be a
kingdom Connection in your life to
connect you to Jesus Christ before I go
I want to take a moment to thank you
from the bottom of my heart so many of
you have supported this ministry we’ve
been able to send amazing support to the
nation of Israel we have been there in
the village of eso and the region there
where we saw this invasion of Hamas and
the horrible horrible terrorists we ask
our friends and partners and ESO
recently what can we do after that
attack on the 7th of October what are
your greatest needs and you know what
they told us it kind of surprised me
they said in very clear terms the
greatest thing thing you could do for us
Pastor Franklin is if you could build us
a resilient Center that’s what they
asked me and they gave it the title and
I said what is that and they said our
children our elders our women our our
soldiers are suffering from PTSD no one
doesn’t have effects that are after
effects of what happened on when the
terrorists attacked on October the 7th
this building that we are going to build
them this year will serve as a Beacon of
Hope it will be a place where mental
health can be restored and peace and
hope and love can be felt thank you and
please continue to pray for the nation
of Israel we cannot fail to stand with
Israel in times like these over the past
5 years friends and partners of Jensen
Franklin media Ministries have worked to
help build an amazing Kingdom play
school four fortified bomb shelters and
a fire station for the esal region in
southern Israel near Gaza on Saturday
October 7th at this exact location Hamas
broke through the border and entered
Israel thankfully we can report that
these shelters and projects played a
vital role in protecting Israeli
families from this terror attack
together we have stood shoulder toosh
shoulder with the brave people of these
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stand with Israel that’s why we’re
partnering with the Jewish National Fund
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ashol on October 7th the need for
psychological support is critical more
than ever thank you Pastor Jensen and
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