This is “So What if They Don’t Believe?” There are dreams and goals that God has placed within each of us. It may be a dream of starting a ministry or business, or it could be to see a loved one accept Christ. But what happens when your dream faces discouragement and doubt? In this week’s message, Jentezen Franklin gives you 3 keys to standing on the promises of God in the midst of opposition. 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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>> Thank you for
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>> I wanna go quickly,
but I wanna go to Romans 3:3.
“For what if some
do not believe?
Will their unbelief
make the faithfulness
of God without effect?
Certainly not!
Indeed, let God be true
and let every man a liar.
As it is written.”
I love this question Paul asked.
He said, “If God’s promised
you something,
if God’s put a dream
in your heart,
if God’s given you a word
about your family,
if God’s given you a promise
in the scriptures,
confirmed by His Spirit –
I’m not talking about just
something you wish and you want.
I’m talking about when God
has birthed a something
in your heart
and you know He’s spoken
to you about it.
He asked the question,
“What if some don’t believe?”
And so I’m gonna preach today on
“So What If They Don’t Believe?”
He said, “If they don’t believe
what God has told you that
you could do and would do
by His help and by His power
and His anointing.
If they don’t believe
in the dream that
He has given you,
if they say it will not happen;
you’re not talented enough,
you’re not gifted enough,
you’re not good looking enough,
you’re not important enough.
If everybody is not going
to believe in you can you
still hold on to it?
So many people just absolutely
allow the affirmation of people
to hold their dream hostage,
and the call and the purpose and
the plan of God for their life.
“When there is clearance from
all the right people then
I can believe it.”
But there comes times
in life where God will
give you stand alone faith.
And it’s not that you don’t need
people and it’s not that you are
arrogant and proud as though,
you know, you feel like you
can do everything,
“Oh, I don’t need nobody –”
That’s not what
I’m talking about.
I’m talking about when you
know that you know that you
know God said it.
Then you have to reach a point
that you being to ask
the question that Paul
asked when he said,
“So what if they
don’t believe?
Does that make the word
of God to no effect?
Does that make the faithfulness
of God canceled out?”
No.
He told me He was going
to do something.
Does their unbelief make
the word of God to no effect?
Can they cancel out what
you know God has promised
you in His word,
confirmed out of the mouth
of two or three witnesses?
You fasted about it,
you prayed about it,
you found it in the word,
you’ve got people praying
with you and you know that
you know there will always
be opposition to your dream.
So what if they don’t believe?
So what if they don’t
see what you see?
It’s your dream.
The dream doesn’t walk away
when they walk away,
He put it in your belly,
He put in your Spirit
of possibility,
He put it in you heart
and He gave you the giftings
to make it come to pass.
And I came to preach
to dreamers,
so what if they don’t believe?
Tell somebody beside you,
“It’s still going
to come to pass.”
Do it.
Do it.
Say it.
Say it out loud.
There’s still some things
in me that are going to happen
that haven’t happened yet.
You don’t have
to believe in my dream.
I hope you do,
I really want you to,
but I don’t base the dream God
gives me on who stays
and who goes.
If He gave it to me
He’s got the people lined up.
I want to give you three things
you need if you’re gonna hold
on to the dream God gives you,
and the promise and the word
that God gives you.
Three things.
Number one: You’ve got
to determine the origin
or the place that
that dream came from.
What’s the origin of the dream?
Is it God’s dream
or is it your dream?
Because God’s not obligated
to back up dreams
He didn’t give you.
Did it originate from God?
Secondly, you have to determine
the resources that you have.
Because they will fit
the dream that God gives you.
You gotta do inventory
of the gifts and the talents
and the skills and the abilities
that God has given you.
God has given you
resources and talents.
And the gifts that He’s given
you is enough in seed form –
they may have to be developed,
they may have to be coached,
they may have to be mentored,
somebody may have to show you
who you really are and help you
bring out some of the gifts.
But if God gave you the dream,
the talent, the gifting is not
in somebody else, it’s in you.
It should be an indication,
your gifts, your talents,
your desires should
be an indication
of the dreams that God
has for you.
I believe when God gives you
a dream He gives you what you
need to fulfill that dream.
The talent, the skill,
the ability.
If you can’t sing, I doubt God’s
called you to the praise team.
Everybody else knows that,
why don’t you accept that?
He puts it on the inside of you.
You’ve got what you need
to get the dream going.
It’s not in somebody else,
it’s in you.
“Well if they had noticed me.
If they had given me a break.
If that person would
give me that.
If that person would
open up that door.
If that person would do this
for me then I could do it.”
You know that was the mistake
that Sarah, Abraham’s wife
made in the Bible.
She had a dream to have a baby,
but she got so old and her
husband got so old and they were
not able, they were infertile,
and they couldn’t have a baby.
And do you know what?
She thought that her dream had
to come through somebody else.
But anytime God puts
the dream in you,
He puts the ability
to make it happen.
But she thought,
“Well what I’ll do is,
I’m tired of waiting on God
so what I’ll do is,
she went and told Abraham
to go into Hagar
and have a night there
and a little situation
and get her pregnant.
And see there,
that’s being born of the flesh.
And she gave birth
to Ishmael and she said,
“I’ll keep the baby.”
But the dream is dependent
upon somebody else.
Do you understand?
God never wants the dream
dependent on somebody else
doing what they do for you.
He allows all of that and puts
Kingdom connections
in your life,
but you can’t let —
because if you make that person
an idol or that situation
or whatever it is that you think
God has to use to make
it happen once you start
praying to those people,
“Help me, help me, help me.”
Then you start preying
on people because you
begin to try to motivate
and see them as your source.
Thank God for people.
But here’s what I’ve learned,
people are resources.
God is the source,
people are resources.
And sometimes resources change,
but the source is Jehovah Jireh
and He’ll always provide.
Clap your hands and say,
Amen Somebody.
God gave the dream but she
thought that the only way that
dream would be produced was
through somebody else’s
gifting and talent and body.
She started looking
to other people.
She looked to someone else.
God’s gonna birth your dream not
by somebody else’s gifts
and talents, but –
even when you feel like
you don’t have it.
You don’t know what you
have if God put it in you.
And when you compare yourself
to other people you
insult your creator.
When you compare and say,
“I wish I was that person.
I wish I had that.
I wish I could do that.
I wish I had that talent.”
I’m telling you today
that God said,
when He gave you the dream
He gave you the talent
and the ability.
And that’s why you need Him.
Without Him you can do nothing.
God says, “I’m not going to use
somebody else’s gifts.”
Look at somebody and say,
“You gon’ push this one out.
She thought Hagar would push
it out and give birth to it,
but you’re gonna push
this one out.”
He’ll give you a dream
and you can provide that dream.
Say Amen somebody.
The gifts are there,
the talent is there.
I’m gonna use you.
“If they, Pastor.
If they.
If they.”
That’s not God’s will.
If God’s called you He said,
“So what if they don’t believe?
You believe.”
I even thought about how
we get to a place where
the gifts that we have
we don’t even recognize
how powerful they are.
Sometimes you have to say
to yourself, “I’ve got it.
I’ve got it.
I can do this.
I’ve got it.
By His grace I’ve got it.”
“I can,” Paul said.
“I can do all things,”
there it is,
“through Christ who
strengthens,” somebody else.
“Me.”
God came Moses a dream.
He didn’t have
the support of Pharaoh,
he didn’t have the support
of the people he was
even trying to help,
but he kept believing it
and God brought
the dream to pass.
I was in California
a couple weeks ago,
Cherise and I.
And we had a sleep over
with the grandkids,
and little Luca and Leo,
five and four year old.
And I was telling them a story
in bed, a Bible story –
I do that and I use
my imagination with those
little children to hold their —
and so I told then about Moses,
and I told them about how
he had a stutter.
And I acted that out and he went
to the Pharaoh and first God
caught a bush on fire
and their eyes got big and
I just really did that up big.
And it ended up with him
standing before Pharaoh
and he said,
“Let my pe-pe-pe-people go.’
An-and-and all of sudden
Pharaoh said,
‘I will not do it.
I will not let them go.”
And I said, “You know what
happened Luca and Leo?”
They said, “What?”
I said, “God sent frogs.
And the frogs started hopping
up the stairs,
they came through the windows,
they jumped into
the fruit loops,
there were frogs hopping.
They were everywhere.
‘And then I put my hand
up under the sheet.
And I said,’ I think there’s
one in the bed now,
they’re all over the place.
Frogs, frogs.”
And they were giggling
and laughing.
And we went on playing
and then Cherise said,
“Get them to sleep.
Get them to sleep.”
And right before they were going
to sleep Luca spoke up
and he said, “I wanna
tell that story G-daddy.
I wanna tell that story about
Mo-Mo-Mo-Mo.”
I said, “Moses.”
He said, “I wanna
tell about Mo.”
And he said – and he started
telling, he did amazing job.
Said, “The bush exploded
and caught on fire
and God talked ‘and said,’
and Moses went before
Pharaoh and he said,
‘Le-le-le-le-le-let my-my-my-my
people-ple-ple-ple go.”
And he said – and little Leo,
his sister sat up
and just looking at him.
And she got drawn in again,
all over.
And then he said, “And you
know what God did, Leo?”
And she said, “What?”
He said, “God – ‘You know,
he’s have Australian.’
God sent Kangaroos and they
started jumping in the cereal
and jumping in the bed.”
Well I happen to believe
if God said it, He can use mice,
He can use lice,
He can use grasshoppers,
He can use kangaroos
if He has to,
but He’s got the stuff
if you would believe Him.
Clap your hands and say,
“Amen” somebody.
He said, she said, they said.
So what if they don’t believe?
What did God say?
The last thing that
I wanna say to you,
is never let the dream that
God gives you intimidate you.
And by that I mean in two ways;
sometimes when you hear a sermon
like this you feel like you’re
supposed to come up with
some big worldwide,
international dream.
And it almost makes you
feel like that –
what the dream God puts
in your heart is unimportant.
It’s not so big and grand,
seemingly.
But some of the most powerful
people in the Bible did
seemingly insignificant things.
And I thought about how
that Moses mother didn’t
get intimidated by the smallness
of her dream.
“Well what was the smallness?”
She had one dream in life.
“I want to raise Godly children,
in a culture that is anti-God.”
And the Bible said
that Pharaoh — and she —
“I don’t wanna be Hannah,
I don’t wanna be a prophetess,
I don’t wanna be the queen
like Ester, I don’t wanna be,
you know, some – I don’t wanna
write a best-selling book,
I don’t wanna do conferences
like Joyce, I don’t want that.
What I wanna be
is a great mother.”
And she was a bad momma.
Because – I’ma prove it to you.
When Pharaoh and all of his army
were killing all the male
children two years of age
and under, they killed every
child except hers,
because she hid him.
She hid him for three months
and when she couldn’t hide him
anymore that fabulous mother
made a basket out of bulrush
and put him in it and sent
him down the Nile river.
Alligators, crocodiles,
snakes, deep water;
an infant, a small toddler,
two years – under two years
of age in a basket floating
down a massive river.
But I need to tell some parent
that God knows how to keep
our kids in dangerous places.
God says, “They may be out
of your reach but they’re not
out of My reach.”
And when you raise them right
and you create a basket
of faith that you put them in,
they may be going down
the river and crocodiles
may be all around them,
but no weapon
formed against them.
I’m not saying they’re not gon’
go through some stuff,
but I am saying what we have,
so what if they don’t believe?
So what if right now they spit
on that Bible and mock God
and say, “I don’t believe
any of that stuff.
Virgin birth and resurrection.
I’ve gone to university
and I’ve been enlightened.
I’m woke.
I know what –”
You are not woke.
What you are is you gon’ find
out sooner or later through
the trials of life,
a little bit of time you
gon’ come running right
back to the very — C’mon.
So what if they don’t believe?
If you believe God
will be faithful.
See I still believe.
“Believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and thou shalt
be saved in thy house.”
Still believe Joshua
when he said, “As for me
and my house we will, ‘not me.’
We will, ‘not me and Cherise’,
we will serve the Lord.”
So what if they’re
on drugs right now?
I’m not making light of it,
I’m simply saying,
“So what if they’re backslid?
So what if they’ve gone
into another faith
and another religion?
Don’t you give up.
If God promised it.
He said, “I’m not a man
that I can lie.”
I need somebody to clap
your hands like you believe
the promise today.
Don’t let the smallness
of the dream – Can you see that?
Can you see that baby
going down there?
Watch the plan of God.
And while the baby is going down
the river Pharaoh’s daughter
just happens to be –
If she’s 5 minutes earlier
or 5 minutes later
the basket would have floated
on by in the current.
But she walks down
and she’s bathing
and she hears a baby crying.
And she reaches out
and grabs that basket,
and she picks up
that little baby.
And I must have been a little
biddy fella because she said,
“I love this baby,
but you know, what?
It needs something to eat
and I can’t feed this baby
I’m not able to
breast feed this child,
but I know that there’s a lot
of mother’s whose children
have been slaughter
by my father Pharaoh.”
And about that time there’s
one up in the bushes.
And she said, “I’ve lost
my child but I’ll be glad
to volunteer and take care
of that child.”
And it happened
to be Moses mother.
And he said, “Well if you’ll
do it my daddy Pharaoh,
he’ll pay for the diapers
and he’ll pay for the clothes
and he’ll pay you to do what
you would have done for free.”
What he didn’t know –
you know when you begin to do
what God’s called you to do,
right after that comes
the provision,
comes the resources, comes —
I’m telling you,
wouldn’t you like to give
Pharaoh the whole bill and say,
“Lord I’m just gonna do what
you’ve called me to do.”
She got paid to do what she
would have done for free!
That’s when you know
you’re walking in a dream.
When you’re doing what you’re
doing and you would have
done it for free!
Don’t let anybody
intimidate you!
It seem like a small thing,
just taking and changing
diapers – And she doesn’t have
a worldwide,
international vision,
she just has a vision of —
But Moses brought
the Ten Commandments.
She had a second son
named Aaron, he became the first
high priest that would stand
before God and stop plagues
and offer blood
in the Holy place.
She had one daughter
and the daughter’s
name was Miriam.
And the first time we every see
praise and worship in the Bible
it’s when they went across
the Red Sea, she pulled out her
tambourine and started singing
and writing songs and dancing.
In one household, one mother who
had seemingly a small vision
produce the Ten Commandments,
produced the High Priest
and produced the first worship
service in all of creation.
Don’t be intimidated
by the smallness of your dream.
And lastly, don’t be intimidated
if the dream that God is giving
you is bigger than you think
you’re capable of.
You’re gonna find out
sooner or later that God says,
“If there’s a giant between
you and the dream I can
handle the giant.
I can handle the need.
I can handle and I can give
you all that you need.”
The magnitude of the dream
sometimes will intimidate you.
I wrote this down last night,
God said to tell men and women
under the sound of my voice
that He’s about to finance
your dream.
He’s about to help raise
your Spiritual babies that
you’re giving birth to.
He’s about to open
doors no man can shut.
He’s about to wrap you
in a coat of many colors.
And the favor is gon’ make
you stand out that you walk in.
Somebody give God a mighty
praise if you believe it!
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>> I believe today that
God has made you a promise
and He’s able to bring
it to pass.
So what if they don’t believe?
So what if everything
and everybody doesn’t line up?
As a matter of fact,
when you got a real dream
that God has given you,
there will be opposition.
If you don’t know Him
as your Savior,
let’s get that taken care
of right here, right now.
Pray this prayer.
Say, “Jesus, I surrender to you.
Cleanse me, forgive me.
I want to be clean again;
wash me.
I have so many weaknesses
in my life but you love me.
You’ve never given up on me
and you know what I need
and you know the help
and the strength that I need
to overcome everything
in my life that
wants me to give up.
So today, I turn to You
with all of my heart.
Jesus, receive me, forgive me,
and call me your own.
I receive that miracle
of salvation by faith
in Jesus’ precious name.
Amen.”
Well, in our closing moments
together I wanna share with you
the opportunity you have
in the nation of Israel
to be a mighty blessing.
We partnered with Christian
Friends of Israel
to help Jewish families
move back to their
homeland in Israel.
These families are coming
from all over the world,
nations like Poland,
Venezuela, Ethiopia, and Iran.
They arrive in Israel with
just a few belongings,
most of the time just
a small suitcase
and they’re needing assistance
with their transition.
We’re helping them by providing
the necessities that they
need to start their
new life in Israel.
We’re giving them small
appliances like microwaves
and refrigerators
and washers and dryers,
and even food that they need
in certain times in their life.
That we know these basic things
will make a tremendous
difference in their lives.
As these precious Jewish people
return to the Holy Land,
we can be hands,
we can be the feet of Jesus
to bring comfort with grace
and fulfill prophesy
in our lives.
Thank you so much.
We really need your help.
The end of the year,
let’s end strong.
If this telecast has blessed
you through the year,
would you consider making
an end of the year contribution
to put us over the top
and do these kinds
of good works that
we know Genesis 12 declares?
“God will bless those
that bless Israel.”
Get in on the blessing.
We look forward to hearing
from you this week.
Thank you.
We’ll see you next week.
>> Since biblical times
the Jewish people have
experienced periods
of persecution.
Even today, anti-semitism
is on the rise around the world
but God’s promise is to return
His people to the land
He promised.
And with your help, we can
fulfill biblical prophecy
in the Holy Land.
Jentezen Franklin
Media Ministries
has an important new
ministry partner in Israel
to help us carry out our mission
to help struggling Jewish people
successfully make the
transition back
to their homeland.
Many of these families are
traveling from Africa,
South America, and Europe.
Often, they arrive in Israel
with little more than the
clothes on their backs.
Because of you,
we are hearing countless
stories of Jewish families
who are receiving
the help that they need.
Stories like Yrfu’s,
who moved with her husband
and children from Ethiopia
to their homeland of Israel.
Once she arrived,
she experienced many hardships.
Yrfu’s husband abandoned her
and her four children,
making her a single mother
struggling to provide
for her children.
Now with your help,
she now has a place to call home
with all the basic necessities
to cook, and provide
for her children.
Because of you,
we are hearing more and more
stories like Yrfu’s.
The ongoing regathering
of scattered Jewish families
back to the land of Israel
is a miraculous fulfillment
of biblical prophecy
in our lifetime.
Let’s join together and
continue to ease and comfort
the transition for these
precious Jewish families
returning to their homeland.
Call now or go online today.
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put an enormous amount
of time and effort into.
300,000 words of commentary,
30 years of Bible study,
over 200 messages preached
right here at Free Chapel.
We took the thoughts
and we worked them in
and then we put
commentary with them.
I put everything I know
in this Bible, I think.
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