Watch “The High Cost of Low Living” Jentezen Franklin, host of Kingdom Connection & Pastor of Free Chapel.
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listen to this title the high cost of
low living you need to hear this it’s
going to strengthen you in your faith I
want to talk to you for a few moments
this morning on the high cost to low
living the high cost to low living it
was the King’s birthday and he had
called in all of his commanders of his
military forces and all of his friends
and he was throwing a huge celebration a
party a grand occasion there was lots of
drinking lots of eating lots of
celebration gift exchanging and the
Bible said that just before this
occasion that Herod and his wife had
gone to the banks of the Jordan River to
hear this wild man John preach and when
he preached with such force in such
anointing in such authority that it
moved people but then he looked at Herod
and his wife and he said it’s not right
and it’s not lawful for you to be
married to your brother’s wife you’re
living in adultery and it’s not right
and when John in boldness did that it
humiliated the king but the Bible really
draws the attention to his wife that he
was living in adultery with
she became infuriated and she hated John
the Baptist now there’s a difference
Herod was not a bad man even though he
had him immediately arrested and threw
him in his prison he showed him special
favour the Bible indicates that he took
care of him
he would even go down and sit and visit
and listen to him as he preached to the
other prisoners it’s pretty amazing for
a powerful King to go down into his
dungeon and listen to someone
incarcerated and he tells me that Herod
was not a bad man but he was a weak man
and Herod’s downfall was not that he was
evil and and he hated John he was a weak
man and if you become a weak person and
you don’t deal with the weakness it’s a
matter of time before you start doing
bad things and so the day comes when
he’s celebrating his birthday Herod is
and the crowd is happy and and then
comes the time after the food is gone
and the drink is flowing it’s time for
the entertainment and the Bible said
that it would be a dance number by the
stepdaughter of Herod and the Bible does
not say what kind of dance it was it
could have been the hokey-pokey
but that’s not what it’s all about I
don’t think I don’t I think there’s more
to it come on that’s a good joke you
know it is I think there was a little
more to this dance
let’s read in between the spaces after
being all liquored up the crowd is going
absolutely crazy and Herod himself has
so let himself go
so overtaken with lust and with pleasure
drunkenness that wasn’t a bad man he was
a weak man that now because he’s in the
wrong atmosphere with the wrong people
is about to do a bad thing and the Bible
said that the dance pleased Herod Herod
was not his real name it was his given
name Herod means in Greek he wrote he
was given hero’s status and so what she
did fed the hero part of him the part
that likes that that power and that ego
there’s a hero part of every boy boys
want to be heroes that’s why we climb
trees that’s why boys stuff stuff up
their nose when they’re little that is
something about it they they you know
you say to a little boy now don’t ever
don’t you ever eat that deodorizer in
the toilet boy that you see that blue
deodorizer cuz that’ll kill you and
you’ll come back in and that boy have
blue stuff all over it’s just something
about us and so so when it says he was a
hero Herod is the hero and the Bible
said she pleased him the word pleased in
the Greek means the lifting of an anchor
and getting carried away Wow any
restraint that he had she’s so pleased
him that he lifted the anchor and and
and got carried away the Bible said that
there’s
you’re in sin for season Moses chose God
rather than the pleasures of sin for a
season and in this moment of of Heroes
status he gets all carried away and he’s
so into the moment that he makes a big a
big statement and he says you can have
anything up to half that I own ask of me
what you want what will the girl ask for
everybody you could hear a pin drop in
that room what was she asked for wish
you want her own Palace where she won’t
tuck mountains of gold what was she
won’t what she won’t diamonds and rubies
this could change her life this could
alter her the rest of her life this
could this could change everything she
can have anything she wants and instead
of answering the question notice when
it’s time to pay the high cost of low
living you don’t decide the cost nor did
the girl but she goes over into another
room she says I’ll be right back and she
goes over into another room and her
mother who hated John the Baptist was
sitting in the shadows of that room and
she says mother what should I ask for
it’s the opportunity of a lifetime what
should i do mother and she said as for
John the Baptist’s head on a platter
here the bitterness here the evil are
you sure that’s exactly what you need to
ask for I don’t ever want to hear that
voice of repentance again he kept
screaming to me repent repent repent I
don’t ever want to feel conviction again
I don’t ever want to hear that voice
again I want you to cut that head also
you stop that voice in our life the
Bible said that she came in and she said
I won’t for the payment of the dance the
head of John the Baptist on a platter
and the scripture said catch it Herod
was exceedingly sorry
the story speaks to every one of us in
everyday life let me give it to you
Herod the heroes speaks of our flesh and
our carnal desires Herod’s stepdaughter
the dancer speaks of the pleasures of
the world the lust of the flesh the lust
of the eyes the pride of life the
enticing whaled that Satan spreads the
dancing daughter is Satan’s whaled she
dances and and she’s on every billboard
and she’s on every computer screen and
she’s constantly trying to enter into
our life to feed the hero to feed the
ego to feed the carnal desires but
there’s also another character that is
seen and Satan does not want you to rule
and and reign as the king over your home
and over your flesh and and and over
your family he wants to destroy you and
Herodias speaks of Satan’s Satan himself
though though the wife of Herod Herodias
speaks of Satan himself notice that the
decision was made in the shadows of
another room what the cost would be for
the dance she was really the brains
behind the whole setup just as Satan
sits in the dark he never reveals
himself and he allows us to feed our ego
and feed the hero and feed the carnal
desires and says you can dance with it
and you can play with it and it won’t
hurt you but notice in the shadows
she’s lurking and she’s the decider of
the cost of the dance not you you don’t
decide how much you will pay for that
dance she does you don’t get to choose
the price you pay for the dance I’ll pay
this I’ll pay that you don’t get to
decide the cost of the dance will be
decided in another room by someone else
that is a type of Satan you may look at
the price tag of your dance whatever
your dance is with the flesh
and you may decide that it’s a price
you’re willing to pay you put a price
tag on it and it’s how much it’s gonna
cost you and that’s what you’ve decided
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she decided that mother I can see that
daughter who’s just a reflection of her
mother only much much many years younger
and and and the mother’s older and she
says to her get me the head of that john
the baptists on a platter I want the
head of John John that voice that kept
preaching repent repent repent repent
repent go another way change your way
stop going and doing what you’re doing
and she was saying I don’t want to hear
that voice of conviction anymore I want
to be in this relationship I know it’s
not of God I’m married to this man and
we’re in incest and an in sexual
relationship and I don’t want a voice
convicting me making me feel guilty I
love this situation I love this flesh I
love the sin that I’m in and I want the
voice of conviction to die the voice is
telling me to convert to change to
repent to go a different way I don’t
want to hear it anymore
I don’t want it the cost of the dance is
it cuts the head off of repentance when
John’s head rolls you’ll never hear
repent again John you’ll never cry in
her ear change change change I’m saying
to you today that if there’s things in
your life that are compromised and you
know that it’s open sin and you’re
hearing a voice to saying change change
change repent repent you are so blessed
and you don’t know it the day that is
dangerous is when you no longer hear
that voice it means you have had to pay
the price for the dancer which is to cut
off that voice his voice will be
silenced once the head rose the price of
the dance the voice of repentance in
your heart will cease and things that
used to convince convict you and things
that used to
bother you and things you wouldn’t go
around look at get around be near
suddenly you’ve cut off the voice that
says it will change stop stop
repent repent and you no longer hear
that voice now imagine with me when
John’s head rode Herod and Herodias his
wife were immediately reconciled all
that tension was gone out of the
marriage we’re gonna get along good now
and you know when you stop coming to
church and when you stop hearing the
word you get along good with the devil
you get along good with your sin it’s
when you come to church and Franklin
Jensen has a message from God write up
in your business that you start feeling
the tension
it’s called conviction the cry to change
is now gone the cry to repent is now
gone so they’re getting along good now
they’re holding hands in the courtyard
halevi dovey they’re reconciled there’s
no conviction there’s no sense of guilt
there’s no sense of wrongdoing cause
nobody’s preaching against it the
preacher’s head is gone the voice of
silence I’m good that’s how people sit
in the church if you think you’re gonna
change me you’re crazy I hear you I feel
you today if you think you gonna make me
stop doing what my flesh and my ego
loves you can’t stop me I’m gonna dance
with the dancer
if that’s the case and you don’t feel
convicted by it anymore can I just get
blunt if you don’t feel convicted about
getting drunk or you don’t feel
convicted about sleeping with your
girlfriend or you don’t you don’t even
feel convicted about going out with that
boy and doing things that you know and
you don’t even feel convict to cheating
on your wife you don’t even feel
convicted looking at that computer you
don’t even feel convicted anymore
what you have done is you’ve already
paid the dancer there’s no conviction
there’s no sense of condemnation and
when you do wrong and feel no guilt
you’ve lost the voice of repentance my
god if you feel anything in this room
while I’m preaching to you wherever
you’re watching this program and you’re
doing things that are that you know
we’re not right and while I’m preaching
the Holy Spirit is bringing up your
dancer you ought to thank God that voice
is still in your ear it’s proof of your
salvation it’s proof of the Holy Spirit
residing in your heart somebody praise
God for conviction
the church has lost this we don’t even
talk about sin we don’t even talk about
wrong we don’t even talk about morality
in the house of God and if we won’t talk
about it the world never will preachers
and if the church loses the voice of
repentance we’ve lost it all the final
payment for the dancer is one of the
saddest scriptures in the Bible that I’m
coming to a close with it’s the final
payment to the dancer that every person
has to pay if you if you if you hear
here’s here’s what I want to say if at
some point he would have stopped the
dance in the middle of the dance he
wouldn’t have had to pay for the dancer
what I’m saying to you is stop the dance
stop it stop it now stop it while God’s
grace has you covered stop it while
there’s forgiveness stop it while you’re
hearing the voice saying change change
change stop stop stop
repent repent repent stop it now because
if you stop before the dance is finished
you don’t have to pay for the dance
that’s what the cross was about the
cross covers us but if you don’t get out
of it you’re gonna have to pay the high
cost of low living stop the affair stop
the lunches with the secretary stop it’s
gonna cost you your children you want
somebody else to walk your daughter down
the aisle because she can’t stand you
because she cheated on her mother yeah I
need to put my head on a platter I’m
getting people mad and angry at me but
you know what
it’s the truth it’s gonna cost you stop
stop the day stop it stop the drinking
stop the hypocrisy stop the shady stuff
stop the line the stealing the cheatin
in the business stop the dance because
you can’t do wrong and be alright you
gonna pay for the dance but if you stop
now if you do any legal stuff stop now
God’s grace make over you but if you
don’t see revelation said there’s a
there’s a space of grace not I’m telling
you I feel the Holy Spirit right now
Revelation talks about a space of grace
means God will God will give you a time
you got this much you got a beginning
and an end to to repent of that thing
and get out of that living with somebody
you’re not married stop the dance stop
it God’s giving you grace
now get out because if you keep staying
you gonna have to pay the higher cost of
low living and you don’t decide the cost
the devil does might cost you your
children might cost you your freedom it
might cost you your reputation it might
cost you your marriage it might cost you
your respect you don’t decide the cost
the devil does and we see the final
payment of the dance in Luke 23 verse 8
now when Herod saw Jesus he was
exceedingly glad do you know how long
it’s been for it had been a long time he
had wanted for a long time to see then
he questioned him with many words but he
answered him nothing listen to this now
the only man in the Bible that Jesus did
not speak to that he encountered was
Herod why because if you stop and cut
off the voice of repentance in your life
Jesus has nothing else to say to you and
one day he will say depart from me you
worker of iniquity
I never knew you it’s a serious thing to
cut off conviction sear your heart as
the Bible said with a with a hot iron to
where you’re cold and calloused and you
go out and do things and it doesn’t
bother you anymore because you’ve cut
off the head the silent you silence the
voice of repentance and he said nothing
to him if you don’t have the voice of
repentance in your life conviction in
your life preaching to you continually
and you responding there will come a
point where you will cut that voice off
and you’ll no longer hear Jesus folks is
so easy in the days and times in which
we live to be lulled to sleep and to
feed the flesh but God has sent me today
with this message for you to say there’s
a high cost to low living but you don’t
have to pay that price if you’ll stop
the dance now you’re not listening to me
by accident you’re not hearing this
particular message by half and chance
this is the mercy and the space of grace
do not harden your heart
do not play games with God this is the
day of repentance and there’s a voice
saying repent change go a different
direction stop it and if you heed that
voice and repent of your sins Jesus will
wash you Jesus will cleanse you
Jesus will fill you with the Holy Spirit
and Jesus will empower you to live a
victorious life if you believe that
thank him for his grace thank him for
his grace I believe today’s messages
really speak into your heart you’ve been
looking for a change in your life pray
with me right now say these words Lord
Jesus I surrender to you forgive me
cleanse me take me help me
give me your peace I confess I need a
Savior and I know his name is Jesus
thank you lord I believe this is a
sacred moment and a powerful moment in
your life I don’t minimize this time I
believe there’s power in the name of
Jesus that whosoever shall call upon the
name of the Lord shall be saved I don’t
care how low you’ve gone I don’t care
how bad you’ve messed up you don’t have
to pay the price for those sins that
high cost of low living Jesus nailed it
to the cross now turn your life over to
him and let him take you where he and he
alone can lead you to a place of peace
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