This is “Worth”. God sees worth in people when no one else does. Through this teaching, Jentezen Franklin explains that even when your trust in God is failing, when your faith is being tried, or when you’re questioning your own worth, God sees past the muck and mire and knows your true value. Much like a penny in the gutter that you or I may pass by, God reaches down to rescue the one. Not only does He stop to pick you up, He’s searching for you. You are worth finding to God.
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you may be a good person you may be a
nice person
but the truth is in the big scope of
life
you don’t have a lot of worth and a lot
of value
unless jesus finds you and he brings out
of you
all of the potential that nobody else
can see
i’m going to preach a few minutes from
luke chapter 15.
i’ll begin reading with verse 8 or what
woman having ten silver coins
if she loses one coin does not
light a lamp sweep the house search
carefully until she finds it
and when she has found it she calls her
friends and neighbors
to come and rejoice with me for i have
found
a coin or a piece of
silver that was lost and then he goes on
to say the angels rejoice
over every lost soul that is found
i want to talk to you for a few moments
about the lost coin
this chapter in luke chapter 15
is the lost and found column
in the bible it has three lost objects
it has a lost sheep it has a lost
sun it has the lost silver
or the coin the
the sheep is lost unintentionally
it didn’t intend to be lost it loved the
shepherd
it loved the pasture it loved
the fold of sheep that it had fellowship
with but somehow
little by little it began to drift off
further and further and further away
until one day it looked up and it had
drifted
so far that it could not find its way
back it was lost unintentionally
and then we know that the coin
was lost by the fault of another
it could lose itself so the woman lost
it
and that’s a way that a person can be
lost by the fault of another if it goes
all the way back to adam we’re all lost
by
the fault of another but sometimes you
weren’t raised in a
family that honored god sometimes you
were raised in
an environment an atmosphere that never
introduced you to or maybe a
different religion a false religion and
you you just you you were lost by the
fault of another
and then the third one the son was lost
willfully
he took himself out of the father’s
house the prodigal son
he made up his mind to leave the
father’s house and live
a wretched life and what is amazing in
all three of these stories is
it shows you the wages of sin
because in all three stories for example
the sheep
ended up in the wilderness
and the silver ended up in the darkness
and the sun ended up in the pigpen
and then we see a beautiful picture of
the godhead the father son and holy
spirit in every one of these stories
because we see a picture of jesus
as the good shepherd who goes and finds
that lost sheep and puts it on his
shoulders and takes it back rejoicing
that’s jesus
and then we see a picture of the holy
spirit with the
woman with a lighting her candle and
sweeping out
the dirt that’s the ministry of the holy
spirit to bring revival he brings fire
and he brings cleansing on the inside it
feels so good
when you get saved and the holy spirit
does his part because he sweeps all the
dirt out and he lights the
turns the light on and you feel so clean
inside it’s hard
to describe it the guilt you don’t
realize the guilt and the shame that
you’re carrying
and then we see the father in the
prodigal son
story if you remember the prodigal son
it’s it’s the father
who runs to the son so we see the father
the son the holy spirit
we see for example that the father
thought it
concerning our salvation the son brought
it
the holy spirit wrought it and thank god
i got it
and that’s what we celebrate this
morning rejoice
the angels rejoice when a child of god
comes home
shouting takes place in heaven
when one lost sheep coin or son
or daughter is found
i heard a story about a man who
said that he was raised in tremendous
poverty
all of his life and this won’t take me
long to preach this message this morning
he told the story of how poor he was
raised and
then god blessed him and god raised him
and he had a house and a nice car and
all the
things that god had blessed him with and
he he was so moved by the goodness of
god that he made a covenant with god
he made a personal conviction commitment
to god
that that if he ever saw a penny
laying anywhere on the sidewalk in the
grass in the mud
and anywhere he saw a penny he would
never
walk past that penny without picking it
up
in appreciation to god and saying i
appreciate
everything you’ve given me everything
you’ve done for me
it was like a personal conviction it was
a real uh vow that he made to god
and so he said every time from that
point forward
that he saw a penny um you know
sometimes we’d pick them up let’s be
honest and sometimes we don’t care right
sometimes you just pull off from the
coffee window and you say just keep the
change
because you know it’s just pennies and
who cares
but to this man it was a conviction and
if he’d see a penny in the grass if he’d
he talked about he had even had seen him
in this nasty street
where the water goes down the gutter and
all of that and it had slime on it and
he would
pick it up out of a commitment to god
and wrap it up in his hanky sometimes
and put
and he said he had done this all you
know for many many many months
and he went to church one sunday and
went into the bathroom
and when he looked down into the toilet
he saw
a penny and he said
as sure as i was standing there i felt
the holy spirit
say are you going to keep your word do
you really appreciate
and he said i did it he reached down
into the toilet
and picked that penny up and i’m sure he
washed
it off and probably came out and shook a
bunch of people’s hands
afterwards that’s why we’re not doing
that amen
so but but it was it you know
the a penny means nothing
unless somebody values it it really
doesn’t
when you think about a penny it’s it’s
kind of it’s kind of amazing
you can’t buy anything with a penny
they’re not worth much
uh you you can’t even get a piece of
bubble gum for
a penny and in 1995 the u.s
mint in philadelphia pennsylvania
was running a run of making new pennies
and a lot of people would say well why
why would you even want to have pennies
and they’ve debated whether or not the
government should stop here’s why did
you know that
it cost a penny and a half
to make a penny i’m not making this up
it really does that the government loses
a half a penny every time it makes a
penny
and so some would say well why would we
even have a penny
why don’t we just do away with them well
then you have to move up to the next
coin which is a nickel
and if you’ve ever understood a penny
tax or two penny tax it’s tremendous
it involves every dollar that you make
and so let’s leave the pennies along and
everybody said amen
but it is something isn’t it that
that a penny can be worthless
unless somebody sees value in it
in 1995 that u.s mint that i was talking
about
created thousands of pennies and before
they realized that they caught
a problem the words
on the penny were blurred the words
in god we trust were
flawed and so they
stopped it and corrected the problem but
somehow those pennies went out
and coin collectors found out about it
and
they became very valuable and they
increased in value
two and a half million percent and even
though
you would know it because the words in
god we trust
are blurred those pennies are actually
more valuable by far than a penny
they’re worth 255 dollars today
if you can find one of those pennies
it’s really something that
that you could
you could have that kind of value and
not know it it could be in between the
cushion of your
couch it could be laying in some slime
somewhere in some gully that when you
bought the coffee the penny dropped out
of your hand
and rolled and went down some gutter and
it’s been sitting there for a long time
and muck and meyer but
but somebody somebody somebody who
sees and somebody who knows and even
though we would call it
we would call those pennies that were
flawed in 1995 we would call them bad
pennies we would call them flawed
pennies
we would call them pennies that have
lost their trust in god it’s blurred
they don’t believe like they used to
believe they don’t trust like they used
to trust and
everything and maybe it’s in muck and in
meyer
but the truth is even though it’s worth
255 dollars it’s useless
if somebody doesn’t find it who sees the
worth
in it
it’s worth something when somebody finds
it and realizes
that what they have is valuable
and what i’m saying to you is when i
read this story in the book of luke
and it talks about the woman who has
lost
a coin and she understood
that it was valuable enough to take a
light
a candle and light it and take a broom
and sweep
searching for that coin
when i think about how that a coin has a
life span
if somebody doesn’t find it if somebody
doesn’t
see value in it it’s a matter of time as
it’s passed from hand to hand from
pocket to pocket
from store to store from location to
location at some point
it begins to fade at some point it
begins to be
just a worthless penny and that’s kind
of how our life
is without jesus finding us and seeing
the value
in us you may be a good person you may
be a nice person
but the truth is in the big scope of
life
you don’t have a lot of worth and a lot
of value
unless jesus finds you and he brings out
of you
all of the potential that nobody else
can see
that nobody else has any idea the value
and the word
the fact that you could have one of
those pennies in your pocket right now
and it could be worth 255 dollars but
it’s not worth
anything if somebody doesn’t recognize
it
and that’s the power of jesus
the whole gospel can be summed up in in
the fact that
that god is someone who sees worth in
people
that nobody else sees that god is a god
who sees
even listen carefully when our trust in
god is blurred
when our faith is being tried so
severely that we even question
is god real is god out there and maybe
our talents and our gifts are
covered up in filth and muck and mire
like a penny
in a gutter and everybody else says it’s
worthless but there is
one who lights the candle
and he comes with the broom and he
starts sweeping
searching saying they don’t see what i
see
they don’t know what i know about you
they don’t know
what the value and the worth that i see
is
in you oh but i’ve messed up oh but i
failed
oh but i bought i thought i would be a
better daddy i thought i would be a
better
husband i thought i would be a better
wife i thought i would be a better
daughter
i thought i never dreamed i would be
this kind of son
and we we sometimes don’t see any value
in us
but i know there’s one who sees
value in every one of us
it’s mind-boggling how he can take a
life
and he can pick it up out of the muck
and the mire and
wash it and clean it
and put it in his pocket and if you stay
in that pocket of god
long enough he’s going to reach in
and he’s going to say i’m going to use
you
i’m going to use everything you’ve been
through i’m going to use every time you
cried yourself to sleep
i’m going to use your shame i’m going to
use your pain
i’m going to use your trials i’m going
to use your attacks
i’m going to use everything you’ve been
through
i’ve been waiting for this moment i see
2.5 million more worth in you
than anybody who’s ever looked at you
and i’m telling you if you’ll say lord
use me
if you’ll say lord spend me
lord get some glory out of my life let
me live for more than myself
the whole bible is a book about god
finding worthless flawed
messed up blurred
trust in god people
not perfect people not strong people all
the time not people who are on top of
the world all the time
not people winning all the time but it’s
about flawed
pennies
i thought about moses
he thought that he was going to really
be something and he said my mission is
to deliver god’s people and when he saw
an egyptian beating an israelite
he slew the egyptian and got in trouble
somebody told on him
and watch this the penny gets washed out
and it goes out into the desert for 40
years it’s covered up in sand
nobody thinks he’s worth anything it’s
just flawed
i’m sure that his trust in god got
blurred he was disillusioned i thought
god was going to use me
i thought god was going to open doors i
thought god was going to really bless me
i thought god was going to raise me up
and i was going to do mighty things
but you know what i’m in the desert i’m
covered up i’m a work i’m as worthless
as a lost coin
but there came a time when god said i’m
gonna light the candle
and the candle was the burning bush and
he
set a bush on fire that talked to him
and then he said i’m bringing my broom
and i’m sweeping
and i don’t care how much sand and dirt
has got on you
i’m bringing my broom to clean you up on
the inside
and put fire in you now go do what i’ve
called you to do
and god took that worthless shepherd and
made him into a deliverer that brought
two and a half million
sounds like 255 dollars was in that one
worthless penny that only god could see
in value and use
and that’s the story that goes over and
over
he finds worthless flawed people
who’s who’ve gone through such severe
trauma and failure and
mess up that their lines the the trust
has been blurred
and they can’t fix themselves they’re
addicted they’re messed up and everybody
says it’s worthless
but god says where is my broom
where is my candle i know some things
about her
i know some things about him that they
don’t even know about themself
i’ve got good news for you god is
lighting the candle
god is bringing his broom this morning
and he’s looking for you he’s searching
for you
and if you’ve fallen back during coven
let’s be honest
i’m sure that many many many
people have fallen back to things that
they know god delivered them from
but today i’m here and i felt the lord
say i want you to walk in there
spiritually with my candle
and with my broom and tell them if
they’ve gone back to the addiction i’m
coming after them
tell them if they messed up and they’re
in the gutter and they’re
in the luck in the mire i’m coming after
them tell them if something’s got a hold
of them and they feel so dirty and
devout
i’m coming after them and i’m going to
sweep them clean
and use them for my glory everybody give
god a praise
i feel god’s anointing right now
the anointing breaks jokes
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what about you
do you remember when he found you
worthless
maybe your own family
had given up but he never gave up
and he never will give up on you stand
your feet all over this
building
would you just take a minute i’m going
to be dismissed in a minute but
would you just take a minute and lift
your hands toward heaven
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would you just say lord thank you thank
you for your mercy and your grace
because lord i don’t know what you saw
in me
there’s such a sweet and strong
anointing i feel right now
i know many are watching by television
and watching online
the holy spirit right there in that room
is speaking to you
right here in this room if you’re far
from god
be honest if you feel so dirty on the
inside
shamed be honest
jesus wants to cleanse you he loves you
he sees your worth and your value pastor
pray for me
i’m not right i know i’m not where i
need to be
it’s been six months since we’ve been in
church and
i i don’t know what happened i just
strayed like that sheep but
but pastor i want to get back i need
this i need what i feel in this room
i feel life in this room and i need more
than just the dirtiness on the inside
i was created for greater things was
made for more than this
pray for me if that’s you raise your
hand right where you’re standing all
over this room there in
every campus keep it high hands all over
this room this is amazing
beautiful keep your hand high raise them
at every campus wherever god’s speaking
to you
we can’t call people forward we’re going
to pray right where you are there’s
hands hands hands hands hands amazing
this is your day everybody pray this
prayer
out loud say these words everybody in
the room everybody at every campus
lord jesus i receive
what you did for me i have seen
the candle i feel the brew sweeping the
dirt away
save me change me
clean me up on the inside i need more
than outward religion
i need jesus on the inside of me
i need to feel that love again that that
touch again
would you touch me again today
i receive you as my lord
i repent i come home
i receive you as my savior
and i’m in your pocket and i’m not going
to jump out
i’m in your pocket use me
spin me as you see fit
i trust you in god i trust
in jesus name amen
and amen can we give the lord the
biggest sprays
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