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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