In his message, Be The Vessel, Pastor Franklin talks about the story from 2 Kings 4 and even says it’s one of the greatest miracles from the Old Testament. As long as there were empty vessels, the oil kept flowing. When there were no more vessels, the oil ceased. We are earthen vessels and we determine how much room there is for God in our lives. Will you be a container of trash or treasure?
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vessel in empty our lives so God can
fill us with new dreams and new miracles
and live life to the fullest
look with me in your Bibles to second
Kings chapter for a certain woman of the
wives of the sons of the prophets cried
out to Elisha saying your servant my
husband is dead you know that your
servant feared the Lord and the creditor
is coming to take my two sons to be his
slaves Elisha said to her what y’all do
for you tell me what do you have in the
house she said your maidservant has
nothing in the house but a jar of all
then he said go borrow vessels from
everywhere from all of your neighbor’s
empty vessels do not gather just a few
but when you have come in you should
shut the door behind you and your sons
and then pour it into those vessels and
set aside the full ones so she went from
him and shut the door behind her and her
sons who brought the vessels to her and
she poured it out now it came to pass
when the vessels were fooled that she
said to her son bring me another vessel
and he said to her there is not another
vessel so the all ceased verse seven
then she came and told the man of God
and he said go sell the oil and pay your
debt you and your sons live on the rest
a mighty miracle one of the great
miracles of the Old Testament and I want
to talk today about be the vessel
because the miracle in this story is
dependent upon God having available
vessels so many times we say God I need
a miracle and God is not the problem the
oil is not the problem
heaven is not the problem the problem is
can he find a vessel down here on earth
to put the miracle in the woman’s
husband died and left a debt that she
could not pay and now the creditors came
in that culture and in that time if you
could not pay your bills then they could
enslave the next generation and make
them work
out in their fields as slaves the debt
that you owed and now the scripture said
that because the woman could not pay her
debt the creditors were at the door and
they were there to enslave the next
generation the two sons of the widow
woman I think that the spirit of the
world is knocking at the church’s door
and the next generation is going to be
taken if we don’t have a miracle in the
house if we don’t have all in the house
if we don’t have the Holy Spirit in the
house there is a spirit that is coming
to enslave children and young people in
the next generation enslave them in
drugs and alcoholism and sexual
immorality and the key to this thing and
art and the next generation staying free
is what do you have the Prophet said in
your house in other words do you have
anything that God can use to bring a
miracle to your house what’s in your
house that God can use to bring a
miracle that can save the next
generation from slavery and bondage our
home should be places of Prayer our
homes should be places where the Bible
is read and honored our homes should be
places of respect and honor our homes
should be places of unity and love what
is in your house that could bring the
miracle that keeps the next generation
free and then you need to ask the other
question what is in your house that
could hinder God from bringing the
blessing to your house what’s in your
home it’s either bringing the presence
of God or it’s hindering the all of the
Holy Spirit the key to this miracle was
when the woman said all I’ve got is a
little jar of all and the Prophet
understood that was what
would keep the next generation free and
the Prophet said then go to your
neighbors and borrow the vessels borrow
not a few you determine the magnitude of
your miracle God doesn’t you do and if
you’ve got a few you’ll get a little
miracle but if you’ve gathered not a few
and you brought a lot of them in then
you will get a greater miracle I think
sometimes we are saying God I want you
to do something great in my life and God
says just give me a vessel and what we
do is we say well Lord here’s a
pint-sized portion of my soul I’ll give
you this much of my life but I want a
huge miracle and God says I can the
problem is not with the old the problem
is not with the miracle the problem is
not with God’s ability the problem is
you give me such a little place of your
vessel the more you give me of your
vessel the more I will give you of my
all the more if you give me a pint size
of your life on Sunday morning then
that’s how much I’ll feel but if you
come as an empty vessel that says I know
you’ve got a plan for my life I want
everything out of me that’s not like you
and I want you to fill me from my
thought life to every aspect in every
relationship I want to be your vessel
God says if you give me a few of
yourself I’ll feel a little bit of
yourself but if you give me all that you
are I’ll fill you with my purpose in my
dream and my plan and my all in my
anointing the all is moving get some
vessels she started pouring and when she
started pouring God began to pour more
and more all out of that one jar and
they filled vessel after vessel she said
they all is moving give me another
so give me another vessel get as long as
we got vessels they all will keep
flowing and when the vessels are not
available then the flow stopped by if I
could get this across heaven is not the
problem the problem is available vessels
if God can find available vessels he’ll
never stop pouring the blessings they
all stopped when there was no place to
put the all what if you sometimes we
don’t understand that the container is
just as important as the product what if
you went to the grocery store and you
bought eggs and bread and butter and
potato chips and cookies and milk can
drinks and all this stuff and you
checkout and as you’re about to leave
they say please take your stuff you
would say do you not have any bags you
mean I’ve actually got to pick up all
this stuff and you’re walking out and
you’re dropping stuff and you’re
breaking stuff and all through the
parking lot things that are falling
because it’s not just the product you
need a place to put the product somebody
said I sure wish I had a I wish I sure
wish I had some coffee do you really
want coffee or do you want a cup of
coffee you gotta have something to put
the product in it’s very important now I
could take a pot of hot coffee and say
you want some coffee here but you need a
cup to put the coffee in I thought about
last night you know I think that I’ll
order a pizza to illustrate this point
and imagine Domino’s Pizza showing up at
your doorstep
and you just ordered a pepperoni pizza
and here they come this is all you’ve
got give me my pizza and the pizzas
falling all over the carpet and the
pizzas getting messy and the pizzas
greasy and and it’s hot – it’s really
hot what a shame you would ask where’s
the box you can have the greatest
product in the world but if you don’t
have a buck and you know what this box
costs I asked them this box cost 35 cent
it’s not the box that gives value to the
product it’s the product that gives
value to the box and even though it’s
just the 35 cent box when it has a
product in it it becomes valuable and
that’s what I’m trying to get you to
understand that God has the old God has
the Holy Spirit God has the mirror but
the miracle is looking for a vessel the
miracle is looking for vessels all over
this room the problem is not with the
product the problem is you got to have
two things with this box it needs to be
empty and it needs to be clean what kind
of mother puts milk in a dirty bottle
that has old milk from three weeks ago
still in it no you clean out the bottle
empty out the bottle sterilize the
bottle and then put the milk in it and
what I’m trying to get you to understand
is God says I’ve got the oil I’ve got
the dream I’ve got the vision for your
life
I’ve got the miracle that you need my
problem is I can’t find a clean empty
box I can’t find a clean empty box that
I can put my miracle in and the miracle
is looking for a vessel the Holy Spirit
right now is looking for vessels vessels
that he can put this precious all in
vessels that he can put a dream in you
need to understand that God wants a
vessel to put his power his miracle his
all in all the vessels got to do is be
clean and be empty don’t offer him a
pint sized but clean yourself out clean
yourself out and empty yourself out and
say God I want to be your vessel so so
God creates the earth and he puts man on
the earth and he makes man man was born
on the earth and came and formed out of
dirt and God said to the human a human
in Latin means spirit in dirt and he
says to the human which is a spirit
contained in a vessel of dirt you are a
spirit that lives in a dirt body when
you die your body will go back to dirt
but your spirit will live forever and
God said to Adam I give you dominion
over the earth and over every creature
including the serpent and you have
authority over I only give Dominion to
spirits that are in dirt embodies in
vessels I’m going to breathe the breath
of God in you and I’m going to put it in
a vessel an earth vessel and for 42
generations God is looking
for a vessel that he can put his all in
that he can put his Holy Spirit in it’s
gonna have to be a dirt body if he’s
going to come legally because God is a
spirit he is not a body he is a spirit
but the astonishing thing about the
Incarnation and the virgin birth of
Jesus Christ is God search for 42
generations
saying I need a vessel I have a miracle
that I’m about to send to the earth and
what I need is an empty clean vessel to
put it in and he found a virgin girl a
little Jewish girl by the name of Mary
and God said I have found a vessel that
is clean that is empty can I borrow your
body little girl for nine months all I
need is a vessel I know you don’t think
you’re much and you’re not without me
but what I’m about to do in you is going
to astonish you and the value is not in
the box that’s why we don’t worship Mary
we honor Mary we appreciate Mary but
Mary is not a deity and she isn’t we
don’t pray to Mary because she is not
God Jesus is God Jesus is the name above
every name and there is one mediator
between God and man the man Christ Jesus
so we honor you Mary we thank God that
you were pure and empty and God chose
that vessel and he put a miracle in it
my god we don’t understand the
Incarnation that somehow the God of the
universe who said that the heavens are
my throne and the earth is my footstool
but I’m gonna shrink myself down and put
myself in a little fat chubby dirt body
and all of God from head to toe came out
of that virgin womb eight pounds of God
Almighty but he was so much God from
head to toe that when they just touched
the hem of His garment there was so much
contained power that if we just touch
the hem there’s so much
his body was dirt but his spirit was the
OL it was the miracle no wonder when he
walked into the temple he looked like
everybody else but when he got up and
said the Spirit of the Lord is upon me
it’s one thing when you read somebody’s
book but it’s another thing when the
author reads his own book and they had
heard that scripture over and over and
the moment that he said it demons
started crying out in church members oh
god don’t I’m feeling crazy right now
leave us alone
we know who you are you you’ve come
illegally you snuck into the sea that’s
why Satan wanted Satan hates your body
oh I got a preach Satan hates your body
because the problem is not with the ol
Satan knows I cannot stop the Oh
that’s what kicked me out of heaven
that’s what defeats my demons
that’s what heals people that’s what
delivers the drug addict I cannot deal
with the old so my only hope is to
attack the vessel and if I can defile
and dirty up the vessel if I can fill up
the vessel with so much other stuff that
it can’t contain the OEL then I can stop
God’s plan from being done and so he
tries to defile and destroy the vessel
that’s why Herod tried to kill all the
babies and murdered all the babies two
boys two years and down because Satan
was scared oh my god Messiah is here and
he’s he’s here legally God Almighty has
put his spirit in a dirt body and I am
terrified kill all the kids and that’s
why they tried to stone him and
everywhere he went and finally finally
after three and a half years of being
tormented by by by God walking around in
a dirt body Satan got Jesus and nailed
him to the cross and they crucified Him
and they watched him die and hell had a
square-dance and demons are rejoicing
and Satan is laughing we destroyed the
container we can we destroyed the vessel
it’s got holes in it
it’s bled itself to death he’s dead I
heard his blood clay lips say it is
finished and they’re rejoicing he didn’t
say I am finished he said it is finished
and they took his dead body the vessel
the box and they put it in a tomb but
while his body was in the tomb his
spirit got up and said I’m going to hell
to hold a revival and he preached to the
spirits in bondage and 72 hours later
God connected his spirit I could see the
spirit lay down in the box and suddenly
Jesus rose bodily from the dead and he
said I have the key Satan is so defeated
he doesn’t even own the keys to his own
house that’s why he can’t hold you
prisoner that’s why he can’t keep you in
a prison of addiction because he doesn’t
hold the keys Jesus holds the keys and
you can be free give God a big shout if
you believe it Satan cannot control your
body you don’t have to be a drug addict
alcoholic when Mary got full and
pregnant with Jesus two things happen
number one it changed the way she walked
have you ever seen a pregnant girl there
Walt changes
and when Jesus takes up when the
miracles living in you it will change
your walk it changes what you ingest
into your body a pregnant person a
pregnant woman will not smoke a pregnant
woman will not take drugs and drink
because she knows it will hinder and I’m
saying to you if you’ve got an issue
with alcohol or you’re a drug addict and
messed up
if Jesus takes up residence inside of
you he can get he can push all that
stuff out and you can get so full of him
that you never have to touch it again
somebody give God a praise I’m almost
through and I’m saying to you today that
if you empty your vessel and you clean
up your vessel before he pours in you
have to empty out and you either are a
container of trash or treasure be
careful little eyes what you see be
careful little ears what you hear guard
your heart with all diligence because
you’re either going to be a container of
trash or of treasure
that’s why Satan wants your body young
lady that’s why he wants you to defile
yourself with sexual immorality and all
the girls are doing it so just give your
virginity away like it’s nothing because
the enemy knows that the OEL is looking
for a vessel that’s why young man he’ll
tell you be like all the other guys and
sow your Wild Oats and then but while
you’re doing that the old will pass you
by and find somebody you were his first
choice
it matters what we do with these bodies
it matters whether or not we’re
separated that’s why the Bible said in
first Corinthians chapter 6 know ye not
that your body is the temple of the Holy
Spirit
do you understand your body is the
vessel for the all and you’re bought
with a price therefore glorify God with
your body and in your spirit now I want
to close with this thought and I want
you to listen carefully when they took
Jesus’s body or vessel that was dead and
they put it in the tomb of Joseph of
Arimathea the Bible said it was the
borrowed tomb he uses those words
because Jesus was Jewish and he’s a good
businessman and he says why should I buy
something that I’m only going to use for
three days I’m not going to buy the tomb
I’m gonna borrow it wait a minute but
that text said he bought you
he only borrowed the tomb for three days
to put his body in but he bought you by
his Precious Blood because he wants to
live in you for all eternity and he says
your body is my temple and that’s why
the scripture said we have this treasure
the product Jesus the oil in earthen
vessels you don’t have to be super
talented you don’t have to be super
brilliant you don’t have to be some
extraordinary something all you have to
do is be a 35-cent clean empty vessel
and God says
the glory is not in the earthen vessel
the glory and the treasure is in what
I’m going to do because I’m going to put
my dream in you and I’m going to put my
purpose in you and I’m going to put my
anointing on you and I’m going to raise
you up and people will think you’re
really something
but deep inside you will know that
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