This is “The Spirit of Honor”. Showing honor is a biblical principle. When we fail to give honor where honor is due, we miss out on many great works of God. For the sake of our children and our children’s children, we need to establish a culture of honor in our homes and in society. We don’t have to agree with everyone we honor—when we cannot honor the person, we honor the office. In this message, Pastor Jentezen Franklin teaches us the importance of honor and how to establish this principle in our hearts and in our homes, receiving the full reward of Christ!This is “The Spirit of Honor”. Showing honor is a biblical principle. When we fail to give honor where honor is due, we miss out on many great works of God. For the sake of our children and our children’s children, we need to establish a culture of honor in our homes and in society. We don’t have to agree with everyone we honor—when we cannot honor the person, we honor the office. In this message, Pastor Jentezen Franklin teaches us the importance of honor and how to establish this principle in our hearts and in our homes, receiving the full reward of Christ!
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may there be a culture of honor in this
house and on our house
and on our children and our children’s
children we don’t have to agree with
everybody
that we honor we honor the office if we
can’t honor the person
all right if you have your bible matthew
matthew chapter 13
verse 57 and so they were offended at
him and jesus said to them a prophet is
not without honor
except in his own country and in his own
house and i want you to notice what
happens next
now he did not do many mighty works
there
because of their unbelief a prophet is
not without honor
except in his own country and in his own
house and it’s not a coincidence that
the next verse is there
he did not do many mighty works in the
previous chapter he was in capernaum and
he healed them
all but he goes to his hometown
and he performs not many mighty miracles
because
he was not shown honor i want to talk
for you
talk to you for just a few moments today
on the spirit of honor
and the power of a spirit of honor upon
your life
when you find a bible principle when you
find a bible truth
if you will if you will grab hold of it
and begin to practice it it will
release the mighty works this is one of
those things that i
am convinced can limit your life if you
don’t
have it and it’s a spirit of honor
if you don’t have a spirit of honor it
really affects your life
we live in a generation
where it’s popular to disrespect honor
it’s popular to show dishonor
it’s popular for comedians and movies
and tv shows
to show dishonor to people
it’s almost like if you want to be
popular and you want to be known
then show more dishonor and you get a
bigger microphone
many of us i’ll speak for myself grew up
in a time when
you know we were forced to show honor we
were taught to show honor
we were taught to honor people’s
property and honor people people’s
places and things and
honor our school teachers and honor
people in authority and honor
people like our mother our father our
grandparents we were taught
that we had to honor people because of
the position
that they were in in our life
but now you know so many people have a
spirit
of dishonor and it’s not just
dishonor is manifest by
not doing what you’re asked to do but
it’s possible to dishonor people while
doing what you were told to do you can
dishonor
people with what you say you can
dishonor people with your attitude
if if someone in authority tells you to
do something
and you do it sucking your teeth and
rolling your eyes
and spilling something all over them
cause you’re mad you had to
do it then that is a spirit of dishonor
give me a big amen right there
of course you know i’m not promoting
abuse in any way but if we sucked our
teeth when i was a little kid we would
be missing one of them for
for too long i’m just going to tell you
like it was we were
it was not tolerated
in in our family and in our house a
spirit of dishonor
is not something that you want to get a
hold of your
life because the if you allow your
children to dishonor
you then it’s a matter of time before
they get a job and they think that they
can treat their boss like they treated
you
and so when they lose their job later in
life because
they gave them a piece of their mind and
the boss decided to give them a piece of
a pink slip
don’t be surprised if they fell at life
we get caught up well i did it i did
what they asked me to do but did you do
it with the right attitude
you can be doing all the right things
and still have a spirit of dishonor
jesus said in my own hometown this is
jesus speaking
i’m not honored and read the story
it shut him down this is a big principle
dishonor shuts down what god puts in
people for you
dishonor closes you off to whatever they
have
the miraculous power of god in jesus
christ
was shut down he didn’t say he didn’t
want to
it said he could do no mighty works
there or many mighty works there
because of their unbelief and because
they had dishonored him in the previous
verse
they were talking and saying is he not
joseph’s son
they were dishonoring him as
god in the flesh standing there ready to
perform miracles for them
but they did not show him the honor and
as a result
it cut off his power in their life
you can be under the most anointed
person
and not get your breakthrough and not
get
nothing and people all around you be
getting breakthroughs
and getting blessings because they have
a spirit of honor
your reception is not the thermostat for
the body of christ
just because you don’t like a singer or
you don’t like a preacher or you don’t
like the way
the the woman looks or the person who’s
speaking looks or you’ve got a problem
with this
you are not the temperature or
thermometer
for the body of christ you have to
understand
that if whoever you honor you get opened
up
and they can release whoever you
dishonor is shut off to you
and other people around you may benefit
greatly but if you’re shut off to it
you’ll never get it
your reception matters in other words
if we develop a spirit of honor
in the culture of our house when people
come in the bible said
if you receive a prophet in the name of
a prophet
you receive or get their reward
you receive them in the office you honor
the office you honor the authority
you honor the place that god has raised
them up to
there’s something about showing honor to
people
that can release mighty works in your
life
the next generation desperately needs to
develop
a spirit of honor a culture of honor
in their lives when people come in we
want to have an
honor culture in this house that even if
we don’t agree with everything
even if we don’t agree with everything
about them
can you eat the fish and spit out the
bones
if somebody says the name of jesus can
you get something good
out of it and you know what the rest of
that stuff is up to god to deal with
but if i show honor i can get the reward
romans 13 put it like this it said give
tribute give honor
where honor is due for there is
no power except for god
people in position over you on the job
or
in life may not be qualified to be over
you
but that doesn’t give you the right to
dishonor them
because honor has to do with your own
standard
no matter how someone acts i’m not going
to get over into a spirit of dishonor
because honor has to do with me
and if and and if they’re acting
dishonorable
you know what i’m gonna pray for them
but i’m not gonna get into that same
spirit
no matter how someone acts i’m not going
to get over into their spirit of
dishonor i’m going to keep a spirit of
honor
it affects your life it affects your
children
the bible talks about in the book of
numbers i think it’s the 13th chapter
it talks about miriam it talks about
aaron
and it talks about moses now
they were siblings miriam this is really
amazing jochebed their mother was a
phenomenal mother apparently because she
raised the first prophet who was moses
she raised the first worship leader who
was miriam
and she raised the first high priest she
must have had some kind of culture going
on in her house
and the bible said that moses was
elevated
above his siblings and moses decided to
marry an ethiopian girl
so she was of a different nationality
and she was of a different skin
color and the siblings didn’t like it
and they had a falling out aaron and
miriam the bible said did not agree and
they started
murmuring and talking about their
brother moses
and his fiancee are now his new wife
and the bible said the lord heard it
that that blows my mind and the
scripture
said god heard them running down
his friend moses
um i just want to warn you that god
hears a spirit of dishonor in our life
people you know they begin to lose their
passion for god when they take on a
spirit of dishonor
when you quit honoring people and
honoring god and
you get an ugly spirit and you you you
get
you cut them off because you don’t like
this about them or you don’t like that
and you can no longer receive from what
they
have and what god has gifted them with
that’s that’s not their loss it’s your
loss
and it’s like a car that runs out of gas
i’ve seen it i’ve seen people
who get in church and they get offended
at somebody
and they lose the honor in it and
because they don’t like
something that was said or done and the
next thing you know
they can’t receive and they’re like a
they’re like a car out of gas sitting
out there
and nobody can preach you into happy and
nobody can sing you into happy
and people can be rejoicing all around
you but you’re empty
and it has to do with your own spirit of
dishonor
i’m preaching good today the lord heard
it somebody shout the lord heard it
and this is the part of the story it got
me and god said
tell them moses tell those though your
your sister
and your brother that are talking about
you
tell them to meet me at the door of the
tabernacle
this is the only time when god in the
old testament
was not behind the veil once once a year
the only way you could get back there
was for the high priest to go through he
was the only one god stayed behind the
veil
but on this day he he got so upset
with them dishonoring the one that he
had raised
that the scripture said that god said
tell them to meet me at the door i’m not
waiting on them to come back into the
third level back here i want to meet
them i’ll be waiting
at the door wow
god said i’m breaking the rules i’m not
going to let them dishonor
moses in the tabernacle that’s my first
earthly church
in other words listen i believe god was
thinking like this i believe it’s so
disturbing because he said i’m not about
to let the same spirit that got in
lucifer
that dishonored me in heaven now get in
my first
church down there on earth i am a god
who believes in honor and authority
and god met them at the door
and he said who do you think you are you
ought to re you ought to read it he said
who do you think you are
he starts saying things like this i talk
to everybody else in dreams and visions
and prophecies
but i talk to moses
face to face and you got the nerve to
come up in here
you you you you’re eating the food he
prayed in
you you’re drinking the water that he
struck with a stick
and and turned into a water fountain and
you drinking it and complaining about it
and you
wearing those clothes for 40 years and
as your feet grew they grew and as your
belly got bigger your shirt went out
there
and you and you every all this stuff and
all you can do is murmur and complain
and the bible said
that they had a problem with his wife
because of her color
and the scripture said that leprosy came
on miriam and she turned white
it’s kind of funny and moses being the
meekest runs the god i i actually
i almost want to turn there because it’s
it’s really remarkable
in in numbers chapter 12 he turns to
he moses being the mecus you know he
turns and says god please this is my
sister she can’t die of leprosy
please lord most of us most of you mean
people out there you’d say get
good good get her killer but not moses
moses had the right
spirit
and listen to what god said listen to
what god said in verse 14.
and the lord said to moses well if her
father
if she had disrespected her father he’d
a spit in her face
god said that this is how serious
honor is to god god said that he’d spit
in her face and he would ashamed or
uh shamed her seven days she’d at least
had to sit outside the camp for seven
days
for just showing dishonor to her father
it spit on her
and put her and put her outside the camp
for seven days now watch this
so god said i just decided to give her
leprosy
and moses said please lord please
but listen to this leprosy carries with
it
isolation and god said let her have
leprosy for seven days
and when you’ve got leprosy you haven’t
got to tell people to not get around you
the principle is this if a person has a
spirit of dishonor
you’re supposed to treat them like a
leopard
you’re supposed to treat them like they
have leprosy until they get
over their little negativism
because leprosy is contagious
dishonor is contagious
leprosy is a disease that affects your
nerve ending
and it causes you to lose feeling and
when a person has a spirit of dishonor
they lose the ability to feel god
anymore they’re singing but you can’t
feel it
they’re preaching but you can’t feel it
the anointing is flowing but you can’t
feel it
you’ve lost the ability to feel when you
allow dishonor to come into your life
in genesis chapter 9 noah spent
40 days and nights locked up
on a boat with a bunch of animals and
his family
and he got off instantly and got drunk
and you would have too
he was drunk and he was uncovered in his
tent
and ham one of his boys came into the
tent
and saw his father’s nakedness
he saw some uncovered flesh
this is very important i
i don’t care how spiritual people act
around you
i don’t care how holy and anointed they
are when they’re behind the pulpit
don’t you ever forget
that somewhere there is some flesh
i don’t understand why god uses who he
uses it blows my mind
why do you think i’m standing here i
question
i i really do i say god could can’t you
find
somebody else to do this
i like what paul said he said not many
wives are called
he i don’t know what the corinthians did
to him i don’t know if they gave him a
bad honorarium or what but he just
starts ripping into him
and he he says he says not many why
there’s not many wise among you
and then he really gets insulted he says
and there’s not many good-looking
he does he says that he says really the
he’s he’s hidden it from
the prudent and the wise and giving it
to the simple
i guess i guess god’s trying to say like
this i want to see how you do
with the position of authority even when
even when you’re more qualified to be
there
than they are but god put them there to
test your spirit
cause sometimes god would rather have
somebody leaning on him that has a
humble spirit
than somebody who’s so qualified that it
they’d be crazy if they ever got there
so hence you have people like me with
the microphone
that’s how it works how many of you glad
he said not many wise
are among you that god uses how many of
you go how many come on the rest of you
uh how many of you glad he he said not
many good looking let me see your hands
some of you ought to raise a foot
and a and two hands i’m getting ugly too
he said listen to this
he saw some flesh and he ran out and
told everybody
and he dishonored his father he ran
out and told his brothers what he saw
noah was in the tent speaks of his
covering and he starts slandering and
spreading it guess what i know and guess
what i saw i’m not talking about
weirdness i’m not talking about
you you just look the other way and
blatant sin and all that i’m not talking
about that i’m just talking about this
this spirit of dishonor do you
understand what i’m saying
the bible deals with problems when
there’s problems you deal with them and
confront them and all of that
but we must have a spirit of honor on
our lives
his brothers watch this his brothers
hear about it and they get a blanket two
of his brothers
and they go into the same tent and they
take the blanket
and they won’t even face him they back
up
and walk in backwards and cover him
why because they had a spirit of honor
he’s just a man and we’re covering him
noah has the blessing of the entire
world
in his mouth what he pronounces over
these boys the prophecy that he will
release
will touch the whole world and he then
prophesized shem you will be the head of
the
semitic tribes and you’ll do amazing
things and
jay fez you’ll you’ll be over the
european tribes and you will be spread
out and he prophesies
amazing things but then he gets to the
boy ham
and i’ve heard people mispreach this and
they said that ham
was cursed but that’s not what the bible
says read it
the bible said that ham was not cursed
but watch this
he said curse it became your son
ham was the one who dishonored him and
he said curse it became
your son because what you did is going
to the next generation
i submit to you today that the spirit of
honor will either
elevate you and your children and your
grandchildren
or it will absolutely decimate you a
spirit of dishonor will take them down
the wrong path
but if i honor god and honor people
it will be passed down and it will
affect my children and my children’s
children
i just shared with you in 25 minutes 20
30 years of wisdom
and i’m here today to declare a spirit
of honor over you
to honor god to honor authority
i don’t care what the bob is doing i
don’t care what the press is screaming i
don’t care what others are doing
we are to be people of honor
may there be a culture of honor in this
house and on our house
and on our children and our children’s
children
we don’t have to agree with everybody
that we honor we honor the office if we
can’t honor the person
may not like it when you know what they
do but
honor the office
and i just don’t like it when people get
personal
show honor let this be a house of honor
honor the lord honor leaders
honor pastors honor
authority honor police honor
all manner of men government leaders
honor the
office even if you can’t honor the
person don’t
be caught up in a spirit it is a spirit
of dishonor
don’t do it don’t do it do you want the
mighty works
when you get a spirit of dishonor he
could do no mighty works do you want
mighty works released in your life
keep a spirit of honor i honor god
therefore i
honor all all people who are in
authority of the bible said god allowed
them to be there whether you agree with
it or not
so be careful check yourself
the bible said husbands honor your wives
as christ love the church love your
wives
honor them do you have a spirit of honor
for your husband
do you have a spirit of honor for your
wife or do you just treat them
like they’re nothing honor
one another the bible said children
honor one of the big ten commandments
thou shalt honor thy
mother and thy father they’re not
perfect people
you’re going to see some flesh but honor
them
let’s disconnect from this spirit of
dishonor
and say i’m not going to dishonor people
that god has put in a position of
authority
i’m going to pray for him god heal our
leprosy
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