You are going to be tempted. We’re tempted to sin; to look where we shouldn’t look, listen when we shouldn’t listen. We’re tempted to cheat, lie, and steal. Temptation is real and it can cost you everything. That’s why this message “W.A.T.C.H.” is so important. Pastor Franklin teaches 5 areas in our lives where we need to take heed and be watchful of our lives.
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look with me and mark chapter 13
powerful powerful scripture notices all
read letter so this is our this is our
leader our Redeemer speaking but all
that day in that hour no one knows no
not even the angels in heaven nor the
son but only the father take heed watch
and pray for you do not know when the
time is if a man has gone to a far
country has left his house and given
authority to his servants to each his
work and commanded the doorkeeper to
watch watch therefore for you do not
know when the master of the house is
coming in the evening at midnight at the
crowing of the rooster or in the morning
lest coming suddenly he find you
sleeping everybody read verse 37 with me
and what I say to you I say to all watch
watch that’s what I want to talk about
watch the Solomon had an amazing thought
in the Song of Solomon 1 and verse 6
when he said they’ve made me the keeper
of others vineyards but I have not kept
my own he was looking at his life and
looking at the mistakes he had made
looking at his family that had been
destroyed and he said I was I was put
over the responsibility of caring for
other vineyards but I didn’t keep my own
God gives us responsibility of others
but that others begins first I cannot be
a leader of the church if I do not have
careful control of my own life and
particularly watch my own life the
elders of Ephesus Paul wrote and he said
take heed to yourselves take heed to
yourselves in acts 20 he said take heed
to yourselves
be careful lest you be disqualified
listen to 1st Corinthians 9:27 I keep my
body under subjection lest after I
preach to others
I should become disqualified
and be asked to stand aside they that’s
haunting words to a pastor to a
spiritual leader that it is possible
that I can preach to others and not
watch and take heed to myself and God
finally reach a point where he looks at
me and he says you are disqualified
stand aside I’ll have to have someone
replace you there’s a scripture in the
book of Revelation that said let no man
take your crown which means you have a
work and a purpose that God has put you
on this earth and he has a crown that
he’s going to reward you for doing what
he called you to do
but if you don’t do what he’s called you
to do his kingdom was still advanced
he’ll have to replace you with somebody
else and he said don’t become
disqualified and have to be told to
stand aside and let someone else take
your crown I don’t want Jesus to have to
ask me to stand aside because I was
loose in my life and loose in my living
and I missed the will of God many people
are in battles and when they get in
battles they drop out they fade away
they they don’t last the long haul
they’re not they’re not strong til the
end and so they they drop out of reading
the Bible of church attendance you see
them and then you don’t see them Joseph
said to his brothers when when he told
them who he was and he had the keys to
the corn in the middle of the famine he
said go back with this good news and
tell the rest of the family but then he
gave this admonishment in Genesis 45 see
that you fall not out of the way on your
journey back one translation said don’t
get in an argument among yourselves and
fail to find your way home with all this
good news while on your journey home
don’t get in arguments and fall out with
one another but take heed to yourself I
want to encourage everyone under the
sound of my voice today to take heed to
yourself don’t leave loose be careful
what you look at what you listen to what
you give your heart to
take heed to yourself don’t get don’t
get loose with your standards with your
morality it’s so easy to just begin to
erase the lines and just begin to to
live looser and looser and before you
know it there’s no difference between
the old you and the new you Jesus said
watch I thought about what do we need to
watch number one we need to watch our
words the W in the word watch stands for
words words are powerful things words
can destroy or words can uplift words
can build up a words can can tear down
mark chapter 11 Jesus said whosoever
shall say unto this mountain be removed
and cast into the sea shall not doubt in
his heart but believe that the things
that he said shall come to pass he shall
have whatsoever things he saith he keeps
emphasizing it’s important what you say
it’s important what comes out of your
mouth watch your words proverbs 18 and
21 said the power of death and life are
in your tongue and you’ll eat the fruit
thereof it goes on to say in other words
if you taunt death if you talk disaster
if you talk defeat if you taunt
depression that is the seeds every word
is a seed and it’s going forth and
creating the future and he said the
world that you will walk into the future
that you will walk into is being
determined by the words that you speak
you can speak death or you can speak
life you can speak depression or you can
speak joy you can speak hopelessness or
you can speak faith and it’s up to you
death and life are in the watch your
words number one watch the words that
come your way from the devil I’m telling
you now that Satan will get in your head
and tell you things that are not of God
that’s why Jesus turned to Simon Peter
and he said the things that you are
speaking are from the devil get the
behind me Satan I’m telling you that you
have to watch the words that come from
the devil words like just give up words
like what’s the use words like you’re
never going to get free it’s never but I
promise you that the Holy Spirit if you
have an addiction or bondage or some
major issue in your life and and it’s
destroying your life the Holy Spirit
will never tell you you’re never going
to get free this in that is a voice of a
demon spirit that says and it’s straight
from hell and you need to recognize it
and watch those words and say you’re not
coming in here I have another report I
have a report that says I’m loved by God
that He shed his blood for my
deliverance watch the words that come
from the devil watch the words that come
your way from other people they can
captivate you in inferiority and torment
you and defeat you and turn a tear a
beautiful day into a terrible day all
because of the words that somebody
speaks to you you don’t have to you
don’t have to make your ears a garbage
can watch the words that come to you
from other people and lastly watch the
words that come out of your own mouth
words we are to speak words of life we
are to speak words of faith we are to
speak words that agree with God we are
to speak what God’s Word says over our
families and over our lives and over our
bodies and over our pain and over I
heard Jesus said my words are spirit and
they are life and if you’re going to
watch your life you’re going to have to
watch your words watch your words
secondly watch your attitude watch your
attitude just because bad things happen
doesn’t mean you need to be ticked off
all the time Satan has this plan to not
let you get saved but if you get saved
he immediately opts to Plan B to make
you miserable I’m saying to you when it
comes to children
more is called been talked they’re going
to catch your attitude and the attitude
that you have toward God toward worship
toward his house toward life in general
if you if you have a positive attitude
they’re going to face life with a
positive attitude and you can be down
Paul said I think myself happy I think
myself happy you have to have a up
attitude
we’ve got too many children that are not
dreaming big dreams because they’re
round a negative attitude all the time
you can’t do it you’ll never be anything
I watch your attitude refuse to be a
negative angry upset mean person nothing
worse than a bunch of mean angry
Christians have a good attitude have a
positive attitude look over somebody say
you need to smile your face is bothering
me right now just tell you need to smile
don’t you want to get saved and go to
heaven with me throughout all eternity
no the young people think all the fun
people go to hell amen
there ought to be some Christians that
have such an uplifting wonderful
attitude that they want to be like them
they’re dreamers they’re achievers come
on somebody get up in your attitude the
joy of the Lord is our strength
let’s just take a praise break and have
an attitude correction right now what
was i discouraged about what was i
depressed about this is the day the Lord
is made I need to rejoice I’m alive I’m
healthy what else matters
number three what’s your temptations if
you’re going to watch your life you got
to watch your temptations because
they’re coming I really felt a
quickening in my heart about this point
all of us are tempted one man was 80
years old and young kid went up to him
and said I just want to ask you I’m
really battling temptation he said how
old is it before before I won’t be
tempted he said I don’t know I’m just 80
it’s a lot of people that you got to
understand that as long as you’re in
this body even after 21-day fast
temptation is still real you’re going to
be tempted to quit you’re going to be
tempted to sin you’re going to be
tempted to look at stuff you shouldn’t
look at listen to stuff you shouldn’t
listen to tempted to gamble tempted have
illicit sex tempted by drugs tempted by
alcohol Lord told me to tell you once
your temptations it can cost you
everything there’s something going on in
West Texas that have baffled the
scientists and and they said what it is
is there have been more rattlesnake
bites in West Texas in the last few
years than in decades and they cannot
figure out why especially in remote
places just where farmers are more
farmers are being bitten experienced
people with the country they’re the
barren kind of hot area of Texas are
being bitten by rattlesnakes and they
couldn’t figure it out and they said
they believe this is what has happened
wild hogs were imported from Europe many
many decades ago and those wild hogs
have over bred and there they’re
everywhere and wild hogs have bad vision
but they have tremendous ability to hear
and and feel feel vibrations and they
have developed an immunity against
rattlesnakes
so they eat rattlesnakes is one of their
favorite meals and so what has happened
is over time they believe that when the
Hogs would hear a rattlesnake go off it
would immediately be you know turn to go
to that rattle and the snakes have
gotten smarter and they’ve stopped
rattling and you don’t you don’t get bit
until it’s too you know before you get a
buzz that would go off and your buzzer
you know on this from the rattles and
you’d know back up but now there’s no
warning when you if you get close enough
to a snake now he’s not gonna rattle
he’s going to bite and I thought what a
message that sometimes we get to
thinking the Bible said in please ask
these 10 that if if the hedge is broken
down the snake will come in and bite and
sometimes we get to stomping hedges
meaning standards and convictions and
stomping them down and say I didn’t hear
any rattle of the snake I didn’t hear
any rattler go off
oh I’m gonna go over there and do this
too and look nothing happened to me and
I’m gonna go to that party and I’m going
to get drunk I’m going to sleep with
that person I’m going to look at that
filthy website I’m going to do this and
we get to thinking nothing’s happening
no lightning bolt is hitting me I’m
getting by with it but here maybe what
it is is the snake is so smart that the
reason you don’t hear the rattle is you
he’s waiting until you keep stepping
more and more and more and when he sinks
his things in you it’ll be too late to
try to fix it then and the Lord sent me
to tell you today watch your temptations
sin is still sin death is still death
even if it’s not rattling wrong is still
wrong and you may feel like nothing’s
happening and you’re doing it and you’re
fine and you can control it but if it’s
not rattling that doesn’t mean it’s not
deadly it may be that serpent is so wise
that it’s just pulling you further and
further and further and here’s the good
news Jesus Christ was tempted he has
overcome Satan he has overcome the devil
he has overcome every addiction and by
his blood you
can be free I want you to praise God
right there and I’m going to finish this
message everybody how many of you
believe the blood of Jesus is greater
than any temptation please hear a man
who has pastored for 25 years plus sin
will destroy it thrills you and then it
kills you it fascinates and then it
assassinates nobody gets by with it
sooner or later the serpent will bite if
the hedge is broken down watch your
temptations number 4 watch your
character the see and watch stands for
character character matters character
when you leave your bills unpaid
character what Jehovah Jireh is paying
my rent no he’s not whoever you renting
at home from has not got to check in six
months and it’s not Jehovah Jireh paying
it well I’m just gonna write a faith
check that’s not faith that’s a felony
character Abimelech the Bible said was a
king and he saw Sarah Abraham’s wife I’m
almost finished but listen he saw
Abraham’s wife he had a harem full of
beautiful women the most beautiful women
in the country and he saw Sarah and she
was 99 years old and he started less
than in saying I gotta have her she was
99 years old
how many of you want that lotion come on
just be on 99 and she was hot 99 and
she’s turning heads 99 turn to your wife
right now and say that’s what you look
like baby that’s you that’s you and you
know what God said to a family he took
her
pitiful Abraham lied and said she’s my
sister and and he took her and he’s
going into her bedroom to to assault her
and molest her and God spoke to him he
said if you touch her you’re dead man
and then he made this comment he said I
know you did this in the integrity of
your heart and I withheld you from
sinning because you even if you mess up
if you have integrity in your heart God
will help you work things out it’s a big
deal lastly watch your household the
most valuable thing that we have in this
world is our children our husband or
wife our loved ones they’re worth more
than silver they’re worth more than gold
they’re worth more than any a claim that
the world could ever any title you could
ever earn there’s nothing more precious
than Charisse and Courtney and Carissa
and Caroline and Connor and Drake
nothing and we’re called to watch our
household determine that your children
will be fruitful in the kingdom of God
and hell will not have them in Jesus
name
Genesis 14 and 14 Abraham’s family was
kidnapped and he sought God and God said
go pursue and bring them back you shall
bring them back David at Ziggler Ziggler
lost his family and God spoke to him and
said go after your family and you shall
recover them all I feel like telling
somebody that if you will believe
according to acts 16 believe
Evon the Lord Jesus Christ everybody say
this with me and you will be saved you
and your household does anybody believe
that this morning does anybody claim
that over your children over your
grandchildren
I know hail will come and assault and do
all it but if we’re watchful and we’re
praying there’s nothing more powerful
than the blood of Jesus Christ and a
praying mother and father and I’m saying
to you be watchful when that when that
boy comes to pick that daughter up you
be there and you open the door and just
watch him don’t smile and just look at
it my kid there’s a there’s a man in
this church that had an amazing month
for during the fast he was on the 21-day
fast very faithful member of this church
and a personal friend and I have his
permission to share this and just an
outstanding business and very prosperous
in his business and he was contacted by
a national corporation that if I named
them it’s a household name and every one
of you would note that name and they
heard about this man all that he’s done
and all that he is doing and the
International president of the whole
corporation flew in on private jet
picked him up and took him to a resort
area sort of tried to wine and dine I
guess you would say and offered him the
vice presidency of this international
corporation starting salary per year
five million dollars per year starting
salary and all of the benefits that go
with that this man who has beautiful
children beautiful wife beautiful family
it’s on the 21-day fast they said just
pray that I’ll do the right thing and he
said that he said I thank God he’s what
he told me he said I thank God for the
21-day fast he said I don’t believe it
was by
hands that I was on the 21-day fast and
he said I went back to to the lodge
after a day of all this offer after
after after offer and he said I’m laying
there in the bed and I’m fasting my
stomach is growling he said I looked up
at the ceiling and he said it was just
like the voice of God came booming
through that room and saying you can
choose I’ll bless you but my perfect
will is for you to be with your family
in the church where you are but I’ll
bless you and he said I never have felt
such peace come over me he said I
thought about my little son and I
thought about my beautiful daughters and
I thought about my wife and I thought
about my church and he said there’s some
things money cannot buy money cannot buy
a family money cannot buy a good Church
money cannot buy a family being raised
in truth money cannot buy a happy
marriage sometimes we need to be
watchful not every opportunity is God I
said it before I’ll say it again if you
don’t get anything else never move for
money now if God tells you to move then
go but don’t let money be the deciding
factor let the voice of the Lord be the
deciding factor because there are
ramifications that you cannot see I’ll
tell you this I told this man that you
will not give up houses lands or
anything for his name’s sake and he not
reward you a hundredfold in this life
and in the life to come that’s Jesus’s
words and how many of you know to see
your family in heaven is a hundredfold
in this life
and in the life to come
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as a business owner I know what it is to
start out small I remember not having
anything and I remember I had to take
care of my wife and my baby and I wanted
them to have the best
and I feel people have talents down
there they don’t have opportunity when I
saw the picture of the marketplace I
think that is one of the things that
even today sticks in my mind because I
saw a place where people could go and I
could see him trying to barter and trade
and sell something so that they could
have their needs met for their family
and their babies
God can bless them just like he has
blessed me so this marketplace will
affect people’s lives forever it will
produce jobs that’s why I love the
marketplace is food for life
sustainability helping patients to help
themselves and I really like the concept
of pouring in to the marketplace to that
seed so we can grow one portable machine
mega messy boy
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and Haiti will have its first ever
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