God Can Reverse It! | Jentezen Franklin

Welcome to Kingdom Connection. I'm Jensen Franklin and I want to thank you for joining me today. I mean that. Have you ever looked at a situation and thought it's too far gone? Too much has happened and it's never going to change. Maybe it's your health. Maybe it's your marriage, your family. Maybe you're going through it in your finances. I've been in every one of those situations. And the good news is that our God specializes in doing what seems impossible. If you're facing something today that just appears impossible, I want you to lean in and listen carefully. This message is filled with faith, hope, and the truth of God's Word. God can reverse it. Together we're inspiring people to live for Jesus. If you're looking for more in life, to live with purpose and peace, to make a difference for your family and those in need around the world, Jesus is the answer. And our mission is to simply point you to Him. You're watching Kingdom Connection with Jensen Franklin. Look with me in 2 Kings chapter 20. And in those days Hezekiah was sick and near death, and Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amos, went to him and said to him, Thus says the Lord, Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live. Then he turned his face toward the wall, and he prayed to the Lord, saying, Remember me, O Lord. I tell you, it matters how you live your life, because there may come a moment where you need to be able to say, Lord, just remember, I loved your house. I loved you. I wasn't a perfect person, but my heart, my heart was after you. Watch what he prays. His life's on the line. He's been given a death sentence. And he says, Remember now, O Lord, I pray,

how I walk before you in truth with a loyal heart and have done what was good in your sight. And Hezekiah wept bitterly. And it happened before Isaiah had gone out into the middle court that the word of the Lord came to him, saying, Return and tell Hezekiah, the leader of my people. Thus says the Lord, the God of David, your father. I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Surely I will heal you. On the third day you shall go up to the house of the Lord. And I will add to your days fifteen years, and I will deliver you and this city from the hand of the king of Assyria. And I will defend this city for my own sake and for the sake of my servant David. Then Isaiah said, and this is so important, Then Isaiah said, Take a lump of figs. So they took it and put it on the bull, and he recovered. Infection had broken out. We would call it septic. And his whole body, he was dying, there's no question. It was very severe. I love this. This is so, this is a faith builder for somebody who may be facing something and you're going through treatment right now. God could have done the miracle that He was going to do without any medicine. But God said, I'm going to use medicine. He told the prophet. That's pretty spiritual when God tells a prophet, Use figs on that bull and I'll heal it. So don't think that you're not using faith

if you use doctors. Thank God for doctors and people who can help us. God can do it all by Himself, but He chooses to use ways and means. And whatever you do, mix it with faith and know that ultimately the great physician is Jesus and He can do it any way. We sing a song in the church, You can bless me any way you want to. I just want to be blessed. Amen. And so He laid that on Him and Hezekiah said to Isaiah, What is the sign that the Lord will heal me that I should go up to the house of the Lord the third day? And Isaiah said, This shall be a sign to you from the Lord. The Lord will do this thing which He has spoken. Shall the shadow go forward ten degrees or backward ten degrees? And Hezekiah answered, It's an easy thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees. It's easier for it to go forward is what He's saying, but let the shadow go backward ten degrees. Now you understand in order for that to happen, God had to stop the whole universe and reverse it ten degrees. And I love that He let Isaiah or Hezekiah decide, I can do it forward or I can do it, I can speed time. or I can take time back. That's how bad our God is right there. Telling you, all powerful.

And he said, the harder one would be for him to turn the shadow backward 10 degrees. So Isaiah the prophet cried out to the Lord and brought the shadow 10 degrees backward by which it had gone down, notice this, on the sundial of Ahaz, on the sundial. They knew that God had turned, the sundial was how the ancient way of how they would tell the time and God turned it back 10 degrees. Hezekiah said, how will I know? How will I know? Give me a sign. And God said, I can reverse it. I wanna preach today on God can reverse it. Let it go backward 10 degrees, I'll reverse time. I'll go back in time and I'll do a healing for you Hezekiah. Hezekiah was sick unto death. That means he was going to die. And he was in the house in his bed, he was not doing well. And it was in that moment after the prophet told him, set your house in order, you're going to die, which means get everything ready, make sure that your heir is ready to take over. And the problem was he had no sons. He was childless, he had no sons to take the throne. And Hezekiah, when he walked out, began to weep. He was broken, he was desperate. And the scripture said in the middle of the courtyard,

the spirit of God spoke to Isaiah the prophet and said, turn around and go back and tell the king to put figs on the wound and I will heal them. I will get the infection, this disease that has taken over his body completely and infected every part of him. And I'll turn the sundial of Ahaz. Ahaz was Hezekiah's father, this is very important. I'll turn the sundial back 10 degrees and I'll give him the only time in the Bible God ever tells someone how long they'll live, this is it. He said, I'll give him 15 more years. Ahaz was a very, very wicked king. A father of this man that would receive this healing was as wicked as they come. The scripture said he was very wicked. He worshiped false idols in every green field. He sacrificed the babies on altars to demon gods. He made his own sons to pass through the fire in human sacrifice. This king of Israel became so vile and so wicked. The Bible said he consulted with witches and he dealt in witchcraft and the occult. It says all of this when you read of Ahaz. Ahaz was very interested in the occult. He was very interested in the religions of the areas that he would conquer. He would bring back all of their idols and all of their forms of worship, including human sacrifice. He picked it up in the Assyrian culture

of offering children and he brought it back to his nation. It's really astounding that Ahaz would fall so far and take the nation so far. And the Bible said when he went to Assyria to capture that he noticed in one of their pagan temples that they had this beautiful altar. It was spectacular. It was made of brass and gold and he loved it. It didn't look like the old altar that had been passed down from generation to generation from Moses' tabernacle to where it was in Israel. And he compared it and he said, I don't want that old altar. It's old fashioned, it's outdated. This thing is beautiful. This altar is a great altar and I'm going to take the old altar out of the temple and I'm going to put a beautiful, big, showy, gorgeous, big, flashy altar for all the people to see and we will offer blood of animals to their gods and all gods. odds that we want to worship. Can you understand how backwards this was? He put in the church, he took the old altar out. He took it away. He wanted to replace the old altar. I just wanna preach for a moment that there's nothing bigger and there's nothing better. There's nothing cuter that can replace the altar. I don't care about how new modern church

says we don't need that anymore, that we can just sit on a stool and talk a little bit and then everybody leave. I believe in altar calls. I believe in old fashioned conviction, hallelujah. I believe in seeing men break down and weak, big old muscle tattooed men get in the presence of God and it melts their pride and they get up and they step out in an aisle and they say, I'm not the man I wanna be. God, would you change me? I tell you, we don't need a new flashy church to present to people to make it sensitive for them. We need an old fashioned altar of repentance where we can come and if you messed up, come in tears, come in the mourner's bench, they used to call it, weeping and repenting and God will not turn you away. I don't want anything cuter than repentance. Amen, I want godly sorrow and tears. I want old fashioned conviction. We must not replace the altar. I tell you, I'm glad in Rocky Mountain, North Carolina as a teenager, something got a hold of me in that little bitty church in North Rocky Mountain. I tell you, I was sitting back and I was running with my friends and I was doing things my parents didn't know nothing about but I tell you that Sunday night, something got a hold of me

and I heard a voice inside of my head say, get up right now. I said, Lord, it's not the preacher's altar call. God said, this is it. If you don't get up and walk down that aisle, I'm gonna pass you by and I felt myself trembling and I stood up, my friends looked at me and I walked down that aisle in the middle of that sun. Oh, hallelujah, I walked down to the altar and I gave my heart to Jesus and I've never looked back. Oh, somebody shout with me about an altar of repentance. Repent, if you've been, we need that repentance. Repentance washes you, it cleanses you, it makes you new again. The Bible said the next thing, once you went past the altar, now he's got a big flashy thing, there's nothing and then you would come to the brazen laver and the brazen laver was a long pool of water and it was highly exalted and raised up and the Bible said in 2 Kings 16 that he wanted to lower, he said, I want you to lower, take the panels off of the lavers and he took down the sea from the bronze, that's this big, it's where the priest would wash and the sea is a type of water baptism under the New Covenant and the New Testament and he put it on the pavement. It was way up here but he lowered the baptism tank. It's not that big of a deal, it's not that important. Just kind of pick it like an option on the car, you're saved through the blood of Jesus

and don't worry, let's take that water baptism thing down. I'm sorry, there is no sprinkling of anybody in the Bible. None, John the Baptist baptized in water, Jesus Christ baptized in water, all the apostles baptized in water and if your pride is saying just take that down, I don't think that's that important, that's your opinion. You're gonna go with your opinion or God's opinion because God said, once you get saved, I command you to get in that tank in front of the same world you used to back it up, you used to shout, you used to party, I want you to get up and not be ashamed of the gospel of Jesus. Tell your friends, tell your ex, tell your haters, tell everybody who mocks and makes fun. I have died. The old man is buried, and I am a new creation in Christ. Somebody shout if you believe there's power in water baptism. Hallelujah. Sins are washed away. Jesus said you must be born again by the Spirit and the water. So if you're too big and too smart to be baptized in water, well, I'm just going to call my friend over, and we'll do it in my swimming pool. Well, I'm not saying you can't. If that's all you got, that'll do. But it's not something that's not reverenced, and it's not something that's not holy, and it's not something that's just some kind of stupid ritual. This is a commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ, and we live in a generation that has lowered the baptism tank. And hundreds and hundreds of people sit in a congregation, and they have never obeyed the commandment of Jesus Christ and the example.

He was the Lamb of God, and he said to John, I want you to baptize me. Hallelujah. The Scripture said, and this is a strange thing unless you understand its meaning, that he removed the Sabbath, one translation said, covering. Covering. What is that? I mean, he goes and he sees other temples, and he says, we have this covering. It's called the Sabbath covering. Sabbath means rest. What is that in reference to? I believe he changed the altar, he changed the importance of baptism, and cleansing, the washing of the water, of the Word. And then he wanted to remove the covering of peace and rest. I believe that speaks of the Holy Ghost. The baptism in the Holy Spirit. The Bible said that Jesus said, go tarry in the upper room until you're endued with power from on high. And Jesus himself was filled with the Holy Spirit. And all the disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit. They were in the upper room, and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. Mary, the mother of Jesus, your Bible said, was in that upper room. She was there, and she was filled with the Holy Ghost. And they began to speak with tongues as the Spirit gave them the utterance. And it became a Sabbath, it became a rest. How do you know that the Holy Spirit is associated with rest and peace? Because the Scripture said, Jesus said in John 16 and in John 14, when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall lead you and guide you and show you all things. And then he says, and I will pray to the Father, and he will send you another comforter. And this spake he of the Holy Spirit, the baptism, the living water. Hallelujah. He was talking about the Holy Spirit, but maybe the most telling Scripture is found hundreds of years before the day of Pentecost in Isaiah chapter 28.

With stammering lips and an unknown tongue will I speak to my people, and this shall be a rest which you may... What was the Sabbath covering? A rest. This shall be a rest for them that are weary to rest. This is the refreshing. I just want to preach to you this morning that there is a place in God that if you have not experienced, the enemy wants to do away with it. But there is nothing like the baptism in the Holy Spirit. The joy that he brings, the rest that he brings, the peace that he brings. With stammering... Listen to the graphic description. You'll know it's hit you. With stammering lips and an unknown tongue, I will speak unto my people, fulfilling that prophecy in Acts chapter 2 on the day of Pentecost. And it's available to us on this day. But the enemy wants to minimize that. I just want to say that the Holy Spirit is the comforter. I just want to say that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth. I just want to say the Holy Ghost is the baptism of fire. I just want to say the Holy Ghost is the mighty... rushing wind. Let me tell you something. He uses wind and fire to describe the Holy Spirit. Wind and fire. Wind... Man, write this down. This is good. Thank you, Lord. Wind rearranges things. Fire changes things. Some things in your life need to be completely changed. They don't need to be like they are. They need to be melted down. Fire changes things. Wind, if it gets a hold of your deck chairs out there, it'll rearrange things. And sometimes you need the wind to rearrange things. And sometimes you need the fire to change things. But oh, I tell you, when He comes, He'll come like wind and He'll come like fire. Whoo! Hallelujah! And I'm hungry for it on this Sunday morning. Somebody, a hundred people who've been filled with the Holy Ghost, get up on your feet and say, change me and rearrange anything in me that you want to rearrange. Come on, clap your hands and say, we need it. We

need the altar. We need the, we need the obedience of the washing of the Word and we need the Holy Ghost. All right, sit down. I'm almost done. The table of Ahaz, the sundial of Ahaz. It's important that you put his name on it because I know what he did in his time devastated your family. But I'm the God who can turn time back. I'm the God who can go back and I will, Joel 2 said, I will restore the years. The locusts and the canker worm and the Palmer worm have eaten up. Addiction in your family has eaten up years of a happy home. Years, some of you have never known anything but the curse of generation after generation of addiction and pain and absentee and abandonment and divorce and brokenness. God said, hey, every time you look at Ahaz, your wicked, wicked, wicked father's sundial in the backyard. I wanted to testify that I can reverse the curse, that I can start a blessing. Some of us, all of us have family history that is embarrassing. God can make that testimony your family's miracle. I just want to preach it like the Lord gave it to me. He said, I can turn back the time that the enemy has stolen alcohol, drugs, hatred, dysfunction, violence, anger, financial curses, generational curses, divorce curse. The testimony for the family will be God turned it back. You'll become and you'll have a family miracle. God's able to break every curse, every bondage, every addiction. Your dad's sundial will testify of what I did to restore the years. God's able to break every curse, every bondage, every addiction. Your dad's sundial will testify of what I did to restore the years. Your dad's sundial you will testify of what I did to restore the years. you you you you you you you