You've Been Framed

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See terms and conditions at 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:30.080 UNEs dot co. 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:33.400 Hi, this is Joel on Wednesdays. We bring you the 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:47.920 best of I hope you enjoy the podcast. Well, God 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:51.240 bless you. It's always a joy to come into your homes. 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.080 If you're ever in our area, please start by be 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:56.560 a part of one of our services. I promise you 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:58.680 will make you feel right at home. But thanks so 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.280 much for tuning in, and thank you again for coming out. 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:03.960 I like to start with something funny, and I heard 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.640 about this eighty five year old man. He was out 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:09.520 fishing one day and he heard a voice saying, pick 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:13.600 me up. Looked around, didn't see anything, thought he was dreaming. 0:02:14.000 --> 0:02:16.880 Heard it again, pick me up. He looked down and 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:19.960 he saw a frog. He said in amazement, are you 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:23.040 talking to me? The frog said yes, pick me up 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:26.040 and kiss me, and I'll turn into a beautiful bride. 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:28.880 The man quickly picked him up put him in his 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.079 front pocket. The frog said, hey, what are you doing. 0:02:31.120 --> 0:02:33.600 I said, kiss me and I'll turn into a beautiful bride. 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:36.520 The man said, no, thanks. At my age, I'd rather 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:40.720 have a talking frog. Hold up your bible, say it 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:43.799 like you mean it. This is my Bible. I am 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.120 what it says. I am. I have what it says 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:48.520 I have. I can do what it says I can do. 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.640 Today I will be taught the word of God. I 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:55.720 boldly confess. My mind is alert, my heart is recepted. 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:59.600 I will never be the same. In Jesus' name, God 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:03.639 bless you. I want to talk to you today about 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:07.480 how you've been framed. When we hear that phrase, most 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:09.760 of the time we think of it as a bad thing. 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:12.760 We've been set up, made to look like we did 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:16.280 something that we didn't do. But the scripture talks about 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:20.240 a different type of frame. It says the worlds were 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:24.440 framed by the word of God. It's not just talking 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:28.280 about the physical world. The word in the original language 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:33.640 is eons, meaning ages or times. It's saying God has 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:37.440 a frame around your times. He has put a fence, 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:42.480 a boundary around your life. Nothing can penetrate your frame 0:03:42.800 --> 0:03:47.520 that God doesn't allow. Trouble, sickness, accidents, they can't just 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:51.840 randomly happen. The frame is set. You don't have to 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:55.400 worry about your future. There's a frame around your health, 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:59.920 a frame around your children, a frame around your finance. 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:04.320 It's a boundary set by the creator of the universe. 0:04:05.000 --> 0:04:08.960 Not only can nothing get in without God's permission, but 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.840 even better news, you can't get out. You can't make 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.560 a mistake big enough to break out of that frame. 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:20.159 You can't get too addicted, too discouraged, too angry. It's 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:24.120 a destiny frame. God won't let you get so far 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:27.800 off course that you can't still fulfill your purpose. You 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.479 may come right up to the edge, about to do 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:32.800 something to get you in trouble, and you'll bump into 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:35.919 the frame. God will push you right back. Had a 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.080 man tell me how he was so fed up with 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:41.000 his boss. He'd worked at this company for many years, 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:46.240 and his boss was always condescending, making sarcastic remarks, and 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:49.200 this man had had all he could take. He was 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.479 about to give his boss a piece of his mind. 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:53.960 He knew he'd get fired, but at this point he 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:57.560 didn't care. He had his speech all lined up, laid 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.560 in bed the night before, steaming and I'm gonna tell 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:03.240 him I don't like you, I don't need you, You're 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:05.479 a lousy boss. On and on. He's gonna let it 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:09.680 all hang out the next morning. First thing, he marched 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:14.320 into his boss's office without knocking, all fired up. The 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:18.680 strangest thing happened. He got flustered. He couldn't remember what 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:22.200 he's gonna say. His mind totally went blank. He looked 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.360 at the boss and said, would you like a cup 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:28.800 of coffee? He said, Joel, I tried to tell him off. 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:31.680 I tried to be mean. I just couldn't do it. 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:36.080 What happened he bumped into the frame. God knows how 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.280 to protect you, not only from accidents, not only from 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:43.839 the wrong people. God will protect you from yourself. Sometimes 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:47.880 we're the most dangerous thing we face at the family reunion. 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:52.239 You're about to tell that relative off. Somehow you feel 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:54.760 a peace come over you, or they walk out of 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.839 the room at just the right time. That's not a coincidence. 0:05:57.960 --> 0:06:01.520 You better thank God for your frame. Out on the freeway, 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.440 that person that cuts you off, you were about to 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.640 give them a signal with your hand, and I'm not 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:11.120 talking about one way. Jesus. You pull up next to 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:14.120 them so aggravated, throw your hand up. But instead of 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.880 doing what you thought, you just smile and give them 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:20.720 a big friendly wave. What happened? You bumped into your frame. 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.280 This frame has kept us out of more trouble than 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:27.600 we realize. You better thank God for your frame, or 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:30.120 you might not still have a job. If it had 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.760 not been for the frame, we might not still be married. 0:06:33.400 --> 0:06:35.600 How many times were we going to tell our spouse 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:39.000 exactly what we think and exactly what they should do, 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:42.320 and we hear the still small voice saying, don't do it, 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:46.480 bite your tongue, walk away. We take the advice. That's 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:50.880 the frame. In the scripture, David experienced this frame. He 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.400 and his men had been protecting a man by the 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.680 name of Nabel. They were camped next door just to 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.760 do him a favor. They've made sure that no bandits 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.800 bthered him or his property, and one day David sent 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:07.320 men to go ask Nabel for some food. Nabel was 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:11.200 very rude. He told those men, I don't owe you anything, 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.280 I didn't ask you to do this, Just get off 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:18.040 my property. When David heard what Nabel had said, he 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:21.239 was furious. He told his men pack up, We're gonna 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:25.400 go wipe out Nabel and anyone that's halfway associated with him. 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:31.840 This set David off as he headed toward Nabel's house, angry, offended, 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:36.560 ready to get even. God sent a young lady named Abigail. 0:07:37.320 --> 0:07:41.119 Abigail was Nabel's wife. She met David on the road 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:45.960 with gifts with food. She said, David, you are called 0:07:46.000 --> 0:07:48.720 to be our next king. You are destined to do 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:53.160 great things. My husband, Nabel, he's a fool. Why are 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:55.880 you gonna waste your time fighting with him? You could 0:07:55.960 --> 0:08:00.360 miss your destiny. She spoke sensing to him and said, 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:04.400 you're exactly right, turned around and went back home. You 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:07.440 know what Abigail was, She was a part of the frame. 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:11.240 God ordained her to be there at the right time 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:14.880 to know exactly the right thing to say. Had David 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:19.840 gotten distracted killed Mabel caused a big stir, that mistake 0:08:20.000 --> 0:08:23.240 could have kept him from taking the throne. He went 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:25.840 right up to the edge, but he bumped into his frame. 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.680 God is so good he will always send the right 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.800 person to say the right thing to keep you from 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:36.600 missing your destiny. David said, where would I be without 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:39.560 the goodness of God? He could have said where would 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:44.520 I be without this frame. Jonah experienced the frame. God 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:46.960 told him to go to the city of Nineveh. He 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.520 didn't want to go there. He said, God, that's what 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:51.360 you want me to do. I want to go my 0:08:51.480 --> 0:08:55.320 own way. He went in the opposite direction. And God 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:58.080 will always let you do your own thing. He'll let 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:02.600 you go your own way. He's so merciful. At some point, 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:06.080 you're gonna bump into your frame. He let Jonah go 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:09.880 the wrong direction. Jonah ended up on a ship in 0:09:09.920 --> 0:09:13.560 the middle of a huge storm. He finally told the 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:17.040 crew that he was the problem. This crew had no mercy. 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:20.439 They said, Jonah, you're the problem. Good riddance, You're out 0:09:20.440 --> 0:09:24.200 of here. They threw him overboard. You would think this 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.880 would be the end of Jonah's life. He brought the 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:30.160 trouble on himself. He knew the right thing, but he 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:33.960 did the opposite. He had nobody to blame except himself. 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:39.520 I'm sure Jonah felt like he was finished, that his goodbyes, 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:43.800 made his peace. But what Jonah didn't realize was the 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.719 frame God had put around his life. Yes he made 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:51.840 a mistake, but it wasn't outside the frame. Yes he 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:55.680 was in trouble, but that trouble wasn't a surprise to God. 0:09:56.280 --> 0:10:01.080 God allowed the difficulty into Jonah's frame, not to harm him, 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:05.120 but to push him toward his divine destiny. And when 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:09.240 it looked hopeless out in the sea, treading water, no 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:13.160 chance to survive, here comes a big fish and swallows 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:17.119 Jonah up. You know what that fish was like, Abigail 0:10:17.400 --> 0:10:21.240 part of the frame. Three days later, that fish spit 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:24.079 him up on the dry ground. Jonah says, you know what, 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:28.120 I think I'll go to NINEB after all. Like Jonah, 0:10:28.440 --> 0:10:30.840 you can run as much as you want, but the 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.880 good news is you'll never run out of your frame. 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:37.480 You'll keep bumping up against it again and again. It'll 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:41.560 always push you back towards your divine destiny. In other words, 0:10:41.760 --> 0:10:44.200 you can go out and party, live it up, not 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.360 give God the time of day. But while your friends 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:52.520 are partying, while they're enjoying life, deep down you'll be miserable, 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:57.040 thinking why can't I enjoy this? Why am I so unsatisfied? 0:10:57.480 --> 0:11:00.920 It's because of the frame God's put on your life. 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:05.559 You are ruined for living a defeated, mediocre, compromising life. 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:10.040 God's calling is on you. You can go your own way, 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:13.280 but God has a way of getting your back on course. 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:17.520 God has put a frame that you can't penetrate the enemy, 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:22.520 can't penetrate, drugs, can't penetrate the wrong people, can't penetrate 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:28.480 the most high. God has fenced you in. He's put 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:33.120 boundaries around your life so strong all the forces of 0:11:33.200 --> 0:11:37.320 darkness cannot get in, and you cannot get out. And yes, 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:39.959 we can make mistakes, we can run from the call, 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.480 we can try to ignore it. But the frame around 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:47.600 your life was put in place before the foundation of time. 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:52.120 When God breathed his life into you, he framed your world. 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.800 That's why parents, we don't have to worry about our children. 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:59.600 They've been framed. They may get off course, but sooner 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:02.960 or lay they'll bump into the frame. They may run 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.000 with the wrong crowd, but the frame is up. They 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.520 can't go too far to miss their destiny. They're gonna 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:13.960 bump into it again, again again, until they finally say, 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.640 I'm tired of fighting God. I'm gonna let you have 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:20.800 your way. I'm gonna honor you with my life and 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:25.200 some of you. Because you had a praying mother, you 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:28.520 had a praying grandmother, you had relatives that honor God, 0:12:28.960 --> 0:12:31.800 you might as well give up. You don't have a chance. 0:12:32.080 --> 0:12:35.160 Your frame is so set, you're gonna keep bumping into 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:38.440 it until God gets you to where you're supposed to be. 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:43.079 I know this mother. She was so concerned about her son. 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:47.480 He was making very poor choices, and she tried to 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:50.040 convince him to quit running with the wrong crowd and 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.800 convince him to come to church. He just wouldn't do it. 0:12:53.200 --> 0:12:56.240 He ended up in jail One Sunday morning. He was 0:12:56.280 --> 0:13:00.600 watching television in the common area and another mate came 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:04.400 in and wanted to watch something different. They started arguing 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:07.520 and ended up in a struggle for the remote control, 0:13:07.600 --> 0:13:10.319 trying to get it out of each other's hands. About 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:14.360 that time, this huge inmate walked in six foot six, 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:18.560 looked like a professional football player, had these muscles bulging 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.560 out of his shirt. He grabbed the remote control. He said, 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.439 give me that thing. I'll decide what we're gonna watch. 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:28.280 Started flipping through the channels, and he came across our program. 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:33.760 He said, we're gonna watch Joel today. Those two inmates 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.719 got up to leave. He grabbed the one young man 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:39.240 by the shirt and pulled him back down, says, sit down, 0:13:39.400 --> 0:13:43.000 you're gonna watch with me. What happened. He bumped into 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:48.920 the frame, a really big frame, I might add, parents, 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:53.120 God has the right people not only lined up for you, 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:57.480 but for your children, for your grandchildren. Quit worrying about 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.880 them and start thanking God for the frame. Don't ever 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:03.560 go around telling your friends how your children are so 0:14:03.720 --> 0:14:06.319 off course and they're never gonna do what's right. Now, 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.000 zip that up and get in agreement with God. Lord, 0:14:09.040 --> 0:14:11.920 I want to thank you that my children have been framed. 0:14:12.240 --> 0:14:15.120 I've committed them into your hands. And Lord, you said 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.240 the seed of the righteous will be mighty in the land. 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:22.880 As this inmate was watching the program, with this six 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:26.440 foot six inmate making sure he watched, he began to 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:30.440 feel God's presence. He started weeping right then and there 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.560 in the jail. That big inmate led him to Christ. 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:36.920 Now I see this young man at our services all 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.160 the time, sitting next to his mother. You may not 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:43.160 see how it can happen. That's not your job. Your 0:14:43.280 --> 0:14:46.640 job is to stay in peace, knowing that your children 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:51.840 have been framed. Your prayers are activating God's power. When 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:56.320 you pray, just imagine the frame is getting smaller, the 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.800 boundaries are getting tighter. God won't let them go as 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:03.960 far as they used to. He'll make them uncomfortable in 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:08.920 compromising situations. He'll won't let them enjoy doing wrong like 0:15:08.960 --> 0:15:12.080 they did before. God knows how to tighten the frame. 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:15.680 When I was nineteen years old, I was driving home 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.360 from a ball game very late at night. There was 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:22.200 nobody on the freeway. I had a sports car and 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.920 the fastest i'd driven it was about seventy five miles 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:27.680 an hour. I thought this would be a great time 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:31.040 to see how fast this car will really go. So 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:34.280 one o'clock in the morning, five lanes of freeway in 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:36.440 front of me. I was on the top of a 0:15:36.480 --> 0:15:39.480 big bridge. I could see about two miles down the 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.160 road and hardly anybody on the road, just a car 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:45.200 to here and there. So I put the pedal to 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:48.160 the floor, and that car took off, going so fast. 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:50.640 I'm not going to tell you how fast, because my 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:54.240 mother's sitting on the front road. But as I was 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:58.840 flying down the highway feeling so cool, I looked over 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:01.520 and there was a car right next to me. I thought, 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:04.360 I can't believe it. He wants to race. He can't 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.600 race me. He's got a piece of junk. And so 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:10.480 I put it down even faster, took off. I looked over. 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.360 There he was again, but this time when I looked, 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:18.120 he was holding up his badge. I nearly went to 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:23.400 heaven right then, and there my heart stopped. I looked 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:27.000 back over and he mouthed the words slowed down. I 0:16:27.120 --> 0:16:31.560 drove thirty miles an hour the rest of the way home. Parents, 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:35.440 God has a frame around your children. Even when they 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:38.160 do dumb things, they can't get out of the frame. 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:42.600 God'll always have the right person, whether it's Abigail, a 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:46.080 six foot six inmate or an off duty police officer 0:16:46.440 --> 0:16:48.440 going down the freeway at one in the morning. We 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:50.920 can't get out of the frame. Now, quit looking at 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:54.520 me like you've never done anything dumb. In the scripture, 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:57.480 there was a man named Saul. He was the biggest 0:16:57.640 --> 0:17:01.080 enemy of the church. He hated believe he was having 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:04.439 them put in prison, doing more harm to God's people 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.840 than any person of that time. One day he was 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:11.600 on the road traveling to Damascus, and a bright light 0:17:11.760 --> 0:17:14.720 shine down on him, so bright that he fell to 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:19.360 the ground and became blind. The voice said, Saul, why 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.560 do you persecute me? Don't you know it's hard to 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:26.639 kick against the pricks. God was saying, Saul, I've got 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:31.000 you in my frame. You're trying to kick, trying to run, 0:17:31.359 --> 0:17:34.119 trying to ignore it. But Saul, you have to understand 0:17:34.440 --> 0:17:37.800 I set the frame. I have a destiny for you 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:41.400 to fulfill, and it's not to stop my work. It's 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:44.879 to advance my work. Laying on the ground, not able 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:48.760 to see, Saul said, who are you? The voice boomed out, 0:17:49.000 --> 0:17:54.000 I am Jesus, whom you persecute. Notice when people persecute you, 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:57.000 give you a hard time for honoring God, make fun 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:00.000 of you for coming to church. Don't let that bother you. 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:02.840 They're not really doing it to you, They're doing it 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:07.640 under God. Saul was harming believers. Yet God said, you're 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:12.119 persecuting me. God took it personally. The voice told Saul 0:18:12.240 --> 0:18:16.160 to go to the city and see Anonius. Annius prayed 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:18.879 for Saul. He got his sight back. Long story short, 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:23.160 Saul became the apostle Paul, who went on to write 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:26.280 over half of the New Testament. Some of you think 0:18:26.320 --> 0:18:30.320 that you're too far gone, made too many mistakes, people 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:34.720 tell me often, Juel, I'm just not a religious person. Listen, 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:38.280 none of that matters. All that matters is the creator 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:41.560 of the universe has put a frame around your life. 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:45.320 You can kick, run, try to ignore it. That's just 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:48.680 going to make you more miserable. Like God said to Saul, 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:52.919 it's hard to keep kicking against the frame. The frame 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:56.960 is not going to move. There's a calling on your life, 0:18:57.160 --> 0:19:00.400 a destiny for you to fulfill. It has been set 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:04.000 there by the Most High God. The scripture even talks 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:08.720 about how God's calling is irrevocable. God's not going to 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:12.960 remove the frame the sooner you surrender and say God, 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:16.720 my life is in your hands. I'm gonna live for you. 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:19.280 I'm gonna get rid of these friends that are pulling 0:19:19.320 --> 0:19:22.240 me down. I'm gonna get help with these bad habits. 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:25.320 I'm gonna get in church and serve and grow. I'm 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:28.199 gonna pursue the dreams you've placed in my heart. The 0:19:28.320 --> 0:19:31.840 sooner you do that, the happier and the more fulfilling 0:19:32.000 --> 0:19:35.359 your life will be. You may have family members or 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:38.879 friends like Saul, you've been praying for a long time. 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:41.640 Doesn't look like they'll ever get on course. In fact, 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:45.040 the more you pray, the worse they get. Don't get discouraged, 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:48.960 stay in peace. Just like Saul. They've been framed. A 0:19:49.040 --> 0:19:53.200 part of this frame is a hedge of protection. God 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:57.120 has a boundary around your life that the enemy cannot cross. 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:00.640 Friend of mine was driving home from work the other 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:03.879 day and he stopped at a light when it changed 0:20:03.920 --> 0:20:06.280 to green. He looked to the left to the right, 0:20:06.400 --> 0:20:09.000 just being cautious, But just as he was about to 0:20:09.040 --> 0:20:12.960 go forward, something said to him so strongly, look again. 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:16.199 He looked back to the right for a second time. 0:20:16.520 --> 0:20:20.480 A car was coming full blast, never attempted to stop, 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:23.480 ran right through the red light. If he had not 0:20:23.600 --> 0:20:27.040 looked the second time, he would have gotten broadsided. No 0:20:27.119 --> 0:20:30.240 telling what would have happened. What was that The frame 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:34.159 if it's not your time to go, the enemy cannot 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:38.120 take you out. The frame that's placed around your life 0:20:39.040 --> 0:20:43.200 was put there by the most powerful force in the universe. 0:20:43.920 --> 0:20:47.160 That's why the Psalmist said, a thousand may fall at 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:50.840 my side, ten thousand at my right hand. I'm not worried. 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:53.920 It can't come near me. I know there's a frame 0:20:54.200 --> 0:20:59.400 around my life. Nothing can happen without God's permission. Had 0:20:59.400 --> 0:21:02.320 somebody come to me once about how they were hit 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:05.320 on the freeway. It totaled their car and they were 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:09.040 really upset, discouraged. They didn't know if the insurance was 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:11.240 going to cover it. It was a brand new car. 0:21:11.880 --> 0:21:14.520 The feeling I got from them was that God had 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:17.600 let them down. He said, Joel, if I've got this frame, 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:21.160 how come I had an accident? Well, keep the right perspective. 0:21:21.560 --> 0:21:24.479 You may have lost your car, but because of the frame, 0:21:24.720 --> 0:21:27.520 you didn't lose your life. Because of the frame, you're 0:21:27.520 --> 0:21:31.000 not paralyzed. Because of the frame, you can still see 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:35.440 and talk and hear. I'm convinced God protects us from 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:39.520 so many things that we don't even realize. We think sometimes, well, 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:43.040 didn't have anything good happen to me, Just an average week. No, 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:46.040 you can thank God for what didn't happen because of 0:21:46.080 --> 0:21:49.000 the frame. You didn't have an accident because of the frame. 0:21:49.040 --> 0:21:51.359 You're not in the hospital because of the frame. You 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:54.400 didn't get laid off because of the frame. Your children 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:57.760 are still healthy in home. A few years ago, I 0:21:57.840 --> 0:22:02.119 was in San Antonio at Brooke Army Medical Hospital praying 0:22:02.160 --> 0:22:06.000 for some of the soldiers. This hospital specializes in treating 0:22:06.040 --> 0:22:08.720 people that have burns. I left one room and a 0:22:08.760 --> 0:22:10.960 couple stopped me and asked me to go in and 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:14.280 pray for their son. He'd been badly burned. They told 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:17.199 how he was a soldier in a rock was the 0:22:17.240 --> 0:22:21.000 middle of the night, was on the army base refueling 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:24.600 these large tanks of gas. It was all alone, about 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:28.159 a mile from the main area. Something caused the tanks 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:32.919 to ignite. When he woke up, he was twenty yards away, 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:36.960 flat on his back, on fire, not able to move. 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:40.760 He's wearing all of this ammunition that could explode at 0:22:40.760 --> 0:22:46.400 any moment. Out of nowhere. These two Iraqi men civilians 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:49.399 showed up and started rolling him in the dirt to 0:22:49.440 --> 0:22:53.359 stop the fire. Without those two men, he certainly would 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:57.880 have burned to death. What's interesting is those men were 0:22:57.880 --> 0:23:00.840 not allowed on the base. They were in a secure 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:04.520 area three o'clock in the morning. The parents said, those 0:23:04.600 --> 0:23:07.359 men had to have been put there by God to 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:11.640 save our son. What was that the frame? It wasn't 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:15.560 his time to go. The enemy doesn't determine your destiny. 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:20.119 God does. God is bigger than an explosion, bigger than 0:23:20.160 --> 0:23:24.120 an accident, bigger than a car running a red life. 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:27.840 God has you in a frame. When I was ten 0:23:27.920 --> 0:23:31.280 years old, we went to Hawaii with my parents. We 0:23:31.400 --> 0:23:34.240 arrived about three o'clock in the afternoon, and we were 0:23:34.240 --> 0:23:37.840 so excited. After we checked into the hotel, all five 0:23:37.880 --> 0:23:40.800 of us children ran down to the beach to go swimming. 0:23:41.400 --> 0:23:44.080 My brother and sister, Paul and Lisa, were in their 0:23:44.160 --> 0:23:46.800 late teens, and they were supposed to watch over us. 0:23:47.359 --> 0:23:50.879 We rented some floats, but in the excitement of playing 0:23:50.920 --> 0:23:54.199 in the big waves and having so much fun, we 0:23:54.240 --> 0:23:57.800 looked up and couldn't find my little sister, April. She 0:23:57.960 --> 0:24:03.520 was eight years old, zed and searched so frantically five minutes, 0:24:03.880 --> 0:24:07.959 ten minutes, twenty minutes, thirty minutes. I had never felt 0:24:08.000 --> 0:24:10.720 such a sick feeling in all my life. We were 0:24:10.800 --> 0:24:14.119 just sure April had drowned. The waves were so big. 0:24:14.800 --> 0:24:19.200 Forty five minutes everyone was looking. An hour still nothing hour, 0:24:19.320 --> 0:24:23.560 and fifteen minutes later we see April way way down 0:24:23.640 --> 0:24:27.600 the beach, walking toward us, carrying her float. We had 0:24:27.640 --> 0:24:30.479 never been so happy and so mad at her at 0:24:30.520 --> 0:24:34.719 the same time. What happened is she'd fallen asleep on 0:24:34.760 --> 0:24:37.720 that float. It was six hours later here at home, 0:24:37.760 --> 0:24:41.440 about eleven at night. She drifted nearly two miles down 0:24:41.440 --> 0:24:45.040 the shore. She could have drifted out to sea. She 0:24:45.119 --> 0:24:47.640 could have woken up in deep water, not been able 0:24:47.680 --> 0:24:51.560 to swim. In a thousand things could have happened, but 0:24:51.640 --> 0:24:54.840 God had her in a frame. God had a boundary 0:24:54.920 --> 0:24:59.960 set around her. Let me assure you death can't pins 0:25:00.400 --> 0:25:04.280 your frame. God has to allow it. The number of 0:25:04.320 --> 0:25:07.480 your days he will fulfill. That's why I always tell 0:25:07.520 --> 0:25:11.080 people that have lost a loved one, especially if they 0:25:11.119 --> 0:25:14.199 went home at an early age. While we may not 0:25:14.480 --> 0:25:18.720 understand it, know this. The enemy didn't take your loved one. 0:25:19.200 --> 0:25:23.399 He doesn't have that power. God called them home. God 0:25:23.480 --> 0:25:27.400 received them into his presence. The angels carried them into 0:25:27.440 --> 0:25:31.280 the Heavenly Father's arms. When Jesus arose from the grave. 0:25:31.480 --> 0:25:34.080 He said, you don't have to worry anymore. I've got 0:25:34.080 --> 0:25:38.400 the keys of death. He was saying, nobody determines your 0:25:38.480 --> 0:25:43.800 time except me. Death can't penetrate your frame. An accident 0:25:43.880 --> 0:25:48.320 can't penetrate your frame. Sickness can't penetrate your frame. God 0:25:48.400 --> 0:25:52.200 has to give it permission. He controls the whole universe. 0:25:52.800 --> 0:25:55.720 When you understand this, you can say, with the apostle 0:25:55.800 --> 0:25:59.480 paul O Death, where is your sting o grave? Where 0:25:59.520 --> 0:26:03.359 is your I'm not afraid of you. You can't defeat me. 0:26:03.880 --> 0:26:07.520 I know there's a frame around my life. Not worried 0:26:07.560 --> 0:26:10.720 about my health. I've been framed. I'm not afraid to 0:26:10.800 --> 0:26:14.000 drive on the freeway. Thousand may fall at my side. 0:26:14.119 --> 0:26:17.119 That's okay. I've got a frame ten thousand at my 0:26:17.240 --> 0:26:20.840 right hand. No problem. I've been framed. It's a hedge 0:26:20.920 --> 0:26:25.600 of protection, a bloodline that the enemy cannot cross. We 0:26:25.640 --> 0:26:28.720 see this principle in Job's life. He was looking for 0:26:28.840 --> 0:26:32.560 somebody to test. God said to Satan, have you seen 0:26:32.600 --> 0:26:36.080 my servant Job. There's none like him in all the land. 0:26:36.880 --> 0:26:40.760 Satan answered back something interesting. He said, yes, God, I've 0:26:40.800 --> 0:26:44.359 seen Job, but you know I can't touch him. You 0:26:44.520 --> 0:26:47.919 put a hedge around him. You've got a frame around 0:26:47.960 --> 0:26:50.960 his life. He went on to say, if you'll remove 0:26:51.040 --> 0:26:53.440 the frame and let me get to him, then he'll 0:26:53.480 --> 0:26:56.000 curse you. But what I want you to see is 0:26:56.280 --> 0:26:59.360 the enemy can't just do whatever he wants. He has 0:26:59.440 --> 0:27:03.080 to ask God for permission. God has to allow him 0:27:03.119 --> 0:27:05.880 to do it. Job went through a time of testing. 0:27:06.080 --> 0:27:08.679 He fought the good fight, and in the end he 0:27:08.720 --> 0:27:11.800 didn't curse God. He came out with double When you 0:27:11.840 --> 0:27:15.000 go through tough times, you have a bad break, you're 0:27:15.040 --> 0:27:19.760 facing a sickness, don't get discouraged. Remember the frame is 0:27:19.800 --> 0:27:23.320 still up. You keep moving forward and you'll not only 0:27:23.359 --> 0:27:26.120 come out, but like Job, God will bring you out 0:27:26.320 --> 0:27:30.199 better off than you were before. My encouragement to us today, 0:27:30.960 --> 0:27:34.440 don't worry about your future. You've been framed. There are 0:27:34.560 --> 0:27:38.080 boundaries around your life put in place by the most 0:27:38.119 --> 0:27:42.000 powerful force in the universe. Not only can nothing get 0:27:42.040 --> 0:27:45.880 in without God's permission, you can't get out. You may 0:27:45.960 --> 0:27:49.480 run like Jonah, but there'll be a fish waiting for you. 0:27:49.480 --> 0:27:52.520 You may kick like Saul, but before long you'll be 0:27:52.560 --> 0:27:56.000 the apostle Paul. You may be about to tell somebody 0:27:56.040 --> 0:27:59.000 off like David, don't worry, Abigail's going to show up. 0:27:59.200 --> 0:28:03.000 That's the frame now, all through the day, instead of worrying, 0:28:03.080 --> 0:28:06.359 instead of being stressed out. Now under your breath, Lord, 0:28:06.440 --> 0:28:09.320 thank you that my life has been framed. Thank you 0:28:09.359 --> 0:28:12.480 that my children are framed. Lord, Thank you that my health, 0:28:12.760 --> 0:28:16.919 my finances, my dreams, my future is in your frame. 0:28:17.600 --> 0:28:20.280 If you'll do that, you'll not only be happier, you'll 0:28:20.320 --> 0:28:23.920 not only have more peace. But God promises the number 0:28:24.080 --> 0:28:28.080 of your days he will fulfill. You will see his protection, 0:28:28.520 --> 0:28:32.440 his mercy, his favor. And I believe and declare nothing 0:28:32.520 --> 0:28:36.320 will keep you from your God given destiny in Jesus's name. 0:28:36.800 --> 0:28:40.760 If you receive it, can you say amen. We never 0:28:40.880 --> 0:28:43.960 like to close our broadcast without giving you an opportunity 0:28:44.040 --> 0:28:46.440 to make Jesus the lord of your life. Would you 0:28:46.480 --> 0:28:51.080 pray with me? Just say, Lord, Jesus, I repent of 0:28:51.120 --> 0:28:56.000 my sins. Come into my heart. I make you my 0:28:56.080 --> 0:28:59.880 Lord and savior. Friends, if you prayed that simple prayer, 0:29:00.040 --> 0:29:02.200 we believe you got born again. Get in a good 0:29:02.240 --> 0:29:05.600 Bible based church, Keep God first place. 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