The Cure for the " At Ease Disease " Jentezen Franklin Deut . 3 : 11 , Rev . 3 : 15 ~ 16 I wanna speak to you tonight on the different subject that been the last service . The last thing that I wanna say to you unless you gonna be with this in church in the morning . Is simply this , “ The cure for the at ease disease . ” The Scripture says something that caught my attention , you know . Israel was a nation that is constantly fighting giants . They had giants in the land . These were people , well I don ’ t have time to get into it but the Bible says in Genesis chapter 6 if you wanna do an interesting study . “ That the angels cohabitated or had physical relationships with the daughters of Man and produced a race of giants in the land . ” These demonically inspired race and group of Man were fears and they horrified the children of Israel . You remember when they were about to go into the promise land they said , “ We are as grasshoppers in their sight and in our own sight compared to them . ” But the Scripture said , ' That the Israel had defeated every giant except for one . And his name was Og . ' And on the other side of Og was the promise land . on the other side of Og was everything that they ’ d ever dreamed for . on the other side of Og was the destiny , the plan , the blessing , the favor . Everything that God had willed and dreamed of for His people to have . They were one giant away from having it , one giant away from the prophecy and the eternal purpose of God being fulfilled in their life . Think about this , they were one giant away from stability and permanency . See ! once they move into what was called the promise land . No more wandering intense , no more going in and out of place and be on run out . But it was a place of permanency , inconsistency , as a matter of fact , all the time and all the wars that you see on TV and all the turmoil when you turn the TV on and you hear about Israel and the Middle East . Let me sum it up , it ’ s because Israel moved into the promise land and since that time the devil and all that he strive to do has not been able to extract them out of the promise land . Which says this , “ there are some blessings and there is a place of consistency and permanency that you can move into where you will never go back , you will never lose it again , you will never go back to the old bondage of the Egypt and where you came from . There is a place of permanency ; there is a place of consistency in God . There is a place where you ’ re not up and down and in and out but before you can get there , there ’ s one last giant you ’ ve got to kill . And this is what ’ s messed me up . You would think ! How many of you know that the enemy releases his greatest adversity when you ’ re closes to victory ? I mean let ’ s take for football for example . Any football player ’ s here ? What you guys know this , you guys know that if those last few yards just before you move across the goal line . That are the toughest , each were the greatest opposition , the defense comes against you like and since this was the last giant it meant , nobody had killed him all the other were not tough as him , they had been wiped out in other battles but there was something about this last giant that had outlasted them all . He would so fears , he was so mighty . And so when I read about the last of the remnant of giants , the last one that would stop and torment God ’ s people , my mind said , “ men , he must have been something that what messed me up ". Was the Scripture says , “ Nothing about his military strength . ” The Scripture said , “ There ’ s nothing about his weapons that ’ s worth putting in the record . ” Now for example , when the Bible describes Goliath , it gives you the measurements of his weaponry . And how intimidate in it must have been . This is a replica of the actual size of the sword . According to Scripture , Goliath was such a huge massive man that this is the size of the sword that he would have fought . My God , you can ’ t even get close to him . This is the actual replica of the size of a foot of a man who would carry such a sword . This is the actual size of Goliath ’ s spear . Can you imagine fighting someone that big ? I can ’ t even hold it up ! But the Scripture said , “ Nothing about his weapons , shields , his sword . ” It said , “ Nothing about his spear . ” All the Bible warns you about the last giant you have to conquer before you move into a walk of permanency and consistency and you don ’ t have to leave forward and leave it here . You can take this Spirit , this blessing with you wherever you go but here ’ s the deal ! All the Bible said , that was worth noting about Og . Was he had a king size bed ? It never let down . The only thing standing between Israel and the promise land was a king size bed . And then the Bible gave them measurements . This is of course not the Biblical measurements we didn ’ t know how to make a bed this be . The Bible said , “ It ’ s so important to understand that this is all the Bible says about the last giant . His bed was 9 cubits and length which is 14 feet long and 7 feet wide . That ’ s a big bed . And I was praying and said , “ Lord , what in the world is that mean ? Why is the only thing that is important about the last giant that we have to defeat before we move into our destiny and to the plan that you have and to the call that you have and to the destiny and to the place of consistency and permanency ? Why would you only say something about the last giant that concerns the size of the bed that he had ? ” The Lord spoke to my heart and He said , “ That bed represents slumber , sleep , taking it easy . Just relax ! That bed represents that just kickback . Just take it easy , just you don ’ t have to be intense , you don ’ t have to stay stirred up . Just relax , just lay down ! ” That ’ s why the Bible says in the book of Amos chapter 6 , “ Woe unto thee that are at ease in Zion . ” And Zion is the church . once you get save , once you get born again and you get touched like you have experience in this conference . You don ’ t have to worry about sin , it ’ s not greater than the blood , you don ’ t have to worry about the devil or demons , the greatest enemy that will attack you and try to stop you , sin can ’ t stop you , the devil can ’ t stop you , demons can ’ t stop you , temptation can ’ t stop you . The greatest thing that Satan has is the " at ease disease " that you start losing your intensity and your passion and your fire and you get infected with the at ease disease . The " at ease disease " sounds like this , “ Enough , I just can ’ t come forward in conference , now I ’ m going back to my church and when you work in tomorrow morning " The at ease disease will try to attack you . " You praised enough , My God , You worn out ! Don ’ t praise God " at ease disease will attack you . It ’ ll try its best to tell , “ Just relax ; you don ’ t have to stay after it , just relax ! " And I believe the greatest threat the enemy has against us now is that he can get us to lay down in a Spiritual bed of ease and just kickback and lose everything that God had done in our life . I thought about Revelation chapter 3 , it warns against the at ease disease when it says , “ I wish that you were hot or that you were cold . ” But for God sake don ’ t get infected with the at ease disease . The next verse God says , “ Because it makes me vomit " it ’ s a disease and it will make you vomit . It ’ s the goldilocks syndrome ! Do you remember Goldilocks and the three bears ? Well you remember when goldilocks went into the little house in the forest and she sat down in the first chair and she said , “ Oh , this chair is too big . ” And then she sat down in the baby ’ s chair and she said , “ Oh , this chair is too little . ” But then she sat on the soft middle chair and she said , “ Oh , this chair is just right ! ” And the she move over to the porridge and she taste in some of it and she said , “ It ’ s too hot ! ” And then she tastes in another bowl and she said , “ It ’ s too cold ! ” And then she tastes in the mediocre and she said , “ Oh , this is just right ! ” And she went over to the bed , she remembers the story and then she got on papa bear ’ s bed and she said , “ This is too hard . ” And then she went to the other mother bear ’ s bed and she said , “ This is too soft . ” But she got in the baby bear ’ s bed and said , “ This is feels just right ! ” And guess what happens ? She went to sleep ! But wait a minute , if we ’ re not careful we ’ ll go back to our youth group and say , “ Oh , he preaches too hard , don ’ t preach hard , don ’ t stay in that business or I don ’ t like you too soft , I like preaching this just right . Don ’ t tell me that I can ’ t , you know I just like just right . I don ’ t want anything that stretch me , I don ’ t want anything that challenge me , I don ’ t want anything that convict me , just give me that just right feel . And all I don ’ t want it too hot , that worship too intense , that preaching too intense . " Well you know too much to have it too cold . You can ’ t go to the first church frigeder anymore . You can sit out there and your hands down and keep the fire that ’ s inside of you . If you go back to your church and go on the back row and start texting and pass a note . You gonna lose everything that you ’ ve got in this conference , you can ’ t go back to cold . But here ’ s what the enemies gonna do he ’ s gonna say , “ Lay down right where just right . ” What I ’ m saying to you is , when you go to a just right church , just right youth group . And you get around a bunch of other friends who are not hot for God . They ’ re just like mediocre , lukewarm . You go to sleep , you lay down and spiritually you go to sleep . And when you go to sleep , the Bible says , “ As long as Samson was awake he cannot be defeated . ” I ’ m telling you , that as long as that you keep what you have going inside of you . By feeding in the word of God and feeding your spirit on spiritual things and praying . You cure that " at ease disease " with prayer life , and with the Bible reading and with other Christians you hang out , you go to church you worship . Oh , that ’ s too old fashioned . No ! It ’ s the cure for the at ease disease . Is anybody interested in going forward in the God ’ s destiny ? The last giant is not sexual immorality , is not drugs . ( it is at easy disease ) We have already decided , we ' ve thrown that stuffs . The last giant , so this is one so difficult because if I were preaching supply . My God will supply all your needs , God can do anything He ’ s awesome . But I ’ m not preaching " supply " I ’ m preaching " demand ". I ’ m preaching if you don ’ t want it and you just start getting lacks and you ’ re starting getting lacks of deistical and you start getting laid back and you stop going the church and you stop worshiping and you stop , you know , you stop reverting bad . You getting into the bad of ease and you get the " at ease disease . " And as long as Samson was awake , a thousand Palatines couldn ’ t kill him . He was tearing the gates of hell off their hinges . So Delilah said , “ I know what I ’ ve gonna do to get that man . ” All I gonna do is getting his head in my lap , laying down Samson . You don ’ t have to stay intense ; you don ’ t have to stay on fire . My God you just had a great victory . Lay it down and kick back and take it easy . And the Bible says , Wow ! “ He slept , she cut . ” Remember his standard ; he made a vow to God . And said , “ God , as long as I live I ’ ll never cut my hair , and while he slept , she cut his standards off . And when he awakened they arrested him and put his eye out and he lost his vision . And what the Holy Spirit told me to tell this conference is simply this . The last giant that you ’ ve got to make up your mind through the power of the Holy Spirit you ’ re going to defeat is that at ease disease . I wish that every youth leader , every mom , every dad and every students would say to Og , “ Tonight Og , you are going to die . I ’ m never going back to who I used to be , I ’ m going across into my destiny , in the God ’ s purpose , in the God ’ s anointing , in the God ’ s plan ! ” So , it can happen in anybody . The at ease disease , I ’ m almost through this . Did you know it can affect and infect preachers ? It can infect youth pastors ? You lose your intensity for God your doing it . But you don ’ t feel it anymore , it ’ s just a function . It ’ s dangerous if you ’ re a musician , a singer , a preacher , if you are a teacher you never should give comfortable with this . It still makes me nauseated ; I still get upset stomach on Sunday morning . After all this year and all these sermons , I still and so uncomfortable with walking to a flatform and trying to preach it scares me to death . I don ’ t ever wanna get comfortable with something so holy . But because I had said in my mind I fasted 21 days in beginning of the year in my mind every Saturday when , you know . It ’ s not legalist because not you have to , it ’ s like the Holy Spirit would just challenge you . Who just say , “ Go with out a meal today . ” I wanna challenge every one of you to fast , to pray when you feel yourself get in at ease , when you feel yourself losing that intimacy . I promise you I found the cure in that at ease disease is called fasting . It ’ s amazing ; I don ’ t know why but when I just skip a meal . If I fast from sun up to sun down it ’ s like I ’ m charged again . It ’ s a big deal Jesus did it , Moses did it , Elijah did it , Peter did it , Paul did it , maybe you all to do it . But I like food too much ! About one Saturday afternoon 6 weeks ago , Friday I knew . I just felt that little prompt in . He doesn ’ t force you , He doesn ’ t . He just says , “ Do you wanna get more intimate , do you feel little distant ? ” I start waking up a night I almost hear the Lord says , “ I miss you . I miss you ” I was praying , I was reading my Bible but I didn ’ t feel what I felt , you know like I felt this morning and that powerful serve . Did you know you can have that ? And I , so I said in my mind , tomorrow I ’ m fasting from sun up to sun down . I forgot I had a wedding . So I study it all day . Got my message and I had a weeding in the afternoon . It was an outside wedding . And so Dweyne one of our Pastor picked me up and took to this place and it was outside . I ’ m not making this a beautiful weeding outside . This precious little couple in the church , walk down the aisle and the whole time it ’ s 4 o ’ clock in the afternoon , I had had nothing to eat . And my stomach is ( brawling ) . And it ’ s embarrassing , they ’ re standing there . Do you take so and so as your husband ? And before they could answer . ----- grawling ( sound ) stomach . And then after the wedding people said , “ Come over to the reception we ’ ve got food ! ” There ’ s something about the wedding you all to eat after the weeding . Everything in me wanted to go eat . But I told Dwayne I said , “ Let ’ s go . ” We slipped out . We got in the car we ’ re riding down the road . And for some reason Dwayne had the radio station on a love station which a little weird for two guys in the car . And there were love songs and all of the sudden Joe Cockerin , comes on in . Some of you kid I hope you know , I hope I ’ m not dating myself . But I start hearing that scraggly voice , “ You are so beautiful . ” And Dwayne reached over and said , “ I loved this song ! ” and he turned it up . “ To me . ” I ’ m feeling real uncomfortable now . I look over and he looks at me just glance and I said , “ Don ’ t even start , I ’ m not you out . You are , “ They all know it . ” So beautiful . Sing it with me , “ to me , can ’ t you see ? ” You know that song ? I will show you how the Lord works . I will show you how the Lord works . So we hear that song , you know we both enjoyed and then we turned it down just kept talking . Then thinking more , we got home . I ’ m walking to the house . Now I want you to listen to me I ’ m closing . I ’ m walking to the house I mind in my own business , I ’ m walking down the hall . We have a little sitting room , and we had a little baby grand piano because I play the piano . And I felt the Lord , I mean just like “ boom ! ” Just like the presence of the Lord . See ? When you fast you get sensitive to the presence of the Lord . And the Spirit of the Lord just impressed me , and I starting hearing that song in my ears . I had totally forgotten about it . It been 30 minutes or so but I started hearing Joe Cocker in my head singing you are so beautiful . And the Lord said , “ Why don ’ t you sing that to me ? " You are so beautiful to me . You are , “ nobody there but me and Jesus . ” So beautiful “ I started singing it to Him . ” to me . Can ’ t you see ? You ’ re everything I long for “ Yes you are alone . ” You ’ re everything I need . You are so beautiful ; yes You are Lord to me . Transcribed by : Jerome N . Villamor