The Blessing of the Mother Bird I Jentezen Franklin

[upbeat music] If you have your Bibles, I'm gonna preach just a few minutes on one of the strangest sermons you've ever heard in your life, I promise.

I want you to look with me in Deuteronomy 22.

[clears throat] Chapter 22 of Deuteronomy.

One verse of scripture, verse six: "If a bird's nest happens to be before you along the way, in, in any tree or on the ground, with young ones or eggs, with the mother sitting on the young or on the eggs, you shall not take the mother of the young.

You shall surely let the mother go, and take the young for yourself, that it may be well with you." This is, this is something that seems so amazing to me, that God says, "If you do what I just said, if you treat the mother bird like I tell you [chuckles] to treat it, treat her, it will be well with you that you may prolong your days." I'll give you my title in just a moment, but I want, I want us to understand something very important this morning, that it's the little things, it's the small, seemingly insignificant things of attitude and heart and internal stuff that God sees.

Man looks on the outward, God sees the heart.

And when we please the Lord in little things, in the kingdom, little things are huge things.

Big doors swing on little hinges.

Doors are huge compared to the tiny hinges that they s- hang upon.

Hinges are small compared to the doors that they open to our lives, and the things that we enter into by that tiny hinge the door hangs on.

It's true in life, and it's true especially in the spirit realm.

It's the little things that God requires many times that He sees that no one else sees about us.

I wanna make that point about the tiny hinges that the big doors swing on.