Jim Bakker Show - The True Value of Restoration - Jentezen Franklin Aired: 2020-02-03 Duration: 04:07 === A Dream Worth Millions (03:30) === [00:00:00] I just feel led to say something. [00:00:02] There's this little chapter in there in the book that I talk about restoration, and I just felt that so strong when you said that. [00:00:10] And this is a true story, Jim. [00:00:15] A guy by the name of Steve Wynn, who is a famous developer in Las Vegas. [00:00:21] He's built the Bellagio and all the great hotels there, the Wynns. [00:00:26] Many give him credit for kind of bringing back Vegas. [00:00:31] And he bought a painting. [00:00:33] It's a true story. [00:00:34] He bought a painting, a Picasso, back in 1991 for $50 million. [00:00:42] And it was called Le Rêve, which is French for the dream. [00:00:45] A painting called the Dream. [00:00:48] And he would hang it in the lobbies of his hotels because he loved it and he had an emotional attachment to it. [00:00:54] This is his own words. [00:00:55] Because it represented his life in the dream. [00:00:59] And he would hang it in the hotels of where he was and all the hotels that he had. [00:01:05] Well, five years later, an investor from New York called him and said, I want to buy the dream. [00:01:12] I want to offer you $139 million for it. [00:01:15] He paid $50 million. [00:01:17] So he sold it five years later. [00:01:19] And to celebrate, he had a huge party in Vegas at one of his hotels. [00:01:24] All of the wealthiest, famous movie stars, they flew in to say goodbye to the dream. [00:01:30] While he was up talking, true story, while he was up talking, he has an eye disease. [00:01:35] He lost his balance, and he almost fell, and he put his arm out, and his arm went through the painting that was on an easel behind him. [00:01:44] It destroyed the painting so much so that the investor said, I withdraw my check. [00:01:52] I do not want that painting. [00:01:54] The dream is torn. [00:01:56] I mean, if you're a preacher, you know where I'm there. [00:01:59] The dream is tattered. [00:02:01] It's worthless. [00:02:03] But Steve Wynn loved that painting so much, he searched the world, went to Europe, and found what he called a surgeon of art. [00:02:16] Yes. [00:02:16] Brought him in, and it took, listen to this, talk about restoration. [00:02:21] One year of working on the tear. [00:02:25] And when he got through, it was so remarkable that when you looked at the front of the painting, you could not tell. [00:02:32] The greatest experts could not tell. [00:02:34] When you looked at the back, if they could see inside what had happened. [00:02:38] But here's the point. [00:02:39] This is what's remarkable. [00:02:41] The same investor who said, it's worthless, it's trash, the dream is torn and tattered and worthless, called Steve Wynn back. [00:02:53] And even though he offered him $139 million before it was torn, after it was restored, he offered him $155 million. [00:03:05] It was worth more after it had been torn and devastated. [00:03:10] You're worth more after you've been restored than you were before you went through what you went through. === Believe Through Trials (00:51) === [00:03:17] I will restore the years the canker worm and the locust have taken from you. [00:03:24] And when God gets through with you, you'll be more valuable than you were because of what you went through. [00:03:31] Because of the tears that you prayed, and the trials that you went through and the faith that had to be developed in that fiery furnace. [00:03:39] God says, I'll use all of that to make you more valuable for my glory and to the kingdom. [00:03:45] And I really believe that that is what God is doing in people's lives. [00:03:50] When he allows our dreams to be torn, our marriages to be tattered, our life turns into a nightmare, we don't quit. [00:03:58] We don't give up. [00:03:59] That's it. [00:04:00] Everything you're dreaming for is on the other side of not giving up. [00:04:05] Don't you give up. [00:04:06] Don't give up.