Latest / Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE / Defense Against Offenses Get Out of Your Feelings - Bishop T.D. Jakes
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- 0:14Speaker 1: Now to the word of God. Can I take just
- 0:23Speaker 1: a moment and look at you? You just look so good.
- 0:27Speaker 1: You don't look like nothing you've been through. You don't
- 0:30Speaker 1: look like you've been through a storm, a test, a trial,
- 0:33Speaker 1: a tribulation, a pandemic, a sickness, a disease, an affliction,
- 0:39Speaker 1: a divorce, a crisis, a dilemma, a stress attack, a trauma.
- 0:44Speaker 1: You're just looking so good with your saved and sanctified self.
- 0:49Speaker 1: You look like Jesus has been keeping you, preserving you alive.
- 0:54Speaker 1: taking away from you providing for you is there anybody
- 0:58Speaker 1: here that Jesus has been keeping you alive through hell
- 1:03Speaker 1: and high water he's been keeping you alive make some
- 1:08Speaker 1: noise in this house let me hear I believe with
- 1:18Speaker 1: all my heart I have a word from God I
- 1:22Speaker 1: believe it is a prophetic word I believe it's going
- 1:26Speaker 1: to speak to somebody and I believe it's going to
- 1:27Speaker 1: deliver somebody. Before I give you my scripture, I want
- 1:31Speaker 1: us to act like we're not at church. I want
- 1:34Speaker 1: us to act like you're talking to your best friend
- 1:37Speaker 1: and we're hanging out at Starbucks and we're having a latte. Yeah,
- 1:43Speaker 1: we're having a latte. I can't spell it, but I
- 1:46Speaker 1: can drink it. Yeah.
- 1:48Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 1:49Speaker 1: We're having a latte and we're having it with that
- 1:52Speaker 1: special pumpkin bread they make, you know. Yeah, that bread
- 1:57Speaker 1: that's juicy when you bite into it. That don't have
- 2:01Speaker 1: no calories in it. Because you prayed in tongues and
- 2:05Speaker 1: all the calories just drip. You know the one I'm
- 2:08Speaker 1: talking about. Come on, come on, come on, come on.
- 2:10Speaker 1: You know the one I'm talking about. Glory to God.
- 2:12Speaker 1: And we're just going, we're going, I'm going to let
- 2:15Speaker 1: you hear me and Jesus talk. have a conversation about
- 2:22Speaker 1: this text. It is in the Gospel of St. Luke,
- 2:25Speaker 1: chapter 17, verse 1 through 10. I'm reading out of
- 2:29Speaker 1: the King James Version. No particular reason. I study out
- 2:33Speaker 1: all of them, but I think I read out of
- 2:35Speaker 1: King James because it's old and I'm old. And we've
- 2:40Speaker 1: been hanging out so long, it ain't no needin' us
- 2:42Speaker 1: breakin' up now. Yeah. Yeah. Then said he unto his disciples.
- 2:56Speaker 1: He's not talking to anybody but his disciples. It is
- 3:00Speaker 1: impossible but that offenses will come. But woe unto him
- 3:05Speaker 1: through whom they come. It were better for him that
- 3:09Speaker 1: a milestone were hanged about his neck and he cast
- 3:14Speaker 1: into the sea than for him that he should offend
- 3:18Speaker 1: one of these little ones. Take heed to yourselves. If
- 3:23Speaker 1: thy brother does trespass against thee, rebuke him. And if
- 3:26Speaker 1: he repent, forgive him. And if he trespass against thee
- 3:31Speaker 1: seven times in a day and seven times in a day,
- 3:34Speaker 1: turn again to thee and saying, I repent, thou shall
- 3:37Speaker 1: forgive him. This is my favorite part. And the apostle
- 3:40Speaker 1: said unto the Lord, increase our faith. They said, we're
- 3:46Speaker 1: all right with forgiving you one time, but if it's
- 3:48Speaker 1: seven times 70, you're going to have to do some
- 3:51Speaker 1: work on me to increase our faith. That's being honest,
- 3:56Speaker 1: isn't it? Increase our faith. And the Lord said, if
- 3:59Speaker 1: ye had faith as of a grain of mustard seed,
- 4:02Speaker 1: ye might say unto this sycamine tree, be thou plucked
- 4:06Speaker 1: up by the root and be thou planted in the
- 4:09Speaker 1: having and be thou planted in the sea and it
- 4:12Speaker 1: should obey him. Notice that this time Jesus says something
- 4:17Speaker 1: that he says before differently. The first time he says,
- 4:21Speaker 1: if you have the faith as of a grain of
- 4:22Speaker 1: a mustard seed, you shall speak to the mountain. But
- 4:26Speaker 1: this time he doesn't use a mountain as an analogy.
- 4:29Speaker 1: This time he says, if you have the faith as
- 4:32Speaker 1: of a grain of a mustard seed, a mustard seed
- 4:34Speaker 1: is so teensy weensy itsy bitsy that it would fit
- 4:38Speaker 1: right in between my fingers like that. He said, if
- 4:41Speaker 1: you have the faith as of a grain of a
- 4:44Speaker 1: mustard seed, you might say to this sycamine tree, be
- 4:48Speaker 1: thou plucked up by the what? By the root. And
- 4:54Speaker 1: be thou planted in the sea and it should obey you.
- 4:58Speaker 1: But which of you having a servant plowing or feeding
- 5:01Speaker 1: cattle will say unto him by and by when he
- 5:03Speaker 1: has come from the field go and sit down to meet.
- 5:06Speaker 1: And will not rather say unto him make ready wherewith
- 5:10Speaker 1: I may sup. and gird thyself and serve me till
- 5:13Speaker 1: I have eaten and drunken, and afterward thou shalt eat
- 5:16Speaker 1: and drink. Does he thank that servant because he did
- 5:20Speaker 1: the things which were commanded him? I think not. So
- 5:24Speaker 1: likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things
- 5:28Speaker 1: which are commanded you, when you have forgiven seven times seventy,
- 5:34Speaker 1: when you have done all those things that I have
- 5:36Speaker 1: commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants. We have done
- 5:41Speaker 1: that which is our duty to do. May the Lord
- 5:45Speaker 1: add a blessing to the reading of his word. That's
- 5:47Speaker 1: more word than some of y'all read in a month.
- 5:53Speaker 1: That ought to last you a day. So I'm going
- 5:57Speaker 1: to use something I never use. I'm going to use
- 5:59Speaker 1: a subject and a subtopic because I couldn't choose between
- 6:02Speaker 1: the two. And one of them sounds... Real cool and
- 6:06Speaker 1: one of them sounds real intellectual, so I'm going to
- 6:08Speaker 1: use both of them, okay? So the subject is defense
- 6:13Speaker 1: against offenses. Defense against offenses. And the subtopic is get
- 6:25Speaker 1: out of your feelings. Get out of your feelings. So
- 6:32Speaker 1: one of them ought to grab you. You pick the
- 6:34Speaker 1: one you like. Can we stand and have prayer before
- 6:38Speaker 1: I go into this? Yeah. Ooh, I like the sound
- 6:46Speaker 1: of all them seats going up. That just sounds rumbling
- 6:51Speaker 1: like I'm in a great big stadium, which I am.
- 6:56Speaker 1: That's so cool. Can y'all hear me up in the balcony? Yeah.
- 7:02Speaker 1: Y'all got in here, didn't you? Glory to God. the
- 7:08Speaker 1: living God, fall fresh like dew in the morning, cascade
- 7:18Speaker 1: upon us, open up our tendency to be religious and
- 7:24Speaker 1: superficial and expose the innermost symptoms of our heart that
- 7:29Speaker 1: we might receive, ingest, digest, and appropriate the word of God.
- 7:34Speaker 1: I thank you in advance for what you're going to
- 7:36Speaker 1: do here tonight at Victory Church, at Potter's House, and
- 7:40Speaker 1: all around the world, wherever people are listening, that lives
- 7:43Speaker 1: would be changed, that marriages would be changed, that ministries
- 7:48Speaker 1: would be changed, that workplaces would be changed, that hearts
- 7:52Speaker 1: would be changed, that the power of the Holy Spirit
- 7:55Speaker 1: would get so deep down inside of us that we
- 7:58Speaker 1: are freed on the inside, freed in our hearts. Thank
- 8:05Speaker 1: you for what you're going to do. In Jesus' name, amen.
- 8:10Speaker 1: Let me hear victory praise.
- 8:11Speaker 3: Come on, show Carter's house what a victory praise sounds like.
- 8:25Speaker 1: You may be seated in the presence of the Lord. Woo!
- 8:31Speaker 1: I feel good. Glory to God. I feel like doing
- 8:34Speaker 1: a split. I'm not going to do it, but I
- 8:38Speaker 1: feel like doing the split. I'm like James Brown after
- 8:42Speaker 1: he got in his 60s. When he was in his 30s,
- 8:44Speaker 1: he did a split. You know what I'm talking about?
- 8:46Speaker 1: When he got in his 60s, he kind of got it. Yeah. Yeah,
- 8:51Speaker 1: so that's it. That's it. Right there. When I was
- 8:54Speaker 1: a young man, I danced in the spirit. I danced
- 8:57Speaker 1: so long they'd have to put me in the car
- 8:59Speaker 1: and I'd still be dancing. Now that I'm older, I
- 9:02Speaker 1: act like I'm going to dance. Yeah, fake them out.
- 9:11Speaker 1: God is good. We are fearfully and marvelously made. Created
- 9:19Speaker 1: in Christ Jesus unto good works. We are unique, authentic, autonomous,
- 9:26Speaker 1: individually defined by the master himself. We are a designer's
- 9:32Speaker 1: original in a category all by ourselves. There has never
- 9:37Speaker 1: been another you. And there will never be another you again.
- 9:43Speaker 1: Even if you have a twin, it's not you. God
- 9:47Speaker 1: has put so much detail in the specificity that even
- 9:51Speaker 1: your fingerprint stands in a category all by itself. God
- 9:56Speaker 1: himself shows up in the scriptures the very first time.
- 10:00Speaker 1: we see him, we see him stooping over clay. The
- 10:05Speaker 1: stooping God shows us that all throughout the book of Genesis,
- 10:09Speaker 1: God will be stooping to reach us. He stoops down
- 10:13Speaker 1: and he forms man from the dust of the earth
- 10:16Speaker 1: And man, it's just a ceramic, a clay pot until
- 10:20Speaker 1: he breathes the breath of life into him. And he
- 10:24Speaker 1: becomes a living soul. The word living soul in the
- 10:28Speaker 1: Hebrew is nephesh. He becomes aware of himself. He's not
- 10:34Speaker 1: just alive like a rose bush or a plant or
- 10:36Speaker 1: collard greens or potatoes or anything like I'm kind of hungry. So,
- 10:42Speaker 1: you know. All of my illustrations will be food illustrations tonight.
- 10:49Speaker 1: But he becomes aware of himself. If you cut a
- 10:52Speaker 1: rose bush, it doesn't scream. If you cut celery, it
- 10:56Speaker 1: doesn't cry. But because we are aware of ourselves, we
- 11:02Speaker 1: have feelings. And the gift of feelings is unique. We
- 11:07Speaker 1: are created in the likeness and the image of God.
- 11:09Speaker 1: God has feelings. The Bible says that the Lord was
- 11:14Speaker 1: Angry with wrath, which means anger with fire. God has feelings.
- 11:19Speaker 1: God has feelings. Jesus comes to Lazarus' funeral service and
- 11:25Speaker 1: weeps with Mary and Martha. God has feelings. And we
- 11:30Speaker 1: need feelings. I know this is a faith church, but
- 11:34Speaker 1: we need feelings. Faith and feelings are not necessarily at
- 11:39Speaker 1: odds with each other. We need feelings. We were created
- 11:43Speaker 1: to be a feeling species. If we had no feelings,
- 11:48Speaker 1: we'd have no love. We would have no love. And
- 11:53Speaker 1: then how could God ask us to love him with
- 11:55Speaker 1: all our heart and our mind and our soul if
- 11:58Speaker 1: we couldn't feel anything? Our feelings are a gift to us. Besides,
- 12:03Speaker 1: the Bible says we can be touched. He can be
- 12:06Speaker 1: touched by the feelings of our infirmity, tempted in all points,
- 12:11Speaker 1: like as we are yet without sin. God cares how
- 12:15Speaker 1: you feel. And so he wants us to have feelings.
- 12:20Speaker 1: He doesn't want us to be led by feelings. But
- 12:25Speaker 1: he wants us to have feelings. He wants us to
- 12:28Speaker 1: have feelings so there is a natural feeling we have
- 12:31Speaker 1: when we birth a child. There's a natural protectiveness that
- 12:36Speaker 1: we have over a child. You can take the teeny, eeny,
- 12:39Speaker 1: bitsiest woman in this room and mess with her kid
- 12:43Speaker 1: and she will turn into a serial killer. I would
- 12:48Speaker 1: rather fight any dude in the room right now than
- 12:52Speaker 1: to fight an angry mama because God equipped a mama
- 12:58Speaker 1: with feelings I mean fathers knock you out too they'll
- 13:02Speaker 1: bust your chops but a mama will pull your teeth
- 13:07Speaker 1: out of your gums and look at you like you're
- 13:11Speaker 1: a chopped liver and say don't get near my child
- 13:15Speaker 1: again God gives us those feelings and those instincts so
- 13:19Speaker 1: that we might be protective and so that we might
- 13:21Speaker 1: be corrective and so that we might have empathy and
- 13:25Speaker 1: we need those feelings These feelings cause children to feel
- 13:31Speaker 1: loved and to feel safe and to feel nurtured. But
- 13:34Speaker 1: the problem is those feelings, as many wonderful things as
- 13:39Speaker 1: they do, can also do negative things. We can get
- 13:43Speaker 1: hurt in our feelings. We can get bruised in our feelings.
- 13:48Speaker 1: We can get disappointed in our feelings. We can be
- 13:51Speaker 1: forsaken in our feelings. We can be rejected in our
- 13:55Speaker 1: feelings and not even show anybody. Because you can't see
- 14:00Speaker 1: a feeling. If you break your leg, you can see
- 14:03Speaker 1: a broken leg. If you break your arm, you can
- 14:06Speaker 1: see a broken arm. A broken heart cannot be seen.
- 14:11Speaker 1: A broken heart cannot be seen. And it is impossible
- 14:14Speaker 1: to treat. There is no prescription for a broken heart.
- 14:19Speaker 1: For a disappointed child who was not raised by their parents,
- 14:22Speaker 1: there is no prescription that will take away that pain.
- 14:27Speaker 1: There are feelings that we have to manage in order
- 14:31Speaker 1: to be successful. We have to manage them like you
- 14:33Speaker 1: have to manage money. You have to budget your feelings.
- 14:37Speaker 1: You have to put guardrails around your feelings. You have
- 14:40Speaker 1: to control your feelings because if you listen at your feelings,
- 14:43Speaker 1: you'll make snap decisions that you later regret. I often
- 14:49Speaker 1: say never make permanent decisions over temporary circumstances. Because in
- 14:55Speaker 1: a temporary moment of passion, you can make a permanent
- 14:58Speaker 1: decision that you live to regret. Feelings are very, very
- 15:03Speaker 1: important to us, but they must be managed. He became
- 15:06Speaker 1: a living soul means that he had a place to
- 15:09Speaker 1: warehouse his feelings so that your feelings are not homeless.
- 15:15Speaker 1: They are sheltered in your soulish man, not exhibited in
- 15:20Speaker 1: your body, not shown in the way you walk. And
- 15:24Speaker 1: so if you are wounded in your feelings, you can
- 15:26Speaker 1: hide it and nobody can see it and nobody can
- 15:30Speaker 1: know it. And you can smile and say, good morning.
- 15:33Speaker 1: Welcome to JCPenney's. And nobody's ever the wiser to the
- 15:40Speaker 1: fact that you have a broken heart, that you have
- 15:44Speaker 1: a broken marriage. That you don't feel comfortable on your
- 15:47Speaker 1: own job. That you wonder why your mother didn't raise
- 15:51Speaker 1: you or why she treated your sister better than she
- 15:54Speaker 1: treated you. Or why they never asked you to sing
- 15:56Speaker 1: a solo unless it's solo. And it hurts your feelings.
- 16:04Speaker 1: And we have all of these feelings. And in the
- 16:06Speaker 1: beginning of the text, when Jesus is talking to his disciples,
- 16:10Speaker 1: he is talking to them about feelings. And firstly, when
- 16:15Speaker 1: I started reading this text, I said, Lord, you spent
- 16:18Speaker 1: all of those verses, 11 verses talking to us about
- 16:22Speaker 1: how we feel. And I got teary eyed and I said,
- 16:26Speaker 1: thank you for caring about how I feel. Thank you
- 16:31Speaker 1: for caring about how I feel because I'm not sure
- 16:33Speaker 1: that people always care about how you feel. It is
- 16:37Speaker 1: much easier for us to care about how we feel
- 16:41Speaker 1: than it is to care about how others feel. To
- 16:44Speaker 1: care about how others feel is empathy. But not everybody
- 16:49Speaker 1: is equipped with the ability to be empathetic. They can
- 16:53Speaker 1: be selfish. they can be narcissistic they can be tied
- 16:59Speaker 1: into themselves and sometimes when your feelings are wounded and
- 17:03Speaker 1: you're surrounded by people that are oblivious willingly or unwillingly
- 17:08Speaker 1: to how you feel you are alone even in a
- 17:11Speaker 1: crowd now Jesus is preparing his disciples to take over
- 17:17Speaker 1: the world and he does not want them to be
- 17:20Speaker 1: petty so he says it is impossible for you to
- 17:25Speaker 1: not have offense. It is impossible. That means if you
- 17:31Speaker 1: tip around and be real quiet and real sweet and
- 17:35Speaker 1: you always do nice things for everybody and you're just
- 17:40Speaker 1: as kind as Mother Teresa, that does not exempt you.
- 17:47Speaker 1: You will still get offended. That means that if you
- 17:50Speaker 1: change your hair and you change your dress you will
- 17:54Speaker 1: still get offended. If you don't believe it, go on
- 17:56Speaker 1: social media. If you lose weight, they say you're too skinny.
- 18:03Speaker 1: If you gain weight, they say you need to work
- 18:05Speaker 1: out more. If you dress stylish, they say you need
- 18:07Speaker 1: to be simple. If you dress simple, they say you
- 18:09Speaker 1: need to freshen up. There's always somebody out of 8
- 18:12Speaker 1: billion people on the planet. You are going to get
- 18:14Speaker 1: on somebody's nerves. I don't care what you do. And
- 18:17Speaker 1: you can't manage 8 billion people's feelings. So Jesus does
- 18:21Speaker 1: not want to raise up 12 disciples who think victory
- 18:25Speaker 1: is managing how other people feel. Oh, that was good.
- 18:33Speaker 1: Because for some of you, victory is changing people's minds.
- 18:38Speaker 1: And you think that if I do this well enough,
- 18:40Speaker 1: long enough, right enough, left enough, short enough, get tips
- 18:44Speaker 1: in my hair, get tints in my hair, get weaves
- 18:47Speaker 1: in my hair, get my lips blown up, get my
- 18:49Speaker 1: jaw sucked in, get my tummy tucked, and take my
- 18:52Speaker 1: tummy and put it behind me. Did I say that
- 19:00Speaker 1: out loud? I didn't mean to say that out loud.
- 19:03Speaker 1: I'm sorry. We're always trying to manage what people think
- 19:07Speaker 1: of us. And Jesus says it is impossible. He just
- 19:11Speaker 1: comes right out the top, slaps us right across the face. Bam!
- 19:14Speaker 1: It's impossible for you to live your life and not
- 19:19Speaker 1: have offense. So you might as well quit running from it.
- 19:24Speaker 1: You might as well quit making it the achievement of
- 19:26Speaker 1: your life to get everybody to like you. I don't
- 19:29Speaker 1: care what you do. Somebody's not going to like you.
- 19:33Speaker 1: That was one of the greatest lessons my father taught
- 19:35Speaker 1: me in an old red pickup truck that had a
- 19:38Speaker 1: red bumper on it that he'd gotten from the junkyard
- 19:41Speaker 1: and he was coming back from a job and I
- 19:43Speaker 1: was coloring in the car and I was eight years
- 19:46Speaker 1: old and I was having a father-son talk with him
- 19:48Speaker 1: about some kid at school that didn't like him. me.
- 19:50Speaker 1: And he said, boy, I don't care what you do.
- 19:54Speaker 1: Everybody is not going to like you. Stay with me
- 19:57Speaker 1: all of my life because all of us want to
- 20:00Speaker 1: be liked and we want to be loved and we
- 20:02Speaker 1: want to live our lives without offense because offense is stressful.
- 20:08Speaker 1: It's stressful. It's stressful. Yeah, I know you say you
- 20:11Speaker 1: don't care, but it's stressful. People will say stuff to
- 20:15Speaker 1: you that will make your hair stop growing. And Jesus
- 20:21Speaker 1: says clearly it is unavoidable. There is no way to
- 20:25Speaker 1: live your life without offense. If you chew long enough,
- 20:30Speaker 1: your teeth are going to bite your tongue. I know
- 20:34Speaker 1: you married Harry and he's six foot two and fine.
- 20:38Speaker 1: And he's got biceps and triceps and receps and decepts
- 20:41Speaker 1: and everything all over. And he's so gorgeous and he
- 20:44Speaker 1: treats you like a lady like you have never been
- 20:47Speaker 1: treated before in all of your life. And I know
- 20:51Speaker 1: he's so wonderful and he's so thoughtful and he's so kind.
- 20:54Speaker 1: And when you looked through his eyes, you saw all
- 20:57Speaker 1: the way down into his heart. And you knew that
- 21:01Speaker 1: we would always love each other forever and ever and ever.
- 21:06Speaker 1: Until you found out that he leaves his socks on
- 21:10Speaker 1: the floor. And he left his dirty underwear in the bathroom.
- 21:15Speaker 1: And all of a sudden you get an attitude about
- 21:19Speaker 1: the way he smacks his food at the table. Can
- 21:22Speaker 1: you please shut your mouth when you chew your cube
- 21:27Speaker 1: but you got no manners? It's true. You're going to
- 21:36Speaker 1: have offense. You're going to have offense. It's going to
- 21:38Speaker 1: happen sometimes. It's going to happen to you sometime. You're
- 21:41Speaker 1: going to go through some things. But God cares about
- 21:44Speaker 1: your emotional well-being. Because if you get emotionally off, it
- 21:48Speaker 1: affects everything else. When we go on an interview, they
- 21:51Speaker 1: want to know our IQ, our intellectual quotient. How intelligent
- 21:56Speaker 1: are you? There is a measurement whereby we can measure
- 21:59Speaker 1: the quotient whereby your intelligence exists. Okay? Okay. But there
- 22:04Speaker 1: is also an EQ whereby you can begin to evaluate
- 22:08Speaker 1: the emotional quotient. Don't slip over this. Write this down.
- 22:12Speaker 1: Because a lot of people with great IQs have poor EQs.
- 22:18Speaker 1: And you hired the intelligence, but you got to live
- 22:21Speaker 1: with the EQs. And by the time they get through
- 22:24Speaker 1: wreaking havoc on your job and your life and your
- 22:27Speaker 1: marriage with your kids, you would take somebody with a
- 22:30Speaker 1: lower IQ if they had a little bit higher EQ.
- 22:35Speaker 1: Can I get a witness up in here somewhere? You
- 22:40Speaker 1: find out she's cute, but she's crazy. She is built
- 22:45Speaker 1: like a Coke bottle, but she is empty as a
- 22:48Speaker 1: beer drum. And you find yourself in this situation where
- 22:53Speaker 1: you got these people because you don't end up married
- 22:56Speaker 1: to their IQ. You end up living with their EQ. Yeah,
- 23:02Speaker 1: and Jesus said people can get offended. And how we
- 23:05Speaker 1: manage the offense determines the outcome of our lives. Because
- 23:09Speaker 1: there are no classes that teach us how to manage
- 23:13Speaker 1: our EQ. There are no classes. They don't teach that
- 23:17Speaker 1: in school. Not even in universities. They don't teach you
- 23:20Speaker 1: how to manage your emotions. They don't teach you that
- 23:23Speaker 1: at home. They teach you your ABCs and which fork
- 23:26Speaker 1: to use. I know which fork to use. My mother
- 23:30Speaker 1: spent hours teaching me which fork to use. That's a
- 23:33Speaker 1: salad fork. Don't eat with that fork. No, that's a
- 23:37Speaker 1: dessert spoon. Eat with that dessert spoon. The dessert spoon
- 23:40Speaker 1: goes above the plate. This is where the glass goes.
- 23:43Speaker 1: This is where the bread goes. You got her bread plate.
- 23:46Speaker 1: She taught me all that kind of stuff. I don't
- 23:49Speaker 1: use none of that. I eat your food, my food,
- 23:54Speaker 1: any food that gets in my proximity is at risk
- 23:58Speaker 1: of termination. I wish she would have spent a little
- 24:04Speaker 1: bit more time telling me how to manage emotions. Jesus says,
- 24:12Speaker 1: If it's impossible to live without offense, we should talk
- 24:16Speaker 1: to people more about offense rather than acting like, once
- 24:20Speaker 1: you come to Jesus, you will never be offended. Nobody
- 24:23Speaker 1: will ever get in your nerves and nobody will ever
- 24:25Speaker 1: take your parking space. Some of you, before you get
- 24:28Speaker 1: out of this building, somebody is going to get on
- 24:30Speaker 1: your nerves and you got to be okay with it.
- 24:33Speaker 1: You got to be able to deal with it because
- 24:35Speaker 1: instead of talking to somebody and they're holding up traffic
- 24:38Speaker 1: and you got to go to work at seven o'clock
- 24:39Speaker 1: in the morning and she's having a conversation and praying
- 24:43Speaker 1: for somebody out of her car window and you can't
- 24:46Speaker 1: get around her and all of a sudden your anointing
- 24:49Speaker 1: dissipates out of your baby toe and your eyes turn
- 24:53Speaker 1: red and your fangs come out and all of a
- 24:57Speaker 1: sudden you know I'm right about it he cares so
- 25:08Speaker 1: much about it and when you're feelings are wounded or
- 25:14Speaker 1: hurt or in pain, the body, the human body, I've
- 25:18Speaker 1: done a lot of research on this, the human body
- 25:21Speaker 1: cannot differentiate between physical pain and emotional pain. The same
- 25:28Speaker 1: secretions that come out of your body when you have
- 25:31Speaker 1: emotional pain like breaking your leg are the same reactions
- 25:35Speaker 1: that you have to a broken heart. But no medicine.
- 25:42Speaker 1: And so there is no treatment. We can't reset it.
- 25:45Speaker 1: We can't stabilize it. We can't bring it back to order.
- 25:48Speaker 1: And Jesus is talking to his disciples and we get
- 25:51Speaker 1: to eavesdrop on the conversation without the FBI. We get
- 25:58Speaker 1: to hear Jesus prepping his boys to go out and
- 26:02Speaker 1: do kingdom work. And he's prepping them so that they
- 26:05Speaker 1: won't be petty. because you can't do great work, massive
- 26:12Speaker 1: promised land work with a petty attitude. You have to
- 26:18Speaker 1: have thick skin to operate for the kingdom. You have
- 26:22Speaker 1: to be strong to operate for the kingdom. You have
- 26:25Speaker 1: to have some things in place that protect you because
- 26:28Speaker 1: if you're not careful, the offense will become a distraction
- 26:32Speaker 1: from the calling. And you'll put all your energy into
- 26:36Speaker 1: settling the offense rather than focusing on the mission that
- 26:39Speaker 1: the Lord has given you. And your wounded feelings will
- 26:44Speaker 1: be your sand ballot and Tobiah. And you'll give up
- 26:47Speaker 1: on your calling and come down off your wall to
- 26:50Speaker 1: have an argument with how you feel. And you think
- 26:53Speaker 1: you got the victory, but you lost the victory because
- 26:56Speaker 1: the disruption was a distraction from the purpose of God
- 27:00Speaker 1: that was in your life. So you be steadfast, unmovable,
- 27:06Speaker 1: always abounding in the work of the Lord. And then
- 27:11Speaker 1: he says, I don't want you worrying about it because
- 27:13Speaker 1: I'm going to deal with it. He says, it would
- 27:16Speaker 1: have been better that a millstone be tied around your
- 27:19Speaker 1: neck and you'd be cast into the sea than for
- 27:22Speaker 1: you to hurt one of mine. He kind of sounds
- 27:25Speaker 1: like my mother. My mother, I called my mother down
- 27:29Speaker 1: to the school because I was having trouble at school.
- 27:32Speaker 1: And the vice principal said she was going to call
- 27:34Speaker 1: my mother. And I said, no, you're not going to
- 27:36Speaker 1: call my mother. I'm going to call my mother. A
- 27:39Speaker 1: few minutes later, this black woman pulled up in this
- 27:42Speaker 1: green Imperial with her wig on backwards. I'm not being funny.
- 27:50Speaker 1: This is the truth. Her wig was on backwards and
- 27:53Speaker 1: her eyes were red like Dracula and she had fangs
- 27:57Speaker 1: coming out of her mouth. And I said, there's my mama.
- 28:04Speaker 1: It changed the whole meeting when mama got out the car.
- 28:08Speaker 1: God said, I will ride up on you like your mama.
- 28:12Speaker 1: If you hurt one of the least of mine, it
- 28:15Speaker 1: would be better that a millstone be tied around your
- 28:18Speaker 1: neck and you be cast into the sea than to
- 28:21Speaker 1: hurt me. One of my people's feelings, their emotion, that
- 28:26Speaker 1: ought to make you careful. That ought to make you scared.
- 28:29Speaker 1: It ought to make you a steward with a fiduciary
- 28:33Speaker 1: responsibility to manage the feelings of the people in your life.
- 28:38Speaker 1: So that you don't become a brute and careless with
- 28:41Speaker 1: the way you talk to each other. Because God is
- 28:44Speaker 1: watching how you talk to me. And even though I
- 28:48Speaker 1: don't get upset, he gets upset. And vengeance is not mine,
- 28:52Speaker 1: but it's his. And the Lord says, I will repay
- 28:55Speaker 1: you if you mistreat. Not just the big people on
- 28:58Speaker 1: the front row, but the people way up. right back
- 29:03Speaker 1: in the balcony he says I care whatever you do
- 29:06Speaker 1: to the least of mine to the parking lot attendant
- 29:09Speaker 1: you have done it unto me oh that's cool that
- 29:16Speaker 1: means God is my security I don't have to have security.
- 29:21Speaker 1: God is my security. That he's my protection. And that
- 29:24Speaker 1: means that I don't have to fight back. That means
- 29:27Speaker 1: the battle is not mine. It belongs to the Lord.
- 29:29Speaker 1: It means I don't have to fill my heart with
- 29:31Speaker 1: anger and getting even and coming up with schemes to
- 29:35Speaker 1: get back at you or straighten you out. It means
- 29:37Speaker 1: that the battle belongs to God. and God will deal
- 29:41Speaker 1: with you all by himself because he doesn't want me
- 29:43Speaker 1: distracted from healing the sick and raising the dead and
- 29:47Speaker 1: turning water into wine and preaching the gospel and loosening
- 29:51Speaker 1: the bound and setting the captive free. He doesn't want
- 29:54Speaker 1: me to be distracted. from laying hands on people and
- 29:58Speaker 1: seeing tumors dissipate out of their body. He doesn't want
- 30:01Speaker 1: me to be distracted from my divine assignment to preach
- 30:05Speaker 1: the gospel all over the world, to change the world,
- 30:08Speaker 1: to win people to Jesus Christ. And I can't win
- 30:12Speaker 1: you to a loving God with an angry heart. While
- 30:17Speaker 1: I'm getting on your nerves, I might as well go
- 30:18Speaker 1: a little deeper. He warns husbands, God cares how you
- 30:24Speaker 1: treat your wife. God said, if you don't treat your
- 30:28Speaker 1: wife a certain kind of way, he said, your prayers
- 30:31Speaker 1: will be hindered. That's scary. God says, I will hinder
- 30:36Speaker 1: your prayers. That means I'm watching, even though you're bigger
- 30:39Speaker 1: than her. And even though she, in most cases. AJ,
- 30:48Speaker 1: in most cases. In many cases, God says, I will
- 30:54Speaker 1: defend her. By shutting up the heavens and stop everything
- 31:00Speaker 1: from going right because of the way you talk to her.
- 31:06Speaker 1: And if you don't want your prayers hindered, he says,
- 31:10Speaker 1: exercise whatever influence you have in a measured way because
- 31:16Speaker 1: I'm watching. And I'm like the Lord. When I meet
- 31:19Speaker 1: people for the first time and I don't know them,
- 31:21Speaker 1: I don't watch how they treat important people. I watch
- 31:25Speaker 1: how they treat people that they think are not important.
- 31:29Speaker 1: I watch how they treat the waitress and the bus
- 31:32Speaker 1: driver and the Uber driver and stuff like that because
- 31:35Speaker 1: it lets me know how you would treat me if
- 31:38Speaker 1: you ever got the upper hand. And I choose my
- 31:41Speaker 1: friends by the way they treat people they think they
- 31:44Speaker 1: don't need because the moment they stop needing you, they
- 31:48Speaker 1: will treat you that way too. Oh, this is worth
- 31:51Speaker 1: the whole message. That part right there is worth the
- 31:54Speaker 1: whole message. So pay attention. If you're trying to figure
- 31:58Speaker 1: out who to date, don't watch how he treats you.
- 32:01Speaker 1: Everybody treats everybody good on a date. Look for how
- 32:04Speaker 1: he treats a waitress. Look how he treats a person
- 32:07Speaker 1: who parks your car. Look at how he talks to
- 32:10Speaker 1: people that he thinks he doesn't need or that she
- 32:12Speaker 1: thinks she doesn't need. And you'll have a clue. into
- 32:16Speaker 1: the rhythm with which she handles her emotion. Because one
- 32:20Speaker 1: thing about crazy, it will peak out. It will sneak out.
- 32:26Speaker 1: You might get covered up for about two or three days,
- 32:30Speaker 1: but by that third week, it will start giving you glimpses.
- 32:34Speaker 1: You know, I'm cute, but I will go off on you.
- 32:37Speaker 1: And her hair starts spinning around like the exorcist, and
- 32:40Speaker 1: she attacks the waitress just because the steak is too done.
- 32:44Speaker 1: Just start taking notes right there. You are in trouble, boy.
- 32:50Speaker 1: You're going to be in trouble. Jesus cares how you
- 32:54Speaker 1: treat people you think you don't need. He's watching how
- 32:58Speaker 1: you handle them. He's watching how you treat them. Anybody
- 33:01Speaker 1: can treat somebody good when you want a loan, when
- 33:04Speaker 1: you need an equity loan, when you need an investment,
- 33:07Speaker 1: when you need a job, when you need some help,
- 33:09Speaker 1: when you're trying to go up. But very few people
- 33:12Speaker 1: take the time to respect the janitor, the butcher, the baker,
- 33:15Speaker 1: the candlestick maker, the attendant. You got to treat people
- 33:19Speaker 1: with the same dignity because that is the commandment of
- 33:22Speaker 1: the Lord towards you. So when Jesus begins to talk
- 33:29Speaker 1: about this, he talks about it from three perspectives. He
- 33:32Speaker 1: talks about his protection. He talks about his purging. And
- 33:36Speaker 1: he talks about his provision, his protection, his purging, and
- 33:40Speaker 1: his prevention. And I just got to talk about how
- 33:43Speaker 1: God protects you. You might to the defenseless, to the broken,
- 33:47Speaker 1: to the wounded, to the rejected, to the ostracized. To
- 33:50Speaker 1: the person who has a scarlet letter on their head,
- 33:53Speaker 1: I want you to lift up your head. Jesus is
- 33:56Speaker 1: watching out for you. To the person who has no
- 33:59Speaker 1: recourse and can't afford help and can't get the breakthrough
- 34:02Speaker 1: that they need, Jesus is watching out for you. To
- 34:05Speaker 1: the person who's tied up in an abusive relationship, Jesus
- 34:09Speaker 1: is watching out for you. To the person who's mistreated
- 34:12Speaker 1: on the job and in their neighborhood and in their life,
- 34:15Speaker 1: Jesus is watching out for you. And you may not
- 34:17Speaker 1: see it, but sooner or later, God is going to
- 34:20Speaker 1: handle the person that's mishandling you. Glory to God. I
- 34:25Speaker 1: feel like shouting right now. I feel like praising him
- 34:28Speaker 1: right now. I feel like giving him the victory right now.
- 34:31Speaker 1: Because if God be for you, he's more than the
- 34:34Speaker 1: world against you. If God is on your side, he'll
- 34:37Speaker 1: make a way out of no way. If God is
- 34:40Speaker 1: on your side, he will stop the lion from biting you,
- 34:43Speaker 1: the fire from burning you. He will stop the enemy
- 34:47Speaker 1: from destroying you. He'll stop the snake from biting you.
- 34:50Speaker 1: He'll stop the sea from drowning you. If God is
- 34:53Speaker 1: on your side, he'll make a way in the middle
- 34:56Speaker 1: of the desert. He'll bring you water out of a rock.
- 34:59Speaker 1: He'll open up the Red Sea to get you across.
- 35:02Speaker 1: If God is on your side, he'll heal you by
- 35:05Speaker 1: lifting up a serpent in the wilderness. If God is
- 35:08Speaker 1: on your side, you can fight the Philistines with the
- 35:11Speaker 1: jawbone of an ass. If God is on your side,
- 35:15Speaker 1: he will make a way out of no way. He'll
- 35:17Speaker 1: put streams in the middle of your desert. If God
- 35:20Speaker 1: is on your side, he will lift your head up.
- 35:23Speaker 1: He will renew your strength. He will encourage your heart.
- 35:26Speaker 1: He will renew your spirit. If God is on your side,
- 35:30Speaker 1: he will bring you out from under the power of
- 35:33Speaker 1: the enemy. He will heal you even when the doctor
- 35:36Speaker 1: says no. If God is on your side, he will
- 35:41Speaker 1: change the records in the accountant. He will lift your
- 35:44Speaker 1: head up. He will make your feet as hinds feet.
- 35:47Speaker 1: When you should have fell over, he'll stiffen you to
- 35:50Speaker 1: be able to stand. If God is on your side,
- 35:54Speaker 1: he'll bring your fever down. He'll bring your courage up.
- 35:58Speaker 1: He'll strengthen your will and your tenacity. If God is
- 36:02Speaker 1: on your side, somebody shout. If God is on your side.
- 36:17Speaker 1: So the first thing Jesus does is deal with the
- 36:20Speaker 1: people who've been dealing with us, who have injured us,
- 36:23Speaker 1: not necessarily physically, but emotionally, to alleviate us from the
- 36:29Speaker 1: responsibility and the heavy weight that vengeance takes on the
- 36:35Speaker 1: human soul. It takes so much weight to be vengeful.
- 36:44Speaker 1: And Satan tempts us To be vengeful. Even if it's
- 36:49Speaker 1: in little ways. Like rolling your eyes when they come
- 36:53Speaker 1: in the room. And I will admit I've had some struggles.
- 37:01Speaker 1: Because when you get on my nerves I kind of
- 37:03Speaker 1: want you to know it. And I don't want to
- 37:06Speaker 1: say anything where I can be quoted. But my eyes
- 37:09Speaker 1: cannot be quoted. So I close my lips and go.
- 37:21Speaker 1: And then he gets on me and says, you don't
- 37:24Speaker 1: have anything to do with that. I will handle that.
- 37:28Speaker 1: And the moment he gets to addressing my enemies, now
- 37:32Speaker 1: he now brings it home to me. So he moves
- 37:35Speaker 1: away from just talking about protection to purging. And he says,
- 37:39Speaker 1: if your brother has sinned against you or got on
- 37:42Speaker 1: against you, or has hurt you, or has offended you.
- 37:45Speaker 1: And the reason I'm preaching about this is because we
- 37:48Speaker 1: are living in an era of offense. Everybody's offended. You
- 37:56Speaker 1: can't say nothing about nothing that don't make somebody mad.
- 38:02Speaker 1: You can tweet two plus two is four. And somebody
- 38:06Speaker 1: will come back and say, who says who made you
- 38:08Speaker 1: an expert on two plus two being four? It don't
- 38:11Speaker 1: really have to be four. Everybody's offended. Rich folks are offended.
- 38:18Speaker 1: Poor folks are offended. Black folks are offended. White folks
- 38:22Speaker 1: are offended. Everybody's offended. The women are offended. The men
- 38:26Speaker 1: are offended. Now we raised up a bunch of kids
- 38:29Speaker 1: and the kids are offended. Everybody's offended. Now we got
- 38:32Speaker 1: to live in the same house with a bunch of
- 38:34Speaker 1: offended people. Everybody's got something against everybody. And then we
- 38:38Speaker 1: come to church and say, ask for me in my house.
- 38:41Speaker 1: We will serve the Lord. Are you kidding me? Get
- 38:45Speaker 1: out of here. You and your house aren't even speaking.
- 38:49Speaker 1: Your daughter is mad at her mama. The dog bit
- 38:53Speaker 1: the cat. The cat ate the goldfish. The husband and
- 38:57Speaker 1: the wife ain't speaking. And don't you bring your mammy-in-law
- 39:01Speaker 1: back over into this house on another Thanksgiving. I'll send
- 39:04Speaker 1: her a plate. Everybody's offended. And we live in a
- 39:16Speaker 1: society that makes a career at keeping us mad at
- 39:20Speaker 1: each other. We live in a society that pits us
- 39:23Speaker 1: against each other and tells us what each other thinks
- 39:26Speaker 1: and we believe it. And so we get offended over
- 39:29Speaker 1: what we heard somebody thought and how they think and
- 39:32Speaker 1: how they feel and they'll find one dumb somebody that
- 39:36Speaker 1: represents that people group that'll come up and say something
- 39:39Speaker 1: stupid and then you'll judge millions and millions of people
- 39:42Speaker 1: on that one individual and be offended over one individual.
- 39:49Speaker 1: I've never seen such a time where you can't say anything.
- 39:53Speaker 1: Everybody's offended. Everybody's upset. Everybody's nerves are on edge. Everybody's
- 39:58Speaker 1: upset about something. You don't even know what you're upset about.
- 40:01Speaker 1: We are living in the land of offense, and we
- 40:03Speaker 1: have a God who has told us not to allow
- 40:06Speaker 1: offense to get in our spirit because you can't have
- 40:10Speaker 1: great worship and be offended. It affects your harmony flow.
- 40:15Speaker 1: It affects your connectivity. It affects how the Holy Spirit
- 40:18Speaker 1: invades the room. It matters whether you get along with
- 40:22Speaker 1: the other singers. It matters whether the drummer likes the
- 40:25Speaker 1: guitar player. It changes the atmosphere. When there's ought against
- 40:29Speaker 1: your brother, the Bible said, leave your gift at the altar.
- 40:32Speaker 1: I don't care how gifted you are. If you've got
- 40:35Speaker 1: a bad attitude, God said, I don't want your gift
- 40:38Speaker 1: until you get that bilateral connection, that horizontal connection, God said,
- 40:44Speaker 1: I don't want to hear no more vertical stuff coming
- 40:47Speaker 1: out of your mouth as long as you're not speaking
- 40:49Speaker 1: to the person that you're shouting beside. God says it
- 40:53Speaker 1: does matter how you feel about one another. Can I
- 41:00Speaker 1: go deeper? So then he says to the offended, he
- 41:06Speaker 1: has moved away from the offender to talking to the offended.
- 41:10Speaker 1: And when he talks to the offended, He talks to
- 41:13Speaker 1: us about how to get the contamination out because it's
- 41:19Speaker 1: easy to get contaminated. If there's no way to escape offense,
- 41:24Speaker 1: then everybody in here has been offended at some time
- 41:28Speaker 1: or another. Can we be honest? It's hard to get
- 41:31Speaker 1: church people to be honest because we have our reputation
- 41:35Speaker 1: at stake and we don't want anybody to know that
- 41:37Speaker 1: we're human. But to all the real people in the room,
- 41:41Speaker 1: Hold your hand up if you've ever been offended. I
- 41:46Speaker 1: have been offended. Sometimes I don't read the comments. Because
- 41:52Speaker 1: when I'm offended, I have a tendency to say something back.
- 41:58Speaker 1: And I got to struggle down inside of myself to
- 42:00Speaker 1: shut up. Because I can think of a whole lot
- 42:03Speaker 1: of good stuff to say back to you. And even
- 42:07Speaker 1: when I do say something back, I have to edit it.
- 42:12Speaker 1: So that I can keep my day job. Because if
- 42:15Speaker 1: I let the full theory of what I could say back,
- 42:19Speaker 1: just let it flow. Hit the organ, Marcus. Marcus would
- 42:23Speaker 1: have to play the organ behind me. But I got
- 42:25Speaker 1: to telling you what I've taught about you. I have
- 42:27Speaker 1: to tune up. And so I have to shut my mouth.
- 42:34Speaker 1: Now Jesus moves from talking to the offender to talking
- 42:39Speaker 1: to the offended. And he says, if someone offends you
- 42:45Speaker 1: and you confront them, I want to stop there. Because
- 42:49Speaker 1: most of us don't have the courage to confront the
- 42:52Speaker 1: person we're offended with. You can confront people without being confrontational.
- 42:59Speaker 1: Burying stuff doesn't heal it. Covered wounds don't heal well. Oh,
- 43:07Speaker 1: I struck something that time. I felt it. at least
- 43:11Speaker 1: 10 couples had a seizure. I mean an absolute, just
- 43:18Speaker 1: an absolute, just a seizure right there on the floor.
- 43:22Speaker 1: Covering it up will never make it better. You have
- 43:25Speaker 1: to have the courage to speak up and don't let
- 43:27Speaker 1: anybody take your voice away. Don't let anybody out talk
- 43:30Speaker 1: you to the point that they take your voice away
- 43:33Speaker 1: because just because you're out talking to me doesn't mean
- 43:35Speaker 1: you changed my mind. Jesus said confront them. And if
- 43:42Speaker 1: they repent, forgive them. And the disciples was cool with that.
- 43:50Speaker 1: They were cool with that. And then he messed around
- 43:54Speaker 1: and said, and if they do it again and again
- 43:57Speaker 1: and again and again and again, and then he gave
- 44:00Speaker 1: them a number 70 times 70. And they did some
- 44:04Speaker 1: quick math and said, increase our faith. Because I'm good
- 44:11Speaker 1: on like maybe a couple of times or three times
- 44:14Speaker 1: or maybe even seven times. But when you go from
- 44:17Speaker 1: addition to multiplication, I'm not sure that I don't need
- 44:21Speaker 1: a touch of the Lord to help me to be
- 44:23Speaker 1: able to do that. Because seven times 70, Lord, that's
- 44:26Speaker 1: getting like way up into some big numbers there. And
- 44:29Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I love
- 44:32Speaker 1: you and everything, but I don't know. I mean, I'm
- 44:35Speaker 1: not saying that I won't do it, but I'm not
- 44:37Speaker 1: sure that I will do it. And so I don't
- 44:40Speaker 1: want to overcommit myself and I don't want to lie
- 44:42Speaker 1: to you because you know everything from the beginning and
- 44:46Speaker 1: I don't want to offend anybody, but I just don't
- 44:49Speaker 1: know if I can sign up for seven times 70,
- 44:52Speaker 1: maybe three times 70, but seven times 70 might be
- 44:56Speaker 1: above my quota. And then they said to him, increase
- 45:07Speaker 1: our faith.
- 45:10Speaker 2: And I said to myself what does faith have to
- 45:17Speaker 2: do with forgiveness the disciples saw faith and forgiveness interconnected
- 45:29Speaker 2: they said in order for me to develop the ability
- 45:35Speaker 2: the ability to be able to purge my heart of
- 45:40Speaker 2: the way I feel. I need faith. I need to
- 45:49Speaker 2: believe that nothing you did stopped me from getting there.
- 45:58Speaker 2: I need to believe that my destiny is not altered
- 46:03Speaker 2: by the things you said or did or left or
- 46:07Speaker 2: didn't give me.
- 46:08Speaker 1: I need to decide irrevocably that the promises of God
- 46:13Speaker 1: are yea and amen and that no man or no
- 46:16Speaker 1: woman coming or going or leaving or staying or paying
- 46:21Speaker 1: or caring can stop me from turning out at the
- 46:24Speaker 1: destination that God has for me. In fact, I need
- 46:28Speaker 1: to believe that it was good for me that I
- 46:30Speaker 1: was afflicted. Some kind of way God used what you
- 46:33Speaker 1: did to fertilize my dreams and I became stronger now
- 46:38Speaker 1: and richer now and better now and fuller now and
- 46:42Speaker 1: I've got to learn how to glory in tribulation. I've
- 46:45Speaker 1: got to dance when I'm falsely accused. I've got to
- 46:48Speaker 1: learn how to praise God even when you don't like me.
- 46:52Speaker 1: My defense is to believe God and say devil you
- 46:55Speaker 1: meant it for evil but But God made it good.
- 46:59Speaker 1: To God be the glory. You threw me in the pit.
- 47:02Speaker 1: You threw me in Potiphar's house. You put me in
- 47:05Speaker 1: prison and I landed the prince of Egypt. I still
- 47:09Speaker 1: got to where I was trying to go. You didn't
- 47:11Speaker 1: help me, but I made it. You lied on me
- 47:14Speaker 1: and I made it. You betrayed me and I made it.
- 47:17Speaker 1: You left me and I made it. You excommunicated me
- 47:21Speaker 1: from the family and I made it. You said I
- 47:23Speaker 1: was dead, but I'm back. I'm back. I'm back. I'm back.
- 47:29Speaker 1: Is there anybody that made it back through something and
- 47:32Speaker 1: you've been through something and all hell was breaking loose
- 47:35Speaker 1: and they thought you wouldn't go make it? Jump on
- 47:38Speaker 1: your feet and holler, I'm back. I'm back. I'm back.
- 47:51Speaker 1: I'm back. I'm back like Lazarus is back from the dead.
- 47:55Speaker 1: I'm back like the woman with the issue of blood
- 47:58Speaker 1: is healed from her infirmity. I'm back like Luke 13.
- 48:01Speaker 1: I straightened up myself and got myself together. Now, you
- 48:05Speaker 1: talking about a victory when you've been through hell and
- 48:08Speaker 1: thrown in a pit and made it out of a
- 48:10Speaker 1: prison and been through a storm and been through a
- 48:12Speaker 1: crisis and been alienated and rejected? and land on your feet?
- 48:17Speaker 1: You talking about a shout? You talking about a dance?
- 48:21Speaker 1: You talking about wanting to run? You talking about wanting
- 48:24Speaker 1: to leap? I wish I had 30 people that had
- 48:27Speaker 1: been through something and God brought you out. Put your
- 48:31Speaker 1: hands together. Open your mouth. Dance on your feet. Do
- 48:36Speaker 1: a cartwheel. Stand on your head. Let hell know I
- 48:40Speaker 1: made it anyway. I made it anyway. To God be
- 48:44Speaker 1: the glory for the things he has done. We're going
- 48:59Speaker 1: to make a declaration tonight that's going to make demons
- 49:03Speaker 1: run out of every exit door in the room. We're
- 49:06Speaker 1: going to make a declaration tonight that brings depression out
- 49:10Speaker 1: of your spirit. Suicide is going to have to flee
- 49:13Speaker 1: out of this room. Anxiety and hypertension is going to
- 49:16Speaker 1: have to get up and get out of here. Glory
- 49:19Speaker 1: to God. Look at your neighbor and tell him, I'm
- 49:22Speaker 1: going to be all right. Tell your other neighbor I'm
- 49:26Speaker 1: going to be all right. Hell gets nervous. Hell gets
- 49:30Speaker 1: nervous when you start talking faith. Demons start trembling when
- 49:34Speaker 1: you start talking faith. Witches lose their power when you
- 49:38Speaker 1: start talking faith. Sickness loses its grip when you start
- 49:41Speaker 1: talking faith. When you start talking faith, high blood pressure
- 49:44Speaker 1: comes down. When you start talking faith, tumors shrink in
- 49:48Speaker 1: your body. When you start talking faith, I wish I
- 49:51Speaker 1: had 30 seconds of crazy supernatural Holy Ghost. Tell everybody
- 50:29Speaker 1: around you, I'm gonna land on my feet. I'm gonna
- 50:33Speaker 1: land on my feet. Tell them, I'm gonna land on
- 50:35Speaker 1: my feet. It's my first year in college, but I'm
- 50:38Speaker 1: gonna land on my feet. I just moved to Tulsa,
- 50:40Speaker 1: but I'm gonna land on my feet. I'm looking for
- 50:42Speaker 1: a job, but I'm gonna land on my feet. I'm
- 50:45Speaker 1: not sure I got the student loan, but I'm gonna
- 50:47Speaker 1: land on my feet. I'm nervous about going to class,
- 50:49Speaker 1: but I'm gonna land on my feet. I started my
- 50:52Speaker 1: own business, but I'm gonna land on my feet. I
- 50:54Speaker 1: don't have enough capital, but I'm gonna land on my feet.
- 50:58Speaker 1: I'm raising my kids by myself, but I'm gonna land
- 51:00Speaker 1: on my feet. This is the first time I've tried
- 51:03Speaker 1: to own something, but I'm gonna land on my feet.
- 51:06Speaker 1: If you don't help me, I'll land on my feet.
- 51:09Speaker 1: If you don't stand with me, I'll land on my feet.
- 51:12Speaker 1: If you lie on me, I'll land on my feet.
- 51:15Speaker 1: If you scandalize my name, I'll land on my feet.
- 51:18Speaker 1: I don't know who I'm preaching to, but I'm talking
- 51:21Speaker 1: to somebody tonight. The Lord sent me all the way
- 51:24Speaker 1: from Dallas, Texas to tell you, Sit with me. I'm
- 51:28Speaker 1: not through yet. Sit with me. I'm just getting hot now.
- 51:57Speaker 1: Glory to God. I just kicked into the zone, baby.
- 52:02Speaker 1: Don't you see them devils running out that door right now?
- 52:10Speaker 1: Don't you see them devils leaping out of that window?
- 52:13Speaker 1: Don't you see them devils getting back out of the way?
- 52:22Speaker 1: When Jesus says, none but the pure in heart, shall
- 52:27Speaker 1: see God. The word pure comes from a Greek word
- 52:32Speaker 1: where we get cath. Catheterous is the word. The root
- 52:36Speaker 1: word is cath, where we get catheter. None but the
- 52:42Speaker 1: pure in heart, nobody but the people who have a
- 52:45Speaker 1: catheter in their heart shall see God. A catheter, whereby
- 52:53Speaker 1: they measure the heart to make sure that the heart
- 52:55Speaker 1: is flowing blood properly, and there's no blockages. A catheter,
- 53:01Speaker 1: I won't tell you about the other uses, but... All
- 53:08Speaker 1: the men said, ouch. Yeah, yeah. The catheters are designed
- 53:14Speaker 1: that you have a flow. And God says, I want
- 53:19Speaker 1: your heart to be open to a flow. And I
- 53:23Speaker 1: don't want you to allow any blockages... to get in
- 53:27Speaker 1: your heart. Because if you allow a blockage to get
- 53:30Speaker 1: in your heart, it will stop you from seeing God.
- 53:35Speaker 1: None but the pure in heart shall see God. If
- 53:41Speaker 1: that's not enough motivation to make you get it out
- 53:45Speaker 1: of you, I don't know what is. I'm not sure
- 53:50Speaker 1: whether he meant none but the pure in heart shall
- 53:52Speaker 1: go to heaven. But I am sure that he means
- 53:56Speaker 1: You won't be able to see God in your situation
- 54:00Speaker 1: if your heart is blocked up with unforgiveness. And I
- 54:05Speaker 1: need to see God to figure out how to make
- 54:08Speaker 1: it through the wilderness. So I can move when he moves.
- 54:11Speaker 1: So I can walk when he walks. So I can
- 54:14Speaker 1: flow when he flows. So I can step when he steps.
- 54:18Speaker 1: I got to see God if I don't see you
- 54:20Speaker 1: because he shows me the path. His word is a
- 54:23Speaker 1: lamp unto my feet and a light unto my pathway.
- 54:26Speaker 1: And if I let something get in my catheter, a
- 54:31Speaker 1: catheter in my heart will affect my eyes. God says,
- 54:40Speaker 1: none but the pure in heart shall see God. God says,
- 54:46Speaker 1: if you get it in your heart, it will hinder
- 54:49Speaker 1: your vision. So the enemy sends things to get in
- 54:55Speaker 1: your heart to shut down your vision. Oh, my God.
- 55:01Speaker 1: This is so good, I'm going to shout off my
- 55:03Speaker 1: own preaching. God said, I made your heart to flow.
- 55:13Speaker 1: I made your heart to flow unrestricted. I don't want
- 55:17Speaker 1: you to gather plaque or anything else that slows the
- 55:22Speaker 1: flow because everything God does is in a flow. Everything
- 55:28Speaker 1: God created was in a flow. When God created the earth,
- 55:33Speaker 1: he created it in a flow. And the rivers fed
- 55:37Speaker 1: the streams. And the streams fed the lakes. And the
- 55:41Speaker 1: lakes fed the ocean. And God didn't create new water.
- 55:44Speaker 1: He just left his flow. It goes up. It rains down.
- 55:48Speaker 1: It goes up. It rains down. It's a flow. Everything
- 55:53Speaker 1: God created has a flow. When God created man from
- 55:56Speaker 1: the dust of the earth, he didn't have to keep
- 55:58Speaker 1: creating blood. He let the blood flow. through the most
- 56:02Speaker 1: elaborate highway system that you call the cardiovascular system. Your
- 56:08Speaker 1: blood was made to flow. And I don't have to
- 56:10Speaker 1: check your heart to see if your flow is right.
- 56:13Speaker 1: I can touch your wrist and tell what's going on
- 56:16Speaker 1: in your heart because the pulse, the rhythm of your
- 56:19Speaker 1: pulse tells me the activity of your heart. And God said,
- 56:23Speaker 1: if things are shutting down, the first thing I want
- 56:26Speaker 1: you to do is check your heart. What have you
- 56:28Speaker 1: allowed to get in your heart that has closed down
- 56:31Speaker 1: your vision. So if I was the devil and I
- 56:37Speaker 1: wanted to shut down your vision, I wouldn't have to
- 56:40Speaker 1: attack your eyes. If none but the pure in heart
- 56:46Speaker 1: shall see God, then all I'd have to do is
- 56:50Speaker 1: contaminate your heart until you lost your vision. And if
- 56:55Speaker 1: you lost your vision, you couldn't find your way out.
- 56:59Speaker 1: And the reason Jesus says seven times 70 isn't a
- 57:02Speaker 1: particular number that he's after. He's talking about keeping your
- 57:06Speaker 1: heart open so that whatever happens, you keep flowing. You
- 57:11Speaker 1: keep flowing. You might have the feeling, but as quickly
- 57:15Speaker 1: as you can, you let it flow out. You don't
- 57:18Speaker 1: let things stay in and contaminate you and block you.
- 57:21Speaker 1: Let me show you how quick Jesus was. They beat
- 57:25Speaker 1: him until he was unrecognizable. beat him until his entrails
- 57:30Speaker 1: were hanging out they beat him so long that josephus
- 57:33Speaker 1: says he should have died on the whipping post but
- 57:36Speaker 1: had he died on the whipping post we wouldn't have
- 57:38Speaker 1: been redeemed because the bible said cursed is he that
- 57:42Speaker 1: hangs on the tree not the whipping posts so he
- 57:45Speaker 1: fought death on the whipping post refusing to die but
- 57:48Speaker 1: when they hung him high and stretched him wide and
- 57:52Speaker 1: nailed him in his right hand, and nailed him in
- 57:54Speaker 1: his left wrist, and nailed his feet together. And when
- 57:58Speaker 1: they put him up on the cross, Jesus is not
- 58:01Speaker 1: on the cross cussing at him, yelling at him, telling him,
- 58:05Speaker 1: I curse your unborn children. I curse your future. I
- 58:09Speaker 1: curse your destiny. I curse your mama. Jesus didn't say that.
- 58:13Speaker 1: I probably would have said that. Jesus didn't say that.
- 58:18Speaker 1: Don't judge me. Jesus wouldn't say that. Instead of allowing
- 58:24Speaker 1: them to contaminate his heart while they are killing him.
- 58:30Speaker 1: He says, Father, forgive them for they know not what
- 58:37Speaker 1: they do. He said, I'm going to keep my heart open.
- 58:40Speaker 1: No matter what I go through, I'm going to keep loving.
- 58:43Speaker 1: I'm going to keep my nature. You're not going to
- 58:45Speaker 1: change my nature from being the person that I am.
- 58:49Speaker 1: You're not going to turn the lamb into a lion.
- 58:52Speaker 1: I could call 10,000 angels and kill every last one
- 58:55Speaker 1: of you, but I'm not going to do it because
- 58:57Speaker 1: a lion cannot deliver the people. I've got to be
- 59:01Speaker 1: a lamb to get this done. And in order to
- 59:03Speaker 1: be a lamb, I got to forgive you while you're
- 59:06Speaker 1: sticking nails in my hand. Oh, my God, Bishop.
- 59:10Speaker 2: Stuff.
- 59:10Speaker 1: Glory to God. I wish I had me a shouting
- 59:13Speaker 1: church in here right now. I'm going to outsmart the devil.
- 59:19Speaker 1: I'm going to outsmart the devil. You're trying to change
- 59:21Speaker 1: my nature. You're trying to turn me into a lion,
- 59:24Speaker 1: but I can't redeem as a lion. I can only
- 59:27Speaker 1: redeem as a lamb. And in order to be a lamb,
- 59:30Speaker 1: even though you're nailing me, I'm going to forgive you
- 59:33Speaker 1: because I understand that it's not you that's doing it.
- 59:37Speaker 1: It's the spirit of the enemy that's working through you.
- 59:40Speaker 1: And I ask my father to forgive you for hurting me.
- 59:44Speaker 1: Because I know it really wasn't you. If you knew
- 59:46Speaker 1: what you were doing, you wouldn't hurt me like that.
- 59:49Speaker 1: You're just carrying out orders. And the orders are coming
- 59:53Speaker 1: from Satan. And I'm under attack. And why would I
- 59:56Speaker 1: fight the soldier when the war is not with the soldier?
- 1:00:00Speaker 1: It's with the enemy and the enemy is trying to
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: get me to mess up what I'm about to do
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: on the cross. I don't know who I'm talking to,
- 1:00:07Speaker 1: but the enemy is trying to mess up what you're
- 1:00:09Speaker 1: about to do in your ministry. And the reason you're
- 1:00:12Speaker 1: up under attack is that he wants you to contaminate
- 1:00:15Speaker 1: your heart. And the Lord sent me from Talos to
- 1:00:18Speaker 1: tell you, don't you do it. Don't get bitter. Don't
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: get even. Don't get mad. Don't get upset. Don't respond.
- 1:00:26Speaker 1: Don't react. Hold your peace. I know you look weak.
- 1:00:30Speaker 1: I know you look helpless. I know you know something
- 1:00:33Speaker 1: you could say. I know you can fight. I know
- 1:00:36Speaker 1: you can defend yourself. But this is not a battle
- 1:00:38Speaker 1: that you're going to win with your fists. For we
- 1:00:41Speaker 1: wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against powers and
- 1:00:46Speaker 1: principalities and spiritual wickedness in high places. The weapons that
- 1:00:51Speaker 1: we use are not carnal. You got a weapon to
- 1:00:54Speaker 1: fight with. And there Jesus is bleeding to death on
- 1:00:57Speaker 1: the cross. Talking about, Father, forgive them. He's interceding for murderers.
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: Glory to God. That's what he means by seven times seven.
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: Later in the scriptures, he will tell us, lest a
- 1:01:18Speaker 1: root of bitterness defile you. A root, a root of
- 1:01:30Speaker 1: bitterness defile you. They gave him frankincense and myrrh, which
- 1:01:35Speaker 1: was roots. So there are roots that can anesthetize the pain.
- 1:01:41Speaker 1: And there are other roots that can defile you. Are
- 1:01:46Speaker 1: you carrying a root of bitterness? Because if you are,
- 1:01:56Speaker 1: it will defile you. I'm almost where I want to be.
- 1:02:01Speaker 1: You still with me? You're not tired of me yet?
- 1:02:06Speaker 1: And so they said, Lord, increase our faith. Increase our
- 1:02:12Speaker 1: faith till we believe you when our feelings are hurt.
- 1:02:18Speaker 1: Anybody can believe you when they're happy. Increase our faith
- 1:02:22Speaker 1: till we believe you When we're in pain, when the
- 1:02:27Speaker 1: nails are in our wrist, when we've been publicly humiliated,
- 1:02:35Speaker 1: when we are at our wit's end, increase our faith
- 1:02:38Speaker 1: to believe that some good is going to come out
- 1:02:41Speaker 1: of this. I remember one time I was under attack
- 1:02:44Speaker 1: and it was real bad and it was real painful.
- 1:02:46Speaker 1: And it's the only time in my life I've ever
- 1:02:48Speaker 1: been curled up in the corner of the floor crying
- 1:02:51Speaker 1: and just beside myself. And I took a walk in
- 1:02:54Speaker 1: my backyard and I was crying and I was walking
- 1:02:56Speaker 1: in the backyard and I was talking to God. And
- 1:02:59Speaker 1: I said, I don't know why you let this happen
- 1:03:00Speaker 1: to me. And I don't know why you let this
- 1:03:02Speaker 1: go on in my life. And I don't know why
- 1:03:04Speaker 1: you allowed me to go through what I'm going through.
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: I said, but I want you to know that I
- 1:03:08Speaker 1: trust you. I trust you. I trust you. And if
- 1:03:14Speaker 1: you ordered me to go through this, I'll go through
- 1:03:16Speaker 1: whatever you want me to go through to be whoever
- 1:03:19Speaker 1: you want me to be. Because I know you love me.
- 1:03:21Speaker 1: And I know you know what's best for me. And
- 1:03:24Speaker 1: though you slay me, yet will I trust you. And
- 1:03:27Speaker 1: I was crying. And I couldn't hardly even see the
- 1:03:30Speaker 1: path I was walking on. But I told God, I
- 1:03:33Speaker 1: will pass this test. Because I trust you. I trust
- 1:03:36Speaker 1: you when things go right. I trust you when things
- 1:03:39Speaker 1: go wrong. I trust you when you make me happy.
- 1:03:42Speaker 1: I trust you when you make me cry. Because I
- 1:03:45Speaker 1: am convinced because of Calvary that you're in love with me.
- 1:03:49Speaker 1: And you can't be in love with me and do
- 1:03:51Speaker 1: something that's going to end up bad. And I trust you.
- 1:03:55Speaker 1: I trust you. With tears running down my face, I
- 1:03:59Speaker 1: trust you. And the more I said I trust you,
- 1:04:01Speaker 1: the more demons begin to scream and shake. I trust you.
- 1:04:06Speaker 1: I don't understand you, but I trust you. I don't
- 1:04:09Speaker 1: see the plan, but I trust you. You've broken my heart,
- 1:04:12Speaker 1: but I trust you. It's painful, but I trust you.
- 1:04:15Speaker 1: I want to speak to everybody who's ever lost anybody,
- 1:04:18Speaker 1: lost anything, lost a loved one, went through a hard time.
- 1:04:22Speaker 1: You don't have to understand God to trust him. You
- 1:04:25Speaker 1: need to let hell know, I trust him. I trust
- 1:04:29Speaker 1: him that some kind of way, this is going to
- 1:04:31Speaker 1: work for my good. If you've been going through a
- 1:04:33Speaker 1: very painful place, slip your hands up in the air
- 1:04:37Speaker 1: and give God a praise that you trust him. I
- 1:04:40Speaker 1: trust you. I trust you in this season. I trust
- 1:04:43Speaker 1: you in this season. I trust you when I lose
- 1:04:46Speaker 1: my job. I trust you when my loan isn't approved.
- 1:04:50Speaker 1: I trust you when When people rise up against you,
- 1:04:53Speaker 1: I trust you. When things didn't turn out the way
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: I wanted them to turn out, I trust you. When
- 1:04:57Speaker 1: I didn't bring a medal home from the Olympics, I
- 1:05:00Speaker 1: trust you. When I fumbled the ball on the field,
- 1:05:03Speaker 1: I still trust you. I trust you. Order my steps
- 1:05:06Speaker 1: in your word, dear Lord. Order my steps in your word.
- 1:05:10Speaker 1: Order my steps in your word, dear Lord. Order my
- 1:05:14Speaker 1: steps in your word. Order my steps in your word.
- 1:05:17Speaker 1: Somebody stomp your foot. Order my steps. Order my steps.
- 1:05:21Speaker 1: order my steps order my steps I won't break my
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: cadence I won't break my flow I won't break my
- 1:05:28Speaker 1: movement I won't break my regiment I won't break my
- 1:05:31Speaker 1: future I'm gonna keep on doing what you told me
- 1:05:34Speaker 1: to do dry these tears up I can't stop crying
- 1:05:38Speaker 1: you gotta dry these tears up but it's If you
- 1:05:40Speaker 1: drive up, I'll preach for you. If you drive up,
- 1:05:43Speaker 1: I'll sing for you. If you drive up, I'll dance
- 1:05:46Speaker 1: for you. If you drive up, I'll shout for you.
- 1:05:48Speaker 1: If you drive up, I'll sing for you. If you
- 1:05:51Speaker 1: drive up, I'll run for you. I'll preach the gospel
- 1:05:57Speaker 1: all over the world. If you drive up, I'll teach
- 1:06:00Speaker 1: Bible class in other nations and countries. If you drive up,
- 1:06:04Speaker 1: I'll help the poor. If you drive up, I'll feed
- 1:06:06Speaker 1: the hungry. If you drive up, I'll clothe the naked.
- 1:06:10Speaker 1: If you drive up. So he deals with us. Is
- 1:06:20Speaker 1: this good? So he dealt with us protection. He dealt
- 1:06:25Speaker 1: with us with purging. And then he deals with us
- 1:06:27Speaker 1: with prevention. And this is the prevention part. And it's
- 1:06:30Speaker 1: kind of weird. He says, if you have the faith,
- 1:06:34Speaker 1: increase our faith, Lord. They thought the bigger the faith,
- 1:06:37Speaker 1: the better the fight. And Jesus says, not going to
- 1:06:40Speaker 1: take that much faith. He said, if you have the
- 1:06:44Speaker 1: faith as of a grain of mustard seed. Now watch this.
- 1:06:49Speaker 1: Before he said, you shall speak to the mountains. and
- 1:06:52Speaker 1: the mountain shall be cast into the sea. But this time,
- 1:06:56Speaker 1: he said, if you have the faith as of a
- 1:06:58Speaker 1: grain of mustard seed, you shall speak to a sycamine
- 1:07:02Speaker 1: tree and command it to be cast into the ocean,
- 1:07:06Speaker 1: and it will be cast into the ocean, and it
- 1:07:08Speaker 1: will be removed. And I said, why did you go
- 1:07:13Speaker 1: from a mountain to a tree? And he said, because
- 1:07:18Speaker 1: a mountain has no roots. So I started digging into
- 1:07:31Speaker 1: a sycamine tree. And I want to tell you, can
- 1:07:33Speaker 1: I tell you, can I tell anybody? Anybody want to
- 1:07:35Speaker 1: know what a sycamine tree is? A sycamine tree is
- 1:07:38Speaker 1: a very unique tree. It's not that the roots grow deep,
- 1:07:43Speaker 1: only about 24 inches deep into the earth, but they
- 1:07:46Speaker 1: grow wide. They grow very wide. They take over territory.
- 1:07:55Speaker 1: And when they grow wide, they twist and tangle And
- 1:08:00Speaker 1: so it is almost impossible to uproot the tree because
- 1:08:05Speaker 1: the roots are twisted and wide. So when a sycamine
- 1:08:11Speaker 1: tree is growing, it is not the trunk you have
- 1:08:14Speaker 1: to worry about. It's the root. And Jesus is saying, oh,
- 1:08:22Speaker 1: I feel the Holy Ghost. God said, if you have
- 1:08:26Speaker 1: the faith as of a grain of mustard seed, I
- 1:08:30Speaker 1: will demolish the system that has you stuck. You tried
- 1:08:47Speaker 1: to shake yourself loose and you couldn't get loose. You
- 1:08:50Speaker 1: tried to pray yourself loose and you couldn't get loose.
- 1:08:53Speaker 1: You tried to talk yourself out of it and you
- 1:08:55Speaker 1: couldn't get loose. The reason you couldn't get loose is
- 1:08:58Speaker 1: that your roots are intertwined. the only thing that will
- 1:09:03Speaker 1: untangle your roots is your conviction of faith in God
- 1:09:08Speaker 1: he said if you have the faith as of a
- 1:09:11Speaker 1: grain of mustard seed I will untangle the system okay
- 1:09:19Speaker 1: Can I go into the system? You're hurt over your
- 1:09:22Speaker 1: husband because your husband hurt you. But it's rooted into
- 1:09:26Speaker 1: something that happened with your father. And now all of
- 1:09:34Speaker 1: a sudden, everybody that reminds you of your father gets
- 1:09:38Speaker 1: tied into the system. And now you're raising a son
- 1:09:42Speaker 1: and he's taking on characteristics like your ex-husband. And the enemy...
- 1:09:48Speaker 1: It's tangling your roots. Am I helping somebody? If I'm
- 1:09:54Speaker 1: helping you, holler at me. If you will notice, your
- 1:10:01Speaker 1: life has a system of attack. There is something consistent
- 1:10:09Speaker 1: in the DNA of the things that happen to you.
- 1:10:13Speaker 1: It is the roots of the sycamine tree. And they
- 1:10:18Speaker 1: get tangled up until you can't tell one from another.
- 1:10:25Speaker 1: And the same thing that happened to you before is
- 1:10:27Speaker 1: happening to you again. And the thing that happened to
- 1:10:30Speaker 1: your father is happening to you. And the thing that
- 1:10:33Speaker 1: your uncle went through is now happening to your son.
- 1:10:35Speaker 1: And you can see a pattern because the sycamine roots
- 1:10:39Speaker 1: go wide. They go wide. They touch your father. They
- 1:10:45Speaker 1: touch your wife. They touch your son. They touch your nephew.
- 1:10:48Speaker 1: They touch your nieces. They affect your job. They affect
- 1:10:51Speaker 1: your economy. They affect your leadership. They affect every area
- 1:10:55Speaker 1: of your life. It affects how you handle money. It
- 1:10:58Speaker 1: affects your business. It affects your future because the roots
- 1:11:01Speaker 1: are intertwined. That's why Jesus didn't ask for the mountain
- 1:11:08Speaker 1: because when it comes to forgiveness, mountains don't have roots.
- 1:11:13Speaker 1: And unforgiveness has roots and the roots are the roots
- 1:11:17Speaker 1: of bitterness. And the bitterness gets so entangled that sometimes
- 1:11:22Speaker 1: you even forget what you're mad about. You're just angry.
- 1:11:29Speaker 1: It's all tangled up together. But the Holy Spirit said tonight,
- 1:11:35Speaker 1: I'm going to untangle your roots. I'm going to set
- 1:11:38Speaker 1: you free. I'm gonna bring you to a place of wholeness.
- 1:11:43Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring you to a place of healing. I'm
- 1:11:45Speaker 1: gonna bring you to a place of restoration. I'm gonna
- 1:11:48Speaker 1: untangle patterns that have been going on for generations and
- 1:11:52Speaker 1: generations in your life. This didn't even start with you.
- 1:11:56Speaker 1: This started with your mother and your grandmother. This started
- 1:11:59Speaker 1: with your grandfather and your granddaddy. And the roots have
- 1:12:02Speaker 1: gone wide. And your past is trying to reach over
- 1:12:06Speaker 1: and mess up your future. But the devil is alive.
- 1:12:09Speaker 1: This is going to be a root untangling service. This
- 1:12:14Speaker 1: is going to be a root untangling meeting. You're watching
- 1:12:17Speaker 1: on the internet. Your roots are about to be untangled.
- 1:12:20Speaker 1: Things that have been in your life and you couldn't
- 1:12:23Speaker 1: get loose and they're all in the ground and it's
- 1:12:25Speaker 1: everywhere and it's all tied up and it's around rocks.
- 1:12:29Speaker 1: and it's around ridges and it's around dry places and
- 1:12:32Speaker 1: you love the Lord but you can't get loose and
- 1:12:34Speaker 1: you love Jesus but you can't get loose and you
- 1:12:37Speaker 1: love your son but you can't tell him and you
- 1:12:40Speaker 1: love your wife but you can't express it and you
- 1:12:42Speaker 1: love what you do but all hell is breaking loose
- 1:12:45Speaker 1: on your job and it's affecting every area of your
- 1:12:48Speaker 1: life if you're seeing the same spirit show up in
- 1:12:51Speaker 1: different dimensions of your life it's because your life is
- 1:12:54Speaker 1: the sycamore tree but the Lord sent me here tonight
- 1:12:58Speaker 1: to preach a liberating word that's about to loose you
- 1:13:02Speaker 1: from the crown of your head to the soles of
- 1:13:04Speaker 1: your feet. Somebody jump up on your feet like you
- 1:13:07Speaker 1: lost your mind. Give me more power. Somebody jump up
- 1:13:14Speaker 1: on your feet like you lost your mind. Somebody jump
- 1:13:17Speaker 1: up on your feet like you lost your mind. Somebody
- 1:13:20Speaker 1: jump up on your feet like you lost your mind.
- 1:13:23Speaker 1: Somebody jump up on your feet like you lost your mind.
- 1:13:27Speaker 2: Yes.
- 1:13:28Speaker 4: Yes.
- 1:13:30Speaker 2: Yes.
- 1:13:31Speaker 1: Yes. You've been a prisoner in your own head. You've
- 1:13:37Speaker 1: been a prisoner in your own emotion. You've been a
- 1:13:39Speaker 1: prisoner in your own thoughts. It's not that you don't
- 1:13:42Speaker 1: look free on the outside. Good morning. Welcome to JCPenney's.
- 1:13:46Speaker 1: It doesn't look like everything is going well. It looks
- 1:13:48Speaker 1: like everything is going fine. But you know that down
- 1:13:51Speaker 1: on the inside, you've been tangled up in your mind,
- 1:13:54Speaker 1: in your spirit. And late at night when everybody else
- 1:13:57Speaker 1: is asleep, you're awake at night. It's affecting your rest.
- 1:14:00Speaker 1: It's affecting your peace. It's affecting your mind. But tonight
- 1:14:04Speaker 1: is your night. That's why the devil didn't want you
- 1:14:06Speaker 1: to get in here tonight. Because tonight is your night
- 1:14:09Speaker 1: for a breakthrough. The spirit of the living God. The
- 1:14:13Speaker 1: spirit of the living God. The spirit of the living God.
- 1:14:17Speaker 1: The spirit of the living God. The spirit of the
- 1:14:20Speaker 1: living God is in this place tonight. We're going to
- 1:14:23Speaker 1: take the faith as of a grain of mustard seed.
- 1:14:27Speaker 1: Look at your neighbors and you just need a little
- 1:14:29Speaker 1: bit of faith. You just need a little bit of faith.
- 1:14:33Speaker 1: Type it on the line. You just need a little
- 1:14:35Speaker 1: bit of faith. If you get out a little bit
- 1:14:37Speaker 1: of faith tonight, God's going to destroy the system that's
- 1:14:41Speaker 1: trying to destroy you. The odds are against you. The
- 1:14:45Speaker 1: roots are against you. The situation is against you. The
- 1:14:49Speaker 1: times are against you. But greater is he that is
- 1:14:53Speaker 1: in you than he that's in the world. There's a
- 1:14:56Speaker 1: greater power. That's about to take over your life. There's
- 1:15:00Speaker 1: a greater power that's about to heal your mind, your body,
- 1:15:05Speaker 1: your emotions, your health, your rest. The spirit of God
- 1:15:11Speaker 1: is in this place. I serve notice on every devil
- 1:15:15Speaker 1: in this place tonight. You have no more territory. We
- 1:15:19Speaker 1: will give you no more space. We will give you
- 1:15:21Speaker 1: no more room. We will give you no more power.
- 1:15:25Speaker 1: Somebody's eyes are opening up. Somebody's vision is coming back.
- 1:15:30Speaker 1: Somebody's commitment is being stirred. The spirit of the Lord
- 1:15:33Speaker 1: is here. Can I preach like I do at home?
- 1:15:38Speaker 1: I feel the anointing of the Holy Ghost in this place.
- 1:15:41Speaker 1: I feel the screaming of demonic warfare that's been working
- 1:15:47Speaker 1: a system against you all of your life. You're not bound.
- 1:15:52Speaker 1: You're not tied. You're not tangled. You're not an inmate.
- 1:15:56Speaker 1: You're not alone. You've been feeling by yourself. But the
- 1:16:01Speaker 1: Holy Ghost said, you're not by yourself. God is getting
- 1:16:05Speaker 1: ready to demolish the whole system. And not only is
- 1:16:09Speaker 1: he going to pull the tree up, but he's going
- 1:16:11Speaker 1: to cast it into the sea. If you're in this
- 1:16:15Speaker 1: place and you got something that needs to be cast
- 1:16:19Speaker 1: into the sea. If you're in this place and you've
- 1:16:23Speaker 1: been carrying a pain. There's too much for you to bear.
- 1:16:27Speaker 1: If you're in this place and you've been wounded for
- 1:16:30Speaker 1: a while, I want you to seize the anointing that
- 1:16:34Speaker 1: is in this room to untangle yourself and set yourself free.
- 1:16:41Speaker 1: Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
- 1:16:46Speaker 1: There's going to be liberty in this place tonight. There's
- 1:16:51Speaker 1: going to be liberty online. Every time you try to
- 1:16:54Speaker 1: make a move, the devil tries to shut you down.
- 1:16:58Speaker 1: But the devil is alive. God is about to uproot
- 1:17:03Speaker 1: that thing out of your life and set you free.
- 1:17:07Speaker 1: I need a hundred people in this room that feel
- 1:17:12Speaker 1: God pulling the sycamore tree out of your life to
- 1:17:17Speaker 1: give God a praise. I feel the anointing of the
- 1:17:23Speaker 1: Holy Ghost in this place.
- 1:17:25Speaker 4: I gotta be free. I gotta come out of this.
- 1:17:28Speaker 4: I gotta get loose. I gotta be whole. I gotta
- 1:17:32Speaker 4: be delivered, whatever it takes. Whatever it takes to get me.
- 1:17:41Speaker 1: Out of this I gotta be free I didn't come
- 1:17:45Speaker 1: this far to be bound I didn't come this far
- 1:17:48Speaker 1: to be tangled I didn't come this far to be
- 1:17:51Speaker 1: blind I didn't come this far to go back Devil,
- 1:17:55Speaker 1: you're a liar. Tonight is my night. In the name
- 1:18:00Speaker 1: of Jesus, I declare liberty all over this house for
- 1:18:05Speaker 1: the next three minutes. Everything that God appraised, get it out.
- 1:18:10Speaker 1: Get it out. Loose your daughter. Lose your son. Lose
- 1:18:20Speaker 1: your job. Lose your finances. Lose your peace. Lose your joy.
- 1:18:25Speaker 1: Lose your vision. Lose your anointing. Lose your calling. I
- 1:18:32Speaker 1: can't hear you. I can't hear you. Glory to God.
- 1:18:44Speaker 1: Nudge three people and tell them I'm free.
- 1:18:49Speaker 2: I'm free.
- 1:18:50Speaker 1: Free. I'm free. My roots are loose. My mind is loose.
- 1:18:54Speaker 1: My heart is loose. I feel that old fashioned anointing
- 1:19:03Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit in this place somebody's got a
- 1:19:07Speaker 1: breakthrough the devil is mad hell is upset the enemy
- 1:19:13Speaker 1: had a system that's been operating in your life but
- 1:19:17Speaker 1: you're gonna be the first generation not to have a
- 1:19:21Speaker 1: sycamore tree I rebuke the tree that's tied up your
- 1:19:27Speaker 1: life I command So as I close tonight, the defense
- 1:19:53Speaker 1: for an offense is the discovery Of mustard seed faith.
- 1:20:03Speaker 1: If you believe God just a little bit. The entire system.
- 1:20:10Speaker 1: There's a system working against you. There's a system. Working
- 1:20:18Speaker 1: against you. The way you were raised. The things you
- 1:20:21Speaker 1: came through. The things that happened to you. Were all designed.
- 1:20:26Speaker 1: To take over territory. God. is going to move the tree.
- 1:20:45Speaker 1: I want everybody in this place that this message spoke
- 1:20:51Speaker 1: to in a special way. And you said, my God,
- 1:20:57Speaker 1: that man is talking to me. God put an anointing
- 1:21:02Speaker 1: on me for you. You might be watching online, but
- 1:21:06Speaker 1: the anointing is for you. You don't have to spend
- 1:21:11Speaker 1: the rest of your life tied up to a dead root.
- 1:21:27Speaker 1: Young people, You don't have to start your life off
- 1:21:34Speaker 1: entangled and angry and bitter and hurt. There are some
- 1:21:40Speaker 1: young people in here with old people's problems. You've seen
- 1:21:46Speaker 1: stuff that a young person should have never seen. You've
- 1:21:49Speaker 1: been through things that people your age should have never
- 1:21:52Speaker 1: gone through. And you are here under duress against all odds.
- 1:22:00Speaker 1: It's a miracle that you're here. And God wants to
- 1:22:03Speaker 1: pull your sycamine tree up by the root. There are
- 1:22:07Speaker 1: couples in here. You were meant to be power couples
- 1:22:11Speaker 1: in the kingdom of God. And that's why the enemy
- 1:22:14Speaker 1: fights you so. And you've been hurt and you haven't
- 1:22:18Speaker 1: been able to get over the hurt. You've said all
- 1:22:21Speaker 1: the right things, but the rooting system is so complicated
- 1:22:25Speaker 1: that you're tied to it. There are people in this
- 1:22:29Speaker 1: room who have incurred injuries, betrayals, disappointments that left you wounded.
- 1:22:34Speaker 1: And every time you see certain people, you feel a
- 1:22:37Speaker 1: certain way, but you smile and you hide it. The
- 1:22:40Speaker 1: enemy is trying to plant a root on you. If
- 1:22:44Speaker 1: you are in any of those categories, come as close
- 1:22:48Speaker 1: to this altar as you can. Don't worry about what
- 1:22:51Speaker 1: you got on. Don't worry about what people say. Don't
- 1:22:53Speaker 1: worry about what they think. Don't worry about it. Don't
- 1:22:55Speaker 1: worry about it. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it.
- 1:22:58Speaker 1: Don't worry about it. The only thing we want, the
- 1:23:01Speaker 1: only thing we want is to untangle this root. We
- 1:23:06Speaker 1: got to untangle this root. This root is wide. This
- 1:23:12Speaker 1: root is long. This root is complicated. This root is far-fetched.
- 1:23:18Speaker 1: And you love Jesus and you worship Jesus and you
- 1:23:21Speaker 1: praise Jesus. But you go home and you wrestle with
- 1:23:24Speaker 1: this root. And it's a root of loneliness and it's
- 1:23:28Speaker 1: a root of anger. And it's a root of lust.
- 1:23:30Speaker 1: And it's a root of unforgiveness. And it's a root
- 1:23:33Speaker 1: of anger. And the enemy keeps telling you what you
- 1:23:36Speaker 1: would have had if things would have been different. Because
- 1:23:39Speaker 1: he's trying to kill your faith that God can get
- 1:23:42Speaker 1: you there anyway. That you can be in the pit anyway.
- 1:23:45Speaker 1: That you can be in Potiphar's house. That you can
- 1:23:47Speaker 1: be in the prison and still end up the prince.
- 1:23:51Speaker 1: But the Lord sent me here tonight to tell you
- 1:23:53Speaker 1: that your destiny is secure. That God is going to
- 1:23:57Speaker 1: bring you into the fullness of his purpose. And he's
- 1:24:00Speaker 1: going to uproot that sycamine tree. That rooting system, the
- 1:24:05Speaker 1: things they said, the things they did, the things you
- 1:24:10Speaker 1: heard that brought you to where you are right now.
- 1:24:13Speaker 1: You're a king's kid. You're on the verge of deliverance.
- 1:24:18Speaker 1: The anointing of the Holy Spirit is here right now.
- 1:24:21Speaker 1: And God is about to do something amazing in your life.
- 1:24:24Speaker 1: Glory to God. Glory to God. They're still coming. Don't
- 1:24:28Speaker 1: miss this opportunity. Don't let your pride hold you in
- 1:24:32Speaker 1: your seat. Don't let your fear hold you back. You're
- 1:24:35Speaker 1: in the presence of the King of Kings and the
- 1:24:38Speaker 1: Lord of Lords. And God is going to give you
- 1:24:41Speaker 1: a pure heart so you can see him. So you
- 1:24:45Speaker 1: can see him. Before this year is out, you're going
- 1:24:48Speaker 1: to see God in a way you never saw him before.
- 1:24:52Speaker 1: You're going to love God in a way you never
- 1:24:55Speaker 1: loved him before. You're going to reach God in a
- 1:24:58Speaker 1: way you never reached him before. Before this year is out,
- 1:25:03Speaker 1: God is going to uproot that tree. That bitterness is
- 1:25:07Speaker 1: going to go. That anger is going to go. That
- 1:25:10Speaker 1: frustration is going to go. Lift your hands up and
- 1:25:13Speaker 1: open your mouth. The Spirit of God is in this place. Father,
- 1:25:22Speaker 1: these are your sons and these are your daughters. These
- 1:25:25Speaker 1: are your people. These are your children. Like a mama
- 1:25:29Speaker 1: fights for a child, you will fight for them. You
- 1:25:32Speaker 1: will go to war for them. You will battle for them.
- 1:25:35Speaker 1: Their enemies become your enemies. I cast all my cares
- 1:25:39Speaker 1: on you right now. I will not carry this another day.
- 1:25:43Speaker 1: I will not carry it another day. I will not
- 1:25:46Speaker 1: lay up at night thinking about it. I will rebuke
- 1:25:49Speaker 1: the images, the pictures, the memories, the scars, the constant
- 1:25:53Speaker 1: rehearsing of how I got wounded and how I got hurt.
- 1:25:57Speaker 1: I reserve my feelings for praise. I reserve my feelings
- 1:26:02Speaker 1: for worship. I reserve my feelings for love. I will
- 1:26:06Speaker 1: bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually
- 1:26:10Speaker 1: be in my mouth. I feel glory coming in the room.
- 1:26:14Speaker 1: I feel glory coming in the room. Here comes a
- 1:26:17Speaker 1: wave of glory. It's all in the aisle. It's all
- 1:26:21Speaker 1: on the internet. It's all on the tube. I feel
- 1:26:26Speaker 1: the glory coming. I feel the glory coming. Where the
- 1:26:29Speaker 1: Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. Where the
- 1:26:34Speaker 1: Spirit of the Lord is. There is liberty. I declare
- 1:26:39Speaker 1: liberty over your life right now. In the name of Jesus,
- 1:26:43Speaker 1: I declare liberty over your life. Shake your hands. Your
- 1:26:48Speaker 1: hands are free. Move your feet. Your feet are free.
- 1:26:52Speaker 1: Your heart is free. Your vision is free. Now open
- 1:26:58Speaker 1: your mouth and give God freedom. Tonight, the Holy Ghost said,
- 1:27:16Speaker 1: get out of your feelings. Get out of your feelings.
- 1:27:20Speaker 1: Get out of your feelings. Get out of your feelings.
- 1:27:24Speaker 1: The enemy's been trying to contaminate you. He's always talking
- 1:27:27Speaker 1: to you about how you feel about it. It doesn't
- 1:27:30Speaker 1: matter how you feel about it. The only thing that
- 1:27:33Speaker 1: matters is what you believe about it. I want you
- 1:27:36Speaker 1: to turn and lose what you believe and turn it
- 1:27:39Speaker 1: on what you feel and let the peace of God
- 1:27:43Speaker 1: which passes all understanding. Keep your heart and mind. Come on, somebody.
- 1:27:48Speaker 1: Come on, anybody. Come on, everybody. that have breath praise
- 1:28:00Speaker 1: ye the Lord if you're breathing give him the praise
- 1:28:04Speaker 1: if you're alive give him the praise if you got
- 1:28:09Speaker 1: a mouth give him the praise if you got a
- 1:28:15Speaker 1: tongue give God a praise open your mouth to the
- 1:28:21Speaker 1: Lord open your mouth and shout unto God with the
- 1:28:26Speaker 1: voice of Try it!