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
- 0:31Speaker 1: look like you've been through a storm, a test, a trial,
- 0:34Speaker 1: a tribulation, a pandemic, a sickness, a disease, an affliction,
- 0:39Speaker 1: a divorce, a crisis, a dilemma, a.
- 0:42Speaker 2: 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 forever.
- 0:54Speaker 1: Taking away from you, providing for you. Is there anybody
- 0:59Speaker 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 you. I believe
- 1:18Speaker 1: with all my heart I have a word from God.
- 1:22Speaker 1: I believe it is a prophetic word. I believe it's
- 1:25Speaker 1: going to speak to somebody and I believe it's going
- 1:27Speaker 1: to deliver somebody. Before I give you my scripture, I
- 1:31Speaker 1: want us to act like we're not at church. I
- 1:34Speaker 1: want us to act like you're talking to your best
- 1:36Speaker 1: friend and we're hanging out at Starbucks and we're having
- 1:40Speaker 1: a latte. Yeah, we're having a latte. I can't spell it,
- 1:46Speaker 1: but I can drink it. Yeah. Yeah. We're having a
- 1:50Speaker 1: latte and we're having it with that special pumpkin bread
- 1:55Speaker 1: they make, you know. Yeah, that bread that's juicy when
- 1:59Speaker 1: you bite into it. That don't have no calories in it.
- 2:03Speaker 1: Because you prayed in tongues and all the calories just drip.
- 2:07Speaker 2: You know the one.
- 2:08Speaker 1: I'm talking about. Come on, come on, come on, come on.
- 2:10Speaker 1: You know the one I'm talking about. Glory to God.
- 2:13Speaker 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.
- 2:46Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 2:46Speaker 1: Yeah. Then said he unto his disciples, he's not talking
- 2:57Speaker 1: to anybody but his disciples, it is impossible but that
- 3:01Speaker 1: offenses will come. But woe unto him through whom they come.
- 3:08Speaker 1: It were better for him that a milestone were hanged
- 3:12Speaker 1: about his neck and he cast into the sea than
- 3:15Speaker 1: for him that he should offend one of these little ones.
- 3:20Speaker 1: Take heed to yourselves. If thy brother does trespass against thee,
- 3:25Speaker 1: rebuke him. And if he repent, forgive him.
- 3:29Speaker 2: And if he.
- 3:30Speaker 1: Trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven
- 3:33Speaker 1: times in a day turning into thee and saying, I repent,
- 3:36Speaker 1: thou shall forgive him. This is my favorite part. And
- 3:40Speaker 1: the apostle said unto the Lord, increase our faith. They said,
- 3:46Speaker 1: we're all right with forgiving you one time, but if
- 3:48Speaker 1: it's seven times 70, you're going to have to do
- 3:51Speaker 1: some work on me to increase our faith. as being
- 3:55Speaker 1: honest and 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
- 4:13Speaker 1: should obey him. Notice that this time Jesus says something
- 4:17Speaker 1: that he says before differently. The first time he says,
- 4:20Speaker 1: if you have the faith as a grain of a
- 4:23Speaker 1: mustard seed, you shall speak to the mountain. But this
- 4:26Speaker 1: time he doesn't use a mountain as an analogy. This
- 4:30Speaker 1: time he says, if you have the faith as of
- 4:32Speaker 1: a grain of a mustard seed, a mustard seed is
- 4:34Speaker 1: so teensy weensy itsy bitsy that it would fit right
- 4:38Speaker 1: in between my fingers like that. He said, if you
- 4:41Speaker 1: have the faith as of a grain of a mustard seed,
- 4:45Speaker 1: you might say to this sycamine tree, be thou plucked
- 4:49Speaker 1: up by the what?
- 4:52Speaker 2: By the root.
- 4:54Speaker 1: And be thou planted in the sea, and it should
- 4:56Speaker 1: obey you. But which of you having a servant plowing
- 5:00Speaker 1: or feeding cattle will say unto him by and by
- 5:03Speaker 1: when he has come from the field go and sit
- 5:05Speaker 1: down to me and will not rather say unto him
- 5:09Speaker 1: make ready wherewith I may sup and gird thyself and
- 5:12Speaker 1: serve me till I have eaten and drunken and afterwards.
- 5:16Speaker 2: Thou shall eat and drink.
- 5:17Speaker 1: Does he thank that servant because he did the things
- 5:21Speaker 1: which were commanded him?
- 5:22Speaker 2: I think not.
- 5:24Speaker 1: So likewise ye when ye shall have done all those
- 5:28Speaker 1: things which are commanded you, when you have forgiven seven
- 5:33Speaker 1: times 70, when you have done all those things that
- 5:36Speaker 1: I have commanded you, say, we are unprofitable servants. We
- 5:40Speaker 1: have done that which is our duty to do. May
- 5:44Speaker 1: the Lord add a blessing to the reading of his word.
- 5:47Speaker 1: That's more word than some of y'all read in a month.
- 5:53Speaker 1: That ought to last you a day. So I'm gonna
- 5:58Speaker 1: use something I never use. I'm gonna use a subject
- 6:00Speaker 1: and a subtopic because I couldn't choose between the two
- 6:03Speaker 1: and one of them sounds real cool and one of
- 6:06Speaker 1: them sounds real intellectual. So I'm gonna use both of them, okay?
- 6:09Speaker 1: So the subject is defense against offenses. Defense against offenses.
- 6:22Speaker 1: And the subtopic is get out of your feelings. Get
- 6:30Speaker 1: out of your feelings. So one of them ought to
- 6:33Speaker 1: grab you. You pick the one you like. Can we
- 6:36Speaker 1: stand and have prayer before I go into this?
- 6:43Speaker 2: Yeah. Ooh, I like the sound of all them seats
- 6:47Speaker 2: going up.
- 6:49Speaker 1: That just sounds rumbling like I'm in a great big stadium,
- 6:53Speaker 1: which I am.
- 6:54Speaker 2: That's so cool. Can y'all hear me up in the balcony?
- 7:01Speaker 1: Yeah. Y'all got in here, didn't you? Glory to God.
- 7:07Speaker 1: Spirit of the living God, fall fresh like dew in
- 7:14Speaker 1: the morning. Cascade upon us. Open up our tendency to
- 7:24Speaker 1: be religious and superficial and expose the innermost sanctums of
- 7:28Speaker 1: our heart That we might receive, ingest, digest and appropriate
- 7:32Speaker 1: the word of God. I thank you in advance for
- 7:35Speaker 1: what you're going to do here. tonight at Victory Church,
- 7:38Speaker 1: at Potter's House, and all around the world, wherever people
- 7:42Speaker 1: are listening, that lives would be changed, that marriages would
- 7:46Speaker 1: be changed, that ministries would be changed, that workplaces would
- 7:50Speaker 1: be changed, that hearts would be changed, that the power
- 7:54Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit would get so deep down inside
- 7:57Speaker 1: of us that we are freed on the inside, freed
- 8:02Speaker 1: in our hearts.
- 8:05Speaker 2: Thank you for what you're going to do. In Jesus' name, amen.
- 8:10Speaker 2: Let me hear victory praise.
- 8:14Speaker 1: Come on, show Carter's house what a victory praise sounds like.
- 8:25Speaker 2: 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.
- 8:49Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, so that's it. That's it. Right there.
- 8:54Speaker 1: When I was a young man, I danced in the spirit.
- 8:56Speaker 1: I danced so long they'd have to put me in
- 8:58Speaker 1: the car and I'd still be dancing. Now that I'm older,
- 9:02Speaker 1: I 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 originals.
- 9:33Speaker 1: in a category all by ourselves. There has never been
- 9:38Speaker 1: 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 day
- 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.
- 10:41Speaker 2: So, you know.
- 10:44Speaker 1: All of my illustrations will be food illustrations tonight. But
- 10:49Speaker 1: he becomes aware of himself. If you cut a rose bush,
- 10:53Speaker 1: it doesn't scream. If you cut celery, it doesn't cry.
- 10:58Speaker 1: But because we are aware of ourselves, we have feelings.
- 11:04Speaker 1: And the gift of feelings is unique. We are created
- 11:07Speaker 1: in the likeness and the image of God. God has feelings.
- 11:12Speaker 1: The Bible says that the Lord was blessed Angry with wrath,
- 11:15Speaker 1: which means anger with fire.
- 11:17Speaker 2: God has feelings. God has feelings.
- 11:21Speaker 1: Jesus comes to Lazarus' funeral service and weeps with Mary
- 11:26Speaker 1: and Martha. God has feelings. And we need feelings. I
- 11:32Speaker 1: know this is a faith church, but we need feelings.
- 11:35Speaker 1: Faith and feelings are not necessarily at odds with each other.
- 11:41Speaker 1: We need feelings. We were created to be a feeling species.
- 11:46Speaker 1: If we had no feelings, we'd have no love. We
- 11:51Speaker 1: would have no love. And then how could God ask
- 11:54Speaker 1: us to love him with all our heart and our
- 11:56Speaker 1: mind and our soul if we couldn't feel anything? Our
- 12:00Speaker 1: feelings are a gift to us. Besides, the Bible says
- 12:04Speaker 1: we can be touched. He can be touched by the
- 12:07Speaker 1: feelings of our infirmity, tempted in all points, like as
- 12:12Speaker 1: we are yet without sin. God cares how you feel.
- 12:19Speaker 1: And so he wants us to have feelings. He doesn't
- 12:21Speaker 1: want us to be led by feelings. But he wants
- 12:26Speaker 1: us to have feelings. He wants us to have feelings
- 12:29Speaker 1: so there is a natural feeling we have when we
- 12:32Speaker 1: birth a child. There's a natural protectiveness that we have
- 12:36Speaker 1: over a child. You can take the teeny, eeny, bitsiest
- 12:40Speaker 1: woman in this room and mess with her kid and
- 12:43Speaker 1: she will turn into a serial killer. I would rather
- 12:48Speaker 1: fight any dude in the room right now than to
- 12:53Speaker 1: fight an angry mama. Because God equipped a mama with feelings.
- 13:00Speaker 1: I mean, fathers will knock you out too. They'll bust
- 13:03Speaker 1: your chops. But a mama will pull your teeth out
- 13:08Speaker 1: of your gums and look at you like you're a
- 13:11Speaker 1: chopped liver and say, don't get near my child again.
- 13:16Speaker 1: God gives us those feelings. and those instincts so that
- 13:19Speaker 1: we might be protective, and so that we might be corrective,
- 13:23Speaker 1: and so that we might have empathy. And we need
- 13:26Speaker 1: those feelings. These feelings cause children to feel loved, and
- 13:32Speaker 1: to feel safe, and to feel nurtured. But the problem is,
- 13:36Speaker 1: those feelings, as many wonderful things as they do, can
- 13:40Speaker 1: also do negative things. We can get hurt in our feelings.
- 13:45Speaker 1: We can get bruised in our feelings. We can get
- 13:48Speaker 1: disappointed in our feelings. We can be forsaken in our feelings.
- 13:53Speaker 1: We can be rejected in our feelings and not even
- 13:56Speaker 1: show anybody because you.
- 13:59Speaker 2: Can't see a feeling.
- 14:02Speaker 1: If you break your leg, you can see a broken leg.
- 14:05Speaker 1: If you break your arm, you can see a broken arm.
- 14:07Speaker 1: A broken heart cannot be seen. A broken heart cannot
- 14:12Speaker 1: be seen and it is impossible to treat There is
- 14:16Speaker 1: no prescription for a broken heart. For a disappointed child
- 14:20Speaker 1: who was not raised by their parents, there is no
- 14:23Speaker 1: prescription that will take away that pain. There are feelings
- 14:28Speaker 1: that we have to manage in order to be successful.
- 14:32Speaker 1: We have to manage them like you have to manage money.
- 14:35Speaker 1: You have to budget your feelings. You have to put
- 14:38Speaker 1: guardrails around your feelings. You have to control feelings. Because
- 14:42Speaker 1: if you listen at your feelings, you'll make snap decisions
- 14:45Speaker 1: that you later regret. I often say never make permanent
- 14:50Speaker 1: decisions over temporary circumstances. Because in a temporary moment of passion,
- 14:57Speaker 1: you can make a permanent decision that you live to regret.
- 15:01Speaker 1: Feelings are very, very important to us, but they must
- 15:05Speaker 1: be managed. He became a living soul means that he
- 15:09Speaker 1: had a place to warehouse his feelings so that your
- 15:13Speaker 1: feelings are not homeless. They are sheltered in your soulish man,
- 15:19Speaker 1: not exhibited in your body, not shown in the way
- 15:23Speaker 1: you walk. And so if you are wounded in your feelings,
- 15:26Speaker 1: you can hide it and nobody can see it and
- 15:29Speaker 1: nobody can know it. And you can smile and say,
- 15:32Speaker 1: good morning. Welcome to JCPenney's. And nobody's ever the wiser
- 15:39Speaker 1: to the fact that you have a broken heart, that
- 15:43Speaker 1: you have a broken marriage, that you don't feel comfortable
- 15:47Speaker 1: on your own job. That you wonder why your mother
- 15:50Speaker 1: didn't raise you or why she treated your sister better
- 15:53Speaker 1: than she treated you or why they never asked you
- 15:56Speaker 1: to sing a solo unless it's solo. And it hurts
- 16:03Speaker 1: your feelings. And we have all of these feelings. And
- 16:06Speaker 1: in the beginning of the text, when Jesus is talking
- 16:09Speaker 1: to his disciples, he is talking to them about feelings.
- 16:13Speaker 1: And firstly, when I started reading this text, I said, Lord,
- 16:17Speaker 1: you spent all of those verses, 11 verses talking to
- 16:21Speaker 1: us about how we feel. And I got teary eyed
- 16:25Speaker 1: and I said, thank you for caring about how I feel.
- 16:30Speaker 1: Thank you for caring about how I feel because I'm
- 16:33Speaker 1: not sure that people always care about how you feel.
- 16:37Speaker 1: It is much easier for us to care about how
- 16:39Speaker 1: we feel than it is to care about how others feel.
- 16:44Speaker 1: To care about how others feel is empathy. But not
- 16:48Speaker 1: everybody is equipped with the ability to be empathetic. They
- 16:53Speaker 1: can be selfish. They can be narcissistic. They can be
- 16:58Speaker 1: tied into themselves. And sometimes when your feelings are wounded
- 17:03Speaker 1: and you're surrounded by people that are oblivious, willingly or
- 17:07Speaker 1: unwillingly to how you feel, you are alone even in
- 17:11Speaker 1: a crowd. Now Jesus is preparing his disciples to take
- 17:17Speaker 1: over the world. And he does not want them to
- 17:20Speaker 1: be petty. So he says it is impossible. for you
- 17:25Speaker 1: to not have offense. It is impossible. That means if
- 17:31Speaker 1: you tip around and be real quiet and real sweet
- 17:35Speaker 1: and you always do nice things for everybody and you're
- 17:39Speaker 1: just 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.
- 18:28Speaker 2: 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 sunk in, get my tummy tucked, and take my
- 18:52Speaker 1: tummy and put it behind me. Did I say that
- 19:01Speaker 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 old,
- 19:46Speaker 1: and I was having a father son talk with him.
- 19:48Speaker 1: About some kid at school that didn't like me. And
- 19:50Speaker 1: he said boy. I don't care what you do. Everybody
- 19:54Speaker 1: is not going to like you. Stay with me all
- 19:57Speaker 1: of my life. Because all of us want to be liked.
- 20:00Speaker 1: And we want to be loved. And we want to
- 20:02Speaker 1: live our lives without offense. Because offense is stressful.
- 20:08Speaker 2: It's stressful.
- 20:09Speaker 1: It's stressful. Yeah, I know you say you don't care,
- 20:12Speaker 1: but it's stressful. People will say stuff to you that
- 20:15Speaker 1: will make your hair stop growing. And Jesus says clearly
- 20:22Speaker 1: it is unavoidable. There is no way to live your
- 20:26Speaker 1: life without offense. If you chew long enough, your teeth
- 20:30Speaker 1: are going to bite your tongue. I know you married
- 20:35Speaker 1: Harry and he's six foot two and fine. And he's
- 20:38Speaker 1: got biceps and triceps and receps and decepts and everything
- 20:42Speaker 1: all over. And he's so gorgeous and he treats you
- 20:45Speaker 1: like a lady like you have never been treated before
- 20:48Speaker 1: in all of your life. And I know he's so
- 20:51Speaker 1: wonderful and he's so thoughtful and he's so kind. And
- 20:54Speaker 1: when you looked through his eyes, you saw all the
- 20:57Speaker 1: way down into his heart. And you knew that we
- 21:01Speaker 1: 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.
- 21:27Speaker 2: Got no manners? It's true.
- 21:36Speaker 1: You're going to have offense. You're going to have offense.
- 21:38Speaker 1: It's going to happen sometimes. It's going to happen to
- 21:40Speaker 1: you sometime. You're going to go through some things. But
- 21:43Speaker 1: God cares about your emotional well-being. Because if you get
- 21:47Speaker 1: emotionally off, it affects everything else. When we go on
- 21:51Speaker 1: an interview, they want to know our IQ, our intellectual quotient.
- 21:55Speaker 1: How intelligent are you? There is a measurement whereby we
- 21:58Speaker 1: can measure the quotient whereby your intelligence exists. 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 hire the intelligence, but you got to live
- 22:21Speaker 1: with the EQs.
- 22:23Speaker 2: And by the time they get through wreaking havoc.
- 22:25Speaker 1: On your job and your life and your marriage with
- 22:27Speaker 1: your kids, you would take somebody with a lower IQ
- 22:31Speaker 1: if they had a little bit higher EQ. Can I
- 22:35Speaker 1: get a witness up in here somewhere? You find out
- 22:41Speaker 1: she's cute, but she's crazy. She is built like a
- 22:45Speaker 1: Coke bottle, but she is empty as a beer drum.
- 22:49Speaker 1: And you find yourself in this situation where you got
- 22:53Speaker 1: these people because you don't end up married to their IQ,
- 22:57Speaker 1: you end up living with their EQ. Yeah, and Jesus
- 23:02Speaker 1: said people can get offended. And how we manage the
- 23:05Speaker 1: offense determines the outcome of our lives. Because there are
- 23:10Speaker 1: no classes that teach us how to manage our EQ.
- 23:15Speaker 1: There are no classes. They don't teach that in school,
- 23:18Speaker 1: not even in universities. They don't teach you how to
- 23:20Speaker 1: manage your emotions. They don't teach you that at home.
- 23:24Speaker 1: They teach you your ABCs and which fork to use.
- 23:28Speaker 1: I know which fork to use. My mother spent hours
- 23:31Speaker 1: teaching me which fork to use. That's a salad fork.
- 23:34Speaker 1: Don't eat with that fork. No, that's a dessert spoon.
- 23:38Speaker 1: Eat with that dessert spoon. The dessert spoon goes above
- 23:41Speaker 1: the plate. This is where the glass goes. This is
- 23:43Speaker 1: where the bread goes. You got her bread plate. She
- 23:46Speaker 1: taught me all that kind of stuff. I don't use
- 23:49Speaker 1: none of that. I eat your food, my food, any
- 23:55Speaker 1: food that gets in my proximity is.
- 23:57Speaker 2: At risk of termination.
- 24:02Speaker 1: I wish she would have spent a little bit more
- 24:04Speaker 1: time telling me how to manage emotions.
- 24:11Speaker 2: Jesus says, if.
- 24:13Speaker 1: It's impossible to live without offense, we should talk to
- 24:16Speaker 1: people more about offense rather than acting like.
- 24:20Speaker 2: Once you come to Jesus, you will never be offended.
- 24:23Speaker 1: Nobody will ever get in their nerves and nobody will
- 24:25Speaker 1: ever take.
- 24:26Speaker 2: Your parking space.
- 24:27Speaker 1: Some of you, before you get out of this building,
- 24:29Speaker 1: somebody is going to get on your nerves and you
- 24:31Speaker 1: got to be okay with it.
- 24:33Speaker 2: You got to be able to deal with it.
- 24:34Speaker 1: Because instead of talking to somebody and they're holding up
- 24:37Speaker 1: traffic and you got to go to work at 7
- 24:39Speaker 1: o'clock in the morning. And she's having a conversation and
- 24:42Speaker 1: praying for somebody out of her car window. And you
- 24:46Speaker 1: can't get around her. And all of a sudden your
- 24:48Speaker 1: anointing dissipates out of your baby toe.
- 24:52Speaker 2: And your eyes turn red. And your fangs come out.
- 24:55Speaker 2: And all of a sudden....
- 25:04Speaker 1: You know I'm right about it. He cares so much
- 25:08Speaker 1: about it. He cares so much about it. And when
- 25:11Speaker 1: your feelings are wounded or hurt or in pain, the body,
- 25:17Speaker 1: the human body, I've done a lot of research on this,
- 25:20Speaker 1: the human body cannot differentiate between physical pain and emotional pain.
- 25:27Speaker 1: The same secretions that come out of your body when
- 25:31Speaker 1: you have emotional pain like breaking your leg are the
- 25:34Speaker 1: same reactions that you have to a broken heart, but
- 25:39Speaker 1: no medicine. And so there is no treatment. We can't
- 25:44Speaker 1: reset it. We can't stabilize it. We can't bring it
- 25:47Speaker 1: back to order. And Jesus is talking to his disciples
- 25:51Speaker 1: and we get to eavesdrop on the conversation without the FBI.
- 25:58Speaker 1: We get to hear Jesus prepping his boys to go
- 26:02Speaker 1: out and do kingdom work And he's prepping them so
- 26:05Speaker 1: that they won't be petty. Because you can't do great work,
- 26:11Speaker 1: massive promised land work with a petty attitude. You have
- 26:18Speaker 1: to have thick skin to operate for the kingdom. You
- 26:22Speaker 1: have to be strong to operate for the kingdom. You
- 26:25Speaker 1: have to have some things in place that protect you.
- 26:28Speaker 1: Because if you're not careful, the offense will become a
- 26:31Speaker 1: distraction from the calling. And you'll put all your energy
- 26:35Speaker 1: into settling the offense rather than focusing on the mission
- 26:39Speaker 1: that the Lord has given you. And your wounded feelings
- 26:44Speaker 1: will be your sand ballot and Tobiah. And you'll give
- 26:47Speaker 1: up on your calling and come down off your wall
- 26:50Speaker 1: to have an argument with how you feel. And you
- 26:53Speaker 1: think you got the victory, but you lost the victory
- 26:56Speaker 1: because the disruption was a distraction from the purpose of
- 27:00Speaker 1: God 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 be cast into the sea than for you.
- 27:22Speaker 2: To hurt one of mine. He kind of sounds like
- 27:25Speaker 2: my mother.
- 27:28Speaker 1: My mother, I called my mother down to the school
- 27:30Speaker 1: because I was having trouble at school and the vice
- 27:33Speaker 1: principal said she was going to call my mother. And
- 27:34Speaker 1: I said, no, you're not going to call my mother.
- 27:37Speaker 1: I'm going to call my mother. A few minutes later,
- 27:40Speaker 1: this black woman pulled up in this green Imperial with
- 27:43Speaker 1: her wig on backwards. I'm not being funny, this is
- 27:50Speaker 1: the truth. Her wig was on backwards and her eyes
- 27:53Speaker 1: were red like Dracula and she had fangs coming out
- 27:57Speaker 1: of her mouth and I said, there's my mama. It
- 28:04Speaker 1: 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
- 28:22Speaker 1: hurt me. want to mind 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 well. right back in
- 29:04Speaker 1: the balcony he says I care whatever you do to
- 29:07Speaker 1: the least of mine to the parking lot attendant you
- 29:10Speaker 1: have done it unto me oh that's cool that means
- 29:16Speaker 1: 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
- 29:48Speaker 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
- 30:32Speaker 1: will be hindered.
- 30:34Speaker 2: That's scary.
- 30:35Speaker 1: God says, I will hinder your prayers. That means I'm watching,
- 30:38Speaker 1: even though you're bigger than her. And even though she,
- 30:40Speaker 1: in most cases. And....
- 30:47Speaker 2: AJ, in most cases.
- 30:49Speaker 1: In many cases, God says, I will defend her by
- 30:56Speaker 1: shutting up the heavens and stop everything from going right
- 31:02Speaker 1: because of the way you talk to her. And if
- 31:07Speaker 1: you don't want your prayers hindered, he says, exercise whatever
- 31:12Speaker 1: influence you have in.
- 31:14Speaker 2: A measured way, because I'm watching.
- 31:18Speaker 1: And I'm like the Lord. When I meet people for
- 31:20Speaker 1: the first time and I don't know them, I don't
- 31:22Speaker 1: watch how they treat important people. I watch how they
- 31:26Speaker 1: treat people that they think are not important. I watch
- 31:29Speaker 1: how they treat the waitress and the bus driver. and
- 31:33Speaker 1: the Uber driver and stuff like that because it lets
- 31:36Speaker 1: me know how you would treat me if you ever
- 31:39Speaker 1: got the upper hand.
- 31:40Speaker 2: And I choose my friends.
- 31:42Speaker 1: By the way they treat people they think they don't
- 31:45Speaker 1: need because the moment they stop needing you, they will
- 31:48Speaker 1: treat you that way too. Oh, this is worth the
- 31:51Speaker 1: whole message. That part right there is worth the whole message.
- 31:55Speaker 1: So pay attention. If you're trying to figure out who
- 31:58Speaker 1: to date, don't watch how.
- 32:00Speaker 2: 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
- 32:21Speaker 1: thing about crazy, it will peak out. It will sneak out.
- 32:27Speaker 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 2: You know, I'm cute, but I will go off on you.
- 32:37Speaker 2: And her head starts.
- 32:37Speaker 1: Spinning around like the exorcist, and she attacks the waitress
- 32:42Speaker 1: just because the steak is too done. start taking notes
- 32:46Speaker 1: right there. You are in trouble, boy. You're going to
- 32:50Speaker 1: be in trouble. Jesus cares how you treat people you
- 32:55Speaker 1: think you don't need. He's watching how you handle them.
- 32:59Speaker 1: He's watching how you treat them. Anybody can treat somebody
- 33:02Speaker 1: good when you want a loan, when you need an
- 33:05Speaker 1: equity loan, when you need an investment, when you need
- 33:08Speaker 1: a job, when you need some help, when you're trying
- 33:10Speaker 1: to go up.
- 33:11Speaker 2: But very few.
- 33:11Speaker 1: People take the time to respect the janitor the butcher
- 33:15Speaker 1: the baker the candlestick maker the attendant you got to
- 33:18Speaker 1: treat people with the same dignity because that is the
- 33:21Speaker 1: commandment of the Lord toward you So when Jesus begins
- 33:28Speaker 1: to talk about this, he talks about it from three perspectives.
- 33:32Speaker 1: He talks about his protection. He talks about his purging.
- 33:36Speaker 1: And he talks about his provision. His protection, his purging,
- 33:40Speaker 1: and his prevention. And I just got to talk about
- 33:43Speaker 1: how God protects you. You might to the defenseless, to
- 33:46Speaker 1: the broken, to the wounded, to the rejected, to the ostracized.
- 33:50Speaker 1: To 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.
- 35:27Speaker 1: He will renew your spirit. If God is on your side,
- 35:31Speaker 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 God is on your side. He
- 35:41Speaker 1: will change the records that they're counting. He will lift
- 35:44Speaker 1: your head up. He will make your feet as hinds feet.
- 35:48Speaker 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.
- 36:06Speaker 2: 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,
- 36:24Speaker 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
- 36:50Speaker 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.
- 37:25Speaker 2: 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.
- 37:46Speaker 1: And the reason I'm preaching about this is because we
- 37:49Speaker 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 2: You can tweet two plus two is four.
- 38:05Speaker 1: And somebody will come back and say, who says who
- 38:08Speaker 1: made you an expert on two plus two being four?
- 38:11Speaker 1: It don't really have to be four. Everybody's offended. Rich
- 38:17Speaker 1: folks are offended. Poor folks are offended. Black folks are offended.
- 38:21Speaker 1: White folks are offended. Everybody's offended. The women are offended.
- 38:26Speaker 1: The men are offended. Now we raised up a bunch
- 38:28Speaker 1: of kids and the kids are offended. Everybody's offended. Now
- 38:32Speaker 1: we got to live in the same house with a
- 38:34Speaker 1: bunch of offended people. Everybody's got something against everybody. And
- 38:38Speaker 1: then we come to church and say, ask for me
- 38:40Speaker 1: in my house. We will serve the Lord. Are you
- 38:44Speaker 1: kidding me?
- 38:45Speaker 2: Get out of here.
- 38:47Speaker 1: You and your house aren't even speaking. Your daughter is
- 38:50Speaker 1: mad at her mama. The dog bit the cat. The
- 38:54Speaker 1: cat ate the goldfish. The husband and the wife ain't speaking.
- 38:58Speaker 1: And don't you bring your mammy-in-law back over into this
- 39:02Speaker 1: house on another Thanksgiving. I'll send her a plate. Everybody's offended.
- 39:16Speaker 1: And we live in a society that makes a career
- 39:19Speaker 1: at keeping us mad at each other. We live in
- 39:22Speaker 1: a society that pits us against each other and tells
- 39:25Speaker 1: us what each other thinks and we believe it.
- 39:28Speaker 2: And so we get offended over what we heard.
- 39:30Speaker 1: Somebody thought and how they think and how they feel
- 39:33Speaker 1: and they'll find one dumb somebody that represents that people
- 39:37Speaker 1: group that'll come up and say something stupid and then
- 39:40Speaker 1: you'll judge millions and millions of people on that one
- 39:43Speaker 1: individual and be offended over one individual I've never seen
- 39:50Speaker 1: such a time where you can't say anything. Everybody's offended,
- 39:54Speaker 1: everybody's upset, everybody's nerves are on edge. Everybody's upset about something.
- 39:59Speaker 1: You don't even know what you're upset about. We are
- 40:01Speaker 1: living in the land of offense and we have a
- 40:04Speaker 1: God who has told us not to allow offense to
- 40:07Speaker 1: get in our spirit because you can't have great worship
- 40:12Speaker 1: and be offended. It affects your harmony flow. It affects
- 40:16Speaker 1: your connectivity. It affects how the Holy Spirit invades the room.
- 40:20Speaker 1: It matters whether you get along with the other singers.
- 40:23Speaker 1: It matters whether the drummer likes the guitar player.
- 40:26Speaker 2: It changes the atmosphere.
- 40:28Speaker 1: When there's ought against your brother, the Bible said, leave
- 40:31Speaker 1: your gift at the altar. I don't care how gifted
- 40:34Speaker 1: you are. If you've got a bad attitude, God said,
- 40:37Speaker 1: I don't want your gift until you get that bilateral connection,
- 40:41Speaker 1: that horizontal connection. Together, God said, I don't want to
- 40:45Speaker 1: hear no more vertical stuff coming out of your mouth
- 40:48Speaker 1: as long as you're not speaking to the person that
- 40:50Speaker 1: you're shouting beside. God says it does matter how you
- 40:54Speaker 1: feel about one another. Can I go deeper? So then
- 41:03Speaker 1: he says to the offended, he has moved away from
- 41:07Speaker 1: the offender to talking to the offended. And when he
- 41:11Speaker 1: talks to the offended, He talks to us about how
- 41:15Speaker 1: to get the contamination out because it's easy to get contaminated.
- 41:21Speaker 1: If there's no way to escape offense, then everybody in
- 41:25Speaker 1: here has been offended at some time or another. Can
- 41:29Speaker 1: we be honest? It's hard to get church people to
- 41:32Speaker 1: be honest because we have our reputation at stake and
- 41:36Speaker 1: we don't want anybody to know that we're human. But
- 41:38Speaker 1: to all the real people in the room, Hold your
- 41:42Speaker 1: hand up if you've ever been offended. I have been offended.
- 41:49Speaker 1: Sometimes I don't read the comments. Because when I'm offended,
- 41:53Speaker 1: I have a tendency to say something back. And I
- 41:58Speaker 1: got to struggle down inside of myself to shut up.
- 42:01Speaker 1: Because I can think of a whole lot of good
- 42:04Speaker 1: stuff to say back to you. And even when I
- 42:07Speaker 1: do say something back, I have to edit it. So
- 42:12Speaker 1: that I can keep my day job. Because if I
- 42:15Speaker 1: 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'd 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.
- 43:09Speaker 2: I felt it.
- 43:11Speaker 1: At least 10 couples had a seizure. I mean an absolute,
- 43:18Speaker 1: just an absolute, just a seizure right.
- 43:21Speaker 2: 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
- 43:31Speaker 1: you to the point that they take your voice away
- 43:33Speaker 1: because just because you're out talking me doesn't mean you
- 43:35Speaker 1: changed my mind. Jesus said confront them. And if they repent,
- 43:44Speaker 1: forgive them. And the disciples was cool with that. They
- 43:50Speaker 1: were cool with that. And then he messed around and said,
- 43:54Speaker 1: and if they do it again and again and again
- 43:58Speaker 1: and again and again, and then he gave them a
- 44:00Speaker 1: number 70 times 70. And they did some quick math
- 44:05Speaker 1: and said, increase our faith. Because I'm good on like
- 44:12Speaker 1: maybe a couple of times or three times or maybe
- 44:15Speaker 1: even seven times. But when you go from addition to multiplication,
- 44:19Speaker 1: I'm not sure that I don't need a touch of
- 44:21Speaker 1: the Lord to help me to be able to do that.
- 44:23Speaker 1: Because seven times 70, Lord, that's getting like way up
- 44:28Speaker 1: into some big numbers there.
- 44:29Speaker 2: And I don't know.
- 44:30Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I love you and everything,
- 44:33Speaker 1: but I don't know that. I mean, I'm not saying
- 44:35Speaker 1: that I won't do it, but I'm not sure that
- 44:37Speaker 1: I will do it. And so I don't want to
- 44:40Speaker 1: overcommit myself and I don't want to lie to you
- 44:43Speaker 1: because you know everything from the beginning and I don't
- 44:46Speaker 1: want to offend anybody, but I just don't know if
- 44:49Speaker 1: I can sign up for seven times 70, maybe three
- 44:53Speaker 1: times 70, but seven times 70 might be above my quota.
- 45:01Speaker 2: And then they said to him, increase our faith. And
- 45:10Speaker 2: I said to myself, what does faith have to do
- 45:18Speaker 2: with forgiveness?
- 45:21Speaker 1: The disciples saw faith and forgiveness interconnected. They said, in
- 45:30Speaker 1: order for me to develop the ability The ability to
- 45:36Speaker 1: be able to purge my heart of the way I feel.
- 45:42Speaker 1: I need faith. I need to believe that nothing you
- 45:52Speaker 1: did stopped me from getting there. I need to believe
- 46:00Speaker 1: that my destiny is not altered by the things you
- 46:04Speaker 1: said or did or left or didn't give me. I
- 46:08Speaker 1: need to decide irrevocably that the promises of God are
- 46:13Speaker 1: yea and amen and that no man or no woman
- 46:17Speaker 1: coming or going or leaving or staying or paying or
- 46:21Speaker 1: caring can stop me from turning out at the destination
- 46:25Speaker 1: that God has for me. In fact, I need to
- 46:28Speaker 1: believe that it was good for me that I was afflicted.
- 46:31Speaker 2: Some kind of.
- 46:32Speaker 1: Way God used what you did to fertilize my dreams
- 46:36Speaker 1: and I became stronger now and richer now and better
- 46:40Speaker 1: now and fuller now and I've got to learn how
- 46:43Speaker 1: to glory in tribulation. I've got to dance when I'm
- 46:47Speaker 1: falsely accused. I've got to learn how to praise God
- 46:50Speaker 1: even when you don't like me. My defense is to
- 46:53Speaker 1: believe God and say devil you meant it for evil
- 46:57Speaker 1: but But God made it good. To God be the glory.
- 47:01Speaker 1: You threw me in the pit. You threw me in
- 47:03Speaker 1: Potiphar's house. You put me in prison and I landed
- 47:07Speaker 1: the prince of Egypt. I still got to where I
- 47:10Speaker 1: was trying to go. You didn't help me, but I
- 47:12Speaker 1: made it. You lied on me and I made it.
- 47:15Speaker 1: You betrayed me and I made it. You left me
- 47:18Speaker 1: and I made it. You excommunicated me from the family
- 47:22Speaker 1: and I made it.
- 47:23Speaker 2: You said I was dead, but I'm back. I'm back.
- 47:27Speaker 2: 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 wasn't going to make it? Jump
- 47:37Speaker 1: on your feet and holler, I'm.
- 47:44Speaker 2: Back.
- 47:45Speaker 1: I'm back.
- 47:50Speaker 2: I'm back. I'm back.
- 47:52Speaker 1: I'm back like Lazarus is back from the dead. I'm
- 47:55Speaker 1: back like the woman with the issue of blood is
- 47:58Speaker 1: healed from her infirmity. I'm back like Luke 13. I
- 48:02Speaker 1: straightened up myself and got myself together. Now, you talking
- 48:05Speaker 1: about a victory when you've been through hell and thrown
- 48:08Speaker 1: in a pit and made it out of a prison
- 48:11Speaker 1: and been through a storm and been through a crisis
- 48:13Speaker 1: 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.
- 48:32Speaker 2: Open your mouth. Dance on your feet. Do a cartwheel.
- 48:37Speaker 2: Stand on your head.
- 48:38Speaker 1: Let hell know I made it anyway. I made it anyway.
- 48:43Speaker 1: To God be the glory for the things he has done.
- 48:58Speaker 1: We're going to make a declaration tonight that's going to
- 49:03Speaker 1: make demons run out of every exit door in the room.
- 49:06Speaker 1: We're going to make a declaration tonight that brings depression
- 49:10Speaker 1: out of your spirit. Suicide is going to have to
- 49:13Speaker 1: flee out of this room. Anxiety and hypertension is going
- 49:16Speaker 1: to have to get up and get out of here.
- 49:19Speaker 1: Glory to God. Look at your neighbor and tell him
- 49:21Speaker 1: I'm going to be alright. Tell your other neighbor I'm
- 49:25Speaker 1: going to be alright.
- 49:27Speaker 2: Hell gets nervous.
- 49:29Speaker 1: Hell gets nervous when you start talking faith. Demons start
- 49:33Speaker 1: trembling when you start talking faith. Witches lose their power
- 49:37Speaker 1: when you start talking faith. Sin Greatness loses its grip
- 49:41Speaker 1: when you start talking faith. High blood pressure comes down
- 49:45Speaker 1: when you start talking faith. Tumors shrink in your body
- 49:49Speaker 1: when you start talking faith. I wish I had 30
- 49:52Speaker 1: seconds of crazy supernatural Holy Ghost energy. Tell everybody around
- 50:30Speaker 1: here I'm gonna land on my feet. I'm gonna land
- 50:33Speaker 1: on my feet. Tell them I'm gonna land on my feet.
- 50:36Speaker 1: It's my first year in college, but I'm gonna land
- 50:38Speaker 1: on my feet. I just moved to Tulsa, but I'm
- 50:40Speaker 1: gonna land on my feet. I'm looking for a job, but.
- 50:43Speaker 2: I'm gonna land on my feet.
- 50:44Speaker 1: I'm not sure I got the student loan, but I'm
- 50:46Speaker 1: gonna land.
- 50:47Speaker 2: On my feet.
- 50:48Speaker 1: I'm nervous about going to class, but I'm gonna land
- 50:50Speaker 1: on my feet. I started my own business, but I'm
- 50:53Speaker 1: gonna land on my feet. I don't have enough capital,
- 50:56Speaker 1: but I'm gonna land on my feet. I'm raising my
- 50:58Speaker 1: kids by myself, but I'm going to land on my feet.
- 51:01Speaker 1: This is the first time I've tried to own something,
- 51:04Speaker 1: but I'm going to land on my feet. If you
- 51:06Speaker 1: don't help me, I'll land on my feet. If you
- 51:09Speaker 1: don't stand with me, I'll land on my feet. If
- 51:12Speaker 1: you lie on me, I'll land on my feet. If
- 51:15Speaker 1: you scandalize my name, I'll land on my feet. I
- 51:19Speaker 1: don't know who I'm preaching to, but I'm talking to
- 51:22Speaker 1: somebody tonight. The Lord sent me all the way from Dallas,
- 51:25Speaker 1: Texas to tell you, you're going to land on your feet.
- 51:28Speaker 1: You're going to land on your feet. You're going to
- 51:30Speaker 1: land on your Sit with me, I'm not through yet.
- 51:54Speaker 2: Sit with me.
- 51:55Speaker 1: I'm just getting hot now. Glory to God. I just
- 51:59Speaker 1: kicked into the.
- 52:00Speaker 2: Zone, baby.
- 52:02Speaker 1: Don't you see them devils running out that door right now?
- 52:09Speaker 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.
- 52:48Speaker 2: Shall see God. A catheter. A catheter.
- 52:53Speaker 1: Whereby they measure the heart to make sure that the
- 52:55Speaker 1: heart is flowing blood properly and there's no blockages. A catheter,
- 53:01Speaker 1: I won't tell you about the other uses. All the
- 53:08Speaker 1: men said ouch. Yeah, yeah. The catheters are designed that
- 53:14Speaker 1: you have a flow. And God says, I want your
- 53:19Speaker 1: heart to be open to a flow. And I don't
- 53:23Speaker 1: want you to allow any blockages to get in your heart.
- 53:28Speaker 1: Because if you allow a blockage to get in your heart,
- 53:30Speaker 1: it will stop you from seeing God. None but the
- 53:36Speaker 1: pure in heart shall see God. If that's not enough
- 53:42Speaker 1: motivation to make you get it out of you, I
- 53:46Speaker 1: don't know what is. I'm not sure whether he meant
- 53:51Speaker 1: none but the pure in heart shall go to heaven.
- 53:54Speaker 1: But I am sure that he means you won't be
- 53:57Speaker 1: able to see God in your situation if your heart
- 54:01Speaker 1: is blocked up with unforgiveness. And I need to see
- 54:06Speaker 1: God to figure out how to make it through the wilderness.
- 54:09Speaker 1: So I can move when he moves. So I can
- 54:12Speaker 1: walk when he walks. So I can flow when he flows.
- 54:16Speaker 2: So I can step when he steps.
- 54:18Speaker 1: I got to see God if I don't see you.
- 54:20Speaker 2: Because he shows me the path.
- 54:22Speaker 1: His word is a lamp unto my feet and a
- 54:25Speaker 1: light unto my pathway. And if I let something get
- 54:28Speaker 1: in my catheter, a catheter in my heart will affect
- 54:34Speaker 1: my eyes. God says, none but the pure in heart
- 54:42Speaker 1: shall see God. God says, if you get it in
- 54:47Speaker 1: your heart, it will hinder your vision. So the enemy
- 54:53Speaker 1: sends things to get in your heart to shut down
- 54:57Speaker 1: your vision.
- 55:00Speaker 2: 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 doesn't create new water.
- 55:44Speaker 1: He just left his flow. It goes up, it rains down.
- 55:49Speaker 1: It goes up, it rains down.
- 55:51Speaker 2: It's a flow.
- 55:52Speaker 1: Everything God created has a flow. When God created man
- 55:56Speaker 1: from the dust of the earth, he didn't have to
- 55:58Speaker 1: keep creating blood. He let the blood flow. through the
- 56:02Speaker 1: most elaborate highway system that you call the cardiovascular system.
- 56:07Speaker 1: Your blood was made to flow and I don't have
- 56:10Speaker 1: to 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
- 56:32Speaker 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
- 57:03Speaker 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. They beat him until his
- 57:29Speaker 1: entrails were hanging out. They beat him so long that
- 57:33Speaker 1: Josephus says he should have died on the whipping post.
- 57:36Speaker 1: But had he died on the whipping post, we wouldn't
- 57:38Speaker 1: have been redeemed. Because the Bible said, cursed is he
- 57:41Speaker 1: that hangs on the tree, not the whipping post. So
- 57:45Speaker 1: he fought death on the whipping post, refusing to die.
- 57:48Speaker 1: But when they hung him high and stretched him wide,
- 57:52Speaker 1: and nailed him in his right hand, and nailed him
- 57:54Speaker 1: in his left wrist, and nailed his feet together. And
- 57:57Speaker 1: when they put him up on the cross, Jesus is
- 58:01Speaker 1: not on the cross cussing at him, yelling at him,
- 58:04Speaker 1: telling him, I curse your unborn children. I curse your future.
- 58:09Speaker 1: I curse your destiny. I curse your mama. Jesus didn't
- 58:13Speaker 1: say that. I probably would have said that. Jesus didn't
- 58:15Speaker 1: say it. Don't judge me.
- 58:20Speaker 2: Jesus wouldn't say that.
- 58:22Speaker 1: Instead of allowing them to contaminate his heart while they.
- 58:28Speaker 2: 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. the shouting stuff.
- 59:11Speaker 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
- 1:00:10Speaker 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.
- 1:00:27Speaker 2: Hold your peace.
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: I know you look weak. I know you look helpless.
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: I know you know something you could say. I know
- 1:00:34Speaker 1: you can fight. I know you can defend yourself. But
- 1:00:37Speaker 1: this is not a battle that you're going to win
- 1:00:40Speaker 1: with your fists. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood,
- 1:00:44Speaker 1: but against powers and principalities and spiritual wickedness in high places.
- 1:00:49Speaker 1: The weapons that we use are not colonel. You got
- 1:00:53Speaker 1: a weapon to fight with. And there Jesus is bleeding
- 1:00:56Speaker 1: to death on the cross. Talking about, Father, forgive them.
- 1:01:00Speaker 1: He's interceding for murderers. Glory to God. That's what he
- 1:01:10Speaker 1: means by seven times seven. Later in the scriptures, he
- 1:01:15Speaker 1: will tell us, lest a root of bitterness defile you.
- 1:01:24Speaker 1: A root, a root of bitterness defile you. They gave
- 1:01:34Speaker 1: him frankincense and myrrh, which was roots. So there are
- 1:01:37Speaker 1: roots that can anesthetize the pain. And there are other
- 1:01:42Speaker 1: roots that can defile you. Are you carrying a root.
- 1:01:51Speaker 2: Of bitterness?
- 1:01:54Speaker 1: Because if you are, it will defile you. I'm almost
- 1:02:00Speaker 1: where I want to be. You still with me? You're
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: not tired of me yet? And so they said, Lord,
- 1:02:09Speaker 1: increase our faith. Increase our faith till we believe you
- 1:02:14Speaker 1: when our feelings are hurt. Anybody can believe you when
- 1:02:19Speaker 1: they're happy. Increase our faith till we believe you When
- 1:02:25Speaker 1: we're in pain, when the nails are in our wrist,
- 1:02:31Speaker 1: when we've been publicly humiliated, when we are at our
- 1:02:36Speaker 1: wit's end, increase our faith to believe that some good
- 1:02:40Speaker 1: is going to come out of this. I remember one
- 1:02:43Speaker 1: time I was under attack and it was real bad
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: and it was real painful. And it's the only time
- 1:02:47Speaker 1: in my life I've ever been curled up in the
- 1:02:49Speaker 1: corner of the floor crying and just beside myself. And
- 1:02:53Speaker 1: I took a walk in my backyard and I was
- 1:02:55Speaker 1: crying and I was walking in the backyard and I
- 1:02:57Speaker 1: was talking to God. And I said, I don't know
- 1:02:59Speaker 1: why you let this happen to me. And I don't
- 1:03:01Speaker 1: know why you let this go on in my life.
- 1:03:03Speaker 1: And I don't know why you allowed me to go
- 1:03:05Speaker 1: through what I'm going through. I said, but I want
- 1:03:07Speaker 1: you to know that I trust you. I trust you.
- 1:03:12Speaker 1: I trust you. And if you ordered me to go
- 1:03:15Speaker 1: through this, I'll go through whatever you want me to
- 1:03:17Speaker 1: go through to be whoever you want me to be.
- 1:03:20Speaker 1: Because I know you love me. And I know you
- 1:03:22Speaker 1: know what's best for me. And though you slay me,
- 1:03:25Speaker 1: yet will I trust you. And I was crying. And
- 1:03:28Speaker 1: I couldn't hardly even see the path I was walking on.
- 1:03:31Speaker 1: But I told God, I will pass this test because
- 1:03:35Speaker 1: I trust you. I trust you when things go right.
- 1:03:38Speaker 1: I trust you when things go wrong. I trust you
- 1:03:41Speaker 1: when you make me happy. I trust you when you
- 1:03:43Speaker 1: make me cry because I am convinced because of Calvary
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: that you're in love with me and you can't be
- 1:03:50Speaker 1: in love with me and do something that's going to
- 1:03:53Speaker 1: end up bad. And I trust you. I trust you.
- 1:03:56Speaker 1: With tears running down my face, I trust you. The
- 1:04:00Speaker 1: more I said I trust you, the more demons begin
- 1:04:03Speaker 1: to scream and shake.
- 1:04:05Speaker 2: 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.
- 1:04:23Speaker 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 gonna work
- 1:04:31Speaker 1: for my good. If you've been going through a very
- 1:04:34Speaker 1: painful place, slip your hands up in the air and
- 1:04:37Speaker 1: give God a praise that you trust him.
- 1:04:40Speaker 2: I trust you.
- 1:04:41Speaker 1: I trust you in this season. I trust you in
- 1:04:44Speaker 1: this season. I trust you when I lose my job.
- 1:04:47Speaker 1: I trust you when my loan isn't approved. I trust
- 1:04:51Speaker 1: you when people rise up against you. I trust you
- 1:04:54Speaker 1: when things didn't turn out the way I wanted them
- 1:04:56Speaker 1: to turn out. I trust you when I didn't bring
- 1:04:58Speaker 1: a medal home from the Olympics. I trust you when
- 1:05:01Speaker 1: I fumbled the ball on the field. I still trust you.
- 1:05:04Speaker 1: I trust you. Order my steps in your word, dear Lord.
- 1:05:08Speaker 1: Order my steps in your word. Order my steps in
- 1:05:11Speaker 1: your word, dear Lord. Order my steps. in your word
- 1:05:15Speaker 1: order my steps in your word somebody stomp your foot
- 1:05:19Speaker 1: order my steps order my steps order my steps order
- 1:05:22Speaker 1: my steps I won't break my cadence I won't break
- 1:05:26Speaker 1: my flow I won't break my movement I won't break
- 1:05:29Speaker 1: my regimen I won't break my future I'm gonna keep
- 1:05:33Speaker 1: on doing what you told me to do dry these
- 1:05:35Speaker 1: tears up I can't stop crying you gotta dry these
- 1:05:39Speaker 1: tears up but it If you drive up I'll preach
- 1:05:41Speaker 1: for you. If you drive up I'll sing for you.
- 1:05:44Speaker 1: If you drive up I'll dance for you. If you
- 1:05:47Speaker 1: drive up I'll shout for you. If you drive up
- 1:05:49Speaker 1: I'll sing for you. If you drive up I'll run
- 1:05:52Speaker 1: for you. If you drive up I'll leap for you.
- 1:05:55Speaker 1: If you drive up I'll preach the gospel all over
- 1:05:58Speaker 1: the world. If you dry them up, I'll teach Bible
- 1:06:00Speaker 1: class in other nations and countries. If you dry them up,
- 1:06:04Speaker 1: I'll help the poor. If you dry them up, I'll
- 1:06:06Speaker 1: feed the hungry. If you dry them up, I'll clothe
- 1:06:09Speaker 1: the naked. If you dry them up.
- 1:06:19Speaker 2: So he deals with us. Is this good?
- 1:06:23Speaker 1: So he dealt with us protection. He dealt with us
- 1:06:25Speaker 1: as purging. And then he deals with us with prevention.
- 1:06:28Speaker 1: And this is the prevention part, and it's kind of weird.
- 1:06:31Speaker 1: He says, if you have the faith, increase our faith, Lord.
- 1:06:35Speaker 1: They thought the bigger the faith, the better the fight.
- 1:06:40Speaker 1: And Jesus says, not going to take that much faith.
- 1:06:43Speaker 1: He said, if you have the faith as of a
- 1:06:45Speaker 1: grain of mustard seed.
- 1:06:47Speaker 2: Now watch this.
- 1:06:49Speaker 1: Before he said, you shall speak to the mountain, and
- 1:06:52Speaker 1: the mountain shall be cast into the sea. But this
- 1:06:56Speaker 1: time he said, if you have the faith as of
- 1:06:58Speaker 1: a grain of mustard seed, you shall speak to a
- 1:07:01Speaker 1: sycamine tree and command it to be cast into the
- 1:07:05Speaker 1: ocean and it will be cast into the ocean and
- 1:07:08Speaker 1: it will be removed. And I said, why did you
- 1:07:12Speaker 1: go from a mountain to a tree? And he said,
- 1:07:17Speaker 1: because a mountain has no roots. So I started digging
- 1:07:31Speaker 1: into a sycamine tree. And I want to tell you,
- 1:07:33Speaker 1: can I tell you, can I tell anybody? Anybody want
- 1:07:35Speaker 1: to know what a sycamine tree is? A sycamine tree
- 1:07:38Speaker 1: is a very unique tree. It's not that the roots
- 1:07:42Speaker 1: grow deep, only about 24 inches deep into the earth,
- 1:07:46Speaker 1: but they grow wide. They grow very wide. They take
- 1:07:51Speaker 1: over territory. And when they grow wide, they twist and
- 1:07:58Speaker 1: tangle And so it is almost impossible to uproot the
- 1:08:03Speaker 1: tree because the roots are twisted and wide. So when
- 1:08:10Speaker 1: a sycamine tree is growing, it is not the trunk
- 1:08:14Speaker 1: you have to worry about. It's the root. And Jesus
- 1:08:21Speaker 1: is saying, oh, I feel the Holy Ghost. God said,
- 1:08:26Speaker 1: if you have the faith as of a grain of
- 1:08:28Speaker 1: mustard seed, I will demolish the system that has you stuck.
- 1:08:47Speaker 1: You tried to shake yourself loose and you couldn't get loose.
- 1:08:50Speaker 1: You 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 Can
- 1:09:19Speaker 1: I go into the system? You're hurt over your husband
- 1:09:23Speaker 1: because your husband hurt you. But it's rooted into something
- 1:09:27Speaker 1: that happened with your father. And now all of a sudden,
- 1:09:35Speaker 1: everybody that reminds you of your father gets tied into
- 1:09:39Speaker 1: the system. And now you're raising a son and he's
- 1:09:42Speaker 1: taking on characteristics like your ex-husband. And the enemy... is
- 1:09:48Speaker 1: tangling your roots. Am I helping somebody? If I'm helping you,
- 1:09:55Speaker 1: holler at me. If you will notice, your life has
- 1:10:03Speaker 1: a system of attack. There is something consistent in the
- 1:10:10Speaker 1: DNA of the things that happen to you. It is
- 1:10:14Speaker 1: the roots of the sycamine tree. And they get tangled
- 1:10:20Speaker 1: up until you can't tell one from another. And the
- 1:10:25Speaker 1: same thing that happened to you before is happening to
- 1:10:28Speaker 1: you again. And the thing that happened to your father
- 1:10:31Speaker 1: is happening to you. And the thing that your uncle
- 1:10:33Speaker 1: went through is now happening to your son. And you
- 1:10:36Speaker 1: can see a pattern because the sycamine roots go wide.
- 1:10:42Speaker 1: They go wide. They touch your father. They touch your wife.
- 1:10:46Speaker 1: They touch your son. They touch your nephew. They touch
- 1:10:49Speaker 1: your nieces. They affect your job. They affect your economy.
- 1:10:52Speaker 1: They affect your leadership. They affect every area of your life.
- 1:10:56Speaker 1: It affects how you handle money. It affects your business.
- 1:10:59Speaker 1: It affects your future because the roots are intertwined. That's
- 1:11:04Speaker 1: why Jesus didn't ask for the mountain because when it
- 1:11:08Speaker 1: comes to forgiveness, mountains don't have roots. And unforgiveness has roots.
- 1:11:15Speaker 1: And the roots are the roots of bitterness. And the
- 1:11:19Speaker 1: bitterness gets so entangled that sometimes you even forget what
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: you're mad about.
- 1:11:28Speaker 2: 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
- 1:12:03Speaker 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.
- 1:12:21Speaker 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
- 1:12:35Speaker 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 life.
- 1:12:48Speaker 1: If you're seeing the same spirit show up in different
- 1:12:51Speaker 1: dimensions of your life, it's because your life is a
- 1:12:55Speaker 1: sycamine tree. But the Lord sent me here tonight to
- 1:12:58Speaker 1: preach a liberating word that's about to loose you from
- 1:13:02Speaker 1: the crown of your head to the soles of your feet.
- 1:13:05Speaker 1: Somebody jump up on your feet like you lost your mind.
- 1:13:09Speaker 2: Give me more power.
- 1:13:13Speaker 1: Somebody jump up on your feet like you lost your mind.
- 1:13:18Speaker 1: Somebody 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, yes, yes, yes.
- 1:13:35Speaker 1: You've been a prisoner in your own head. You've been
- 1:13:37Speaker 1: a prisoner in your own emotion. You've been a prisoner
- 1:13:40Speaker 1: in your own thoughts. It's not that you don't look
- 1:13:43Speaker 1: free on the outside.
- 1:13:44Speaker 2: Good morning.
- 1:13:45Speaker 1: Welcome to JCPenney's. It doesn't look like everything is going well.
- 1:13:48Speaker 1: It looks like everything is going fine. But you know
- 1:13:51Speaker 1: that down on the inside, you've been tangled up in
- 1:13:54Speaker 1: your mind, in your spirit. And late at night when
- 1:13:56Speaker 1: everybody else is asleep, you're awake at night. It's affecting
- 1:14:00Speaker 1: your rest. It's affecting your peace. It's affecting your mind.
- 1:14:03Speaker 1: But tonight is your night. That's why the devil didn't
- 1:14:06Speaker 1: want you to get in here tonight. Because tonight is
- 1:14:09Speaker 1: your night for a breakthrough. The spirit of the living God.
- 1:14:13Speaker 1: The spirit of the living God. The spirit of the
- 1:14:16Speaker 1: living God. The spirit of the living God. The spirit
- 1:14:20Speaker 1: of the living God is in this place tonight. We're
- 1:14:23Speaker 1: going to take the faith as of a grain of
- 1:14:25Speaker 1: mustard seed. Look at your neighbor and say you just
- 1:14:28Speaker 1: need a little bit of faith. You just need a
- 1:14:31Speaker 1: little bit of faith. Type it on the line. You
- 1:14:34Speaker 1: just need a little bit of faith. If you get
- 1:14:37Speaker 1: out a little bit of faith tonight, God's going to
- 1:14:39Speaker 1: destroy the system that's trying to destroy you. The odds
- 1:14:44Speaker 1: are against you. The roots are against you. The situation
- 1:14:48Speaker 1: is against you. The times are against you. But greater
- 1:14:51Speaker 1: is he that is in you than he that's in
- 1:14:55Speaker 1: the world. There's a greater power that's about to take
- 1:14:59Speaker 1: over your life. There's a greater power that's about to
- 1:15:02Speaker 1: heal your mind, your body, your emotions, your health, your rest.
- 1:15:09Speaker 1: The Spirit of God is in this place. I serve
- 1:15:13Speaker 1: notice on every devil in this place tonight. You have
- 1:15:17Speaker 1: no more territory. We will give you no more space.
- 1:15:21Speaker 1: We will give you no more room. We will give
- 1:15:23Speaker 1: you no more power. Somebody's eyes are opening up. Somebody's
- 1:15:28Speaker 1: vision is coming back. Somebody's commitment is being stirred. The
- 1:15:32Speaker 1: spirit of the Lord is here.
- 1:15:34Speaker 2: Can I do it?
- 1:15:35Speaker 1: Can I preach like I do at home? I feel
- 1:15:38Speaker 1: the anointing of the Holy.
- 1:15:41Speaker 2: Ghost in this place.
- 1:15:42Speaker 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
- 1:16:04Speaker 1: ready to demolish the whole system.
- 1:16:08Speaker 2: And not only is he going to pull.
- 1:16:09Speaker 1: The tree up, but he's going to cast it into
- 1:16:13Speaker 1: the sea. If you're in this place and you got
- 1:16:17Speaker 1: something that needs to be cast into the sea. If
- 1:16:21Speaker 1: you're in this place and you've been carrying a pain.
- 1:16:25Speaker 1: There's too much for you to bear. If you're in
- 1:16:28Speaker 1: this place and you've been wounded for a while, I
- 1:16:32Speaker 1: want you to seize the anointing that is in this
- 1:16:35Speaker 1: room to untangle yourself and set yourself free. Where the
- 1:16:42Speaker 1: Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. There's going
- 1:16:47Speaker 1: to be liberty in this place tonight. There's going to
- 1:16:51Speaker 1: be liberty online. Every time you try to make a move,
- 1:16:56Speaker 1: the devil tries to shut you down. But the devil
- 1:16:59Speaker 1: is alive. God is about to uproot that thing out
- 1:17:04Speaker 1: of your life and set you free. I need a
- 1:17:09Speaker 1: hundred people in this room that feel God pulling the
- 1:17:13Speaker 1: sycamore tree out.
- 1:17:15Speaker 2: Of your life to give God a praise.
- 1:17:19Speaker 1: I feel the anointing of the Holy Ghost in this place.
- 1:17:26Speaker 1: I gotta be free.
- 1:17:27Speaker 2: I gotta come.
- 1:17:28Speaker 1: Out of this. I gotta get loose. I gotta be whole.
- 1:17:32Speaker 1: I gotta be delivered, whatever it takes. Whatever it takes
- 1:17:40Speaker 1: to get me.
- 1:17:41Speaker 2: Out of this.
- 1:17:42Speaker 1: I gotta be free. I didn't come this far to
- 1:17:46Speaker 1: be bound. I didn't come this far to be tangled.
- 1:17:49Speaker 1: I didn't come this far to be blind. I didn't
- 1:17:53Speaker 1: come this far to go back. Never you a liar.
- 1:17:57Speaker 1: Tonight is my night. In the name of Jesus, I
- 1:18:01Speaker 1: declare liberty all over this house for the next three minutes.
- 1:18:07Speaker 1: Everything that God appraised, get it out.
- 1:18:10Speaker 2: Get it out.
- 1:18:11Speaker 1: Loose your daughter. Lose your son.
- 1:18:18Speaker 2: Lose your job. Lose your finances. Lose your peace. Lose
- 1:18:24Speaker 2: your joy. Lose your vision.
- 1:18:26Speaker 1: Lose your anointing. Lose your calling. I can't hear you.
- 1:18:33Speaker 1: I can't hear you. Love three people and tell them
- 1:18:46Speaker 1: I'm free.
- 1:18:48Speaker 2: I'm free.
- 1:18:45Speaker 1: I'm free. My roots are loose. My mind is loose.
- 1:18:53Speaker 2: My heart is loose.
- 1:19:00Speaker 1: I feel that old fashioned anointing of the Holy Spirit
- 1:19:05Speaker 1: in this place somebody's got a breakthrough the devil is
- 1:19:09Speaker 1: mad hell is upset the enemy had a system that's
- 1:19:15Speaker 1: been operating in your life but you're gonna be the
- 1:19:18Speaker 1: first generation not to have a sycamore tree I rebuke
- 1:19:24Speaker 1: the tree that's.
- 1:19:26Speaker 2: Tied up your life I command.
- 1:19:33Speaker 1: So as I close tonight, the defense for an offense
- 1:19:56Speaker 1: is the discovery of mustard seed faith. If you believe
- 1:20:04Speaker 1: God just a little bit, the entire system, there's a
- 1:20:11Speaker 1: system working against you. There's a system working against you.
- 1:20:19Speaker 1: The way you were raised, the things you came through,
- 1:20:22Speaker 1: the things that happened to you were all designed to
- 1:20:26Speaker 1: 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
- 1:21:12Speaker 1: the rest of your life tied up to a dead root.
- 1:21:28Speaker 1: Young people, You don't have to start your life off
- 1:21:34Speaker 1: entangled and angry and.
- 1:21:37Speaker 2: Bitter and hurt.
- 1:21:40Speaker 1: There are some young people in here with old people's problems.
- 1:21:45Speaker 1: You've seen stuff that a young person should have never seen.
- 1:21:49Speaker 1: You've been through things that people your age should have
- 1:21:52Speaker 1: never gone through. And you are here under duress against
- 1:21:58Speaker 1: all odds. It's a miracle that you're here. And God
- 1:22:03Speaker 1: wants to pull your sycamine tree up by the root.
- 1:22:07Speaker 1: There are couples in here. You were meant to be
- 1:22:10Speaker 1: power couples in the kingdom of God. And that's why
- 1:22:14Speaker 1: the enemy fights you so. And you've been hurt and
- 1:22:18Speaker 1: you haven't been able to get over the hurt. You've
- 1:22:21Speaker 1: said all the right things, but the rooting system is
- 1:22:24Speaker 1: so complicated that you're tied to it. There are people
- 1:22:28Speaker 1: in this room who have incurred injuries, betrayals, disappointments that
- 1:22:33Speaker 1: left you wounded. And every time you see certain people,
- 1:22:36Speaker 1: you feel a certain way, but you smile and you
- 1:22:39Speaker 1: hide it. The enemy is trying to plant a root
- 1:22:42Speaker 1: on you. If you are in any of those categories,
- 1:22:47Speaker 1: come as close to this altar as you can. Don't
- 1:22:50Speaker 1: worry about what you got on. Don't worry about what
- 1:22:52Speaker 1: people say. Don't worry about what they think. Don't worry
- 1:22:54Speaker 1: about it. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it.
- 1:22:57Speaker 1: Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. The only
- 1:22:59Speaker 1: thing we want, the only thing we want is to
- 1:23:04Speaker 1: untangle this root. We got to untangle this root. This
- 1:23:09Speaker 1: root is wide. This root is long. This root is complicated.
- 1:23:16Speaker 1: This root is far-fetched. and you love Jesus and you
- 1:23:20Speaker 1: worship Jesus and you praise Jesus but you go home
- 1:23:23Speaker 1: and you wrestle with this root and it's a root
- 1:23:26Speaker 1: of loneliness and it's a root of anger and it's
- 1:23:29Speaker 1: a root of lust and it's a root of unforgiveness
- 1:23:33Speaker 1: and it's a root of anger and the enemy keeps
- 1:23:35Speaker 1: telling you what you would have had if things would
- 1:23:38Speaker 1: have been different because he's trying to kill your faith
- 1:23:41Speaker 1: that God can get you there anyway that you can
- 1:23:44Speaker 1: be in the pit That you can be in Potiphar's house.
- 1:23:47Speaker 1: That you can be in the prison and still end
- 1:23:50Speaker 1: up the prince. But the Lord sent me here tonight
- 1:23:53Speaker 1: to tell you that your destiny is secure. That God
- 1:23:56Speaker 1: is going to bring you into the fullness of his purpose.
- 1:23:59Speaker 1: And he's going to uproot that sycamine tree. That rooting system,
- 1:24:05Speaker 1: the things they said, the things they did, the things
- 1:24:10Speaker 1: you 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
- 1:24:36Speaker 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.
- 1:24:45Speaker 2: So you can see him.
- 1:24:46Speaker 1: Before this year is out, you're gonna see God in
- 1:24:50Speaker 1: a way you never saw him before. You're gonna love
- 1:24:53Speaker 1: God in a way you never loved him before. You're
- 1:24:56Speaker 1: gonna reach God in a way you never reached him before.
- 1:24:59Speaker 1: Before this year is out, God is gonna uproot that
- 1:25:05Speaker 1: tree That bitterness is going to go. That anger is
- 1:25:09Speaker 1: going to go. That frustration is going to go. Lift
- 1:25:12Speaker 1: your hands up and open your mouth. The Spirit of
- 1:25:16Speaker 1: God is in this place. Father, these are your sons
- 1:25:23Speaker 1: and these are your daughters. These are your people. These
- 1:25:27Speaker 1: are your children. Like a mama fights for a child,
- 1:25:30Speaker 1: you will fight for them. You will go to war
- 1:25:33Speaker 1: for them. You will battle for them. Their enemies become
- 1:25:36Speaker 1: your enemies. I cast all my cares on you right now.
- 1:25:41Speaker 1: I will not carry this another day. I will not
- 1:25:44Speaker 1: carry it another day. I will not lay up at
- 1:25:46Speaker 1: night thinking about it. I will rebuke the images, the pictures,
- 1:25:50Speaker 1: the memories, the scars, the constant rehearsing of how I
- 1:25:55Speaker 1: got wounded and how I got I reserve my feelings
- 1:25:59Speaker 1: for praise. I reserve my feelings for worship. I reserve
- 1:26:03Speaker 1: my feelings for love. I will bless the Lord at
- 1:26:07Speaker 1: all times. His praise shall continually.
- 1:26:10Speaker 2: Be in my mouth.
- 1:26:11Speaker 1: I feel glory coming in the room. I feel glory.
- 1:26:15Speaker 2: Coming in the room. Here comes a wave of glory.
- 1:26:18Speaker 2: It's all in the house. It's all on the internet.
- 1:26:22Speaker 2: It's all on the tube. I feel the glory coming.
- 1:26:26Speaker 2: I feel the glory coming.
- 1:26:28Speaker 1: Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
- 1:26:33Speaker 2: Where the Spirit of the Lord is. There is liberty.
- 1:26:37Speaker 1: I declare liberty over your life right now. In the
- 1:26:42Speaker 1: name of Jesus, I declare liberty over your life. Shake
- 1:26:48Speaker 1: your hands. Your hands are free. Move your feet. Your
- 1:26:53Speaker 1: feet are free. Your heart is free. Your vision is free.
- 1:27:00Speaker 1: Now open your mouth and give God peace. Tonight, the
- 1:27:15Speaker 1: Holy Ghost said, get out of your feelings. Get out
- 1:27:19Speaker 1: of your feelings. Get out of your feelings. Get out
- 1:27:22Speaker 1: of your feelings. The enemy's been trying to contaminate you.
- 1:27:26Speaker 1: He's always talking to you about how you feel about it.
- 1:27:29Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how you feel about it. The only
- 1:27:32Speaker 1: thing that matters is what you believe about it. I
- 1:27:35Speaker 1: want you to turn and lose what you believe and
- 1:27:38Speaker 1: turn it on what you feel and let the peace
- 1:27:42Speaker 1: of God which passes all understanding. Keep your heart and mind.
- 1:27:47Speaker 1: Come on, somebody.
- 1:27:48Speaker 2: Come on, anybody.
- 1:27:49Speaker 1: Come on, everybody. that have breath praise ye the Lord
- 1:28:00Speaker 1: if you're breathing give him the praise if you're alive
- 1:28:03Speaker 1: give him the praise.
- 1:28:04Speaker 2: If you got a mouth.
- 1:28:07Speaker 1: Give him the praise if you got a tongue give
- 1:28:13Speaker 1: God a praise open your mouth to the Lord open
- 1:28:20Speaker 1: your mouth and shout unto God with the voice of Oh,
- 1:28:27Speaker 1: my God. Thank you.