Latest / Pst T.D Jakes -The POTTER'S HOUSE / Flash Point
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Something that's been worrying you won't let you enjoy the
- 0:04Speaker 1: seething of your life.
- 0:05Speaker 2: The reason God brought you here is so.
- 0:09Speaker 3: If you find yourself in a place where life's pressures
- 0:15Speaker 3: seem too much to bear, one word from God can
- 0:17Speaker 3: change it all.
- 0:18Speaker 1: I don't know what's been on your nerves. I don't
- 0:21Speaker 1: know what's had you up in the middle of the night.
- 0:23Speaker 1: But what I do know is this touch of my...
- 0:28Speaker 1: Thou art.
- 0:28Speaker 2: Tell her, tell her, tell her.
- 0:54Speaker 1: Hello, everybody. I'm excited to share with you the Word
- 0:57Speaker 1: of God today and particularly excited because we're going to
- 1:00Speaker 1: take an excerpt from Woman There Loose. We're going back
- 1:03Speaker 1: to 2010. The message is called Flashpoint. Oh, my God.
- 1:07Speaker 1: Get ready to be blessed as we go into the
- 1:10Speaker 1: Word of God. Take a look. Since God had brought
- 1:15Speaker 1: Paul down to the river and Lydia was to be baptized,
- 1:20Speaker 1: there was water and Lydia was baptized. The startling thing
- 1:25Speaker 1: is what she said when she came up out of
- 1:27Speaker 1: the water. She says to the Apostle Paul, she says,
- 1:31Speaker 1: you must stay in my house. Don't overlook that. You
- 1:37Speaker 1: must stay in my house. Now, although she, in all likelihood,
- 1:43Speaker 1: was a woman of substance, don't picture the houses of
- 1:46Speaker 1: today because nobody lived in mansions in the Bible days.
- 1:52Speaker 1: The fact that she had a house at all, is
- 1:56Speaker 1: a sign that she was doing okay. And to have
- 2:00Speaker 1: somebody come stay in your house is a sacrifice. But
- 2:05Speaker 1: maybe Lydia began to understand that God had blessed her
- 2:09Speaker 1: to be able to make a sacrifice. Sometimes God blesses
- 2:18Speaker 1: you so that you can do what other people can't do.
- 2:25Speaker 1: And the blessing he gave through you, he didn't intend
- 2:31Speaker 1: for it to get stuck to you. Maybe he blessed
- 2:38Speaker 1: Lydia to build the house so that when Paul came
- 2:42Speaker 1: to the river, he would have a place. Oh, y'all
- 2:45Speaker 1: don't hear what I'm saying. To stay. Because her invitations
- 2:55Speaker 1: was what turned the city upside down. She asked Paul
- 3:02Speaker 1: to come stay in her house. Evidently he was resistant
- 3:05Speaker 1: to it because the Bible says she had to persuade him.
- 3:07Speaker 1: It took a little work, it wasn't easy. And eventually
- 3:10Speaker 1: he said, okay, okay, okay, okay. Because you know how
- 3:12Speaker 1: y'all can be. When y'all want to get something done,
- 3:16Speaker 1: it ain't going to be no one request.
- 3:19Speaker 2: Okay, all right, come in. Go on now, all right.
- 3:25Speaker 1: Come on, Silas. Where are we going? We're going over
- 3:28Speaker 1: to Lydia's house. Where does she live? I don't know.
- 3:32Speaker 1: She just warned me to death that she ain't going
- 3:34Speaker 1: to shut up. Let's go to Lydia's house. We'll eat
- 3:38Speaker 1: Lydia's food and sleep in Lydia's bed. And now we
- 3:42Speaker 1: got a place to stay because Lydia's heart has opened up.
- 3:47Speaker 1: The gospel has a place to stay. Ask your neighbor
- 3:54Speaker 1: just for a test. Say has your heart opened up?
- 3:59Speaker 1: Because until your heart opens up the gospel doesn't have
- 4:02Speaker 1: a place to stay. That's why you can't see it
- 4:05Speaker 1: and that's why you can't understand it and that's why
- 4:07Speaker 1: you make fun of it because when the gospel passes
- 4:10Speaker 1: by your doors are closed but if you ever open
- 4:12Speaker 1: up your heart the gospel will come in and stay.
- 4:17Speaker 1: And the Bible says that he left her house and
- 4:22Speaker 1: And every day made the journey back over through Philippi
- 4:28Speaker 1: to go down to the river to pray. And he
- 4:33Speaker 1: would go down to the river to pray and he
- 4:36Speaker 1: would pray and the women would hear him pray. And
- 4:39Speaker 1: he would teach and teach as long as there was daylight.
- 4:44Speaker 1: And then he would get up and make his journey
- 4:48Speaker 1: back over to Lydia's house. to spend the night at
- 4:53Speaker 1: Lydia's house. And he was able to stay in Macedonia
- 4:58Speaker 1: because Lydia opened up her house. Some anointings will not
- 5:03Speaker 1: abide in certain places because you won't open your heart
- 5:08Speaker 1: to do what God told you to do. You know
- 5:12Speaker 1: you are flame keepers. You keep the flame burning.
- 5:17Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes.
- 5:18Speaker 1: You trim the wick and keep the flame burning. I'm
- 5:21Speaker 1: talking to the wise, not the foolish. The wise ones,
- 5:25Speaker 1: they keep the flame burning because you said yes to God.
- 5:29Speaker 1: The gospel has a place to stay. Well, anyway, as
- 5:38Speaker 1: he was going back and forth from Lydia's house down
- 5:42Speaker 1: to the riverbank, A woman, a poor woman, a slave woman,
- 5:51Speaker 1: came up behind him and started following him. And she
- 5:55Speaker 1: was saying, surely these men are sent by the most
- 6:00Speaker 1: high God to declare unto you the way of salvation.
- 6:05Speaker 1: And he didn't say nothing. He went on down to
- 6:07Speaker 1: the river to pray. He prayed. He ministered to the women.
- 6:11Speaker 1: He came back. And the thing about it is, first
- 6:15Speaker 1: of all, this is important. This is important to learn
- 6:19Speaker 1: about life. It is never the destination. It is the
- 6:24Speaker 1: things that happen along the way. You are so busy
- 6:33Speaker 1: praying about where you're going that you don't understand your
- 6:38Speaker 1: mission happens along the way. It is neither at point
- 6:42Speaker 1: A nor at point B, but somewhere between here and
- 6:47Speaker 1: there that God really wants to use you. So it
- 6:51Speaker 1: is neither at the praying place nor at Lydia's house,
- 6:55Speaker 1: but somewhere along the way. Paul says, this woman is,
- 7:02Speaker 1: and this, when I was a young preacher, it confused
- 7:06Speaker 1: me because this woman was saying the right thing. They
- 7:11Speaker 1: were sent by the Most High God to declare the
- 7:15Speaker 1: way of salvation. She was saying the right thing, but
- 7:20Speaker 1: for the wrong reason. How many people come into your
- 7:24Speaker 1: life talking the talk, but not walking the walk? And
- 7:34Speaker 1: you let them hang with you because they know what
- 7:38Speaker 1: to say. But until you discern what spirit they are of,
- 7:43Speaker 1: I don't know who I'm preaching to. But people know
- 7:50Speaker 1: what to say to be able to walk with you.
- 7:53Speaker 1: But you got to pray so that you can see
- 7:56Speaker 1: what's in them. For the Bible says that this woman
- 8:03Speaker 1: was a witch. She had the spirit of divination. She
- 8:11Speaker 1: was a woman of witchcraft. She was an evil woman.
- 8:16Speaker 1: She was an evil woman. And I wanted to preach
- 8:19Speaker 1: about this little evil woman because I wanted to warn
- 8:23Speaker 1: you that evil people can say nice stuff. Wicked people
- 8:32Speaker 1: can smile when they need to. Haters can befriend you when.
- 8:38Speaker 2: They need to.
- 8:39Speaker 1: And I got to warn you, you don't have to
- 8:43Speaker 1: be abused by an enemy. Sometimes the person right next... Now...
- 9:00Speaker 1: Brothers and sisters, we have a dichotomous predicament here. We
- 9:09Speaker 1: have a polarized circumstance here. The polarities between these two
- 9:14Speaker 1: women represent the lift to which God can go. On
- 9:18Speaker 1: one hand, you have a Lydia who is.
- 9:21Speaker 2: Rich and in trouble. And the other hand, you.
- 9:25Speaker 1: Have this nameless poor woman who is in trouble. But
- 9:29Speaker 1: the same blood that delivered Lydia reaches back to this
- 9:35Speaker 1: woman who is possessed with the spirit and Paul rebuked
- 9:40Speaker 1: the spirit and said, come out of that woman. And
- 9:47Speaker 1: I don't know who I'm talking to tonight, but something
- 9:50Speaker 1: that's been worrying you, following you, haunting you, hanging over you,
- 9:56Speaker 1: disrupting your sleep, won't let you rest, won't let you
- 10:00Speaker 1: enjoy the season of your life.
- 10:02Speaker 2: The reason God brought you here is.
- 10:05Speaker 1: So that you can if you don't care what anybody
- 10:18Speaker 1: thinks you don't care what you look like tell your
- 10:22Speaker 1: neighbor i got to get it off of me get
- 10:29Speaker 1: off of me get off of me get off my
- 10:33Speaker 1: mind get out of my spirit get.
- 10:36Speaker 2: Out of my life I don't know what's.
- 10:46Speaker 1: Been on you. I don't know what's been chasing you.
- 10:50Speaker 1: I don't know what's been upsetting you. I don't know
- 10:52Speaker 1: what's been on your nerves. I don't know what's had
- 10:55Speaker 1: you up in the middle of the night. But what
- 10:57Speaker 1: I do know is this, touch somebody and say woman.
- 11:01Speaker 2: Down.
- 11:03Speaker 1: Earth. Tell her, tell her, tell her. That's why the
- 11:13Speaker 1: enemy doesn't want you to be free. Because you're not
- 11:16Speaker 1: just a woman, you're a flashpoint. And when you get delivered,
- 11:22Speaker 1: you're going to set it off.
- 11:25Speaker 3: Get ready to be more effective than you ever thought
- 11:27Speaker 3: possible and prepare yourself for things to come.
- 11:30Speaker 1: The more effective you are, the more attacked you will
- 11:35Speaker 1: be because you are losing somebody that the enemy wants
- 11:39Speaker 1: to keep out.
- 11:43Speaker 4: In the blink of an eye, A new generation of
- 11:46Speaker 4: pastors and leaders will take the reigns of our churches
- 11:50Speaker 4: and organizations. Will this new generation of leaders be innovators
- 11:55Speaker 4: or followers? How well have we prepared them? We cannot
- 11:59Speaker 4: afford to sit back and watch the next generation be unprepared.
- 12:04Speaker 4: We have to have the courage to act. At the
- 12:10Speaker 4: 2017 International Pastors and Leadership Conference, we will continue to
- 12:14Speaker 4: invest in the future of ministries, businesses, communities, and organizations.
- 12:20Speaker 4: Next year, we will meet you and leaders from all
- 12:23Speaker 4: over the world in Dallas, Texas at our brand new
- 12:28Speaker 4: event center where we can show you better than we
- 12:31Speaker 4: can tell. We look forward to seeing you and your
- 12:34Speaker 4: team at IPNL 2017.
- 12:41Speaker 1: One moment can reveal truth. I think that you see
- 12:45Speaker 1: the best in him, but you don't see the best
- 12:47Speaker 1: in you. One moment can give hope. You can teach
- 12:52Speaker 1: other people how to love you by.
- 12:54Speaker 2: How you love yourself.
- 12:58Speaker 1: One moment can change the rest. Out of the ashes
- 13:02Speaker 1: of what you have left will come the resurrection of
- 13:05Speaker 1: all that you will gain in it. thought Miss Lydia
- 13:15Speaker 1: was significant, but Lydia got baptized and nothing changed. But
- 13:24Speaker 1: when this poor, no name, ex-witch got saved, something broke
- 13:38Speaker 1: in the spirit world. And the enemy got mad. If
- 13:47Speaker 1: you get ready to change your life and all hell
- 13:51Speaker 1: breaks loose, it's a sign that the devil is afraid
- 13:56Speaker 1: of you. Because he knows that.
- 14:00Speaker 2: If you ever change your life, everything around you dies.
- 14:11Speaker 1: See, what I'm trying to tell you, let me check,
- 14:16Speaker 1: see if I'm in the right place. Where are my
- 14:19Speaker 1: sisters that every time you get ready to do something right,
- 14:22Speaker 1: all hell breaks loose? If you're standing by a sister
- 14:36Speaker 1: who just raised her hand, touch her and say, flashpoint.
- 14:47Speaker 1: That's why the enemy doesn't want you to be free.
- 14:50Speaker 1: Because you're not just a woman, you're a flashpoint. And
- 14:56Speaker 1: when you get delivered, you're going to set it off.
- 15:04Speaker 1: Who would have thought that this no-name woman would be
- 15:09Speaker 1: a flashpoint? The big-name woman got saved, nothing happened. But
- 15:15Speaker 1: when the poor slave woman got delivered, she was a flashpoint.
- 15:23Speaker 1: There is a system attached to her dysfunction. There is
- 15:33Speaker 1: a system attached to her dysfunction. There is a whole
- 15:38Speaker 1: system around her.
- 15:39Speaker 2: Now check this out.
- 15:41Speaker 1: Check this out. There is a whole system around her
- 15:44Speaker 1: that needs her to be dysfunctional. There is a system
- 15:52Speaker 1: around her that benefits from her dysfunction. The Bible says
- 16:03Speaker 1: that her masters were getting rich from her dysfunction. there
- 16:12Speaker 1: is an economic impact attached to her dysfunction. Somebody needs
- 16:25Speaker 1: her to be messed up. But because if she gets well,
- 16:32Speaker 1: they can't use her like they used to use her anymore.
- 16:42Speaker 2: So watch this.
- 16:43Speaker 1: Watch this. Her masters got mad because they couldn't use
- 16:53Speaker 1: her anymore. When a woman gets loosed, I mean loosed
- 16:59Speaker 1: in God, every system that was tied to her dysfunction
- 17:07Speaker 1: begins to fall apart. Because she is not the same
- 17:12Speaker 1: woman that she used. She may wear the same clothes.
- 17:17Speaker 1: She may live in the same house. But she's not
- 17:23Speaker 1: the same woman anymore. She's not the same woman anymore.
- 17:27Speaker 1: Watch this, watch.
- 17:28Speaker 2: So what happens is.
- 17:30Speaker 1: Her masters go after Paul and they snatch him, governor.
- 17:38Speaker 1: They snatch the apostles and bring him from the masters,
- 17:44Speaker 1: they bring him to the marketplace. Marketplace. I don't have
- 17:53Speaker 1: time to mess with that like I want to. The
- 17:55Speaker 1: masters bring him to the marketplace. Delivering this woman has
- 18:01Speaker 1: now brought him center stage in the city of Philippi.
- 18:05Speaker 1: Though he starts out by the riverbank outside the city.
- 18:08Speaker 1: When she got delivered, God brings him from the background
- 18:11Speaker 1: to the forefront. The masters bring him into the marketplace
- 18:17Speaker 1: before the magistrates. They lie on him. And they say
- 18:28Speaker 1: that Paul and Silas are teaching customs that are contrary
- 18:32Speaker 1: to Roman law.
- 18:34Speaker 2: No evidence, just mouth.
- 18:39Speaker 1: The people in the marketplace hear it and they get
- 18:43Speaker 1: angry and start fighting Paul and Silas over what they heard.
- 18:54Speaker 1: And a fire has started. Watch out when fires start.
- 19:01Speaker 1: People will become engulfed in a flame and hate you
- 19:08Speaker 1: and don't even know you.
- 19:12Speaker 2: You don't believe it.
- 19:13Speaker 1: Let me find somebody who believes they will hang you.
- 19:18Speaker 1: and don't even know you. They will make assumptions about
- 19:22Speaker 1: you and don't even know you. When it becomes popular
- 19:26Speaker 1: to hate you, people just get on board. Sociologists have
- 19:33Speaker 1: a term for it. When gang rage breaks out, people
- 19:37Speaker 1: will get in the rage and they'll start fighting. They
- 19:39Speaker 1: don't even know what they're fighting about. And so all
- 19:41Speaker 1: of a sudden, these men who had never even met
- 19:44Speaker 1: Paul started fighting over something that these men, the masters
- 19:50Speaker 1: of the witch said. And they took Paul and the
- 19:55Speaker 1: magistrates turned him over to the people. And the people
- 20:01Speaker 1: got together with the magistrates and they stripped him and
- 20:05Speaker 1: Silas in the marketplace. And they beat them.
- 20:12Speaker 2: In the marketplace.
- 20:15Speaker 1: Now, when I read it in the King James, they
- 20:19Speaker 1: said they beat them severely. But when I read it
- 20:25Speaker 1: in another translation, it said they beat them with rods
- 20:30Speaker 1: or with canes. Now, if you are naked, And somebody
- 20:39Speaker 1: beats you with a cane whooping, lacerates the flesh, beats
- 20:47Speaker 1: you to death. If not just where you're hurting, you
- 20:51Speaker 1: are beaten and bloody and.
- 20:53Speaker 2: Lacerated and could die. You got a.
- 20:56Speaker 1: Mob beating two men naked with canes. And they don't
- 21:04Speaker 1: even know why they're beating them. and they beat them severely.
- 21:11Speaker 1: When a Middle Eastern culture says that a whooping is severe,
- 21:20Speaker 1: you understand what I'm saying? Because they have a strong
- 21:23Speaker 1: stomach for that type of punishment. When they say it's severe,
- 21:27Speaker 1: it is severe. Suddenly, I begin to realize That the
- 21:33Speaker 1: Paul and Silas who were doing all the preaching and
- 21:35Speaker 1: the praying. Is not the Paul and Silas that are
- 21:39Speaker 1: laying on the floor. Beaten by a mob. Kicked and punched.
- 21:44Speaker 1: Teeth knocked out of their head. And then cane whipped.
- 21:50Speaker 1: Now I understand. When the magistrates put them in jail.
- 21:55Speaker 1: Why the jailer had to put their feet in the stocks.
- 22:04Speaker 1: Because they were beaten so badly, they couldn't move. Lacerated, tattered,
- 22:19Speaker 1: and torn, bloody, beaten to a pulp. They couldn't even
- 22:25Speaker 1: put their feet in the stocks. The jailer had to
- 22:29Speaker 1: put their feet in the stocks.
- 22:35Speaker 2: They couldn't move.
- 22:39Speaker 1: What kind of pain is that? And all because they
- 22:47Speaker 1: were trying to help somebody. Some of you are in trouble,
- 22:58Speaker 1: not because of you, but because of who you helped.
- 23:07Speaker 1: When you made up your mind you were going to
- 23:09Speaker 1: help somebody, you got on the hit list of hell.
- 23:14Speaker 1: And the more effective you are, the more attacked you
- 23:19Speaker 1: will be because you are losing somebody that the enemy
- 23:23Speaker 1: wants to keep out.
- 23:26Speaker 2: Who am I preaching.
- 23:27Speaker 1: To in here? You keep saying, why do I keep
- 23:32Speaker 1: going through what I'm going through? Why do things keep
- 23:36Speaker 1: going crazy in my life? Why do I make two
- 23:40Speaker 1: steps forward and get knocked three steps back? It's not
- 23:43Speaker 1: because of you. It's because of what you do. And
- 23:50Speaker 1: there they are laying in the stocks. Stocks that they
- 24:00Speaker 1: were too weak to get in themselves. Stocks that even
- 24:05Speaker 1: if they had opened them, they couldn't have walked out
- 24:09Speaker 1: of them. Bloody and cane whipped, almost unconscious. Nine o'clock
- 24:20Speaker 1: in the evening, everything is quiet. No sound in the
- 24:27Speaker 1: jail at all. 9.30, all the inmates are listening.
- 24:35Speaker 2: No sound in the jail at all. 10-15. A deathly
- 24:42Speaker 2: quiet is over it.
- 24:44Speaker 1: No sound in the jail at all. 11-15. The other
- 24:50Speaker 1: prisoners didn't know whether they were.
- 24:53Speaker 2: Dead or alive at all.
- 24:56Speaker 1: But at 11-59... Something begin to shake. Something begin to turn.
- 25:14Speaker 1: Something begin to move. I gotta stop a minute and
- 25:19Speaker 1: praise God for some noise in the prison.
- 25:24Speaker 2: You may not.
- 25:25Speaker 1: Be out yet, but at least you're making some noise.
- 25:32Speaker 1: You may not be free yet, But at least you
- 25:37Speaker 1: let the devil know!
- 25:41Speaker 2: I'm not dead! I'm alive!
- 25:53Speaker 1: Lydia was a well-established person, but nothing she possessed gave
- 25:57Speaker 1: her peace. Imagine all of the Lydia's that exist in
- 26:00Speaker 1: the world today. It's because of your partnership we are
- 26:04Speaker 1: able to preach the gospel which provides peace and happiness
- 26:08Speaker 1: through a relationship with Jesus Christ. Thank you for joining
- 26:13Speaker 1: my global partner system. You are helping me take God's
- 26:16Speaker 1: life-changing message of hope and healing around the world. The
- 26:23Speaker 1: more effective you are, the more attacked you will be
- 26:28Speaker 1: because you are losing somebody that the enemy wants to
- 26:32Speaker 1: keep out.
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- 26:35Speaker 1: It's just been spiritually renewing.
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- 26:59Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what they think about you.
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