It's Not For Sale - Bishop T.D. Jakes [December 29, 2019]

[Music] go to the book of Acts chapter 8 verse 13 through 27 it's dangerous to come late cuz you to miss half the message coming late the book of Acts chapter 8 verses 13 through 27 glory to God when you have a say man you're still looking for it trying to find the page trying to boot up your phone can't get a signal Yap won't work say wait a minute I knew it I know I know what you go through many are the afflictions of the righteous but the Lord will deliver them out of the ball did Simon himself believed also and when he was baptized he continued with Philip and wondered beholding the miracles and signs which were done now with the Apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the Word of God they sent unto them Peter and John who when they were come down prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Ghost for as of yet he was fallen upon none of them only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus then laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Ghost and when Simon saw that through laying on of the Apostles hands the Holy Ghost was given he offered them some moolah saying give me also give me also this power that on whomsoever I lay hands he may receive the Holy Ghost but Peter said unto Him thy money perish with thee because thou has thought that the gift of God maybe purchase with money thou has neither part nor a lot in this matter for the heart is not right in the sight of God repent therefore of this thy wickedness and pray God if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee for I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity then answered Simon and said pray he to the Lord for me but none of these things which he have spoken come upon me and they when they had testified and preached the word of the Lord returned to Jerusalem and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans and the angel of the Lord spake unto Philip saying arise and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem under Gaza which is desert and he rose and went and behold a man of Ethiopia a eunuch of great authority under kadek a queen of Ethiopians who had the charge of all her treasure and had come to Jerusalem for to worship can you say man go back to my main verse I want to get on that one I have underlined she don't know what I mean there but Peter said unto them thy money perish with thee because thou has thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money look at your neighbor on your left and your right say it's not for sale is now for sale no no no it's not for sale you can see it but it's not for sale you can experience it but it's not for sale you can benefit from it but it's not for sale look at your neighbor found another neighbor say it's not for sale spirit of the Living God 12 French smelled fresh fall fresh fall fresh on us we don't want to scare leloni we want a fresh anointing let it rain in this place until eyes are open until deaf ears are on stop into the blind are healed by the power of God let it rain in here - yokes are broken let it rain in here took captives are set free let it rain into here until the bound are loose let it rain into here - those who feel beneath the promises of God stand up in the integrity of what God is able to do I thank you in advance for what you're going to do have your way great God that you are in the name of Jesus we pray somebody shout a man you may be seated in the presence of the Lord now no text is valuable if it's taken out of context okay text must be in context or the text can be abused misused or not properly applied so I want to set just a moment some and especially for those of you who may not be familiar with this passage we are in the eighth chapter of the book of Acts about eight to ten years after the resurrection of Christ from the dead he is a cinder to sit on the right hand of the Majesty on high which means to the disciples that the training wheels have been kicked back and now they gotta ride this city it's one thing to be mighty when you got a mighty leap in front of you and it's another thing to be mighty when they're not looking they did they follow Jesus you know you could be tough following Jesus you could be strong following Jesus you know it's like me when I was little I was tough with my big brother was around who you talking to you don't want none of this because I do my brother was there it was gonna be all right you know but now big brother Jesus has ascended on a cloud that made his Exodus had gone to the right hand of the majesty of high then the Apostles with all of their humanity and carnality are now have the responsibility of carrying the weight of the church Christ has birthed it what Christ birthdays in the building is not an organization it's not a denomination it's not a Creed it's none of that court Christ's birth is a living organism and he burst it without explaining it and he birthed it without leaving them a manual and he birthed it without telling them exactly how to go about it because if God gave you every detail you wouldn't need faith oh I'm good here now they must rely on the Holy Ghost which they have just received a few years ago to direct them in the early formation and the infrastructure of the church they like us have to rely on the invisible to move the visible they have to make sure they're here in God correctly that that's not my mind that that's not something just coming to me that I'm not being influenced by my leave my circumcenter my pettiness and they have labored to walk up under the counsel of the Almighty God they got so many problems going on I can't even begin to talk about what all they got to deal with they got to figure out what to do with Judas they started the church offer for suicide Judas hung himself and his guts has spilled out into the potter's field and now that they did no Judas was going to kill himself Jesus didn't tell them that he was going to kill himself he didn't tell him how to get a replacement so they're figuring out how to replace Judas so the casting lofts trying to replace a God chosen individual listen at that see then that they're trying to use human stuff to fix spiritual things and they cast lots of got this dude named Mathias that we never heard much from again and made him and a possible Wow they were picking Mathias God was picking Saul now you have to understand that that I have to admit that I probably would have picked Mathias too because at least Mathias whether disciple saw was a Christian killer he was saddam hussein of the early church he was the least likely person to end up on the lord side but god it picked him that's why you can't allow your opinion of people to prejudice how you treat them because god will often pick somebody you don't like who's done things that you don't like but god says that's the one I want why does he do that pastor because his strength is made perfect in our weakness if he picked somebody that's already good you don't say well they were good anyway but he gets somebody he's going in the opposite direction knocks him off his Beach raises him up and makes him an apostle not by the will of man Paul says nor by the will of angels but by the will of God have I became an apostle unto the nation and I am an apostle amongst apostles who don't trust me so you've been feeling bad at work because they don't like you join the crowd because Paul is chosen to be an apostle amongst apostles who do not like him and do not trust him and at this point at this point he has yet to be chosen because when you start reading the early chapter of the book of Acts verse eight in chapter 8 verse 1 Paul is still chasing them killing him destroying of making it hard for them to figure it out at a vulnerable moment they kept trying to meet in Jerusalem and Paul was wreaking havoc destroying whoever he could they couldn't give themselves together Jerusalem was home base it was a Washington DC of the of the church it was that place where decisions were made where the council met where they got together they kept going back to Jerusalem because the Holy Ghost fell in Jerusalem because Jesus had walked the streets of Jerusalem and you know how when you get in trouble you're uncertain you want to go back to home base but God will not allow them to stay in their comfort zone and so through persecution last week I preached about rejection through persecution and rejection they receive direction and God was making them scattered God knows how to scary lord have mercy I wish we had some chicken wings and potato salad I tell you some stuff God knows how to just scatter everything you got playing move you out of your comfort zone get you into a place of vulnerably vulnerability where you have to trust him you ain't got nobody to trust he'll let everybody else betray you hurt you break you down put ostracize you and say Kenji's did you see me now it is in this atmosphere that this text is extrapolated there's all kinds of craziness going on and everybody's trying to figure out what to do with their life and they're trying to figure out that we need stuff that there is no scripture for we need things like deacons the work is too great for us we need deacons Jesus never said anything about deacons not in Matthew Mark Luke or John but our apostle said we need deacons because the work is too great for us and they're trying to put structure and he gave some apostles and some prophets and some pastors some teachers some evangelists for the perfecting of the Saints can we all come into the work of the ministry Jesus had not delineate it their authority like that he had not set up an organizational chart they had to get an organizational chart they had to organize they had to get to infrastructure they had to deal with problems they had to judge saying they had to correct people who were out of order they had to get it all together and while they were fighting only out of all of these things that were happening growing pains of starting anything on the other hand they were having to fight off the people who were trying to kill them because the same people who hated Jesus when they got through hating Jesus they hated those who followed Jesus and Jesus had warned them about that he said they hate me and they will hate you so you have to be able to function and atmospheres of dislike and discomfort that message hasn't gotten through to our church world today what we think is we're going to pray to God fixes the condition and when he fixes the condition we're going to flourish No you're gonna flourish with the condition not fixed with trouble on the right side and trouble on the left side don't know how I'm gonna give this done don't know where my help is gonna come from but if you don't learn how to flourish in the middle of chaos you won't flourish at all let's do this say I'm trying to get you ready for 2020 I'm trying to get you off a baby milk I'm trying to get you off a Pamela I'm trying to get you where you can stand where you will not be in pediatric and your understanding of what God is able to do in the middle of a storm he doesn't have to stop the storm he could walk on top of the storm it got so bad they were killing they were beheading they were scourging they were rounding up they were incarcerated they were putting them in jail now i'ma tell you something it's a whole big crowd in here today but if they sure throw us in jail for the name of Jesus don't expect the church to be so mega cuz people are with you when you're going up but when you start going down and it looks like something might be required to me and I might get in trouble for my lawn and people get real quiet intimidated and insecure and God was allowing Saul to wreak havoc in Jerusalem and it got so bad that his cycles had to scatter somebody shall scatter and Philip went down from Jerusalem to Samaria he went down from Jerusalem to Samaria and that was exactly where God wanted him to be because up until this point salvation and the power of the Holy Spirit had only felt amongst Jews for the most part you see that the conversion of the Jewish nation and the Jewish people of faith was was evident in the early formation of the church all the disciples were Jewish you don't get to pick the color of the disciples of the color of Jesus don't be stupid the Bible is clear to their genealogy is clear to where they came from they were all Jesus was Jewish [Music] he wasn't European and he didn't wear afro I hate to disappoint both sides of the coin and he wasn't eating tacos we like to paint Jesus however we look rather than understanding that it's not Jesus job to be like us it's our job to be like oh my god y'all I go talk to me today if we put as much effort into being like him as we do is fightin about making him look like us we would follow the tenets of the scripture Simon comes down a philip comes down to Samaria and Samaria is a mess it's a mess it's a mess there's all kind of chaos in debauchery there's all kind of wickedness is all kind of carnality there's all kind of sexuality there's all kind of a wicked behavior amongst the leadership and it's all because none of who's in charge of Samaria but it's all because it is one dude named Simon and assignment is called the sorcerer and Simon the sorcerer has got everybody intimidate it is shocking to me how one person in the wrong place can create total chaos for an entire massive group of people just one hell you if you're not careful one person can come into your life and tell your life of one person if you're not careful to come in and split your church and tear it all apart one person to come in and tear your country all apart one person I'm coming to your company and tear your couple apart and it is shocking how dumb smart people get with a manipulator gets into power you wouldn't believe it you have to see it until you see it you all believe Simon has got everybody held up and he's a witch he's the winch he's got a spell on Samaria he's wreaking havoc in Samaria now you must understand that Samaria was not a preferred place for the Jews to go no way remember the woman at the well told Jesus your people don't have no dealings with me so they weren't accustomed to dealing with Samaria to begin with but they are starting to realize that they cannot sequester Jesus and lock him into their group oh god help us with that too because you know what we think we own Jesus we think we get to say who saved and who's not saved who's real and not real who's authentic and who's not our city we think we can hold Jesus down to our denomination our organization our community our group our culture you know all of Jesus his name should be called Emmanuel the God who brought from us us not you us now all of a sudden this this this leash likely city in this non-traditional City as it relates to Orthodox Judaism this is a place where everything's happening and Philip is in the midst of him and he's outnumbered he's outnumbered he's surrounded by people who are all up under the spell of Simon but Peter did Philip didn't pay it no mind he kept right on going he kept right on preaching he kept right on teachers and he said if one man can cast a spell one man can cast him out God give us courageous people today who know who they are who don't need crowd response to authenticate you're an auntie who understand the power of God in you is stronger than the world against you who understand that you don't need everybody to endorse you to legitimize you God give us some people who will let their yes be yes if immobilo hold their head up God give us some people that will cast off what the devil has cast on us even if you have to do it by yourself see somebody said I'm ready Filip upset the city he delivered people he started baptizing people he rebuked the spell over Samaria he rebuked the spell Hill Simon got baptized they didn't hear me over there I'm Trey all of me Peter rebuked the spell until the witch got saved the Bible says that Simon got baptized and believed and I have no reason to doubt the account that Luke writes in the Acts regarding Simon Simon has become a believer and now he is following Philip God will turn it around God will turn it around you're following me Philip comes into a city where he's outnumbered Simon is a head honcho he's large and in charge he's Bo SS he's got it going on and the next thing you know the Holy Ghost has flipped the script and the one who was the head has become the tail and the one who was the tail has become the head I'm talking to somebody about a switch that God can execute in your life and turn everything absolutely around [Applause] now Philip has come into power rebels broken out in Samaria there's a move of God and now Simon is following Phil oh I want to talk to you about three things that stood out to me in this text one of Miz's of money the other one it's a mission and the third one is a malignancy the money the mission and the malignancy and I want to start with the money because we're really going to deal with this because while Simon is following Philip and experiencing the power of God he notices that the power of God is using Philip in such a powerful way Peter and John and now come down to help them they're laying hands on people and they're being filled with the Holy Ghost and the power of God was falling on people who the Jews did not even believe to be a people of God what do you do when the Paragard falls on somebody that doesn't match your theology will you clean to your theology and renounce the people over hell my god or will you embrace the people and change the theology God doesn't need to meet with the board of the committee or the Internal Revenue or anybody else God will save whoever he wants to say he will feel Catholic folks Baptists for Methodists for I don't care what you are agnostic atheist the Holy Ghost will invade your territory he'll come right into the muscle he'll go anywhere he'll go everywhere he'll throw us right tell Harry Krishna he'll go right there he'll touch anybody because God is God and he always will be God then well Simon is watching embassy the power of God Simon reaches in his wallet and says I want to buy me some of that yeah what about me some of that I'll get into a deeper later but you see Simon has lost his old power he was Simon the sorcerer when the story started now he's been converted in his spirit but his mentality hasn't changed that's most of what I see today people seriously come to their altar and they give their heart to Jesus but their mind has never changed when I came up we told girls just make sure you got a sane man a brother that go to church glory to God then we found out that a brother can go to church and church not go to him we tell our son just get you a nice Christian girl glory to God and she goes to children we found out she will take that prayer cap off hate that skirt up and commented uh-huh yeah just leave that let that be legit imma let that marinade over there like that imma let them marinate Salman has changed and been converted but his mentality has not transformed and and there's a vacancy in his heart for power and influence and he sees the power of God flowing through the Apostles and he wants it and it's nothing wrong with wanting the power of God and there's nothing wrong with wanting the gifts of the Holy Spirit but it is how you go about getting what you want that is the test it is always about how you go about getting it it's not about not wanting it you're not supposed to want it it's how you go about getting it it's like Jesus after he had been tempted in the wilderness for forty days wanted bread there was nothing wrong with him wanting bread the enemy wasn't tempted him about the bread he was tempted him to use his power for selfish reasons to get the bread so you can have a right desire and go about it the wrong way I'm preaching already I'm preaching already but I want to talk about the money first I want to talk about the money because because there's some things that we have to understand spill particularly in this country this capitalistic society where we value money so high and there's nothing wrong with money but there's something wrong with us and when you take what's wrong with us and you give it more money it gives it more power and it becomes more more dangerous and our value system in a capitalistic society centers around our dreams all centered around money and it has infected and affected the church - most of the time when you get people coming up for prayer it's always about money our mentality is we need a miracle I'm believing God for a car I'm believing God for a house I'm believing God for a coat I'm believing God for our house I believe in God to send my kids to private school I hate to tell you this there are eight years that sitting there kids in private school they're drug dealers that have a car that's not a miracle you don't need God you need a good job you need to come to work you need to save your money you get you a car you don't need to call on heaven and provoke the Angels to get a car that magical mentality is killing the church we are asking God for stuff that we can do ourselves oh god help me so I thought when I read the dresser you got all of this stuff you got you got money here and you got power and you got religion and karna and money and religion and power and carnality does strange things to a society I remember going to the old man in castles in Ghana and looking at what money and religion do mix with power you know the slave castles with the church above it and I was shocked to see it I'd really but to see that the church could exist above all of the slavery and debauchery and abuse and killing and rape and upstairs hissing rz3 hey ah we see when money and power and religions get together they create strange bedfellows because we will we will use our religion to justify our greed you don't have to stop there you go to the apartheid you can see the same thing I went to South Africa when in the apartheid museum in the first time I saw that I took a picture of said that when the Dutch came we owned the land and they owned the Bible and when the fighting was over we owned the Bible if they had the land yeah think about that yeah monkey see see sometimes we will use scriptures to get done what we want done look at our own country our missionaries were our masters even for this day even to this day excuse me white members I'm gonna talk to black members for a minute I'll be back to you in a second even to this day we think it's because we're black anything slave us because we were black we've been black for thousands of years they knew black folks existed black folks is in the Bible black folks is in the history black folks have been around forever it was not our blackness and because we see through the lens of our pain we think everything is about us being black it was never about being black black didn't have nothing to do with it white didn't have nothing to do with it it was about green it was about great for money people will do all kinds of stuff all people will do all kinds of stuff for money I was watching TV last night there was watching where this woman this guy had snatched this woman's pocketbook and drugged her in the car for for about a half a mile or so down the road why would you do that to an old woman for money the church has a funny relationship with money I'm not saying that money is evil I'm not saying that money is a bad thing I'm saying that we are evil money actually is not Dilys it is neither good nor bad it has no power in and of itself until somebody uses it the money is not wrong sometimes this whose hands it's in are you listening to them I want you to listen the church has always had a funny relationship with money incidentally they did not only have we used it to justify to turn scriptures around to justify what we're trying to do sometimes hundreds 200 300 years before we come back around and say oops we're sorry we made a mistake can't undo it can't fix it can't straighten it out can't execute people we executed oops I'm sorry I made a mistake sometimes I'm sorry doesn't cut it but the church has always had a funny attitude about money the one scripture that every Christian knows is that the love of money is we talk about that all the time because the church historically and particularly our grandparents really emphasized their scripture because this creature makes people shout especially when they don't have we always demonize what we don't have and though we said the love of money is the root of all evil we heard money is the root of all evil yeah yes so we think that money is a bad thing when the Bible also said it is God that gives us power to get wealth so I want you to understand that and it also warned us that with it well then it becomes difficult to get into heaven because money Optimates people arrogated and and selfridge thrown in egotistical and and they don't humble themselves down like they should when they have research that's why I might either because the more God blessed me when I tithe it is my way of breaking the grip of finances over my life I make my money honor God because if I don't make my money honor God my money becomes God and bringing my money to the altar it said I have a higher power and a higher principle that supersedes my finances and I will not allow you to be my god I will make you bend your knee and worship my god I will have no other God before me see there's a difference between when a person is is broke and they give their giving in the hopes that God might trust for them as God begins to prosper you the challenge is not to allow that prosperity to become your God I'm talking to you I'm gonna get to it in a minute I'm gonna get to them and I'm gonna give you some scripture go to Ecclesiastes 10:19 for me right quick put it on the screen I want you to see subscription things that God said that you don't hear much about the feasts is made for laughter and winemakers marry in other words when you go to a party you gonna have fun if you drink wine it's gonna change your mood but money answereth you don't ever hear that scripture money answers all money answers all money answers all money answers all so if it's a thing money instances now there are some things I need to pray for there that I need in my life that are not things but if it's a thing on a materialistic level money answered all things we don't hear that Scripture and faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God so you don't claim that Scripture when you pray because you're not taught that Scripture when you pray so you're when you're only taught that the love of money is the root of all evil there's a sense of evilness about asking for money and you don't have the authority to stand there and pray for a bully because you don't understand that money answers all things if you understood their money answer of all things then once you have that you can pray about things that are more important that money can't do like save your daughter like save your marriage like save your son like heal your tumor like all come on somebody you you see we got a separate one from the other or we're gonna be like silent if you don't separate which thing does what you'll miss your life up like Simon go to Ecclesiastes 712 I will get off this or a minute is this helping somebody for wisdom is of the French and money is or what I can't see that good my glasses man what is it it's a difference okay money isn't offense but the excellency of knowledge is that wisdom giveth life to them that have it the Bible says that Ecclesiastes that money is a defense you can fight better when you're not broke [Applause] if you got a court if you got to go to court you can do better if you're not broke come on somebody come on somebody the Bible says money is a defense that's why the enemy doesn't want you to have any cause he don't want you to have any kind of protection so that you'll spend your prayer time praying over material things but the Bible says that money is a defense Simon doesn't understand what money will do so he doesn't understand what it won't do I want that to sink deep down in your soil so that you can get things in their proper perspective that which is natural is natural that which is spiritual is okay that which is natural is that which is spiritual is that which is natural is that which is spiritual is see we don't teach this kind of stuff and we really do need to teach this kind of tough because on the one hand you've got Simon try to buy something spiritual and on the other hand you got spiritual people trying to pray something natural [Music] pray for my credit ready pay your bills [Applause] [Music] we don't need to have a shut-in for your credit score people fix their credit score all the time who don't even believe in God but because we have been taught magic rather than practical pragmatic theological faith we are asking God to delete the computer and make the bill disappear and shouting oh no God is gogo away glory to God take it and see it's going it's going in the name see but any time your bill disappears and it makes you shout it's only because it's your bill if they hold you [Applause] what mayor's miracle is another person's misery see I should pray that prayer on Friday on payday when the time to pay the staff 300 people understand I should say just leave them computer Jesus glory to God thank you I know you got the power to take it all on the system and you be saying wait a minute that ain't God that's the devil see perspective changes everything but when you've always thought from the bottom you're not ready to move to the top when you have always thought as a victim you're not prepared to think as victorious when you've always thought helpless you are not ready to be empowered and if I put you in a powerful position you will still act helpless because you're in the position but your mind hadn't changed how many people do you know that I advocated enough to work a job but too ignorant to handle being in the office oh yeah okay say then cuz you sitting beside one of them but this fool has more degrees in a thermometer but flipping their naked bopping their weave and cussing people out in a board meeting because even though you got a degree you still a hood girl i'ma break it down till you get the words that are coming out of my mouth you know what you are when pressure is applied to you because when pressure is applied to you what's in you will come out [Applause] so the reason I'm teaching a little bit of this is to separate what money does from what the master does wearing my clothes don't make you have my ministry [Applause] reading shut my posted on Instagram and running out and preaching it will not work cuz it hasn't been worked into your saw you didn't study for it you didn't pray for it you didn't seek for it you didn't cry for it you don't understand what's going on around it you can't explain very deep into it you just caught a hot phrase and you ran with the phrase that's my only problem with tweet and stuff people get to tweet they get the text but they don't get the context they don't give the substance they run off with part of it and now you run around they're talking about some you don't know what you're talking about because you just got the quote you didn't do the study [Applause] it's amazing time we're living in today when the word of God is going forth we got people today who are so busy Facebook laughing they not listening [Applause] I see people in a halter call coming to Jesus Facebook gladly [Applause] how can your soul be crushed by the word tears running down your face life changed forever and you are producer there is a time and a place for everything under heaven you cannot allow these machines to become idols in your life cut your phone off open your heart allow the Spirit of God I feel the power of the Holy Ghost [Applause] my God my God my God my God touch did people attempt something about to happen in this place something about to happen in this place something about to happen in this place something about to happen in this faith if you don't want nothing to happen you better leave right now something about to happen in this place God's about to call us to order God's about to pull things together God's about to put everything in its proper perspective god is getting you ready for the next level in your life god while I'm talking about money may I break the curse over your life over your pass over what you didn't learn over what you don't know so that you don't go into a new year praying all prayers about all stuff I break every curse and everybody's right now in this room in the name of Jesus I reveal the powers of death and the profiteth little sort of course give us a strategy give us a prayer so that we can finally break the habit that produce the curse is in the first place if you receive it I don't care who's looking at you give Ghana [Applause] halleluyah halleluyah halleluyah open your mouth and shout out [Applause] tell them I'm breaking my old habits the devil didn't do this I did this to myself but I've break my old habits I break the habits my mama showed me my daddy showed me my grandfather showed me I break the patterns of my past I'm gonna have a new year cuz I'm gonna have a new strategy give him 30 seconds of crazy Holy Ghost supernatural brain [Applause] [Applause] look at your neighbors say let's talk about the mission we're talking about the money now we're gonna talk about the mission can I go deeper I said can I go deeper I want you to get this in your sphere the tech starts in Samaria and it ends with an Ethiopian eunuch help me to make them understand this this is a disorienting truth that is only brought about in the lives of people who are willing to challenge normalcy it was normal for salvation to be of the Jews it was normal for the Jews to interact with the Jews it was not normal for Jews to interact with Samaritans it was not normal for juicy interact with Ethiopians but they are forced to redefine themselves because they had come to their own and their own are rejecting them I told you last week that rejection leads to direction that's why when you get rejected you ought to get happy you ought to shock the devil right in the middle of rejection I know it hurt I know it hurt your feelings I don't broke your heart but your honor go to dancing right when he expects you to go to crying because rejection always leads to direction oh my god the gospel is escaping than the initial realms of the Jews initially the coming of Jesus was primarily focused on Jews and Jews only I later show you that the Bible talks about salvation cover first to the Jew then to the Greek only in a few cases were Gentiles or Gentiles are non-jewish people they're not a nationality it's the description of anybody outside of covenant the Gentiles is not a nationality there is no country called Gentile gentle is a description of a category of people who are non-jews are you understand and there were a few Gentiles that received miracles even in the days of Christ but for the most part the disciples were all Jews the early church were all Jews they will go into the synagogues in the early church that's why Peter and John come up at the hour of prayer they didn't come to church they came to the synagogue they hadn't given up on the synagogue they were trying to get the Jews to accept Christ okay they were trying to get Jews to accept Christ and some of them did and some of them didn't and some of them who did at first a pasta sauce and went back yeah I don't want to turn it into a Bible pants but but the Bible talks about it in Hebrews four it is impossible for those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift if they should fall away to renew them again to repentance seeing as they crucified the Son of Man afresh that discussion is all about Jews who started walking in the light and a pasta sighs that went backs the church is trying to understand itself much like us individually we're just trying to understand ourselves I tried that that's not me I thought that was me but that's not really me over there I did that for a while and it takes you a lifetime to figure out who you really are am i right about that am i right about there the churches in the early stages of development figuring itself out so it has come to the Jews and the Jews are rejecting it and they are being forced through rejection to turn to the Gentiles which is exactly what God wanted for them thank you Lord for who left me thank you Lord for who forsook me thank you for the door you closed thank you for the person who didn't want what I had now I'm free to go to somebody who's ready to receive what I want what I have who I am when I bring to the table glory to God I'm helping somebody I don't know who it is if you don't want me leave me alone somebody somewhere will appreciate what I bring to the table get out of my face senior wouldn't want to be you I'm good we find it's all right you don't have to explain we don't have to be friends you don't have to come over and eat turkey take you and your momma back over to your house we good I'm okay because your rejection is my direction somebody will appreciate what God has done in my life somebody wanna fake his life the power of God in my life somebody will appreciate the way I preached the way I walk the way I talk the way I spend the way I take glory to God I'm glad you fired me you fired me no you freed me am i helping anybody read romans 1:16 just so I have a scriptural reference for a pit of the convoy the runners 165 not ashamed mr. Paul talking later for I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth to the Jew first not only first and also to the Greek the Greeks were Gentiles the Greeks were Jinja and all of a sudden they're in this situation from Samaria to Ethiopia they are being stretched in this test if Simon had been Orthodox Jew he would have understood that you cannot by the Holy Spirit at one of the hardest since I had when I came here to Pastor I came from West Virginia I pastored a small church I passed the church people I pastored people even sinners knew how church worked you could go in the strip club and say God is good and they would say all the time and you say all the time and they say God is good I see the comedian's open up their line in the nightclub because there was no real line of demarcation I got down here and y'all got like real sinners we had folks in us here they wasn't like real citizen you all got the real deal they get in church they get Saint they don't understand anything about church at all so so I'm driving out the lot and this this homeless guy who has just gotten saved waves at me with tears in his eyes and says I Love You mr. Bishop and I drove off I waved at him and look smile and everything I drove off I thought you know ain't nobody Bishop is the other guy holiday be pity my man God I was driving around downloads one night down 35 and a brother hollered out the winner he said I know you man they love you in Detroit [Applause] so buddy that's right they do and I had to decide did I want to hold on to my tradition or did I want to grow it to my purpose did it really matter whether they understood what a bishop was or not does it matter whether he called me by my name or my title my mother call me by my name sometimes we worry about the wrong stuff now they have grown outside of the window of their religion but that's where they went because it was hunger and that's the mission is to go where there is hunger for what you have stop trying to talk people into wanting what they don't want you don't want what I have God is now stretching me bringing me into a people who have a hunger for what other people ignored when I started my church at West Virginia I could teach Bible class and it might be twelve people there and I'd be teaching my heart out to twelve people sweating walking up and down standing on top of you talking about the devil would not do that I preached sure my shoes was wet I preached till I left wet spots in the carpet you were to swore I was talking to a room like this I was in my spirit you can't wait till you get there to get there you gotta get there before it actually is there you gotta call those things that are Lana's though they were it wasn't with twelve people but it was thousands to me [Applause] now one of the things that I have to do in order to receive the ministry that God has for me I have to drop my religiosity or give up on my destiny because my destiny was with the people who were hungry not with the people who knew what a mission was [Applause] you gotta hear what I'm saying if y'all heard what I was saying he would shout better than that you gotta go into uncharted waters and because the mission has now forced him to to to move into a new arena to come to a new area the thing that is is strange to me is it can I show you something so real quick this text I love and I'm too I love this ditch I love this text because it's only when I read the 8th chapter of the book of Acts that I understand the fourth chapter the Gospel of st. John you remember the woman at the well when Jesus was talking to the woman as well down at the end of the chapter he says that the harvest is plenteous but the laborers are few he said look he out the harvest is white the harvest is plenteous but the laborers are few I realized now why Jesus waited at the well for that one woman you remember that one woman planted a seed in Samaria what's happening in Acts is that they are now harvesting off of that seed that was planted by that one woman one man plants another man water and God gives the increase Oh God see you said getting out here like you should get out of here like this y'all playing with me now I'm a strength I'm gonna explain something to you and help you to understand suddenly you can't understand why you're being fought like you're being [ __ ] you don't understand who you are that woman want nobody to be fought she would no more body for Jesus to wait on she didn't have no important titles no great positions she was kind of kind of Cana [Applause] what had happened was you know she was kind she had five husbands and she was in a situation she went no bite for Jesus to be seen with she wouldn't obey for Jesus to be waiting on but that one woman was a kingpin some of you don't understand why you are under attack like you are is because you're a kingpin you're gonna do something or say something let's go start something that outlives you and outlast you and the enemy is afraid of you because he understands the power glory somebody's up power [Applause] the woman at the well when she said come see a man that told me everything I had ever done this is that same city now Philip is coming to reap the harvest Philip steps into her harvest and converts the entire city breaks the spell over the city because the woman had planted a seed it was easy forceful Philip to preach because she had testified [Applause] by the same token if you're the one who plants the seed don't be upset because who didn't get the harvest sometimes old God wanted you to do was plant a seed my god I remember being backslidden and I come out in front of the store and I was doing something I liked the store and get ready for the day and I was back slidden and somebody drove past at Holland Minister Jakes God loves you and it felt like electricity going all through me I don't even know who it was but it was a senior it was a seat you entered into the harvest of a scene Philippines and the harvests of a scene I'm not losing the Emma Hewitt okay good okay what's his Phillip is in the harvest of a seed and that's why he is effective he is only effective because of what she did that's why you can't feel bad about yourself just because you did a little something and it doesn't look like it's everything you wanted it to be it was enough to get it started it was enough to get it planted it was enough to meet that person it was enough to be a witness it was enough to be a testimony now with God since Phillip Ian the ground is fertile because of you [Music] [Applause] the mission is to stretch the gospel beyond the normal oh god I feel the mission is to stretch the gospel beyond the normal every every brother or sister even who came out of the hood I mean the hood stand up for me [Applause] the reason God got you in this church right now because you came out of the hood you understand certain things about the hood God's gonna use you in a way that he couldn't use somebody who didn't come out the hood because you speak the language you know the issues you know the problem you are anointed to go into places where other people can't go give yourself a praise God's getting ready to stretch you may be seated everybody who speaks Spanish stand up everybody who speaks Freddy stand up the reason you speak Spanish is because God can use you in places that he can't use me because you can go in there and tell them things that I can't say without an interpreter God has a plan for your life so you will learn over here you will work over there you can win more effectively you know the customs you know the routines you know the food you know what's funny you know how to tell jokes in that environment that resonate with those people because that's why God uses devout men from every nation the mission is to stretch the church not isolate the church not close it in not shut it down we need to broaden it out say man somebody oh this is getting good it's getting good it's getting good it's getting good shake your neighbor and say god is getting ready stretch [Applause] Lisa will tell you when I talk to the people about Goldman Sachs I said we can't be you if we don't see you we don't have no boys in the hood saying I want to grow up work for Goldman Sachs cuz they never saw woman sir they can't even spell Goldman Sachs as long as we stay in our little modular insulated environment we can't change anything if you just stay with white people you can't change anything if I just stay with black people I can't change anything if you only want to touch women you can't change anything you gotta go into all the world the world is bigger than your neighbor go into all the world and preach the gospel to every living creature I'm trying to tell you that 2020 God is going to use you in places you could not even imagine if you receive it give him a brain glory to God glory to God glory to God glory to God glory to God glory to God glory to God glory to God glory to God glory to God glory to God glory to God God put you in this church for a reason he planted you here for a reason you are assignment in this church you have a purpose in this trip you wouldn't be attracted to it if you weren't called to it you're called to it glory to God glory to God glory to God God is getting ready to stretch you [Applause] so your mission for 2020 is to get out of your shell get out of your closet get out of your cubbyhole come out of your cocoon stop just dealing with the same folks you always been dealing with about the same stuff all the time I have decided some folks I just can't fix I have invested enough time and quoted in those scriptures and cried and prayed and I cannot help you I better find somebody I can help because I'm not helping you this is your year to focus on being effective you have exhausted yourself on people who ain't listening [Applause] my god I feel that's your word I'm alone I don't know who this for but that is the word of the Lord it's your heart and because you're tenacious and because you're relentless which is a blessing on the other hand it's a burden cuz you don't know when to quit you don't know when to quit the Jews rejected them God sends them to Samaria to Ethiopia because God is trying to stretch their vision beyond their comfort 20/20 I got a have bigger fish I'm over here in this number ten washed up you have to be open 52 even though what idiot forgive me millenials I'll come back to the illustration yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah number 10 one stroke what's up little terms our grandmother's used to watch us here and you had to be all curled up in it and your knees was up and they would be scrubbing you and Allah you struck in that little tub dealing with the same people are arguing and fighting and going to your room crying for ten years you spent a decade a whole decade trying to fix somebody who didn't want to be fixed you tried to fix him so long that now you don't believe in you you don't believe in you because you never got a reaction out of them there's nothing wrong with you you the right thing in the wrong place with when you get out of Jerusalem and go down to Samaria you gonna take the whole city when you get when you get stretched you're gonna get used oh my god oh my god you're getting ready to go into a whole different dimension so God is preparing you tonight and again on Tuesday night when I'm with you it's gonna be getting you ready for what God is gonna do in your life going forward are you hearing what I'm saying push your neighbor on both sides and give me some room give me some room cuz cuz I'm I'm getting ready to him large I'm getting rid of their large I'm getting rid of the enlarged I'm getting ready to strengthen my cords and Linton my stakes I'm getting ready to it large I'm getting ready to it large I'm getting ready to it Lord I'm getting ready to it Lord I'm getting ready to and Lord tell your old friends I'm getting ready to get on your nerves you gonna be saying she thinks she something she forgot where she came from I remember him when he was so let him go ahead and talk about your past get ready to at large and go to the next dimension this is the day that the Lord hath made [Applause] I'm coming out I'm coming out every hole in every dungeon and every cave in every small place I'm coming out to the next dimension I'm coming out into my purpose I'm coming out in my mission I'm coming out into my ministry I'm coming out in my destiny [Applause] Rory talked to you about the money I talked to you about the mission now I want to go to 0.3 now as we move on I want you to begin to understand something if you get this y'all still with me this this is important I want to get the malignancy the malignancy is exemplified by Simon who has actually believed that he was a believer because the robber said he believed so it's the Bible say you believed you believed he believed and was baptized but his mind didn't change his manager so he brought a carnal mentality into a spiritual situation now Phillip didn't rebuke him Phillip had enough to convert him but not rebuking Peter of rebuked him because Peter had what was Jesus Peter had suffered with Jesus Peter had seen Jesus beaten Peter had seen his beautiful young flesh lacerated until there was no beauty that we should desire Peter had seen the blood spatter Peter had heard him groan in agony Peter had been with him in the Garden of Gethsemane and watch him pray and sweat till he started bleeding through the pores of his skin Peter saw what it really cost to have the Holy Ghost Philip didn't Hamlet as Peter did because Peter was a part of Jesus inner circle so he got to see up close what it costs Jesus to be Jesus so Peter is insulted by what Simon Says Peter is insulted because Peter was the one who ran down and found the tomb empty Peter was the one who was so frustrated and so fearful when Jesus was crucified that he lied and said he never knew him Peter had seen Jesus up under the kind of pressure that he couldn't even take Peter knew what it cost to be anointed [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Peter knew that Jesus had wreathed on that cross almost unconscious that he had been beaten beyond recognition that they had taken a cat of nine tails and the spikes had ripped his flesh to his insides were hanging out of the lacerations of his skin I want you to see this thing Peter knew that Jesus had been nailed to the cross and that a crown of thorns had pierced his skin till the blood had dripped in with the sweat and the tears and fell down his face Peter knew how he had been humiliated and stripped naked and hung high and stretched wide and up under this Palestinian Sun with nothing but heat and wind and sand blowing against his naked wounds Jesus died to the ground tremble he died to the Sun refused to shine he died till law collapsed into grace he died to the veil in the temple was rent from the top to the bottom he died to Mary said I ain't see it anymore he died until the thief said surely this man is the Sun God he died do you hear me he died that's how he died Peter knew what it costs and you think you can buy this with money you think you can buy this with money you think this is that you think just because you were a star out there you won't come over here and be a star over here you think this is that you think it's the same thing this is not the same thing you think you can get this in a year I'll never will forget I had a young man that I was pastoring and he told me I don't have time to serve you in three years I'll be you and three years he had max laid out on drugs ended up on crack and left out the church altogether because he underestimated the costs of the oil issue he underestimated see he thought he thought cuz he could buy my suits and he could walk like me and he could talk like me and he knew some of the people I knew and he had done a few articles and he'd been on TV a couple of times he thought he could get it on sale [Music] [Applause] he thought because you can get killed in a little soup you got it this is not for sale the problem with this generation is and we want everything for nothing you can't be my friend overnight okay be my friend overnight you can't be my friend overnight you can't be my friend overnight you cannot be my friend overnight we can shake hands we can do selfish one yourself ewwww let's do a selfie you can't be my friend overnight and until you suffer with me until you've been through bad times with me until you pride with me and she's proven to be loyal and do you proven to me that you keep your mouth shut until I got your secrets and you got mine until you've been consistent for a while you can't be my best friend overnight oh I'll guys to you but you can't be my best friend overnight glory to God see the problem assignment is that he underestimates what greatness cost he thinks he can buy it he thinks he can buy it and there are people trying to buy you [Applause] and there are people trying to be you and everybody hating on you really want to be everybody hate on you really want to be you never had anybody doing better than me that was hating on me not yet not yet not yet cuz everybody who's going better than me is busier than me you gotta have time to be a hater you gotta be free to be hater you gotta have nothing else to do but be a hater to be a stalker to be stalking me on the internet you gotta have nothing to do to be going at people who really got something to do don't have time to be your hater they don't care what you going they don't care what you into they trying to get done what they trying to get done can I have a witness witness somewhere give me a witness someone [Applause] slap your neighbors have paid for this I paid for this I paid for this I paid for this I dug myself up I dug myself out I pushed myself when I felt like Whitney I cried myself to sleep and still went to work in the morning I discipline my bad behavior I brought myself up under subjection I encouraged myself when I had no my encouraged me I cried to work and still winter Worth I kept on fighting even when I thought I was losing oh do you hear what I'm saying it's not easy it's not easy it's not easy this is not for sale [Applause] this is not for sale this is not for sale this is not for sale there are some people in this room you broke the gravitational pull or where you came from you had every reason to be dead you had every reason to blow your brains out you had every reason to be an alcoholic you had every reason to be paranoid schizophrenic you had every reason to be a murderer you had every reason to just blow your brains out you had every reason to end up in jail the gravitational pull or where you came from would have made it easy for you to fall back down again but you broke out of gravitational pull or where you came from you broke out of it you broke out of it that's why I don't care where you live and what you drive you ought to celebrate the fact that you did go back [Applause] yes yes [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I escaped I escaped is kage I'm the first one in my family I escaped my friends are dead but I escaped my school buddies committed suicide but I escaped how dare the devil tell you you are failure the devil is a liar if you don't go no higher you escape I want 30 seconds of pray oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah that was cute but I want somebody who is steak [Applause] yeah yes you got a right to fragrance every time I tried to pull you back you escaped you went into orbit you went into the next level and if you don't praise it the rock [Applause] I escaped escape it might not look like much to you but I escaped I got my own place I escaped I never wonder my own roof I escaped I got shoes on my feet I escaped I got me a little job I escaped what I Drive is mine I escaped slap your number say hi escaped I could have been in jail but [Applause] who sit down let me show one more thing I marvel that I told I told one of my spiritual sons and daughters that there is laws and then there are laws that supersede laws the law of gravity said whatever goes up must come down and that's true that's a real law until they discovered the law of aerodynamics when they discovered the law of aerodynamics airplanes started breaking the law of gravity so life is always two-dimensional neither truth is untrue but there are higher laws there are higher laws and lower laws that coexist simultaneously and the problem with the church is that we have a tendency to get stuck in the lower laws and we never get to the the higher law so we jump it up and coming down and jump it up and coming down and gentlemen up and coming down cuz we cannot escape the gravitational pull of where we came from until we find the higher law the higher law cancels out the lower law see see the Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus with the lower law you eaten corn on the Sabbath your people working you heal somebody on the Sabbath day you're not saying you didn't wash your hands all of that was true that was true but it was lower law Jesus was in the higher law because Jesus realized that through the lower law no flesh would ever be saved that's why you have an Old Testament there are lower laws and higher laws the law of aerodynamics cancels out the law of gravity that I could fly from here to Australia for 15 hours and not come down means that this law transcends this law if this law didn't Tran says its trends in this law the plane would crash but the plane has got more thrust to go out then this law has power to pull down when you got more thrust to go forward you hear what I'm saying you heard I can feel it you heard when your truss to go forward become stronger than your fall to go backwards you will always operate up under a higher law now imma bring this whole whole the problem was Simon he said he's trying to operate a gravitational law in an aerodynamic environment in the laws that he's operating is when you see something you want it you buy it he's not wrong he's certainly not wrong to want the holy ghost and he's willing to pay for it that's not wrong but he's operating down here and the Apostles are operating up here Peter knows how much it cost in the spirit to have an anointing now I'm gonna sacrifice the dynamic clothes to give a profound teaching in this lore law money is the currency that gets what you want somebody give me a dollar somebody give me a dollar yeah a dollar five dollars twenty dollars anything a dollar bill any kind of beer I'm gonna give it back don't be scared okay this is just $20 bill says if he if he didn't make it this note listen to this this note is legal tender for all debts public and private okay now I cannot drive this but I could get over with it I cannot eat this but I can get a sandwich with it I cannot use this as a notepad but I could buy a pad with it all this is is a medium of exchange it's just a note legal tender for all debts foreign and domestic it's a medium of exchange this is the currency of this dimension in can I teach a stake in this dimension if I see something that I want or that I hope for then I can use this to get what I hope for so I'm gonna give that why this is the evidence of things not seen in this dimension I know I can get a whopper with cheese I know that's what I'm hoping for and I can get it with this in this dimension not a reason I'm gonna give it back to you it's because I'm operating [Applause] in this dimension in this dimension faith is the substance of the thing you hope for and the evidence of the thing you cannot see if Simon would have changed his currency he could have got the gift all he had to do was change currency and say I'm believing God to have that gift of the Spirit but he's got this kind of mentality in this kind of situation and he didn't understand it ain't for sale may your money perish with you because you don't understand where you had oh I'm coming home you don't understand hear me our church for me you don't understand where you're at and you are operating in gravity when you are called to the air and as soon as you understand that this is not like this I want have to beg you to come to church no more than the gas station has to beg you to come to gas [Applause] you know why your faith is made from your word faith comes by hearing so the reason I come to church is to get more faith because when I get more word I got more faith and when I get more faith [Applause] somebody holler preach at what's the same is filled my tank fill my tank so that I could operate in the dimension that I was created for what you see right here what you see after 43 years of ministry what you see out of fried chicken and selling rib dinners till two ovens exploded what you see after I painted buildings and clean bathrooms and shampoo drugs and mountain what you see is preaching for years to less than a hundred people for years in less than a hundred feet you think you can just do a transaction oh you won't get my anointed you're gonna take my loan come get it come get it and get everybody I buried and every night I cried and everything I did without and everything I suffered through and every time I took it for the home team get all of that too because this this right here it's right here that's right here here bro you have it it's right here it ain't had my jacket you had it ain't in my jacket it ain't in my shoes it ain't none of that stuff it ain't in this field you had this bill I made the building the building didn't make me this right here this right here this right here you take my money that's the cheapest part of me I need the money the money didn't make me this right here my problem then you need to get in your mind stop putting yourself on sale get out of the bargain basement of these relationships that make you have to compromise your work just to get somebody's attention and when they walk up on you with that silly okey dokey stop say this right here I want to practice it's like this right here [Applause] this righty [Applause] you talked about this right here Peter did not want the malignancy of this kind of thinking to grow into this dimension and if he'd let Simon buy the gift of God then the filth of Simon would be like cancer and grow up into all that's up here so there are some people you can't bring with you because they are malignancy to your opportunity and you will know their malignant because they will always talk on this level why are you function everybody this now i'ma tell you something I'm gonna tell you more on New Year's Eve night you get to choose what kind of 2020 you end you can either operate like you always used to do down in this range in a transactional non focus non sacrificial non giving self-consumed egotistical way that's all in the gravity range or you can spread your wings like an eagle and soar [Applause] Intuit 2020 that would blow your mind 2020 will give you two options there's this one and there's that one which one are you going into [Applause] stand to your feet thank you get somebody by the hand I'm sorry that uh I can't preach well enough to tell you to make you realize how much it costs the person you're touching just to be here I can't tell you what they survived I can't tell you what they fought back I don't have the language to tell you what they dealing with right now the person you're touching if God didn't sustain they wouldn't even make it they might not look like missing you might not have no big name all no companies no stock options they may not have a big sprawling mansion on top of the hill but you have to see what they escape from [Applause] you would have to go back into their childhood in their past to see what they escaped from you you you would have to go to their family reunion do you have any idea what you touch do you know how much they don't tell you you got a hold on something right now escaped [Music] [Music] squeeze her here I made by the skin of our teeth but huh maybe I had to run out there with my shoes off but I made it I had to go lonely but I made it I have to go misunderstood but I made I knew there was more for my life than what happened to me more for my life than what I went through more for my life than what experience more for my life than what I used to be I escape the gravitational pull of mediocrity I escape the gravitational pull of my flesh I escape the gravitational pull of my past I escape and I know I got some more work to do but let me just Falls right here give him a praise [Applause]

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Length: 105min 39sec (6339 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 29 2019