T.D. Jakes: God is Planting You When it Feels Like Life is Burying You | FULL TEACHING | TBN

you are being planted but you feel like you're being buried have you ever noticed that there is no difference in the motion between planting and bearing when you plant a seed it feels buried but it was planted to rise again [Music] so i was building my church the church of my dreams the church beyond my dreams the church that i never thought i would ever get to build the church that was valued out at millions and millions of dollars that i didn't have but i had the faith to believe that god did and it was going up and it was happening and i was seeing it right before my eyes and it was like being at the red sea when moses stretched forth his rod and and the bills parted and the contractors got paid and the building was erected and it was standing there and the only bad thing about it amidst all of the pews and the colors and and the peeking out of the architect's designs and going through proofs and looking at materials and concepts the only bad thing about it is while the church was going up my mother was going down and you have to have taken care of somebody with alzheimer's to know that they go away in layers it's not like a car wreck and they go all at once it's not like a heart attack and you find them and they're gone no no no no she died a little bit every day and every day they were bringing me reports about what materials came in and the pews are going to come in on saturday and the carpet is coming in and at the same time the doctor was saying she's getting worse and she had lost the ability to remember to swallow and holding food in her mouth and i would come home from preaching and ministering and and i have to stick my finger in her mouth and remove her food and take care of her and all kinds of articles were being written about the smart church and what was going on and they were talking about what was going right and they never saw what was going wrong they saw the wine and i saw the crushing i really saw the question you see my mother was not just my mother she was my best friend she was my secret keeper my confidant and i knew everything about her and she knew everything about me and losing her was like losing me in pieces because we were almost the same person even through alzheimer's we could still continue to communicate and when she lost her ability to speak english and started speaking gibberish when i would walk into the room she'd look at me and say hi baby and i watched her fade away until she died in my arms and i held her until her body got cold and it was painful and it was tough and i still had to teach bible class and i still had to run revival and i still had to preach on sunday morning and i still had to conduct business and i still had to negotiate the affairs of the church i was writing a book by her bedside while she was in the hospital i was writing while she was dying in the room with her right by her side you can't let go of one thing for the other you have to do both simultaneously life doesn't stop for you to hurt [Music] it doesn't stop turning because you lost a loved one it doesn't stop because you don't feel good and done it won't give you a leave of absence so that you can get away from everything and shut it all down it's still happening the bills are still coming the problems are still coming i'm talking about crushing people i'm talking about pain i'm talking about suffering i'm talking about where the rubber meets the road i'm not talking about church i'm not talking about religion i'm talking about life jesus didn't say i come that you might have church he said i come that you might have life and sometimes we're great at having church but we're having a terrible time having life we know how to clap we know how to sing we know how to shout but do we know how to live and god won't just be a church experience he's going to get in your life experience to validate your church experience so i asked myself what does this mean how how would i get through this can i get through this i have never had to get through this before i have never lived a day that she wasn't in him not one i have never been abandoned like that in my life and even though i was 40 for the first time in my life i was an orphan a preaching orphan a teaching orphan a traveling book writing orphan and though he slay me yet shall i trust him you see in order to develop real quality it takes time and it takes pain and it takes endurance and it takes grief and it takes trouble and it takes turmoil and it takes destruction and demolition demolition is a messy thing if you get ready to remodel your house expect to have some mess and when god gets ready to recycle you he does it through the things you suffer and the things you endure [Music] in the gospel of saint john jesus identifies who he is and he says i am the vine and ye are the branches and every branch in me that bear fruit i purge it that it might bring forth more fruit that's the sentence that gets me because it would seem like to me that if the branch was doing good you would leave it alone but he says every branch in me that beareth fruit i cut it back i cut it back not because i'm a serial killer not because i'm out to destroy the bush not because i hate grapes not because i don't want it to win but i cut it back so that it might bring forth more fruit so we don't we don't go through these crushings because we are not his and we don't go through these crushings because he doesn't love us and we don't go through these questions because we're not fruitful he cuts us because we are fruitful because as fruitful as we are he knows the potential of what is yet down inside of us and he knows how to get you to that potential and he stops you from being safe and he stops you from being satisfied you have to give up safety if you're going to walk with god you have to trust him that he is the farmer that he knows what he's doing and when he says that i am the vine and you are the branches he says my father is the husbandman and the husbandman is the farmer he's the witner he's the one that controls the process he knows exactly where to cut to make you more fruitful when i was a little boy i went out in the yard i tried to do like my mother who pruned the rose bushes i decided i would help her out and go prune the rose bushes and when she came home from work i had almost killed the bush i had almost killed the bush i was a bad little boy you could tell can't you imagine just shrink me down to about eight years old you got trouble on your hand i was a bad little boy i tore the bush apart and she was furious with me and i said why are you fierce with me when i'm only doing what you did she said no you're not doing what i did because i know where to cut see the vinner knows where to cut it's not the cut alone you can't just cut it anywhere he knows where to cut and he knows when to cut and he knows how to cut to bring you to the place that you can be more fruitful because ultimately he wants you to have enough fruit that we can become wine that we can enter into that state of being that lasts for years and years and hundreds of years as wine but if i remain a great pie will go bad so it is the only fruit that is raised to die it is raised to be crushed it is meant to be stepped on it is meant to be bruised if grapes could scream they would cry out from the pain of becoming wine but if they can endure the pain of the crushing and trust the winner who has got our father to take me through this process my latter days will be greater than my former days and finally i'll be more valuable and i'll be worth more and i may get shipped abroad and i may be served to kings and princes and set before great men only because i've been crushed i may be served at the finest tables i may be used in the greatest restaurants only because i endured the crushing jesus connects us to the father by helping us to understand what his role is in our life so that we won't misunderstand the knife so that we will understand that the knife is in the right hand that sometimes when god approaches you he approaches you and he looks like a slayer because he's coming with something that hurts and you have to trust his character when you don't understand his methods you have to understand his acts by believing in his ways the husbandman is our father he cuts us in all the right places and we can do nothing without him we can be nothing without him we cannot reach the height and the hope of the purpose of our calling without him because only the manufacturer knows how fast the car will go he has built it and designed it to accomplish more than the foot that's got its pressure on the pedal he has designed the car to exceed the pace that you may be willing to drive and so if you want to know how how fast it can go you have to talk to the manufacturer because he designed it with enough horsepower to do more things than you may even be capable of doing and god pushes us out of our comfort zone by crushing us jesus became human so that he could understand what it was like to be human he experienced our trials our temptations our heartaches our pain so that he would be an example for us he is the fruition of god's word he proves himself in us he walks it out right in front of us to show us that it can be done he he allows himself to be beaten right in front of us and we got to see him be beaten and we got to see him be ridiculed and laughed at and be popular and then unpopular and loved and then hated so that we would understand that all of this is part of becoming wine my wife is a neat freak she wants everything in place i think the house is clean even when she says it's not and she'll be complaining about stuff that i think is no big deal because she likes everything nice and neat now don't get me wrong i'm not a messy person well maybe a little bit but i like it nice even though i'm messy i like it nice and neat i like life nice and neat and packaged and beautiful and smelling good and that's not how it happens any wine maker will tell you that making wine is a dirty business it's a messy business it's a business that leaves stains in your clothes and scratches in your skin that making wine happens in dirty places not nice neat comfortable lazy boy chair laid back remote control places that's not how you become wine we have a god who works in dirty places from the very first time we meet him in the book of genesis we see him stooping down playing in the dirt this is the first indication that god is not afraid to work in dirty places over and over again we get the metaphor of him being a farmer of seed of seedtime and harvest of sowing and reaping to let you know that god works in the dirt and when you pray to stay out of the dirt you're praying to stay away from god because he stoops down to the dirt and he he makes you in the dirt and he shapes you in the dirt and he forms you in the dirt and he matures you in the dirt and he stabilizes you in the dirt like any wine dresser would if a wine dresser is not willing to get dirty he'll never have the grapes and if you don't have the grapes you won't have the wine because the wine means that you got to step on it and you got to crush it and your feet are stained with the pressure until both the wine maker and the grape have experienced the same stain and he was wounded for our transgressions and he was bruised for our iniquities and the chastisement of our peace was upon it and with his stripes we are healed jesus became human so that he could be stained with the stain that we experience so that when we cry out to him he can be touched by the feeling of our infirmity he wanted to know what that was like god had never slept not one night until he came in the form of jesus he didn't know what tired felt like he didn't know what sleep felt like he didn't know what fear felt like he didn't know what stress felt like and he came so he could answer his own question adam where are the how and so he came walking down from time from eternity into time so that he could have a human experience so that we could have a conversation he is the seed of abraham and god knows how to develop that seed he knew how to take it through 42 generations and you're trying to get there in 42 days and jesus came to 42 generations then you think your lady and you think you're behind and you think you're off schedule and you think you miss your mark jesus came through 42 generations to be the seed of abraham he grew a mature he started as a baby and most people don't want to start small the lord of glory the king of glory the great i am the mighty one the holy one the consolation of israel came in a form of a baby he came small he came smaller than the mother he would redeem he came smaller than the people that he would deliver and it is no accident that he was born in a manger because he was a lamb yeah where else would a lamb be born and he teaches us as he grows and as he develops the opportunity to grow happens in your life in your home in your heart in your spirit and you are being planted but you feel like you're being buried have you ever noticed that there is no difference in the motion between planting and bearing when you plant the seed it feels buried but it was planted to rise again the the the vietnamese understands that he is not a mortician and even though he takes the seed and digs a hole and puts the seed down in the hole and covers it up with dirt he's not a mortician he's planted it and not buried it and most of us think we are being buried when in fact we are only being planted and when you are planted that means you're going to get up again and when you are planted that means you're going to come forth again and when you were planted that means that this is not how the story ends this is not the end don't run from it don't hide from it don't duck from it don't dodge from it don't run trying to get away from it because you are not being buried you are being planted and to god be the glory for the things he has done even when it hurts that's crushing [Music] at tbn our mission is to use every available means to reach as many individuals and families as possible with the life-changing gospel of jesus christ thank you for helping make the gospel of grace go around the world without you we couldn't do it god bless you [Music]

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Length: 18min 42sec (1122 seconds)

Published: Tue May 17 2022