T.D. Jakes: Overcoming Crushing Pain (Full Teaching) | Praise on TBN

this guy speaks five different languages he's traveled all over the world he's trained at the feet of camille he's very experienced he is a spiritual father in zion he's responsible for most of the epistles of the new testament and the one thing he asked for is to know him and the fellowship of his suffering and the power of his resurrection it really they sound like contradictions but the suffering and the power of his resurrection are the same thing because you can't know him in the power of his resurrection if you haven't had crucifixion we're going to talk about something that has been uncomfortable for the church to talk about we talk about victory on the seat of abraham success abundance life prosperity victory over this and that the other we don't talk about crushing and the book is called crushing because the emblem of our faith is an execution chamber the cross was an execution chamber it was years before it became a place of adoration it was a place of reprehensible judgment on felons and criminals and our christ died in the most hideous way on a cross naked in front of all of his disciples crushed as far as his image was concerned and his affluence and influence shattered as he bled to death breathing on a cross and yet we say nothing about suffering so when people suffer as saints they do it in silence because we feel obligated to tell each other that we're not going through anything and i wrote the book crushing because i believe crushing is just a step to conquering and once you have gone through your crushings you become a conqueror wise and strong because of what you went through i don't know that it says this i read a lot of this book i don't know that this says this exactly but i feel like the the big subject that we're talking about is why do bad things happen to good people right you know i mean and so what you're really undoing and what we're really unpacking is this unique dichotomy of of a victim or victory let me say this to you something you don't know about me trivia i was born june 9 1957. i am my mother's youngest living child she had a child after me that died and a child before me that died i was born between two dead children i was the only one that lived out of those three i have two older siblings and i grew up in a house with a father who had kidney failure who got sick when i was 10 and died when i was 16. those atrocious sad challenging circumstances have so much to do with who i am as a person you know if i had not she wouldn't have raised me the way she raised me if she wasn't grieving as she raised me if she wasn't clinging to me as she raised me uh i wouldn't be a caretaker if i hadn't grown up in a house with a kidney machine i could run a kidney machine and couldn't ride a bike so this whole notion of taking care of hurting people is in my dna yeah it goes all the way back to my childhood climbing up on a hospital bed to shave my father when he was sick or clean him up or dress him or whatever and so as i sit here today with the ministry to hurting people it's only fitting that i would write a book called crushing because i have been crushed you know life is crushing periodically it's necessary christ was crushed uh grapes are crushed in order to become wine and the goal is the wine the goal is what do you have left not what did you lose and uh learning how to look to what is before you the bible said he despised the shame of the cross but for the joy that was set before him he endured the crushing because he knew the question was going somewhere and i wrote that book to people who have been crushed who are being crushed not just physically not just death not just kovid 19 though that is a horrible thing we should talk about but crushed in their heart and so many americans are suffering from broken hearts from family issues from parental issues from domestic issues from family issues and we have to paint a happy face on because we're christians and we and this is the way we look we're christians you know with our crosses around our neck never knowing that our crosses are in our lives jesus made the toughest altar call that's ever been made we make all the calls today god will turn your life around i don't care how low you are he'll pick you up he'll get you together again if you come to jesus right now he'll heal your marriage he'll bring you through that's not the altar called jesus man jesus made this altar call pick up your cross and follow me what who wants to pick up an instrument of death and cruelty and follow you to a cross and yet thousands of people followed him what did jesus know about crushing that made thousands of people almost faint in the desert without food to hear him deliver a message about take up your cross and follow me this this to me is the epitome of the christian marriage that that he takes two fish and five loaves of bread and we know we have an accountant's record of what it is until he crushes it the more he crushes it the more it multiplies and all of a sudden what was accountable is two fish and five loaves of bread and we have absolute metrics on what it was in the bag the more he crushed it it fed thousands and thousands of people and back twelve baskets full left that's what crushing does in our lives it it multiplies us it increases us it builds us up and it makes us more than we would be had we had sat in the lap of luxury and had everything go well okay let me see if i understand so far so bad is good yeah it was good for me that i had been afflicted the more they afflicted them the more they grew you're you're only strong because of the weight that's been put on you right you wouldn't be the man that you are today if you hadn't suffered and endured and agonized and put up with stuff and rationed went home and beat the wall and cried in a pillow to stand up to be who you are people see you on stage and they think oh you're matt crouch you know you're paul's son you've always had it good nobody has it good i don't care where you live or what you drive nobody makes it through this life without pain the the call to take up the cross doesn't stop with the zip code right it's it's it's a universal call from a god who was able to stop the cross but allowed it to continue because redemption came through it crushing god turns pressure into power all right we're talking about a unique thing i'm seeing a an image that god simply wears a mask sometimes so that you don't know it's him and he's still asking you the question who do you say that i am absolutely okay is that what we're talking about here absolutely absolutely you know we've we've said in the church so often that if we see people going through stuff it's like oh they must be not doing something right you know something's wrong in their life you know they just can't but yeah that's not true at all i mean uh job was picked out because he was a righteous man right you know christ there was no gal found in his mouth he went through the judicial system and was crucified you have to realize paul craves oh that i may know him and the fellowship of his suffering what a strange request to make you know i've never met anybody that i thought oh i want to suffer like you you know paul says his prayers all that i may know him and the fellowship of his suffering and the power of his resurrection you can't have a resurrection without a crucifixion there must have been some knowledge this guy speaks five different languages he's traveled all over the world he's trained at the feet of camille he's very experienced he is a spiritual father in zion he's responsible for most of the epistles in the new testament and the one thing he asked for is to know him in the fellowship of his suffering and the power of his resurrection it really they sound like contradictions but the suffering and the power of his resurrection are the same thing because you can't know him in the power of his resurrection if you haven't had crucifixion there's something that comes out of surviving that gives us a tenacity and fight and and i think that we need especially in this hour that god has allowed this tsunami of disease to attack the world and made everybody rich and poor from every tongue and country go to their room in time out proven that that none of our technology supersedes his ability to control and i don't i'm not saying he said kobe at 19 but i'm saying nothing escapes him he had to allow it right and with one sweep of his hand every country is sitting up in their room dealing with the same thing covering up their heads shut down offices all streets empty we got to see 18 wheelers filled with with dead bodies so many that the morgue could not handle them and and yet we are still here and it begs the question why are we still here what does god have for us that that he allowed us to survive the crushing to this point uh what am i supposed to learn from this not run from it not lie about it not succumb to propaganda about it god so loved the world he gave his life for people and uh to everyone who's suffering from anything i was telling them before we got on camera uh there's not been a day for the last four or five weeks that that i haven't had a member to die and and their families calling saying you know i didn't get to hold my mother's hand i never got to say goodbye they wouldn't let me in the hospital uh screaming and crying on the phone feeling guilt and a shame maybe you're one of those people or related to one of those people near one of those people or maybe you're one of those people who died because you couldn't get in the hospital because the hospitals were filled up with them and you lost a loved one to some other disease or maybe you're going through a divorce or maybe you've got a child that you pulled your heart into and they turned around and broke your heart there's a lot of ways to be crushed maybe you're one of the people who built the business and got it going and it all fell apart or you were working on a job and doing good and now you're back to square one again and you're trying to figure out where you're going to stay you don't have to be poor to be crushed you don't have to be republican or democrat or baptist or black or white or pentecostal crushing comes to everyone's life [Music] but it never stays and i think that when we start to talk about this crushing there there is a dignity even in suffering and if you're suffering right now and you're on some sort of cross it's because when this is over you'll be changed in some way no longer grapes no longer temporary grapes are one of the few fruits that are raised to be crushed and christ was raised to be crucified but he told the voice don't give up on me three days i'll be back and then that i'll be back it's why i wrote crushing not to tell you how to squirm on the cross but to show you how to roll the stone away and get back up again whether we have the ability to talk about it or not we've all been crushed and you know you just sit here the help me help us understand that unique dichotomy of what god's doing with this crushing what it's it's it's it's a real tough thing to explain and i want to hear you first of all i learned is never try to make sense of it while you're in it okay you have to focus on surviving it not understanding it uh because the crushing is so intense and so personal and so deep that you only understand in retrospect when you look back at it you say it was good for me it's over now it was good it was not while you're in it but after you're through with it was good for me that i've been afflicted uh the idea of crushing the grape in its original state it would only it would only last one season it would rot on the vine but if you crush it and let it ferment it would last for hundreds of years my goodness and there's something that happens to us when we when we are crushed that gives us resilience and tenacity that we wouldn't have i was writing on that legal pad and and the lord showed me a vision of people stomping on grapes and then took me to the text that the seed of the woman would bruise the head of the serpent and the serpent would bruise his heel and when i saw christ's bruised teal they looked like the heels of somebody who'd been stomping on grapes and i started to realize that on the cross he stomped on everything that was against me he he moved every obstacle that was contrary to me and that even though i go through things now that he has borne the grief and carried the sorrows of it he went before me to lighten the load of it and still suffered me to go through it and i'll tell you why he's better at raising kids than we are we raise kids to give them everything we didn't get if your mother wouldn't touch you feeling you hug your kids all the time you know i want you to have this because i know what it is not to happen you you give them all of that you know and then you they grow up and you find out that didn't work like that that you were you were self-medicating you know you know or if you grew up poor you know you try to get them every new toy they ever had and and they don't really appreciate it because of the over indulgence of the over saturation of attention or the overweight we compensate trying to make sure that they don't have the pain we have self-therapy that's funny and and what we don't realize is that it is exactly the pain we had that made us who we are my goodness it is exactly the neglect or the absence or or i am so grateful for the teacher that said i couldn't write because that's why i could uh it is the thing that opposes you in the weight room that causes you to build muscles you know the resistance training you know i don't need the weights to cooperate i need them to resist me oh my goodness so when life resists you you get stronger and you get wiser and and you turn into something that can be kept and that will will last and and i think it's so important when when you talk about the suffering church in the book of revelations at smyrna and he says talks about frankincense and myrrh the incense was roots that were crushed and the aroma only escaped as the roots were being crushed and there is an aroma that escapes your heart when you're being crushed crushing happens to everyone is that true is that a true statement absolutely okay let's take a subject like divorce yes that is a crushing yes some people can move on find somebody new and live happily with this new person another person can be bitter angry ugly and die alone right what did the one do right and how can you be crushed and end up not turning into wine oh that's a good question that's such a good question i hope my answer will match it what we must realize when we go through divorce is that we are not grieving over the person we're grieving over what we had in mind yeah out of 8 billion people in the world there's nobody that could leave you that would leave you so strung up that you'd spend eight years in pain it's not the person you can't get over is what you had in mind that you can't get out oh come on with it my goodness and if we can let go of what we had in mind we can discover what god had in mind for us and the difference between the person who can't move forward and the person that can is how quickly we adapt to letting go of what we had in mind my goodness my goodness well they say that the number one cause of divorce is yeah as a man thinks so is he as a man thinks in his heart so i thought it was you know what's funny about that is we have expectations of people that they never agreed to uh a lot of times we grew up planning a wedding without a groom and we're just looking for somebody to play a role in a script that we already wrote my goodness and a lot of times we say the same things but we mean different things by them i love you you say i love you back that doesn't mean we meant the same thing but i love you and so when you start talking about disappointment disappointment begins with the expectation that wasn't communicated and you brought me in to play a role that i never got to read the script and if i didn't sign off on the script you have to forgive me if i don't play the role well my wife lost her mother and we were on camera and she said the worst part of grieving is that i have to do it with the camera in my face it cost all of us something not just the success for the downtrodden the person the single mother who's got three kids and left it alone in a two-bedroom apartment and you're working two jobs making minimum wage the person who goes and treats person after person and walks up down the house in the hospital medicaid not just the nice but the mean people and the rude people and the obnoxious people and that you're putting your life in danger for somebody who doesn't even seem to appreciate you and when i write to crushing i write to every person who ever gave up some of themselves for somebody else only god knows [Music] how much you were crushed to make the wine you have become my prayer for you is that you would get a revelation of god in the breaking of your life and the cracking of places that you thought would always be there for you that you would see something about god that you never saw before and that you would recognize that you are not at the table alone but he sits with you [Music] and he manages the crushing moments in your life he knows when you've had enough and he knows how to stop the bleeding so right where you are if you just just trust it and given the praise i've got a feeling that everything is going to be all right 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

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Length: 22min 21sec (1341 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 06 2022