T.D. Jakes Sermons: It's Not What It Looks Like

coming up on the potters day he sat down by the well and he waited on you you might not be important to anybody else but you must be important to God he stopped the gun from killing you he stopped the car wreck from destroying you he stopped the disease from attacking you he said lean that girl alone I got a plan for her and I'm waiting on her everybody who's ever had God weight on you take just a moment and give the Lord a break greetings friends in the name of Jesus Christ our King I'm so excited to have this opportunity to share the word of the Lord with you I've got an exciting word for you it's not what it looks like you'll understand it better in a moment I believe the word is going to bless your life get ready get ready get ready here it comes it's not what it looks like peggeleh the 4th chapter of st. John the 25th verse is at the end of a narrative where the Gospel of st. John points to a unique story about Jesus coming to the Samaritan woman down at the whale and the conversation has ensued between them and we will begin at the ending or near the conclusion of the conversation between the woman at the well and Jesus verse number 25 the woman saith unto him I know that Messiah is coming which is called Christ when he has come he will tell us all things jesus saith unto her I that speak unto thee and he and upon this king and upon this came his disciples and marvelled that he talked with the woman yet no man said what seeketh thou or white talkest thou with her the woman then left her waterpot and went her way into the city and safe to the men come see a man which told me all things that ever I did is not dis the Grice then they went out of the city and came unto Him now the normal direction of reading such a text would lead us to this Evangel evangelistic endeavor of this woman who goes down into the city of Samaria to say come see a man which told me all things that I've ever done but I going to avoid that and instead go to verse 27 and upon this came his disciples upon what upon the conversation between him and the woman and upon this came his disciples and marveled that he talked with the woman yet no man said what seeketh ow or why talkest thou with her that's where I'm going to focus my thoughts this morning the 27th verse and my subject is it's not what it looks like look at your neighbor and say it's not what it looks like it is odd that John takes us in the fourth chapter to a rest stop if you will where Jesus sets down to rest at the well and since his disciples after meet and since of out to get meat so that he might that they might return to the well and when they return to the well the oddity of the situation is the Lord who sent them to get meat and bread when they return with the meat and bread says I'm not hungry now you must understand that they traveled by foot and it took a while to go on such an errand it took quite a while ago on an errand and you would think that if you sent your disciples twelve to go get lunch and all of them walked off and left you by yourself twelve men going to get lunch for one man he should have been pretty hungry and then when they come back with the lunch this there he is sitting by the well talking to this woman and though they had too much respect for him to question him the Gospel of st. John reach their mind says wait a minute I thought you were hungry now you say you have meat that we know not of and I thought you were tired and we come back and you're engrossed in this conversation with this woman and he says it is not what it looks like you must realize my brothers and sisters for Jesus to say that he must need go through Samaria that was startling alone if we could excuse the fact that he has become engrossed with this conversation with this woman of a questionable past we still have the glaring reality that what is this Jewish teacher doing in Samaria any self-respecting Jewish theologian would have never come into Samaria in the first place there was a war between the Samaritans and the Jews as it related to the fact that the Jews rightly resisted the the fellowship with the Samaritans because the Samaritans had a form of godliness denying the power thereof and they would not allow them to pass themselves off as if they were the same thing when they were not at all the same thing there was a war between them the Samaritans were considered unclean they had no dealings with them they had no plan for them they had no future for them because they knew things about the Samaritans that would have exempted them from being eligible to have a legitimate relationship with God now it's one thing when people are saying things about you that are not true but it's another thing when they have legitimate reasons to alienate you and attack you on the basis of past mistakes it is not that Jesus is not aware of what is being said about the Samaritans he is pointedly and poignantly aware of the Samaritans about their idolatrous ways about their mistakes about their failures and yet he says I must need go to Samaria why would you be bothered with Samaria away their heathens their past is ruined their mistakes are bad they didn't help us in the rebuilding of the temple in fact they were thorns in our flesh they are a mixed multitude and amalgamation of a lot of different ideas these people are confused and what church people have a tendency to do when they think that you are confused and they don't agree with you they either attack you or alienate you but I'm so glad that Jesus is not like church people he said I must need go through Samaria in other words I'm going out of my way to go after a group of people that everybody else has rejected because just because you have not included them does not mean that I don't have a strategy for their lives and not only are they important enough that I have added them to my agenda including them on my itinerary but I am willing to sit by the well all day to find one person who can help me break down the wall and get into Samaria one person now I would have thought Jesus being the Son of God Jesus being of the tribe of Judah Jesus being the seed of Abraham Jesus being the root of Jesse that if he was going to infiltrate the Samaritans and break into their world he might have talked to their magistrates their kings their leadership their authority I would have thought that he would have made an appointment at least with one of their priests in their ruined temple and battled their scripture against Scripture to bring them into a reformation of truth I would have thought that Jesus would have written a blog site and said their error there an error and they're in heresy and attack their integrity I would have thought that Jesus would have put them on blast in some sort of way dealing with their leadership to break into the city but no Jesus doesn't pick the aristocracy of Samaria he doesn't pick the religious scribes of Samaria but he sits by the well not even waiting on a man he waits on a woman a woman of sakaar to come down to the well the Bible doesn't even give us the name of this woman she is a nameless woman and yet Jesus sits down at the well and waits to meet her he sends his boys on an errand because sometimes even the people who are with you do not understand your vision and they will alienate you from the very people that God sent you to serve and to save because there is nothing and there is no group of people that act any more important than the people that are with the man of God off tonight more important than the man of God himself I'm a work on this a little while jesus knew that he could not get done what he was trying to do surrounded by his disciples they had already tried to shut up blind Bartimaeus who sent by the highway side begging he was too loud and he makes too much noise and what about the woman who came to Jesus crying after her daughter they said send her away for she cried after us these disciples would have messed up the mission because they were so indoctrinated with preconceived ideologies that there was no room for revelation to break through their Orthodox religion some people are so religious that they miss the revelation that there are other people who may be theologically wrong but God still have a purpose for their life and them also must I bring all glory to God so Jesus set down at the well and he began to wait for this woman to come down to the well and when she comes down to the well she has an attitude she has a kind of attitude that results from people who are used to being attacked she does not wait for him to attack her she comes down to the well and at ship said now you know that your people and my people don't have any dealings you already know so don't come down here trying to be nice to me because you know we don't have any talk sometimes people who have been hurt are the hardest people in the world to help because even when you reach out to help them they already have an attitude you have never been fought like you will be fought by somebody you are trying to save from drowning even though your intentions are good their desperation is so bad that you can get kill trying to help somebody who's hurting all y'all don't hear what I'm saying to you but Jesus begins to deal with her until in the next phrase she goes from being sarcastic to calling him Sir she calls him Sir because now she begins to understand that he is do something respect and then later on she acknowledges him as a prophet and then later on she brings up the Messiah and then later on he says I that speak em he look at how God is bringing this woman into gradual revelation he goes from being an enemy and an alien to a sir from a sir to a prophet from a prophet to the Messiah it nice how God will bring you into truth not one step but several steps to bring you into the enlightenment of what God would do in your life and I want to take a moment and just thank him for waiting on me I haven't always stopped what I think now and I didn't always know what I know now and I didn't always feel the way I feel now but when I had the wrong attitude and the wrong spirit and the wrong aspect of faith I want to thank you for being the kind of patient God who could have cut me out of his schedule but set down by the will and waited for me to come into a progressive revelation of who Christ is in the earth I that speak unto thee and he touch somebody say he is everything you've been looking for he's everything you need everything you want everything you seek everything you longed for everything you've been craving for and he's been waiting on you all your life all while you were drunk Oh while you were high Oh while you were in the hotel's Oh y-you were serving other gods he sat down by the well and he waited on you you might not be important to anybody else but you must be important to God he stopped the guns from killing you he stopped the car wreck from destroying you he stopped the disease from attacking you he said leave that girl alone I got a plan for her and I'm waiting on her everybody who's ever had God wait on you take just a moment and give the Lord a pray still to come on the Potters touch tell you babe I'm on the verge of something big I'm on the verge of something big I know it looks like I'm not much I know it looks like I don't have anything I know I did some dumb things in the past but I'm on the verge of something big and I want to tell the devil you think I'm a chump it's not what it looks like God saw my life before I died in a cage I want to run in the wild we can do what it is without limits without being boxed in a cage without being hindered I want to run in the wild of my destiny I want to run in the wild of my purpose telling us to branch out and it's time to shift it just about taking it to the next level and I'm just thinking outside of the four walls I got to get out of this cage God has given us a place around where we are pastoring to take over that region for look for the kingdom of God you are frustrated about something that just an incubator to take you to the next dimension now we're gonna grow and go to global missions no more limits no more boundaries the cage is open you don't have any excuses anymore on why you can't fulfill your purpose and complete your assignment to register for this international gathering visit pastors and leaders org or call 1-800 Bishop to the story of the woman at the whale in order to infiltrate the indoctrination of their theology Jesus allows this woman the benefit of a comparative analysis he does it this way he comes to Jacobs well it is called Jacob's Well because Jacob dug this whale through solid rock it is a cistern of water that has now began to feed these people who have become indigenous to this area and are living in Samaria it is Jacob's Well it is Jacob well Jacob Jacob 12 Jacob's Well Israel's will Israel's well what the well is in the earth Christ is in the sphere for Christ is of Jacob he is born to Israel he is the well of living water so what you have here is a well sitting on a will and here comes an empty woman down to the well that she has already come to all of her life but now there the well sitting on a will he starts a conversation by saying give me the drink knowing that her pots are empty when he asks the question knowing that her religious dogma would alienate her from giving him water knowing that even his own disciples would not approve of him asking this woman for some water seeing as she is a Samaritan woman he knows she cannot give him what he asks for God always asked us to give something that we cannot give without him so that his request will create a thirst to ask him to give us what he asked us for so that we can give it up now can I go just a little bit deeper with this the well is sitting on a will and he asked her for water and she's suspicious she said hmm you come down here saying you want something to drink and you didn't bring that in the draw with sound like a pickup line to me she said you ain't got nothing to draw with and he says if you knew the gift of God you would ask me for water not eat now and now he's switching up on her because he asked her for water he said but if you saw the well that sitting on the well instead of cross-examining me about that which is temporal you would bypass your will and come to my will and ask me for that which is eternal she said yeah what's so good about your water he says if you drink of the water in here you will thirst again but if you drink of the water in here you will never thirst again now she's confused she knows he has a need she knows she needs to draw she doesn't know whether to draw from the physical or the spiritual she says but this is water and this is a well and this is where everybody else goes and he's saying it's not what it looks like just because everybody goes there doesn't mean that it will satisfy your thirst it may look like it will satisfy your thirst but it is not what it looks like I don't know who I'm preaching to this morning but I feel like I'm already talking to somebody the enemy is showing you how to get your needs met and he says he's got a solution to your problem but the Lord shipped you here this morning so that you would have a warning that that looks good is not good it is not what it looks like stand still and see the salvation of the Lord some trusted horses some trust in chariots but I will remember the name of the Lord slap your neighbor and tell'em it's not what it looks like all that glitters is not gold just because it winks at you doesn't mean it's a blessing just because it takes advantage of your need doesn't mean that God has answered through what you're about to do you need to stop and be still I hear the Lord saying that the coming of Israel is a sign that Isaac is on his way the force always comes before the real and if you have the power to say no to this well you will open up to this well and your latter day shall be greater then your former day I don't know who I'm preaching to but if you think it might be you give God a praise on credit and she says well give me this water that I thirst not neither come hither to draw she says I am tired since you brought it up stranger I am tired of going back and forth and back and forth and back and forth and back and forth to the same old stuff that just gives me by for a little while and then I gotta go back and do it again and again and again and again and I'm old enough now and I'm wise enough now to value my time and I don't want to go through the next year what I went through the past year going through the same old deadbeat stuff to get a little water to get me by for the weekend give me this water so I can finally thirst not settle down Master what God has called me to be step into my destiny out of my history I'm ready to get this water I'm too old to spend another year going through the same old stuff over and over again I need a breakthrough is there anybody in the house this morning who's ready for a supernatural breakthrough give God 30 seconds of pray touch three people four men tell them you didn't close you're getting close you're getting close you didn't come you're getting close you're closer than you've ever been you culture than you've ever been in your life you're nearer than you've ever been in your life you're nearer to the piece you've been looking for you're nearer to the power you've been looking for you're nearer to the glories if you've ever been in your life ain't no time to stop now press your way that's why the devil's fighting you that's why the enemy's trying to destroy you that's why all hell is breaking loose in your life because the enemy knows you have an appointment with destiny an appointment that you didn't set an appointment that you didn't know you had you think you're just going down to the well to get the same old stuff again but this is a setup God is about to change your life God is about to give you a breakthrough God is about to deliver you God is about to snatch you out God is about tell you later I'm on the verge of something big I'm on the verge of something big I know it looks like I'm not much I know it looks like I don't have anything I know I did some dumb teen in my past but I'm on the verge of something big and I want to tell the devil you think I'm a chump it's not what it looks like God have a plan for my life God he'll enjoy it so my life God and the victory from our life God and deliverance for my life somebody praise Him anybody crazy everybody breathing let everything that has breath Walther instruction by se is not what it looks like you think I'm not gonna be nothing but the devil in the rock you think I'm not gonna make a comeback but the devil is a lot you think I'm not gonna get a breakthrough but the devil is alive tell everybody who left you it's not what it looks like you've gone out with a sinking ship but the devil is a lie I've got a close every but it's been a real joy to have the opportunity to be a part of your life and to share the word of the Lord with you I pray that the word would sink deeply into your heart and then it would bring forth real fruit into your life may God bless you and heaven smile upon you until you and I can get together again take care of that while I was distracted he waited on me if he never gives me anything else I only have a praise what do you do when you are between miracles God says when I pour you out a blessing I am not limited to your capacity give me your depth I'll give you my life give me your affliction I'll give you my resurrection with your gift of any size or receive Bishop's message it's not what it looks like on CD from the between miracle series and with your gift of $70 or more you'll receive the entire 4-part series between miracles on DVD grade to share with your friends and loved ones this holiday season however with your gift of 160 dollars or more you'll receive between miracles on DVD and our Christmas gift collection which includes the message of Christmas booklet a box set of inspirational cards and joy hope and peace candle holders if you lose your expectation you lose your potential for a miracle your miracle is on its way today when they started talking about washing she said I know the Messiah is coming he said I'm that speak unto you and he God reveals himself in washing you've been asking God to show off but you haven't been washing it you've been worrying you've been complaining God does show up and worry God shows up in praise let everything that happened this is the

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Published: Fri Dec 26 2014