T.D. Jakes: Your Pain Won't Last Forever | FULL SERMON | TBN

so whether you want to spend all of your time struggling or not too soon or later going to have to realize that we are helpless without him we are as helpless as the clay is without the Potter as the grape is without the winter we need him in order to direct our steps we trust the master Bender to bring out of us what he placed inside of us do not lose your hope because he took his time the angel came to get in he found him in the wine press the wine press it's a strip club of grapes it is a place where grapes disrode and uncover themselves for it is not the skin of the grape that is the most important thing it's what's behind the skin that makes it important we know that about grapes I wish we would learn that about people [Laughter] in the wine press the grape strips itself and becomes vulnerable down to its soft parts so that it might become one imagine what it must have been like to be an angel in heaven and suddenly hear God say that he's going to strip himself of his glory and his honor and His pre-existent glory and his omnipotence and is omnipresence and his omniscience and that he would humble himself down to his soft parts and find a virgin and become a man see you think that the real crushing was the cross but the crushing started when God became man that's right when God became man he crushed himself from all of the benefits of being God and for the first time in all of the ages and all of the eons and all of time itself for the first time God took a map as God he neither sleeps nor slumbers but as Jesus he would sleep in the bow of the ship as God he's in all places and at all times but as Jesus he says let us cross over to the other side God never has to Journey he's already there all of these benefits of being God Jesus surrendered that he might be encapsulated incarcerated in human flesh God incarnate incarnate The Staggering amazing reality that God would put himself in the jail of Flesh the very thing he hated the very thing he despised the very thing that Paul says is an enmity against God Jesus wrapped himself up in it [Music] and it was a crushing experience because it meant that he would have to be hungry and so after he fasted the Bible said Jesus hungered But as God the Father he'd never hungered and now he knows what Hungary is and now he knows what tire it is and now he knows what betrayal is so that whenever you get ready to pray you can't bring up a feeling that he doesn't understand he can be touched by the feeling of our infirmity tempted in all points like as we are yet without sin he couldn't have done that before because he didn't know what it felt like to be human when Adam fell into sin God asked his first question Adam where aren't there that was the day the teacher went back to school because what Adam had fallen into God had never fallen into Adam had fallen into sin and God had never sinned so when he says Adam where are thou it is not just merely a geographical location he's trying to to feel him so Jesus comes to find Adam in the sight of God they're really only two men the first man Adam and the last man Adam and everybody else was born in one or the other and if I was born in Adam I was born in sin and shaping an iniquity and I was born in Adam and that's why Jesus told Nicodemus ye must be born again because this time I'm being born in Christ and I'm being born outside of the curse of the law and sin and death and free and liberated because in him I live I move and I have my being and it was so important that he went me that he was willing to allow himself to be stripped of the royal diadem and the hosts of Heaven and the command of angels and the moving of mountains and all of his godliness was incarcerated in humanness he humbled himself and in order to go through a crushing you have to humble yourself yes you have to give up on some of your power and some of your will and some of your influence and some of your opinions and you have to shut up and humble yourself and you have to be still and know that God is God he humbled himself and became poor that through his poverty we might be made rich he humbled himself and became finite and died can you imagine the shock of Heaven when Jesus gives up the ghosts and us all of Heaven stands aghast because they had never prepared a funeral for God maybe that's why he didn't buy Joseph too he only borrowed it because he knew he wasn't going to stay there and the reason I wrote crushing was to tell you don't believe the crushing that you're in as if it is your final residence or a place of abode you may have to live there for a little while but borrow it wow don't buy it that's right because you will rise again you will you will you will you will rise again thank you don't own that pain don't own that suffering don't own that Agony don't own that grave don't own that depression don't own that suicide don't own that loneliness if rented if you must but don't own it because by Sunday morning you'll be out of it the age-old question as old as time itself as soon as man had a voice to speak or letters to write or tone to talk or speech to be made it was to form a question a question that threatens to fulfill us and validate us and encourage us and identify us the question deep down in the hearts of every human being living is why am I here what is my purpose how can I say I'm successful if I don't know why I'm here I can say I'm busy but I can't say I'm successful because I'm only successful when I'm doing the thing I was created to do why am I here the problem is most of the time we ask one another the question and you're it's like a blind man asking another blind man which way should I go because we can't answer your question because we're trying to answer our own question and the answer that is true for me might not be true for you because my purpose might not be your purpose so in order to get the answer we have to go back to the manufacturer he is the reason that that we seek him because he has the answer not to who he is but to who am I wow see really at the Heart of Worship there is a degree of selfishness because I seek him that I might know me I don't just seek him that I might know him I seek him that I might know me because he is the only one who knows me right because I don't even know me I have done things that shocked me [Laughter] have said things that shocked me I have reacted in unpredictable ways and the older I get the Lesser I know about myself because I have seen so many different sides to me that I think I might have a multiple personality disorder but God knows why I am the way I am and he knows where the boats goes and he knows where the screws should be and he knows where to put the vows and he knows how to handle me Paul says oh that I may know him in the fellowship of his suffering and the power of his resurrection then he says oh that I may apprehend that which I am apprehended of he said I'm chasing God because he knows me he knows what I can do he knows what I can build he knows what I can handle he knows what I can have he knows whether I'm supposed to be here or there or with this one or that one or connected here or there and if I don't go back to the manufacturer then I'm just playing with screwdrivers seeing what works only to spend hours building something that is dysfunctional and frustrated because it didn't work the reason we go back to God is because he is the master and he put everything in the Box we needed to be successful at what we were created to do so I don't I don't have to wish for stuff that he put in your box because I'm not supposed to be you I'm supposed to be me I don't have to long after things that he has given to you because he gave them to you so you could be who you were supposed to be he gave me everything in the Box I needed to do everything I was created to do if I seek him no no no this is not about self-control this is about God control self-control does not take grapes and turn them into wine the wine dresser has to do that and if you ever hope to be what God created you to be you have to submit yourself into his hands and know that he knows exactly what tools to use to bring out the best in you and I don't want to die in fact I refuse to die until he brings out the best in me and oh what fun it's been to see what he brought out of me I didn't know that was in there I didn't know where to put the screws or the bolts or the nuts to get that I didn't know I could be that I didn't know I could say that I didn't know I could write that I didn't know I could have that I didn't know I could become that I didn't know I could do that I could I didn't know I could withstand that I didn't know I could endure that I didn't know I could survive that I didn't know I could overcome that I didn't know I could make it through that oh how amazing it's been when you go back to the manufacturer to understand what weight you were created to handle what loads you can stand how fast you can move how much you can accomplish he designed you for the life he wants you to live and if your life is unbearable it might be because you're leading someone else's life [Music] if you if your life is too much and too heavy and too fast and too painful maybe you're living somebody else's life because you will find that you are perfectly designed to be you and when you surrender to him he will show you how to best be you come on SO strip yourself from all your pride and all your envy and all your competition and all your need to measure up to other people you were never designed to be and do you boo yes it's true we want to follow him through our question but like the children of Israel we struggle to wait and Hope and remain faithful have you ever wanted something so long that you resolved in yourself that this will probably never happen have you ever declared death to a dream to have a Moment's Peace to survive the torment of waiting to end the agony of expectation to just let go and give up seems more peaceful the master gives us mountain peaks visions but then hides Us in valleys in Dark Places and lonely places and frustrated places and we can't be so intent on our comfort that we forget our calling remember the master is not in the business of torturing his children through delays he's not playing games with you he's not playing hide and go seek with you he has not forgotten you he has a plan for your life he wants to seize our attention in the valley so that we will make it to the mountain you cannot control what life throws that you know can I we don't know from day to day the next text could change the next 10 years of your life but you can control how you respond you can control that will you trust God or will you doubt him God uses the valley to prepare us for the peaks in life in fact if there were no valleys there would be no peaks in life he has his treasure until we are ready to handle them because some of the things that God has for you they are really yours but the timing isn't right it's like God telling David that he's going to be king and then sending him back out there to feed the sheep just because God gave you a word doesn't mean it's for right now until you've been Faithful over where he places you don't earn the right to get the promotion and it wasn't time for David to be king but he's telling him go ahead and deal with the Sheep I got big plans for you but that doesn't mean today I want you to spend a little bit more time in the valley working The Kinks out of you so that when I put you on the mountain where everybody can see you you don't have to have the disgrace of falling down I am convinced that God made me who I am in my Low Places not my high places whenever I'm in a fight with the Enemy I don't tell him about my accomplishments I tell him about how I made it with no lights and with no water and I made it when I lost my car and how I made it when I thought I'd never get up because my strength comes from my Low Places and I am afraid of people who have no Low Places I'm afraid of their friendship because they'll run out on you in the middle of a low place I don't believe them most of the time that's part of the problem when you haven't had Low Places your character has been established the nights I cried myself to sleep the days I could not hear God's voice at all we trust him because we got no choice we don't trust him because we're good people and strong Christians and great people of faith we trust him because we got no choice there's nothing else you can do but trust him if you can get yourself out of it get yourself out of it the reason we trust God we have no choice so whether you want to spend all of your time struggling or not too soon or later are going to have to realize that we are helpless without him we are as helpless as the clay is without the Potter as the grape is without the winter we need him in order to direct our steps we trust the master Venter to bring out of us what he placed inside of us do not lose your hope because he took his time it is only an indication of how masterful the Venture is that he is given to details you always know a novice because they skip over details but the more proficient you are at the Artistry of what you do the more detailed it is I remember being a little boy and my mother taking me in the store and showing me how to determine when something was well made she said don't look at the coach check out the lining she said don't just look at the past see how much material is in the ham don't just look at the drapery see how deep the fabric goes in the curve the deeper the fabric goes the more they spin on it the more valuable it is see we have a tendency to look at the Aesthetics of a thing and not the real value of what it is do not lose hope because he put more Fabric in you and he added more stitches to you and you don't think you need all of that he is so good as a master he knows exactly what to give you in order to make you who you ought to be everything in this life is temporal everything you got and everything you accomplish and everything you mastered you will leave you will leave here just like you came you came into the world naked you will leave naked somebody will drive your car somebody will wear your clothes somebody will live in your house somebody will get your rings everything you attain will become totally Irrelevant this is just a moment to train for what's next to prepare for what's better to prepare for what matters everything in this temporal life is preparation for what God is about to do next and all I can say to you be ready [Music] it's coming soon [Music]

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Length: 20min 50sec (1250 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 16 2023