The Truth Is :: Damaged Goods (Part 1)

the reason that I I'm doing this series called damaged goods is because after Easter I usually want to do a series that speaks to everybody a series that will let people know no matter where they're at in their life that God can still use them I'm looking at a roomful of people that I would dare say have not reached their fullest potential because an area of your life has been damaged now it's usually we don't talk about this area usually it's an area that that nobody really knows about until you get real close to us and they can see the effects of it for many of us it happened when we were young we got damaged in the area and it's so normal and so a part of how we act and what we do that we don't even notice it and the sad thing is is that because we're damaged because there's a part of us that was impaired or ripped or a fractured we never move with the full confidence into our purpose if I went around the room and asked how many people are living in purpose the hands would not be as great as they should be for believers for people who know of God and it's because this is probably one of the least talked about things in our church history we talk about the victories we talk about the wins but we don't talk about the damaged areas as much how many people can identify an area in your life you ain't got to say what it is but an area in your life that you know nobody else has to know but you know that was damaged come on just hands everywhere okay it could have been in your your speech somebody made fun of you when you were younger about the way you talked and it damaged you to the point to where now anytime that you somebody ask you to do anything you shy back because it something in you tells you you're not enough and you can't do it it could be that you're damaged in the way you view finances that you were born into a house that had a poverty mentality that lived paycheck to paycheck sand things getting cut off was just like normal oh yeah it's just the water it's just the electric oh don't even worry is is the cable we'll just go to the friends house and and you you really didn't even have anything to do with it but you were raised in that in that environment and it damaged you and now you make twice as much as your parents ever made but those same cycles are still showing up in your life I don't know it made that it may be that you were damaged in the way you view people that you're very judgmental and to keep any spotlight offer you you automatically point out what's wrong with somebody else Oh y'all know it we see somebody who's beautiful gorgeous handsome and the first thing we look at they toes like is that oh come on out of everything we could compliment why are they wearing that where are they at what it's because somewhere along the way we got damaged and if if we if we put somebody else down then somehow I can feel like I'm enough and I'm convinced that what we do not confront what we do not make ourself aware of and allow God to begin to change it becomes the same thing that will hinder us from reaching our purpose and many of us in this room right now because of a damaging situation a damaging person something happens you look at yourself and you say I'm damaged goods right now some of you have the gift to speak better than I do but if I say come up here you would literally fall on the floor as a grown person and not even come up here because somewhere around the line at your Easter production when you were 12 you forgot the lines and they read ridiculed you and something have you said I'll never do that again I'll never be hurt like that again you ran into the wrong crowd and you got mixed up in some things sexually that you said you'd never do and abuse happened rape happened an abortion happened and the enemy tries to convince you nobody will ever want you you've already been divorced three times who could ever trust you your church started and failed who will follow you now you you see all of those are lies of the enemy but if we don't confront them with the truth of God we only believe the lies of the enemy and so through this series y'all this is about to be probably the best series of ever time and I'm not saying that because I'm just teaching it I'm saying it because God has begin to reveal in me I was gonna start this series another way but he said Michael this first one I want you to paint a picture I just want you to paint a picture of what it looks like when people are damaged so I want us to go all the way to the beginning if you have your Bibles turn to Genesis chapter 1 verse 26 Genesis chapter 1 verse 26 and this is what it says it says then God said who said it who said it okay then God said let us make human beings everybody say the next three words with me in our image God said let us make human beings in our image to be like us I've read this probably a million times but I saw it completely different this week God said the one who literally spoke the son into existence and it's still lighting up the earth today he said let us now who is us because I thought it was God talking but he said us who is us no no it's the Trinity he wasn't sitting there by himself he said let us the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit let us make what human beings now I want to help you understand some basic truth because the only reason you can um after you're damaged not feel like you use useful is because you don't understand who you really are see some of you didn't know that that you weren't just made by your parents at-at creation God said you know what this is you know the ocean looked good land good I see you tiger I'll see you cheetah see you lying y'all look awry Rui I see you said but on the sixth day I'm kind of bored with all this let me do something that has not been done he looks around and he says um look at us HG holy goes little JC let us make human beings what's dead what's I don't know but we bout to find out pass me some dirt let us make them in our okay so I want you to get this they are spirit so if he says let's make human beings that's the flesh part in our image he didn't make your flesh first if three spirits are sitting here and they say let's make them in our image they weren't making a body the realist you is a spirit and that was made in the image of God to be like let me some of y'all still don't understand this is a glove so if I say hey Michael and other Michael and other Michael let's make this glove in the image of a what this glove was made in the image of a hand because it's supposed to have relationship with the hand without the hand the glove has no purpose but because it was formed in the image of the hand when the hand gets in to the glove it now has purpose see what you don't understand is you were never created to live without God in side of you [Music] [Applause] because here me because Myles Munroe teaches us where the intent of a thing is not known abuse is inevitable this is how people get damaged that they're living without God on the inside not around God the Gulf still has no use until God's dwelling on the inside and so without its purpose being knows I can use this something the weapon but that wasn't the purpose I could you that's disgusting but that wasn't the purpose I could use it as a fan but that the purpose is only revealed when God takes over the entire inside [Music] and what I'm saying is because God and many of our lives has not taken over the entire inside we're out here getting damaged ripped tore up and what God is saying is I'm the only one that can feel in the empty places of your life and take what was formless useless and broke up and give it purpose and the ability to warm the ability to protect and that's the same thing God wants to do with your life so today I want to paint this picture for you because in the beginning when God formed us in His image everything was good until sin came in Romans 5:12 it tells us when Adam sinned sin entered the entire world Adam's sin brought death so death spread to everyone thanks Adam for everyone sinned at that moment and so when you're born this is when David said I was born into iniquity I was I was born into sin you don't have to teach a kid to be bad you don't you don't have to teach them they learn no and mind by themselves you understand you don't have to teach them because we're born into this fallen nature but but this is the thing that I said that this is the only point that I want to give today as I set this up is that we are all damaged goods write that down we are all damaged goods somebody just I'm damaged goods look ya'll even want to say that the life and death is in the power of the tongue I am NOT confessing that off about let hear me see God can't bless where you pretend to be your pride kept you from saying that you're damaged you you well I'm not submit I'm not listening listen everybody say I'm damaged goods somewhere your area may not be my area and my area may not be area but God cannot heal what you act like doesn't exist so what I want you to do through the time I'm talking as I want you to try to identify an area where you may be damaged and if you get it just write it down some of y'all gonna be right in the whole service others of us God's gonna have to peel it back like an onion because we've we've been in that place so long that we don't even feel like it it's it's a bother place of us but by the end of this series God's gonna start to touch those damaged areas he's gonna heal deliver and set people free see when sin entered in this is what I say we misplaced purpose we misplaced it cuz God and Jeremiah 29:11 says before you were formed in your mother's womb I knew you I had plans for you plans to what cause for you not to harm you to give you a hope and if there was a purpose that God had when we get born into this world sin comes in and we forget the purpose that we were brought here and what we're supposed to do is spend the rest of our lives figuring out what that purpose is cuz if we can get into purpose that's your sweet spot I'm talking about when you when everything you're doing is working when you don't worry about finances when bad things come your way it don't even faze you cuz you know that if God be for me it don't matter who's against me like you know say that in that purpose spot but I say maybe two or three percent of people ever even get into purpose and the American Dream has told us that purpose are living a good life two equals money and that and that are four houses in our and our cars and our vacations I'm coming to come against everything that you've thought God is trying to build for you and he said I want you to do what I created you to do before you got here but something comes to stop that and his name is the enemy John 10:10 right that scripture down many of you know it it said but the enemy has a purpose and what's his purpose to steal to kill what is he trying to steal kill and destroy your purpose see see this is what I want everybody to understand that everything that's been coming against you is a distraction to your purpose those same relationships you keep getting tired up in that is a distraction to your purpose the financial problems you keep going through because you cannot stay off the sale rack that is a distraction to you so you're 50 and you're 60 and you still don't know why God placed you on this earth and it goes back to a damaged area that we never brought to God so today I want everybody to see that your damaged area is so important that you identify it you have to identify that's all I want you to do in this first week is start identifying areas that you may be damaged you know what my mark my perception is damaged the way I see people the way I see situations is damaged I'm a glass half-empty type of person if something Goods come in my way I'm always like what what's the catch but that's just because I had a father who would always tell me he would come pick me up at Friday's and he never came so I got damaged at 6:00 and now I'm 60 and I still have a perception that anything anybody says will never come to pass I've been so steeped in comparison with other people that I don't even know some of y'all young girls is compare yourself to Kim Kardashian and all these other people they got glam squad they got six people running around doing everything for them and you and your bathroom trying to throw it all trying to stuff stuff in your behind trying to do all this for whites and your self-image is so busted and disgusted that now you're searching for love in all the wrong places and at the moment anybody shows you any attention then you're all over why because something was damaged when that co-workers say you ugly the one you liked see this is not cute phrases or things that people are going to say out loud but you have nations in your tongue and because the church you were at didn't recognize your gift and pick somebody else over you now you feel like you're never good enough and you've been sitting on the healing of generations for decades because you're damaged I want you to understand something today church that it's time for us to identify our damaged areas and those of you are having a hard time with this pride maybe a damaged area for you because some of y'all likewise why did I come here today I gave all that to the Lord behold everything is new hear me hear me God's doing a we are a work in you'll never be done until Jesus comes back and and anybody who tells you different and stop listening okay so how do we how do we live them pastor well what does this look like well first you got to get the right perception of how the enemy comes to steal kill and destroy this is how he tries to do it you have three parts of you okay three we talked about it but you have your soul you have your body and then you have your spirit those are the three some of you don't know this so first Thessalonians look at this 5:23 it says now may the God of peace make you holy in every way and may your whole spirit and soul and what body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again God will make this happen for he who calls you is faithful so this is what every person is they are a soul they are a body and they are a spirit which one are you first so your spirit first but the crazy thing about it is our soul which is our mind will and emotions and our body usually do things and respond to things and move things before things ever get to our spirit so this is what it looks like God willed me up on Thursday and gave me these three words please write them down covering container and contents covering container and contents God said Michael your soul is like the covering of your life this is your mind which is your thinker your wheel which is your doer what I want to do and your emotions which is your feeler what the enemy comes to do if this is you this is the beautiful presentation this is what you show everybody on Instagram and Facebook that this is you okay what the enemy tries to do is come tear you up in your mind see this is the covering so he comes for your soul first so he introduces you to pornography at a young age and then he has somebody talk about you in your class when you graduate and you rip at your at your thinking of yourself again and then you get married to the one you think is gonna love you forever and it begins to cut at the areas of your life that you thought were perfect now for most of us this is kind of an accurate depiction of what our life looks like the covering of our lifes our soul has been damaged our mind will and emotions yeah my mom my mother talked about me or I didn't really get picked for any of the teams and so it just starts looking at me what you got to understand though is that the covering may be messed up but the container and the contents are still good and what the enemy tries to come and convince you of is because the covering is messed up because the covering is ripped because what people think about you is a little tattered because you did catch a case that one time and hard to serve community service that's my testimony Oh y'all thought I made that up so many people would say God can't use me because the enemy has come and attacked my mind my will and my emotions and for some of us this has kept us in a paralyzed place because we don't think that anybody would allow us to be who God's created us to be this is not about them it's about how you think of yourself and what God's done for you I'm trying to paint a picture but see for others of us our body then comes into play and that's the thing that gets us in trouble see our mind will and emotions then start to affect our body and this is what happens we get in relationships that are not like God and start doing things with our body and it stains us we-we-we we have family issues and because I don't have peace at home I start smoking and I start abusing my body and I start having sex with anybody who thinks I'm worth anything and I get hold in my life damaged and I I applied for the school but they told me I wasn't smart enough and I tried to start the business but they told me I couldn't do it and I tried to have the baby but I keep having miscarriages who would ever want to love anybody with all of these miscarriages damaged and then don't let my self-worth start to look like the world says it should so what I start doing is putting myself in positions where God tells me my body is the temple of the Holy Spirit start doing things that stain me permanently who would want somebody that looks like this and what the enemy convinces us is that he whispers nobody you're nothing you'll never be what God said I know you got prophesied over when you were young you'd be great but look at you now how many people have ever had this thought I've wasted too much time guess who tells you that God is the restorer of time in his word he tells us that he will redeem the time that the cankerworm the palmer worm restored but you're at 25 i should be married by now I said three businesses ten kids and four dogs I should have completed my master's degree I should have done all of this stuff the enemy comes to Jess and he tries to make us feel damaged can you bring me out my last piece please and what ends up happening is then our life goes through some fire and we lose somebody and we start habits and get mixed up with people who are wrong for us and it starts to burn the edges of our life begins to tatter what we thought only God could use it begins to melt all the things that are around us to make it look like their permanent fixtures damaged now this is the crazy thing this is what most of our lives look like when you get from under the covering when you take away all the pretty stuff and all the Instagram posts and all the great things some of us are in such financial straits praising God right now because of a bad decision we made or damaged we say we have faith for other people but don't have the faith to believe for ourselves we're damaged we're living in alternate lifestyles trying to ask God to save you from weird emic and we've never admitted that we really look like this on the inside but today freedom is coming to you because what you don't understand is that there are two different perspectives see there's a perspective that looks at this box from a consumer standpoint and if a consumer was to come here and say I want I want uh I wanted that but do you have another one in the back that doesn't have all this crap on it whose that's not so jacked up and damaged could you go get me another one and if they said this is the only one we have nevermind I'll do without it because it's damaged now there's another perspective it's the creator's perspective the person who created the content on the inside of this box knows that the value was never in the covering and the value was never in the container but the value is in the contents so the Creator will look at this and be like wow wow this wow this box been through some stuff it's okay I'll take it how much no no no full price I'll pay don't worry about it I'll pay for it all not now sir you you know when you go to a store you see a damaged box I'm already asking for 20% off y'all already know the tag sitting crooked you know that tag is kind of crooked I don't 10% maybe but what God did is he saw us in our completely damaged state and he said I'll pay full price because what I know is that I've walked in their shoes see you don't believe me look what the Bible says look what the Bible says in Hebrews 4 verse 15 it says this high priest Jesus understands our weakness he understands how he got trapped in that relationship he understands how our family was not the best there were holes and and prostitutes and and murderers in jesus's lineage he understands for he faced all the same testings we do yet he did not sing why cuz he knew at some point he was going to have to pay full price for a damaged product and what God says is I'll take you I'll take you broken I'll take you even though you tried to commit suicide last night I'll take you even though you're prideful I'll take you even though you're homosexual I'll take you out out know you and the sad thing as many of us when God points to us and says you not me you don't know what I've been through you don't know the hurt I've experienced you don't know how many times we tried this I've committed adultery three times there's no way I can be a man of God a man of Valor and I says I'll take you you you you because he realizes that the value and your life is not in the covering and it's not even in the container but the Creator knows the value is in the contents now these are some very very expensive tennis shoes and the thing that you don't realize is that there's nothing wrong with the contents even though the containers been beat up and the coverings been ripped and damaged the contents are still as valuable as they were when they went in to the container when God created you he created your spirit in his and then he puts you in a container and gave you a covering and most of your coverings and containers are damaged but the goods are still there [Applause] your container may be jacked up you may be burnt you may have holes in you you may be stained but Jesus through his son paid full price because he knew that the content that he placed on the inside of you before you were formed in your mother's womb is still good be encouraged today that no matter what you've walked through no matter how broken your marriage is no matter how many times you failed the content is still good well God wants to use you he has a plan for you he wants to deliver you and he wants to set you free see only the consumer those who didn't create it but look at the covering in the cup the container the only thing the creator is worried about is my spirit still in there it's what I put on there inside of them in there let me prove it to you it's my last scripture first John 4:4 don't ever forget this first John 4:4 it says but you everybody say I but you belong to who you belong to God and you have already won victory over those people anybody in the world who's talking about you or damage that you're broken and nobody can use you and who would trust you to lead it who would do all that you've already won victory over those people why because the spirit remember who you are first the spirit who lives in you is say that word out loud to me greater it's greater than the spirit who lives in the world can I help you with this what is in you is greater than abuse what is in you is greater than abortion what is in you is greater than divorce what is in you is greater than abandonment what is in you is greater than broken relationships what is in you is greater than fear what is in you is greater than rape what is in you is greater than failed businesses what is in you is greater than loneliness what is in you is greater than a criminal record what is in you is greater than loss what is in you is greater than tragedy what is in you is greater than flunking out of school maybe I should say like this who is in you is greater than death who is in you its greater than the flame and who is you its greater you missed it you are not to damage because who is in you Jesus Christ the one who conquered death hell in the grave he lives inside of me and if he is for me who can be against me hear me when I say this to you clearly that I don't care how many people you robbed and I don't care how many things you got away with and I don't care how many times you lied on your taxes oh can we be real I don't care how many times you wrote in your fake license plate y'all got some of them paper tags some of y'all in the parking lot right now paper tell you got that thing three years ago now you doing calligraphy on the van I don't care how many times you committed sexual acts with people you didn't even know I don't care how many times because all of those things came to damage your mind will and emotions and your body but it could not touch it could not touch your spirit and that's why the enemy's greatest plan is to distract you from getting in the place where your spirit can be fed because if your spirit ever gets fed it tells your body line up we don't do that anymore this is the temple of the holy spirit that's beneath me bye Felicia and it tells your mind will and emotions it says I cast down everything an imagination that would exalt itself against the knowledge of God it says I'm going to be transformed by the renewing but your spirit has to get strong and that's why many of you came on Easter you're coming back for the second time today I wanted to paint this picture for you that you'll have to just live a life the damaged goods until your spirit gets empowered to know that you don't have to live in this box anymore that God can take ripped up covering mine's been broken for a long time God said I can change that he can take a box that's been ripped to its core I mean this thing is dirty its filthy holes in it he says I'll still take it because I know that the contents are still good I want to pray for every person that's been damaged every person that's still searching for their identity and something else other than the Creator remember we were made in his and until he feels it will never reach purpose

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Published: Mon Apr 24 2017