Bishop Jakes wants to show you how God uses difficult; crushing experiences to prepare you for unexpected blessings. If you are faithful through suffering; you will be surprised by God's joy; comforted by His peace; and fulfilled with His purpose. Crushing will inspire you to have hope; even in your most difficult moments. If you trust in God and lean on Him during setbacks; He will lead you through.
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Crushing: God Turns Pressure into Power | The Price of Crushing | February 10, 2022
- - T. D. JAKES: HEY, WE ALL FACE DIFFICULTIES IN LIFE,
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- THOSE SEASONS WHERE OUR HOPES, DREAMS,
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- RELATIONSHIPS AND CAREERS FEEL CRUSHED BENEATH THE
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- WEIGHT OF SORROW AND PAIN.
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- THESE ARE SEASONS OF CRUSHINGS.
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- I'M BISHOP T. D. JAKES, AND LIKE YOU, I'VE BEEN THROUGH
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- SEASONS OF CRUSHINGS.
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- I'M HERE TO ENCOURAGE YOU THIS DARK SEASON IS NOT THE END.
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- THROUGH THE CRUSHING, GOD CAN TURN THE PRESSURE
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- YOU'RE EXPERIENCING INTO NEW POWER. LIKE A SKILLED
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- WINE MAKER, OUR HEAVENLY FATHER KNOWS THAT
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- CRUSHING IS ESSENTIAL FOR THE PROCESS OF CREATING
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- RICH WINE.
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- AND SO IT IS WITH YOU.
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- IF YOU'LL ONLY LET HIM, GOD THE MASTER WINE
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- MAKER, CAN USE THESE CRUSHING MOMENTS IN
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- YOUR LIFE TO CREATE SOMETHING NEW FOR
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- HIS GLORY, AND YOUR DESTINY.
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- [ MUSIC ]
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- - FROM THE VINEYARD TO THE TABLE, THE FRUIT OF
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- THE VINE UNDERGOES A MIRACULOUS PROCESS AS IT
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- IS TRANSFORMED INTO WINE.
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- JUST AS IT IS IN OUR LIVES, GOD THE MASTER
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- WINEMAKER DESIRES TO TRANSFORM US INTO
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- SOMETHING BEAUTIFULLY MOLDED AND TREASURED.
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- THIS IS CRUSHING.
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- - WHEN I WAS 17 YEARS OLD I LAID DOWN AND WENT
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- TO SLEEP, AND WHILE I WAS SLEEPING I DREAMED I WAS
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- READING A VERSE THAT I DIDN'T KNOW EXISTED AT
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- THE TIME.
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- GOD WAS SAYING TO A YOUNG MAN, BEFORE I FORMED THEE
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- IN THE BELLY, I KNEW THEE OR I ORDAINED THEE AND I
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- SANCTIFIED THEE TO BE A PROPHET TO THE NATIONS.
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- AND WHEN I WOKE THAT MORNING, I JUST TOOK MY
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- BIBLE WITH CHILDLIKE FAITH AND JUST LET IT
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- FALL OPEN.
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- AND IT FELL OPEN ON JEREMIAH, AND IT SAID
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- BEFORE I FORMED THEE IN THE BELLY, I KNEW THEE,
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- AND I ORDAINED THEE, AND I SANCTIFIED THEE TO BE A
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- PROPHET UNTO THE NATIONS.
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- AND ALL THE SUDDEN I REMEMBERED ALL THE
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- STORIES MY MOTHER TOLD ME ABOUT WHEN I WAS BORN, I
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- WAS BORN WITH A VEIL OVER MY FACE AND ONE OF THE
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- NEIGHBORS CAME DOWN AND SAID LOOK, THE LORD HAS
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- GIVEN YOU A PROPHET.
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- AND MAMA SAID, A PROPHET?
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- SHE SAID, YEAH, HE HAD A VEIL OVER HIS FACE.
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- THIN MEMBRANE BORN OVER SOME BABIES FACES.
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- I WAS ONE OF THEM.
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- THAT MEMBRANE THE OLD FOLKS SAID WAS A SIGN YOU
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- WERE A PROPHET, BUT I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS A
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- PROPHET SO I WAS A WILD, CRAZY, FOOLISH, IGNORANT,
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- RAMBUNCTIOUS, KID WHO GOT INTO EVERYTHING AND
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- ANYTHING ALL THE TIME, DRIVING PEOPLE CRAZY.
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- AND I WAS HAVING A GOOD TIME DOING MY OWN THING
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- UNTIL GOD CAME ALONG AND MESSED IT ALL UP BY
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- BRINGING THIS STUFF UP ABOUT ME BEING
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- A PREACHER.
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- AND I RAN FROM MY CALLING.
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- I PURPOSELY GOT DRUNK AND WENT WILD AND GOT HIGH
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- AND PARTIED AND DID EVERYTHING I COULD TO
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- CONVINCE HIM TO GO AWAY.
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- GET ONE OF THEM PEOPLE WITH THE LITTLE DOILIES
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- ON THEIR HEAD AND THE LONG SKIRTS AND NO MAKE
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- UP WHO PRAY ALL DAY AND TALK IN TONGUES ALL THE
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- TIME AND LEAVE ME ALONE BECAUSE I AM NOT
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- ONE OF THEM.
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- I'M CRAZY.
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- I'M IGNORANT.
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- I'M WILD.
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- I'M UNCOUTH.
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- I WILL EMBARRASS YOU.
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- I WILL DISGRACE YOU.
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- PLEASE DON'T CALL ME.
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- THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE GOOD FOR ME AND IT'S NOT
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- GOING TO BE GOOD FOR ME, AND WE SHOULD NOT DO
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- THIS TOGETHER.
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- [ LAUGHTER ]
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- BUT GOD DIDN'T ASK ME TO BOAT.
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- HE ASKED ME TO OBEY.
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- AND AFTER SEVERAL YEARS OF RUNNING AND AFTER
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- SEVERAL YEARS OF GOING TO CLUBS AND SITTING ON BAR
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- STOOLS WHERE ONE DRUNK WOULD LEAN OVER TO ME AND
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- SAY, HEY MAN, I HAD THE CRAZIEST DREAM ABOUT YOU.
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- I DREAMED YOU WAS PREACHING IN THIS CHURCH.
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- AND I GOT UP AND RAN OUT OF THE CLUB.
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- [ LAUGHTER ]
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- AND I FELT LIKE, IF I MAKE MY BED IN HELL, THOU
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- ART THERE, AND IF I TAKE TO THE IS WINGS OF THE
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- MORNING AND ASCEND TO THE UTTERMOST PARTS OF THE
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- EARTH, THOU ART THERE.
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- AND I'M NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO OUTRUN THIS, AND
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- I COULDN'T UNDERSTAND THAT GOD WOULDN'T LET ME GO.
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- I COULDN'T UNDERSTAND WHY GOD PICKED ME.
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- IF I GET TO HEAVEN AND WE'RE ONLY ALLOWED ONE
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- QUESTION APIECE, I SIMPLY WANT TO KNOW, WHY DID YOU
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- CALL ME?
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- A BOY FROM THE HILLS OF WEST VIRGINIA.
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- THE SON OF A JANITOR AND A SCHOOL TEACHER.
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- WHY DID YOU CALL ME?
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- AND I HAD LOTS OF EXCUSES.
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- LIKE MOSES, I HAD A SPEECH IMPEDIMENT.
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- YOU CAN'T CALL ME.
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- YOU CAN'T, YOU CAN'T CALL ME.
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- I DIDN'T STUTTER BUT I HAD A LISP.
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- I CAN'T BE A SPEAKER BECAUSE I HAVE A LISP.
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- BUT ALL OF US HAVE AREAS WHERE WE FEEL INADEQUATE.
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- AND IF YOU DON'T, YOU'RE DISQUALIFIED BECAUSE HUMILITY
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- IS FRAMED FROM FEELING INADEQUATE.
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- WHEN YOU SAY I AM NOT ENOUGH, IT MAKES YOU
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- PRAY HARDER.
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- IT MAKES YOU SEEK HARDER.
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- IT MAKES YOU ASK FOR MORE GRACE.
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- BEWARE OF ALL THE PEOPLE WHO TELL YOU
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- THEY ARE ENOUGH.
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- IT'S A SURE SIGN THAT YOU'RE DEALING WITH A
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- FRAUD BECAUSE THE QUESTIONS THE WORLD IS
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- ASKING ARE TOO COMPLICATED FOR YOU TO
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- ANSWER WITH A DEGREE.
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- THE PROBLEMS PEOPLE ARE HAVING NOW REQUIRE
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- DIVINE INTERVENTION.
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- AND YOU HAVE TO HAVE SOMEBODY WHO HAS HEARD
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- FROM GOD, NOT FROM THEMSELVES.
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- SO IT DOESN'T MATTER.
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- IN MY WEAKNESS HE'S MADE STRONG.
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- IN MY WEAKNESS, HIS STRENGTH IS VALIDATED.
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- SO HE CHOOSES FRAGILE, BROKEN, LIMITED PEOPLE SO
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- YOU WON'T BE CONFUSED WHERE THE OINTMENT
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- COMES FROM.
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- YOU KNOW THAT THE GLORY THAT WE HAVE IS NOT OF
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- OURSELVES BUT CHRIST JESUS THE LORD THAT HAS
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- GIVEN US GLORY.
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- AND IT'S HIM COMING OUT OF US.
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- IT'S NOT OUR TALENT COMING OUT OF US.
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- IT'S NOT OUR SKILL COMING OUT OF US.
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- IT IS HIM COMING OUT OF US, BOTH TO DO AND TO
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- WILL ACCORDING TO HIS OWN GOOD PLEASURE.
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- THAT'S THE FACTS.
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- AND WHAT MAKES GOD ALL THE MORE REAL IS
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- RECOGNIZING THAT HE CAN WORK WITH SUCH POOR
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- MATERIAL, THAT HE CAN BE SO MASTERFUL AS MICHELANGELO
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- TO PAINT THE SISTEEN CHAPEL WITH A
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- BROKEN BRUSH, AND I AM THE BRUSH, AND YOU ARE
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- THE BRUSH.
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- AND YOU ARE THE BRUSH.
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- AND HE CHOOSES BROKEN BRUSHES SO THERE WILL BE
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- NO GLORY TO THE BRUSH.
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- ONLY TO THE ARTIST.
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- WHEN THE MASTER, THE MASTER VINTNER PLANS TO
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- TRANSPLANT YOU, ARGUING WILL NOT STOP IT.
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- HE WILL NOT LET YOU GO UNTIL HE'S MOVED TO YOU
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- THE PLACE THAT HE HAS PREPARED FOR YOU AND YOU
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- FOR IT, AND PLACING YOU IN THAT PLACE YOU BEGIN
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- TO GROW.
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- AND YOU WILL KNOW YOU'RE IN THE PLACE WHEN LIKE
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- JOSEPH YOUR BRANCHES REACH OVER WALLS.
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- WHEN GOD PLANTS YOU, YOUR BRANCHES REACH OVER EVERY
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- DENOMINATIONAL, RACIAL, GENERATIONAL WALL THAT
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- EVER STOOD, AND I BELIEVE HE WANTED YOU TO HEAR
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- THIS AT THIS MOMENT IN YOUR LIFE.
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- - THERE'S NO QUESTION THAT WE'RE LIVING IN
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- CHALLENGING AND UNCERTAIN TIMES.
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- BECAUSE OF THAT, MATT AND LAURIE ARE MORE
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- DETERMINED THAN EVER TO BRING MORE RELEVANT
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- MESSAGES INTO YOUR HOME.
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- SO PLEASE, TAKE A MOMENT RIGHT NOW TO CALL THE
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- NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND AS OUR WAY OF SAYING
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- THANK YOU FOR YOUR GIFT TO TBN OF ANY AMOUNT,
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- WE'LL SEND YOU T. D. JAKES NEW BOOK, CRUSHING.
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- BISHOP JAKES SHOWS US HOW GOD USES THE MOST
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- DIFFICULT CHAPTERS OF OUR LIVES TO PREPARE US FOR
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- HIS GREATEST BLESSINGS.
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- - THAT'S WHAT CRUSHING DOES IN OUR LIVES.
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- IT MULTIPLIES US.
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- IT INCREASES US.
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- - AND FRIEND, AS ALWAYS WE SINCERELY THANK YOU
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- FOR YOUR GENEROSITY TO TBN.
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- TOGETHER LET'S CONTINUE TO TAKE THE LOVE OF JESUS
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- AROUND THE WORLD.
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- [ MUSIC ]
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- - THE TRUE HEALTH OF THE VINEYARD IS DETERMINED BY
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- A MULTITUDE OF FACTORS.
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- IN WINE MAKING, THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE FOR
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- CULTIVATING A HEALTHY VINEYARD IS KNOWN AS
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- A VIGNERON.
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- GRAPE WINE ROOTS TEND TO GROW DEEP INTO THE
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- GROUND, UP TO 15 FEET DEEP.
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- THE SOIL IN WHICH A VINE IS PLANTED IS
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- EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.
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- HEALTHY SOIL WILL HELP A VINE SURVIVE AND THRIVE
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- THROUGH DROUGHTS, RESIST HARMFUL BACTERIA AND
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- VIRUSES, AND PRODUCE BETTER TASTING WINE.
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- WHEN A VINE IS MALNOURISHED, THE VIGNERON
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- FERTILIZES THE SOIL RESTORING IT TO
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- GREATER HEALTH.
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- THE IN THE DORMANT SEASON AFTER HARVEST, THE VIGNERON
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- PRUNES THE BRANCHES TO WARD OFF DISEASE AND
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- ENSURE A BOUNTIFUL CROP IN THE COMING SEASON.
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- LIKE ANY CROP, CERTAIN ANIMALS WILL EAT THE
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- FRUIT OR NIBBLE AWAY AT THE LEAVES.
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- THE VIGNERON MUST GUARD THE VINEYARD AGAINST
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- DEER, SQUIRRELS, RABBITS, AS WELL AS OTHER
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- INSECT PESTS THAT CAN WREAK HAVOC ON THE CROP.
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- THROUGHOUT HISTORY, THE VIGNERON HAS BEEN KNOWN BY
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- MANY TITLES INCLUDING THE VINE DRESSER, GARDENER,
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- VINTNER AND FARMER.
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- BUT THE ROLE IS THE SAME.
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- THE VIGNERON HUSBANDS THE VINEYARD SO IT PRODUCES A
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- BOUNTIFUL CROP AND THE BEST WINE.
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- IN JOHN 15, JESUS REFERS TO OUR HEAVENLY FATHER AS
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- THE VINE DRESSER WHO CARES FOR THE VINE.
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- THOUGH WE, THE BRANCHES ARE CALLED TO BEAR FRUIT,
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- IT IS THE VINE DRESSER WHO CULTIVATES US, CARES
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- FOR US, PROTECTS US AND EVEN PRUNES US.
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- THOUGH WE MAY NOT UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS,
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- THE TIMING, OR THE METHODS, WE CAN TRUST OUR
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- HEAVENLY FATHER,
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- OUR ETERNAL VIGNERON TO CULTIVATE OUR
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- LIVES TO BE PRODUCTIVE, FULL, AND SIGNIFICANT FOR
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- HIS KINGDOM.
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- [ MUSIC ]
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- - IMAGINE BEING IN THE WILDERNESS, MILES AND
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- MILES OF SAND, HOT, SCORCHING HOT SAND
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- BENEATH YOUR FEET, BLAZING SUN ABOVE YOUR HEAD.
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- IMAGINE WALKING AND SEEING NOTHING BUT
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- REPETITIONS OF WHAT YOU'RE WALKING ON, NOT
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- JUST ON THE GROUND BUT IN THE WIND, IN YOUR
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- NOSTRILS, IN YOUR CLOTHING, ALL AROUND YOU.
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- THIS WAS THE WILDERNESS THAT ISRAEL WALKED
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- THROUGH TO GET TO THE PROMISE LAND.
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- SAND UNDER YOUR FEET, SAND IN YOUR NOSTRILS,
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- IN YOUR HAIR, HEAT IN THE DAY, FREEZING COLD
- 00:11:54.837 --> 00:12:03.279
- AT NIGHT.
- 00:12:03.279 --> 00:12:05.214
- THE ONLY COVER THEY HAD WAS THE PRESENCE OF GOD.
- 00:12:05.214 --> 00:12:11.353
- AND THEY HAD TO STAY UNDER IT BECAUSE HE GAVE
- 00:12:11.353 --> 00:12:14.390
- THEM HEAT IN THE NIGHT AND SHADE BY DAY.
- 00:12:14.390 --> 00:12:21.430
- THANK YOU FOR THE SHADE YOU GAVE ME.
- 00:12:21.430 --> 00:12:24.567
- THANK YOU FOR HOW YOU PUT A BUFFER BETWEEN ME AND
- 00:12:24.567 --> 00:12:27.636
- THE THINGS THAT I WENT THROUGH, AND IN THE
- 00:12:27.636 --> 00:12:30.139
- MIDDLE OF THE DESERT WITH THE 12 TRIBES OF ISRAEL,
- 00:12:30.139 --> 00:12:34.743
- GOD DECIDED TO HAVE A DATE WITH MAN.
- 00:12:34.743 --> 00:12:38.714
- AND HE DECIDED TO HAVE A DATE IN A TABERNACLE, AND
- 00:12:38.714 --> 00:12:43.652
- THE HEBREW WORD FOR TABERNACLE IS --
- 00:12:43.652 --> 00:12:48.157
- [ SPEAKING HEBREW ]
- 00:12:48.157 --> 00:12:49.458
- IT MEANS A TENT OF MEETING.
- 00:12:49.458 --> 00:12:51.360
- IT'S A RENDEZVOUS PLACE.
- 00:12:51.360 --> 00:12:53.028
- IT'S A PLACE WHERE DIVINITY COURTS HUMANITY.
- 00:12:53.028 --> 00:12:57.533
- IT'S A PLACE WHERE THE CELESTIAL DATES
- 00:12:57.533 --> 00:13:00.436
- THE TERRESTRIAL.
- 00:13:00.436 --> 00:13:02.004
- IT'S A PLACE WHERE THE DIVINE TOUCHES THE MUNDANE.
- 00:13:02.004 --> 00:13:07.710
- THIS WAS THE TABERNACLE.
- 00:13:07.710 --> 00:13:10.379
- IT IS GOD PLAYING ETCH-A-SKETCH DRAWING
- 00:13:10.379 --> 00:13:15.985
- JESUS IN THE TABERNACLE, BECAUSE EVERYTHING THE
- 00:13:15.985 --> 00:13:20.322
- TABERNACLE WAS IT SHADOWED JESUS WAS IN REALITY.
- 00:13:20.322 --> 00:13:23.392
- HE IS A PLACE WHERE HUMANITY AND DIVINITY COHABITATE.
- 00:13:23.392 --> 00:13:26.795
- HE IS A PLACE WHERE THE CELESTIAL
- 00:13:26.795 --> 00:13:29.164
- TOUCHES THE TERRESTRIAL.
- 00:13:29.164 --> 00:13:30.599
- HE IS EVERYTHING THAT THE TABERNACLE EMBODIES.
- 00:13:30.599 --> 00:13:34.303
- HE IS TRIUNE IN HIS BEING, THE OUTER COURT,
- 00:13:34.303 --> 00:13:37.907
- THE INNER COURT, THE HOLY OF HOLIES, LIKE MAN,
- 00:13:37.907 --> 00:13:40.142
- BODY, SOUL AND SPIRIT, LIKE GOD, FATHER,
- 00:13:40.142 --> 00:13:43.078
- SON AND THE HOLY GHOST.
- 00:13:43.078 --> 00:13:44.813
- GOD SHOWS US IN THE TABERNACLE GLIMPSES OF
- 00:13:44.813 --> 00:13:48.050
- HIS GRACE, JUST INKLINGS OF GRACE,
- 00:13:48.050 --> 00:13:53.222
- JUST DROPS AND CLUES AND ELEMENTS FOR US TO SEE
- 00:13:53.222 --> 00:13:56.992
- HOW BAD HE WANTS TO HANG OUT WITH US.
- 00:13:56.992 --> 00:14:00.663
- HE PREPS US FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS BECAUSE THE
- 00:14:00.663 --> 00:14:04.066
- TABERNACLE IS A SHADOW OF JESUS,
- 00:14:04.066 --> 00:14:07.670
- AND HE'S TRYING TO GET US READY FOR HIS ENTRANCE
- 00:14:07.670 --> 00:14:10.639
- BECAUSE EVERYTHING THE TABERNACLE WAS IN THE
- 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:12.641
- WILDERNESS, IT WAS SURROUNDED BY THE 12
- 00:14:12.641 --> 00:14:15.277
- TRIBES OF ISRAEL, AND HE WAS THE ONE WHO SAT IN
- 00:14:15.277 --> 00:14:18.447
- THE MIDST OF HIS PEOPLE, AND EVERYTHING THE
- 00:14:18.447 --> 00:14:21.984
- TABERNACLE WAS IN THE WILDERNESS CHRIST WAS IN
- 00:14:21.984 --> 00:14:24.486
- REALITY. THAT'S WHY WHEN THE BABY WAS BORN,
- 00:14:24.486 --> 00:14:26.989
- THEY CALLED HIM EMMANUEL. GOD TABERNACLED WITH US.
- 00:14:26.989 --> 00:14:32.061
- HE IS THE "DWELL AMONGST US" GOD,
- 00:14:32.061 --> 00:14:34.530
- NOT THE "DWELL AMONG YOU" GOD.
- 00:14:34.530 --> 00:14:36.231
- YOU CAN'T HAVE HIM AND RESTRICT ME FROM GETTING
- 00:14:36.231 --> 00:14:39.201
- HIM. THE TABERNACLE WAS DESIGNED SO EACH TRIBE
- 00:14:39.201 --> 00:14:43.772
- WAS ABLE TO HAVE ACCESS TO HIM WHETHER YOU WERE
- 00:14:43.772 --> 00:14:46.108
- BENJAMIN OR ISSACHAR OR DAN OR GAD OR JUDAH OR
- 00:14:46.108 --> 00:14:50.245
- NAPHTALI. WE ALL HAD EQUAL ACCESS TO GOD.
- 00:14:50.245 --> 00:14:53.782
- IN THE SAME WAY, GOD HAS SO FIXED HIMSELF THAT NO
- 00:14:53.782 --> 00:14:58.020
- PARTICULAR PEOPLE CAN RESTRICT ANY OTHER GROUP
- 00:14:58.020 --> 00:15:01.290
- OF PEOPLE FROM BEING ABLE TO ACCESS HIM.
- 00:15:01.290 --> 00:15:04.159
- HE IS THE "DWELL AMONGST US" GOD.
- 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:07.730
- IT IS THIS UNDERSTANDING OF GOD THAT MAKES US
- 00:15:07.730 --> 00:15:10.866
- REALIZE HOW FAR HE WOULD GO TO DATE YOU.
- 00:15:10.866 --> 00:15:18.340
- FROM GLORY TO EARTH, FROM ETERNITY TO TIME,
- 00:15:18.340 --> 00:15:24.980
- FROM CELESTIAL TO TERRESTRIAL.
- 00:15:24.980 --> 00:15:28.083
- THE DIVINE CAME UPON MARY AND SAID LET ME BORROW A
- 00:15:28.083 --> 00:15:33.389
- TENT OF FLESH SO YOU CAN SEE ME WALK.
- 00:15:33.389 --> 00:15:38.560
- SO THE VOICE OF THE LORD THAT WALKED THROUGH THE
- 00:15:38.560 --> 00:15:40.496
- COOL OF THE GARDEN IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS DIDN'T
- 00:15:40.496 --> 00:15:43.699
- HAVE A TENT TO WEAR, BUT THE VOICE OF THE LORD
- 00:15:43.699 --> 00:15:46.635
- THAT WALKED IN MATTHEW, MARK,
- 00:15:46.635 --> 00:15:48.337
- LUKE AND JOHN WAS DRESSED UP IN THE TENT OF MARY'S
- 00:15:48.337 --> 00:15:52.241
- FLESH, AND HE IS THE TABERNACLE BECAUSE
- 00:15:52.241 --> 00:15:55.177
- HE IS THE "DWELL AMONGST US" GOD,
- 00:15:55.177 --> 00:15:58.280
- AND HE DWELT AMONG US AND WE BEHELD THE WONDER OF
- 00:15:58.280 --> 00:16:01.316
- HIS GLORY, THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER,
- 00:16:01.316 --> 00:16:04.053
- FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH, AND EVERYWHERE HIS FEET
- 00:16:04.053 --> 00:16:07.222
- TROD WE HAD SEEN GOD.
- 00:16:07.222 --> 00:16:10.259
- PHILIP SAID SHOW US THE FATHER AND IT SUFFICETH.
- 00:16:10.259 --> 00:16:13.062
- AND JESUS SAID HAVE I BEEN SO LONG TIME WITH
- 00:16:13.062 --> 00:16:15.597
- YOU AND YOU STILL DON'T KNOW THAT I
- 00:16:15.597 --> 00:16:17.633
- AND MY FATHER ARE ONE?
- 00:16:17.633 --> 00:16:19.701
- I AM GOD DWELLING AMONGST YOU IN THE MIDST OF YOU,
- 00:16:19.701 --> 00:16:24.173
- IN YOUR CAMP, SO I CAN HANG OUT WITH YOU,
- 00:16:24.173 --> 00:16:27.443
- SO THAT YOU CAN GET TO KNOW MY DADDY,
- 00:16:27.443 --> 00:16:29.578
- SO THAT YOU CAN SEE ME, SO THAT YOU CAN UNDERSTAND ME.
- 00:16:29.578 --> 00:16:32.581
- IN FACT, I AM DADDY LOVING YOU.
- 00:16:32.581 --> 00:16:35.217
- GOD IS LOVING YOU THROUGH ME,
- 00:16:35.217 --> 00:16:37.753
- TOUCHING YOU THROUGH ME, HEALING YOU THROUGH ME,
- 00:16:37.753 --> 00:16:41.390
- COMING TO YOU THROUGH ME.
- 00:16:41.390 --> 00:16:44.059
- I AM SO MUCH HIM THAT WHEN THEY RIPPED MY
- 00:16:44.059 --> 00:16:48.864
- FLESH, THE VEIL IN THE TEMPLE WERE RIPPED
- 00:16:48.864 --> 00:16:51.467
- BECAUSE WE ARE ONE IN THE SAME.
- 00:16:51.467 --> 00:16:54.036
- I AM THE HOLY OF HOLIES.
- 00:16:54.036 --> 00:16:55.904
- I AM THE ARK OF THE COVENANT.
- 00:16:55.904 --> 00:16:57.906
- I AM THE TABLE OF SHOWBREAD.
- 00:16:57.906 --> 00:16:59.875
- I AM THE ALTAR OF INCENSE.
- 00:16:59.875 --> 00:17:01.844
- I AM THE POT OF MANNA.
- 00:17:01.844 --> 00:17:03.745
- I AM AARON'S ROD THAT BUDDED.
- 00:17:03.745 --> 00:17:05.981
- I AM THE COMMANDMENTS FULFILLED.
- 00:17:05.981 --> 00:17:08.450
- I AM WOOD ENOUGH TO BE HUMAN.
- 00:17:08.450 --> 00:17:11.120
- I AM GOLD ENOUGH TO BE DIVINE.
- 00:17:11.120 --> 00:17:13.856
- I AM CARRIED AMONGST MY PEOPLE.
- 00:17:13.856 --> 00:17:16.258
- I AM GOD ALL BY MYSELF.
- 00:17:16.258 --> 00:17:20.095
- - ANNOUNCER: FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION,
- 00:17:21.096 --> 00:17:23.599
- THE BIBLE OVERFLOWS WITH STORIES,
- 00:17:23.599 --> 00:17:26.168
- METAPHORS AND SYMBOLS ASSOCIATED WITH
- 00:17:26.168 --> 00:17:28.670
- WINE AND WINE MAKING.
- 00:17:28.670 --> 00:17:31.140
- IN JOHN 15, JESUS CALLS HIMSELF THE VINE.
- 00:17:31.140 --> 00:17:34.510
- GOD THE FATHER IS THE VINE DRESSER RESPONSIBLE
- 00:17:34.510 --> 00:17:37.846
- FOR PRUNING AND CULTIVATING THE VINES.
- 00:17:37.846 --> 00:17:40.549
- AND WE, HIS PEOPLE, ARE THE BRANCHES.
- 00:17:40.549 --> 00:17:43.852
- WE ARE CALLED TO BEAR FRUIT,
- 00:17:43.852 --> 00:17:45.921
- BUT THIS IS ONLY THE BEGINNING.
- 00:17:45.921 --> 00:17:48.090
- THE FRUIT MUST BE HARVESTED AND EVENTUALLY
- 00:17:48.090 --> 00:17:50.959
- CRUSHED BEFORE IT CAN TRANSFORM INTO WINE.
- 00:17:50.959 --> 00:17:54.329
- ONCE THE GRAPES ARE GROWN,
- 00:17:54.329 --> 00:17:56.165
- HARVESTED AND GATHERED, THEY ARE PUT THROUGH THE
- 00:17:56.165 --> 00:17:58.834
- STRENUOUS, MESSY AND TIME-HONORED PRACTICE
- 00:17:58.834 --> 00:18:01.203
- OF THE CRUSHING.
- 00:18:01.203 --> 00:18:03.405
- HERE THE WINE PRESS APPLIES GREAT PRESSURE
- 00:18:03.405 --> 00:18:05.741
- TO THE RIPE GRAPES.
- 00:18:05.741 --> 00:18:07.376
- WHOLE CLUSTERS OF FRUIT ARE CRUSHED TOGETHER AS
- 00:18:07.376 --> 00:18:10.078
- THE WINE PRESS EXERTS STEADY, INTENSE PRESSURE.
- 00:18:10.078 --> 00:18:13.515
- THE CRUSHING RELEASES THE JUICE FROM THE GRAPES,
- 00:18:13.515 --> 00:18:16.418
- AND THOUGH IT MAY APPEAR AS IF THE FRUIT IS BEING
- 00:18:16.418 --> 00:18:18.654
- VIOLENTLY DESTROYED, IT IS THROUGH THIS PROCESS
- 00:18:18.654 --> 00:18:22.224
- THAT THE WINE MAKER, ALSO KNOWN AS THE VINTNER,
- 00:18:22.224 --> 00:18:24.993
- IS CREATING SOMETHING PRIZED AND TREASURED.
- 00:18:24.993 --> 00:18:39.808
- - THE TABLE HAD BEEN SET.
- 00:18:40.409 --> 00:18:44.580
- THE WATER DRAWN.
- 00:18:44.580 --> 00:18:46.882
- THE HANDS WASHED.
- 00:18:46.882 --> 00:18:49.851
- THE MEAL PREPARED.
- 00:18:49.851 --> 00:18:52.154
- THE EVENING SET IN ORDER.
- 00:18:52.154 --> 00:18:54.990
- IT WAS NOT UNIQUE OR DIFFERENT OR STRANGE
- 00:18:54.990 --> 00:18:56.992
- OR ODD OR FRESH.
- 00:18:56.992 --> 00:18:58.794
- IT WAS THE PASSOVER AS IT HAD BEEN OBSERVED FOR
- 00:18:58.794 --> 00:19:01.797
- YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS COMMEMORATING
- 00:19:01.797 --> 00:19:04.499
- THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN IN EGYPT.
- 00:19:04.499 --> 00:19:10.305
- IT WAS NOT ANY DIFFERENT FROM ANY OTHER PASSOVER
- 00:19:10.305 --> 00:19:16.445
- UNTIL JESUS SAT DOWN AT THE TABLE AND TOOK US
- 00:19:16.445 --> 00:19:21.850
- FROM THE ANCIENT BLOOD OF A LAMB THAT WAS
- 00:19:21.850 --> 00:19:26.755
- SACRIFICED FOR ISRAEL TO SAYING IT IS NO LONGER
- 00:19:26.755 --> 00:19:32.561
- ABOUT THE LAMB.
- 00:19:32.561 --> 00:19:35.497
- IT IS NOW ABOUT ME AND PASSOVER SLID OVER INTO
- 00:19:35.497 --> 00:19:41.069
- COMMUNION, AND LAW COLLAPSED ON GRACE,
- 00:19:41.069 --> 00:19:45.841
- AND DISPENSATIONS COLLIDED TOGETHER ALL
- 00:19:45.841 --> 00:19:49.411
- AT THE DINING TABLE OF THE MASTER,
- 00:19:49.411 --> 00:19:52.214
- WHAT WE WOULD CALL THE LAST SUPPER.
- 00:19:52.214 --> 00:19:57.486
- OH, AND THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER SUPPER LIKE
- 00:19:57.486 --> 00:19:59.855
- THAT SUPPER BECAUSE HIS SUPPER STANDS IN
- 00:19:59.855 --> 00:20:01.690
- A CLASS ALL BY ITSELF.
- 00:20:01.690 --> 00:20:03.292
- IT IS NOT JUST A CHANGE, IT IS A PARADIGM SHIFT.
- 00:20:03.292 --> 00:20:06.928
- THE PHYSICAL BODY OF JESUS CHRIST SITS DOWN AT
- 00:20:06.928 --> 00:20:10.999
- THE TABLE TO SERVE THE MEMORIAL BODY OF CHRIST.
- 00:20:10.999 --> 00:20:18.240
- FOR THE ELEMENTS ARE THE MEMORIAL BODY OF CHRIST
- 00:20:18.240 --> 00:20:20.742
- AS OFTEN AS YOU DO THIS,
- 00:20:20.742 --> 00:20:22.311
- DO THIS IN REMEMBRANCE IS OF ME UNTIL I COME.
- 00:20:22.311 --> 00:20:25.447
- SO THE BREAD AND THE WINE IS A MEMORIAL BODY OF
- 00:20:25.447 --> 00:20:28.317
- CHRIST BEING SERVED BY THE PHYSICAL BODY OF
- 00:20:28.317 --> 00:20:31.620
- CHRIST, BEING SERVED TO THE MYSTICAL BODY OF
- 00:20:31.620 --> 00:20:37.059
- CHRIST WHICH IS THE CHURCH WHOSE BLESSED HOPE
- 00:20:37.059 --> 00:20:41.963
- IS TO HAVE THE GLORIFIED BODY OF CHRIST.
- 00:20:41.963 --> 00:20:47.602
- SO AT THE TABLE WE SEE FOUR REPRESENTATIONS
- 00:20:47.602 --> 00:20:50.005
- OF ONE BODY.
- 00:20:50.005 --> 00:20:52.174
- IS HE THE BODY, OR THE BODY, OR THE BODY,
- 00:20:52.174 --> 00:20:57.212
- OR THE BODY.
- 00:20:57.212 --> 00:21:01.116
- NO WONDER HE TOLD MOSES WHO SHALL I SAY SENT ME?
- 00:21:01.116 --> 00:21:04.920
- HE SAID OH, YOU CAN'T EXPLAIN ME.
- 00:21:04.920 --> 00:21:07.122
- I MUST BE REVEALED.
- 00:21:07.122 --> 00:21:09.658
- YOU CAN'T EXPLAIN ME BECAUSE TO THE
- 00:21:09.658 --> 00:21:11.960
- UNBELIEVER, ALL THEY WILL SEE IS BREAD AND WINE,
- 00:21:11.960 --> 00:21:14.663
- AND THEY WILL NOT KNOW THAT THIS IS A NEW
- 00:21:14.663 --> 00:21:17.065
- TESTAMENT IN MY BLOOD.
- 00:21:17.065 --> 00:21:18.967
- THEY WILL NOT KNOW THAT THE BLOOD,
- 00:21:18.967 --> 00:21:20.769
- THAT THE WINE IS MY BLOOD AND THE BREAD IS MY BODY.
- 00:21:20.769 --> 00:21:26.174
- THEY WILL NOT KNOW THAT WHEN THEY INGEST THE WINE
- 00:21:26.174 --> 00:21:28.977
- AND THE BLOOD THEY ARE TAKING IN ME,
- 00:21:28.977 --> 00:21:31.913
- AND THAT EACH ONE OF THEM WILL HOLD A PORTION OF
- 00:21:31.913 --> 00:21:34.516
- THE MYSTERY THAT ONLY BRINGS THE BREAD TOGETHER
- 00:21:34.516 --> 00:21:37.352
- THROUGH THEIR UNITY.
- 00:21:37.352 --> 00:21:40.122
- THAT IS THE MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST,
- 00:21:40.122 --> 00:21:42.057
- AND THAT IS WHY SATAN HATES FOR THE CHURCH TO
- 00:21:42.057 --> 00:21:44.593
- BE UNITED, BECAUSE WHEN WE ALL COME TOGETHER,
- 00:21:44.593 --> 00:21:47.262
- AND YOUR PIECE COMES TOGETHER WITH MY PIECE,
- 00:21:47.262 --> 00:21:49.197
- AND HIS PIECE, AND HER PIECE, AND THEIR PIECE,
- 00:21:49.197 --> 00:21:51.500
- AND WE ALL CONNECT,
- 00:21:51.500 --> 00:21:52.901
- WE BECOME THE LOAF AND BECOME ONE AGAIN.
- 00:21:52.901 --> 00:21:54.736
- FATHER, I PRAY THAT THESE MAY BE ONE,
- 00:21:54.736 --> 00:21:57.672
- EVEN AS YOU AND I ARE ALSO ONE.
- 00:21:57.672 --> 00:22:01.042
- LET'S SIT DOWN AT THE TABLE AND SEE JESUS
- 00:22:01.042 --> 00:22:04.346
- BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME THINGS ABOUT JESUS THAT
- 00:22:04.346 --> 00:22:06.615
- CANNOT BE LEARNED FROM THE PULPIT.
- 00:22:06.615 --> 00:22:08.283
- THEY CAN ONLY BE DISCOVERED AT THE TABLE.
- 00:22:08.283 --> 00:22:11.486
- AND THE TABLE, THE MYSTICAL BODY OF CHRIST
- 00:22:11.486 --> 00:22:14.556
- WHICH IS THE CHURCH, BEHELD THE MEMORIAL BODY
- 00:22:14.556 --> 00:22:17.726
- OF CHRIST BEING FED TO THEM THROUGH THE PHYSICAL
- 00:22:17.726 --> 00:22:20.462
- BODY OF CHRIST AWAITING THE GLORIFIED BODY OF
- 00:22:20.462 --> 00:22:24.433
- CHRIST AT THE TABLE.
- 00:22:24.433 --> 00:22:26.334
- LATER, WHEN JESUS WILL BE CRUCIFIED AND RAISED FROM
- 00:22:26.334 --> 00:22:29.171
- THE DEAD, HE WILL MEET TWO DISCIPLES ON THE ROAD
- 00:22:29.171 --> 00:22:31.706
- TO EMMAUS, AND HE WILL TALK TO THEM IN A SEVEN
- 00:22:31.706 --> 00:22:35.076
- MILE STRETCH AND USE ALL OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
- 00:22:35.076 --> 00:22:37.946
- IN SEVEN MILES.
- 00:22:37.946 --> 00:22:39.714
- THAT'S A SHORT WALK FOR A BIG BOOK.
- 00:22:39.714 --> 00:22:41.783
- HE DISCUSSED EVERY SHADOW AND EVERY TYPE THAT
- 00:22:41.783 --> 00:22:45.287
- REPRESENTED HIM.
- 00:22:45.287 --> 00:22:46.888
- AND WHEN HE HAD COME TO WHERE THEY WOULD DEPART,
- 00:22:46.888 --> 00:22:49.891
- HE MADE AS IF HE WOULD GO FURTHER.
- 00:22:49.891 --> 00:22:52.761
- HE DIDN'T GO FURTHER, HE JUST ACTED LIKE HE WOULD.
- 00:22:52.761 --> 00:22:57.165
- BECAUSE GOD IS AN ACTOR LIKE AS A MIGHTY
- 00:22:57.165 --> 00:23:02.537
- RUSHING WIND, LIKE AS CLOVEN TONGUES.
- 00:23:02.537 --> 00:23:07.042
- HOLY SPIRIT DESCEND LIKE AS A DOVE.
- 00:23:07.042 --> 00:23:09.911
- GOD IS AN ACTOR AND HE MADE AS IF HE WOULD GO ON.
- 00:23:09.911 --> 00:23:16.218
- YES, HE DID. BUT THEY STOPPED HIM.
- 00:23:16.218 --> 00:23:19.654
- AND SOMETHING THAT THEY DID NOT LEARN FROM
- 00:23:19.654 --> 00:23:23.925
- LOOKING AT HIS FACE, OR THE STAINS IN HIS
- 00:23:23.925 --> 00:23:27.329
- CLOTHING, OR THE HOLES IN HIS HANDS,
- 00:23:27.329 --> 00:23:30.365
- OR THE PIERCING IN HIS SIDE,
- 00:23:30.365 --> 00:23:31.700
- IT'S SOMETHING THAT THEY DID NOT LEARN FROM HIS
- 00:23:31.700 --> 00:23:33.835
- PREACHING AND TEACHING.
- 00:23:33.835 --> 00:23:35.003
- NOW THAT SEVEN MILE STRETCH THEY LEARNED AT
- 00:23:35.003 --> 00:23:38.340
- THE TABLE WHEN THEY SAT AT THE TABLE WITH HIM
- 00:23:38.340 --> 00:23:41.943
- ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS.
- 00:23:41.943 --> 00:23:44.012
- CAN I GO DEEPER?
- 00:23:44.012 --> 00:23:46.214
- WHEN THEY SAT DOWN WITH JESUS--
- 00:23:46.214 --> 00:23:49.117
- THAT'S WHY YOU HAVE TO SIT DOWN WITH JESUS.
- 00:23:49.117 --> 00:23:51.119
- IT CAN'T JUST BE A SUNDAY MORNING EXPERIENCE.
- 00:23:51.119 --> 00:23:53.188
- YOU HAVE TO SIT DOWN WITH JESUS.
- 00:23:53.188 --> 00:23:55.156
- YOU HAVE TO SUP WITH HIM.
- 00:23:55.156 --> 00:23:56.625
- YOU HAVE TO CONNECT WITH HIM.
- 00:23:56.625 --> 00:23:57.926
- WHEN THEY SAT DOWN WITH JESUS,
- 00:23:57.926 --> 00:24:00.095
- HE DID A SIMPLE THING IN THEIR MIDST THAT WAS MORE
- 00:24:00.095 --> 00:24:02.931
- PROFOUND THAN ANYTHING HE DID ON THE ROAD.
- 00:24:02.931 --> 00:24:05.534
- HE DID MORE AT THE TABLE THAN HE DID AT THE ROAD
- 00:24:05.534 --> 00:24:08.336
- BECAUSE GOD ALWAYS PERFORMS MIRACLES AT THE TABLE.
- 00:24:08.336 --> 00:24:12.040
- AND HE SAT DOWN AT THE TABLE,
- 00:24:12.040 --> 00:24:14.075
- AND THE BIBLE SAID HE TOOK THE BREAD AND BROKE
- 00:24:14.075 --> 00:24:17.546
- IT, AND BLESSED IT, AND GAVE IT TO THEM,
- 00:24:17.546 --> 00:24:20.916
- AND THEY SAW HIM IN THE ORDER OF THE BREAKING OF BREAD.
- 00:24:20.916 --> 00:24:26.254
- THEY USE THE SAME PHRASE WE SEE AT THE LAST SUPPER.
- 00:24:26.254 --> 00:24:30.058
- HE TOOK IT, AND BLESSED IT, AND BROKE IT,
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- AND GAVE IT TO THEM.
- 00:24:33.228 --> 00:24:34.563
- IT IS THE SAME PHRASE THAT WE SEE WITH THE
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- 5.000 WHEN THE LITTLE BOY GAVE HIM THE LUNCH.
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- HE TOOK IT AND BLESSED IT AND BROKE IT
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- AND GAVE IT TO THEM.
- 00:24:42.203 --> 00:24:43.838
- IT IS THE SAME THING THAT IS HAPPENING IN YOUR LIFE.
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- HE TAKES YOU AND BLESSES YOU AND BREAKS YOU AND
- 00:24:46.408 --> 00:24:49.878
- GIVES YOU TO THE WORLD.
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- YOU CANNOT BE GIVEN TO THE WORLD UNTIL YOU'VE
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- BEEN TAKEN BY THE MASTER, BLESSED BY GOD,
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- BROKEN BY LIFE AND THEN GIVEN TO THE WORLD.
- 00:24:58.053 --> 00:25:01.756
- AND THE MORE HE TAKES YOU AND BLESSES YOU AND
- 00:25:01.756 --> 00:25:04.759
- BREAKS YOU, THE MORE HE MULTIPLIES YOU SO THAT
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- YOU CAN MEET THE NEEDS YOU COULDN'T MEET BEFORE
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- BECAUSE THE MULTIPLICATION IS IN THE BREAKING.
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- IT'S NOT IN THE BLESSING.
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- IT'S IN THE BREAKING.
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- AND IF GOD DIDN'T BREAK YOU,
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- HE COULDN'T GIVE YOU TO THEM.
- 00:25:18.139 --> 00:25:19.908
- BUT EVERY TIME HE BREAKS YOU,
- 00:25:19.908 --> 00:25:21.910
- HE MULTIPLIES YOU AND INCREASES YOU,
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- AND YOU BECOME A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN WHAT YOU
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- WERE BEFORE BECAUSE YOU WERE IN THE MASTER'S
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- HANDS, AND HE TOOK YOU, AND HE BLESSED YOU,
- 00:25:30.185 --> 00:25:33.388
- AND HE BROKE YOU, AND HE GAVE YOU TO THEM.
- 00:25:33.388 --> 00:25:45.367
- - T.D. JAKES: THE BIBLE SAYS WEEPING MAY ENDURE FOR A
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- NIGHT BUT JOY COMETH IN THE MORNING.
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- THIS IS LONGER THAN A NORMAL NIGHT.
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- IT CAN BE MONTHS.
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- IT CAN BE YEARS WHERE WEEPING ENDURES,
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- BUT THE PROMISE YET REMAINS ENDURE COMES
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- IN THE MORNING.
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- I'M PRAYING WITH YOU FOR MORNING AND THAT YOU'D
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- HAVE THE STRENGTH TO ENDURE HOWEVER LONG THE
- 00:26:03.652 --> 00:26:06.087
- NIGHT UNTIL THE MORNING COMES.
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- I'VE EXPERIENCED THE CRUSHING PAIN OF LIFE,
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- AND I HAVE SEEN THE BRIGHT AWAKENING OF MORNING.
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- FATHER, BLESS MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS RIGHT NOW AS
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- THEY FACE THAT DARK MIDNIGHT SEASON
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- IN THEIR MARRIAGE, IN THEIR FINANCES,
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- IN THEIR BUSINESS, IN THEIR HEART,
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- IN THEIR HOME WITH THEIR CHILDREN,
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- WITH BEREAVEMENT.
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- LIFT THEM UP AND LET THE EARLY SHADOWS OF DAYBREAK
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- BEGIN TO APPEAR ABOVE THE EASTERN SKY.
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- I THANK YOU FOR IT NOW.
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- IN JESUS' NAME.
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- AMEN.
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