WEBVTT - Chain Breaker (Bishop T.D. Jakes) 0:00:01.800 --> 0:00:04.359 Hey, this is Stephen Ferdick. I'm the pastor of Elevation 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:06.840 Church and this is our podcast. I wanted to thank 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:10.160 you for joining us today. Hope this inspires you. Hope 0:00:10.200 --> 0:00:12.239 it builds your faith. Hope it gives you perspective to 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:14.960 see God is moving in your life. Enjoy the message. 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:19.680 What I want to say on every location, and I 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:23.160 want to make sure I say this. The greatest communicator 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:27.240 on planet Earth is about to stand in this pulpit 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:31.000 and bring forth the word of God. Thank you Bishop 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:34.479 for being my true north. Thank you for being my friend. 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.080 Thank you for being a pioneer. Thank you for being 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:43.240 an example. Preach this word before I turn forty. Eleve 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:47.920 says sharks, let's welcome on me. Only be it comparable, 0:00:48.400 --> 0:01:15.080 please l cd ejach what's that? If you love Jesus? 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:28.560 Why Glory said? I said, I have you gotta have 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:32.839 energy to go to this church. I gotta take Jared Toll, 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:36.840 Invitamin D and C and E and F and get 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:40.200 my knees all and everything to pull with y'all. Y'all 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:48.480 are rowdy? Anybody rowdy for Jesus in this glak Wow? Well, 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:52.040 thank you for letting me be here on your birthday. 0:01:52.080 --> 0:01:56.400 In the church's fourteenth anniversary, we celebrate you. My lovely 0:01:56.440 --> 0:02:03.560 wife celebrates your stand up honey, show them my deg you. 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:09.320 The finest grandmama I saw in my life, five kids, 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:16.120 nine grand kids is still rocketed. She can still twork 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:22.160 for the Lord and give God a praise. See that 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:31.519 spirit that was on you jumped on me, cast it out. Well, 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:35.160 I'm going to do something in the third service that 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:37.560 we didn't get to do in the first service. And 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:41.880 this is just part of my way of celebrating. Your 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:47.200 Pastor texts me at least twice a week, and if 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.880 I preach something really good, he calls me. That's my barometer. 0:02:51.560 --> 0:02:55.160 There are levels. If he doesn't call or text, I 0:02:55.280 --> 0:03:00.960 go into depression. I think I just completely failed. He 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.160 missed about three weeks. I said, what's wrong with you? 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:10.680 Call me say something. We love you. It's not a 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:14.240 slage love. It's not a in front of people love. 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:18.200 It's it's a deep, abiding love. So much of your 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:24.280 story is like mine. You came up from a small 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:29.760 town in the rural area in monks Creek. It is 0:03:29.880 --> 0:03:32.880 it ought to be monks Creek, a monk's corner and 0:03:33.120 --> 0:03:36.560 he came out of Monks Corner and then Charlotte. I 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:41.640 grew up in Charleston, West Mcgod, Virginia, you gotta throw 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:44.240 the back God in there. You're not a true West Virginia. 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:52.240 Take me home Country Road to the place I belong 0:03:54.160 --> 0:04:06.280 West Virginia, Mount Marma Tigh Country Road. I just had 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.280 to authenticate that I am a true West Virginia when 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:11.600 you know all the words to that's all. You are 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:15.600 from West Virginia. And God sent me to Dallas, Texas, 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:18.240 and I had whatever happened in my life happened in 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:19.800 my life, and I just so relate to you in 0:04:19.839 --> 0:04:21.400 so many ways. And I was trying to think of 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.840 something to commemorate because he's always getting me all these 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:28.600 cool shoes, and I got big feet, you know. So 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:30.560 he gets me the shoes and then calls me and 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:32.840 asks me, did I get all my toes in them? 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:36.200 So I started to get you some cool shoes, but 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.120 I wasn't sure you could get all your toes in them. 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.719 But I do want to make a presentation to you 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:45.440 that I thought reminded me of you. And this is 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:56.480 part of my birthday present to you. And I hope 0:04:56.480 --> 0:05:02.680 the right thing is under here, because this is great faith, 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:05.159 because I didn't get to check behind. So if I 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.279 unveiling and it's the wrong thing, I'm going to cover 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:10.960 it up. Then for the first time in my intern life, 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:18.039 I'm going to turn red. Okay, because you, as a 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:23.640 very young man, did such amazing things that shook the world, 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:29.240 that transcended denominations and culture and ethnicities and backgrounds and 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:36.200 politics and generational ideologies. Shook the world in such a 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:40.000 powerful way. When I think of Bible characters, I thought 0:05:40.000 --> 0:05:54.320 of David. I think you are a giant killer, and 0:05:54.440 --> 0:06:07.599 so I had them get this bronze statue so that 0:06:07.680 --> 0:06:10.120 you could put this somewhere in your life and every 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:14.320 time you run into something big or feel in anequin 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:18.320 or wonder can you do it? Brought this David to 0:06:18.440 --> 0:06:21.039 remind you that the head of the giant is under 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:28.039 your feet. And this is my sermony. You come on 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.520 up close. You've been coming up a while I was preaching. 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:32.800 Look at it. I paid a lot of money for this. 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:37.240 Want you I wanted I want you to get the 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:43.240 impact that everything that roared against you is under you, 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:49.320 and your sword is grown, and you are good. And 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.240 every time you think of it. I want you to 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:55.560 tell the Lord to bless me. Will you do that 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:57.719 for me? I love you. Give it up for him. 0:06:58.400 --> 0:07:07.320 Thank you hug somebody while you're standing there until he 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:18.520 turned blue. I'm grateful to be here. You can be seated. 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.840 Doctor Andipus. What you're saying, Doctor Andapus runs my new 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:29.840 Jake's Divinity School, giving up for him. He comes up 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.960 here to make sure that I'm theologically in order and correct, 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.520 and he's running my school for me. Now. I just 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:40.880 started an online Jake's Divinity School is also online in Dallas, 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:44.560 and we're proud to announce it. Thank you for being here, 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:50.080 playing hooky away from church. I'm gonna get you later, amen. 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:56.360 I'm all through the other service. I kept I was preaching. 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.360 I kept looking at this guy that looked like Mike 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.640 Todd and I said, gosh, looks just like my car. 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:07.200 And I thought I might text you later and tell 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.640 you that you have a look alike in Charlotte, and 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.640 I found out, No, it's not his twin brother. It's 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:15.280 really him giving up him and his lovely wife I 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:19.560 just met. Stand up, take a bow, let's celebrate them. Yeah, 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:28.320 I appreciation. This is just good. Since you're both here, 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.440 I got a breg. I got both of them preaching 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:33.880 at my leadership conference right here in Charlotte in April 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.920 thirtieth through May. A second, I'm not worried about no 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:41.240 devils being nowhere between Steven Ferdick and Mike Todd. All 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:45.079 the devils have moved down to Charlotte. They're scared to 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:49.520 be around. Amen. Thank god I've got them. Kean Henderson, 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:52.040 myself and a whole lot of others invite you to 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:54.719 come and be a part of it and enjoy the 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:58.120 Lord with Denzel Washington, Tyler Period, a whole bunch of people. 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:01.760 It's going to be absolutely unlike anything you have, whether 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:05.439 you're in ministry or in business. I've got a component 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:12.079 that really will touch your life. Dave Stewart, who is 0:09:12.760 --> 0:09:16.640 a billionaire that stays out of sight, low profile African 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:20.160 American Saint Louis, Missouri. I don't know how I talked 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.080 to him into coming, but what's really cool about him, 0:09:22.120 --> 0:09:24.720 there's a lot of billionaires out He's a born again 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:29.199 bloodwa wash spirit, feel loves Jesus, and he's going to 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:32.439 show you how to use your faith to move your finances. 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:35.199 To the next level, because God's getting ready to pour 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.080 out wealth on these people like we've never seen before, 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:41.520 so that we can have impact in this present world. 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:46.480 Shall all a millionaires shout out an idiot. That's what 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.600 I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about. It's going 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:53.520 to be good anyway. Thank you Jesus, Thank God, Thank 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.160 God for your life, thank God for this church. Go 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:58.679 to the Book of Acts, chapter eight, verse one through eight, 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:04.520 and while you turn into it, I want to tell 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:09.360 you about my dog Pup. You know, you're not very 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:11.800 creative when you get a dog and you name him pup. 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.720 He was just a puppy and Mama said, what are 0:10:17.720 --> 0:10:19.880 you gonna name him? I said, well, let's call him Pup. 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.600 So he grew to me that high. But we still 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:27.920 called him Pup and he was nice to us, but 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:31.880 he would terrorize the community, so we had to keep 0:10:31.960 --> 0:10:34.120 him chained and a little. I lived in a little 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:36.599 raggedy house on the side of the hill, on the 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:40.360 backside of a mountain in Charlton, West Virginia, and half 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:43.000 of the house was on the mountain. Another half was 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:46.080 supported by four by four posts, and we had him 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:49.959 tied to the posts on the chain, and we didn't 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:54.240 know that he could break the chain until one day 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.160 this young man came down there on the bicycle and 0:10:57.280 --> 0:11:00.679 he was moving real fast, you know, on the bicycle, 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:04.040 and that he's now, he's been in my church, gosh 0:11:04.400 --> 0:11:07.120 forty years now. But at that time, I was just 0:11:07.200 --> 0:11:09.920 a little boy, and we didn't know that Pup could 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:13.000 break the chain. But Pup showed us that when what 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:15.319 he wanted in front of him was bigger than what 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.880 was behind him, he broke the chain that held him 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:22.240 and went to the next level. And I'm believing God 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:25.760 for everybody in here to do some chain breaking in 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:29.320 your life. Hey man, any chain breakers in the room, 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:35.120 tell somebody, tell him I'm a chain breaker. I want 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.679 you to go to the Book of Acts eight, verse one, 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:39.520 and if you want to make me feel real and home, 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.240 stand for the reading of the word. Just because we 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:44.640 stood for everybody else, we might as well stand for God. 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:49.640 Beginning at verse one, I'm going to read eight simple 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:55.600 verses I will extrapolate from the text. I think I'm 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:57.920 going to I think I'm going to just use Pup 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:04.199 as an example and just call it chain breaker. And 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:08.040 look at him as said I'm a chain breaker. And 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:11.120 Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:16.599 there was a great persecution against the Church which was 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:21.199 at Jerusalem, and they were all scattered abroad throughout the 0:12:21.280 --> 0:12:25.840 regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles and devout 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:31.960 men carried Step into his burial and made great lamentations 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:36.360 over him. This is the embryotic stages of the development 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:39.760 of the church. The church hadn't even really come into 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.560 the realization of who it really was. It had power, 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:46.720 it had purpose, but it didn't even understand itself fully. 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:50.760 It didn't have structure or order. As for Saul, he 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:53.600 made havoc of the church. Saul, who would later become 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.680 converted and be one of the greatest participants of the church, 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.120 had not come into the awareness of who he was. 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.800 So the church, who didn't know who he was, was 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.559 being persecuted by a man who didn't know who he was. 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:08.000 As for Saul, he made havoc of the church, entering 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:12.600 into every house and hailing men and women, committing them 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:16.439 to prison, hauling men and women and committing them unto prison. 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:22.640 Therefore they were scattered abroad. They were therefore therefore therefore, therefore, 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:26.040 because of the persecution. Therefore, because of the persecution, they 0:13:26.120 --> 0:13:32.040 were scattered abroad and went everywhere preaching the Gospel. Then Philip, 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:36.559 then Philip, Then Philip went. Then Philip went down to Samaria, 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:40.160 to the city of Samaria, and preached Christ unto them. 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:43.680 And the people with one accord gave heed unto those 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:48.200 things which Philip spake. Hearing and seeing the miracles which 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.480 he did, they heard what he said, they watched what 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:56.160 he did. For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.599 came out of many that were possessed with them, and 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:04.199 many were taken, many taken with palsy, and that were 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:11.000 lame were healed, and there was great what joy in 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:15.800 that city. Chain breakers, Let's pray, Father, in the name 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.800 of Jesus, I pray that your presence and power would 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:22.360 prevail in this place today, that your glory would emanate 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:24.800 through the Word of God, that it would touch lives, 0:14:25.600 --> 0:14:27.800 that it wouldn't just touch us, but it would touch 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:32.600 all that concerns us, all that is around us, all 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:36.160 that we envelop I pray God that this would be 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:40.120 the kind of yoke breaking, thirst, quenching, mind, renewing Chain 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:44.960 breaking word that releases the captives and sets him free, 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:49.600 that heals the lame that binds up the broken hearted. 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:53.800 I pray a special prayer for people whose heart has 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:57.040 been broken today and they bear a pain that no 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:00.960 medicine can heal. But today, in the name of Jesus, 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.760 I pray that healing would break out in the hearts 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:07.040 of not only this campus, but every campus that is watching. 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:11.000 I speak. Healing and deliverance have your way in this 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:14.840 place in the name of Jesus, we pray, and I 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:18.800 need everybody with a sound of thunder to shout amen. 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:24.800 You may be seated in the presence of God. Next 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.680 time you introduce me, bring it down like quite a bit, 0:15:27.800 --> 0:15:33.520 you know, bring the expectation level down. Turn it down 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:39.560 a little bit. I'd rather you about there and that way. 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.160 If I hit there, I'm up. But if you put 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.480 it up there, I have to leap up like Magic 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:49.360 Johnson to get there. So pray for me. Somebody shout amen. 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:55.320 We are in the Book of Acts. It has wrongly 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:59.120 been called the acts of the Apostles, when in fact, 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:01.640 with careful ste you will understand it is not so 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:04.360 much the acts of the Apostles. It is in fact 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.720 the acts of God. It is the acts of God 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:11.200 through the apostles in the early formation of the Church. 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:15.640 This book is written by Luke. It is a continuation 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:19.560 of the Gospel of Luke and initially was not divided. 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:23.480 Later it was divided from the book, but it continues 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.800 the thoughts of Luke when he says, so, former treaties 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:28.960 have I made in acts one to one? The former 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:31.600 treaties have I made? O Theophilus, of all that Jesus 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:35.640 began both to do and to teach, the indication is 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:40.280 that Jesus began it, but he is not finished. Of 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:43.680 all that Jesus began both to do and to teach 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:47.280 into Samaria Judea in the utmost parts of the earth. 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.000 It is just that the Jesus that is doing it 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:53.560 now is not doing it through the body he initially 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.200 did it through. But rather than to do it through 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.120 his physical body, he is now doing it through his 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:03.760 mystical body. But it is still him. There are very 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.680 few occasions that we see the physical body and the 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.639 mystical body in the same place, like we do at 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:13.679 the Passover. Allow me to share what I mean. At 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:17.399 the Passover service, you see all aspects of the Body 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:21.359 of Christ. You see the physical body of Christ, and 0:17:21.560 --> 0:17:23.920 through the bread and the wine, you see the memorial 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:27.639 body of Christ serving the physical body of Christ is 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:31.680 serving the memorial body of Christ to the mystical body 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:34.600 of Christ, who is the Church. And they're all at 0:17:34.640 --> 0:17:38.440 the table together. So the Body of Christ says to 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:42.240 the Body of Christ, says, take eat, this is my body, 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:46.080 and we see all three manifestations of one body in 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:50.040 one place. Had the enemy understood what I just said, 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:53.159 he would have never crucified the Lord, because when he 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.560 crucified the Lord, he crucified the Lord to get the 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:58.159 Body of Christ out of the earth. But all the 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:01.600 Body of Christ did was move from the physical body 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:05.159 of Christ into the mystical body of Christ so that 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:10.040 the work of God could continue. And that's who you are. 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.280 Your name is not James or Robert or Richard or 0:18:13.400 --> 0:18:17.560 Angela or Shaniqua. No, no, your name. Yeah, I gotta 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:24.440 cover everybody. This is an equal opportunity to uri say, man, 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:28.560 somebody that is not really your name, Your name is 0:18:28.840 --> 0:18:33.119 really Christ Jesus. Yes, Because when the Father looks at you, 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:37.000 he does not see you as an individual. He sees 0:18:37.119 --> 0:18:41.440 you as Jesus Christ, because Christ has covered you in 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:44.240 such a way that the truth of the miner is. 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:47.400 When Christ was on the cross, God didn't see his son, 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:53.159 he saw your sin, and so when he reacted to 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:57.440 what he saw, and Christ was smitten of God, confused, saying, 0:18:57.560 --> 0:19:02.159 elie lie lama, sabothane, God, my God, why is forsaking me? 0:19:02.480 --> 0:19:05.000 The reason that he felt forsaken is that he was 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:08.520 covered up with you so that you could be covered 0:19:08.600 --> 0:19:11.720 up with him, so that the life that you now 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:13.520 live in the flesh, you live by the faith of 0:19:13.600 --> 0:19:15.879 the son of God, who loved himself and gave himself 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:19.280 a ransom for you. I'll prove it to you, so 0:19:19.520 --> 0:19:22.440 Jesus tells you. When you go to the Father, don't 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:26.679 use your name because he can't see you. But whatsoever 0:19:26.800 --> 0:19:31.280 you ask the Father in my name, that will I do. So. 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.040 When you come to the Father in the name of Jesus, 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:37.879 it's only because you look like Jesus, for his blood 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:41.520 is the propitiation of your sin and has so covered you. 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:45.240 That's why you can come boldly to the throne of grace. 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:47.600 You don't have to walk up with your head down, 0:19:48.000 --> 0:19:50.760 ashamed of your sins because your sins were judged on 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:54.560 the cross. You can come like the beloved Son because 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:57.199 you are covered with the Beloved Son. And you got 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:00.600 to remember to use his name to somebody, say say Jesus, 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:03.879 Say Jesus, Say Jesus, Say Jesus, Say Jesus. When you come, 0:20:04.000 --> 0:20:07.680 say Jesus, because you're wearing Jesus and you're walking in Jesus, 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:10.679 and you're moving in Jesus, and you're living in Jesus. 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:13.760 In him. I live in Him, I move in Him. 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:21.160 I have my being. And the Church is really trying 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:23.640 to get his hands around this whole notion of who 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:28.159 they are and understanding themselves because the Holy Spirit has 0:20:28.240 --> 0:20:30.640 fallen on the Day of Pentecosts in Night chapter one, 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:34.160 verse eight, and they have received this power, this power 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:38.520 from God which is so amazing and so incomprehensible that 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:42.040 they will spend the rest of their lives understanding how 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:45.920 to operate in this new dimension of the spirit. They 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:48.359 do not have deaconshit they do know how to have 0:20:48.640 --> 0:20:52.160 elders or pastors or apostles that will come with Paul. 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:56.639 They just have power. But power without structure is a 0:20:56.800 --> 0:21:01.320 dangerous thing. Do you hear what I'm saying. The Holy 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:04.760 Spirit has fallen with such power in that chapter one, 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:09.200 and that's chapter two, that whenever there were problems to arise, 0:21:09.760 --> 0:21:13.200 they would all gather in Jerusalem because they were afraid 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:16.680 to get out of Jerusalem because they didn't feel ready yet. 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:20.400 Have you ever not felt ready yet? And you knew 0:21:20.440 --> 0:21:22.760 God was going to do some amazing things in your life, 0:21:23.040 --> 0:21:25.720 but you didn't have all your details together, and you 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:28.359 didn't have everything worked out yet, and you felt like 0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:32.880 destiny was moving faster than revelation was in your life, 0:21:33.200 --> 0:21:35.480 and you were walking by faith and not by sight. 0:21:36.080 --> 0:21:41.680 That was the feeling of the early Jight. So whenever 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:44.399 we don't know what to do, we hang around what 0:21:44.560 --> 0:21:50.560 we know. And whenever we hang around what we know 0:21:50.760 --> 0:21:54.159 too long, God has to send something to get us 0:21:54.240 --> 0:22:01.280 to move. Because being a christ which they weren't even 0:22:01.400 --> 0:22:05.560 named yet at this point, being a Christian is not 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:10.640 a monument. It is a movement. It is a movement. 0:22:11.280 --> 0:22:14.880 It is a movement, not a monument. It's not a building. 0:22:15.000 --> 0:22:18.800 It's not a denomination, it's not a doctrine. It's a movement. 0:22:19.320 --> 0:22:24.280 Elevation is not a church. It's a movement. You understand, 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:27.080 Thank you. It's not about a building. It's not about 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:30.920 four walls, it's not about where you sit in a building. 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:34.560 The vision of this church is a movement. That's why 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:40.600 you call elevation, which means we move, We elevate, we rise, 0:22:41.400 --> 0:22:45.600 we escalate, we move forward. Don't look for us where 0:22:45.640 --> 0:22:49.080 we used to be. Because we are elevation. We will 0:22:49.240 --> 0:22:51.760 move on a brother. We will walk on a brother. 0:22:52.160 --> 0:22:55.040 We will rise on a brother. If the enemy tries 0:22:55.080 --> 0:22:58.040 to attack us, we will rise on the devil. Because 0:22:58.080 --> 0:23:01.040 we are elevation. We are like eagles. We take to 0:23:01.160 --> 0:23:04.760 the air, We rise above the storm. Come on, elevation. 0:23:04.880 --> 0:23:07.840 I'm talking about your church. I'm talking about your church, 0:23:08.080 --> 0:23:11.080 and all of your locations. Make some noise if you're 0:23:11.080 --> 0:23:19.320 getting ready to elevate in this place. The problem is 0:23:19.600 --> 0:23:24.720 fear will make a movement turn into a monument. And 0:23:24.920 --> 0:23:28.760 most of our denominational entanglements just tell us where they 0:23:28.920 --> 0:23:36.200 stopped moving, and we memorialize where God has been, rather 0:23:36.320 --> 0:23:40.440 than to thirsty be where God is. Oh, follow me, 0:23:40.440 --> 0:23:43.879 because I'm going somewhere today. They told me that this 0:23:44.119 --> 0:23:46.720 is the third service, and I heard you all could 0:23:46.800 --> 0:23:50.960 handle it. So I'm gonna drop it like it's hot 0:23:51.040 --> 0:23:55.760 in here. Okay, you ready for this. I'm getting ready 0:23:55.800 --> 0:23:58.760 to set it off in this place. Are you ready 0:23:58.800 --> 0:24:03.000 for me to set it off in this place? I'm 0:24:03.040 --> 0:24:05.920 getting ready to tell you that God has a way 0:24:06.000 --> 0:24:10.679 of shifting things, getting us out of our comfort zone, 0:24:11.240 --> 0:24:16.879 pushing us away from the familiar. He forces us to scatter. 0:24:19.000 --> 0:24:22.000 And that's exactly what this text is all about, because 0:24:22.040 --> 0:24:24.920 in a chapter eight, the church that is trying to 0:24:25.080 --> 0:24:29.639 memorialize where God was is being pushed out of their 0:24:29.760 --> 0:24:34.080 comfort zone by the attack of Saul. Kind of the 0:24:34.240 --> 0:24:43.879 persecution of Saul comes direction. Direction. Persecution. Persecution is direction. 0:24:44.920 --> 0:24:48.800 Sometimes you shout about the doors God opens, but you 0:24:48.960 --> 0:25:00.359 ought to be shouting about the doors God closes. He 0:25:00.600 --> 0:25:05.159 will push you. And what has happened up into the 0:25:05.240 --> 0:25:07.840 first eight ten years of the Early Church They kept 0:25:07.880 --> 0:25:11.040 coming back to the Council at Jerusalem, because, after all, 0:25:11.160 --> 0:25:16.119 Jerusalem is the epicenter of almost every major religion in 0:25:16.160 --> 0:25:19.520 the world today claims its origin and root to go 0:25:19.720 --> 0:25:22.520 back to the city of Jerusalem. That is why the 0:25:22.600 --> 0:25:27.200 Middle East has so much conflict, because they're fighting over territory. 0:25:27.800 --> 0:25:32.560 Because Jerusalem becomes jeruse Adam, the Holy City, the City 0:25:32.800 --> 0:25:37.280 of Peace, the offspring, and the progenitor, of which three 0:25:37.520 --> 0:25:42.959 major religions claim heritage. Yet you must realize that Jesus 0:25:43.080 --> 0:25:47.159 throws us a hint when he was crucified, according to 0:25:47.200 --> 0:25:55.320 the Book of Hebrews outside of the city. Jesus, by 0:25:55.400 --> 0:25:58.760 his crucifixion, is already preaching to us that he's trying 0:25:58.800 --> 0:26:04.879 to escape religion, his order, that he's breaking up Orthodoxy, 0:26:05.600 --> 0:26:10.000 that he refuses to be left into the expected, but 0:26:10.119 --> 0:26:13.080 he's going to move in the unexpected. And so when 0:26:13.119 --> 0:26:16.560 the Book of Hebrew said that he died without the city, 0:26:16.920 --> 0:26:20.480 it means that he escaped the religious order to expose 0:26:20.560 --> 0:26:23.760 who he really was, so that he wouldn't be stuck 0:26:23.960 --> 0:26:27.800 in the prison of religious ideology. That's why some people 0:26:27.920 --> 0:26:31.960 can't handle elevation, because you are unexpected. You're out of 0:26:32.040 --> 0:26:35.879 the box. You break all the rules, you change the game, 0:26:36.440 --> 0:26:39.679 you change the flow, you broke the order. Look at 0:26:39.720 --> 0:26:42.720 you young folks and old folks, and you black folks 0:26:42.760 --> 0:26:45.800 and white folks and brown folks shouting and dancing and 0:26:45.920 --> 0:27:01.520 praising God, elevation and our Now you must understand that 0:27:01.640 --> 0:27:04.200 Christianity was not popular then it didn't even have a 0:27:04.320 --> 0:27:06.680 name yet. It wasn't until they got to Antioch that 0:27:06.760 --> 0:27:09.560 they started to be called Christians. The early Church was 0:27:09.640 --> 0:27:12.760 called the Way, and then later they were called the Believers, 0:27:13.040 --> 0:27:16.399 and eventually Antioch they were called the Church. And so 0:27:16.880 --> 0:27:22.720 this nameless group of Jesus freaks were coming to Jerusalem 0:27:23.080 --> 0:27:28.000 because that's where they had last spotted His glory. Whenever 0:27:28.080 --> 0:27:31.240 there was a dispute, they came back to Jerusalem. Whenever 0:27:31.359 --> 0:27:34.679 there was confusion, they came back to Jerusalem. And they 0:27:34.760 --> 0:27:40.240 kept huddling in Jerusalem. So God sent persecution to shift them. 0:27:41.760 --> 0:27:44.879 I want to talk to everybody who's been persecuted and 0:27:45.040 --> 0:27:48.399 you've been thinking it was the devil. If it was 0:27:48.520 --> 0:27:52.280 the devil, God used him, because God will often use 0:27:52.359 --> 0:27:55.359 the devil to shift you from one dimension to the 0:27:55.480 --> 0:28:00.879 next dimension. That's why we glory and tribulation. Anybody can 0:28:01.000 --> 0:28:04.880