T.D. Jakes: There is Purpose in Your Pain! | Full Sermons on TBN

It is the only fruit that rises to die, rises to be crushed, but if you can endure the

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of the crushing and trust in the vidner that is God our Father to carry me through this process, my last days will be greater than my first. days and finally I will be more valuable and I will be worth more and I can be sent to God and I can be served to kings and princes and presented before great men just because I have been crushed by what was building my church. the church of my dreams the church beyond my dreams the church that I never thought I would get to build the church that was valued at millions and millions of dollars that I didn't have but I had the faith to believe that God did and it was rising and it was happening and I was seeing it right before my eyes and it was like being at the Red Sea when Moses stretched out this rod and the bills were separated and the contractors were paid and the building was erected and I was standing there and the only bad thing about it in the middle of all the pews and the colors and the selection of the architect's designs and going through tests and looking at materials and concepts, the only bad thing about this is while the church was going. above my mother was falling and you have to have cared for someone with Alzheimer's to know that they disappear in layers it's not like a car accident and they disappear all at once it's not like a heart attack and you find them and they're gone no no no No, she died a little bit every day and every day they brought me reports about what materials came in and the benches are going to arrive on Saturday and the carpet is arriving and at the same time the doctor was saying that she is getting worse and that she had lost the ability to remember to swallow and keep food in

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mouth and that I would come home after preaching and ministering and I would have to put my finger in her mouth and take the food away and take care of her and all kinds of articles were written about the intelligent church and what was passing by and they talked about what was going right and they never saw what was going wrong they saw the wine and I saw the crush I really saw the question, you see my My mother wasn't just my mother, she was my best friend, she was my secret keeper in My confidant.

I knew everything about her and she knew everything about me, and losing her was like losing me to pieces because we were almost the same person even through Alzheimer's. I could still continue to communicate and when she lost her ability to speak English and started speaking gibberish, when I would walk into the room she would look at me and say hello baby and I would wash her and she would fade away until she died in my arms and I would hold her. her until her body became cold and it was

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ful and it was difficult and she still had to teach Bible classes and she still had to lead Revival and she still had to preach on Sunday morning and she still had to do business and she still had to Negotiate matters from church and I was writing a book at her bedside while she was in the hospital.

I was writing while she was dying in the room with her next to her. You can't let go of one thing for the other. you have to do both simultaneously life doesn't stop because it hurts it doesn't stop spinning because you lost a loved one it doesn't stop because you don't feel well it doesn't give you a leave of absence so you can get away from it all and shut it all down it keeps happening the bills keep coming the problems keep coming I'm talking about crushing people I'm talking about pain I'm talking about suffering I'm talking about where the rubber meets the road I'm not talking about church I'm not talking about religion I'm talking about life Jesus didn't say I come so you can have church He said I come so you can have life and sometimes we are great to have a church but we are going through a terrible time having life we ​​know how to clap we know how to sing we know how to shout but we know how to live and God will not be just a church experience he's going to come into

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life experience validate your church experience so I asked myself what does this mean how could I get over this I can get over this I've never had to get over this before I've never lived today that she wasn't In it, never I have been abandoned like this in my life and although I was 40 years old for the first time in my life, I was an orphan, an orphan who preached, an orphan who taught, a travel book, an orphan who wrote and, although he killed me, I still must rely.

You see, to develop real quality it takes time, pain, resistance, grief, trouble, turmoil, destruction and demolition. Demolition is a complicated thing if you are preparing to remodel your home. house expects to have some disorder and when God prepares to recycle you he does it through the things you suffer and the things you endure in the gospel of Saint John Jesus identifies who he is and says I am the vine and you are the branches and each branch that in me it bears fruit what I clean so that it bears more fruit that is the phrase that catches me because it would seem to me that if the branch was doing well you would leave it like that but each branch in me says that fruit that bears, I cut it, I cut it, no because I'm a serial killer, not because I want to destroy the bush, not because I hate grapes, not because I don't want him to win, but I cut it down so that it can bear more fruit, so no, we don't go through these crushes because We are not his and we do not go through these crushings because he does not love us and we do not go through these questions. because we are not fruitful, he cuts us off because we are fruitful, because as fruitful as we are, he knows the potential of what is still within us and he knows how to bring you to that potential and he keeps you from being safe and he keeps you from being safe. to be satisfied you have to give up security if you are going to walk with God you have to trust him that he is the farmer who knows what he is doing and when he says that I am the vine and you are the branches he says that my father is the farmer and the farmer is the farmer he is the witness he is the one who controls the process he knows exactly where to cut to make you more fruitful when I was a little child I went out to the garden trying to do like my mother who pruned the rose bushes I decided to help her and go to prune the rose bushes and when she came home from work she had almost killed the bush I almost killed the bush He was a bad boy, you can tell.

Can you imagine reducing me to about eight years old? You have hand problems. I was a bad child. I had to uproot the bush and she was furious with me and I said: Why are you fierce with me when I only have? doing what you did she said no you're not doing what I did because I know where to cut look the visitor knows where to cut it's not just the cut you can't just cut it anywhere he knows where to cut and he knows when to cut and he knows how to cut to get you to the place where you can be most fruitful because ultimately He wants you to have enough fruit so that we can become wise and be able to enter that state of being that lasts for years and years and hundreds of years like wine, but if I remain a great power it will spoil, so it is the only fruit that is grown to die, grown to be crushed, must be stepped on, must be bruised, if grapes could scream.

I would cry out for the pain of becoming wise, but if you can endure the pain of crushing and trust in the vidner that is God our Father to carry me through this process, my last days will be greater than my previous days and I will finally be. more valuable and I will be worth more and maybe I will be sent to Brihad and maybe I will be served to kings and princes and presented to great men just because I have been crushed. Maybe I'll be served at the best tables. Maybe they'll use me. the best restaurants just because I didn't do it.

Jesus crushingly connects us with the father by helping us understand what his role is in our life so that we do not misinterpret the knife so that we understand that the knife is in the right hand that sometimes when God approaches you he approaches you and looks like a Matador because He comes with something that hurts and you have to trust his character when you don't understand his methods you have to understand his Facts believing in his ways because a farmer is our father, he cuts us in all the right places and we can't do anything without him, no We can do nothing without it, we cannot reach the height and hope of the

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of our vocation without it because only the manufacturer knows how fast the car will go, he has built and designed it to achieve more than the foot that presses the pedal, he has designed the car to exceed the pace you may be willing to drive, so if you want to know how fast it can go you have to talk to the manufacturer because he designed it with enough horsepower to do more things and you may even be able to do and God takes us out of our comfort zone by crushing us Jesus became human in order to understand what it was like to be human he experienced our trials our temptations our anxieties our pain so that he could be an example for us he is the fruit of the word of God he it is tested on us he walks inhales right in front of us to show us it can be done he lets himself be hit right in front of us and we could see him get hit and we could see him be ridiculed and laughed at and be popular and then unpopular and loved and then hated so that we would understand that this is all part of becoming wise.

My wife is a neat freak. She wants everything to be in her place. I think the house is clean even when she says it's not and she will complain about things I think are no big deal because she likes everything nice and tidy, don't get me wrong I'm not a messy person, well maybe a little, but I like cute things, even though I'm messy. I like how nice and orderly it is. I like a nice, organized and packaged life. and beautiful and it smells good and that's not how it happens any winemaker will tell you that making wine is a dirty business it's a dirty business it's a business that leaves stains on your clothes and scratches on your skin making wine happens in dirty places they are not nice they need a comfortable lazy boy chair relaxed places with remote control this is not how you become wine we have a God who works in dirty places from the first time we meet him in the Book of Genesis we see him crouched playing in the dirt This It is the first indication that God is not afraid to work in dirty places.

Over and over again we get the metaphor of him being a farmer from the time of the seed and the harvest of the sowing and the harvest to let him know that God works in the soil and When you pray to stay out of the mud, you are praying to keep yourself away from God because he bends down to the clay and makes you in the clay and forms you in the clay and forms you in the clay and matures. you in the earth and he stabilizes you in the earth like any winemaker would, if a winemaker is not willing to get dirty, he will never have the grapes and if you don't have the grapes, you won't have the wine because the wine means that you stepped on it and you crushed and your feet became stained with the pressure until both the winemaker and the grape experienced the same stain and was wounded by our transgressors and wounded by our iniquities and the punishment of our peace for the product and with his wounds we are healed Jesus became human to be staying with the stain we experience so that when we cry out to him he can be touched by the feeling of our weakness.

I wanted to know what that was like. God had never slept a night until he came in the form of Jesus. I didn't know what it felt like. tiredness he didn't know what sleep felt like he didn't know what fear felt like he didn't know what stress felt like and he came so he could answer his own question Adam, where are you? And then he came walking from eternity into time so that he could have a human experience so that we could have a conversation he is the Seed of Abraham and God knows how to develop that seed, he knew how to carry it through 42 generations and you are trying to get there in 42 days and Jesus came 42 generations and you think you're late if you think you're behind him, you think you're off schedule and you think you're missing the mark.

Jesus came through 42 generations to be Abraham's Seed, he grew and matured, he started as a baby and most people don't want to start small. Lord of Glory the king of glory the Great I am the Mighty the Holy the consolation of Israel came in the form of a baby came small came smaller than the mother who would redeem came smaller than the people who would give birth and it is no coincidence that he was born in a manger because it was a lamb where else would a lamb be born and he teaches us as it grows and as it develops the opportunity to grow happens in your life in your home in your heart in your spirit and you are being planted but you feel like you are being buried have you ever noticed that there is no difference in the movement between planting and producing when you plant the seed feels buried but it was planted to be resurrected?

Fintner understands that he is not a mortician and even though he takes a seed and digs a hole and puts a seed in the hole and covers it with dirt, he is not a mortician, he planted it and he didn't bury it and most of us think we are being buried. when in reality we're just being stood up and when you get stood up that means you're going to get up again and when you get stood up that means you're going to get up again and when you get stood up that means this is not how the story ends this is not being inside don't run away from it don't hide don't crouch don't avoid it don't run trying to get away from it because you're not being buried you're being planted and to God be the glory for the things he's done even when it hurts that's crushing