T.D. Jakes: Your Growth is in the Breaking, Not the Blessing | FULL SERMON | Crushing on TBN

you cannot be given to the world until you've been taken by the master blessed by God broken by life and then given to the world and the more he takes you and blesses you and breaks you the more he multiplies you so that you can meet the needs you couldn't meet before because the multiplication is in the breaking it's not in the blessing it's in the breaking and if God didn't break you he couldn't give you to them God was saying to a young man before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee or

I ordained thee and I Sanctified thee to be a prophet to the Nations and when I woke that morning I just took my Bible with with childlike faith and just let it fall open and it fell open on Jeremiah and he said before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee and I ordained thee and I Sanctified thee to be a prophet unto the Nations and all of a sudden I remembered all the stories my mother told me about when I was born I was born with a veil over my face and the one

of the neighbors came down and said look the Lord has given you a prophet and mama said a prophet she said yeah he has a veil over his face thin membrane born over some baby faces I was one of them that membrane the old folks said was a sign you were a prophet but I didn't know I was a prophet so I was a w crazy foolish ignorant rambunctious kid who got into everything and anything all the time driving people crazy and I was having a good time doing my own thing until God came along

and messed it all up by bringing this stuff up here about me being a preacher and I ran from my calling I purposely got drunk went wild and got high and partied and did everything I could to convince him to go away get one of them people with the little does on their head and the long skirts on and the no makeup who pray all day and talk in tongues all the time and leave me alone because I am not one of them I'm crazy I'm ignorant I'm W I'm UNC I will embarrass you I

will disgrace you please don't call me this is not going to be good for you and it's not going to be good for me and we should not do this together but God didn't ask me to vote he asked me to obey and after several years of running and and after several years of going in clubs and sitting on bar stools where one drunk would lean over to me and said funny man I had the craziest dream about you I I dreamed you was preaching in this church and and I got up and ran out

of the club and I felt like David if I make my bed in hell thou there and if I take the wings of the morning and Ascend to the uttermost parts of the Earth are there and I'm not going to be able to outrun this and I couldn't understand that God wouldn't let me go I couldn't understand why God picked me if I get to heaven and we're only allowed one question of peace I simply want to know why did you call me a boy from the hills of West Virginia the son of a janitor

and a school teacher why did you call me and I had lots of excuses I like Moses I I I I had a speech impediment you you you can't call me I you can't you can't call me I didn't stutter but I had a list I can't be a speaker cuz I have a list but all of us have areas where we feel inadequate and if you don't you're disqualified because humility is framed from feeling inadequate when you say I am not enough it makes you pray harder it makes you seek harder it makes you

ask for more grace beware of all the people who tell you they are enough it's a sure sign my God that you're dealing with a fraud because the questions the world is asking are too complicated for you to answer with a degree the problems people are having now require a divine intervention and you have to have somebody who has heard from God not from themselves so it doesn't matter in my weakness he's made strong in in my weakness his strength is validated so he chooses fragile broken limited people so you won't be confused where the

ointment comes from you know that the glory that we have is not of ourselves but Christ Jesus the Lord that has given us the glory and it's him coming out of us it's not our talent coming out of it it's not our skill coming out of it it is him coming out both to do and to will according to his own good pleasure that's the facts and what makes God all the more real is recognizing that he can work with such poor material that he could that he can be so masterful as Michelangelo to paint

the cine Chapel with a broken brush and I am the brush and you are the brush and you are the brush and you are the brush and he chooses broken brushes so that there will be no glory to the brush only to the artist when the master the master ventner plans to transplant you arguing will not stop it he will not let you go until he's moved you to the place that he has prepared for you and you for it and placing you in that place you begin to grow and you will know you're in

the place when like Joseph your branches reach over walls when God plants you your branches reach over every denominational racial generational wall that ever stood and I believe he wanted you to hear this at this moment moment in your life imagine being in the wilderness miles and miles of sand hot scorching hot sand Beneath Your Feet the blazing sun above your head imagine walking and seeing nothing but repetitions of what you're walking on not just on the ground but in the wind in your nostrils in your clothing all around you this was the Wilderness that

Israel will walk through to get through the promised land sand under your feet sand in your nostrils in your hair heat in the day freezing cold at night the only covering they had was the presence of God and they had to stay up under it because he gave them heat in the night and shade by day thank you for the shade you gave me thank you for how you put a buffer between me and the things that I went through and in the middle of the desert with the 12 tribes of Israel God decided to

have a date with man and he decided to have a date in a tabernacle and the Hebrew word for Tabernacle is ohel moad it means a tent of meeting it's a Rondevu place it's a place where Divinity courts Humanity it's a place where the celestial dates the terrestrial it's a place where the Divine touches the mundane this was the tabernacle it is God playing ET a sketch drawing Jesus in the Tabernacle because everything the Tabernacle was in Shadow Jesus was in reality he is the place where humanity and Divinity cohabitate he is the place where

the celestial touches the terrestrial he is everything that the Tabernacle embodies he is Triune in his being the outer Court the inner Court the holies of holies like man body Soul and Spirit like God Father Son and the Holy Ghost God shows us in the Tabernacle glimpses of his grace just just just inklings of Grace just drops and clues and elements for us to see how bad he wants to hang out with us he preps us for thousands of years because the Tabernacle is a shadow of Jesus and he's trying to get us ready for

his entrance because everything the Tabernacle was in the wilderness it was surrounded by the 12 tribes of Israel and he was the one who sat in the midst of his people and everything the Tabernacle was in the wilderness Christ was in reality that's why when the baby was born they called him Emmanuel God tabernacled With Us he is the dwell amongst us God not the dwell among you God you can't have him and restrict me from getting him the Tabernacle was designed so that the each tribe was able to have access to him whether you

were Benjamin or issachar or Dan or Gad or Judah or Nepali we all had equal access to God in the same way God has so fixed himself that no particular people can restrict any other group of people from being able to access him he is the dwell amongst us God it is this understanding of God that makes us realize how far he would go to dat you from glory to Earth from eternity to time from Celestial to terrestrial the Divine Came Upon Mary and said let me borrow a tent of Flesh so you can see

me walk so the voice of the Lord that walked through the cool of the garden in the Book of Genesis didn't have a tent to wear but the voice of the Lord that walked in Matthew Mark Luke and John was dressed up in the tent of Mary's flesh and he is the Tabernacle because he is the dwell amongst us God and he dwelt among us and we beheld The Wonder of his glory the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth and everywhere his feet draw we had seen God philli said show us

the father and it sufficeth and Jesus said have I been so long time with you and you still don't know that I and my father are one I am God dwelling amongst you in the midst of you in your Camp so I can hang out with you so that you can get to know my daddy so that you can see me so that you can understand me in fact I am daddy loving you God is loving you through me touching you through me healing you through me coming to you through me I am so much

him that when they rip my flesh the veil in the temple will rip because we are one and the same I am the holies of holies I am the Ark of the Covenant I am the table of shoe bread I am the altar of incense I am the pot of Mana I am Aaron's rod that buted I am the Commandments fulfilled I am wood enough to be human I am gold enough to be divine I am carried amongst my people I am God all by myself the table had been set the water drawn the hands

washed the meal prepared the evening set in order it was not unique or different or strange or odd or fresh it was the Passover as it had been observed for years and years and years commemorating the lamb that was slain in Egypt it was not any different from any other Passover until Jesus sat down at the table and took us from the ancient blood of an lamb that was sacrificed for Israel to saying it is no longer about the lamb it is now about me and Passover slid over into communion and law collapsed on Grace

and dispensations collided together all at the dining table of the master what we would call The Last Supper oh and there will never be another supper like that supper because this supper stands in the class all by itself it is not just a change it is a paradigm shift the physical body of Jesus Christ sits down at the table to serve the memorial Body of Christ for the elements are the memorial Body of Christ as often as she do this do this in remembrance of me till I come so the bread and the wine is

the memorial Body of Christ being served by the physical body of Christ being served to the mystical Body of Christ which is the church whose blessed hope is to have the glorified body of Christ amen so at the table we see four representations of one body is he the body or the body or the body or the body no wonder he told Moses who shall I say sent me he said oh you can't explain me I must be revealed you can't explain me because to the unbeliever all they will see is Bread and Wine and

they will not know that this is the New Testament in my blood they will not know that the blood that the wine is my blood and the bread is my body they will not know that when they ingest the wine and the blood they are taking in me and that each one of them will hold a portion of the mystery that only brings the bread together through their Unity that is the mystical Body of Christ and that is why Satan hates for the church to be United because when we all come together and your peace

comes together with my peace and his peace and her peace and their peace and we all connect we become the loaf and become one again father I pray that these may be one even as you and I are also one let's sit down at the table and see Jesus because there are some things about Jesus that cannot be learned from the pulpit they can only be discovered at the table at the table the mystical Body of Christ which is the church beheld the memorial Body of Christ being fed to them from the physical body of

Christ awaiting the glorified body of Christ at the table able later when Jesus will be crucified and raised from the dead he will meet two disciples on the road to emus and he will talk to them in a Seven Mile Stretch and use all of the Old Testament in seven miles that's a short walk for a big book he discussed every shadow and every type that represented him and when he had come to where they would depart he made as if he would go further he didn't go further he just acted like he would wow

because God is an actor like as a mighty rushing wind like as clothing tongues Holy Spirit descended like as a dove God is an actor and he made as if he would go on yes he did but they stopped him and something that they did not learn from looking at his face or the stains in his clothing or the holes in his hands or the piercing in his ey and something that they did not learn from his preaching and teaching down that Seven Mile Stretch they learned at the table when they sat at the table

with him on the road to emus can I go deeper when they sat down with Jesus that's why you have to sit down with Jesus it can't just be a Sunday Morning Experience you have to sit down with Jesus you have to sck with him you have to connect with him when they sat down with Jesus he did a simple thing in their midst that was more profound than anything he did on the road he did more at the table than he did at the road because God always performs Miracles at the table and he

sat down at the table and the Bible said he took the bread and broke it and blessed it and gave it to them and they saw him in the order of the breaking of bread it is the same phrase that we see at the Last Supper he took it and blessed it and broke it and gave it to them it is the same phrase that we see with the 5000 when the little boy gave him the lunch he took it and blessed it and broke it and gave it to them it is the same thing

that is happening in your life he takes you and blesses you and breaks you and gives you to the world you cannot be given to the world until you've been taken by by the master blessed by God broken by life and then given to the world and the more he takes you and blesses you and breaks you the more he multiplies you so that you can meet the needs you couldn't meet before because the multiplication is in the breaking it's not in the blessing it's in the breaking and if God didn't break you he couldn't

give you to them but every time he breaks you he multiplies you and increases you and you come a little bit more than what you were before because you were in the Master's hands and he took you and he blessed you and he broke you and he gave you to them