Jesus and His Ways - Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts

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[Applause] Jesus, there's still power in the name of Jesus. I wish I had about two or three people who still believe that there was still power in the name of Jesus. I wish I had about 10 people in this room who believe that the miracle working power of Jesus could still set somebody free in this room today.

I wish I had about five or six people who didn't come to be entertained, but you came to release what you know about Jesus into this atmosphere. I wish I had about two or three people who understood that demons tremble at the very mention of his name. That hell gets nervous when we start talking about the name of Jesus.

I wish I had about three or four praying people who understood that hell ought to be trembling because that same power that raised Jesus from the dead 2,000 years ago is still sending devils on the loose here in 2025. Something ought to shake when we start pleading on that name. Jesus.

Jesus. Jesus. Jesus.

Jesus. Jesus. There's still power in the name, the name of Jesus.

At the very mention, the Bible tells us that demons start trembling. Don't be surprised when demons start trembling. This is the day where hell itself got nervous.

This is the day itself when debt had to get up off of them. This is the day itself. All hell ought to break loose in here because we got more power than we ever had because today is the day that we celebrate the resurrecting power of Jesus.

Somebody could get free in this room. We're not surprised. We're not surprised.

Nor are we afraid. Cuz we got a history of understanding what happens when we follow the way. It was.

Yeah. I wish I [Music] had. This is what we came to do.

We came to upset hell. This is what we came to do. We came to let them know the blood still works.

This is what we came to do. This is our mission on the earth to establish the kingdom of heaven. If devils don't start getting agitated when we walk into the room, we've done something wrong.

But depression's got to get out of here. Anxiety's got to go. Demons ought to start fleeing and manifesting because a greater kingdom has been established.

This is what we came to do. This is the right atmosphere for breakthrough. This is the right atmosphere for transformation.

Just 2,000 years ago. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. With no stage, with no light, with no band, with no microphones, revolutionized governments and systems and Pharisees and Sadducees.

He revolutionized oppression and depression. He revolutionized diseases and issues. And it all started with two simple words.

Jesus said, "Follow me. Follow me. Follow me.

Follow me. I'm going to show you a different way of being. If you follow me, they won't just call you Christians.

They won't just call you churchgoers. They're going to call you followers of the way because I'm going to show you how to be reconciled with God. We serve a Jesus who didn't just say, "Do what I say, do what I do.

" My assignment is to talk to you for a moment about Jesus and the way. I guess I should say it more like this. My assignment is to talk to you about Jesus and his ways.

Because Jesus had ways of doing things. And as we follow the way, I think it's important that we recognize that first he led the way. That he is our model.

He is our example. He shows us how to upset systems. He shows us how to stay in purpose even when people don't understand who you are.

He shows us how to stand tall, how to go through isolating seasons. He shows us how to rebuke devils. He shows us how to pray.

He led the way. There are some people who should not even be in this room, but Jesus led the way. in some kind of way.

I didn't fall into the statistics. I didn't fall into what they said I should be because Jesus led the way. And he says in John 14, he says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life.

" He says, "If you follow me, I will lead you. I'm going to show you. I'm going to do things that your mother couldn't do, that the culture couldn't do, that your father couldn't do.

I'm going to lead the way. " Some of you have assignments in your life and you have no mentor and you have no example. All you have is a word from God.

And I hear God saying, "That's all you need. Cuz I'm going to lead the way. I'm going to give you the words to speak.

I'm going to give you the tools to raise the children. I'm going to give you my spirit. I'm going to lead the way.

" And yet, as I was studying for my segment, I noticed that there is a moment in John 13 that we don't often speak about. And in John 13 and 36, Jesus says something to one of his disciples that I think is worthy of us examining as we look at Jesus on the cross. In John 13 and verse 36, he says to Simon Peter, Simon Peter first says to him, "Lord, where are you going?

" This is the same Simon Peter who he said, "Follow me. " And Jesus answers him and says, "Where I am going, you cannot follow me. " Now wait a minute, Jesus, you told me to follow you and I have followed you and I have seen your power.

I have seen your work. I have seen your glory. I have seen what you can do in the earth.

You have anointed me and sent me out myself. And now you were telling me that there is somewhere you were going where I cannot go. He says follow me.

And then he says don't follow me because where I am going you cannot follow me now but you shall follow me afterward. There's this break in between following Jesus, a pause and then a follow. Again, I want to talk to you for 10 minutes.

Not about Jesus who leads the way. I want to talk to you about a Jesus who gets in the way. Oh, but I didn't say anything else.

Those who had an ear caught that because there are some seasons in your life where you can't even tell how to follow Jesus. I don't know what you look like. And I came here to let someone know that Jesus is not always the Jesus we follow.

Sometimes we are put on pause while he gets in the way. And he gets in the way so that he can go ahead of us and make our crooked path straight. He gets in the way so that he can do a work that only he can do.

He gets in the way so that we do not receive the punishments and the consequences of our own actions. When we see Jesus on the cross, we see a Jesus who was gotten in the way. It should have been us on the cross for the wages of sin are death.

And yet Jesus says, "I'll get in the way. " People in this room, maybe not in this room, maybe they're watching online. They haven't always made the right choices.

And yet, their lives don't look anything like their decisions because Jesus got in the way. The doctor's report said one thing. It really did say one thing, but then you went back the second time and the doctors couldn't figure out what happened.

And you don't know what happened. All you know is Jesus must have gotten in the way. There are some children who are going through the toughest season of their lives right now.

And I want you to know that Jesus will get in the way. I don't know how I went from being this thing to that thing. All I know is that Jesus must have gotten in the way.

When he gets on the cross, he says, "I don't care what they look like. I don't care what they've gone through. I'm going to get in the way of sin.

I'm going to get in the way of death. I'm going to get in the way of depression. I'm going to get in the way of anxiety.

" Because when I get in the way, I turn things away. When I get in the way, I turn things around. When I get in the way, all of a sudden, where you were out of your mind, you now are in your right mind because he got in the way.

What I love about Jesus is that he did not wait until we turned away from our wicked ways to get in the way. He got in the way before we even turned and looked his way. He got in the way before you even hit your knees and said your first prayer.

He got in the way knowing that you would be strung out. He got in the way knowing that you would be disobedient. He got in the way not when you were at your best because this is not about your performance.

This is about his grace. It is not about you doing everything the right way. This is about who he is.

And he loved you as you were. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. Not because the world looked right.

Not because the world did right. But just how much he loved you. That I'll get in the way even if you don't change.

That I'll get in the way even if you don't humble yourself. That I'll get in the way even when you are unsure about me. I'll get in the way.

Even while you're trying to make up your mind and try out other things and picking up other religions and trying, I'll still get in the way. I'll take the lashes. I'll take the beating.

I'll get in the way. When we see Jesus on the cross, when we look at Jesus, I want you to see someone you follow for sure. But what I'm most concerned about is recognizing that he got in the way.

That I didn't get what I deserved. That I have access that I haven't earned. That the power of God can flow in me and through me.

Not because I am so righteous and so holy, but because Jesus got in the way. And where there was blockage, now there's a full flow. Jesus got in the way.

And now where I had no creativity, I've written book after book after book. Jesus got in the way. I didn't know how to raise these children, but Jesus got in the way.

And Jesus is still getting in the way. It wasn't just a one-time thing on the cross. Here we are over 2,000 years later and he's still getting in the way.

Rolling up his sleeves and doing things that no one else could do. Wiping tears away from our face, helping us to navigate grief. He's still getting in the way.

He's still opening up doors that they said should never be available to people like us. But Jesus got in the way. I wish I had about five or 10 seconds where I could really have some people who were standing in situations, in marriages, in opportunities, in healing, and in wholeness they should have never had access to.

But Jesus got in the way. And he doesn't just get in the way, he makes a new way. Yes, he led the way.

Yes, he got in the way. But I want you to understand that something happened early one Sunday morning that helped us to understand that he knows how to make a new way. How do I know that we serve a God who knows how to make a new way?

Because when Mary got to the tomb, they wondered how the stone would be rolled away because there is no way that he should be out of that tomb if the stone is still in front of it. But some kind of way he got out of the tomb without the stone even being rolled away. Because his ways are not our ways.

His thoughts are not our thoughts. He doesn't just get in the way. I'm going to make a way out of nowhere.

I don't know if you've been to church in a while and maybe you've been wondering how you going to get out of this situation and everything on paper doesn't make sense. But I want you to understand that we serve a Jesus who knows how to make a way where there looks like there is no way. I want you to understand I may not see you again until next year, but I'm going to give you a word to help carry you.

Until I see you again next year, I don't care what the devil throws in your direction. I don't care what the enemy tries to put in your path. I don't care what stone is standing in front of your destiny.

I hear God saying that I know how to make a way out of nowhere. I know how to do what the bank said could never be done. I know how to help you raise a child that's out of their mind.

I know how to make a way out of nowhere. All you got to do is let me get in the way. If you let me get in the way, I'll make a new way.

I'll show you how to speak. I'll show you how to preach. I'll show you how to build.

I'll show you how to build something that cannot be [Music] shaken. If you let him get in the way, he'll make a new way. If you let him get in the way.

All I got to do is make sure I don't get in the way. All I have to do is make sure I don't secondguess myself out of what God said to me. All I have to do is make sure that I obey my way into what God said he's going to do.

Because God has made a promise to me that he can make a way out of nowhere. and he's still making a way. He got on the cross not because we deserved it.

Not because we did everything the right way, but because he understood the power of what happens when he gets in the way of what the enemy had planned. Oh, the blood got in the way. The death angel should have hit the home, but the blood got in the way.

The blood caused something. And the only thing that's wrong with us having these sometimes elaborate moments is sometimes we make the blood look like it came easy. But it didn't come easy.

He cried in that garden. He wanted someone else to do it. But for the joy that was set before him, he endured the cross.

Can you imagine a world where you were the joy that was set before him? Not you all dressed up. I want you to think of your worst possible moment.

when you were so far from God that you would feel ashamed if he walked in on what you were doing. Can we take a minute and think about some of the choices we made? Some of the experiences that we don't even like replaying in our head.

The ways that we coped. the ways that we tried to make ourselves feel better. The ways that we tried to heal.

Can we take a moment and think about who we became in our brokenness? He looked at that and he said, "For the joy that is set before me. For the chance for them to be free for real.

For the chance for them to be whole and healed for real. Not when they were their best dress, but when they were in their worst behavior. I still saw joy when I looked at them.

I still saw hope when I looked at you. I don't know who you are or what you've done or what you're currently doing. Maybe this is just a pit stop before you go celebrate something else.

But I want you to know that I know God looks at you and he has joy when he sees you. And today, there is no better time than today to let him get in the way and change your ways and make a new way of coping, a new way of healing, a new way of believing that would have never been available to you. But because you chose to follow the way, you discovered a way that only he could make.

Does anybody know him to be a way maker? Does anybody know him to be a healer? Does anybody know him to see you in your worst and still love you?

Can we have testimony service here? If we're going to testify about a savior who was raised 2,000 years ago, can we just take five seconds and testify for a moment that he will take you in your worst condition and turn your life completely upside down? Can we take a minute and just say good morning because I believe that somebody came into this room and they were sleeping.

But I hear God saying before you walk out of this place that we're not just going to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus. We're going to celebrate the resurrection of what has been trying to die on the inside of you. I hear God saying that this suffering will not end in death, but it will be the rebirth of a fresh oil and a fresh glory.

Because that's what happens when the cross meets our truth. Can we worship for a minute, family? Listen, the Potter's House isn't just a place, it's a movement.

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