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Torre Roberts
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Hey, good people, this is Torre Roberts. Blessings to you and welcome to the ONE Podcast. I'm excited that you're here. ONE is a community of dynamic and vibrant thought leaders, preachers, teachers, and just a community of wonderful people all together. And we're excited to bring you this weekly podcast from our Services from ONE in la. If you haven't been to one, I encourage you to check it out. You can go to One the Word one O N E online and find out all about the service times and all about the teachers and all the philanthropic things that we have going. I believe you're going to be blessed to be a part of it. And speaking of being blessed, we're getting ready to get into a teaching right now that I believe is going to bless you. So tune in, enjoy, and I'll be back with you at the end.
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We're going to read the word. We're going to start in Mark, chapter 14. We're going to start at verse three and we're going to go to verse through verse six. And being in Bethany, at the house of Simon the Leper, as he, this is Jesus sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster flask of very costly oil of spikenard. Then she broke the flask and poured it on his head. But there were some who were indignant among themselves and said, why was this fragrant oil wasted? For it might have been sold for more than 300 denarii and given to the poor. And they criticized her sharply. But Jesus said, let her alone. Why do you trouble her? She has done a good work for me. Father, may you do a good work here in this place. We are surrendered to your word, we are surrendered to your intention. We are surrendered to what you have said must take place. Father, use me however you see fit. Wring me dry that those may receive it, that they may receive it in full. To the overflow and run. And as they run and arrive where you've predestined for them to be, may they shout your name in glory in Jesus name. Amen. Have a seat. Have a seat. Victory Lane. So we have been on this journey ultimately where we are following Jesus who along to the greatest victory that mankind has ever known. Where Jesus goes to the cross and has taken on not just a few sins, not just many sins, but all sin. He's taken to the cross and everything that could possibly want. Every force that has been marshaled to defeat us. He gathered them up, he took them with him to the cross, defeated them at the cross, defeated death after the cross and and then rose again to have the victory that we're all shouting for. And we're going to cover that specific part of the victory today. I actually wanted to back up a little bit beforehand because I love studying Jesus path on his way to the ultimate victory. This particular encounter is one that has really rested on me and in me for my note taking. People of which I'm assuming is all of you, Global family, you're there with us. Our encounter today is going to be called the breaking point. They said amen. I didn't even preach the word yet. We done? Okay, cool. The breaking point. I love that we can have a shout like we just had. I love that there is victory in the spirit, there is victory in the atmosphere. What I would love for all of us to be reminded of is that in order for us to partake of the fullness of that victory on the way to that victory, I'm just going to tell you right now, I'm burying the lead. As my media people would say, there's going to have to be a breaking point. And this is tough to hear for those of us who believe we are unbreakable. We have survived in the life that we live. We've made it this far, telling ourselves how unbreakable we are even as life is snapping us into pieces. But we repeat the mantra of how unbreakable we are even as we are walking past, pieces of us falling off as we continue to move forward. Meanwhile, as I'm reading in this text, there is a breaking that has to happen. It's not a suggestion, it's not a good idea. It is a mandate on the way to the victory secured by Jesus for us. I'm trying to pop someone's bubble now here in this safe space known as the sanctuary, before life pops your bubble out there and really hurts your feelings. If you're going to be a follower of Jesus, you have to reach a point where this is my breaking point. So we find this woman. And there are many accounts of this encounter. I cannot possibly go through them all. What I will do is pull out the consistent parts of the account and I can share what the Lord has given me about these very consistent pieces. So I want to start in verse three. I may go through a couple of the other versions, but I want to start in the version that is in Mark, chapter 14. The first thing that we notice that it says, he's in the house of Simon the leper. This is Jesus. And then a woman having an alabaster flask. Of very costly oil of spikenard enters. Okay, before we get to what she did, we cannot gloss over the first thing that we see, which is an understanding of the value of what it is that she has. What makes a breaking point, a full, authentic breaking point, is when you have that understanding. I know exactly how much this is about to cost me, to allow myself to be broken in the way that needs to be broken so that Jesus, my father, the Lord, and the Holy Spirit can put me back together again in his original design. In order for me to be able to enter that and get the fullness out of it, I first must know the value of what it is I have. I think of my son, there are certain toys. Honestly, if he breaks them, I'm good. I paid for them, knowing they would be broken. So there's a certain value I add to toys that I already know are gonna get kicked up, tore up. I'm like, I bet. No big deal. But there are some toys, there are some devices. There are some things where I'm like, all right, son, I need you to care for that, because there's a lot of value. And watch this. Replacing it is costly. Replacing it is not just costly of material. It is costly of the most important currency we have, which is time. So there are certain things when you have that understanding. Wait a minute. What I am about to bring forth to be broken is of exceptional value, and this is why I love that. This is set off in the very first verse of this encounter. This woman brings oil that is very costly. The estimate is that this was a year's salary in a box in a jar. Can you imagine a whole year of your salary? Let me take it to the next level. Can you imagine a whole year of the salary that you desire? Oh, everybody caught that one. We got some salary disputes out here. Let me skip right past that. Let's get to the A whole year of the salary that you desire. If the Lord came to you and said, give it, not a week, not a month, an entire year of the salary you desire to have, it is even beyond your means right now. And the Lord says, I'm here and I'll wait. Because Jesus never demanded that this woman come in and bring this oil and anoint him. In fact, there's no record of communication between him and this woman at all. We just know that she comes into the room with such an unction that she is willing to enter into this room and do the unconventional and do the unthinkable. So, number one, I want us to have that Understanding that when we reach that breaking point, it will absolutely be costly. I also want to get this term in you. This is what the Lord has been shaking out of me in terms of a term. She goes in with a disruptive obedience. This is the kind of obedience that disrupts the entire environment that she's in. People are chilling, minding their business. Jesus is reclined at this table. And depending on what version you're reading, there are the disciples. Lazarus is there as well. Martha is there as well. So everybody is in their place in this environment. And suddenly this woman comes in and she comes in with something that you don't normally use that is incredibly expensive. Not just to acquire, it cost her something to have it. When you study alabaster, the box itself was expensive to have one of these just by itself. It was not something that was made in the region, it was something that was imported. So it took a lot of to arrive. These were the types of things that were given that depending on how much oil was in them, could be an inheritance. This woman brings what could be called an inheritance for her family, and she brings it and she breaks it. And I love the way that it's described because depending on how you think of it, it's either called a flask or a box. And if you're thinking of it as a flask, we just kind of pop the little top off and pour. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. When you look up how this word is used in terms of a word breaking, the description of it means she shattered it. The way alabaster is built, especially for these jars to hold these very costly, expensive and timely oils. It was a one use thing. So this is not like you unscrew the top and then just pour more oil in. Once you break the flask, that's it. You have to go get another one. She didn't just break the top off, she shattered it to the point where now the vessel is no longer recognizable family. If we're going to talk about walking with Jesus into the path of victory that he has, are we willing to walk in the way and follow him in the way where us as a vessel were willing to be broken down to the point where. Where we are unrecognizable because that is what it took ultimately for the oil which was inside of this alabaster box, this jar, to be released. So this woman understands the cost of what is about to happen, and she also understands the force that it's going to take to be broken open, and she does it anyway. She breaks this flask, she pours it over his head. And there are many different accounts of how she anoints Jesus. There are accounts that says she pours it over his head. There are accounts that said she put it on his feet and then used her hair to wipe his feet. Fam. I don't have hair. But for those of you who do, because me, I'm just like, I'd have just been out of luck. This woman breaks this thing, and after using the strength to break it, she then uses the gentleness to anoint him. That's a level of awareness that we need to have as vessels. It is one thing to understand, to have to make a move that requires the utmost strength and the utmost obedience. And once we make that move, we still also have to understand there is a submitting that needs to happen. There is a gentleness that needs to happen. There is an awareness. All right, I have broken myself open. I have allowed myself to have whatever God has put inside me to be poured out. I have to be gentle enough with myself, gentle enough with what's left here to still be used by him. Don't let the breaking point make you so hard hearted or hard headed or for some of us from the south, hard. You know what part I'm talking about that we can't be used. So this woman now takes this oil and how it's described is beautiful. She breaks this thing open. The entire house, the entire environment now smells of the anointing. Can you imagine that? There is so much value in you, global family, come with me. There is so much anointing, there's so much value in you that when you allow yourself to be broken open, you can anoint an entire environment. If your apartment building just knew how much anointing you have in you, you could anoint your old. If your block just knew how much anointing you have in you. If you would just release what God has put in you, you could change the trajectory of your whole block. You could change the environment of your whole street. You could change the environment of your whole city, of your whole state, of your whole nation. You could permeate the glory with the aroma of the anointing in you. That is what God has put inside each and every one of us as vessels. I want us to see us in the different parts of this story because I believe a lot of us see ourselves as the woman who took the jar, bow broke it, then took the oil, anointed Jesus, took the hair, put it on the feet. See, I see. Even As I tried, it looked crazy, man. How many of us are willing to see ourselves as the jar? How many of us are willing to. To see ourselves to understand that there's going to be a season where we are the vessel, where we are broken, we are shattered, so that what is on the inside of us can be released. Watch this. And released and used for its ultimate purpose. There are things. Help me, Holy Spirit, because my mind, I just see pictures. I can see this alabaster jar. I could see this box sitting on this woman's shelf, looking pristine. I can see it sitting on her shelf, not only holding value, but over time, perhaps increasing value. It's just sitting on the shelf, waiting for the day, waiting for the time to be used. Now, these were oils that were kept for burial purposes or for anointing purposes. But understand, this amount of oil is not something that you would just give away. So for all intents and purposes, this woman was saving this, perhaps for burial in her family, perhaps even for burial of herself. And something about this day comes as Jesus is about to eventually hop on a donkey and ride in victory into Jerusalem. Something about this day tells this woman to look at what she's had and see it differently. There is something on the shelf of your life that has been sitting there looking pretty, and you've had the same idea of what to do with it. And you're just saving it for the right time. You're saving it for the right moment. I'm saving it for that time. I know in five years, it's going to be ready for what I think is going to happen on that shelf. For some of us, this is gonna hurt. I'm gonna get hide behind this thing right here. For some of us, it's our gift. You have positioned your gift on a shelf. Your gift is resting on a display. And it looks fantastic. It looks wonderful. It looks pristine. It's untouched. But it is not fulfilling its purpose until it is broken open. The fullness of what it's created for is not being revealed. The value that we have estimated for what we have put on the shelf of our lives is so much smaller than what God has in store for it. The question is, on Palm Sunday, as a people, as followers of Jesus, am I willing to be bold enough to say, lord, break me open? Am I willing to have the conversation with God that says, watch this, Lord, reveal to me what you've already known, which is the value of what you've placed in me? If we're honest, some of us are scared of the value of what is in us, Some of us. And we know it too. That's why we don't even ask God. Because once he tells us the value of what's in us, the next stage is, oh, I have to now be responsible for this. Because how you treat something of high value and how you treat something of not as high value are two different things. Now I've got a lifestyle that I need to adjust. Now I have habits that need to change. Now I have a circle I need to get out of. Now I've got a bigger circle that I need to get into. And that bigger circle loves accountability. And that bigger circle likes to challenge me. My small circle, I was comfortable, but that big circle likes to push me. That big circle makes me uncomfortable. So if I step into that big circle now, I'm responsible for more. Because I know the value of what I have. And I've been coasting on my low estimate. My low estimate is giving me a comfortable life. My low estimate. I've been able to sail along consistently giving myself a low estimate of the value in me. Because I know as long as I have a low estimate, I'll have a low expectation. And as long as I have a low expectation, I'm less likely to be disappointed. God can't hurt me as bad if I expect low. We can sit on the shelf all we want. Family. There is no victory on that shelf. That flask was anointed for the purpose of anointing Jesus for his burial. And this woman had to say, I know how much this is worth. I understand. Now watch this. For all of us financial experts, for lack of better words, her personal net worth just took a major hit. If I reached in everybody's bank account and pulled out a year, Entrepreneurs and mathematicians like you think the stock market pull out a whole year. She took an inheritance off of her shelf, broke it, and inherited her place in the kingdom instead. This is why the woman with this
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resonates with me. Because that is a big move. That is a bold Christ identified goer. She said, okay, I know that Jesus is here. This has just been sitting on the shelf. It can never accrue more value than being obedient to. To dispense what I'm called to dispense and give it to Jesus. Your gift, as amazing as it is on display. Watch this for others to see and admire your gift. No matter how comfortable a lifestyle it has afforded you, it will never yield the value and worth it could possibly yield when it's given to Jesus. This woman said, I'm going to take this costly vessel and I'm going to break it, and then I'm going to anoint Jesus with it, and I'm going to shift the entire environment where I am. For those of you who are willing to take this thing that you have, for lack of better words, idolized and break the spirit of idolatry off of it so that the authenticity of what God really created it for could be revealed, there is an environment waiting to be shifted by you. There is an industry waiting to be shifted by you. And all we have to do is let go of our understanding and estimate of what this thing is really worth. And for some of us, that's tough because it's worth a lot right now by worldly standards. This thing is popping. It's feeding me. It's feeding quite a few people. It's feeding a few strangers I don't even know. People tag me on Instagram about how much of a blessing this thing I did. I don't even know them. And yet the fullness of it has not been revealed until we're willing to reach the breaking point. We say, you know what? I have held this vessel together long enough. I have miscalculated my worth long enough. I have been too scared to know the full value of what's in this long enough. Jesus is telling me, come to me. Jesus is pulling me. Jesus is telling me, bring what's on the inside of you. Watch this. Bring back what my Father put in you. If we can break the shell of our intentions, if we can break the shell of our estimates and say, father, reveal the worth of what I've been carrying all this time, and I'm willing to suspend what I thought it was really for, for what you say it's really for. So this woman, I'm only on the first verse. Good job. So the courage that we see from this woman, the courage, the audacity from Mary of Bethany is not to be understated. I'm going to go down to the next verse. She broke the flask, poured it on his head. But there were some who were indignant among themselves and said, why was this fragrant oil wasted? I love this part. Because we have two responses to what's Taking Place? We have what Mary of Bethany is willing to do and her understanding of what needs to take place. And then we have what I like to call conventional wisdom. Now, depending on the version that you read of this, it says it's the disciples who say this. There's a version of this. That says that. It's Judas that says this. But someone says, we could have taken that oil and we could have sold it. We could have fed the poor. That's a great idea. It is in a vacuum. It's a great idea. It sounds real businessy, like, I'm gonna take the oil and then I'm gonna flip it. And then after I flip it, I'm gonna go invest it in a community. You know what I'm saying? Saying, like, I see the flip. I'm there with them. It's one problem. Jesus is there with them too. And if Jesus has allowed this to take place, clearly Jesus has a better idea of what is supposed to happen with the oil. But for some of us, we will be in the midst of. Of Jesus. We will be filled with the Holy Spirit, and we will have the conviction that we are to be broken open and to release what we have held back from Jesus. And what do we do? We can either be like Mary of Bethany and be willing to be criticized, or we can be like the disciples, slash Judas, who just say, I got a better idea. And not only did they believe they had a better idea, they then turned around and started to criticize her for not matching their expectations. Because the minute you start to give what your Father has given you back to Jesus, watch out for people who don't understand your revelation. Watch out for people who have small ideas for the big thing in you. We talk about making big moves and having big faith. One of the big things that puts the brakes on a big move is conventional wisdom, Stuff that makes sense. I love what the disciples were thinking. I don't love the timing that they choose to express it, because this is a good idea, but this is a God moment. Be very careful of good ideas in God moments, because then we will find the results are not sufficient. They are not optimal. They do not match God's expectation for what was supposed to take place in a given moment. And so the disciples represent for us the conventional wisdom in us, in every one of us. All of us have a brain. All of us have had this moment. God tells you to do something audacious. It makes zero sense to you, to your friends, to your friends, friends, to your mama, to your grandmama. It makes sense to none of them. And what's the first thing we do? Here comes common sense. Well, God told me to do this with a year's salary. But if I take that year's salary and then I bitcoin it right quick, and then I mine it, and then I Let that joint sit for six months, and then I let interest accrue. And then I turn around, I pull it out, and then I flip it, and then I put it up in here in this industry over here, because oil is popping. And so I'm gonna let it sit here for six years and let that. And then I'm going to take the interest and bring it back to the God thing, outside of God's timing. That's why I love this woman with this alabaster jar. She cut straight through. I don't have time to think about how valuable this box is. I don't have time to think about how valuable this oil is. I don't have time to think about all these people who are criticizing me right now. I'm going to just take this oil. Jesus, where your feet at? Put some on your head, too. Ah. This woman was unbothered by conventional wisdom, trying to take her out of a God moment. There has to be a time where we reach the breaking point. We have to be tired of receiving a word, an audacious word from God and doing less than what he told us to do. We have to be broken open from that kind of thinking. We have to be broken open from that kind of expectation. We have to be broken open from those kinds of decisions being made. We have to be broken open to the point where what God has put on the inside inside of us, the value of what God has put on the inside of us and the value of the timing of the command that God has given us is so great that there's nothing anyone can say, there's nothing anyone else can do. There's nothing even I could say or do that's going to keep me from being obedient and being broken open and releasing everything that's in me so that God can get the glory. That was that. That was that moment was anointed to have. That's just verse two. So we have these disciples who decide they have a better idea for what to do with this oil. Jesus says, let her alone. Watch this. Why do you trouble her? Y' all know what that feels like when you start to hear conventional wisdom. But you have a God word, you feel the disturbance. We try to push it down because we. Because that conventional wisdom is also comfortable. God is saying, why? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Do you see what she's doing? Why are you bothering her? Leave her alone. She has done a good work for me. I love this. Says, for you have the poor with you always. And he's funny. And whenever you Wish you may do them good. But me, you do not have always ways. There's always going to be a situation with a conventional answer to it. But there's a window when the word of God has to be used. There's a window when our obedience needs to be married to the word of God. There's a window when the great expectation that was placed on the anointing on the inside of you must come out. He's saying, listen, helping the poor is absolutely what I want you to do. Perhaps they did not understand which poor he meant because they were thinking of the poor in the natural. Jesus, when he absolutely takes his victory, is now making those who were poor in the spirit rich. They talking about two different pores. So Jesus, in other words, is saying that idea to feed the poor. That's a fisherman idea. Fishermen catch fish, give it to people. Here, eat. I'm making you fishers of men. Fishers of men, take a word, take a command, are not afraid to be broken open, to release what is on the inside them. Because fishers of men are feeding the spirit. Leave Mary of Bethany alone. She is doing a good work for me, for some people. You may have to tell somebody, leave me alone. I am doing a good work for him. I know you don't understand why I'm doing what I'm doing. I know you don't understand why I had a line of work that sustained me for 16 years and God told me to pivot. And I get that. But listen, leave, don't trouble me. Leave me alone while I do what my Father has called me to do, to bring honor to his Son, where I'm called to God. This woman was bold because in an environment full of people other than Jesus who did not understand what was going on, she does not stop anointing. She does not stop pouring. She does not stop worshiping. She does not interrupt the mission that was given to her. Before she comes to in the room, she fulfills the mission. Verse 8. She has done what she could. She has come beforehand to anoint my body for burial. Assuredly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be told as a memorial to her. In other words, what we're doing right now. I want to go back to verse eight, and then we're done. Oh, yeah, we're very done. It says, she came to anoint me for burial. Now, the understanding of what anointing oil is used for, it's for burial purposes. It's so that the body when it decomposed, didn't smell so bad. But the thing was, for what she had, this was for her, probably for her family. But in giving it to Jesus, she not only anoints him for his burial. Please understand that when Jesus died, he died and took all of our sins. So instead of anointing herself for her to be buried, she instead anointed Jesus to bury her sins. Sins instead of her. And whatever sin she had that may have been passed through generations, she eradicated. Because instead of putting the oil on her, instead of using her gift on her, instead of using her talent on her, she gave it to Jesus. And whatever would have held her back was destroyed because she didn't hold back. When you get to the breaking point, you gotta let it go. Because there's so much more to what's taking place than just the moment that you're in and how. Conventional wisdom wants to make us comfortable, be uncomfortable for a moment so that you can have a generational blessing. I'm done. Let's stand. I done brought some of us to our breaking point. I think I brought the time to the breaking point. I want to do this very quickly. There was one who was on his path to victory, who received this oil. And because he received this oil and then fulfilled his mission, there is freedom in this atmosphere. I want to extend to. To some special people. If you want to begin a life with Jesus as your Lord and Savior, if you want to break yourself open and pour out what's inside of you and say, jesus, I'm giving my life to you. If you want to start that, raise your hand. If you want to start that today. I see you. Hallelujah. Global fam. Come along with us. Raise your hand. In the chat. We got some people, anointed people there with you as well. Here's what I want to do. I see your hand. I just need you to answer three questions very quickly. Do you believe that Jesus is the son of God? I heard that. It was a quiet whisper, but I heard it all the way over here. Do you believe that he died a painful death for your sins? I got two. Do you believe that he rose up with all power, and that power is what is allowing you to be free starting today. Welcome to the family. Hallelujah. Welcome to the family. Afterward, if you. If you don't mind, please make your way down here. We would love to get you connected with us here a little further. We also want to pray with you. And because you're not going to do this journey by yourself, you got a whole squad up in here right now. Glory, glory, glory, glory. Spray them on down, okay? Okay. All right. What is your name? Michelle. I'm gonna ask you the same questions. They're gonna be rapid fire. You ready? Do you believe Jesus is the son of God? Yes. Do you believe that he died the bloodiest death ever seen for you?
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Yes, of course.
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And do you believe he rose up with all power and all might and all chain breaking power so that you could be free today? Welcome to the fam. We got two. Let's go. Ah, that's victory on a Palm Sunday. And I'm gonna have the young lady, she'll come join you and you will speak with my sister Serette. We want to get. We want to make sure you plugged in walking this path of victory with people. You hear me?
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Hey, family. Well, I pray that you were just as blessed by this teaching as I was. I'm just so grateful again to be a part of a dynamic community full of love, full of revelation and wisdom. One has been a movement that's been blessing people for over two decades and I'm so glad that you got an opportunity to experience it. I also have a podcast called the called it's right here on wherever you're listening to this Spotify or Apple or wherever you're listening to this podcast. You can just look up the called T H E C A L L E D with myself, Ture Roberts. This is designed for entrepreneurs, leaders and business business people. It's a weekly podcast and it will bless you. But hey, I enjoyed having you here. Meet us here next week. Check out the call. Much blessings to you. We'll catch you next time.