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Walk It Out Wednesday: Break The Barrier | Sarah Jakes Roberts and Touré Roberts
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Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
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Pastor Pablo Torre
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Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
Hello, Pablo Torre here, host of the Murrow Award winning and Peabody nominated show Pablo Torre Finds out from the Athletic where we use journalism to investigate mysteries like whether the richest owner in sports helped fund a no show job for his NBA superstar. In other words, Kawhi Leonard got from aspiration a $28 million no show job.
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Pastor Pablo Torre
Yeah, it's amazing. I'm honestly so jealous.
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Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
Or how our friend Action Bronson feels about covering his calves. When was the last time you wore pants? I don't. Probably 15 to 20 years. The last time I put pants on I had an acc three times a week. Follow us down the rabbit hole on Pablo Torre finds out. Watch on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts. ACAST helps creators launch, grow and monetize their podcasts everywhere. Acast.com hey family, welcome to the house. We're so glad you're here and we are excited about this word that you are getting ready to receive. It's to bless you and change your life. And when God speaks to you, and it resonates very deeply. And there's a promise, maybe something that you've been praying for, believing God for. I want you to sow a seed.
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Pastor Pablo Torre
Absolutely. Whenever God meets me, I make it my personal commitment to sow a seed to build an altar. When there's something in that message that, you know the light turns on or it deals with something that you have been struggling with, there is something about having this practical manifestation of that response of what God just said to you. And for me, that comes when I sow a seed.
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Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
We love you. God bless you. Watch it to the end. And then share this message with somebody. It's gonna change your life and hopefully many others.
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Pastor Pablo Torre
You're worthy. Oh, God. You're worthy. You're worthy. You're worthy. You're worthy. You're worthy. Isn't this why we're here? To encounter the presence of God together? We've had a long day. Maybe it's been a long week, and it's just Wednesday. But in this atmosphere, we can get a second wind. In this atmosphere where we feel like we've been tossed to and fro, we can be anchored in his presence. Fresh vision, fresh strength. We're here for a time of refreshing. Is anybody glad to be in the house of the Lord on a Wednesday night? Say something nice to the person beside you. Tell them you look good. You don't look like they got on your nerves today. I'm glad you made it. Thank God for those angels watching over you. Can you help me thank God for our family watching online? We miss you all. You all are a part of the family, whether you like it or not. You are just stuck with us. I pray that you're having an amazing evening or early morning, no matter where you are. We are just so grateful that we get to be in the house of the Lord and for you to be a part of what God is doing here at the house. Can you again, just help me welcome those who are watching online, literally from all over the world? And can I do something? If you're here for the very first time, you've never been to the Potter's house. Would you just stand up? We want to love on you and. Oh, come on, somebody. We got. What's up? Welcome. Come on, y'. All. Show our new family our cousins. Welcome, welcome, welcome. Hey, cousins. Welcome to the house. We're so glad you're here. I believe that in your time here, you're going to learn what we learn about this place or love what we love. About this place and that we have a way of making this big place feel like a beautiful family. And so thank you for being with us on this Wednesday night. I'm going to walk it out a little bit. On Sunday, God gave me a message called Break the Barrier. And you talking about getting drug around. I did not. I thought I was going to deliver the message. I didn't know the message was going to deliver me, but I really felt like God told me in my study and my prayer time that the effectiveness of the message was going to come down to how it was modeled. And so I think one of the things that has created a disconnect sometimes when we talk about repentance and humility and the fear of God is that no one shows what that looks like in our private, in our secret time. And so I just feel so honored and grateful that God would allow me to pour out my heart with or without my permission. The Holy Ghost just kidnapped me in front of everybody and y' all let them. And we supposed to be family. But for those of you who weren't here or maybe you didn't get a chance to tap into the message, I want to share with you just a high level view of what I spoke about. And then we have a few questions, then I want to toss it over to PT for us to get into communion. I spoke from 2nd Chronicles, chapter 7, verses 12 through 15. Can I encourage you guys if you do not? Let me tell you, I started doing something. Now, I will be honest. I. I have every intention on being a church mother in about 40 years. Every intention. I can't wait for it. And I will be insufferable. I just want you to know. But I. I started using my actual Bible instead of bringing my phone to church. And it doesn't make me any better than people who use their phone. But what I did realize is that having my actual Bible allowed me to highlight it, to put the pens in it as God was speaking to me there in the moment. I would use it for my personal devotion. But I just want to encourage you all, if you don't have a physical Bible or you haven't used it in a while to break it out. There's something about having undistracted time with God. And sometimes if we're honest, we're on the phone, we're reading the Bible, but someone texts us. It takes us out of the spirit. And then one day I pray that I can leave my Bible with my children and they can see the scriptures and the things that meant Something to me. So see this as a part of your legacy. Holy Spirit, lead us, guide us, help us to have questions answered that maybe we didn't even submit, questions that we didn't even know that we possessed. May they rise to the surface in this atmosphere. God, thank you for each and every person in this room. They are a part of your strategy for revival in the earth. You trust us, you trust our past, you trust our gifts, our talents to create an atmosphere for your glory, to dwell not just in this house, but everywhere we go. So my prayer is that we will leave here setting the stage and laying the foundation for revival, that everywhere we go, there will be resurrecting power because it started first in us and then overflowed into everything that we do. We bless your name, God, in Jesus name. Amen. So my message on Sunday, I started speaking about sound ultimately, and how in physics, in order for the body to produce sound, that it takes energy, matter and molecules. Energy, matter, molecules. This is a physics definition of what it means to produce sound. And in the process of studying, I learned that energy, which is our breath, moves through our body. And that energy gets into our vocal folds. Folds. And once in our vocal folds, it begins to disrupt the matter, the tissues and the organs that are a part of our vocal folds. And when that disruption happens, there are air molecules that begin to bump into each other because that energy has disrupted something. And when those air molecules begin to get disrupted and bump into one another, they create sound waves. And those sound waves are how we produce our voice. That same exact sound wave is landing on your eardrum right now, and your brain is interpreting the disruption of molecules into my voice. When I was looking at this practically, though, it just made me think about spiritually, what it means for us to create a sound that even for. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord that our breath has to push through matter. It has to disrupt molecules.
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Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
It has to.
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Pastor Pablo Torre
In order for our voice to translate into praise in heaven. When I thought about that spiritually, it made me realize that it's not just it pushing through molecules within our body, but sometimes it's pushing through our doubt, it's pushing through our fears, it's pushing through our stress and our worry. And so I believe that God put within our body a reflection of what happens in the Spirit. I talked about our brain interpreting that sound, the. The disruptive molecules into sound, and how the Spirit allows for translation for us as well. That's why we have to have a relationship with the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit helps us to discern people's temperaments. The Holy Spirit makes intercession on our behalf. That means I'm praying the best thing I know, to pray. But I don't know the full will of God. I don't know what God is going to do in my situation. But I pray anyway, recognizing that the Holy Spirit is translating my prayer. That always blesses me, because sometimes I'm praying God opened the door and the Holy Spirit is maybe translating. Give her strength for when the door doesn't open. So I'm glad that I have an advocate in the Holy Spirit, that I have a helper in the Holy Spirit, that I'm not out here just having to figure things out on my own. Then I transition into there being a sound from heaven when the Holy Spirit came, right? That even as I was talking about sound and how sound is produced in us, that the Holy Spirit came as a sound, like a mighty rushing wind. And so not only do we produce a sound, but heaven has a sound that descends upon us as well. When we're in worship. And we just begin to feel lighter and we begin to feel God speaking to us. We feel a peace. It's like there's a sound that. A frequency that is greater than the frequency of whatever's happening in our lives. And so that led me to think about those moments where it doesn't feel like our sound is getting through to heaven or that maybe heaven isn't getting. Like, did I change my number? Like, I used to be able to hear from you, God, or I want to be able to hear from you, God. And what are some of the things that stand in the way of sound? And so when using Second Chronicles and seven, I used it intentionally because there was a sound produced in 2nd Chronicles chapter 7 and 5. You guys can read the whole Bible, as PT would say, it's in there. Thank you so much. You read the whole Bible, it's in there. But in Second Chronicles seven and five, there's a king named Solomon who dedicates the temple. And when he goes to dedicate the temple, him and all of the people of Israel, they're so, so excited about the dedication of this temple that they get their tambourines, they got the organ, they got the keyboard. Like, they are ready to just dedicate this temple and send up an incredible sound of gratitude to heaven. And they do it. And heaven responds. The glory fills the temple. It's this beautiful moment of. Of transition, of. Of. Of exchange between us and the earth, between us and heaven, where there's an Exchange. Exchange of sounds. And I believe that that's what happens when we have high worship moments, that we're sending out our sound. When praises go up, blessings come down. He inhabits the praises of his people. When I send up my praise, I begin to feel the presence of God. There's an exchange. But what happens in those moments where there is no exchange? And so one of the questions that we got over and over again was that I didn't talk about all of the barriers that keep our sound from reaching heaven. So the title Break the Barrier was meant to highlight some of the things that can keep our sound from reaching heaven or us from receiving heaven. And I want to say this, that praise is a sound that reaches heaven, right? He inhabits the praises of our people, of his people. We see in Acts where the apostles had been arrested, that they began to praise and sing or pray. And the Holy Spirit would move, the chains would be broken, the prison doors would fly open. And so prayer is a sound that we release. Our prayer, our praise, our worship, for sure. Intercession. And we see a demonstration of intercession in Second Chronicles 7 when King Solomon begins to pray for his people. Now there's prayer, right? And each of us should have our own prayer life. But intercession is specifically standing in the gap for another. Oh, standing in the gap on behalf of someone else. Are there any intercessors in the room? Just wave at me. I love that sometimes when we're praying for our family members, we're praying for our businesses, we're praying for our co workers, that's us engaging in intercession. This isn't necessarily something for me. And intercession is certainly a sound that reaches heaven. But repentance is the sound that I was specifically tasked with sharing about on Sunday. And I believe that part of the reason why God laid that on my heart is I've just been sensing, as I'm sure anyone with any spiritual thermometer at all is that we really need revival. We really need a spiritual awakening in our generation. And by generation, I mean anyone who is alive in this moment, come on, somebody. And part of you cannot manufacture revival. You cannot manufacture it. It is just something that happens when people are gathered and God has decided this is the moment. So it's not like we could come in here together and say, you know what, we're going to create our own revival. This is something that comes from heaven. But we can be postured, postured for when the moment happens. And part of being postured for revival is Repentance. And repentance is so important because a lot of times, I think, especially now, because we have such a. I'm going to say critical. We have such a critical view of other people, and critical views of other people are often awarded on algorithms that it can be easy for us to point out what other people need to repent for. Maybe not y', all, because y' all are so saved and humble, but sometimes me and my flesh, I look at what people are doing. I think to myself, you. You need to repent. But part of what 2 Chronicles 7 and 14 tells us is that we have to have humility, that we have to be willing to search our own hearts for areas in our lives where we need to repent. So much so that I don't have time to clock your repentance because I need to be on my face, my sight. Come on, somebody. If God ever really shows you who you are, it'll help you keep your mouth off of other people. Baby, I got too much work to do on myself to be telling you how to work on you. If I tell you how to work on you, you need to say, thank you, baby. Because I took a break from the work that God is doing in me to offer you some insight, okay? That is the goal, is that we would begin to really ask God to. To show me myself, man. And sometimes we want God to heal us, and we want God to bless us, and we want God to empower us so that we can have pride and ego. God help me build my ego. God help me make my name great. But humility is when we say, God, really show me myself. Help me to understand where I'm messing up, where I think I'm getting it right, but I could be doing better. Where am I being judgmental? One of the things that I mentioned on Sunday is a lot of times when you get saved and you're like, okay, well, maybe my mother let me say it right. She says, I don't drink or sleep. I don't drink or chew or hang with those who do. And I guess that was a saying they would say when people first got saved. But we think like, oh, if I'm not doing this, if I'm not doing that, I cleaned up my ways. I stopped doing all of the big things. Then the fact that I'm gossiping, and that's fine. I'm gonna give myself a pass. Or the fact that I'm doing this, it's okay. I'll give myself a pass. And little by little, we pass ourselves out. Of righteousness. We pass ourselves out of holiness. And it is part of our reasonable service. The moment that we experience conviction to acknowledge and respond. Oftentimes we can't hear from God because we've gotten so desensitized by ignoring the moments where he convicted us. It's so true. You can train yourself to ignore conviction and you can train yourself so much to ignore conviction that you'll be begging and pleading and asking God to show up in your life and to say something to you. And God's like, let's first work out that thing that I've been convicting you about. Because it's a barrier. God doesn't convict us to shame us. Come on, somebody. God convicts us because he loves us so much that he wants us to become all of who he knows we can be. You were made in the image of God. When I convict you, I'm trying to clean up the image so that you can look like me. I'm not trying to shame you. I'm not trying to hurt you. So don't let the fact that other people condemned you keep you from receiving that. God wants to convict you so that he can transform you. We want transformation without conviction, and that's why we can't move. But when you realize that conviction is a part of transformation, you got to be serious about who you want to be in God. You got to be so serious that the moment the Lord convicts you that you don't mind moving around some friendships, you don't mind being inconvenienced. Because I have to be who God has called me to be. Come on. I have to be who God has called me to. God gave me a God sized dream. That means I got to be who God has called me to be. To tap into that dream, there's a generational curse I want to break. I can't do it in my own power. I can't do it in my own strength. If I could, those who came before me would have broken it. That means I need supernatural power. I need supernatural strategy. That means I got to get in the presence of God and allow him to do a work on the inside. If there's anything in me that doesn't look like you, God, highlight it. Show it to me. Make my heart sensitive again. You've had walls around your heart because you've been just trying to survive. So much so that God can't get through to you. God, tear my walls down. God, help me to lose the excuses. Make space for God in your heart again. My heart is where he dwells. I can't afford to be bitter. My heart is where he dwells. I have to forgive you. I didn't want to, but he lives inside of me and I got to make sure he's got a pure vessel to live in. I'm cleaning up houses. Anybody else in a season where they cleaning up house? I'm trying to make room for the master. I'm trying to make room for the king. He's going to take this shack of a vessel I am and turn me into a palace. I'm making room for the master. I'm living by holiness and righteousness from the inside out. Righteousness is not an outfit. You can't go buy it at the store. Righteousness is not the length of your skirt. Righteousness starts with what's in your heart. It starts with what comes out of your mouth. It starts with how you treat other people. We can get to the close later. I want to focus on your heart. Man looks at the outward appearance. God looks at the heart. I want to see what's going on in your heart. I want to see what's in your heart. And the beautiful thing about allowing God to see what's in your heart is that you are just saying you can come on in, but you living in a glass house anyway you live in when you are in relationship with God, it's a glass house. You giving him permission says, I don't want you to just look at me. I want you to dwell within me and to help me clean up the brokenness that exists inside of me. And I cannot overstate that. The Lord will clean up what has been damaged inside of you. He truly is a healer. He truly is a restorer. He truly will give you vision and creativity. So much so that even if it isn't in your family, God says, I can deposit it because you are part of my family. And so we have to receive that as our identity. And we got to be serious about it. And so. Okay, let me. Okay, God, right now. Here we go. Second Chronicles, chapter 7, verses 12 through 16. You should really read honestly 5, 6 and 7. If you read 5, you'll see what happened when they dedicated the temple. If you read six, you'll see what happened when Solomon began to pray. And if you read 7, you'll see God's response to Solomon's Prayer. But I want to talk about the barriers that I saw within this text that can keep us from being postured to release the sound for repentance. The first one, if my people let's Stop right there. If my people. Okay, the beauty of being his people in this context is he is saying, prior to this, King Solomon says, like, when they sin against you and they turn their back on you, when you allow them to be captured by other people because they didn't follow your ordinances, when you send plagues to the land because they weren't obedient, God will you hear from heaven. And the Lord responds. And he says, in this text, if my people, they will be my people even when they aren't acting like my people. So when I think about what this looks like in practicality, I realize that there are moments when I have done things that I didn't look like a child of God. I didn't sound like a child of God. And so I disowned myself from being a child of God. But God doesn't disown us. So in this text, it's saying, if my people. One of the barriers that can keep us from having our sound release is that we don't receive our identity as being God's people because of our behaviors, because of how someone else may have judged us, because of somehow someone else may have not received us. We can say, I guess I can't be God's people. Now. That happened to me when I got pregnant as a teenager, and I got pregnant as a teenager at the peak of purity culture, where if a girl got pregnant or was doing things outside of marriage, she was damaged goods. Nobody wanted to touch her. There was this analogy they would use that it would be like giving a sucker to one person. And by the time they pass it around to anybody, would anybody want that sucker? That's what it's like for a girl who's had different experiences. And so embedded in my mind was this idea that because I have messed up, because I have broken the rules, I can no longer be God's person. So I got to figure out how to make things work on my own. And I didn't realize until I started cultivating my own relationship with God that he still wanted me, you understand? And he still wants you. And there's nothing you can do that can change that. So if you are in this room and for some reason you find it difficult to believe that God could see still want you because other people turn their back on you, I am telling you, the most beautiful gift you can give yourself is beginning to understand the character of God. That's why we read this book. We read this book not to get all of these rules to make us better than other people. We don't read this book for all of these regulations so that we can make sure that we're walking around here as goody two shoes. We read this book because it reveals to us the character of our God. And when we understand the character of our God, when I start saying stuff like, he'll never leave you nor forsake you, I'm not just talking in hyperbole. I'm talking about what I've seen happen in my life and what I've seen happen for thousands and thousands of years. When he should have left, when he could have turned his back, he wouldn't do it. I'm his people. If he did it for them, he will do it for you. Do you understand? Even when they went through grief, God was still with them. Even when they were messing up, God was still with. Moses was a murderer. David was an adulterer and an abuser. And God still kept showing up for him and showing up for the victims of those who experienced those tragedies. God says, you're still my people, and there's nothing you can do about it. Do you understand that? So you got to receive that as your identity. So for me, if my people was about identity, how do I make sure that I begin to rewire in my mind what it means to be God's people? And when I receive that I am one of God's people, regardless of what I have done, it changes the way that I show up in the world. When I realize that he won't disown me, then I can hold my head up a little bit. A lot of us would make better choices if we realized that we had been adopted, that someone still wanted us regardless of what we went through. And God offers us that. So if my people who are called by my name, so one identity, I got to receive that I'm God's person. The second thing who are called by my name, I got to answer to what it means to be a child of God. Because sometimes we're God's child in secret. But we're being. But we're answering to who we used to be in public. Or we're answering to who other people have known so that we don't disrupt their experience of us. So one of the barriers that can keep us from being postured for repentance is that we are answering to who we used to be, who other people want us to be, but we're not answering to who God has called us to be. They're called by my name. I marked them. And so when I say, I'm calling on the children of God. This is a moment for the children of God to stand up. This is a moment for not your fear, right? Because some of us answer to fear. Some of us answer to shame. When God tells me to do something, I answer because I'm called by his name. I'm called. When he raises a standard for how I'm supposed to show up in the earth, I respond because I'm called by his name. So that's the second barrier, the third barrier. If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves. Humble themselves. And that's where things got tricky for me on Sunday, because I thought I was teaching y' all and demonstrating, and I ended up here, humbled myself. Do you understand that word, humble? In the Hebrew, it means humiliate, right? And one of the things that I want you to understand, this isn't humiliate as in embarrass. God help me. This isn't humiliate like embarrass. But to be honest, in such a way that you don't come to God with your highlight reel, that you don't come to God with all the things you did well, that we come to God with the reality. I don't think I said this on Sundays, but sometimes there's not enough distance between us and God that we begin to become so impressed with our achievements or our accolades or so impressed that we're so much further than the other people around us that there's not enough distance between us and God. And sometimes we're so busy boosting ourselves up and boosting up our confidence that we forget that we have this privilege to be in the presence of God, that we didn't do these things in our own strength and our own mind. I don't come to God with my biography. I come to God with my scars and my wounds that he has breathed on. I come to God with my fears and my doubts in the areas where I know he's still trying to perfect the work he's doing because I want to give him direct access, access to where I need to be developed. If God has to get past your accolades and get past your dreams, then that's. That's a lot of work to do. He'll do it. But I like to come to God empty. I like to come to God ready like, Lord, I know I messed up Lord, I know. I know that I don't have it all together and I don't have all the answers. God, and I'm coming to you low because, one, I just recognize who you are and who I am in comparison to you. You, I'm not even worthy to be in your presence. We talk about the King of kings. There is not a king on this planet, not present or in the past, who could ever compare to our king. There's not a father on the earth or nor has there ever been, who can compare to our Father. The wind and the waves obey him. And you put your breath inside of me. God, you're still going ahead of us and making our crooked path, death straight, even when we don't. I don't know another goodness like this. I don't know another love like this. And you keep inviting me into your presence. You want to live inside of this broken vessel. There's something powerful about recognizing the distance that exists between you and God. But that God says, come on in anyway. I want to dwell. I want to have communion with you anyway. I want to be in covenant with you anyway. Because my strength can be made perfect in your weakness. I don't need you to come to me strong. I don't need you to come to me bold. I just need you to come to me ready. I just need you to come to me open. He created us naked. That was a sign. I don't need you to put on to be with me. As a matter of fact, you may have to take off to be with me. What is it that I've been putting on that I need to lay down when I come into the presence of God? Don't nobody in the presence of God care about. About how much money you have? I don't care about your degrees. I don't care about what's in your bank account. I don't care about your promotion. I don't care about your business. God says I care about your heart. This is not a networking event. This is not where you prove to me that you got it all together. I knew who you were before you even did anything great. I put greatness inside of you. I want you to come to me with a level of reverence. This is what. What it means to fear the Lord. Not because I'm afraid. It means I got so much respect for who you are that the weight of your glory makes me fall to my knees. I know sometimes we get so caught up in the lights and the cameras, but sometimes you got to get ugly with it. You got to know that God's not looking to be impressed. He's looking to really bless. I'm looking to really bless you. And if I'm Going to bless you. You can't show me where you're already blessed. You can got to show me where you need my presence. You got to show me what I can do in your life. You got to show me where you're walking around blind. How could you be in this earth and not need the presence of God? I don't know what's going to happen from day to day, but he knows what's going to happen. So I bow down to the One who holds all power in his hands. I bow down to the one who understands the end from the beginning. I bow down to the one who understands the way that I'm going to to take. I bow down to the one who knows when I'll take my last breath. I don't have time to be wasting waiting for you to see who I am. I got to get in the presence of God so I can know who I am. So I know how to create, so I know how to write, so I know how to raise these children. All of us, each of us in this room, we have an expiration, concession, date. And none of us know when it's going to be. But God knows when it's going to be. And he's willing to dwell with us so that we can maximize every single moment so that you can make every lasting impact while you're in this earth. It is critical that we understand God was not bored when he created us. There was an intention that you can establish a part of the kingdom of heaven that no one else can but you. Do you understand? This is not just about coming to church. This is about kingdom behavior. The kingdoms of this world shall be the kingdom of our Lord. And someone's got to be willing to take territory. And God's got territory with your name on it. So order my steps and give me the strength to take them. Clear my vision so that I can see clearly. Give me discernment so I understand what's a distraction and what's an assignment. God help me to understand who I need to be right now in this earth, with this family, with this background, with this history. God says I can use it at this age. God says I can use it. And because I can use it. The harvest is plentiful, the laborers are few. Very few people are willing to roll up their sleeves to become the type of people who can get in the presence and experience an impartation from God. And impartation has to happen from a place of humility. So we don't pray entitled prayers. And as hard as it is sometimes we have to find a way. And I'm gonna say this is gonna sound crazy to some of you, but I'm gonna say it because I feel like the language is going to resonate. Sometimes we have to forgive God for not answering those entitled pr. Now he didn't wrong us, but we felt entitled to a certain outcome. And because he didn't give us those outcomes, now there's distance between us, but humility is understanding that maybe I was praying for something that wasn't in your will. So while I think I need to forgive God, God, I really need you to forgive me for trying to usurp my will over yours. For trying to force something that you were obviously trying to pivot me from. For trying to hang on to a vision of what my life should look like instead of consulting the Creator. So one of the things that I've had to learn to do is when I pray and I begin praying for certain outcomes, Jesus shows us this. He goes, if it's possible, pass this cup. But also nevertheless, not my will, but your will be done. You gotta hold loosely what you're praying to God for. I. I want to make it known, I want to make it clear. But I also want to be in alignment with your will. So one of two things are going to happen. God's going to answer it because it's aligned with his will. Will or the Spirit is going to make a translation that helps me to get aligned with his will. But for us, non negotiable has to be me and the will of God. So if my bitterness, if my unforgiveness is keeping me out of the will of God, then I may need to humble myself. Cuz I think I thought better than you. Oh, I know that felt like it stepped on somebody's toes a little bit. My toes too. Sometimes I think I think a little bit better than God. Like God, I think you could have really did this differently. Why did it have to be this way? I'm hurting, I'm grieving, and I feel entitled to it because this was a real loss for me. So humbling ourselves, even when we felt entitled, it allows us to really put God in his proper place. Because at the end of the day, I trust you. How can you still trust God? Because everything that God does, he does well. The only thing that got tricky about what God created in Genesis 1 was us. That Earth, she's still doing what she was told to do. That sun still sitting up there where he put it. The moon went to that store, didn't touch nothing, didn't ask for nothing. Everything God created is still functioning in the way God created it to.
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Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
But us.
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Pastor Pablo Torre
It ain't Him, y'. All. It's a us thing. It's a ussy. Somebody say cheese. It's a ussy. So there's something about what we believe or something about what we don't trust about God that has kept us from being able to function in the way that he originally created. And so every now and then, we got to check our motives, check our intentions, and we got to be willing to humble ourselves. Because I want to show up as what God created. If my people who are called by My name will humble themselves and seek my face. PT's got this. Can I steal what you have about seek my face in front of everybody? I can steal it. Okay, I'm gonna steal it. Okay. When I got the seek my face, right, I thought we're just seeking out what, to know God well enough that we know what his face looks like. To search for him in Scripture, through our worship, through our prayer. But then PT came along and he told me that the Lord had been talking to him, him about seeking his face. And that meant to look at what God was looking at, to pay attention to what God was facing and begin to point our desires in towards that direction, our effort, our gifts and talents into that direction. Can y' all just clap for pt? That was a beautiful revelation. That. That's what you said, right? It ain't nothing worse than somebody jacking up your revelation. I messed it up. You can come up here and fix it. Okay, so we got to seek his face. That means that if we claim our identity, we answer to being called by his name. We find humility, and then we make it a part of our life to seek his face. And whatever. Whatever interpretation lands for you, what does it mean for you to see God's face in this time in your life? Because one of the barriers is that we may be seeking other things. I'm his child. I answer by his name. I'm humble, but I'm still seeking my purpose, my destiny. What does it mean for you to seek God's face in this season of your life and turn from their wicked ways? It said, pray and seek my face. And the reason why prayer is important and the reason why I believe humility comes before prayer is because how we pray from a place of humility is different when we're praying from. From that sense of entitlement. So it says to pray, humble themselves and pray. And when we begin to pray with that level of humility. Our prayers, they just change. Our heart breaks for our nation. We recognize the areas where we need development. One of the things probably 10 years ago that God really started dealing with me about was integrity and what it was. Sometimes we call it people pleasing, where like I just. I just try to make everyone else happy. And honestly, I think people pleasing sounds so sacrificial and so beautiful. But some could argue is manipulation because I'm doing whatever it takes to make other people happy, even if it means I abandon my integrity. And so God started talking to me about integrity and being willing to disrupt people's experience of me in order to be true to who God's people called me to be and true to the type of woman that I want to be in the earth. So pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways. That turning. These are the barriers and turn from their wicked ways. That means that when I get finished going through this process, that I don't continue down the same path I was on. What does it mean to really have actual change and think that through? If there's an area of your life where God is to going convicting you, what does it look like for you to turn from that to go in the opposite direction? And if you have a fear of loneliness, if you are afraid of rejection, if you're afraid of isolation, sometimes that can keep us from turning from those wicked ways. If we're afraid that if I don't have this thing to numb me, that I may have to actually deal with the pain. Maybe it means I'm going to have to go to therapy. I'm gonna have to go to counseling. I'm gonna have to get some support on the turn. I'm gonna have to have accountability. I'm gonna need to replace with something righteous the thing that was wicked. What is the righteous replacement? I was talking to my therapist the other day and I'm glad PT Caught the fast because I was knocking back Starbucks Starbucks cookies. Like, if this were a safe place where people wouldn't judge one to two a day every day, just knocking them back, just. I don't even drink coffee, so I have no business at Starbucks. I don't like the cold drinks or nothing. Literally just trying to. And trying to go to different ones. So the one that I went to earlier wouldn't judge me for being a cookie lady. If I was to go a little bit deeper. I didn't want the kids to smell the cookies in the car. So I spray a little something before I Pick them up in the car carpool line. Okay, I needed this fast. But I was talking to my therapist, and she was like, the next time that you're in this space where you're, like, addicted to sugar, you need to ask yourself, what in my life is so bitter that I need this sweetness? And sometimes you need to fire your therapist. Cause don't be in my business like that. I paid you to beat around the bush, not to go straight for the thing. You understand what I'm saying? Okay, so turn from your wicked ways. No shade to Starbucks. But if Starbucks is one of your wicked ways, like, you may have to detour a little bit. Okay? And I will hear from heaven. I'll hear from heaven. If they're able to do these things, to be serious about denying themselves to receive the fact that they belong to me and they live a life where they answer to that. If they're willing to do that, then I can hear from heaven, I will hear that sound of repentance, that this is a people that are really trying to meet me where I am. You understand? Sometimes God meets. He does. He meets us where we are. And that's beautiful. But we cannot be those who insist that God constantly meets us where we are. We gotta ask God, how do I stretch myself to where you are? I don't want to keep living the same way where you got to rescue me from the same thing over and over again. I really want to break this pattern off of my life. So who am I going to have to become in the process? So that's a recap. And those. The. One of the first questions was, could say or go through and name all of those barriers. And so it really is just in the text. If you break it down and look at it through that lens, you'll be able to see it hopefully yourselves and God will give you your own revelation and interpretation. So I highly suggest that you read it. If you're just building your relationship with the Lord or just getting back in your relationship with the Lord, take these messages that resonate with you and get in your own prayer time and your own devotion and see what God expands about the revelation for you. See what God says to you directly so that when you come in, we're confirming or we're exchanging. That's what the first church. It wasn't just about coming to receive someone else's revelation. We would come in and we would have revelation to share amongst one another about how the Holy Spirit was moving and what we were learning and experiencing. And that's A beautiful way to create and cultivate community. It can be intimidating to open the Bible when you haven't experienced, you know, faith in your life where you don't know how the translations. And it can be a little overwhelming. I'm telling you, start at a place with the message that really resonated with you, whether it's this one or any other one, and begin to just read that scripture over and over and over again. I was listening to a lecture, and one of the things they did, they take one scripture and pull out at least 10 insights from that scripture. One scripture, 10 different insights for the more advanced level. He said 35. I want to say it was Ephesians 5 and 18 that he was using as an example, but he said, pull 35 insights. He says, and I've had other classes do it, so I know it can be done. But you may have to read before and after to understand, to really get the full insight. But I just encourage you to take a scripture and work it, read it over and over again, understand how it fits. Because biblical literacy is going to be so important for us as we continue to navigate what's God and what's not. Okay? One of the questions that we received is, I feel so much shame of the sins I subjected my life to. After repentance, I let God down. I wasn't even aware. I didn't even want to admit it. After this Sunday, I humbled my myself and knelt down and begged God for forgiveness. How do I move forward without feeling embarrassed and shameful to face God? This is an amazing question, and there's some things that she put in this question that I want to offer a bit of correction to. She said, I let God down. There's no such thing. God knows who we are. Come on. God knows who we are. You may have let other people down, you may have let yourself down, but God knows the end from the beginning. So you didn't let God down. This is another thing I stole from pt, but this time I'm not going to ask him. Can I share it? But he's like, you can't disappoint God. Because to disappoint God would suggest that God had an expectation of you. And he was wrong about that expectation. Oh, that boy.
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Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
Good.
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Pastor Pablo Torre
So you didn't let God down. When we talk about moving forward without feeling embarrassed and shameful to face God, one of the things that I put in my notes that I didn't say that I think is worth writing down for any of you who have struggled with worth and even being in the presence of God can feel a little bit challenging. The presence is the one leveling field, level, leveled, place, whatever the word is that people use. It is the one place where everyone comes in unworthy and everyone leaves worthy. None of us are worthy of being in the presence of God. Your sin may be different from mine, your scars may be different from mine, but none of us have lived a life worthy of being in relationship with God. When we get into the presence of God, it isn't just an opportunity for us to experience God's presence, but it heals us, it makes us worthy, it transforms us. He loves on us in such a way that we embrace who we are. I haven't always been able to tell my story without cringing or without worrying how other people felt about us. But God has loved me so good that it has cast out any fear I have of how other people will feel about who I am. And so you didn't let God down. And, and I want to challenge a little bit your perspective on who God is. Because a lot of times we liken who God is to who other people have been in our lives. And because we let our parents down or some type of authoritary figure in our lives down, we assume that we've let God down. Or we only know God as the judgmental one. And we haven't encountered the love of God or experienced the character of God's love in our lives. And if you look at, I think just Genesis 1 through 4, you know, we see he creates humanity. We see that they eat from the tree, he kicks him out of the garden, but he still dwells with them because he still loves them. He's still dealing with Cain and Abel because he still loves them. So he's still with them, not because they did everything right, but because of who. Who he was. And surely if we looked at it through the human lens, we'd be like, oh, they let God down. But God had a strategy. And, oh, I feel that God had a strategy even in the letting down that would allow it to still work out for good. So it really wasn't a letdown. He was the lamb slain before the foundation of the earth. What does that mean? I know that they aren't going to get this thing right. So I already have a plan and a strategy that will break their heart open so that when I send the old ultimate strategy, they'll be ready to receive salvation. What if what we're reading is God's heart? Obviously God's heart, but also how God Cracked our heart open so that we could receive salvation, so that we would be in such a place of humility that we realize we couldn't do it without God. There's no such thing as letting God down. And so the perspective on God that you have, maybe of one that you have experience, experience from the experiences you've had with other people. And I would like to challenge you to read scripture specifically looking for God's love to really seek out. What does it mean to ask yourself this question when you read anything as it relates to God in the Bibles. What does it say about the love of God that the woman was caught in the act of adultery and he shooed everyone away and. And sin, who now condemns you? What does that say about the love of God? What does it say about the love of God that he was still there with Cain and Abel and trying to tell them, don't be upset, because if you get upset, sin. What does it say about the love of God that he prepares us and helps us to understand the world that we live in? What does it say about the love of God? So ask yourself that question so that you can have a full picture of who God is. Yes, there will be consequences. The rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.
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Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
The.
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Pastor Pablo Torre
The scripture. If you read any bit of Bible, you'll see that everybody got it. You know, this idea that we was going to be living life and no harm would come our way and we wouldn't have any issues and any struggles. That. That ain't nowhere in here. Everybody was fighting for their life. In this book we talk about, I don't want to be God's strongest soldier. Everybody in this book had to be one of God's strongest soldiers. Soldiers. And so what strength did they receive from God in those moments where they felt weak? I feel, I look at the prophet Elijah and when he wanted to quit and thought he was the only one who was trying to live righteously. And God says, come here, get something to eat and take a nap. What does it say about the love of God that he's not constantly asking us to produce, that he's not constantly asking us to do something for him, that he'll take care of us and show us how to be in his presence. Okay, I did the six barriers I talked about that someone wanted to know more about the powerful sounds that heaven can't ignore. And someone else says, how do you let go and overcome barriers? I'm struggling and constantly feeling stagnant, which is something that I think many People can relate to. Sometimes we want to overcome barriers that we have to dismantle. That's why, you know, the message wasn't just overcome the barriers. Sometimes there are barriers. Oh, and I feel this. If we just overcome them, the barrier will still exist for someone else. But there are some barriers that God wants us to dismantle for the pulling down of strongholds.
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Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
Oof.
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Pastor Pablo Torre
When we pull down a stronghold, that means that that stronghold that we pulled down is no longer a barrier anymore. It doesn't talk about us just hopping over the stronghold or going under the stronghold, but to dismantle it all together. There are some things in your life God's going to give you the endurance to overcome. He's going to give you the power to leap over things. But there are some things he's going to make you face head on because he doesn't want it standing in the way of any anybody else. He wants you to be able to give someone with real strategy. How you overcome addiction for real. What are the tools you need to build the business for real. What do you do when you don't get the financing? How do you find life again after you've gone through divorce? There are some things you got to be able to tell somebody with specificity. I know what it's like to not want to live anymore. I've been there. I didn't just overcome it. I sat in depression for a minute. Then suddenly there came a sound from heaven and I finally got the help and the resources I needed. Sometimes God is marinating your testimony so that it can give flavor to what someone else is going through. I know you just want to get out of the boat. I know you want the storm to stop raging. But I'm telling you, sometimes God says, I want to show you that you can be steady in the storm. Come on, Bishop. That when I am with you, that you can be okay even in the midst of the world going crazy. So sometimes we don't get to just overcome. Sometimes. Sometimes God won't allow us to just overcome because he's trying to teach us how to open our mouth and ask for help. Come on, private overcomers. I want to overcome, but I don't want anybody to know that I got something that I need to overcome. But you were not meant to do life alone. It is not good that man shall be alone. You will overcome by the blood of the lamb and the word of your testimony. You may have to open your mouth and let somebody know you're going through a test so that you can get A testimony. And let me tell you the power of opening your mouth and letting someone else know that you're in a test. They can give you the cheat code. Baby, I've been in a test like that Before I had to raise my children, before I had to build that building business. Before I had to get in the presence of God and undo that spirit of lust before. And I am telling you, not only can God do it, he can do it in such a way that you never long for it again. You need to hear somebody else's testimony so you got the momentum. You need to break the generational curse. You need to hear someone else's testimony so you know what's normal and what's not. Isn't normal for me to miss who I used to be. Yes, it's normal. But sometimes you got. You got to keep pressing forward anyway until you can no longer hear your old self calling your new self. Is it normal that I don't always feel close to God? Yes, it's normal. And that's why you got to learn to lift your hands and worship and lay hold of him, even when it feels like you're slipping away. We got to normalize. Some of these things that we're making look easy because that's why we're losing a generation. We made it look so easy that we left them alone and made them figure out. Figure out how to fight it alone. But I came here to let a generation know. Baby. It wasn't easy, but it was worth it. It wasn't easy, but it was worth it. It wasn't easy, but he healed me. It wasn't easy, but he changed my mind. It wasn't easy, but I got hope again. It wasn't easy, but the curse is broken. I don't think the way I used to think. I don't talk the way I used to talk. But it was a process. But the process was worth it. Because who you looking at that now is not at all who you should see. But he that began to work in me, baby, he fixed me right on up. He changed my name. He changed the way that I show up. And he's no respecter of person. If he did it for me, that same God wants to do it for you. I long to do it for you. I didn't do it for her because she was TD Jake's daughter. I did it for her because she was my daughter. And if my. My people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face. You belong to God. You belong To God. You understand? Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And you're going to be free. And you're going to walk in your anointing and you're going to walk with power and authority. That's what God wants to see happen. That's what God wants to see happen. I'm gonna turn this over to pt.
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Pastor Pablo Torre
There is something, a question that came in that God's really placed on PT's heart to acknowledge and address. That I feel is going to be just the. The perfect segue for us as we move into what will be a time of communion and a time of reflection and renewal. And. Do you. You want to. You want me to read it, Baby? You want to read it?
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Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
I got it.
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Pastor Pablo Torre
Okay.
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Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
Can we give it up for Pastor Sarah? That was rich and powerful and wonderful and edifying and awesome and spirit filled. Thank you. Hallelujah. Does anybody feel the holiness of the moment? And let me define moment. I don't mean simply this moment, but I mean the moment in the earth. These are. These are holy times. And you have to recognize when you see hectic times. Those are holy times right here in the city. We had the shooting at the ICE facility. Just random. And the. The narrative is all over the place. Were you against the ice or against the people who were in custody? Because one says that. And it's just crazy. Just. It's just. It's chaotic. And the reason why I say that, that. That these are holy times is because there are times that are to bring us to a sobriety. Because the truth of the matter is all of creation is waiting on us. I promise you the earth is groaning. Those are groans. It's groaning. And watch this. It's not groaning for God. That ain't what the Bible Sundays. In Romans 8 and 19, it says, the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly is waiting for the revealing of the children of God. That's us. So when I see hectic, I think holy. What do you mean? PT What? What are you talking about? When Moses was God's response to the cry of the children of Israel. If you study it, when you get a chance, it says the cry of the children. The sound Pastor Sarah of the children of Israel, because of the oppression, came to God. And then the next two words you hear is now Moses. So Moses was a response, was God's answer to the cry that came up from the earth. So. So Moses is going about his business and God, you know, you know the story the burning bush. But what is the first thing that God says to him? Hey, hey, hey, hey. Take off your shoes, bruh. Because the place, the time, the moment that you're standing in is holy. Take off your shoes. In other words, you can't walk like you normally walk. You. No matter what happened up until this moment. Take off your shoes. You. You're gonna have to move differently now. This is holy ground. So we're in a holy moment, and we're going to commune in just a moment. But for about the past 15, 16, 17 years, I have been following the biblical feasts, some of them and without. And in particular, the Feast of Trumpets that has evolved to be be Rosh Hashanah, the head of the year. And I would feel renewal or the inner discomfort that precedes renewal. Say that better. I would fill in my spirit without knowing anything about the Feast of Trumpets, Rosh Hashanah, nothing about that. But I would feel like formless and void, which is the feeling that precedes renewal. We don't go from new to new. It don't go like that. We go from new to struggle to formless and void, like in Genesis. I'll tie it all together. We go from. See the moment for a breakthrough is very, very awkward. It don't feel like a breakthrough. It feels like a breakdown. Feel like I broke off, just broke. And if you don't understand the cycles of creation, then you will think you're on your way out when you're on your way up. So. So right around. And I didn't even know about the biblical holiday, the Feast of Trumpets, Rosh Hash. I didn't know anything about that, but I would feel in my spirit and then I would hear someone, someone say, and oh, and by the way, you know, we're in this season of what, what? Our Jewish brothers and sisters and those who follow the biblical feast called Rosh Hashanah. And I'd be like, oh my God. So I thought it might have been a coincidence because I'm a Christian. Why am I, I ain't got to flow like that. You know, I'm good, right? But then every year without fail, and I wouldn't even, I wouldn't even track it on the calendar, I would just look up and I would feel that turmoil right before renewal. And I will look up and I'd be like, it better not be. And I will go there. And it would be right in that season of the new year. And so I began to realize that I wasn't crazy. My ignorance could not stop God's reality. Are you hearing me? So I begin to pay attention and to look forward. And there is an alignment. So tonight we've been on a 10 day fast. And this fast concludes literally at the conclusion of Rosh Hashanah, Feast of Trumpets, Rosh Hashanah. And I don't think that that's by coincidence. So what I want to do before we commune, because I was encouraged by someone I love very, very dearly, I was encouraged to dig in a little deeper into these biblical feasts because I was really only really, really into the Feast of Trumpets, Rosh Hashanah. And so I dug into that more and then it made me look at, well, what are some of the other feasts? And I'm going to tell you right now, it's life changing. It's life changing. There's nothing that God does for nothing. Everything that God does, even if he did it thousands of years ago, there is something in it. And I'm going to be straight up with you. All of it points to Jesus. And Jesus taught us that. He said, man, search the scriptures. They testify of me. He said, you think you know, Moses, Moses was talking about me. So all, all of scripture, ultimately, and we thank God for the scribes and those who wrote it down, is so that we can ultimately see Jesus from generation to generation to generation. Really quickly. I'm gonna, I'm gonna try to remember off the top of my head because in the interest of time, but the seven primary biblical feasts are Passover. You remember that the feast of the Passover. And the Passover was symbolic of the blood being applied to the door. Of course, you all know this. And the angel of death had to Pass over. And then that rolled right into the Feast of Unleavened Bread. That was the second feast. And that had a lot of significance. Again, each one of these things can be unpacked, and there are people who can unpack it far greater than I can. But it was the Feast of Unleavened Bread and leaving. I'll just say this really quickly. Leaven had to do with. There was a connection between leaving and corruption. Because when you would take the leaven itself. Leaven. Leaven. Leaven itself was the remainder of the old bread that was old and corrupt. And you would put it in the new bread to get the new bread to rise. And it had bacteria in it. It was unclean. And that's why it evolved to. When you said. You know, when Jesus said, hey, hey, beware of the leavens, the Pharisees. And it says, a little leaven spread to the whole lump, so don't mess with it. So we begin to understand that that meant corruption. So we had the Feast of Unleavened. Unleavened Bread. So we had Passover, unleavened bread. I'm gonna pull them up because I'm not gonna miss this. I want to get them right in order and everything. Some of y' all could probably know. Yom Kippur. No feast. Hold on. No, no, no, no, no. I ain't gonna mess this up. That's why I got my notes that I couldn't print out. But that's okay. I got them right here in my phone. All right. Passover, unleavened bread. Oh, first fruits. That's the next one. The first fruits. So this is when the harvest came up. You would take the first fruits of the harvest, and you would present it. The priest would present the first sheave. He would wave it, and that was a sign that a great. A greater harvest was coming. And then the next ones was Shabbat, which was ultimately Pentecost. It was the Feast of weeks, and it was 50 days after that. So all these things. So these. So. So God is commanding them to keep these feasts. Now it seems like none of them have anything to do with us. Maybe I kind of get the blood on the door post. Maybe. Maybe I get that because I. Maybe I can see Jesus in that. I heard enough about that. But unliving bread, like, what? Okay, I get that. Yeah, Be clean.
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Pastor Pablo Torre
Don't put nothing in you.
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Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
I get that. I get that. You know, the first fruits. Okay, like, really. Like, what is that? Or whatever. But God is commanding them to keep These feasts. Then the feast of weeks, feast of weeks, 49 days plus one, the fifth day, you know, harvest. And okay, yeah, we want to. We believe God for harvest or whatever. All these sort of things, you know, they seem insignificant, but they're very Christ centered, all of it. And God is serious about it, and he tells them to keep this for generations. So those were the four spring festivals, spring feasts. Then there were three more interesting. Three, four plus three. He goes seven. That's the number. Completion. Huh. So then you had the fall feast. And the fall feasts start with the feast of Trumpets, which is Rosh Hashanah. Then after that is Yom Kippur, which is the day of Atonement. And then the final feast was. Was Succoth, or the Feast of Tabernacle, symbolic of when God was dwelling with them in tabernacles all through the wilderness. They didn't have a. A temple per se, but God was still with them everywhere they went in these booths or sukkah or tabernacle. So you got to say, God, what is that? All right, so what does that have to do with anything? Jesus is in each and every single one of them. Because Jesus literally died a spotless lamb. He died on which feast? On Passover. If you study the scripture, he literally. The Passover lamb died on Passover. So this command, this command that God is telling the children of Israel to keep this. This feast he's telling them to keep for thousands of years was pointing to Jesus. Okay, I get that, Pastor. That's easy. Bloodshed, spotless. I get that. What about the unleavened Feast of unleavened? How is that connected to Jesus in any way? Well, guess when the feast of the unleavened Bread was. Passover was one night, the very next morning or the evening in Jewish culture, you know how it is. The evening and the morning is the day. So he's buried that night, which is the next day. Guess when the feast of unleavened Bread starts. The next day, the day he's buried. Why is that significant? Because he. Watch this. He had no corruption, and he's the bread of life. Jesus literally was the unleavened. Unleavened bread. And he is. Watch this. Buried as a sinless sacrifice on the day of unleavened bread. God speaking all throughout eternity. And it gets better. Because remember, the unleavenedness had to do with not just clean, but without no corruption. Well, we know that he was raised up before there was any corruption in his body on the Third day. Well, guess what the third day was. The Feast of First Fruits. Watch. This was the Sunday after the Passover Sabbath. And the Bible says that Jesus was the first fruits. Come on. From the dead. His resurrection. So he was resurrected on the day of the Feast of the First Fruits. Coincidence or the brilliancy of God. But it gets better. Gets better. So what happens 50 days after he's raised from dead? He's hitting all the feasts in his death, burial, resurrection. He has hit all three feasts on the precise day. 50 days later was the Feast of Weeks, Harvest. And it was connected to Mount Sinai when they received the Word. And not only that, but there was a prophetic promise that God was going to take the Word and put it in there. Come on, y'.
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Pastor Pablo Torre
All.
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Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
Put it in their hearts. So on Pentecost, which was the Feast of Weeks, the Holy Ghost comes. Who is the Word that goes from being outside you and in you? All of those things point to Jesus. You got to study. When you have time, it will blow your mind at how strategic and how brilliant and how God has this whole thing Eldorado figured out from start to finish. Pastor Sarah talked about Jesus being the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. He has got it figured out and worked out well. You're like, well, that's only four. There's seven. So those were the spring feasts, but then we have three more that are the fall feasts. The first one of the fall feast is the Feast of Trumpets, which is Rosh Hashanah, followed by after the conclusion of holiday, 10 days later, Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and then followed by Sukkoth. The four are about what has already happened. Track with me. The three are pointing to what will happen. So let's think about what it's called. And here is a little bit of. It's a little confusing. Ish. But Rosh Hashanah is what the Feast of Trumpets evolved into. And our Jewish brothers and sisters call it the Jewish New Year. That gets a little confusing because when the children of Israel came out of Exodus, Nisan was the beginning of months. So in our mind, we think the beginning of months means new year. But God institutes. Well, first of all, the beginning of months wasn't a feast. The one that was a feast was the Feast of Trumps, of Feast of Trumpets. So this Feast of Trumpets turned into Rosh Hashanah was about a reset, a spiritual new year, not a calendar new year. I wish I had time to really, really dig into it. So let's talk about what's happening. It literally was when they blew the trumpet. And historically, biblically, when the trumpet was blown, everyone gathered. It was. It woke them up. It was like an alarm sounding. And they would come and they would gather themselves together and they would get themselves together and it would get serious. It was the announcing that we're getting ready, watch this, to go and meet with God. And as a result of it, we're moving now towards the next feast, the next holiday, which is Yom Kippur, which would be the day of Atonement. So there was consecration that took place for those 10 days. I'm going to meet with God. And back then you couldn't play around. Come on, somebody. You had to get yourself together. It was like a recognition. It was an annual recognition and a reminder that we are the people of God. Not just. Just redeemed, but we are the people of God and we have the tendency to get off course. But what's interesting to me is that it was the Feast of Trumpets. Now what do we know about the return of the Lord? There, there, there. The Bible talks about that there will be eight. The trumpet will sound. So all of this again now is pointing to. We know the first four have dealt with what he has done. The last three are about us getting prepared for what is coming, that there would be an everlasting reminder throughout the generations that we've got to get it together that we might be a church without spot or without wrinkle. So that ties back into that. Romans 8. All of creation is eagerly waiting for us to be us from glory to glory. We cannot drift into being who God has called us to be. We've got to lean into it. We've got to fast, we've got to pray, we've got to acknowledge. So we're dealing with past, with the fore and future. Hold on. Not just future, present and future. Because while I have opportunity to get myself together, while I have an opportunity to be awakened to the reality that the Lord is coming back and. And I can't just be out here willy nilly and random. I've got to be serious about this thing because the trumpet is gonna sound. Can't you hear it already? Every single, single day. When I hear and I see the world shaking, I can hear the trumpet beginning to tune up just a little bit.
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Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
So it is a spiritual response setting that will bring us to at one atonement, at one mint which mar, which is alignment. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I understood as a child. But when I became a man I put away childish things. That's First Corinthians 13. And when you study that, if you study the context of that, right after that he talks about seeing through a glass darkly. But later he would watch this. He would know even as he is known. Which means that as we continue to get more and more alive, as we continue to go from glory to glory to glory, we are going to begin to reflect more of what Romans 8:19 is describing. So we've got Rosh Hashanah, which is about the trumpets wake up call. Because let's just be honest man, we'd be sleep we'd be sleep trying to do our thing and I'm trying to get on. I'm trying to be a billionaire, I'm trying to my dream and all this kind of silliness. And I. And I don't. I don't have a problem with you being ambitious. I'm ambitious. But what are you ambitious toward? I. I don't want you, nor does God want you, to invest your best in that which is perishing. And you might say, well, you know, there ain't no fun in the kingdom. There ain't no adventure in the kingdom. You know, let me just do this, and I'll give money to King. Are you kidding me? There is opportunity for innovation like you ain't never seen before. The kingdom, literally, because that's how the enemy tricks us. Enemy says, oh, no, no, you got to go out here and do your thing, you know, and then. Then you just. You get rich, and then, oh, you'll have something to give. The kingdom don't always work like that. They literally can go hand in hand. God has given witty ideas and inventions and downloads right now to this. I was on a call yesterday. Witty idea that will shake everything up and put some money in your pocket, advance the kingdom, and set you up with an inheritance for your children's children. Can't you hear the trumpet? I could already hear it. Watch this. The trumpet is a sound, and it's faint right now. But watch this, because that which is coming has already been. If you tap into the spirit real good, you can hear it tuning up even right now. So God said, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna set in motion in my biblical feast an opportunity for you to remember that I'm on my way back. An opportunity to remember that time is short and to take time. 10 days to fast and pray, consecrate, get yourself together. But that. Wait a minute. There's one missing. That number five was Rosh Hashanah, and number six was Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. I'm missing one. Oh, Sukkoth. So what's the significance of Sukkoth, Feast of tabernacles. What's the significance of that? Well, the Bible says when it's all said and done, because that was all about God dwelling with them in the wilderness. From place to place, he was with them. So the Bible says, when it's all said and done, he's going to tabernacle with man forever. All of it pointing to Jesus past, present, and future. Jesus the same yesterday, today, and forever. And as you study your word and you follow God's prophetic roadmap, you'll never be out of alignment. Are you tracking with me? That's why it is prudent for us to study the biblical piece. We throw the Old Testament out, all that a. That Jesus came to fulfill it. And he said, yeah, I did. He said, I didn't come to destroy it, though. Dig into it, understand it. Everything that God did have prophetic symbolism, significance, and it all pointed to Christ. Happy New Year. Happiness. You what I'mma do, I'm going to lean in. I. I'm just crazy not to believe. And I'm not Jewish. We're grafted into the Commonwealth of Israel. That is good news now. Grafted into the Commonwealth of Israel. Covenantal blessings and promise and. And just beyond what you can imagine. Grafted into it. I'm not Jewish, but I'm gonna follow that book and I'm. Get mine. Come on, somebody. I'm gonna get mine. I'm a son of Abraham and I'm gonna get mine. I'm not gonna be talking about. That's irrelevant now. And no, no, no. Because Jesus was flowing in all of that. We're gonna commune. We're gonna commune. I feel like, like the heavens are open. I feel like. Like there are no limits. I feel that so strongly in here tonight. And we're going to commune, and we about to get it. But I'm going to tell you what I sense. Open heaven. When Bishop got up on Sunday and he started talking about unity and not turning to the left or to the right, but being in the middle, heaven rewarded us with a glory experience. All kind of. And it wasn't goosebumps, it was glory. There is a difference. That was heaven saying, if you get this right, there will be no limits. I will rip the veil between heaven and earth. Feel the Holy Ghost so strong. I will rip the separation between heaven and earth. And I will do things on earth as they are in heaven. And healings will break out and deliverances will break out, and salvations will break out and miraculous provision will break out if we get this right. I feel the Holy Ghost so strong. I feel him so strong in this room. I literally open heaven. Open heaven. And when God graces you with an open heaven, you go for some stuff. Pastor Sarah talked about releasing some things. I was thinking about that unleavened bread bit, and I thought to myself, particularly, because that. That leaven was something that was old, trying to bring it into something that's new. And I wonder if there's some leaven that we trying to sprinkle into this new thing that God is doing. Because we feel like, you know, we can just sprinkle Just a little bit in. Nobody will know. The bread will rise a little bit, but no one will really, really know. And I challenge you as I challenge myself. Is there leaven in my bread? It's not going to be a big little thing. It's going to be a little thing. Watch this. Where is the leaven? I like to approach it that way. I like to. Sometimes I go, if there be, but sometimes I say, God, where is it? Because it's better. Watch this. To assume that there is than to self righteously assume that there isn't. Not if God, where is it? Where is there a little leaven? Maybe it's in my attitude. Pastor Sarah already did that. I'm gonna let y', all, I'm gonna. I'm gonna take it easy on you. Open heaven. Can we start? If they haven't have you all received your communion things yet? Okay, let's pass them out. You can do it while I'm talking. While I'm talking. But. But I do, I want to. I don't want to let this, this moment pass. I feel real strongly that there. This is a moment of decision. I feel like there's some in this room and I'll come up here, so I'm out of the way, but I feel like that there's some in this room. And you're on. You've heard enough to choose to turn. Kind of like Pastor Sarah was talking about, to turn and to step into something. And if you do, if you don't harden your heart. Wow. And there's a ton of things that'll make you hard in your heart. Ton of things. Pride will make you harden your heart. Criticism will make you harden your heart. That's why Paul said, I need you to esteem others more highly than yourselves because you'll always be able to find a critique or a criticism, not realizing that God uses the foolish things to confound the wise. But I feel really strongly that there is an open door right now. And if you give God an unlimited yes. Oh, there it is. If you give God an open ended yes. If you give God a blank check yes. You will experience grace without measure. What do I mean by grace? Divine enablement without measure. And I want to try to do this right. I know there's. There was a lot of things that we wanted to do in this service, and I think that we've done it well and we're almost. We're on time, actually. It's a beautiful thing. But I do want to take a minute and somehow if you feel like you need to give God a radical yes. An expensive yes. Some way, somehow, I'm just gonna mess this up. But just let me do. Revival is messy. Just meet me here at this altar. Somehow God is calling you to give him a radical yes. Right now, it's almost like jumping into the deep end of a swimming pool. And you could only swim a little bit, but you feel God calling you. Just. Just meet me here really quickly. That's. That's number one. Really quickly. Number two, if you have never opened up your heart to Jesus, if you've never opened up your heart to Jesus, the whole book, all of the scripture, all of it literally is pointing to and is expressing Jesus. He didn't just show up in the New Testament. He was there the whole time. And in God's grace and God's goodness, he allowed us to be alive after it was revealed. The saints of old just had to go through. They had to experience oppression for 400 years, losing their identity. They had to be chased down. And the oppression was so great that they just sighed. The Bible said that they just sighed. Just imagine being oppressed so strongly and for so long that you can't even cry real good. You just. Your breath is a cry. That's what a sigh is, is. Your very breath is grief. We didn't have to go through that. We had moments like that, but we didn't have to go through that. Watch this. Without them even knowing that there was a Jesus, that there was a savior coming. They didn't have any of that. For our learning, for our example that we would tap into later. What a time to be alive. Now we got the whole book and we can look back and say, oh, my God, Jesus, you were all along. And if you were in my past or their past and you're in my present, you're also in my future. That's liberating. If you're here and you need to either open up your heart to Jesus for the first time or recommit your life to the Lord, please meet us here. We're going to commune in just a second. It's going to be awesome, but I think that commune is going to be all the more meaningful. Open heaven. Open heaven. Wow. Open heaven. Open heaven. Radical. Yes. Yes. Where you got to cry, but you go, that's what it's going to take. This is a holy time. It's crazy because I'm looking at the cray cray, but I'm not discouraged by it. I don't necessarily like it particularly. It involves people's Lives and pain, all that kind of stuff. I don't like it it. But I'm also charged by it. Because on the flip side of that, God is on the move. He's on the move in a big way. Which means that there is divine resource. Yeah, yeah. Is divine. Just lift your hands real quick. Oh, you got your comedian. I just want does divine resource. Yep. Oh, there's divine resource. Hallelujah. There's divine resources in the earth like you've never seen. Right now you think that the enemy is running rampant. That can't even compare to how the spirit is running. Is running in this season. Running. And those who will go get into alignment. And those who are willing to get God's pace, they're gonna start running too. Oh, God. Yep. Hallelujah. It's go time. It's go time. It's go time. It's go time. Hallelujah. Can you just let me be still for a minute? I just. I don't want to miss. I don't want to miss the Lord. I don't want to miss what he's doing. Just let me be still for a minute. Yes, ma'. Am. The promise is for you. Yes, ma'.
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Pastor Pablo Torre
Am.
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Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
We're going to see things unlike anything we've ever seen before. God's going to show us his glory in profound ways. And there will be restoration with it. Restoration and grace and renewal. Oh, hallelujah. Joy. It's going to be like the book of Acts, but greater, but greater. Greater glory. Greater glory. Greater glory. Loneliness is gone. Loneliness is gone. You're gonna be so full with of him. Tabernacling with you. Even loneliness. Loneliness is gone. Yeah, yeah. Do it all, God. Do it all, God. Do it all, God. Do it all, God, do it all. There'll be no limits. No limits. There'll be no limits. No limits. No limits. You know what to do. No limits, no limits. Hear the Lord saying, I've gone ahead and of you. I've gone ahead of you. I haven't been having you fasting for nothing. Look at how many fasts he's called us on this year. This year alone. This is like number three or number four. Corporate God is saying, I'm serious. I'm serious, and I'm drawing you in. I ash. I hear the Lord saying that when I get finished with you, you won't have a problem. You won't even have a problem. You won't. You, you, you. You won't. You won't. You won't. You won't. You won't even have you. The problem's gone. Gone. I'm going to change your focus. I'm going to change your pursuit perspective. I'm going to change your sense of identity. I'm going to change your sense of who you are. You're not going to have your the problems that they're not even problems. And I'm not even being insensitive. I'm not even being insensitive. He's saying that when I put my hand on you and you recognize who I am and who I've created you to be and the plans that I have for you and what I've got assigned to your life, I am to going, going to distract you from the things that are trying to distract you. I'm going to distract you with my glory, with my power, with my purpose, with my plan. From those things that are trying to distract you and cause you to live in a lesser reality than who you are. You are my child. You are my daughter. You might not. You're not in no low level stuff with you. You are created in my image and my likeness. And when I show you my plan for you, you're going to realize that you are royalty. And you're not going to receive less than who you are ever again. Says God. You receive it ever again, says God. Says God. I'mma put a crown on your head. I'mma put a crown on your head. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.
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Pastor Pablo Torre
Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Yes.
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Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
Thank you Lord.
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Pastor Pablo Torre
Thank you.
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Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
Yes.
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Pastor Pablo Torre
Yes.
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Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
Thank you, Lord. Please, just let me, just let me be a good shepherd for a minute. Just, just let me be a good shepherd. And you're not going back. You're not going back. It's only forward from here. On the day of Pentecost, my spirit fell. Well, they never went back the same. It was forward and they didn't even know all that they were going. But their steps were ordered by the Lord. And even the things that they thought were problems were working out for their good. It was pushing them into purpose. Pushing them into purpose. And when it got difficult, they came together. There was no lack among them. There's no lack. There's no lack. None. And there was no lack of community and true brotherhood. Let me tell you something right now. I don't want any relationship that is not marked by the Holy Spirit. Hear me, hear me clearly. If see, you have to have relationships where the Holy Spirit is actually the relationship. It's not because they funny or fun or have the things that you wish you had. No, no, no. The Holy Ghost gonna be the relationship. Holy Ghost. And when the Holy Ghost connects people, the Holy Ghost connects people strategically. He'll connect people that embody the deficiency of the other. I need to say that better. The Holy Spirit will connect you with someone who will fulfill the deficiency that you have. And it will have nothing to do with class or social status or anything like that. The Holy Ghost will be the relationship. That's why you can't count out what God has called you to. Because you feel like you are lacking the. The insight or the income or whatever it is. Just get real about Jesus. Just get real about the kingdom. And God's going to connect you with the person that is weak where you are strong and strong where you are. We. That's what's happening in this season. There are real beliefs, but we used to say game recognizes game. Real recognizes real. You won't be able to fake it and your value to that person will not be what you can do for them. And it transcends ethnicity, has nothing. Even language barriers. God's going to connect some of you with people that don't even speak your language. Shock. But the Holy Ghost is going to connect. Why do you think that? The enemy is trying to divide the country and the world and the nations and the ethnos. Why do you think he's doing that? Because the power is going to happen through connection. He sent the disciples out by two. And I bet they weren't random too. The Holy Ghost is going to be the relationship. If you don't feel the Holy Ghost on the relationship, watch this. I'm going to tell you why you have to move. Because relationships take up space. If the cat counterfeit is there, the real can't show up. I'm not telling you to be anti people. It doesn't mean that you're better than them. No, no. You're just focused. I love you and praying for you. But I got to create space. It's a holy calling set apart. It is what it is. You have to make excuses about it. It just is what it is. Dream your dream, Joseph. Yeah. Your brother's gonna get mad. That's okay. You'll redeem them later. You'll redeem them later. Those who will hate on you for being you need you to be you. They just don't know it yet. So don't even be mad at them for not understanding. Don't get mad at them. That's okay. You'll get it later. You'll get it later. You'll get it later. You'll get it later. You'll get it later. You just lay hold of you. You one of one. You 1, 101. Yeah. You got it. You got it. I promise you, you got it. And you're not gonna lose it. You're not gonna lose it. You got it. I promise you. Okay, okay, okay. Just wanna be obedient, okay, as it relates to communion. Does everyone here at the altar have communion? Okay, you will in just a second. If you don't have one, just lift your hands and I just want to talk to you for a minute. Then we're all gonna commune. Communion tied to it, to past, present and future. Also. I don't want to assume that you understand all that could be in. Just lift your hand and we'll make certain that we get you something. If you don't have one, whether you're here at the altar or up front, Jesus said, do this often, as often as you do this talk about communion says, you do show forth the Lord's death until he returns. This moment was at a Seder. It was a Passover meal. So just imagine when he's sitting down with his disciples, as he certainly had often done, and they're at this Passover Seder where they are celebrating the passover, which had to do with the spotless lamb shedding his blood being a sacrifice so that those who were covered by the blood and the doorpost covered by the blood would be saved. He essentially takes off the. He unveils himself in front of the disciples and says, take, eat. This is my body that was broken for you. He in essence says, I'm the Passover, the one that your great great great great great great grandmother and grandfather are telling you about. And you've been doing these seders all your life, and I've been doing them with you. But. But I'm getting ready to be that lamb that was glorified through the feast. And he says, take, eat. This is my body that was broken for you. And Paul writes in First Corinthians, chapter 11, later on, he says, and as often as you do, in other words, I want you to do this often. It's back to that feast thing where God wants us to. For some reason, he wants us to continue to do something because it keeps that thing in front of us. So what is in front of us when we commune his death? As often as you do this, you do show forth, you do proclaim the Lord's death until he returns. So when we commune, what we are receiving is the awareness, the reality, the consciousness of what Jesus did. The Bible says that we are transformed by the renewing of our mind. Meaning that communion is powerful. It's not just a symbol. He says, take, eat. This is my body that was broken for you. Isaiah 53, the chastisement that brought us wholeness, Shalom was upon him. By his stripes I'm healed. So the then when I look at Corinthians where it talks about God made him who had no sin to be sin, that I might become the righteousness of God in him. If I'm thinking about the Lord's death, I'm thinking about not just him dying, but what died in him. What died in him was my sin. And that word literally means to miss the mark. Whatever keeps me from being me, whatever keeps me from being who God created me to be, was put in his body and killed. That's why it says God made him who had no sin to be sin. So that we might become become the righteousness of God in him. What? How can I become the righteousness of God in him? I. I can become it because God took what is unrighteous about me and put it in his body and killed it. And the more I remember it, the more I'm transformed. I beseech you by the mercies of God, present you body, living sacrament, holy, accepted unto God, which you read in the service. And be not conformed to this word, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Communing often is a part of that renewing of your mind process. And it says, and when you do that, Romans 12, that you may prove what is that? Good, acceptable and perfect will of God. In other words, that you may actualize the will of God. I cannot actualize the will of God unless I change. Because the will of God necessitates my transformation. Are you hearing me? So when God calls you to do something, he's calling you, but he's calling this you. He's calling to you that you are becoming. There are certain things that you're not going to be able to do until you show up as that version of you through successive degrees of transformation. Transformation. So every time I commune, I should look more like Jesus Because I'm receiving afresh the reality that he killed something. It's like, like. Like Juneteenth. Free. Just don't. Until I did. Isn't that something? We about to go. Isn't that something? I'm freer than I think I am right now. Everybody in here, everybody watching is freer than they think they are. Because the work of the cross was perfect. The only thing keeping me from experiencing it is an unrenewed mind. That's why Paul says the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they're mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. That's mind. Mind stuff. Casting down imaginations and arguments that exalt itself against. Against the knowledge of God. And the knowledge of God is this whom the Son sets free is free indeed. He not making you free? I am free. My spirit knows it. My mind just has to catch up. You're freer than you think. And that's why I commune. I'm experiencing afresh the sovereign work that Jesus did on the cross for me. And that's why he said when he said it is finished, he didn't say it's almost finished. He said it's finished. Everything that I'm going to do for you, I did. We just have to walk out.
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Pastor Pablo Torre
What he did.
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Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
He did it already. That's why everything that God is doing in the earth, he is doing through us. Are you hear me? He not on come down here and do it. He did what needed to be done and sent the Holy Ghost the power of God to fix stuff. And the watch this. And the debtor we are, the more powerful God is through our lives. So as we get ready to commune, I want you to take that wafer which is his body that was broken. Come back down here. Once I get my little get down. What I want you to do is I want you to think about an area where you don't feel free. I want you to think about some place of brokenness. Wow. It's going to happen tonight. It's going to happen tonight. Oh my God. Something that has lied to you and told you that it was stronger than you, that it was stronger than your God, it was stronger than your covenant. And I want you to think about what that is or what those things are. And once you recognize it with this wafer, I just want you to break it a little bit. Because he was broken so that we might be whole. The chastisement, chastisement that brought us shalom. Wholeness was in his body. He was broken. So I can be whole. So what needs to break? I feel the Holy Ghost so strong in here. What needs to break? Is it an addiction that's on the cross? Break it between your fingers. Is it a soul tie trying to get loose from someone or something that's not good. And you can't seem to get loose. God charge you up and then you get back in that situation, you can't move. Break it. Breaking tonight, I'm just gonna say it. Someone is like you just lie all the time and you can't help it. And not just judging you. I'm just calling it out because I hear it. And it's. It's not even. You're not even lying to deceive. It's like a lying spirit. You just can't. It's all you. You know how to do and, and you know it. And you struggle with. And I've never even even heard that before. Break it between your fingers. Whatever it is. Whatever it is, Whatever it is. Why? Because Jesus killed it. He killed it. He killed it. Our powerful Jesus killed it. Just give you 30 more seconds. What needs to break? Let it break between your fingers. And I'm decreeing that as you commune tonight, you're going to change. You're going to be. You're going to be. There's an establishing that's coming to you. There's a weight that's coming to you. There's a steadfastness that's coming to you. There's another level of faith that's coming to you. There's an elevation that's coming to you. And don't come down. Stay up, stay up. Connect with people that keep you up. Watch television that keeps you up. Up listen or no television at all. Listen to music that keeps you up. Go back to sermons that keep you up. Stay up. Stay up. Stay up. Stay up. Stay up. Stay up. Stay up. Stay up. Stay above, Stay above. Above only. The Bible says we're above only and not beneath. Five more seconds. Let's take of his body that was broken for us. And the cup which is his blood represents the covenant. He says, I will not drink this fruit of the vine again until I do it with you in heaven future. I got you. I'm making you a promise. You're going to make it. You're going to make it. You're going to make it. I'm going to be with you always. As him saying, I'm going to see you through this life and I will see you on the other side. You are going to make it. I'm waiting on you. In my Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, I would have told you. I'm going to prepare a place for you. I got you. In other words, my covenantal promise is going to stand all the days of your life. Everything I promised, everything I spoke will come to pass in your life. I declare the end from the beginning. Some of you need to dust off the promises. I will fulfill them. Just lift it up above your head and take. Whoa. Healing. I feel healing flowing in here right now. You're watching via live stream. There's a grace for healing in this house. Thank you, Jesus. Those of you at the altar. Yeah. I want you to repeat after me and it's worthy of all of us repeating. Heavenly Father, I thank you for your love. I feel it. I thank you for the words that you spoke to me tonight. Through the Holy Spirit, I receive them. I thank you for Jesus. Thank you for making. Thanking him who had no sin. All of mine, all of my weakness, all of my bondage, all of my limitations, all of my hurt, all of my pain, all of my ailment you placed in his body, nailed it to the cross, put it to death. And just as he was raised up free and victorious, because I'm in him, I'm raised up too now. Holy Spirit, Spirit, I receive you. Fill me to the overflow that I might walk with you in power, in truth, in freedom, in clarity, in grace, in boldness, in authority. Ah. And I declare I will never be the same again. I'm yours, set apart, sanctified, chosen, anointed, destined, called blessed and rich in Jesus name. Oh boy. We're going to seal this night with our tithes and our offerings as we step into this new, this renewal. I believe with all of my heart that you'll never be the same and your eyes are going to be different. Family, we fasted, we prayed and we asked God for some things. We're not going back. I. I almost. If you feel comfortable with this.
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Pastor Pablo Torre
I.
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Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
Want you to at some point, tonight or tomorrow, take a different route to where you have to. Don't be late. I'm not trying to get you to be late, but take a different route, a different. Just do something different to represent this new. I'm going to take the 10 days. I'll be honest with you. I'm going to take the 10 days up to Yom Kippur and I'm going to reflect. I'm going to ask God about hey, is there any leaving any leaven anywhere? Like show not is God show me where is it? Because I don't want anything hindering me. I love you guys big. We're going to receive our tithes and our offerings again, I'm sorry this is a lot more structured typically, but I want to flow tonight. If you need an envelope, just lift your hand and our PMTs will get you an Envelope. If you're online and you're giving via through the live stream, the instructions are on the screen. And the only thing that I would say. I know I'm preaching to the choir. We understand tithes and offerings. The only thing that I would say tonight as you give is give in a new way. There might be some of you and you've never tithed or you used to tithe. You stopped tithing. You used to give and you're. Thank you. I don't know. Life happened and you got discouraged. Let's give with newness. Let's give with newness tonight. I'm going to give with newness tonight. Let's not tip God. And not even. I don't even have to say, we're not even in that space right now. I sense we all feel the holiness of this moment. And when you have your offering, I just want you to stand. It is an act of worship. Wow. Study those biblical feasts if you want. I can. I know we. I had my notes and everything. I know they're there. I'll get with production and see if we can. There's some. All of the biblical feasts have biblical references, so you can read it and maybe dig into it a little deeper. I mean, in today's age, to be honest with you, you can Google or chatgpt and you know, you gotta fact check chatgpt a little bit too. Don't just take that as the Lord like, you know, you know, because sometimes it'd be like, you know, I'm like, no, that's not right. He's like, you're right, I missed it. Yeah, I know. Because you're not. You ain't the Holy Ghost. It's cool to use, but check it too, because it's only as good as what is put in it. And anytime man is putting in something, the potential to. To be in error is present. I will never not respect the feasts. They tell me too much about Jesus. I see Jesus in all of it. Okay, tell them stalling. I'm going to. Well, I won't tell you the amount, but I'm going to give something that has eight in it, symbolic of. And it's just for me. New beginnings. Nine is a number of harvest. If you feel like you're in a harvest season, do that. But do something that is symbolic to what you feel like God spoke to you. But I do believe that this is a new season on the next level for me. I sense it, I know it, and I believe it's the same for Some of you, let's hold it up, if you have it. Father, what can we render unto you for all of your goodness and your faithfulness in our lives? Lord, this is not an attempt at all to try to pay you back. Because that is laughable. But what it is, is a gesture to say, we love you. We love your church, we love your kingdom, we love your work. And God, we love your word. It is perfect. It literally is. And as we look back and we reflect upon how Jesus is interwoven into the whole of Scripture, it's fascinating and mind blowing of how you've got this whole thing figured out. And so, God, we are investing in your plan knowing that it can't fail. So when you invite us to participate in tithes and offerings and you say you will open up the windows of heaven and pour out such blessing, we won't have room enough to receive, that is nothing we're even contemplating. That is settled. It is truth. And even if that promise. Promise we're not there. And you just commanded us to do it, we would do it because it would be good to do so. But, Lord, in your goodness, God, you have activated all of those promises, blessings. And so we receive that now. Lord, you said a lot tonight. There was a lot to catch and a lot to receive. And I believe it was just enough for where we are. So God give us the grace for these words and this experience. Experience to take deep root and produce great fruit in our lives. I thank you for these, your children, in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Please pass it to the left. I don't see my worship team, so I'm going to sing a little something for you. This little light of mine it's all I got. That's all I got I'm gonna let it I'm gonna let it shine this.
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Pastor Pablo Torre
Little light of mine I'm gonna let.
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Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
It shine Let it shine, let it shine, let it shine Call Pastor Juanita up here in a minute. Come on. I'm gonna let it shine I'm gonna let it shine this little light of.
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Pastor Pablo Torre
Mine I'm gonna let it shine Let it shine, let it shine let it.
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Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
Home I'm gonna let it shine all in my home I'm gonna let it shine all in my home I'm gonna.
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Pastor Pablo Torre
Let it shine Let it shine, let it shine let it shine Everywhere I go yeah I'm gonna let it shine Everywhere I go I'm gonna let it shine Everywhere I go I'm gonna let it shine Let it shine let it Shine, Let's. Oh, I'm gonna let it shine.
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Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
Everywhere.
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Pastor Pablo Torre
I go I'm gonna let it shine Let it shine, Let it shine Let it shine.
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Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
Hallelujah. That's all I had. But it was enough. It was enough. It was enough. My friend, Pastor Juanita Francis is here all the way from the uk. God bless you. We love her so much, her and her family. Bishop John Francis and just incredible powerhouse preacher and prophet and psalmist. And we're honored that you're here, and thank you so much for stopping by. Love you so much. Blessings to you. We'll see you afterwards. All right, it's time to go now. I know you're hungry, but take it easy. No turning back. Hallelujah. Do me a favor. If you're comfortable, take the hand of the person that's next to you. If you're not comfortable, just put your hand on their shoulder. I get it. It's cool. Hallelujah. Thank you, God. Thank you, Lord. You're moving. Lord, give us heightened sensitivity and we'll do no music really quickly. I just want to hear this final blessing. Father, give us. Give us hunger like never before. Insight, precision for this season. Give us discernment greater than anything we've ever experienced. Increase our faith like never before. Fill us to the overflow in ways that we once could have never even imagined. Subtract from us supernaturally everything that would weigh us down. Subtract and dissolve any relationship that would hinder our flight in. You give us sensitivity and the awareness and the emotional maturity to embrace new relationships that you have ordained for us. Father, cause us to be in this season. Very, very quick to hear and slow to speak. We commit our words to you. May we be slow to speak. Let our speech be at the pace of the Holy Spirit and nothing else. Discipline our words. You said in the last days you would pour out your spirit upon all flesh. And if I might paraphrase that we would all prophesy, help us to see our mouth as holy. May we never be reckless with our words. And if we don't understand, give us a hush, spirit. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of our mouths, but only that which is useful for the edifying of the hearer. If it does not edify, give us the restraint to keep it. Show us our new normals now. May the Lord bless and keep you. May he make his face to shine upon you and be gracious towards you. May he lift up his countenance over you and grant you shalom. Shalom in Jesus name. God bless you. Love you very much. See you Sunday. Bishop will be speaking Sunday. See you then. Listen, the Potter's House isn't just a place, it's a movement family.
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Pastor Pablo Torre
We are so much better when we come together, and today we're inviting you to be a part of something bigger. When you sow a seed, you're planning the future of hope, healing and change.
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Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts
In times of uncertainty. The house stands strong and because of you, it keeps standing for others. Your giving isn't just generosity, it's ministry. And what you sow today will be the miracle someone is praying. Praying for.
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Pastor Pablo Torre
If this message spoke to you and if you're ready to step into faith. If you believe in what God is doing here, don't wait. Sow a seed. Move in faith. Every gift, every act of generosity fuels this mission and brings us closer to reaching the lives that need it the most.
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