WIOW: The Groan Before the Glory | Bishop T.D. Jakes

Summary

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The Potter's House Podcast

Episode: WIOW: The Groan Before the Glory
Date: October 23, 2025
Speaker: Bishop T.D. Jakes

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Main Theme & Purpose

In this powerful “Walk It Out Wednesday” episode, Bishop T.D. Jakes explores the Apostle Paul’s teaching in Romans 8, focusing on the mysterious and sometimes painful “groaning” believers endure before experiencing God’s glory. Using vivid language, Bishop Jakes invites listeners to embrace suffering as an essential process that precedes transformation, power, and divine inheritance. The message is designed to reframe struggles not as signs of defeat, but as birth pains leading to spiritual greatness and the manifestation of God's purpose.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Position vs. Condition

(Begins ~09:00)

• Many believers focus on their condition (circumstances) instead of their position (status in Christ).
• “There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit.”
• Knowing your position as one “in Christ” changes how you experience attacks, struggles, criticism, even personal failings.

Notable Quote:

"We spend too much time worried about our condition and not enough worried about our position." — Bishop Jakes (13:08)

2. The Law of the Spirit vs. The Law of the Flesh

(14:00 - 20:00)

• Paul distinguishes between living by the flesh (carnal, “meaty-minded”) and the Spirit.
• Carnal thinking leads to death; spiritual thinking leads to life and peace.
• Shifting to a spiritual mindset brings supernatural peace, which cannot be faked or bought.

Notable Quote:

"If you're carnally minded and you switch and start being spiritually minded... peace will just come over your soul." — Bishop Jakes (18:24)

3. Adoption and Inheritance

(24:49 - 33:00)

• Believers receive the “spirit of adoption,” chosen purposely and intentionally by God.
• No one—devil, circumstance, mistake—can change your status as God’s child.
• If you’re a child, you are also an heir of God, jointly inheriting with Christ.

Notable Quote:

"Adopted children... never had to wonder are they wanted? Because you had an option not to adopt them." (25:07)

"If you are a child, then you are an heir... whatever Christ got, I got it too!" (35:08)

4. The Necessity and Nature of Suffering

(36:01 - 44:46)

• Suffering isn’t popular to teach, but is central to Christian formation—without the fellowship of Christ’s sufferings, there can be no resurrection power.
• Value is forged through suffering: “Value is added through suffering.”
• Christians are not promised a painless or fair life, but a process that results in transformation.

Notable Quote:

"Sometimes God takes you through stuff just to show you he could get you out of stuff." (40:01)

"Power comes through knowing him in the fellowship of his suffering and the power of his resurrection." (44:40)

5. Reframing Pain: The Groan Before the Glory

(45:13 - 56:00)

• Paul’s reckoning: after weighing all his pain, his suffering is insignificant compared to the “weight” of future glory (Romans 8:18).
• Suffering is likened to night pain—amplified in the dark; the key is to drag suffering “into the light” of God’s glory.
• Roots for the anointing grow in dark, hidden places. True anointing—like spiced oil in the biblical apothecary—is only produced through what’s endured in darkness.

Notable Quotes:

“I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared to the glory which shall be revealed in us.” (47:32)

"The oil that they used in the Bible days was the oil of the apothecary. It was made from the roots because the roots grew in the dark." (64:53)

6. The Universal Groan: Creation, the Church, and the Spirit

(79:27 - 89:41)

• All creation “groans” in eager expectation for God’s sons to manifest.
• Believers groan internally, burdened by unspoken struggles, yet this groaning is a sign of hope and transformation.
• Even the Holy Spirit “groans” with us when we don’t have the words to pray, uniting His intercession to our suffering so that “all things work together for good”.

Notable Quotes:

“It takes a groan to stop a groan. So the Spirit comes... Now you're gonna get some help, now you're gonna get some comfort because the Spirit is gonna come in there and groan with you.” (85:18)

"He matches your groaning. He meets you in the groaning. He meets you in the pain." (90:31)

7. Manifestation and Hope Beyond Pain

(73:36 - End)

• The world waits for the “manifestation of the sons of God”—for believers to emerge from suffering as agents of change, healing, and strength.
• The call is not to escape struggle, but let God use it for birth—“there ain’t no cute way to push that baby out.”
• The episode concludes with an altar call: bring your pain, your struggle, and let God transform it into glory.

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Memorable Moments & Illustrative Analogies

• The Marketplace Scales: Suffering vs. Glory
  “So when I put the suffering on the scale, it went up. When I put the glory on the scale, it fell down. So when I stand back and look at it, the greater weight is on the glory…” (47:26)
• Night Suffering:
  “Pain gets worse at night... you can have a cold all day…and the later it gets at night, the worse it gets.” (59:15)
• The Oil of the Apothecary:
  “Real anointing grows in the dark. Notice I said it grows. You're not going to get this quick…this is something that God's going to give you after you have suffered a while to weed out the pretenders.” (65:13)
• Groanings in Harmony:
  An on-the-spot illustration as musicians play discordant notes to represent the “dissonance” inside us—“Groaning is not pleasant… if I would write a score with what's going on inside of your spirit, it would sound like [discord] because the Spirit is groaning in your spirit.” (86:29/90:05)

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Important Segment Timestamps

• Opening Praise and Exhortation: 01:32 – 05:33
• Foundation: Romans 8 and Our Position: 05:45 – 14:13
• Law of the Spirit vs. Flesh: 14:14 – 22:29
• On Adoption and Inheritance: 24:49 – 35:08
• Suffering as the Price of Glory / The Case for Groaning: 36:01 – 51:00
• Teaching on Pathema (Suffering): 56:59 – 59:37
• Anointing from the Dark (Oil of the Apothecary): 62:54 – 66:57
• Groaning Within and Spirit’s Intercession: 79:27 – 90:31
• Manifestation, Altar Call, and Conclusion Worship: 104:12 – End

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Overall Tone & Style

Bishop Jakes’ message is deeply passionate, honest, and pastorally direct. He employs vivid imagery, biblical exegesis, humor, and personal testimony to draw listeners into both conviction and hope. The energy is often high, but never detached from real pain or complexity. He stresses authenticity (“It’s okay for me to groan”) and invites listeners to drop shame and pretense.

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Takeaways for Listeners

• Embrace your suffering: It’s not a sign of God’s absence, but the necessary “groan” before the birth of glory.
• Your pain has purpose: The world is waiting for you to manifest; your struggle is shaping you for impact.
• Rely on God’s Spirit: Even when you can’t articulate your need or fix your feelings, the Spirit is groaning on your behalf.
• Don’t undervalue your “roots in the dark”: True spiritual power doesn’t come easy or in the spotlight.
• Step out vulnerably: Bring yourself to God, not just your offerings or problems; walk out your faith, even when it’s messy.

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Selected Notable Quotes by Timestamp

• “We spend too much time worried about our condition and not enough worried about our position.” (13:08)
• “If you chase God, he’ll chase you back.” (09:44)
• “You have to mortify the flesh… I had to wound it and let it bleed out on the floor…” (23:31)
• “Value is added through suffering.” (51:21)
• “If you ain’t been through none of that stuff, you don’t really know what I’m talking about. You can say my words, but you won’t have my power because the word hasn’t been proven in you.” (43:42)
• “When you have earned this glory, you don’t let nobody… take it away.” (52:10)
• “Suffering is anything that happens to you… that you undergo rather than choose.” (58:49)
• “Real anointing grows in the dark.” (65:04)
• "All creation groans… we groan within ourselves… the Spirit groans… It takes a groan to stop a groan.” (85:18)
• “Disappointment is made from expectation.” (91:06)
• “If we don’t walk this word out, it’s gonna kill us.” (103:14)

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Call to Action

Bishop Jakes closes with an urgent altar call—inviting all, especially those “groaning” deep within, to come forward (or participate online), surrender their pain, and receive new hope from God.

"Tonight’s your night for you to get your hope back...God is getting you ready for glory." (90:53 – End)

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End of Summary

Transcript

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[Preacher]

It'S walk it out Wednesday. We gonna walk it out tonight we gonna walk it out, we gonna walk it out tonight. Whatever was on me, I'm gonna walk it out tonight. If you're mad at your husband, you gonna walk it out tonight. If you're upset with your wife, you gonna walk it out tonight. If your kids been getting on your last serve, you gonna walk it out tonight. If your bills are past due, you gonna walk it out tonight? If you are head is in turmoil we gonna walk it out tonight. Come on. I'm not gonna preach till you praise him. I'm not gonna preach till I feel his glory getting in the room I'm not gonna preach till I feel the presence of God shake this place. Praise him online. Praise him in your kitchen. Praise him in your car. Praise him in your house. Praise him in your living room. Praise him on your laptop. Praise him on your phone. Praise him on your iPad. Let everything that have breath praise ye the Lord. I can't hear you. Talk back to me. You can't praise it with your lips glued together and wrinkles on your forehead. You got to come into his presence with gladness. Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, his courts with praise. Be thankful unto him and bless his name. For the Lord is good and his mercy is everlasting, and his truth endures to all generations. I said the Lord is good. His mercy is everlasting. And his truth endures unto all. Oh, the Lord is good. His mercy is everlasting. His mercy is everlasting. You standing in mercy tonight. You drove over here in mercy tonight. You got the activity of your limbs in mercy tonight. God didn't have to give you your breath, but he gave you breath tonight. Cause he's merciful. His mercy is new every morning. Hallelujah. Do every morning. I don't have to use no spell person. I got some fresh mercy. I got some fresh mercy tonight. Anybody got some fresh mercy? Give God a praise tonight. Praise until you feel his presence. Praise until you shake yourself loose. Pray until you feel your healing. Praying until your baby jumps. Pray until your vision leaks. Praise until he opens your heart and opens your spirit. And when you get through praising God, I'm gonna minister tonight. But I don't put no cake in no cold oven. I put it in a hot oven. So if you heat this place up tonight, God will move tonight. If you get online and start praising him, God will move in your house tonight. He'll come right in your kitchen to tonight. He'll sit down at the table with you tonight. Somebody, somebody, anybody. Everybody help me. Praise the Lord. I'll take an old woman, I'll take a little boy. I'll take a young girl. I'll take an old man. Anything, Anybody that's got breath. Praise the Lord. If you're a backslider, Praise the Lord. If you have been half servant, Praise the Lord. The only criteria is that you have breath. If you ain't dead, you ought to praise the Lord. I said if you ain't dead, if you got a pulse, you ought to praise the Lord tonight. I can't hear you. You're getting a little bit better. I feel something happening. I feel something coming. Come on in and praise the Lord tonight. Come on into his presence. Come on into his goodness. Come on into his glory. Come on into it. Come on into it. Come on into it. My God, My God. My God. My God. My God. It's feeling a little better in here. Glory to God. Anybody feel the presence of the Lord in here? Clap your hands and praise the Lord if you feel his presence. I feel his presence in here. Glory to God.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Well, let's go to work.

[Preacher]

We're going to Romans chapter 8, where we were Sunday. And you don't have to remain standing.

[Bible Class Teacher]

You can sit down.

[Preacher]

Father, bless your word tonight while it is being expounded upon, let it materialize in our hearts and our spirit and.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Our character transform us into the image of your dear son.

[Preacher]

Have your way in the place tonight in a supernatural way. We don't want it to be a natural way. We want it to be a supernatural way. Put your super on my natural. Yes, Lord, increase us tonight as we expound the word of God. In Jesus name, Amen.

[Bible Class Teacher]

You may be seated in the presence of the Lord. We are in the book of Romans.

[Preacher]

Which is suspected to be written by the apostle Paul. He is sent to the Romans. He is a citizen of Rome.

[Bible Class Teacher]

He has a background of Roman history and yet he is of Israeli ethnicity and background. And he has come to the Romans to minister to them.

[Preacher]

Now Rome is a massive metropolitan city. It's got all kinds of people. It's not like your hood. It's got all kinds of people. It's got people speaking different languages, coming.

[Bible Class Teacher]

From different parts of the world.

[Preacher]

It's got business people there. It's got spiritual people there. It's got carnal people there. It's got lust going on over there. It's got sexual sin and deviation going over there. It's got prayer and worship going on over there. There's all kinds of things going on in Rome. Rome is a metropolitan city, like New York, like Paris, like London. It's a huge city. It's an empire. It's an empire that has various ventricles that go out into different parts of the world. It is the superpower of his time. And God has sent him to Rome to minister. Now Rome is mostly heathenistic, idolatrous, full of vanity and all sorts of debauchery. And the church is just being birthed in Rome. It's not popular to be a Christian. You don't come to church because it's popular. You don't come to church because it's.

[Bible Class Teacher]

The thing to do.

[Preacher]

No, in Rome you come to church that you might begin to be on the first floor of a massive empire that God is going to build and continues to build in Rome.

[Bible Class Teacher]

He.

[Preacher]

He continues to build on that foundation that was laid by the apostles in Rome. And it was Paul's job to break up that hard ground, that solid place, that stubborn place, that confused place. Much learning had made them mad. So many doctrines had mixed themselves together until they had diluted and polluted the Gospel. And yet Paul comes to give them a clear, clear word and a better understanding of the word of God and what it can do and what it can be. He starts out the chapter in verse one saying, there is therefore now no condemnation to them that are In Christ Jesus, who walk no longer after the flesh, but after the spirit. Now, they have been walking after the flesh all of their lives. He said, but if you just walk.

[Bible Class Teacher]

After the spirit, you don't.

[Preacher]

You don't have to catch it. But if you walk after it, if you get behind it and chase it and pursue the spirit, there is therefore now no condemnation. I don't care what you did, you won't be condemned. I don't care if you were caught in the act of adultery and they're getting ready to stone you, you won't be condemned. I don't care if you stole a loaf of bread from the bakery. God said, you won't be condemned. There is therefore now no condemnation or no judgment to them that are in Christ Jesus. Who walk not after the flesh. You're not seeking the flesh. You don't wake up in the morning talking about who you gonna get with. You're not trying to inbox everybody in the middle of the night. You wake up in the morning seeking Jesus. Early in the morning, will I seek your face? You praise him in your car. You talk to him in your living room. And God said, if you just chase me, I'll take away condemnation out of your life. That's what God loved about David. David was after his heart, not a pattern of his heart. He was chasing his heart. He was in pursuit of his heart. He was waking up singing songs to God, writing poetry to God. What you call the Book of Psalms was a collection of memoirs unto God that he gave to God out there by himself, by his lonely self. That's what you ought to do with time by yourself. You say you're tired of being alone. You ought to get in there and start singing to God. You ought to start writing poetry to God. Because if you chase God, he'll chase you back. If you pursue God, he'll pursue you back. He said, I found me a man that is after my heart. He's chasing me. He's wooing me. He's. He's flirting with me. He's trying to date me. He's trying to get my attention. He is after my heart. He's calling on me in the morning. He's calling on me in the night. He is after my heart. I'm wondering if there's anybody in here tonight that is after the heart of God. There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. Look at their position, not their condition. Not their condition. The condition might be they're hungry. They might be homeless. They might be Destitute. They might be rich. They might be an intellectual. They might speak in a multiplicity of languages like the apostle Paul did. Or they may speak only in a broken language and barely be able to write. But if they are in Christ Jesus, there is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ. Do you know that you are in Christ Jesus? You are in Christ Jesus. If you don't know that, then the devil can do whatever he wants to do. If you don't know that your life is hid in Christ with God, then the enemy can come in at will and say whatever he wants to say to you. Because you don't know your position. We haven't taught enough about the position of the believer. The position of the believer is made to sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. In Him, I live in Him. I move in Him. I have my being. Hallelujah. Glory to God. I am in him. That means devil. If you gonna get to me, you got to go through him. Because I am in him. I am in him right now. If I'm broke, I'm in him. If I'm happy, I'm in him. If I'm depressed, I'm in him. If you hate me, I'm in him. If you're talking about me, I'm in him. There is nothing you can say about me that drives my position away from God. You can't talk God out of taking me in because I've been baptized into the body by the Holy Spirit. And even though you try to hoodoo me and hex me and get a piece of my beard, you can't do me no harm because I'm in Christ Jesus. And your roots and your magic won't work because I live in him. I move in him. And I have my being in Christ Jesus. Y' all didn't hear what I said. I have my being in Christ Jesus. I be in Christ because I'm in Christ. I can be in him. I have my being. You can't take my being away from me. No matter how much you pray against me, no matter how much you try to curse me, I still got my being because I have my being because I know my position in Christ Jesus. We spend too much time worried about our condition and not enough worried about our position. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, It's a law now. It's a law. For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus had made me free from the law of sin and death. It's a law that if I'm in Christ for what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh. God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Look at this.

[Preacher]

God sent his Son in the likeness of sinful flesh. You don't see that there's a switch there. Because when God made his first son, Adam, he made his first son Adam, in the likeness of God. When he sends Jesus, he sends Jesus in the likeness of flesh, of sinful flesh. Just like Adam was created in the likeness of God. Jesus is created in the likeness of. Of sin. So that when he was on the cross, God didn't see Jesus, he saw sin. He said, eli, Eli Lama Sabathani, why have you forsaken me? Because he was there in the likeness of sinful flesh. And for sin, condemned sin in the flesh. He did what you couldn't do, what you don't have enough willpower to do, but you don't have enough fight to do. And for sin he condemned sin in the flesh. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us. Oh, God, I'm happy right now. The righteousness of the law is fulfilled in us. It's finished. It's settled. It's over. It's done. It's fulfilled in us. Not because of any good thing I did. Not because of the day I worship on. Not because I don't eat pork, not because I don't mix wool with cotton. It's all because of what he did, not what I did. That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in a field full. I am filled full with righteousness because of him who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit. I'm attracted to the spirit, drawn to the spirit like a magnet to metal. It pulls at me. It yanks at me. It tugs at me. If you anoint it, I like you. If you're anointed, I gotta like you. I don't even have to know you to like you. If you start singing and you anointed, I just like you. If you start preaching and you anointed, I just like you. Because I'm after the spirit. I'm drawn to your spirit. I'm not after you. I'm after the thing inside of you. I'm drawn to it. I'm attracted to it. You might not be beautiful that don't have nothing to do with it. He beautifies the meek with salvation. And anytime you're saved, you are beautiful. Look at somebody say I'm beautiful. For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh. But they that are after the seed, spirit, the things of the spirit. That's just how it is. If you are of the spirit, you are after the spirit. If you are of the flesh, you do mind the things of the flesh. You talk about the flesh. You look at the flesh, you imagine the flesh. You fantasize the flesh. You want the flesh, you're attracted to the flesh. But if you are in the spirit, you are drawn to the spirit. Spirit, you are drawn to the spirit. You might be scrolling through your phone and you get to one scroll and they're singing a song. And it's so anointed that you get happy and you stop there and start playing it over and over and over again. It gets on the kids nerve cuz you playing it over and over again. They don't understand why you doing it. But you are after the spirit of God. I want him in my house, I want him in my car. I want him in my living room. I want him in my kitchen. While I'm cutting up onions, While I'm peeling potatoes, While I'm cutting up grapes. I want him everywhere. I'm attracted to him. I want him in my life. Anybody here tonight? Because you're after the spirit. For to be carnally minded. The word carnal means to be meaty minded. Carnivorous. Carnality.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Carnivorous.

[Preacher]

The root word is meat. For to be carnally minded.

[Bible Class Teacher]

To be meaty minded is death. So the enemy wants you to be meaty minded.

[Preacher]

Because it will always lead to death. But to be spiritually minded is life and peace. So if you are carnally minded and you sweet switch and start being spiritually minded. As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. You automatically get life in peace. You don't have to fake peace. You don't have to chant for peace. You don't have to cry for peace. You don't have to yell for peace. If you get spiritually minded, peace will just come over your soul. If you start talking to yourself in spiritual words and make it matter melody in your heart to God, peace will come over your soul. If you nervous nature and you start worshiping God, peace will come over your soul. You don't hear what I'm saying to you. You would rather spend $300 talking to a therapist than listen at this word. And I could save you $300 right now, tonight. If you would just get your mind centered on Christ and away from all that crazy stuff. You could spend to your mother in law. You could be nice to your father. In law you could handle a licking and keep on ticking because you are after the things of the spirit. Because the carnal mind is an enmity against God. To be meaty minded is an enmity or at war against God. For it is not subject to the law of God. Neither indeed can be. There is no way you can have a meaty mind and be subject to the law of God. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. They can sing.

[Bible Class Teacher]

They can sing, but.

[Preacher]

They can't please God. They can preach, but they can't please God. They can tithe, but they can't please God. They can go to church, but they can't please God. They can buck and dance, but they can't please God. When you're out to the flesh, you can't please God. But ye, ye, ye, you are not in the flesh. You're not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. If so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. If he hangs around you, if he. If he just lay up next to you, if he just hold you in the middle of the night, if he just comforts you in the store. Somebody might be listening at me in the hospital. You're not in the hospital bed by yourself. Jesus is all around you. Oh, he's all around you. You are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit. If so, be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his. If you don't have the spirit of.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Christ, you are none of his.

[Preacher]

If you don't have the insignia of Christ. You know what I mean by insignia? Like a family crest or a family sign. If you don't have the insignia of Christ, which is the Holy Spirit, you are none of his. You are sealed to the day of redemption. That means God put his mark on you. God put his mark on you. He's not going to be confused about where you are because you got the family sealed. You are sealed to the day of redemption. You are sealed. My mother used to make jelly and she would put a wax seal on it and it would last for years and years and years. That's why he keeps you. You are sealed to the day of redemption. Hallelujah. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell.

[Bible Class Teacher]

In you, he that raised up Christ.

[Preacher]

From the dead shall also quicken or make alive your mortal body.

[Bible Class Teacher]

You don't have to worry about it. You don't have to try to do it. You don't have to try to get up.

[Preacher]

The spirit is going to quicken your mortal body by his spirit that dwelleth in you. Oh, my God. In that something, you don't have to put on at all. It is there for you.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Keep going.

[Preacher]

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors. Not to the flesh. To live after the flesh, I don't owe the flesh nothing. I'm not saying I always do right, but when I do wrong, it's not because I owe a bill. I don't owe the flesh nothing.

[Bible Class Teacher]

I don't owe.

[Preacher]

I'm not in debt.

[Bible Class Teacher]

I'm not in debt to sin.

[Preacher]

I'm not in debt to Satan. He can't have me because I don't owe him nothing. I don't owe him anything. Glory to God, I can be free. I don't owe cancer anything. I don't owe leukemia anything. I don't owe diabetes anything. I might have to deal with it, but it doesn't own me. It hadn't purchased me. I have been bought with the price and the precious blood of Jesus.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Jesus.

[Preacher]

For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die. But if ye, through the spirit, do mortify the deeds of the body, you shall live. If you, through the spirit, do mortify the deeds of the body, that means.

[Bible Class Teacher]

You got to kill it.

[Preacher]

You got to be a murderer. You got to kill yourself.

[Bible Class Teacher]

You got to kill your mouth.

[Preacher]

You got to kill what you wanted to say you wanted to kill. The other night, I was pacing the floor. I wanted to call somebody so bad. I was pacing the floor. I was itching. Because I'm the kind of person that if I got something to say, I'm gonna say it to you. And I was pacing the floor, and I had to mortify my flesh. I had to kill it. I had to take it and stab it. I had to wound it and let it bleed out on the floor to keep me from. I had to mortify the flesh. You cannot. If you resist the enemy, he will flee from you. If you just resist, if you pull back, if you fight against it. I almost text. Somebody said, pray for me because I don't want to make this phone call, because I'll say the wrong thing, because I could feel the flesh pulling at me. For as many as are led by the spirit of God, they are the sons of God. If you're led by the spirit of God, you are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Of bondage again to Fear you have not received the spirit of bondage again. To fear you didn't come over here to be a Christian and be put back under the law, but ye have.

[Preacher]

Received the spirit of adoption.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Glory to God.

[Preacher]

Adopted children have something over born children. Born children.

[Bible Class Teacher]

You just had them because you're pregnant.

[Preacher]

Adopted children.

[Bible Class Teacher]

You chose them. You picked them out.

[Preacher]

They never had to wonder are they wanted? Because you had an option not to adopt them.

[Bible Class Teacher]

You chose to adopt them.

[Preacher]

So because of Christ, you have the spirit of adoption. Ye who were not a people have.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Been made a people.

[Preacher]

You have been grafted into the family.

[Bible Class Teacher]

You have become a part of of.

[Preacher]

The commonwealth of Israel. According to Ephesians, chapter two. You don't have to worry about the commonwealth of Israel. You don't have to worry about the Jews being the chosen people because you have been adopted. You have been adopted into that same opportunity to receive all that God has for you. He wanted you. You don't have to worry. Are you accepted? He picked you out. You are chosen in the belief you are picked out in the beloved. He brought you, some of you. You're the only one in your family, but he adopted you. And you're different from everybody else. So don't worry about trying to fit in. Don't worry about trying to get everybody like you. Don't worry about them rolling their eyes at you. Take your potato salad and go back home because you are in him. You have been adopted into the royal family of Jesus Christ. If I'm an outcast to everybody else, I still belong to God. If all the church folk turn against me, I still belong to God. If it becomes unpopular to like me, I still belong to God. Y' all don't hear. I'm adopted. He picked me out. He looked through the window and said, I want that one right there. He picked me out. Before I was formed in my mama's belly. He chose me in Him. He made me a prophet. Before he made my mouth, before he made my lips, before he made my eyes, before he made me to move or think. He had already made me a prophet unto the nation. And I belong to God even when I don't want to. Even when I want to turn in the deal. Even when I don't want to be kept, I still belong to God. No matter how far I get away from him. I end up with running back to him. Cause I'm attracted to him. And I can't break the attraction. I can feel him pulling at me. His spirit strives with me. It yanks at me Every time I fall into sin, it yanks till it pulls me out. It pulls me out because I belong in. Is there anybody else adopted in here? The spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God.

[Bible Class Teacher]

And. Wait, wait. Stay right there. I got to stay there for a minute. The spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. That's. That's. That's so good. That's.

[Preacher]

That's.

[Bible Class Teacher]

This is important because it's going to be where I'm. Where I'm going tonight. The spirit of God talks to the spirit of man. You are a spirit.

[Preacher]

You have a soul. You live in a body.

[Bible Class Teacher]

So the spirit of God beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. You don't have to run around asking.

[Preacher]

The prophet, am I saved? Because the spirit of God talks to.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Your spirit and tells you you are saved.

[Preacher]

The spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit that we are in fact the children of God. We might not look like him. We might not have ways like him. We may not bear all the fruit of the spirit, but the spirit itself is saying, don't worry about that.

[Bible Class Teacher]

I'm going to fix that in time.

[Preacher]

You are the children of God. If I sat down right now, I've already preached, I've already taught, I've already said, said enough. If you didn't get anything but that right there, it's going to take you eight years to live out what I already said. And you're sitting up there waiting on some more. And I've already given you more than you can handle right now. If you just get that in your head, if you ever get to the place that the spirit of God is having a conversation with your spirit, it'll change your attitude. It'll break down your will. It'll melt your king candle like wax. It'll make you say yes when you wanted to say no. It'll make you say, I'm sorry when you wanted to go off. The spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. Somebody shout, I'm a child of the king. If you're watching online, write it on the line. I'm a child of the king. Write it till the devil knows it. I'm a child of the king.

[Bible Class Teacher]

King.

[Preacher]

How do you know it? Because the spirit told me so. The spirit talked to my spirit and told me I was a child of God. I need no other witness. The trial is over. The case is closed. There is therefore now no condemnation. I have called My last witness. The prosecution rests. The prosecution rests. The trial is over. I've called my last witness. The case is over. It's ended. Throw it out of court, Judge. Because the spirit itself has bore witness that I am a child of God. We don't need the jury. We don't need the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker. I brought such a strong witness to the witness stand that I am a child of the king. Y' all don't hear me, but I'm talking some stuff tonight. I'm talking some powerful stuff. I'm a child of the king. I'm a child of the king. I can walk through witches and they can't do me no harm. I can walk through hell and always come out. I can go through depression and rise up above it, because I am a child of God. I might not feel good, but I am still a child of God. I might not feel like I'm Ernest Jake's son, but I am still Ernest Jake's son. Whether I feel like it or not. My father is dead, but I'm still his son. He cannot unsun me. If I died, he could not unsun me. Once you make a son, you can't not break him and make him not a son. I will forever be a son of God. Oh, talk to me, somebody. Them kids might make you want to unsung on them. Unfellowshippable. But you can't do it. Because once you have procreated, they're going to always be your. If they drunk, they're going to be yours. If they lying, they're going to be yours. If they're a whoremonger, they're going to be yours. You cannot unsung what God has sun in the hog pen. He was his father's son. On the way home, he was his father's son. When he got back to the house, he was his father's son. He was always his son. If I. God forbid. But if I lose a child, then it will always be my son. In the grave it'll be my son. Life nor death, nor principalities, nor power, nor things present, nor things to come, or any other living creature can separate me from the love of God. I am his son. You can run, but you can't get away. You can get high, but you can't get away. You can fornicate, but you can't get away. You can get on the pole and dance, but you can't get away. Because the moment the spirit starts talking to you, you know his voice. He said, my Sheep know my voice, and a stranger they will not follow. I am a child of the King. I wish we sing the old songs. Just sometimes. Just sing a Every now and then, like I am a child of the King. We used to sing those kinds of songs that reminded you who you were. Even when you were sick, it boasted about who you were. I must tell Jesus. I must tell Jesus. I cannot bear these burdens alone in my distress. I know he will hear me. I cannot tell it. I cannot deal with it. I cannot stand it. I cannot handle it without Jesus. Are you with me? Clap your hands if you're with me. Now, wait.

[Bible Class Teacher]

If you ate that much, if you.

[Preacher]

Ate that much and we are now settled that you are the children of God, then He progresses and says, and if children, then heirs. Oh, my God. See, you was getting happy because you was a child. You were getting happy without benefits. You was getting happy without an inheritance. You were getting happy without a will. But the Bible said, if you are children, if you can eat that much, then let me feed you some more. Open your mouth. Get another bite. Now. You're an heir of God. You're an heir of his nature. You're an heir of his grace. You're an heir of the King. You don't have to try to be rich. You already rich. Hallelujah. It may not manifest yet, but it's got to come. Because you're a child of the King. And since you're a child, you're an heir of God. God has an inheritance for you. God has an inheritance for you. Do you hear me? God has an inheritance. You, eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, neither have entered into the heart of man. The things that God has in store for them that love it. My kids have an inheritance that they have not seen. They didn't go to court with us. They didn't go to the lawyer's office with us. They didn't have to sign for it. But I've already left them an inheritance. They didn't deserve it. They don't have to earn it. They don't have to work for they got it because they're my child. If you are a child, then you are an heir. You're an heir of salvation, purchase of God, born of his spirit, washed in his blood. This is my story.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Oh, y' all gonna hear me.

[Preacher]

This is my song. Praising my Savior all the day long. So you gotta get that. If you got the sonship. Now you get the airship. Wait a minute. And heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ. That means Whatever Christ got, I got it, too. If Christ went to heaven, I'm going to heaven, too. I'm joint heirs. We're tied together. We're Siamese twins. We're joined together at the hip. Wherever he goes, I go with him. If there's no poverty in him, there had the. There cannot be no poverty in me. If there's no schizophrenia in him, there's no schizophrenia in me. If there's no pain in him, there has to be no pain in me. I'm joint heirs with Jesus Christ. All I gotta do is receive it, receive it, receive it, receive it.

[Bible Class Teacher]

It's there.

[Preacher]

It's in the spirit. It's not in your murmuring. It's not in your complaining. It's not in your fussing. It's not on Netflix. It's not an hbo. It's not an abc, NBC or cbs. Sometimes you got to cut off all them alphabets and lay on your face before God and remind yourself that you are joint heirs with Jesus Christ. Oh, my God, I feel something. I feel something about to take over this place. If so, be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. Now, that's the first time he used the word suffering.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Go back to that. That's the first time he used the word suffering. Go back to 17. Antichrist. Christ, then. Heirs. Heirs of God. Joint heirs of Christ. If so, be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.

[Preacher]

See, if you're a joint heir with Christ.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Christ was beaten. Christ was whipped. Christ was nailed to a cross. Christ was stripped of his clothes. Christ was buried in a tomb. Christ went through something. And every now and then you're going to go through something. It's not popular to teach that anymore because people just want magic numbers and.

[Preacher]

Magic blessings and they want quick prayers, prophecies. I see in the spirit.

[Bible Class Teacher]

You can just get on your phone.

[Preacher]

And see prophet after profit. AI generated prophets.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Telling you you're going to hit the.

[Preacher]

Lottery this week, and I need you to just punch the heart right now and write on the line, I will win.

[Bible Class Teacher]

And you're going to hit the lottery tonight.

[Preacher]

You can play with them witches all you want to, all you want to. All them generated witches. There's somebody in your life that doesn't like you. It's a woman. And it's. I'm going to give you their initials in a minute. If you hit the button right here and go to WhatsApp, the fifth person has the initial of the name, and there you are Consulting the witch at indoor. When you got the Holy Ghost down inside of you, I would consult, but I'm too scared of God. We were talking about losing the fear of God. I'm too scared of God. I don't want God to see me. If I get curious, I look up and think, no, I better not do that. I better not try that. I better not try that. You're going to receive. You'll be a millionaire by the end of the year. I said, I'm already a millionaire. I'm a millionaire. I'm a billionaire. Hallelujah. My father is a millionaire. I'm wealthy. Y' all can't take it.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Come on.

[Preacher]

Y' all can't take it. Y' all can't take it. Y' all don't have the audacity to look the devil in the face and say, I'm a millionaire. That's why you ain't got no money. You got to be able to say it to be able to see. If you can't say it, you can't see it. If you can't say it, you can't receive it. If your mind had matured to the point that you only believe it when you see it. Blessed are they who have not seen, but yet they believe. Slap somebody and say, you sitting by a millionaire. That we suffer with Him. That we suffer with Him. That we may be also glorified together. Oh, that I may know him in the fellowship of his suffering. Because if I know him in the fellowship of his suffering, I shall also know him in the power of his resurrection. Some of you are holding out for the power of the resurrection. But why? How do you think you're gonna be.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Resurrected if you ain't been crucified?

[Preacher]

There's no way to resurrect Satan. Somebody that ain't died. You got to be in a fellowship with his suffering, that you might know him in the power of his resurrection. Sometimes God takes you through stuff just to show you he could get you out of stuff. He took Israel through the wilderness to show them that he could be water.

[Bible Class Teacher]

He could be bread, he could be.

[Preacher]

Food, he could be life, he could be. He couldn't. Them that as long as Pharaoh was feeding them, he had to break the grip of Pharaoh and put them in a dry place where they couldn't feed themselves so he could show off and tell them who he really is. All God is doing with you is creating a place for you to have a testimony, taking you through something so you'll come out better, not just preaching The Word. But being the Word, the Word becoming a part of your life. You suffer with him, you'll reign with him. When you stomp your foot, devils are going to run when you open your mouth, hell is going to get nervous when the Word becomes made flesh. That's what brings about salvation. You can have all the degrees, you can have more theology than a thermometer. But if you don't have an experience with him, you will never know him in the power of his resurrection until you have balled up in a knot and cried like a baby. Until you have wilted of all you thought you couldn't stand and couldn't take. You will never know him in the power of his resurrection. But to those of us that have been to hell and back, there are certain things we know about God. And you can't take it away from us. We know it about God. We've been down enough to blow our brains out. And God brought us back from the dead. And we know of a surety that God is God. I know you can't act like you know what I'm talking about because you too churchy for that.

[Bible Class Teacher]

But you know, you.

[Preacher]

Those of us that have been at the end of our rope and felt like throwing in the towel and all of a sudden God said something that sustained you. I don't have to beg you for a praise. I don't have to be beg you for hallelujah. I don't have to convince you that God is God. You've been through enough hell that you know God is God. You still got track marks in your arm. You still been through hell. Y' all don't hear what I'm saying. You were shooting dope in your toenails. You were shooting dope under your skin. You were drunk in the morning and drunk at night. And God sobered you up and set you free. You've done enough stuff that you. You ought to be in jail right now. You ought to be locked up in a cell right now. And there you are fussing about your car, running. You ought to be so glad that you free. You ought to be so glad that you're here. You ought to be so glad that you're alive. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, complaining about anything. Do you know where you were headed when God snatched you out of the fire? Glory to God. I feel something in this place. Somebody take 30 seconds and start praising God. Now we're ready for my test.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Sit down.

[Preacher]

My God. My God. My God. I love school, but school didn't do This I love education, but education didn't do this.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Going through hell did this.

[Preacher]

Going through fire did this. Burying loved ones did this. Dealing with pain did this. Going without food did this. Having my lights off did this. Having my water cut off did this. If you ain't been through none of that stuff, you don't really know what I'm talking about. You can say my words, but you have won't have my power because the word hadn't been proven in you. But once the word is proven in you, you know that. You know that. You know that you know it. I don't care how you can hoop until you have been in the fire and been tried, you're not going to have no power. You got a big beautiful voice with not a bit of power. Power come through knowing him in the fellowship of his suffering and the power of his resurrection. Shout yes, somebody. Shout yes, somebody. Shout yes, somebody. Shout yes, somebody. So this is where it gets good.

[Bible Class Teacher]

And this is where I was Sunday. So we're walking it out. This is where I was Sunday.

[Preacher]

See, I had to build that case.

[Bible Class Teacher]

To really make 18 pub because I wanted to prove. Paul says, for I reckon just stop right there. For I reckon the word reckon in the original Greek language means to have come to a conclusion after deciphering and looking at life for a while. Yeah, I reckon the broad definition to reckon means to think, to reason, to conclude upon careful consideration, or to account something as true after weighing evidence. Let's weigh the evidence.

[Preacher]

Put it back up here again.

[Bible Class Teacher]

She trying to take a picture of it. Put it back up there again.

[Preacher]

I saw you.

[Bible Class Teacher]

I know what's going on. Uh huh. Yeah. Let her get a picture. So you sound like a scholar. And so I reckon I come to a conclusion. Let's see, Paul, have you been in jail many times? Paul, have you been beaten almost to death? Paul, have you been stoned? They threw rocks at me.

[Preacher]

They left me laying for dead.

[Bible Class Teacher]

They laughed at me and laughed at my wisdom.

[Preacher]

And as proud as I was of.

[Bible Class Teacher]

My intellect, they called me a fool.

[Preacher]

And all the of the intellectuals of.

[Bible Class Teacher]

The day insulted him.

[Preacher]

And I think that the pain of.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Lystra hurt him worse than the stones that they threw. He said I had to go through it and look back at it and add it up. Reckon is an accounting term. It means to account for, to add it all up, he said.

[Preacher]

When I got through adding it all.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Up, I reckoned that the sufferings of this present world take me back to my scripture. I reckon that the sufferings of this Present time are not worthy to be compared. Now, this is reminiscent of Paul's day. They weighed everything by skill scales to determine worth. The heavier the scales went down, the more weight it was.

[Preacher]

So if you put certain things on it and it went up, it didn't have much weight. So he said, when I put the.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Suffering on the scale, it went up.

[Preacher]

When I put the glory on the scale, it fell down. So when I stand back and look at it, the greater weight is on the glory than it is on the suffering. So he said, I reckon that the sufferings of this present world, this. This present time, this pre. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Somebody holler. This present time. He said, what I'm going through right now. What I'm going through right now is not worthy to be compared to the glory which shall be revealed in a. I put it on the scale. I thought about it, I weighed it out. I did some accounting, I did some figuring. Whenever you went to the market in Paul's day, there was always a scale. The scale would tell you the weight of glory. That's why the Bible says in the Greek, it's doxa, the weight of glory. Glory has weight to it. Trouble don't have no weight to it.

[Bible Class Teacher]

It's.

[Preacher]

It might have pain, but it don't.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Have no weight to it.

[Preacher]

But when you hit it with glory, glory will make the scales tip over. Glory will make you drop down on your knees. Glory will make an old lady run. Glory gets in your feet. Glory gets in your spirit. Glory got weight to it. It's got power to it. It's got force to it. It's got fight to it. I wish I was preaching to some folks that had some glory. I came up in a storefront church where they had glory. They didn't have all these fancy pews. They didn't have no fancy windows, but they had glory. There's something about glory that when you put the glory on the scales, the suffering always comes up. If you want your suffering to come up, put glory on the scale. I guarantee you, if you feeling bad and some of y' all came in here, feel. Feeling bad, I could tell. But the more we praise God, the more the suffering went up and the glory came down. You need those scales operating in your.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Life for I reckon that the sufferings of this present time.

[Preacher]

I'm not even dealing with the past.

[Bible Class Teacher]

I'm dealing with the hell you going through right now. The sufferings of this present time is not worthy to be compared to the glory. It's not just that it outweighs it.

[Preacher]

It's not even worthy to be compared. It's one thing to outweigh it. It's not even worthy to be on the scales to the glory that shall.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Be revealed in us.

[Preacher]

If you gonna ever have any glory, you gonna have some suffering. If you gonna ever have any power, you gonna have some suffering. If you're gonna ever chase a demon out of room, you're gonna have some suffering. And the glory is not worthy to be compared. It ought not even be in the same sentence.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Because you have suffered for it, you won't give it up easy. You know things, you get easy, you give up easy.

[Preacher]

That's why I don't believe in giving folks a whole bunch of money.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Because you give them a whole bunch of money, they spend it like it ain't nothing.

[Preacher]

But when it's their money and they.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Had to work for it and they.

[Preacher]

Had to sweat for it, and they had to labor for it, they get the calculator out, they be counting up pennies and with taxes it'll be that much. And if I don't get this one, maybe I get that one. All of a sudden, everything changes. Value is added through suffering.

[Bible Class Teacher]

You give your kids everything, they spend.

[Preacher]

It like it ain't nothing. I don't blame them.

[Bible Class Teacher]

They didn't do nothing to get it. But if you had to suffer 8.

[Preacher]

Hours and 10 hour shifts for weeks at a time and you finally get that check, you. You're not just going to throw it away just any kind of way. Because suffering equates with value.

[Bible Class Teacher]

It makes it have more weight because you earned it. I ain't giving it to you.

[Preacher]

I said no. Good luck to you.

[Bible Class Teacher]

I'm praying for you. I'll give you a little bit, but I'm praying for you.

[Preacher]

You're going to have to get out there and get your hands dirty and earn it. You don't have to earn it. When you have earned this glory, you don't let nobody roll their eyes at.

[Bible Class Teacher]

You and take it away.

[Preacher]

These are the weakest Christians I have ever seen in my life. And it starts at the pulpit and it goes to the door. We've had pastors meeting, all the pastors talking about who left my church. They left my church.

[Bible Class Teacher]

They left.

[Preacher]

They walked out on me after I paid their rent. They supposed to. They supposed to. God didn't promise you you would reap where you sowed.

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[Preacher]

God didn't promise to be fair. He promised to be just. There's a difference between fair and and being just.

[Bible Class Teacher]

And you fussing, fussing, fussing about suffering.

[Preacher]

I got all kinds of questions about.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Suffering because suffering is a strange word in this present time. And, and it's, it's pulpit's fault.

[Preacher]

You don't realize it, but back in.

[Bible Class Teacher]

The 90s we were talking about name it and claim it, confess it, walk around it, call it yours, speak it into existence.

[Preacher]

We made it sound like all you had to do was walk around and walk around and walk around. You gonna have that house. You might have that house, but you're gonna have them payments. Uh huh, uh huh. We didn't tell you about the payments. So you walked around a house you couldn't pay for and then when the payments came, you couldn't stay in the house because everything has to be paid for. You have to suffer something. And when you suffer something and somebody try to take it from you, you will knock their head right off their shoulder. You'll knock it off their shoulder because I don't have the strength to go through that again. You are not going to do that to me. I ain't going to go but so low. I'm not going to tell you right now. I'm not going but so low. I paid too much, I cried too long, I suffered too hard. I ain't going but so low. We'll go to court, we'll go underground, we'll get into a dog fight. I'll turn a pit bull loose on you. You ain't getting this. I went through too much to get it. Is there anybody out there that paid a price for what you got? You pay enough for a car, you'll wax it. You won't let nobody run no cart into your car and say excuse me, excuse Me? Nothing. You hit my car. Are you out of your mind? Are you crazy? Do you know what I pay in insurance for that car? Do you know what I paid for inspection for that car? Do you know what I paid for that car? Do you know what I pay every month for that car? And you let an empty buggy running in my car and scratched it all the way down the side. And you think it's funny? You better hope the Holy Ghost grabbed me. Because if the Holy Ghost don't grab me, I'mma grab you. Because I went through something. Come on, talk to me. I went through something. I went through something to get this joy that I had. The world didn't give it to me and the world can't take it away. Oh, you can't take it away. I'm not going to just let you take take it away. I'm not just going to go home and let you take it away.

[Bible Class Teacher]

No, no, no.

[Preacher]

I'm not going to let you take it away. I'm not going to let you take it away. I don't care if the gun is in my mouth, I'm going to pull it out. I'm not going to let you take it away. It's not worthy to be compared to the glory that shall be revealed in us. You have lost your shell. Your shall.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Suffering is a word that means pathema in Greek. The root word apasho is to feel, to experience, to undergo, to be affected. Now let me tell you what suffering is today for us, suffering is not having no money because we're racing a capitalist society and all of the comments are coming in about cash. Cuz we think if we got enough money, we got joy. That ain't true. The broader definition of pathema refers to anything a person experiences that brings pain. You're going to experience some things that bring pain, Hardship, passion or emotion. Physical pain, emotional pain, spiritual struggle, unjust treatment. It ain't gonna be right, it ain't gonna be fair. And you cannot wait on them to make it right because then they become your God.

[Preacher]

Some things are never going to be.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Settled and you got to be at peace with the fact that it's just not going to be settled. You're just going to have to hurt till it don't hurt anymore. You just going to have to deal with it. Inner distress that comes from living in a fallen world is suffering. Nothing bad has to happen for you to suffer. There's a deeper nuance to it.

[Preacher]

To understand that pathema takes it to another level.

[Bible Class Teacher]

It doesn't Just mean physical affliction. It means anything that happens to you.

[Preacher]

Good or bad, that you undergo rather than choose.

[Bible Class Teacher]

I didn't choose this. This ain't fair. I don't deserve this. This is not right. This hurts. This hurts after you leave. This hurts in the middle of the night. Have you ever noticed that pain gets worse at night? How many people know that pain gets worse at night?

[Preacher]

You can have a cold all day and it's kind of okay.

[Bible Class Teacher]

You're doing pretty good. The later it gets at night, the worse it gets. Mucus comes from everywhere. Mucus flies in on planes, it comes in on helicopter.

[Preacher]

You can't breathe, think or talk.

[Bible Class Teacher]

It is thick as mashed potatoes and gravy. And there you are in a terrible.

[Preacher]

Shape just because it's night. Suffering.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Gets worse at night. There's no light. Afflictions, heartbreak, trauma, adversity gets worse at night. So the smart Christian tries to drag the suffering into the glory where there's light. Because if you can drag the suffering into the light, it won't flip. Feel, it's bad because it's lit up. But if you let that suffering get in that cave with you, Elijah, you.

[Preacher]

Will lose your calling and have to anoint somebody else.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Because you won't be able to continue.

[Preacher]

Just because you are experiencing Jezebel's threat in a cave. My God. I think I might as tape myself.

[Bible Class Teacher]

I need it on repeat.

[Preacher]

At night.

[Bible Class Teacher]

And somebody in this room has had a long night. You had a long night. And it is the sufferings of this present time. It's not the sufferings of when you was 8. That's not the only thing. You made it past 8. You made it to 38. But the sufferings of this present time, the depth of it, the intensity of it, how much it costs you to keep going. Can we talk for a minute? I'm going to come down here where I can look in your faith. I want to talk to you for a minute. I want to come come down here and talk to you for a minute. Can we talk about the things that you press over, that you smile over, that you hide, that you deal with. Not that you're trying to hide it because you sneaky. It's just that they can't do nothing about it, no way. And it ain't none of their business. And so that your suffering is private, your suffering is personal, your suffering is intense. And your suffering is lonely. And when your suffering gets lonely, you want company. Can we be real? When your suffering gets lonely, you want company. Because you're wanting comfort. Must Jesus bear the cross alone and all the world go free? There's not a person in this room that hadn't had night pain. Night pain. In the morning, you get up and dress up and wash up and put your deodorant on. Brush your teeth, do your hair and put your cologne on.

[Preacher]

Wear your makeup.

[Bible Class Teacher]

If you're a woman, you come on out looking good. That makeup is hiding suffering. In this present time, there will be suffering. And you want comfort. Sure, we want comfort. Of course we want comfort. I don't know about you, but I want comfort. I want comfort. I don't buy a chair that's not comfortable. I buy a chair I can fall asleep in. I want it to be comfortable. But life is not promised to be comfortable. So Paul's theology has suffering in it because it is part of the oil of the apothecary. Write that down. It is part of the oil of the apothecary. A P O T H E C A R Y apothecary. It is part of the oil of the apothecary. That is to say, this oil is made from roots that has been in dark places underground. You can't have the kind of aromatic anointing, the kind of anointing that changes the atmosphere in a room. Let me tell you, the woman with the alabaster box, that anointing that got loose in that room could be smelt over the whole room. All the disciples knew that she had broken her box. Because this kind of anointing comes from deep stuff. Stuff. Buried stuff. Roots are things that grow in the dark. Hallelujah. You want a double portion of my spirit? Go through my hell.

[Preacher]

Go through my hell. Go through my hell.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Go through my hell.

[Preacher]

You're not. You're not going to get it just.

[Bible Class Teacher]

By me laying hands on you until.

[Preacher]

You go through my hell.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Until you press your way over everything that you can imagine. I won't even start listing.

[Preacher]

That.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Anointing costs you something. And it's thick.

[Preacher]

And the aroma of.

[Bible Class Teacher]

It is so strong that you can spill it over there and smell it over there. It's not like the olive oil we buy in the store that don't even have no smell to it. The oil that they used in the Bible days was the oil of the apothecary. And it was made from the roots because the roots grew in the dark. Real anointing grows in the dark. Notice I see it grows. You're not going to get this quick. This is not going to be instant grits this is not something that God's going to give you to make your ministry great so you can be famous and get lots of dates. No, this is something that God's going to give you after you have suffered a while to weed out of the pretenders. It's how God strains his oil with time. If you can endure hardness as a good soldier, if you can go when you don't want to go, if you can stand when you want to quit, if you can keep moving forward when all hell is breaking, breaking loose, if.

[Preacher]

You can withstand the wiles of the.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Devil, if you can walk in rooms.

[Preacher]

Where everybody's talking about you and take.

[Bible Class Teacher]

A seat and sit down and eat.

[Preacher]

Your dinner right in front of them and smile and belch and pay the.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Bill and walk out.

[Preacher]

That kind of anointing comes from that.

[Bible Class Teacher]

That kind of anointing begs for companionship.

[Preacher]

Jesus cried on the cross. Eloi, Eloi, Elama, Sabathoni. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

[Bible Class Teacher]

His mama couldn't reach him. The woman at the well couldn't reach him. His disciples were nowhere to be seen. Because when God gets ready to preach, produce this kind of oil, you go through it alone. I don't know why the Lord's got me going down this line. Roots grow in the ground where there is no light. And you can't see your way out. You can't see your way out. You watching online, you can't see your way out. It's dark, everything's wrong. Before you can fix this, that goes wrong. Before you can fix that, this goes wrong. This one gets sick, this one dies. This one walks out and leaves. You got more bills than you got money back. Just went out. Trouble's coming from every direction. Kids got problems, pregnant. Trouble is everywhere.

[Preacher]

This kind of anointing grows in the dark. You pick up your phone to call somebody and then you ask yourself why? How many people ever ask yourself why.

[Bible Class Teacher]

I have had to put my phone down, say, it ain't gonna make no difference. It ain't gonna make no difference. It's not that people don't like you, they don't love you, but at the end of the day, you got to bear this cross by yourself. Roots grow in the dark and they are strained by time after you have suffered a while inducing season.

[Preacher]

If you faint, not y' all not listening at the word.

[Bible Class Teacher]

If you. If you don't faint, if you don't give up in the day of your adversity, if you keep on going, whether.

[Preacher]

You feel like keeping on going or not. If you stand the test of time.

[Bible Class Teacher]

God said, I'll do things in you.

[Preacher]

That'Ll leave people with their mouth hanging open. If you stand the test of time. God said, I'm not just looking at your suffering. I'm watching my watch.

[Bible Class Teacher]

I'm.

[Preacher]

I'm watching to see. Can you praise me with a broken heart? Can you preach when there is no crowd there? If all of y' all get up and walk out of this room, it will not stop my flow. I can flow by myself. I was trained by myself. I don't have to have an amen or a hallelujah or a thank you, Jesus.

[Bible Class Teacher]

I grew up preaching in empty churches.

[Preacher]

I know how to preach with no organ. I know how to slap my leg and keep on preaching and keep on getting up. I know how to do it by myself. Cause he trained me in dark places. He trained you with no husband. He trained you when your check got swallowed up by your rent. He trained you when you couldn't have simple things. He trained you at a time in.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Your life that people are talking about stuff that you don't even know what they're talking about because you can't afford it. Come on, somebody. And God says, if you be faithful, if you be faithful, I will give you the crown of life. I will give you the crown of life. So you have to suffer. And if you are not willing to go through that kind of suffering, then you can't receive that kind of glory. Paul says when he puts it all together, he says, after reasoning carefully. I have concluded with conviction that all painful experiences, hardships and trials of this temporary life are insignificant when measured against the incomparable splendor and divine glory that will one day be unveiled in us. I'm living to live again. So when you start talking about reframing it, this is a mind thing, reckon is about thinking. It's about reasoning. It's about calculation. It's about coming to conclusion. It's about what you value. What do you value? What do you value? What do you value? Is it worth it to you to have his favor and his presence? Or do you want something quick? Take me back to the 18th verse and I'm going to stop. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. Give me the next verse. 19. Did I give you 19? Yeah. For the earnest expectation.

[Preacher]

That's hope right there.

[Bible Class Teacher]

For the earnest expectation of the creature waited. For the manifestation of the sons of God. The whole earth is waiting for you to come through this. When you come through this and you.

[Preacher]

Manifest yourself after you suffered a while.

[Bible Class Teacher]

After you've been strained, after you've been scraped, after you've been purified, after you've been through the fire, everything in your.

[Preacher]

Life is going to change. Everything in your life is going to change.

[Bible Class Teacher]

The whole creation is waiting on the manifestation of what God is doing in you. This is bigger than you. This is not about you. This is about all the people you're going to touch and all the worlds.

[Preacher]

That are going to be changed and.

[Bible Class Teacher]

All the people that are going to be strengthened.

[Preacher]

That's why it's not worthy to be.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Compared to how you feel.

[Preacher]

And you are living in a world where all they talk about is how.

[Bible Class Teacher]

They feel about it.

[Preacher]

God doesn't care how you feel about it.

[Bible Class Teacher]

He doesn't care how you feel about it. When he gets I can see myself now trying to tell Mama I don't feel like going through the no whooping.

[Preacher]

That wouldn't have worked in my day.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Now today, that stuff works. They come in, your children come in talking about their feelings. You hurt my feelings and you disrespected my privacy and you came in my room and I don't like it when you talk to me like that. And I just feel some kind of way. We didn't even have that word I.

[Preacher]

Feel some kind of way that wasn't in our vocabulary. Mama would have knocked all the teeth out of my mouth. I'd have been running around with gums in my head talking about I feel some kind of way. Mama said, I don't care how you feel. I don't care how you feel. I knock the taste out of your mouth if you don't get up them steps.

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[Bible Class Teacher]

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[Preacher]

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[Bible Class Teacher]

See, we are so used to living in our feelings. And I'm gonna make you mad now, manipulating people with our feelings.

[Preacher]

Because you know if you start crying.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Crying, he gonna take you where you want to go. You know if you start crying, you're gonna get that extra hundred dollar bill.

[Preacher]

You know, if you start crying, they're gonna jerk you out of that class.

[Bible Class Teacher]

And move you around and all they're doing is making spoiled children. And they don't teach you to endure anything. You have to endure some things. And when you endure some things, they begin to happen. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. Give me 19. Come on, give me 19. For the earnest expectation of the creature waited for the manifestation of the Son of God.

[Preacher]

Keep going.

[Bible Class Teacher]

For the creature was made subject to vanity. He was made subject. To go through emptiness. He was made subject. God put you in a place that hurt not willingly, but by reason of him who have subjected the same in hope. He put you in it in the hopes that he could make something out of you. Can I go deeper? Oh, I feel like I'm opening up some. I feel like I'm opening up something that God wants to open it up and air it out and get that bacteria and that infection out, that infection that's been down in you, that anger, that guilt, that frustration, that pain, that emptiness has got to come out and I got to squeeze on it like.

[Preacher]

It'S a pimple until it bursts. And when it bursts in this room.

[Bible Class Teacher]

That yoke is going to break, that.

[Preacher]

Door is going to open.

[Bible Class Teacher]

That blessing is going to flow.

[Preacher]

Hallelujah. I know it hurts because I'm putting pressure on a place that's uncomfortable for you, but I got to get that poison out. I can't leave you with that infection growing on your arm and growing on your hand and growing on your back.

[Bible Class Teacher]

No, we got to press it. You got to press it.

[Preacher]

Paul said, I was pressed above measure and beyond strength. So much so that I despaired of life itself, because.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Let me go on. Verse 21.

[Preacher]

Because the creature itself also shall be.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know that the whole creation groaneth.

[Preacher]

There's that word again.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Groaneth and travaileth in pain.

[Preacher]

Together.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Together.

[Preacher]

Together. Together. You ain't the only one. You think you're the only one. If you get up and start talking.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Your deepest, darkest secret, your deepest pain, your deepest heartache. Your deepest disappointment. Your deepest shame.

[Preacher]

Somebody in this room is going to.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Connect with you because we are going through this together.

[Preacher]

Together.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Fellowship of his suffering. Fellowship of his. For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but we ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit. Even we ourselves groan within ourselves. That's the difference between church folks in the world. We groan within ourselves. We don't want nobody to see it. We groan within ourselves. We hope for a word that will ease our pain. And then when it comes, we act like it's not talking to us. We groan within ourselves, which have the first fruits of the Spirit. We have the first fruits of the Spirit. Spirit. That don't stop the groaning. So you got, on one hand, you got the first fruits of the Spirit, but on the other hand, you got the groaning at the same time. At the same. Y' all don't hear me. Y' all don't hear me. Lord, help them to hear me. You have both of them at the same time. It's the best of times, the worst of times. You're happy, but you're sad. You're glad, but you're disappointed. You can see the blessing of the Lord, but you can see where all hell is breaking loose over you in the same life at the same time. Anybody hear the words that are coming.

[Preacher]

Out of my mouth?

[Bible Class Teacher]

But ourselves also, which have the first fruits of the Spirit. Even we ourselves groan within ourselves. Now, the groaning within, I ain't got time to get into it. I'm running out of time. The groaning within, the secret groaning within comes with experience. Because people will teach you that groaning out don't help. So what they do is they drive the pain in. And you groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption to it, the redemption, our body. Come on, give me some. For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen is not hope for what a man seeth, why does he yet hope for it? Come on. But if we hope for that, we see not, then do we, with patience, wait for it. See, this is how he purges you. This is how he figures you in. The waiting for what you hope for. He purges the desires of your heart. He changes what you need. He changes what you desire. He changes what you value. And he didn't answer you when you threw your temper tantrum. Because God is not excited about how you feel. I feel some kind of way. Likewise, the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities. For we know not what we should pray for as we ought. I'm scared to ask him for stuff because I have asked him for stuff that almost killed me. How many people can admit it? I have asked him for stuff that wrecked my life, that broke my heart, that drove me crazy, that had me up at 3 o' clock in the morning. And I brought it on myself. We know not what to pray for, as we are the beginning. One of the first principles of wisdom is to figure out that you don't know as much as you think you do. My God, this is a good Bible class.

[Preacher]

This is good.

[Bible Class Teacher]

The moment you start stop worshiping your opinion and your decision. You open up to have a God in your life. But as long as you worship what you have in mind, that becomes an idol to you. And he's going to tear down every idol. He's going to cast out every foe. He's going to wash you till you're whiter than snow. Do you hear what I'm saying?

[Preacher]

He going to tear it down. He going to show you over and over and over again that you keep making bad choices.

[Bible Class Teacher]

You are bringing this on yourself. The Spirit help with our infirmities. For we know not what we should pray for as we are, but the Spirit. But the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us. Here's that word again with groanings. This text has got groanings in it over and over again. The whole earth is groaning. We are groaning within ourselves. Now the Spirit is groaning. And it takes a groan to stop a groan. So the Spirit comes. Now you're gonna get some help. Now you're gonna get some comfort when the Spirit comes. Now you're gonna get some comfort because the Spirit is gonna come in there and groan with you. See, we don't have church like we used to, but we. We used to have. We have the mourner's bench. We'd have groaning. We'd come in and labor in the Spirit. We weren't so quick to want to leave. We would groan in the Spirit.

[Preacher]

Because some things only come out by prayer and fasting. Some things take time.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Some things take struggle. And the Spirit has to groan with your spirit. And now you got fellowship in your suffering because you're not suffering alone and.

[Preacher]

You'Re not in isolation.

[Bible Class Teacher]

The Holy Ghost.

[Preacher]

Do you not know that the Lord.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Will get in the fire with you? He will get in the fire with you. He will call you out of the cave. He. Even in the midst of all that stinky stuff, he groans with you because he know you don't know what to pray for. So he says, let me take over. This is why you need the spirit. Because the Spirit is going to groan with you. He got a groan for a groan for a groan. That's harmony. That's harmony. Give me a D, E flat or y'. All. Anybody on the keyboard, give me a D. Give me an E, E flat and an F. And hit them all at the same path. That's what it sounds like inside. Hit it again. That's a desonate sound. It's half steps in one hole mixed together. Half and holes mixed together produce groaning. Groaning is not pleasant. Groaning is not beautiful. Groaning is not melody. Hit it again. Groaning is a disconnect some of your spirit. If I would write a score with what's going on inside of your spirit, it would sound like. Because the spirit is groaning in your spirit. And your world is groaning because of your groaning. And it's all groaning together, trying to bring you to an expected end. Likewise, the Spirit helpeth our infirmity. For we know not what we should pray for as we are, but the spirit itself maketh intercession. Intercession for us with groanings which cannot be. Language uttered really means language I cannot verbalize. I do not have the emotional intelligence to talk about this. This is pain. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is in the mind of the spirit. Because he maketh intercession for us according to the will of God. And we know. Hit it again. That even though it doesn't sound good, even though it gets on my nerves, even though it wakes me up at 3:00 in the morning, even though it wakes me up again at 5, even.

[Preacher]

Though I drive to work half asleep.

[Bible Class Teacher]

We still know that all things work together for the good of them that love the Lord who are the called according to his purpose. It's gonna work together.

[Preacher]

He's not wrong.

[Bible Class Teacher]

He played exactly what I scored. We know it's gonna work together for good. Hit it again.

[Preacher]

You might be at this present time.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Hearing this on your insides, smiling on the outside. But inside, you go home and get by yourself. And at night it's this. It is like that because the spirit is matching your spirit groan for groan. I wish I had time. Deep calling on the deep.

[Preacher]

That's what Job said.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Deep calleth on the deep at the.

[Preacher]

Noise of thy water spout.

[Bible Class Teacher]

See, this is what spiritual people have. This is the intercession of the Holy Spirit. Spirit. It's a groaning. He matches your groaning. He meets you in the groaning. He meets you in the pain. He meets you in the suffering. He meets you in your confusion. He meets you in your frustration. He meets you in your disappointment.

[Preacher]

You had an expectation.

[Bible Class Teacher]

He meets you in your disappointment. Because disappointment is made from expectation.

[Preacher]

Disappointment is made from expectation.

[Bible Class Teacher]

You can't be disappointed if you don't expect. If you want to stop disappointment, stop expectation. Let me hear it again. And the Holy Spirit gets down in there and he says, I'm going to make that sound that gets on your nerves. Work together for your good, according to the will of God. Clap your hands and we'll start. How many people got some help tonight? Let me tell you why I'm teaching this way. We are in the midst, in this present time of a lot of groaning. Our whole world is groaning. Our whole country is groaning. Many of our houses are groaning. And then we groan within ourselves for so many reasons. And it's our job to try to lead you through the groaning while we also grow. If the Spirit groans, you gotta let me groan. You can't hold me in such high esteem that I can't groan. If the Holy Spirit is groaning, please let me groan. Please. Excuse me. Yes, the bishop can groan. The Holy Spirit can groan. The bishop can groan. It's okay for me to groan and yet I have to help you through the groaning process of because you were in labor, you're travailing in pain. When I was preaching this Sunday morning, I saw a woman in stirrups that like they put you in. When you about to have a baby and you're about to give birth. Ain't no girl cute when she's pushing that baby out. There ain't no cute way to put push that baby out. What God is trying to get out of you, it ain't no cute way to get there. But when you get there, the whole world is waiting. Not on the coming of the Lord, but the manifestation of the sons of God. The whole world is waiting on you to start stop doing the same things over and over and over and over and over again and listening at your own counsel. Now, we can do this the easy way or we can do this the hard way. But one way or the other, God is going to win this fight. Close your eyes. You know in your heart that the Lord is talking to you. You know he is. You know he has heard your deepest groan. And on Wednesday night in a Bible class, he chooses the strangest time to deal with the deepest things. Some of you have been groaning most of your life, but tonight's your night for you to get your hope back. For you to get your help back and for you to at least understand that God is getting you ready for glory. If he is speaking to you, could you for once let go of your image and open up your heart and let him come in. Sweet Holy Spirit, do something in us. Do something for us. Do something with us. We cannot continue on the path we're on. We arrest every demonic plot and plan that has come to make us miserable and incomplete. We say yes to your will. We surrender. We surrender all in Jesus name. Amen. Give him the best praise you got. Come on, come on.

[Preacher]

Online, everywhere.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Give us the best praise you got.

[Preacher]

Don't stop the stream.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Keep the stream going. Keep the stream going.

[Preacher]

Keep the praise going.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Keep the anointing going. Keep the glory coming. Keep the groaning going. Keep it going. Keep it coming. Keep it coming. Keep it coming. Keep it coming. Keep it coming. Keep it coming.

[Preacher]

Now we know you're the Sons of God.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Now we know you're the Sons of God. Hallelujah.

[Preacher]

For as many as are led by.

[Bible Class Teacher]

The Spirit, they shall be called the Sons of God.

[Preacher]

God.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Right where you stand, right where you are watching. Wherever you are in the world, I want you to worship him even in your giving and in a seed. And this is what I want you to sow for. You kept me when I was losing my mind. You kept me when I was ready to die. You kept me when I had nobody to talk to. You kept me when I cried in my pillow at night. Come on, let it out. You kept me. And you sent this word tonight. You know what I got tonight. I know for sure. You heard me. You heard me. And I'm going to raise a thank you offering and honor you. And when I sow my seed, I'm going to cast my cares on him. Him. Because he cares for me. We're going to do things a little bit different from how we normally do. If you're in the building, I'm going to ask you to bring your seed right to this altar. With no form, no fashion, no order, no escorts. I want you to lay it on the altar. I'm giving my pain. I'm giving my discontentment. If you're watching online, if you never sow again, you need to sow in this moment because God is working on you to take you from groaning to glory. From groaning to glory, from groaning to glory. Nobody knows what that offering means but you and the Lord. Nobody knows. Nobody knows. He's healing some things. He's fixing some things, he's moving some things He's Perfecting some things nobody knows but you and God. You don't want to miss this. If you're online, I declare there's ministry in here. I can feel the ministry of God in this room. Can you feel the ministry of God in this room? Clap your hands if you can feel the ministry of God in this room. Keep my stream going. Don't you stop till I stop. Now listen here, deacons receive the offering right off the altar. When you pick it up, you're picking up pain. You're picking up sorrow. You're picking up depression. You're picking up suicide. You're picking up doubt. You're picking up unbelief. You're picking up agony. You're picking up sorrow. You're picking up discontentment. You're picking up insomnia. You're picking up doubts. You're picking up fear.

[Preacher]

Let it out.

[Bible Class Teacher]

You're picking it all up. You're picking it up. We are going home free. We are going home loose. We are going home. Well, we're going home delivered.

[Preacher]

We're going home better. We're going home. We're going home. We're going home better. We're going home better. We're going home better. It's not just her.

[Bible Class Teacher]

It's not just her. It's all over the building. It's all over the building.

[Preacher]

The Holy Spirit has called this meeting. Hallelujah.

[Bible Class Teacher]

We're gonna walk out this word. We gonna walk out this word. We gonna walk out this word. We're gonna walk this word out.

[Preacher]

If we don't walk this word out.

[Bible Class Teacher]

It'S gonna kill us. We're gonna walk this word out. We gonna walk this word out. We're gonna walk this word out. We're gonna walk this word out. With the few minutes I got left. If you're online or in this building and you don't know Jesus in this present time, you can't make it. You need a personal intimate, deep down, gully washing, thirst quenching, mind renewing encounter with God. You need it. I'm glad for your therapist. I'm glad for your degrees in psychology. But it's going to take the groaning of the Holy Spirit to fix your life. For all you've been through and what.

[Preacher]

You'Re going through at this present time.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Now is the time of salvation. If you're in this room and you.

[Preacher]

Don'T know the Lord, if you're in.

[Bible Class Teacher]

This room and you're backslidden, if you're in this room and you've been out of fellowship, I Want you to bring yourself down to this altar, not your seed, but yourself, and give yourself to God. Thank you, deacons. Bring yourself to God. Bring yourself.

[Preacher]

To God.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Bring yourself. Come on. Bring yourself to God. If you're watching over the Internet on the screen, our prayer lines are open for you right now. Bring yourself to God. Bring yourself. Bring yourself. If you're backsliding and you're out of fellowship, bring. And you can come to church every Sunday and be backslidden as all get out. You know in your heart that you don't have the fire burning for God like you used to. And you are contented to be cold. You don't mind being lukewarm. You got excuses for being lukewarm. But God said, I will spew you.

[Preacher]

Out of my mouth.

[Bible Class Teacher]

You need to get right with God.

[Preacher]

Come on.

[Bible Class Teacher]

No faking. No. Just coming to church. God don't have to be glad because you're here. You have to be glad that he let you live to be here. So if there's a backslider in the.

[Preacher]

House, could everybody stand for a minute.

[Bible Class Teacher]

So nobody has to walk over you? If there's a backslider in the house, join us at this altar. Tonight is our night. Thank you for saying yes to God. Thank you for saying yes to God. Thank you for saying yes to God. Thank you for saying yes. Thank you for saying yes. Thank you for saying yes to God. Thank you for saying yes online. Thank you for saying yes to God. Thank you for saying yes. It's not too late to give him a yes.

[Preacher]

It's not too late to get it right with God. It's not too late to come closer to Jesus. It's not too late. It's not too late. You know, you don't have the fire like you used to have. You know, your prayer life is zilch. You only pray when you're in trouble.

[Bible Class Teacher]

You think he's an emt.

[Preacher]

Just somebody you call to get you.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Out of an emergency. Tonight is your night.

[Preacher]

I'm sorry I didn't get to answer your questions.

[Bible Class Teacher]

But maybe I did. Maybe I did.

[Preacher]

Before I pray tonight.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Before I pray tonight, I'm gonna make one last sweet sweep. If you are in this room and you want to go from groaning to glory, if you've been worshiping at the throne of your own opinion and you keep getting into the same trouble time after time after time, you have been faithful to idols indifferent to God. You didn't mean to, but you did. Before I pray. Come on. Come on down. You got the victory when you started walking.

[Preacher]

You got the victory.

[Bible Class Teacher]

When you started walking, you got the victory. When you started walking, you got the victory. When you started walking, you got the victory. When you started walking, you got the victory.

[Preacher]

Right then the moment you took the.

[Bible Class Teacher]

First step, you got the victory when you moved out and came to God.

[Preacher]

Everywhere there's a soul, I want to minister. Everywhere there's a soul, I want to minister.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Because we're going to do personal minister ministry. We're going to get some breakthroughs around this altar. We're going to get a touch from God. We're going to catch on fire. We're going to be renewed. We are praying for you. I don't care what time zone you're in, I don't care what country you're in. I don't care what's going on in your life. We are praying for you right now. I want the whole church to point your hands this way as miracles are going to happen around this altar. I smell the burning lambs. I smell the smell of sacrifice. I smell the sweet surrender of souls who have been in dark places. And God is anointing you. Come on. Ministers, I want you to pray for them. I don't want you to look at.

[Preacher]

Them and hold your hand.

[Bible Class Teacher]

I. I want you to minister to them. I want you to minister to them. I want you to minister to them. I want you to win them to Christ. I want you to pray to their washed in the blood.

[Preacher]

I want you to pray till they're set free. I want you to pray till they're made whole. Yes.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Tonight. Tonight. Tonight, Tonight. Tonight.

[Preacher]

Tonight.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Tonight. Tonight.

[Preacher]

I smell the oil of the apothecary. Tonight, tonight, tonight. Somebody's being crushed. Somebody's being renewed.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Somebody's being made alive.

[Preacher]

You that online.

[Bible Class Teacher]

We are praying for you. The spirit of God is touching you.

[Preacher]

The anointing of God is moving on you right now.

[Bible Class Teacher]

God has a plan for your life.

[Preacher]

You are not watching us by accident.

[Bible Class Teacher]

This is not a mistake. This was your word for your situation. Coming to you tonight to make things better in your life. Come on, come on.

[Preacher]

Come on.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Come on. Give us just a little bit of a song. Just a little bit of a song.

[Worship Leader]

And I'm alive today only because. Cause of his grace. Cause God kept me. He kept me. God kept me so I wouldn't let go. Oh, so I'm here today because God kept me. And I'm alive today only because of his grace. He kept me. God kept me.

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[Worship Leader]

He kept me so I wouldn't let go.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Lift your hands all over the room.

[Preacher]

Now.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Unto him that's able to keep us from falling and present us faultless before the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, be glory, dominion and power. World without end throughout all ages.

[Preacher]

In Jesus name.

[Bible Class Teacher]

Sing it again.

[Worship Leader]

So I'm here today Because God said me and I'm alive today Only because of his grace and God kept me he kept me God kept me.

[Bible Class Teacher]

So.

[Worship Leader]

I would and let go so I'm here today because God kept me yes, I'm alive today Only because of his grace God kept me he kept me yes, God kept me so I wouldn't let go.

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[Bible Class Teacher]

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[Bible Class Teacher]

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