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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes

T.D. Jakes - Ripped For A Reason

April 23, 2025 | S25:E65

T.D. Jakes - Ripped For A Reason
God is working in our lives to change it for the better! He has a purpose!
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The Potter's Touch with T.D. Jakes | T.D. Jakes - Ripped For A Reason | April 23, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Female announcer: coming up on "the potter's touch."
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  • Bishop t.d. jakes: all the religious people gasped.
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  • They just about fainted.
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  • One mother almost had a coronary attack.
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  • She said, "he ripped the bible."
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  • No, i ripped what looked like the bible.
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  • And somebody who's less religious is wondering why i
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  • Ripped it.
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  • And your question becomes my subject.
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  • My subject is, "ripped for a reason."
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  • ♪ the potter's touch, the potter's touch. ♪
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  • Bishop jakes: you must understand that this ripping,
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  • It's always a tear, and a tear, is always painful.
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  • It costs something to get into the next dimension.
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  • It costs you something to pass from death unto life.
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  • It hurts to step into the next dimension.
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  • You don't dance through the veil.
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  • The veil is ripped, not unzipped, not cut, the veil
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  • Is ripped.
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  • And god wants you to know who's doing the ripping, because
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  • Anytime you have ripping you have pain.
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  • And anytime you have pain, you think it's the devil.
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  • But god said the veil in the temple was ripped from the top
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  • To the bottom.
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  • God said, "the devil didn't rip you, i ripped you."
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  • See, my bible scholars are shouting, because they know that
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  • Had the veil been ripped from the bottom to the top, then the
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  • World could have said that when jesus was crucified, somebody
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  • Ran in the temple and ripped the veil.
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  • But because it was ripped from the top to the bottom where no
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  • Man could reach, the ripping always comes from god.
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  • Forty feet high, i believe, thirty feet long, six inches
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  • Thick, that's a rip.
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  • That's a rip, a rip, a rip is violence.
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  • A rip, is forceful.
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  • A rip is painful; ripped for a reason,
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  • Hurt for a reason, torn
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  • For a reason, bleeding for a reason.
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  • Oh, i'm headed somewhere.
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  • I'm not even there yet.
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  • I'm just on the road.
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  • I'm getting there, i'm getting there, i'm getting there.
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  • Just touch three people and say ripped for a reason, rip, rip,
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  • Ripped for a reason, rip, rip, ripped for a reason, rip, rip,
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  • Ripped for a reason.
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  • It brought me--
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  • I got to studying a document.
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  • I thought to myself, i started thinking about ripped for
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  • A reason.
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  • I got down to this meeting jesus has at simon the leper's house,
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  • And all the disciples are there, and they're gathered about doing
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  • Their business, and they're doing whatever they normally do.
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  • And jesus is coming to simon the leper's house, and they're so
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  • Engrossed in their business that they do not recognize the
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  • Sensitivity of the moment.
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  • And into this scene, this atmosphere of men, comes
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  • A woman.
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  • The woman is caring an alabaster box.
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  • The box is carrying a box to a box.
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  • The bible says it was an alabaster box.
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  • And the bible says that the alabaster box was filled
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  • With spikenard.
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  • Now the spikenard was what mattered.
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  • The spikenard, what was in the box is what mattered.
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  • I got to stop there.
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  • What was in the box is what mattered.
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  • You spend all your time working on the box, but it's what's--
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  • You look gorgeous this morning on the outside, but nobody has
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  • To live with your outside, they have to live with your inside.
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  • Have you ever met people that you wish were as pretty on the
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  • Inside as they were on the outside?
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  • We spend billions of dollars in this country fixing up the box.
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  • We--see christ walked amongst us as a box.
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  • But he couldn't redeem us as a box.
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  • The alabaster isn't what is important about this
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  • Woman's offering.
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  • In fact, the only thing that was important about the alabaster,
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  • Is that it was made of a material that was designed to
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  • Hold the essence and the aroma of the content was locked inside
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  • The alabaster.
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  • So if the ointment was precious, you put it in alabaster so that
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  • No longer how long you kept it, it would be just as potent when
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  • It was released as it was before.
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  • Maybe paul was thinking about this when he talks about us and
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  • Says, "we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the
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  • Excellency may be of god and not of us."
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  • The dichotomous situation, stay with me church because i'm
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  • Thinking this morning.
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  • I'm thinking this morning. i'm thinking this morning.
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  • The dichotomy of the box and the ointment, it's a powerful thing.
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  • It gives you a glimpse of us.
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  • The discussion between ointment and alabaster is a picture
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  • Of us.
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  • We have the treasure, but we have it in earthen vessels.
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  • Christ is our redemption, but he held it in an earthen vessels.
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  • The holy of holies is where i'm going, but i had to get
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  • Through the veil to get it.
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  • Here comes this woman in with an alabaster box.
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  • Some theologians say it was a year's wages that she had saved
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  • Up to give to jesus.
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  • And she came in, she wasn't even a good woman.
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  • Look at the dichotomy, she wasn't even a pure woman.
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  • She was the kind of woman that when she came in the room, the
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  • Church folk were talking about her.
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  • Church people talking about, "oh no she didn't.
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  • I know she's not coming to church."
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  • Why would god give something so important to somebody
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  • So contaminated?
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  • Let me talk to you a minute, because i don't think they
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  • Heard me.
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  • I'm going to try you over here.
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  • Have you ever looked at yourself and said...
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  • "you want me?
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  • You're going to put that kind of revelation in me?
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  • You're going to put that kind of gift in me?
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  • You're going to give that kind of opportunity to me?"
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  • God always works with opposites.
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  • He didn't say my strength is made perfect in strength.
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  • He said my strength is made perfect--
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  • So--well, now i'm going to date myself.
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  • I'm kinda old now, but when i went to school, they used to
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  • Give you a picture and they'd say; they have a living room,
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  • They have a couch, and a chair, and a coffee table, and a
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  • Refrigerator, and at the bottom they'd say, "what's wrong with
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  • This picture?"
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  • And they were trying to see if you had, you know, good
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  • Deductive reasoning skills, to have associative skills to be
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  • Able to determine what should not be here.
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  • What should not be here, what should not be in this room is
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  • This trashy woman.
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  • And judas and them all murmuring talking about, "he don't know
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  • She a sinner."
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  • What's wrong with this box?
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  • Bringing a box into the presence of jesus, and she gets down at
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  • His feet.
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  • One thing about her, maybe she was a sinner, i don't know, but
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  • She didn't try to stand toe to toe.
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  • She didn't try to look jesus in the face and have a discussion.
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  • She didn't shake his hand.
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  • She didn't want a selfie.
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  • She got down at his feet.
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  • Until you humble yourself, you will never discover the purpose
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  • Of god for your life.
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  • As long as you think you know you don't know.
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  • When you fall at his feet and say, i can't do it without you.
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  • I can't make it without you.
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  • I can't figure it out without you.
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  • Down, down at his feet, tell somebody say, "i got to get
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  • Down, down at his feet."
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  • I've been trying to go toe to toe with the master.
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  • I've been trying to put my will up against his will, and my
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  • Thoughts up against his thoughts, and my ways up against
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  • His ways, but i'm coming down where i belong.
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  • I made enough mistakes, that i'm coming down where i belong.
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  • I've blown it enough that i'm coming down where i belong.
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  • I'm bold enough to be here, but i'm humble enough
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  • To get down at you.
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  • Bishop jakes: good soil is us building us.
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  • Vusi thembekwayo: it's about integration, not competition.
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  • John hope bryant: you are the change makers.
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  • Bishop jakes: we don't have to be monolithic in order to
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  • Be united.
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  • Mellody hobson: we can transform business in america.
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  • Vusi: think scale.
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  • John: it's not a reboot, it's a reset.
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  • Bishop jakes: all of us have
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  • Seeds of potential in us.
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  • John: you got all the dna for success right inside of you.
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  • Janell stephens: i started in my kitchen actually, yes.
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  • Mellody: i wanna change the idea of what a minority business is.
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  • John: the world shifted.
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  • Bishop jakes: tomorrow's up for grabs, right now is the moment.
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  • This is just the beginning.
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  • Female announcer: "therefore, we are buried with him by baptism
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  • Into death: that like as christ
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  • Was raised up from the dead by
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  • The glory of the father, even so
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  • We also should walk in newness
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  • Of life."
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  • Celebrate with us the resurrection of our lord and
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  • Savior jesus christ.
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  • Bishop jakes: this womb-man, this womb-man, this womb-man,
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  • This womb-man comes in with an alabaster box,
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  • And the bible doesn't say, that she opened it.
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  • The bible doesn't say that she opened it.
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  • The bible says she broke it, she broke it.
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  • See, the reason our worship services are not any more
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  • Powerful than they are, is that we come in here with our little
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  • Cute dresses on, and our little nice outfits, and we open up
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  • Ourselves a little bit, we open ourselves a little bit, and we
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  • Give him a little worship.
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  • And we, "oh bless his name, bless his name, bless his name.
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  • Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah."
  • 00:14:35.224 --> 00:14:41.797
  • See, when people start taking god for granted, they try to
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  • Decide whether they're going to worship him or not.
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  • But when you know you're a wretch, when you know you don't
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  • Have no right to be in this room at all, when you know they're
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  • Talking about you and half of what they said is true, you
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  • Don't just open a little bit, you break the box.
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  • [speaking in tongues]
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  • I wish i had some folks who have done some mess and you know
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  • You're here by the mercy of god, break that box.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  • Yeah, yes, yes, yes.
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  • I do not understand.
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  • I do not understand why you would get out of bed on the few,
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  • On one of the few days that you had to sleep in: take a shower,
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  • Get dressed, get the kids together, get in the car, and
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  • Come to church, and then sit here and look stupid.
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  • If you're going to come in here, you ought to just--
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: so she made up her mind when she came that morning.
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  • If i get in that room, if i'm lucky enough to get in that
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  • Room, if they blink and let me get close to jesus, if i get
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  • Anywhere near jesus, if i come to church that morning, i'm
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  • Going to break the box.
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  • Shake your neighbor's hand and say i came here to break
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  • The box.
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  • I'm not going to leave.
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  • I'm not going to leave, i'm not going to leave till i break it.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Bishop jakes: she broke the box, brought a box to a box, and she
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  • Broke the box down at his feet
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  • [speaking in tongues] down at his feet.
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  • She broke the box.
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  • That's how you're going to change the things in your house,
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  • Down at his feet.
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  • You're going to break the box.
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  • That's how you're going to change things on your job, down
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  • At his feet.
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  • You're going to break the box.
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  • You don't have time to worry about what people think.
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  • You got to get down at his feet.
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  • If i don't break it, young people, if i don't break it, i
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  • Will live a life of ineffectiveness, having
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  • Potential that is never realized.
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  • It's not that it's not in me, but until i get what's in me out
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  • Of me, having it in me doesn't change the atmosphere.
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  • Nobody could smell it till she broke it.
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  • You got it, but because you insist on acting like you got it
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  • All together, we can't smell it.
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  • But if you get down at his feet and break the box.
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  • Now let me show you, oh my god.
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  • When the alabaster shattered, the oil spilled out.
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  • And of all the things that had happened to jesus in all of his
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  • Life, it was this one thing that he said.
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  • Wherever the gospel is preached, remember this woman; this woman
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  • That they were talking about, this woman that they were
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  • Murmuring against, this woman that didn't even have no
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  • Business to be where she was.
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  • Remember the teachings of this woman above wherever you preach,
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  • What is it about this woman?
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  • He said, "remember her," watch this, "because she has prepared
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  • My body."
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  • I was preaching many years before i understood, that when
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  • She broke the box and the ointment spilled out, and it
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  • Filled the atmosphere with aroma, she reminded jesus the
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  • Reason for the ripping.
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  • That if it doesn't break, it's not effective.
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  • When she broke it at his feet and the ointment came out, he
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  • Said, "i'm ready now."
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  • What the box was figuratively, jesus was literally.
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  • He had the ointment that would affect the world, but he had to
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  • Be broken.
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  • "he was wounded for our transgressions.
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  • He was bruised for our iniquities.
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  • The chastisement of our peace was upon him.
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  • By his stripes, we're healed."
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  • He said, i'm good now.
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  • I'm good now.
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  • I understand, i understand, you reminded me, oh woman.
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  • Wherever the gospel is preached, remember that this woman is
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  • A memorial.
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  • She's a testimony, she's a sign.
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  • She broke it, it flowed.
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  • She broke it, it flowed. she broke it, it flowed.
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  • She broke it, it flowed.
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  • He broke it, it flowed.
  • 00:22:19.087 --> 00:22:22.157
  • He broke it, it flowed. he broke it, it flowed.
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  • He broke it, he flowed.
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  • Now watch this, watch this.
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  • I got one more thing i want you to see and i'll be done.
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  • You cannot say that you are a christian.
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  • Stop saying it.
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  • Stop it right now.
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  • You are not.
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  • You are not a christian with your together self,
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  • With your unfazed, unmoved, compartmentalized, hiding who
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  • You really are, never opening yourself up, you are not
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  • A christian.
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  • Because if you were a christian, it would mean you were
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  • Christ-like and you would get ugly publicly.
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  • You would open up your wounds and scars.
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  • How long will it take you to understand that if god ripped
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  • You, it was for a reason.
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  • If he allowed your heart to break, if he allowed you to be
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  • Emotionally shattered, if he allowed you to go through a
  • 00:24:00.989 --> 00:24:05.160
  • Hellish childhood, if he allowed your daddy to forsake you, if he
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  • Allowed your mama to leave you, if he allowed your wife to walk
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  • Out the door with another woman, if he allowed your husband to
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  • Leave you, you gotta stop being bitter and understand that if
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  • God ripped you--
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  • See, we are not like jesus.
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  • We are like our pictures of jesus.
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  • We want to be effective and pretty.
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  • But in order to be effective, you got to be ripped.
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  • So if god put a great anointing in you, if god gave you a great
  • 00:24:57.812 --> 00:25:02.417
  • Ministry, if god gave you a great gift somewhere in your
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  • Life, you will go through a ripping.
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  • And you have to know that you were ripped from the top, to the
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  • Bottom, and not from the bottom to the top.
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  • Because whenever god allows you to be ripped, it is for
  • 00:25:24.906 --> 00:25:31.513
  • A reason.
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  • There was no pretty way to get the ointment out of the box.
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  • There was no pretty way for jesus to consecrate for us a new
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  • And living way.
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  • There is no pretty way for you to become a wise woman.
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  • There is no pretty way for you to be a wise woman.
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  • The only way you can become a wise woman is through the stupid
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  • Things you did, the mistakes you made, to come to decisions
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  • About yourself.
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  • There is no way.
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  • Wisdom, today's wisdom was yesterday's folly.
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  • Bishop jakes: the part of you that is consistent is a part of
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  • You that has been converted, transformed by the engrafted
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  • Word of god.
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  • Now you heard all the word, but the words you do is the word
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  • That stuck.
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  • The bible says the engrafted word of god is able to save
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  • Your soul.
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  • What does engrafted mean?
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  • It means the word that stuck, the word that knit to you, the
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  • Word that became one with you, the one that connected with your
  • 00:26:38.046 --> 00:26:41.449
  • Tissue, the word that became a part of your life.
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  • That's the only word you can use under attack.
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  • The only part of the word that you can use is a word that stuck
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  • To you, got engrafted in you, became a part of your dna.
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  • That is the word that becomes your word, your conviction, your
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  • Faith, your tenacity.
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