The labels placed on you don’t fit you anymore. Somewhere along the way, you got comfortable living within those constraints, but today you’ve been charged to break out of the graveyard of your past. You were counted out, but as you shake yourself loose from every dead situation, you will never be the same. No longer will you stay chained to who you used to be. In this season, you’re stepping into a new dimension that will require you to reintroduce yourself.

[Music]

you can get your bibles to go to mark 5

2-20 i’m not sure whether this is a

result of the age and stage i’m in

or whether it is the level

of maturity that comes in my thinking

or whether it is a result of the healing

of how i see myself

but i am sure that i have come to a

point in my life

that i don’t like to do anything

just to be doing something

just being busy for the sake of being

busy

when i get ready to do something i

wanted to count

i don’t want to go anywhere and come

back the same

if it’s not going to add to me if it’s

not going to do something for me if i’m

not going to learn something if i’m not

going to be inspired in some way i just

don’t want to do it anybody else feel

like that

well jump up on your feet and go to mark

5 2-20 and we’re going to talk about

don’t leave like you came

don’t leave

like you came

it’s quite a few verses of scripture

some of y’all haven’t read this much

bible since she was five

but the reason i’m reading the entirety

of the story is that i have learned not

to assume

that the audience knows the text

because we have a diversity of people on

different spiritual levels

and different biblical levels and

different theological levels it requires

of me

the patience to make sure that i leave

no one behind in the process of

unloading the text

and so indulge me just a moment when i

begin to break into this text

which comes behind the backdrop of jesus

having survived

uh the tempestuous winds that threatened

the safety of his arrival when he says

to his disciples let us cross over to

the other side

he goes on this journey and oddly enough

not so much to

enter into the city or establish a

church in fact he is going into a very

unchurched region

he is not even going into a jewish

region he’s going into a gentile region

a polytheistic region of people who do

not even embrace the fundamentals

of jesus spiritual heritage

and he still he goes

we’re living in a world today that

church people only want to go where

church people are

they only want to go with people who

agree with him

jesus goes into an area a territory in

which he is not related ethnically nor

theologically

intellectually

and still he goes

and he goes through the adversity of a

storm that threatened to destroy him

and still he goes

the winds were boisterous the waves were

intimidating and even the experience of

peter’s a as a

as a ship’s

guide was threatened by the perilous sea

peter goes down into the bottom of the

ship

and threatens jesus with the threatens

jesus character by saying carrots out

not that we perish

jesus wakes up and calms the sea in the

waves

and still he goes

the boat has just docked at his

destination

when this text begins

and it explains the why

whereas the previous chapter only the

what

understanding the why of a thing

is very important as opposed to the what

all people who love to gossip

and love to subscribe to those who

gossip

operate in a realm of the what people

did

and lacked the intelligence to think for

a moment

why they did it

so there are people who make a living

talking about what other people did

generally to deflect what they are doing

because if i can deflect you from

looking at me by talking about other

people

then perhaps you will not notice that

what i am talking about i am also guilty

of

you have to have a certain level of

intellectualism

to be

not learning enough but curious enough

to ask why

it’s the first thing a two-year-old asks

you

daddy why is it day

because the sun has come up why did the

sun come up

you know because the earth rotates why

does the earth rotate

it is the early stages

of intellectualism

it is irritating

but it is necessary

in the previous chapter we see

what happened

in this text we see why why is jesus so

motivated to go where he is likely to be

rejected

i don’t like to be rejected

if i think you’re gonna reject me i

won’t even ask the question

jesus intentionally goes

where the amens don’t come easily

and he goes with the purpose

not for a crowd

but for a person

i’m getting ready to go teach a

leadership question

a conference

and in leadership today we are so

preoccupied

with crowds

that we ignore people

now that’s an oxymoronic statement but

it is still quite profound and quite

true i have learned that if you become a

lover of people

you will draw crowds

but you cannot draw crowds

if you don’t love people

because you only attract what you love

i’ll say that when for charlotte come to

charlotte

and when he was come out of the ship

immediately there met him out of the

tombs

not a corpse but a man

with an unclean spirit

who had his dwelling amongst the tombs

and no man could bind him no not with

chains

because that he had been often bound

with fetters and chains and the chains

had been plucked asunder by him

and the fetters broken in pieces neither

could any man

tame him

and always night and day he was in the

mountains and in the tombs

crying and cutting himself with stones

but when he saw jesus

good condomers

but when he saw jesus afar off he ran

and worshiped him

and cried with a loud voice and said

what have i to do with the jesus our son

of the most high god

i enjoy thee my god that thou torment me

not

for he said unto him

come out of the man thou unclean spirit

jesus came all the way over here to get

in trouble

and he asked him what is thy name and he

answered saying my name is legion

for we are many

and be he besought him much that he

would not send them away

out of the country

now there was there nigh unto the

mountains a great herd of swine

feeding

this is how you know you are in a

gentile area

because it would have been a herd of

sheep

jews don’t raise swine

and all the devils beside him saying

send us into the swine that we may enter

into them we’re not picky we’ll possess

a man we’ll possess a swine

and for which jesus gave them leave do

you know that we are listening at

spirit’s talk

we’re listening at a conversation

between good and evil

between right and wrong

we are listening at what we cannot hear

with our own ears but through the

graciousness of mark he has now allowed

us to eavesdrop on one spirit talking to

the spirit

and for if jesus came then leave gave

them leave and the unclean spirits went

out

and entered into the swine

and the herd ran

violently down the steep place into the

sea

the sea he had just gotten away from

they ran into

they were about 2 000

and were choked to death

in the sea

and they that fed the swine fled i don’t

blame them

i’m out of here

what is going on here

and told it in the city and in the

country they told everybody

and they went out to see what it was

that was done

and they came to jesus

and see him that was possessed with the

devil

and the guy who was possessed with the

devil and had been raising all his

ruckus was sitting up like

yo what’s up

clothed and in his right mind

and his deliverance scared them to death

do you know that your deliverance

scares

him

to death

scares people

to death

because people are cool with you being

bound

it’s loose

that they are afraid of

and they that saw it told them how it

befell to him that was possessed with

the devil and also concerning the swine

and they began to pray him

get out of here

i thought they was going to ask him to

stay

they asked jesus to depart out of their

coasts

go away

and when he was coming to the ship he

that had been possessed with the devil

prayed him

don’t leave me here

i want to go with you

that’s how you feel when somebody

touches your life

in an amazing way

and you’re afraid that it will only last

as long as they are there

and he says i want to go with you

howbeit jesus suffered him not but saith

unto him

go

home to thy friends

and tell them how great things

the lord have done for thee

and have had compassion

on thee

and he departed and began to publish and

decapolis how great things jesus had

done for him and all men

did marvel

and he did it all for one man

if he did it for that one man

won’t he do it for you

i said won’t he do it for you

look at somebody say don’t leave like

you came

father god in the name of jesus sanction

this word in the hearts of your people i

thank you for what you’re about to do

have your way in the midst of your

people great god that you are i believe

you for miracles i believe you for

deliverance i believe you for healing i

believe you for restoration i believe

you for renewal i believe you for

transformation i believe you for change

i believe you that we will not leave

like we came

in jesus names

amen

you may be seated

get comfortable

let’s talk about this

we are triumph beings yes we are

thereby complex and complicated

there are different aspects and

ideologies within one individual

we are triune beings we are spiritual

beings

we are

spiritual beings listen carefully we are

spiritual beings we are not physical

beings we are

spiritual beings we have

a soul a mind a memory emotions

soul and we live

in a body

i’ll say that again we are

spirit

we have

soul

we live in a body

say it with me we are

spiritual we have a soul

we live in a body that’s why paul says

if this earthly house of tabernacle

shall be dissolved i have another

building

in other words death is only moving

death is not the cessation of life

it is the moving from one house into the

next i am not my body

i live in my body

my mother when she was dying was talking

to me she said baby she said the only

thing got old on me was my body

the body is cursed to withering

like figs leaves on a tree

the though my outward man perishes

my inward man is renewed day by day so

don’t let the box fool you

there is a vibrant thinking functioning

full of life individual

in the most old frail person you ever

meet so stop treating old people

like they’re

not people

we are one of the few cultures that

glorify youth

and ignore age

in most cultures they glorify age

because of the wisdom it should

accumulate

much of our being is like a department

store in the sense a store can have many

departments and still be one store

and it is possible to buy some unique

product from one department and then go

to another department with that same

item and get another item and still run

it through the cash register and each

even though each one came from a

different department it’s still one

store you can check out in the paint

department

though you started in housewares

okay

now that is simple about the department

store but complex about people

you can check out in your body

with an ailment that’s coming

from your spirit

you can have something that attacks your

soul man

and manifests

in hypertension

your body

sometimes there’s nothing wrong with

your body

it’s coming out of your spirit

and out of your soul

because of that intersectionality it is

easy to misdiagnose a problem

as a body problem

it can actually be a soul problem but

manifest in the body the text before us

deals with all three

and i want you to understand because of

our intersectionality

one thing affects the other

have you ever been so worried you

couldn’t sleep

i have

and there’s nothing wrong in my body

and i can’t take a sleep aid and go to

sleep because the sleep aid is designed

to help the body

but what’s keeping me up is in my head

so all the sleep aid does is make you

miserable

because it’s treating your body

but the problem is manifested in my body

but i got it in the other department

the problem in the texas they’ve been

trying to fix a spiritual problem with

physical restraints

and it has not

worked his problem is affecting his body

but it is not his body yet the text is

diagnosed in the opening phrase that

says there came to him a man

with an unclean spirit

how do you chain a spirit

they have chained his body

through their misdiagnosis

but the reality is there’s something

wrong with his spirit

they’ve been misdiagnosing him for a

while my father for instance died of

renal failure but he actually died from

misdiagnosis

it took them so long to find out what

was really wrong with him

that his chances of being healed in his

kidneys

began to diminish until his kidneys died

while they were searching in the wrong

place they were treating his symptoms

but no one was treating the root causes

i wonder are we treating symptoms

and not causes

are we treating what’s and not wise

are we praying to be better in our

symptoms or cured at our root

let’s talk about this can we talk about

this

many overweight people for example are

being treated with diets when in fact it

may not be what you’re eating that’s

making you fat

it could be what’s eating at you

and the eating is only a symptom and

when you treat symptoms they always come

back

oh that was worth coming to church for

right there

you’ve got to get beneath the symptoms

that are bothering you and get down to

the cause and you can’t cure what you

misdiagnosed

now in order to receive this word in a

personal way you have to be open to the

fact that you could be wrong about

somebody you don’t like

you could misdiagnose them as not being

honorable or trustworthy because you are

looking at what they did

and not why they did it and you might

make them act the way they act because

you are dominating and intimidating and

you say it’s them that’s wrong but

you’re treating symptoms

and not causes the common theme in the

text is four instances of being sent

away

i’m just opening up i haven’t got to the

text yet i’m just talking around it

they sent the demonic man away from the

village in the first place they sent him

away

jesus

sent the demons away

the villagers

sent jesus away

jesus after he had healed the man

sent the man away

and everybody in the text is being sent

away

and god is getting ready to send you

away

when we step into the text he is now

homeless

homeless and later in the text we will

find out jesus tells him to go home with

his friends

if you have friends

how did you end up homeless

the man is living in the tombs

in the tombs mind you

with friends

the truth of the matter is

even friends get tired

are there any tired friends in here

and you’ve done everything you could

think of to do to help a person become

who they’re trying to become and

eventually sooner or later you give up

because you find out that there is

nothing in your inventory that can

successfully make them better and it’s

called compassion fatigue

be careful that you don’t wear people

out

always bringing them your problems and

never bringing them a blessing always

bringing them your troubles it’s always

you you you you you

because even love gets tired

even love needs a day off even love

needs to break even the most giving

person in the world needs reciprocity

don’t ever let anybody out give you out

love you i’ll bless you i’ll sow you

because eventually they’ll get tired of

you and send you

away

the man is dwelling amongst the tombs

the place where we relinquish

what we loved

graveyards

cemeteries

the place where we relinquish

what we loved

and though he is not dead yet

they have sent him

to the cemetery where we

relinquish

what we love

and they have sent him there

alive

but to die

if you send me to the cemetery chained

you want me to die

it’s one thing to send me to the

cemetery loose at least i could scavenge

around and get some food but if you send

me to the cemetery and tie me up you are

just waiting on me to become what i am

around

and eventually if you get around

something long enough you become it he’s

not dead yet

oh my god somebody hell i’m not dead yet

yeah don’t be so quick to talk about can

i have your car can i have your washing

machine

can i have your

all they gotta do is find out you’re

sick now eventually they’ll come around

start asking you for stuff

and tell them i’m not dead yet there are

some people that are just waiting on you

to keel over so that they can get what

you got they’re already picking out

stuff that they’re going to have there

are some people that are just waiting on

you to collapse they’re already making

inroads to take over your influence your

family your business your husband your

wife they just waiting on you to find it

but type on the line i’m not dead yet

don’t count me out i may be sick i may

be crazy i may be confused i may be

tormented i may be in trouble but i’m

not dead yet i came this morning to tell

the devil i’m not dead yet

don’t rule me out yet

there’s still another miracle there’s

still another power there’s still

another deliverance working down inside

of me somebody shout at me i’m not dead

yet

[Applause]

the cemetery is a place of memories and

and mourning

it is a place of memories and mourning

and that’s exactly what he was tormented

with his memories

and mourning

it is a place where we visit and not

where we live

and jesus comes to rescue him

in fact he comes to rescue us

from living

amongst

what should be buried

it is one thing to visit the cemetery

it is another thing to live there i want

to dig into that for a moment all of us

visit the cemetery sometime we go down

in the graveyard and think about things

and things that we buried and things

that we lost and things that didn’t work

out that’s normal it’s a human

proclivity to rehearse your past helps

you to have wisdom for your future it’s

one thing to visit the graveyard it’s

another thing to live there some people

live in the cemetery of their failures

and their mistakes and their areas and

their problems and once you start living

in the tombs it’s a sign that you are

completely dysfunctional i can relate to

you because i visited my graveyard but i

never stayed in one it’s one thing to

get a pillow and a mattress and start

living in a graveyard don’t start living

amongst dead things have you ever had

somebody that brought up stuff you did

10 years ago 12 years ago 15 years ago

you moved on with your life and they’re

still talking about what you did 15

years ago they are living in the

cemetery they got a pillar and a

mattress amongst corpses they are living

in a dead place because they are

tormented by a

only a spirit can see a cemetery as a

castle only a spirit will try to

handcuff you to your past and leave you

stuck in your memories and bound by your

mourning and cause you to succumb in

death and wait on it to kill you because

if you stay around dead things long

enough you will become like your friends

if you hang out with the dead you will

become dead that’s why the angel told

mary when she came to the cemetery why

seek ye the living amongst the dead

jesus visited the grave but he didn’t

stay there he arose without power in his

hand can i get a witness in this place

[Applause]

don’t look for me in the grave i might

have been in the grave when you saw me

but don’t expect me to stay there you

met me on friday but wait till sunday

morning i’m getting back up again with

all power and authority in my hand and i

want to say to somebody who’s fallen or

collapsed or lost your house or entered

into a scandal or everybody hates you

and everybody walked away from you don’t

live where they left you

oh you ought to shout me down

don’t live where your husband left you

don’t live where your boss left you

don’t live where the haters left you you

might visit there but don’t live there

let somebody tell them i will not die

here

i’ve been here but i’m not going to die

here i visited it here but i’m not gonna

die here i will not die on drugs i will

not die in depression i will not die in

fear whatever it takes to get me out of

there if i have to pray take medicine

get therapy go jogging stand on a

mountain top whatever it takes for me to

get out i got to get out of here because

this don’t look like a house to me this

does not look like it was designed for

me i will not die where you met me

i will not die where you met me i will

not die where you left me don’t chain me

to this don’t tie me to this don’t hold

me to this don’t lock me up to how you

met me

[Applause]

hallelujah hallelujah nudge a couple of

people and tell them i’m coming out of

this

i’m coming out i’m coming out i’m coming

out i’m coming out i’m coming out i’m

coming out i’m coming out i’m coming out

i’m coming out i’m coming out typing on

the line i’m coming out i’m coming out

i’m coming out i’m coming out of debt

i’m coming out of poverty i’m coming out

of depression i’m coming out of despair

i’m coming out of this grace i’m coming

out of dysfunction i’m coming out if i

got to crawl out i’m coming out if i got

a roll out i’m coming out if i got a dip

in the jordan i’m coming out i’m coming

out somebody’s shouting i’m coming out

[Applause]

yeah yeah yeah yeah

i feel something mounting in the room i

feel something building in the room i

feel something flowing in the room

somebody’s already getting a

breakthrough in this room you’ve been in

a funk

you’ve been in a despair you’ve been in

a dark place

you’ve been in isolation it’s affected

you it’s affected your mood and your

emotion but the devil is a liar

i refuse to be locked up while other

people are driving down the highway i

refuse to be shut up in a closet while

other people are at the bowling alley

living their lives like it’s golden the

devil is alive you got to get your life

back come out of the graveyard i came

here this sunday morning to call you out

the graveyard i don’t know who i’m

talking to come out come out wherever

you are somebody give him 10 seconds of

crazy praise

[Applause]

[Music]

i’m coming out

i’m coming out

i know you need me to stay in here but

i’m coming out

i know you are comfortable with me

living in here but i’m coming out i know

you don’t want me to be walking out free

but i’m coming out i’m coming out if i’m

dragging my leg i’m coming out if it

can’t be glamorous i’m coming out if i’m

not dressed right i’m coming out even

while you’re talking about it talk about

me all you want to but i’m coming out

you will not talk me into staying in my

house living beneath my promise living

beneath my dreams i’ll fight my way out

i’ll be scared and come out i’ll be

nervous and come out i’ll be shaking and

coming out but i will not stay with the

dead

i don’t know who i’m preaching to but

god is calling you out

you’re in a place but god is calling you

to a new dimension god is raising you up

out of that situation and it’s time for

you to break some change

i feel a chain breaking anointing about

to hit this place i feel a chain

breaking anointing about to hit this

place hallelujah type it on the line it

will break

crack will break cocaine will break meth

will break

alcohol will break whatever’s got your

bowel it’s going to break this morning

somebody start praising for a

breakthrough

[Applause]

can i teach this thing this morning

i want to talk about the the

the fetters and the chains that people

put on you

the the fetters and the chains they put

on him was to keep him in his place

sometimes titles can be changed

sometimes people can say something to

you that leaves you chained up

they can say something to you early in

your life that has you chained up for

years you’re stupid you’re dumb you’re

too far tall you’re too short you’re fat

these are chains that people put on you

to keep you

locked up to how they described you this

is as far as you can go this is who you

are i told the lady she said you’re a

preacher i said no i’m a man

no i’m a man

preaching is what i do

but being a man is what i am i’m a grown

man baby i’m a full grown man

don’t lock me up to how you met me i

will not live in the chains of how you

choose to describe me because with that

comes a prejudice with that comes an

opinion with that comes an attitude and

i will not be locked up by the narrow

parameters of your understanding of who

i am just because i play basketball

don’t mean i can’t play football just

because i’m a boxer don’t mean i can’t

be a wrestler and just because i’m a

preacher that mean i can’t be a man

break yourself loose

type it on the line i’m getting ready to

break out

tell all your neighbors i’m getting

ready to break out

i’m getting ready to break out i’m

breaking out i’m breaking out of what

you think i’m breaking out of what you

said i’m breaking out of where you left

me i’m breaking out of how you lock me

down somebody help me praise him i don’t

know who i’m talking to

but i’m talking to somebody in this room

this is going to be

a massive breakout break out break break

break break break break break out break

out great

[Applause]

[Music]

and the text says

i’m gonna try to calm myself

but i feel something pushing me

i feel something pushing me

i feel like god got me coming for

somebody hey i’m coming for you i’m

coming for you make no mistake about it

it ain’t no accident i’m coming for you

the holy ghost sent me out to you we’re

gonna do some chain breaking up in here

this morning we’re gonna break the

chains of your path we gonna break the

chains your daddy put on you the chains

your mama put on you your first grade

teacher left you chained up but today i

command the breakthrough i command the

breakthrough i command the breakthrough

i command the breakthrough i command the

breakthrough everybody in here that’s

got a chain to break make some noise

[Applause]

see that’s the difference in a crowd

like this

some people just came to church

but some people came to break a chain

let all my chain breaking people make

some noise in this place

step past them church folk step around

them church folk i ain’t got time to be

tied to you i gotta break this chain

break that chain break it break it break

it break it the devil is a liar i

command you in the name of jesus to

break that chain let me hear you break

change

hmm

wow

[Applause]

[Applause]

last night

night before last i was talking to derek

one of my staff people about our movies

on lifetime that are getting ready to

come out

saturday morning i was speaking for 10x

a bunch of real estate developing people

sunday morning i’m in church preaching

get off me

get off me

somebody said get off me

i’m going to release a chain breaking

anointing

over your finances

stop being limited to your job

description i break the curse of how

people describe you that is not the only

thing that you can do

do all of it do all of it and leave

nothing out i release a chain breaking

anointing

come out come out come out wherever you

are

[Applause]

just because you’re a housewife

just because you’re a mother doesn’t

mean you can’t be an entrepreneur

doesn’t mean you can’t do business

doesn’t mean you can’t do public

speaking doesn’t mean you can’t do

fashion design doesn’t mean you can’t

develop your own life i release you

go after your stuff the devil is trying

to chain you up but break every chain

into the blow their mind

give them trouble trying to introduce

you

tap three people on the shoulder and

tell them i got more in me than this

that’s why i’m moody that’s why i’m

frustrated that’s why i’m walking around

here tomorrow because deep down in my

spirit

the down hemisphere

deep down in the spirit i know i got

more in there i can’t die till i get it

all out

[Applause]

type it on the line break every chain

break every chain

every chain they put on you every chain

they use to lock you up every chain that

would make you inferior you stop being

polite and living within the parameters

of where they left you break the chain

shout yes

the bible said no man could bind him

look at your neighbor say you can’t hold

me

stare me down all you want to write all

your notes look funny whispering gossip

but you can’t bite me

i’m grown you can’t bite me you can’t

send me to my room and tell me to stay

in my room i kick the door off the

hindus

i mean off the hinges

i will kick down the frame and

everything

these are the failed attempts

to constrain you

and let me show you the damage of the

chains

had the man accepted the chains

he couldn’t have run to meet jesus when

he came

and if you accept your chains

you can’t even get loose

to get to jesus

men bind him with chains

christ is not a binder he’s a liberator

christ is not a slave master he’s an

emancipator

he is a master of deliverance

he is a master of deliverance and i want

to see massive

deliverance

gully washing deliverance

first quenching deliverance and i want

to see it now and i want to see it today

and i want to see it in your living room

and i want to see it in your kitchen and

i want to see it on your couch and i

want to see it in this church today

somebody shout break every chain

[Applause]

[Applause]

y’all don’t hear what i’m saying to you

somebody shout hallelujah for about

three minutes

yeah

yeah for about three minutes just shout

hallelujah for about three minutes for

about three minutes just shout out

hallelujah for about three minutes just

shout outs hallelujah just shout

hallelujah for three minutes just shout

hallelujah for three minutes shout out

hallelujah for three minutes shout out

to you for a minute and a half shout out

hallelujah for a minute shout out

hallelujah for 45 seconds shout out

hallelujah for 32 seconds shout out

hallelujah for 15 minutes because demons

hate it when you praise the lord you may

be in the tomb but you’re going to

praise the lord you may be in

constraints but you’re going to praise

the lord vietnamese

breaks to you

so

sit down i’m going further i ain’t

finished it

you going with me

let’s do this

so we went from cemeteries

to constraints

and from constraints

to crying

because anytime i live amongst the dead

and i am limited by the constraints of

where people are comfortable with me

staying

they would y’all don’t hear it

people will lock you up for their

comfort

it makes you comfortable to think of me

in one dimension

so you describe me

within the parameters of your comfort

you a mother

no i’m a person

who happens to be a mother

people will lock you up

for their comfort

there is nothing comfortable about

constraints

for the victim

it was comfortable for the village

but not for the victim

oh y’all don’t hear what i’m saying to

you

ah

watch out for people

who want to tell you who you are

the better conversation

is to ask me

who i am

but when you

who don’t even live in any part of the

triunity of myself try to tell me from

the outside who i am

you have stepped on private territory

you cannot tell me

who i am

you can tell me who you are but you

can’t tell me who i am

and so they took him to the cemetery

and they constrained him

because that made them comfortable

i’m not denying the fact that the man

had problems

i’m not denying the fact that he didn’t

have

that he had problems

but i also recognize that he had a

promise

and when you are trapped between your

problems and your promise

people want to move you out of the way

because the lack of dfinity

makes people uncomfortable

can you think with me this morning

so we went from cemeteries to

constraints

but every time they constrained him

he broke loose

look back over your life at the many

times people try to constrain you

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i know we’re gonna have church today i

knew it when i got up this morning i

could feel it in my spirit

but i’m here for it baby let’s do it i

got up for this one let’s do it look

back at the many people in your life who

tried to constrain you and tell you how

far you could go and what you could do

they were all wrong

no man can constrain you

anytime

any people oppress another people

the chain will eventually break

because no man can change

what god has liberated

every liberated soul in here holler

[Applause]

don’t get me wrong you don’t have to

like me

but you can’t hold me

you don’t have to invite me to your

birthday party but you can’t hold me

we don’t have to go golfing but you

can’t hold me

i may not be in your inner circle but

you can’t hold me i’ll make my own

circle

and so

we went from cemeteries to constraints

point three we went to crying

and the bible says

every day at night

he cried

every day

at night

he cried i want to talk about seasons of

crying

seasons of crime and and i don’t know

how you was raised i was raised not to

cry

so i have to climb over top of

everything i was

taught to cry

because i was denied permission

to cry

so crying hurts

and when crying hurts

my soul has no way to irrigate itself

from the stress it has incurred

grief doesn’t leave if tears don’t flow

i need

to be able to release

i need to be able to cry hear me

brothers i need to be able to cry

not crying doesn’t make you stronger it

makes you sick

i don’t walk around crying all the time

but when i need to cry

i need to let out there are seasons in

your life

where you are mourning

and don’t nobody have to be dead

you can be mourning the job you lost

the house you didn’t get

the age you’re at

the stage you’re at

you can be mourning the lack of

companionship

there are a lot of things you can mourn

about

that create a season

of crying

whether you see him do it or not

he cries

he may wait to your sleep

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but he cries

and thank god

he does

because if he doesn’t

he’s going to die

or commit suicide

or drive his car into a river

tears are a gift from god

to ventilate the soul

when you have ingested

too much

pain

tears

are assigned to god

i need you

[Applause]

somebody shall cry

[Applause]

there is

a cry

the kids can be playing in the backyard

and they make a noise and hollering and

you don’t pay them no attention

but there is a cry

that will make you drop a plate on the

floor

and run out there with soap suds on your

hands

because there is a cry

that gets your attention as a parent

as it is with you so it is with god

there he is a cry

that will get god’s attention

that will arrest him and stop him in his

tracks

if you don’t believe it ass blind

bartimaeus

who sat by the highway said begging

but when he heard jesus

was passing by

the

said

that blind bartimaeus began to cry

and he cried till he got on people’s

nerves

and he cried till they told him to shut

up

but the more they told him to shut up

the louder he cried

and the bible said

can i preach a minute the bible said

that blind bartimaeus

cried till jesus

stood still

there is a cry that will arrest the lord

there is a cry that will get god’s

attention

i heard david say this poor man cried

and the lord heard him

and delivered him out of all his

troubles

if you would open your mouth and cry

god would deliver you the children of

israel were down in egypt

and bible says

moses go down and let my people go

for i have heard the cry

of my people what’s wrong with you is

that you keep your mouth closed

if you open your mouth and cry

god will come and rescue you

no wonder the winds couldn’t stop it no

wonder the waves couldn’t stop him

jesus had to make it to the other side

because he heard one of his children

crying

somebody open up your mouth and just

collar

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holla

holler in your house

holly in your kitchen holler in your

living room holly in your bedroom open

your mouth and just let it out

let it out

let it out

let it out

let it out

i don’t care what it looks like i don’t

care what it sounds like open your mouth

and holler

jesus will stand still

when you cry

if you don’t believe me as abel

they killed abel

and god said i have heard the cry of

abel’s blood

crying up to me out of the ground

somebody has left you for dead but i

dare you to open your mouth and holler

i’m still here i’m still alive

they threw jonah in the belly of a fish

and jonah said out of the belly of the

fish cried eye and the lord heard me

if you make your bed in hell and cry out

god can hear you

somebody cry

[Applause]

el cana came to church to worship

but hannah came to church to cry and the

bible said

she staggered up to the altar like a

drunk woman

and cried out bitterly before god

sister stop fussing and start crying

stop nagging and start crying

if you start crying god

will

deliver you i feel i get my preach on

jesus cried

he came to mary in martha’s house and

the bible said jesus wept

and if jesus can cry

every man in here open your mouth and

holler

in the book of revelations

it said that i heard the cry of souls

crying out up under the altar saying

lord how long

somebody said how long

you’ve been in a condition for a long

time

you got a right to cry and tell god

enough is enough

because if you cry out

god will deliver you

if you cry out

god will set you free

i want somebody that’s sick and tired of

being sick and tired

to run out in the aisle and holler out

to god

i’m sick of this

i’ve had enough of this

i don’t want no more of this

i’m gonna cry out

i’m tired of being quiet i’m tired of

shutting up

i’m tired of holding it in i can’t hear

you

i can’t hear you

i can’t hear you

get it out

get it out of your mouth

get it out of your belly

get it out of your system

get it out of your heart i can’t hear

you

open your mouth

something’s gonna happen in here

something’s gonna happen in here

somebody touch everybody you know and

tell them something’s gonna happen in

here something’s gonna happen in here

something’s gonna happen in here

something’s gonna happen in here

something’s gonna happen in here

something’s gonna happen in here

something’s gonna happen in here

something’s gonna happen in here

something’s gonna happen something’s

gonna happen i feel it in my hands i

feel it in my feet i feel it in my soul

i feel it in my toe something’s gonna

happen in here something’s gonna happen

in here something i mean i want a

disruption i don’t care if you moved out

of your seat i don’t care if you ain’t

got no seat i don’t care if you shake

down your hair i don’t care if your

mascara runs i don’t care if you mess up

your makeup this is about deliverance i

will not die in this cemetery i will not

keep my mouth shut i gotta get this out

of me

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and the bible said

have the bible say

and the bible is sick

night and day

look at the oxymoron night

and day

he cried

in the tombs

and in the mountains he cried

whether he was up

or down he cried

you understand why somebody would cry in

the valley

but you have no grace for people who cry

from the mountain

you think that because they’re at the

mountain they don’t cry

but successful people cry

intellectual people cry

educated people cry crying is god’s gift

to give you

to keep you from a nervous breakdown

and if you don’t get that stuff out of

you it will eat it you like cancer it’ll

make you sick it’ll upset your digestion

it’ll affect your bloodstream it’ll

drive up your blood pressure it’ll cost

you to have an aneurysm that’s why i

told you to open your mouth and holler

because every time you holler god will

heal you

[Applause]

every time you holler every time you

holler every time you shout every time

you scream every time tears run down

your face every time you make a noise

every time you make a sound

you gotta get that out of you you can’t

go back home in the states you’re in god

said i want that out of you i want you

to stop keeping it a secret and let that

out of your belly and i let it out let

it out let it out let it out let it out

oh i’m almost finished

sit down let me hurry i got a hair got

here i’m almost here i’m almost here

i’m looking for deliverance

i’m not lost i’m looking for deliverance

i’m looking for deliverance i’m looking

for delivery because the holy ghost

promised me that if i preach this word

today there will be deliverance in this

place i’m looking for deliverance i’m

looking for deliverance i’m looking in

the balcony i’m looking in the side i’m

looking for breakthrough people where

are my breakthrough people

where am i breakthrough people

are you online

are you online

are you online let me hear from you this

is a breakthrough a breakthrough of debt

a breakthrough of fear a breakthrough of

doubt a breakthrough of grief a

breakthrough of agony god said i’m gonna

break it up this morning god told me you

won’t leave like you came

slap your neighbor and say i won’t leave

you like a king

don’t expect me to be the same i won’t

be the same woman today

i won’t be the same man today

somebody shout hallelujah

shout with the shout of victory

shout with the shout of prayer

i’m almost done

i have to explain

to you

why the man ran to jesus

and even though he ran to jesus

even though he ran to jesus

even though he ran to jesus

the demons were still talking

the demons were talking

but the man was running

the demons

could talk

but they couldn’t stop him from running

you got to run to jesus while the

devil’s still talking in your head

i don’t care what he’s saying to you

what you can’t be what you can’t do

you see let me show you something i got

to show you something i want you to get

this because this is important

we we

we went from the cemetery to the

constraints to the crying

to the cutting himself

here i am at the cutting part

the bible said

that he was cutting

himself

in the tomb

now everything else he had fought

was outside of him

they had tried to chain him up

and he fought him off

they tried to lock him down

and they fought him off

but when he was left alone

he started cutting

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himself

now i want to go deep

i want to go to the damage

you’ve done

to yourself

i want to get way down to the things

that you’ve done to yourself

he was cutting himself in the tomb you

got to visualize this this man is in a

cemetery

he’s got friends he can’t reach

he’s got family he can’t touch

he’s got a life he can’t get to

he’s got a bed he can’t sleep in

he’s got a house he can’t live in

everything around him denies everything

that he is and has

and so what happens to him his anger has

turned on him

when you get angry about what happened

to you in life anger turns on you

that’s what depression is

depression is anger turned inside

hallelujah that’s why i’m trying to get

it out

because if you don’t get it out it’s

going to go in

and if it goes in it’s going to make you

cut yourself and it’ll make you your own

worst enemy and it’ll make you destroy

it lord have mercy i feel like preaching

oh lord you got to help me it’ll make

you destroy yourself

and the my

was said

that when nobody was looking he was

cutting himself

why would a man cut himself it is called

pain to pain therapy

i want to tell you about when i was in

south africa and i was on a safari and

they were telling me that safaris when

you go on a safari they have them in a

conservatory and a conservatory is

surrounded by

miles and miles of fences that might be

a hundred miles a hundred square feet

big it’s large conservatories for lions

and elephants and zebras and gazelles

and everything are living in these

parameters but the very fact that they

are fenced in

is unnatural

so what they do

is to keep the brush from growing up too

tall

they burn it off

they burn it off because it is an

unnatural the ecosystem that controls

our well-being is so fragile that if you

mess with it in any kind of way it

creates cause and effect

so they have to burn off some of the

grasslands

that normally the free animals would

trample and move in herds from place to

place but because they’re trapped

they break up the ecosystem and it

affects the grass that grows and so

every so often they have to burn it off

so i asked the zoologists i said aren’t

you afraid of starting a fire

that you can’t stop he said no

because once we start a fire and we want

to stop it

we use a fire to stop the fire

and there’s something about burning a

fire against a fire that puts the other

fire out

and it cancels out each other

so pain to pain therapy is when people

try to treat their own pain

and they treat the pain on the inside by

creating pain on the outside and anytime

you see people with marks on their arms

they’re not crazy

they’re cutting themselves

to distract themselves

from the pain

that they have on the inside and the

pain on the inside is so great

that they start distracting themselves

with pain on the inside and they are

called cutters

this type of reality

exists whether you cut yourself

physically or you cut yourself mentally

the reason that you’re cutting yourself

is pain to pain therapy you’re fighting

fire with fire

it’s self-mutilation

it’s

self-sabotaging behavior you could have

been out but you cut yourself you could

have been further but you cut yourself

you could have been more successful but

you cut yourself because you don’t feel

worthy on the inside you reject

prosperity on the outside and every time

something intimidates you you cut

yourself back i’m too fat i’m too dumb

i’m too stupid i’m too ugly i can’t do a

photo shoot i don’t like my pictures i

don’t like the way i look i don’t like

what you might as well take a razor and

start cutting your arm because you are

cutting yourself and the reason the

enemy wants you to do it is that you

make his job easier he’s using you

against you to destroy you and there the

man is shut up in the tomb

cutting himself and he can’t stop

cutting himself every time you get a

chance to go up

you talk down

every time you get a chance to have

better you say i just don’t need all

that it just don’t require all that it

don’t take all that what you are doing

is cutting yourself but when the boat

docked

and jesus stepped off the boat

before he could get both feet on dry

ground the man came running to jesus

slap your neighbor and say run

run

run away from self-sabotage run away

from self-destruction run away from the

way you talk to yourself run away from

canceling out your pain with more pain

you had a bad man you go get a worse man

you had a wife beater you get another

wife peter it’s pain to pain therapy

because you don’t feel worthy of good

treatment when a good man comes into

your life i just don’t like him you’re

cutting yourself

slap him and say run

the man runs to jesus

now listen to this

legions of demons

are in this man

legions are massive multitudes of demons

that are in this man

and all the legions in a concerted

effort of agreement could not stop him

from running

can’t nothing stop you from running if

you get ready to get to jesus came

nothing stopped you from running

can’t nothing stop you from running so

they couldn’t stop him from running and

when he got to jesus now the demons who

knew that jesus is a spirit he knew that

jesus saw them

so they couldn’t hide any longer so they

started talking to him and said why have

you come to talk i feel like preaching i

gotta stop

why have you come

to torment me before my time

and then they started negotiating with

jesus and they said send us away

but don’t let us leave the region

because demons are assigned regions

they have territories the demon in

dallas

the principality let me use a bible word

the principality in dallas is not like

the principality in detroit is not like

the principality in new york that’s why

the city has trouble whenever they go

out and get somebody from the outside to

come in and fight a devil in dallas they

bring a detroit technique to a dallas

dilemma and it’s an entirely different

kind of spirit

i come against the spirit that’s over

your region that’s over your territory

the devil has a space

that he wants to occupy within certain

parameters and he doesn’t want to leave

the territory

when he gets through with your grandma

he’ll jump on your mama when your mama

dies he’ll jump on you

the most dangerous place to be is at a

funeral

the most dangerous place to be is at a

funeral

i ain’t got time to teach it because

demons are disembodied spirits

and they need a body to be able to

operate they can’t function in the air

by themselves they need a body to work

through and they said if we can’t have

him

we’ll settle for the pigs

so the legions that were in one man

got into an entire herd of pigs

and the man watch this the man was

living

with legions of demons

that the entire herd of pigs couldn’t

stand

when the pigs encountered the demons

that were on that one man

they committed suicide

the pig said i’d rather drown

in the river then live with what was in

you

you don’t know what you’ve been fighting

you’ve been fighting enough stuff to be

able to kill you

but i came to evict the devil today

and say you gotta get out of here today

i don’t know where you’re going i don’t

know where you’re gonna live i don’t

know where you’re gonna live but you got

to leave here today

somebody evict him right now with the

holy ghost praise

with the holy ghost pray

[Applause]

hold it a minute

somebody get up on your feet

and for the next 60 seconds put the

devil out of your space

[Applause]

you got to go

you got to go open your mouth you can’t

be passive about this

put him out

put him out online put him out put him

out put him out put him out

cover yourself with the blood

because a lot of evil spirits depressing

spirits frustrated spirits lonely

spirits perverted spirits

antagonistic spirits they’re coming out

this morning open your mouth and put him

out

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

come on

[Applause]

come on

come on

come on

come on

put in the house

oh y’all don’t want him out y’all don’t

want him out y’all like your devil you

like your devil i want some people that

are sick of that devil

i’m not going home with you today

i’m not gonna live with you today i’m

not gonna be your whole faith i’m not

gonna share quarters with you

i’ll put you out get out of my house get

out of my head get out of my heart get

out of my joints get out of my blood get

out of my i can’t hear you

i can’t hear you

i can’t hear you

i can’t hear you

[Music]

lift your hands and open your mouth and

shout out to god with the voice of

triumph

shout out to god with the voice of

praise

enough is enough

shout out to god

shout unto god

shout unto god

shout out to god shout unto god

shout unto god

i said shout

i said shout

till demons triple there you go

shout till hell get

shout to satan has

to run

shout

till he evacuates shout until he’s a

refugee shout till you drown him in a

place

[Music]

[Applause]

yeah

you being cute

but if you would shout you would need so

much therapy if you were shout you could

sleep tonight if you were shout you

wouldn’t have to be in that club if you

would shout you could get your blessing

if you would shout you would step into

your destiny if you could shout

but you worried about being cute i said

shout

out

shout

shout

stop being cute and shout stop being

patsy and shout open your mouth and

child

till demons tremble

shout

[Music]

yes

yes

[Music]

yes yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

yes

that’s five people and tell them i’m not

going home like this i’m not going home

like this i’m not going home like this

i’m not going home like this i’m not i’m

not i’m not

me

[Music]

[Music]

never gonna be

it’s over

i’m coming out of this

oh yeah

[Music]

[Applause]

now the demons

went down in the water

you remember what jesus told the woman

out of your belly

shall flow rivers

of living water

when you open your mouth to praise him

you give the devil something to drown in

drown the devil in your praise

drown hell in your praise drown in hell

in your praise

he’s looking for water put him under

water

get your head under this praise

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

hallelujah

somebody feels lighter

somebody feels lighter

you know why you feel lighter

something just broke off of you

something just fell off of you something

just came off of you you feel lighter

the glory of the lord is in this place

your demon is making bubbles

going down

drowning in your praise

out of your belly

shall throw ribbons

yes lord

yes lord

[Music]

so my last thing was

[Applause]

the man who was naked

and bruised and bleeding

and cutting himself in the tomb

when jesus got through with him

he was chilling dawg

[Music]

this is the way your spirit is supposed

to be

[Applause]

he had one fear

left

[Music]

[Applause]

will this work

when i’m out of this atmosphere

and he says to jesus

can i go with

you daddy can i go with you

because in that presence there’s

fullness of joy

and that right hand there are pleasures

forevermore

there have been several times in this

church that i have dismissed service

took a shower changed clothes

got in the car

driving home

and people were still here

because there’s something about glory

glory i mean real glory i’m not talking

about flesh but real glory

will make you linger

and they would tell me bishop the people

won’t leave

they’re just sitting around

some of them are laying prostrate in the

floor

some of them are laying on the halter

the man

did not want to leave jesus

and jesus

i couldn’t understand it i thought jesus

i understand him

because i’m a better man when you’re

around

[Applause]

and i i i know what it is to need you

like

all the time

he said no you don’t get it

the only thing that stopped him

from going home

was being home

and once

i got him

whole

he could go home

the hardest

thing

for a man to do

is go home

even if he goes physically

getting him to go mentally

where he can really

be home

at home

causes many men

to circle the house

[Music]

before they go in the house

because they see the house

as another kind of job

[Music]

but the lord said

go home

[Applause]

you will know

you are free

when you can

be home

at home

[Applause]

not

play the role

of being home

but to really be home

at home

is absolutely

priceless

because hear me this is not just

gender-specific it’s some women too

it’s some women too

because sometimes

it’s just another job to go home

but when you are free

you can be home

at home

[Music]

so jesus said as much as i would love to

take you with me

i need you in decopolis

i

rode through a tornado

to deliver one man

i want them to see you

occupy the space

that the demons controlled

and all you got to do you don’t have to

preach

you don’t have to write a book of the

bible

you don’t have to write music

but every time they see you sitting on

your front porch

chilling like a normal guy

and you ain’t nervous

listen and you ain’t nervous

and you ain’t restless

and you ain’t mad

your peace

is my glory

i’m scared to say this because i know

it’s not room

but i’m gonna say it anyway

everybody i’ll i’ll characterize it this

way maybe that will limit it everybody

who desperately

needed this word

meet me at the altar

you’ve been wondering

why your sewing hadn’t been working and

you’re tired and hadn’t been working

it’s because god is sending the blessing

to your house but you ain’t home

he’s sending the blessing to a place you

don’t live

because you sowed it from the tombs

but he sent it

to the home

what do you mean by that

when you are at home

really at home

with who you are

and how you are

and not cutting on yourself for your

mistakes and your failures

your creativity

goes to a high

your possibility

becomes amazing

when your peace goes up

your power goes up

your prosperity

your peace

your power

requires your presence

and you’ve been in the cemetery so long

can i be honest with you it ain’t that

god ain’t gonna bless you

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god has always blessed you

he has always loved you

he has always cared about you

it’s just that you haven’t always loved

you

and i’m trying to bring you into

alignment

till you feel about you the way god

feels about you

[Music]

and the truth of the matter is that man

never left jesus

because the spirit of jesus was waiting

for him at the house

[Music]

and i call you home today

i want you to come to yourself like the

prodigal son did

i want you to come home

so you can be home

i’m not talking about your address

i’m talking about who you are

come to yourself

to be at home with yourself

to be at home with yourself and stop

cutting on yourself about stuff you

can’t do nothing about you can’t do

nothing about what happened

the past is in the graveyard

the past is in your graveyard

stop

living

with the dead

[Music]

cemeteries are to be visited

ain’t no hotels in the cemetery

[Music]

the only thing i know for sure i don’t

really know what to do with you

the only thing i know for sure

is that the glory of the lord is here

and i sense the glory of the lord

all around this altar and right where

you are the glory of the lord is coming

into your house into your office into

your kitchen

[Music]

the only thing i’m sure of right now

is that i am commanded

to do all that i can

to make sure that you don’t leave

like you came

whatever you got to leave at this altar

whatever you got to drop off here

it is the will of god that you leave

here better than you came

it is the will of god don’t you log off

till you change

don’t you move from the spot till you

change

do you not know it is the father’s good

pleasure to give you the kingdom

that you are begging for stuff that he

died to give you

[Music]

like peace and health

and joy and prosperity

and god wants you whole so you can step

into increase

it ain’t about being rich it’s about

having enough to fulfill the purpose of

god in your life whatever that purpose

is

if the purpose is sending your kids to

college whatever it is

god doesn’t want you

to have to worry about stuff he clothed

the lilies

[Music]

his eye is on the sparrow

he counts the hairs in your head

god loves you

why are you cutting on you

yeah he knows

yeah he saw

he loves you

ain’t nobody gonna ever love you let god

you can stop looking for him ain’t

nobody gonna love you like god

ain’t nobody gonna put up with you like

god

because don’t nobody understand your why

like god

[Applause]

[Music]

when you lift your hands maybe for the

first time in your life when you lift

your hands

lift your hands naked and unashamed

before god who already has searched you

and loved you and known you

and wants you to be whole

[Music]

shower down on them lord

[Music]

bless your sons and daughters

[Music]

i speak increase over their life

i speak increase

not just of wealth but wisdom and

courage and strength and contentment

you too old to be discontented

you’ve come too far to be discontented

you come too far to be bitter and angry

and frustrated

the devil is alive

whatever it is it’s whatever it is it is

it is what it is

leave it alone

and get your piece back

stop trying to fix people and get your

piece back stop trying to change their

mind and get your peace back

[Music]

god told me to tell you

don’t leave here like you can

now lift your hands and let him know

you’ve been changed

[Music]

you