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
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[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
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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
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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
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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
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before they go in the house
because they see the house
as another kind of job
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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
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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
[Music]
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