Bishop Jakes centers his message on the story of Christ’s transfiguration and the calling of the three disciples who followed Him upwards. A central point of this passage is that when you are called and chosen when God shows you “glimpses of His glory,” you are set apart. The “uniqueness of the path” that God chooses for you means that you cannot be common in your associations. To follow Christ up the mountain and witness His glory, the three disciples had to leave the other nine. To progress in your walk with God, you must be willing to forsake the familiar and venture into the unfamiliar. Your faith is proven throughout your whole journey – both in the valley and the mountain. Another highlight of T.D. Jakes’ sermon is his focus on the mountain itself. It was the highest mountain in Galilee and, for the disciples, would have meant a change of scenery, a change of climate, thinning of the air, and relative unknowns. Jesus, however, takes them step by step. He leads them upwards gradually. While progressing in your Christian walk requires patience and perseverance, Jesus knows what you can handle. Your journey toward your purpose pushes you to new places, and you will experience struggle – but the view is worth it.
that the upward call the downward
craving the pole between two experiences
that which is before me that which is
behind me pulling my soul apart
up right here and made an altar call the
altar would be packed if it was an
honest altar call called to be married
crave to be single oh I lost you breathe
in breathe out we’re gonna make it
we’re gonna make it we’re gonna make it
we’re gonna make it FEMA job of a
teacher is to bring the Scriptures to
the level of the listener I just landed
this is the posture
greetings in the name of Jesus Christ
our King I’m so blessed and delighted to
have this opportunity to share the word
of the Lord with you we’re going to open
up a series called view from the top and
I believe it’s going to illuminate in
your heart the Word of God and give you
revelation for such a time as this
the first message out is secret to
Elevation may God open up your heart and
bless you as we go into the word of God
when we read the Gospel of st. mark we
are we are reading a moment that Jesus
is teaching men that have not yet
matured have not yet mastered their
faith that they will at best become
clinicians but for life students every
teacher worth their salt is forever a
student you cannot teach further than
you learn you don’t get a masters degree
in in faith you’ve never mastered it you
follow on to know you grow progressively
and this is a training moment they’re
they’re inquiring about the kingdom and
Jesus is saying to them some of you will
not taste death until you have seen the
kingdom of God coming glory some of you
shall not taste there’s some people I
have trouble with this scripture because
they say well all the Apostles are dead
and and and they have not seen the glory
they didn’t see the glory and I think
you didn’t read the Bible because some
of the twelve he set apart and led them
up on a mountain to see the glory of the
kingdom of God but the glory of the
kingdom of God for them came in glimpses
glimpses that’s the word I really like
glimpses I like that word personally
because my life has been full of
glimpses at eight years old I told my
mother sitting in the backseat of her
car coming back from her speaking at a
Delta sorority meeting I said right now
I go to hear you speak and they call me
Miss Jake’s son but the time will come
you’re come
hear me speak and they will call you Tom
Jake’s mother at 8:00 they’re gonna call
you Tom Jake’s mother I was pretty close
one time it was TV that is medicine at
eight years old I caught a glimpse a
glimpse of what I would be doing all of
my life I wasn’t sure I was gonna be
preaching but I knew I was gonna be in
front of people it was gonna be a lot of
people and she was gonna be in the crowd
and they would know my name more than
hers at 8:00 the the glory of God is
revealed in glimpses not details he
snatched a shoe into it he snatches her
out of it and you’re out of it and
you’re back to reality
Jesus says some of you will not taste
death until you see the kingdom of God
come with power and then he pulled three
from the 12th and he pulled them apart
and I want to deal first of all with
with when you are chosen you will
forever be pulled apart trial you want
to fit in with the 12 that she were
meant to be in the three the truth of
the matter is that when God gives you
glimpses he said-she apart not not for
Aleta the matzo for superiority not for
arrogance sake but because of the
uniqueness of your path you could never
be common in your associations so don’t
think that the miracle begins at the top
of the mountain the miracle begins down
in the valley when he called the three
from the twelve and said leave the rest
of them to operate on this level and I
fit you apart
some people don’t pass that test they
are not willing to leave the pack
they prefer the associations with the
familiar than the sacredness of
following that that is divine living
life is lonely business it really is we
grant we giggle we smile but it’s lonely
business because if you’re really gonna
follow Jesus he’s gonna call you apart
by yourself everything being that ever
happens to you that you go through for
the most part you go through it by
yourself even if you lose a loved one
and all of the family grieves together
we don’t grieve alike and we didn’t all
lose the same thing what our loss is
different from what you lost because
what I had was different from what you
had and ultimately you face that grief
by yourself so I don’t want you to think
that that faith is just proven on the
mountain faith is proven in the valley
it if the faith proven in the valley
that makes you eligible for the mountain
if you’re not willing to leave the
twelve then you cannot see the one
I think a lot of times people see things
but they don’t look into what they see
they feel such a superficial level that
they don’t want to see they don’t
understand the dichotomy that occurs in
the human soul when your situation is
elevated above your mentality this is
the struggle of being called up the
struggle of being called up is to think
on the level of your calling just
because you have a degree in a and a big
office does it make you professional
you can have all the accouterments that
are necessary to function on this level
but all the cravings to live on that one
imagine being stretched between two
lovers that that is before me and that
that is behind me he called them apart
by themselves the truth of the matter if
you be honest everybody who’s ever
gotten an upward call has wrestled with
a downward craving and those two forces
pulling you at the same time are enough
to pull you completely apart
he called them apart by themselves and
people say what were you thinking the
same thing you was thinking when you did
this stupid stuff you did fast stopped
right here
and made an altar call altar would be
packed if it was an honest altar call
called to be married crave to be single
oh I lost you breathe in breathe out
we’re gonna make it we’re gonna make it
we’re gonna make it we’re gonna make it
Fila job of a teacher is to bring the
scriptures to the level of the listener
I just landed he called them apart
Babbitt’s is what makes people implode
and explode and nobody knows why is
because they’re pulled apart and the
Bible says that Jesus led them up into a
high place the particular mountain that
the Mount of Transfiguration is believed
to be is 9,000 feet above sea level it
is the highest mountain around
surrounding the Sea of Galilee 9,000
feet in the air above sea level means
that the tops of the mountain is covered
with snow in the summer and that means
that on your way up you won’t feel every
type of weather
sunny at the bottom slowly at the top
you don’t know what to pack for the
journey because on your way to the top
you’re gonna feel everything it is a
higher place if you want sameness in
weather a homogeneous atmosphere a
climate that you can predict stay down
there cuz if you start following him up
the hill you don’t know how to pack cuz
you don’t know what you’re gonna have to
face on your way to the top standing at
the bottom of the mountain looking at
the top of his shirt I look different so
Jesus led them into it it doesn’t give
it to him all at once cuz it would be
culture shock to take you too fast so he
doesn’t beam you up he lets you see
where you haven’t been and then he takes
you step by step thank God for the steps
because
if you’ve got there too fast you
couldn’t make the adjustments your body
might go into shock your mind might
implode you might crumble up under the
pressure you’re exposed to so every step
he introduces it to you gradually so
that you don’t faint along the way I
would have fainted had not I believed to
see the goodness of the Lord in the land
of the living
lord I thank you for the steps I thank
you for the steps I thank you for the
steps I do not despise the struggle
thank you for not giving it to me too
fast I would have been able to handle it
I underestimated how hard it is to be
what I saw he pulled them apart by
themselves he led them up to the tops of
the mountain and there he lets 3 out of
12 see the kingdom they get to see the
kingdom they get to see who Jesus really
is they have walked with him and ate
with him and talked with him they had no
idea who he really was
they knew of him but they did not know
him because who he really is is revealed
in the high place you cannot know him in
the valley but as you go up to the high
place he reveals his spend difference
glory his wondrous grace his phenomenal
essence his divinity it’s in the high
place my God is in the high place it’s
in the struggle it’s in the storm it’s
in the blowing of the wind if in the
test it’s in the trials
it’s in the frailty of life if it’s in
the fickleness of people it’s in it’s in
the brokenness of circumstances it’s in
the fragment of the human heart death
that’s where God reveals himself just
just glimpses of his glory just just
glimpses of his God just traces of his
essence it’s just a whiff of his
fragrances revealed as a storms of life
cast cage of soul and you think God I’m
being pulled apart it it’s in it is in
the stretch that we beheld the wonder of
his glory the only begotten of the
Father full of grace and truth
and I wanted to see the kingdom of God
but I had no idea what it looked like
until I started the journey and then I
saw the kingdom is not meat and drink
but joy and peace and the Holy Ghost
it’s not natural eat and drink it’s not
carnal meat carnal carnal it’s not meat
and drink it’s spiritual it’s me it’s
not in my circumstances it’s in my
tenacity that’s that’s how you know I’m
in the kingdom come tough
and you’ll never know that I’m tough
till them tried still to come on the
parties touch it is the change in the
biologically it is me but it’s not me
genetically it is me but it’s not me
same DNA but different presentation and
some people will stop you in the middle
of your metamorphosis and and not allow
you to complete your turn and and when
people meet you in the turn they tend to
define you by the twist but they don’t
understand what’s pulling me down to the
mountain but I have an opportunity to go
to the top
if you’ve ever climbed a mountain you
know that reaching the summit requires
perseverance determination and struggle
in your journey with Christ he’s often
pushing you to a new and sometimes
uncomfortable place but there’s always
purpose in the pain and when you reach
the destination that he leads you to the
few is worth it to me what I am and I
had no chance of unlocking the door to
myself without getting to the key and he
took the key and hid it in his garments
and started up the hill and told me
you’ll never know if you don’t chase me
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if you’ve ever been to a high mountain
and tried to walk the breathing is
different people at the bottom I’ll tell
you how you ought to breathe but but you
don’t understand that the air is so much
thinner up here then it is where we
begin and they walked up where the air
was thin and the climate was cold and
they did it because they were following
Jesus following Jesus will take you
where the air is thin and the climate is
cold but I’d rather have thin air on the
mountain then full air in the valley
somebody asked me if you had it to do
all over again would you do it again
what was the motivating force that move
you along I said I had to find out what
was in me I could not bear to live and
die and wonder what was in me it if not
for him alone that I chase him
it is selfishly for me because he has
the secret to my potentials and he has
hid it in his person and I had to chase
him to find out who I was he had the key
all y’all over here what I’m saying he
had the key to the mystery of me and I
had no chance of unlocking the door to
myself without getting to the key and he
took the key and hid it in his garments
and started up the hill and told me
you’ll never know if you don’t chase me
so that’s a double shot about feet at
normal time so I had to go outside of my
comfort to catch him I had to overcome
my fear to chase him I had to fight off
my inner reservations and my timidity
and he kept going higher and higher and
many times I wanted to go back but I
reminded myself he’s got the key in his
garment the key to me to Who I am to why
I am to to what I am to where I am
I had to chase him I had to chase him
Orpah could go back home but I had to
chase I had to go with Naomi because
Naomi had the key to me if not just she
had the key to her she has the key to me
they said why would you hook up with
Paul Timothy you were young man you
could go on on your own no no no no I
got to follow Paul because Paul has the
key to me so the three went up with the
one because the one held the key where
the air was thin and the climate was
cold they they went up almost two miles
in the air to see not only who he was
but who they were and there they beheld
the wonder of his glory in the place of
unity in the source of water there on
the mountaintop for the first time they
saw him change they saw the same Jesus
that they saw the mountain but in a
different way this this is a this is a
Luo idiom of thought it is it is a new
realm of existences this is not the same
place that it was down low it’s not the
same place up high geographically it’s
in the same space but because it is
elevated it is different becoming what
you see is a difficult thing and if
you’ve never seen it it becomes even
more difficult because some never had
the benefit to even see anybody be where
you’re trying to go but Jesus didn’t
push them he led them so they got to see
somebody do it and if you see somebody
do it I can follow in your footsteps
give me a few minutes Yoho and so they
come to this high place and there and
Jesus changed before them he just the
Bible says he transfigured himself
when you get to a certain level you see
everything different everything looks
different is so amazing it’s the same
Jesus that your head down on the bottom
but appear
he’s now showing them the price it pays
to see the kingdom and now he reveals
himself with glimpses and he changes
he said now he changed before them
before his raiment
don’t rush to the raiment before you
recognize that that the changing of the
raiment is a reaction to the changing of
Jesus then that when you change
everything connected to you changes to
yeah yeah you can’t have a changing
raiment if you don’t have a change in
Jesus
the clothes didn’t make the man the man
made the clothes when the man changed
then the clothes change everything that
touched him changed because it was
connected to him and Jesus changed
before their eyes and the Greek word is
Metamorpho it is to go through a
metamorphosis it it is me but it’s not
me I am the same but I’m not the same
it’s gonna be familiar but it’s gonna be
different
you’re gonna recognize me but you’re not
gonna know me transfigured metamorphosis
to go with it from from from the
silkworm to the butterfly from the
caterpillar to the Frog it is the change
in me biologically it is me but it’s not
me
genetically it is me but it’s not me
same DNA but different presentation and
some people will stop you in the middle
of your metamorphosis and and not allow
you to complete your turn and and when
people meet you in the turn they tend to
define you by the twist but they don’t
understand
doc don’t don’t don’t judge me yet
because I’m still spinning I’m still I’m
still spinning I’m still spinning them
I’m still spinning I’m still I’m still
spinning I’m still coming out of my
grave clothes I’m still wrestling with
where I came from I’m still becoming
what he called me – I’m still if there
anybody in here still spinning just just
spin it I’m 40 and I’m spinning I’m 50
and I’m still spinning I thought it’d be
over by now I’m 55 years old still
spinning still spinning coming out of my
cocoon be finding my wings figuring out
that that I can fly in this dimension
where I crawled in that dimension I am
becoming I am becoming I have not become
I count not myself to have apprehended
but this one thing I do I’m forgetting
those things which are behind and
reaching to those things which are
before you you will hear no more talk
about the valley now that I’m up on the
mountain because I’m I’m wrestling I’m
wrestling with what I see before me and
I’m not wrestling now with where I came
from I’m wrestling with what is before
me Jesus is not who I thought he was he
he doesn’t look like I thought he look
he doesn’t feel like I thought he felt
he doesn’t care about what I thought he
cared about oh I apologize to all the
people I killed with the religion I used
to have
yeah I must apologize to all the people
that when I majored on the minor and
minored on the major I spoke it because
on the level I was on I thought it was
true but on the level I am now I’ve
realized that that the Jesus I knew at
the bottom is not the Jesus I don’t know
at the top and and he has transfigured
himself before me hey we’ll be right
back after this what’s pulling me down
to the mountain go to the top
if you’ve ever climbed a mountain you
know that reaching the summit requires
perseverance determination and struggle
in your journey with Christ
he’s often pushing you to a new and
sometimes uncomfortable place but
there’s always purpose in the pain and
when you reach the destination that he
leads you to the few is worth it and I
had no chance of unlocking the door to
myself without getting to the key and he
took the key and hid it in his garments
and started up the hill and told me
you’ll never know if you don’t chase me
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you gonna spend the holidays with your
grandparents what kind of parents are
you play the brokenhearted kind
story of black Nativity revolves around
a 15 year old boy named Langston who’s
living with his single mother in
Baltimore and they’ve fallen extremely
hard times she hasn’t been able to keep
her house payments together she sends
him for Christmas to stay with her
parents I was told to expect my grandson
not some pickpocket the world is is
changed for the better we are mindful of
the needs of this youth big in need of
guidance or simply a belt to hold his
loose-fitting pants up it shows that God
can do anything you know all all his
life he was searching for his family and
he found his family you guys went away
to Harlem
it might’ve caused all my mother’s
misery did my very birth destroy my
whole family you meld and move through
reality so play that we’re doing it side
it and then the fantasies of the main
character Langston they’re just really
bringing back family on that on that
Christmas day there’s something for
everyone and for every generation I want
this to be like the Christmas movie of
all Christmas movies like home-along is
to me I want black nativity replay it’s
such a beautiful project I wouldn’t want
anyone to miss out on it
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I would to God that I could spend more
time with you but I am absolutely out of
time I’m not out of word I’m just simply
out of time made may God bless you and
strengthen you and I hope that the thing
that you have heard today have have
helped to propel you toward your destiny
and your purpose in Christ Jesus know
that we here at the potter’s house are
praying for you and with you that God’s
best might be accomplished in your life
may God bless you may have a smile upon
you I’ll look for you same time same
station be there
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