The Truth Is :: Damaged Goods (Part 1)
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the reason that I I’m doing this series
called damaged goods is because after
Easter I usually want to do a series
that speaks to everybody a series that
will let people know no matter where
they’re at in their life that God can
still use them I’m looking at a roomful
of people that I would dare say have not
reached their fullest potential because
an area of your life has been damaged
now it’s usually we don’t talk about
this area usually it’s an area that that
nobody really knows about until you get
real close to us and they can see the
effects of it for many of us it happened
when we were young we got damaged in the
area and it’s so normal and so a part of
how we act and what we do that we don’t
even notice it and the sad thing is is
that because we’re damaged because
there’s a part of us that was impaired
or ripped or a fractured we never move
with the full confidence into our
purpose if I went around the room and
asked how many people are living in
purpose the hands would not be as great
as they should be for believers for
people who know of God and it’s because
this is probably one of the least talked
about things in our church history we
talk about the victories we talk about
the wins but we don’t talk about the
damaged areas as much how many people
can identify an area in your life you
ain’t got to say what it is but an area
in your life that you know nobody else
has to know but you know that was
damaged come on just hands everywhere
okay it could have been in your your
speech somebody made fun of you when you
were younger about the way you talked
and it damaged you to the point to where
now anytime that you somebody ask you to
do anything you shy back because it
something in you tells you you’re not
enough and you can’t do it it could be
that you’re damaged in the way you view
finances that you were born into a house
that had a poverty mentality that lived
paycheck to paycheck sand things getting
cut off was just like normal oh yeah
it’s just the water it’s just the
electric oh don’t even worry is is the
cable we’ll just go to the friends house
and and you you really didn’t even have
anything to do with it but you were
raised in that in that environment and
it damaged you and now you make twice as
much as your parents ever made but those
same cycles are still showing up in your
life I don’t know it made that it may be
that you were damaged in the way you
view people that you’re very judgmental
and to keep any spotlight offer you you
automatically point out what’s wrong
with somebody else Oh y’all know it we
see somebody who’s beautiful gorgeous
handsome and the first thing we look at
they toes like is that oh come on out of
everything we could compliment why are
they wearing that where are they at what
it’s because somewhere along the way we
got damaged and if if we if we put
somebody else down then somehow I can
feel like I’m enough and I’m convinced
that what we do not confront what we do
not make ourself aware of and allow God
to begin to change it becomes the same
thing that will hinder us from reaching
our purpose and many of us in this room
right now because of a damaging
situation a damaging person something
happens you look at yourself and you say
I’m damaged goods right now some of you
have the gift to speak better than I do
but if I say come up here you would
literally fall on the floor as a grown
person and not even come up here because
somewhere around the line at your Easter
production when you were 12 you forgot
the lines and they read
ridiculed you and something have you
said I’ll never do that again
I’ll never be hurt like that again you
ran into the wrong crowd
and you got mixed up in some things
sexually that you said you’d never do
and abuse happened rape happened an
abortion happened and the enemy tries to
convince you nobody will ever want you
you’ve already been divorced three times
who could ever trust you your church
started and failed who will follow you
now you you see all of those are lies of
the enemy but if we don’t confront them
with the truth of God we only believe
the lies of the enemy and so through
this series y’all this is about to be
probably the best series of ever time
and I’m not saying that because I’m just
teaching it I’m saying it because God
has begin to reveal in me I was gonna
start this series another way but he
said Michael this first one I want you
to paint a picture I just want you to
paint a picture of what it looks like
when people are damaged so I want us to
go all the way to the beginning if you
have your Bibles turn to Genesis chapter
1 verse 26 Genesis chapter 1 verse 26
and this is what it says it says then
God said who said it who said it okay
then God said let us make human beings
everybody say the next three words with
me in our image God said let us make
human beings in our image to be like us
I’ve read this probably a million times
but I saw it completely different this
week God said the one who literally
spoke the son into existence and it’s
still lighting up the earth today he
said let
us now who is us because I thought it
was God talking but he said us who is us
no no it’s the Trinity he wasn’t sitting
there by himself he said let us the
Father the Son and the Holy Spirit let
us make what human beings now I want to
help you understand some basic truth
because the only reason you can um after
you’re damaged not feel like you use
useful is because you don’t understand
who you really are
see some of you didn’t know that that
you weren’t just made by your parents
at-at creation God said you know what
this is you know the ocean looked good
land good I see you tiger I’ll see you
cheetah see you lying y’all look awry
Rui I see you said but on the sixth day
I’m kind of bored with all this let me
do something that has not been done he
looks around and he says um look at us
HG holy goes little JC let us make human
beings what’s dead what’s I don’t know
but we bout to find out pass me some
dirt let us make them in our okay so I
want you to get this they are spirit so
if he says let’s make human beings
that’s the flesh part in our image he
didn’t make your flesh first
if three spirits are sitting here and
they say let’s make them in our image
they weren’t making a body the realist
you is a spirit and that was made in the
image of God to be like let me some of
y’all still don’t understand this is a
glove so if I say hey Michael and other
Michael and other Michael let’s make
this glove in the image of a what this
glove was made in the image of a hand
because it’s supposed to have
relationship with the hand without the
hand the glove has no purpose but
because it was formed in the image of
the hand when the hand gets in to the
glove it now has purpose see what you
don’t understand is you were never
created to live without God in side of
you
[Music]
[Applause]
because here me because Myles Munroe
teaches us where the intent of a thing
is not known abuse is inevitable this is
how people get damaged that they’re
living without God on the inside not
around God the Gulf still has no use
until God’s dwelling on the inside and
so without its purpose being knows I can
use this something the weapon but that
wasn’t the purpose I could you that’s
disgusting
but that wasn’t the purpose I could use
it as a fan but that the purpose is only
revealed when God takes over the entire
inside
[Music]
and what I’m saying is because God and
many of our lives has not taken over the
entire inside we’re out here getting
damaged ripped tore up and what God is
saying is I’m the only one that can feel
in the empty places of your life and
take what was formless useless and broke
up and give it purpose and the ability
to warm the ability to protect and
that’s the same thing God wants to do
with your life so today I want to paint
this picture for you because in the
beginning when God formed us in His
image everything was good until sin came
in Romans 5:12 it tells us when Adam
sinned sin entered the entire world
Adam’s sin brought death so death spread
to everyone thanks Adam for everyone
sinned at that moment and so when you’re
born this is when David said I was born
into iniquity I was I was born into sin
you don’t have to teach a kid to be bad
you don’t you don’t have to teach them
they learn no and mind by themselves you
understand you don’t have to teach them
because we’re born into this fallen
nature but but this is the thing that I
said that this is the only point that I
want to give today as I set this up is
that we are all damaged goods write that
down
we are all damaged goods
somebody just I’m damaged goods look
ya’ll even want to say that the life and
death is in the power of the tongue
I am NOT confessing that off about let
hear me see God can’t bless where you
pretend to be your pride kept you from
saying that you’re damaged
you you well I’m not submit I’m not
listening listen everybody say I’m
damaged goods somewhere your area may
not be my area and my area may not be
area but God cannot heal what you act
like doesn’t exist so what I want you to
do through the time I’m talking as I
want you to try to identify an area
where you may be damaged and if you get
it just write it down some of y’all
gonna be right in the whole service
others of us God’s gonna have to peel it
back like an onion because we’ve we’ve
been in that place so long that we don’t
even feel like it it’s it’s a bother
place of us but by the end of this
series God’s gonna start to touch those
damaged areas he’s gonna heal deliver
and set people free see when sin entered
in this is what I say we misplaced
purpose we misplaced it cuz God and
Jeremiah 29:11 says before you were
formed in your mother’s womb I knew you
I had plans for you plans to what cause
for you not to harm you to give you a
hope and if there was a purpose that God
had when we get born into this world sin
comes in and we forget the purpose that
we were brought here and what we’re
supposed to do is spend the rest of our
lives
figuring out what that purpose is cuz if
we can get into purpose that’s your
sweet spot I’m talking about when you
when everything you’re doing is working
when you don’t worry about finances when
bad things come your way
it don’t even faze you cuz you know that
if God be for me it don’t matter who’s
against me like you know say that in
that purpose spot but I say maybe two or
three percent of people ever even get
into purpose and the American Dream has
told us that purpose are living a good
life two equals money and that and that
are four houses in our and our cars and
our vacations I’m coming to come against
everything that you’ve thought God is
trying to build for you and he said I
want you to do what I created you to do
before you got here
but something comes to stop that and his
name is the enemy John 10:10
right that scripture down many of you
know it it said but the enemy has a
purpose and what’s his purpose to steal
to kill what is he trying to steal kill
and destroy your purpose see see this is
what I want everybody to understand that
everything that’s been coming against
you is a distraction to your purpose
those same relationships you keep
getting tired up in that is a
distraction to your purpose the
financial problems you keep going
through because you cannot stay off the
sale rack that is a distraction to you
so you’re 50 and you’re 60 and you still
don’t know why God placed you on this
earth and it goes back to a damaged area
that we never brought to God so today I
want everybody to see that your damaged
area is so important that you identify
it you have to identify that’s all I
want you to do in this first week is
start identifying areas that you may be
damaged you know what my mark my
perception is damaged the way I see
people the way I see situations is
damaged I’m a glass half-empty type of
person if something Goods come in my way
I’m always like what what’s the catch
but that’s just because I had a father
who would always tell me he would come
pick me up at Friday’s and he never came
so I got damaged at 6:00 and now I’m 60
and I still have a perception that
anything anybody says will never come to
pass I’ve been so steeped in comparison
with other people that I don’t even know
some of y’all young girls is compare
yourself to Kim Kardashian and all these
other people they got glam squad they
got six people running around doing
everything for them and you and your
bathroom trying to throw it all trying
to stuff stuff in your behind trying to
do all this for whites
and your self-image is so busted and
disgusted that now you’re searching for
love in all the wrong places and at the
moment anybody shows you any attention
then you’re all over why because
something was damaged when that
co-workers say you ugly the one you
liked see this is not cute phrases or
things that people are going to say out
loud but you have nations in your tongue
and because the church you were at
didn’t recognize your gift and pick
somebody else over you now you feel like
you’re never good enough and you’ve been
sitting on the healing of generations
for decades because you’re damaged
I want you to understand something today
church that it’s time for us to identify
our damaged areas and those of you are
having a hard time with this pride maybe
a damaged area for you because some of
y’all likewise why did I come here today
I gave all that to the Lord behold
everything is new hear me
hear me God’s doing a we are a work in
you’ll never be done until Jesus comes
back and and anybody who tells you
different and stop listening okay
so how do we how do we live them pastor
well what does this look like well first
you got to get the right perception of
how the enemy comes to steal kill and
destroy this is how he tries to do it
you have three parts of you okay three
we talked about it but you have your
soul you have your body and then you
have your spirit those are the three
some of you don’t know this so first
Thessalonians look at this
5:23 it says now may the God of peace
make you holy in every way and may your
whole spirit and soul and what body be
kept blameless until our Lord Jesus
Christ comes again God will make this
happen for he who calls you is faithful
so this is what every person is they are
a soul they are a body and they are a
spirit which one are you first so your
spirit first but the crazy thing about
it is our soul which is our mind will
and emotions and our body usually do
things and respond to things and move
things before things ever get to our
spirit so this is what it looks like God
willed me up on Thursday and gave me
these three words please write them down
covering container and contents covering
container and contents God said Michael
your soul is like the covering of your
life this is your mind which is your
thinker your wheel which is your doer
what I want to do
and your emotions which is your feeler
what the enemy comes to do if this is
you this is the beautiful presentation
this is what you show everybody on
Instagram and Facebook that this is you
okay what the enemy tries to do is come
tear you up in your mind
see this is the covering so he comes for
your soul first so he introduces you to
pornography at a young age and then he
has somebody talk about you in your
class when you graduate and you rip at
your at your thinking of yourself again
and then you get married to the one you
think is gonna love you forever and it
begins to cut at the areas of your life
that you thought were perfect now for
most of us this is kind of an accurate
depiction of what our life looks like
the covering of our lifes our soul has
been damaged
our mind will and emotions yeah my mom
my mother talked about me or I didn’t
really get picked for any of the teams
and so it just starts looking at me what
you got to understand though is that the
covering may be messed up but the
container and the contents are still
good and what the enemy tries to come
and convince you of is because the
covering is messed up because the
covering is ripped because what people
think about you is a little tattered
because you did catch a case that one
time and hard to serve community service
that’s my testimony Oh y’all thought I
made that up
so many people would say God can’t use
me because the enemy has come and
attacked my mind my will and my emotions
and for some of us this has kept us in a
paralyzed place because we don’t think
that anybody would allow us to be who
God’s created us to be this is not about
them it’s about how you think of
yourself and what God’s done for you I’m
trying to paint a picture but see for
others of us our body then comes into
play and that’s the thing that gets us
in trouble see our mind will and
emotions then start to affect our body
and this is what happens we get in
relationships that are not like God and
start doing things with our body and it
stains us we-we-we we have family issues
and because I don’t have peace at home I
start smoking and I start abusing my
body and I start having sex with anybody
who thinks I’m worth anything and I get
hold in my life
damaged and I I applied for the school
but they told me I wasn’t smart enough
and I tried to start the business but
they told me I couldn’t do it and I
tried to have the baby but I keep having
miscarriages who would ever want to love
anybody with all of these miscarriages
damaged and then
don’t let my self-worth start to look
like the world says it should so what I
start doing is putting myself in
positions where God tells me my body is
the temple of the Holy Spirit start
doing things that stain me permanently
who would want somebody that looks like
this and what the enemy convinces us is
that he whispers nobody you’re nothing
you’ll never be what God said I know you
got prophesied over when you were young
you’d be great but look at you now how
many people have ever had this thought
I’ve wasted too much time guess who
tells you that God is the restorer of
time in his word he tells us that he
will redeem the time that the cankerworm
the palmer worm restored but you’re at
25 i should be married by now I said
three businesses ten kids and four dogs
I should have completed my master’s
degree I should have done all of this
stuff the enemy comes to Jess and he
tries to make us feel damaged can you
bring me out my last piece please and
what ends up happening is then our life
goes through some fire
and we lose somebody and we start habits
and get mixed up with people who are
wrong for us and it starts to burn the
edges of our life begins to tatter what
we thought only God could use it begins
to melt all the things that are around
us to make it look like their permanent
fixtures damaged now this is the crazy
thing this is what most of our lives
look like when you get from under the
covering when you take away all the
pretty stuff and all the Instagram posts
and all the great things some of us are
in such financial straits praising God
right now because of a bad decision we
made or damaged we say we have faith for
other people but don’t have the faith to
believe for ourselves
we’re damaged we’re living in alternate
lifestyles trying to ask God to save you
from weird emic and we’ve never admitted
that we really look like this on the
inside but today freedom is coming to
you
because what you don’t understand is
that there are two different
perspectives see there’s a perspective
that looks at this box from a consumer
standpoint and if a consumer was to come
here and say I want I want uh I wanted
that but do you have another one in the
back that doesn’t have all this crap on
it
whose that’s not so jacked up and
damaged could you go get me another one
and if they said this is the only one we
have
nevermind I’ll do without it because
it’s damaged now there’s another
perspective
it’s the creator’s perspective the
person who created the content on the
inside of this box knows that the value
was never in the covering and the value
was never in the container but the value
is in the contents so the Creator will
look at this and be like wow wow this
wow this box been through some stuff
it’s okay I’ll take it how much no no no
full price I’ll pay
don’t worry about it I’ll pay for it all
not now sir you you know when you go to
a store you see a damaged box
I’m already asking for 20% off y’all
already know the tag sitting crooked you
know that tag is kind of crooked I don’t
10% maybe but what God did is he saw us
in our completely damaged state and he
said I’ll pay full price because what I
know is that I’ve walked in their shoes
see you don’t believe me look what the
Bible says look what the Bible says in
Hebrews 4 verse 15 it says this high
priest Jesus understands our weakness he
understands how he got trapped in that
relationship he understands how our
family was not the best there were holes
and and prostitutes and and murderers in
jesus’s lineage he understands for he
faced all the same testings we do yet he
did not sing why cuz he knew at some
point he was going to have to pay full
price for a damaged product and what God
says is I’ll take you I’ll take you
broken I’ll take you even though you
tried to commit suicide last night I’ll
take you even though you’re prideful
I’ll take you even though you’re
homosexual I’ll take you out out know
you and the sad thing as many of us when
God points to us and says you
not me you don’t know what I’ve been
through you don’t know the hurt I’ve
experienced you don’t know how many
times we tried this I’ve committed
adultery three times there’s no way I
can be a man of God a man of Valor and I
says I’ll take you you you you because
he realizes that the value and your life
is not in the covering and it’s not even
in the container but the Creator knows
the value is in the contents now these
are some very very expensive tennis
shoes and the thing that you don’t
realize is that there’s nothing wrong
with the contents even though the
containers been beat up and the
coverings been ripped and damaged the
contents are still as valuable as they
were when they went in to the container
when God created you he created your
spirit in his and then he puts you in a
container and gave you a covering and
most of your coverings and containers
are damaged but the goods are still
there
[Applause]
your container may be jacked up you may
be burnt you may have holes in you you
may be stained but Jesus through his son
paid full price because he knew that the
content that he placed on the inside of
you before you were formed in your
mother’s womb is still good be
encouraged today that no matter what
you’ve walked through no matter how
broken your marriage is no matter how
many times you failed the content is
still good well God wants to use you he
has a plan for you he wants to deliver
you and he wants to set you free
see only the consumer those who didn’t
create it but look at the covering in
the cup the container the only thing the
creator is worried about is my spirit
still in there it’s what I put on there
inside of them in there let me prove it
to you it’s my last scripture first John
4:4 don’t ever forget this first John
4:4 it says but you everybody say I but
you belong to who you belong to God and
you have already won victory over those
people anybody in the world who’s
talking about you or damage that you’re
broken and nobody can use you and who
would trust you to lead it
who would do all that you’ve already won
victory over those people why because
the spirit remember who you are first
the spirit who lives in you is say that
word out loud to me greater it’s greater
than the spirit who lives in the world
can I help you with this what is in you
is greater than abuse what is in you is
greater than abortion what is in you is
greater than divorce what is in you is
greater than abandonment what is in you
is greater than broken
relationships what is in you is greater
than fear what is in you is greater than
rape what is in you is greater than
failed businesses what is in you is
greater than loneliness what is in you
is greater than a criminal record what
is in you is greater than loss what is
in you is greater than tragedy what is
in you is greater than flunking out of
school maybe I should say like this who
is in you is greater than death who is
in you its greater than the flame and
who is you its greater you missed it you
are not to damage because who is in you
Jesus Christ the one who conquered death
hell in the grave he lives inside of me
and if he is for me who can be against
me hear me when I say this to you
clearly that I don’t care how many
people you robbed and I don’t care how
many things you got away with and I
don’t care how many times you lied on
your taxes oh can we be real I don’t
care how many times you wrote in your
fake license plate y’all got some of
them paper tags
some of y’all in the parking lot right
now
paper tell you got that thing three
years ago now you doing calligraphy on
the van I don’t care how many times you
committed sexual acts with people you
didn’t even know I don’t care how many
times because all of those things came
to damage your mind will and emotions
and your body but it could not touch
it could not touch your spirit and
that’s why the enemy’s greatest plan is
to distract you from getting in the
place where your spirit can be fed
because if your spirit ever gets fed it
tells your body line up we don’t do that
anymore this is the temple of the holy
spirit that’s beneath me bye Felicia
and it tells your mind will and emotions
it says I cast down everything an
imagination that would exalt itself
against the knowledge of God it says I’m
going to be transformed by the renewing
but your spirit has to get strong and
that’s why many of you came on Easter
you’re coming back for the second time
today I wanted to paint this picture for
you that you’ll have to just live a life
the damaged goods until your spirit gets
empowered to know that you don’t have to
live in this box anymore that God can
take ripped up covering mine’s been
broken for a long time God said I can
change that he can take a box that’s
been ripped to its core I mean this
thing is dirty its filthy holes in it he
says I’ll still take it because I know
that the contents are still good I want
to pray for every person that’s been
damaged every person that’s still
searching for their identity and
something else other than the Creator
remember we were made in his and until
he feels it will never reach purpose
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