T.D. Jakes Sermons: The Body of Christ

coming up on the Potter's touch and then on the fifth day he spoke to the creeping things and said bring forth and everything began to move here and there and and on the sixth day he does not speak to man he forms it man is the first thing in the creation that God touches everything else he stood back from it said let there be and it became what he said but when it came to man he touched it and we have been needing to be touched ever since this is the I am Sarah Jakes and

you are watching The Potter's touch what I love most about this programming is that it meets people right in their weakest moments this message the body of Christ is going to help those who are feeling like they don't have any more strength of their own remember that his strength is made perfect in our weakness don't believe me let the bishop tell you check it out we are going to talk about the body of Christ the body of Christ but we are not going to say that without thinking because now we know what the body of

Christ is so we are looking for the Christ embodied so the body of Christ deals with content and container content and container the body of Christ is content and container the container is the container is the body good the container is the body the content is the Christ the spirit so when we say body of Christ the the body is the container oh you going to get with me see I got to wake your mind up because we got to break through this tradition of not thinking because not thinking will dumb you down in the

area of your faith see it it see ignorance is a learned behavior yeah it's a learn Behavior you have to be trained to be stupid you have to be trained to be stupid we are by Nature inquisitive people but if we are put in in in non-stimulating environments that we we are trained not to think see and I'm breaking that breaking that down I'm breaking that down where you question things and where you research and where you're curious because I learned that great thinkers and great teachers come from people who ask great questions I used

to think that when you taught on a SE certain level it was because you were so smart but when you teach on a certain level it's because you're so thirsty and you're so hungry that you ask more of the text than other people would ask you will never know more until you ask more so we are talking about the body of Christ and and and you almost need you almost need a moment to just absorb what I've already done see see you need a moment just to don't say any more tonight have you ever had

those moments where you say oh just just shut up right there let me let me hold it right there I got that for one part right there don't say nothing else yeah so we're talking about the body of Christ see and and and all ignorant Believers would say Oho that's boring because they don't think enough to embrace that the depth of what we're saying see ignorance is brought about through assumptions oh that's a tweetable right there ignorance is brought about through assumptions see intelligence dispels ignorance it will destroy ignorance see ignorance is an assault on

your thinking it's an assault it's an open attack on your thinking where you just say stuff cuz you heard it all black people can dance you know you know just any kind of prejudice information that that you are taught without thinking let me dispel that myth I know some very black people who cannot dance at all oh I mean in extremely black people black to The Fifth [Applause] Dimension Star Trek black cannot dance at all so intelligence and learning and depth comes from the level of the questions you ask research scientific exploration comes from the

mind that is hungry to say why why did they say that what does that mean it doesn't make assumptions assumptions Al assault your intelligence and your ability to dig deeper down into things that you think you know yes sir amen you you you could do a world of research on things that you think you know and take you to another level if we don't give you any more information I spent I spent 20 minutes talking to you about stuff you all already know but didn't think deeper about okay now I'm not going I'm going to

talk to you about the body of Christ I'm going to use three words formed for formed field and function that's all that if I get that far I'll be lucky formed fied and function that's all I'm going to talk about the body of Christ formed filled and function okay n good the first thing that we see God doing in the earth and the spirit of the Lord moved upon the face of the deep the first thing that we see God doing as he begins his creative process is forming man the unique thing that he did

about man God everything else God spoke to let there be light and there was light seems like God should have a deep voice I don't know whether it does or not he might have said let there be light and the ground trembled but it just seems like he ought to have a big old let there be light you know he might be up there to talk like that let that be like y'all but in my mind I just you know since since the Bible doesn't let us hear his voice I just give him the voice

I want let there be light and there was light and it was good and then God separated the firmaments that were above the waters from the firmaments that were beneath the waters and God said it was good and the evening and the morning was the first day and the evening and the morning was the second day and the evening and the morning was the third day and the evening and the morning was the fourth day on the fourth day he created the Lesser lights and the greater lights and the Lesser lights to rule the night

and the greater light to rule the day and then on the fifth day he spoke to the creeping things and said bring forth and everything began to move here and there and and on the sixth day he does not speak to man he forms it man is the first thing in the creation that God touches everything else he stood back from and said let there be and it became what he said but when it came to man he touched him and we have been needing to be touched ever since [Applause] we have been needing to

be touched it's not a want it is a need touching stimulates our pitutary gland that causes us to grow right that's right that's right and and he touched us he he formed him he formed him he formed him from from where the dust of the earth he formed him now did he form his content or the container ah you're wait now I got your mind going now he formed the container he formed the container and he breathed into him the content Woo you're with me he breathed into him the content the content was blown into

the Container good God alight that same it's the same you see on the day of Pentecost God is filling up what he has [Applause] good God Almighty so what we are understanding about our God two things that he is a former he is a former he he forms things and he FS what he forms he formed the sea and filled it with fish he formed the air and filled it with birds he formed the man and filled him with breath he formed the Tabernacle and filled it with Furniture he forms and he feels he forms

and he feels he forms and he feels so once we understand this pattern whenever we see him stoop to form we know he's going to fill whatever God forms God will fill wow that's why we call this church the cuz what are Potters they're forers oh my God Potters form stuff that's what Potters do Jeremiah go down to The Potter's House and there I will show you a work on the wheel and so I went down to The Potter's House and there he worked the work on the field and the vessel that he made of

clay oh my God the vessel is what he formed oh Jeremiah Jeremiah if you go down to The Potter's House you will understand what I did to you because in Jeremiah 1 chapter 4 he says chapter 1 verse 7 before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee so he look at God the Potter has sent the prophet to The Potter's House still to come on The Potter's touch hagga go right back to Sarah's house because that's where your blessing is and if you break the connection you're going to lose the supply you have

to keep the connections that God brings in your life behold how good and pleasant it is for Brethren to dwell together in unity it is like the oil that fell upon the head of a onto his beards and there to SK I go to the bottom for there God Comm the blessing it is the connections that bless your life if you lose the connection you're going to lose the [Music] blessing it's an amazing experience it's an opportunity to um learn and you know from Bishop Jakes to learn from what he's experienced um to understand what

leadership is to understand what it is to be a pastor God has a place for you to go and to preach and to touch and until you finish your purpose no weapon formed against you shall be able to prosper this year we decided to bring uh most of our leaders so they can hear the life-changing message it's critical it's essential I recommend it to anybody I've seen others talk about it but I have experienced it and witness it it's like none other save your money do whatever you got to do to get here cuz your

ministry your life will never be the same [Music] say I formed you I filled you now you're going to function glory to God formed you I filled you now you're going to function you can't function cuz I formed you you can only function when I feel you he formed Adam from the dust of the Earth but he couldn't function because he was formed he only functioned when he was filled he formed him then he filled him when he filled him Adam began to rain not when he formed him when he filled him he began to

rain let's stop at Ezekiel 37 for a moment and run down to the dry bones in the valley and all of a sudden there were the doys and all of a sudden there were a show and the bones came together to his bones and he formed them and then there was a wind that came down and feel what he formed and here comes the function and they stood an exceeding great Army form field function say it with me form fill function say it again formed filled function they were in one place with one Accord that's

form suddenly there cames a sound from a heaven fill all of a sudden Peter begin to preach function Hallelujah formed filled function so these are the Acts of the Apostles or really the acts of the Holy Ghost through the apostles because they are functioning as a result of the filling they are functioning as a result of the filling wow you will go through a stage in your life of being formed oh God what are you doing to me why are you taking me through all of these chaines my life is filled with change everything's going

crazy I got you on the wheel I'm forming you I'm shaping you I'm taking stuff away from you I'm Bing you in places you've never been B before you're in the forming stage next you're going into the filling stage and when I get through filling you you're going into function [Music] word hallelujah glory to God you're going to function from the unction you're going to function from the unction say that with me we're going to function from the unction you can't function if you don't have unction the unction is the filling and once you get

filled you can function when we step into the New Testament we see the body of Christ now you know what I mean when I say the body of Christ functioning whether it's in 70 or one is still the body of Christ if there's no difference in the filling there should be no difference in the function oh God I said if there's no difference in the filling there should be no difference in the function y'all getting this if there's no difference in the filling there should be no difference in the function have you been filled then

you ought to function you ought to function yall to function yall to function yall to function that's that's why Jesus cursed the Fig Tree why cth it the ground he said if it's not going to function cut it [Applause] [Music] down function function everything's got to have a function everything's got to have a function every person's got to have a function it's got to have a function I won't give your kidneys if they don't function I didn't give you lungs just to fill up your chest I put them in there for a purpose so they

can function the body works better when the lungs function the body works better when the kidneys function the body works better when the liver function the body works better when the legs function everything in the body has a function are you in the body then you have a oh my God I don't know whether your eyeballs kidneys livers or navels but you got to have a function when Peter got filled he went to functioning when you get fill you're supposed to function what do you mean you out of service serving no purpose brings curses [Applause]

serving no purpose brings curses he cursed the Fig Tree what the Fig Tree do wrong it didn't function he question why cth it the ground why you standing here broke function Dry Bones hear ye the words of the Lord function look at somebody and Shout at them function f do something this is my verse and I'm going to close with this from whom from whom the whole body fitly joined together now wait wait let's just take that much right there grab hands right now grab hands right there and squeeze those hands real tight real tight

that's that's how you got to learn how to get along with people you got to be fit joined together that's not body to head that's body member to body member that's how connected you got to be and if you will notice in order to hold hands you had to stretch out like a cross and this is what God is challenging you to do to grow in how you interact with people and in order to grow with how you interact with people you got to be a crucified person and that's going to crucify your feelings and

it's going to crucify your pride and it's going to crucify what you think and God is stretching you to make the [Applause] connection so that you won't be in this world by yourself he's stretching you look at somebody say make the connection oh but it hurts it's supposed to hurt stretch is always hurt okay join fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplier get that person by the hand again God said that's where I'm going to send the S supply to the point of the connection break the connection and you lose the

supply oh God I don't have time I don't have time but I could show you over and over again people who broke the connection and lost the supply hagga go right back to Sarah's house because that's where your blessing is and if you break the connection you're going to lose the supply you have to keep the connections that God brings in your life behold how good and pleasant it is for Brethren to dwell together in Unity it is like the oil that fell upon the head of Aaron onto his beards and there to SC I

go to the bottom for there God commanded the blessing it is the connections that bless your life if you lose the connection you're going to lose the blessing follow peace with all men and Holiness without which no man shall see the Lord God said get along with people oh this is good compacted by that which every joint a joint is a connection place by that which every joint supplies according to the effectual effectual working in the measure of every part that's function every part's got to function every part's got to function look at your neighbor

say you're messing me up you got a function I can't function independent of you if you don't do what you're supposed to do I can't do what I'm supposed to do stop fussing me about what I'm not doing until you do what you're supposed to do I cannot do because it's what every part of the body everything has to function you don't get to sit back and watch me function I can't build this church while you watch me function it only works when we all function together it's a body Ministry from who the whole body

fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplies according to the effectual that's function working in the measure of every every every every every every every every every every part that's got to be you too you may not preach you may not sing you may not Le the choir you might not direct the band but if you are born again this text includes you what are you doing or are you out of service and here is the secret of church growth maketh increase of the body when the whole church starts functioning the church

will explode any church will explode when the body functions but if the head is functioning and the body's just watching yes sir how can how can it grow maketh increase of the body unto the underline this edifying of itself in love now I'm I'm going to stop right there the edifying of the now this is amazing it's talking about the body of Christ but the mystery is in your own body I got I got a scab on my finger right now because I cut my knuckle and when I cut my knuckle my body started fixing

the cut all by itself all the cells started coming together all the white blood cells start coming around driving out any infections and all my skin cells started stitching they started stitching and stitching and while they were stitching the scab said let me cover you while you Stitch if your body's doing that how come the body of Christ isn't doing that when somebody gets hurt in the body we don't kill them we don't destroy them we cover them and say get yourself together get yourself together I got you while we stitch it is the mystery

of the body of Christ it's so easy to allow our past to trick us into believing that we no longer have a function in the body of Christ but that cannot be further from the truth the reality is that we need you broken bruised scarred whatever your life may have become recognize that the grace of God is still available and sufficient for you partner with God and really begin to make a difference just as our partners have supported us as we offer you this programming we could not do it without them and we want to

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is Start Me growing again start me stitching and knitting and breathing and functioning again show me why I'm here show me what I've got show me what I can be show me what I can do this is the part touch