The Collective Expression of his Essence – Bishop T.D. Jakes
The Collective Expression of his Essence – Bishop T.D. Jakes
God is magnified when we pray, worship, and serve together, but when we are isolated, we are more susceptible to the attacks of the enemy. Our Creator designed us to be communal — a collective expression of Him. As mentioned in the second chapter of Ephesians, His church is fashioned with members that are jointly fit together. And like stones in temple walls, when you let Him, God will chip away your jagged edges and fit you into the perfect place! We are called to be the light of the world with Him as our power source. And that light shines brightest when we are yoked as one.
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[Music] I’m going to Ephesians chap 2 verse 13-22 and I’m probably going to take you somewhere different than you’re used to going on a on a Sunday morning I’m probably going to to swim upstream against the current of the culture because the culture as a whole is very narcissistic and I hate to use that word because it’s probably overused in our society today but but it’s it’s all about what’s in it for me but if you will indulge me I think you’re going to understand what’s in it
for you Ephesians 213 through 22 when you have it say amen amen but now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made n by the blood of Christ oh gosh made not by the blood of Christ for he is our peace who have made both one talking about Jews and Gentiles if you read read the old chapter he’s made both one he’s Blended them together in a very unique fashion and have broken down the middle wall of petition between us gosh having abolished in his flesh the enmity even the law of Commandments contained in ordinances he took he took
the thing that separated us and he abolished it in his flesh even the law of Commandments contained in ordinances for to make in himself of Twain to one new man so making peace and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross having slain the enmity thereby he vanquished what we were fighting about he ended what was contrary to our Unity he moved the Obstacle of our religiosity out of the way that is not to say that the law was wrong because the law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul but it put a wall
between the Jew and the Gentile and Jesus brought it down having abolished it in his flesh he completed did it he fulfilled it so that the Gentile who was lawless had just as many rights to come before God as the Jew because he took all of that out of the way and came and preached peace to you which were a far off and you don’t have to be uh living 2,000 years ago to have been a far off he came and preached peace to you which were a far off and to them that were nigh for through him we both have access oh is’t that beautiful see there
are some people in this church who have been raised in church all their life they don’t know what cigarette smoke smells tastes like they they’ve never smoked a joint in their life theyve never tasted alcohol in their life their mama was in Holiness that they are in the Hol they were pure they’ve never done anything never been on a dance floor don’t know how to do anything don’t know how to shuffle don’t know how to slide don’t gamble don’t cheat don’t know how to do anything they there are
I’m there really are some people in the church who have been in the church all their life I mean really in the church and then there’s the rest of us [Applause] we we kind of you know we took the long way in we did some window shopping and we stopped by the store and and we peaked in the club and we dropped it like it was hot and picked it up like it was cold and and imagine now we’re all in here together for through him we both ain’t no need of you looking down your nose at me through him we both have
access by one Spirit see by one Spirit that’s what did it one Spirit unto the father I can come in there just like you can with your holy self With Your Righteous self with your never told a lie stole a cookie self I can come in there with crumbs on my mouth and come boldly to the throne of grace through him now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners but fellow citizens with the Saints and of the household of God I want you to pay attention to that go back to that verse again because I want them to see now therefore ye Are No More
Strangers you you’re not standing outside knocking at the door nor foreigners you’re not immigrants you you don’t you don’t have to wonder do you belong let me tell you something you got just as much right to be in this church you might have been a drug dealer drug user you might you you might have been all kinds of I could name all kind of stuff and y’all be talking about wo like you wasn’t it but every everything is in here now therefore here’s the good news you’re no more strangers and foreigners
but fellow citizens with the Saints fellow citizens with the shap with equal rights and of the household and I want I want you pay close attention that that we collectively make up the household the household of God come on and are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and the prophets Jesus Christ himself being the Chief [Music] Cornerstone the apostles laid the foundation Christ is the Cornerstone God is builing building a house out of people in whom all the building fitly framed together growth unto a holy
Temple in the Lord notice it didn’t say Tabernacle but we grow into a temple of the Lord and I’m going to get into why it didn’t say Tabernacle in whom ye also are build it together together together together say that together together together in whom you also are building together for a habitation of God the Reason God brought you together is that you’re going to be a habitation you’re going to be God’s address a habitation of God through the spirit can you say amen amen now this is
not a jazzy title it’s not a fancy title I got some and I could use some but but this is kind of a little bit more of a a Collegiate title a theological title A a title that I want you to to let it sit in you the collective expression of his Essence the collective Collective that takes me away from the individual the collective expression of not my Essence my opinion my attitude my story what happened to me when I was five what happened to me now what my last husband said to me left me want no no no no no no no I’m not to express
that I’m to express his Essence in the earth if the world is to see him they’re going to see him through me no let me fix it they’re going to see him through us and we’re living at a time that we are losing our sense of us we have given up us for me we have given up Unity for identity I I identify I identify I I don’t care whether you like I don’t care everything is about I but in the Bible you do whatever you want to do in the Bible the emphasis is on our Collective expression of his Essence
which makes me dependent upon you because I cannot be a full expression of his Essence by myself it is it is something that happens when we get together and so the reason the enemy is determined for us not to to get together is because there is something that amplifies about God in our connectivity that we don’t have in our individuality are you hearing what I’m saying I’m just setting the stage for it I I want you to get this let’s pray Spirit of the Living God fall fresh on us as we delve into the word help me to
get through this Lord help me to get through it in a way that’s clear and succin help me to get through it in a way that has synchronization and revelation help me to get through it in a way that reflects how you gave it to me in the name of Jesus we pray somebody shout amen you may be seated now I I need the woman right at the top of the message to help me out a little bit how how many women in here got on makeup okay in my church we put you out for that but back in the old days they they you you you would have
wooed but how many women in here that got on makeup put it on in a mirror how many people know when you left the mirror there was no makeup on it so you didn’t put lipstick on the mirror because the mirror is just a reflection that helps you to have accuracy as you get what do y’all call beat down which is a terrible Name by the way y’all y’all can come up with the they her face is beat like somebody punch you in the mouth when the Bible says that we were created in His image and in his likeness
it it it does not make us the person but the mirror we we we reflect the glory of God let me let me use another one the the moon has no light and yet it lights up the night it only lights up the night because of its proximity to the sun and the light that is radiating from the Moon is really a mirror of its ability to be in proximity and the reason it’s half moon quarter moon full moon is As the World Turns it is able to get less and less reflection at Full Moon it is able to totally reflect a light that is not its own this
light that you have is not your light it is the collective light of God so if if you want to spend all your time studying yourself you’re studying a dark moon if you want to better understand yourself you have to study the Sun not the moon if you want to see yourself it ain’t no need in taking pictures of the mirror you must begin to understand that understanding God is important and we are living in an age that almost I I flip through uh Instagram sometime listening at the preacher and and 10 out of 12 messages is about
us how to pick a good husband and how to get married how to recover from divorce and all that kind of stuff and there’s a time and a place for all of that but I can’t hardly find anybody left in the church today that’s teaching about God it would be like going in the liquor store and they don’t have nothing but Isis the church is supposed to bring you to God we’re the last institution that should be talking about God that is what we do that is who we are and yet we have trained our people to come to church to
get encouragement for them aside from God as if God were totally independent from your peace if you could generate your own peace through knowledge that’s called humanism come on in order to really get your peace and your power and your understanding you’re only getting it by the level of closeness you have to the light that causes you to shine that means if you see anything good in me if you see anything righteous in me if you see anything forgiving in me if you see anything that’s holy in me I can’t take credit for it it’s only me
reflecting him in my life and without him I don’t have no life are you follow what I’m saying there are many many things that you must understand the the his name Yahweh his name Yahweh properly pronounced is the same sound of breathing yah way means you have to inhale yah where y way you cannot say it without inhaling and exhaling so the first human sound you made whether you knew it or not believed it or not or liked it or not the first thing you said when you got here was yah way the last thing you say when you
leave yeah he said I am Alpha and Omega I started it I’ll finish it I am God and besides me there is no other do you hear what I’m saying let’s go a little bit deeper with it there are a lot of uh uh metaphors there a lot of terms there are a lot of anthropomorphic that’s what I’m looking for anthropomorphic terms that Express God because God really isn’t like anything on Earth so we have to get symbols of God see your phone when you touch the icon and you touch the icon that says NIV Bible you’re not
touching the information you’re touching the icon that opens up the information are you following what I’m saying to you okay so you must begin to realize that the best we can do is say the spirit of the Lord is La it unto because we cannot compare it to anything because there is nothing like God even God couldn’t find nothing to compare himself he said I look for someone to swear by finding no one greater than myself I swore by myself that surely blessings I Will Bless The multiplying I will multiply so we are
left with metaphors like consuming fire metaphors like he is the light of the world metaphors is like he produces Glory shakana Glory rivers of Living Water woman if you believe on me as the scriptures have had out of your belly shall flow sisters of Living Water but God you can find sisters but don’t worship it because the sister is not God it’s just a way of expressing the unexpressable let’s go deeper with this he is the breath of the breath and the wind are an expression of God the spirit Jesus said is like a wind it bloweth
where it listed and no man knows from whence it came or where it goes God likes to compare himself to when like breath that’s how he Compares himself I’m like when from Everlasting to Everlasting Thou Art God if you go back as far as you can go back in time to the very beginning before there was a where or when or this or that or a star or a planet or sun or sea before there was an earth before there was dirt before there was Clay there was ruach and ruach sounds like this just win let’s go wind breath Joe the breath of the almighty
has given me life that’s what gave me life mouth to mouth resuscitation came from right there your God is wind your God is air are you hearing what I’m saying in the Old Testament is ruach in the New Testament it is Numa are you hearing what I’m saying in the New Testament it is Numa for God Is Win are you hearing what I’m saying num patology is what it’s called in the New Testament where we get the word pneumonia which deal with your breathing Puma air I can’t get air oh I’m getting air pneumonia
pneumonia means I got a bronchial problem God is air he is breath he is wind he is wind down inside of you that’s why on the day of Pentecost the Bible said he came like a mighty rushan Rush a rushing wind clothing tongues appeared like as a fire and set upon each of them they didn’t say it was wind they said it was like it doesn’t mean their clothes was blowing but it was like wind your God is like wind your God is like breath your God is like air your God has the ability to be able when when Ezekiel came to the dry bones in the
