The journey from deception to reconciliation is one we can all relate to. In this message Pastor Sarah traces the profound impact of sin on human consciousness. Through biblical reflection, she highlights how sin distorts our perception of God and ourselves. Yet, amidst this turmoil, the Word emphasizes God’s relentless pursuit of reconciliation, symbolized by the cross. ___________________________________ Watch the full Sermon “The Crucifixion – Pastor Sarah Jakes Roberts, Pastor Touré Roberts, and Bishop T.D. Jakes” on the TD Jakes Ministries Youtube page. REGISTER for WE24: womanevolveconference.com Stay plugged into the Woman Evolve community: www.womanevolve.com www.womanevolve.tv download the app from any mobile device’s app store, first 7 days are FREE! Want to support this ministry? Text GIVE to (833) 611-9066 or click here FOLLOW US ON THE SOCIALS: Instagram: Women Evolve and Sarah Jakes Roberts Twitter: Woman Evolve and SJakesRoberts Facebook: Woman Evolve and Sarah Jakes RobertsWoman Evolve TV app!
we don’t just fall into
sin I wonder when God created man and
woman and he gave the woman the charge
of being fruitful and multiplying if she
recognized that in order to fulfill the
Mandate on her life that she would
literally have to face off with hell to
get it
done we make it sound so simple like why
didn’t she just deny the fruit but the
reality is that When sin enters our
world it’s it’s not so easy as just
denying it because before we even engage
in the action of sin there is a
deception that takes place in our mind
you see the enemy isn’t just after what
you do the enemy is after what you think
because if the enemy can get your mind
he can change your actions and we see
his plan laid out in Genesis 3 in which
he wants to distort our image of God did
God really
say you didn’t just sin you didn’t just
mess up you may have known better but
before you actually engaged with the
action there had to have been a
deception in your
mind some of us were born into the
deception of other people’s minds that
means before we even had an encounter
with God that we were born in a
framework that made things okay that
really weren’t okay and it wasn’t until
we had an encounter with God that we
began to realize that I am going to have
to be transformed by the the renewing of
my mind because I was born into sin I
was born thinking that it was okay to
act this way I was born thinking that
retaliation was my only option I was
born thinking that it was okay to be
angry and so often in church we make sin
the big ones as long as we’re not
shacking and as long as you don’t do
this and that then you’re living without
sin but if we were honest in this room
there were some of us who would be
willing to admit that every single day I
need saving I need saving from the way
that I think I need saving from the way
that I talk I need saving from this
wretched mind of mine because I am wired
to think against that which is good for
me sin is not just what you did before
you got saved sin is what you’re doing
right now trying to get your mind right
some of us had to come to church today
because I need to be in the presence of
other people who are chasing after A
Renewed mind I need to be in the midst
of people who are trying to set their
mind on things above because sometimes I
set my mind on what happened in my past
and sometimes I set my mind on how
worried I am in the future sometimes I
set my mind on trying to control a
situation instead of just letting go and
letting God sinning is not just who you
slept with and what you drank sinning is
how you think about how God is showing
up in your life and the enemy says if I
can get your mind then I can get your
hands and I can get your feet and all of
a sudden and you will be going against
the very
thing God called you to
do Eve doesn’t just eat from the
fruit the serpent deceived me that word
deceived in the Hebrew means let
astray I was let astray before I did
it no one came and got me I was led
astray
Chang my mind and change my path I was
led astray before I got
here and God is so
good that even though in Genesis 2 he
says that if you eat from this fruit you
will surely
die you would have thought that the
moment she ate from the fruit that she
would have collapsed and fell on the
ground but God is so God that he cannot
lie about what he said and so something
has to die in order for his word to
remain true and that’s when he covered
them with the tunics of an
animal I feel like this is also a
glimpse into
Grace a glimpse into Mercy where you
don’t actually get what you deserved
covered not because you did everything
the right way not because you were
obedient you’ve been covered there were
some people in this room before you were
even in relationship with God you look
back over your life and you see that God
was covering you I wasn’t going to
church I wasn’t praying I wasn’t trying
to be righteous I should be dead and out
of my mind I should be in somebody’s
grave I should be locked up in jail
there’s no reason why I should have this
house there’s no reason why I should
have these children but I was covered in
the midst of it all I was covered some
kind of way you covered me even when I
didn’t know I was covered you think your
life was bad anyway you should have seen
what it would have been had God lifted
that covering off of you I know they
betrayed you I know they walked away
from you I know the family system was
broken but if you think that’s something
you ought to see the plans the enemy
actually had for your life you ought to
see how he wanted to kill you and
destroy you you ought to see how the
cancer cells backed up off of you you
ought to see how the X-ray machine
showed what God Said and not what was
actually in your body I’ve been covering
you since you were a child I’ve been
covering you every step you took I
covered
you don’t let the fact that you saw the
weapon make you think that the weapon
actually prospered just because you saw
it it doesn’t mean that it prospered cuz
if You’ have known where it was really
targeting
yeah cover
it every step of the
way we see God covering the man and the
woman in the
text but they’re not
reconciled because sometimes you can be
covered but not yet
reconciled what doesn’t mean to be
reconciled with God it means that the
division that sin
created is standing in the way of you
being made in the image of
God sometimes we’re covered but we’re
misformed in our covering wish I
could sin came and it changed your
form anybody who would be willing to be
honest in this room could admit that
when I started sinning it’s not just
that I did an action it changed the way
that I thought it changed my form no
longer do I believe that I am the
righteousness of God no longer do I
believe that I’m fearfully and
wonderfully made now all of a sudden
things I said I’d never do I’m more open
to because I’m not even the same person
anymore because sin changed my form and
God says I don’t want to just cover you
I got to make sure that I get you back
reconciled with me so that you can get
out of the shape that the sin left you
in I don’t know who needs to hear this
but I want you to know you don’t have to
stay in the same shape that that sin
left you in you don’t have to stay in
the same shape that that betrayal left
you in that’s why we preach against
bitterness and that’s why we preach
forgiveness it’s not because it’s easy
but because unforgiveness changes your
form shame changes your form I don’t
know who you are but I came to wage war
against that shame because that shame is
changing your form and God’s got a
mission in the earth that you can only
accomplish if you get back in the form
that you were in before sin ever said
your
name