Dr. Jamal H. Bryant - BAD TO THE BONE - Sunday 30th, June 2024
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00:00You
00:10Scripture for a week and I
00:15Thought I got it out of my system, but I don't
00:20Second Kings chapter 13
00:26Verse 21
00:30Second Kings 13 verse 21 once you found it won't you say I got it if you can't find it say Lord help me
00:43Second Kings is right after first Kings
00:50If you see third Kings, that's not a Bible you got this
00:55There's something else
00:58There's something else amen
01:01That's the Lord
01:03Second Kings chapter 13. Dr. Verdi. Thank you so much hanging out with your pastor today second Kings chapter 13 verse 21
01:13Once while some Israelites were burying a man
01:17Suddenly they saw a band of raiders
01:21So they threw the man's body into Elisha's tomb
01:25When the body touched Elisha's bones
01:30the man came back to life and
01:34He stood up on his feet
01:37You may be seated
01:41Once while some Israelites were burying a man suddenly they saw a band of raiders
01:47So they threw the man's body into Elisha's tomb
01:52When the body touched Elisha's bones
01:55The man came to life and stood up on his feet. I want to preach today using as a subject bad to the bone
02:05Bad to the bone elbow your neighbor and tell him he talking about me
02:13Bad
02:17Bad to the bone
02:21Dr. Chelsea Juarez is a professor at Fresno State University
02:28This past semester she did a class called stories in bones
02:37Stories in bones
02:39It's based on forensic anthropology
02:43Which is the study of human skeletons
02:47through markers and technology
02:51They can now by studying your bones
02:54they can now tell how a person lived and
02:59How a person died
03:03What used to be reserved for dinosaurs
03:07Can now help medical examiners
03:11figure out
03:12unsolved cases I
03:15Don't know whether you realize it or not, but the most broken bone in adults is their arm bones
03:23the most
03:25Frequently broken bone in adults is the bones in their arm
03:30More often than not that comes from carrying excessive weight
03:36From trying to put their arms around a circumstance that is larger than them
03:42It is amazing that there are not more people in this sanctuary that do not have a cast
03:49From all of the stuff they've been trying to carry
03:53All of the issues they're trying to put their arms around
03:59But for children it is the collarbone
04:04That breaks the most often
04:06the clavicle fracture
04:09Comes from falling off of a bike
04:14Falling off of a skateboard
04:17Falling down on skates or coming out of a car accident
04:23And the problem is that when they fall there's nobody there to catch them
04:29You'll be amazed at how many children are wounded
04:34Because they didn't have somebody responsible in their life
04:39To catch them from making the mistakes their parents made
04:45Abolitionists from my state of Maryland Frederick Douglass said it's easier to build strong
04:52children than to fix broken adults
04:57It's easier to build strong children than to fix broken adults
05:03in the wisdom of our Creator
05:06When he fashioned us out of the dust of the ground he did so with a skeleton
05:14The human body. I don't know whether you're aware of it or not, but the human body is made of
05:21206 bones
05:24In every single one of us young old black white rich poor all of us have
05:31206 bones
05:33the skeleton
05:36represents structure
05:38not only does it represent structure, but it speaks to order and
05:44Anything that is going to operate in excellence must have structure
05:51I want to say to you you have to structure a budget
05:57You have to structure a prayer life
06:01You have to structure your business
06:05You would be amazed how many people are in fact
06:10enemies of structure and
06:13People who are enemies of structure always have a bone to pick with you
06:21They want to dismantle your bones because they don't like your structure
06:26Those 206 bones here this are for protection
06:33So as a consequence you have bones around your heart
06:38Because God wants to protect your feelings
06:42You have bones in your spinal cord
06:45So you can stand up to people who think they can handle you recklessly
06:50Your
06:53Bones here this around your brain because he has to protect your thoughts
07:01Ladies and gentlemen the the bones are primarily made up for protein
07:06To give strength to your body
07:09the bones have to
07:12Produce collagen so that you have movement of your joints
07:17Of the bones here this release calcium for your heart and for your nerves
07:24but what I didn't realize is
07:27That outside of your movements and your strength and your protein and your protection your bones are
07:34responsible for carrying
07:36your anointing
07:39Only recently figured this out from reading second Kings at chapter 13
07:46Where we discover that the children of God have enemies
07:54I went too fast
07:56the children of God
07:59have
08:00enemies
08:02That wasn't for you. That was for somebody sitting behind you if you are a child of God
08:09You gonna have enemies
08:12The children of God have enemies here this and they're having a rough time because they are
08:19anointed and
08:20They are being attacked
08:23And I found something out from reading second Kings chapter 13 is that their pastor and their prophet
08:31Elisha has become sick
08:34he's become so sick that he has fallen ill and
08:37The illness becomes so dire that he falls dead
08:42in the middle of warfare and
08:45the children of God because they're in the middle of warfare tried to give to Elisha a
08:51respectable burial as
08:53Best they could under wartime conditions
08:58And soon after the funeral is over somebody else in the camp dies
09:04Somebody else in the camp dies and they decide that they've got to bury his body
09:11Even while they're in warfare and in the middle of the funeral service
09:16They peep out that the enemy is coming
09:20the enemy is coming to attack them and
09:25in haste
09:27The Bible says in second Kings chapter 13 in haste because the enemy is coming
09:33And they in the middle of the funeral they throw the body hear this on
09:39Elisha's tomb
09:42Something unseemly happens
09:44That when they throw that dead body on
09:47Elisha's tomb the Bible says that the dead man
09:52immediately revives and
09:55Stands up on his feet
09:58That's what I'm going to talk to you about today
10:00Is what happened?
10:02When that dead man came in connection with somebody who is anointed bones
10:11Verse 14 it says that Elisha has been suffering from sickness and then he dies
10:19But from the grave somebody gets restored I
10:24Don't know whether you realize it or not
10:26But this message is not for random people this message is for people who are burnt out and tired and
10:34Fatigued and wearied and worn here. It is God says I know you feel depleted
10:41But I still got something in you to be a blessing to other people's life
10:47Folk have no idea the wear and tear of being anointed
10:52Is that you'll pray for other people when you don't have strength to pray for yourself
10:58People got no idea that you'll give them advice and counsel when your own life is falling apart
11:05people got no idea that in the middle of your own depression you will
11:12Encourage them God sent you on this last Sunday of June to let you know. I'm finished with you yet
11:19I know you feel like giving up. I know you feel like waving the white flag
11:24I know you want to throw in the towel, but even while you are running on empty
11:30I'm still gonna use your life to be a blessing to somebody else
11:35As low as you feel right now
11:39There are people that still look up to you and they got no idea
11:44I didn't even feel like getting out of the bed
11:47But God is gonna use me in spite of how I feel
11:52In spite of what I'm living through and in spite of the fact that there are moments that I'd rather be dead
12:04I need you to encourage somebody who's sitting around you today and tell them you still got something to give
12:11Come on I need you to tell it to one last person you still have something to give
12:19The body has three layers of skin
12:23The epidermis which is the top layer of skin is the only layer of skin that is visible to the eyes
12:32It constantly sheds dead skin
12:36for cells to be replaced and become new
12:40It is the epidermis that has pores for the oil to come out
12:45Stick a pen in it and I'm coming back to that
12:48Right under the epidermis is the dermis
12:52Which is thicker skin and it contains sweat glands
12:57And there are some people who are sitting on your road. They got dermis because they got thick skin
13:02Because folk can talk about them, but it don't stop them
13:06People can make up lies about them, but they ain't gonna lose no sleep
13:11You can stop talking to me. You can even block me, but watch me keep going on
13:16My cutoff game is so heavy. I carry a butcher knife in my pocket
13:23Y'all ain't saying nothing. My skin is tough. I do not need your compliments your
13:30Validation or your affirmation for me to know who it is that I am
13:34I'm I wonder if there's some folk that got tough skin
13:38You'll walk in the places and you know that they've been talking about you
13:42But you speak anyway anybody in this room
13:46No folk left you for dead, but you don't feel no kind of way about it cuz you got thick skin
13:53You
13:58You've got your epidermis which is your top layer of skin
14:02You've got your dermis which is your second layer and then you have your subcutis
14:08Which provides?
14:10Insulation to the body it is the subcutis that keeps you warm in a cold weather
14:16It is the subcutis that keeps you cold in hot conditions
14:21It is the subcutis that is the shock absorber to the body
14:26So that when you take a fall, you still don't feel anything
14:31There are some people in this room that got a incredible bounce-back game
14:36How that the enemy don't know when you threw me in a pit God put a trampoline
14:42So I just keep bouncing back. Is there anybody here that knows I done hit rock-bottom
14:49Rock-bottom three times, but I keep coming out of it because God has an assignment for my life
15:00Elisha
15:01has been dead for
15:05minimal 10 days
15:07Minimal 10 days because his epidermis is gone
15:12Minimal 10 days because his dermis is gone
15:16Minimal third days because his subcutis is gone
15:20It takes 10 days for the body to decompose and all Elijah has left is bones
15:27I need you to know I don't know who this word is for but God says I've seen what you've endured over the last 10 days. I
15:36Know it has been rough for you over the last 10 days, but you still got an anointing on your life
15:43I'm thankful under God that because the enemy don't understand he meant it for evil
15:49But God is getting ready to work it out for your good
15:53Can I prophesy to some worshiper in this room?
15:57God told me to tell you watch what he does over the next 10 days
16:02That the first 10 days of July is gonna be so good
16:07It's gonna be like the first six months never happen
16:11He said the enemy tried to strip you but I'm gonna clothe you in righteousness
16:18I dare you to prophesy to somebody and tell them call me in 10 days
16:24I'm gonna get a job offer. I'm gonna get a check in the mail. I'm gonna be offered a contract
16:30Somebody is gonna give me an apology
16:33My living situation is gonna get better. My health is gonna improve
16:39God is gonna fortify my life between now and July the 10th
16:45the next 10 day
16:48Miracles that are gonna happen
16:55You may be seated in the presence of the Lord
17:00Hallelujah, I need somebody to just shout out loud. I'm looking for the next 10 days
17:07Those of you who are online type in the thread July 10th
17:11Do you know what kind of crazy faith you got to give God a deadline?
17:17To say God between today and July 10th
17:22You got to do something for my family
17:25You got to do something for my business you got to do something for my hair
17:41Elisha performed 16 miracles when he was alive
17:49He performed 16 miracles when he was alive hear this and
17:54Then performed another one dead
18:01So theologians and biblicists keep giving Elisha only credit for 16
18:09when he performed 17
18:11God y'all ain't saying nothing to me
18:14The power of God was so heavy on his life
18:18That he got miracles after death
18:22How much you lift up that hand the Holy Ghost gave me a prophecy
18:26That I needed to release to you today. Is that God says brace yourself
18:31for after-death
18:33miracles
18:38What does that mean five of y'all better tear this church up he said brace yourself for after-death miracles
18:46Somebody's got to give God glory. He said because something is getting ready to happen
18:51Somebody who you didn't even know about left you something I
18:56Speak of a lifted hand that real estate is gonna be left to you
19:02Safe deposit boxes are gonna be assigned to you
19:07Your name is gonna be left in wheels in assets
19:12Capital is getting ready to come to you. I declare over every lifted person
19:18You didn't even know your name was in a trust fund
19:21Your aunt left something to you your grandmother left something to you. I got the wrong church
19:28I better say it backward God said for those of you who have lifted hand God said get ready for
19:35after-death miracles
19:37Because I am getting ready to release
19:40generational wealth your great
19:44Grandchildren are gonna rise up and call you bless it
19:48I declare over every worshiper that even into
19:532050
19:552060
19:572070 your
19:59Impartation into the earth will not be forgotten. I don't want you to shout for you
20:05I want you to shout for your unborn
20:09great
20:10Children who are gonna be the beneficiary of what you leave after death
20:19You may be seated
20:23Hallelujah
20:26Hallelujah
20:28When Joseph was blessed with a multicolored robe
20:33From his father's his brothers despised him
20:37So they snatched the robe off of him
20:40Because they thought his power was in the robe
20:44When part of his wife lied on him
20:48for sexual assault
20:50The first thing she did was grab a piece of his robe
20:54Because she thought his power was in the robe
20:58Ladies and gentlemen, they are folk who thought because of what you lost
21:03That you ain't got no one on
21:06But they don't understand my power ain't in stuff
21:10That's why I can lose stuff and still be anointed
21:15They can repossess my car
21:17My account can be an overdraft
21:21My house can be in foreclosure
21:23My hair can start falling out. My job can call me
21:28Non-essential my mate can fall out of love with me
21:33I can start gaining weight, but it don't matter because my power ain't in cars clothes and money
21:41I feel like preaching now, but my anointing is in my bow
21:48Jeremiah said it feels like fire
21:53Shut up in my bow
21:55Would you grab your neighbor's hand and say neighbor over the last five years
22:02I lost some stuff, but I still got my anointing
22:07Come on, I need you to talk like you got it
22:10I need you to elbow your neighbor and tell them don't play with me
22:16I'm bad to the bone. I can eat while I'm broke
22:20I can do well when I ain't got no money
22:24I can take care of myself when other folk leave me
22:30I'm bad. I'm bad to the bone
22:33I need you to shake that neighbor's hand and say neighbor
22:39Do you know what's on my life? I should have been dead
22:44They tried to kill me
22:46They set me up
22:49They lied on me
22:51They tried to get me fired, but I'm bad
22:56I'm bad to the bone. I need you to give free people a high-five
23:01And say though he slain me
23:05Yet will I trust him
23:07Cuz I'm bad
23:09I'm bad to the bone. I've been arrested
23:14I've filed bankruptcy
23:15I've been abused
23:17I've been rejected, but after all that I've been through I still got joy
23:25Cuz I'm bad
23:37I need you to give free people a high-five and tell them it's on me. It's on me
23:43It's on me
23:58Fight your holy God
24:07They threw
24:09They threw a dead man
24:12On Elisha and
24:14He came back to life. I hope y'all really didn't tear this church up
24:19I said they threw a dead man on Elisha, and he came back to life
24:26This is the last time they threw a dead man on
24:30Elisha and he came back to life
24:33God said I hope y'all are ready whoever bumps into you this week
24:38They gonna get their life back
24:41I dare you to just bump into somebody and say get your life back
24:47Get your joy back
24:49Get your peace back
24:51Get your happiness back
24:54Get your family back
25:01Whoever
25:04Bumps into you this week
25:07It's gonna get their life back
25:24The Lord took a man
25:27by the name of Ezekiel
25:30Into a valley of
25:32dry bones
25:34And he said to him Lord can these bones live?
25:39And the Lord said
25:41Hallelujah, all you got to do is prophesy
25:44Y'all didn't come to have church. He said if you prophesy
25:49Everything that's falling apart is getting ready to come together
25:55Y'all ain't gonna believe this it didn't start coming together until there was a sign I
26:01Came to new birth today if you want your stuff to come back together
26:06You can't be quiet
26:08You gotta open up your mouth
26:12until there's a sign
26:20Listen to me
26:23Here's what I don't want you to miss is that when they made a sound
26:28It wasn't one body that came together
26:31But everybody that's in the valley
26:34Started getting their life back in order
26:38God said there's getting ready to be a resurrection of bones
26:42That if I get everybody to open up your mouth
26:46Whoever's on your row
26:48Their life is gonna start coming back together
26:52When I count to three I need a shout in this room like you need to see all things come together
26:59one two three
27:09It's coming together, oh my god, it's coming together
27:15Everything you prayed for it's coming together
27:20Everything for your child
27:22It's coming together
27:24Everything that you've been working toward it's coming together
27:28Y'all still looking at me
27:30Give three people a high-five and say it's coming together in the next ten days
27:37It's gonna be pressed down
27:40Shaken together and run it over
27:43Come on, Zion. It's coming together
27:47Don't shop for yourself shop for who's next to you
28:07Lift up that hand softly musicians and strings. I got to show you something
28:14I
28:16Got to show you one thing
28:19Elijah you remember from Sunday school Elijah
28:23received a double portion
28:29Elisha received a double portion of Elijah and I wanted to show you this. I need that hand lifted. Listen to me
28:38What is crazy
28:40What is bothersome to me Tiffany Khaleesha ain't gonna believe it Elijah died and gave his anointing to nobody
28:51He got double portion and he knew how hard he had to fight for the attention of his mentor
28:59How hard he had to fight for his pastor and he gave it to nobody
29:06Hallelujah, I hope your hands are lifted
29:09God says if you worship me today, I
29:12Am gonna give you the anointing of the one who didn't want you to have it
29:25God I can't hear no worshipers in here
29:28Whoever tried to block you whoever tried to stop you
29:32Whoever was intimidated by you whoever threatened you God said I'm gonna give you their anointing
29:44Your dad didn't give you nothing
29:47Mama didn't give you nothing
29:50You were made to feel like the outside child about the accident
29:55But God said I need you to give me glory not for anything tangible not for anything material
30:00God I'd have made it barely through the first six months
30:04But for me to get through 2024, I need a double portion of your anointing
30:13God says I'm turning on the valve and the anointing is getting ready to flow
30:20But it's only gonna flow for those who really want a greater presence of me in their life. I
30:26Don't know where it is that you are, but I feel you're pulling on me
30:30Just for 30 seconds with that hand lifted
30:33Would you just cry out to God if you need his anointing? Oh
30:37my god, I
30:41Can't hear nobody come on open up your mouth
30:47I want you to have a double portion
30:54God you know what I need
30:57You know what I don't know what to ask for I
31:03Need your anointing. Is that all y'all got?
31:08You bad to the bone
31:12Don't you walk around looking defeated
31:15It's in you I can't hear nobody in here
31:18Do you know how much you'd have lost in your life if you were regular you would have committed suicide
31:25But it's in your bones
31:34I want to pray for you. I want to pray for you
31:43Your miracle
31:47Is trapped in the bones I need you to hear this your miracle is trapped in the bones
31:55of somebody dead
32:01They never gave you the apology
32:05You were never able to have the rough conversation
32:09Your life has been on hold
32:12from somebody dead
32:17God said I'm gonna tap into their bones
32:22And I'm gonna extract it out of there
32:25You ain't got a hold no grudge. You ain't got a hold no resentment
32:29Y'all ain't saying nothing to me. You ain't got to operate as a broken vessel
32:34God said I'll wake him up dead and get the anointing you supposed to have
32:44That hand is lifted I pray
32:49Hallelujah, I
32:52Pray for a young person in this room
32:56Who's being raised by their grandparent
33:00You still gonna get the anointing I
33:04Pray for the one in this room who never had a healthy relationship with your dad
33:11You still gonna get the anointing
33:15Pray for those of you in this room who are gifted and have never had opportunity
33:25Pray for those of you who had the capacity
33:29But nobody would open the door for you. I
33:34Declare over your life
33:37That you bared to the bone
33:41The three prayers two prayers I have to pray and my assignment would have come to an end two prayers I gotta pray
33:48And I need you to hear it's not gonna be applicable to everybody, but I need you to hear it
33:54For those of you with aging and older parents, would you lift up that hand?
33:59You're blessed to have aging and older parents. I need you to lift up that hand two prayers. I gotta pray
34:05I'm praying here. It is for your parents. They may not even be in this room
34:09May not even be in this state, but I need you to hear me
34:12I'm telling you I I heard the voice of God as clear as you're hearing my voice now
34:16I'm praying over your aging parents. No
34:21broken bones
34:24You
34:28Y'all don't know when to shout
34:30You ain't got to be worried about your mama falling down. You ain't got the way about your dad losing his balance
34:37I declare over you no
34:41broken bones
34:48Secondly listen to me need that hand lifted
34:5240% of all American children 40% of all American children will have a broken bone by 14
35:0340% of all American children Latina black white Asian if you're in America under 14
35:09You're gonna have a broken bone by 40% chance
35:13I now put a hedge fence of protection around your children
35:19Around your grandchildren
35:22Around your niece around your nephew y'all still ain't saying nothing around your God children
35:30That God will block from their space
35:35Anybody demonically assigned to break them
35:40Are y'all ain't shouting right?
35:42Nobody has authority to break their self-esteem
35:46to break their self-worth
35:49To manipulate their sexuality
35:52Y'all ain't saying nothing to me your baby is not gonna be depressed your baby
35:58It's not gonna be afflicted with anxiety
36:02No
36:03broken bones
36:10Not declaring decree of every person in this room every person that's online
36:15Would you just start laying hands on yourself?
36:19We have said it but didn't even know what we were saying I'm anointed from the top of my head
36:26to the sole of my feet and
36:28What you didn't notice is that from the top of your head to the sole of your feet?
36:33you have bones I
36:37Declare over your life prophetically that God is gonna keep your bones intact
36:48There'll be no need for knee replacement
36:53No need for hip replacement y'all still ain't shouting
36:57Open up your mouth. You will not be in a wheelchair. You will not be in a walker
37:02You will not need
37:04Occupational therapy come on open up your mouth your ankles will remain strong
37:09You will not have to be an orthopedic shoe
37:12God said I am covering every area of your bones
37:19You are
37:21protected
37:23Ladies and gentlemen, I said that people are gonna be blessed by bumping on the into you
37:32But I'm gonna say to you prophetically
37:35That in the first 10 days of this month
37:39God is gonna have you
37:41bump into
37:43influential people
37:45I
37:50Y'all ain't saying nothing
37:52God is gonna have you
37:54strategically meet people that can help change your life that will
38:00Put you in a better footing than you've ever been in your life
38:05And I declare it to be so
38:08I
38:09Thankful under God
38:10I want you to encourage three people very quickly embrace three people firmly and just whisper in their ear. You are bad to the bone
38:22Well bad to the bone
38:26You're bad to the bone
38:29You're bad to the bone
38:33Even after you die you gonna bless people
38:37When you don't breathe anymore, you still gonna be a blessing to people you are bad to the bone
38:51Can you imagine
38:53You
38:58Can you imagine how much authority you have that you are a threat after death
39:06But even after you die people are gonna live off of the sacrifice you made
39:12Because of your relationship with the Most High God. I want every person standing. I
39:19Want every person standing?
39:22Listen to me very carefully
39:24You're in this room. I
39:28Got to talk to you plain I got to talk to you straight you in this room
39:33The last 10 days been rough
39:36Last 10 weeks been a nightmare
39:40Last 10 months have been hell and somehow another
39:45God keeps waking you up
39:49Keeps giving you another day
39:52And you didn't even realize that God put something in your bones
39:58You're supposed to be in this church. You're supposed to be a part of this ministry. You're supposed to be a blessing to generations after you
40:07I was talking to George Frazier the other day. I said to him in Japanese culture every family has a 100 year plan
40:16But black people can't plan a family reunion two years out
40:20Yeah, we fighting over what color is the t-shirt
40:26The plan that God has for your life
40:30He started it while you were in your mother's womb
40:35Your latter days are gonna be greater than your former days
40:43My friend
40:45One of my best friends Bishop William Murphy says your future gonna be so good it's gonna be like your past never happened
40:54That's what I want for your life your future gonna be so good it'll be like your past never happened I
41:02Need you to get to this altar
41:04If you know you need a church that can breathe life to you. I
41:09Need you to get to this altar if you know, you've got to get connected to a ministry
41:13That will get you undergirded for your future
41:17That's who you are. That's where you are. I need you to come please. Would you meet me?
41:23Come on clap your hands as they come
41:37You
41:43You