The Empire Within You, Part II - Touré Roberts

30:37 That's why if you study Scripture, Scripture repeatedly connects inheritances to generations. A good man leaves an inheritance for his children's children. He is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We just read in the text about Mary. being conceived of the Holy Ghost and they're talking about David in there. an empire is something that's passed down that's your children for the father for the father who is worried not just about you being sustained but your children being sustained this word is for you and I need you to get knocked up by it and stop asking God how and look into man I hear him saying the Holy Ghost is going to overshadow you is bigger than you.

32:10 I wouldn't give you that family without putting an anointing and an ability in you to provide for them and your grandkids. If you will work that ability, no excuses, no wishing, no waiting, only working. And you're going to have to, I'm digressing, but just let me have it for a minute. You are going to have to manage your time well. you're going to have to manage it well so that you can work when you need to work and rest when you need to rest you're going to have to be very intentional about how you move there are certain things if it doesn't profit you you got to put that to the side i'm building me in 2026 are you hearing the words that are coming out of my mouth i've got a legacy to build i've got an empire to release that's why i did that clarity god we're gonna move with clarity in 2026 because if i don't move with clarity i'm going to be careless and you say well pt that's a strong word it is strong careless is simply you doing something that you're not purposed to do that is careless everything around you is designed with purpose Thank you.

33:33 I don't want to waste 30 seconds on something that is not connected to my purpose to unleash the empire that is within me. so I gotta I gotta eat from it number two I gotta eat from it thank God I have to watch this be increased by it so the empire that is within you is bigger than you Mary had to grow up into what she was carrying once she received the conception she had to grow what was in her expanded her you hear what I'm saying so this empire in you is going to disrupt your perspective about your capacity.

34:45 I need to say that better. I need to say that better. When God puts an empire within you, you just receive something that is greater than your current capacity. which means that purpose is supposed to be uncomfortable. Can I take my time and really teach this thing? is supposed to stretch you from the inside out. I've been studying Solomon lately. And fascinating life. Fascinating man.

35:35 And in 1 Kings, it's somewhere around chapter 6 or 8 or 7 or 9. Read your whole Bible. You'll find it. It says something that God did. We know that God gave him wisdom. We know that God gave him understanding. But it says, Courtney, it says, God says, the Bible says that God enlarged his heart. now what we know about Solomon is that he was the richest and the wisest ever the Bible says no one before him and no one after him was richer or wiser than him Ecclesiastes breaks down how he had all this stuff and he did all these things and his wisdom seemed endless. He had this mega life. But the reason why he was able to have a mega outer life is because God expanded him to have a mega inner life.

36:40 so what God is going to do and what God has been doing for many of you before he shows you a mega outside Michael is he is stretching you to give you a mega inside because your outsides will never go beyond your insides and if they ever do I'm afraid of what might happen to you and God in his grace and his goodness will stretch you, will enlarge you to the size and to the shape of what he's called you to.

37:23 Are you hearing me? So don't ask God to shrink the assignment to your comfort. Let the assignment, let the vision stretch your thinking. your faith and your habits did you hear me I saved that one for last let the assignment stretch your thinking your faith watch this and your habits oh Phil Holy Ghost in other words my norm my normal method of operation has to be on the level of my calling.

38:33 When God is upgrading me, my habits must upgrade. So instead of scrolling, I'm reading. and I'm reading stuff that I don't even understand at first, that's what you want to read. If you're reading something and you can finish the sentence, you're reading too small. If you're hearing a sermon and you can finish the preacher's sentence, you're only going to stay at that level. God, give me a word that stretches me. I want to be stretched. Stretch me to my potentialization.

39:34 Okay, all right. And I got to tell you, I ain't gonna lie to you, that's the most expensive part of the process. I'll be honest with you that's the most extensive part of the journey that's why if you're barren don't worry about it and if you've been barren for a real long time don't worry about it because what you think what you're calling barren is you assuming that nothing is happening inside when in fact that is the very place where everything is happening every time you were disappointed and didn't quit stretch every time you wanted to give up but didn't stop every time they doubted you and talked about you and you decided to love them anyway Every time you were looked over and justice was not served on your behalf, but you wiped the tears from your eyes and showed up anyway.

40:56 Every time you forgave when it was hard to forgive, you had to go find forgiveness in order to forgive, but you did it anyway. Every time you got hurt in church and you didn't allow it to make you give up on God. Some under the sound of my voice, what you've been calling barren is simply being in the stretching process. Because what God has for you. you had to be bigger they say being the bigger person that's actually that's true God is raising up big people okay it's the most expensive part but it's worth it so we've got we have to eat from it be increased by it let the empire expand you All the great people got expanded Thirdly You have to impact with it If If If Your whole Perspective About the kingdom of God About the empire that is within you Is for you, you missed it You missed it It's through you It's through you And it is so It is so vast That you can't hold it It has to move through you.

42:59 If your vision is just for you, you don't know who you are. Now, every empire has borders. We talked about it. Let's read 2 Corinthians 10.13. I'm almost done. Paul says, We, however, will not boast beyond measure, but within the limits of the sphere which God appointed us, A sphere which especially includes you. So the Apostle Paul teaches us that we have a sphere. We have a domain. We have a territory, and this territory has borders. and within those borders, within that sphere that God has assigned to us, we can actually boast.

44:03 In other words, we can be bold and confident. I'm not talking about ego. see there's this passage of scripture Paul he puts it this way he says by the grace of God I am what I am now it's a powerful thing because this is not a proud statement because what he says is I am what I am he is owning who he is humility is not failing to own who god says you are that's false humility oh i'm just a lowly old i understand yeah we all are servants but the bible says that you are a king and a priest and as long as you know when to cast your crown down listen says in that worship service in heaven they cast their crowns down right in order to crack cast their crowns down before god they had to have it on their head before man i wish somebody would catch it it's false humility to not move like you are who god says you are so Paul says I am what I am but by the grace of God in other words I didn't do it on my own strength because if I did it I would be tore up from the floor up, jacked up messed up and nothing so I am acknowledging how I became but not denying who I am it's by the grace of God that I am who I am because what I am, what I am, because you're going to have to show up

46:09 to some showdowns and you can't be no little wimp, no little spiritual wimp. Oh Lord, if it be your will and oh little devil please devil if you don't mind devil let me, I just want a little crumb. No! I want the whole thing. and I'm going to take it by force because it's by the grace of God that I am what I am, meaning that it is a dishonor to God's grace to not show up fully formed. You ain't doing nobody no service. Being all sweet and cute and timid. The Lord told me this week, I was praying. He said, PT, I want you to be three things.

47:05 He says, I want you to be faithful. I want you to be focused. And I want you to be fierce. I want you to be faithful keep the main thing the main thing I want you to be faithful unto death faithful to the gospel faithful to winning souls faithful to your assignment faithful to me and I want you to be focused I want you to be clear I want you to be distraction free and by golly I want you to be fierce I want you to lay hold of some stuff because some things, watch this, some things you cannot grab softly.

47:48 There's some things you can't just gently and timbrely. Let me put it to you this way. The Bible says he who deals with a slack hand, a slack hand will become poor. But the hand of the diligent, the hand of the fierce, the hand of somebody that knows how to lay hold of something, the woman with the issue of blood she didn't just touch his garment study that thing in the greek she fastened a hold of that thing she grabbed that thing so much so that she got heaven's attention he said that is a fierce woman right there and that fierce woman will get everything that's a sign where my fierce people in god's house i'm not gonna be soft in 2026 i'm not gonna be timid in 2026 i'm gonna lay hold of everything that god has for me i'm not gonna be playing patty cake with the devil if it's mine and it belongs to me i'm gonna grab it turn me up in the monitors you gotta be fierce this is not ego this is expectation faithful that's so you know you're moving in the right direction faithful to god faithful to the gospel faithful to christ faithful to winning the loss faithful to your family faithful to your church faithful to giving faithful and praying faithful in intercession faithful in studying your word faithful in getting on your knees faithful and coming to church faithful faithful faithful and then focused.

49:43 I'm locked in I'm locked in stuff that I used to have time for I don't have time for because I'm focused because I'm clear because I'm after something my meat is to do the will of my father oh Torre ain't you hungry no I'm not hungry I'm hungry to do what God has called me to do because time is winding up if you know what I'm talking about give God some worship in this house time is winding up I don't have tomorrow tomorrow's gonna take care of itself God what are you calling me to lay hold of today faithful focused fierce in my sphere we almost there I'm a boast in my sphere that means I'm a talk about what God is talking to me about I'm a keep speaking it till I see it.

50:55 I'm going to go from saying, God, how is it going to happen to me to saying, let it be according to your word. Behold the maidservant of the Lord. Behold the manservant of the Lord. my language is going to change in this season we're almost there baby in this season pay attention to your conversations When Mary's identity shifted, so did her language. I withdraw myself from unprofitable conversations. because death and life is in the power of the tongue. And the Bible says that a man will eat good by the fruit of his lips. and he who loves it will have it that goes in either direction so i'm gonna eat by my mouth so if your conversation is too low i will excuse myself from that conversation because i don't want to be in agreement with something that is beneath where i'm trying to i wish somebody would catch what I'm saying because while you're investing yourself in that conversation you could have been in another conversation where people are talking about where you're trying to get to don't follow anybody and everybody on social media follow somebody that's having conversations on the level of your future because conversations create an agreement two of you shall agree in order to agree you got to be talking about something and I don't want to agree with a future that's less than my potential 2026

53:01 Pay very close attention To your conversations Because you cannot rise Above the conversations that you're having We're almost there I'm a boast I'm a boast within the territory of the sphere in that sphere there are people you gotta get this this might be the most important part in that sphere it's not just you having a big place to dwell No, there are things in the sphere that God has assigned to you that need to be redeemed.

53:50 You think about Jesus coming. He was preaching the gospel of the kingdom. What else was happening? He was driving out devils that had taken up occupancy. Come on. Come on. He was healing infirmities that were taking up occupancy. So I have to have an empire mentality because there were things in my life, my anointing, and my grace were assigned to dispossess. that if I never embrace the empire within me, then there will be squatters. on my property. so within the borders of your sphere via the kingdom darkness must be confronted what's your prayer like prayer life like do you see darkness on the news and you just say my my my or do you say my God my God my God in the name of Jesus darkness is confronted disorder is corrected i'm talking about the empire that is within you oh my god and it's vast and it's vast and some of you are just getting started it's vast there's some things watch this i'm gonna tie business into this there are some things that are out of order that if you bring order to, you will prosper.

55:46 wisdom wisdom wisdom wisdom wisdom part of your inheritance is wisdom wisdom if any of you lack wisdom let them ask of God who gives to all men freely wisdom wisdom wisdom the Bible says in first Corinthians it talks about how we're freely we can know things that are freely given to us by God freely given wisdom and one of the definitions of wisdom is the ability to solve problems Amen. and when you have a mind to work and when you understand that God has put an empire within you and you seek God's face not only are you going to bring order to chaos but for those who are called to business everybody knows that a business that will do well is a business that solves problems and our kingdom solves problems.

56:47 And you're like, spiritual problems. Yeah, but don't spiritual problems show up in the natural world? everything that is spiritual manifests itself in the natural. Disorder is corrected. Value is restored. And this is what I love. Systems are redeemed. Even systems are redeemed. I'm trying to help us to understand the difference between church and kingdom. church is the community the ecclesia the the call that we're called out of darkness into his marvelous light but then the question is for what For what? To do what Jesus did. To advance the kingdom in the earth.

57:49 I want to pray for some people. I'm so serious about this. I'm so serious about this. Come on, stand with me. We're going to pray. I'm serious about this and I'm going to give an altar call and God's going to do something my bride, Pastor Sarah talked about the church being relevant and she's absolutely right the church being relevant is a church that extends its impact. Hmm. Well, I'll use that phraseology. Extends its impact beyond the four walls. The reason why I struggle with that phraseology is because I don't believe that the, I think that the impact actually starts when we leave.

58:49 Thank you. systems structures they're things to be redeemed everything that God made has a hidden glory in it science has a hidden glory in it even law enforcement and the justice system has a hidden glory in it medicine has a hidden glory in it. Business, technology,

59:24 entertainment, media, it all has a hidden glory in it. And if kingdom people who have the keys to unlock that hidden glory stay in a church mentality and not a kingdom mentality, then whole systems and industries that were designed to be redeemed by you and I, by us. will fail to reflect the God who made it. I love church.

1:00:14 I love that we get to come together and pray together, and we have fellowship, and we have incredible relationships, and we get to see our kids grow together, and that is wonderful. But may we never forget what it's really about. It is about the gospel of the kingdom of God. And it starts with the empire that he put in you.

1:00:50 Jesus coming was, watch this, to impregnate the world with the kingdom. Track, track with me. He comes and he announces the kingdom of God is here. And the Bible says that whoever received them in John, to them he gave the power to be sons of God. What do sons of God do? They advance the kingdom.

1:01:25 We see the whole thing. Conception that needs reception. And when that reception happens, then we receive the ability to be like him. Now Romans 8 makes sense. For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing. Remember Mary? Behold, the maidservant of the Lord, new identity.

1:01:56 Now the kingdom that was being, watch this, birthed and grown in her, came out of her and changed the world. you are a representation of Mary and Mary is a reputation of you and if you receive the identity as a kingdom citizen and you align your actions and your words and your expectations and your conversations and your movements and everything pertaining to your life with what God has placed in you, eyes have not seen, ears have not heard. For you, for your children, and your children's children, you will not lack anything.

1:02:54 You will not miss anything. You don't have to worry. You don't have to cry yourself to sleep at night. Just seek first the kingdom and his righteousness, and God promises all other things will be added unto you. This is the shift we must make from church to kingdom. Amen? I want to pray for some people. My prayer every single day is that we would recognize the empire. It ain't over there.

1:03:43 It ain't up there. It ain't in PT and dad and mom and Sarah, Don and Finchard and all them. We got it, but that ain't where you need to look. It's in you. It's in you. You got it.

1:04:08 You got it. If you're here, I'm going to do this invitation a little differently. If you're here and you say, I want to be a part of the kingdom. You're here and you just feel like God is opening your eyes a little deeper to what you got when you got Jesus. Or maybe you've never opened up your heart to Jesus. All of us had that one time. If you're here and you say, I want to receive Jesus. And I want to receive Jesus as the king of the kingdom. so that the empire that's within me can be activated. I want you to meet me here at this altar right now. If you're watching via live stream, just put it right there in the chat.

1:05:03 I receive Jesus. I receive my inheritance. Just come meet me here at this altar right now. You don't have to leave. We're out in eight minutes. Let's just honor this moment. God bless you. I see you. God bless you. I see you. If it's time to come home, you say, you know what? I want to open up my heart to Jesus. I want this thing for real. I want this thing for real I just want you to come meet me here at this altar this thing is real and there's so much in you when you got Christ you got a lot you can just come while I'm talking because we're going to pray and something's going to happen at this altar second point of this invitation is you don't want to let this year end we got a few more days left in the year but you don't want to let this year end without recommitting your life to God without getting on track. And I hear God saying, I know how to restore the years.

1:05:58 I know how to restore the years. It'll be like you were never gone. Watch me, watch me, watch me restore the years. I'm going to do for you as if you were with me the whole time. If you're here and you say, I want to rededicate, I want to recommit my life to Christ, I want you to come and meet me here at this altar. We're almost done. Come on. If that's you, I want you to come. We're going to pray. We're going to get it together. last point is invitation is if you're here and and you want the house the potter's house to be your house it already is it's just you coming into agreement you believe that this is the place that god meets you it doesn't matter who's speaking god always has something for you of anointed gifted talented preachers and teachers and kingdom citizens prophets apostles well we have it all here and they have integrity and they love people or they wouldn't be here not by choice we have people that love you we have communities that are waiting to embrace you remember i talked about your conversations we want to grow with you walk with you build you if you're here and you say i want to be a part of the potter's house then i want you to come forward and at the end i've got pastors to my left there. They'll receive you, connect with you, or if you have to go, there's the QR code, but I want to pray with you.

1:07:19 This thing is real. You got a whole empire in you. You're full. Everything you need, when you accept Christ, you get it all. And so we spend the rest of our lives unpacking all that we got. We got all kind of stuff. Salvation, healing. We got the ability to have a renewed mind. We got the Holy Spirit. We got joy. We got peace. It's a Greek word for joy, and I love it. It means calm, pleasantness, calm, like a calm excitement. It's an interesting word. It's like it's not even loud. Joy is a calm knowing.

1:08:10 And so all heck will be breaking out around you. But because you got the Holy Ghost in you, the empire in you, The kingdom of heaven is not in eating and drinking, but it's in righteousness and joy and peace. And you have this calm contentment because you know all things are working together for your good. Even this is working together for my good. That's amazing. Peace that passes all understanding.

1:08:38 Father, Torrey Roberts was obedient today. and I thank you God that your word will not return unto you void but it shall establish the purposes for which it was set now God I thank you for all those who are coming to your altar saying yes to you and God anytime there's an invitation and we respond and say yes there is a spiritual transaction hallelujah so I thank you Lord God for the spiritual transactions that are taking place here at this altar today hallelujah and in that spiritual transaction there is also an exchange our stuff for yours our heaviness for your lightness our strength for your power the garment of praise where there was once heaviness God there's some under the sound of my voice right now and even as we are talking about Christmas and we know that's mass but mass in other languages is more and we thank you Lord God that more is coming to your children more wisdom, more revelation more strength, more Here we go.

1:10:06 that you are enlarging their hearts, expanding their insides so that they might carry what they're called to. And Father, some are rededicating their life to you today. They're saying, yes, Bible says like sheep, we all have gone astray. That's what sheeps do. But we thank you for your grace and your mercy and you keeping us and we thank you for justification just as if we had never gone astray now father in this new beginning we ask for more of your spirit you teach us in luke chapter 11 that more of your spirit is the answer to every situation we have in life and so we open our mouths we open our hearts we open our souls wide and we ask you to fill us to the overflow that we might be everything you've called us to be now father there's some here that you are literally changing their identity they're gonna go like Mary from how can this be because I've only looked to man I've only looked to man's system how can this be and God you're gonna change their language and they're gonna say behold the servant of the Lord be it unto me according to your word and you will change their language you will change their environments you will change their tongue and you will change their life bless each one richly in Jesus name now repeat after me heavenly father I thank you for your love. I feel it. Heavenly Father, I thank you for your word.

1:12:02 I receive it. Heavenly Father, I thank you for Jesus. Thank you for making him who had no sin all of mine all of my weakness all of my limitations all of my shortcomings you put in his body nailed it to the cross for this purpose the son of God was manifest that he might destroy the works of the devil and God just as he was raised up free and victorious because I'm in him I'm raised up too and therefore I will be faithful I will be focused and I will be fierce Holy Spirit fill me to the overflow you've placed an empire within me I will be increased by it and I will expand it all to your glory.

1:13:14 I love you, God. I thank you. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen, amen. God bless you. If you're joining, see the pastors to the left or use the QR code, see you here Wednesday night. It's going to be amazing. May the Lord bless and keep you. May he make his face to shine upon you and be gracious toward you. May he lift up his countenance over you and grant you shalom and shalom in Jesus' name. God bless you. Love you. At the Pardus House, we are invested in you.