The Danger of Entitlement | Bishop T.D. Jakes
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🗓️ 7 December 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
Sometimes rejection is direction. In this moving message from Mark 12:1-12 and Matthew 21:42-45, Bishop T.D. Jakes confronts the dangerous spirit of entitlement that threatens our relationship with God.
Bishop reminds us that we did not build what we’re standing in. God brings us into places that were already prepared. The question isn’t whether we deserve it; it’s whether we can steward it with humility. Entitlement can masquerade as pride, hide behind scripture, and embody false humility, while God waits to see if we’ve truly grown on the inside.
This is God’s pattern: bringing us into places of growth we didn’t create so we can stretch into His purpose. The greedy heart corrupts expansion, but gratitude recognizes that we don’t deserve what’s been given and transforms everything.
If you’re stepping into a new season, struggling with comparison, or needing a reality check about ownership versus stewardship, let this word recalibrate your heart.
Message: "The Danger of Entitlement”
Scripture: Mark 12:1-12; Matthew 21:42-45 (NKJV)
Speaker: Bishop T.D. Jakes
Date: Dec. 7, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Potter's House podcast. You are home away from home. Stay a while as the Word of God |
| 0:08.5 | restores your hope and transforms your life. What I'm going to give you today is in the book of |
| 0:15.2 | Mark, the gospel of St. Mark, chapter 12, verse 1 through 12. It is it is fairly fairly unfamiliar not often preached about |
| 0:26.2 | but it is something that the Holy Spirit gave to me today to share with you that you might hear |
| 0:31.5 | what the Spirit says to the church you're looking good this morning. |
| 0:39.2 | Thank you. |
| 0:40.7 | Thank you. |
| 0:41.8 | I'm feeling good. |
| 0:44.6 | That's the good part. |
| 0:48.5 | I hope I look good, but I'm happy I'm feeling good. |
| 0:51.0 | Hallelujah. |
| 0:53.9 | I'm feeling good down to my toes. I'm feeling good. I'm feeling blessed. I'm feeling like God is with me. I'm feeling like the hand of, I'm feeling like somebody praying for me. Yeah, yeah, that's good. That's good. In the gospel of St. Mark, chapter 12, verse one, he records a parable that was written, that was given by Christ in response to an adverse crowd who was trying to trip him up. |
| 1:22.2 | You must understand that most of Jesus' ministry was not done amongst his fans, his friends, |
| 1:29.9 | or his congregants. Jesus did most of his miracles amongst unbelievers and people who were |
| 1:37.4 | doubting and scoffing and trying to trip him up. You can't pick the crowd God sends you to. |
| 1:44.0 | You've got to be ready to do whatever God says do. Yes. You can't pick the crowd God sends you to. |
| 1:47.7 | You've got to be ready to do whatever God says do. |
| 1:55.6 | I've got a podcast with my daughter one day, and then the next day started Monday, I got a podcast with GZ. |
| 2:03.6 | You got to reach all. The Bible said all souls are mine. Not just the ones that sing in the choir, all souls are mine. |
| 2:08.6 | And you hear what I'm saying? |
| 2:09.6 | And you ought to be strong enough by now that you can share your truth and listen at somebody |
| 2:15.6 | and still come out and know who you are let them be who |
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