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Come on.

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So Matthew, chapter 21.

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And then we're going to start
at verse six.

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So let's read this together.

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And the disciples went and did
as Jesus commanded them.

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Verse 7.

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And they brought a donkey and
a colt, and they put on them their

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clothes.

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And they set Jesus.

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They set him on.

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On thereon.

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Verse 8.

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And a very great multitude
spread their garments in the way.

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Others cut down branches from
the trees and strawed them in the

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way.

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Verse 9.

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And the multitudes that went
before, before and that followed

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cried, saying, hosanna to the
Son of David.

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Blessed is he that cometh in
the name of the Lord.

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Hosanna in the highest.

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And when he had come into
Jerusalem, all.

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All the city was moved.

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And like we said last week,
there was like an earthquake in the

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city.

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That's what that word, moved.

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It means like a quake, like an earthquake.

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So the city was rumbling with
the presence of Jesus, rumbling with

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their cries, rumbling with the
sounds of hosanna, rumbling with

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the gossip of, who is this man
that comes from Nazareth?

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And the multitude said, when
they asked him, who is this guy?

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Verse 11.

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The multitude said, this is
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Galilee.

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Now we know that they actually
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because he was not just a
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And had they known that he was
the Messiah, remember this was the

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Jewish people, they would have
understood that he was just days

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away from the cross and it
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picture.

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But they didn't have the full
revelation of who he was.

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And so therefore they just
said, he's the prophet of Nazareth,

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of Galilee.

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And I want to stop there
because I've got to break this down

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for you.

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Any spirit that, whether it's
human or demonic, that limits the

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fullness of who Jesus really
is, let him be accursed.

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Because when you reduce Jesus,
you eliminate the possibility of

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what God wanted to bring him
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And so if Jesus is only a
prophet, you don't receive forgiveness

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of sins from a prophet.

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If Jesus is only a prophet,
you're reducing who he really is

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and what he's able to do and
the frustration that Jesus must have

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felt that he was in their
midst and yet they didn't fully understand

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who.

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Who he was completely.

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This is the crux of the entire
sermon that I want to preach to you

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today.

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Because there are Presbyterian
churches that reduce who Jesus is.

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There are Methodist churches,
Baptist churches, dare I even say

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Pentecostal and charismatic
churches that reduce who Jesus is

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and what Jesus is able to Do.

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This is why in the Old
Testament, you, God revealed himself

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as I am.

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That I am.

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Because it's a fill in the blank.

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Whoever you need me to be,
that's who I am.

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If you need a healer, I am
your healer.

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If you need a deliverer, I am
your deliverer.

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If you need a way maker, I am
your way maker.

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That's why the only name that
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is I am.

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But then the I am shows up as
Jesus and they don't recognize him

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as the I am.

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And it's crazy, because right
now there's so much controversy about

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whether prophecy is for today
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There's so much controversy
over whether Jesus still heals people

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or if that was just a gift
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a certain time for the
inauguration of the kingdom, but

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it decreased and diminished in
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And we should not be praying
for people and believing that they

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can get healed, because that
was just to a greater degree happening

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in the times of Jesus to prove
that the kingdom entered.

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But how many of you know every
bit of that could be the intelligence,

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intellectualization of
people's doubt in the form of false

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theology?

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Because what we've done is
we've done a really good job of systematizing

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the scriptures around our own doubt.

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We've done a really good job
in Christianity of systematizing

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the theology around how God
can't do something and about how

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Jesus can't do it today.

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And my hope and my prayer just
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is that as we've taken this
journey with Jesus through Matthew,

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Mark, Luke and John, as we've
retraced his strip, his.

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His steps in the streets, you
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was not Jesus, it was the audience.

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Like, you've never heard a bad sermon.

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You just were bad at receiving
from that particular sermon.

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If the word of God was being
taught, if the scripture was being

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read, it was breath and life
to you, whether you received the

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resuscitation or not.

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You've never been in a bad
worship service.

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They may have sang off a key,
they may have played the wrong note.

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But you weren't in a bad
worship service.

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You were a bad worshiper in
that worship service.

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Like, because the thing is,
Jesus, when you begin to honor and

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acknowledge the fullness of
who he is, you can receive in the

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worst worship performance
there can be, the best worship.

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In the worst sermon there can
be the greatest revelation.

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Because you take the lid off
and you say, it's God.

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I'M here and there's something
that I need and want from you.

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But the thing that's in short
supply is not local churches.

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There are hundreds and
hundreds of churches from Montauk

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all the way to Brooklyn.

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And you cross over to
Manhattan and you go into New Jersey,

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they'll say the Northeast is godless.

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But you wouldn't think it was
by the number of churches on every

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corner.

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There's no lack of preachers
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I mean, as a matter of fact,
the amount of people thinking that

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they're qualified to teach the
gospel has increased dramatically.

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And some of them need to sit
down and turn their social off for

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a little while and learn how
to sit and receive before they teach.

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Amen.

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So it's like we've got an
abundance of teachers.

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Everybody thinks they're a teacher.

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We have an abundance of preachers.

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We have an abundance of
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What we don't have is hunger.

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What we don't have is desire
for more of him.

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What we don't have is the
unction to say, lord, I want to know

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you in all that you could be,
not some of what you are, not what

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religion taught me, but I want
to know you for myself.

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And this is what made me,
Moses, dangerous.

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Because Moses pushed past the superficiality.

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And Moses said, show me your glory.

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You're not supposed to ask for that.

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But the Bible recounts the
story of Moses asking to see the

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glory of God because he
becomes an example of, will we be

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those who are hungry?

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Will we be those who are desperate?

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Do we want more from him?

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Or will we just simply expect
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The story of Abraham in
scripture is an incredible story

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of him saying, I'm going to go away.

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I know not.

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I'm going to take my wife
Sarah, and we're going to journey

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into a foreign land.

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And I'm going to dare to ask
God for more than what I have in

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my life.

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And I'm going to operate in
faith to believe that there is more

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than what is in this generation.

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And when you look at the
Bible, it's the stories, it's.

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You go New Testament, you look
at a guy like Peter, and he's just

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a fisherman, but he's on the boat.

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And he just says, lord, if you
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you out there.

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And he begins to call from the
boat and he says.

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He says, just call my name and
I'll step out and I'll get.

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But think about.

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He would have known the waves
so well, would have been like driving

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8094 in northwest Indiana, it
would have been like driving the

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parkway.

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He would have known those
waters well enough to know that you

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don't step out to walk on the
water, and you certainly don't go

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out there in a storm.

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But he.

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He was breaking the rules
because the rules limited the expression

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of who Jesus could have been
for him.

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And there's something about this.

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And I. I think the thing that the.

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The whole reason why I started
V1 church is because I thought to

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myself, what would happen if I
got a group of people together that

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weren't good at following
rules and said, I know I'm not supposed

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to believe for this.

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I know Christians say that
cancer is just my lot in life, and

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I should just accept it and
suffer well, and die.

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But I've been convicted
reading these scriptures that he

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still heals.

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And what if I broke the rules?

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Or, you know, what if during
worship, instead of staying in my

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seat, I just got up and I
begin to dance?

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Because when I read the
scriptures, nobody.

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Come on.

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David wasn't supposed to dance.

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Matter of fact, somebody was
jealous at his dance, but he danced,

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and he was so indignant, his
clothes fell off.

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And what if I had a church.

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Full of rule breakers that
said I was never good at the tradition,

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I was never good at the rules anyways.

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But I want to know this man.

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I want to know this God.

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Are y' all with me?

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And this is why it's so ironic
that Scripture is filled with stories

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of those who push past what
they were told that they were supposed

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to get from God and with God, and.

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And yet we create these
denominations, we create these churches

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where we just stay in a box
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us we had to stay in.

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And when I look at this story,
and this is the story of Matthew,

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chapter 21, it's such an
incredible story because Jesus shows

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up now, and because we've got
to go a little bit deeper into the

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text, Jesus shows up, and they
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So this is really an act of
extravagant generosity.

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And they're putting their
coats down on the bare ground, and

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there's all this dirt and soil
and, you know, the rocks and if you

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know, the terrain and.

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And they're laying their coats
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he comes on this donkey, and
he's literally just walking upon

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their coats, like, treading
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had.

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And then they have these palm
branches, which, you know, we're

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not gonna get too much into
the deeper side of the theology around

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this.

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But essentially, they were
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And as they were celebrating
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they would have taken the
branches off of the trees, and they

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begin to take those palm
branches and they begin to say hosanna

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Day, they were actually celebrating.

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This is interesting, they were
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So what was happening was they
were acknowledging something spiritual

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was happening, even though in
the natural, they should have been.

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On one timeline, they were
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There's another timeline.

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But the problem was, and very
few preachers, I think, in America

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will really preach this
properly, because we like to preach

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the hype.

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We like to preach it.

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And believe me, we're gonna
get to the hype in a few moments.

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But how many of you know,
like, it can't just be emotionalism.

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You can't take this book and
make it say whatever you want it

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to say.

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Can I get an amen?

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Like, it's gotta say what it
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So here's the thing that the
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They're.

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They're there in Jerusalem to
celebrate one feast.

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They recognize Jesus as a
prophet coming into Jerusalem, and

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they say, wow, this is Hosanna day.

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So maybe it's.

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Maybe we should be saying,
deliver me now.

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But then the thing is, they
were partially right.

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This is what I want you to understand.

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They recognize that Jesus was
special, but not that he was the

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Messiah.

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They were partially right.

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And then they begin to worship him.

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And as they were worshiping
him, if you really discern it by

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the spirit, it's not true
worship at all.

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It's a request that they're
making of somebody to do something

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for them.

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So somebody give me their palm branch.

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Run up and give me a palm branch.

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So, thank you.

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So let me show you this.

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So they have these palm
branches, and they're saying, yashana,

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Yashana, deliver now.

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Deliver now.

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And as they're worshiping him,
they're feeling like, yeah, there's.

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This is.

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Look at.

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This is going to be the guy.

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Deliver me now.

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Deliver me now.

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But these are Jewish people
that are subjugated to the government

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of Rome, and they're not fully
free, right?

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Rome is the occupying nation.

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And so they wanted a political leader.

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And so when they see Jesus,
they discern that he's special, but

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not that he's Messiah.

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And as they begin to say,
yashana, deliver now, they're making

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a request, okay, go into Jerusalem.

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Look, we'll put our coats down.

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We'll do all this for you.

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But we need you to understand
that what we want to get in return

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as the people, is we're going
to make you king, and we need you

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to rally everybody to revolt
against Rome so that we can overturn

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Rome and that the Jews can
actually inhabit this without occupying

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armies.

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Does this all make sense to you?

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So the reason for their
worship, it was polluted by their

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own desire of what he was
going to give them and reciprocate

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for their worship.

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So, in other words, I will lay
my coat down.

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It looks like generosity, but
I'm giving to get.

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It looks like worship, but I'm
just crying out, out of desperation.

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This is why I think the story
of the woman with the issue of the

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blood is so important, because
she had gone to so many doctors that

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finally, out of her
desperation, she began to break the

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rules and crawl through the
crowd and say, if I can just touch

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the hem of this man's garment,
I can be healed.

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So what happens is God lets
something go from bad to worse for

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his glory so that she would
start to recognize that.

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That this man that's getting
ready to walk through your town,

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you've been treating him too common.

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You're treating him like a teacher.

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You're treating him like a prophet.

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But if you're desperate
enough, you'll start.

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You'll stop treating him
common, and you'll start to access

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the power that he has.

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And it'll be more than a request.

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It'll be surrender, because
you can't do it pretty.

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You got to get down on your.

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Belly, and you got to crawl
through the crowd, and.

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And you got to humble yourself.

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And see, this is what I'm saying.

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When everybody had the palm
branches, it was like, oh, look,

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everybody.

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This is our candidate.

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We're going to vote him in.

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Look, it's Rubio.

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Rubio, the next president.

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Oh, look, it's Trump.

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Oh, look, it's Obama.

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Oh, look.

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Come on.

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Who's your per.

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Look, here's our savior.

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They're coming.

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But what are you asking for?

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And what happens is when you
are trying to get somebody to do

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something for you, you'll make
them a celebrity, not a savior.

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And then you will not be able
to recognize who the true savior

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is.

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This is why we have political
idolatry in the United States on

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both sides.

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This is why we have racial
idolatry in every direction.

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Come on.

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I'm trying to help y'.

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All.

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I'm trying to help y'.

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All.

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That's why the one of the most
segregated days on in every week

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is Sunday, when we filter into
churches where everybody has the

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same schedule color, because
we just learn to play by the rules.

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And the rules are, I can't
have a white pastor, especially one

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with hair now.

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And I can't go to a church
that doesn't play song the way, you

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know.

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And, you know, it's like, what
happens is we begin to build up our

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request.

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We begin to build up our reciprocation.

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I'll do this for you if you do
this for me.

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I'll participate in this if I can.

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I'll be active in the local
church if I can climb the social

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hierarchy.

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In other words, like, I need a
sense of significance.

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So that's why I serve.

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I need to feel important.

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So I hope they acknowledge me
in the church.

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I hope they see me.

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I'm gonna go.

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It's like, I'm telling you,
there's all this humanness, there's

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all this carnality, there's
all these selfish desires.

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And I think, what grieved me
about the reading of Matthew, chapter

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21, and you can go to the Book
of Mark, you can go to Luke, and

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you can look at the different
accounts of this same story.

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And I've heard sermons about
Palm Sunday every year of my life.

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And I'm like, why has nobody
ever pointed out the fact that they

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were worshiping a false
version of Jesus with the real Jesus

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right in front of them?

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And that's why here we have
black Jesus, white Jesus, brown Jesus,

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yellow Jesus.

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We have Presbyterian Jesus,
Methodist Jesus, Baptist Jesus, Pentecostal

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Jesus.

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We have Republican Jesus,
Democrat Jesus, woke Jesus, liberal

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Jesus.

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Come on.

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We have academic Jesus.

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We have relatable Jesus.

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We have Jesus that has a lot
of followers on Instagram.

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We got Meme Jesus.

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We got Buddy Jesus.

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I'm going there today.

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I'm going there because the
irony is you fashion a God in your

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own image when the true one is
right in front of you, asking that

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you would fashion yourself
into his image.

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That's what discipleship is,
is you become more like him instead

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of making him more like you.

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Because when you join a church
to fulfill your own preference, it's

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only a matter of Sundays until
you leave the church.

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Because we don't scratch your
itch and meet your preferences.

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Listen.

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And at best, the preacher
preaches the word of God, but at

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worst, when you've built a
Christianity of convenience, the

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preacher will preach to
itching ears what he thinks that

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people want to hear because.

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Because.

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Oh, come on, somebody.

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You're.

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You're Crying, hosanna, to be
delivered from the wrong thing.

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What they should have done is
they should have said, jesus, we

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know that you're the Messiah,
and we know that you're here in Jerusalem

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to go to the cross.

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And we're all here to say,
we'll go with you.

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We'll go with you.

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What they should have said
was, jesus, I'm not here for the

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miracles.

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I'm not here for deliverance
from demons.

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I'm not here to ask that you
do a governmental coup and flip the

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regime that's over us here,
Rome, Jesus, I'm here for you.

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Completely, totally.

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I lay aside my agenda.

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I lay aside my cultural preferences.

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I lay aside the familiarity of
my own life.

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But you know what?

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I've heard people preach it
like, look how extravagant.

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They put their coats down on
the dirt.

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It's much easier to lay a coat
down on the dirt than it is to lay

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down your preference to lay
down, your selfishness to lay down.

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Because you know the very
definition of paganism is I'm going

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to offer an item to a deity,
and then that deity is going to give

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me something in response.

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That is the very definition of paganism.

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So what makes Christians
separate than pagans is we get desperate

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enough like that woman with
the issue of blood that we say, lord,

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I. I'm going to crawl through
a crowd.

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I'm going to humble myself.

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I'm going to push past all the
rules, and I want to know you for

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who you are, and I want to
grab a hold of the hem of your garment.

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I'm not asking for a conversation.

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I'm asking for an encounter.

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I'm not asking.

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Come on.

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I'm not asking for significance.

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I don't care if you notice me.

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This is why her story is so powerful.

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She wasn't looking for a title
in the local church.

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She wasn't looking to be
noticed on the Internet.

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She wasn't looking for fame.

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She wasn't looking to sit at
the table with Jesus.

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She said, if I could just get
close enough to him to encounter

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him, if I can just touch the
hem of his garment, then I will be

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made whole because I know who
this man is.

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And see, there's something
about this next season of.

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Of your life where you.

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Where you start to break the
rules and say, okay, enough is enough.

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There's only two teams, and a
team is not Islam versus Christianity.

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It's not Hinduism versus Christianity.

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It's not atheism versus Christianity.

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It is those who believe that
he is the Messiah who submit and

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surrender to him as Lord and
those who do not.

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That's it.

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There's only two sides.

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And that woman was saying, I'm
thinking that this man is more, I'm

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thinking, and if I can just
get close to him.

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And she had to get down on her
belly to surrender.

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It looked like extravagant worship.

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Coats on the ground, palm
branches in hand, loud shouts, deliver

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us now.

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But it was really the
equivalency of a whole bunch of orphans

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begging instead of receiving a father.

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Do you want a meal or do you
want a family?

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Do you want a new outfit or do
you want a family?

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Do you want a bed or, or do
you want a family?

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Do you want a house or do you
want a family?

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Do you want a car or do you
want a family?

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See, this is the thing they
were interacting with Jesus saying,

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I want some things from you.

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I don't want you Jesus, but I
want you to fix this political problem.

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I don't want you Jesus, but I
want you to fix my physical problem.

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And see, the thing about the
gospel is, the gospel is we get so

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much more than a car, so much
more than a house, so much more than

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a meal.

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We get a family with a father
in heaven who loves us.

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And because we have a father,
we have everything that our Father

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has and we have access to
everything our Father has for us.

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And so the revelation of the
Bible is if you stop requesting from

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Jesus and you get into
relationship with Jesus,.

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Then you don't have to request.

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You can open the refrigerator
at one in the morning because you

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live in.

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The house that has an
unlimited supply and you're no longer

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an orphan.

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Begging.

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You are a son and daughter,
grabbing, taking authority, accessing

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what's been given to you
because you've been grafted into

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a family.

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And see, I'm concerned right now.

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I'm concerned right now
because I see a lot of people signing

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up for Christianity but not
being adopted by Christ.

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And this is why, as I get
ready to come to a close, you need

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to understand the difference because.

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There's two sides, there's two
teams, the sons of Satan.

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Luciferianism is the system
that governs this world.

486
00:24:21,120 --> 00:24:26,280
But then there's this up
upside down system where Jesus, the

487
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:30,480
greatest of all, is the
servant and he's raising us up.

488
00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:33,760
And so you got to choose you
this day whom you will serve.

489
00:24:34,830 --> 00:24:38,110
As for me and my house, we
will serve the Lord.

490
00:24:38,510 --> 00:24:40,350
But there is no middle ground.

491
00:24:40,910 --> 00:24:42,110
There is no middle ground.

492
00:24:42,670 --> 00:24:46,950
And so as I was thinking about
these two teams, as I was thinking

493
00:24:46,950 --> 00:24:50,790
about these two Sides and how
I was going to present this message

494
00:24:50,790 --> 00:24:54,390
to you, My mind immediately
went to the book of Revelation, which

495
00:24:54,390 --> 00:24:55,630
I'm going to show you in a moment.

496
00:24:56,110 --> 00:24:59,470
But you got to understand,
it's like, but, Mike, is it wrong

497
00:24:59,470 --> 00:25:00,920
to ask Jesus for things?

498
00:25:01,070 --> 00:25:01,230
Things?

499
00:25:01,230 --> 00:25:03,870
Because didn't Jesus say, ask
of me?

500
00:25:04,350 --> 00:25:05,630
Didn't Jesus give us.

501
00:25:05,710 --> 00:25:07,950
Yeah, but it's the heart
behind it.

502
00:25:07,950 --> 00:25:08,190
Watch.

503
00:25:08,190 --> 00:25:08,990
Here's the difference.

504
00:25:09,150 --> 00:25:12,870
Because one of them, you're
begging as an orphan, the other one,

505
00:25:12,870 --> 00:25:16,670
through adoption, you're
accessing what you know you have

506
00:25:16,670 --> 00:25:20,190
authority to was already yours
through your father.

507
00:25:20,590 --> 00:25:21,870
Now let me tell you a story.

508
00:25:21,870 --> 00:25:26,830
So the team, I had 27 people
travel to London with me for Breakers

509
00:25:26,830 --> 00:25:27,110
Night.

510
00:25:27,110 --> 00:25:30,030
London, we had God TV simulcast.

511
00:25:30,030 --> 00:25:33,480
And we're so thankful for
their commitment to the vision that

512
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:38,720
I cast for breakers that they
simulcasted all across Europe, many,

513
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:40,160
many European nations.

514
00:25:40,400 --> 00:25:42,000
So we're in this venue in London.

515
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,400
The line goes blocks down the street.

516
00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:46,480
People have flown from other countries.

517
00:25:46,959 --> 00:25:51,160
People have driven three,
four, five hours away just to be

518
00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:51,440
there.

519
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:52,600
And they're cramming it.

520
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:57,200
I mean, our team was scanning
tickets and people were basically

521
00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:58,400
fighting them to get in.

522
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:00,440
They just hurry up, scan my ticket.

523
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:01,440
I have to be in the room.

524
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:02,640
I have to be in the room.

525
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:06,480
The hunger, the desperation
that we saw was off the charts.

526
00:26:07,120 --> 00:26:11,760
And people coming from Wales,
church planters, people coming from

527
00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:16,000
Dubai, actually came from
Dubai to come to London.

528
00:26:16,000 --> 00:26:16,800
Just a demand.

529
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:18,560
I want to be in the atmosphere.

530
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:19,600
I want to be in the room.

531
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:24,040
But there was this young man
that was a monthly partner of Mike

532
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:27,590
Signorelli Ministries, and he
was there for the partners Q and

533
00:26:27,590 --> 00:26:28,910
A that we do before the event.

534
00:26:28,910 --> 00:26:32,030
And he stood in line because I
give people an opportunity to ask

535
00:26:32,030 --> 00:26:32,830
me questions.

536
00:26:32,990 --> 00:26:36,710
And he said, when it came to
me, he said, I checked myself out

537
00:26:36,710 --> 00:26:43,070
of a mental institution this
morning, and I told myself, if I

538
00:26:43,070 --> 00:26:47,150
could just get to the Breakers
Night, I know I can be free.

539
00:26:47,150 --> 00:26:51,190
And then he starts crying, how
do I get free from these demons tormenting

540
00:26:51,190 --> 00:26:51,710
my mind?

541
00:26:52,510 --> 00:26:54,110
Because I know that I need help.

542
00:26:54,270 --> 00:26:57,830
And I told him, I said,
tonight you're going to learn your

543
00:26:57,830 --> 00:27:00,590
identity and you're going to
learn who you are through Christ,

544
00:27:00,590 --> 00:27:02,350
and you're going to be free
from these demons.

545
00:27:03,070 --> 00:27:06,430
So all of a sudden, the
service begins to, I mean, worship.

546
00:27:06,430 --> 00:27:07,270
It was powerful.

547
00:27:07,270 --> 00:27:08,190
God was moving.

548
00:27:08,430 --> 00:27:11,590
But then all of a sudden we
get to a part where I start confronting

549
00:27:11,590 --> 00:27:12,590
the works of darkness.

550
00:27:12,670 --> 00:27:17,550
And that whole sermon, what I
was trying to do was get the identity

551
00:27:17,950 --> 00:27:20,170
into them and of who they
really are.

552
00:27:20,170 --> 00:27:24,370
And it Because a lot of
Christianity has made this one man

553
00:27:24,370 --> 00:27:28,810
show where it's like, oh, my
favorite preacher, my favorite pastor.

554
00:27:28,810 --> 00:27:32,210
And that one man show
mentality is one of the worst things

555
00:27:32,210 --> 00:27:35,450
that could have entered the
body of Christ because we view ourselves

556
00:27:35,450 --> 00:27:36,930
as passive or active.

557
00:27:37,090 --> 00:27:41,090
And it's like one man is
active while the multitudes are passive.

558
00:27:41,330 --> 00:27:44,730
One man is preaching and
ministering, and the multitudes are

559
00:27:44,730 --> 00:27:45,370
not doing it.

560
00:27:45,370 --> 00:27:49,050
And so I was really like, how
do I help London understand?

561
00:27:49,210 --> 00:27:53,090
We are not here to see Mike
Signorelli, but Mike Signorelli is

562
00:27:53,090 --> 00:27:58,010
here to help you understand
who you are in Christ, to open your

563
00:27:58,010 --> 00:28:02,410
eyes, to equip you and then
turn you loose to do what God's called

564
00:28:02,410 --> 00:28:03,130
you to do.

565
00:28:03,530 --> 00:28:04,890
Does this all make sense?

566
00:28:05,530 --> 00:28:08,810
So the whole message was a
message of adoption.

567
00:28:09,130 --> 00:28:10,650
You're not here to beg.

568
00:28:11,130 --> 00:28:12,250
You're not here to.

569
00:28:12,610 --> 00:28:15,330
To like, oh, Lord, please, if
it be thy will.

570
00:28:15,970 --> 00:28:18,210
You know, it was like, no.

571
00:28:18,210 --> 00:28:20,370
It is his will for you to be healed.

572
00:28:20,530 --> 00:28:22,770
It is his will for you to be delivered.

573
00:28:22,770 --> 00:28:25,730
It is his will for you to be
completely made whole.

574
00:28:25,810 --> 00:28:30,850
But the difference is begging
versus taking authority.

575
00:28:34,130 --> 00:28:38,810
It's someone else is this
special person, and they only they

576
00:28:38,810 --> 00:28:44,160
have the power to do it versus
I have been empowered by the Holy

577
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:48,720
Spirit, and I see what God did
through Mike, but that just became

578
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,240
a testimony of what God can do
through me.

579
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:55,960
I see how God uses Mike, but
that just reveals how God could use

580
00:28:56,039 --> 00:28:56,440
me.

581
00:28:56,600 --> 00:29:01,240
If I'm obedient, like he's
obedient, then it's the we over me.

582
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:02,440
Are y' all with me?

583
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,290
And so I begin to preach this,
this, this message.

584
00:29:06,290 --> 00:29:08,690
And I was trying to get that
because I said, if.

585
00:29:08,690 --> 00:29:13,490
If the things that happen
tonight only happened because Mike's

586
00:29:13,490 --> 00:29:14,890
here, then Mike failed.

587
00:29:17,050 --> 00:29:20,330
And Jesus was raising up disciples.

588
00:29:21,610 --> 00:29:27,370
As a matter of fact, before
the palm branches, before this Hosanna

589
00:29:27,370 --> 00:29:32,010
Day celebration, what, Jesus
had already sent them out to cast

590
00:29:32,010 --> 00:29:33,620
out demons and heal the sick sick.

591
00:29:33,620 --> 00:29:35,820
And he began to do the work of
the ministry.

592
00:29:35,820 --> 00:29:39,340
And so Jesus wasn't interested
in building crowds.

593
00:29:39,340 --> 00:29:42,020
He was interested in building disciples.

594
00:29:42,740 --> 00:29:46,540
And so all of a sudden, this
is one of my favorite stories of

595
00:29:46,540 --> 00:29:48,260
the time that we had in London.

596
00:29:48,820 --> 00:29:52,420
All of a sudden, during the
deliverance time, when I begin to

597
00:29:52,420 --> 00:29:55,660
cast demons out, and this is
happening through television, as

598
00:29:55,660 --> 00:29:59,100
a matter of fact, God TV hit
me up and they said, look how when

599
00:29:59,100 --> 00:30:02,220
they ended the stream just
online and a quarter of a million

600
00:30:02,220 --> 00:30:06,300
people had already tuned in,
and that was only the Internet, not

601
00:30:06,300 --> 00:30:07,140
just television.

602
00:30:07,140 --> 00:30:10,220
They said, it's going to take
Over a week to tabulate all the numbers.

603
00:30:10,620 --> 00:30:11,940
And so God was moving.

604
00:30:11,940 --> 00:30:13,940
So we begin to do deliverance.

605
00:30:13,940 --> 00:30:17,740
And I look over at the young
man who checked himself out of the

606
00:30:17,740 --> 00:30:21,420
mental ward, and he has his
hands on his head like this.

607
00:30:23,340 --> 00:30:25,820
And all of a sudden I go over
to him because I'm like, I want to

608
00:30:25,820 --> 00:30:26,380
hear what's happening.

609
00:30:26,380 --> 00:30:27,840
Because I. I was going to pray
for him.

610
00:30:27,840 --> 00:30:30,080
And when I listen, you know
what I hear him saying?

611
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:33,200
Every devil, you have to come
out of my mind.

612
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:35,280
I don't belong to you anymore.

613
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:36,760
I belong to Jesus.

614
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:38,400
My mind is not your mind.

615
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:40,240
You have to come out of my mind.

616
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:44,640
And he began to take authority
because he knew who he was.

617
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:48,720
And all of a sudden I came
over to him and I said, you heard

618
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:49,520
him, devil.

619
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,240
He checked himself out of that ward.

620
00:30:52,400 --> 00:30:54,800
He belongs in the family of God.

621
00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,600
He's been adopted by Jesus Christ.

622
00:30:57,920 --> 00:31:02,060
And whom the sun sets free is
free indeed.

623
00:31:03,020 --> 00:31:05,900
Somebody shout if you believe
we have authority.

624
00:31:09,900 --> 00:31:13,820
So he didn't need a celebrity
pastor to cast a demon out of him.

625
00:31:14,060 --> 00:31:18,780
He needed a pastor who has
been raised up with influence to

626
00:31:18,780 --> 00:31:21,020
use that influence righteously.

627
00:31:21,180 --> 00:31:25,300
To say, the only reason why
God gave me this level of voice is

628
00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:28,060
to tell you, use your own voice.

629
00:31:31,880 --> 00:31:32,640
This is what I.

630
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:33,560
This is the heart.

631
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,440
Because, okay, I'm gonna show
you now because I'm about to do something.

632
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:38,400
This is the heart of the message.

633
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:44,840
There's two sides, and now
both have palm branches.

634
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:50,280
Both are sacrificially laying
down their coats and preparing a

635
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:51,320
way for Jesus.

636
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:53,960
Both are declaring, deliver now.

637
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,960
But one is requesting and the
other is worshiping.

638
00:31:58,680 --> 00:32:02,320
One is asking for
reciprocation, and the.

639
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:06,760
Other one says, I'm humble,
I'm submitted, and I'm here for you.

640
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:10,440
One of them wants a title and
a position, and the other one is

641
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:12,520
getting ready to die with Jesus.

642
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:14,000
See, this is the difference.

643
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:15,640
There's two kinds of church people.

644
00:32:15,880 --> 00:32:17,680
One who want to build the church,.

645
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,600
And then one who want to build
their own reputation.

646
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:21,560
Come on.

647
00:32:21,560 --> 00:32:25,700
One that serves because they
can't out serve Christ, and the other

648
00:32:25,700 --> 00:32:26,140
one that.

649
00:32:26,140 --> 00:32:27,940
Serves to be seen serving.

650
00:32:28,180 --> 00:32:30,820
And on the outside, it's like
the fig tree.

651
00:32:31,060 --> 00:32:34,740
Because that fig tree has
leaves nobody can discern, it doesn't

652
00:32:34,740 --> 00:32:35,380
have fruit.

653
00:32:35,540 --> 00:32:39,500
But Christ is coming back soon
and he's gonna look and he's gonna

654
00:32:39,500 --> 00:32:40,820
say, why did you do it?

655
00:32:41,060 --> 00:32:42,660
What did you do it for?

656
00:32:42,900 --> 00:32:44,820
Did you do ministry for money?

657
00:32:45,060 --> 00:32:47,780
Or did you do it because I
called you to do it?

658
00:32:48,020 --> 00:32:51,820
Did you do it to be seen
because you didn't Deal with childhood

659
00:32:51,820 --> 00:32:52,340
trauma?

660
00:32:52,580 --> 00:32:55,700
Or did you deal with your
trauma in the secret place?

661
00:32:55,860 --> 00:33:00,080
And then I ra you up to deal
with millions of children's trauma?

662
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:04,000
It looks like the same action,
but it's got a different root.

663
00:33:04,240 --> 00:33:07,120
And the root of the fig tree
is rotten.

664
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:12,480
But there's another tree, Oaks
of righteousness that are planted

665
00:33:12,800 --> 00:33:16,680
by streams of water, that we
don't need a palm branch because

666
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:17,920
we grow our own.

667
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,560
And we're waving to the Lord
all day.

668
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:22,880
And we're bearing fruit that remains.

669
00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:26,790
I'm about to read you this text.

670
00:33:27,590 --> 00:33:30,710
I went, you know, and Julie, I
was encouraged.

671
00:33:31,430 --> 00:33:35,630
This pastor that hosted the
night, he let us use his building.

672
00:33:35,630 --> 00:33:37,270
He said, he's deaf in one ear.

673
00:33:37,670 --> 00:33:38,230
He said.

674
00:33:38,230 --> 00:33:39,590
He said this in front of our team.

675
00:33:39,590 --> 00:33:40,070
He said.

676
00:33:40,230 --> 00:33:42,670
He goes, mike, I gotta remind
you, I don't know if you even remember

677
00:33:42,670 --> 00:33:42,870
this.

678
00:33:42,870 --> 00:33:47,030
The last time you were here,
you turned to me and prophesied in

679
00:33:47,030 --> 00:33:47,990
my deaf ear.

680
00:33:48,230 --> 00:33:50,190
And he goes, it completely opened.

681
00:33:50,190 --> 00:33:52,310
I heard every word of that prophecy.

682
00:33:52,310 --> 00:33:54,310
And as soon as you were done,
it closed again.

683
00:33:56,450 --> 00:33:58,850
And he says, I have no idea
why that happened.

684
00:33:59,490 --> 00:34:01,930
And he was telling these
stories, and he said, mike, after

685
00:34:01,930 --> 00:34:05,650
the last time you were in
London, we had to baptize 58 people

686
00:34:05,650 --> 00:34:06,450
the next day.

687
00:34:06,530 --> 00:34:09,090
And over a hundred people
joined our church.

688
00:34:09,170 --> 00:34:13,290
And then we went to a building
campaign, and we're actually increasing

689
00:34:13,290 --> 00:34:14,530
the church right now.

690
00:34:14,930 --> 00:34:17,890
And last couple nights ago was
even greater.

691
00:34:17,970 --> 00:34:19,330
Why do I say this?

692
00:34:20,140 --> 00:34:24,620
Because there are people in
London, negative people complaining,

693
00:34:24,780 --> 00:34:30,060
people criticizing people who
say this can't happen in London.

694
00:34:30,380 --> 00:34:33,100
And here comes a hillbilly Sicilian.

695
00:34:34,780 --> 00:34:35,340
Come on.

696
00:34:35,340 --> 00:34:37,420
Somebody with no dad.

697
00:34:37,980 --> 00:34:39,740
Dad died prematurely.

698
00:34:39,980 --> 00:34:41,580
Single mom and five kids.

699
00:34:41,900 --> 00:34:43,620
Here comes a hillbilly Sicilian.

700
00:34:43,620 --> 00:34:46,220
I ain't special, but I know
the one who is.

701
00:34:46,769 --> 00:34:47,249
And I.

702
00:34:47,329 --> 00:34:49,849
This is going back to the
beginning of the sermon for those

703
00:34:49,849 --> 00:34:51,409
who are about to miss the connection.

704
00:34:51,649 --> 00:34:56,689
But I made my mind up years
ago that he is not a prophet to me.

705
00:34:56,769 --> 00:34:58,529
He is not a teacher to me.

706
00:34:58,609 --> 00:35:00,049
He is the I am.

707
00:35:00,289 --> 00:35:04,049
In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was God.

708
00:35:04,049 --> 00:35:05,689
And the Word was with God.

709
00:35:05,689 --> 00:35:09,409
And by all things, the Word
had established it.

710
00:35:09,409 --> 00:35:14,690
The cosmos knit in the sky by
the Word, every disease healed by

711
00:35:14,690 --> 00:35:15,330
the Word.

712
00:35:15,490 --> 00:35:19,570
So I may not be special, but I
know the One with all power.

713
00:35:19,810 --> 00:35:21,890
I know the One with all ability.

714
00:35:22,130 --> 00:35:23,970
And I will not limit him.

715
00:35:25,330 --> 00:35:27,010
I refuse to limit him.

716
00:35:27,810 --> 00:35:29,650
Because this is what was happening.

717
00:35:29,890 --> 00:35:30,850
Here's the thing.

718
00:35:31,250 --> 00:35:32,450
You want to know the secret?

719
00:35:32,850 --> 00:35:35,690
Let me do this for the
theologians, because I see a theologian

720
00:35:35,690 --> 00:35:36,450
in our midst.

721
00:35:37,330 --> 00:35:42,370
Jesus didn't have to overturn
Rome because Rome was on its way

722
00:35:42,370 --> 00:35:43,970
to non existence any.

723
00:35:45,070 --> 00:35:48,070
So actually, in Jesus wisdom,
he said, I'm not going to even pick

724
00:35:48,070 --> 00:35:50,270
a fight with Rome because it
won't be here.

725
00:35:50,510 --> 00:35:53,230
Because kings and kingdoms all
pass away.

726
00:35:53,630 --> 00:35:56,590
Oh, but the name of Jesus is forever.

727
00:35:56,830 --> 00:35:58,070
And see, this is the thing.

728
00:35:58,070 --> 00:36:01,510
Some of y' all are fighting
the wrong battles and not fighting

729
00:36:01,510 --> 00:36:02,590
the right battles.

730
00:36:02,670 --> 00:36:04,510
And so you got to make up your mind.

731
00:36:04,590 --> 00:36:08,590
Is your Jesus a healer or is
he impotent to heal?

732
00:36:08,750 --> 00:36:12,350
Is your Jesus a deliverer or
impotent to deliver?

733
00:36:12,670 --> 00:36:16,110
Is your Jesus all powerful,
all knowing?

734
00:36:16,190 --> 00:36:17,450
Is he omniscient?

735
00:36:17,690 --> 00:36:18,170
Come on.

736
00:36:18,170 --> 00:36:19,530
Is he El Shaddai?

737
00:36:19,770 --> 00:36:20,810
Come on, somebody.

738
00:36:20,810 --> 00:36:22,650
Is he Jehovah Jireh?

739
00:36:22,650 --> 00:36:24,570
Is he Jehovah Nisi?

740
00:36:24,730 --> 00:36:26,650
Or is your God an idol?

741
00:36:26,810 --> 00:36:29,530
Does your God live in stained
glass windows?

742
00:36:29,690 --> 00:36:34,050
Because my God breaks out of
those windows and he reveals who

743
00:36:34,050 --> 00:36:35,490
he is when I cry.

744
00:36:35,490 --> 00:36:36,410
Hosanna.

745
00:36:36,730 --> 00:36:37,450
Come on.

746
00:36:37,530 --> 00:36:39,050
I'm not requesting.

747
00:36:39,210 --> 00:36:42,010
I'm accessing what's already mine.

748
00:36:49,030 --> 00:36:54,710
Because I know they want to
cancel me for believing in healing.

749
00:36:55,350 --> 00:36:59,910
Just because some people lied
doesn't make God a lie.

750
00:37:00,390 --> 00:37:05,230
Just because some people are
crooks doesn't eliminate the power

751
00:37:05,230 --> 00:37:07,830
of what God can do when we respond.

752
00:37:07,990 --> 00:37:11,470
And that's why I pray for the
young people of our church and I

753
00:37:11,470 --> 00:37:13,070
pray for the women of our church.

754
00:37:13,070 --> 00:37:14,180
And I pray for those.

755
00:37:14,250 --> 00:37:16,170
Those that have been incarcerated.

756
00:37:16,170 --> 00:37:17,090
Because you.

757
00:37:17,090 --> 00:37:21,450
Listen, you can cancel one of
us, but you can't cancel all of us.

758
00:37:21,530 --> 00:37:23,770
And healing was never for one man.

759
00:37:23,850 --> 00:37:27,970
It's a gift that the Holy
Spirit gives freely to a generation.

760
00:37:27,970 --> 00:37:29,210
That says, I believe.

761
00:37:32,570 --> 00:37:34,490
All right, I gotta end this sermon.

762
00:37:36,570 --> 00:37:38,650
I told you we were gonna get
to the good part.

763
00:37:40,500 --> 00:37:42,340
So remember, I said there's
two teams.

764
00:37:42,340 --> 00:37:43,460
There's two sides.

765
00:37:43,780 --> 00:37:44,980
Sons of Satan.

766
00:37:46,740 --> 00:37:47,620
Sons of God.

767
00:37:48,500 --> 00:37:49,660
Daughters of Satan.

768
00:37:49,660 --> 00:37:50,500
Daughters of God.

769
00:37:50,500 --> 00:37:51,020
That's it.

770
00:37:51,020 --> 00:37:51,620
That's it.

771
00:37:52,020 --> 00:37:52,620
It's that.

772
00:37:52,620 --> 00:37:53,700
It's that simple.

773
00:37:54,020 --> 00:37:55,540
So watch this.

774
00:37:57,780 --> 00:38:00,500
All of you, whether you know
it or not, are in the Bible.

775
00:38:01,380 --> 00:38:05,140
And I want you to turn with me
to Revelation, chapter seven.

776
00:38:05,870 --> 00:38:08,030
If you're saved, if you're.

777
00:38:08,030 --> 00:38:10,950
If you've been redeemed, if
you've been filled with the Holy

778
00:38:10,950 --> 00:38:12,910
Spirit, you are in the Bible.

779
00:38:12,910 --> 00:38:15,550
I'm going to show you where
you show up in the Bible.

780
00:38:15,550 --> 00:38:17,390
So you could tell your friends
I'm in the Bible.

781
00:38:18,910 --> 00:38:20,430
You could tell them I'm in the Bible.

782
00:38:20,750 --> 00:38:22,030
I'm going to show you where.

783
00:38:25,070 --> 00:38:25,870
After this.

784
00:38:26,030 --> 00:38:27,150
This is verse nine.

785
00:38:28,270 --> 00:38:29,870
Chapter seven, verse nine.

786
00:38:30,030 --> 00:38:30,670
After this.

787
00:38:30,670 --> 00:38:35,710
I beheld and Lord, a great
multitude which no man could number

788
00:38:36,110 --> 00:38:41,790
of all nations and kindreds
and people and tongues.

789
00:38:42,030 --> 00:38:43,550
Okay, we gotta stop there.

790
00:38:45,070 --> 00:38:48,670
On Earth, the nations divide
when they go to church.

791
00:38:49,630 --> 00:38:51,470
Oh, this is the Asian church.

792
00:38:51,710 --> 00:38:53,470
This is the African church.

793
00:38:53,630 --> 00:38:55,430
This is the Caucasian church.

794
00:38:55,430 --> 00:39:00,600
But in Revelation, when we see
God's design, it's all of them together.

795
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:02,280
Okay, are y' all with me?

796
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:03,720
Are y' all with me?

797
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:04,600
Come on.

798
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:05,880
It's all of them together.

799
00:39:06,120 --> 00:39:07,320
And this is what it says.

800
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:11,960
And lo, a great multitude,
which no man can, number of all nations

801
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:18,600
and kindreds and peoples and
tongues stood before the throne and

802
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:23,360
before the Lamb, clothed with
white robes and palm branches in

803
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:23,880
their hand.

804
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:26,600
So now you have two audiences.

805
00:39:27,150 --> 00:39:31,350
Matthew, chapter 21 is, the
Lamb is there, but the Lamb has not

806
00:39:31,350 --> 00:39:32,110
been slain.

807
00:39:32,670 --> 00:39:34,350
And they have palm branches.

808
00:39:34,750 --> 00:39:38,750
Now in the book of Revelation,
chapter seven, there's another crowd

809
00:39:38,830 --> 00:39:40,270
of all nations.

810
00:39:40,350 --> 00:39:42,190
And the Lamb has been slain.

811
00:39:42,509 --> 00:39:44,110
And now we're in the future.

812
00:39:44,270 --> 00:39:47,790
And they also have palm
branches and the worshiping.

813
00:39:47,950 --> 00:39:51,630
Listen, I'm just here to tell
you there are some fake Christians.

814
00:39:51,870 --> 00:39:54,110
Oh, but there are some real
ones, too.

815
00:39:54,350 --> 00:39:55,470
Let me just tell you.

816
00:39:55,470 --> 00:39:59,690
They may not be popular on
earth, but heaven knows their name

817
00:39:59,690 --> 00:40:01,290
and hell knows their name.

818
00:40:01,370 --> 00:40:02,010
Come on.

819
00:40:02,010 --> 00:40:04,490
And heaven shakes when they
begin to pray.

820
00:40:04,650 --> 00:40:05,170
Come on.

821
00:40:05,170 --> 00:40:08,690
There might be some fake
Christians, but I met some real ones

822
00:40:08,690 --> 00:40:09,370
in New York.

823
00:40:09,530 --> 00:40:11,610
I met some real ones on Long Island.

824
00:40:11,610 --> 00:40:14,570
I met some real ones in Miami
in my time.

825
00:40:14,730 --> 00:40:17,930
See, everybody gets to wave
the palm branch.

826
00:40:18,330 --> 00:40:22,010
I'm not gonna tell you to put
the palm branch down, But I know

827
00:40:22,010 --> 00:40:26,330
the lamb can tell the
difference between who is real and

828
00:40:26,330 --> 00:40:27,450
who is not real.

829
00:40:27,790 --> 00:40:30,790
And listen, when Mayor Mamdani
is sitting.

830
00:40:30,790 --> 00:40:36,670
In his office and he is doing
an Islamic religious observance in

831
00:40:36,670 --> 00:40:38,030
Gracie Mansion.

832
00:40:39,470 --> 00:40:40,670
Listen, I'm not here.

833
00:40:40,990 --> 00:40:44,590
This is not an anti mom dummy
sermon right now.

834
00:40:44,590 --> 00:40:48,990
It's just simply my way of
saying we've got a Muslim mayor who

835
00:40:48,990 --> 00:40:53,790
will not forsake Islam, even
in his own home in Gracie Mansion,

836
00:40:53,870 --> 00:40:57,180
who sat down surrounded by
Islamic influencers.

837
00:40:57,650 --> 00:41:01,570
But there are Christians who
won't even join a flight crew and

838
00:41:01,570 --> 00:41:03,490
get together in their own home.

839
00:41:03,730 --> 00:41:06,690
See, you can wave your palm
branch, but I know if you're real

840
00:41:06,690 --> 00:41:07,170
or not.

841
00:41:07,330 --> 00:41:11,130
But I know there's somebody
else that says, if Mom Dummy's gonna

842
00:41:11,130 --> 00:41:15,410
have a small group for Islam
in Gracie Mansion, I'm gonna open

843
00:41:15,410 --> 00:41:16,290
up my house.

844
00:41:16,530 --> 00:41:17,250
And I got.

845
00:41:17,250 --> 00:41:18,010
Oh, come on.

846
00:41:18,010 --> 00:41:19,010
You don't want to hear that.

847
00:41:19,410 --> 00:41:23,090
And I'm gonna open up my house
unto the glory of God.

848
00:41:23,330 --> 00:41:28,050
And we're gonna shout from the
Rooftops, Jehovah, Jesus.

849
00:41:28,790 --> 00:41:31,030
And nobody's gonna shut us up.

850
00:41:32,790 --> 00:41:35,830
He's got every right to
exercise his belief.

851
00:41:36,150 --> 00:41:41,270
But get off the fence and
start believing and start operating

852
00:41:41,430 --> 00:41:42,630
in your faith.

853
00:41:43,430 --> 00:41:50,190
This is the time President
Trump made an announcement that we

854
00:41:50,190 --> 00:41:52,630
are going to rededicate this
nation to God.

855
00:41:57,840 --> 00:42:00,720
Everybody's going to have a
palm branch at that rededication.

856
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:07,360
But only the Lord will know
who is requesting political deliverance.

857
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:12,000
But who is saying, kings and
kingdoms all pass away, but all.

858
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:12,480
Come on.

859
00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:14,480
I serve the King of all kings,.

860
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:19,360
The Lord of all lords, and I'm
not here to manipulate an outcome.

861
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:21,560
I am here saying, God, if you.

862
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:22,960
Can hear from heaven.

863
00:42:23,040 --> 00:42:25,920
We've humbled ourselves before
you, God.

864
00:42:26,300 --> 00:42:27,020
Oh, come on.

865
00:42:27,340 --> 00:42:28,460
Heal our land.

866
00:42:29,900 --> 00:42:32,020
I'll tell you what God's not
done with London.

867
00:42:32,020 --> 00:42:33,100
I've seen a remnant.

868
00:42:33,180 --> 00:42:35,820
He would save a city if there
was just 10 people.

869
00:42:35,900 --> 00:42:38,860
And I saw thousands in London
who say, no, I'm not done.

870
00:42:38,940 --> 00:42:42,339
Is there some on Long island
who said, God's not done with Long

871
00:42:42,339 --> 00:42:42,700
Island?

872
00:42:42,700 --> 00:42:44,460
Is there some in Brooklyn
right now?

873
00:42:44,460 --> 00:42:44,980
Come on.

874
00:42:44,980 --> 00:42:48,900
Is there some in Indiana that
say, God's not done with Indiana

875
00:42:48,900 --> 00:42:49,380
right now?

876
00:42:49,380 --> 00:42:49,980
Come on.

877
00:42:50,220 --> 00:42:52,140
But they all got palm branches.

878
00:42:52,140 --> 00:42:53,970
They're all singing the same,
same song.

879
00:42:53,970 --> 00:42:55,290
But the Lord knows.

880
00:42:57,610 --> 00:43:06,090
And listen, the one thing I've
never wanted to be is fake.

881
00:43:08,010 --> 00:43:09,450
What you see is what you get.

882
00:43:10,490 --> 00:43:11,530
That's all I know.

883
00:43:12,490 --> 00:43:17,290
And I think this church, oh,
yeah, we got imperfect people everywhere.

884
00:43:17,370 --> 00:43:18,810
Led by an imperfect person.

885
00:43:19,300 --> 00:43:20,500
Led by a perfect person.

886
00:43:22,580 --> 00:43:23,860
But I will tell you this.

887
00:43:24,580 --> 00:43:30,740
Whatever Moses, whatever Gene
Moses had that told him, break the

888
00:43:30,740 --> 00:43:31,140
rule.

889
00:43:31,780 --> 00:43:33,140
Oh, we're about to go there.

890
00:43:34,660 --> 00:43:35,620
Break the rule.

891
00:43:36,020 --> 00:43:39,420
There was something in Moses
that said, I would rather try to

892
00:43:39,420 --> 00:43:43,500
see his glory and die because
my body gets overwhelmed than never

893
00:43:43,500 --> 00:43:43,860
try.

894
00:43:44,980 --> 00:43:48,280
Whatever Gene was in that
woman that said, hey, instead of

895
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:51,520
laying at home and just
bleeding to death, go crawl through

896
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:52,120
that crowd.

897
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:53,000
See what will happen.

898
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:53,960
Break the rule.

899
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:55,040
Oh, come on.

900
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:55,800
Talking to somebody.

901
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:56,600
Break the rule.

902
00:43:56,840 --> 00:43:57,680
Break the rule.

903
00:43:57,680 --> 00:43:59,360
See, I'm talking to somebody
right now.

904
00:43:59,360 --> 00:43:59,840
I feel it.

905
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:00,680
By the spirit.

906
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:02,599
It's like that guy, the Latin King.

907
00:44:02,599 --> 00:44:04,280
He's that high ranking Latin King.

908
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,440
Latin Kings aren't supposed to
go to church.

909
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:08,600
But something in him said,
break the rule.

910
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:09,720
Break the rule.

911
00:44:09,720 --> 00:44:10,840
Go hear the gospel.

912
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:13,400
See, there's something some of
you, oh, I'm an introvert.

913
00:44:13,480 --> 00:44:14,160
I'm shy.

914
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:15,000
Break the rule.

915
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:16,040
Break the rule.

916
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:16,800
Break the rule.

917
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:17,360
Oh, come on.

918
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:17,760
I'm.

919
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:18,240
See, there's.

920
00:44:18,240 --> 00:44:20,260
I'm a. I'm always the
depressed person.

921
00:44:20,420 --> 00:44:22,180
I'm supposed to Be full of anxiety.

922
00:44:22,180 --> 00:44:23,060
Break the rule.

923
00:44:23,060 --> 00:44:24,500
What if this time is different?

924
00:44:24,580 --> 00:44:26,180
What if you start to press in?

925
00:44:26,420 --> 00:44:30,300
See, what happened is whatever
that gene is that says, I'm gonna

926
00:44:30,300 --> 00:44:35,060
give myself permission to
break the unspoken rule and I'm gonna

927
00:44:35,060 --> 00:44:38,500
come before the Lord, what
that's actually doing is creating

928
00:44:38,580 --> 00:44:39,540
relationship.

929
00:44:41,060 --> 00:44:41,540
That is.

930
00:44:41,540 --> 00:44:42,660
You know how people say we don't.

931
00:44:42,660 --> 00:44:44,120
Have religion, we have relationship?

932
00:44:45,390 --> 00:44:46,510
They don't know what that means.

933
00:44:47,710 --> 00:44:51,230
Relationship happens when you
say the rules.

934
00:44:51,550 --> 00:44:53,870
Are, we're supposed to act
surface level.

935
00:44:54,750 --> 00:44:56,670
But I'm gonna break the rules and.

936
00:44:56,670 --> 00:44:59,070
I'm just gonna tell you, I
gotta take the mask off.

937
00:44:59,070 --> 00:45:00,590
This is who I really am.

938
00:45:00,590 --> 00:45:02,030
This is what I really did.

939
00:45:02,190 --> 00:45:03,430
This is how I really feel.

940
00:45:03,430 --> 00:45:07,230
But then when you break that
rule with God and you come before

941
00:45:07,230 --> 00:45:11,030
him with a contrite heart and
you say, God, I don't even know if

942
00:45:11,030 --> 00:45:13,950
I can do this, but show me
your glory.

943
00:45:14,350 --> 00:45:15,590
Show me your ways.

944
00:45:15,590 --> 00:45:20,130
I taken every drug, I've
drinking every bit of alcohol, I've

945
00:45:20,130 --> 00:45:20,890
slept around.

946
00:45:21,050 --> 00:45:23,850
But I want to taste and see
that you are good.

947
00:45:24,090 --> 00:45:27,850
And I'm breaking a rule right
now to ask you if you would come

948
00:45:27,850 --> 00:45:28,970
and encounter me.

949
00:45:30,970 --> 00:45:31,929
That's who I am.

950
00:45:31,929 --> 00:45:32,970
That's who you are.

951
00:45:33,290 --> 00:45:36,730
That's why we had 19,000
people watching on the live stream.

952
00:45:37,210 --> 00:45:43,740
Because they're done with the
rules and they want somebody to provoke

953
00:45:43,740 --> 00:45:44,020
them.

954
00:45:44,180 --> 00:45:48,460
You know, let me finish
reading this and I got a powerful

955
00:45:48,460 --> 00:45:51,460
testimony that we're going to
share with you.

956
00:45:53,460 --> 00:45:56,460
They're clothed with white
robes and palm branches in their

957
00:45:56,460 --> 00:45:56,740
hand.

958
00:45:56,980 --> 00:46:01,180
Verse 10 says, and cried with
a loud voice saying salvation to

959
00:46:01,180 --> 00:46:05,380
our God which sits upon the
throne, and unto the Lamb.

960
00:46:05,620 --> 00:46:06,900
This is so heavy.

961
00:46:08,110 --> 00:46:12,990
In Matthew 21 they say,
Deliver me Yashana.

962
00:46:14,270 --> 00:46:18,830
But in Revelation 7 they say,
Salvation belongs to you.

963
00:46:19,950 --> 00:46:21,070
Total opposite.

964
00:46:21,710 --> 00:46:25,630
It's like when my brother in
law and my sister found out that

965
00:46:25,630 --> 00:46:26,830
they lost their baby.

966
00:46:27,390 --> 00:46:31,070
I called them on their phone
as their pastor, not just their brother.

967
00:46:31,710 --> 00:46:34,470
And I said, what do you think
about this, Ryan?

968
00:46:34,630 --> 00:46:36,470
How do you, you're a Christian.

969
00:46:36,630 --> 00:46:37,910
How do you process this?

970
00:46:37,910 --> 00:46:38,950
You know what he tells me?

971
00:46:39,910 --> 00:46:43,990
The Lord gives and the Lord
takes away, but blessed be the name

972
00:46:44,230 --> 00:46:45,110
of the Lord.

973
00:46:45,910 --> 00:46:47,590
I will not curse God.

974
00:46:47,990 --> 00:46:50,230
I will not speak a word
against God.

975
00:46:50,310 --> 00:46:51,830
He's saying it through tears.

976
00:46:52,070 --> 00:46:53,670
He's saying it through crying.

977
00:46:53,750 --> 00:46:57,350
But he said, I'm still gonna
worship him no matter what.

978
00:46:57,350 --> 00:46:59,430
It didn't work out how I
thought it wanted.

979
00:46:59,430 --> 00:47:00,630
I wanted it to work out.

980
00:47:00,630 --> 00:47:03,350
But I will bless his name no
matter what.

981
00:47:07,890 --> 00:47:09,010
So there's two teams.

982
00:47:09,490 --> 00:47:13,170
I know what team Ryan's on
Revelation 17.

983
00:47:14,770 --> 00:47:16,850
You get, you guys, you feel
what I'm saying?

984
00:47:17,890 --> 00:47:19,370
And this is the heart of the matter.

985
00:47:19,370 --> 00:47:21,610
And so a moment happened.

986
00:47:21,610 --> 00:47:24,050
And Angela, I need your help
for this part, because then we're

987
00:47:24,050 --> 00:47:24,770
gonna worship.

988
00:47:25,490 --> 00:47:27,210
You know, we were.

989
00:47:27,210 --> 00:47:29,810
We've been journeying together
for a very long time.

990
00:47:30,290 --> 00:47:36,860
And, you know, when she came
to us, it was like, you did not know

991
00:47:36,860 --> 00:47:37,260
God.

992
00:47:37,260 --> 00:47:38,700
You didn't know the things of God.

993
00:47:39,100 --> 00:47:44,060
And you were just like, hey,
I'm here and let's do this thing.

994
00:47:44,380 --> 00:47:47,219
And so I'll give you my
backstory, and then I'm gonna turn

995
00:47:47,219 --> 00:47:47,740
you loose.

996
00:47:48,380 --> 00:47:52,020
So what happened was we were
in London, and I had been preparing

997
00:47:52,020 --> 00:47:54,420
for this sermon, knowing I was
gonna fly back and have to preach

998
00:47:54,420 --> 00:47:54,700
it.

999
00:47:54,940 --> 00:47:57,180
And then I was preparing for
London sermon.

1000
00:47:57,500 --> 00:48:02,030
And for some reason, I thought
to myself, man, Angela's story is

1001
00:48:02,030 --> 00:48:05,790
so deeply prophetic, connected
to these things that I'm trying to

1002
00:48:05,790 --> 00:48:08,670
teach, and how could I convey that?

1003
00:48:08,990 --> 00:48:13,070
So here we are on, not just
national television, but international

1004
00:48:13,470 --> 00:48:18,030
television, and the entire
venue wherein is filled from top

1005
00:48:18,030 --> 00:48:20,510
to bottom, dangerously filled
with people.

1006
00:48:20,670 --> 00:48:24,030
And I, as I often do, I didn't
give any warning.

1007
00:48:24,670 --> 00:48:27,730
So if you ever travel with me,
there will be no preparation.

1008
00:48:27,730 --> 00:48:30,370
If you didn't do your
preparation in prayer, then you're

1009
00:48:30,370 --> 00:48:31,010
just gonna.

1010
00:48:31,090 --> 00:48:33,130
You'll probably end up
preaching your biggest sermon in

1011
00:48:33,130 --> 00:48:35,570
your life three minutes before
you knew you were gonna do it.

1012
00:48:36,450 --> 00:48:38,290
Anybody who's traveled with me knows.

1013
00:48:39,250 --> 00:48:41,930
And so all of a sudden, we.

1014
00:48:41,930 --> 00:48:45,010
I see her and I was like,
angela, you gotta help me.

1015
00:48:45,250 --> 00:48:46,170
You gotta tell your story.

1016
00:48:46,170 --> 00:48:50,530
And I knew the implications of
having you tell your story in that

1017
00:48:50,530 --> 00:48:52,770
venue with that context.

1018
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:57,640
But tonight I want to close
with your testimony because it's

1019
00:48:57,640 --> 00:48:59,000
really going to help people understand.

1020
00:48:59,560 --> 00:49:06,362
Are you a Revelation 7
Christian, or are you a Matthew chapter

1021
00:49:06,478 --> 00:49:09,000
21 worshiper?

1022
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:11,640
Like, which one are you?

1023
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:13,440
Like, are you a person in the crowd?

1024
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:14,600
Hey, man, I'm just waving.

1025
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:18,160
Or, man, because everybody's
got palm branches.

1026
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:21,530
And I think there was a moment
in your life where you crossed over.

1027
00:49:22,010 --> 00:49:23,450
Would you tell them about that?

1028
00:49:25,290 --> 00:49:26,250
Glory to God.

1029
00:49:27,530 --> 00:49:31,530
So as Pastor Mike mentioned, I
did not know God.

1030
00:49:32,570 --> 00:49:35,450
I came into this service because.

1031
00:49:35,530 --> 00:49:36,250
Or this.

1032
00:49:36,330 --> 00:49:41,650
This church because two people
invited me, and I said, sure, why

1033
00:49:41,650 --> 00:49:42,010
not?

1034
00:49:43,050 --> 00:49:44,450
And I.

1035
00:49:44,450 --> 00:49:47,170
It was four days before my
24th birthday.

1036
00:49:47,170 --> 00:49:51,410
So I lived my entire life
without the Lord from that point.

1037
00:49:51,410 --> 00:49:56,130
And the first person I see is
Brianna Barbaro, who I went to school

1038
00:49:56,130 --> 00:49:56,450
with.

1039
00:49:56,850 --> 00:50:02,770
And something you need to know
is that Brianna and I went and tried

1040
00:50:02,770 --> 00:50:04,290
out for X Factor together.

1041
00:50:04,850 --> 00:50:09,410
I tried out for all of the
things that you can think of.

1042
00:50:09,650 --> 00:50:13,750
I tried out for X Factor, the
Voice America, America's Got Talent.

1043
00:50:13,910 --> 00:50:14,670
I tried.

1044
00:50:14,670 --> 00:50:20,470
I was going into open mics,
trying to just.

1045
00:50:20,710 --> 00:50:21,670
Just be famous.

1046
00:50:21,670 --> 00:50:23,110
I wanted to be on tv.

1047
00:50:23,190 --> 00:50:29,990
I knew I had this gift, and it
felt good to receive these acknowledgments

1048
00:50:29,990 --> 00:50:34,630
and maybe get money to be paid
for something that I enjoyed to do.

1049
00:50:35,110 --> 00:50:41,210
And it got to a point where it
felt like prostitution.

1050
00:50:41,690 --> 00:50:46,330
And I know that sounds pretty
intense, but it felt disgusting.

1051
00:50:46,730 --> 00:50:47,930
I felt gross.

1052
00:50:48,010 --> 00:50:50,330
I was giving something that I knew.

1053
00:50:50,970 --> 00:50:55,650
I didn't know it, but I knew
it was sacred to me, and I was giving

1054
00:50:55,650 --> 00:50:57,690
it away just to.

1055
00:50:58,010 --> 00:51:01,370
For money or for some sort of
attention and acknowledgement.

1056
00:51:01,530 --> 00:51:05,730
And I said I was getting
anxiety, actually, every time that

1057
00:51:05,730 --> 00:51:07,700
I would perform, and I never
got anxiety.

1058
00:51:07,700 --> 00:51:08,620
And I was like, this isn't.

1059
00:51:08,620 --> 00:51:09,500
This isn't for me.

1060
00:51:09,660 --> 00:51:13,100
And I vowed that I would just
never, ever sing again.

1061
00:51:13,740 --> 00:51:15,860
I put the mic down and I said,
this is.

1062
00:51:15,860 --> 00:51:17,340
This is not for me anymore.

1063
00:51:17,340 --> 00:51:19,660
I'll sing, you know, to myself.

1064
00:51:19,660 --> 00:51:20,700
And that's that.

1065
00:51:21,100 --> 00:51:25,460
And so Bree sees me, and she's
the first person that I see, and

1066
00:51:25,460 --> 00:51:26,780
she's like, oh, my gosh.

1067
00:51:26,780 --> 00:51:27,740
What are you doing here?

1068
00:51:27,740 --> 00:51:28,900
And I'm like, I don't know.

1069
00:51:28,900 --> 00:51:30,380
There's a church in this movie theater.

1070
00:51:30,700 --> 00:51:31,580
That's what I heard.

1071
00:51:31,580 --> 00:51:33,900
And she's like, yeah, I'm actually.

1072
00:51:33,900 --> 00:51:34,570
It was her first.

1073
00:51:34,720 --> 00:51:35,760
First day on worship.

1074
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:38,920
And she's like, wow, you
should think about joining the worship

1075
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:39,120
team.

1076
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:41,360
And I'm like, I don't even
know Jesus.

1077
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:43,680
I don't know what that even
looks like.

1078
00:51:44,240 --> 00:51:45,960
And so she's like.

1079
00:51:45,960 --> 00:51:46,920
And then I told her.

1080
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:48,160
I said, I actually, I'm.

1081
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:49,160
I'm done singing.

1082
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:50,479
I don't want to do it.

1083
00:51:50,479 --> 00:51:52,400
I. I won't do it again.

1084
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:56,640
And she told me later on that
she laughed at me because she knew

1085
00:51:56,640 --> 00:51:58,640
I was gonna step on the stage again.

1086
00:51:59,120 --> 00:52:00,000
And so.

1087
00:52:00,170 --> 00:52:05,130
So a few months later, I
decided, I'm gonna check out the

1088
00:52:05,130 --> 00:52:07,490
worship team and go to the
worship rehearsals.

1089
00:52:07,490 --> 00:52:09,290
And I just knew.

1090
00:52:12,890 --> 00:52:13,930
I just knew.

1091
00:52:14,650 --> 00:52:16,890
And the Lord told me out of.

1092
00:52:17,850 --> 00:52:23,010
After giving my life now, he
spoke to me, and he said, I got a

1093
00:52:23,010 --> 00:52:23,770
flashback.

1094
00:52:24,010 --> 00:52:28,450
And something to know is that
I was sexually abused for years of

1095
00:52:28,450 --> 00:52:28,890
my life.

1096
00:52:28,970 --> 00:52:30,010
And the Lord.

1097
00:52:31,130 --> 00:52:35,530
The Lord brought me back to
that moment, and he said, I gave

1098
00:52:35,530 --> 00:52:41,370
you this gift at this very
moment because you felt silenced,

1099
00:52:41,690 --> 00:52:46,250
but I gave you a voice to
glorify me and me alone.

1100
00:52:46,490 --> 00:52:49,930
At first, I was trying to get
all of the glory.

1101
00:52:50,250 --> 00:52:51,790
I was trying to be on tv.

1102
00:52:51,860 --> 00:52:52,180
Tv.

1103
00:52:52,180 --> 00:52:54,580
I was trying to make money and
be famous.

1104
00:52:54,660 --> 00:52:58,820
I was trying to absorb the
glory that was not supposed to be

1105
00:52:58,820 --> 00:52:59,220
mine.

1106
00:52:59,460 --> 00:53:01,700
It was never mine to begin with.

1107
00:53:02,180 --> 00:53:03,540
And so I decided.

1108
00:53:03,540 --> 00:53:06,940
And that day that I stepped,
the first time that I was scheduled

1109
00:53:06,940 --> 00:53:11,620
and I stepped on, I felt the
peace of God like something I've

1110
00:53:11,620 --> 00:53:12,820
never understood.

1111
00:53:12,820 --> 00:53:17,460
And he said, this is the
reason why it didn't work out.

1112
00:53:17,700 --> 00:53:21,490
It was because it was for me
and not for me.

1113
00:53:21,890 --> 00:53:24,530
It was for him and not for me.

1114
00:53:24,850 --> 00:53:25,850
And so I'm just.

1115
00:53:25,850 --> 00:53:27,170
I'm so thankful.

1116
00:53:27,250 --> 00:53:30,050
Thank you for letting me share
this testimony.

1117
00:53:30,050 --> 00:53:36,250
It has been sacred to me and
it has been such an honor to be in

1118
00:53:36,250 --> 00:53:36,850
this home.

1119
00:53:36,850 --> 00:53:37,490
And I just.

1120
00:53:37,490 --> 00:53:38,130
I thank you.

1121
00:53:38,130 --> 00:53:41,810
I thank you and Pastor Julie
and I give you so much honor.

1122
00:53:41,810 --> 00:53:43,050
And you guys are the best.

1123
00:53:43,050 --> 00:53:43,650
Listen, this is.

1124
00:53:43,650 --> 00:53:44,730
This is how God.

1125
00:53:44,730 --> 00:53:47,530
I want to show you how God
works because we're to worship.

1126
00:54:36,301 --> 00:54:39,901
And that story was so powerful
because think about this.

1127
00:54:40,381 --> 00:54:41,621
I want to be on tv.

1128
00:54:41,621 --> 00:54:41,981
I'm.

1129
00:54:41,981 --> 00:54:43,381
You're going to X Factor.

1130
00:54:43,381 --> 00:54:44,141
You're going to.

1131
00:54:44,301 --> 00:54:46,221
You know, it was an X Factor.

1132
00:54:46,621 --> 00:54:47,101
Wow.

1133
00:54:48,141 --> 00:54:49,741
America's Got Talent or whatever.

1134
00:54:49,741 --> 00:54:51,501
You're just going down the
list getting nose.

1135
00:54:51,501 --> 00:54:52,541
I kept getting no's.

1136
00:54:52,541 --> 00:54:52,941
Wow.

1137
00:54:53,181 --> 00:54:53,781
And so.

1138
00:54:53,781 --> 00:54:55,021
But this was her goal.

1139
00:54:55,021 --> 00:54:57,341
Like, I. I know I have a gift
and I want to use it.

1140
00:54:57,341 --> 00:55:00,301
Now fast forward and now watch
how God works.

1141
00:55:01,571 --> 00:55:02,131
See, this is.

1142
00:55:02,131 --> 00:55:03,891
This is the thing about paganism.

1143
00:55:05,011 --> 00:55:05,411
This.

1144
00:55:05,731 --> 00:55:08,011
Remember pagans say, I'm going
to offer.

1145
00:55:08,011 --> 00:55:09,051
This is witchcraft.

1146
00:55:09,051 --> 00:55:11,411
They do this all over where
you live.

1147
00:55:11,571 --> 00:55:12,731
Everybody watching right now.

1148
00:55:12,731 --> 00:55:13,451
They do witchcraft.

1149
00:55:13,451 --> 00:55:14,451
You know what witchcraft is?

1150
00:55:14,451 --> 00:55:16,690
I'm going to do this and then
get this.

1151
00:55:17,171 --> 00:55:17,891
Am I right?

1152
00:55:18,531 --> 00:55:19,651
That's witchcraft.

1153
00:55:20,051 --> 00:55:21,891
So look at the story of Abraham.

1154
00:55:22,531 --> 00:55:25,411
Abraham take Isaac and kill him.

1155
00:55:27,091 --> 00:55:27,651
Now watch.

1156
00:55:28,111 --> 00:55:30,951
He takes him up to the
mountain and he goes to kill him.

1157
00:55:30,951 --> 00:55:32,871
And then the angel refrains
his hand.

1158
00:55:32,871 --> 00:55:36,271
And it's almost as if God is
saying, no, no, this isn't paganism.

1159
00:55:36,271 --> 00:55:40,351
I just needed to know that you
would die to your own desire.

1160
00:55:40,671 --> 00:55:42,991
I just needed to know you
would give it to me.

1161
00:55:43,151 --> 00:55:45,671
Matter of fact, I'm gonna give
Isaac back to you.

1162
00:55:45,671 --> 00:55:47,551
But I needed to test your heart.

1163
00:55:47,631 --> 00:55:51,431
And see, that's the difference
is in witchcraft, they're cutting

1164
00:55:51,431 --> 00:55:53,071
themselves before they're God.

1165
00:55:53,071 --> 00:55:54,731
They're sacrificing Christ and children.

1166
00:55:54,971 --> 00:55:57,731
They're doing all these things
to try to make these things happen

1167
00:55:57,731 --> 00:55:58,411
to our life.

1168
00:55:58,411 --> 00:55:59,611
Well, I got good news.

1169
00:55:59,611 --> 00:56:01,211
The gospel means good news.

1170
00:56:01,531 --> 00:56:03,291
Jesus died for me.

1171
00:56:03,851 --> 00:56:05,771
Jesus won it all for me.

1172
00:56:05,771 --> 00:56:08,891
And everything I thought I
gave up for Jesus.

1173
00:56:09,291 --> 00:56:13,451
He said, that's not even any
sacrifice that could match the sacrifice

1174
00:56:13,451 --> 00:56:14,331
of my son.

1175
00:56:14,571 --> 00:56:18,371
And I'm actually going to give
you exceedingly, abundantly more

1176
00:56:18,371 --> 00:56:20,331
than you can ask, think, or imagine.

1177
00:56:20,331 --> 00:56:24,331
But I just needed to know that
you were willing to lay it down.

1178
00:56:24,651 --> 00:56:26,791
I just needed to know that you
were willing.

1179
00:56:26,791 --> 00:56:28,711
Come on, I'm talking to
somebody right now.

1180
00:56:29,031 --> 00:56:30,391
So here's Angela.

1181
00:56:30,391 --> 00:56:33,431
All these years later, she's
been in the background.

1182
00:56:33,511 --> 00:56:37,511
She's serving on the coffee
team, she's serving on the kids team.

1183
00:56:37,671 --> 00:56:40,551
She's just content to do
whatever is in front of her.

1184
00:56:40,631 --> 00:56:42,391
And then she comes to London and.

1185
00:56:42,391 --> 00:56:43,671
She's on the worship team.

1186
00:56:43,671 --> 00:56:47,671
And they have a satellite
television dish outside.

1187
00:56:48,151 --> 00:56:51,231
They got the whole band and
they said, we're not just going to

1188
00:56:51,231 --> 00:56:54,391
put this on United Kingdom television.

1189
00:56:54,551 --> 00:56:56,471
We're going to put it all
across Europe.

1190
00:56:56,711 --> 00:57:01,651
I said, angel, not only do I
want you to sing that song, but they

1191
00:57:01,651 --> 00:57:06,771
overcame by the word of their
testimony and the blood of the Lamb.

1192
00:57:07,091 --> 00:57:08,931
Tell your testimony to Europe.

1193
00:57:09,411 --> 00:57:12,611
Now tell your testimony this
week to America.

1194
00:57:12,931 --> 00:57:16,051
How many of you know he's a
good God?

1195
00:57:17,011 --> 00:57:18,051
Hallelujah.

1196
00:57:18,131 --> 00:57:22,731
Somebody shout, come on, stay
on your feet right now.

1197
00:57:22,731 --> 00:57:24,051
Stay on your feet right now.

1198
00:57:29,011 --> 00:57:32,231
In Matthew, Matthew 21, they
laid down their coats, but they wouldn't

1199
00:57:32,231 --> 00:57:33,151
lay down their life.

1200
00:57:35,151 --> 00:57:36,311
Come on, I'm talking.

1201
00:57:36,311 --> 00:57:37,151
I'm teaching you.

1202
00:57:37,311 --> 00:57:41,711
In Revelation 7, it says, and
they crowd with a loud voice saying,

1203
00:57:42,031 --> 00:57:42,751
salvation.

1204
00:57:42,751 --> 00:57:45,351
To our God, which sitteth upon the.

1205
00:57:45,351 --> 00:57:47,231
Throne and unto the Lamb.

1206
00:57:47,391 --> 00:57:51,471
And all the angels stood
around the throne and about the elders

1207
00:57:51,471 --> 00:57:51,991
and the.

1208
00:57:51,991 --> 00:57:56,351
And the four beasts and fell
before the throne on their faces

1209
00:57:56,591 --> 00:57:59,311
worshiping God, saying, amen.

1210
00:57:59,551 --> 00:58:05,371
Blessing and Glo and wisdom
and thanksgiving and honor and power,

1211
00:58:05,451 --> 00:58:10,491
and might be unto our God
forever and ever.

1212
00:58:10,971 --> 00:58:11,611
Amen.

1213
00:58:12,251 --> 00:58:13,491
So this is what we're about to.

1214
00:58:13,491 --> 00:58:17,530
Do as a church across every
location right now, I'm asking a

1215
00:58:17,530 --> 00:58:17,851
question.

1216
00:58:18,411 --> 00:58:20,491
Which team are you on?

1217
00:58:20,731 --> 00:58:24,731
Everybody's got a palm branch,
but is there anybody here that are

1218
00:58:24,731 --> 00:58:27,211
saying, I'm not requesting
from God.

1219
00:58:27,531 --> 00:58:30,171
I'm gonna be like those in the
white robes.

1220
00:58:30,251 --> 00:58:31,251
I'm switching over.

1221
00:58:31,251 --> 00:58:32,331
Like Angela.

1222
00:58:32,331 --> 00:58:36,311
He gave me a G. I thought that
gift was for me, but it was for him.

1223
00:58:36,551 --> 00:58:38,471
I'm not here to receive glory.

1224
00:58:38,631 --> 00:58:40,951
I'm here to deflect it back to
the Father.

1225
00:58:41,111 --> 00:58:44,391
But I believe that if you will
shift into this moment of worship,.

1226
00:58:47,191 --> 00:58:47,511
This.

1227
00:58:47,511 --> 00:58:50,631
Is about to be a prophetic
moment of worship.

1228
00:58:50,711 --> 00:58:54,391
This is about to be a moment
of promotion, because you gotta go

1229
00:58:54,391 --> 00:58:55,831
low before you go high.

1230
00:58:56,071 --> 00:58:57,911
That woman with the issue of blood.

1231
00:58:58,071 --> 00:59:02,151
She started crawling on her
belly, but she didn't stay low.

1232
00:59:02,471 --> 00:59:05,031
She was lifted up and she was healed.

1233
00:59:05,031 --> 00:59:05,341
In that.

1234
00:59:06,291 --> 00:59:07,411
Come on, somebody.

1235
00:59:07,411 --> 00:59:10,051
The Lord will ask you to go low.

1236
00:59:10,211 --> 00:59:12,851
He'll say, sacrifice your son.

1237
00:59:12,851 --> 00:59:16,851
But he'll say, abraham, I'm
gonna make you a father of many nations.

1238
00:59:16,931 --> 00:59:20,651
It's not always gonna be like
this, but somebody's getting ready

1239
00:59:20,651 --> 00:59:21,530
to worship with me.

1240
00:59:21,530 --> 00:59:22,291
Are you ready?

1241
00:59:23,731 --> 00:59:25,731
This ain't gonna be a sinner's prayer.

1242
00:59:25,891 --> 00:59:30,611
This is gonna be repentance,
which is, lord, I repent for what

1243
00:59:30,611 --> 00:59:31,331
I made it.

1244
00:59:31,331 --> 00:59:32,211
I dare you.

1245
00:59:32,211 --> 00:59:33,531
Matter of fact, I feel led to.

1246
00:59:33,531 --> 00:59:39,791
Do this across every location
if to preach or to teach or to do

1247
00:59:39,791 --> 00:59:40,351
ministry.

1248
00:59:40,511 --> 00:59:44,671
I believe symbolically, you
need to lay it down before the Lord

1249
00:59:44,671 --> 00:59:45,391
lifts it up.

1250
00:59:45,791 --> 00:59:48,031
For three years, I was in northwest.

1251
00:59:48,031 --> 00:59:51,071
Indiana, and I was the
executive pastor of a church.

1252
00:59:51,311 --> 00:59:53,711
And for three years, I was in hiddenness.

1253
00:59:53,871 --> 00:59:55,791
For three years I didn't preach.

1254
00:59:56,031 --> 00:59:59,591
For three years, I didn't do
any ministry other than the behind

1255
00:59:59,591 --> 01:00:00,351
the scenes.

1256
01:00:00,351 --> 01:00:02,831
And I said, lord, why have you
done this to me?

1257
01:00:02,831 --> 01:00:06,511
And the Lord said, the only
thing that's gonna make you fit to

1258
01:00:06,511 --> 01:00:10,091
be able to withstand the
weight of what I'm to put on your

1259
01:00:10,091 --> 01:00:14,211
life is if you learn how to go
to the secret place when nobody's

1260
01:00:14,211 --> 01:00:14,491
looking.

1261
01:00:14,651 --> 01:00:15,291
And be.

1262
01:00:15,291 --> 01:00:15,811
Come on.

1263
01:00:15,811 --> 01:00:18,651
Some of you don't realize the
best training for your preaching

1264
01:00:18,651 --> 01:00:22,251
gift, it's not V1 college,
it's the parking lot ministry.

1265
01:00:22,491 --> 01:00:23,931
Some of you got it wrong.

1266
01:00:23,931 --> 01:00:26,491
You got to humble yourself
before the Lord.

1267
01:00:26,491 --> 01:00:28,251
You got to bow before him.

1268
01:00:28,411 --> 01:00:30,571
Some of you said, God called
me to music.

1269
01:00:30,811 --> 01:00:34,611
Well, are you making music in
the secret place before you make

1270
01:00:34,611 --> 01:00:35,451
it on the stage?

1271
01:00:35,521 --> 01:00:35,801
Stage.

1272
01:00:35,801 --> 01:00:39,561
We got an appetite for
stadiums, but we don't have an appetite

1273
01:00:39,561 --> 01:00:40,481
for surrender.

1274
01:00:40,641 --> 01:00:43,761
And the Lord knows the
difference between which program

1275
01:00:44,001 --> 01:00:45,121
you've got your hand.

1276
01:00:45,281 --> 01:00:46,561
But I'm telling you.

1277
01:00:46,721 --> 01:00:47,961
Ah, come on.

1278
01:00:47,961 --> 01:00:49,761
We're about to be the real ones.

1279
01:00:50,801 --> 01:00:52,161
So we're gonna worship in a few.

1280
01:00:52,161 --> 01:00:55,881
Moments because this is what
I'm praying by the Spirit, oh, Lord,

1281
01:00:55,881 --> 01:01:00,041
when we step up into Times
Square this Sunday coming up, Lord,

1282
01:01:00,041 --> 01:01:00,961
that we march.

1283
01:01:01,121 --> 01:01:02,081
We're not walking.

1284
01:01:02,081 --> 01:01:02,751
We're marching.

1285
01:01:02,821 --> 01:01:03,221
Marching.

1286
01:01:03,221 --> 01:01:04,901
We're marching from the trains.

1287
01:01:05,141 --> 01:01:07,821
We're marching from the
parking lots and those.

1288
01:01:07,821 --> 01:01:09,061
Those parking garages.

1289
01:01:09,221 --> 01:01:10,341
And we're coming together.

1290
01:01:10,421 --> 01:01:11,741
And we're not going to be those.

1291
01:01:11,741 --> 01:01:14,181
Fake Christians, all idolatrous.

1292
01:01:14,261 --> 01:01:17,821
We're showing up with robes of
righteousness, and we're saying,

1293
01:01:17,821 --> 01:01:21,221
we're here to show the world
what it looks like when the body

1294
01:01:21,221 --> 01:01:23,741
of Christ is submitted and surrendered.

1295
01:01:23,741 --> 01:01:24,981
Are y' all ready?

1296
01:01:25,301 --> 01:01:25,901
So this is.

1297
01:01:25,901 --> 01:01:28,981
This act of worship is gonna
be a prophetic act.

1298
01:01:29,221 --> 01:01:30,901
So whatever you gotta do, do it.

1299
01:01:30,981 --> 01:01:34,261
Because when you lay it down,
the Lord lifts you up.

1300
01:01:34,721 --> 01:01:35,121
Come on.

1301
01:01:35,521 --> 01:01:38,641
She gave up the dream of
television, and guess what?

1302
01:01:38,641 --> 01:01:41,601
God put you on television all
over Europe.

1303
01:01:41,681 --> 01:01:45,761
He's put you on television
now, see, the Lord will restore it.

1304
01:01:45,761 --> 01:01:50,081
The Bible says when God makes
you rich, it adds no sorrow.

1305
01:01:50,241 --> 01:01:53,721
You can try to get rich on
your own, and you'll have a lot of

1306
01:01:53,721 --> 01:01:54,241
sorrow.

1307
01:01:54,321 --> 01:01:58,201
Or the Lord can lift you up
and he'll make you rich and add no

1308
01:01:58,201 --> 01:01:58,641
sorrow.

1309
01:01:58,801 --> 01:02:01,921
How many of you want to lay it
down with me before the Lord?

1310
01:02:02,401 --> 01:02:05,361
All right, so from the front
to the back, we're just going to

1311
01:02:05,361 --> 01:02:06,551
begin to worship right now.

1312
01:02:07,261 --> 01:02:09,501
And whatever you got to do is
an act of repentance.

1313
01:02:09,501 --> 01:02:09,861
You do.

1314
01:02:09,861 --> 01:02:11,981
We're going to take a few
moments to do this.

1315
01:02:11,981 --> 01:02:15,941
So, Angela, will you use that
gift God gave you and lead us in

1316
01:02:15,941 --> 01:02:16,381
worship?

1317
01:02:16,381 --> 01:02:16,741
Come on.

1318
01:02:16,741 --> 01:02:18,621
Church cross every campus
right now.

1319
01:02:18,621 --> 01:02:19,421
Let's worship.

1320
01:02:31,261 --> 01:02:34,001
Who was slain and seated on
the the throne.

1321
01:02:34,641 --> 01:02:37,361
There's no one like the Lord.

1322
01:02:40,241 --> 01:02:48,561
Elders, creatures bow, giving
praise to him and him alone there's

1323
01:02:48,561 --> 01:02:48,881
no.

1324
01:03:00,831 --> 01:03:01,071
Ra.