1 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:10,320 This has been an incredible month together in June. 2 00:00:10,720 --> 00:00:14,040 I spent my birthday and Father's Day in my motherland in 3 00:00:14,040 --> 00:00:14,640 Italy. 4 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:17,840 And I want to thank you sincerely for the opportunity to 5 00:00:17,840 --> 00:00:19,840 invest apostolically in a nation. 6 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:23,600 As you can see from the video, I traveled the entire nation from 7 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:24,400 north to south. 8 00:00:24,480 --> 00:00:27,240 How many of you know that when you sow into one man's field, you 9 00:00:27,240 --> 00:00:28,160 reap in your own? 10 00:00:28,760 --> 00:00:31,760 And I believe that we're gonna reap here in V1. 11 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:34,840 Also, I wanna celebrate the fact that as a spiritual father, 12 00:00:35,160 --> 00:00:39,120 two weeks ago, 22 of my spiritual sons and daughters took 13 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:41,880 the pulpit and preached across America. 14 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:45,720 Come on, isn't that something to celebrate that when one lead pastor 15 00:00:45,720 --> 00:00:48,440 is gone, 22 voices replace him? 16 00:00:48,520 --> 00:00:50,240 This is not a one man show. 17 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:53,560 This is multiplication through spiritual family. 18 00:00:53,800 --> 00:00:56,600 And that wasn't even all the preachers I raised up. 19 00:00:57,570 --> 00:00:57,930 Come on. 20 00:00:57,930 --> 00:00:59,090 Devil's real afraid. 21 00:00:59,090 --> 00:01:02,770 He's not afraid of a one man show in celebrity Christianity, but 22 00:01:02,770 --> 00:01:05,890 he is afraid of spiritual fathers that want their children 23 00:01:05,890 --> 00:01:10,090 to do better than them, that will raise up voices all across America 24 00:01:10,090 --> 00:01:10,690 and the world. 25 00:01:11,330 --> 00:01:15,770 But we've gotta look at the cycles that we're in, and we've gotta 26 00:01:15,770 --> 00:01:20,490 address a system that is in operation that we may not have even 27 00:01:20,490 --> 00:01:23,610 installed, that is currently functioning in our lives. 28 00:01:23,610 --> 00:01:25,490 So, like picture this with me. 29 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:30,200 You walk into a house and it's winter and it's freezing cold. 30 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:34,360 And then you check the thermostat and it says 72 degrees, 31 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:37,880 but the house is 40 degrees and it's getting colder. 32 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:39,400 What happened? 33 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:44,280 The thermostat was broken, probably damaged years ago, maybe 34 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:47,320 during a storm, maybe because of a power surge. 35 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:49,960 No one even really remembers what happened. 36 00:01:50,200 --> 00:01:55,400 And it's been reading bad data and it's been responding to a reality 37 00:01:55,400 --> 00:01:56,360 that no longer. 38 00:01:57,540 --> 00:02:01,300 So it's 40 degrees in the house, but the thermometer says 72 39 00:02:01,620 --> 00:02:04,980 because that system and the instrument is broken. 40 00:02:05,780 --> 00:02:08,740 Most of us are literally in this room. 41 00:02:08,740 --> 00:02:12,380 And we are living in that house right now because something 42 00:02:12,380 --> 00:02:16,180 in our lives was broken and it happened many years ago. 43 00:02:16,500 --> 00:02:19,940 And because that system is broken, we are repeating this cycle 44 00:02:19,940 --> 00:02:20,260 today. 45 00:02:20,500 --> 00:02:22,260 But I got good news from you. 46 00:02:22,340 --> 00:02:25,380 Who the son sets free is free indeed. 47 00:02:25,460 --> 00:02:31,040 And God is gonna set us free from broken systems, cycles of brokenness. 48 00:02:31,520 --> 00:02:32,640 Are y' all with me? 49 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:37,840 So today I want to talk to everybody under the sound of my voice 50 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:42,320 that has ever said, I don't know why I keep doing that. 51 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:47,960 I don't know why I shut down every time someone gets close to 52 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:48,240 me. 53 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:50,960 I don't know why I get triggered Every time I walk into 54 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:51,520 the church. 55 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:52,080 Hello. 56 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:56,880 I don't know why I keep exploding at all of the small things. 57 00:02:57,930 --> 00:02:59,770 Oh, it's getting real quiet here today. 58 00:03:00,810 --> 00:03:04,930 But we have these reactions that we may not understand why we 59 00:03:04,930 --> 00:03:06,330 are reacting this way. 60 00:03:06,490 --> 00:03:08,930 We're gonna go to the root, and God's gonna deal with it. 61 00:03:08,930 --> 00:03:09,610 Are you ready? 62 00:03:10,250 --> 00:03:13,130 Because here's the theological truth I wanna show you. 63 00:03:13,209 --> 00:03:15,050 And this is gonna set somebody free. 64 00:03:15,530 --> 00:03:19,770 You are not just broken, you are programmed. 65 00:03:19,850 --> 00:03:22,250 And God is in the reprogramming business. 66 00:03:23,700 --> 00:03:24,180 Come on. 67 00:03:24,500 --> 00:03:26,900 You're not just broken, you're programmed. 68 00:03:26,980 --> 00:03:29,780 But God is in the reprogramming business. 69 00:03:30,340 --> 00:03:34,500 You know, scientists and psychologists and all of this is 70 00:03:34,500 --> 00:03:35,700 converging right now. 71 00:03:35,780 --> 00:03:39,580 And they're telling a story that most of our life is running 72 00:03:39,580 --> 00:03:40,660 on autopilot. 73 00:03:41,140 --> 00:03:45,660 Most of our life is a result of our unconscious mind making conscious 74 00:03:45,660 --> 00:03:47,460 decisions unconsciously. 75 00:03:47,780 --> 00:03:50,330 In other words, we don't know why we do it. 76 00:03:50,410 --> 00:03:53,010 We don't know why we're attracted to what we're attracted 77 00:03:53,010 --> 00:03:53,290 to. 78 00:03:53,370 --> 00:03:55,930 We don't know why we keep going back to the addiction. 79 00:03:55,930 --> 00:03:58,810 We don't know why we can't just have a normal relationship. 80 00:03:58,970 --> 00:04:04,730 But today we're going to go to the very root of that man. 81 00:04:04,730 --> 00:04:06,490 I feel the anointing on this message. 82 00:04:06,890 --> 00:04:08,570 I'm going to preach this to myself. 83 00:04:08,970 --> 00:04:10,930 I'm going to get free if nobody else gets free. 84 00:04:10,930 --> 00:04:11,770 This is for me. 85 00:04:12,330 --> 00:04:16,160 Turn with me to John, chapter five, verses one through nine. 86 00:04:16,160 --> 00:04:17,400 If you have your Bibles. 87 00:04:17,640 --> 00:04:20,760 John, chapter five, verses one through nine. 88 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:23,160 I want you to read this with me. 89 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:28,080 Afterward, Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy 90 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:28,360 days. 91 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:33,000 Inside the city, near the sheep gate, was the pool of Bethesda. 92 00:04:33,320 --> 00:04:38,640 Crowds of sick people, blind, lame, even paralyzed, lay on the 93 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:39,320 porches. 94 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:43,960 One of the men lying there had been sick for 38 years. 95 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:48,340 When Jesus saw him and knew that he had been ill for a long time, 96 00:04:48,500 --> 00:04:51,300 he asked him, would you like to get well? 97 00:04:51,380 --> 00:04:52,740 It's an interesting question. 98 00:04:53,220 --> 00:04:58,100 And the man's response to Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, 99 00:04:58,100 --> 00:05:03,700 the Lord of Lords, God's only begotten son, the healer of all healers 100 00:05:04,180 --> 00:05:04,580 is. 101 00:05:04,660 --> 00:05:06,820 Sir, this is what he says. 102 00:05:06,900 --> 00:05:12,780 I can't, sir, the sick man said, for I have no one to put me 103 00:05:12,780 --> 00:05:15,400 in the pool when the water bubbles up. 104 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:20,200 Jesus told him, stand up, pick up your mat and walk. 105 00:05:21,960 --> 00:05:23,000 38 years. 106 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:26,560 I want you to feel the weight of that number with me right now 107 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:27,320 in this room. 108 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:31,560 38 years of waking up and doing the same thing. 109 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:32,360 Paralyzed. 110 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:39,480 38 years of dragging himself with his mat to the pool of Bethesda. 111 00:05:39,840 --> 00:05:45,120 Just trying to get to the place of healing, just doing whatever 112 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,080 he could to get to the pool. 113 00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:52,160 Now the pool of Bethesda was stirred supernaturally by angels. 114 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:56,040 And the idea was that if you could get into that pool, then you 115 00:05:56,040 --> 00:05:56,960 could be healed. 116 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:01,200 And so what happened was he had the method, he had the means, 117 00:06:01,600 --> 00:06:06,340 he even had the desire, but he didn't have a revelation of, see, 118 00:06:06,340 --> 00:06:07,460 come on and see. 119 00:06:07,460 --> 00:06:08,660 This is what we do in life. 120 00:06:08,660 --> 00:06:10,820 You drug yourself through college. 121 00:06:13,940 --> 00:06:16,540 First generation college student. 122 00:06:16,540 --> 00:06:17,020 Oh, yeah. 123 00:06:17,020 --> 00:06:17,860 Pell grants. 124 00:06:18,260 --> 00:06:18,900 Oh yeah. 125 00:06:18,900 --> 00:06:19,340 Loans. 126 00:06:19,340 --> 00:06:19,820 Oh, yeah. 127 00:06:19,820 --> 00:06:21,620 Even I got my mom to sign a loan. 128 00:06:22,580 --> 00:06:25,620 Dragging ourselves, we drug ourselves through ministry, training. 129 00:06:25,620 --> 00:06:27,220 Oh yeah, God's going to use me. 130 00:06:27,300 --> 00:06:28,500 I'm going to feel significant. 131 00:06:29,140 --> 00:06:30,820 I am going to be used by God. 132 00:06:30,820 --> 00:06:36,320 I'm dragging myself to the, the, the local training and I'm dragging 133 00:06:36,320 --> 00:06:37,840 myself through relationships. 134 00:06:37,840 --> 00:06:38,240 Oh yeah. 135 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,320 I'm going to be the first one to stay married in my family. 136 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:42,680 And I'm going to drag my. 137 00:06:42,680 --> 00:06:43,600 I'm going to make it happen. 138 00:06:43,600 --> 00:06:45,000 I'm going to try harder. 139 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:51,480 This is the condition that this man was in for 38 years. 140 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:54,480 38 years. 141 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:58,440 And you've got to understand what I'm saying, because all of us 142 00:06:58,440 --> 00:07:02,820 are this man, like you are this person. 143 00:07:03,700 --> 00:07:08,460 And Jesus is standing in front of him and he says, I can't because 144 00:07:08,460 --> 00:07:10,340 I have no one to help me. 145 00:07:12,020 --> 00:07:14,100 This is the condition of the local church. 146 00:07:14,740 --> 00:07:19,100 Well, I would be in such a better condition if I had Mike Signorelli's 147 00:07:19,100 --> 00:07:21,860 phone number and he would actually go out to dinner with me 148 00:07:21,940 --> 00:07:25,100 and he would actually mentor me and he would actually call me 149 00:07:25,100 --> 00:07:26,380 and my life would be. 150 00:07:26,380 --> 00:07:28,740 Yeah, I mean, at least he could do a zoom or something. 151 00:07:28,740 --> 00:07:31,310 Like, I'd be so much better if that. 152 00:07:31,310 --> 00:07:34,990 See, this thing is, he was looking for somebody to help him 153 00:07:34,990 --> 00:07:39,030 into a pool, not realizing that he had all access to healing 154 00:07:39,030 --> 00:07:42,670 if he obeyed the voice that was right in front of him. 155 00:07:42,750 --> 00:07:47,230 And what God was trying to do is disciple him into complete healing 156 00:07:47,390 --> 00:07:50,430 instead of making him dependent on somebody to pull him 157 00:07:50,430 --> 00:07:51,390 into a healing. 158 00:07:51,550 --> 00:07:52,470 Come on, somebody. 159 00:07:52,470 --> 00:07:54,030 The Lord's trying to help you today. 160 00:07:54,350 --> 00:07:56,190 And see what happens is we're looking. 161 00:07:56,730 --> 00:07:58,730 Our trigger and our wound has us. 162 00:07:58,730 --> 00:08:00,810 Looking for a man to help instead. 163 00:08:00,810 --> 00:08:04,250 Of looking to obey the voice that already spoke to us. 164 00:08:04,490 --> 00:08:06,090 You don't need a mentor. 165 00:08:06,330 --> 00:08:09,210 The Holy Spirit will teach you all things. 166 00:08:09,450 --> 00:08:12,770 You gotta learn how to be obedient to the word he already gave 167 00:08:12,770 --> 00:08:13,130 you. 168 00:08:15,370 --> 00:08:18,090 I just need somebody to spend some time with me. 169 00:08:18,090 --> 00:08:19,930 Stop talking out of a wound. 170 00:08:21,130 --> 00:08:23,050 You want Me to spend time with you. 171 00:08:23,050 --> 00:08:25,090 But you haven't spent any time with God. 172 00:08:25,090 --> 00:08:27,290 So have you elevated me above God? 173 00:08:29,060 --> 00:08:31,180 Stop putting a man on a pedestal. 174 00:08:31,180 --> 00:08:35,140 And then you can put Jesus on the throne and you'll get a healer. 175 00:08:35,140 --> 00:08:36,420 Not just the healing. 176 00:08:38,500 --> 00:08:40,180 Oh, I see. 177 00:08:40,180 --> 00:08:41,380 What happens is this. 178 00:08:41,940 --> 00:08:46,100 Our wound will cause us to look to a person instead of being 179 00:08:46,100 --> 00:08:47,380 obedient to a voice. 180 00:08:48,580 --> 00:08:50,260 I don't even know if y' all catch that. 181 00:08:51,780 --> 00:08:54,500 It's like the voice is telling us what to do. 182 00:08:55,330 --> 00:08:59,130 But the thing is, we want a person to match our expectation of 183 00:08:59,130 --> 00:09:00,610 how the miracle's gonna happen. 184 00:09:01,250 --> 00:09:05,170 That is, see, God, what he will often do is show up in a different 185 00:09:05,170 --> 00:09:06,370 way than you imagine. 186 00:09:07,090 --> 00:09:09,570 But that's because he's not in the methods. 187 00:09:10,530 --> 00:09:11,890 He's in the obedience. 188 00:09:12,930 --> 00:09:16,490 And so God will come with a new method that will require real 189 00:09:16,490 --> 00:09:17,170 obedience. 190 00:09:17,570 --> 00:09:19,530 There's a habit loop that we get stuck in. 191 00:09:19,530 --> 00:09:20,370 I wanna show you this. 192 00:09:20,710 --> 00:09:21,510 There's a cue. 193 00:09:22,070 --> 00:09:24,550 So the cue is, the pool is stirring. 194 00:09:24,790 --> 00:09:26,550 The angels are stirring it. 195 00:09:26,870 --> 00:09:28,550 Then there is a routine. 196 00:09:29,030 --> 00:09:30,630 Lie here and wait. 197 00:09:31,190 --> 00:09:32,870 Then there is a reward. 198 00:09:33,190 --> 00:09:34,710 At least I tried. 199 00:09:35,670 --> 00:09:36,470 You see this? 200 00:09:37,350 --> 00:09:38,710 So this is a habit loop. 201 00:09:38,710 --> 00:09:40,710 The cue is, the pool is stirring. 202 00:09:40,950 --> 00:09:41,590 Okay. 203 00:09:41,670 --> 00:09:42,710 The pool is stirring. 204 00:09:42,710 --> 00:09:43,150 Okay. 205 00:09:43,150 --> 00:09:44,390 I found a new church. 206 00:09:45,830 --> 00:09:47,270 I feel the anointing there. 207 00:09:47,270 --> 00:09:48,390 The pool is stirring. 208 00:09:48,470 --> 00:09:50,750 Oh, I just got into a new relationship. 209 00:09:50,750 --> 00:09:51,990 This one's gonna be different. 210 00:09:52,490 --> 00:09:55,570 Oh, I'm gonna get a brand new degree because the last degree was 211 00:09:55,570 --> 00:09:56,170 the wrong degree. 212 00:09:56,170 --> 00:09:57,610 But this is gonna be the degree. 213 00:09:57,690 --> 00:10:00,010 What happens is the pool starts stirring. 214 00:10:00,170 --> 00:10:04,930 Some of us go from inspiration to inspiration, idea to idea, dream 215 00:10:04,930 --> 00:10:08,770 to dream, and we never step fully into it because we're more 216 00:10:08,770 --> 00:10:12,650 addicted to the stirring of the pool than the obedience to the 217 00:10:12,650 --> 00:10:13,050 voice. 218 00:10:13,370 --> 00:10:17,210 And we're always looking for a pool, never looking to obey the voice. 219 00:10:17,370 --> 00:10:21,090 And this is why people go, oh, I heard the pool is stirring in V1. 220 00:10:21,090 --> 00:10:22,050 Oh, no, it's not there. 221 00:10:22,050 --> 00:10:23,770 The pool is stirring at the other chur. 222 00:10:24,790 --> 00:10:29,230 You're always looking for a pool to be stirred instead of asking 223 00:10:29,230 --> 00:10:32,550 yourself, am I obeying the voice right in front of me? 224 00:10:32,710 --> 00:10:36,150 And people would rather have a pool than have a savior. 225 00:10:36,630 --> 00:10:37,750 People, come on. 226 00:10:37,830 --> 00:10:39,070 This is a cue, though. 227 00:10:39,070 --> 00:10:40,230 Then there's a routine. 228 00:10:40,870 --> 00:10:43,030 The routine is, I'm gonna lay here and wait. 229 00:10:43,110 --> 00:10:44,350 I'm gonna serve a little. 230 00:10:44,350 --> 00:10:45,550 Then I'm gonna leave the church. 231 00:10:45,550 --> 00:10:48,710 If it doesn't go the way that I thought it was gonna go, I'm gonna 232 00:10:48,710 --> 00:10:49,590 lay here and wait. 233 00:10:49,670 --> 00:10:51,110 I'm gonna do the programs. 234 00:10:51,110 --> 00:10:53,270 I'm gonna sign up for the things Then I'm gonna bounce. 235 00:10:53,430 --> 00:10:54,550 I'm gonna date this. 236 00:10:56,130 --> 00:10:57,490 I realize that they're not perfect. 237 00:10:57,490 --> 00:10:58,370 I'm gonna bounce. 238 00:10:58,610 --> 00:11:01,930 It's like people get caught in these loops over and over and over 239 00:11:01,930 --> 00:11:02,210 again. 240 00:11:02,210 --> 00:11:04,650 I'm gonna work this job a little bit, Then I'm gonna start 241 00:11:04,650 --> 00:11:07,330 complaining about my boss and all the people I work with, and then 242 00:11:07,330 --> 00:11:08,690 I'm gonna quit and find another one. 243 00:11:08,770 --> 00:11:13,410 There's people that go from job to job, church to church, relationship 244 00:11:13,410 --> 00:11:16,930 to relationship, and they don't realize that they are caught 245 00:11:17,250 --> 00:11:18,370 in a queue. 246 00:11:18,850 --> 00:11:22,210 How many of us, if we were being honest, are caught in a queue? 247 00:11:22,930 --> 00:11:26,930 Can I talk about addiction sometimes? 248 00:11:27,170 --> 00:11:29,170 I'm not gonna look at anybody while I say this. 249 00:11:30,050 --> 00:11:34,410 Sometimes we actually manufacture the pain so that we can 250 00:11:34,410 --> 00:11:36,930 get to the solution, which is alcohol, faster. 251 00:11:38,690 --> 00:11:43,250 Sometimes we manufacture the drama so that we can get to the marijuana 252 00:11:43,330 --> 00:11:43,810 faster. 253 00:11:44,370 --> 00:11:48,010 Sometimes we make something wrong because we wanted the fake 254 00:11:48,010 --> 00:11:49,290 solution to make it right. 255 00:11:49,290 --> 00:11:51,090 Oh, you're not letting me talk about the cue. 256 00:11:51,860 --> 00:11:55,660 Sometimes when the answer's right in front of us and it's Jesus, 257 00:11:55,660 --> 00:12:00,060 we reject the answer to embrace the cycle because we like 258 00:12:00,060 --> 00:12:04,740 the circuitry from the cue all the way to the wrong solution. 259 00:12:05,780 --> 00:12:12,140 There are people that can't let anything be normal or right because 260 00:12:12,140 --> 00:12:16,060 their central nervous system is so dysregulated that if. 261 00:12:16,060 --> 00:12:19,460 If for a moment, things are right, they have to make it wrong 262 00:12:19,620 --> 00:12:22,100 to get to the thing at the end of the queue. 263 00:12:22,180 --> 00:12:22,820 That re. 264 00:12:24,240 --> 00:12:28,480 Because alcohol is a reward for somebody who has problems. 265 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:32,720 Pornography is a reward for somebody who has anxiety. 266 00:12:33,520 --> 00:12:34,080 Drama. 267 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:35,840 People will create the drama. 268 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:40,040 There are couples who will fight each other to get to the reward 269 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:41,040 of making up. 270 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:44,800 Maybe I went too deep tonight. 271 00:12:45,360 --> 00:12:46,880 Maybe I today. 272 00:12:47,120 --> 00:12:50,040 Maybe today, maybe in Miami, they're saying, he went too deep. 273 00:12:50,040 --> 00:12:51,600 We didn't need this therapy session. 274 00:12:54,540 --> 00:12:58,700 So you think that you have a lust problem, you have a pool problem, 275 00:13:00,460 --> 00:13:01,980 because it's the habit loop. 276 00:13:03,100 --> 00:13:07,020 And it's like, well, my life is hard and I need a sin vacation. 277 00:13:09,660 --> 00:13:10,180 Come on. 278 00:13:10,180 --> 00:13:12,220 What happened to a sanctification vacation? 279 00:13:12,940 --> 00:13:15,020 What happened to a salvation vacation? 280 00:13:15,820 --> 00:13:16,780 See, what I'm saying? 281 00:13:17,430 --> 00:13:18,790 Is this what this does? 282 00:13:18,790 --> 00:13:23,590 And I'm just going to wrap this up nicely now, is it moves the 283 00:13:23,590 --> 00:13:27,750 problem from internal to external. 284 00:13:28,070 --> 00:13:31,350 That's simply what I'm trying to illustrate in the scripture is 285 00:13:31,350 --> 00:13:35,350 there are people that is always the church's problem. 286 00:13:35,670 --> 00:13:38,150 It's always their spouse's problem. 287 00:13:38,390 --> 00:13:40,470 It's always their nation's problem. 288 00:13:40,630 --> 00:13:44,190 I love befriending first generation immigrants to America 289 00:13:44,190 --> 00:13:45,910 because they still, still love our country. 290 00:13:46,950 --> 00:13:50,070 Nobody Loves this country like somebody who lived in another one 291 00:13:50,070 --> 00:13:51,350 before they came here. 292 00:13:52,070 --> 00:13:52,790 Am I right? 293 00:13:53,670 --> 00:13:54,190 And they. 294 00:13:54,190 --> 00:13:57,590 But the people, it's like that fourth, fifth, sixth generation American 295 00:13:57,750 --> 00:13:59,110 that is like they want. 296 00:13:59,110 --> 00:14:00,830 They want a whole another America. 297 00:14:00,830 --> 00:14:01,109 They. 298 00:14:01,109 --> 00:14:01,790 They're not happy. 299 00:14:01,790 --> 00:14:05,430 But this is what we do is familiarity breeds disdain. 300 00:14:06,390 --> 00:14:06,910 And we. 301 00:14:06,910 --> 00:14:12,070 And what happened was this problem was internal, but he was 302 00:14:12,070 --> 00:14:15,230 making it about the pool and he was making it about somebody that 303 00:14:15,230 --> 00:14:16,710 could help drag him in the pool. 304 00:14:17,430 --> 00:14:18,910 This is the cue. 305 00:14:18,910 --> 00:14:21,430 This is the habit loop that we get stuck in. 306 00:14:21,670 --> 00:14:25,350 And listen, the reason why I feel qualified to preach this is 307 00:14:25,350 --> 00:14:28,070 because every time I had a marriage problem, it was Julie's 308 00:14:28,070 --> 00:14:28,390 fault. 309 00:14:28,870 --> 00:14:32,310 Every time I had a problem at the church, it was the pastor's problem, 310 00:14:32,310 --> 00:14:33,310 it was his fault. 311 00:14:33,310 --> 00:14:37,030 And I'm telling you, if you could have met a version of me 25 312 00:14:37,030 --> 00:14:40,070 years ago, I was unrecognizable to the man that's 313 00:14:40,070 --> 00:14:44,850 in front of you today because I was laying at this pool and I was 314 00:14:44,850 --> 00:14:46,050 stuck in a loop. 315 00:14:46,290 --> 00:14:49,250 And the Lord wanted me to be delivered from that loop. 316 00:14:49,410 --> 00:14:51,730 But notice what Jesus asked him. 317 00:14:51,810 --> 00:14:54,530 Would you like to get well, I don't. 318 00:14:54,530 --> 00:14:57,130 I know that you don't believe this, but there are people who want 319 00:14:57,130 --> 00:14:57,970 to stay sick. 320 00:14:59,090 --> 00:15:02,010 I know you don't want to believe this, but there are people 321 00:15:02,010 --> 00:15:02,290 that. 322 00:15:02,290 --> 00:15:05,970 They want a reason to leave the church, not a reason to stay 323 00:15:06,610 --> 00:15:07,010 there. 324 00:15:07,170 --> 00:15:08,810 I just got to tell it like it is. 325 00:15:08,810 --> 00:15:09,570 But they don't. 326 00:15:09,570 --> 00:15:11,130 This is not about V1 church. 327 00:15:11,130 --> 00:15:13,970 This is about how they view life and relationships. 328 00:15:13,970 --> 00:15:16,510 Because they don't understand covenant in marriage. 329 00:15:16,590 --> 00:15:18,110 They don't understand at work. 330 00:15:18,110 --> 00:15:18,430 They. 331 00:15:18,430 --> 00:15:19,990 They want a reason to leave. 332 00:15:19,990 --> 00:15:22,350 They're like, have you ever heard the people from the hood. 333 00:15:22,350 --> 00:15:23,230 Give me a reason. 334 00:15:24,510 --> 00:15:25,350 Give me a reason. 335 00:15:25,350 --> 00:15:27,270 It's like you woke up ready to fight. 336 00:15:27,270 --> 00:15:27,950 You were just. 337 00:15:28,110 --> 00:15:31,550 You're living Mortal Kombat reality out here on the streets and 338 00:15:31,550 --> 00:15:34,190 you're just like, it was going to be somebody. 339 00:15:35,070 --> 00:15:35,790 Am I right? 340 00:15:36,590 --> 00:15:39,390 So what happens is people already made up their mind. 341 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:41,240 And let me just tell you. 342 00:15:41,320 --> 00:15:44,360 Do we have any motorcycle ride riders here at this church? 343 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:45,920 Okay, two of them. 344 00:15:45,920 --> 00:15:46,480 Praise God. 345 00:15:46,480 --> 00:15:47,680 This is a bad analogy. 346 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:51,400 Then for the rest of you, when you're riding a motorcycle, you hit 347 00:15:51,400 --> 00:15:52,440 what you head for. 348 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:56,040 Whatever you look at is where that bike goes. 349 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:57,160 Am I right? 350 00:15:57,720 --> 00:15:58,840 Whatever you look at. 351 00:15:58,840 --> 00:16:02,200 So when you people don't understand when you're looking. 352 00:16:02,280 --> 00:16:06,200 This man was looking at the pool, not looking at Jesus. 353 00:16:07,130 --> 00:16:07,890 So he was trying. 354 00:16:07,890 --> 00:16:09,770 His goal was the wrong goal. 355 00:16:09,930 --> 00:16:10,890 There's people that. 356 00:16:10,890 --> 00:16:12,850 Their goal is not Reconciliation. 357 00:16:12,850 --> 00:16:16,450 Their goal is division, and you're trying to convince them. 358 00:16:16,450 --> 00:16:17,690 No, no, please stay. 359 00:16:17,850 --> 00:16:21,210 You can't convince somebody who's already looking at a perverted 360 00:16:21,210 --> 00:16:21,650 vision. 361 00:16:21,650 --> 00:16:24,970 They are going to ride their life into the direction of that lie, 362 00:16:25,050 --> 00:16:27,370 and there's nothing you can do to stop it. 363 00:16:27,450 --> 00:16:30,170 Jesus Christ himself couldn't stop it. 364 00:16:31,050 --> 00:16:33,220 This is why parents come to me. 365 00:16:33,220 --> 00:16:35,860 My son, he's addicted to opiates. 366 00:16:35,860 --> 00:16:37,700 You can save him, Mike. 367 00:16:39,140 --> 00:16:44,020 I mean, my d. If you could spend 24 hours in my DMs on all social 368 00:16:44,020 --> 00:16:46,180 media, you would think I'm God. 369 00:16:47,940 --> 00:16:52,940 Mike, if you deliver them, if you pray for them, if you call them, 370 00:16:52,940 --> 00:16:53,860 if you touch. 371 00:16:53,940 --> 00:16:56,020 No, that's not how it works. 372 00:16:57,300 --> 00:17:00,660 Jesus asked him the question, do you want to get well? 373 00:17:01,140 --> 00:17:05,840 Your son is addicted to opiates laying at the pool of Bethesda. 374 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:07,680 Does he want to be free? 375 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:10,880 Because deliverance is for the desperate. 376 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:15,600 There's some people that know church is good enough for them, but 377 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:17,320 it has nothing to do with the church. 378 00:17:17,320 --> 00:17:18,400 It's about them. 379 00:17:18,720 --> 00:17:19,920 They are the problem. 380 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:23,040 Wherever they go, they bring the problem with them. 381 00:17:23,120 --> 00:17:24,480 It's just like a marriage. 382 00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:24,920 It's. 383 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:25,360 It's not. 384 00:17:25,360 --> 00:17:25,880 I'm going to. 385 00:17:25,880 --> 00:17:27,920 Oh, my next wife is going to be the one. 386 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:28,240 No. 387 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:30,560 You don't know how to be happy with anyone. 388 00:17:30,930 --> 00:17:33,170 The problem is not the pull. 389 00:17:33,250 --> 00:17:33,970 It's you. 390 00:17:34,290 --> 00:17:35,970 Do you want to be healed? 391 00:17:35,970 --> 00:17:37,730 Do you want to be healed? 392 00:17:38,850 --> 00:17:42,050 And I'm saying this because I gave my pastors a lot of. 393 00:17:42,370 --> 00:17:43,490 A lot of hard times. 394 00:17:44,210 --> 00:17:44,690 Nothing. 395 00:17:44,690 --> 00:17:45,530 I preach to you. 396 00:17:45,530 --> 00:17:48,050 I am not the example of the bad part of it. 397 00:17:48,930 --> 00:17:50,210 I was the addict. 398 00:17:50,210 --> 00:17:52,770 I was addicted to alcohol 20 years ago. 399 00:17:53,010 --> 00:17:55,410 I was the one making problems in my church. 400 00:17:55,410 --> 00:17:58,050 My wife will tell you the stories the next time I let her preach 401 00:17:58,050 --> 00:17:58,930 two years from now. 402 00:18:01,350 --> 00:18:03,190 You understand what I'm trying to say to you? 403 00:18:03,670 --> 00:18:05,510 It's the victim mindset. 404 00:18:05,990 --> 00:18:08,950 And the only reason why democratic socialism is. 405 00:18:08,950 --> 00:18:13,670 Is entering the us AKA communism, is because everyone's 406 00:18:13,670 --> 00:18:14,950 got a victim mindset. 407 00:18:14,950 --> 00:18:15,590 Help me. 408 00:18:15,670 --> 00:18:16,390 Give me. 409 00:18:16,390 --> 00:18:17,750 Hand me out, please. 410 00:18:17,830 --> 00:18:18,790 Please help me. 411 00:18:18,870 --> 00:18:19,270 No. 412 00:18:19,590 --> 00:18:21,430 If you don't work, you don't eat. 413 00:18:21,590 --> 00:18:23,510 God doesn't reward laziness. 414 00:18:23,750 --> 00:18:25,360 We don't get handouts. 415 00:18:25,750 --> 00:18:29,030 We give a hand out and we pull other people up. 416 00:18:29,030 --> 00:18:31,030 We are apostolic builders. 417 00:18:31,110 --> 00:18:32,310 We are prophets. 418 00:18:32,470 --> 00:18:34,230 We are not victims. 419 00:18:34,230 --> 00:18:37,510 We're not going to bend our knee to political idolatry. 420 00:18:37,670 --> 00:18:39,910 That the root of it is demonic. 421 00:18:43,270 --> 00:18:45,390 This is what's happening in New York City. 422 00:18:45,390 --> 00:18:46,790 They're starting to win seats. 423 00:18:46,870 --> 00:18:49,830 And literally, they called Zoran Mamdani a. 424 00:18:49,830 --> 00:18:54,120 King maker because he put these radical left Democrats out 425 00:18:54,120 --> 00:18:55,840 there and they voted for him. 426 00:18:56,160 --> 00:18:56,800 And when my. 427 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:57,920 And some of you don't understand. 428 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:00,560 This series is entitled Kingmaker. 429 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:06,520 When I wrote down the actual strategy for this year, in the month 430 00:19:06,520 --> 00:19:09,040 of June, I wrote Kingmaker. 431 00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:12,920 And the Lord said, mike, you have to break the victim mentality 432 00:19:12,920 --> 00:19:13,920 off of your church. 433 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:17,160 And you have to see when we say that phrase, he's the king of 434 00:19:17,160 --> 00:19:17,760 all kings. 435 00:19:17,920 --> 00:19:21,480 You're thinking he's the king over evil kings or he's the king 436 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:23,340 over principalities and power powers. 437 00:19:23,340 --> 00:19:24,140 That's true. 438 00:19:24,140 --> 00:19:29,020 But he is also a king that makes kings, who makes queens, who 439 00:19:29,020 --> 00:19:30,860 makes princesses and princes. 440 00:19:30,860 --> 00:19:31,220 And. 441 00:19:31,220 --> 00:19:32,740 Come on, it's a royal. 442 00:19:32,740 --> 00:19:36,780 You are a royal priesthood, a chosen generation. 443 00:19:37,100 --> 00:19:40,020 He's the king maker, making us kings. 444 00:19:40,020 --> 00:19:42,380 He's the king over a whole bunch of kings. 445 00:19:42,620 --> 00:19:45,420 Are you a son and daughter of the king? 446 00:19:45,580 --> 00:19:48,300 Then you are royalty, not a victim. 447 00:19:51,340 --> 00:19:52,620 They freeze the rent. 448 00:19:52,620 --> 00:19:54,460 You should be buying the building. 449 00:19:54,860 --> 00:19:56,860 You're the head and not the tail. 450 00:19:57,020 --> 00:19:58,700 We're the seed of Abraham. 451 00:19:58,780 --> 00:20:03,980 Come on, I'm trying to help you. 452 00:20:04,539 --> 00:20:05,900 We are not victims. 453 00:20:05,900 --> 00:20:06,500 But we're. 454 00:20:06,500 --> 00:20:07,740 This was the mat. 455 00:20:08,220 --> 00:20:11,220 If I could crawl my way through college, if I could crawl 456 00:20:11,220 --> 00:20:12,380 my way through ministry. 457 00:20:12,620 --> 00:20:13,180 Crawl my. 458 00:20:13,180 --> 00:20:14,540 And then we do this. 459 00:20:14,540 --> 00:20:15,780 And here's what happens. 460 00:20:15,780 --> 00:20:19,900 The more, More effort we expend here, the angrier we get when 461 00:20:19,900 --> 00:20:23,140 we don't get in the pool, when we don't get placed in the pool. 462 00:20:26,340 --> 00:20:28,220 I hope I didn't mess up with this sermon. 463 00:20:28,220 --> 00:20:29,460 I wrestled with this sermon. 464 00:20:29,460 --> 00:20:30,220 You have no idea. 465 00:20:30,220 --> 00:20:32,980 I was like, God, is this too much for 30 minutes? 466 00:20:35,060 --> 00:20:39,780 The more, the more effort you take here trying to drag yourself 467 00:20:39,860 --> 00:20:44,380 into that pool, the angrier you will be when someone else doesn't 468 00:20:44,380 --> 00:20:45,470 place you in that pool. 469 00:20:46,500 --> 00:20:47,060 But I went. 470 00:20:47,060 --> 00:20:50,620 I drugged myself through V1 College, and he asked everybody to 471 00:20:50,620 --> 00:20:51,380 preach but me. 472 00:20:51,380 --> 00:20:52,820 He didn't put me in the pool. 473 00:20:53,620 --> 00:20:56,620 Well, according to the Bible, promotion does not come from the 474 00:20:56,620 --> 00:20:59,620 east or the west, but promotion comes from God. 475 00:20:59,700 --> 00:21:02,180 And so, honey, I can't stop you. 476 00:21:02,180 --> 00:21:05,300 If God wants to promote you, no man can stop you. 477 00:21:05,460 --> 00:21:08,860 Apparently, you have a problem with God if you're not being promoted. 478 00:21:08,860 --> 00:21:10,340 It had nothing to do with me. 479 00:21:10,340 --> 00:21:15,990 The Bible says even evil rulers are put in position by God. 480 00:21:16,150 --> 00:21:18,470 So if you ain't being promoted, don't check me. 481 00:21:18,470 --> 00:21:20,630 Check God in your relationship. 482 00:21:21,670 --> 00:21:21,990 But. 483 00:21:21,990 --> 00:21:24,590 But when you got a generation of victims, people don't want to 484 00:21:24,590 --> 00:21:25,110 hear this. 485 00:21:27,110 --> 00:21:28,990 They don't want to hear, oh, it's, It's. 486 00:21:28,990 --> 00:21:30,750 I gotta do this, and I'm not the favorite? 487 00:21:30,750 --> 00:21:30,910 No. 488 00:21:30,910 --> 00:21:33,670 Listen, if you're God's favorite, ain't nobody gonna stop 489 00:21:33,670 --> 00:21:34,070 you. 490 00:21:36,310 --> 00:21:39,750 This is the word, and this is not a cruel question. 491 00:21:39,750 --> 00:21:43,140 When Jesus said, do you want to be healed people? 492 00:21:43,140 --> 00:21:43,900 Would you. 493 00:21:44,060 --> 00:21:46,460 You think I get canceled as your pastor? 494 00:21:47,500 --> 00:21:51,260 Jesus would be canceled every day. 495 00:21:52,060 --> 00:21:55,700 They'd be like, did you hear what that man from Nazareth who thinks 496 00:21:55,700 --> 00:21:58,780 he is the Messiah was saying? 497 00:21:59,020 --> 00:22:00,620 He asked that sick person. 498 00:22:00,620 --> 00:22:02,140 What kind of question is that? 499 00:22:02,860 --> 00:22:05,660 Remember, there's three kinds of people, according to proverbs. 500 00:22:06,220 --> 00:22:11,830 Wise, foolish, and evil. 501 00:22:13,030 --> 00:22:14,790 Wise, foolish, and evil. 502 00:22:15,430 --> 00:22:19,670 The wise get promoted, the fools get an opportunity to become 503 00:22:19,670 --> 00:22:22,230 wise, and the evil get banished. 504 00:22:23,270 --> 00:22:25,110 This is what God is doing right now. 505 00:22:25,590 --> 00:22:28,830 And my encouragement to all of us is, if you can hear my voice right 506 00:22:28,830 --> 00:22:31,590 now, you're either wise and you're about to get promoted, or 507 00:22:31,590 --> 00:22:34,960 you're foolish and God's trying to make you wise for real. 508 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:35,880 This is grace. 509 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,800 Because for what's to come, we can't be victims anymore. 510 00:22:40,280 --> 00:22:41,080 And we can't. 511 00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:45,160 We can't be so angry because we work so hard to drag ourselves 512 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:47,720 to the pool that another person didn't put us in. 513 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:49,919 When God said, I was never gonna use that pool. 514 00:22:49,919 --> 00:22:50,600 Oh, come on. 515 00:22:50,760 --> 00:22:53,320 I was never gonna use that pool anyways. 516 00:22:53,720 --> 00:22:57,480 See, listen, in 2020, I didn't even have social media. 517 00:22:57,800 --> 00:23:01,080 I had no famous Christian in America even knew my name. 518 00:23:01,500 --> 00:23:04,620 But God said, mike, I'm not gonna use the pool for what I do 519 00:23:04,620 --> 00:23:04,940 next. 520 00:23:05,100 --> 00:23:07,900 I'm gonna call you, I'm gonna give you a platform. 521 00:23:07,980 --> 00:23:11,300 And listen, y' all don't even understand God. 522 00:23:11,300 --> 00:23:14,340 When God wants to do something, he will stand in front 523 00:23:14,340 --> 00:23:14,820 of you and. 524 00:23:14,820 --> 00:23:17,579 Say, okay, now you got me. 525 00:23:17,660 --> 00:23:20,340 And if you want this healing, you've. 526 00:23:20,340 --> 00:23:21,980 Gotta make it up in your mind. 527 00:23:22,060 --> 00:23:25,220 So the question I'm asking everybody is, do you wanna be healed 528 00:23:25,220 --> 00:23:25,580 now? 529 00:23:25,660 --> 00:23:28,290 Cause God has taken the experience excuses away. 530 00:23:28,610 --> 00:23:30,610 Do you want to be healed? 531 00:23:32,610 --> 00:23:33,850 Do you want to be healed? 532 00:23:33,850 --> 00:23:35,010 Because you can't blame. 533 00:23:35,170 --> 00:23:40,610 See, this is the loop is if nobody drags me into the pool, then 534 00:23:40,610 --> 00:23:44,210 I can blame my condition on a person. 535 00:23:44,690 --> 00:23:47,290 But if you get healed, then you. 536 00:23:47,290 --> 00:23:48,290 Now have to work. 537 00:23:54,220 --> 00:23:57,100 I'm stepping off of serving at the church. 538 00:23:59,660 --> 00:24:05,460 I'm stepping off as if you launched a 501C3 ministry within 539 00:24:05,460 --> 00:24:06,620 the Greeter team. 540 00:24:07,180 --> 00:24:09,980 You don't have to resign from your board of directors. 541 00:24:10,620 --> 00:24:11,740 It's very simple. 542 00:24:11,900 --> 00:24:14,780 Healed people are working people. 543 00:24:15,500 --> 00:24:19,220 And working people say, I'd rather be a front door greeter at 544 00:24:19,220 --> 00:24:22,940 the house of God than to be the person going to the Nightclubs, 545 00:24:22,940 --> 00:24:23,460 going to the. 546 00:24:23,460 --> 00:24:25,860 Strip clubs, going to the Lord saved me. 547 00:24:25,860 --> 00:24:26,740 The least I can do. 548 00:24:26,740 --> 00:24:29,340 I used to expend all my energy sinning. 549 00:24:29,340 --> 00:24:33,340 The least I can do is expend an hour a week serving. 550 00:24:33,420 --> 00:24:35,340 And what have we lost our mind? 551 00:24:35,340 --> 00:24:37,900 Have we lost the joy of our salvation? 552 00:24:38,140 --> 00:24:42,980 That we forgot where he picked us up from when we were outside of 553 00:24:42,980 --> 00:24:43,500 the pool? 554 00:24:43,660 --> 00:24:47,760 That we now can't stand at that pool and pick other people up 555 00:24:47,760 --> 00:24:48,800 who need healing. 556 00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,280 I don't care, Pastor. 557 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:53,080 I'll do the work. 558 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,120 I'll show up when the doors are open. 559 00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:55,920 Why? 560 00:24:56,240 --> 00:24:59,280 Because I used to show up to the bar when it was open. 561 00:24:59,600 --> 00:25:01,600 So I'll show up to the church. 562 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:08,560 And this is not a sermon to increase our church. 563 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:11,840 I did not ever set out to have a big church. 564 00:25:11,840 --> 00:25:16,920 I'm just talking about this as a Christian thing because healed 565 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:18,440 people are working people. 566 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:23,080 But if you have a wound, you have a reason to resign or step off 567 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:27,560 or tender your resignation for your 501c3 greeting ministry. 568 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,960 Where I come from, people stayed in positions in the local 569 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:33,400 church for 30 years. 570 00:25:34,440 --> 00:25:36,560 That's called an oak of righteousness. 571 00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:36,880 Why? 572 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:41,280 Because the roots go down and through every season, they stay rooted 573 00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:41,780 in that church. 574 00:25:42,410 --> 00:25:44,770 And then the generation sprout up around them. 575 00:25:44,770 --> 00:25:49,210 And you make a canopy of forest that begins to cover the people 576 00:25:49,210 --> 00:25:49,810 around them. 577 00:25:49,810 --> 00:25:52,530 And what, Long island and Miami and New York City? 578 00:25:52,530 --> 00:25:54,690 Maybe this message is just for V1. 579 00:25:54,690 --> 00:25:58,490 Church, but we don't need a whole bunch of weirdo, flighty people, 580 00:25:58,730 --> 00:26:01,850 emotional, wounded, dragging themselves around the pool. 581 00:26:01,930 --> 00:26:06,490 We need some healed people who will go out into a lost and die world, 582 00:26:06,650 --> 00:26:11,270 healing people in Jesus name and getting rooted in our communities 583 00:26:11,270 --> 00:26:14,950 for generations if the Lord doesn't come back because. 584 00:26:14,950 --> 00:26:20,910 This is his word, people are always like, you think you're gonna 585 00:26:20,910 --> 00:26:21,750 stay in New York? 586 00:26:22,070 --> 00:26:24,390 Yes, I'll die in New York. 587 00:26:24,390 --> 00:26:27,590 And like Elijah, you'll be passing my bones around here. 588 00:26:29,110 --> 00:26:34,150 Because if you have a plan B or a plan C or a plan D, you'll always 589 00:26:34,150 --> 00:26:34,610 do it. 590 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:40,400 If you're married to a woman and you have a plan B, you'll leave 591 00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:40,680 her. 592 00:26:41,720 --> 00:26:44,480 If you are an entrepreneur and you have a plan B, you. 593 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,280 Your first business won't succeed. 594 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,720 This is why Elisha had to burn the plow. 595 00:26:50,120 --> 00:26:54,080 Because when he received that mantle from Elijah, he knew, if I 596 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:57,960 don't kill all these oxen and everything that represented my old 597 00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:59,880 life, I will go back to it. 598 00:27:01,330 --> 00:27:02,690 And this is what we do. 599 00:27:02,930 --> 00:27:03,650 We, we. 600 00:27:03,810 --> 00:27:06,130 We join churches with a plan B. 601 00:27:06,210 --> 00:27:08,210 We join marriages with a plan B. 602 00:27:08,210 --> 00:27:10,770 And we will always take that plan B. 603 00:27:10,770 --> 00:27:13,970 And there's something about what Jesus is saying is, understand 604 00:27:14,930 --> 00:27:17,170 I'm asking you the question now. 605 00:27:17,330 --> 00:27:18,930 Do you want to be healed? 606 00:27:19,010 --> 00:27:24,930 Because I will rob you of your plan B and C and D. And when I heal 607 00:27:24,930 --> 00:27:26,330 you, this is irrevocable. 608 00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:29,600 You can't lie on that mat anymore because you'll be a fraud 609 00:27:29,600 --> 00:27:29,920 now. 610 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:33,160 And this is like telling people, if you get delivered from 611 00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:34,000 depression,. 612 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:37,680 You can't. 613 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,240 Do what depressed people do anymore. 614 00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:42,200 You can't lay in the bed for. 615 00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:45,240 12 hours, bedrotting, scrolling your phone, so. 616 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,680 You can't tell God, I don't want to be depressed, but then not 617 00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:52,080 say, I don't want to do what depressed people do anymore. 618 00:27:52,550 --> 00:27:54,070 This is what I'm trying to tell you. 619 00:27:54,470 --> 00:27:58,310 Once God heals you, you're gonna have a change in your life. 620 00:27:58,630 --> 00:28:01,670 And I don't know about you, but I come from old school church. 621 00:28:01,910 --> 00:28:04,390 When people got saved, they changed. 622 00:28:04,630 --> 00:28:08,150 Only in this generation you get saved and nothing changes. 623 00:28:08,550 --> 00:28:12,710 But when God came to me at the pool of Bethesda, I didn't drink 624 00:28:12,710 --> 00:28:13,350 anymore. 625 00:28:13,430 --> 00:28:14,950 I didn't cheat anymore. 626 00:28:15,030 --> 00:28:16,470 We need to get saved. 627 00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:19,200 Saved. 628 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:24,640 That's why I went viral for asking people to give up their drugs. 629 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:25,920 That's not new. 630 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:29,200 That's how we used to do church before we got soft. 631 00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:33,840 I went viral for casting out demons. 632 00:28:33,920 --> 00:28:35,120 That's nothing new. 633 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,160 It's just that the church stopped confronting the devil because 634 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,480 they were holding their hands with them. 635 00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:43,520 Do you want to be healed? 636 00:28:45,340 --> 00:28:45,940 Do you want to. 637 00:28:45,940 --> 00:28:46,620 It's a question. 638 00:28:47,020 --> 00:28:54,980 Because you can't do unhealed things once you healed people. 639 00:28:54,980 --> 00:28:55,900 Don't gossip. 640 00:28:56,140 --> 00:28:56,940 Healed people. 641 00:28:57,100 --> 00:28:59,580 Don't talk trash about every healed people. 642 00:28:59,660 --> 00:29:02,780 Aren't jealous, by the way. 643 00:29:03,100 --> 00:29:03,540 Don't. 644 00:29:03,540 --> 00:29:05,260 Please don't be jealous with me. 645 00:29:05,580 --> 00:29:08,540 You might want my platform, but you don't want my attacks. 646 00:29:10,390 --> 00:29:12,510 You can't even stand a demonic headache. 647 00:29:12,510 --> 00:29:14,310 You're not ready for what I'm dealing with. 648 00:29:17,110 --> 00:29:21,550 I'm telling you straight up, don't be jealous of me, because you're 649 00:29:21,550 --> 00:29:22,870 going to get the attacks too. 650 00:29:25,430 --> 00:29:28,630 And the only difference is I don't complain as much as other people, 651 00:29:28,630 --> 00:29:30,150 so I make it look too easy. 652 00:29:31,590 --> 00:29:32,790 You have no idea. 653 00:29:33,510 --> 00:29:36,460 But the question is, do you want to be healed? 654 00:29:37,180 --> 00:29:41,220 Mike, I know you have a penchant towards depression and anxiety 655 00:29:41,220 --> 00:29:44,860 and fear, but I'm asking you, do you want to be healed? 656 00:29:44,860 --> 00:29:48,660 And when I said yes, I have to remind myself of that question. 657 00:29:48,660 --> 00:29:49,700 I'm almost done, y'. 658 00:29:49,700 --> 00:29:49,900 All. 659 00:29:50,300 --> 00:29:51,740 Do you actually want to change? 660 00:29:53,020 --> 00:29:55,900 Or have you grown more Comfortable with the familiar pain. 661 00:29:56,540 --> 00:29:56,980 It's. 662 00:29:56,980 --> 00:29:57,420 I'm. 663 00:30:02,070 --> 00:30:03,510 It's a trauma response. 664 00:30:04,070 --> 00:30:08,750 And there's this old narrative that had been playing like a broken 665 00:30:08,750 --> 00:30:10,550 record in that man. 666 00:30:11,030 --> 00:30:12,550 That was, no one is here. 667 00:30:12,710 --> 00:30:14,310 The system has failed me. 668 00:30:15,030 --> 00:30:17,110 And that is a pattern of victim. 669 00:30:17,110 --> 00:30:18,310 Nobody helps me. 670 00:30:18,470 --> 00:30:19,510 I used to say this. 671 00:30:19,510 --> 00:30:20,230 You have no idea. 672 00:30:20,230 --> 00:30:24,150 When I moved to New York City, I was so jealous of the other pastors. 673 00:30:24,550 --> 00:30:28,230 I would say, well, they have a biological father that's a pastor, 674 00:30:28,860 --> 00:30:32,060 and if I was second generation, I would have it as easy 675 00:30:32,060 --> 00:30:32,460 as them. 676 00:30:32,460 --> 00:30:34,860 They have a denomination that gave them all this money. 677 00:30:34,940 --> 00:30:37,660 And I would look at these other pastors and be so jealous. 678 00:30:38,620 --> 00:30:43,380 And the Lord told me, he said, mike, I want you to break this jealousy 679 00:30:43,380 --> 00:30:44,620 by celebrating them. 680 00:30:45,260 --> 00:30:47,980 Because every single time I would see these pastors of New York 681 00:30:47,980 --> 00:30:51,100 City post, I would scroll past their post, say, I ain't liking that 682 00:30:51,100 --> 00:30:51,420 post. 683 00:30:51,900 --> 00:30:53,020 They don't deserve my. 684 00:30:53,020 --> 00:30:54,780 Like, I'm withholding my. 685 00:30:54,780 --> 00:30:57,020 Like, I'm withholding my heart. 686 00:30:57,500 --> 00:30:57,940 Come on. 687 00:30:57,940 --> 00:30:59,660 You're laughing because I got you. 688 00:31:01,020 --> 00:31:02,260 I'm not commenting on that. 689 00:31:02,260 --> 00:31:04,780 I'm withholding my comment, Right? 690 00:31:05,420 --> 00:31:07,300 And this was the early days of our church. 691 00:31:07,300 --> 00:31:10,660 And the Holy Spirit said, mike, I want you to break that spirit 692 00:31:10,660 --> 00:31:11,660 because I'm not in that. 693 00:31:11,900 --> 00:31:14,420 I don't do competition and rivalry and jealousy. 694 00:31:14,420 --> 00:31:17,380 Now, this is before I even had social media profiles. 695 00:31:17,380 --> 00:31:18,700 This is before the influence. 696 00:31:18,860 --> 00:31:21,260 And all of a sudden, the Lord was working on my heart, and he said, 697 00:31:21,260 --> 00:31:22,460 I want you to celebrate them. 698 00:31:23,330 --> 00:31:25,490 So every time I would see their post, I would heart it. 699 00:31:28,210 --> 00:31:30,450 Then I would put a comment, Amen, bro. 700 00:31:32,290 --> 00:31:33,410 Then I would do it again. 701 00:31:33,650 --> 00:31:36,530 Like, then I kept doing that. 702 00:31:36,930 --> 00:31:39,890 All of a sudden, it all happened around the same time. 703 00:31:40,210 --> 00:31:42,450 They started reaching out to me in the DMs. 704 00:31:42,770 --> 00:31:45,010 Hey, bro, I know you're in New York City, too. 705 00:31:45,090 --> 00:31:46,530 I've been watching V1. 706 00:31:47,010 --> 00:31:50,720 I want to tell you that I've been feeling so down and discouraged. 707 00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:54,200 And every single time you like my post and you comment, it just 708 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:55,520 makes me feel so much better. 709 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,200 As a matter of fact, I want to confess to you that I was jealous 710 00:31:59,200 --> 00:31:59,680 of you. 711 00:31:59,920 --> 00:32:03,120 Because my dad is a pastor, and I used to be jealous, saying, 712 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,920 I wish I had Mike's story where I didn't have a dad that I 713 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:07,600 had to report to for my ministry. 714 00:32:08,800 --> 00:32:09,680 I'm not kidding. 715 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:11,200 These are the real stories. 716 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:16,830 And literally, they would be like, then the next one man, a denomination, 717 00:32:16,830 --> 00:32:17,790 gave me all this money. 718 00:32:17,790 --> 00:32:19,430 I feel like I'm a slave to that money. 719 00:32:19,430 --> 00:32:22,190 Cause I see you do V1 you get to do whatever you want. 720 00:32:22,190 --> 00:32:24,750 And I realized we were all jealous of each other. 721 00:32:24,990 --> 00:32:26,990 We were all competing with each other. 722 00:32:27,070 --> 00:32:30,430 We were a whole bunch of wounded people at the pool of Bethesda, 723 00:32:30,670 --> 00:32:34,550 wishing that someone would drag us into this pool, not recognizing 724 00:32:34,550 --> 00:32:36,270 that our story was our story. 725 00:32:36,350 --> 00:32:39,530 And Jesus was there asking, do you want to be healed? 726 00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:41,600 And somebody had to say yes. 727 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,720 And when I started liking those posts, what I didn't realize 728 00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,600 is that I was gonna have 2.3 million subscribers. 729 00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,200 What I didn't realize is I was gonna have half a million. 730 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,920 On See, everybody sees the virality now, but you don't see the 731 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:55,200 vulnerability before. 732 00:32:55,599 --> 00:32:58,720 And some of y' all want virality without vulnerability. 733 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,360 But God is asking, will you reveal. 734 00:33:01,360 --> 00:33:02,680 It so I can heal it? 735 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:04,160 And maybe if I can heal it,. 736 00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:08,240 I can platform your healing so you can break something off of somebody 737 00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:08,640 else. 738 00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:10,880 So I don't see likes on Instagram. 739 00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:16,000 I see me liking other people's stuff until I got up and picked up 740 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:20,160 my mat and learned how to walk instead of blaming somebody about 741 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:21,840 why my life wasn't fair. 742 00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:25,600 Am I helping anybody? 743 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,480 Teach me the algorithms. 744 00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,160 Forgiveness, reconciliation. 745 00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:33,440 Come on. 746 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:34,480 Celebration. 747 00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:36,110 I'm teaching you the algorithm. 748 00:33:38,180 --> 00:33:39,860 This is what trauma does. 749 00:33:40,420 --> 00:33:44,020 Dr. Mate says one of the world's leading trauma researchers 750 00:33:44,340 --> 00:33:49,620 explains that unhealed trauma does not primarily affect our memory. 751 00:33:50,020 --> 00:33:52,100 It affects our perception. 752 00:33:52,420 --> 00:33:53,700 The wounded person. 753 00:33:53,860 --> 00:33:54,900 This is what happens. 754 00:33:54,900 --> 00:33:56,820 They don't just remember the past. 755 00:33:57,140 --> 00:33:59,940 They see the present through the past. 756 00:34:03,310 --> 00:34:05,070 They see the present through the past. 757 00:34:05,230 --> 00:34:08,950 My last church situation didn't work out, so I'm gonna see 758 00:34:08,950 --> 00:34:12,910 V1 through the lens of a church that Mike's never been to. 759 00:34:13,710 --> 00:34:17,070 My last relationship didn't work out, so I'm gonna see this new 760 00:34:17,070 --> 00:34:20,990 relationship through the lens of a relationship that person never 761 00:34:20,990 --> 00:34:21,550 encountered. 762 00:34:21,790 --> 00:34:25,950 My last employer did me wrong, so I'm gonna look at my new employer, 763 00:34:25,950 --> 00:34:27,070 like, with a side eye. 764 00:34:28,119 --> 00:34:28,679 Mm. 765 00:34:28,839 --> 00:34:29,959 I'm watching you. 766 00:34:31,559 --> 00:34:33,239 This is what trauma does. 767 00:34:34,039 --> 00:34:38,319 I find it interesting that the Bible says these are words of Jesus 768 00:34:38,319 --> 00:34:38,679 Christ. 769 00:34:39,319 --> 00:34:43,159 To enter into this kingdom, you must become like a child. 770 00:34:44,359 --> 00:34:44,759 Why? 771 00:34:45,319 --> 00:34:46,759 Children don't have a past. 772 00:34:51,879 --> 00:34:52,679 Are you learning? 773 00:34:54,700 --> 00:34:55,980 Children don't have a past. 774 00:34:56,860 --> 00:34:59,180 If you don't have a past, you don't have triggers. 775 00:34:59,980 --> 00:35:02,380 So what he's saying is, you're not going to be able to enter this 776 00:35:02,380 --> 00:35:03,900 kingdom with all your triggers. 777 00:35:04,700 --> 00:35:07,100 But in order to deal with the triggers, I got to deal with your 778 00:35:07,100 --> 00:35:07,420 past. 779 00:35:07,820 --> 00:35:10,860 But in order to deal with your past, I got to convince you that 780 00:35:10,860 --> 00:35:11,660 you're the problem. 781 00:35:16,140 --> 00:35:19,140 Somebody just in the back just yelled Just open up the altar right 782 00:35:19,140 --> 00:35:19,420 now. 783 00:35:19,500 --> 00:35:20,940 Give me the puke buckets. 784 00:35:21,020 --> 00:35:21,660 I'm ready. 785 00:35:21,660 --> 00:35:22,100 Whatever. 786 00:35:22,100 --> 00:35:22,860 Let's do it. 787 00:35:22,860 --> 00:35:24,540 Okay, I get it today. 788 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:31,480 This whole month, the Lord said, name this series kingmaker. 789 00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:36,120 But tell them, in order to become a royal priesthood, they have 790 00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:39,000 to break fellowship with their other family lines. 791 00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:44,000 In order to come into this royal family, they're gonna have 792 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:45,440 to break fellowship with their past. 793 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,680 In order to have a future, you have to break up with your past. 794 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:51,160 That's what this represented. 795 00:35:52,690 --> 00:35:56,170 A mat will turn into a security blanket when it's all you've 796 00:35:56,170 --> 00:35:56,450 known. 797 00:35:58,690 --> 00:35:59,810 Are y' all with me? 798 00:36:00,130 --> 00:36:01,610 I know it's a lot of word play. 799 00:36:01,610 --> 00:36:04,290 I know you didn't expect me to come up like flava Flav. 800 00:36:06,450 --> 00:36:13,690 But this mat will become a security blanket because if we're 801 00:36:13,690 --> 00:36:18,010 being honest, we don't mind the position of laying down. 802 00:36:19,210 --> 00:36:21,130 This is what the Lord wants to deal with. 803 00:36:21,930 --> 00:36:24,570 Every new moment gets filtered through old pain. 804 00:36:24,890 --> 00:36:27,770 And the man at the pool wasn't just physically paralyzed. 805 00:36:27,770 --> 00:36:30,170 He was perceptually paralyzed. 806 00:36:30,730 --> 00:36:33,370 So some people will say, I have discernment. 807 00:36:34,570 --> 00:36:35,170 I just. 808 00:36:35,170 --> 00:36:36,490 I discern them. 809 00:36:36,490 --> 00:36:37,170 No, no, no. 810 00:36:37,170 --> 00:36:40,250 You are perceptually paralyzed by your past. 811 00:36:40,890 --> 00:36:42,250 And you don't have discernment. 812 00:36:42,250 --> 00:36:44,250 You have a filter called negativity. 813 00:36:46,350 --> 00:36:48,070 You have a filter called distrust. 814 00:36:48,070 --> 00:36:50,790 As a matter of fact, if you actually became childlike, would 815 00:36:50,790 --> 00:36:52,830 you believe the same things about that person? 816 00:36:53,310 --> 00:36:54,950 If you actually became childlike? 817 00:36:54,950 --> 00:36:55,630 If you had never. 818 00:36:55,630 --> 00:36:56,430 Here's the question. 819 00:36:56,590 --> 00:36:59,230 Here's how you know if you have righteous discernment. 820 00:36:59,550 --> 00:37:00,990 Ask yourself this question. 821 00:37:01,470 --> 00:37:04,350 Would I still think this if I had never been wounded? 822 00:37:07,870 --> 00:37:12,410 Because much of what the body of Christ calls discernment is a 823 00:37:12,410 --> 00:37:16,130 perceptual paralyzing that happens through wounds. 824 00:37:16,930 --> 00:37:17,690 And they're just. 825 00:37:17,690 --> 00:37:21,130 It's like, if you expect to be hurt by people, you're always going 826 00:37:21,130 --> 00:37:21,610 to be right. 827 00:37:21,610 --> 00:37:23,170 That doesn't make you discerning. 828 00:37:25,010 --> 00:37:25,890 You know what I mean? 829 00:37:26,530 --> 00:37:26,890 Yeah. 830 00:37:26,890 --> 00:37:27,289 Come on. 831 00:37:27,289 --> 00:37:29,090 Play that emotional music behind this. 832 00:37:29,890 --> 00:37:31,410 Manipulate their emotions. 833 00:37:32,130 --> 00:37:33,250 Isn't that what they say? 834 00:37:33,250 --> 00:37:34,290 Isn't that what they say? 835 00:37:35,090 --> 00:37:36,050 See that filter? 836 00:37:36,780 --> 00:37:37,580 It's a filter. 837 00:37:38,380 --> 00:37:41,380 That's why you stand in a church service, and one person is 838 00:37:41,380 --> 00:37:43,100 like, this is the greatest church. 839 00:37:43,100 --> 00:37:44,260 This helped me so much. 840 00:37:44,260 --> 00:37:47,020 And the other person is like, I just knew something was wrong with 841 00:37:47,020 --> 00:37:47,340 him. 842 00:37:48,620 --> 00:37:49,860 Let me just save you. 843 00:37:49,860 --> 00:37:52,420 My wife can tell you something is wrong with me. 844 00:37:52,420 --> 00:37:53,740 A lot's wrong with me. 845 00:37:53,740 --> 00:37:54,580 You got me. 846 00:37:54,580 --> 00:37:55,340 I'm a human. 847 00:37:55,500 --> 00:37:57,260 That doesn't make you a prophet. 848 00:37:57,420 --> 00:37:59,220 It just makes you traumatized. 849 00:37:59,220 --> 00:38:00,780 You're just revealing Your pain. 850 00:38:00,780 --> 00:38:02,680 We all got something wrong with us was. 851 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:04,680 But I'm not here to point you to me. 852 00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:08,280 I'm here to point you to the one that there is nothing wrong with 853 00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:08,600 him. 854 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:10,240 There was nothing wrong with him. 855 00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:14,280 And we fix our eyes on the perfection that is Jesus Christ. 856 00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:18,240 And while this man was looking to the pool, he could have been looking 857 00:38:18,240 --> 00:38:20,120 to the perfection of Jesus. 858 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,600 But the problem is he was looking at the man. 859 00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:23,240 He was. 860 00:38:23,240 --> 00:38:24,360 That didn't help him. 861 00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:27,710 He was looking at the pool he couldn't get into, but he couldn't 862 00:38:27,710 --> 00:38:27,900 be. 863 00:38:28,130 --> 00:38:30,450 Behold the beauty right in front of him. 864 00:38:30,530 --> 00:38:32,530 This is the state of the church. 865 00:38:34,530 --> 00:38:37,930 We're looking at the man saying, oh, if that celebrity pastor 866 00:38:37,930 --> 00:38:38,690 would help me. 867 00:38:38,770 --> 00:38:40,610 We're looking at the pool. 868 00:38:40,610 --> 00:38:44,530 If I could just get into this status without anyone's help. 869 00:38:44,530 --> 00:38:46,130 We're looking but Jesus. 870 00:38:46,130 --> 00:38:49,570 We must behold his beauty. 871 00:38:52,050 --> 00:38:56,750 The day one of this church, it's always been about Jesus. 872 00:38:57,950 --> 00:38:59,550 Jesus is the reward. 873 00:39:00,110 --> 00:39:01,630 Jesus is the destination. 874 00:39:02,350 --> 00:39:04,430 Jesus is the mission of this church. 875 00:39:04,590 --> 00:39:06,590 Jesus is the vision of this church. 876 00:39:06,750 --> 00:39:08,750 Jesus is the past of this church. 877 00:39:08,830 --> 00:39:10,830 Jesus is the future of this church. 878 00:39:10,990 --> 00:39:14,590 It's Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. 879 00:39:14,670 --> 00:39:15,790 It's his beauty. 880 00:39:15,870 --> 00:39:19,590 And what happens is the more you look at humanity, the less you 881 00:39:19,590 --> 00:39:19,790 can. 882 00:39:19,790 --> 00:39:21,070 Focus on is beauty. 883 00:39:21,230 --> 00:39:23,790 You can only look at one thing at a time. 884 00:39:24,030 --> 00:39:25,550 And you have to make a difference choice. 885 00:39:25,550 --> 00:39:27,310 Am I going to look at the humanity? 886 00:39:27,390 --> 00:39:30,830 Am I going to look around this pool and everybody else is sick? 887 00:39:30,830 --> 00:39:34,910 Or am I going to recognize Jesus is right here? 888 00:39:36,270 --> 00:39:37,870 I'm looking at Jesus. 889 00:39:40,190 --> 00:39:42,670 You know, I'm about to end this thing. 890 00:39:42,670 --> 00:39:43,470 I'm just going to end it. 891 00:39:43,470 --> 00:39:45,390 We'll have to do this in multiple parts. 892 00:39:47,790 --> 00:39:54,280 When I was in Italy, they were showing footage of V1 at every location 893 00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:55,000 I went to. 894 00:39:55,640 --> 00:40:00,680 And they were saying, where Mike lives, it's also 97% non Christian. 895 00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:03,320 Where Mike lives, it's also impossible. 896 00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:06,559 But look what God is doing through V1 Church. 897 00:40:06,559 --> 00:40:09,480 They showed footage of Long island, footage of Miami. 898 00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:11,800 They showed the footage of us in Times Square. 899 00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:16,240 And they were saying, if God can do it for V1, God can do it for 900 00:40:16,240 --> 00:40:16,520 us. 901 00:40:17,100 --> 00:40:19,420 And I didn't know we even did this, but we have become. 902 00:40:20,060 --> 00:40:23,820 See, what happens is for every excuse, God gives an example. 903 00:40:24,220 --> 00:40:25,980 And so we have become an example. 904 00:40:25,980 --> 00:40:28,300 In the faith to those who are in hard regions. 905 00:40:28,300 --> 00:40:31,700 And you thought you were doing it for you and your family, but even 906 00:40:31,700 --> 00:40:35,740 from your seat at every campus you're leading, even from your seat, 907 00:40:35,740 --> 00:40:36,940 you become an example. 908 00:40:36,940 --> 00:40:39,260 And so you say, God, I have an excuse. 909 00:40:39,340 --> 00:40:41,540 I. I stutter and I'm not eloquent. 910 00:40:41,540 --> 00:40:44,940 Here's your example, Moses, God, I have an excuse. 911 00:40:44,940 --> 00:40:46,780 I'm depressed and filled with anxiety. 912 00:40:46,860 --> 00:40:48,610 Here's your example, Elij. 913 00:40:49,240 --> 00:40:50,440 Oh, God, I have trouble. 914 00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:51,440 I have a stepdad. 915 00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,440 I never had a biological father. 916 00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:54,280 Here's your ex. 917 00:40:54,360 --> 00:40:58,600 Here's your example, Jesus Christ, who had Joseph. 918 00:40:59,320 --> 00:40:59,880 So they. 919 00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:02,000 So the question I want to ask you when he. 920 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:06,240 When we look at the mat is, do you want your excuse or do you want 921 00:41:06,240 --> 00:41:07,320 to become an example? 922 00:41:09,240 --> 00:41:11,600 Do you want your excuse or do. 923 00:41:11,600 --> 00:41:12,960 You want to become an example? 924 00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:14,360 I want to become an example. 925 00:41:14,880 --> 00:41:16,560 I want to be somebody's example. 926 00:41:16,720 --> 00:41:19,920 It was impossible before I saw it happen for them. 927 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:22,320 I didn't even know that God could do that. 928 00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,560 And so, see, however deep your pain. 929 00:41:24,560 --> 00:41:27,920 Is, that's however wide your example is going to go. 930 00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:30,080 We got to choose. 931 00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:34,040 In the book of Isaiah, chapter 61, verse 1, it says, the spirit 932 00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:36,240 of the sovereign Lord is upon me. 933 00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:39,920 For the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. 934 00:41:40,250 --> 00:41:42,570 He has sent me to comfort the brokenhearted. 935 00:41:42,570 --> 00:41:45,130 And the word brokenhearted right there in Hebrew. 936 00:41:45,370 --> 00:41:48,410 It actually is a compound of two words joined together. 937 00:41:48,810 --> 00:41:50,330 The first one is leb. 938 00:41:50,490 --> 00:41:53,130 It means the heart, the center of the will. 939 00:41:53,450 --> 00:41:54,890 It means the emotion. 940 00:41:55,050 --> 00:41:56,690 It means the perception. 941 00:41:56,690 --> 00:41:58,010 Are you picking up on something? 942 00:41:58,570 --> 00:42:00,970 Your heart is where you perceive. 943 00:42:01,610 --> 00:42:04,490 So if you're negative, if you're fault finding, if you have 944 00:42:04,490 --> 00:42:07,930 15 problems for every good thing that happens, if you're the 945 00:42:07,930 --> 00:42:10,570 one that just can't enjoy life and you're trapped in the prison 946 00:42:10,570 --> 00:42:13,410 of your own perception, it's actually a heart problem. 947 00:42:14,210 --> 00:42:15,010 But the second. 948 00:42:15,570 --> 00:42:18,370 The second compound word is Shabbar. 949 00:42:18,610 --> 00:42:19,970 Everybody say Shabbar. 950 00:42:20,690 --> 00:42:25,250 It means to break, to shatter, to rend violently. 951 00:42:25,810 --> 00:42:30,450 And Isaiah uses Shabbar elsewhere to describe dry branches 952 00:42:30,450 --> 00:42:34,570 that are shattered into pieces or statues that have fallen off their 953 00:42:34,570 --> 00:42:36,690 pedestals and shattered on the ground. 954 00:42:37,250 --> 00:42:41,210 So this is not the language of someone who is sad. 955 00:42:41,370 --> 00:42:45,130 This is the language of someone whose internal circuitry, 956 00:42:45,130 --> 00:42:49,290 their internal framework, the very mechanism by which they perceive 957 00:42:49,290 --> 00:42:52,010 reality, has been violently fractured. 958 00:42:52,650 --> 00:42:53,290 If you. 959 00:42:53,290 --> 00:42:58,170 Wherever you were traumatized, a system was broken. 960 00:42:59,850 --> 00:43:03,930 And we got people on our flight crews being like, why don't 961 00:43:03,930 --> 00:43:05,370 they show up for flight crew? 962 00:43:05,690 --> 00:43:07,130 We got people on ground crews. 963 00:43:07,130 --> 00:43:10,840 Why don't they show up, up not understanding that the people that 964 00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:15,040 we're interacting with have been shattered, broken, destroyed, 965 00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:16,360 irreparable damage. 966 00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:17,520 If it's not for God. 967 00:43:18,240 --> 00:43:23,560 And many of us carry this leb Shabbar, this shattered heart, it's 968 00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:26,720 what you're looking through everything Looks like it's going 969 00:43:26,720 --> 00:43:27,520 to hurt you. 970 00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:30,880 Every new relationship looks like the one that abandoned you. 971 00:43:31,040 --> 00:43:33,910 Every new opportunity looks like the one that failed you. 972 00:43:34,060 --> 00:43:34,300 You. 973 00:43:34,460 --> 00:43:38,020 Every new person who tries to love you looks like the one who betrayed 974 00:43:38,020 --> 00:43:38,300 you. 975 00:43:39,500 --> 00:43:41,980 You're not responding to what's in front of you. 976 00:43:42,620 --> 00:43:46,460 You think you are, but you're responding to the spirit of what's 977 00:43:46,460 --> 00:43:47,180 behind you. 978 00:43:48,140 --> 00:43:49,820 Everybody say autopilot. 979 00:43:50,780 --> 00:43:54,300 This is the autopilot of the shattered soul. 980 00:43:54,780 --> 00:43:57,100 And you are unconsciously. 981 00:43:58,460 --> 00:43:59,420 Let's bring it down. 982 00:44:04,710 --> 00:44:05,350 This is the. 983 00:44:06,070 --> 00:44:08,390 I'm trying to make this make sense as we close. 984 00:44:09,270 --> 00:44:09,910 When you. 985 00:44:09,990 --> 00:44:14,310 This Leb Shabbar basically means that your internal system, 986 00:44:14,310 --> 00:44:17,110 your heart, has been completely shattered. 987 00:44:17,590 --> 00:44:20,470 So what happens is you think that. 988 00:44:22,150 --> 00:44:26,320 You think that somebody's rejecting you, but actually you are 989 00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:30,080 rejecting them before they have the opportunity to reject you. 990 00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,880 So you think I'm choosing to leave the church. 991 00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:38,880 But your wound is choosing to reject a whole bunch of people before 992 00:44:38,880 --> 00:44:40,880 they even have a chance to reject you. 993 00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:46,160 So you might not have actually been totally hurt yet, but your goal 994 00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:49,240 is to avoid even the possibility of being hurt. 995 00:44:49,240 --> 00:44:50,500 So you leave before it happens. 996 00:44:50,650 --> 00:44:51,050 Happens. 997 00:44:51,770 --> 00:44:54,370 You get into a new relationship romantically. 998 00:44:54,370 --> 00:44:57,050 This is why so many people go through these cycles. 999 00:44:57,050 --> 00:44:59,930 They don't understand they're running on an autopilot. 1000 00:45:00,010 --> 00:45:02,250 And the Lord is trying to confront that today. 1001 00:45:03,050 --> 00:45:03,450 Because. 1002 00:45:05,770 --> 00:45:08,570 Two half people don't make a whole relationship. 1003 00:45:10,250 --> 00:45:14,090 Two whole people make a whole relationship. 1004 00:45:14,890 --> 00:45:16,290 So God wants to restore. 1005 00:45:16,290 --> 00:45:17,250 God wants to heal. 1006 00:45:17,250 --> 00:45:19,750 But we've got to that we live in such a blame. 1007 00:45:19,750 --> 00:45:21,070 It's Trump's fault. 1008 00:45:21,070 --> 00:45:22,590 It's mom, Donnie's fault. 1009 00:45:22,590 --> 00:45:23,390 It's my teacher. 1010 00:45:23,390 --> 00:45:25,670 Think about the teachers of this generation. 1011 00:45:25,670 --> 00:45:28,790 It's always the teacher's fault, Never the parents and never 1012 00:45:28,790 --> 00:45:29,310 the students. 1013 00:45:30,510 --> 00:45:32,110 Can I just say it like it is? 1014 00:45:33,230 --> 00:45:35,470 It's always somebody else's fault. 1015 00:45:35,470 --> 00:45:36,630 Well, they don't teach right. 1016 00:45:36,630 --> 00:45:38,110 They don't diversify the teaching. 1017 00:45:38,110 --> 00:45:39,150 This, it's. 1018 00:45:39,150 --> 00:45:39,710 It's never. 1019 00:45:39,870 --> 00:45:40,470 I don't. 1020 00:45:40,470 --> 00:45:43,630 I spend time scrolling on my phone all night and never did a worksheet. 1021 00:45:43,860 --> 00:45:44,660 With my own kid. 1022 00:45:45,220 --> 00:45:50,300 It's a whole generation of people dragging themselves to the 1023 00:45:50,300 --> 00:45:54,420 pool, blaming the person that didn't carry their kid into graduation, 1024 00:45:54,980 --> 00:45:58,780 blaming the person that didn't carry them into a promotion, blaming 1025 00:45:58,780 --> 00:46:01,380 the person that didn't carry them into a position. 1026 00:46:02,340 --> 00:46:08,300 And I know this word is hard, but this is what's happening. 1027 00:46:08,300 --> 00:46:09,940 Leb Shabar. 1028 00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:16,760 Mike Signorelli in my earlier years was totally shattered. 1029 00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:21,640 Hard to love, very hard to get close to. 1030 00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:27,600 Matter of fact, everyone around me suffered because I was 1031 00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:28,280 shattered. 1032 00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:32,280 In Romans, chapter 8, verse 15, it says, for you did not receive 1033 00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:37,070 the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received 1034 00:46:37,070 --> 00:46:41,790 the spirit of adoption as sons by whom we cry, abba, Father. 1035 00:46:41,950 --> 00:46:46,350 And Paul is using a Greek phrase here that stops you cold when 1036 00:46:46,350 --> 00:46:47,550 you understand the Greek. 1037 00:46:47,630 --> 00:46:50,910 He's basically saying, there is a spirit that you've received. 1038 00:46:51,390 --> 00:46:55,590 Not just the spirit of slavery in the general sense, but in the 1039 00:46:55,590 --> 00:46:57,710 Roman world, a slave has no rights. 1040 00:46:58,190 --> 00:47:02,840 It has no identity outside the master, no future that they can plan, 1041 00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:04,800 no response that they can choose. 1042 00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:08,760 And their entire existence is automated by ownership. 1043 00:47:09,240 --> 00:47:13,720 And what Paul was trying to say is, before you received the spirit 1044 00:47:13,720 --> 00:47:18,199 of adoption, you had the spirit of slavery, which is the spirit 1045 00:47:18,199 --> 00:47:20,520 that automates all of your choices. 1046 00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:22,240 Your dad drank too much. 1047 00:47:22,240 --> 00:47:23,720 Now you're going to drink too much. 1048 00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:25,400 Your grandfather drink too much. 1049 00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:26,360 Now you're going to drink. 1050 00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:29,000 You had adultery in your mother's line, and you're going to 1051 00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:29,960 be an adulterer. 1052 00:47:30,040 --> 00:47:31,840 The spirit of slavery is a sin. 1053 00:47:32,150 --> 00:47:35,590 Spirit of automation, it automates your life. 1054 00:47:35,590 --> 00:47:37,310 You're always going to be sad. 1055 00:47:37,310 --> 00:47:38,870 You're always going to complain. 1056 00:47:38,950 --> 00:47:40,590 You're always going to be negative. 1057 00:47:40,590 --> 00:47:41,910 You're always going to leave. 1058 00:47:41,910 --> 00:47:46,310 And it is a spirit of automation and says, this is. 1059 00:47:46,310 --> 00:47:47,110 This is the thing. 1060 00:47:47,110 --> 00:47:49,430 Slaves didn't decide to serve. 1061 00:47:49,510 --> 00:47:53,270 They served because it was the only pattern available to them. 1062 00:47:53,830 --> 00:47:57,790 And the reason why people quit volunteer teams is because they have 1063 00:47:57,790 --> 00:48:00,310 the spirit of slavery, not the spirit of sonship. 1064 00:48:01,820 --> 00:48:04,740 Because they're saying, you can't force me to do nothing at this 1065 00:48:04,740 --> 00:48:05,180 church. 1066 00:48:05,900 --> 00:48:07,740 Your slave spirit's talking. 1067 00:48:08,300 --> 00:48:10,620 Nobody's here because we have to be here. 1068 00:48:10,860 --> 00:48:13,740 We're sons who choose to take care of the house. 1069 00:48:14,140 --> 00:48:15,580 We own this house. 1070 00:48:15,740 --> 00:48:17,100 We built this house. 1071 00:48:17,260 --> 00:48:18,540 We serve this house. 1072 00:48:18,620 --> 00:48:19,980 I own the dishes. 1073 00:48:20,060 --> 00:48:21,500 I own the bathtub. 1074 00:48:21,500 --> 00:48:22,860 I own the laundry. 1075 00:48:23,020 --> 00:48:24,380 I am not a slave. 1076 00:48:24,620 --> 00:48:29,260 Only slaves quit teams because they don't have the spirit of adoption. 1077 00:48:29,340 --> 00:48:31,900 That says, I do not have to do this. 1078 00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:35,480 I get the privilege of stewarding what I own. 1079 00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:38,360 I own this church. 1080 00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:40,040 I own New York City. 1081 00:48:40,280 --> 00:48:41,800 I own Long Island. 1082 00:48:41,800 --> 00:48:42,840 I own it. 1083 00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:45,560 I own the vid. 1084 00:48:45,560 --> 00:48:47,240 This is not Mike's vision. 1085 00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:49,400 We own this vision. 1086 00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:54,120 We have received the spirit of adoption, and we see what Mike saw. 1087 00:48:55,960 --> 00:49:00,080 I'm about to preach this spirit off of you, that spirit of 1088 00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:00,840 slavery. 1089 00:49:02,430 --> 00:49:05,070 You don't have to go back to pornography. 1090 00:49:05,230 --> 00:49:08,110 Slavery has automated your response. 1091 00:49:08,270 --> 00:49:10,750 But Jesus breaks you free from that. 1092 00:49:10,750 --> 00:49:13,710 Automation and says, now whom the Son. 1093 00:49:14,190 --> 00:49:17,230 Sets free is free indeed. 1094 00:49:18,590 --> 00:49:21,710 We're coming off of autopilot, man. 1095 00:49:21,710 --> 00:49:22,510 I feel this. 1096 00:49:23,310 --> 00:49:27,710 Notice the last part of the phrase, fall back into fear. 1097 00:49:28,450 --> 00:49:31,850 The word back is everything, because it tells us that this is 1098 00:49:31,850 --> 00:49:33,810 a return to a previous state. 1099 00:49:34,370 --> 00:49:37,250 Something was installed in you, an old operating system, and 1100 00:49:37,250 --> 00:49:40,370 under pressure, you fall back into it automatically. 1101 00:49:40,530 --> 00:49:43,490 But I say, no more, no more, no more, no more. 1102 00:49:44,050 --> 00:49:45,250 Stand to your feet with me. 1103 00:49:45,250 --> 00:49:45,970 Help me out here. 1104 00:49:45,970 --> 00:49:50,810 Across every campus, neuroscientists have discovered this 1105 00:49:50,810 --> 00:49:51,810 trauma loop. 1106 00:49:51,890 --> 00:49:55,170 And it's a cycle that's wired in the brain's limbic system. 1107 00:49:55,690 --> 00:49:58,570 And when a wound is experienced, especially in childhood, 1108 00:49:58,730 --> 00:50:02,250 the brain creates a neural pathway as a survival mechanism. 1109 00:50:02,730 --> 00:50:03,290 Hear me. 1110 00:50:03,290 --> 00:50:07,050 A threat is detected, an automatic response fires. 1111 00:50:07,210 --> 00:50:08,650 Survival is achieved. 1112 00:50:08,810 --> 00:50:12,490 The brain rewards this pathway and reinforces it. 1113 00:50:12,570 --> 00:50:15,930 You don't understand what I'm trying to tell you, but in the deepest 1114 00:50:15,930 --> 00:50:21,010 recesses of the limbic system of your organic brain is a broken 1115 00:50:21,010 --> 00:50:25,220 thermostat that is telling you it's a temperature that's not a real 1116 00:50:25,220 --> 00:50:25,820 temperature. 1117 00:50:26,060 --> 00:50:28,500 It's saying 72 degrees in a 40. 1118 00:50:28,500 --> 00:50:32,620 Degree house because the limbic system is broken. 1119 00:50:32,620 --> 00:50:36,300 And I believe that God has delivered some of you from demons, 1120 00:50:36,300 --> 00:50:39,820 but he's about to heal your biological brain when we pray. 1121 00:50:40,060 --> 00:50:44,420 Because you are not going to live automated on a system that was 1122 00:50:44,420 --> 00:50:44,940 broken. 1123 00:50:44,940 --> 00:50:46,300 God's going to heal it. 1124 00:50:47,500 --> 00:50:48,940 But this is what happens. 1125 00:50:50,420 --> 00:50:53,060 I left that church and my life is better. 1126 00:50:54,420 --> 00:50:56,500 So therefore I was justified in leaving. 1127 00:50:57,540 --> 00:51:00,180 But the thing is, you don't know that that's bad data. 1128 00:51:00,900 --> 00:51:04,740 Because anytime you live on an island by yourself, you will be the 1129 00:51:04,740 --> 00:51:05,300 safest. 1130 00:51:05,380 --> 00:51:07,060 But that doesn't mean it's the best. 1131 00:51:08,340 --> 00:51:12,260 So what happens is your limbic system reinforces false data. 1132 00:51:13,060 --> 00:51:18,670 That is the very nature, the biochemical nature of anxiety is 1133 00:51:18,670 --> 00:51:23,150 you have reinforced the idea that something is attacking you that 1134 00:51:23,150 --> 00:51:24,870 is immaterial and not real. 1135 00:51:24,950 --> 00:51:28,790 And the more you reinforce that you made something immaterial, 1136 00:51:28,870 --> 00:51:31,270 a material structure in your brain. 1137 00:51:33,270 --> 00:51:35,030 So when people say anxiety is real,. 1138 00:51:35,030 --> 00:51:36,590 It is real, but it's real in. 1139 00:51:36,590 --> 00:51:38,070 The structure of your brain. 1140 00:51:39,430 --> 00:51:40,190 So it takes. 1141 00:51:40,190 --> 00:51:42,710 So when Jesus said, do you want to be healed? 1142 00:51:43,670 --> 00:51:49,010 He was saying, the work that I now have to do is so deep that it 1143 00:51:49,010 --> 00:51:49,210 would. 1144 00:51:49,210 --> 00:51:52,010 This is not just spiritual, this is physical too. 1145 00:51:54,410 --> 00:51:58,650 So the healing that is going to have to happen in our church is 1146 00:51:58,650 --> 00:52:02,490 going to have to be a physical healing of the limbic system, because 1147 00:52:02,490 --> 00:52:04,810 it's much deeper than a volunteer team. 1148 00:52:05,210 --> 00:52:08,290 It's much deeper than going to a group every two weeks. 1149 00:52:08,290 --> 00:52:10,650 It's much deeper than attending church every Sunday. 1150 00:52:11,130 --> 00:52:14,550 The Lord's been telling me more and More, what we're seeing 1151 00:52:14,550 --> 00:52:18,990 in the church is a trauma response, not spiritual discernment. 1152 00:52:22,670 --> 00:52:24,190 But I got good news for you. 1153 00:52:26,350 --> 00:52:28,430 Jesus is here. 1154 00:52:29,230 --> 00:52:34,310 In Ezekiel, chapter 36, verse 26, he said, I will give you a new 1155 00:52:34,310 --> 00:52:35,230 thermostat. 1156 00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:45,120 I will give you a new heart, and I will put within you and I will 1157 00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:50,920 remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of 1158 00:52:50,920 --> 00:52:51,320 flesh. 1159 00:52:51,720 --> 00:52:54,280 What do thermostats do when they work properly? 1160 00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:58,200 They diagnose what temperature the room actually is. 1161 00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:00,280 And then they change it. 1162 00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:02,920 Do y' all feel me? 1163 00:53:04,450 --> 00:53:09,210 So what begins to happen when God fix your heart is you get real 1164 00:53:09,210 --> 00:53:10,930 discernment about what's happening. 1165 00:53:11,330 --> 00:53:15,010 But then instead of being victimized by the 40 degree weather, 1166 00:53:15,330 --> 00:53:17,410 you actually begin to turn up the heat. 1167 00:53:17,650 --> 00:53:20,610 And you say, I don't have to live like this because I can change 1168 00:53:20,690 --> 00:53:21,890 the atmosphere. 1169 00:53:22,530 --> 00:53:26,930 So when people ask me, oh, New York looks like such a dangerous 1170 00:53:26,930 --> 00:53:27,250 place,. 1171 00:53:27,410 --> 00:53:28,850 Aren't you gonna move New York? 1172 00:53:28,850 --> 00:53:30,670 No, because I'm healed. 1173 00:53:30,670 --> 00:53:33,870 I have a heart of flesh and God has restored me. 1174 00:53:33,870 --> 00:53:37,710 And I got a group of people that have the fire of the Holy Spirit. 1175 00:53:37,710 --> 00:53:40,430 And we're changing the atmosphere on Long Island. 1176 00:53:40,430 --> 00:53:43,670 We're changing the atmosphere in New York City, we're changing 1177 00:53:43,670 --> 00:53:46,750 the atmosphere in Miami because we're healed. 1178 00:53:46,750 --> 00:53:48,750 We are not victims of the environment. 1179 00:53:49,390 --> 00:53:52,190 We shift the climate of the environment. 1180 00:53:53,710 --> 00:53:54,670 Are you ready? 1181 00:53:55,550 --> 00:53:56,660 I said, are you ready? 1182 00:53:57,530 --> 00:53:58,810 Do you want to be healed? 1183 00:53:59,370 --> 00:53:59,890 Come on. 1184 00:53:59,890 --> 00:54:00,850 I'm gonna ask you again. 1185 00:54:00,850 --> 00:54:02,090 Do you want to be healed? 1186 00:54:05,210 --> 00:54:07,290 Let's go back to Bethesda one last time. 1187 00:54:07,690 --> 00:54:11,930 After 38 years, Jesus gives him this three part command. 1188 00:54:12,170 --> 00:54:12,890 Stand up. 1189 00:54:12,890 --> 00:54:14,250 Everybody say stand up. 1190 00:54:15,050 --> 00:54:16,090 Pick up your mat. 1191 00:54:16,090 --> 00:54:17,610 Everybody say, pick up your mat. 1192 00:54:18,410 --> 00:54:19,210 And then walk. 1193 00:54:19,210 --> 00:54:20,330 Everybody say walk. 1194 00:54:21,610 --> 00:54:22,190 Stand up. 1195 00:54:22,820 --> 00:54:24,980 Take the posture of the healed. 1196 00:54:25,940 --> 00:54:27,540 Stop lying in your wound. 1197 00:54:28,100 --> 00:54:29,300 Own your healing. 1198 00:54:29,620 --> 00:54:32,660 Even before you fully heal it, you feel it. 1199 00:54:33,460 --> 00:54:34,460 He will heal it. 1200 00:54:34,460 --> 00:54:37,540 Before you feel it, he will heal it. 1201 00:54:37,620 --> 00:54:39,740 Act like you're healed even if you don't feel. 1202 00:54:39,740 --> 00:54:40,260 He told. 1203 00:54:40,260 --> 00:54:42,500 He didn't say, do you, do you feel better? 1204 00:54:42,820 --> 00:54:45,060 Do you feel like getting involved again? 1205 00:54:45,220 --> 00:54:47,140 Do you feel like covenanting again? 1206 00:54:47,300 --> 00:54:48,740 Do you feel like you're ready? 1207 00:54:49,050 --> 00:54:50,970 He didn't ask him if he felt ready. 1208 00:54:50,970 --> 00:54:53,370 He said, if you get up, you are ready. 1209 00:54:53,610 --> 00:54:55,930 Matter of fact, getting up makes you ready. 1210 00:54:56,170 --> 00:54:57,210 Getting up, hit. 1211 00:54:57,210 --> 00:54:59,770 The healing is in the motion of getting up. 1212 00:54:59,850 --> 00:55:02,170 The healing happens when you get up. 1213 00:55:02,250 --> 00:55:05,129 Some people I wait till I feel healed to get up. 1214 00:55:05,130 --> 00:55:07,210 You will get healed when you get up. 1215 00:55:07,290 --> 00:55:08,730 You gotta flip it. 1216 00:55:08,730 --> 00:55:10,170 You gotta flip it. 1217 00:55:11,130 --> 00:55:13,210 Stop laying in your wound. 1218 00:55:13,450 --> 00:55:16,470 Own Your healing even before you feel it. 1219 00:55:16,630 --> 00:55:18,310 So the first one is stand up. 1220 00:55:18,310 --> 00:55:19,910 Somebody shout, stand up. 1221 00:55:21,190 --> 00:55:21,990 Stand up. 1222 00:55:23,590 --> 00:55:24,870 Stand up, church. 1223 00:55:25,910 --> 00:55:26,710 Stand up. 1224 00:55:27,510 --> 00:55:28,550 We gotta stand. 1225 00:55:28,950 --> 00:55:31,510 Having done all, stand. 1226 00:55:32,390 --> 00:55:35,670 Having done all, stand and stand still. 1227 00:55:35,910 --> 00:55:38,550 Stand still and see that I am God. 1228 00:55:39,510 --> 00:55:41,150 You don't know God until you. 1229 00:55:41,220 --> 00:55:42,100 You stand up. 1230 00:55:42,500 --> 00:55:45,940 You can't see who he is until you stand up. 1231 00:55:46,100 --> 00:55:49,740 You won't know him laying down, but you'll know who he is when 1232 00:55:49,740 --> 00:55:50,740 you stand up. 1233 00:55:51,620 --> 00:55:52,820 I'm taking a stand. 1234 00:55:53,940 --> 00:55:56,100 I'm standing up in the White House. 1235 00:55:56,500 --> 00:55:58,660 I'm standing up in Manhattan. 1236 00:55:58,740 --> 00:56:00,420 I'm standing up on Long Island. 1237 00:56:00,420 --> 00:56:01,380 I'm standing up. 1238 00:56:01,460 --> 00:56:03,780 Stand still and know that I am God. 1239 00:56:05,140 --> 00:56:06,500 We got to take a stand. 1240 00:57:00,641 --> 00:57:01,601 Pick up your mat. 1241 00:57:03,841 --> 00:57:05,041 I love this part. 1242 00:57:07,201 --> 00:57:08,241 Pick up your mat. 1243 00:57:08,321 --> 00:57:11,521 He didn't say, leave your mat behind. 1244 00:57:13,281 --> 00:57:17,121 Because for most of us, that's how we would have understood it. 1245 00:57:17,281 --> 00:57:18,241 Leave your map. 1246 00:57:18,241 --> 00:57:19,441 Oh, I've healed you. 1247 00:57:19,441 --> 00:57:20,401 Leave your mat behind. 1248 00:57:20,641 --> 00:57:22,871 What he said was, was, pick up your mat. 1249 00:57:23,031 --> 00:57:26,151 Because the mat is the evidence of your weakness. 1250 00:57:26,391 --> 00:57:27,751 That becomes your story. 1251 00:57:28,071 --> 00:57:30,551 And now you're gonna carry a record. 1252 00:57:30,951 --> 00:57:33,751 Of what God could do everywhere you go. 1253 00:57:34,071 --> 00:57:34,551 God. 1254 00:57:34,631 --> 00:57:37,111 Some of you said, God, take my past away. 1255 00:57:37,351 --> 00:57:39,271 He said, pick your past up. 1256 00:57:39,351 --> 00:57:41,031 It's become a testimony. 1257 00:57:41,431 --> 00:57:42,991 Walk around with your path. 1258 00:57:42,991 --> 00:57:44,391 It's not a trigger. 1259 00:57:44,471 --> 00:57:46,071 It's my testimony. 1260 00:57:46,311 --> 00:57:47,531 It's not a trigger. 1261 00:57:48,081 --> 00:57:50,721 This is the evidence of my weakness. 1262 00:57:54,561 --> 00:57:57,441 This is the evidence of my weakness. 1263 00:57:57,601 --> 00:57:59,681 I used to destroy churches. 1264 00:58:00,001 --> 00:58:01,361 Now I plant them. 1265 00:58:01,601 --> 00:58:03,281 I used to cause division. 1266 00:58:03,681 --> 00:58:05,121 Now I cause unity. 1267 00:58:05,281 --> 00:58:07,041 I used to want to be divorced. 1268 00:58:07,201 --> 00:58:10,241 I'm celebrating 20 years of marriage. 1269 00:58:10,481 --> 00:58:12,881 Somebody pick up your mat. 1270 00:58:17,601 --> 00:58:18,321 Pick it up. 1271 00:58:19,521 --> 00:58:20,641 Don't leave it behind. 1272 00:58:21,441 --> 00:58:22,241 Pick it up. 1273 00:58:25,121 --> 00:58:29,041 Used to be my security blanket, but now it became a banner. 1274 00:58:29,761 --> 00:58:33,041 Jehovah, Niecy, Lord over my victory. 1275 00:58:33,361 --> 00:58:34,401 It's a banner. 1276 00:58:34,721 --> 00:58:36,641 Used to be my security blanket. 1277 00:58:37,921 --> 00:58:39,521 Now it's my praise flag. 1278 00:58:40,001 --> 00:58:42,641 What would happen if your map became a praise flag? 1279 00:58:43,201 --> 00:58:44,561 Used to be depressed. 1280 00:58:44,721 --> 00:58:47,581 Used to be on all kinds of medication. 1281 00:58:47,981 --> 00:58:48,501 But whom? 1282 00:58:48,501 --> 00:58:49,341 The sunset. 1283 00:58:49,421 --> 00:58:50,221 Oh, come on. 1284 00:58:52,301 --> 00:58:52,781 Oh, yeah. 1285 00:58:52,781 --> 00:58:57,741 I used to lay on this, and now it's a banner over my life. 1286 00:59:02,701 --> 00:59:04,301 Y' all got me wore out today. 1287 00:59:07,581 --> 00:59:08,461 What he say? 1288 00:59:09,421 --> 00:59:10,141 Stand up. 1289 00:59:11,041 --> 00:59:11,721 Pick up your mat. 1290 00:59:11,721 --> 00:59:12,561 What's the last one? 1291 00:59:14,801 --> 00:59:15,921 What's the last one? 1292 00:59:18,001 --> 00:59:18,401 Walk. 1293 00:59:18,881 --> 00:59:22,721 And the just shall walk by faith. 1294 00:59:22,881 --> 00:59:24,561 I don't know how it is gonna work out. 1295 00:59:24,881 --> 00:59:27,681 I don't know what's gonna happen, but I'm walking. 1296 00:59:28,161 --> 00:59:29,041 I'm walking. 1297 00:59:29,121 --> 00:59:31,161 I never put my trust in man anyways. 1298 00:59:31,161 --> 00:59:32,401 My trust was in him. 1299 00:59:32,481 --> 00:59:33,001 Oh, yeah. 1300 00:59:33,001 --> 00:59:34,081 Mike's imperfect. 1301 00:59:34,161 --> 00:59:35,841 I ain't gonna join a perfect church. 1302 00:59:35,841 --> 00:59:36,951 But I'm walking by faith. 1303 00:59:37,021 --> 00:59:37,741 Faith, oh, yeah. 1304 00:59:37,741 --> 00:59:38,781 I'm in a relationship. 1305 00:59:38,861 --> 00:59:39,341 Oh, yeah. 1306 00:59:39,341 --> 00:59:41,101 I'm gonna get engaged and get married. 1307 00:59:41,101 --> 00:59:41,701 Oh, yeah. 1308 00:59:41,701 --> 00:59:43,261 But I'm walking by faith now. 1309 00:59:43,261 --> 00:59:44,581 I'm walking by faith. 1310 00:59:44,581 --> 00:59:46,061 I'm owning my mistakes. 1311 00:59:46,141 --> 00:59:47,501 I'm owning my trauma. 1312 00:59:47,581 --> 00:59:49,021 I'm owning my stuff. 1313 00:59:49,101 --> 00:59:52,061 But, God, I'm not gonna blame them. 1314 00:59:52,221 --> 00:59:53,901 I didn't need to get in the pool. 1315 00:59:53,981 --> 00:59:56,381 I didn't need anybody to drag me in the pool. 1316 00:59:56,461 --> 00:59:59,341 I heard your voice, and you are the healer. 1317 00:59:59,341 --> 01:00:00,701 You are the promoter. 1318 01:00:00,781 --> 01:00:02,221 You are the restorer. 1319 01:00:02,301 --> 01:00:03,101 You are the one. 1320 01:00:03,101 --> 01:00:05,021 You're the wheel in the middle of the wheel. 1321 01:00:05,101 --> 01:00:07,981 You're the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. 1322 01:00:07,981 --> 01:00:08,781 Your El Shad. 1323 01:00:09,321 --> 01:00:10,281 You're Elohim. 1324 01:00:10,361 --> 01:00:11,401 You're Rafa. 1325 01:00:11,401 --> 01:00:12,841 You are whatever I need. 1326 01:00:12,841 --> 01:00:13,321 God. 1327 01:00:13,321 --> 01:00:15,161 You were there with me in Bethesda. 1328 01:00:15,161 --> 01:00:16,841 You're gonna be with me in Brooklyn. 1329 01:00:16,921 --> 01:00:18,761 You were there with me at Bethesda. 1330 01:00:18,761 --> 01:00:20,441 You're gonna be there in Miami. 1331 01:00:20,521 --> 01:00:22,121 I trust you, God. 1332 01:00:23,161 --> 01:00:26,281 Somebody shouted, I trust you, God. 1333 01:00:27,961 --> 01:00:29,641 I trust you, God. 1334 01:00:30,761 --> 01:00:32,441 That's what this comes down to. 1335 01:00:32,841 --> 01:00:37,231 He said, upon this rock, I will build my church, and not even 1336 01:00:37,231 --> 01:00:39,391 the gates of hell will prevail against it. 1337 01:00:39,711 --> 01:00:41,951 Do you trust that he will do what he said? 1338 01:00:45,631 --> 01:00:48,671 I don't need to gossip because I trust God. 1339 01:00:49,311 --> 01:00:53,071 I don't need to control with Jezebel and Ahab because I trust 1340 01:00:53,071 --> 01:00:53,471 God. 1341 01:00:53,791 --> 01:00:56,351 I don't need to make it happen because I trust God. 1342 01:00:56,911 --> 01:00:59,151 Pick up your mat and walk. 1343 01:01:00,271 --> 01:01:00,601 So. 1344 01:01:00,751 --> 01:01:00,991 So. 1345 01:01:05,631 --> 01:01:06,831 I want to pray for you. 1346 01:01:11,791 --> 01:01:15,071 Across all of our campuses, I want to pray for you. 1347 01:01:15,071 --> 01:01:16,591 Everybody watching online right now. 1348 01:01:17,231 --> 01:01:18,991 And I'm going to pray a weird prayer. 1349 01:01:20,591 --> 01:01:22,951 I'm not going to pray that you're delivered from demons, even 1350 01:01:22,951 --> 01:01:23,951 though you may need that. 1351 01:01:24,591 --> 01:01:25,631 Get to our deliverance. 1352 01:01:25,631 --> 01:01:26,031 Zoom. 1353 01:01:27,001 --> 01:01:29,161 Mama Moses will cast them out over Zoom. 1354 01:01:29,641 --> 01:01:30,921 She got a whole team. 1355 01:01:31,401 --> 01:01:33,561 She's bringing hundreds of people through Deliverance every 1356 01:01:33,561 --> 01:01:33,881 month. 1357 01:01:34,281 --> 01:01:35,201 But I want to pray. 1358 01:01:35,201 --> 01:01:36,441 This is what the Lord told me. 1359 01:01:36,761 --> 01:01:40,281 Pray for their limbic system, pray for their brains. 1360 01:01:41,001 --> 01:01:42,761 Pray that a healing takes place. 1361 01:01:42,921 --> 01:01:44,921 See, there's deliverance and then there's healing. 1362 01:01:45,241 --> 01:01:48,241 And Jesus gave healing where healing was needed and deliverance 1363 01:01:48,241 --> 01:01:49,641 where deliverance was needed. 1364 01:01:49,801 --> 01:01:52,201 And some of you are living in trauma responses. 1365 01:01:52,621 --> 01:01:54,221 And that's why I don't get mad at you. 1366 01:01:54,461 --> 01:01:57,861 That's why I'm not angry, because I learned now I'm not going 1367 01:01:57,861 --> 01:01:58,861 to participate in this. 1368 01:01:58,861 --> 01:01:59,421 That's you. 1369 01:01:59,421 --> 01:02:01,021 That's between you and Jesus. 1370 01:02:01,661 --> 01:02:03,061 Stop looking at humanity. 1371 01:02:03,061 --> 01:02:06,421 Start looking at his beauty and Then say yes to his healing in 1372 01:02:06,421 --> 01:02:07,021 this moment. 1373 01:02:07,021 --> 01:02:08,781 And I believe you can walk out. 1374 01:02:09,421 --> 01:02:11,261 And this is the miracle of salvation. 1375 01:02:11,261 --> 01:02:12,941 This is the spirit of adoption. 1376 01:02:13,261 --> 01:02:17,101 I believe that you can become like a child again. 1377 01:02:18,391 --> 01:02:19,511 I'll be honest with you. 1378 01:02:22,151 --> 01:02:24,871 I've had so many dark days pastoring this church. 1379 01:02:25,991 --> 01:02:28,391 People I never thought would knife me, knife me. 1380 01:02:29,031 --> 01:02:33,631 People I thought were with me, talking about me, people who watched 1381 01:02:33,631 --> 01:02:39,671 me and know who I am as a man act like I'm somebody else very hard. 1382 01:02:40,871 --> 01:02:43,031 And the Lord had brought me through a lot of that. 1383 01:02:43,681 --> 01:02:45,881 But you know what has encouraged me the most throughout 1384 01:02:45,881 --> 01:02:51,201 the years is having two little girls that for 10 years straight 1385 01:02:51,601 --> 01:02:55,801 have woken up every Sunday morning begging, can we go to church 1386 01:02:55,801 --> 01:02:56,161 early? 1387 01:02:56,961 --> 01:03:03,281 Because to children without trauma, to children without wounds, 1388 01:03:04,081 --> 01:03:08,241 getting to V1 church every week was the highlight of their entire 1389 01:03:08,241 --> 01:03:10,801 week and every single Sunday. 1390 01:03:11,281 --> 01:03:13,601 You know, Bella was little when we first moved here. 1391 01:03:13,601 --> 01:03:14,721 She's 19 now. 1392 01:03:15,201 --> 01:03:16,481 Everly's 12 now. 1393 01:03:16,481 --> 01:03:19,401 She was literally just two years old when we moved here. 1394 01:03:19,401 --> 01:03:23,281 Could barely talk every single Sunday. 1395 01:03:24,241 --> 01:03:26,801 It's always been the only day they wake up early. 1396 01:03:30,401 --> 01:03:33,881 It's been the only day that they could get dressed without me 1397 01:03:33,881 --> 01:03:38,411 asking, because they would say, I can't wait to get to church. 1398 01:03:39,131 --> 01:03:44,251 And the Lord would speak to me and say, mike, that's who we are 1399 01:03:44,491 --> 01:03:45,611 without trauma. 1400 01:03:46,571 --> 01:03:48,331 So we're not going to leave our trauma. 1401 01:03:49,051 --> 01:03:53,491 We're going to grab our mat and walk and say, I once was broken. 1402 01:03:53,491 --> 01:03:54,731 I once was this. 1403 01:03:54,731 --> 01:03:58,971 But now the Lord has healed me, and now I can be excited again. 1404 01:03:59,371 --> 01:04:01,501 So I want to speak to your broken expectations. 1405 01:04:02,931 --> 01:04:06,531 I want to speak to single people who have cursed their future 1406 01:04:06,531 --> 01:04:09,571 relationship by saying, I'm never going to meet anybody. 1407 01:04:10,611 --> 01:04:13,731 I want to speak to married people who just think I'm going to 1408 01:04:13,731 --> 01:04:17,570 have to silently suffer in this marriage because it can never 1409 01:04:17,570 --> 01:04:18,131 be good. 1410 01:04:18,371 --> 01:04:20,931 I believe that with Julie 20 years ago. 1411 01:04:21,651 --> 01:04:25,251 And now, I'll be honest with you, our marriage is getting better 1412 01:04:25,571 --> 01:04:26,131 every day. 1413 01:04:26,131 --> 01:04:27,251 It blows my mind. 1414 01:04:27,731 --> 01:04:33,671 It blows my mind that you can have a lifetime love affair, even 1415 01:04:33,671 --> 01:04:34,431 know it was possible. 1416 01:04:35,471 --> 01:04:40,431 So the Lord said, mike, you can become childlike again, But I'm 1417 01:04:40,431 --> 01:04:43,311 not asking you to pretend your past never happened. 1418 01:04:43,631 --> 01:04:46,911 I'm asking you to allow me to turn it into a testimony. 1419 01:04:47,711 --> 01:04:53,311 So right now, I want to pray that your mat turns into a testimony. 1420 01:04:53,311 --> 01:04:55,111 I want you to pray with me right now. 1421 01:04:55,111 --> 01:04:58,191 And I. I can't lay hands on everybody at all seven campuses, 1422 01:04:58,271 --> 01:05:04,771 but I want to pray for you as your pastor, because I believe there's 1423 01:05:04,771 --> 01:05:07,651 a special prayer that Happens right now about relationships, about 1424 01:05:07,651 --> 01:05:11,251 business, about church, whatever this thing is, it's the 1425 01:05:11,251 --> 01:05:12,651 heart being shattered. 1426 01:05:13,131 --> 01:05:16,011 So if you just close your eyes to remove all your distractions, 1427 01:05:23,211 --> 01:05:24,651 I want to have a private moment. 1428 01:05:24,651 --> 01:05:30,221 If you're like, lord, I need my heart healed, I need restoration. 1429 01:05:30,221 --> 01:05:33,741 Would you just lift your hand and show me as a sign so I know, 1430 01:05:33,741 --> 01:05:35,461 okay, just put your hands down. 1431 01:05:35,461 --> 01:05:38,301 I'm just going to tell on Everybody that was 100% of the church. 1432 01:05:40,701 --> 01:05:43,101 So I guess we're all about to go to the next level together. 1433 01:05:43,981 --> 01:05:45,661 We go from glory to glory. 1434 01:05:46,781 --> 01:05:47,221 It's. 1435 01:05:47,221 --> 01:05:49,021 I'm telling you, I feel this right now. 1436 01:05:49,021 --> 01:05:51,761 So if you want to lift your hands towards heaven, I want to pray 1437 01:05:52,471 --> 01:05:54,951 and then I want, I want the team to lead us in worship because 1438 01:05:54,951 --> 01:05:56,631 there's going to be something that happens. 1439 01:05:56,951 --> 01:06:01,351 And I know this sounds crazy, but if your brain could change over 1440 01:06:01,351 --> 01:06:04,791 time, I believe it can be changed back right now. 1441 01:06:05,031 --> 01:06:07,750 If your brain could be shattered, if your heart can be broken, 1442 01:06:07,750 --> 01:06:08,711 it can be healed. 1443 01:06:08,951 --> 01:06:12,631 So I want to pray right now as everybody is just in this posture 1444 01:06:12,711 --> 01:06:13,551 of surrender. 1445 01:06:13,551 --> 01:06:17,641 Father, I thank you for what you are doing in V1 church, church 1446 01:06:17,641 --> 01:06:21,121 right now through every single person watching online in homes, 1447 01:06:21,121 --> 01:06:22,801 everybody in rooms at a campus. 1448 01:06:23,121 --> 01:06:25,281 Lord, I pray that as they are. 1449 01:06:25,281 --> 01:06:27,521 At the pool of Bethesda, they haven't. 1450 01:06:27,521 --> 01:06:29,521 Made up in their mind how it's going to go. 1451 01:06:29,681 --> 01:06:32,121 But Lord, you, you are right in. 1452 01:06:32,121 --> 01:06:36,321 Front of us and you're disrupting our plans, you're disrupting 1453 01:06:36,321 --> 01:06:37,521 our way of thinking. 1454 01:06:37,521 --> 01:06:41,001 And you're saying, do you want to be healed? 1455 01:06:41,001 --> 01:06:44,051 And Lord, they are crying out, I don't want to live like this. 1456 01:06:44,201 --> 01:06:47,201 This jaded and skeptical and mean hearted. 1457 01:06:47,201 --> 01:06:49,161 I don't want to live like this negative. 1458 01:06:49,241 --> 01:06:51,561 I don't want to be a broken thermostat. 1459 01:06:51,641 --> 01:06:54,201 I want to change the atmosphere. 1460 01:06:54,361 --> 01:06:56,201 I want to be childlike. 1461 01:06:56,201 --> 01:06:59,081 I want to have a testimony, not a trigger. 1462 01:06:59,321 --> 01:07:04,601 So Lord, I ask you now, heal their brain, heal their mind, heal 1463 01:07:04,601 --> 01:07:05,201 their heart. 1464 01:07:05,201 --> 01:07:09,281 God now from the abuse of their past, from the trauma that 1465 01:07:09,281 --> 01:07:09,961 they went through. 1466 01:07:10,371 --> 01:07:14,771 And Lord, I thank you that your healing is a deep and complete 1467 01:07:14,771 --> 01:07:21,891 healing of every broken piece in Jesus name I say let it be so. 1468 01:07:22,211 --> 01:07:22,851 Amen. 1469 01:07:24,531 --> 01:07:27,331 Come on church, sing it across every location. 1470 01:07:28,291 --> 01:07:29,731 Jesus be the name. 1471 01:07:35,171 --> 01:07:37,811 Only you're getting the glory from this Jesus. 1472 01:07:39,821 --> 01:07:41,181 Jesus be the name. 1473 01:08:04,871 --> 01:08:12,321 Sam.