1 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:10,000 I wanna share something because right now we're living in 2 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:14,480 incredibly confusing times and many of you are just inundated with 3 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:17,280 information and you're trying to make decisions. 4 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:21,280 And this is gonna be another prophetic sermon because as we've 5 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:24,160 been journeying through the book of Acts together, I'm gonna 6 00:00:24,160 --> 00:00:27,440 take you back to all over the Bible here in the next several moments. 7 00:00:27,520 --> 00:00:31,280 But right now you're faced with life decisions, decisions about 8 00:00:32,620 --> 00:00:36,700 decisions about your health, decisions about relationships, decisions 9 00:00:36,700 --> 00:00:37,580 about your future. 10 00:00:37,980 --> 00:00:42,940 And as I've been a pastor for the last two decades, and I've facilitated 11 00:00:43,020 --> 00:00:46,540 hundreds upon hundreds of pastoral counseling meetings, one 12 00:00:46,540 --> 00:00:50,700 to one or one to the couples, I've noticed that many Christians 13 00:00:50,700 --> 00:00:56,740 love to hide behind the excuse of I am confused, I don't know what 14 00:00:56,740 --> 00:00:58,620 to do, I'm confused. 15 00:00:59,230 --> 00:01:03,230 And I have come to learn over all of the years of faithful shepherding 16 00:01:03,390 --> 00:01:07,550 that most Christians are not confused, they're disobedient. 17 00:01:08,670 --> 00:01:11,470 Oh, come on, this church is really saved. 18 00:01:11,470 --> 00:01:13,150 They all clapped here on Long Island. 19 00:01:14,590 --> 00:01:20,110 And oftentimes we know what to do, but we lack the faith to do it. 20 00:01:20,590 --> 00:01:25,070 And so my prayer as I begin this message, Lord, is that you release 21 00:01:25,150 --> 00:01:27,740 a supernatural impartation of faith. 22 00:01:27,970 --> 00:01:31,170 Faith, because I don't believe the root is rebellion. 23 00:01:31,490 --> 00:01:34,610 Even though it's disobedience, it's a lack of faith. 24 00:01:34,930 --> 00:01:37,170 It's not rebellion, it's a lack of faith. 25 00:01:37,170 --> 00:01:40,050 It's fear that is keeping many of them bound. 26 00:01:40,210 --> 00:01:44,370 So, Father, under the sound of my voice, perfect love cast out all 27 00:01:44,450 --> 00:01:44,930 fear. 28 00:01:45,090 --> 00:01:48,890 And I thank you God, that your love is going to drive out fear and 29 00:01:48,890 --> 00:01:50,770 faith is going to replace fear. 30 00:01:50,770 --> 00:01:53,090 And they're going to leave this message changed. 31 00:01:53,090 --> 00:01:56,670 And everybody said, amen, Amen, Amen, amen. 32 00:01:57,150 --> 00:02:03,230 So some of us, we are guilty of leaning on our own understanding. 33 00:02:04,030 --> 00:02:07,550 You know, I was telling my 19 year old daughter the other day about 34 00:02:07,710 --> 00:02:11,310 stories from when I was in college, stories in my 20s, stories 35 00:02:11,310 --> 00:02:12,110 in my 30s. 36 00:02:12,190 --> 00:02:15,870 And as I was telling her these stories, you know, I thought that 37 00:02:15,870 --> 00:02:20,150 as her dad, I was telling my daughter what it was like to live 38 00:02:20,150 --> 00:02:23,430 life and how I've navigated the complexities of modern culture 39 00:02:23,430 --> 00:02:25,070 and all of the things that we struggle with. 40 00:02:25,070 --> 00:02:27,450 And I really thought I was equal equipping my daughter. 41 00:02:29,290 --> 00:02:32,730 And then all of a sudden, Bella looks at me and she goes, I 42 00:02:32,730 --> 00:02:33,930 got a question for you, dad. 43 00:02:36,490 --> 00:02:39,810 As you have figured all those things out over the many years of 44 00:02:39,810 --> 00:02:43,930 your life, is it hard for you to trust God? 45 00:02:46,730 --> 00:02:48,890 And I said, what do you mean, babe? 46 00:02:49,370 --> 00:02:52,570 And she said, well, it seems to me like, you've gotten really 47 00:02:52,570 --> 00:02:54,330 good at figuring things out for yourself. 48 00:02:54,910 --> 00:02:57,550 Probably the more you figure things out for yourself, the less 49 00:02:57,710 --> 00:02:59,470 you are able to trust God. 50 00:03:00,510 --> 00:03:03,790 And I was like, rebuke taken, my young padawan. 51 00:03:05,950 --> 00:03:06,910 But it's true. 52 00:03:07,310 --> 00:03:10,270 The person that I trust most in life is me. 53 00:03:10,990 --> 00:03:12,430 Anybody know what I'm talking about? 54 00:03:12,750 --> 00:03:16,150 When people walked out, I just kicked it up a notch and went to 55 00:03:16,150 --> 00:03:16,750 the next level. 56 00:03:16,910 --> 00:03:20,110 When nobody gave me money, I just went out and made money. 57 00:03:20,270 --> 00:03:22,750 When nobody could help me, I helped myself. 58 00:03:23,150 --> 00:03:27,050 So what happens is I. I begin to become more confident in me. 59 00:03:27,130 --> 00:03:30,770 And it ironically made it harder for me to trust God. 60 00:03:30,770 --> 00:03:34,890 And oftentimes, the lower our level of trust is in God, the higher 61 00:03:34,890 --> 00:03:36,970 our anxiety levels are in life. 62 00:03:38,810 --> 00:03:44,770 Because if it's on me, it's on my strength, and I've got limited 63 00:03:44,770 --> 00:03:45,290 strength. 64 00:03:45,370 --> 00:03:48,290 If it's on me, it's on my understanding. 65 00:03:48,290 --> 00:03:50,490 I have limited mental capacities. 66 00:03:50,490 --> 00:03:53,050 If it's on me, I've got limited finances. 67 00:03:53,270 --> 00:03:53,430 And. 68 00:03:53,580 --> 00:03:55,660 And so I wanna go to the root of this. 69 00:03:55,660 --> 00:03:59,220 And we're gonna look at it because there's this truth is that 70 00:03:59,220 --> 00:04:02,780 every single one of us is leaning on something all the time. 71 00:04:03,420 --> 00:04:04,620 We all lean. 72 00:04:05,180 --> 00:04:06,540 Everybody's leaning. 73 00:04:06,940 --> 00:04:08,620 It's just, what are you leaning on? 74 00:04:08,860 --> 00:04:11,540 And we're gonna look at proverbs to start, because this is 75 00:04:11,540 --> 00:04:12,260 the book of wisdom. 76 00:04:12,260 --> 00:04:15,340 And we're gonna get progressively deeper into the scriptures, 77 00:04:15,500 --> 00:04:17,540 because this is what I'm gonna start with. 78 00:04:17,540 --> 00:04:20,070 One of the most famous scriptures that. 79 00:04:20,070 --> 00:04:21,350 That you've heard quoted. 80 00:04:21,430 --> 00:04:27,150 But it really speaks to our illusions of control and the behaviors 81 00:04:27,150 --> 00:04:28,390 that we build around it. 82 00:04:28,390 --> 00:04:28,950 So let me. 83 00:04:29,110 --> 00:04:30,350 Let me read it with you. 84 00:04:30,350 --> 00:04:34,070 Trust in the Lord with all of your heart. 85 00:04:34,630 --> 00:04:35,750 Can we just stop there? 86 00:04:37,190 --> 00:04:38,870 What does Disney tell us? 87 00:04:39,350 --> 00:04:40,310 Trust your heart. 88 00:04:40,790 --> 00:04:45,590 But the Bible says that your heart is deceitfully wicked above 89 00:04:45,670 --> 00:04:47,270 and evil above all things. 90 00:04:48,050 --> 00:04:53,010 So if culture, wouldn't it be the most Luciferian, demonic, conspiratorial 91 00:04:53,090 --> 00:04:57,570 agenda to get an entire generation to trust their heart? 92 00:04:57,810 --> 00:05:02,850 When Satan knows that our heart is a lie factory, it's a deception 93 00:05:02,850 --> 00:05:03,410 factory. 94 00:05:03,649 --> 00:05:07,130 Our heart lies all day and all night long. 95 00:05:07,130 --> 00:05:08,530 It lies in our dreams. 96 00:05:08,530 --> 00:05:08,890 Come on. 97 00:05:08,890 --> 00:05:11,170 Some of the women having dreams about their spouse cheating 98 00:05:11,170 --> 00:05:13,410 on them, waking up wanting to slap them in the face. 99 00:05:16,570 --> 00:05:19,930 I mean, we are conspiracy factories. 100 00:05:21,050 --> 00:05:25,930 We have whole strongholds built up in our mind about how people 101 00:05:25,930 --> 00:05:29,809 feel about us that we've never talked to, about what they think 102 00:05:29,809 --> 00:05:30,610 about us at work. 103 00:05:30,610 --> 00:05:33,370 Even though we have no confirmation other than a facial 104 00:05:33,370 --> 00:05:33,890 expression. 105 00:05:33,890 --> 00:05:36,090 It could be indigestion, could be gas. 106 00:05:36,090 --> 00:05:36,890 We don't know. 107 00:05:38,010 --> 00:05:39,450 We've got our mind made up. 108 00:05:39,450 --> 00:05:42,980 Our heart is deceived, deceitfully wicked above all things. 109 00:05:42,980 --> 00:05:47,380 And so what we've been trained to do is to trust our heart. 110 00:05:47,540 --> 00:05:51,820 But the very first premise of godly wisdom is fear the Lord and 111 00:05:51,820 --> 00:05:53,140 actually don't trust your heart. 112 00:05:53,300 --> 00:05:57,220 So this formula is trust in the Lord God with all your heart. 113 00:05:57,380 --> 00:05:58,420 So here's the problem. 114 00:06:00,020 --> 00:06:02,900 The problem is that we trust God with some of our heart. 115 00:06:03,620 --> 00:06:07,340 The problem is that we trust God with, to varying degrees, some 116 00:06:07,340 --> 00:06:10,580 of us trust God with more of our heart, most of our heart. 117 00:06:10,580 --> 00:06:13,920 But very few of us ever get to the point where we trust God with 118 00:06:13,920 --> 00:06:14,800 all of our heart. 119 00:06:15,440 --> 00:06:20,160 So if all of your heart is lying, if all of your heart is evil 120 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:24,960 and you've only trusted God with 60% of it, then you have a war 121 00:06:24,960 --> 00:06:26,440 going on on the inside of you. 122 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:30,320 And the Bible says a double minded person is unstable in all 123 00:06:30,320 --> 00:06:31,280 of their ways. 124 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:35,840 So when you're double minded, you're not unstable in some of your 125 00:06:35,840 --> 00:06:36,320 ways. 126 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:38,800 The Bible says you're unstable in all of your ways. 127 00:06:39,370 --> 00:06:41,170 But what does it mean to be double minded? 128 00:06:41,170 --> 00:06:42,570 Can I break this down for you? 129 00:06:42,970 --> 00:06:45,450 Because we're talking about the mind and the heart. 130 00:06:45,530 --> 00:06:47,050 Oh, this is gonna help somebody. 131 00:06:47,850 --> 00:06:52,570 So double minded is I believe that I should steward my finances 132 00:06:52,570 --> 00:06:57,010 and have a budget and give the first fruits, which is 10% to God's 133 00:06:57,010 --> 00:06:57,690 storehouse. 134 00:06:57,690 --> 00:07:00,970 And I believe that I should be making investments and I believe 135 00:07:00,970 --> 00:07:02,090 that I should be saving. 136 00:07:02,090 --> 00:07:03,210 That's what I believe. 137 00:07:03,930 --> 00:07:08,780 That's what one of my mind believes, my other mind believes. 138 00:07:08,860 --> 00:07:09,500 Yolo. 139 00:07:09,500 --> 00:07:12,860 I'm swiping this card until Chase starts giving me notifications 140 00:07:13,020 --> 00:07:15,820 because I'm stressed and I don't care what's happening because 141 00:07:15,820 --> 00:07:28,620 I gotta live my life and it's only H and M. Come on somebody, right? 142 00:07:28,620 --> 00:07:31,820 I only spent $300 on five dollar shirts. 143 00:07:33,630 --> 00:07:34,910 See what happens is. 144 00:07:34,910 --> 00:07:35,950 But here's the problem. 145 00:07:36,030 --> 00:07:39,630 You believe both of those things at the same time. 146 00:07:40,430 --> 00:07:42,310 So you are double minded. 147 00:07:42,310 --> 00:07:43,390 You have two minds. 148 00:07:43,390 --> 00:07:47,150 You have one mind that says stewardship and sacrifice and surrender 149 00:07:47,150 --> 00:07:49,070 in your finances and discipline. 150 00:07:49,070 --> 00:07:52,470 And the other mind says I'm gonna do whatever I feel like doing 151 00:07:52,470 --> 00:07:53,630 because I'm stressed. 152 00:07:54,510 --> 00:07:58,030 But the Bible says that if you are double minded, you are unstable 153 00:07:58,030 --> 00:07:58,990 in all your ways. 154 00:08:00,270 --> 00:08:04,470 So this is God bringing many of you into a place of being complete 155 00:08:04,470 --> 00:08:05,310 and whole. 156 00:08:05,390 --> 00:08:07,230 But it requires total surrender. 157 00:08:07,470 --> 00:08:09,670 So trust in the Lord with all your heart. 158 00:08:09,670 --> 00:08:12,270 Somebody just say all, okay? 159 00:08:12,430 --> 00:08:15,870 And do not lean on your own understanding. 160 00:08:16,110 --> 00:08:19,470 So we're all Leaning, I lean on my ability. 161 00:08:19,550 --> 00:08:24,310 I lean on my own ingenuity, my own strategy. 162 00:08:24,310 --> 00:08:27,680 The problem is, when you're leaning on your own understanding, 163 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:31,760 it's like a walking stick that has helped you make many journeys, 164 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:34,080 but it's also fragile. 165 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:38,480 So that when it does break, not only does it snap and hurt your 166 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:40,640 hand, but you fall over and hurt yourself. 167 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:44,520 So the threat of leaning on your own understanding is that it 168 00:08:44,520 --> 00:08:48,200 will work for a little while, but when your own understanding is 169 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:51,840 fractured under the weight of your life, it will end up causing 170 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,320 you more pain and more hurt when you fall. 171 00:08:55,870 --> 00:08:56,350 This is. 172 00:08:56,430 --> 00:08:58,110 Are y' all getting something out of this? 173 00:08:58,750 --> 00:09:01,950 So leaning on your own understanding works until that thing 174 00:09:01,950 --> 00:09:02,590 breaks. 175 00:09:03,230 --> 00:09:08,910 Then the consequence of that fall may be very, very great, and 176 00:09:08,910 --> 00:09:11,070 you'll spend some time having to work it out. 177 00:09:11,310 --> 00:09:13,950 Lean not on your own understanding in all your ways. 178 00:09:14,110 --> 00:09:15,310 And in what ways? 179 00:09:15,310 --> 00:09:20,470 In all of my ways, in my sexuality, in my finances, in my 180 00:09:20,470 --> 00:09:24,090 thought life that nobody can hear, by the way. 181 00:09:24,090 --> 00:09:27,290 No one can hear your thoughts, but we all see the result of them. 182 00:09:29,130 --> 00:09:30,410 I'm just gonna revelate. 183 00:09:30,810 --> 00:09:34,970 So you think that your thought life is secret, but the secret is 184 00:09:34,970 --> 00:09:37,450 revealed in your life around you. 185 00:09:38,410 --> 00:09:43,130 So what happens is we think to ourselves, like, I'm gonna be okay. 186 00:09:43,290 --> 00:09:44,330 Compartmentalizing. 187 00:09:44,330 --> 00:09:49,370 It says, no in all your ways, in every single part of your life. 188 00:09:49,710 --> 00:09:52,870 And the reason why I'm your pastor and the reason why you are 189 00:09:52,870 --> 00:09:56,670 a digital disciple, the reason why you're at a campus is because 190 00:09:56,830 --> 00:10:01,550 V1 church is predicated on the idea of all in. 191 00:10:01,870 --> 00:10:02,470 When a. 192 00:10:02,470 --> 00:10:07,230 When a plane takes off the Runway, the whole plane flies, the 193 00:10:07,230 --> 00:10:09,070 whole crew, everybody on it. 194 00:10:09,070 --> 00:10:11,230 There's something about all, all, all. 195 00:10:11,390 --> 00:10:15,070 And so when it's no turning back, this whole thing's about to 196 00:10:15,070 --> 00:10:15,520 fly you. 197 00:10:15,670 --> 00:10:18,830 And I think the message of this house, when people ask from 198 00:10:18,830 --> 00:10:20,830 all over the world, what does V1 mean? 199 00:10:20,830 --> 00:10:22,230 It means all in. 200 00:10:22,550 --> 00:10:23,790 No turning back. 201 00:10:23,790 --> 00:10:25,670 This plane is going to fly. 202 00:10:26,070 --> 00:10:29,630 So what does it look like if you just say, I'm gonna lean not 203 00:10:29,630 --> 00:10:33,630 on my own understanding, but in all my ways, acknowledge him and 204 00:10:33,630 --> 00:10:34,950 that he will make your. 205 00:10:35,030 --> 00:10:36,310 Your path straight. 206 00:10:36,390 --> 00:10:39,750 This is Proverbs, chapter three, verses five and six. 207 00:10:39,750 --> 00:10:43,890 And before we even go to the next part, I want us to pray together, 208 00:10:44,210 --> 00:10:46,930 because I could just open up the altar and we could start puking 209 00:10:46,930 --> 00:10:48,050 out demons right now. 210 00:10:49,890 --> 00:10:53,010 Because the Lord didn't die on the cross. 211 00:10:53,010 --> 00:10:57,490 For some of you, Jesus did not take a crown of thorns. 212 00:10:57,730 --> 00:11:00,930 He wasn't a tiara that covered the front of his face. 213 00:11:01,170 --> 00:11:05,010 It was a crown that was 360 degrees of his mind. 214 00:11:05,330 --> 00:11:07,570 So all of your mind can be set free. 215 00:11:08,060 --> 00:11:11,860 When Jesus died, it wasn't the swoon theory where he passed out 216 00:11:11,860 --> 00:11:13,740 for a few days and came out of the grave. 217 00:11:13,980 --> 00:11:15,660 All of his body died. 218 00:11:15,820 --> 00:11:19,740 So he is asking that you surrender all in response to him 219 00:11:19,820 --> 00:11:20,940 as your Savior. 220 00:11:21,180 --> 00:11:23,340 He gave all, so we gave all. 221 00:11:23,740 --> 00:11:24,139 All. 222 00:11:24,140 --> 00:11:25,060 All means all. 223 00:11:25,060 --> 00:11:26,700 And that is the fight of our life. 224 00:11:26,700 --> 00:11:28,700 It's not against Leviathan. 225 00:11:28,700 --> 00:11:30,540 It's not against Jezebel. 226 00:11:30,620 --> 00:11:33,820 It's not the real fight, because demons are already defeated. 227 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:37,360 I'm just enforcing that victory with the name of Jesus. 228 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:39,920 The real fight is you versus you. 229 00:11:40,160 --> 00:11:43,280 When are you going to start winning a little bit up in here? 230 00:11:44,560 --> 00:11:45,760 Y' all get what I'm saying? 231 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:47,840 Come on. 232 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:49,680 Executing a demon is easy. 233 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:51,200 That's Jesus authority. 234 00:11:51,360 --> 00:11:54,480 Use your will to execute your own flesh. 235 00:12:01,320 --> 00:12:02,960 I'm preaching to myself every Sunday. 236 00:12:02,960 --> 00:12:04,040 Y' all know that, right? 237 00:12:04,440 --> 00:12:05,720 We're all in this together. 238 00:12:06,200 --> 00:12:08,520 This is not a condemnation sermon. 239 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:11,000 It's actually, yes, it's convicting. 240 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:14,040 But all it is is a confirmation of what the Holy Spirit 241 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:14,920 already told you. 242 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:17,240 And I got real good news for you. 243 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:22,200 The gospel is that when you surrender, he empowers you to do 244 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:24,360 what you cannot do without him. 245 00:12:25,410 --> 00:12:28,930 So when he says, acknowledge me in all of your ways. 246 00:12:28,930 --> 00:12:30,210 We can't do that. 247 00:12:31,410 --> 00:12:35,890 But through Christ, all things become possible. 248 00:12:36,690 --> 00:12:41,330 This is why people look at you and say, I marvel at their ability 249 00:12:41,330 --> 00:12:42,810 to live the kind of life they live. 250 00:12:42,810 --> 00:12:46,210 And you say, I wish I could take credit for it, but the Holy 251 00:12:46,210 --> 00:12:49,090 Spirit in me is the reason why I didn't slap you today. 252 00:12:49,490 --> 00:12:51,330 Come on, let's clap our hands for that. 253 00:12:51,610 --> 00:12:55,330 The Holy Spirit in me is a reason why I. Oh, I wanted to. 254 00:12:55,330 --> 00:12:55,810 He held. 255 00:12:55,810 --> 00:12:57,610 He took my hand from this to this. 256 00:12:57,610 --> 00:12:58,450 Praise God. 257 00:12:58,450 --> 00:12:59,050 Somebody. 258 00:12:59,050 --> 00:13:00,730 And ain't nobody but the Holy Ghost. 259 00:13:00,730 --> 00:13:02,970 Getting credit for why you didn't get knocked out. 260 00:13:02,970 --> 00:13:03,770 Praise God. 261 00:13:05,450 --> 00:13:06,330 Y' all think I'm. 262 00:13:06,330 --> 00:13:12,330 I'm being funny in all my ways. 263 00:13:12,330 --> 00:13:13,850 I have to acknowledge him. 264 00:13:14,570 --> 00:13:15,730 And this is what. 265 00:13:15,730 --> 00:13:18,090 This is what discipleship looks like. 266 00:13:19,410 --> 00:13:21,890 All of you, you're an introvert. 267 00:13:21,970 --> 00:13:22,850 Join a group. 268 00:13:23,730 --> 00:13:24,450 You're poor. 269 00:13:24,450 --> 00:13:25,170 Give money. 270 00:13:26,210 --> 00:13:28,530 Discipleship is the Lord. 271 00:13:28,530 --> 00:13:29,170 Not me. 272 00:13:29,170 --> 00:13:31,490 Not a church, not a pastor, not a leader. 273 00:13:31,570 --> 00:13:34,130 It's the Lord asking you to do what you don't want to do. 274 00:13:35,010 --> 00:13:36,930 That is what discipleship is. 275 00:13:37,650 --> 00:13:41,410 It's the Lord saying, would you do the thing you don't want to 276 00:13:41,410 --> 00:13:41,570 do? 277 00:13:41,570 --> 00:13:42,610 You know how I know? 278 00:13:42,610 --> 00:13:44,930 Because Jesus didn't even want to go to the cross. 279 00:13:46,280 --> 00:13:49,520 If it be if there's any other way, let this cup pass from me. 280 00:13:49,520 --> 00:13:51,800 The Lord's like, no, there's no other way, Jesus. 281 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:55,800 It's just this, Lord, if there's any other way than in my 282 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:56,400 finances. 283 00:13:56,400 --> 00:13:57,240 Can I just do that? 284 00:13:57,240 --> 00:13:58,080 Lotto ticket. 285 00:13:58,080 --> 00:13:59,000 Come on, Lord, please. 286 00:13:59,000 --> 00:13:59,960 If there any other way. 287 00:13:59,960 --> 00:14:00,999 Tell me the numbers, Lord. 288 00:14:00,999 --> 00:14:01,480 I know. 289 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:03,000 Tell me the numbers in Hebrew. 290 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:03,400 God,. 291 00:14:05,320 --> 00:14:10,360 We're always looking for an out, but the way is through. 292 00:14:11,350 --> 00:14:16,230 He says, when you do this, I will make your path straight. 293 00:14:16,390 --> 00:14:17,190 You know why? 294 00:14:17,190 --> 00:14:19,350 You know why he'll make your path straight? 295 00:14:19,350 --> 00:14:21,110 Because you'll stop trying to go around. 296 00:14:23,670 --> 00:14:25,110 Do y' all feel what I'm saying? 297 00:14:25,430 --> 00:14:28,310 He'll make your path straight because you'll stop trying to go 298 00:14:28,310 --> 00:14:29,670 around and you'll go through. 299 00:14:30,470 --> 00:14:32,470 And you'll say, okay, God, I'm surrendered. 300 00:14:32,710 --> 00:14:33,750 I'm surrendered. 301 00:14:33,910 --> 00:14:35,150 Okay, I got a little bit more. 302 00:14:35,150 --> 00:14:36,230 Are y' all still with me? 303 00:14:37,100 --> 00:14:41,420 Okay, let's talk about the illusion of understanding. 304 00:14:41,900 --> 00:14:47,340 So if I were to confess my sin one to another, there have been many 305 00:14:47,340 --> 00:14:50,780 moments in my life when I literally knew what God was gonna 306 00:14:50,780 --> 00:14:51,020 do. 307 00:14:51,820 --> 00:14:55,340 Then there's other times where I had no idea what he was doing. 308 00:14:56,060 --> 00:14:58,460 And I would connect all the dots in my head. 309 00:14:58,780 --> 00:15:00,780 I would triangulate every sign. 310 00:15:00,940 --> 00:15:03,940 Anybody say that a feather falls from the sky? 311 00:15:03,940 --> 00:15:05,580 Oh, Lord Jesus, I know that's you. 312 00:15:05,830 --> 00:15:06,750 No, it's a pigeon. 313 00:15:06,750 --> 00:15:07,710 You're in New York City. 314 00:15:07,710 --> 00:15:10,670 You walked under a bridge, right? 315 00:15:10,670 --> 00:15:13,030 Anybody seeking this sign, just show me, Lord. 316 00:15:15,030 --> 00:15:16,390 I had my timeline. 317 00:15:16,390 --> 00:15:17,550 Everybody had their timeline. 318 00:15:17,550 --> 00:15:21,270 Oh, I'm gonna do this by 30, this by 32, this by 35. 319 00:15:21,270 --> 00:15:23,990 Planning your life out like it's a biography. 320 00:15:25,030 --> 00:15:29,030 Got everything planned out like the story's already been written. 321 00:15:29,030 --> 00:15:33,420 And then God does something that completely blows up your understanding. 322 00:15:33,420 --> 00:15:34,740 Anybody know what I'm talking about? 323 00:15:35,380 --> 00:15:38,420 I had a timeline for when I was going to start this church. 324 00:15:39,380 --> 00:15:43,780 I actually moved my family to Long island the first time. 325 00:15:44,340 --> 00:15:45,660 Served under another church. 326 00:15:45,660 --> 00:15:46,980 The whole thing imploded. 327 00:15:47,380 --> 00:15:48,420 Wasn't my fault. 328 00:15:48,500 --> 00:15:51,420 Of all the things in life that have been my fault, praise God, that 329 00:15:51,420 --> 00:15:52,340 wasn't one of them. 330 00:15:53,460 --> 00:15:54,260 Come on, now. 331 00:15:54,260 --> 00:15:55,700 I only tell those stories. 332 00:15:56,820 --> 00:15:58,100 Why am I saying this? 333 00:15:58,610 --> 00:16:03,370 Not to dishonor them, but to simply say, my wife, she let out 334 00:16:03,370 --> 00:16:07,570 a spoken word curse because our family was so beat down by that 335 00:16:07,570 --> 00:16:11,490 situation that happened on Long island, that when I put my tail 336 00:16:11,490 --> 00:16:15,130 between my legs and went back to northwest Indiana, my wife uttered 337 00:16:15,130 --> 00:16:19,410 the words, I will never do ministry on Long island again. 338 00:16:21,970 --> 00:16:23,490 Well, you see how that worked out? 339 00:16:25,180 --> 00:16:28,700 Lean not on your own Understanding why? 340 00:16:29,020 --> 00:16:32,660 Because her understanding said, when I go to Long island, the 341 00:16:32,660 --> 00:16:34,060 Long Islanders hurt me. 342 00:16:34,060 --> 00:16:36,740 The pastors hurt me, the church hurt me. 343 00:16:36,740 --> 00:16:39,660 We came out there with the best motives, the best intention, 344 00:16:39,739 --> 00:16:41,340 but Long island didn't work out. 345 00:16:41,420 --> 00:16:45,300 So what happens when you're regulated by experience is you lean 346 00:16:45,300 --> 00:16:45,820 on experience. 347 00:16:45,980 --> 00:16:47,180 That's how we stay safe. 348 00:16:47,180 --> 00:16:50,180 If you got attacked by a dog, you're probably going to stay away 349 00:16:50,180 --> 00:16:53,160 from every other dog, because rationality would tell. 350 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:55,120 You if one dog bit you, there's. 351 00:16:55,120 --> 00:16:56,960 A probability another one's going to bite. 352 00:16:57,040 --> 00:16:57,480 Is that. 353 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:58,560 Doesn't that sound logical? 354 00:16:59,120 --> 00:17:02,680 This is why a lot of people end up going into lesbianism, go 355 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:03,920 into homosexuality. 356 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:07,280 They'll get hurt by a gender, and then go to the opposite gender. 357 00:17:07,519 --> 00:17:09,200 Because if I avoid that gender. 358 00:17:09,280 --> 00:17:10,880 Oh, y' all don't want this sermon today. 359 00:17:11,120 --> 00:17:11,480 You. 360 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:12,680 You don't want this sermon. 361 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:14,560 That's why they'll literally say, I don't. 362 00:17:14,560 --> 00:17:17,240 Want to be with a man, but then date a woman that looks like 363 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:17,680 a man. 364 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:18,080 Why? 365 00:17:18,679 --> 00:17:19,159 Oh, come on. 366 00:17:19,159 --> 00:17:20,199 I'm trying to help you. 367 00:17:20,199 --> 00:17:21,759 This is not me being mean. 368 00:17:21,759 --> 00:17:23,479 This is me speaking to the root. 369 00:17:23,559 --> 00:17:26,439 They're saying, because I can't get hurt by a man if it's not 370 00:17:26,439 --> 00:17:26,919 a man. 371 00:17:29,799 --> 00:17:31,479 I can't get hurt by a woman. 372 00:17:31,479 --> 00:17:32,679 If it's not a woman. 373 00:17:33,399 --> 00:17:34,799 But I still wanted to look. 374 00:17:34,799 --> 00:17:35,999 Want him to look like a man. 375 00:17:35,999 --> 00:17:37,239 Want him to look like a woman. 376 00:17:37,319 --> 00:17:37,719 No. 377 00:17:37,799 --> 00:17:41,319 The root of it is leaning on your own understanding. 378 00:17:42,279 --> 00:17:43,919 It ain't no different than when my. 379 00:17:43,919 --> 00:17:45,959 Wife said, I don't want to go back to Long Island. 380 00:17:45,959 --> 00:17:46,119 I. 381 00:17:46,350 --> 00:17:48,710 Because in the natural, that makes sense. 382 00:17:48,710 --> 00:17:50,110 That's how we survive. 383 00:17:51,230 --> 00:17:55,790 So I'm not condemning anybody from the pride community. 384 00:17:55,950 --> 00:18:02,269 I'm simply saying it makes sense that your wounds would cause 385 00:18:02,269 --> 00:18:07,870 you to lean in the wrong direction, just like we leaned away 386 00:18:07,870 --> 00:18:10,030 from Long island, but the Lord called us here. 387 00:18:10,110 --> 00:18:12,670 It makes sense because we were deeply wounded. 388 00:18:13,820 --> 00:18:14,620 But in all. 389 00:18:14,860 --> 00:18:20,140 Oh, but in all your ways, acknowledge. 390 00:18:20,140 --> 00:18:20,540 Him,. 391 00:18:22,300 --> 00:18:25,900 Love him, serve him, devote yourself with all your heart. 392 00:18:26,380 --> 00:18:29,460 Isn't it funny that if you give him all your heart, your genitalia 393 00:18:29,460 --> 00:18:30,060 will follow? 394 00:18:31,020 --> 00:18:34,420 If you give them all your heart, your mind will follow if you 395 00:18:34,420 --> 00:18:34,660 give. 396 00:18:34,660 --> 00:18:35,900 It starts with the heart. 397 00:18:36,780 --> 00:18:38,060 The Bible says the heart. 398 00:18:38,540 --> 00:18:41,420 It's from that flows everything, as a. 399 00:18:41,420 --> 00:18:42,500 Matter of fact, even out of your. 400 00:18:42,500 --> 00:18:44,690 Mouth, the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks. 401 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:45,400 Speaks. 402 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:50,520 So it wasn't Julie's word, It was Julie's heart that was wounded. 403 00:18:50,520 --> 00:18:51,160 Am I right? 404 00:18:52,200 --> 00:18:54,760 And so she says, I'll never go back to Long Island. 405 00:18:54,760 --> 00:18:58,920 But then God Says it's your way or it's my way. 406 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:02,200 My ways are higher than your ways. 407 00:19:02,680 --> 00:19:05,240 And let me just tell you, we had to wrestle as a family. 408 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:08,360 And there came a point where I went to Julie and I said, julie, 409 00:19:09,160 --> 00:19:12,360 we have to acknowledge we have a launch team for this church. 410 00:19:12,930 --> 00:19:16,290 I put V1 Brooklyn on all the original branding because we were 411 00:19:16,290 --> 00:19:18,730 gonna be right there in Brooklyn, and we were gonna start 412 00:19:18,730 --> 00:19:19,370 the church there. 413 00:19:19,370 --> 00:19:22,570 But our team had people from Queens, people from Brooklyn, and 414 00:19:22,570 --> 00:19:23,690 then people from Long Island. 415 00:19:23,690 --> 00:19:25,890 And the Long island team exploded. 416 00:19:25,890 --> 00:19:28,530 And I said, the grace is on Long Island. 417 00:19:29,250 --> 00:19:31,690 I wish it wasn't so, but the Lord's doing something. 418 00:19:31,690 --> 00:19:34,130 Either we obey or we disobey. 419 00:19:34,290 --> 00:19:35,810 And my wife said, watch this. 420 00:19:35,810 --> 00:19:37,330 I'm gonna show you something powerful. 421 00:19:37,730 --> 00:19:41,990 Cause this is a word that people will say the F word before 422 00:19:41,990 --> 00:19:43,110 they say this word. 423 00:19:43,910 --> 00:19:46,990 Matter of fact, we're more likely to say the other S word before 424 00:19:46,990 --> 00:19:48,390 we say this S word. 425 00:19:49,270 --> 00:19:49,910 Submit. 426 00:19:51,590 --> 00:19:52,310 Submit. 427 00:19:52,790 --> 00:19:55,910 Mike, you're my husband, and I submit. 428 00:19:56,150 --> 00:19:59,270 But I had to ask myself, okay, that's a big responsibility. 429 00:19:59,590 --> 00:20:01,990 But, God, I'm submitted to you. 430 00:20:02,470 --> 00:20:05,390 And if you're saying this, I'm submitted to you. 431 00:20:05,390 --> 00:20:08,370 And Julie is submitted to me, which means the kids are submitted 432 00:20:08,370 --> 00:20:11,650 to Julie through me, by proxy through you. 433 00:20:12,370 --> 00:20:14,210 And I have to trust it's your way. 434 00:20:14,450 --> 00:20:16,970 Well, for those of you watching online who may not have 435 00:20:16,970 --> 00:20:21,410 put it all together yet, I'm standing in a former soccer field 436 00:20:21,650 --> 00:20:25,330 that's been converted to a church on Long island that's filled 437 00:20:25,330 --> 00:20:29,850 with people for three services a weekend that are worshiping, that 438 00:20:29,850 --> 00:20:31,210 are saved and sanctified. 439 00:20:31,210 --> 00:20:32,480 And filled with the Holy Spirit. 440 00:20:32,630 --> 00:20:35,710 Spirit that are tongue talking, devil stomping, empowered 441 00:20:35,710 --> 00:20:36,390 believers. 442 00:20:36,470 --> 00:20:39,990 And every generation is rising up in this place right now. 443 00:20:40,070 --> 00:20:43,750 And what was a tomb has been turned into a garden. 444 00:20:43,830 --> 00:20:47,910 And God said, I'll take what the enemy meant for harm and turn 445 00:20:47,910 --> 00:20:49,430 it around for your good. 446 00:20:49,590 --> 00:20:53,470 Don't lean into your own experience, because I'm doing a new 447 00:20:53,470 --> 00:20:53,830 thing. 448 00:20:54,070 --> 00:20:56,630 Behold, a new thing comes forth. 449 00:20:56,950 --> 00:20:57,910 Hallelujah. 450 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:00,640 Come on, Long Island. 451 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:04,000 See, the thing is, if you make. 452 00:21:04,000 --> 00:21:08,320 Every decision as relegated to what happened to you in the past, 453 00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:11,840 then you stop giving God permission to do a new thing. 454 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:16,400 See, God will say, I want to do a new thing in an old place. 455 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:18,240 I want to do. 456 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:22,000 Okay, for those of you on the verge of divorce, God wants to do 457 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,520 a new thing in an old marriage. 458 00:21:26,670 --> 00:21:27,150 Come on. 459 00:21:27,870 --> 00:21:30,670 God wants to do a new thing in an old marriage. 460 00:21:31,070 --> 00:21:33,830 He did a new thing in an old region for us. 461 00:21:33,830 --> 00:21:35,950 And life broke forth out of Here. 462 00:21:36,590 --> 00:21:37,510 But you know what? 463 00:21:37,510 --> 00:21:38,670 No one will know the cost. 464 00:21:38,750 --> 00:21:40,270 The cost wasn't the building. 465 00:21:40,990 --> 00:21:42,430 The cost was submission. 466 00:21:43,790 --> 00:21:45,950 How do I increase in my discernment? 467 00:21:46,990 --> 00:21:47,710 Obedience. 468 00:21:48,830 --> 00:21:52,150 The cost of discernment is obedience. 469 00:21:52,790 --> 00:21:56,350 Right now, not a lot of you understood the full weight of what 470 00:21:56,350 --> 00:21:57,030 I just said. 471 00:21:57,270 --> 00:22:01,030 Because we think discernment is conspiracy theory. 472 00:22:01,190 --> 00:22:02,790 We think discernment is information. 473 00:22:03,350 --> 00:22:06,790 And the more information you get, the more you discern. 474 00:22:07,110 --> 00:22:08,630 This is not the thing of this. 475 00:22:08,630 --> 00:22:10,630 This is not the way of the Spirit. 476 00:22:10,790 --> 00:22:15,190 In the Spirit, you do not increase in discernment as you increase 477 00:22:15,270 --> 00:22:16,070 in knowledge. 478 00:22:16,970 --> 00:22:21,530 In the spirit, you increase in discernment as you increase in obedience. 479 00:22:24,650 --> 00:22:25,050 Why? 480 00:22:26,090 --> 00:22:28,170 Because we cannot know God's ways. 481 00:22:29,050 --> 00:22:32,170 So even if he released all the information, I still wouldn't understand 482 00:22:32,409 --> 00:22:36,450 why he allowed my family to be wounded on Long island just to bring 483 00:22:36,450 --> 00:22:38,410 us back to Long island to start a church. 484 00:22:38,890 --> 00:22:42,450 I would have never understood why he would float Moses in a wicker 485 00:22:42,450 --> 00:22:45,770 basket down the Nile to put him in Pharaoh's courts as a child 486 00:22:45,930 --> 00:22:49,140 just so that he can be rejected by the famed, the same family 487 00:22:49,140 --> 00:22:50,140 that raised him. 488 00:22:50,940 --> 00:22:54,460 You understand the weight of what I'm saying to you right now? 489 00:22:54,700 --> 00:22:58,860 That God would actually allow Joseph to be thrown into a well so 490 00:22:58,860 --> 00:23:02,020 that he ends up having to distribute seed to his own brothers 491 00:23:02,020 --> 00:23:02,620 in need. 492 00:23:02,700 --> 00:23:06,180 That he would be rejected by his family only to be the one that 493 00:23:06,180 --> 00:23:07,420 helps him later on. 494 00:23:07,500 --> 00:23:11,580 And you can't deny the fact that God allowed Moses in that wicker 495 00:23:11,580 --> 00:23:12,700 basket down the Nile. 496 00:23:12,700 --> 00:23:15,850 God allowed Joseph to be thrown into the well. 497 00:23:16,010 --> 00:23:19,650 How many of you know that God will even allow us as Christians 498 00:23:19,650 --> 00:23:23,050 to get into situations that defy our understanding? 499 00:23:23,130 --> 00:23:26,890 But it is the shortest route to the destiny that he promised us. 500 00:23:26,890 --> 00:23:28,730 It's the route that hurts the most. 501 00:23:28,890 --> 00:23:32,370 It's the route that we don't want, but it's the very thing that 502 00:23:32,370 --> 00:23:33,450 we need the most. 503 00:23:33,450 --> 00:23:35,210 But it requires submission. 504 00:23:35,370 --> 00:23:37,290 The only way that the plane takes. 505 00:23:37,290 --> 00:23:41,450 Off is if you sit down and put yourself seatbelt on and shut up. 506 00:23:41,610 --> 00:23:45,170 And you got a whole generation that the pilot's got to get on the 507 00:23:45,170 --> 00:23:47,690 intercom and say, everybody sit down. 508 00:23:47,850 --> 00:23:51,330 And I hear in the spirit realm, the Lord is saying, sit down 509 00:23:51,330 --> 00:23:52,490 to the body of Christ. 510 00:23:52,570 --> 00:23:53,610 I'll get you there. 511 00:23:53,610 --> 00:23:55,610 If you shut up and sit down,. 512 00:24:00,650 --> 00:24:05,450 Lock in for that journey and say, lord, I don't get it, but God's 513 00:24:05,450 --> 00:24:06,450 what I can imagine. 514 00:24:06,450 --> 00:24:06,730 When. 515 00:24:07,090 --> 00:24:10,810 When Julie said, I'll never go back to Long island to do ministry. 516 00:24:10,810 --> 00:24:23,490 And the Lord was like, There was a man named Naaman and he had 517 00:24:23,490 --> 00:24:24,530 to learn this Lesson. 518 00:24:25,330 --> 00:24:30,490 When you look at the Hebrew word for trust, it's bata, and it 519 00:24:30,490 --> 00:24:34,890 means it's not believing in something in your head, the way that 520 00:24:34,890 --> 00:24:37,010 we think about understanding or trust. 521 00:24:37,980 --> 00:24:41,340 It's a picture of someone putting their full weight on something, 522 00:24:42,060 --> 00:24:43,940 like leaning back in your chair. 523 00:24:43,940 --> 00:24:44,180 Right? 524 00:24:44,180 --> 00:24:47,700 Now, many of you across our campuses, you have more trust in 525 00:24:47,700 --> 00:24:49,020 a chair than you do the Lord. 526 00:24:49,260 --> 00:24:50,100 You didn't even look. 527 00:24:50,100 --> 00:24:52,460 You made a blind faith decision to sit in that chair. 528 00:24:52,460 --> 00:24:56,460 You didn't even inspect it right. 529 00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:02,300 What are you doing? 530 00:25:03,190 --> 00:25:04,630 I'm just trying to make a wise decision. 531 00:25:06,550 --> 00:25:12,150 Some of you need to take the trust that you had in your chair 532 00:25:12,390 --> 00:25:14,870 and transfer that to your savior. 533 00:25:15,510 --> 00:25:19,270 And instead of inspecting the will of God, surrender to the will 534 00:25:19,270 --> 00:25:23,110 of God and just say, God, I'm gonna just trust in this thing. 535 00:25:23,430 --> 00:25:26,790 That's what the Hebrew word for trust really means. 536 00:25:26,870 --> 00:25:29,270 It means to put your full weight on it. 537 00:25:30,590 --> 00:25:34,150 My youngest daughter's 12 years old, but she doesn't know that 538 00:25:34,150 --> 00:25:34,390 yet. 539 00:25:34,390 --> 00:25:38,270 And you better not tell her because she thinks that she's 4 years 540 00:25:38,270 --> 00:25:39,470 old to her daddy. 541 00:25:40,030 --> 00:25:43,030 And she still comes to me and she was like, daddy, can you pick 542 00:25:43,030 --> 00:25:43,270 me up? 543 00:25:43,270 --> 00:25:44,190 And I'm like, yes. 544 00:25:46,750 --> 00:25:51,830 You know, and her legs are all dangling down here, you know, and 545 00:25:51,830 --> 00:25:58,200 she puts her head on me and she puts her full weight on me. 546 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,400 The other day I was holding my daughter and you know, you have those 547 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:03,080 thoughts, when's gonna be the last time? 548 00:26:04,520 --> 00:26:08,560 And all you weirdos had those viral videos with a 26 year old holding 549 00:26:08,560 --> 00:26:08,840 them. 550 00:26:09,880 --> 00:26:10,760 Don't do that. 551 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:12,080 Don't post it. 552 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:12,800 If you do it. 553 00:26:12,800 --> 00:26:17,640 Some things should be family things, so. 554 00:26:20,690 --> 00:26:23,530 But I have a health coach that I meet with, and it's. 555 00:26:23,530 --> 00:26:26,130 Every time we meet, it's just more of an acknowledgment of how 556 00:26:26,130 --> 00:26:27,170 neurotic I am. 557 00:26:28,130 --> 00:26:31,010 And I thought to myself after the last meeting, maybe some of my 558 00:26:31,010 --> 00:26:35,330 hyper vigilance in my adult life is I don't have any memory of 559 00:26:35,330 --> 00:26:39,410 ever resting my full weight on my biological father's shoulder. 560 00:26:40,370 --> 00:26:43,410 See, what happens is when you're the only person who ever picks 561 00:26:43,410 --> 00:26:47,010 yourself up, you begin to rely on yourself. 562 00:26:47,790 --> 00:26:51,550 And you'll end up putting your full weight in the wrong direction 563 00:26:51,870 --> 00:26:54,670 in your own understanding, in your own skill and your own. 564 00:26:54,670 --> 00:26:57,430 And this man named Naaman, I identify with him. 565 00:26:57,430 --> 00:26:59,390 I think he gets villainized in the Bible. 566 00:26:59,710 --> 00:27:04,350 But Naaman is a story because when you look at this, you see him 567 00:27:05,310 --> 00:27:10,230 doing the Hebrew word for trust, putting his full weight on 568 00:27:10,230 --> 00:27:15,520 his title, his position, on his accolades, and what he's accomplished. 569 00:27:15,520 --> 00:27:20,480 And I wanna show you this briefly because it's such an interesting 570 00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:21,560 story in scripture. 571 00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:23,480 It's not one that often gets preached. 572 00:27:23,480 --> 00:27:25,240 It's two Kings, chapter five. 573 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,120 I'm gonna sort of summarize it. 574 00:27:27,120 --> 00:27:31,160 But Naaman, he's a commander of the army of Syria. 575 00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,320 You know, to make your way through the ranks to be commander, 576 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:35,240 you're big dog. 577 00:27:35,320 --> 00:27:36,280 It's a big deal. 578 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,160 He's very successful, he's very respected. 579 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:43,030 When Naaman walks in the room as a commander, people they about 580 00:27:43,030 --> 00:27:43,430 face. 581 00:27:43,830 --> 00:27:47,390 But there's a hidden problem he has, and the problem is leprosy. 582 00:27:47,390 --> 00:27:48,550 It's a skin disease. 583 00:27:49,110 --> 00:27:50,630 Leprosy is progressive. 584 00:27:53,670 --> 00:27:55,190 So is double mindedness. 585 00:27:57,430 --> 00:28:01,150 See what, what happens is you start off right and it's like, well, 586 00:28:01,150 --> 00:28:03,670 I'm only going in that wrong direction a little bit. 587 00:28:03,670 --> 00:28:05,510 A little bit, A little bit, a little bit. 588 00:28:05,750 --> 00:28:07,590 But it's a progressive disease. 589 00:28:08,320 --> 00:28:10,080 Worry is a progressive disease. 590 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:12,560 Anxiety is a progressive disease. 591 00:28:13,360 --> 00:28:16,080 And Naaman has this condition called leprosy. 592 00:28:16,080 --> 00:28:19,520 And I think we're able to see a picture of this through the scripture. 593 00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,560 And we might be saying, well, this didn't have nothing to do with 594 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,520 me because my skin is okay. 595 00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:26,080 But what is the condition of your spiritual skin? 596 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:31,360 What is the thing that's progressively growing in your soul? 597 00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:33,600 And all of us have this. 598 00:28:34,120 --> 00:28:37,440 Some of you remember the days when you were a little girl and you 599 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:38,360 could just laugh. 600 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:42,360 And you haven't laughed from your belly in a long time because 601 00:28:42,360 --> 00:28:45,800 the spiritual and soulish leprosy has grown. 602 00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:48,760 And leprosy is painful. 603 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:52,280 It's painful socially, not just physically. 604 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:56,880 And as he began to struggle with this, it's like, man, this is 605 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:58,600 Nathan, watch this. 606 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,720 No external enemy could kill him. 607 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:03,320 Think about it. 608 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,160 He was a military genius. 609 00:29:05,160 --> 00:29:06,720 He was a commander in the army. 610 00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:08,520 So nothing external. 611 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:10,480 No other person could take him out. 612 00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:14,120 But the thing that was actually taking him out was his own 613 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:16,160 body progressively betraying him. 614 00:29:16,800 --> 00:29:21,760 And so for many of us, you can prophesy, I'm so proud of you. 615 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:23,920 You're powerful, you can preach. 616 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:25,200 I'm so proud of you. 617 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,000 You can cast out a demon. 618 00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:28,080 I'm so proud of you. 619 00:29:28,530 --> 00:29:31,410 But the thing that you struggle with, like Naaman, is the 620 00:29:31,410 --> 00:29:33,810 thing not externally, but internally. 621 00:29:34,050 --> 00:29:35,810 How many men of God have we lost? 622 00:29:36,210 --> 00:29:40,330 How many women of God because they could conquer cities but couldn't 623 00:29:40,330 --> 00:29:41,570 conquer their own soul? 624 00:29:42,690 --> 00:29:43,970 This was Naaman. 625 00:29:44,129 --> 00:29:46,050 Oh, I identify with Naaman. 626 00:29:46,130 --> 00:29:49,490 And for all of his victories, for all of his accolades, his titles, 627 00:29:49,490 --> 00:29:53,770 for all of his achievements, there's a disease in his body that 628 00:29:53,770 --> 00:29:55,410 he can no longer fix. 629 00:29:56,270 --> 00:29:58,030 And so he said, I'm gonna do. 630 00:29:58,030 --> 00:29:59,310 I'm gonna go to the prophet. 631 00:29:59,790 --> 00:30:04,830 And you know the story in Second Kings, this is chapter 5, 632 00:30:04,830 --> 00:30:12,350 verses 9 through 12 is Elijah hears about this and sends a servant 633 00:30:12,350 --> 00:30:16,110 to give instructions to Naaman that he's gotta fully submerge himself 634 00:30:16,110 --> 00:30:17,550 in water seven times. 635 00:30:18,350 --> 00:30:21,690 Now, this was offensive to Naaman because Naaman said, wait 636 00:30:21,690 --> 00:30:22,130 a second. 637 00:30:22,530 --> 00:30:26,490 If I'm going to go to V1 church, I want to talk to Mike Signorelli 638 00:30:26,490 --> 00:30:29,090 myself, not one of his campus pastors. 639 00:30:32,930 --> 00:30:34,450 That's literally what's happening. 640 00:30:34,930 --> 00:30:36,370 That's literally what's happening. 641 00:30:36,450 --> 00:30:39,010 I don't want to talk to a campus pastor. 642 00:30:39,090 --> 00:30:40,730 Oh, wait, you're not even a campus pastor. 643 00:30:40,730 --> 00:30:41,650 You're just our pastor. 644 00:30:41,650 --> 00:30:42,130 Pastor. 645 00:30:43,650 --> 00:30:44,370 Oh, no. 646 00:30:45,730 --> 00:30:47,970 So I basically, Naaman said, do you. 647 00:30:47,970 --> 00:30:48,490 Know who I am? 648 00:30:48,490 --> 00:30:50,500 I want to talk to Elisha. 649 00:30:51,140 --> 00:30:53,700 But see, the thing was, his pride was rising up. 650 00:30:53,860 --> 00:30:57,820 And Elisha, the fruit, the evidence that he heard from God was 651 00:30:57,820 --> 00:30:58,980 him saying, I ain't going out there. 652 00:30:58,980 --> 00:31:00,580 To me, Naaman don't need me. 653 00:31:00,580 --> 00:31:01,780 Naaman needs humility. 654 00:31:02,820 --> 00:31:04,660 Naaman needs to learn how to go low. 655 00:31:05,540 --> 00:31:08,460 Another verse says that when you humble yourself under the mighty 656 00:31:08,460 --> 00:31:12,820 hand of God, in due season, he will lift you up. 657 00:31:13,380 --> 00:31:16,190 Honey, the only person that can stop you is. 658 00:31:16,340 --> 00:31:16,820 Is you. 659 00:31:17,700 --> 00:31:19,780 The only lid you have is not a leader. 660 00:31:20,340 --> 00:31:21,860 It's your lack of submission. 661 00:31:22,980 --> 00:31:24,660 This is what the Bible says. 662 00:31:24,980 --> 00:31:28,300 Because if you'll go low, there's only one way, and it's up 663 00:31:28,300 --> 00:31:28,900 from there. 664 00:31:29,380 --> 00:31:32,820 And this, this servant of the prophet was basically saying, hey, 665 00:31:32,980 --> 00:31:37,820 Naaman, I'm here on behalf of Elisha, but I have the word of the 666 00:31:37,820 --> 00:31:38,180 Lord. 667 00:31:38,260 --> 00:31:38,820 So what? 668 00:31:38,820 --> 00:31:39,580 Oh, come on. 669 00:31:39,580 --> 00:31:40,740 I'm about to preach this. 670 00:31:41,540 --> 00:31:44,070 It didn't matter who it came from. 671 00:31:44,310 --> 00:31:47,030 What mattered is, did it come from the Lord? 672 00:31:47,110 --> 00:31:49,830 It didn't matter what human was delivering the word. 673 00:31:49,910 --> 00:31:53,590 It's did the human it originated from, hear it from God? 674 00:31:53,590 --> 00:31:57,190 It don't matter if Mike hears it or a campus pastor or another 675 00:31:57,190 --> 00:31:57,830 pastor. 676 00:31:57,830 --> 00:31:59,670 Did that word come from God? 677 00:31:59,830 --> 00:32:01,070 See, there's something about it. 678 00:32:01,070 --> 00:32:03,830 But Naaman couldn't acknowledge the fact that it was 679 00:32:03,830 --> 00:32:05,190 never about Elijah. 680 00:32:05,270 --> 00:32:07,830 It was about the God behind Elisha. 681 00:32:07,830 --> 00:32:10,310 And he needed to be humbled to hear from God. 682 00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:11,000 He was. 683 00:32:11,160 --> 00:32:13,040 He was going to go from leaning. 684 00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,880 On his own understanding to leaning on Elijah. 685 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:17,880 So Elijah said, no, no, we're going. 686 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:19,320 To learn how to lean on God. 687 00:32:19,400 --> 00:32:21,400 Some of you don't need a meeting with me. 688 00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:22,920 You need a meeting with God. 689 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:23,800 I'm here to. 690 00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:25,960 Don't be Leaning on the pastor. 691 00:32:26,040 --> 00:32:28,520 Don't be leaning on Mike Signorelli. 692 00:32:28,680 --> 00:32:30,040 Lean on God. 693 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,680 I'm here to teach you how to go to the Father. 694 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,720 Don't you dare put me on a pedestal. 695 00:32:36,850 --> 00:32:37,890 Are y' all with me? 696 00:32:38,050 --> 00:32:39,370 You don't need a meeting with me. 697 00:32:39,370 --> 00:32:40,690 You need a meeting with him. 698 00:32:41,170 --> 00:32:45,010 And that's what Elijah was trying to say is you don't need the 699 00:32:45,010 --> 00:32:45,570 prophet. 700 00:32:45,650 --> 00:32:47,490 The prophet's connected to God. 701 00:32:47,490 --> 00:32:49,010 I'm about to take you direct. 702 00:32:49,250 --> 00:32:51,970 Go get in that water and dip yourself seven times. 703 00:32:52,930 --> 00:32:53,410 Hey,. 704 00:32:55,250 --> 00:32:57,410 We don't need more celebrity pastors. 705 00:32:57,570 --> 00:32:59,890 We don't need churches that idolize them. 706 00:32:59,970 --> 00:33:02,510 We need people that will come together and. 707 00:33:02,660 --> 00:33:04,260 And say, that's a word from God. 708 00:33:04,260 --> 00:33:06,620 I heard it when the campus pastor said it. 709 00:33:06,620 --> 00:33:09,540 I heard it when that other leader in my small group said it. 710 00:33:09,540 --> 00:33:13,140 But I know the voice of God, so I know it when it comes. 711 00:33:13,140 --> 00:33:14,500 Through someone else's voice. 712 00:33:17,140 --> 00:33:18,140 I'm helping y'. 713 00:33:18,140 --> 00:33:18,340 All. 714 00:33:21,620 --> 00:33:22,660 I'm helping you. 715 00:33:24,260 --> 00:33:31,870 Because in our lives, we do the right things too few times. 716 00:33:32,750 --> 00:33:34,510 I got my wife flowers once. 717 00:33:37,790 --> 00:33:39,150 Well, how long you been married? 718 00:33:39,150 --> 00:33:39,790 20 years. 719 00:33:41,070 --> 00:33:42,670 I massaged her back once. 720 00:33:43,630 --> 00:33:44,790 How long you been married? 721 00:33:44,790 --> 00:33:45,470 30 years. 722 00:33:46,110 --> 00:33:47,630 I took her on a date once. 723 00:33:48,190 --> 00:33:49,630 Well, how long you been married? 724 00:33:49,870 --> 00:33:53,150 See, we do the right thing too few times. 725 00:33:54,120 --> 00:33:57,760 We are changed often by the things that. 726 00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:00,680 Not the things we do once, but the things we do many times. 727 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:04,280 This is why the Lord told Naaman, you need to dip in the water 728 00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:05,160 seven times. 729 00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:08,680 Because there's seven layers of pride that need to come off. 730 00:34:09,479 --> 00:34:11,800 See, this is why we lift our hands in worship. 731 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:12,440 You know why? 732 00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:14,520 Cause it's humiliating and weird. 733 00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,360 So for all of you, like, I've never gone to a church that raises 734 00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:18,760 their hand. 735 00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:20,040 I feel like a hostage. 736 00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:21,640 Yes, that's the whole point. 737 00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:23,480 Hostages don't have control. 738 00:34:25,889 --> 00:34:27,809 God, hold me hostage. 739 00:34:28,289 --> 00:34:30,369 Whatever you tell me to do, I'll do. 740 00:34:30,529 --> 00:34:32,369 Whatever you say I'll do. 741 00:34:32,449 --> 00:34:32,849 God. 742 00:34:32,849 --> 00:34:35,769 See, this is what the posture of raising your hands in worship. 743 00:34:35,769 --> 00:34:36,929 For those of you like, I don't. 744 00:34:37,009 --> 00:34:40,649 The reason why you feel weird raising your hands is because you've 745 00:34:40,649 --> 00:34:42,129 always been the one in control. 746 00:34:42,529 --> 00:34:44,849 You gotta get used to being a hostage. 747 00:34:44,849 --> 00:34:48,289 But actually, that's another way of saying a child of the king. 748 00:34:48,449 --> 00:34:52,260 Because when my 1212 year old wants to put the full weight, like 749 00:34:52,260 --> 00:34:56,540 Bata, when she wants to rest fully on me, she has to start from 750 00:34:56,540 --> 00:34:59,660 the bottom by lifting her hands in the air. 751 00:34:59,740 --> 00:35:02,940 And then I pick her up and put her full weight on me. 752 00:35:03,020 --> 00:35:05,020 How else can God pick you up. 753 00:35:05,020 --> 00:35:06,820 Unless you lift your Hands up. 754 00:35:06,820 --> 00:35:08,060 And you start low. 755 00:35:10,540 --> 00:35:11,180 Come on. 756 00:35:11,500 --> 00:35:13,420 And I'm talking to the men too. 757 00:35:15,830 --> 00:35:19,430 Oh, God, Why'd you allow this diagnosis of my body? 758 00:35:19,830 --> 00:35:21,990 Well, listen, I believe God can heal it. 759 00:35:21,990 --> 00:35:23,030 Anybody believe that? 760 00:35:24,390 --> 00:35:28,390 But through that process, he'll teach you to trust. 761 00:35:29,270 --> 00:35:30,950 We're about to pray in a few moments. 762 00:35:32,630 --> 00:35:39,030 The water that Naaman was asked to wash in was the Jordan. 763 00:35:39,030 --> 00:35:39,950 I don't know if you've ever been. 764 00:35:39,950 --> 00:35:41,830 I baptized hundreds of people in the Jordan. 765 00:35:41,830 --> 00:35:42,550 In Israel. 766 00:35:43,020 --> 00:35:43,980 It's muddy. 767 00:35:44,860 --> 00:35:45,900 It's muddy. 768 00:35:49,340 --> 00:35:50,780 Assistant to the prophet. 769 00:35:51,580 --> 00:35:52,620 You're an idiot. 770 00:35:53,900 --> 00:35:55,100 I have a skin condition. 771 00:35:55,100 --> 00:35:58,220 How am I going to go into dirty, muddy water and get clean? 772 00:35:59,580 --> 00:36:02,780 See, the problem is we've become a generation of experts. 773 00:36:05,980 --> 00:36:07,660 I wouldn't run a church like that. 774 00:36:07,820 --> 00:36:09,580 I wouldn't run a country like that. 775 00:36:09,580 --> 00:36:11,260 I wouldn't run a business like that. 776 00:36:11,260 --> 00:36:12,540 I wouldn't do it like that. 777 00:36:12,860 --> 00:36:13,780 And what have I would. 778 00:36:13,780 --> 00:36:17,060 If I were going to heal me, I wouldn't take me to the Jordan where 779 00:36:17,060 --> 00:36:19,260 it's all muddy so that I can get clean. 780 00:36:22,060 --> 00:36:22,940 Here's the problem. 781 00:36:24,140 --> 00:36:25,180 You're not in control. 782 00:36:26,060 --> 00:36:29,180 And everything you did to solve your leprosy didn't work. 783 00:36:30,060 --> 00:36:30,820 So guess what? 784 00:36:30,820 --> 00:36:36,300 Deliverance is for the desperate is for the people who say, 785 00:36:36,620 --> 00:36:39,590 you know, I used to think that was a dumb idea, but. 786 00:36:39,740 --> 00:36:41,660 But I tried all the other ideas. 787 00:36:42,060 --> 00:36:43,900 I used to think that was stupid,. 788 00:36:43,980 --> 00:36:45,060 But I tried it. 789 00:36:45,060 --> 00:36:46,580 And nothing else helped me. 790 00:36:46,580 --> 00:36:48,460 See that woman with the issue of blood. 791 00:36:48,540 --> 00:36:52,660 Jesus wasn't her first choice, but sometimes you expend all your 792 00:36:52,660 --> 00:36:53,500 other choices. 793 00:36:53,580 --> 00:36:56,060 And then there comes that man from Nazareth. 794 00:36:56,060 --> 00:36:58,380 And there's only one thing you haven't tried. 795 00:36:58,540 --> 00:37:02,020 Some of you tried to go to a concert and lift your hand for Taylor 796 00:37:02,020 --> 00:37:05,510 Swift, and you ended up in a worse condition than you stood started. 797 00:37:05,590 --> 00:37:06,990 Taylor Swift couldn't help you. 798 00:37:06,990 --> 00:37:07,510 I'm sorry. 799 00:37:07,510 --> 00:37:08,230 Swifties. 800 00:37:08,470 --> 00:37:11,830 Some of you went to the jets game and raised your hand, but your 801 00:37:11,830 --> 00:37:13,590 football team couldn't save you. 802 00:37:13,590 --> 00:37:15,270 You expended everything else. 803 00:37:15,270 --> 00:37:18,950 But then you came to church and you got down into that Jordan 804 00:37:18,950 --> 00:37:21,910 river and you said, this doesn't make sense to me. 805 00:37:22,070 --> 00:37:22,870 I don't understand. 806 00:37:23,350 --> 00:37:26,710 I've been to all this counseling, all this therapy, all 807 00:37:26,710 --> 00:37:27,270 this school. 808 00:37:27,430 --> 00:37:31,280 I don't know what's happening but God, if you want me to surrender, 809 00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:33,200 I'll try one last thing. 810 00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:34,560 I tried alcohol. 811 00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,000 I tried drugs. 812 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:36,720 I tried. 813 00:37:36,720 --> 00:37:38,640 But I'm gonna try surrender. 814 00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:42,480 And all of a sudden, Naaman. 815 00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,000 And then nothing happened. 816 00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:48,320 You know what we should stop telling people. 817 00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:51,840 Come back to V1 Church three times before you Decide and we should 818 00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:52,520 say, come back. 819 00:37:52,520 --> 00:37:54,000 Seven times, like Naaman. 820 00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:58,300 Well, I went to church, I prayed for my husband. 821 00:37:58,300 --> 00:37:59,300 Nothing happened. 822 00:37:59,380 --> 00:38:02,900 How many times I prayed for this cancer. 823 00:38:02,980 --> 00:38:03,820 Nothing happened. 824 00:38:03,820 --> 00:38:06,260 How many times I pray. 825 00:38:06,260 --> 00:38:07,300 Come on, I'm talking to. 826 00:38:07,300 --> 00:38:08,860 I prayed about my depression. 827 00:38:08,860 --> 00:38:09,860 How many times? 828 00:38:10,820 --> 00:38:12,100 See, I'm telling you. 829 00:38:12,180 --> 00:38:14,660 Naaman had to learn about going down. 830 00:38:14,660 --> 00:38:16,820 There was something about the spiritual realm. 831 00:38:17,060 --> 00:38:19,060 Seven times he had to go down. 832 00:38:19,060 --> 00:38:20,340 I'm here to tell somebody. 833 00:38:20,340 --> 00:38:21,460 Watch it right now. 834 00:38:21,460 --> 00:38:23,190 If your cancer has not not been. 835 00:38:23,190 --> 00:38:25,350 Killed by prayer, pray again. 836 00:38:25,430 --> 00:38:28,630 If your depression is still wrecking your mind, pray again. 837 00:38:28,710 --> 00:38:31,430 If your marriage hasn't been made whole, pray again. 838 00:38:31,670 --> 00:38:35,190 There's something about the insistency of prayer. 839 00:38:35,190 --> 00:38:36,950 You will come up out of that water. 840 00:38:37,190 --> 00:38:38,310 One time different. 841 00:38:42,310 --> 00:38:44,230 Come on, I'm about to close this thing out. 842 00:38:44,950 --> 00:38:50,960 7Th time, Naaman comes out and he's healed. 843 00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:52,960 He's healed. 844 00:38:54,080 --> 00:38:58,880 You know what I love about the way God does things? 845 00:38:59,520 --> 00:39:01,120 Everybody say double portion. 846 00:39:04,160 --> 00:39:08,800 Naaman went to the prophet to get his body healed. 847 00:39:09,200 --> 00:39:13,680 But after being humbled seven times, his whole life got healed. 848 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:16,960 His mind got healed, his emotions got healed. 849 00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:18,000 He became humble. 850 00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:18,960 He came out of there. 851 00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:20,440 And he wasn't different physically. 852 00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:23,480 He was different physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually. 853 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,320 Because whom the son sets free. 854 00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:26,240 Oh, y' all about to get a. 855 00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:28,960 Revelation who you might have come to God. 856 00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:29,640 Desperate. 857 00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:31,640 God saved me from this addiction. 858 00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:35,120 He said, I want to break every chain, not just that one chain. 859 00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:37,080 I want to break every chain in your life. 860 00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:40,770 You came to me for one reason, but I want to heal and restore door 861 00:39:40,770 --> 00:39:41,370 every reason. 862 00:39:41,690 --> 00:39:44,490 Keep going back into that water. 863 00:39:44,730 --> 00:39:47,050 Keep driving those kids to church. 864 00:39:47,130 --> 00:39:50,050 One of them is a prophet, the other's an evangelist. 865 00:39:50,050 --> 00:39:50,770 The other one. 866 00:39:50,770 --> 00:39:53,210 Come on, keep being faithful. 867 00:39:53,370 --> 00:39:55,290 Keep being faithful. 868 00:39:56,330 --> 00:39:56,890 Come on. 869 00:39:56,890 --> 00:39:59,930 What does the Bible say about being faithful? 870 00:40:00,650 --> 00:40:07,660 He that began a good work in you will see it through until completion. 871 00:40:07,740 --> 00:40:10,780 We press forward toward the high, that. 872 00:40:10,780 --> 00:40:12,300 Calling, that mark of the. 873 00:40:12,300 --> 00:40:15,460 I mean, we're looking at that thing, that prize, that God, I want 874 00:40:15,460 --> 00:40:16,300 to be faithful. 875 00:40:16,300 --> 00:40:18,060 I want to see this thing till the end. 876 00:40:18,060 --> 00:40:21,860 God, I don't care how many times, I'm going to keep on keeping 877 00:40:21,860 --> 00:40:23,100 on faith. 878 00:40:24,220 --> 00:40:27,260 Remember, I started this sermon by asking God to give you 879 00:40:27,260 --> 00:40:30,700 what, what, what? 880 00:40:31,420 --> 00:40:33,830 Faith, faith, faith. 881 00:40:35,110 --> 00:40:36,870 Okay, here's the close. 882 00:40:38,230 --> 00:40:41,350 I was looking at Paul, you know, my man Paul. 883 00:40:41,350 --> 00:40:42,150 I love Paul. 884 00:40:42,390 --> 00:40:44,390 Paul's one of my favorites. 885 00:40:44,870 --> 00:40:47,270 And when you look at Paul in. 886 00:40:47,590 --> 00:40:50,790 I'm just gonna briefly do this because this is crazy. 887 00:40:50,950 --> 00:40:52,470 In Acts, chapter 16. 888 00:40:53,430 --> 00:40:56,950 So for the note takers, read that chapter this week. 889 00:40:57,840 --> 00:40:59,760 Paul is not rebellious. 890 00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:02,960 Paul is not running from God. 891 00:41:03,680 --> 00:41:05,920 Paul is not living in sin. 892 00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:07,920 Paul is on a mission. 893 00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,080 But how many of you know he's a human? 894 00:41:11,200 --> 00:41:13,040 How many humans do we have in the room? 895 00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:14,800 Okay. 896 00:41:14,800 --> 00:41:17,120 A lot of humans and a couple monitoring spirits. 897 00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:18,400 Okay, I can deal with that. 898 00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:21,840 Now, here's the thing. 899 00:41:22,720 --> 00:41:24,200 Paul was human. 900 00:41:24,680 --> 00:41:30,120 So in Acts chapter 16, he had this desire to go take the Gospel 901 00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:33,960 to a certain region, and he is prevented twice. 902 00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:34,680 Again. 903 00:41:34,920 --> 00:41:36,760 You gotta have to read this this week. 904 00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:40,280 I want the flight crews to take this deeper this week. 905 00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:43,640 Are there any flight crews that are going to Act 16 this week 906 00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:44,480 and go deeper? 907 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:48,040 I know they're all over Long island in Miami and northwest Indiana. 908 00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:52,500 And so basically, when you look at Acts 16, verses 6 through 909 00:41:52,500 --> 00:41:56,500 10, and you read the last part of it in the ESV translation, you 910 00:41:56,500 --> 00:41:58,660 read a couple other translations, too. 911 00:41:58,660 --> 00:42:04,100 The Holy Spirit, not the devil, the Holy Spirit, is forbidding 912 00:42:04,100 --> 00:42:06,500 them to speak the Word in Asia. 913 00:42:07,140 --> 00:42:11,460 The Spirit of Jesus is not allowing them into a certain region. 914 00:42:12,340 --> 00:42:14,580 Then there's the Macedonian vision. 915 00:42:15,550 --> 00:42:16,350 Why is this important? 916 00:42:17,230 --> 00:42:20,510 Because Paul's understanding is not bad. 917 00:42:20,990 --> 00:42:22,590 It's good, it's wise. 918 00:42:22,590 --> 00:42:23,790 It's intentional. 919 00:42:24,670 --> 00:42:27,870 But two times, Everybody say two times. 920 00:42:28,590 --> 00:42:32,990 The text says that the Holy Spirit stops him. 921 00:42:34,670 --> 00:42:36,390 Let me give you this last bit of wisdom. 922 00:42:36,390 --> 00:42:37,390 And we're about to pray. 923 00:42:39,790 --> 00:42:45,470 The Holy Spirit will stop you, but the Holy Spirit will not and 924 00:42:45,470 --> 00:42:46,950 cannot start you. 925 00:42:47,590 --> 00:42:48,710 What do you mean cannot? 926 00:42:48,710 --> 00:42:50,070 God can do whatever he wants. 927 00:42:50,070 --> 00:42:51,030 Yes, he can. 928 00:42:51,190 --> 00:42:53,350 But he chose not to. 929 00:42:53,990 --> 00:42:56,390 He gave you something called a will. 930 00:42:57,190 --> 00:43:02,030 And when he gave you the ability to choose, you must surrender 931 00:43:02,030 --> 00:43:03,350 that ability to him. 932 00:43:04,070 --> 00:43:07,920 So he will not start you, but he will stop you. 933 00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:13,400 What I just told you is the secret to all of my success in the 934 00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:13,840 Kingdom. 935 00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,320 I will do everything in my power to go to Times Square and preach 936 00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:17,880 the Gospel. 937 00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:21,560 And if it's not the Lord's will, I rest in the fact he'll stop 938 00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:21,920 me. 939 00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:24,520 And you know, how many of you are parents? 940 00:43:24,520 --> 00:43:25,920 How many breeders do we have? 941 00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:26,480 Good job. 942 00:43:27,360 --> 00:43:33,290 So when your kid learned how to walk and your kids walking around, 943 00:43:33,850 --> 00:43:36,570 what's one of the first words that they learn after they walk? 944 00:43:37,210 --> 00:43:37,610 No. 945 00:43:38,570 --> 00:43:39,290 You see them. 946 00:43:39,290 --> 00:43:40,570 They go to reach for something. 947 00:43:40,810 --> 00:43:41,210 No. 948 00:43:41,930 --> 00:43:43,250 Then they go the other direction. 949 00:43:43,250 --> 00:43:46,530 You know, when they do their hand like this, it's like they're 950 00:43:46,530 --> 00:43:47,610 trying to use the force. 951 00:43:47,610 --> 00:43:50,730 Like Grogu trying to get that Whatever. 952 00:43:50,970 --> 00:43:51,850 No, no. 953 00:43:51,930 --> 00:43:54,330 But you don't tell them, stop walking. 954 00:43:54,570 --> 00:43:56,570 You tell them what not to go after. 955 00:43:56,970 --> 00:43:57,970 Are y' all hearing me? 956 00:43:57,970 --> 00:43:59,210 Am I preaching to somebody? 957 00:43:59,610 --> 00:44:02,250 You don't tell your Kid stop walking. 958 00:44:02,490 --> 00:44:05,210 You tell your kid, no, you can't have that. 959 00:44:05,210 --> 00:44:06,130 Here's my thing. 960 00:44:06,130 --> 00:44:07,210 To the body of Christ. 961 00:44:07,450 --> 00:44:11,210 This comes a time when you get up and you say, okay God, I. 962 00:44:11,210 --> 00:44:12,570 Was seated for a season. 963 00:44:12,890 --> 00:44:14,570 You got me to this destination. 964 00:44:14,890 --> 00:44:16,490 I'm no longer Naaman. 965 00:44:16,490 --> 00:44:19,450 Now I'm Paul and I'm gonna get up and start to move. 966 00:44:19,530 --> 00:44:21,010 And if you don't want me to. 967 00:44:21,010 --> 00:44:23,450 Do it, you can stop me, but you can't start me. 968 00:44:23,530 --> 00:44:27,520 And I will tell you this, God, God is faithful to give you a no. 969 00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:29,440 And that no will be a protection. 970 00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:31,680 But he will also give you a yes. 971 00:44:31,760 --> 00:44:35,160 I prophesied over this church for almost seven years. 972 00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:36,640 We were going to a stadium. 973 00:44:36,720 --> 00:44:40,080 And every time I reached for the stadium, the Lord said, no, Mike, 974 00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:41,440 no, no, no. 975 00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:44,840 And then one day he said, okay, Mike, you're mature enough 976 00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:45,200 now. 977 00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:48,880 Yes, go fill that stadium in Chicago and fill that whole thing 978 00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:49,200 up. 979 00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:53,510 See, the thing is, the things in your house are a no to your children 980 00:44:53,590 --> 00:44:54,710 before their time. 981 00:44:54,870 --> 00:44:59,310 But in, in a later season of maturation, your children will be 982 00:44:59,310 --> 00:44:59,830 grabbing the. 983 00:44:59,830 --> 00:45:01,430 Very thing you told them no to. 984 00:45:04,550 --> 00:45:07,430 Can you imagine an 18 year old who don't know how to use a knife? 985 00:45:07,430 --> 00:45:09,350 Cuz the mother never stopped saying no. 986 00:45:10,470 --> 00:45:15,190 See, no to the knife is about the developmental season, not about 987 00:45:15,190 --> 00:45:15,990 the permission. 988 00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:24,200 But when you reach a maturity level, the Lord will say the very 989 00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:27,280 thing he told you no to in immaturity. 990 00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:29,840 Now he'll say, actually, not only can. 991 00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:33,120 You touch the stove, but cook the whole family dinner now. 992 00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:34,320 And then you'll learn. 993 00:45:34,560 --> 00:45:36,480 Come on, I'm talking to somebody right now. 994 00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:40,400 See, the Lord is not interested in blocking you, but he's 995 00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:45,770 interested in redirecting you into mature, which is true discipleship. 996 00:45:45,930 --> 00:45:49,330 To begin to say, I will give it to you when you're ready, but 997 00:45:49,330 --> 00:45:52,450 I want to see if you know how to sit and I want to know if you 998 00:45:52,450 --> 00:45:53,210 know how to walk. 999 00:45:53,370 --> 00:45:55,610 And then you get this rhythm down. 1000 00:45:55,690 --> 00:45:58,890 And the Lord will release you into higher levels of authority. 1001 00:45:59,610 --> 00:46:00,650 So let's do this now. 1002 00:46:00,650 --> 00:46:02,570 Across every campus, stand to your feet. 1003 00:46:03,930 --> 00:46:06,890 Oh, this word was for somebody. 1004 00:46:07,850 --> 00:46:10,410 Because we're going to increase in discernment. 1005 00:46:11,050 --> 00:46:13,210 We're going to increase in discernment. 1006 00:46:14,570 --> 00:46:20,010 Some of us are in a naming era of our life where we got to keep 1007 00:46:20,010 --> 00:46:20,570 dipping. 1008 00:46:20,890 --> 00:46:23,690 We got to put the giving on reoccurring giving. 1009 00:46:24,010 --> 00:46:26,650 So our flesh gets fought every time we get paid. 1010 00:46:26,970 --> 00:46:28,650 We got to set that budget up. 1011 00:46:28,970 --> 00:46:32,730 Some of us, we don't need smartphones, we need a dumb phone. 1012 00:46:32,810 --> 00:46:34,090 Because we're like Naming. 1013 00:46:34,090 --> 00:46:36,180 We got to learn how to dip into the water. 1014 00:46:36,260 --> 00:46:37,100 So we, we got. 1015 00:46:37,100 --> 00:46:40,060 There's things in our lives we got to repeatedly deal with until 1016 00:46:40,060 --> 00:46:40,660 it's done. 1017 00:46:40,900 --> 00:46:42,340 Can I get an amen on that? 1018 00:46:43,140 --> 00:46:47,540 But then some of us are like Paul and we've moved past that season 1019 00:46:48,340 --> 00:46:52,660 and we gotta know how to move and do what God's called us to do. 1020 00:46:53,300 --> 00:46:54,620 And then he'll tell us a no. 1021 00:46:54,620 --> 00:46:55,380 If it's a no. 1022 00:46:55,940 --> 00:46:59,420 He'll send the no through wise counsel, through pastors, through 1023 00:46:59,420 --> 00:47:00,260 the local church. 1024 00:47:00,830 --> 00:47:02,590 He'll send a note through his spirit. 1025 00:47:03,310 --> 00:47:05,950 But how many of you believe that a no is a not yet? 1026 00:47:06,110 --> 00:47:10,310 If you're on a journey of maturity, a no is a not yet. 1027 00:47:10,310 --> 00:47:13,710 Some of you are single and you said, you're reaching for that man. 1028 00:47:13,870 --> 00:47:18,830 And the Lord says, no, daughter, no, no. 1029 00:47:20,670 --> 00:47:25,390 Like that Bugs Bunny meme, no, no. 1030 00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:29,040 Then all of a sudden, five years later, you find out that homie 1031 00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:31,000 only went to church to pick up chicks. 1032 00:47:31,320 --> 00:47:34,040 And he wasn't even a Christian to believe he was actually a wolf 1033 00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:35,160 in sheep's clothing. 1034 00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:39,400 He had the V1 shirt on, but underneath that V1 shirt was a ravenous 1035 00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:39,880 wolf. 1036 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:41,880 See what I'm saying? 1037 00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:44,040 A Noah's protection. 1038 00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:48,320 So the Lord is moving right now. 1039 00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:49,000 I want to pray. 1040 00:47:49,720 --> 00:47:50,880 This is what I'm going to ask him. 1041 00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:52,470 We're going to go back and to worship for a moment. 1042 00:47:52,470 --> 00:47:53,790 Because worship is surrender. 1043 00:47:56,270 --> 00:47:57,630 Take me hostage, God. 1044 00:47:58,510 --> 00:48:00,350 I'm done trying to figure this out. 1045 00:48:00,830 --> 00:48:01,550 I'm done. 1046 00:48:01,630 --> 00:48:02,750 You saw what I did. 1047 00:48:03,070 --> 00:48:07,949 A righteous person becomes wealthy and their whole city is transformed. 1048 00:48:08,190 --> 00:48:12,830 An unrighteous man becomes wealthy and only his family is transformed. 1049 00:48:12,830 --> 00:48:14,830 Who's God going to release wealth to. 1050 00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:19,120 See? 1051 00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:20,520 The Lord is speaking right now. 1052 00:48:20,520 --> 00:48:21,080 He's just. 1053 00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:23,000 And it's not that he don't want you to have it. 1054 00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:23,840 He's just. 1055 00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:25,120 He'll test and try our heart. 1056 00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:28,040 And he'll say, lean not on your own understanding, but in all 1057 00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:30,280 your ways all. 1058 00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:33,119 So can we do a moment of surrender right now across all of 1059 00:48:33,119 --> 00:48:33,960 our campuses? 1060 00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:34,960 Here's what we're gonna do. 1061 00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:35,840 A moment of surrender. 1062 00:48:35,840 --> 00:48:37,000 I'm gonna count to three. 1063 00:48:37,240 --> 00:48:40,960 And when I get to three, if you just said, okay, God all means 1064 00:48:40,960 --> 00:48:41,280 all. 1065 00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:44,690 No more double mindedness, no more trying to do it my own way. 1066 00:48:44,770 --> 00:48:49,090 I'm gonna lock in now single mindedness, the mind of Christ, the 1067 00:48:49,090 --> 00:48:50,210 mind of the spirit. 1068 00:48:50,290 --> 00:48:51,410 I'm going, this is it. 1069 00:48:51,410 --> 00:48:52,450 I'm gonna be discipled. 1070 00:48:52,450 --> 00:48:54,930 I'm not fighting just like Naaman, just like Paul. 1071 00:48:54,930 --> 00:48:55,450 I'm gonna. 1072 00:48:55,450 --> 00:48:56,050 It's time. 1073 00:48:56,050 --> 00:48:56,930 When I get to three. 1074 00:48:56,930 --> 00:49:00,370 Let's put our hands in the air and across every campus, let's just 1075 00:49:00,370 --> 00:49:03,090 take a moment of unadulterated worship to him. 1076 00:49:03,090 --> 00:49:03,650 Ready? 1077 00:49:03,890 --> 00:49:06,290 One, two, three. 1078 00:49:06,530 --> 00:49:08,050 If that's you right now, come on. 1079 00:49:08,050 --> 00:49:09,010 Let's just worship. 1080 00:49:09,490 --> 00:49:09,970 Come on. 1081 00:49:09,970 --> 00:49:11,250 Come on, Miami. 1082 00:49:11,730 --> 00:49:13,330 Come on, South Florida. 1083 00:49:13,570 --> 00:49:14,690 Come on, Brooklyn. 1084 00:49:15,090 --> 00:49:16,370 Come on, Indiana. 1085 00:49:16,610 --> 00:49:17,170 Come on.