1 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:11,286 If you struggle with loneliness, even in a room full of 2 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:13,198 people, if you feel like you have 3 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:16,030 to mask your true personality when you're 4 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:18,206 around other people, if you feel 5 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:20,030 like you can't even really tell anyone 6 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:21,486 what you really think and what you 7 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:23,894 really believe, if you feel like 8 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:25,614 every, you're there for everybody 9 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:30,058 else, paying for the gas, if you're the 10 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:32,426 one always cooking the meals, come 11 00:00:07,360 --> 00:00:33,786 on, somebody knows. 12 00:00:33,978 --> 00:00:37,090 If you're the one that's always hosting, always facilitating, 13 00:00:33,978 --> 00:00:39,630 if you're the one always calling them, 14 00:00:33,978 --> 00:00:42,710 encouraging them when you need encouragement. 15 00:00:43,050 --> 00:00:43,682 Oh, come on. 16 00:00:43,706 --> 00:00:45,390 Is anybody getting freedom already? 17 00:00:45,970 --> 00:00:48,178 This message is for you. 18 00:00:48,354 --> 00:00:50,162 So I want you to watch this thing all the way through. 19 00:00:50,186 --> 00:00:51,856 I want you to lock in for this. 20 00:00:52,018 --> 00:00:55,772 But a lot of times when we feel like we're all alone, when we 21 00:00:52,018 --> 00:00:57,692 feel like nobody understands, we 22 00:00:52,018 --> 00:00:59,308 do the opposite of what we should 23 00:00:52,018 --> 00:00:59,772 do. 24 00:00:59,876 --> 00:01:02,516 We isolate when we need to congregate. 25 00:01:02,708 --> 00:01:08,440 So turn to the introvert next to you and say, don't isolate, congregate. 26 00:01:09,340 --> 00:01:11,716 Come on, put it in the comment section right now. 27 00:01:11,828 --> 00:01:13,920 Don't isolate, congregate. 28 00:01:14,700 --> 00:01:15,572 Come on, tell them. 29 00:01:15,596 --> 00:01:15,844 Yes. 30 00:01:15,892 --> 00:01:27,070 That means you people say, I'm so shy around who I'm so I'm quiet 31 00:01:15,892 --> 00:01:28,170 around who? 32 00:01:29,150 --> 00:01:31,910 Because I see some people who act quiet around certain people, 33 00:01:29,150 --> 00:01:33,478 and then you see them in another setting, 34 00:01:29,150 --> 00:01:36,470 and they're like, I'm like, I thought 35 00:01:29,150 --> 00:01:37,970 you were the introvert. 36 00:01:39,390 --> 00:01:42,182 So we need to get together. 37 00:01:42,366 --> 00:01:43,294 We need unity. 38 00:01:43,342 --> 00:01:44,078 We need to come together. 39 00:01:44,134 --> 00:01:47,200 So I am going to briefly preach this word, and I'm not going 40 00:01:44,134 --> 00:01:47,640 to be long. 41 00:01:47,680 --> 00:01:48,312 I was teasing. 42 00:01:48,376 --> 00:01:50,224 But we don't isolate. 43 00:01:50,272 --> 00:01:51,080 We congregate. 44 00:01:51,120 --> 00:01:52,408 We need each other. 45 00:01:52,544 --> 00:01:58,528 And so the primary tactic of the devil is to make you feel alone 46 00:01:52,544 --> 00:02:00,340 among a group of believers. 47 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:04,032 So there's the chance that you're at a location right now, and 48 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:04,728 you're looking around. 49 00:02:04,784 --> 00:02:08,480 Nobody understands, nobody knows what I go through. 50 00:02:08,560 --> 00:02:10,832 And that is a tactic of the devil. 51 00:02:10,976 --> 00:02:15,040 And I just want to tell you, like, God brought you here to hear 52 00:02:10,976 --> 00:02:15,832 this message, right? 53 00:02:15,856 --> 00:02:19,352 Now, you tuned in to hear this message, because the, okay, this 54 00:02:15,856 --> 00:02:20,464 is, I'm gonna help you. 55 00:02:20,552 --> 00:02:24,660 The greatest strategy of the devil is not lust, it's isolation. 56 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:28,536 You think you have a lust problem, you think you have a pornography 57 00:02:25,640 --> 00:02:30,540 problem, you have an isolation problem. 58 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:34,584 The greatest strategy of the devil is not addiction. 59 00:02:34,632 --> 00:02:37,220 It's not alcoholism, it's isolation. 60 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:41,632 Isolation is the greatest attack that you can experience from 61 00:02:37,880 --> 00:02:42,462 the devil. 62 00:02:42,616 --> 00:02:45,950 It's not even trauma, it's isolation. 63 00:02:46,690 --> 00:02:47,618 Oh, come on. 64 00:02:47,714 --> 00:02:50,258 If you want to break the psyche of a human being, put him 65 00:02:47,714 --> 00:02:53,122 in isolation, that will break a human 66 00:02:47,714 --> 00:02:53,790 being. 67 00:02:54,170 --> 00:02:54,650 Okay? 68 00:02:54,690 --> 00:02:57,754 So I want to unlock this for you, but I've got to. 69 00:02:57,802 --> 00:02:59,146 I have to confess something. 70 00:02:59,258 --> 00:03:00,910 I made a horrible mistake. 71 00:03:01,570 --> 00:03:06,186 I got a dog, and he is a. 72 00:03:06,258 --> 00:03:07,378 What is he, a doodle? 73 00:03:07,434 --> 00:03:08,972 What is hedehethere? 74 00:03:09,066 --> 00:03:10,300 Something like that. 75 00:03:10,640 --> 00:03:12,380 Very unintelligent. 76 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:17,928 And, you know, where I'm from, you know, dogs will kill you. 77 00:03:18,104 --> 00:03:20,820 Where I'm from, your dog will protect you. 78 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:21,584 They'll. 79 00:03:21,632 --> 00:03:22,620 You know what I'm saying? 80 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:24,528 I won't go any further than that. 81 00:03:24,544 --> 00:03:25,288 Cause I don't want. 82 00:03:25,384 --> 00:03:28,608 But our dogs were valuable where I come from. 83 00:03:28,664 --> 00:03:30,816 You know, your dog was man's best friend. 84 00:03:30,928 --> 00:03:37,112 I bought an enemy, and I'll tell you, this dog can't get a paper. 85 00:03:37,176 --> 00:03:38,200 He can't fetch a paper. 86 00:03:38,240 --> 00:03:39,958 He dog can't do nothing for me. 87 00:03:40,064 --> 00:03:43,442 So the other day, I was in the backyard with my family, and I got 88 00:03:40,064 --> 00:03:45,106 this pit in my stomach, like, where's 89 00:03:40,064 --> 00:03:45,710 Star? 90 00:03:46,170 --> 00:03:49,026 You ever get that, like, feeling, like, where's my dog? 91 00:03:49,138 --> 00:03:50,882 Cause there's two kinds of dogs. 92 00:03:50,986 --> 00:03:54,450 Dogs that can be left alone and dogs that should never be left 93 00:03:50,986 --> 00:03:55,150 alone. 94 00:03:56,170 --> 00:03:57,970 I got one of those dogs. 95 00:03:58,090 --> 00:04:00,470 So something in me was like, where's Star? 96 00:04:00,770 --> 00:04:01,354 Where's Star? 97 00:04:01,402 --> 00:04:05,250 Now, Star finally figured out he's tall enough to jump up and reach 98 00:04:01,402 --> 00:04:07,756 the countertop, okay? 99 00:04:07,908 --> 00:04:10,860 Now, if you would have told me that I would work as hard as I work 100 00:04:07,908 --> 00:04:13,108 to have a dog that would reach up 101 00:04:07,908 --> 00:04:17,052 on my countertops, I'm telling you, 102 00:04:07,908 --> 00:04:18,612 we're gonna put them up for adoption 103 00:04:07,908 --> 00:04:19,452 after this service. 104 00:04:19,516 --> 00:04:24,020 And put the QR code up and see who wants to do deliverance on this 105 00:04:19,516 --> 00:04:24,720 dog. 106 00:04:25,060 --> 00:04:25,900 Because I. 107 00:04:25,980 --> 00:04:27,620 Because I had this pit in my stomach. 108 00:04:27,660 --> 00:04:28,480 We're star. 109 00:04:28,940 --> 00:04:30,924 And the kids were like, oh, he's just in the house. 110 00:04:30,972 --> 00:04:32,440 He's just in the house. 111 00:04:33,110 --> 00:04:36,198 So I walk in, and I start calling out, Star. 112 00:04:36,374 --> 00:04:37,970 Star, where are you? 113 00:04:38,310 --> 00:04:42,190 And everybody here knows when the dog doesn't come running to you, 114 00:04:38,310 --> 00:04:43,930 they know what they did. 115 00:04:44,390 --> 00:04:46,558 It's just like in the garden of Eden. 116 00:04:46,654 --> 00:04:49,590 Adam, Adam, where are you? 117 00:04:49,750 --> 00:04:50,770 Am I right? 118 00:04:51,150 --> 00:04:52,798 It's like when Adam and Eve sin. 119 00:04:52,854 --> 00:04:56,894 They can't be nowhere to be found because we isolate when we're 120 00:04:52,854 --> 00:04:57,850 ashamed. 121 00:04:58,230 --> 00:04:58,870 That is. 122 00:04:58,950 --> 00:05:02,746 Even a dog will isolate when a dog is ashamed. 123 00:05:02,918 --> 00:05:05,270 And so guess what star did? 124 00:05:05,850 --> 00:05:07,594 I had just bought this butter. 125 00:05:07,642 --> 00:05:12,390 Now, this was grass finished, organic, pure butter. 126 00:05:12,850 --> 00:05:15,510 And, you know, groceries are expensive right now. 127 00:05:15,810 --> 00:05:18,390 So I said, I'm gonna do this for daddy. 128 00:05:19,330 --> 00:05:21,194 Daddy's getting the good butter. 129 00:05:21,282 --> 00:05:22,626 Y'all use your butter. 130 00:05:22,658 --> 00:05:24,470 But that's dad's butter. 131 00:05:25,050 --> 00:05:30,740 Star got up on the counter, ate half of all of that butter, his 132 00:05:25,050 --> 00:05:32,604 whole muzzle was filled with butter. 133 00:05:32,692 --> 00:05:35,580 And when I find him and he's wiggling his tail and moving around 134 00:05:32,692 --> 00:05:37,652 all weird, you know, like how dogs 135 00:05:32,692 --> 00:05:38,756 do, and they're like, are you gonna 136 00:05:32,692 --> 00:05:39,420 beat me? 137 00:05:39,500 --> 00:05:40,924 Are you gonna put me on this? 138 00:05:40,972 --> 00:05:43,260 You know, the dogs, like, which version of Mike am I gonna 139 00:05:40,972 --> 00:05:43,836 get? 140 00:05:43,988 --> 00:05:46,280 And I'm like, I'm figuring it out right now. 141 00:05:48,420 --> 00:05:52,540 So he will be available now. 142 00:05:52,580 --> 00:05:54,978 That dog vomited butter. 143 00:05:55,164 --> 00:05:56,478 He pooped butter. 144 00:05:56,574 --> 00:05:58,450 Liquid form everywhere. 145 00:05:59,230 --> 00:06:00,078 Yeah. 146 00:06:00,254 --> 00:06:01,650 Welcome to my world. 147 00:06:02,110 --> 00:06:04,918 That's what I went through for this dog. 148 00:06:05,014 --> 00:06:05,270 So. 149 00:06:05,310 --> 00:06:05,814 But here's. 150 00:06:05,862 --> 00:06:10,950 Here's the point in the story is one of the most natural consequences 151 00:06:05,862 --> 00:06:14,830 of shame and guilt is hiddenness, but 152 00:06:05,862 --> 00:06:16,950 it is the opposite of what we should 153 00:06:05,862 --> 00:06:17,622 do. 154 00:06:17,806 --> 00:06:21,886 So when you find yourself falling back into sin, the first 155 00:06:17,806 --> 00:06:23,382 response is going to be, oh, I'm 156 00:06:17,806 --> 00:06:24,486 not going to church. 157 00:06:24,598 --> 00:06:27,642 When you have that big blow up argument with your spouse, you're 158 00:06:24,598 --> 00:06:29,138 gonna be like, who am I to go sing, 159 00:06:24,598 --> 00:06:30,562 worship, and be around people? 160 00:06:30,666 --> 00:06:34,058 And you're gonna hide just, like, star with a mouthful of butter, 161 00:06:30,666 --> 00:06:36,066 thinking, like, is God gonna be mad 162 00:06:30,666 --> 00:06:37,910 at me because I messed up? 163 00:06:38,210 --> 00:06:42,178 And so a lot of you, the very thing you need to do is congregate. 164 00:06:42,234 --> 00:06:45,714 But instead, what you do is isolate when you go back. 165 00:06:45,762 --> 00:06:49,910 That's why I said the biggest attack of the enemy is isolation. 166 00:06:50,210 --> 00:06:51,690 Let me just tell you another way. 167 00:06:51,770 --> 00:06:55,426 The Bible says, confess your sins one to another, and you will 168 00:06:51,770 --> 00:06:56,350 be healed. 169 00:06:56,740 --> 00:06:59,756 When you confess your sins to God, you're forgiven. 170 00:06:59,908 --> 00:07:03,020 But when you confess your sins to each other, you're healed. 171 00:07:03,140 --> 00:07:06,160 And some of you are forgiven, but not healed. 172 00:07:08,740 --> 00:07:11,756 Healing happens when you finally reveal. 173 00:07:11,908 --> 00:07:14,252 Healing happens when you get real. 174 00:07:14,396 --> 00:07:16,436 Healing happens when you say, you know what? 175 00:07:16,508 --> 00:07:18,076 My marriage is jacked up. 176 00:07:18,148 --> 00:07:19,484 I blew up on my wife. 177 00:07:19,572 --> 00:07:21,028 I can't believe I did it. 178 00:07:21,084 --> 00:07:22,836 I know you're going to think less of me. 179 00:07:22,908 --> 00:07:26,484 No, we actually think more of you because you told the truth. 180 00:07:26,572 --> 00:07:29,560 Now, let's get you in the marriage group around other married 181 00:07:26,572 --> 00:07:32,032 couples fighting each other and have 182 00:07:26,572 --> 00:07:33,460 a royal rumble. 183 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:40,240 Cause the first thing that happens when you get into the marriage 184 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:42,504 group is you find out they're way 185 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:43,136 worse than us. 186 00:07:43,168 --> 00:07:51,780 Honey, we're not doing too bad, and it heals you. 187 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:56,106 Or you find out that you relapsed into addiction, but you 188 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:57,586 join the addiction group that we 189 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:58,978 have, and you hear other people and 190 00:07:52,720 --> 00:08:00,570 you say, man, you're really jacked 191 00:07:52,720 --> 00:08:01,190 up. 192 00:08:02,410 --> 00:08:05,130 And then there's a healing that happens to your heart. 193 00:08:05,290 --> 00:08:08,578 So isolation is a trap of the enemy. 194 00:08:08,674 --> 00:08:12,082 This is the last and final installment on the series we've been 195 00:08:08,674 --> 00:08:12,314 doing. 196 00:08:12,362 --> 00:08:16,434 I love my church and Jesus is praying in heaven. 197 00:08:16,562 --> 00:08:17,834 I have an intercessor. 198 00:08:17,882 --> 00:08:21,510 You all know that song, high priest praise for me. 199 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:24,420 I don't know the words. 200 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:29,560 So Jesus is in heaven, interceding that we would come into 201 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:30,300 unity. 202 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:34,760 But we are one of the most divided, fragmented churches in the 203 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:36,016 history of the church. 204 00:08:36,088 --> 00:08:37,240 And I'm not talking about v. 205 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:37,456 One. 206 00:08:37,488 --> 00:08:39,144 I'm talking about the body of Christ. 207 00:08:39,312 --> 00:08:42,024 And so we're going to look at this because I've got some revelations 208 00:08:39,312 --> 00:08:43,928 I need to share with you, because some 209 00:08:39,312 --> 00:08:45,232 of you are like, I need to fix my 210 00:08:39,312 --> 00:08:45,952 lust problem. 211 00:08:46,056 --> 00:08:46,952 My porn problem. 212 00:08:47,016 --> 00:08:48,872 No, it's an isolation problem. 213 00:08:49,016 --> 00:08:50,860 You do it when you're alone. 214 00:08:57,380 --> 00:08:59,120 It's an isolation problem. 215 00:08:59,740 --> 00:09:03,080 So what God wants to do is go to the root. 216 00:09:03,420 --> 00:09:09,388 See, when humanity fell and Adam and Eve were in hiding, they 217 00:09:03,420 --> 00:09:10,884 were aware of their nakedness. 218 00:09:10,972 --> 00:09:12,600 God was calling them. 219 00:09:13,020 --> 00:09:15,860 The only one in the garden that could restore was God. 220 00:09:15,900 --> 00:09:18,160 But it was the furthest they ran from him. 221 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:21,200 So it's like, I'm just trying to tell you in this church, let's 222 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:22,368 take off the mask. 223 00:09:22,464 --> 00:09:26,096 Or for those of you who are self righteous Pharisees, stop acting 224 00:09:22,464 --> 00:09:28,056 like you don't have sin and stop 225 00:09:22,464 --> 00:09:29,896 judging people who sin differently 226 00:09:22,464 --> 00:09:30,700 than you. 227 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:34,944 Because this is what happens, is a lot of times when you become 228 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:36,792 a Christian, you start thinking that 229 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:38,904 the blood of Jesus is for everybody 230 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:39,880 else's sin. 231 00:09:40,000 --> 00:09:41,296 Like, you don't have any. 232 00:09:41,408 --> 00:09:43,700 And the Bible doesn't say don't judge. 233 00:09:44,140 --> 00:09:47,156 So for those of you who have the tattoos that say only God can 234 00:09:44,140 --> 00:09:49,160 judge me, you need to get a coverup. 235 00:09:50,700 --> 00:09:52,612 Because the Bible didn't say that. 236 00:09:52,756 --> 00:10:01,420 It actually says somebody is like, only God can judge me. 237 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:03,588 And you know you got that because you were doing something 238 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:04,240 bad. 239 00:10:05,860 --> 00:10:09,080 But all joking aside, no, go get it covered up for real. 240 00:10:10,740 --> 00:10:14,764 Maybe like a dove or something like that. 241 00:10:14,812 --> 00:10:20,280 A lion, something like that. 242 00:10:20,820 --> 00:10:22,196 But here's what I'm saying. 243 00:10:22,228 --> 00:10:26,412 The Bible says, judge not lest ye be judged. 244 00:10:26,596 --> 00:10:30,360 There are certain people that have the responsibility to judge. 245 00:10:30,900 --> 00:10:34,628 But the problem is, if you sow judgment, you reap judgment. 246 00:10:34,804 --> 00:10:37,748 And so the Bible says you should actually. 247 00:10:37,884 --> 00:10:41,940 You should be sowing grace so that you reap grace, you should be 248 00:10:37,884 --> 00:10:43,900 sowing mercy, so you reap mercy. 249 00:10:43,980 --> 00:10:47,604 And if you are to judge, and that is your designation, make sure 250 00:10:43,980 --> 00:10:48,492 that's your job. 251 00:10:48,596 --> 00:10:53,124 The problem is we've somehow got the mindset that it's our job 252 00:10:48,596 --> 00:10:54,172 to judge. 253 00:10:54,356 --> 00:10:57,788 And you've got more christians judging than they are, dispensing 254 00:10:54,356 --> 00:10:58,172 grace. 255 00:10:58,236 --> 00:10:59,036 And mercy. 256 00:10:59,148 --> 00:11:02,734 And we have to become the kind of people that say, listen, I'm going 257 00:10:59,148 --> 00:11:04,478 to give grace and mercy to you so 258 00:10:59,148 --> 00:11:06,766 that I can withdraw in a season when 259 00:10:59,148 --> 00:11:07,678 I need it. 260 00:11:07,814 --> 00:11:11,862 So even when you think you're doing good, be merciful, because 261 00:11:07,814 --> 00:11:14,582 then when you fall off, you'll reap mercy. 262 00:11:14,766 --> 00:11:19,090 I'm treating you how I need a future version of me to be treated. 263 00:11:19,630 --> 00:11:21,250 Oh, come on. 264 00:11:22,070 --> 00:11:25,334 And the Bible also says, and I don't know who this is for, but I 265 00:11:22,070 --> 00:11:26,862 just want to swing a holy ghost two 266 00:11:22,070 --> 00:11:28,210 by four at your face. 267 00:11:29,490 --> 00:11:33,898 The Bible also says that we should not revel or glory in someone 268 00:11:29,490 --> 00:11:35,070 else falling. 269 00:11:35,450 --> 00:11:39,978 So if you watch somebody fall and you get a little twinge of satisfaction 270 00:11:35,450 --> 00:11:41,786 because you see them go down, that's 271 00:11:35,450 --> 00:11:42,954 not the heart of Christ. 272 00:11:43,082 --> 00:11:46,298 That's a heart of flesh that needs to be crucified, and you need 273 00:11:43,082 --> 00:11:47,570 to pray for that person. 274 00:11:47,690 --> 00:11:51,850 And I will tell you, the Bible says a righteous man may fall seven 275 00:11:47,690 --> 00:11:54,642 times in a day, but he gets back 276 00:11:47,690 --> 00:11:56,218 up every single time. 277 00:11:56,314 --> 00:11:59,594 And so even when you see somebody fall, you need to be praying, 278 00:11:56,314 --> 00:12:00,870 goddess, bring them. 279 00:12:00,910 --> 00:12:02,078 Pull them back up. 280 00:12:02,174 --> 00:12:05,942 And so even for those of you who feel like, I keep falling, keep 281 00:12:02,174 --> 00:12:09,246 getting back up, it's not about how 282 00:12:02,174 --> 00:12:11,502 many times you fall, it's about how 283 00:12:02,174 --> 00:12:13,782 many times you get back up. 284 00:12:13,926 --> 00:12:17,758 I've been serving the Lord for a long time, and I've fallen many 285 00:12:13,926 --> 00:12:18,222 times. 286 00:12:18,326 --> 00:12:21,686 But the Lord, I hear him in heaven saying, I have a high priest 287 00:12:18,326 --> 00:12:23,742 who prays for me, and he's saying, 288 00:12:18,326 --> 00:12:25,534 mike, get back up. 289 00:12:25,582 --> 00:12:27,798 If you're not dead, you're not done. 290 00:12:27,934 --> 00:12:29,450 Get back up. 291 00:12:33,190 --> 00:12:35,646 So I just want to encourage somebody. 292 00:12:35,798 --> 00:12:38,510 You know, we don't revel when somebody falls. 293 00:12:38,550 --> 00:12:39,894 We're not calling them out. 294 00:12:39,982 --> 00:12:41,570 We're saying, get up. 295 00:12:41,910 --> 00:12:43,174 We're calling you up. 296 00:12:43,222 --> 00:12:44,450 Get back up. 297 00:12:44,790 --> 00:12:47,030 Oh, I fell back into addiction. 298 00:12:47,110 --> 00:12:49,638 Well, one of these days, you're going to get back up and never 299 00:12:47,110 --> 00:12:50,610 fall again. 300 00:12:51,150 --> 00:12:53,382 That's the word of the Lord for somebody. 301 00:12:53,526 --> 00:12:56,570 Okay, now let's talk about the iPhone users. 302 00:12:56,910 --> 00:12:58,902 I gotta break something down for you. 303 00:12:59,046 --> 00:13:03,478 IPhone is always updating, and I can't tell if it's getting better 304 00:12:59,046 --> 00:13:04,370 or worse. 305 00:13:05,710 --> 00:13:09,690 And then there's droid out of the bowels of hell. 306 00:13:12,510 --> 00:13:13,198 I'm teasing. 307 00:13:13,254 --> 00:13:15,650 I'm just, I'm totally teasing. 308 00:13:16,590 --> 00:13:20,590 But what you understand about iPhone versus Android is that they 309 00:13:16,590 --> 00:13:23,340 have software that determines the 310 00:13:16,590 --> 00:13:24,628 operating system. 311 00:13:24,804 --> 00:13:27,124 Now, here's what I want to teach you briefly. 312 00:13:27,252 --> 00:13:31,460 Every single one of us, myself included, has received a download 313 00:13:27,252 --> 00:13:33,560 of software called culture. 314 00:13:33,940 --> 00:13:38,492 Okay, now, all of us have different downloads and we were raised 315 00:13:33,940 --> 00:13:38,812 with that. 316 00:13:38,836 --> 00:13:42,932 So if you were raised in Catholicism, you have the software 317 00:13:38,836 --> 00:13:44,300 of Catholicism. 318 00:13:44,420 --> 00:13:47,236 So you might come into a service like this, and you might 319 00:13:44,420 --> 00:13:48,556 see everything going on and be like, 320 00:13:44,420 --> 00:13:50,330 they're doing it completely wrong. 321 00:13:50,460 --> 00:13:55,030 Because your software is Android, right? 322 00:13:55,150 --> 00:13:57,430 It's like, versus Apple, you know? 323 00:13:57,510 --> 00:13:57,782 Okay. 324 00:13:57,806 --> 00:13:59,254 I'm treading lightly. 325 00:13:59,422 --> 00:14:00,390 I'm treading lightly. 326 00:14:00,430 --> 00:14:02,774 They're all sharpening their knives and loading their guns over 327 00:14:00,430 --> 00:14:03,410 here. 328 00:14:03,990 --> 00:14:05,330 So here's the thing. 329 00:14:06,230 --> 00:14:07,006 Just hear me. 330 00:14:07,038 --> 00:14:09,390 We all have cultural downloads, right? 331 00:14:09,550 --> 00:14:13,486 Like, when I heard a Long Islander say the word drawer. 332 00:14:13,638 --> 00:14:20,280 Cause we pull out the drawer, I was like, they call it draw or 333 00:14:13,638 --> 00:14:20,900 water. 334 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:23,112 I'm like, it's not water. 335 00:14:23,296 --> 00:14:26,680 It's water, right? 336 00:14:26,800 --> 00:14:28,420 It's like you go. 337 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:31,800 And then, you know the Australians, when they say, no, it's 338 00:14:28,720 --> 00:14:34,296 nar, nar. 339 00:14:34,488 --> 00:14:35,400 It's like, it's not. 340 00:14:35,440 --> 00:14:36,240 Where's the r? 341 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:37,128 There's no r. 342 00:14:37,184 --> 00:14:38,032 It's not nar. 343 00:14:38,096 --> 00:14:38,940 It's no. 344 00:14:39,840 --> 00:14:41,860 But we all get these. 345 00:14:42,270 --> 00:14:45,810 We all get these downloads of culture, right? 346 00:14:46,310 --> 00:14:50,086 Some people put sugar in their cornbread and some don't. 347 00:14:50,278 --> 00:14:53,110 And you guys didn't laugh at that because none of y'all even eat 348 00:14:50,278 --> 00:14:54,050 cornbread. 349 00:14:54,590 --> 00:14:59,530 But where I'm from, with the mountaineers and the hillbillies, 350 00:14:54,590 --> 00:15:03,210 if I said that cornbread should have sugar, 351 00:14:54,590 --> 00:15:05,210 I would start a riot. 352 00:15:05,750 --> 00:15:08,598 And on Long island, everybody's asking themselves, what 353 00:15:05,750 --> 00:15:10,290 does cornbread taste like? 354 00:15:10,930 --> 00:15:13,394 We do need to have a potluck over here. 355 00:15:13,562 --> 00:15:16,650 That's how we're going to unite, and we're going to teach them, 356 00:15:13,562 --> 00:15:19,050 mom, that you make the cornbread 357 00:15:13,562 --> 00:15:22,074 in an iron skillet, and you definitely 358 00:15:13,562 --> 00:15:24,474 put sugar in it, and that's all you're going 359 00:15:13,562 --> 00:15:25,910 to know here in New York. 360 00:15:27,130 --> 00:15:30,314 But when I married Julie, their family didn't put sugar in 361 00:15:27,130 --> 00:15:32,026 the cornbread, and I almost had to 362 00:15:27,130 --> 00:15:33,670 divorce her over it. 363 00:15:35,940 --> 00:15:37,556 So y'all feel me? 364 00:15:37,748 --> 00:15:41,780 I don't know why some Caucasians don't know how to season 365 00:15:37,748 --> 00:15:42,720 their food. 366 00:15:45,740 --> 00:15:46,960 I said it. 367 00:15:47,260 --> 00:15:48,480 I said it. 368 00:15:49,540 --> 00:15:51,188 I don't understand it. 369 00:15:51,324 --> 00:15:54,560 In our culture, nobody ever educated us. 370 00:15:55,100 --> 00:15:56,360 We need you. 371 00:15:58,100 --> 00:15:59,320 We need you. 372 00:16:02,100 --> 00:16:03,956 Somebody on the front row is going straight up. 373 00:16:03,988 --> 00:16:04,720 You do. 374 00:16:05,260 --> 00:16:06,260 I've been to your house. 375 00:16:06,300 --> 00:16:07,084 I've eaten your food. 376 00:16:07,132 --> 00:16:08,120 You need us. 377 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:13,144 I don't know how you made it to this age, how you survived eating 378 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:14,980 that prison food. 379 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:18,500 Now we're laughing about it. 380 00:16:19,400 --> 00:16:20,980 But here's the thing. 381 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:25,260 This software can unite us or it can divide us. 382 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:30,152 And the thing that is hard about growing a healthy church is 383 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:32,184 that we have to stop surrendering 384 00:16:25,920 --> 00:16:34,140 unity at the altar of preference. 385 00:16:34,860 --> 00:16:37,436 And we need to learn how to appreciate, and we need to learn 386 00:16:34,860 --> 00:16:39,588 how to validate and vindicate, and we 387 00:16:34,860 --> 00:16:41,164 need to learn how to let our preferences 388 00:16:34,860 --> 00:16:41,660 go. 389 00:16:41,780 --> 00:16:43,596 And I want to break down because I'm going to get into the 390 00:16:41,780 --> 00:16:45,388 scriptures here shortly, but I want 391 00:16:41,780 --> 00:16:47,252 to break down some of the softwares 392 00:16:41,780 --> 00:16:48,924 that you've received and we're going to 393 00:16:41,780 --> 00:16:49,484 go deep. 394 00:16:49,572 --> 00:16:52,924 But as a church, you guys don't mind when I get intellectual 395 00:16:49,572 --> 00:16:54,252 and I go into professor mode. 396 00:16:54,276 --> 00:16:55,276 Are you with me? 397 00:16:55,428 --> 00:17:00,852 Okay, so, because as a Student of Philosophy, philosophy is an Inherited 398 00:16:55,428 --> 00:17:01,880 Software. 399 00:17:02,190 --> 00:17:05,566 So in other words, human beings did not always think the way 400 00:17:02,190 --> 00:17:06,534 they think now. 401 00:17:06,662 --> 00:17:09,798 And they also think differently across regions and across 402 00:17:06,662 --> 00:17:10,582 countries. 403 00:17:10,766 --> 00:17:12,526 So it's, we all have a different software. 404 00:17:12,558 --> 00:17:15,870 So sometimes we have to ask, like, what download did you get? 405 00:17:16,030 --> 00:17:19,158 Because what download you get determines how you interact with 406 00:17:16,030 --> 00:17:20,134 the whole world. 407 00:17:20,302 --> 00:17:25,126 So, number one, and if you're taking Notes, the biggest download 408 00:17:20,302 --> 00:17:27,830 that we have in this generation of Software, 409 00:17:20,302 --> 00:17:29,094 this is how we think. 410 00:17:29,142 --> 00:17:31,690 Our mindsets is called hedonism. 411 00:17:32,030 --> 00:17:33,542 It's called hedonism. 412 00:17:33,686 --> 00:17:38,478 So if you're taking Notes, it's H e d o n I S M, hedonism. 413 00:17:38,654 --> 00:17:40,790 And this is what hedonism means. 414 00:17:40,950 --> 00:17:47,090 It's the WorlDvIEw that life exists for my pleasure and my purpose. 415 00:17:47,830 --> 00:17:56,100 So most of us are not really Christians, we're hedonistic Christians. 416 00:17:56,520 --> 00:18:01,120 CausE we've blended some of its biblical and some of its philosophical. 417 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:02,368 So what does this mean? 418 00:18:02,464 --> 00:18:05,688 Life exists for my pleasure and my purpose. 419 00:18:05,824 --> 00:18:10,016 So what that means is, and now even people who are not christians, 420 00:18:05,824 --> 00:18:12,688 most of their life is in search of pleasure. 421 00:18:12,824 --> 00:18:15,752 What feels good, that's what I want to do. 422 00:18:15,856 --> 00:18:18,200 It feels good when I sleep with this person. 423 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:21,480 It feels good when I traveled and go on vacations. 424 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:24,634 Hedonism is I'm always, I want to go on vacation. 425 00:18:24,682 --> 00:18:25,938 I want to go on a cruise. 426 00:18:26,034 --> 00:18:28,074 I want to get buzzed, but not too drunk. 427 00:18:28,122 --> 00:18:29,930 I want to get high, but not too high. 428 00:18:30,010 --> 00:18:33,218 I want to sleep, but I don't want sexually transmitted diseases. 429 00:18:33,394 --> 00:18:36,842 We're always trying to avoid the consequence of seeking pleasure. 430 00:18:36,906 --> 00:18:38,070 That's hedonism. 431 00:18:39,810 --> 00:18:40,590 Wow. 432 00:18:40,970 --> 00:18:43,858 We're one of those churches, every time someone visits, they're 433 00:18:40,970 --> 00:18:45,390 like, they're a wow church. 434 00:18:45,930 --> 00:18:46,710 Wow. 435 00:18:48,250 --> 00:18:49,750 But I like the feedback. 436 00:18:50,570 --> 00:18:51,350 Wow. 437 00:18:52,230 --> 00:18:52,606 Yeah. 438 00:18:52,638 --> 00:18:54,770 That is how I wasted my twenties. 439 00:18:55,350 --> 00:18:56,590 It's hedonism. 440 00:18:56,750 --> 00:18:58,718 And we never want to live where we live. 441 00:18:58,774 --> 00:19:01,534 We always fantasize about living somewhere else. 442 00:19:01,662 --> 00:19:03,494 We never want to be with who we're with. 443 00:19:03,542 --> 00:19:05,190 We fantasize with being with someone else. 444 00:19:05,230 --> 00:19:06,238 That's hedonism. 445 00:19:06,374 --> 00:19:10,910 The problem is when preachers stopped preaching the Bible and started 446 00:19:06,374 --> 00:19:13,094 preaching motivational speeches, 447 00:19:06,374 --> 00:19:16,238 they accommodated the scriptures to hedonism. 448 00:19:16,414 --> 00:19:20,422 So then the church said, come here and I will teach you how to 449 00:19:16,414 --> 00:19:23,382 fulfill your purpose, your purpose. 450 00:19:23,486 --> 00:19:26,974 And then you said, my purpose, your purpose, my purpose. 451 00:19:27,062 --> 00:19:29,486 But biblically, there is no my. 452 00:19:29,638 --> 00:19:31,890 It's the we over the me. 453 00:19:32,270 --> 00:19:35,686 So biblically, you didn't have an individual purpose. 454 00:19:35,798 --> 00:19:39,850 Biblically, you have a purpose that can only be achieved collectively. 455 00:19:40,870 --> 00:19:44,118 So when you preach messages like, I want to teach you how to 456 00:19:40,870 --> 00:19:46,292 fulfill your destiny, the problem 457 00:19:40,870 --> 00:19:50,732 is it reinforces your selfishness, because 458 00:19:40,870 --> 00:19:53,204 the number one is too small to achieve 459 00:19:40,870 --> 00:19:55,040 greatness in the kingdom. 460 00:19:55,500 --> 00:20:00,640 Jesus was perfect and didn't fulfill his purpose alone. 461 00:20:01,260 --> 00:20:02,600 Do you hear what I just said? 462 00:20:03,220 --> 00:20:07,492 If anybody had an argument for not needing other people, it was 463 00:20:03,220 --> 00:20:08,960 God in flesh. 464 00:20:09,580 --> 00:20:13,076 And he still recruited twelve other people because he said, it's 465 00:20:09,580 --> 00:20:14,812 not that I can't do it alone, it's 466 00:20:09,580 --> 00:20:15,880 that I won't. 467 00:20:18,970 --> 00:20:20,506 Even in the book of Genesis. 468 00:20:20,578 --> 00:20:22,074 This is for the theologians. 469 00:20:22,202 --> 00:20:27,026 In the book of Genesis, God himself refers to himself in a triune 470 00:20:22,202 --> 00:20:27,670 nature. 471 00:20:28,370 --> 00:20:30,194 Come on, God's trying to help you do. 472 00:20:30,282 --> 00:20:31,386 Okay, let's go. 473 00:20:31,458 --> 00:20:34,950 The other operating system is called narcissism. 474 00:20:35,250 --> 00:20:37,750 We're gonna go there, we're gonna talk about narcissism. 475 00:20:38,570 --> 00:20:43,254 Narcissism is a software download that we've received in culture. 476 00:20:43,302 --> 00:20:46,166 And now before you're like, I'm not a narcissist. 477 00:20:46,238 --> 00:20:47,278 You do understand? 478 00:20:47,374 --> 00:20:50,038 Every narcissist has said they're not a narcissist. 479 00:20:50,174 --> 00:20:51,302 So be careful. 480 00:20:51,446 --> 00:20:52,502 Be careful. 481 00:20:52,686 --> 00:20:53,982 I'm not a narcissist. 482 00:20:54,046 --> 00:20:55,966 Okay, that sounds a little narcissistic. 483 00:20:55,998 --> 00:20:56,494 Just chill. 484 00:20:56,542 --> 00:20:57,490 Let's listen. 485 00:20:58,310 --> 00:20:59,678 Okay, you know what, people? 486 00:20:59,734 --> 00:21:00,758 I'm not prideful. 487 00:21:00,814 --> 00:21:02,370 I'm like, okay, pride. 488 00:21:03,270 --> 00:21:05,822 That's exactly how prideful people sound. 489 00:21:05,886 --> 00:21:07,410 You understand that, right? 490 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:13,104 Okay, so narcissism is a software that says, life is about 491 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:16,496 the unholy trinity of me, myself, and 492 00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:17,100 I. 493 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:21,840 And if you get married to a narcissist, they didn't covenant 494 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:22,672 to you. 495 00:21:22,856 --> 00:21:27,600 They actually married you to use you because your life exists 496 00:21:22,856 --> 00:21:29,780 for their pleasure and their purpose. 497 00:21:30,440 --> 00:21:31,496 They didn't marry you. 498 00:21:31,528 --> 00:21:31,744 See? 499 00:21:31,792 --> 00:21:36,110 Okay, y'all got me sweating already. 500 00:21:37,330 --> 00:21:39,730 Okay, so let me explain this. 501 00:21:39,890 --> 00:21:45,250 Biblically, marriage was established so that two people would 502 00:21:39,890 --> 00:21:46,630 out serve each other. 503 00:21:47,290 --> 00:21:50,786 So it was, wives, submit to your husbands. 504 00:21:50,898 --> 00:21:51,282 Come on. 505 00:21:51,306 --> 00:21:52,910 All the husbands said, amen. 506 00:21:53,290 --> 00:21:54,346 Come on, come on. 507 00:21:54,378 --> 00:21:55,210 Everybody's nervous. 508 00:21:55,250 --> 00:21:58,042 The husbands are like, come on. 509 00:21:58,066 --> 00:21:58,594 It's the Bible. 510 00:21:58,642 --> 00:21:59,870 I'm quoting the Bible. 511 00:22:00,230 --> 00:22:02,510 Wives, submit to your husband. 512 00:22:02,670 --> 00:22:06,170 By the way, wives, it doesn't say submit if he's a Christian. 513 00:22:07,110 --> 00:22:11,502 It doesn't say submit if he is perfect and does everything right. 514 00:22:11,606 --> 00:22:14,290 And submit if you think he's worthy of submission. 515 00:22:14,950 --> 00:22:18,090 It says, wives, submit to your husbands. 516 00:22:18,550 --> 00:22:20,686 Oh, no, listen, my wife. 517 00:22:20,798 --> 00:22:24,566 And I'm looking right now, Julie, you didn't always submit to 518 00:22:20,798 --> 00:22:25,170 me. 519 00:22:25,640 --> 00:22:27,832 Because she would say, well, he's not worthy of submission. 520 00:22:27,896 --> 00:22:29,168 He has an anger problem. 521 00:22:29,304 --> 00:22:30,880 He just punched a hole in the wall. 522 00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:32,544 He just drank too much. 523 00:22:32,712 --> 00:22:33,920 He's not even a real Christian. 524 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:37,024 I see how he acts alone, and this was 20 years ago. 525 00:22:37,072 --> 00:22:40,240 She didn't always submit to me, so I empathize. 526 00:22:40,360 --> 00:22:43,424 But the Bible says, wives, submit to your husband. 527 00:22:43,592 --> 00:22:48,912 And so what this gives us a picture of is that narcissism is 528 00:22:43,592 --> 00:22:51,348 when you get into a marriage relationship 529 00:22:43,592 --> 00:22:53,820 with the explicit desire for them 530 00:22:43,592 --> 00:22:56,040 to serve you, not you serve them. 531 00:22:56,580 --> 00:22:59,820 But then the Bible, okay, now it got real, real quiet. 532 00:22:59,980 --> 00:23:01,044 No, everybody's super. 533 00:23:01,092 --> 00:23:03,120 They're like, I don't like this teaching. 534 00:23:03,460 --> 00:23:05,092 This is bad teaching. 535 00:23:05,156 --> 00:23:06,320 We're equals. 536 00:23:08,420 --> 00:23:09,320 Relax. 537 00:23:09,900 --> 00:23:10,880 We're not. 538 00:23:11,980 --> 00:23:13,060 Let me explain. 539 00:23:13,180 --> 00:23:15,000 Wives, submit to your husband. 540 00:23:15,740 --> 00:23:17,714 But then here's the other side of it. 541 00:23:17,852 --> 00:23:22,142 Husbands, lay down your life as Christ laid his life down for 542 00:23:17,852 --> 00:23:23,010 the church. 543 00:23:23,510 --> 00:23:26,806 So here's what happens in this real equation. 544 00:23:26,998 --> 00:23:31,518 When a wife submits to a husband, what will happen to a good 545 00:23:26,998 --> 00:23:34,734 man is a good man will see that submission, 546 00:23:26,998 --> 00:23:37,294 and it will activate a desire inside 547 00:23:26,998 --> 00:23:39,886 of him to be the best man he can 548 00:23:26,998 --> 00:23:41,078 be for that woman. 549 00:23:41,214 --> 00:23:45,438 And then he will reciprocate by giving his whole life in surrender 550 00:23:41,214 --> 00:23:47,398 and sacrifice for that woman. 551 00:23:47,534 --> 00:23:49,454 And here's my evidence of it. 552 00:23:49,622 --> 00:23:50,590 When you had your first. 553 00:23:50,630 --> 00:23:51,702 I'm talking to the men. 554 00:23:51,846 --> 00:23:56,294 When you had your first kid, something activated in you that said, 555 00:23:51,846 --> 00:23:57,470 the games are over. 556 00:23:57,590 --> 00:23:58,830 I have to stop playing games. 557 00:23:58,870 --> 00:24:01,730 I have to be the best man I can be for this baby. 558 00:24:02,510 --> 00:24:03,806 Am I right, men? 559 00:24:03,998 --> 00:24:05,010 Am I right? 560 00:24:05,430 --> 00:24:06,006 Why? 561 00:24:06,118 --> 00:24:06,822 Because you. 562 00:24:06,886 --> 00:24:08,742 Okay, now this is gonna blow your mind. 563 00:24:08,846 --> 00:24:09,530 Wow. 564 00:24:11,350 --> 00:24:13,406 Because I already feel it coming. 565 00:24:13,518 --> 00:24:14,210 Wow. 566 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:18,456 Because I'm trying to be sensitive, because I'm preaching 567 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:20,416 the opposite of american culture right 568 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:21,020 now. 569 00:24:22,120 --> 00:24:26,576 You innately understood that your child is under you. 570 00:24:26,768 --> 00:24:30,576 And because your child is submitted to you, you were willing 571 00:24:26,768 --> 00:24:33,220 to sacrifice for those who were submitted. 572 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,496 So when a wife submits to a husband, it will have the same effect 573 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:39,632 as a child does to a husband, where 574 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:41,160 it says, I want to be the kind of 575 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:43,464 man that makes this submission worth 576 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:44,672 submitting to. 577 00:24:44,856 --> 00:24:46,340 Does this make sense? 578 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,000 So it provokes something out of you. 579 00:24:50,120 --> 00:24:52,136 But let me go even deeper than that. 580 00:24:52,248 --> 00:24:53,592 Wives, okay, watch. 581 00:24:53,696 --> 00:24:57,960 Children submit to wives who are submitted to husbands who submit 582 00:24:53,696 --> 00:25:02,256 to a pastor who submits to an apostle 583 00:24:53,696 --> 00:25:04,060 who submitted to God. 584 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:08,352 All those layers of covering are really hard for the devil to 585 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:09,220 get through. 586 00:25:13,530 --> 00:25:14,590 Is this on? 587 00:25:15,210 --> 00:25:15,990 Wow. 588 00:25:18,330 --> 00:25:22,270 So you don't have to be submitted, but why would you not? 589 00:25:23,210 --> 00:25:26,314 You don't have to come up under the awning when it's raining. 590 00:25:26,362 --> 00:25:30,690 You can get soaking wet, you can get a cold, and you can get pneumonia, 591 00:25:26,362 --> 00:25:32,650 or you could come inside where it's 592 00:25:26,362 --> 00:25:33,390 warm. 593 00:25:34,130 --> 00:25:35,550 You don't have to cement. 594 00:25:36,740 --> 00:25:39,320 But I'll tell you, your life changes when you do. 595 00:25:39,940 --> 00:25:43,940 You don't need a pastor just like you don't need an awning. 596 00:25:44,060 --> 00:25:47,460 You could stay out in the rain, you can get struck by lightning, 597 00:25:44,060 --> 00:25:49,596 you can get pneumonia, or you can come 598 00:25:44,060 --> 00:25:50,560 on inside. 599 00:25:51,220 --> 00:25:53,100 See, there's something about this. 600 00:25:53,260 --> 00:25:55,484 There's something about, is this helping you? 601 00:25:55,652 --> 00:25:59,108 Because what I'm saying is, I'm preaching against hedonism, and 602 00:25:55,652 --> 00:26:01,086 I'm preaching against narcissism, 603 00:25:55,652 --> 00:26:04,354 and that is so antithetical to our whole culture. 604 00:26:04,522 --> 00:26:08,226 Like, can I just tell you, okay, if narcissism is the belief 605 00:26:04,522 --> 00:26:10,754 that of the unholy trinity of me, myself, 606 00:26:04,522 --> 00:26:13,586 and I, then the medication that you're 607 00:26:04,522 --> 00:26:16,510 given by God is serving other people. 608 00:26:17,050 --> 00:26:20,754 And when you start serving other people, you will initially 609 00:26:17,050 --> 00:26:22,750 think that you're helping them. 610 00:26:23,370 --> 00:26:26,938 When you hand out food in Brooklyn or in Portage, Indiana, 611 00:26:23,370 --> 00:26:29,096 when we do the food distribution, you're 612 00:26:23,370 --> 00:26:31,496 gonna think that you're helping them at 613 00:26:23,370 --> 00:26:32,100 first. 614 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,872 You're gonna drive all the way there on your time off, and you're 615 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:37,416 gonna show up and you're gonna say, 616 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:39,940 I'm distributing food in Brooklyn 617 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:41,900 to all of these people. 618 00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:46,112 When you drive early in the morning to go all the way to the 619 00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:47,984 Brooklyn campus, and you're there 620 00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:49,904 to set it up, and you're gonna think 621 00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:51,296 you're helping us. 622 00:26:51,488 --> 00:26:53,712 You're gonna think, I came to church early. 623 00:26:53,816 --> 00:26:55,420 I'm a super Christian. 624 00:26:56,530 --> 00:26:58,250 My friends don't even go to church. 625 00:26:58,330 --> 00:27:01,430 And I'm going early, and I'm going to set it up. 626 00:27:01,890 --> 00:27:03,990 But then something starts to happen. 627 00:27:04,650 --> 00:27:08,390 You realize that it's helping you more than you're helping it, 628 00:27:04,650 --> 00:27:11,670 because it's the medicine for narcissism. 629 00:27:12,530 --> 00:27:15,510 Narcissism will make you go insane. 630 00:27:15,890 --> 00:27:16,274 Why? 631 00:27:16,322 --> 00:27:17,770 And you're like, I'm not narcissistic. 632 00:27:17,810 --> 00:27:20,150 Then why do you think about yourself all day? 633 00:27:23,100 --> 00:27:29,820 Even hurt feelings can become a form of narcissism, because you're 634 00:27:23,100 --> 00:27:31,960 obsessing over self. 635 00:27:32,300 --> 00:27:36,116 In those moments where you're handing food to somebody in a Brooklyn 636 00:27:32,300 --> 00:27:36,900 food line. 637 00:27:37,020 --> 00:27:41,140 You're actually receiving the anecdote for what this world corrupted 638 00:27:37,020 --> 00:27:43,300 us with because you're not thinking 639 00:27:37,020 --> 00:27:44,440 about yourself. 640 00:27:44,980 --> 00:27:48,140 You're thinking about, how many potatoes can I give you and 641 00:27:44,980 --> 00:27:50,104 still get the whole lined potatoes. 642 00:27:50,212 --> 00:27:53,740 That's what I'm thinking about when I serve the people in Brooklyn. 643 00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:55,528 I'm thinking, do we have enough food? 644 00:27:55,584 --> 00:27:57,704 This and this same thing with load in. 645 00:27:57,792 --> 00:28:00,472 You come in early in the morning, then you realize this is 646 00:27:57,792 --> 00:28:02,952 the one day of the week where I stopped 647 00:27:57,792 --> 00:28:04,540 obsessing over myself. 648 00:28:05,680 --> 00:28:08,272 And so it's like this church, they used me. 649 00:28:08,296 --> 00:28:10,180 No, no, no, listen. 650 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:13,072 You didn't. 651 00:28:13,136 --> 00:28:14,800 The medication didn't use you. 652 00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:16,340 You used the medication. 653 00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,456 You needed this more than it needed you. 654 00:28:19,648 --> 00:28:21,176 Let me put it another way. 655 00:28:21,368 --> 00:28:24,496 What we are a part of is always bigger than any part we'll 656 00:28:21,368 --> 00:28:25,100 play. 657 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:27,528 So this is the diagnosis. 658 00:28:27,584 --> 00:28:29,240 This is why we need this. 659 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,360 This is good for our soul. 660 00:28:31,480 --> 00:28:33,872 Okay, I'm going to give you a few more softwares. 661 00:28:33,896 --> 00:28:35,384 Is this helping anybody? 662 00:28:35,552 --> 00:28:38,384 Okay, because I know it's kind of deep, but we're going there. 663 00:28:38,472 --> 00:28:41,400 One of the biggest softwares that people have downloaded to their 664 00:28:38,472 --> 00:28:44,530 brain culturally is called agnosticism. 665 00:28:44,870 --> 00:28:45,894 Agnosticism. 666 00:28:45,942 --> 00:28:47,262 You can write this down in your notes. 667 00:28:47,326 --> 00:28:52,622 A g n o s t I c I S m. 668 00:28:52,686 --> 00:28:53,974 Agnosticism. 669 00:28:54,142 --> 00:28:55,590 And it means that God. 670 00:28:55,670 --> 00:28:56,622 This is how they believe. 671 00:28:56,686 --> 00:28:58,210 God may exist. 672 00:28:58,510 --> 00:29:03,686 I'm not denying his existence, but he's unknowable and he's not 673 00:28:58,510 --> 00:29:05,490 really involved in my life. 674 00:29:06,230 --> 00:29:12,382 So God may exist somewhere, but he's unknowable, and he's not 675 00:29:06,230 --> 00:29:14,086 really directly involved with my 676 00:29:06,230 --> 00:29:14,478 life. 677 00:29:14,574 --> 00:29:18,646 Now, based on that definition, how many of you know a lot of people 678 00:29:14,574 --> 00:29:21,358 who think that way about God, okay. 679 00:29:21,414 --> 00:29:24,062 Almost every hand, like, you go to your job tomorrow, and you're 680 00:29:21,414 --> 00:29:25,182 like, hey, do you believe in God? 681 00:29:25,206 --> 00:29:29,582 They're like, yeah, God might exist somewhere, somehow. 682 00:29:29,766 --> 00:29:32,318 You go to school, you ask them, that's agnosticism. 683 00:29:32,374 --> 00:29:35,790 That's a worldview, and that came from somewhere. 684 00:29:35,950 --> 00:29:39,174 But can I just tell you, and this is why we need the gifts of 685 00:29:35,950 --> 00:29:39,966 the spirit. 686 00:29:40,078 --> 00:29:44,102 When you give somebody a word of knowledge, if you prophesy accurately 687 00:29:40,078 --> 00:29:46,342 over somebody, that in and of itself 688 00:29:40,078 --> 00:29:48,806 is the evidence that God is knowable 689 00:29:40,078 --> 00:29:50,694 and he's intimately involved in your 690 00:29:40,078 --> 00:29:51,238 life. 691 00:29:51,374 --> 00:29:54,182 I was just at a pastor's conference, and that's why I'm getting 692 00:29:51,374 --> 00:29:55,446 ready to pivot this sermon hard, 693 00:29:51,374 --> 00:29:56,806 and then we're going to close it out. 694 00:29:56,918 --> 00:29:58,570 I just went to a pastor's. 695 00:29:59,030 --> 00:30:02,832 I got the privilege of preaching to a thousand pastors. 696 00:30:02,966 --> 00:30:03,996 And as I was preaching. 697 00:30:04,028 --> 00:30:07,356 The Lord told me, preach on the gifts of the Holy Spirit because 698 00:30:04,028 --> 00:30:09,204 most of our churches in America are 699 00:30:04,028 --> 00:30:11,276 absolutely powerless right now. 700 00:30:11,388 --> 00:30:14,748 They believe that it's God the Father, Jesus the Son and the holy 701 00:30:11,388 --> 00:30:15,412 scriptures. 702 00:30:15,516 --> 00:30:17,600 And they deleted the Holy Spirit. 703 00:30:18,700 --> 00:30:22,284 And I am on a mission to say, we cannot do this without the Holy 704 00:30:18,700 --> 00:30:22,868 Spirit. 705 00:30:22,964 --> 00:30:25,828 And if you deny the gifts of the spirit, you're denying the gift 706 00:30:22,964 --> 00:30:26,640 giver. 707 00:30:27,180 --> 00:30:29,588 And I want to give the Holy Spirit honor. 708 00:30:29,724 --> 00:30:32,572 So I did this message and I was preaching on the gifts of the 709 00:30:29,724 --> 00:30:33,356 Holy Spirit. 710 00:30:33,428 --> 00:30:36,652 And did you know that over a dozen pastors and their team walked 711 00:30:33,428 --> 00:30:38,320 out in the middle of my sermon. 712 00:30:39,260 --> 00:30:43,052 And now listen, you don't know what kind of courage you have until 713 00:30:39,260 --> 00:30:45,060 you're willing to say some unpopular 714 00:30:39,260 --> 00:30:45,760 things. 715 00:30:46,180 --> 00:30:47,840 But many stayed. 716 00:30:48,220 --> 00:30:50,748 Then when I got done, I said, okay, I'm going to risk in front 717 00:30:48,220 --> 00:30:51,036 of you. 718 00:30:51,068 --> 00:30:54,292 I'm going to put myself on the line and I'm going to demonstrate 719 00:30:51,068 --> 00:30:55,292 the gifts of the spirit. 720 00:30:55,356 --> 00:30:58,752 Now I have all my apostolic oversight, all the people that helped 721 00:30:55,356 --> 00:31:00,224 plant our church, and they're all 722 00:30:55,356 --> 00:31:00,688 watching this. 723 00:31:00,704 --> 00:31:02,936 And I'm thinking I'm either gonna fail the hardest I've ever 724 00:31:00,704 --> 00:31:05,056 failed or I'm gonna win the biggest 725 00:31:00,704 --> 00:31:06,848 I've ever won through Jesus. 726 00:31:07,024 --> 00:31:10,104 And I said, I can't teach you about prophecy without prophesying. 727 00:31:10,152 --> 00:31:12,432 This just happened last week, by the way. 728 00:31:12,576 --> 00:31:16,376 And all of a sudden I just said, lord, please help me prove 729 00:31:12,576 --> 00:31:18,152 that you're real holy spirit. 730 00:31:18,256 --> 00:31:20,040 Prove that, you know these people. 731 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:21,664 Prove that you're involved in their life. 732 00:31:21,712 --> 00:31:24,744 Prove that there's more than just memorizing the scriptures. 733 00:31:24,792 --> 00:31:27,680 Cause even the devil knows the scriptures but doesn't obey to the 734 00:31:24,792 --> 00:31:28,540 scriptures. 735 00:31:29,150 --> 00:31:32,094 And so all of a sudden I looked at this pastor and I said, 736 00:31:29,150 --> 00:31:33,070 stand up with your wife. 737 00:31:33,110 --> 00:31:34,662 I want to say something to you. 738 00:31:34,806 --> 00:31:37,854 And I said, you've been faithful to serve many other men 739 00:31:34,806 --> 00:31:40,030 and even traveled all over the United 740 00:31:34,806 --> 00:31:41,502 States for their ministries. 741 00:31:41,646 --> 00:31:45,182 But God is now going to bring people to your ministry and they're 742 00:31:41,646 --> 00:31:46,406 going to tell you that they want 743 00:31:41,646 --> 00:31:48,662 you to move, that they want to move to 744 00:31:41,646 --> 00:31:50,558 where you live in Michigan to be 745 00:31:41,646 --> 00:31:51,366 a part of your ministry. 746 00:31:51,398 --> 00:31:53,894 And then I got more, and the holy spirit was showing me and I 747 00:31:51,398 --> 00:31:55,630 said, the Holy Spirit showed me that 748 00:31:51,398 --> 00:31:57,172 you're telling these men no. 749 00:31:57,286 --> 00:32:00,424 While I'm saying this, this grown man next to this pastor is 750 00:31:57,286 --> 00:32:02,000 bawling his eyes out. 751 00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:04,952 I mean, like losing it. 752 00:32:05,056 --> 00:32:07,752 And I'm like, I was like, well, I just have to, I said to the 753 00:32:05,056 --> 00:32:09,568 guy, and I'm on stage in front of 754 00:32:05,056 --> 00:32:10,872 a thousand pastors doing this. 755 00:32:10,896 --> 00:32:13,440 I said to the guy crying, why are you crying? 756 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:14,740 He stands up. 757 00:32:15,160 --> 00:32:16,752 I live in Seattle. 758 00:32:16,896 --> 00:32:19,424 I flew all the way here to tell this pastor. 759 00:32:19,472 --> 00:32:23,120 God told me to move to Michigan to be a part of his church. 760 00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:24,328 And he told me no. 761 00:32:24,384 --> 00:32:26,420 But I knew it was goddesse. 762 00:32:28,190 --> 00:32:28,970 Wow. 763 00:32:32,470 --> 00:32:36,926 No, I don't say that to give myself credit, but I will tell you, 764 00:32:32,470 --> 00:32:38,750 for the dozen people who walked out, 765 00:32:32,470 --> 00:32:40,182 they missed the best part. 766 00:32:40,326 --> 00:32:43,334 Because he's the same yesterday, today, and forever. 767 00:32:43,462 --> 00:32:46,382 And he was involved in speaking then, and he's speaking 768 00:32:43,462 --> 00:32:46,934 today. 769 00:32:47,062 --> 00:32:50,182 And the gifts of the Holy Spirit have not ceased in the earth. 770 00:32:50,326 --> 00:32:53,342 Then I said, there's other people who want to give you financially, 771 00:32:50,326 --> 00:32:54,630 and you're telling them no. 772 00:32:54,710 --> 00:32:55,862 And the Lord says yes. 773 00:32:55,926 --> 00:32:58,418 And a man behind him starts crying. 774 00:32:58,514 --> 00:33:02,194 And then he comes up and he says, I tried to give him $5,000 775 00:32:58,514 --> 00:33:04,210 for his ministry today, and he told me 776 00:32:58,514 --> 00:33:04,830 no. 777 00:33:06,890 --> 00:33:11,978 So we're preaching from our head, not from our spirit. 778 00:33:12,154 --> 00:33:14,314 And that's why the american church is dying. 779 00:33:14,362 --> 00:33:15,738 But I got good news. 780 00:33:15,874 --> 00:33:19,870 As the american church is shrinking, the remnant is rising. 781 00:33:20,170 --> 00:33:24,106 The real ones, the ones who know, oh, I want the real deal. 782 00:33:24,178 --> 00:33:24,706 Show me. 783 00:33:24,778 --> 00:33:26,946 So you didn't get invited to church today. 784 00:33:27,018 --> 00:33:31,218 You got invited to become the church and step out of hedonism, 785 00:33:27,018 --> 00:33:34,042 out of narcissism, be the hands and feet 786 00:33:27,018 --> 00:33:34,714 of Jesus. 787 00:33:34,762 --> 00:33:38,210 Whether it's handing out a loaf of bread or handing out a prophetic 788 00:33:34,762 --> 00:33:39,954 word, it's all Jesus. 789 00:33:40,042 --> 00:33:44,578 It's Jesus in the morning, it's Jesus in the noonday, it's Jesus 790 00:33:40,042 --> 00:33:45,970 on the midnight watch. 791 00:33:46,090 --> 00:33:49,202 This Jesus is alive through the resurrection. 792 00:33:49,306 --> 00:33:51,068 He never stopped talking. 793 00:33:51,194 --> 00:33:52,180 Still alive. 794 00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,040 My friends don't want to go to church. 795 00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:58,504 Well, why would they? 796 00:33:58,632 --> 00:34:01,460 Our churches are castrated and powerless. 797 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:05,020 And when you invite them to v one, they ain't expecting all this, 798 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:10,328 you know, they don't understand, 799 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:13,176 because what we've been given is a lethal 800 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:18,720 dose, a lethal dose of religion with 801 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:19,976 no reality. 802 00:34:20,168 --> 00:34:21,840 So here's, let me show you. 803 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:22,744 Okay. 804 00:34:22,912 --> 00:34:24,312 This is the grand finale. 805 00:34:24,416 --> 00:34:25,456 We're 3 hours in. 806 00:34:25,488 --> 00:34:26,460 It went fast. 807 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,780 So this is the ending of this message. 808 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,544 This is the last installment of this series. 809 00:34:34,632 --> 00:34:35,940 I heart my church. 810 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:43,232 It has to be about unity now, because the opposite of all the worldviews 811 00:34:37,000 --> 00:34:46,042 that you received is unity. 812 00:34:46,226 --> 00:34:49,722 But unity cannot be legislated by a politician. 813 00:34:49,906 --> 00:34:51,230 You hear what I'm saying? 814 00:34:51,770 --> 00:34:57,110 So in the next month or so, when we all vote, let us not divide 815 00:34:51,770 --> 00:34:59,994 as if that politician, whoever it is, 816 00:34:51,770 --> 00:35:02,070 was the solution to the division 817 00:34:51,770 --> 00:35:07,230 because it requires blood to be shed to unify 818 00:34:51,770 --> 00:35:10,098 and only the blood of Jesus is sufficient 819 00:34:51,770 --> 00:35:11,350 to bring us together. 820 00:35:11,990 --> 00:35:15,894 But I started looking at the scriptures because the approval of 821 00:35:11,990 --> 00:35:18,766 God is always evident when fire falls. 822 00:35:18,918 --> 00:35:22,742 All throughout the scriptures, including the New Testament, fire 823 00:35:18,918 --> 00:35:25,598 always falls when God is approving, 824 00:35:18,918 --> 00:35:26,566 except for one time. 825 00:35:26,598 --> 00:35:27,982 And we're going to look at it. 826 00:35:28,166 --> 00:35:31,558 But it starts in acts, chapter two, verse one through four, where 827 00:35:28,166 --> 00:35:33,942 it says, when the day of Pentecost arrived, 828 00:35:28,166 --> 00:35:36,022 they were all together in one place. 829 00:35:36,086 --> 00:35:40,130 Everybody say all together and everybody say one place. 830 00:35:40,510 --> 00:35:43,366 That one place could be digital right now, as you're joining 831 00:35:40,510 --> 00:35:45,382 together with Pastor Evan in the 832 00:35:40,510 --> 00:35:47,062 global online, that one place can 833 00:35:40,510 --> 00:35:49,270 be Miami right now in a movie theater. 834 00:35:49,310 --> 00:35:52,190 That one place is Brooklyn, that one place is Indiana. 835 00:35:52,270 --> 00:35:53,966 That one place is here. 836 00:35:54,158 --> 00:35:55,198 Man, I. 837 00:35:55,374 --> 00:35:57,142 I don't know where Christine Papetti is. 838 00:35:57,166 --> 00:35:58,490 I don't know where she's at. 839 00:36:00,270 --> 00:36:01,430 I love her. 840 00:36:01,590 --> 00:36:04,588 And I was just talking to her yesterday and she said, pastor Mike, 841 00:36:01,590 --> 00:36:07,728 when revolution was a bar, the last 842 00:36:01,590 --> 00:36:09,200 time that I had been here, she says, 843 00:36:01,590 --> 00:36:11,912 I got blackout drunk living in the 844 00:36:01,590 --> 00:36:12,144 world. 845 00:36:12,192 --> 00:36:13,768 Didn't even know Jesus. 846 00:36:13,944 --> 00:36:16,224 Had one of the worst experiences of my life. 847 00:36:16,312 --> 00:36:18,928 Had a panic attack because I was drunk and high. 848 00:36:19,064 --> 00:36:21,544 My heart rate was at 200 for 5 hours. 849 00:36:21,592 --> 00:36:22,680 I thought I was going to die. 850 00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:26,020 And they had to take me out of the parking lot in an ambulance. 851 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:35,200 Then her friend, years later, invited her to church, and the church 852 00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:36,620 was v one church. 853 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:39,976 And when they pulled up into the parking lot, Christine said her 854 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:42,616 jaw dropped because the last time 855 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:43,992 she was in this parking lot, she 856 00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:46,100 was being driven away by an ambulance. 857 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:51,760 Now, Christine is a daughter of this house. 858 00:36:51,920 --> 00:36:54,140 She's been sober for years. 859 00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:59,756 She's literally on the staff of our church, helping us reach the 860 00:36:55,120 --> 00:37:01,492 nations with the gospel. 861 00:37:01,636 --> 00:37:04,532 They were all together in one place. 862 00:37:04,676 --> 00:37:06,860 We have to come together to meet. 863 00:37:06,940 --> 00:37:10,540 If they can meet for the sports games, we can meet for church. 864 00:37:10,660 --> 00:37:12,788 If they can come on somebody. 865 00:37:12,964 --> 00:37:17,116 We're not going to prioritize a soccer league over the gospel in 866 00:37:12,964 --> 00:37:18,796 our savior Jesus Christ. 867 00:37:18,908 --> 00:37:23,292 If they can meet together at the bar, we can raise the bar and 868 00:37:18,908 --> 00:37:25,412 say we're going higher to meet with 869 00:37:18,908 --> 00:37:26,550 the savior. 870 00:37:27,050 --> 00:37:30,594 If they can meet for school Monday through Friday, and you'll 871 00:37:27,050 --> 00:37:32,386 rearrange your life to drop your 872 00:37:27,050 --> 00:37:35,138 kid off to school, we have to meet together 873 00:37:27,050 --> 00:37:37,218 to drop our kid off to the school 874 00:37:27,050 --> 00:37:38,510 of the spirit. 875 00:37:40,650 --> 00:37:44,706 Because your kids are receiving a download of hedonism 876 00:37:40,650 --> 00:37:45,858 at their school. 877 00:37:46,034 --> 00:37:49,962 Your kids are receiving a download of narcissism at their school. 878 00:37:50,106 --> 00:37:51,506 Your kids are receiving it. 879 00:37:51,538 --> 00:37:56,188 They're being discipled by Babylon, by seducing demonic spirits 880 00:37:51,538 --> 00:37:57,520 in the curriculum. 881 00:37:58,340 --> 00:38:00,684 Y'all bring the music down for a second. 882 00:38:00,852 --> 00:38:02,732 Something historic happened last week. 883 00:38:02,756 --> 00:38:06,180 I want to show you how serious this is last week. 884 00:38:06,220 --> 00:38:09,612 And you don't even know what happened because of how much propaganda 885 00:38:06,220 --> 00:38:10,700 in every direction. 886 00:38:10,820 --> 00:38:17,084 Last week, Russia banned the teaching of evolution in every school 887 00:38:10,820 --> 00:38:18,040 in their country. 888 00:38:18,940 --> 00:38:20,160 Hear what I'm saying? 889 00:38:20,550 --> 00:38:22,486 This is not an endorsement of Putin. 890 00:38:22,518 --> 00:38:24,278 This is not an endorsement of Russia. 891 00:38:24,374 --> 00:38:27,502 But I want to show you something last week, and you didn't 892 00:38:24,374 --> 00:38:28,810 even know this happened. 893 00:38:29,270 --> 00:38:34,770 Evolution was banned from being taught in every school in Russia. 894 00:38:35,110 --> 00:38:39,166 And the politicians are saying when we taught evolution, it led 895 00:38:35,110 --> 00:38:42,650 to agnosticism, which led to atheism, 896 00:38:35,110 --> 00:38:46,512 then atheism to nihilism, and then nihilism 897 00:38:35,110 --> 00:38:50,740 to the woke agenda, gender confusion, 898 00:38:35,110 --> 00:38:53,940 the destruction of the nuclear family, 899 00:38:35,110 --> 00:38:57,140 and it erodes an entire society. 900 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:01,920 So Russia was saying, this is not even a religious decision, but 901 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:04,392 when we teach evolution and we remove 902 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:06,600 God, that is the fastest route to 903 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:08,512 destroying an entire nation, and 904 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:10,240 it's more powerful than an atomic 905 00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:10,900 bomb. 906 00:39:11,970 --> 00:39:15,250 So while everybody's thinking of weapons of mass destruction, what's 907 00:39:11,970 --> 00:39:17,610 destroying us the most is you will 908 00:39:11,970 --> 00:39:19,970 prioritize your whole life to send 909 00:39:11,970 --> 00:39:22,306 your kids to be educated by deceiving 910 00:39:11,970 --> 00:39:24,714 demons in babylonian structures. 911 00:39:24,802 --> 00:39:27,626 But then you're like, I don't know if I feel like going to church 912 00:39:24,802 --> 00:39:29,506 when this was the only thing that 913 00:39:24,802 --> 00:39:32,050 had the power to save your kid from 914 00:39:24,802 --> 00:39:33,310 those mindsets. 915 00:39:37,700 --> 00:39:40,964 And I'm thankful for the teachers that we have across every 916 00:39:37,700 --> 00:39:43,036 location that have gone into the 917 00:39:37,700 --> 00:39:44,404 public school systems. 918 00:39:44,492 --> 00:39:47,580 Just like yeast in there to leaven that bread. 919 00:39:47,660 --> 00:39:50,676 And to say, as long as there's still someone righteous in there, 920 00:39:47,660 --> 00:39:51,836 I'm thankful for. 921 00:39:51,908 --> 00:39:55,388 We've got kids on this long island campus that are debuting a 922 00:39:51,908 --> 00:39:58,772 Jesus club in their school this week. 923 00:39:58,876 --> 00:40:00,836 And so we may not be able to help that. 924 00:40:00,868 --> 00:40:04,484 We could go into the school, but we can help what happens on the 925 00:40:00,868 --> 00:40:06,892 inside of it, because God's always 926 00:40:00,868 --> 00:40:08,684 going to send a shadrach, Meshach, 927 00:40:00,868 --> 00:40:11,556 and Abednego up in Babylon, and he's 928 00:40:00,868 --> 00:40:13,200 still going to have an answer. 929 00:40:17,380 --> 00:40:17,852 Come on. 930 00:40:17,876 --> 00:40:18,316 I agree. 931 00:40:18,388 --> 00:40:19,120 Amen. 932 00:40:21,500 --> 00:40:23,364 I like this front row on Long island. 933 00:40:23,412 --> 00:40:25,840 I'm just saying, they have helped me preach. 934 00:40:27,380 --> 00:40:29,658 But listen, why is this so serious? 935 00:40:29,714 --> 00:40:32,110 Because fire fell when there was unity. 936 00:40:32,690 --> 00:40:34,986 First kings, chapter 18, verse 30. 937 00:40:35,138 --> 00:40:38,594 Then Elijah said to the people, come here to me. 938 00:40:38,762 --> 00:40:40,730 Come here to me. 939 00:40:40,770 --> 00:40:42,178 So let's meet together. 940 00:40:42,354 --> 00:40:46,242 And they came to him, and he repaired the altar of the Lord, which 941 00:40:42,354 --> 00:40:47,370 had been torn down. 942 00:40:47,490 --> 00:40:50,630 Now the rest of the story takes place that you know about. 943 00:40:51,890 --> 00:40:53,978 First kings, chapter 18, verse 38. 944 00:40:53,994 --> 00:40:54,858 And 39. 945 00:40:54,994 --> 00:40:59,298 Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice. 946 00:40:59,394 --> 00:41:02,690 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces and 947 00:40:59,394 --> 00:41:05,290 said, the Lord, he is God. 948 00:41:05,450 --> 00:41:06,290 Okay? 949 00:41:06,450 --> 00:41:08,546 All these years I've been reading the Bible. 950 00:41:08,738 --> 00:41:10,978 Every time fire falls in scripture. 951 00:41:11,114 --> 00:41:14,642 I looked at the guy that was presiding over the fire falling as 952 00:41:11,114 --> 00:41:15,954 if he was a hero. 953 00:41:16,122 --> 00:41:20,146 When I went back and revisited the scriptures, what I realized is 954 00:41:16,122 --> 00:41:22,368 the one thing, thing in common that 955 00:41:16,122 --> 00:41:25,024 happened was that that person unified 956 00:41:16,122 --> 00:41:26,328 the children of God. 957 00:41:26,424 --> 00:41:29,064 And then from that unity, the fire fell. 958 00:41:29,232 --> 00:41:32,240 So how many of you know the story of Elijah versus the prophets 959 00:41:29,232 --> 00:41:33,176 of Baal? 960 00:41:33,368 --> 00:41:36,768 And they're basically saying, baal is the true God. 961 00:41:36,904 --> 00:41:41,088 Which, by the way, the spirit of Baal is very much in operation 962 00:41:36,904 --> 00:41:41,740 today. 963 00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:45,832 These ancient demons have taken on new new names, but it's 964 00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:47,182 the same spirit. 965 00:41:47,376 --> 00:41:50,050 And so they were cutting themselves, these prophets of Baal, 966 00:41:47,376 --> 00:41:51,954 bleeding out, crying, please bring 967 00:41:47,376 --> 00:41:52,666 fire down. 968 00:41:52,738 --> 00:41:55,546 And then Elijah comes and says, God, now it's time to bring 969 00:41:52,738 --> 00:41:56,090 fire down. 970 00:41:56,130 --> 00:41:57,070 Here's the problem. 971 00:41:57,770 --> 00:42:01,618 If you read that story but you don't read all the scriptures, you'll 972 00:41:57,770 --> 00:42:04,150 miss what happened before fire fell. 973 00:42:04,450 --> 00:42:09,170 Elijah called all the people of God together, brought them into 974 00:42:04,450 --> 00:42:12,026 unity, and then said, now fire can 975 00:42:04,450 --> 00:42:12,630 fall. 976 00:42:12,970 --> 00:42:16,710 So the problem is we want Elijah, but we don't want a congregation. 977 00:42:17,450 --> 00:42:21,110 We want fire to fall, but we don't want to gather everybody together. 978 00:42:21,450 --> 00:42:24,642 And what I'm saying is, we're about to go back to the word and 979 00:42:21,450 --> 00:42:26,874 we're about to draw everybody together. 980 00:42:27,042 --> 00:42:30,570 And we're about to put our preferences and our divisions aside. 981 00:42:30,690 --> 00:42:32,082 And we're to say God. 982 00:42:32,226 --> 00:42:34,750 Regardless of our political affiliation. 983 00:42:35,050 --> 00:42:40,100 Whether we say water, draw drawer water, whether we have sugar 984 00:42:35,050 --> 00:42:42,268 in our cornbread or not, we are going 985 00:42:35,050 --> 00:42:44,284 to come together and we are going 986 00:42:35,050 --> 00:42:45,996 to fulfill the call that you have on 987 00:42:35,050 --> 00:42:47,012 our generation. 988 00:42:47,156 --> 00:42:49,204 And let me just tell you this, because I've been feeling led of 989 00:42:47,156 --> 00:42:50,324 the Lord to say it. 990 00:42:50,452 --> 00:42:54,308 You know, when Randall and Mary are now our campus pastors of 991 00:42:50,452 --> 00:42:57,444 our New Jersey location, they first 992 00:42:50,452 --> 00:42:58,284 came to Long Island. 993 00:42:58,332 --> 00:42:59,716 I love them with my heart. 994 00:42:59,828 --> 00:43:03,468 But Randall had received a prophecy that there was going to 995 00:42:59,828 --> 00:43:05,860 be a white man that comes into his 996 00:42:59,828 --> 00:43:08,122 life and teaches him everything he 997 00:42:59,828 --> 00:43:10,266 knows and elevates him to levels 998 00:42:59,828 --> 00:43:11,722 he could never go on his own. 999 00:43:11,826 --> 00:43:15,082 And that he was gonna, this was gonna be a sign from God. 1000 00:43:15,186 --> 00:43:17,066 So then Randall is going on this search. 1001 00:43:17,098 --> 00:43:18,430 Who is this white guy? 1002 00:43:18,810 --> 00:43:19,922 Where is he? 1003 00:43:20,066 --> 00:43:23,298 And then all of a sudden he came to v one and he met me and he 1004 00:43:20,066 --> 00:43:26,586 told Mary, I met the white guy that's 1005 00:43:20,066 --> 00:43:28,650 gonna take me to all these levels, 1006 00:43:20,066 --> 00:43:29,430 you know? 1007 00:43:29,770 --> 00:43:31,450 And that's a true story. 1008 00:43:31,610 --> 00:43:34,626 And then what's funny is all these years later, it has come to 1009 00:43:31,610 --> 00:43:36,020 pass, you know? 1010 00:43:36,060 --> 00:43:39,612 And so I was telling the story at our Indiana location, and I had 1011 00:43:36,060 --> 00:43:40,860 a whole bunch of people of color 1012 00:43:36,060 --> 00:43:42,460 coming up to me saying, you're my 1013 00:43:36,060 --> 00:43:43,640 white pastor. 1014 00:43:44,460 --> 00:43:46,324 Come on, you can laugh about it. 1015 00:43:46,452 --> 00:43:48,252 And they were saying, you're my white pastor. 1016 00:43:48,276 --> 00:43:51,716 And I said, I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, 1017 00:43:48,276 --> 00:43:53,764 but I feel like it's a good thing. 1018 00:43:53,892 --> 00:43:54,540 Here's the thing. 1019 00:43:54,580 --> 00:43:58,880 I didn't choose to be white, but I chose to be in unity. 1020 00:43:59,420 --> 00:44:03,210 Randall had to get a prophetic word from God to say, don't judge 1021 00:43:59,420 --> 00:44:06,162 the container and miss the contents. 1022 00:44:06,346 --> 00:44:06,842 Come on. 1023 00:44:06,866 --> 00:44:08,322 I'm trying to say so. 1024 00:44:08,426 --> 00:44:09,994 I don't know why I'm the race. 1025 00:44:10,042 --> 00:44:10,586 I am. 1026 00:44:10,658 --> 00:44:11,778 I don't know why you are. 1027 00:44:11,834 --> 00:44:16,226 But if we come together in this place, I believe that the God 1028 00:44:11,834 --> 00:44:18,226 of the universe could begin to draw 1029 00:44:11,834 --> 00:44:20,370 something out of me for you and you 1030 00:44:11,834 --> 00:44:20,922 for me. 1031 00:44:20,986 --> 00:44:25,090 And we can bring the racial divide down, and we can step up in 1032 00:44:20,986 --> 00:44:25,658 unity. 1033 00:44:25,754 --> 00:44:31,344 And fire from heaven will fall fire on our finances fire of God 1034 00:44:25,754 --> 00:44:33,880 upon our marriages fire of God upon 1035 00:44:25,754 --> 00:44:36,216 our families and it will happen through 1036 00:44:25,754 --> 00:44:36,760 unity. 1037 00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:39,220 Somebody shout, fire, fall. 1038 00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:46,352 Oh, this message will get you in trouble. 1039 00:44:46,496 --> 00:44:47,200 I'm about done. 1040 00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:48,780 We're about to pray in a second. 1041 00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:50,072 I'm about to pray. 1042 00:44:50,176 --> 00:44:53,184 How many of you know the burning bush moment with Moses? 1043 00:44:53,232 --> 00:44:54,420 The burning bush. 1044 00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:57,384 Everybody always thinks it's about Moses and God. 1045 00:44:57,432 --> 00:44:58,380 It's not. 1046 00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:05,360 The burning bush was fire on that bush to get Moses attention, 1047 00:44:59,080 --> 00:45:08,808 to give him instructions to unify Israel. 1048 00:45:08,944 --> 00:45:11,500 It was always about unity. 1049 00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:14,328 It was always about unity. 1050 00:45:14,464 --> 00:45:15,704 How many of you know Gideon? 1051 00:45:15,752 --> 00:45:17,088 Gideon's army? 1052 00:45:17,264 --> 00:45:20,700 Sometimes you got to thin it out so we can grow back healthy. 1053 00:45:21,130 --> 00:45:23,354 And he was looking, who's drinking from the brook? 1054 00:45:23,402 --> 00:45:25,714 Looking down, and who's drinking from the brook? 1055 00:45:25,762 --> 00:45:26,362 Looking up? 1056 00:45:26,426 --> 00:45:30,522 In other words, who's vigilant, who's awake, who is seeing 1057 00:45:26,426 --> 00:45:32,554 out so they can't be ambushed. 1058 00:45:32,602 --> 00:45:35,458 Let me just tell you, there are some of you in this place that 1059 00:45:32,602 --> 00:45:37,378 are awakening during this sermon 1060 00:45:32,602 --> 00:45:39,602 to see such a time as this. 1061 00:45:39,706 --> 00:45:43,802 Just like the sons of Issachar that came out of the lineage of the 1062 00:45:39,706 --> 00:45:44,450 Levites. 1063 00:45:44,530 --> 00:45:47,412 They could discern the signs of the times they knew. 1064 00:45:47,506 --> 00:45:50,680 And I will tell you this, Christ's return is hastening. 1065 00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:53,112 We are drawing near to that hour. 1066 00:45:53,216 --> 00:45:56,896 We are living in the last days, and I don't know what day that's 1067 00:45:53,216 --> 00:45:57,520 going to be. 1068 00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:01,664 Just like when a woman is travailing in birth and the contractions 1069 00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:02,360 are happening. 1070 00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:05,512 You don't know the moment of birth, but you know you're in labor. 1071 00:46:05,616 --> 00:46:09,808 I will tell you, Jesus Christ is getting ready to return, and I 1072 00:46:05,616 --> 00:46:11,296 don't know when it's going to happen, 1073 00:46:05,616 --> 00:46:13,336 but there are some that are discerning 1074 00:46:05,616 --> 00:46:15,570 the signs of the times, and they're seeing 1075 00:46:05,616 --> 00:46:16,410 what's happening. 1076 00:46:16,490 --> 00:46:20,906 And we say, lord, we are the wise virgins that have more oil in 1077 00:46:16,490 --> 00:46:22,866 our lamp, and we will move through 1078 00:46:16,490 --> 00:46:25,418 this dark night, and we will not succumb 1079 00:46:16,490 --> 00:46:28,010 to deception because we know who you 1080 00:46:16,490 --> 00:46:28,630 are. 1081 00:46:29,810 --> 00:46:31,498 Stand to your feet with me as we close. 1082 00:46:31,554 --> 00:46:32,150 Now. 1083 00:46:35,090 --> 00:46:36,230 Fire fall. 1084 00:46:36,930 --> 00:46:38,110 Fire fall. 1085 00:46:38,970 --> 00:46:44,370 Okay, remember I said there's one time when fire fell, but it did 1086 00:46:38,970 --> 00:46:46,042 not represent the approval and the 1087 00:46:38,970 --> 00:46:47,010 favor of God. 1088 00:46:47,130 --> 00:46:49,218 I'm going to tell you that story right now. 1089 00:46:49,394 --> 00:46:52,562 It is the story of two men. 1090 00:46:52,706 --> 00:46:55,994 They were sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu. 1091 00:46:56,042 --> 00:46:57,098 And this is what it says. 1092 00:46:57,154 --> 00:47:00,554 This is in Leviticus, chapter ten, verses one and two. 1093 00:47:00,722 --> 00:47:05,010 It says, aaron's sons, nadab and Abihu, they took their censers, 1094 00:47:00,722 --> 00:47:07,754 they put fire in them and added their 1095 00:47:00,722 --> 00:47:08,316 incense. 1096 00:47:08,418 --> 00:47:13,496 Then they offered unauthorized fire before the Lord, contrary to 1097 00:47:08,418 --> 00:47:14,352 his command. 1098 00:47:14,496 --> 00:47:18,456 So fire came out from the presence of the Lord and consumed 1099 00:47:14,496 --> 00:47:21,300 them, and they died before the Lord. 1100 00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:24,860 Unauthorized fire. 1101 00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:26,720 So this is what it was. 1102 00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:31,920 God gave explicit directions to Aaron and Moses, saying, this 1103 00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:34,120 is how you offer things to me. 1104 00:47:34,240 --> 00:47:36,056 This is how you do life. 1105 00:47:36,168 --> 00:47:37,008 This is how you. 1106 00:47:37,064 --> 00:47:42,952 And what happened is, Nadab and Abihu, what they did was they 1107 00:47:37,064 --> 00:47:44,912 said, we're not going to do it the 1108 00:47:37,064 --> 00:47:46,520 way it was prescribed. 1109 00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:49,696 We're going to do it the way we want to do it, our own preference, 1110 00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:51,820 and we're going to do it in isolation. 1111 00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:57,192 And God responded to their false fire with the fire of judgment. 1112 00:47:57,376 --> 00:48:02,602 Now, the spirit of those two people is in the earth right now. 1113 00:48:02,746 --> 00:48:05,930 I don't want to do church the way church was prescribed. 1114 00:48:06,010 --> 00:48:08,082 I want to do church how I want to do church. 1115 00:48:08,146 --> 00:48:10,830 And they offer strange fire before the Lord. 1116 00:48:11,610 --> 00:48:14,410 I don't want to come into alignment the way we're prescribed 1117 00:48:11,610 --> 00:48:15,058 alignment. 1118 00:48:15,154 --> 00:48:17,266 I want to do what I want to do. 1119 00:48:17,458 --> 00:48:21,282 And so the reason why I've been teaching these messages is because 1120 00:48:17,458 --> 00:48:23,130 there are two churches, the false 1121 00:48:17,458 --> 00:48:24,786 church and the true church. 1122 00:48:24,938 --> 00:48:28,542 And what God is doing is he's separating the sheep from the goats, 1123 00:48:24,938 --> 00:48:30,478 the wheat from the weed. 1124 00:48:30,614 --> 00:48:34,510 And what that separation is is are you doing it the way you want 1125 00:48:30,614 --> 00:48:36,598 to do it, or are you doing it the way 1126 00:48:30,614 --> 00:48:38,390 that he requires it to be? 1127 00:48:38,430 --> 00:48:38,870 Done. 1128 00:48:38,990 --> 00:48:42,614 And so the thing I'm crying out for, because even being on Long 1129 00:48:38,990 --> 00:48:44,694 Island, I remember when this church 1130 00:48:38,990 --> 00:48:46,374 only had 18 people. 1131 00:48:46,502 --> 00:48:51,086 I remember when I spent over 50 hours a week counseling the original 1132 00:48:46,502 --> 00:48:53,470 40 people of this church to try to 1133 00:48:46,502 --> 00:48:55,222 get the DNA of the kingdom. 1134 00:48:55,286 --> 00:48:59,094 I remember them coming to my house, me going to their house, them 1135 00:48:55,286 --> 00:49:01,230 coming to meet me in the restaurants, 1136 00:48:55,286 --> 00:49:03,894 doing everything I could to get the actual 1137 00:48:55,286 --> 00:49:04,806 kingdom in them. 1138 00:49:04,878 --> 00:49:08,566 I remember them coming from these 40 person churches where the 1139 00:49:04,878 --> 00:49:10,710 pastors would say unbiblical things 1140 00:49:04,878 --> 00:49:12,782 to them, and me trying to get that out 1141 00:49:04,878 --> 00:49:14,790 of their spirit, and me saying, no, 1142 00:49:04,878 --> 00:49:16,598 there's 10 million people in this 1143 00:49:04,878 --> 00:49:17,086 region. 1144 00:49:17,198 --> 00:49:21,310 If we are not leading the loss to the cross at any cost, we've come 1145 00:49:17,198 --> 00:49:22,150 off a mission. 1146 00:49:22,230 --> 00:49:25,502 And I'm telling you, you're not here because we're a megachurch. 1147 00:49:25,646 --> 00:49:27,766 We grew through discipleship. 1148 00:49:27,878 --> 00:49:29,814 We grew through the great commission. 1149 00:49:29,982 --> 00:49:33,566 We grew by leading the lost to the cross at any cost. 1150 00:49:33,678 --> 00:49:38,510 We refused to offer strange fire because Aaron had two sons that 1151 00:49:33,678 --> 00:49:40,126 did unauthorized fire. 1152 00:49:40,238 --> 00:49:44,734 And I believe that God brought me to this region like a son of Aaron 1153 00:49:40,238 --> 00:49:47,070 to say, this is how you offer before 1154 00:49:40,238 --> 00:49:47,846 the Lord. 1155 00:49:47,958 --> 00:49:49,198 This is the cost. 1156 00:49:49,334 --> 00:49:53,350 If it costs me everything, I will give you that and more. 1157 00:49:53,470 --> 00:49:58,074 And I had to come here to bring, just like Elijah, to repair 1158 00:49:53,470 --> 00:50:00,110 the altar that was broken. 1159 00:50:01,490 --> 00:50:07,138 We had generals like David Wilkerson, and in the generation 1160 00:50:01,490 --> 00:50:09,630 after him, the altar has been broken. 1161 00:50:09,930 --> 00:50:13,386 And it takes the people to say, let's rebuild this altar. 1162 00:50:13,578 --> 00:50:17,498 Let's rebuild it before the Lord, and let's stop giving God our 1163 00:50:13,578 --> 00:50:19,970 leftovers and start giving him our 1164 00:50:13,578 --> 00:50:21,390 first and our best. 1165 00:50:21,830 --> 00:50:24,930 Let's stop tipping and start tithing. 1166 00:50:25,230 --> 00:50:26,686 I'm not talking about finances. 1167 00:50:26,718 --> 00:50:28,250 I'm talking about my life. 1168 00:50:29,030 --> 00:50:31,046 Church shouldn't be an afterthought. 1169 00:50:31,158 --> 00:50:33,030 It's not a bonus on Sunday. 1170 00:50:33,150 --> 00:50:34,970 It's a daily revival. 1171 00:50:36,510 --> 00:50:44,846 So here's my call to you as we get ready to pray for such a time 1172 00:50:36,510 --> 00:50:45,650 as this. 1173 00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:49,300 Let's rebuild the altar together. 1174 00:50:50,120 --> 00:50:52,040 Let's peel back all the layers. 1175 00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:56,112 If you're visiting and you're new to this, a lot of what you experienced 1176 00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:58,176 today is much closer to what we see 1177 00:50:52,120 --> 00:51:00,312 in scripture than what you experienced 1178 00:50:52,120 --> 00:51:01,500 at other places. 1179 00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:04,660 We haven't got it all figured out. 1180 00:51:05,240 --> 00:51:07,060 We still got a long way to go. 1181 00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:11,632 But at the same time, God is in our midst, and he's doing amazing 1182 00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:12,300 things. 1183 00:51:13,530 --> 00:51:14,610 I just got a message. 1184 00:51:14,650 --> 00:51:17,386 You know, there was a guy that came to our church with a broken 1185 00:51:14,650 --> 00:51:20,842 marriage, and I prophesied over him, 1186 00:51:14,650 --> 00:51:21,986 I said, we're going to repair your 1187 00:51:14,650 --> 00:51:22,602 marriage. 1188 00:51:22,746 --> 00:51:25,186 But then there's going to come a day where you're actually repairing 1189 00:51:22,746 --> 00:51:26,150 other marriages. 1190 00:51:26,730 --> 00:51:32,034 That man, now out of our Brooklyn location, is leading 25 1191 00:51:26,730 --> 00:51:34,434 other couples as they're restoring 1192 00:51:26,730 --> 00:51:36,186 their marriage because his marriage is 1193 00:51:26,730 --> 00:51:36,790 received. 1194 00:51:37,090 --> 00:51:40,790 And on top of that, he's raising up leaders who are now doing 1195 00:51:37,090 --> 00:51:43,090 the same, and he's multiplying. 1196 00:51:43,630 --> 00:51:46,350 So I want you right now to do this across every location. 1197 00:51:46,430 --> 00:51:48,670 Think about your greatest need. 1198 00:51:48,830 --> 00:51:50,170 That's your ministry. 1199 00:51:51,070 --> 00:51:52,686 Come on, I just helped you. 1200 00:51:52,798 --> 00:51:54,918 Think about your greatest need right now. 1201 00:51:54,974 --> 00:51:56,142 That's your ministry. 1202 00:51:56,286 --> 00:51:58,970 I feel the anointing on this pastor execa. 1203 00:51:59,310 --> 00:52:01,822 Think about your greatest need right now. 1204 00:52:01,886 --> 00:52:04,012 That is your ministry. 1205 00:52:04,206 --> 00:52:08,336 Because wherever there's need, there's the power of God flowing 1206 00:52:04,206 --> 00:52:08,656 through. 1207 00:52:08,728 --> 00:52:10,784 He was like, I need my marriage to be restored. 1208 00:52:10,832 --> 00:52:12,500 The Lord said, that's your ministry. 1209 00:52:12,800 --> 00:52:14,448 I need to be free from addiction. 1210 00:52:14,504 --> 00:52:15,784 That's your ministry. 1211 00:52:15,952 --> 00:52:17,128 I need finances. 1212 00:52:17,184 --> 00:52:18,420 That's your ministry. 1213 00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:19,784 I'm confused. 1214 00:52:19,872 --> 00:52:20,752 That's your ministry. 1215 00:52:20,816 --> 00:52:22,744 Bringing other people out of confusion. 1216 00:52:22,832 --> 00:52:24,980 Wherever there's a need, there's a ministry. 1217 00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:27,776 It always shows up in the form of brokenness. 1218 00:52:27,848 --> 00:52:31,506 And then fire falls and we come together and we activate each 1219 00:52:27,848 --> 00:52:33,010 other and we step in. 1220 00:52:33,170 --> 00:52:35,110 So right now, I want to ask a question. 1221 00:52:36,730 --> 00:52:38,746 I was going to ask, am I your white pastor? 1222 00:52:38,778 --> 00:52:39,710 But we won't. 1223 00:52:45,410 --> 00:52:45,962 Come on. 1224 00:52:45,986 --> 00:52:47,322 You could think about that. 1225 00:52:47,466 --> 00:52:49,590 I'll give you a couple more Sundays. 1226 00:52:50,370 --> 00:52:52,510 But the question I want to ask you is this. 1227 00:52:53,930 --> 00:52:58,980 While the world around us has fallen apart, while the world around 1228 00:52:53,930 --> 00:53:02,972 us is going into chaos here, bring 1229 00:52:53,930 --> 00:53:05,252 the music down a little bit, because 1230 00:52:53,930 --> 00:53:06,160 we're gonna pray. 1231 00:53:06,660 --> 00:53:11,436 While everything around us is falling apart, could we be this group 1232 00:53:06,660 --> 00:53:16,676 of people on Long island, where when 1233 00:53:06,660 --> 00:53:18,412 people walk in this room, they say, 1234 00:53:06,660 --> 00:53:20,476 I feel something in that place. 1235 00:53:20,628 --> 00:53:22,480 I never have felt any. 1236 00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:27,080 Could we be this group of people that while Mayor Eric Adams 1237 00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:28,968 is going through all those indictments 1238 00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:31,952 and New York City is in chaos and post pandemic, 1239 00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:34,280 it feels like it's eroding that people 1240 00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:36,632 walk into the Brooklyn venue and 1241 00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:42,344 the presence of El Shaddai Jehovah 1242 00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:45,540 Rapha, and they say, what is this? 1243 00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:47,220 What is this? 1244 00:53:47,770 --> 00:53:49,830 These people love each other. 1245 00:53:50,370 --> 00:53:52,554 These people care for each other. 1246 00:53:52,722 --> 00:53:57,002 Tonight in Manhattan, there's going to be a radical act of generosity 1247 00:53:52,722 --> 00:53:58,866 after the service is over, and it's 1248 00:53:52,722 --> 00:54:00,482 a surprise, and I can't even tell 1249 00:53:52,722 --> 00:54:01,178 you what it is. 1250 00:54:01,234 --> 00:54:03,522 And if you live in the region and you want to come see it, come 1251 00:54:01,234 --> 00:54:04,954 to Manhattan tonight, but it's going 1252 00:54:01,234 --> 00:54:06,030 to blow you away. 1253 00:54:09,450 --> 00:54:11,322 A radical act of generosity. 1254 00:54:11,386 --> 00:54:12,390 Could it be. 1255 00:54:13,180 --> 00:54:16,720 Could it be that we are these little bubbles? 1256 00:54:17,260 --> 00:54:20,812 You know, one time I was in Columbia ministering and it was over 1257 00:54:17,260 --> 00:54:23,884 the 4 July, and because of the people 1258 00:54:17,260 --> 00:54:25,332 that I was with, they said, hey, 1259 00:54:17,260 --> 00:54:28,420 we have access to the us embassy and 1260 00:54:17,260 --> 00:54:30,040 even a consulate's house. 1261 00:54:30,420 --> 00:54:33,908 And we know that independence day is really important to Americans 1262 00:54:30,420 --> 00:54:34,540 and so. 1263 00:54:34,620 --> 00:54:35,932 And you're not there for it. 1264 00:54:35,996 --> 00:54:36,316 So. 1265 00:54:36,388 --> 00:54:38,700 And I know you're in Columbia, but do you want to go? 1266 00:54:38,780 --> 00:54:42,482 And I'll never forget to going to a us ambassador's house in Columbia. 1267 00:54:42,626 --> 00:54:45,026 And we were lighting off all these fireworks. 1268 00:54:45,178 --> 00:54:49,090 There were no sounds of fireworks anywhere else in Columbia 1269 00:54:45,178 --> 00:54:51,034 but where that guy's house was. 1270 00:54:51,082 --> 00:54:52,090 We were not in Columbia. 1271 00:54:52,130 --> 00:54:54,790 We were on us soil within Columbia. 1272 00:54:55,250 --> 00:54:59,346 So what can happen in this next season as the whole world is 1273 00:54:55,250 --> 00:55:01,674 going into chaos, but then from each 1274 00:54:55,250 --> 00:55:03,474 place that we have a location, there's 1275 00:54:55,250 --> 00:55:05,418 fireworks going off and we're saying, 1276 00:54:55,250 --> 00:55:07,490 liberty, freedom. 1277 00:55:07,610 --> 00:55:09,226 There's freedom here. 1278 00:55:09,378 --> 00:55:11,378 This is not Long island. 1279 00:55:11,514 --> 00:55:15,954 This is the kingdom of heaven that descended into Long island through 1280 00:55:11,514 --> 00:55:16,778 his people. 1281 00:55:16,914 --> 00:55:18,186 This is not new York. 1282 00:55:18,218 --> 00:55:20,030 This is the New New York. 1283 00:55:20,770 --> 00:55:24,786 So if you want to join in with me and you want fire to fall, not 1284 00:55:20,770 --> 00:55:26,594 the fire of judgment, but the fire 1285 00:55:20,770 --> 00:55:28,802 of God's approval for unity, would 1286 00:55:20,770 --> 00:55:30,350 you lift your hands with me? 1287 00:55:31,580 --> 00:55:33,440 Come on, you're a part of something. 1288 00:55:34,060 --> 00:55:35,364 Bella, come here. 1289 00:55:35,532 --> 00:55:36,640 Where's Bella? 1290 00:55:38,180 --> 00:55:38,920 Here. 1291 00:55:39,380 --> 00:55:42,652 Get a picture or video behind me because I want everybody to see 1292 00:55:39,380 --> 00:55:42,836 this. 1293 00:55:42,868 --> 00:55:46,260 We're going to capture this because your hands lifted up. 1294 00:55:46,380 --> 00:55:49,908 Long island would say, it could never happen here, but I say, 1295 00:55:46,380 --> 00:55:51,080 let it be so. 1296 00:55:52,100 --> 00:55:53,228 Your hands lifted up. 1297 00:55:53,244 --> 00:55:56,388 And some of you are saying, well, I feel so insignificant. 1298 00:55:56,444 --> 00:55:58,628 No, it's the we over the me. 1299 00:55:58,724 --> 00:56:01,774 It's not that we can't do it without you, that we refuse. 1300 00:56:01,822 --> 00:56:04,582 You have to be here, you have to be a part of it. 1301 00:56:04,646 --> 00:56:07,702 In Indiana, in Miami, you have to be a part of it. 1302 00:56:07,726 --> 00:56:09,118 This is a moment of unity. 1303 00:56:09,214 --> 00:56:10,342 And I believe that this. 1304 00:56:10,406 --> 00:56:13,830 Each one of your hands are like pillars that are getting lifted 1305 00:56:10,406 --> 00:56:15,982 up to actually lay the foundation 1306 00:56:10,406 --> 00:56:18,286 for the next floor that we're building on 1307 00:56:10,406 --> 00:56:19,638 the kingdom in this hour. 1308 00:56:19,734 --> 00:56:22,750 And if when you lifted up your hands, the Lord said, your hands 1309 00:56:19,734 --> 00:56:24,806 became pillars, that will hold up 1310 00:56:19,734 --> 00:56:26,078 the thing that I'm going to build 1311 00:56:19,734 --> 00:56:27,418 in this next season. 1312 00:56:27,554 --> 00:56:30,610 Everybody pray this with me across all six locations. 1313 00:56:30,730 --> 00:56:36,306 Heavenly Father, I ask you to unify me. 1314 00:56:36,498 --> 00:56:41,630 Forgive me for all hiddenness, for all isolation. 1315 00:56:42,410 --> 00:56:46,750 I will reveal, I will step into relationship. 1316 00:56:47,490 --> 00:56:52,788 Wash me with your blood, renew a right spirit in me and God. 1317 00:56:52,844 --> 00:56:58,480 I say my need will become my ministry. 1318 00:56:58,900 --> 00:57:05,252 My need will become my ministry in Jesus name. 1319 00:57:05,396 --> 00:57:07,100 Come on, somebody, shout amen.