1 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:18,085 Generational thoughts become generational behaviors. 2 00:00:18,545 --> 00:00:22,125 Generational behaviors become generational actions. 3 00:00:22,465 --> 00:00:26,165 Generational actions can become generational sin. 4 00:00:26,565 --> 00:00:30,757 Generational sin becomes iniquity, and then iniquity becomes 5 00:00:30,821 --> 00:00:31,565 identity. 6 00:00:31,685 --> 00:00:35,765 And your identity in sin opens up the door to the demonic. 7 00:00:35,925 --> 00:00:37,645 Do you see what I just did there? 8 00:00:37,805 --> 00:00:40,645 This is why you've got to read the book, because it goes very deep 9 00:00:40,685 --> 00:00:44,965 into the generations and even gives you diagnostic tools to determine 10 00:00:45,005 --> 00:00:45,765 these things. 11 00:00:45,925 --> 00:00:51,425 So somebody on both sides of your family was presented with stress, 12 00:00:51,775 --> 00:00:54,247 anxiety, and fear, worry. 13 00:00:54,391 --> 00:00:56,383 They were presented with pressure. 14 00:00:56,519 --> 00:00:58,479 They were presented with trauma. 15 00:00:58,647 --> 00:01:02,959 Things happen, and they had to make a choice when they were confronted 16 00:01:03,007 --> 00:01:04,231 with those things. 17 00:01:04,423 --> 00:01:06,395 So let's be honest. 18 00:01:07,135 --> 00:01:09,035 The problem is not alcohol. 19 00:01:09,895 --> 00:01:13,195 Alcohol is a bad solution for a problem. 20 00:01:13,815 --> 00:01:15,711 The problem is not heroin. 21 00:01:15,863 --> 00:01:20,937 Heroin is somebody's choice that they made to solve a problem. 22 00:01:21,081 --> 00:01:24,473 So we got to go to the root, because at a point, I thought I had 23 00:01:24,489 --> 00:01:25,345 an alcohol problem. 24 00:01:25,425 --> 00:01:26,657 Alcohol wasn't the problem. 25 00:01:26,721 --> 00:01:28,285 It was a bad solution. 26 00:01:28,865 --> 00:01:29,225 So. 27 00:01:29,265 --> 00:01:33,441 And it really goes back down to your thought life, because show 28 00:01:33,473 --> 00:01:36,525 me your thought life, and I'll show you your whole life. 29 00:01:36,985 --> 00:01:40,481 Because your life is a reflection of your thoughts. 30 00:01:40,633 --> 00:01:44,309 Everything your experiences is a result of your thoughts. 31 00:01:44,417 --> 00:01:48,397 And you have much more control than you think that you do. 32 00:01:48,501 --> 00:01:51,661 And the Holy Spirit said, one of the fruits of being in relationship 33 00:01:51,693 --> 00:01:53,645 with me is self control. 34 00:01:53,805 --> 00:01:57,349 So the more you come into alignment with the Holy Spirit, actually, 35 00:01:57,397 --> 00:02:00,917 the more control you will have over your whole life, and it won't 36 00:02:00,941 --> 00:02:02,525 be what was done to you. 37 00:02:02,605 --> 00:02:04,425 It's what you're doing to life. 38 00:02:04,965 --> 00:02:08,557 Because I started in a trailer park in extreme poverty. 39 00:02:08,701 --> 00:02:12,029 I started with a broken marriage between my mother and father, 40 00:02:12,117 --> 00:02:14,221 and then my father committed murder. 41 00:02:14,373 --> 00:02:18,713 I inherited nothing in a material way, but everything in the 42 00:02:18,729 --> 00:02:21,065 way of trauma and sin and the demonic. 43 00:02:21,185 --> 00:02:25,361 But my life is a story of saying that I am not a victim. 44 00:02:25,473 --> 00:02:27,697 I am victorious through Christ. 45 00:02:27,841 --> 00:02:31,809 And you will eat your words and you will have what you say. 46 00:02:31,897 --> 00:02:34,673 Does anybody believe that we're all prophets? 47 00:02:34,729 --> 00:02:37,321 Are you a good prophet or an evil prophet? 48 00:02:37,433 --> 00:02:40,969 Because the Bible says that your tongue is like a small rudder 49 00:02:41,017 --> 00:02:44,337 that actually determines the whole ship in which direction it 50 00:02:44,361 --> 00:02:44,745 takes. 51 00:02:44,825 --> 00:02:49,279 But then if you go deeper, the Bible says that out of the abundance 52 00:02:49,327 --> 00:02:53,807 of the corazon, the mouth speaks. 53 00:02:53,951 --> 00:02:56,391 So the problem is not even the tongue. 54 00:02:56,463 --> 00:02:58,551 We've got to go deeper than the tongue. 55 00:02:58,623 --> 00:03:00,475 We've got to go to the thought life. 56 00:03:00,935 --> 00:03:04,235 And in the Bible, the mind and the heart are synonyms. 57 00:03:04,535 --> 00:03:06,315 Somebody say, guard the gates. 58 00:03:06,695 --> 00:03:12,167 Oh, the Bible says that your eyes are the window to your soul. 59 00:03:12,231 --> 00:03:14,905 Does it not guard the gates. 60 00:03:15,065 --> 00:03:16,765 Somebody say guard the gates. 61 00:03:17,265 --> 00:03:20,193 Your eyes are the windows to your soul. 62 00:03:20,289 --> 00:03:23,393 So matter of fact, even on a biological level, this is kind of 63 00:03:23,409 --> 00:03:26,625 gross and even weird to say it out loud, but your eyes are literally 64 00:03:26,665 --> 00:03:28,129 an extension of your brain. 65 00:03:28,177 --> 00:03:29,929 Have you ever seen a picture of it? 66 00:03:30,097 --> 00:03:33,249 It's like the nerve comes out of your brain and then you. 67 00:03:33,297 --> 00:03:36,033 So when you're looking somebody in the eyes, technically 68 00:03:36,129 --> 00:03:38,965 in a roundabout way, you're looking them in the brain. 69 00:03:40,165 --> 00:03:44,253 And some of you have made a resolution that you're going to buy 70 00:03:44,309 --> 00:03:48,181 organic food and you're only going to eat organic food. 71 00:03:48,293 --> 00:03:51,861 And you're doing the best thing you can for a body that's going 72 00:03:51,893 --> 00:03:53,685 to die no matter what. 73 00:03:53,805 --> 00:03:57,909 But your soul is eternal and you've not guarded the gates of your 74 00:03:57,957 --> 00:03:58,381 eyes. 75 00:03:58,493 --> 00:04:00,589 You've chosen what goes into your mouth. 76 00:04:00,677 --> 00:04:03,757 But you still have not figured out that what's more important is 77 00:04:03,781 --> 00:04:05,245 what goes into your eyes. 78 00:04:05,365 --> 00:04:06,093 Because what. 79 00:04:06,189 --> 00:04:06,573 Come on. 80 00:04:06,629 --> 00:04:11,063 You'll buy organic food so that you for your physical body that's 81 00:04:11,119 --> 00:04:15,063 temporary, but not think twice about everything you'll blurring 82 00:04:15,119 --> 00:04:15,799 through your eyes. 83 00:04:15,847 --> 00:04:18,075 You got to learn how to guard the gates. 84 00:04:18,455 --> 00:04:20,875 You got to learn how to guard the gates. 85 00:04:22,015 --> 00:04:24,319 Everyone's clapping real slow here on Long Island. 86 00:04:24,367 --> 00:04:26,727 I don't know how it is in Brooklyn, but everyone's like, what 87 00:04:26,751 --> 00:04:28,555 did I sign up to today? 88 00:04:29,175 --> 00:04:30,595 Let me just tell you. 89 00:04:31,615 --> 00:04:36,045 We have to guard the gates because our phone is a menu too. 90 00:04:36,385 --> 00:04:40,081 And it funny that they call it a menu when you're in the app because 91 00:04:40,113 --> 00:04:41,845 you're eating through your eyes. 92 00:04:42,345 --> 00:04:44,049 What are you consuming? 93 00:04:44,217 --> 00:04:45,205 Young men. 94 00:04:46,025 --> 00:04:50,577 You should have never been allowed to see 1263 women in bikinis 95 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:52,085 before 3:00. 96 00:04:52,945 --> 00:04:53,577 Oh, come on. 97 00:04:53,601 --> 00:04:55,017 I'm speaking to somebody. 98 00:04:55,161 --> 00:04:56,713 What happens when you. 99 00:04:56,889 --> 00:05:01,237 When you eat through your eyes and then you have a wife and you 100 00:05:01,261 --> 00:05:05,485 are comparing her body that bore your children to 10,000 women 101 00:05:05,525 --> 00:05:06,625 who never did. 102 00:05:09,005 --> 00:05:10,173 We got a problem. 103 00:05:10,309 --> 00:05:11,765 I'm speaking to somebody. 104 00:05:11,885 --> 00:05:13,945 We gotta guard the gates. 105 00:05:14,365 --> 00:05:17,821 And I think the devil, one of his biggest ploys was to get us having 106 00:05:17,853 --> 00:05:21,021 a phone in our hand and consuming and consuming. 107 00:05:21,173 --> 00:05:24,397 And we don't understand the implications of what we consume. 108 00:05:24,501 --> 00:05:26,973 And so there's something about the level of the mind. 109 00:05:27,069 --> 00:05:29,885 So I'm gonna break down Romans, chapter 12, verse 2. 110 00:05:29,965 --> 00:05:30,677 I'm gonna read it. 111 00:05:30,701 --> 00:05:32,587 Then I'm gonna ask how many of you know it? 112 00:05:32,741 --> 00:05:36,391 Do not be conformed to this world. 113 00:05:36,583 --> 00:05:39,271 Let's do King James for my old school, folks. 114 00:05:39,423 --> 00:05:42,863 But be ye transformed by the renewing. 115 00:05:42,919 --> 00:05:43,143 Come on. 116 00:05:43,159 --> 00:05:46,831 Do you guys know The Bible be. 117 00:05:46,983 --> 00:05:48,275 You're scaring me. 118 00:05:49,415 --> 00:05:51,983 We're gonna start doing memory verses for adults. 119 00:05:52,119 --> 00:05:54,679 I'm telling you right now, if y'all don't start quoting these scriptures 120 00:05:54,727 --> 00:05:56,431 with me, we're gonna do memory verses. 121 00:05:56,543 --> 00:05:59,595 I'll have you come up on the mic and do it in front of everybody. 122 00:06:00,465 --> 00:06:04,001 Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the 123 00:06:04,033 --> 00:06:05,689 renewing of your mind. 124 00:06:05,857 --> 00:06:10,929 That by testing, you may discern what is the will of God. 125 00:06:11,017 --> 00:06:13,577 The perfect and acceptable will of God. 126 00:06:13,681 --> 00:06:15,793 Well, I don't know if God wants me to move. 127 00:06:15,849 --> 00:06:17,241 I'm thinking about going to Florida. 128 00:06:17,273 --> 00:06:19,325 I don't know if God wants me to do it. 129 00:06:20,265 --> 00:06:22,345 I don't know if God wants me to marry him. 130 00:06:22,385 --> 00:06:25,265 I know he's not saved and doesn't have a job and he has a drinking 131 00:06:25,305 --> 00:06:26,925 problem, but, man, he's cute. 132 00:06:29,245 --> 00:06:31,477 This is how I hear it when people are coming. 133 00:06:31,581 --> 00:06:35,621 Oh, I know he kind of has an anger problem and broke five holes 134 00:06:35,653 --> 00:06:37,109 in a wall in his house. 135 00:06:37,157 --> 00:06:39,061 But he's got so much potential. 136 00:06:39,133 --> 00:06:41,025 I don't know if it's the Lord or not. 137 00:06:42,565 --> 00:06:45,325 I don't know if I should go to V1, because at that other church, 138 00:06:45,365 --> 00:06:48,205 I just get mildly abused by that narcissistic leader. 139 00:06:48,245 --> 00:06:50,501 But we have a history, and I just feel comfortable there. 140 00:06:50,533 --> 00:06:52,145 And I like little churches. 141 00:06:53,455 --> 00:06:55,595 I don't know what the Lord's will is. 142 00:06:56,535 --> 00:06:59,935 Well, the problem is that just got a little too real. 143 00:07:00,055 --> 00:07:02,271 Somebody's already traumatized by this sermon. 144 00:07:02,303 --> 00:07:04,835 They were like, did he bug my house? 145 00:07:05,415 --> 00:07:06,247 Was he tapped? 146 00:07:06,271 --> 00:07:07,823 Was he wiretapping? 147 00:07:07,999 --> 00:07:09,119 So here's the thing. 148 00:07:09,207 --> 00:07:10,319 How do I know it? 149 00:07:10,447 --> 00:07:13,815 Because there's so many Christians that are regenerated but 150 00:07:13,855 --> 00:07:14,915 not renewed. 151 00:07:15,415 --> 00:07:19,391 See, when you get saved, when you accept the finished work of the 152 00:07:19,423 --> 00:07:23,195 cross, your spirit that was dead is brought to life. 153 00:07:23,595 --> 00:07:27,843 But, see, there's a command in Romans chapter 12 to renew your mind. 154 00:07:27,979 --> 00:07:32,015 So Jesus regenerated you, but you renew you. 155 00:07:32,435 --> 00:07:36,011 And this is the problem, is we have Christians that are regenerated 156 00:07:36,083 --> 00:07:37,267 but not renewed. 157 00:07:37,371 --> 00:07:41,579 So they can't discern the perfect will of God because in their 158 00:07:41,627 --> 00:07:44,027 mind, they're battling out with God. 159 00:07:44,131 --> 00:07:47,571 How can you fight him and surrender to him at the same time? 160 00:07:47,643 --> 00:07:48,851 Or let me put it another way. 161 00:07:48,923 --> 00:07:50,975 How could you hear him talk if you don't? 162 00:07:53,335 --> 00:07:55,519 Because you're talking while God's talking. 163 00:07:55,607 --> 00:07:58,263 And if you stop talking, you might actually be able to hear what 164 00:07:58,279 --> 00:07:59,063 he has to say. 165 00:07:59,119 --> 00:08:00,807 So there's a form of surrender. 166 00:08:00,911 --> 00:08:04,743 Instead of me telling God what I want, he tells me what I need and 167 00:08:04,759 --> 00:08:06,527 I say, okay, I'll do this thing. 168 00:08:06,591 --> 00:08:09,567 And then that might mean that for some of you ladies, you need 169 00:08:09,591 --> 00:08:12,647 to stop duping yourself and try to convince yourself that this 170 00:08:12,671 --> 00:08:15,835 guy's going to get saved and you need to let him go. 171 00:08:18,025 --> 00:08:19,425 And some of you got to stop. 172 00:08:19,505 --> 00:08:22,969 You know, the Bible said a double minded person is unstable 173 00:08:23,057 --> 00:08:25,121 in all their ways. 174 00:08:25,313 --> 00:08:28,577 So double mindedness doesn't just affect your relationships, it 175 00:08:28,601 --> 00:08:31,689 affects your finances, it affects your future, it affects your 176 00:08:31,737 --> 00:08:34,129 creation, affects every aspect of your life. 177 00:08:34,217 --> 00:08:37,537 A double minded person is unstable in all their ways. 178 00:08:37,601 --> 00:08:40,065 And we have double minded Christians. 179 00:08:40,225 --> 00:08:44,089 You know, you can't have two churches because then two means double. 180 00:08:44,137 --> 00:08:45,425 You'll be double minded. 181 00:08:45,505 --> 00:08:46,945 Which pastor do you listen to? 182 00:08:47,025 --> 00:08:49,781 Probably the one that you agree with, but that's not what you 183 00:08:49,813 --> 00:08:50,101 need. 184 00:08:50,173 --> 00:08:52,837 You need somebody that will tell you what you need to hear, not 185 00:08:52,861 --> 00:08:54,145 what you want to hear. 186 00:08:55,165 --> 00:08:57,845 So in the early days of Long island, that was the bane of our 187 00:08:57,885 --> 00:08:58,621 existence. 188 00:08:58,773 --> 00:09:01,917 Everybody had seven churches out here and we're like, well, which 189 00:09:01,941 --> 00:09:03,357 one do you submit to? 190 00:09:03,501 --> 00:09:06,077 And what we found out it was the one that said what they wanted 191 00:09:06,101 --> 00:09:06,725 to hear. 192 00:09:06,845 --> 00:09:09,141 And then if we didn't say what they wanted to hear, they'd go to 193 00:09:09,173 --> 00:09:13,053 all the other six until somebody did, like playing the Christian 194 00:09:13,109 --> 00:09:14,189 slot machine. 195 00:09:14,357 --> 00:09:17,145 Come on, Pastor, let me fornicate. 196 00:09:18,125 --> 00:09:21,049 Come on, Pastor, let me drink, but not get drunk, even though I 197 00:09:21,117 --> 00:09:22,565 know I'm getting drunk. 198 00:09:26,025 --> 00:09:27,165 Is this on? 199 00:09:28,345 --> 00:09:31,561 And so what happens is when the reason why I'm really saying 200 00:09:31,593 --> 00:09:35,605 this is I want to help it make sense on a deeper level. 201 00:09:36,065 --> 00:09:41,165 The thing that you need about your mind is your thoughts are inherited. 202 00:09:41,465 --> 00:09:43,305 This is what I'm trying to help you understand. 203 00:09:43,465 --> 00:09:47,445 And you probably didn't inherit biblical thoughts. 204 00:09:47,765 --> 00:09:50,541 So people all the time say, I don't like what Pastor Mike says 205 00:09:50,573 --> 00:09:52,085 about this subject or this. 206 00:09:52,205 --> 00:09:56,429 What they don't understand is that my goal as a preacher is to 207 00:09:56,477 --> 00:09:57,985 not say my opinion. 208 00:09:58,605 --> 00:10:02,541 My goal is to get up here and tell you what his opinion is in the 209 00:10:02,573 --> 00:10:04,837 Word, as clear as I can make it. 210 00:10:04,941 --> 00:10:07,597 Matter of fact, there's some things I wish I could change in the 211 00:10:07,621 --> 00:10:11,301 Bible, but I can't change because God's the same yesterday, 212 00:10:11,373 --> 00:10:12,421 today, and forever. 213 00:10:12,533 --> 00:10:16,453 And if he said it in his Word, I have to submit to what he says, 214 00:10:16,509 --> 00:10:20,505 not what I think, because what I think I got from a man, but what 215 00:10:20,545 --> 00:10:22,321 he says came from the throne. 216 00:10:22,433 --> 00:10:23,617 And I don't need. 217 00:10:23,761 --> 00:10:27,769 See, if you do man's thoughts, you get man's ways and you get man's 218 00:10:27,817 --> 00:10:28,337 results. 219 00:10:28,481 --> 00:10:31,817 But if you do it, God's way you get God's results. 220 00:10:31,961 --> 00:10:35,673 So there's a submission that has to take place to his ways. 221 00:10:35,769 --> 00:10:38,565 But how can you submit to a word you don't read? 222 00:10:39,545 --> 00:10:43,085 For my people perish for the lack of knowledge. 223 00:10:43,545 --> 00:10:47,495 Well, Pastor Mike, I'm too busy to read the Bible. 224 00:10:47,875 --> 00:10:52,139 But you're not too busy to scroll, Pastor Mike. 225 00:10:52,187 --> 00:10:53,243 But I'm tired. 226 00:10:53,379 --> 00:10:55,067 But you stayed up all night. 227 00:10:55,171 --> 00:10:59,467 Scrolling Pastor Mike, My kids are too loud. 228 00:10:59,611 --> 00:11:00,935 Buy some headphones. 229 00:11:03,355 --> 00:11:04,535 Come on, devil. 230 00:11:07,275 --> 00:11:11,135 Stop making excuses and start making moves. 231 00:11:11,595 --> 00:11:13,243 Move into his presence. 232 00:11:13,419 --> 00:11:15,227 Move into daily discipline. 233 00:11:15,331 --> 00:11:18,063 If you can shower every day, you can pray every day. 234 00:11:18,159 --> 00:11:19,879 If you can brush your teeth every day. 235 00:11:19,927 --> 00:11:20,879 Some of you need to. 236 00:11:20,927 --> 00:11:22,103 That's a daily thing. 237 00:11:22,199 --> 00:11:23,679 Twice a day would be even better. 238 00:11:23,767 --> 00:11:24,915 You can pray. 239 00:11:25,215 --> 00:11:26,551 Come on, devil. 240 00:11:26,743 --> 00:11:28,151 You know, so we've got to. 241 00:11:28,183 --> 00:11:31,031 I think being a Christian, what happens with the, with being 242 00:11:31,063 --> 00:11:34,435 a Christian is the deeper you get, the more basic you become. 243 00:11:35,175 --> 00:11:38,471 Everybody thinks that the deeper you get as a Christian, the 244 00:11:38,503 --> 00:11:39,639 more profound you come. 245 00:11:39,687 --> 00:11:40,711 You know what's profound? 246 00:11:40,823 --> 00:11:41,519 Pray every day. 247 00:11:41,567 --> 00:11:42,567 That's profound. 248 00:11:42,751 --> 00:11:43,879 Read the Bible every day. 249 00:11:43,927 --> 00:11:44,783 That's profound. 250 00:11:44,919 --> 00:11:48,175 Matter of fact, the deeper you go into Christianity, the more simple 251 00:11:48,215 --> 00:11:48,879 you become. 252 00:11:49,007 --> 00:11:52,223 You actually forgive people instead of holding grudges. 253 00:11:52,359 --> 00:11:54,007 You actually reconcile. 254 00:11:54,111 --> 00:11:57,711 You actually tell the gospel to the person that's walking in the 255 00:11:57,743 --> 00:12:00,855 grocery store by you that the Holy Spirit gave you a word of knowledge 256 00:12:00,895 --> 00:12:01,239 for. 257 00:12:01,327 --> 00:12:03,743 You actually pray for sick people when they're sick. 258 00:12:03,839 --> 00:12:06,447 You actually come into work and you work with all your might 259 00:12:06,551 --> 00:12:08,711 in a way that honors and glorifies God. 260 00:12:08,823 --> 00:12:11,847 So to go deeper in the Christian faith is to become more 261 00:12:11,911 --> 00:12:12,595 simple. 262 00:12:13,215 --> 00:12:16,391 And that's why we have itching ears that are like, give me some 263 00:12:16,423 --> 00:12:20,119 crazy prophetic word, you know, give me some Greek, Hebrew, 264 00:12:20,167 --> 00:12:21,119 Aramaic word. 265 00:12:21,207 --> 00:12:22,127 Give me some kind of. 266 00:12:22,191 --> 00:12:23,743 It's like we're always seeking. 267 00:12:23,879 --> 00:12:27,759 We're always seeking the, these, these crazy experiences. 268 00:12:27,807 --> 00:12:31,295 But I think, when I think, when I look at renewing your mind, 269 00:12:31,455 --> 00:12:35,671 what it is is just simply submitting to the fundamental truths 270 00:12:35,703 --> 00:12:37,575 of the way God thinks. 271 00:12:37,875 --> 00:12:42,971 And it sounds so easy, but actually it's so hard. 272 00:12:43,163 --> 00:12:44,011 It's easy. 273 00:12:44,083 --> 00:12:44,355 It's. 274 00:12:44,395 --> 00:12:47,771 It's easy to understand, but it's hard to do. 275 00:12:47,923 --> 00:12:51,563 So like, understanding forgiveness is easy, but actually 276 00:12:51,619 --> 00:12:55,059 forgiving the person who sexually assaulted you is very hard. 277 00:12:55,227 --> 00:12:55,579 It's. 278 00:12:55,627 --> 00:12:57,003 It's easy to understand. 279 00:12:57,099 --> 00:12:58,947 I shouldn't be walking around angry. 280 00:12:59,051 --> 00:13:02,771 But when you feel angry, switching your, your, your, you know, 281 00:13:02,803 --> 00:13:03,435 the whole. 282 00:13:03,475 --> 00:13:04,147 Have you ever done that? 283 00:13:04,171 --> 00:13:06,369 Where you try to switch out of an emotion? 284 00:13:06,547 --> 00:13:07,805 That's hard to do. 285 00:13:07,925 --> 00:13:11,117 Cause you're like, well, but I know why I'm angry, and it's super 286 00:13:11,181 --> 00:13:12,205 justifiable. 287 00:13:12,365 --> 00:13:15,365 So switching out of that is the hard thing, right? 288 00:13:15,485 --> 00:13:18,461 It's like, you know, understanding how you should honor 289 00:13:18,493 --> 00:13:22,125 God in your finances and make a budget that includes seeking the 290 00:13:22,165 --> 00:13:24,381 kingdom first, and he'll add all this unto you. 291 00:13:24,493 --> 00:13:25,141 That's easy. 292 00:13:25,213 --> 00:13:27,957 But then that moment comes to sign up for reoccurring, and you're 293 00:13:27,981 --> 00:13:30,877 like, no, I'll be an emotional giver, and I'll give when I have 294 00:13:30,901 --> 00:13:33,261 a lot of money, and I won't give when I don't, and then I'll 295 00:13:33,293 --> 00:13:34,157 give when I feel like. 296 00:13:34,181 --> 00:13:34,575 It's. 297 00:13:34,645 --> 00:13:38,931 It's like what we do is we go the way of least resistance, which 298 00:13:38,963 --> 00:13:43,459 is why Jesus said, it's a narrow road, It's a narrow gate, 299 00:13:43,507 --> 00:13:44,835 and many won't walk it. 300 00:13:44,915 --> 00:13:47,651 It's not because they don't understand how to walk it. 301 00:13:47,723 --> 00:13:51,211 It's because they don't want to actually do the commands. 302 00:13:51,323 --> 00:13:54,587 And this is why you fill up whole conferences with people who 303 00:13:54,611 --> 00:13:58,091 want prophecy, but you can't get people to distribute food in 304 00:13:58,123 --> 00:13:58,779 Brooklyn. 305 00:13:58,907 --> 00:14:01,579 Because we don't want to do the commands of Jesus. 306 00:14:01,627 --> 00:14:05,055 We just want to hear about him and make ourselves feel better. 307 00:14:05,415 --> 00:14:06,591 So we have to. 308 00:14:06,703 --> 00:14:11,471 Renewing your mind is much more about saying, I've inherited 309 00:14:11,583 --> 00:14:16,399 multiple generations of attitudes, behaviors, and thoughts 310 00:14:16,527 --> 00:14:20,855 that I need to demolish and renovate and destroy, and then I 311 00:14:20,895 --> 00:14:24,351 need to rebuild in my own mind the mind of Christ. 312 00:14:24,503 --> 00:14:26,035 And that is hard work. 313 00:14:26,735 --> 00:14:28,675 I don't have a six pack yet. 314 00:14:29,895 --> 00:14:31,435 I'm on my way, though. 315 00:14:32,475 --> 00:14:32,891 Come on. 316 00:14:32,923 --> 00:14:33,975 Don't be laughing. 317 00:14:37,475 --> 00:14:42,939 But it becomes the equivalency of when you see somebody with a physique 318 00:14:43,067 --> 00:14:45,975 and you admire it, you knew that it took work. 319 00:14:46,475 --> 00:14:51,059 And so to acknowledge a man or woman of God is not to make an idol 320 00:14:51,107 --> 00:14:54,795 of them, but rather to acknowledge the work they put in 321 00:14:54,835 --> 00:14:56,187 to get to that point. 322 00:14:56,331 --> 00:14:57,605 Does that make sense? 323 00:14:57,755 --> 00:15:01,265 Because people are like, oh, I look at the way they idolize Julie. 324 00:15:01,385 --> 00:15:02,641 You know, she's not all that. 325 00:15:02,673 --> 00:15:04,513 She's just a humble servant. 326 00:15:04,689 --> 00:15:05,641 And it's like, well, no. 327 00:15:05,673 --> 00:15:10,257 Julie's been on a journey to say, not my will, thy will for so 328 00:15:10,281 --> 00:15:14,737 many years that it transformed her into the kind of woman that can 329 00:15:14,761 --> 00:15:17,889 lead with grace under fire and under pressure. 330 00:15:17,977 --> 00:15:21,529 And so we're not honoring Julie in the way that the world honors 331 00:15:21,617 --> 00:15:25,353 celebrities or makes an idol, but rather we're acknowledging, lord, 332 00:15:25,449 --> 00:15:27,953 maybe one day I can be as submitted as that. 333 00:15:28,049 --> 00:15:30,465 Maybe one day I can be as committed as that. 334 00:15:30,545 --> 00:15:32,065 Maybe what does that make sense? 335 00:15:32,185 --> 00:15:33,537 So in the Christian faith? 336 00:15:33,601 --> 00:15:35,577 Because Julie was telling me that the other day, I was like, it's 337 00:15:35,601 --> 00:15:37,769 kind of weird when people want to take pictures with me. 338 00:15:37,857 --> 00:15:41,057 And she said, no, these young guys who are taking pictures with 339 00:15:41,081 --> 00:15:44,465 you are the same guys that nobody has a problem taking a picture 340 00:15:44,505 --> 00:15:46,121 with a basketball player. 341 00:15:46,313 --> 00:15:49,201 But how much more somebody that's devoted their life to the 342 00:15:49,233 --> 00:15:53,359 gospel to say like you're not, you're not making an idol, but rather 343 00:15:53,407 --> 00:15:57,455 you're acknowledging, wow, I want to be, I want to work myself 344 00:15:57,535 --> 00:15:59,503 into that level of submission. 345 00:15:59,639 --> 00:16:00,995 Does that make sense? 346 00:16:01,415 --> 00:16:03,287 So renewing your mind. 347 00:16:03,431 --> 00:16:04,543 So this is my point. 348 00:16:04,599 --> 00:16:09,463 Nobody can see in my mind, but you can see the effects of my mind. 349 00:16:09,639 --> 00:16:11,527 Oh, I'm talking to somebody. 350 00:16:11,711 --> 00:16:16,745 Nobody can see in my mind, but you see the results of my mind. 351 00:16:16,895 --> 00:16:18,853 And that is the point of working with this. 352 00:16:18,909 --> 00:16:20,621 Do not be conformed to the world. 353 00:16:20,733 --> 00:16:22,305 So let's go into the Greek. 354 00:16:22,925 --> 00:16:26,421 The Greek word for world is world is schema. 355 00:16:26,613 --> 00:16:29,821 And schema sounds like what schemes. 356 00:16:30,013 --> 00:16:36,861 So do not be conformed to the schemes, the scheming, the schematics, 357 00:16:37,013 --> 00:16:41,621 the plans, the blueprints of the world, the visible that you can 358 00:16:41,653 --> 00:16:42,633 see with your own eye. 359 00:16:42,709 --> 00:16:44,137 I just want to do a little test. 360 00:16:44,241 --> 00:16:45,521 Let's do a little test. 361 00:16:45,673 --> 00:16:49,577 When you go back home to your apartment or to your house, you have 362 00:16:49,601 --> 00:16:54,977 a place for a bed to sleep, you have a place for a table to eat 363 00:16:55,041 --> 00:16:57,825 food, you have a shower to rinse your body. 364 00:16:57,985 --> 00:16:59,321 Can I just submit to you? 365 00:16:59,393 --> 00:17:03,873 Probably every part of your house has been partitioned to meet 366 00:17:03,929 --> 00:17:05,457 some physical need. 367 00:17:05,641 --> 00:17:09,450 But very few of us have any space in our house that was devoted 368 00:17:09,482 --> 00:17:10,706 to the eternal. 369 00:17:10,890 --> 00:17:14,490 There's your evidence, and I'm not saying that to convict you, but 370 00:17:14,522 --> 00:17:19,290 to make a point when, when you go to a Jewish person's house that 371 00:17:19,322 --> 00:17:21,338 you'll see on their doorposts, something. 372 00:17:21,386 --> 00:17:22,814 Do you know what I'm talking about? 373 00:17:23,514 --> 00:17:26,922 Because they said, keep these promises at your doorpost. 374 00:17:27,058 --> 00:17:30,170 If you come into a Muslim's house, you'll find mats that they 375 00:17:30,202 --> 00:17:33,770 roll out so that they can adhere to their daily prayers. 376 00:17:33,962 --> 00:17:38,533 So the problem with Christians is we've become so natural minded 377 00:17:38,669 --> 00:17:41,981 and our whole world we've built around what we can see with 378 00:17:42,013 --> 00:17:46,445 our physical eyes, that schema and what Paul the Apostle was doing 379 00:17:46,605 --> 00:17:49,053 because he was ministering to two groups of people. 380 00:17:49,189 --> 00:17:53,293 He was ministering to pagans that didn't know the God of Abraham, 381 00:17:53,349 --> 00:17:57,581 Isaac and Jacob, and certainly didn't know Yeshua Jesus, but he 382 00:17:57,613 --> 00:18:02,403 also was ministering to, in addition to Pagans to Jews as well, 383 00:18:02,549 --> 00:18:04,999 who also did not know Christ as messiah. 384 00:18:05,127 --> 00:18:07,967 And what he was trying to explain in a lot, and we're looking 385 00:18:07,991 --> 00:18:12,847 at the book of Romans, is get your eyes off of what you see, because 386 00:18:12,911 --> 00:18:16,367 what you see with your physical eyes is temporary. 387 00:18:16,551 --> 00:18:19,383 But then you have to put your eyes on what's eternal. 388 00:18:19,519 --> 00:18:22,367 But then he's going a little bit deeper and he's saying, don't 389 00:18:22,431 --> 00:18:26,079 mold your life after that which is visible. 390 00:18:26,247 --> 00:18:31,825 And so instead be transformed by the renewal, or the word in Greek 391 00:18:31,865 --> 00:18:35,737 for renewal is the same as renovation, by the renovation of 392 00:18:35,761 --> 00:18:36,513 your mind. 393 00:18:36,649 --> 00:18:40,393 So if I could help you understand this right now, in this 394 00:18:40,449 --> 00:18:43,209 era, everything is the physical. 395 00:18:43,377 --> 00:18:47,209 I have to wear clothes, I have to buy a car to drive around. 396 00:18:47,337 --> 00:18:50,425 I have to get an apartment to shelter my physical body. 397 00:18:50,545 --> 00:18:53,041 I have to get food for my physical body. 398 00:18:53,153 --> 00:18:55,537 I have to educate my physical brain. 399 00:18:55,681 --> 00:18:58,913 Everything in our life is relegated mainly to the physical 400 00:18:58,969 --> 00:18:59,505 realm. 401 00:18:59,625 --> 00:19:03,289 But in order to be a Christian, you have to actually reverse 402 00:19:03,337 --> 00:19:07,049 the entire order of our existence to where the spiritual 403 00:19:07,097 --> 00:19:10,601 is number one and everything follows after that. 404 00:19:10,713 --> 00:19:13,241 The eternal is number one and every. 405 00:19:13,313 --> 00:19:17,505 So when you go to a church and they ask you to give your finances, 406 00:19:17,625 --> 00:19:21,507 if you are a Christian that's regenerated but not renewed, then 407 00:19:21,531 --> 00:19:24,283 you are thinking about the physical and not the spiritual. 408 00:19:24,379 --> 00:19:27,019 And you don't even understand spiritual rewards. 409 00:19:27,187 --> 00:19:30,451 And so you haven't read the book of Hebrews that says when you 410 00:19:30,483 --> 00:19:34,683 give your finances, it's as if you laid it before the feet of Jesus. 411 00:19:34,859 --> 00:19:35,339 But you. 412 00:19:35,387 --> 00:19:38,523 So you're thinking that you're giving your money to a church because 413 00:19:38,579 --> 00:19:41,387 the church needs your money, because you're a Christian, that 414 00:19:41,411 --> 00:19:42,723 hasn't renewed your mind. 415 00:19:42,819 --> 00:19:44,699 So you don't understand the spiritual. 416 00:19:44,827 --> 00:19:47,419 Actually, according to the book of Hebrews, you've never given 417 00:19:47,467 --> 00:19:48,237 to a church. 418 00:19:48,331 --> 00:19:50,297 You've given directly to Jesus. 419 00:19:50,441 --> 00:19:53,041 But if you don't believe that, you're going to be offended every 420 00:19:53,073 --> 00:19:54,725 time the offering happens. 421 00:19:55,585 --> 00:19:55,993 So. 422 00:19:56,049 --> 00:19:58,625 And then you're going to want to assert control over it. 423 00:19:58,705 --> 00:20:00,405 Oh, I'm speaking to somebody. 424 00:20:00,785 --> 00:20:04,809 So it's the same way, like when you're going through various 425 00:20:04,897 --> 00:20:07,289 trials and different temptations. 426 00:20:07,457 --> 00:20:10,953 If you're looking through the lens of the natural realm, it makes 427 00:20:11,009 --> 00:20:11,737 no sense. 428 00:20:11,841 --> 00:20:15,009 I'm just suffering because of other people's mistake. 429 00:20:15,137 --> 00:20:19,121 But if you're like Joseph, you can look at your brothers who betrayed 430 00:20:19,153 --> 00:20:21,945 you and say what you meant for harm. 431 00:20:22,065 --> 00:20:24,625 I could see into the spiritual realm. 432 00:20:24,745 --> 00:20:28,457 God had to do all that and allow it to happen through you for 433 00:20:28,481 --> 00:20:32,993 the working of my good because the only way that I get to the palace 434 00:20:33,049 --> 00:20:35,193 is through the pit and through the prison. 435 00:20:35,329 --> 00:20:39,425 And so it makes total sense to Joseph because Joseph is looking 436 00:20:39,465 --> 00:20:40,707 through the spiritual realm. 437 00:20:40,801 --> 00:20:43,435 But what happens when you have a victim mindset? 438 00:20:44,455 --> 00:20:45,839 Oh, it's Long Island. 439 00:20:45,967 --> 00:20:48,175 If I wasn't on Long Island, I would have a house. 440 00:20:48,255 --> 00:20:50,399 If I wasn't on Long Island, I would have a car. 441 00:20:50,487 --> 00:20:52,575 If I wasn't on Long Island, I would have more. 442 00:20:52,655 --> 00:20:54,679 If I wasn't in Brooklyn, Brooklyn's the problem. 443 00:20:54,727 --> 00:20:55,711 It's New York City. 444 00:20:55,783 --> 00:20:56,567 If I wasn't in. 445 00:20:56,631 --> 00:20:57,715 You're a victim. 446 00:20:58,135 --> 00:21:01,287 Because the spiritual realm doesn't play by the same rules as 447 00:21:01,311 --> 00:21:02,515 the US Economy. 448 00:21:02,815 --> 00:21:07,309 So in the natural realm, Long island is more expensive than Indiana. 449 00:21:07,407 --> 00:21:10,521 But in the spiritual realm, the most expensive place to live 450 00:21:10,553 --> 00:21:12,485 is the one that you don't sow into. 451 00:21:13,345 --> 00:21:14,329 Oh, you are. 452 00:21:14,337 --> 00:21:14,737 You are. 453 00:21:14,761 --> 00:21:17,045 You guys, do you want to revelate with me? 454 00:21:17,545 --> 00:21:21,609 The Bible says if you sow sparingly, you reap sparingly. 455 00:21:21,697 --> 00:21:24,969 And if you sow generously, you reap generously. 456 00:21:25,057 --> 00:21:27,953 And so it's not about the region, it's about the seed. 457 00:21:28,049 --> 00:21:30,953 And some of you are paying more attention to the soil, but it 458 00:21:30,969 --> 00:21:32,705 doesn't say anything about the soil. 459 00:21:32,785 --> 00:21:34,513 It says everything about the seed. 460 00:21:34,609 --> 00:21:38,545 And so the soil of Long island is the same as the soil of Indiana. 461 00:21:38,625 --> 00:21:40,445 The difference is the seed. 462 00:21:41,185 --> 00:21:42,925 But that's a mindset. 463 00:21:43,265 --> 00:21:46,033 So I'm not a victim in Long Island. 464 00:21:46,129 --> 00:21:48,385 I'm not a victim in New York City. 465 00:21:48,505 --> 00:21:53,113 I sow seed in New York City and I sow seed in Indiana because 466 00:21:53,169 --> 00:21:56,889 I am submitted to the spiritual reality which supersedes 467 00:21:56,937 --> 00:21:58,233 the physical reality. 468 00:21:58,369 --> 00:21:59,685 Does this make sense? 469 00:21:59,995 --> 00:22:02,575 Are y'all normally this quiet in 12:30? 470 00:22:04,275 --> 00:22:05,915 Probably you're like, just pray for me. 471 00:22:05,955 --> 00:22:07,855 I just need deliverance right now. 472 00:22:08,635 --> 00:22:12,259 Now, if you're feeling convicted, that was not my intention. 473 00:22:12,427 --> 00:22:16,291 My intention was to simply expose to you that when you. 474 00:22:16,363 --> 00:22:20,435 If you call yourself a Christian, the standard by which 475 00:22:20,475 --> 00:22:22,483 you live is the word of God. 476 00:22:22,659 --> 00:22:26,347 So the more of the word of God you know, and the more of the word 477 00:22:26,371 --> 00:22:30,535 of God you obey, then you are going to have to renovate your mind. 478 00:22:30,695 --> 00:22:32,555 So let's talk about renovation. 479 00:22:32,895 --> 00:22:33,615 Renovate. 480 00:22:33,695 --> 00:22:38,355 My favorite part about renovation is demolition. 481 00:22:39,575 --> 00:22:40,735 Come on, say that with me. 482 00:22:40,775 --> 00:22:41,595 Demolition. 483 00:22:42,455 --> 00:22:44,915 The root word of demolition is demolish. 484 00:22:45,415 --> 00:22:50,207 So in order to renovate your mind, you have to demolish some things. 485 00:22:50,391 --> 00:22:53,999 Let me just tell you, when I moved into our house in New York 486 00:22:54,047 --> 00:22:57,683 City, that bathroom was the one that I inherited. 487 00:22:57,739 --> 00:23:00,931 When I got that house was probably nice 40 years ago. 488 00:23:00,963 --> 00:23:02,055 Am I right, Jules? 489 00:23:02,755 --> 00:23:06,827 Our bathroom in our house now, it was probably nice 40 years ago. 490 00:23:06,971 --> 00:23:09,699 And I was like, we're renovating this thing. 491 00:23:09,827 --> 00:23:12,819 And in order to renovate it, we had to demolish it. 492 00:23:12,987 --> 00:23:15,355 And we just went in the bathroom, and, you know, you start 493 00:23:15,395 --> 00:23:16,979 gutting and demolishing everything out. 494 00:23:17,067 --> 00:23:21,899 So what happens is you can't put something new on top of something 495 00:23:21,987 --> 00:23:22,499 old. 496 00:23:22,627 --> 00:23:26,451 Because if there's mold and decay in what's old, when you put 497 00:23:26,483 --> 00:23:30,055 the new on what's old, you end up losing both. 498 00:23:30,555 --> 00:23:35,403 So in your mind, you can't put new thoughts on top of old thoughts. 499 00:23:35,539 --> 00:23:39,563 You have to demolish the old thoughts and you have to build over. 500 00:23:39,699 --> 00:23:43,795 And some of you have tried to put together a secular thinking with 501 00:23:43,835 --> 00:23:45,035 a Christian thinking. 502 00:23:45,115 --> 00:23:47,257 And you think Christianity doesn't work. 503 00:23:47,371 --> 00:23:49,301 No, baby, God's Word works. 504 00:23:49,373 --> 00:23:54,037 But you can't combine God's word with the secular way of thinking. 505 00:23:54,141 --> 00:23:56,933 That's why Jesus said, you've got to go all in. 506 00:23:57,029 --> 00:23:58,517 You've got to come 100%. 507 00:23:58,581 --> 00:24:00,373 Let the dead bury their own dead. 508 00:24:00,469 --> 00:24:01,933 Go sell off your properties. 509 00:24:02,029 --> 00:24:04,829 Do whatever you can to come 100%. 510 00:24:04,957 --> 00:24:09,685 Because if you put new wine into an old wineskin, the old wineskin 511 00:24:09,725 --> 00:24:12,037 ruptures and you lose all the wine. 512 00:24:12,221 --> 00:24:16,129 And so God has brought you to this place right now to say a done. 513 00:24:16,217 --> 00:24:18,617 Oh, well, we did it this way at our old church. 514 00:24:18,721 --> 00:24:20,145 Well, I don't care. 515 00:24:20,265 --> 00:24:22,857 Behold, God is doing a new thing. 516 00:24:22,961 --> 00:24:24,921 It's time to do away with the old. 517 00:24:24,993 --> 00:24:27,081 Oh, but my mom taught me, taught me this. 518 00:24:27,153 --> 00:24:29,601 But your mom had debilitating depression. 519 00:24:29,673 --> 00:24:31,113 Who you going to listen to? 520 00:24:31,209 --> 00:24:34,449 I want to hear about freedom from a free person. 521 00:24:34,577 --> 00:24:37,457 I want to hear about blessing from a blessed person. 522 00:24:37,561 --> 00:24:41,445 I'm not taking advice from broke people about my money. 523 00:24:42,235 --> 00:24:43,611 You get what I'm saying? 524 00:24:43,763 --> 00:24:47,731 And you got broke pastors talking about money and giving theology, 525 00:24:47,843 --> 00:24:51,755 but their bank account does not reflect the blessing of Abraham, 526 00:24:51,835 --> 00:24:52,971 Isaac, and Jacob. 527 00:24:53,043 --> 00:24:57,099 And I'm here to demolish a poverty gospel because we're going 528 00:24:57,107 --> 00:25:00,259 to need resources to flow through the nations. 529 00:25:00,347 --> 00:25:03,939 And there is a reason why God wants to set you free in your mind. 530 00:25:04,067 --> 00:25:05,467 Because you don't have a money problem. 531 00:25:05,531 --> 00:25:06,841 You have a worry problem. 532 00:25:06,963 --> 00:25:08,229 You don't have a money problem. 533 00:25:08,277 --> 00:25:09,853 You've got an anxiety problem. 534 00:25:09,949 --> 00:25:11,061 You don't have a money problem. 535 00:25:11,093 --> 00:25:12,389 You have a budget problem. 536 00:25:12,477 --> 00:25:13,645 You don't have a money problem. 537 00:25:13,685 --> 00:25:15,101 You have a discipline problem. 538 00:25:15,213 --> 00:25:17,905 But see, when God begins to deal with that, why? 539 00:25:18,245 --> 00:25:18,989 Why? 540 00:25:19,157 --> 00:25:24,053 Go to the root, Go to the root, go to the root, go to the root. 541 00:25:24,189 --> 00:25:25,945 Some of you Watch this. 542 00:25:26,365 --> 00:25:28,025 You married a spouse. 543 00:25:28,525 --> 00:25:30,945 It's the same spouse you married. 544 00:25:31,445 --> 00:25:33,345 But what changed was your mind. 545 00:25:33,865 --> 00:25:35,737 What changed was their mind. 546 00:25:35,921 --> 00:25:37,177 It's in the mind. 547 00:25:37,321 --> 00:25:39,337 So God wants to go into your mind. 548 00:25:39,441 --> 00:25:43,945 God wants to do it says, by the transformation, but be transformed. 549 00:25:44,025 --> 00:25:46,485 That word transform is metamorphosis. 550 00:25:47,705 --> 00:25:51,665 Metamorphosis is different than maturity. 551 00:25:51,825 --> 00:25:52,825 Maturity is. 552 00:25:52,905 --> 00:25:58,321 Pastor Mike is 12 years old, and I can't grow a beard, and I go 553 00:25:58,353 --> 00:26:00,631 through puberty, and I can now grow a beard. 554 00:26:00,703 --> 00:26:01,703 Praise God. 555 00:26:01,879 --> 00:26:03,375 So that's maturity. 556 00:26:03,535 --> 00:26:06,727 But maturity is not the same as transformation. 557 00:26:06,831 --> 00:26:08,647 So I want to take it the next step. 558 00:26:08,791 --> 00:26:13,167 When you have a cocoon, that cocoon, the caterpillar goes into 559 00:26:13,191 --> 00:26:15,935 the cocoon and actually melts down. 560 00:26:16,095 --> 00:26:18,711 And this kind of weird turns into a goo. 561 00:26:18,863 --> 00:26:23,447 And then the DNA of that caterpillar shuts off, and another 562 00:26:23,551 --> 00:26:26,581 DNA expression actually is ignited. 563 00:26:26,733 --> 00:26:28,557 And then it goes through a process. 564 00:26:28,701 --> 00:26:29,677 And this is crazier. 565 00:26:29,741 --> 00:26:32,477 Pastor Danny, I'm going to credit him with this revelation because 566 00:26:32,501 --> 00:26:36,221 he came back to me and said, did you know that when a caterpillar 567 00:26:36,253 --> 00:26:38,541 is in its cocoon, science says when. 568 00:26:38,573 --> 00:26:41,893 That when it turns into a butterfly, it has to go through the 569 00:26:41,949 --> 00:26:45,965 process of physically breaking out of the cocoon because it makes 570 00:26:46,005 --> 00:26:49,309 it strong enough so that when it comes out of the cocoon, it can 571 00:26:49,357 --> 00:26:50,385 actually fly. 572 00:26:51,695 --> 00:26:53,115 What's your cocoon? 573 00:26:53,895 --> 00:26:55,355 What's your cocoon? 574 00:26:55,655 --> 00:26:57,399 Our cocoon is prayer. 575 00:26:57,527 --> 00:27:02,327 We go into prayer, and we come in a caterpillar full of anger, full 576 00:27:02,351 --> 00:27:04,151 of malice, full of bitterness. 577 00:27:04,263 --> 00:27:08,103 But then we melt down in the presence of God, and another DNA 578 00:27:08,159 --> 00:27:09,319 expression happens. 579 00:27:09,407 --> 00:27:12,175 And then suddenly fear is turned into courage. 580 00:27:12,335 --> 00:27:15,095 Suddenly bitterness has turned into forgiveness. 581 00:27:15,215 --> 00:27:18,675 Another genetic expression begins to be realized. 582 00:27:18,755 --> 00:27:20,563 And then all of a sudden, our wings come out. 583 00:27:20,619 --> 00:27:23,035 And then we got to break out of that prayer closet. 584 00:27:23,115 --> 00:27:25,307 We got to break out of that devotional time. 585 00:27:25,371 --> 00:27:28,659 And then we come out of there and we fly, and we're something different. 586 00:27:28,707 --> 00:27:30,819 God doesn't want to just mature you. 587 00:27:30,907 --> 00:27:35,139 He wants to bring you through a metamorphosis, to change you into 588 00:27:35,227 --> 00:27:36,059 something new. 589 00:27:36,147 --> 00:27:38,179 How many of you want God to change you? 590 00:27:38,267 --> 00:27:41,139 How many of you want God to begin to bring you through that process 591 00:27:41,187 --> 00:27:42,815 of a metamorphosis? 592 00:27:43,365 --> 00:27:47,717 Because it says, renovate, you got to destroy that. 593 00:27:47,741 --> 00:27:49,717 You may test what is the will of God. 594 00:27:49,821 --> 00:27:51,933 So let's talk about strongholds. 595 00:27:52,109 --> 00:27:57,541 So when you talk about a stronghold, David ran into the stronghold, 596 00:27:57,733 --> 00:28:01,693 and he actually ran into the stronghold to be safe, because he 597 00:28:01,709 --> 00:28:04,221 was being pursued for his life to kill him. 598 00:28:04,373 --> 00:28:08,445 But when he ran into the stronghold, it was A safety. 599 00:28:08,565 --> 00:28:12,505 But then you hear the other scripture that says that my weapons 600 00:28:12,585 --> 00:28:16,545 are not carnal, they're not physical, but mighty through God 601 00:28:16,625 --> 00:28:19,145 to the pulling down of the strongholds. 602 00:28:19,265 --> 00:28:22,417 So it's like I'm confused because we're supposed to destroy 603 00:28:22,481 --> 00:28:23,225 strongholds. 604 00:28:23,305 --> 00:28:26,273 But David ran into the stronghold and he was saved. 605 00:28:26,409 --> 00:28:28,525 Stronghold is a neutral term. 606 00:28:31,745 --> 00:28:36,205 When you talk about building a building, you build it brick by brick. 607 00:28:36,515 --> 00:28:39,651 In my book, I have a section that talks about the mind and the 608 00:28:39,683 --> 00:28:40,427 thoughts. 609 00:28:40,611 --> 00:28:45,795 Scientists say, on average, minimum, there's a minimum of 6,000 610 00:28:45,875 --> 00:28:47,051 thoughts a day. 611 00:28:47,243 --> 00:28:50,338 Just try to sit there in your seat and count to 6,000. 612 00:28:50,487 --> 00:28:52,576 Think about that. 613 00:28:52,725 --> 00:28:54,068 2,163, 2,164. 614 00:28:54,217 --> 00:28:57,052 Do that till 6,000. 615 00:28:57,201 --> 00:29:02,397 You're thinking a minimum of 6,000 thoughts a day. 616 00:29:02,491 --> 00:29:05,285 But imagine each thought like a brick. 617 00:29:05,945 --> 00:29:07,125 Let's do this. 618 00:29:07,785 --> 00:29:10,993 Medical anxiety, death anxiety. 619 00:29:11,169 --> 00:29:11,881 I'm going to die. 620 00:29:11,913 --> 00:29:12,457 I'm going to die. 621 00:29:12,481 --> 00:29:12,953 I'm going to die. 622 00:29:12,969 --> 00:29:13,769 I'm going to die early. 623 00:29:13,817 --> 00:29:14,377 Going to die early. 624 00:29:14,401 --> 00:29:15,321 I'm going to die in pain. 625 00:29:15,393 --> 00:29:16,425 I'm going to die with disease. 626 00:29:16,465 --> 00:29:20,561 I'm going to die 6,000 times a day, brick by brick. 627 00:29:20,713 --> 00:29:24,329 And you build that stronghold so tall that when I'm on the other 628 00:29:24,377 --> 00:29:26,525 side shouting, it just sounds muffled. 629 00:29:27,915 --> 00:29:29,683 And I'm saying, you're not going to die. 630 00:29:29,779 --> 00:29:32,115 The Bible says you're going to live and not die. 631 00:29:32,195 --> 00:29:34,731 And you're going to declare the works of God in the land of the 632 00:29:34,763 --> 00:29:35,335 living. 633 00:29:35,755 --> 00:29:39,123 See, here's another thought you hear about what's happening. 634 00:29:39,179 --> 00:29:43,139 43 monkeys escape from, I'm going to say in air quotes, escape 635 00:29:43,187 --> 00:29:44,215 from a facility. 636 00:29:44,635 --> 00:29:47,659 When I saw that news, I said, what plague are they releasing on, 637 00:29:47,707 --> 00:29:48,815 on us today? 638 00:29:49,155 --> 00:29:50,435 Am I the only one? 639 00:29:50,555 --> 00:29:51,763 I heard about the monkeys. 640 00:29:51,819 --> 00:29:52,035 We. 641 00:29:52,075 --> 00:29:53,619 And they escaped from the facility. 642 00:29:53,667 --> 00:29:56,633 And I said, oh, Lord Jesus, what am I? 643 00:29:56,689 --> 00:29:59,609 But then all of a sudden I said, no. 644 00:29:59,657 --> 00:30:03,721 Though a thousand may fall on one side and 10,000 on the other, 645 00:30:03,833 --> 00:30:05,721 I will still be standing. 646 00:30:05,833 --> 00:30:08,697 See, what happens is you have two strongholds. 647 00:30:08,761 --> 00:30:11,953 It's either a demonic stronghold or it's a stronghold of 648 00:30:11,969 --> 00:30:12,993 the Word of God. 649 00:30:13,089 --> 00:30:16,625 And what, what you do is you pull down the demonic stronghold 650 00:30:16,705 --> 00:30:19,801 and you say, that thought doesn't sound like my father, that 651 00:30:19,833 --> 00:30:21,649 thought doesn't sound like scripture. 652 00:30:21,737 --> 00:30:24,617 That thought's not his heart, that thought's not his mind. 653 00:30:24,681 --> 00:30:27,841 And the Bible says, take captive every thought that erects 654 00:30:27,873 --> 00:30:32,393 itself up against the word of God and pull it down, subjugate it, 655 00:30:32,489 --> 00:30:33,985 submit it to the Word of God. 656 00:30:34,065 --> 00:30:37,889 And so when I think about dying, I say, No, I will live. 657 00:30:38,017 --> 00:30:38,913 I not die. 658 00:30:38,929 --> 00:30:40,889 And I begin to declare the Word of God. 659 00:30:40,977 --> 00:30:44,993 When I think about help, I say, no, the Lord has forget not 660 00:30:45,049 --> 00:30:46,185 his benefits. 661 00:30:46,305 --> 00:30:47,977 He will renew my youth. 662 00:30:48,041 --> 00:30:51,521 As the eagles see, the Word of God begins to come out. 663 00:30:51,593 --> 00:30:54,049 And so, garbage in, garbage out. 664 00:30:54,137 --> 00:30:55,913 But faith in, faith out. 665 00:30:56,009 --> 00:30:58,525 The Word of God in, the Word of God out. 666 00:30:58,985 --> 00:31:02,833 So then you begin to build this other stronghold. 667 00:31:03,009 --> 00:31:07,433 And it's a stronghold of the Word of God, a stronghold of faith. 668 00:31:07,609 --> 00:31:09,809 And then when things this. 669 00:31:09,897 --> 00:31:13,117 I know that this is hard to even believe, but you could get to 670 00:31:13,141 --> 00:31:18,653 the point where now, when the world outside is chaos in your own 671 00:31:18,709 --> 00:31:20,013 mind, it's peace. 672 00:31:20,189 --> 00:31:23,389 And you go into that stronghold of the Word of God. 673 00:31:23,557 --> 00:31:24,669 Let me just tell you. 674 00:31:24,757 --> 00:31:30,133 The storm was raging around Jesus and his disciples, but Jesus 675 00:31:30,189 --> 00:31:32,061 was in the boat, sleeping. 676 00:31:32,173 --> 00:31:34,253 The boat represents your mind. 677 00:31:34,389 --> 00:31:38,805 If Jesus is in your mind, the storm around you can be raging. 678 00:31:38,845 --> 00:31:42,285 But, baby, I'm going to be sleeping through the whole thing. 679 00:31:42,405 --> 00:31:45,533 Because Christ, I have the mind of Christ. 680 00:31:45,629 --> 00:31:49,997 And the external doesn't matter because the internal is habitated 681 00:31:50,061 --> 00:31:51,349 by God himself. 682 00:31:51,477 --> 00:31:54,693 And I know if he's with me, I can be courageous. 683 00:31:54,789 --> 00:31:57,709 If he's with me, I can face another day. 684 00:31:57,837 --> 00:32:00,437 There's something about building up your mind. 685 00:32:00,621 --> 00:32:04,053 So let's go back to the root, and we're going to be done, because 686 00:32:04,069 --> 00:32:07,355 I want to pray for you across all of our locations. 687 00:32:08,135 --> 00:32:11,115 Proverbs chapter 4, verse 23 says. 688 00:32:11,218 --> 00:32:17,991 So Proverbs 4, 23 says, Keep your corazon with all vigilance, 689 00:32:18,143 --> 00:32:20,675 for from it flow the springs of life. 690 00:32:21,495 --> 00:32:24,795 Keep it says, guard your heart. 691 00:32:25,255 --> 00:32:29,127 For from your heart flows the springs of life. 692 00:32:29,231 --> 00:32:33,015 Now, your heart, and biblically is a synonym for your 693 00:32:33,055 --> 00:32:33,471 mind. 694 00:32:33,583 --> 00:32:34,751 So guard your heart. 695 00:32:34,863 --> 00:32:38,727 Guard your mind, because from it flows everything else. 696 00:32:38,911 --> 00:32:41,991 Can I just tell you, the person that flicks you off on the 697 00:32:42,023 --> 00:32:44,111 road, the problem wasn't you. 698 00:32:44,223 --> 00:32:45,635 The problem was them. 699 00:32:46,575 --> 00:32:50,303 Because there was something in their heart, that level of frustration. 700 00:32:50,439 --> 00:32:54,715 When you squeeze a patient person, patience comes out. 701 00:32:55,095 --> 00:32:57,863 When you squeeze a compassionate person, compassion 702 00:32:57,919 --> 00:32:58,427 comes out. 703 00:32:58,511 --> 00:33:00,979 When you squeeze an angry person, anger comes out. 704 00:33:01,067 --> 00:33:03,075 It's out of the overflow of our life. 705 00:33:03,195 --> 00:33:04,211 It's who you are. 706 00:33:04,283 --> 00:33:07,699 And you can keep blaming the external, but the Bible doesn't talk 707 00:33:07,747 --> 00:33:08,275 that way. 708 00:33:08,355 --> 00:33:11,211 The Bible says it's the internal that comes out. 709 00:33:11,363 --> 00:33:12,763 And so keep your heart. 710 00:33:12,859 --> 00:33:14,575 Somebody say, guard the gate. 711 00:33:15,795 --> 00:33:20,731 So back when 9, 11 happened, I was a teenager and I was working 712 00:33:20,803 --> 00:33:24,797 for the water department off of Lake Michigan, which is Chicago's 713 00:33:24,851 --> 00:33:25,689 Lakeshore. 714 00:33:25,857 --> 00:33:29,873 And it was a job that I was fortunate enough to get to help my 715 00:33:29,929 --> 00:33:33,445 family, where my single mother was in a very bad situation. 716 00:33:33,825 --> 00:33:37,801 And so imagine as a teenager, and the story is partially in the 717 00:33:37,833 --> 00:33:42,273 book, I'm working this job in this filtration plant to help support 718 00:33:42,329 --> 00:33:43,177 my family. 719 00:33:43,321 --> 00:33:46,745 Well, of course, the day of 9, 11, nobody saw coming. 720 00:33:46,905 --> 00:33:50,487 And all of a sudden, I hear over the loudspeaker, signorelli, 721 00:33:50,641 --> 00:33:52,579 please come to the main office. 722 00:33:52,747 --> 00:33:55,387 So I come in from the yard, and they're like, hey. 723 00:33:55,411 --> 00:33:58,835 And they show me on this black and white tv, the first tower was 724 00:33:58,875 --> 00:33:59,707 smoking. 725 00:33:59,891 --> 00:34:03,075 And so, you know, there was just fear that was over everybody. 726 00:34:03,115 --> 00:34:04,595 What's happening to our country? 727 00:34:04,715 --> 00:34:06,707 We're being attacked on our own soil. 728 00:34:06,851 --> 00:34:11,171 So my boss looks at me and he was like, hey, we're getting internal 729 00:34:11,243 --> 00:34:11,931 information. 730 00:34:12,123 --> 00:34:14,135 Because they started to call the different. 731 00:34:14,755 --> 00:34:18,737 The different filtration plants off of the shorelines in America 732 00:34:18,891 --> 00:34:21,941 that there was a potential threat of anthrax being put in the 733 00:34:21,973 --> 00:34:22,733 water supply. 734 00:34:22,829 --> 00:34:24,373 Does anybody remember this? 735 00:34:24,549 --> 00:34:26,509 Some of the older folks might remember. 736 00:34:26,677 --> 00:34:27,077 So. 737 00:34:27,141 --> 00:34:30,109 So my boss literally says, signorelli there. 738 00:34:30,157 --> 00:34:30,405 We're. 739 00:34:30,445 --> 00:34:33,853 We're hearing reports from the government that there might be terrorists 740 00:34:33,909 --> 00:34:36,437 that try to put anthrax in the water supply. 741 00:34:36,581 --> 00:34:39,093 And so what we're going to do is we need you to go to the front 742 00:34:39,149 --> 00:34:41,585 gate, and we need you to guard the gate. 743 00:34:42,045 --> 00:34:45,351 And when he said it, I'll be honest with you, I was filled with 744 00:34:45,413 --> 00:34:45,675 fear. 745 00:34:45,715 --> 00:34:48,483 I was absolutely terrified by this idea. 746 00:34:48,619 --> 00:34:49,739 So I was like, all right, if you. 747 00:34:49,787 --> 00:34:52,403 I mean, if I just felt like, if that's my way to serve, I'll do 748 00:34:52,419 --> 00:34:52,763 it. 749 00:34:52,859 --> 00:34:58,379 So here's me as a teenager sitting out at this gate, and now 750 00:34:58,467 --> 00:35:02,131 this was when I had a Nokia brick phone that was indestructible, 751 00:35:02,283 --> 00:35:03,987 and it only had one thing on it. 752 00:35:04,011 --> 00:35:04,275 It was. 753 00:35:04,315 --> 00:35:05,595 It was called snake. 754 00:35:05,715 --> 00:35:06,979 Anybody remember that? 755 00:35:07,147 --> 00:35:10,825 Some of y'all were wizards at snake just playing that game. 756 00:35:10,915 --> 00:35:14,373 So it wasn't like I was on my phone on the Internet all day. 757 00:35:14,549 --> 00:35:18,221 It was like I had to sit at this gate every single day from 911 758 00:35:18,293 --> 00:35:23,493 onward for weeks and weeks and weeks, just waiting in case a terrorist 759 00:35:23,549 --> 00:35:25,901 came to put anthrax in the water. 760 00:35:26,053 --> 00:35:30,157 Now when I look back to it now, I was thinking to myself, I 761 00:35:30,181 --> 00:35:33,389 bet you my bosses had a conversation, which one of these 762 00:35:33,437 --> 00:35:35,957 jokers down there can we sacrifice first? 763 00:35:36,101 --> 00:35:38,717 And they looked and they said, you know that teenager, Mike, we're 764 00:35:38,741 --> 00:35:39,621 not getting a lot out of him. 765 00:35:39,653 --> 00:35:40,905 Put him at the gate. 766 00:35:41,405 --> 00:35:42,865 It's okay to laugh. 767 00:35:43,565 --> 00:35:45,973 So I promise you, they're probably, yeah, yeah, we'll sacrifice. 768 00:35:46,029 --> 00:35:46,357 Mike. 769 00:35:46,421 --> 00:35:46,621 First. 770 00:35:46,653 --> 00:35:48,565 And then when we see some commotion, we'll. 771 00:35:48,605 --> 00:35:50,185 We'll call 91 1. 772 00:35:50,525 --> 00:35:55,093 But my point is, the understanding was if. 773 00:35:55,149 --> 00:35:59,437 If somebody can throw anthrax in the water, that water goes from 774 00:35:59,461 --> 00:36:02,265 the filtration plant into every single home. 775 00:36:02,725 --> 00:36:07,127 And so what I think that you're not understanding is that 776 00:36:07,231 --> 00:36:11,015 when you look at pornography, you're saying, well, I'm not doing 777 00:36:11,055 --> 00:36:12,647 this with my child. 778 00:36:12,831 --> 00:36:17,815 But what happens is your heart is the filtration plant of your family. 779 00:36:17,935 --> 00:36:21,511 And even though you're not doing it in the same room, you poison 780 00:36:21,583 --> 00:36:24,303 the waters that begin to flow into their life. 781 00:36:24,399 --> 00:36:25,919 It's called impartation. 782 00:36:26,007 --> 00:36:28,823 And some of you think, well, I only smoke in private. 783 00:36:28,959 --> 00:36:32,969 No, the Bible doesn't say that if from your heart flows the waters, 784 00:36:33,057 --> 00:36:36,313 it's trying to help you understand is you've imparted addiction 785 00:36:36,369 --> 00:36:37,393 into your family. 786 00:36:37,489 --> 00:36:38,225 It flows. 787 00:36:38,305 --> 00:36:41,185 And some of you are like, but I want to give my kids water but 788 00:36:41,225 --> 00:36:43,737 not cyanide, water, but not anthrax. 789 00:36:43,801 --> 00:36:45,209 It's all mixed into one. 790 00:36:45,297 --> 00:36:49,153 You've got to go back to the source and say, God, purify my thought 791 00:36:49,209 --> 00:36:49,569 life. 792 00:36:49,657 --> 00:36:53,697 Purify my heart so that what I pass to my children is pure. 793 00:36:53,801 --> 00:36:57,271 I want to forgive everybody so they can live in forgiveness. 794 00:36:57,393 --> 00:37:01,203 I want to live free of addiction, being mastered by nothing 795 00:37:01,299 --> 00:37:04,099 so that I don't pass slavery to my children. 796 00:37:04,227 --> 00:37:06,195 Purify the waters of my heart. 797 00:37:06,275 --> 00:37:10,135 Lord, how many of you with me? 798 00:37:13,595 --> 00:37:16,419 Because there is no such thing as I did it alone. 799 00:37:16,587 --> 00:37:19,467 And this is why Israel repented collectively. 800 00:37:19,611 --> 00:37:21,135 Are you getting a revelation? 801 00:37:21,635 --> 00:37:22,371 Okay, hold on. 802 00:37:22,403 --> 00:37:23,215 On the music. 803 00:37:24,715 --> 00:37:29,775 You'll never read in the Bible a private oh, Lord, forgive me. 804 00:37:30,275 --> 00:37:32,255 It's always forgive us. 805 00:37:32,875 --> 00:37:38,459 Even when Jesus taught them to pray, did he not say, us, forgive 806 00:37:38,547 --> 00:37:39,203 us? 807 00:37:39,379 --> 00:37:42,587 Israel did everything collectively because they understood 808 00:37:42,691 --> 00:37:47,475 if it's in my heart, the rivers, the channels of rivers flow 809 00:37:47,515 --> 00:37:48,395 from my heart. 810 00:37:48,515 --> 00:37:51,911 And it's impossible for me to give you water with without giving 811 00:37:51,943 --> 00:37:53,115 you anthrax. 812 00:37:54,095 --> 00:37:57,327 So what God wants to do is he wants to go into your heart in a 813 00:37:57,351 --> 00:38:00,479 few moments, and he wants to deal with your thought life. 814 00:38:00,527 --> 00:38:03,475 Because you can be saved but be in chains. 815 00:38:03,895 --> 00:38:06,955 You can be regenerated but not be renewed. 816 00:38:07,295 --> 00:38:07,887 You could. 817 00:38:07,951 --> 00:38:11,831 You could be a spirit that's going to heaven, but you could be 818 00:38:11,863 --> 00:38:15,915 a soul that's still in bondage in your mind. 819 00:38:16,575 --> 00:38:21,009 The man who confessed Christ as Savior on the cross went to heaven, 820 00:38:21,177 --> 00:38:23,685 but was still tied to that cross physically. 821 00:38:23,985 --> 00:38:26,881 There were still some areas in his life that never got worked out. 822 00:38:26,953 --> 00:38:31,805 And so salvation is independent of total Freedom. 823 00:38:32,225 --> 00:38:36,761 And so we have to deal with the whole being, your body, just 824 00:38:36,793 --> 00:38:40,245 the woman who has hunched over for almost two decades. 825 00:38:40,665 --> 00:38:43,049 He said, spirit of infirmity, come out. 826 00:38:43,137 --> 00:38:44,713 And she stood up straight. 827 00:38:44,849 --> 00:38:46,993 So the issue is within her body. 828 00:38:47,169 --> 00:38:51,281 So God wants to look now and say, okay, there's different aspects 829 00:38:51,313 --> 00:38:55,561 of you that I want to heal, I want to deliver, but you've got to 830 00:38:55,593 --> 00:38:56,713 let me in. 831 00:38:56,889 --> 00:38:59,281 You've got to let me all the way in. 832 00:38:59,473 --> 00:39:02,369 Philippians, chapter 4, verse 7 says this. 833 00:39:02,537 --> 00:39:07,233 And the peace of God which surpasses all understanding, will 834 00:39:07,289 --> 00:39:11,127 guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 835 00:39:11,321 --> 00:39:11,803 Let me. 836 00:39:11,859 --> 00:39:15,387 Let me give you good news as we close, and we're going to pray 837 00:39:15,411 --> 00:39:16,175 for you. 838 00:39:16,795 --> 00:39:20,011 It's just like when I was terrified guarding the gate. 839 00:39:20,123 --> 00:39:21,691 What if the terrorists show up? 840 00:39:21,763 --> 00:39:24,735 What if I'm not enough to protect this water supply? 841 00:39:25,035 --> 00:39:26,723 See, I was thinking about this scripture. 842 00:39:26,779 --> 00:39:30,227 It says, the peace of God that surpasses all understanding. 843 00:39:30,291 --> 00:39:34,587 It will actually guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. 844 00:39:34,691 --> 00:39:38,877 It's almost as if the Lord was saying, my peace will actually come 845 00:39:38,901 --> 00:39:42,749 up to the gate, and my peace will help you protect the gate. 846 00:39:42,877 --> 00:39:46,461 So when you feel that thought of anxiety, when you feel that thought 847 00:39:46,493 --> 00:39:50,253 of fear, the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will. 848 00:39:50,309 --> 00:39:53,061 Will push you aside and say, let me step up in there. 849 00:39:53,133 --> 00:39:54,405 I'm guarding the gate. 850 00:39:54,485 --> 00:39:55,157 I'm guarding. 851 00:39:55,221 --> 00:39:57,965 It's not going to make sense to you, but I'm guarding the gate. 852 00:39:58,045 --> 00:40:01,005 God's going to meet all your needs according to his riches and 853 00:40:01,045 --> 00:40:01,477 glory. 854 00:40:01,581 --> 00:40:04,385 God's going to make way where there seems to be no way. 855 00:40:04,465 --> 00:40:06,945 God's going to bring up rivers in the desert. 856 00:40:07,025 --> 00:40:10,697 You see, the peace of God helps you guard your mind, and you're 857 00:40:10,721 --> 00:40:11,785 not fighting alone. 858 00:40:11,865 --> 00:40:14,449 And then when you have a church like this, they put their 859 00:40:14,497 --> 00:40:16,945 hands on you and they begin to pray for you. 860 00:40:17,025 --> 00:40:20,049 And they help you believe what you can't believe on your own. 861 00:40:20,137 --> 00:40:23,337 And they help you receive what you can't receive on your own. 862 00:40:23,441 --> 00:40:26,329 Because God will send guardians at the gate. 863 00:40:26,417 --> 00:40:30,191 And I want to be the kind of church that's not gossipers at the 864 00:40:30,223 --> 00:40:30,575 gate. 865 00:40:30,655 --> 00:40:32,535 We are guardians at the gate. 866 00:40:32,615 --> 00:40:35,927 I want a church that will speak the word of truth and will 867 00:40:35,991 --> 00:40:37,743 prophesy a better story. 868 00:40:37,839 --> 00:40:41,247 I want a church that'll look you in your eyes and say, your husband 869 00:40:41,311 --> 00:40:42,303 will be saved. 870 00:40:42,399 --> 00:40:44,167 Your husband will be delivered. 871 00:40:44,271 --> 00:40:46,407 Your children will come to the cross. 872 00:40:46,511 --> 00:40:47,927 Your children will come. 873 00:40:48,031 --> 00:40:48,367 Come on. 874 00:40:48,391 --> 00:40:50,215 We're not gossipers at the gate. 875 00:40:50,295 --> 00:40:52,015 We are guardians at the gate. 876 00:40:52,095 --> 00:40:54,155 And I align with the peace of God. 877 00:40:54,255 --> 00:40:55,915 Your body will be healed. 878 00:40:55,995 --> 00:40:57,859 You will be delivered from that. 879 00:40:57,947 --> 00:40:59,675 God is going to promote you. 880 00:40:59,755 --> 00:41:01,747 You will preach and do your ministry. 881 00:41:01,851 --> 00:41:04,655 I want to be a guardian at the gate. 882 00:41:05,555 --> 00:41:09,387 Come on, jump to your feet and give me a 15 second praise break. 883 00:41:09,571 --> 00:41:12,947 If you're ready to be transformed. 884 00:41:13,091 --> 00:41:14,651 Metamorphosis. 885 00:41:14,843 --> 00:41:17,615 If you're ready to be transformed. 886 00:41:19,685 --> 00:41:21,705 So this is what God will do. 887 00:41:22,765 --> 00:41:25,653 When I first got married, I didn't know how to be a husband. 888 00:41:25,829 --> 00:41:27,705 Julie didn't know how to be a wife. 889 00:41:28,685 --> 00:41:31,465 We had to have a cocoon called counseling. 890 00:41:32,325 --> 00:41:33,665 Oh, I said it. 891 00:41:34,125 --> 00:41:35,141 I said it. 892 00:41:35,253 --> 00:41:36,785 Come on, manly men. 893 00:41:37,565 --> 00:41:39,085 A cocoon called counseling. 894 00:41:39,125 --> 00:41:42,061 Because every time we got into an argument, I would say. 895 00:41:42,173 --> 00:41:43,821 I would say, come on, let's work this out. 896 00:41:43,853 --> 00:41:44,701 We got to work this out. 897 00:41:44,733 --> 00:41:45,765 We got to confront. 898 00:41:45,885 --> 00:41:47,949 And then Julie would say, I gotta run. 899 00:41:48,117 --> 00:41:51,421 And she'd go to the bedroom and slam the door, and she would 900 00:41:51,453 --> 00:41:51,909 lock it. 901 00:41:51,957 --> 00:41:53,029 Then I would open the door. 902 00:41:53,077 --> 00:41:54,405 Come on, we gotta talk this out. 903 00:41:54,445 --> 00:41:56,265 She was like, I'm not talking this out. 904 00:41:57,165 --> 00:42:00,653 And we would go to counseling, and they would say, julie, you have 905 00:42:00,669 --> 00:42:01,781 to learn how to confront. 906 00:42:01,893 --> 00:42:04,741 And Mike, you have to learn how to de escalate because you're 907 00:42:04,773 --> 00:42:05,905 a little crazy. 908 00:42:07,205 --> 00:42:11,053 And they taught us these skills, and they said, we're going 909 00:42:11,069 --> 00:42:14,921 to make a word a safe word, and it's going to be Eskimo because 910 00:42:14,953 --> 00:42:17,681 you're going to go from hot to cold like an Eskimo. 911 00:42:17,833 --> 00:42:20,817 And then I would be talking to Julie, and we would be talking about 912 00:42:20,881 --> 00:42:22,289 something, and we'd start getting a little heated. 913 00:42:22,337 --> 00:42:23,177 She would say, eskimo. 914 00:42:23,201 --> 00:42:25,485 And I'd be like, eskimo already. 915 00:42:26,465 --> 00:42:27,137 What? 916 00:42:27,281 --> 00:42:28,525 Eskimo now? 917 00:42:31,145 --> 00:42:32,545 But we didn't know how to be. 918 00:42:32,585 --> 00:42:32,905 What? 919 00:42:32,985 --> 00:42:35,525 But the problem was our mind. 920 00:42:36,225 --> 00:42:38,129 Physically, there was no problem. 921 00:42:38,177 --> 00:42:39,215 Am I right, Jules? 922 00:42:39,345 --> 00:42:40,335 Come on, girl. 923 00:42:41,955 --> 00:42:43,283 I'm being real. 924 00:42:43,459 --> 00:42:46,947 But this is why marriages fail, because there's no problem 925 00:42:47,011 --> 00:42:49,055 physical, but the problems in the mind. 926 00:42:49,435 --> 00:42:52,691 And what happened was, see, when Julie was being raised, her 927 00:42:52,723 --> 00:42:54,227 parents had a great marriage. 928 00:42:54,371 --> 00:42:58,155 But there also was not a healthy confrontation that she saw. 929 00:42:58,315 --> 00:42:59,939 And some things were ignored. 930 00:43:00,067 --> 00:43:00,795 So guess what? 931 00:43:00,835 --> 00:43:03,731 She learned a lot of good things and a few bad things. 932 00:43:03,923 --> 00:43:07,595 Then when I watched the relationship, I saw confrontation. 933 00:43:07,715 --> 00:43:09,009 And I thought I was going to confront. 934 00:43:09,087 --> 00:43:09,765 Confront. 935 00:43:09,885 --> 00:43:12,917 And isn't it so stupid that you're saying the right thing, but 936 00:43:12,941 --> 00:43:15,837 you're saying it in the wrong way and it nullifies it? 937 00:43:15,941 --> 00:43:17,985 Come on, don't you want to work this out? 938 00:43:19,005 --> 00:43:20,837 Come on, don't we love each other? 939 00:43:20,981 --> 00:43:25,105 She's like, I don't know do we Eskimo? 940 00:43:26,405 --> 00:43:31,461 But I needed a cocoon called biblical counseling, and I needed 941 00:43:31,493 --> 00:43:34,133 to learn what I did not learn before. 942 00:43:34,309 --> 00:43:36,533 And now Julie's the crazy one. 943 00:43:36,589 --> 00:43:37,585 Praise God. 944 00:43:38,805 --> 00:43:39,825 I'm teasing. 945 00:43:42,125 --> 00:43:42,557 So. 946 00:43:42,621 --> 00:43:46,045 But the reason why I say that is because in order to experience 947 00:43:46,165 --> 00:43:51,125 renewal of the mind, there has to be a process that you submit to. 948 00:43:51,285 --> 00:43:53,549 There has to be a journey that you go on. 949 00:43:53,637 --> 00:43:56,533 And so I think this is a call to the cocoon. 950 00:43:56,709 --> 00:43:58,541 This is a call to the cocoon. 951 00:43:58,653 --> 00:43:59,653 This is a call. 952 00:43:59,749 --> 00:44:02,045 This is why we go to church every Sunday. 953 00:44:02,205 --> 00:44:02,893 This is why. 954 00:44:02,949 --> 00:44:04,277 It's a call to prayer. 955 00:44:04,381 --> 00:44:04,885 This is. 956 00:44:04,965 --> 00:44:06,341 This is why we meet in groups. 957 00:44:06,373 --> 00:44:06,661 This. 958 00:44:06,733 --> 00:44:06,981 It's. 959 00:44:07,013 --> 00:44:09,741 We got to go into the cocoon because there's something. 960 00:44:09,853 --> 00:44:13,149 There's a lot of things right, but there's a lot of things wrong. 961 00:44:13,277 --> 00:44:16,357 Just like that bathroom in my house that needed renovation. 962 00:44:16,501 --> 00:44:18,261 Technically, the toilet worked. 963 00:44:18,373 --> 00:44:21,021 Technically, the shower worked, but it all had to be torn 964 00:44:21,053 --> 00:44:21,317 out. 965 00:44:21,381 --> 00:44:23,781 When we tore it out, we found out it was all molded. 966 00:44:23,853 --> 00:44:26,421 And if we would have put something new on top of the old, 967 00:44:26,533 --> 00:44:27,891 everything would have been lost. 968 00:44:28,013 --> 00:44:30,111 So God's calling you to renovate right now. 969 00:44:30,143 --> 00:44:31,287 Do you feel this? 970 00:44:31,431 --> 00:44:33,647 This is a call to renovation. 971 00:44:33,791 --> 00:44:37,791 Some of you have a spirit of religion that always gives you condemnation 972 00:44:37,863 --> 00:44:39,087 and guilt and shame. 973 00:44:39,191 --> 00:44:42,767 And we need to renovate and rip that condemnation and shame out 974 00:44:42,791 --> 00:44:45,175 of your soul where you're beating yourself up. 975 00:44:45,255 --> 00:44:47,935 Some of you still think, I can't wear makeup. 976 00:44:48,055 --> 00:44:48,663 I gotta. 977 00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:50,143 I can't wear a pair of pants. 978 00:44:50,199 --> 00:44:51,527 The devil is a liar. 979 00:44:51,631 --> 00:44:52,751 That's legalism. 980 00:44:52,863 --> 00:44:53,911 Rip that thing out. 981 00:44:53,943 --> 00:44:55,463 That's condemnation. 982 00:44:55,599 --> 00:44:56,279 That's shame. 983 00:44:56,327 --> 00:44:57,191 We don't do that. 984 00:44:57,263 --> 00:44:59,247 Some of you like, I'm not praying enough. 985 00:44:59,351 --> 00:45:03,831 No, we're not called to prayer out of an obligation like say three 986 00:45:03,863 --> 00:45:06,311 Hail Marys and go through a formula. 987 00:45:06,423 --> 00:45:10,975 Prayer for a believer is going into communion with the Father and 988 00:45:11,015 --> 00:45:12,943 saying, father, I'm here to meet you. 989 00:45:13,039 --> 00:45:14,735 Lavish your love on me. 990 00:45:14,855 --> 00:45:15,999 Speak to me, God. 991 00:45:16,087 --> 00:45:18,095 Let me put my head to your chest. 992 00:45:18,215 --> 00:45:19,623 Let me hear your heartbeat. 993 00:45:19,679 --> 00:45:21,963 Father, it's not an obligation. 994 00:45:22,099 --> 00:45:26,219 It's an opportunity to come to the throne, to be in my father's 995 00:45:26,267 --> 00:45:28,035 living room, to hear his voice.