1 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:08,560 Hey, V1 Church, we are so excited to have you in church today. 2 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:12,520 And I just want to give you just a couple of announcements that 3 00:00:12,520 --> 00:00:14,400 are happening tonight. 4 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:18,880 We have Dr. Michael Brown at our old Manhattan campus. 5 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:20,320 Remember the one in the financial district? 6 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:20,840 Yep. 7 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:21,920 That's where we're going to be. 8 00:00:22,080 --> 00:00:23,120 And we want you to come. 9 00:00:23,120 --> 00:00:25,120 This is open to all of our church members. 10 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:27,920 If you live here in the northeast, we want to see you come 11 00:00:27,920 --> 00:00:28,160 out. 12 00:00:28,160 --> 00:00:33,010 That is going to be happening to tonight at the old Manhattan venue. 13 00:00:33,010 --> 00:00:38,730 And then next week on the 7th on Saturday at the Long island campus, 14 00:00:38,890 --> 00:00:43,290 Jonathan Cahn is going to be in person and we want you to come. 15 00:00:43,290 --> 00:00:47,610 If you're local, we would love to have you and we're really excited 16 00:00:47,610 --> 00:00:48,530 about that service. 17 00:00:48,530 --> 00:00:50,610 He's going to have his resources and his books. 18 00:00:50,610 --> 00:00:51,730 He's going to do a book signing. 19 00:00:51,730 --> 00:00:52,650 You don't want to miss it. 20 00:00:52,730 --> 00:00:55,450 That's going to be happening February 7th. 21 00:00:55,450 --> 00:00:56,850 But listen, church, get ready. 22 00:00:56,850 --> 00:01:00,070 How many loved the sermon for from last week? 23 00:01:00,070 --> 00:01:02,630 How many felt like it was life changing, challenging? 24 00:01:02,630 --> 00:01:08,430 One of the things that Mike said, he talked about how Jesus was 25 00:01:08,430 --> 00:01:10,110 rejected in Nazareth. 26 00:01:10,430 --> 00:01:12,270 And here's the thing. 27 00:01:12,590 --> 00:01:16,670 It wasn't because of their lack of power. 28 00:01:16,750 --> 00:01:19,750 It wasn't that Jesus was lacking any power. 29 00:01:19,750 --> 00:01:22,110 It was because they were lacking faith. 30 00:01:22,270 --> 00:01:25,870 And I don't know about you, but my faith is ready. 31 00:01:25,950 --> 00:01:29,710 I want you to stand to your feet, raise the level of your expectation. 32 00:01:30,030 --> 00:01:33,130 And let's welcome our pastor, Mike Signorelli. 33 00:01:33,210 --> 00:01:34,730 Come on, let's bring the word. 34 00:01:36,970 --> 00:01:38,810 Come on, come on, come on. 35 00:01:39,290 --> 00:01:40,650 Today's gonna be amazing. 36 00:01:40,650 --> 00:01:42,250 Hey, stay on your feet right now. 37 00:01:42,410 --> 00:01:42,810 Come on. 38 00:01:42,810 --> 00:01:45,450 I want to pray across every single campus. 39 00:01:45,690 --> 00:01:48,610 Everyone that's at home right now, get up on your feet even if 40 00:01:48,610 --> 00:01:50,210 you're on the couch right now. 41 00:01:50,210 --> 00:01:52,330 We're about to pray and magnify the Lord. 42 00:01:52,570 --> 00:01:53,930 Father, we worship you. 43 00:01:53,930 --> 00:01:55,210 We lift your name up. 44 00:01:55,370 --> 00:01:58,970 I thank you, Lord, that what you're going to do during this sermon 45 00:01:59,050 --> 00:02:04,390 is change our lives forever and speak into the innermost situations, 46 00:02:04,390 --> 00:02:05,590 God and deal with them. 47 00:02:05,670 --> 00:02:09,390 And Lord, I thank you for breakthrough and freedom in Jesus 48 00:02:09,390 --> 00:02:09,670 name. 49 00:02:09,670 --> 00:02:10,070 Come on. 50 00:02:10,070 --> 00:02:13,550 Can somebody just put their hands together for Jesus right now? 51 00:02:13,550 --> 00:02:14,150 Come on. 52 00:02:15,030 --> 00:02:18,750 All right, hey, go ahead and take your seats across every location 53 00:02:18,750 --> 00:02:19,430 right now. 54 00:02:19,510 --> 00:02:22,790 And okay, while you're finding your seats, I want to do a couple 55 00:02:22,790 --> 00:02:24,950 shout outs on Long Island. 56 00:02:25,190 --> 00:02:26,350 You may not know her. 57 00:02:26,350 --> 00:02:28,590 You should get to know her name is Stella. 58 00:02:28,590 --> 00:02:30,950 Jack and come on, Stella. 59 00:02:31,190 --> 00:02:34,790 She is leading 3P now across every campus. 60 00:02:35,250 --> 00:02:39,250 A ministry called Preach, Pray and Prophesy, where we hit the streets 61 00:02:39,250 --> 00:02:42,930 of our local cities and lead the lost to the cross at any cost. 62 00:02:43,250 --> 00:02:46,610 And Stella Jack is leading the charge on Long Island. 63 00:02:46,610 --> 00:02:47,810 And we love you. 64 00:02:47,810 --> 00:02:48,650 We see you. 65 00:02:48,650 --> 00:02:49,650 Keep going, girl. 66 00:02:49,970 --> 00:02:51,170 And then Brooklyn. 67 00:02:52,050 --> 00:02:54,410 Come on, we got Caleb now. 68 00:02:54,410 --> 00:02:54,970 We got it. 69 00:02:54,970 --> 00:02:55,290 Come on. 70 00:02:55,290 --> 00:02:56,930 Put your hands together for Caleb. 71 00:02:57,010 --> 00:02:58,370 Caleb, we love you. 72 00:02:58,530 --> 00:02:59,850 Right there in Brooklyn. 73 00:02:59,850 --> 00:03:02,700 Listen, he moved from Miami. 74 00:03:02,700 --> 00:03:07,300 He is truly suffering for the gospel because he left Miami and 75 00:03:07,300 --> 00:03:10,420 he moved to Brooklyn immediately, joined the team, and 76 00:03:10,420 --> 00:03:11,700 he's just doing a great job. 77 00:03:11,700 --> 00:03:13,340 So we love you, Caleb. 78 00:03:13,340 --> 00:03:14,060 Keep going. 79 00:03:14,220 --> 00:03:14,740 Come on. 80 00:03:14,740 --> 00:03:17,740 Well, I wanna jump into this message, okay? 81 00:03:18,060 --> 00:03:21,980 And it's so important that you follow this journey with Jesus. 82 00:03:22,060 --> 00:03:22,900 The Lord told me. 83 00:03:22,900 --> 00:03:27,190 He said, mike, I want you to do January, February and March, three 84 00:03:27,190 --> 00:03:30,670 months, every single Sunday, journey with Jesus. 85 00:03:30,990 --> 00:03:35,190 Of course, I've been preaching from locations in Israel, and now 86 00:03:35,190 --> 00:03:37,710 we're simulcast around the world, which is amazing. 87 00:03:38,350 --> 00:03:43,150 But we left Bethlehem, went to Nazareth, Nazareth to Capernaum. 88 00:03:43,150 --> 00:03:46,110 And now we're at a very critical moment. 89 00:03:46,270 --> 00:03:48,910 As a matter of fact, I think this is one of the most important 90 00:03:49,470 --> 00:03:52,350 moments of Jesus entire life and ministry. 91 00:03:52,510 --> 00:03:56,790 He goes up to the mountaintop and he teaches the Beatitudes. 92 00:03:56,790 --> 00:04:00,570 And I'm just gonna tell you straight, we don't need another sermon 93 00:04:00,650 --> 00:04:02,450 from another celebrity pastor. 94 00:04:02,450 --> 00:04:03,610 Can I get an amen? 95 00:04:04,730 --> 00:04:06,970 We need to hear from Jesus himself. 96 00:04:07,450 --> 00:04:11,050 So what I'm gonna do is get out of the way, and Jesus is gonna 97 00:04:11,050 --> 00:04:11,370 preach. 98 00:04:11,370 --> 00:04:15,050 As a matter of fact, I'm gonna just speak the words of Christ himself. 99 00:04:15,290 --> 00:04:17,330 And then I'm gonna break this down for you. 100 00:04:17,330 --> 00:04:18,330 Are y' all ready? 101 00:04:18,650 --> 00:04:22,770 Because with what's happening in society, with what's happening 102 00:04:22,770 --> 00:04:26,570 in politics, with what's happening in the body of Christ right 103 00:04:26,570 --> 00:04:30,540 now, if you've got a cell phone signal and a device, you know 104 00:04:30,540 --> 00:04:32,060 that there's a lot happening. 105 00:04:32,220 --> 00:04:35,740 We need the words of Jesus Christ like never before. 106 00:04:36,220 --> 00:04:38,220 And so we're gonna just jump right in. 107 00:04:38,460 --> 00:04:41,500 And there's such an expectation. 108 00:04:41,820 --> 00:04:45,220 I wanna teach you, no matter where you're tuning in from, how 109 00:04:45,220 --> 00:04:46,540 to create the pool. 110 00:04:46,700 --> 00:04:50,260 You know what that means is when you put a demand on the anointing 111 00:04:50,260 --> 00:04:51,900 and you say, God, speak. 112 00:04:52,060 --> 00:04:55,660 I'm here to receive from you that anointing begins to flow. 113 00:04:55,820 --> 00:04:59,880 We can create Nazareth environments where we don for anything. 114 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:05,000 Or we can create Capernaum environments where we say, God, for 115 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:06,840 with you, all things are possible. 116 00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:10,520 So even in the next several minutes, you can create an atmosphere 117 00:05:10,520 --> 00:05:13,240 in your home or right there in the Miami campus. 118 00:05:13,240 --> 00:05:17,080 And you could say, God, I know that the impossible becomes possible 119 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:20,760 because something's stirring in my heart and the Lord's been dealing 120 00:05:20,760 --> 00:05:23,640 with me and I've been looking at these scriptures and I'm like, 121 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:25,000 okay, it's time. 122 00:05:25,700 --> 00:05:28,660 So if you're believing for something, just know that you are 123 00:05:28,660 --> 00:05:32,020 in a kairos, you are in a divine appointment. 124 00:05:32,340 --> 00:05:33,780 So we're gonna go through this. 125 00:05:34,100 --> 00:05:36,100 Matthew, chapter 5, verse 1. 126 00:05:36,180 --> 00:05:38,180 If you have your Bibles, you can start there. 127 00:05:38,340 --> 00:05:39,900 If you're taking notes, write it down. 128 00:05:39,900 --> 00:05:41,780 Matthew, chapter 5, verse 1. 129 00:05:42,020 --> 00:05:45,100 It says, seeing the crowds, he went up. 130 00:05:45,100 --> 00:05:49,340 So Jesus went up on the mountain and when he sat down, his 131 00:05:49,340 --> 00:05:50,740 disciples came to him. 132 00:05:51,590 --> 00:05:55,110 So Jesus don't miss this V1 church. 133 00:05:55,190 --> 00:05:57,590 He didn't start his ministry in a palace. 134 00:05:57,910 --> 00:06:01,230 He didn't start his ministry in Rome, which would have been like 135 00:06:01,230 --> 00:06:04,070 the Washington D.C. the political epicenter. 136 00:06:04,230 --> 00:06:07,590 He didn't start it even in the temple courts, which would have been 137 00:06:07,590 --> 00:06:08,630 like a local church. 138 00:06:09,110 --> 00:06:11,790 Jesus started his ministry up on a mountain. 139 00:06:11,790 --> 00:06:12,390 That's important. 140 00:06:12,710 --> 00:06:15,510 How many of you want to go up on the mountain with me today? 141 00:06:15,510 --> 00:06:16,070 Come on. 142 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:17,920 So we're going to go up on the mountain. 143 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:18,240 Why? 144 00:06:18,480 --> 00:06:22,480 Because a Jewish listener at that time would have understood that 145 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,400 Moses met God up on Sinai. 146 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:29,520 He went to up the mountain to meet God on Sinai. 147 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,400 Elijah met God on Carmel. 148 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:36,240 So Elijah the prophet summits the mountain and God meets with him. 149 00:06:36,400 --> 00:06:39,920 And then Abraham met with God on Mount Moriah. 150 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:45,230 So as Jesus saw these crowds drawing to him, he would have went 151 00:06:45,230 --> 00:06:47,790 up to the mountain and they would have said, wow, this is just 152 00:06:47,790 --> 00:06:51,150 like Moses or like Elijah or like Abraham. 153 00:06:51,550 --> 00:06:54,510 But Jesus was saying, no, no, I'm greater than those. 154 00:06:54,990 --> 00:06:56,190 I'm the Messiah. 155 00:06:56,270 --> 00:06:59,950 And he delivers this sermon that is regarded as the greatest 156 00:06:59,950 --> 00:07:01,270 sermon to ever be preached. 157 00:07:01,270 --> 00:07:03,310 That's why I'm saying we need to hear from him today. 158 00:07:03,870 --> 00:07:06,190 And but this is the important part. 159 00:07:06,830 --> 00:07:09,230 They were expecting a political ruler. 160 00:07:09,550 --> 00:07:12,900 They were expecting that he was going to come and over Rome. 161 00:07:13,140 --> 00:07:17,260 What he did instead was he said, God, your kingdom come, your 162 00:07:17,260 --> 00:07:19,780 will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 163 00:07:20,020 --> 00:07:25,460 And the Beatitude Sermon is like the, it's like the, the constitution 164 00:07:25,540 --> 00:07:26,500 of the kingdom. 165 00:07:26,740 --> 00:07:29,380 It's like he was saying, listen, Rome's going to pass away, 166 00:07:29,860 --> 00:07:33,220 governments are going to fail, but there is a government that is 167 00:07:33,220 --> 00:07:36,820 upon my shoulders that I'm bringing into the earth that is never 168 00:07:36,820 --> 00:07:38,820 going to fail and it's going to last forever. 169 00:07:39,200 --> 00:07:39,440 Come on. 170 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:41,280 I feel the anointing already on this. 171 00:07:41,760 --> 00:07:45,520 So we have to understand the language of the Beatitude Sermon 172 00:07:45,520 --> 00:07:48,720 because it is the constitution that governs this kingdom. 173 00:07:49,200 --> 00:07:54,000 And he was not Coming as some guru about, you know, how to be successful, 174 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:57,760 how to build your personal brand and go viral, how to grow a 175 00:07:57,760 --> 00:07:58,240 platform. 176 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:03,920 He was saying, this is how citizens of my kingdom are going 177 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:04,400 to live. 178 00:08:04,820 --> 00:08:06,580 And it's incredibly profound. 179 00:08:06,740 --> 00:08:09,060 So let me tell you who he was speaking to. 180 00:08:09,460 --> 00:08:14,420 Jesus was speaking to the oppressed Jews under the Roman Empire. 181 00:08:14,660 --> 00:08:17,620 They had a very difficult life under that Roman Empire. 182 00:08:17,780 --> 00:08:21,900 He was speaking to the religious Jewish leaders who were 183 00:08:21,900 --> 00:08:24,980 addicted to control, made people feel like they weren't good 184 00:08:24,980 --> 00:08:25,300 enough. 185 00:08:25,700 --> 00:08:29,780 He was speaking to poor people who were craving some sort of hope 186 00:08:29,780 --> 00:08:30,660 for their life that. 187 00:08:30,970 --> 00:08:32,730 That they could break out of all of this. 188 00:08:32,890 --> 00:08:36,250 And he was speaking to disciples that were hungry for the 189 00:08:36,250 --> 00:08:38,490 truth, and they believed him to be the Messiah. 190 00:08:38,650 --> 00:08:40,090 And this is what he says. 191 00:08:40,570 --> 00:08:44,130 He basically says, I'm going to take the system and I'm going 192 00:08:44,130 --> 00:08:47,450 to flip the entire system upside down right now. 193 00:08:47,610 --> 00:08:51,210 There is a system in the Earth, there's a system in America. 194 00:08:51,210 --> 00:08:54,010 There's a system in Europe, in Africa and Asia. 195 00:08:54,330 --> 00:08:59,140 And in very similar ways, we are born into these systems. 196 00:08:59,140 --> 00:09:00,180 We're programmed. 197 00:09:00,180 --> 00:09:02,740 And Jesus is coming to turn them upside down. 198 00:09:02,980 --> 00:09:06,660 And it's important because the way that he talked is so different. 199 00:09:06,660 --> 00:09:07,380 Follow me. 200 00:09:07,380 --> 00:09:10,820 I'm gonna break down Matthew, chapter 5, verses 3 through 12. 201 00:09:11,140 --> 00:09:12,140 But let's just. 202 00:09:12,140 --> 00:09:14,260 Let me give you just a little beginning here. 203 00:09:14,500 --> 00:09:16,660 Blessed are the poor in spirit. 204 00:09:17,140 --> 00:09:18,740 Blessed are those who mourn. 205 00:09:19,220 --> 00:09:20,660 Blessed are the meek. 206 00:09:21,140 --> 00:09:24,830 Okay, so I'm in graduate level Greek right now. 207 00:09:25,150 --> 00:09:25,710 It is. 208 00:09:25,710 --> 00:09:27,070 It is Greek to me. 209 00:09:27,070 --> 00:09:27,470 It's. 210 00:09:27,470 --> 00:09:29,870 It's very difficult and I'm learning. 211 00:09:30,350 --> 00:09:33,190 But as I looked at this word in the Greek, blessed. 212 00:09:33,190 --> 00:09:35,390 Cause, you know, we all say, hashtag, blessed life. 213 00:09:35,630 --> 00:09:36,390 I'm blessed. 214 00:09:36,390 --> 00:09:36,950 I'm blessed. 215 00:09:36,950 --> 00:09:39,270 You know, the old school Fred Hammond crew. 216 00:09:39,270 --> 00:09:40,670 I'm blessed in the city. 217 00:09:41,150 --> 00:09:41,750 I'm bl. 218 00:09:41,750 --> 00:09:44,510 Come on, y' all know, where are my old school people at? 219 00:09:44,750 --> 00:09:45,310 But we. 220 00:09:45,310 --> 00:09:47,390 We talk about living the blessed life. 221 00:09:47,790 --> 00:09:50,710 So if you go back and say, well, what was the meaning of the 222 00:09:50,710 --> 00:09:52,510 word blessed that Jesus used? 223 00:09:53,070 --> 00:09:58,750 It means deeply satisfied, approved by God, and flourishing. 224 00:09:58,830 --> 00:10:00,350 How many of you wanna flourish? 225 00:10:00,670 --> 00:10:02,830 How many of you wanna be approved by God? 226 00:10:02,990 --> 00:10:05,390 How many of you wanna be deeply satisfied? 227 00:10:05,710 --> 00:10:07,550 So, but let me flip it, though. 228 00:10:07,550 --> 00:10:08,550 Cause this is crazy. 229 00:10:08,550 --> 00:10:13,070 Jesus says, hey, the people that you think are losing, when the 230 00:10:13,070 --> 00:10:16,990 kingdom enters the Earth, those people are actually winning. 231 00:10:17,630 --> 00:10:21,750 The people that you think are weak, when the kingdom enters, they 232 00:10:21,750 --> 00:10:23,430 actually become powerful. 233 00:10:23,670 --> 00:10:27,550 The people that you think are cursed, when the kingdom comes, they're 234 00:10:27,550 --> 00:10:28,550 actually favored. 235 00:10:28,950 --> 00:10:29,750 Oh, come on. 236 00:10:29,750 --> 00:10:33,710 The people that the kingdom is the opposite of the way that we've 237 00:10:33,710 --> 00:10:34,790 been programmed to think. 238 00:10:34,790 --> 00:10:37,910 I don't know about you, but there's gotta be somebody watching 239 00:10:37,910 --> 00:10:42,550 right now that can give God a 5 second praise break because they 240 00:10:42,550 --> 00:10:45,590 were cursed, but then they were set free from the curse. 241 00:10:45,830 --> 00:10:46,430 Come on. 242 00:10:46,430 --> 00:10:47,430 There was a flip. 243 00:10:47,670 --> 00:10:48,030 Come on. 244 00:10:48,030 --> 00:10:52,390 God put down that uno reverse card on the devil and said, no, you 245 00:10:52,390 --> 00:10:54,150 thought they were going to lose. 246 00:10:54,310 --> 00:10:57,510 But the first shall be last and the last will be first. 247 00:10:57,510 --> 00:10:58,790 It's a reversal. 248 00:10:58,870 --> 00:10:59,310 Come on. 249 00:10:59,310 --> 00:11:02,870 Can somebody shout unto God if they know what I'm talking about? 250 00:11:03,190 --> 00:11:05,110 It was a divine reversal. 251 00:11:05,270 --> 00:11:06,230 But when Jesus. 252 00:11:06,230 --> 00:11:06,750 Come on. 253 00:11:06,750 --> 00:11:09,510 When Jesus was teaching this on the Mount of Olives. 254 00:11:10,470 --> 00:11:13,950 I'm sorry, the Beatitudes, when he was teaching this before 255 00:11:13,950 --> 00:11:17,570 he went to the Mount of Olives, they didn't have a context, 256 00:11:17,570 --> 00:11:20,010 they didn't understand what he was saying. 257 00:11:20,490 --> 00:11:24,770 And because in their mind, you were blessed if you had a lot of 258 00:11:24,770 --> 00:11:25,130 wealth. 259 00:11:25,690 --> 00:11:29,290 But Jesus would say things like, what does it profit a man to 260 00:11:29,290 --> 00:11:32,570 gain the whole world, yet you lose your own soul? 261 00:11:32,970 --> 00:11:36,290 So he was constantly redefining what they thought was 262 00:11:36,290 --> 00:11:39,290 success, and he was flipping it upside down. 263 00:11:39,450 --> 00:11:41,090 So I want to go through the Beatitudes. 264 00:11:41,090 --> 00:11:42,350 With me, with you right now. 265 00:11:42,590 --> 00:11:44,510 Number one, poor in spirit. 266 00:11:44,510 --> 00:11:46,830 This is probably the hardest one for me to understand. 267 00:11:47,310 --> 00:11:50,990 And I spend a lot of time in prayer and deep meditation on this 268 00:11:50,990 --> 00:11:51,310 one. 269 00:11:51,550 --> 00:11:55,390 Matthew, chapter 5, verse 3 says, Blessed are the poor in spirit, 270 00:11:55,390 --> 00:11:58,190 for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. 271 00:11:58,830 --> 00:12:00,430 And this was hard. 272 00:12:00,430 --> 00:12:03,470 I'm like, what does it mean, poor in spirit? 273 00:12:04,750 --> 00:12:06,510 Let me tell you what it does not mean. 274 00:12:06,670 --> 00:12:08,510 It does not mean insecure. 275 00:12:08,510 --> 00:12:10,430 It doesn't say, bless are the insecure. 276 00:12:11,140 --> 00:12:16,980 It means the ones who are poor in spirit say, I know that I am nothing 277 00:12:17,220 --> 00:12:18,420 apart from God. 278 00:12:18,500 --> 00:12:21,300 He is the vine and I am the branch. 279 00:12:21,540 --> 00:12:24,260 Apart from him, I am nothing. 280 00:12:24,340 --> 00:12:27,220 Is there anybody who is poor in spirit? 281 00:12:27,300 --> 00:12:28,060 Who knows? 282 00:12:28,060 --> 00:12:30,260 I was lost, now I'm found. 283 00:12:30,420 --> 00:12:32,460 I was blind, now I see. 284 00:12:32,460 --> 00:12:35,460 And I know that I am nothing without him. 285 00:12:36,430 --> 00:12:41,030 Isaiah, chapter 66, verse 2 says, this is the one to whom I will 286 00:12:41,030 --> 00:12:41,390 look. 287 00:12:41,790 --> 00:12:45,830 So if you want to get the eyes of God upon you, seven billion people 288 00:12:45,830 --> 00:12:48,190 on the planet, this is how you do it. 289 00:12:48,350 --> 00:12:52,190 It's the one who is humble and contrite in spirit. 290 00:12:52,750 --> 00:12:53,670 What does that mean? 291 00:12:53,670 --> 00:12:55,790 It doesn't mean contrite in the flesh. 292 00:12:56,270 --> 00:12:58,910 It doesn't say the ones who look contrite. 293 00:12:58,990 --> 00:13:01,030 It says, contrite in the spirit. 294 00:13:01,030 --> 00:13:01,390 Why? 295 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:04,480 Because in the Catholic Church, everybody, they kneel at 296 00:13:04,480 --> 00:13:05,120 the same time. 297 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:09,120 But not everybody surrendered in the Protestant church. 298 00:13:09,120 --> 00:13:12,400 Everybody lift their hands during worship, but not everybody 299 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:13,240 surrendered. 300 00:13:13,240 --> 00:13:15,720 It doesn't say that they look contrite. 301 00:13:15,720 --> 00:13:18,360 It says they are contrite in the Spirit. 302 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:21,720 And the Spirit knows whether it's true worship or not. 303 00:13:21,800 --> 00:13:24,560 And there's some people that go through the motions, but then 304 00:13:24,560 --> 00:13:27,840 there's some other kind of people who say, no, God, I know that 305 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:31,160 I'm nothing without you, and I humble myself before you. 306 00:13:31,160 --> 00:13:32,920 I'm spiritually bankrupt. 307 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:34,580 I've got no resume. 308 00:13:34,580 --> 00:13:38,500 God, all of my degrees, everything I've learned, I counted 309 00:13:38,500 --> 00:13:39,100 as nothing. 310 00:13:39,100 --> 00:13:42,540 I'm a fool before you have your way in my life because your 311 00:13:42,540 --> 00:13:46,260 ways are higher than my ways and your thoughts are higher than 312 00:13:46,260 --> 00:13:46,860 my thoughts. 313 00:13:46,860 --> 00:13:47,300 Come on. 314 00:13:47,700 --> 00:13:50,500 Is there an old church mother who knows what I'm talking about? 315 00:13:50,580 --> 00:13:55,020 When God comes in and messes up all your experience and does something 316 00:13:55,020 --> 00:13:58,940 that defies all of what you thought could happen, there's something 317 00:13:58,940 --> 00:14:00,820 about being poor in spirit. 318 00:14:00,980 --> 00:14:03,060 No more spiritual flexing. 319 00:14:03,140 --> 00:14:05,300 No more celebrities on the Internet. 320 00:14:05,520 --> 00:14:07,120 No more celebrity pastors. 321 00:14:07,200 --> 00:14:10,760 Just pastors who say, I'm dependent on him for every breath 322 00:14:10,760 --> 00:14:11,600 I'm breathing. 323 00:14:11,680 --> 00:14:14,880 Just pastors who know I can't preach my own opinion. 324 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:18,000 I gotta say, thus saith the Lord, according to scripture. 325 00:14:18,160 --> 00:14:18,720 Come on. 326 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:23,760 And what happens is, this kills pride, Christianity, this kills 327 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:25,360 platform obsession. 328 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:26,320 This kills. 329 00:14:26,320 --> 00:14:27,360 Look at me. 330 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:28,800 And kingdom. 331 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:32,310 People say, God, without you, nothing. 332 00:14:32,790 --> 00:14:33,270 Come on. 333 00:14:33,270 --> 00:14:34,470 Beatitude number two. 334 00:14:34,470 --> 00:14:35,430 Let's pick up the pace. 335 00:14:35,430 --> 00:14:36,150 Y' all ready? 336 00:14:36,150 --> 00:14:36,990 Y' all ready? 337 00:14:36,990 --> 00:14:37,510 Come on. 338 00:14:37,830 --> 00:14:39,190 Beatitude number two. 339 00:14:40,790 --> 00:14:41,750 Holy grief. 340 00:14:42,150 --> 00:14:45,430 Matthew, chapter five, verse four, says, blessed are those who 341 00:14:45,430 --> 00:14:48,070 mourn, for they shall be comforted. 342 00:14:48,150 --> 00:14:52,070 I'll be honest, when I read this, I thought it meant those who 343 00:14:52,070 --> 00:14:56,470 mourn a loss in their family, those who mourn over a divorce. 344 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:58,560 I mean, I'll just tell you straight up. 345 00:14:58,560 --> 00:15:02,400 Prophets have been telling me every single year that it's gonna 346 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:03,040 be my year. 347 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:05,680 And I don't know if it's ever been my year yet. 348 00:15:05,680 --> 00:15:07,440 Does anybody know what I'm talking about? 349 00:15:07,760 --> 00:15:10,320 I mean, it's like I've been. 350 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:13,640 I just keep getting older, and I've never had an easy year yet. 351 00:15:13,640 --> 00:15:15,960 Have any of y' all had an easy year yet? 352 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:17,520 I've never had an easy year. 353 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,320 And so we all have a reason to mourn. 354 00:15:20,720 --> 00:15:23,450 We all have a reason to be sad to. 355 00:15:23,450 --> 00:15:23,810 But. 356 00:15:23,810 --> 00:15:24,130 But. 357 00:15:24,130 --> 00:15:25,970 So I thought, well, blessed are those who mourn. 358 00:15:25,970 --> 00:15:26,490 Well, we're. 359 00:15:27,050 --> 00:15:29,730 By that definition, all of us would be blessed. 360 00:15:29,730 --> 00:15:30,930 But that's not what it says. 361 00:15:30,930 --> 00:15:32,090 Let's look at the text. 362 00:15:32,650 --> 00:15:33,610 It says this. 363 00:15:34,090 --> 00:15:35,370 Blessed are those who Mourn. 364 00:15:35,370 --> 00:15:36,810 Look at the original language. 365 00:15:37,050 --> 00:15:40,330 Not mourning, hardship, morning sin. 366 00:15:41,290 --> 00:15:46,970 Second Corinthians, chapter 7, verse 10 says, Godly grief produces 367 00:15:46,970 --> 00:15:49,800 a repentance that leads to salvation. 368 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:55,000 So this is brokenness over compromise. 369 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:57,880 This is mourning my sin. 370 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:02,040 It's when I stop being sad because I couldn't pay my bills. 371 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:04,880 I stopped being sad because I lost a loved one. 372 00:16:04,880 --> 00:16:08,760 And I say, man, the real tragedy in my life is that Jesus 373 00:16:08,760 --> 00:16:12,600 Christ died on the cross and I cheapened that grace by going back 374 00:16:12,600 --> 00:16:15,760 to that sin like a dog goes back to its vomit. 375 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:19,950 And God teach me to mourn for my sin and break my heart for what 376 00:16:20,260 --> 00:16:20,980 breaks yours. 377 00:16:20,980 --> 00:16:22,100 And God teaches. 378 00:16:22,100 --> 00:16:24,780 And I'm telling you, when you get into that place of mourning where 379 00:16:24,780 --> 00:16:28,540 you say, God, I don't fully even understand why it's wrong, because 380 00:16:28,540 --> 00:16:29,860 it feels so good. 381 00:16:30,020 --> 00:16:34,100 But, God, I know you said I shouldn't do it, so break me over 382 00:16:34,100 --> 00:16:34,740 this thing. 383 00:16:34,900 --> 00:16:37,220 Then when that happens, you'll be blessed. 384 00:16:38,580 --> 00:16:42,980 Because there's people who sin and they feel no remorse because 385 00:16:42,980 --> 00:16:46,780 another verse says their conscience becomes seared with a 386 00:16:46,780 --> 00:16:47,460 hot iron. 387 00:16:48,130 --> 00:16:52,410 In other words, they continually and perpetually sin to 388 00:16:52,410 --> 00:16:55,570 the point where God just turns them over to themselves. 389 00:16:56,450 --> 00:16:58,050 It's the lack of mourning. 390 00:16:58,050 --> 00:17:01,330 As a matter of fact, when the world reaches the highest level of 391 00:17:01,330 --> 00:17:05,010 perversion, they celebrate their sin and build whole communities 392 00:17:05,010 --> 00:17:05,650 with it. 393 00:17:05,810 --> 00:17:07,570 But we do the opposite. 394 00:17:07,570 --> 00:17:08,450 We mourn it. 395 00:17:08,450 --> 00:17:11,570 And this kills some things. 396 00:17:12,050 --> 00:17:15,339 You know, it kills casual sin. 397 00:17:15,579 --> 00:17:16,339 It kills. 398 00:17:16,339 --> 00:17:17,699 Well, nobody's perfect. 399 00:17:17,699 --> 00:17:18,539 Christianity. 400 00:17:18,619 --> 00:17:20,259 Listen, that sounds encouraging. 401 00:17:20,259 --> 00:17:21,379 Nobody's perfect. 402 00:17:21,379 --> 00:17:23,019 But that's not what the word said. 403 00:17:23,099 --> 00:17:27,179 It actually says the perfecting of the saints, which means 404 00:17:27,179 --> 00:17:30,379 we are going through a process called sanctification. 405 00:17:30,539 --> 00:17:32,219 It's a refiner's fire. 406 00:17:32,379 --> 00:17:35,259 And when I was a baby, I spoke like a baby. 407 00:17:35,339 --> 00:17:39,419 But when I became a man, I put away childish things and I began 408 00:17:39,419 --> 00:17:42,819 to talk like a man, and I began to stand up with integrity 409 00:17:42,819 --> 00:17:43,819 and righteousness. 410 00:17:43,819 --> 00:17:47,400 And I don't know about you, but I shouldn't be stuck on the same 411 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:49,800 cycles of sin the entire time. 412 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:52,360 The Bible doesn't say I go from pit to pit. 413 00:17:52,360 --> 00:17:54,520 It says I go from glory to glory. 414 00:17:54,600 --> 00:17:57,800 Is there anybody under the sound of my voice who says, I'm ready 415 00:17:57,800 --> 00:18:01,640 to break a cycle, to start a righteous one, and this time I'm 416 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:03,960 going higher instead of going back down? 417 00:18:03,960 --> 00:18:05,400 You know what I'm talking about? 418 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:06,040 Come on. 419 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:09,720 And the reason why it's important to say this is because 420 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:12,040 the church will say, well, nobody's perfect. 421 00:18:12,040 --> 00:18:14,760 But Jesus will say, now go and sin no more. 422 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:17,780 How Many of you think we need to start sounding more like Jesus 423 00:18:17,780 --> 00:18:19,780 if we're gonna be Jesus disciples. 424 00:18:20,340 --> 00:18:23,060 The real encouragement is not nobody's perfect. 425 00:18:23,140 --> 00:18:27,100 The encouragement is just one drop of that blood from the hill 426 00:18:27,100 --> 00:18:28,100 called Calvary. 427 00:18:28,180 --> 00:18:32,420 Once that blood washes you, once he regenerates you, once the 428 00:18:32,420 --> 00:18:36,300 Holy Spirit convicts you, the truth of the word of God is whom 429 00:18:36,300 --> 00:18:37,660 the Son sets free. 430 00:18:37,660 --> 00:18:38,780 Come on, help me say it. 431 00:18:38,780 --> 00:18:40,980 Around the world is free indeed. 432 00:18:41,380 --> 00:18:44,260 And I'm just not gonna settle for partial freedom. 433 00:18:44,910 --> 00:18:46,190 Beatitude Number three. 434 00:18:46,430 --> 00:18:47,590 Come on, are y' all with me? 435 00:18:47,590 --> 00:18:48,750 Are you hanging with me today? 436 00:18:48,750 --> 00:18:49,870 Are you taking notes? 437 00:18:50,030 --> 00:18:51,470 Beatitude number three. 438 00:18:51,630 --> 00:18:53,470 Matthew, chapter five, verse five. 439 00:18:53,630 --> 00:18:56,830 Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. 440 00:18:57,310 --> 00:18:58,510 Oh, the meek. 441 00:18:58,750 --> 00:18:59,870 He's just shy. 442 00:19:00,030 --> 00:19:03,310 He's shy around adults, you know, he's meek. 443 00:19:03,310 --> 00:19:05,790 No, meekness is not weakness. 444 00:19:06,510 --> 00:19:11,030 As a matter of fact, the same Greek word here for meek is the word 445 00:19:11,030 --> 00:19:13,630 that they would use to describe a war horse. 446 00:19:14,550 --> 00:19:18,590 So when they would saddle up horses and take them into war, horses 447 00:19:18,590 --> 00:19:20,270 don't want to ride into war. 448 00:19:20,270 --> 00:19:21,830 It's against their instinct. 449 00:19:22,070 --> 00:19:25,950 But if they would submit to the rider and be willing to ride 450 00:19:25,950 --> 00:19:29,949 into the flames, into the battle, into the sound of the clashing 451 00:19:29,949 --> 00:19:32,950 of swords, they would say, this horse is meek. 452 00:19:33,350 --> 00:19:35,270 What they were saying was they didn't say. 453 00:19:35,270 --> 00:19:37,110 They wasn't saying, this horse is weak. 454 00:19:37,270 --> 00:19:41,980 This horse is so submitted to the rider that it will go into an 455 00:19:41,980 --> 00:19:43,660 area it doesn't want to go. 456 00:19:43,820 --> 00:19:45,340 Here's my question to you. 457 00:19:45,740 --> 00:19:48,540 Is that the definition of meekness over your life? 458 00:19:48,620 --> 00:19:52,380 Are you so submitted to God that if he tells you to go into the 459 00:19:52,380 --> 00:19:56,339 barrio of Brooklyn, if he tells you go into the filthiest part 460 00:19:56,339 --> 00:20:00,140 of Manhattan, if he tells you to go to Gary, Indiana, if he tells 461 00:20:00,140 --> 00:20:03,180 you to go, you say, God, ride me into battle. 462 00:20:03,180 --> 00:20:06,580 I will do whatever you tell me to do, and I'll go wherever you tell 463 00:20:06,580 --> 00:20:07,100 me to go. 464 00:20:07,530 --> 00:20:10,010 Some of us won't even witness at the grocery store. 465 00:20:10,010 --> 00:20:12,410 But we're asking God to put us at the conference. 466 00:20:12,490 --> 00:20:13,490 No, no, no, no. 467 00:20:13,490 --> 00:20:14,810 Let's start with the basics. 468 00:20:14,810 --> 00:20:16,490 God, I'm submitted to you. 469 00:20:16,970 --> 00:20:17,610 Come on. 470 00:20:17,850 --> 00:20:21,370 And this is the thing, is watch how many of you wave at me 471 00:20:21,370 --> 00:20:22,250 at every location. 472 00:20:22,250 --> 00:20:24,330 If you've been reading your daily growth journal. 473 00:20:24,570 --> 00:20:25,090 Come on. 474 00:20:25,090 --> 00:20:25,690 I see you. 475 00:20:25,690 --> 00:20:27,210 I'm looking, I'm making a list. 476 00:20:27,210 --> 00:20:28,330 I'm checking it twice. 477 00:20:29,370 --> 00:20:33,740 We just read last week in the daily growth journal that this is 478 00:20:33,740 --> 00:20:34,340 what it says. 479 00:20:34,500 --> 00:20:37,580 It says that wives are submitted to their husbands. 480 00:20:37,580 --> 00:20:38,900 So the husband's over the wives. 481 00:20:38,900 --> 00:20:39,780 Come on, Julie. 482 00:20:39,780 --> 00:20:40,820 Say Amen, Julie. 483 00:20:41,220 --> 00:20:43,940 Then it says that Christ is over the husband. 484 00:20:44,100 --> 00:20:45,700 And then who does it say is over? 485 00:20:45,700 --> 00:20:46,100 Christ. 486 00:20:46,820 --> 00:20:47,300 God. 487 00:20:47,460 --> 00:20:48,740 Come on, you just read that. 488 00:20:49,380 --> 00:20:52,740 So it's God, Christ, the husband, and the wife. 489 00:20:53,220 --> 00:20:57,500 That means that even when Jesus showed up, Jesus didn't go 490 00:20:57,500 --> 00:20:58,500 on his own volition. 491 00:20:59,220 --> 00:21:03,300 Jesus was sent by God, for God so loved the world that he. 492 00:21:03,300 --> 00:21:04,300 Come on, you're getting it. 493 00:21:04,300 --> 00:21:06,740 He sent his only begotten son. 494 00:21:06,900 --> 00:21:07,740 So here's the thing. 495 00:21:07,740 --> 00:21:09,620 Jesus didn't have a ministry. 496 00:21:10,020 --> 00:21:14,260 Jesus was sent on behalf of God to do the will of the Father. 497 00:21:14,260 --> 00:21:16,500 Even Jesus said, I don't do my will. 498 00:21:16,580 --> 00:21:18,020 I do the will of my Father. 499 00:21:18,020 --> 00:21:21,460 But you got Christians that just make their own ministry. 500 00:21:21,540 --> 00:21:24,660 You got Christians who just decide they're gonna go do something. 501 00:21:24,740 --> 00:21:25,420 No, no, no. 502 00:21:25,420 --> 00:21:27,300 Even Jesus didn't do that. 503 00:21:27,300 --> 00:21:30,320 Jesus said, this is not my will, it's his will. 504 00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:31,520 He sent me. 505 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:35,200 So the real question, if you're meek, is who sent you? 506 00:21:35,280 --> 00:21:36,480 Are you submitted? 507 00:21:36,560 --> 00:21:40,000 Are you saying, God, I'll go when you tell me to go, and I'll 508 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:41,440 stay when you tell me to stay. 509 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:47,080 And so Jesus says In Matthew, chapter 11, verse 29, I am gentle 510 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:48,400 and lowly in heart. 511 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:52,200 Now, he was gentle, but he'll fashion a whip and flip some tables. 512 00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:53,120 Come on, somebody. 513 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:55,760 Because meekness is not weakness. 514 00:21:56,620 --> 00:21:59,860 So even though he's saying, I'm gentle, I'm lowly in heart, I'm 515 00:21:59,860 --> 00:22:03,620 meek, that he still gives them permission to flip tables when God 516 00:22:03,620 --> 00:22:05,260 says it's time to flip tables. 517 00:22:05,340 --> 00:22:07,180 Come on, don't get any ideas today. 518 00:22:07,980 --> 00:22:11,100 So this kills outrage culture. 519 00:22:11,260 --> 00:22:13,100 It kills the ego wars. 520 00:22:13,180 --> 00:22:16,140 It kills the social media rage that we feel. 521 00:22:16,460 --> 00:22:19,740 And you don't have to defend yourself because God defends you. 522 00:22:19,900 --> 00:22:23,800 As a matter of fact, when Jesus was sent by God, he's like, 523 00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:25,120 this is God's mission. 524 00:22:25,120 --> 00:22:27,760 You think you're fighting me, but you're fighting God. 525 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:29,760 Some of you need to get that revelation. 526 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:33,520 If God sent you to do it, they think they're talking about you, 527 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:36,960 but they're putting their mouth on God's plan and God's person 528 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:37,760 for that plan. 529 00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:39,000 And you better watch out. 530 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:39,519 Come on. 531 00:22:39,519 --> 00:22:40,960 That's between them and God. 532 00:22:40,960 --> 00:22:42,840 I gotta be a faithful messenger. 533 00:22:42,840 --> 00:22:45,320 I gotta be faithful to do what he told me to do. 534 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,160 But listen, my obligation is obedience. 535 00:22:48,560 --> 00:22:50,390 God's promise is defense. 536 00:22:50,780 --> 00:22:51,100 Whoo. 537 00:22:51,100 --> 00:22:51,660 Come on. 538 00:22:51,900 --> 00:22:54,180 My obligation is I'm gonna be obedient. 539 00:22:54,180 --> 00:22:57,420 But then his promise is that he's a strong defender. 540 00:22:57,420 --> 00:22:57,940 And every. 541 00:22:57,940 --> 00:22:58,460 Come on. 542 00:22:58,620 --> 00:23:01,660 Every tongue that rises against us, he'll deal with it. 543 00:23:50,991 --> 00:23:56,751 You Know, when I look at meekness, I see the question of submission 544 00:23:57,311 --> 00:23:59,311 and look at beatitude. 545 00:23:59,551 --> 00:24:01,231 Number four, hunger and thirst. 546 00:24:01,711 --> 00:24:03,391 Matthew, chapter five, verse six. 547 00:24:03,391 --> 00:24:06,491 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for 548 00:24:06,491 --> 00:24:07,891 they will be satisfied. 549 00:24:08,771 --> 00:24:13,171 You know, there's two ways that you increase your hunger for 550 00:24:13,171 --> 00:24:14,051 righteousness. 551 00:24:14,691 --> 00:24:18,011 Number one is surround yourself by a ton of unrighteous 552 00:24:18,011 --> 00:24:18,371 people. 553 00:24:18,851 --> 00:24:21,731 Sometimes you get in an environment where those people are 554 00:24:21,731 --> 00:24:24,651 so perverse and so evil that it just. 555 00:24:24,651 --> 00:24:27,171 It literally makes you crave righteousness. 556 00:24:27,331 --> 00:24:29,891 You know, it's like, man, I don't want to be like this. 557 00:24:30,211 --> 00:24:32,541 Sometimes God gives us the mentors. 558 00:24:32,541 --> 00:24:34,781 Not the ones we want, but the ones we need. 559 00:24:35,181 --> 00:24:39,421 You know, I thank God that I was raised by an unrighteous biological 560 00:24:39,421 --> 00:24:43,101 father because it made me want to be a dad to my children and a 561 00:24:43,101 --> 00:24:45,581 husband to my wife that I never saw him be. 562 00:24:45,661 --> 00:24:47,141 Listen, sometimes you don't. 563 00:24:47,141 --> 00:24:51,181 Sometimes Moses needs Pharaoh, sometimes David needs Saul. 564 00:24:51,261 --> 00:24:55,101 And God will give you the mentor you need to create a hunger 565 00:24:55,101 --> 00:24:56,861 for righteousness and holiness. 566 00:24:57,671 --> 00:25:00,271 The other way that it'll happen is you'll get around some 567 00:25:00,271 --> 00:25:01,191 people who will pray. 568 00:25:01,271 --> 00:25:03,031 And they don't tell you they pray. 569 00:25:03,111 --> 00:25:06,391 But you know, they pray because the fragrance of heaven is 570 00:25:06,391 --> 00:25:08,351 upon them and they're provoking you. 571 00:25:08,351 --> 00:25:10,071 Even though they don't provoke you. 572 00:25:10,311 --> 00:25:12,711 They're discipling you without words. 573 00:25:12,871 --> 00:25:16,471 Is there anybody who wants to be that kind of person that you smell 574 00:25:16,551 --> 00:25:20,591 so much like the secret place that you provoke people to pray even 575 00:25:20,591 --> 00:25:22,071 though you don't tell them you pray? 576 00:25:22,151 --> 00:25:22,631 Come on. 577 00:25:22,631 --> 00:25:25,001 You can't lie about the secret place. 578 00:25:26,111 --> 00:25:28,911 And this is so important, because blessed are those who hunger 579 00:25:28,911 --> 00:25:30,591 and thirst for righteousness. 580 00:25:30,911 --> 00:25:32,431 They're not just interested. 581 00:25:32,671 --> 00:25:34,111 They're not just curious. 582 00:25:34,431 --> 00:25:35,471 They're desperate. 583 00:25:36,111 --> 00:25:37,071 They're starving. 584 00:25:37,631 --> 00:25:39,231 God, I want to be different. 585 00:25:39,551 --> 00:25:42,791 I want to be the bloodline generational curse breaker in my 586 00:25:42,791 --> 00:25:43,071 family. 587 00:25:43,631 --> 00:25:45,871 I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired. 588 00:25:46,591 --> 00:25:47,991 I can't do this anymore. 589 00:25:47,991 --> 00:25:51,111 And once you get to that point, heaven begins to celebrate 590 00:25:51,111 --> 00:25:53,601 and says, okay, they're ready to become righteous. 591 00:25:53,601 --> 00:25:55,041 Some of you are there right now. 592 00:25:55,041 --> 00:25:55,681 Come on. 593 00:25:55,841 --> 00:25:56,801 Do you feel it? 594 00:25:57,121 --> 00:26:02,001 Psalm, chapter 42, verse 1, says, As a deer pants for a flowing 595 00:26:02,001 --> 00:26:02,561 stream. 596 00:26:02,721 --> 00:26:06,241 Or some of the old school folks, as a deer pants for the water. 597 00:26:06,401 --> 00:26:09,121 So my soul longs for you. 598 00:26:09,601 --> 00:26:13,321 I'll tell you what, this world is so broken, all I gotta do is spend 599 00:26:13,321 --> 00:26:17,521 one hour on my phone, and it just makes me long for heaven, long 600 00:26:17,521 --> 00:26:18,401 for eternity. 601 00:26:19,021 --> 00:26:22,781 Sometimes you get so fed up with all these temporary pleasures 602 00:26:22,941 --> 00:26:26,621 that you just begin to pant For God like never before. 603 00:26:26,941 --> 00:26:29,021 And this kills lukewarm faith. 604 00:26:29,181 --> 00:26:30,141 Sunday only. 605 00:26:30,141 --> 00:26:31,101 Christianity. 606 00:26:31,341 --> 00:26:35,621 Convenient discipleship because revival comes from hungry 607 00:26:35,621 --> 00:26:35,981 people. 608 00:26:36,701 --> 00:26:38,221 Beatitude number five. 609 00:26:38,861 --> 00:26:40,381 Blessed are the merciful. 610 00:26:40,781 --> 00:26:44,581 You know, Matthew chapter five, verse seven says, blessed are 611 00:26:44,581 --> 00:26:48,531 the merciful, for they shall receive mercy. 612 00:26:48,931 --> 00:26:51,491 Forgiven people forgive people. 613 00:26:51,811 --> 00:26:53,611 Say it with me across every campus. 614 00:26:53,611 --> 00:26:54,691 Let me hear you loud. 615 00:26:54,851 --> 00:26:57,411 Forgiven people forgive people. 616 00:26:57,411 --> 00:26:58,931 Come on, let's practice it again. 617 00:26:59,411 --> 00:27:02,131 Forgiven people forgive people. 618 00:27:02,451 --> 00:27:07,411 As a matter of fact, there's a beautiful illustration in scripture 619 00:27:07,571 --> 00:27:12,331 where a prostitute, a woman of ill repute, is washing the feet of 620 00:27:12,331 --> 00:27:12,771 Jesus. 621 00:27:13,081 --> 00:27:15,001 And they're like, who is she to do this? 622 00:27:15,081 --> 00:27:20,121 And the response is, whoever is forgiven much, loves much. 623 00:27:20,521 --> 00:27:23,081 And some people don't understand your worship. 624 00:27:23,161 --> 00:27:26,041 They don't understand why you won't stop going to church. 625 00:27:26,201 --> 00:27:30,561 But they were not forgiven for as many things as you've been forgiven 626 00:27:30,561 --> 00:27:30,841 from. 627 00:27:30,841 --> 00:27:34,321 Come on, can somebody just begin to praise God in their seat 628 00:27:34,321 --> 00:27:34,841 right now? 629 00:27:34,921 --> 00:27:37,961 Those who are forgiven much love much. 630 00:27:38,121 --> 00:27:41,481 Oh, some of them can't understand why I worship so loudly. 631 00:27:41,871 --> 00:27:45,911 But you don't know what he picked me up out of and put my feet 632 00:27:45,911 --> 00:27:48,911 on a solid foundation and turned me around. 633 00:27:49,151 --> 00:27:51,551 You have no idea how dark it was. 634 00:27:51,791 --> 00:27:55,351 So don't judge my worship until you know my warfare. 635 00:27:55,351 --> 00:27:59,831 Come on, this is powerful because we've got to learn how to 636 00:27:59,831 --> 00:28:00,991 become merciful. 637 00:28:01,471 --> 00:28:06,191 Matthew, chapter 18, verse 33 says, should not you have had mercy? 638 00:28:06,431 --> 00:28:07,391 Let me just tell you. 639 00:28:07,781 --> 00:28:08,341 This kills. 640 00:28:08,341 --> 00:28:09,461 Cancel culture. 641 00:28:09,701 --> 00:28:11,541 This kills church bitterness. 642 00:28:11,701 --> 00:28:16,701 This kills spiritual grudges because you can't receive grace and 643 00:28:16,701 --> 00:28:18,581 then hoard it unto yourself. 644 00:28:19,141 --> 00:28:22,421 One of the evidences that you've received grace is that you 645 00:28:22,421 --> 00:28:23,780 want to give it to other people. 646 00:28:24,101 --> 00:28:28,181 One of the evidences that you believe in a literal hell is you 647 00:28:28,181 --> 00:28:30,341 don't want even your worst enemy to go there. 648 00:28:30,501 --> 00:28:34,941 I remember one day I was driving my van, my wins, my 95 red 649 00:28:34,941 --> 00:28:39,281 WinStar van down I65, headed to IU Bloomington, where I was a 650 00:28:39,281 --> 00:28:40,041 college student. 651 00:28:40,281 --> 00:28:42,601 And I got a revelation of this. 652 00:28:42,761 --> 00:28:44,841 I had been studying the book of Matthew. 653 00:28:44,921 --> 00:28:47,841 I was thinking about the reality of heaven and the reality 654 00:28:47,841 --> 00:28:48,441 of hell. 655 00:28:48,521 --> 00:28:50,361 I was thinking about the eternal. 656 00:28:50,361 --> 00:28:53,641 And I started thinking about all the people who hurt me in life. 657 00:28:53,801 --> 00:28:56,361 I started thinking about those who had abused me. 658 00:28:56,361 --> 00:28:59,721 And something happened that never happened in my walk with Jesus. 659 00:28:59,961 --> 00:29:02,761 I started to well up with such a compassion for them. 660 00:29:03,191 --> 00:29:06,151 And I started to recognize that the Lord himself had healed 661 00:29:06,151 --> 00:29:08,871 me and restored me and he was advancing me. 662 00:29:08,871 --> 00:29:11,311 But I started thinking about them going to hell. 663 00:29:11,311 --> 00:29:14,551 And I did something that I felt I was simply unable to do at 664 00:29:14,551 --> 00:29:15,991 any other season of my life. 665 00:29:16,071 --> 00:29:19,431 I started praying for them, and I said, God save them. 666 00:29:19,511 --> 00:29:20,591 God save them. 667 00:29:20,591 --> 00:29:21,911 Send messengers to them. 668 00:29:21,991 --> 00:29:27,671 See, the Lord wants to take you 180 degrees different than cancel 669 00:29:27,671 --> 00:29:28,231 culture. 670 00:29:28,631 --> 00:29:31,191 Listen, Saul was the one killing Christians. 671 00:29:31,271 --> 00:29:35,521 And God did such a work in his life that he's the very one traveling 672 00:29:35,521 --> 00:29:39,001 the known world trying to build Christians up and encourage 673 00:29:39,001 --> 00:29:39,921 them and help them. 674 00:29:40,001 --> 00:29:43,601 See, God will do something in your life with the pastor that you 675 00:29:43,601 --> 00:29:46,841 can't stand, the one that you thought hurt you so much, you'll 676 00:29:46,841 --> 00:29:47,921 end up praying for them. 677 00:29:48,001 --> 00:29:50,641 This is what I said when Jesus broke his system. 678 00:29:50,801 --> 00:29:54,281 You can't act like other Christians because most Christians 679 00:29:54,281 --> 00:29:55,441 don't act like Christ. 680 00:29:55,601 --> 00:29:57,281 You got to go back to the book. 681 00:29:57,281 --> 00:29:59,401 You got to go back to the Beatitudes. 682 00:29:59,401 --> 00:30:02,361 You got to go up to that mountain and meet with him, because 683 00:30:02,361 --> 00:30:07,081 he'll have you in a posture of surrender and repentance and forgiveness. 684 00:30:07,081 --> 00:30:08,121 And guess what? 685 00:30:08,361 --> 00:30:09,721 It's for your freedom. 686 00:30:09,961 --> 00:30:14,761 You've heard it said before that drinking, it's like unforgiveness, 687 00:30:14,761 --> 00:30:18,281 is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. 688 00:30:18,761 --> 00:30:23,121 So what happens in Christ's way of doing things is everybody 689 00:30:23,121 --> 00:30:26,761 starts getting free, and we need to become a merciful church. 690 00:30:27,001 --> 00:30:29,601 The Bible says in the last days, they're going to be lovers 691 00:30:29,601 --> 00:30:30,201 of self. 692 00:30:30,771 --> 00:30:33,171 And the last days, their heart is gonna grow cold. 693 00:30:33,411 --> 00:30:37,411 They're gonna be bitter people, belligerent people. 694 00:30:37,411 --> 00:30:38,851 We're seeing that in the world. 695 00:30:39,091 --> 00:30:40,931 We see it on the highway every day. 696 00:30:40,931 --> 00:30:42,131 We see it in our commute. 697 00:30:42,131 --> 00:30:45,571 We see it in the viral videos of the Karens. 698 00:30:45,571 --> 00:30:50,811 And all these crazy people, just unhinged because what, we've 699 00:30:50,811 --> 00:30:52,051 lost our compassion. 700 00:30:52,291 --> 00:30:53,411 We've lost our love. 701 00:30:53,411 --> 00:30:54,771 We lost our mercy. 702 00:30:54,771 --> 00:30:56,291 We dehumanize people. 703 00:30:56,371 --> 00:31:01,331 And what Jesus was saying is, to an ancient world, all of the people 704 00:31:01,331 --> 00:31:05,291 that you throw away, all of the people that you walk past on 705 00:31:05,291 --> 00:31:09,091 a daily basis, those are gonna be the people that inherit the earth. 706 00:31:09,251 --> 00:31:12,411 Those are gonna be the people that go to the next level while you 707 00:31:12,411 --> 00:31:13,171 get left behind. 708 00:31:13,411 --> 00:31:16,051 And this message is like surgery on our heart. 709 00:31:16,371 --> 00:31:19,411 Which leads me to Beatitude number six. 710 00:31:19,491 --> 00:31:21,011 Blessed are the pure in heart. 711 00:31:21,971 --> 00:31:26,001 Matthew, chapter five, verse eight says, blessed are the pure 712 00:31:26,001 --> 00:31:27,441 in heart, for they shall see God. 713 00:31:27,921 --> 00:31:29,201 Now, it's very simple. 714 00:31:29,921 --> 00:31:32,721 Open up your phone, and you have an algorithm. 715 00:31:33,041 --> 00:31:34,321 What is an algorithm? 716 00:31:34,481 --> 00:31:36,001 It's the platform. 717 00:31:36,161 --> 00:31:37,681 Learning what you want to see. 718 00:31:37,921 --> 00:31:38,321 Come on. 719 00:31:38,321 --> 00:31:40,081 I'm about to preach to somebody right now. 720 00:31:40,481 --> 00:31:42,961 It learns what you want to see over time. 721 00:31:43,601 --> 00:31:48,401 So your algorithm is a reflection of Your soul, it's a reflection 722 00:31:48,401 --> 00:31:51,051 of what you want, what you want to see. 723 00:31:51,371 --> 00:31:54,851 And there's this algorithm of heaven that said, blessed are the 724 00:31:54,851 --> 00:31:57,211 pure in heart because they will see God. 725 00:31:57,211 --> 00:31:57,531 Why? 726 00:31:57,771 --> 00:32:00,411 Because when you're pure of heart, you don't want to be caught 727 00:32:00,411 --> 00:32:01,531 up in church drama. 728 00:32:01,691 --> 00:32:04,331 You don't want to be caught up in the Christian tabloids. 729 00:32:04,331 --> 00:32:07,371 You don't want to be caught up in the he said, she said. 730 00:32:07,691 --> 00:32:08,211 It doesn't. 731 00:32:08,211 --> 00:32:09,291 None of that matters to you. 732 00:32:09,291 --> 00:32:10,571 You're at the feet of Jesus. 733 00:32:10,811 --> 00:32:14,691 You got your head on his lap, and you can hear his heartbeat, and 734 00:32:14,691 --> 00:32:16,411 you can feel his breath on your hair. 735 00:32:16,711 --> 00:32:18,311 You ain't got time for that other stuff. 736 00:32:18,471 --> 00:32:21,311 You don't have time to be fighting over which one of the disciples 737 00:32:21,311 --> 00:32:25,191 is the greatest, because you're with Jesus in fellowship. 738 00:32:25,271 --> 00:32:28,871 And what I'm saying is, when you get to that place where everything 739 00:32:28,871 --> 00:32:32,791 that's noble, everything that's pure, everything that's lovely, 740 00:32:32,791 --> 00:32:35,911 when you set your mind, when you set your heart in those things, 741 00:32:35,911 --> 00:32:37,431 you will see God. 742 00:32:38,231 --> 00:32:41,671 And I'm saying this by the Spirit, and I want to mark this down 743 00:32:41,671 --> 00:32:42,151 on video. 744 00:32:42,781 --> 00:32:46,501 I was in prayer the other day, and I saw the statistics of social 745 00:32:46,501 --> 00:32:50,661 media platforms plummeting, and the Lord began to tell me, I'm 746 00:32:50,661 --> 00:32:52,221 drawing my bride in prayer. 747 00:32:52,381 --> 00:32:55,021 I'm drawing my bride into a time of focus. 748 00:32:55,341 --> 00:32:59,101 And you're gonna see people deleting and diminishing time on 749 00:32:59,101 --> 00:33:02,421 mobile apps and structuring discipline around it, because they're 750 00:33:02,421 --> 00:33:05,781 becoming pure in heart, and they don't want the world to begin 751 00:33:05,781 --> 00:33:06,861 to poison their heart. 752 00:33:07,021 --> 00:33:09,261 It's one focus, not a double life. 753 00:33:09,991 --> 00:33:15,271 And you know, Psalm 24, verse 3 and 4 says, he who has clean hands 754 00:33:15,511 --> 00:33:18,871 and a pure heart, this kills secret sin. 755 00:33:19,111 --> 00:33:21,511 This kills compartmentalized faith. 756 00:33:21,591 --> 00:33:23,511 This kills hidden addictions. 757 00:33:24,071 --> 00:33:25,911 Revival is stained by purity. 758 00:33:26,711 --> 00:33:29,031 So it says, peacemakers. 759 00:33:29,031 --> 00:33:32,511 Beatitude number seven, Matthew, chapter five, verse nine. 760 00:33:32,511 --> 00:33:34,311 Blessed are the peacemakers. 761 00:33:34,551 --> 00:33:36,471 It doesn't say, the peacekeepers. 762 00:33:36,711 --> 00:33:37,311 Come on. 763 00:33:37,311 --> 00:33:40,071 And all the codependent people said, amen. 764 00:33:40,511 --> 00:33:43,591 Some of y' all are trying to keep the peace so much that you'll 765 00:33:43,591 --> 00:33:44,591 never make peace. 766 00:33:44,911 --> 00:33:47,071 Peace is made by confrontation. 767 00:33:47,311 --> 00:33:48,911 Sometimes you'll be like, man, Mike. 768 00:33:48,911 --> 00:33:50,751 He speaks in all kinds of stuff. 769 00:33:50,751 --> 00:33:52,351 Mike's stepping right up into the. 770 00:33:52,511 --> 00:33:55,151 Mike doesn't just acknowledge the elephant in the room. 771 00:33:55,231 --> 00:33:57,671 He mounts up on it and rides it around the room. 772 00:33:57,671 --> 00:34:00,991 Yeah, because I'm a peacemaker, not a peacekeeper. 773 00:34:01,151 --> 00:34:02,311 Peacekeepers are. 774 00:34:02,311 --> 00:34:04,591 Oh, I don't want to offend anybody. 775 00:34:04,751 --> 00:34:08,471 Jesus offended people every day on accident, telling Them the 776 00:34:08,471 --> 00:34:08,831 truth. 777 00:34:08,911 --> 00:34:12,441 But the Bible says faithful are the wounds of offense, friend. 778 00:34:12,521 --> 00:34:16,761 I'd rather be wounded by the truth than comforted by a lie. 779 00:34:16,921 --> 00:34:17,561 Come on. 780 00:34:17,561 --> 00:34:22,121 And we've got to learn how to become peacemakers, not peacekeepers. 781 00:34:22,201 --> 00:34:23,881 This is a word for somebody. 782 00:34:24,121 --> 00:34:24,561 Come on. 783 00:34:24,561 --> 00:34:25,961 Is this helping anybody? 784 00:34:26,201 --> 00:34:31,481 Romans, chapter 12, verse 18 says, if possible, live peaceably. 785 00:34:31,961 --> 00:34:34,201 It says, as far as it concerns you. 786 00:34:34,681 --> 00:34:36,361 Now, the key is, if possible. 787 00:34:36,681 --> 00:34:39,371 There are some times where it is not possible. 788 00:34:40,011 --> 00:34:41,531 You cannot make peace. 789 00:34:41,771 --> 00:34:47,371 But there are many times where as far as it depends on us, I can 790 00:34:47,371 --> 00:34:48,331 hold my tongue. 791 00:34:48,411 --> 00:34:48,931 Come on. 792 00:34:48,931 --> 00:34:51,611 Fresh and salt water can't come out of the same spring. 793 00:34:52,331 --> 00:34:56,491 And sometimes we have to say, God, kill this tribal Christianity. 794 00:34:56,811 --> 00:34:58,891 Kill this political idolatry. 795 00:34:59,051 --> 00:35:00,891 Kill this division spirit. 796 00:35:01,131 --> 00:35:05,021 Because sons look like their father. 797 00:35:05,421 --> 00:35:06,061 Come on. 798 00:35:06,061 --> 00:35:09,501 That's why this church across every campus and everybody watching 799 00:35:09,501 --> 00:35:09,901 right now. 800 00:35:09,901 --> 00:35:11,181 We don't do clicks. 801 00:35:11,661 --> 00:35:13,101 We don't do clicks. 802 00:35:13,341 --> 00:35:17,341 We are all one in the spirit, as the Bible says. 803 00:35:17,341 --> 00:35:21,421 In the last days, I will pour out my spirit on all flesh. 804 00:35:21,581 --> 00:35:23,901 Your sons and daughters will prophesy. 805 00:35:23,901 --> 00:35:25,981 Your old men will dream dreams. 806 00:35:25,981 --> 00:35:26,421 Come on. 807 00:35:26,421 --> 00:35:29,901 This is a multi generational, multi ethnic. 808 00:35:29,901 --> 00:35:31,701 This is male and female. 809 00:35:31,701 --> 00:35:36,571 And I believe that as we come together in unity and we are peacemakers, 810 00:35:36,571 --> 00:35:39,931 the Lord, it says we are going to be blessed and we will be called 811 00:35:40,091 --> 00:35:41,291 sons of God. 812 00:35:41,371 --> 00:35:44,331 Can somebody shout amen to that now? 813 00:35:44,331 --> 00:35:45,171 We're almost done. 814 00:35:45,171 --> 00:35:46,571 Beatitude number eight. 815 00:35:47,291 --> 00:35:51,291 Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake. 816 00:35:51,291 --> 00:35:54,571 This is Matthew, chapter 5, verses 10 and 12. 817 00:35:54,891 --> 00:35:56,891 Blessed are those who are persecuted. 818 00:35:56,891 --> 00:35:59,371 Listen, real persecution. 819 00:35:59,611 --> 00:36:01,691 I'm not talking about comments on Facebook. 820 00:36:02,491 --> 00:36:04,891 I'm not talking about somebody don't like you at work. 821 00:36:05,531 --> 00:36:10,891 If you truly live the words of Jesus Christ, somebody's actually 822 00:36:10,891 --> 00:36:11,931 gonna hate you. 823 00:36:12,011 --> 00:36:15,531 And I believe that real persecution is coming to the church. 824 00:36:15,931 --> 00:36:20,171 Real persecution is coming to Christians even here in America. 825 00:36:20,491 --> 00:36:25,371 John, chapter 15, verse 18 says, if the world hates you, come 826 00:36:25,371 --> 00:36:25,691 on. 827 00:36:26,091 --> 00:36:27,531 The world is gonna hate you. 828 00:36:28,291 --> 00:36:28,531 Why? 829 00:36:28,851 --> 00:36:30,531 Because you stand for something. 830 00:36:30,771 --> 00:36:34,131 And I know many times things that I say are controversial. 831 00:36:34,291 --> 00:36:36,451 Mike, what's your opinion on sexuality? 832 00:36:36,451 --> 00:36:38,931 I'm here to tell you, I'm just the messenger. 833 00:36:38,931 --> 00:36:40,931 I don't have the right to my opinion. 834 00:36:41,091 --> 00:36:44,851 Whatever the word of God says about sexuality, that's what I say. 835 00:36:45,251 --> 00:36:47,171 My opinion died a long time ago. 836 00:36:47,331 --> 00:36:51,091 I don't have the fear of people pleasing or the fear of criticism, 837 00:36:51,171 --> 00:36:53,651 but somebody needs to hear this message right now. 838 00:36:54,041 --> 00:36:57,721 If nobody ever resists you, check your allegiance. 839 00:36:57,881 --> 00:37:01,641 There are Christians that are trying to play every single side, 840 00:37:01,721 --> 00:37:04,761 and you cannot have an allegiance to every team. 841 00:37:04,921 --> 00:37:07,001 You got to show up for this roster. 842 00:37:07,161 --> 00:37:09,321 Every military has an enlistment. 843 00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:11,081 Every class takes role. 844 00:37:11,241 --> 00:37:13,161 It's time for you to say, count me in. 845 00:37:13,161 --> 00:37:16,361 I don't even understand it, but I submit to it, God. 846 00:37:16,361 --> 00:37:18,001 Whatever you say is the truth. 847 00:37:18,001 --> 00:37:19,801 And let everything else be a lie. 848 00:37:20,231 --> 00:37:21,911 And you will face persecution. 849 00:37:22,391 --> 00:37:25,031 And persecution isn't for celebrity pastors. 850 00:37:25,191 --> 00:37:28,271 Persecution should be something we all face when we go 851 00:37:28,271 --> 00:37:31,751 up into our local school system and say, yo, I need to have 852 00:37:31,751 --> 00:37:32,751 a voice in this school. 853 00:37:32,751 --> 00:37:35,831 Cause I'm not okay with what you're doing in this local school. 854 00:37:36,311 --> 00:37:39,551 And by the way, this country was founded on Christian values. 855 00:37:39,551 --> 00:37:42,831 And you're gonna have to respect my values just like the rest 856 00:37:42,831 --> 00:37:43,271 of them. 857 00:37:43,351 --> 00:37:47,021 There's gonna come persecution when you begin to rise up and you 858 00:37:47,021 --> 00:37:49,941 begin to say, hey, this for me and my house. 859 00:37:50,021 --> 00:37:52,261 We will serve the Lord. 860 00:37:52,261 --> 00:37:54,941 There's gotta be a line that's drawn in the sand. 861 00:37:54,941 --> 00:37:57,781 How many of you are willing and ready to draw that line? 862 00:37:58,261 --> 00:37:59,901 Come on, now. 863 00:37:59,901 --> 00:38:02,900 This is a prophetic turn right now as we close. 864 00:38:03,861 --> 00:38:08,821 You know, Jesus was describing two systems the entire time. 865 00:38:09,621 --> 00:38:12,561 And even though they thought he was talking about Rome, could 866 00:38:12,561 --> 00:38:14,521 have very well been talking about America. 867 00:38:14,921 --> 00:38:19,241 Great Britain could have very well been talking about North Korea. 868 00:38:19,641 --> 00:38:21,801 These are systems created by man. 869 00:38:22,441 --> 00:38:26,201 And these systems, all of them, they have this commonality 870 00:38:26,201 --> 00:38:34,841 of promote yourself, protect your image, get revenge, chase comfort, 871 00:38:36,041 --> 00:38:37,241 avoid offense. 872 00:38:38,131 --> 00:38:38,931 That's that system. 873 00:38:39,971 --> 00:38:43,731 But then the kingdom system comes, and this is what he prayed. 874 00:38:43,731 --> 00:38:48,811 Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. 875 00:38:48,811 --> 00:38:52,931 But when that kingdom comes, a culture comes with that kingdom. 876 00:38:53,011 --> 00:38:59,651 And it's the culture of die to self, stay pure, forgive, hunger 877 00:38:59,651 --> 00:39:01,651 for God, endure suffering. 878 00:39:01,891 --> 00:39:04,931 And you can't live in both systems. 879 00:39:05,571 --> 00:39:06,211 You can't. 880 00:39:06,451 --> 00:39:09,411 As a matter of fact, the evidence that you're trying to live 881 00:39:09,411 --> 00:39:12,771 in both systems is that you're not hated by one of them. 882 00:39:13,171 --> 00:39:16,851 Because when you make a stand, you will experience that persecution. 883 00:39:17,251 --> 00:39:21,731 Matthew, chapter 6, verse 24, says, no one can serve two masters. 884 00:39:22,131 --> 00:39:23,651 It doesn't say we won't try. 885 00:39:23,891 --> 00:39:26,851 It says we can't do it because we all try. 886 00:39:27,251 --> 00:39:31,951 I think this journey of faith that I've been on is me slowly dying 887 00:39:32,031 --> 00:39:33,791 and breaking through that system. 888 00:39:34,511 --> 00:39:36,831 You know, I want to say this with. 889 00:39:36,831 --> 00:39:39,711 With all sobriety. 890 00:39:40,591 --> 00:39:44,471 Some of you are saved, but living like citizens of the wrong 891 00:39:44,471 --> 00:39:44,991 kingdom. 892 00:39:45,551 --> 00:39:48,271 And Jesus isn't calling you to church attendance. 893 00:39:49,391 --> 00:39:51,311 He's calling you to citizenship. 894 00:39:51,871 --> 00:39:55,031 In Philippians, chapter three, verse 20, it says, Our citizenship 895 00:39:55,031 --> 00:39:56,031 is in heaven. 896 00:39:56,351 --> 00:40:00,731 So this whole Thing is training for another dimension, training 897 00:40:00,731 --> 00:40:03,131 for another realm, training for heaven. 898 00:40:03,451 --> 00:40:05,851 In heaven, there's no sickness or disease. 899 00:40:06,331 --> 00:40:09,851 In heaven, there's no fault finding and complaining and murmuring. 900 00:40:10,011 --> 00:40:13,371 And so we need to begin to say, God, your kingdom come, your 901 00:40:13,371 --> 00:40:16,651 will be done right here in my life as it is in heaven. 902 00:40:16,811 --> 00:40:17,451 Come on. 903 00:40:17,451 --> 00:40:21,371 If you're tired of shallow faith, if you're tired of compromise, 904 00:40:21,451 --> 00:40:25,131 if you're tired and you're saying, God, I just want real Christianity. 905 00:40:25,861 --> 00:40:27,861 I'm tired of just business as usual. 906 00:40:28,101 --> 00:40:29,861 I want to come back to Jesus. 907 00:40:29,861 --> 00:40:31,061 I want to surrender. 908 00:40:31,061 --> 00:40:32,261 I want to be a real one. 909 00:40:32,261 --> 00:40:35,421 Stand on your feet right now across every single campus, even 910 00:40:35,421 --> 00:40:36,581 if you're at home right now. 911 00:40:36,581 --> 00:40:38,821 Just rise up as a physical sign. 912 00:40:39,141 --> 00:40:42,661 I'm sick and tired of compromise, and I want to fully surrender. 913 00:40:42,661 --> 00:40:45,461 Come on, everybody, stand to your feet right now. 914 00:40:46,101 --> 00:40:48,301 We're going to begin to do something that's going to be highly 915 00:40:48,301 --> 00:40:48,981 unusual. 916 00:40:50,101 --> 00:40:50,581 Come on. 917 00:40:50,581 --> 00:40:54,701 Even as you begin to stand up in Miami, Brooklyn, come on, Northwest 918 00:40:54,701 --> 00:40:58,341 Indiana, as you begin to rise up out of your seat, we're gonna 919 00:40:58,341 --> 00:40:58,981 cry out. 920 00:40:59,621 --> 00:41:03,061 And this, this is when Jesus was at that mountaintop. 921 00:41:03,781 --> 00:41:07,021 There would have been some hungry disciples who were like, I 922 00:41:07,021 --> 00:41:07,461 heard it. 923 00:41:08,021 --> 00:41:11,941 There's something in my spirit that's saying, I'm ready for breakthrough. 924 00:41:12,021 --> 00:41:13,221 But let me just tell you this. 925 00:41:13,221 --> 00:41:15,461 You don't stay on top of the mountain. 926 00:41:15,701 --> 00:41:18,261 Moses went up to the mountain, received the tablets. 927 00:41:18,261 --> 00:41:19,031 Then what did he do? 928 00:41:19,421 --> 00:41:23,021 He had to come down, and he began to face the people and confront 929 00:41:23,021 --> 00:41:24,461 them and start the work. 930 00:41:24,781 --> 00:41:25,221 Come on. 931 00:41:25,221 --> 00:41:26,941 Elijah went on the mountaintop. 932 00:41:26,941 --> 00:41:27,861 Then what did he do? 933 00:41:27,861 --> 00:41:30,821 He had to come down off that mountain, and he had to begin the 934 00:41:30,821 --> 00:41:31,741 work of ministry. 935 00:41:31,821 --> 00:41:35,461 I don't know who I came here to tell this to, but after this message, 936 00:41:35,461 --> 00:41:38,021 you're gonna come down off this mountain, and it's time for 937 00:41:38,021 --> 00:41:40,461 you to begin to move into what God has for you. 938 00:41:40,461 --> 00:41:41,661 You're gonna start now. 939 00:41:41,661 --> 00:41:42,941 You're gonna begin to step in. 940 00:41:43,021 --> 00:41:44,381 No more talking about it. 941 00:41:44,381 --> 00:41:47,421 If God called you into politics, you need to prepare to 942 00:41:47,421 --> 00:41:49,701 run for office, raise money, and get in. 943 00:41:49,701 --> 00:41:52,861 If he told you to write a book, it's time to sit down and get 944 00:41:52,861 --> 00:41:53,741 that manuscript. 945 00:41:53,741 --> 00:41:56,261 We're coming down off this mountain, and we're going to begin 946 00:41:56,261 --> 00:41:58,381 to move into the calling that God has. 947 00:41:58,381 --> 00:41:58,861 Come on. 948 00:41:58,861 --> 00:42:01,901 Is there anybody who believes that now is the time to shift in? 949 00:42:01,901 --> 00:42:03,581 There's a shift that will happen. 950 00:42:03,821 --> 00:42:06,941 You don't stay on the mountaintop to hear the Beatitudes. 951 00:42:06,941 --> 00:42:09,101 Jesus was saying, I'm giving you a Choice. 952 00:42:09,421 --> 00:42:10,221 Make that choice. 953 00:42:10,301 --> 00:42:12,971 Come down this mountain and let's begin this thing. 954 00:42:12,971 --> 00:42:14,651 And today you've been given a choice. 955 00:42:14,651 --> 00:42:15,731 No more delay. 956 00:42:16,211 --> 00:42:19,251 Some of the people who I feel the prophetic unction on this right 957 00:42:19,251 --> 00:42:19,571 now. 958 00:42:19,651 --> 00:42:22,971 Some of the people who tried to stop you in your younger years 959 00:42:22,971 --> 00:42:23,971 are dead now. 960 00:42:24,051 --> 00:42:25,251 What's your excuse? 961 00:42:25,411 --> 00:42:25,851 Come on. 962 00:42:25,851 --> 00:42:27,331 I feel the anointing on that. 963 00:42:27,491 --> 00:42:30,811 Some of the people who used to talk about you, they don't even know 964 00:42:30,811 --> 00:42:32,131 your phone number anymore. 965 00:42:32,211 --> 00:42:33,331 What's your excuse? 966 00:42:33,411 --> 00:42:35,811 It's time to step in and get activated. 967 00:42:35,891 --> 00:42:37,491 They didn't stay up on that mountain. 968 00:42:37,491 --> 00:42:40,441 They came down and he empowered them, and they begin to 969 00:42:40,441 --> 00:42:40,961 do the work. 970 00:42:40,961 --> 00:42:42,201 It's your time now. 971 00:42:42,601 --> 00:42:45,601 So while you're on your feet right now, I want to ask that you 972 00:42:45,601 --> 00:42:47,481 would lift up holy hands towards heaven. 973 00:42:47,481 --> 00:42:50,441 Come on, lift them up right now if you want to do this. 974 00:42:50,601 --> 00:42:51,361 And I'm gonna. 975 00:42:51,361 --> 00:42:54,601 I'm gonna model a prayer for you across every location, and I'm 976 00:42:54,601 --> 00:42:54,801 gonna. 977 00:42:54,801 --> 00:42:57,401 I wrote this down, and we're gonna cry it out together. 978 00:42:57,721 --> 00:42:58,561 And then I want you. 979 00:42:58,561 --> 00:43:01,881 I want the worship team to begin to worship, and I want you 980 00:43:01,881 --> 00:43:05,761 guys to lift up a sound, and I want you to just put those sacrifices 981 00:43:05,761 --> 00:43:07,001 on the altar right now. 982 00:43:07,371 --> 00:43:10,091 I'm gonna just cry out and I'm gonna give you permission. 983 00:43:10,331 --> 00:43:13,771 The Bible says if we don't cry out, the rocks will cry out. 984 00:43:13,851 --> 00:43:14,971 So I'm giving you permission. 985 00:43:14,971 --> 00:43:18,491 In Brooklyn, get louder than they do on a Saturday night in that 986 00:43:18,491 --> 00:43:20,091 club on a Sunday morning. 987 00:43:20,331 --> 00:43:20,851 Come on. 988 00:43:20,851 --> 00:43:23,451 In that old Lutheran building in Northwest Indiana. 989 00:43:23,451 --> 00:43:24,131 Come on, get. 990 00:43:24,131 --> 00:43:27,691 So loud those stained glass windows shatter because of your surrender. 991 00:43:27,691 --> 00:43:29,371 Come on, let's lift it up. 992 00:43:29,611 --> 00:43:30,331 Jesus. 993 00:43:31,131 --> 00:43:34,521 Jesus, make me poor in spirit. 994 00:43:35,481 --> 00:43:38,281 Jesus, break my pride. 995 00:43:39,321 --> 00:43:42,121 Jesus, teach me to mourn over my sin. 996 00:43:43,241 --> 00:43:44,921 Jesus, make me meek. 997 00:43:44,921 --> 00:43:46,681 I submit to you, God. 998 00:43:47,321 --> 00:43:49,001 Jesus, give me hunger. 999 00:43:49,481 --> 00:43:50,321 Come on, church. 1000 00:43:50,321 --> 00:43:50,841 That's it. 1001 00:43:50,841 --> 00:43:51,481 Cry out. 1002 00:43:51,721 --> 00:43:53,161 Come on, call out to him. 1003 00:43:53,241 --> 00:43:56,521 There's no time right now for pretty prayers right now. 1004 00:43:57,161 --> 00:44:00,931 Fill me with mercy, Jesus, fill me with mercy. 1005 00:44:01,171 --> 00:44:04,931 Purify my heart, God, make me a peacemaker. 1006 00:44:04,931 --> 00:44:07,411 Lord, strengthen me to endure. 1007 00:44:07,651 --> 00:44:09,331 Come on, cry out to him. 1008 00:44:09,731 --> 00:44:10,371 Come on. 1009 00:44:10,611 --> 00:44:12,211 Call out to him right now. 1010 00:44:13,251 --> 00:44:14,451 Jesus name. 1011 00:44:15,251 --> 00:44:15,811 Come on. 1012 00:44:15,811 --> 00:44:16,931 Continue to worship. 1013 00:44:17,491 --> 00:44:21,811 Continue to press in across America, across the campuses. 1014 00:44:21,971 --> 00:44:23,371 Everybody at home, right now. 1015 00:44:23,371 --> 00:44:24,531 Come on, let's worship. 1016 00:44:24,691 --> 00:44:25,411 Press in. 1017 00:44:25,411 --> 00:44:26,131 Press in.