1 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:13,257 But we're going to be primarily in Proverbs, chapter 29, 2 00:00:13,321 --> 00:00:14,473 verse 18. 3 00:00:14,649 --> 00:00:17,113 And I'm going to read you this version of that. 4 00:00:17,209 --> 00:00:21,793 It says, where there is no prophetic vision, the people cast 5 00:00:21,849 --> 00:00:27,005 off restraint, but blessed is he who keeps the law. 6 00:00:27,415 --> 00:00:28,631 Say this verse together. 7 00:00:28,703 --> 00:00:31,095 This is Proverbs, chapter 29, verse 18. 8 00:00:31,215 --> 00:00:33,639 And let's say all together across all of our locations. 9 00:00:33,727 --> 00:00:34,655 Repeat after me. 10 00:00:34,735 --> 00:00:41,755 Where there is no prophetic vision, the people cast off restraint. 11 00:00:43,575 --> 00:00:47,835 But blessed is he who keeps the law. 12 00:00:48,135 --> 00:00:49,327 Okay, let's pray. 13 00:00:49,391 --> 00:00:52,675 Heavenly Father, we come before you as a church. 14 00:00:53,055 --> 00:00:57,263 Every age and every stage of life, from the youngest to the oldest, 15 00:00:57,399 --> 00:00:57,735 God. 16 00:00:57,775 --> 00:01:02,087 We come to you and we ask that you would humble us, Lord God. 17 00:01:02,191 --> 00:01:06,079 Lord, that we would submit and surrender our selfish ambitions, 18 00:01:06,247 --> 00:01:08,927 our carnal desires to you, God. 19 00:01:09,031 --> 00:01:13,135 We get up on the cross and we die to self right now. 20 00:01:13,255 --> 00:01:17,039 We die to our own vain imaginations about the way things 21 00:01:17,087 --> 00:01:17,559 should be. 22 00:01:17,607 --> 00:01:21,351 God and Lord, we say, have your way, God. 23 00:01:21,463 --> 00:01:25,115 We decrease so that you would increase, God. 24 00:01:25,235 --> 00:01:28,835 We submit and surrender to your mighty hand, God. 25 00:01:28,915 --> 00:01:31,115 We are under your authority, God. 26 00:01:31,195 --> 00:01:33,443 And all, every single one of us. 27 00:01:33,539 --> 00:01:38,035 We lay aside the pride of life, the pride of knowledge, God. 28 00:01:38,115 --> 00:01:40,323 And we say, teach us, Lord. 29 00:01:40,459 --> 00:01:43,467 Break us, mold us, shape us, God. 30 00:01:43,571 --> 00:01:47,627 And we, Lord, as a church, we come before you and say, we don't 31 00:01:47,651 --> 00:01:50,091 want to be a haughty, prideful church. 32 00:01:50,203 --> 00:01:55,183 We want to be a humble church, a contrite and broken church before 33 00:01:55,239 --> 00:01:59,191 you, God and Lord, in a time where everybody is obsessed with 34 00:01:59,223 --> 00:02:04,327 their opinions, God, may we be people of prayer and intercession. 35 00:02:04,391 --> 00:02:08,511 Lord, I'm asking that you would make us a people of prayer. 36 00:02:08,623 --> 00:02:11,871 That you would birth in us a desire to pray. 37 00:02:11,983 --> 00:02:15,975 That we would wake up wanting to pray and go to bed wanting to 38 00:02:16,015 --> 00:02:16,447 pray. 39 00:02:16,551 --> 00:02:19,103 That we would pray in the midday, God. 40 00:02:19,199 --> 00:02:22,651 That we would be known as a praying church, God. 41 00:02:22,683 --> 00:02:26,419 There's social media churches that are posting churches. 42 00:02:26,547 --> 00:02:31,619 But I want us to be a praying church more than we post we pray, 43 00:02:31,707 --> 00:02:32,251 God. 44 00:02:32,363 --> 00:02:35,019 I want us to be known as a church that prays. 45 00:02:35,147 --> 00:02:39,595 So I'm coming before you, Lord, and I'm saying, let every past 46 00:02:39,675 --> 00:02:40,771 season die. 47 00:02:40,883 --> 00:02:45,275 All the bad programming of the religions and traditions of men, 48 00:02:45,395 --> 00:02:47,475 we submit it to you, God. 49 00:02:47,595 --> 00:02:52,663 Oh God, we come before you asking, free us from the chains that 50 00:02:52,719 --> 00:02:53,535 bind us. 51 00:02:53,655 --> 00:02:56,407 Free us, God, from Leviathan Pride. 52 00:02:56,551 --> 00:02:57,455 Free us, God. 53 00:02:57,495 --> 00:03:02,079 From Jezebel and Ahab's control and their manipulative spirit 54 00:03:02,127 --> 00:03:05,295 that's always wanting to rob relationships. 55 00:03:05,375 --> 00:03:06,487 Free us, God. 56 00:03:06,591 --> 00:03:08,951 We cry out as a people, Lord, y'all. 57 00:03:08,983 --> 00:03:11,071 Some of Y'all gonna have to learn how to pray with me right now 58 00:03:11,103 --> 00:03:14,031 because it sounds way too quiet in Brooklyn right now. 59 00:03:14,063 --> 00:03:16,915 It sounds way too quiet in New Jersey. 60 00:03:17,055 --> 00:03:21,755 God, we come before you and how we exit is how we enter. 61 00:03:21,875 --> 00:03:25,035 And we want to exit 2024 submitted. 62 00:03:25,155 --> 00:03:27,907 We want to exit 2024 humble. 63 00:03:28,011 --> 00:03:30,635 We want to exit 2024 empty. 64 00:03:30,715 --> 00:03:33,547 God, where we gave all that we were to give. 65 00:03:33,651 --> 00:03:37,667 And Lord, I ask you, Lord, that you would just use us in a great 66 00:03:37,731 --> 00:03:40,003 mighty way to establish your kingdom. 67 00:03:40,059 --> 00:03:45,379 Lord, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in 68 00:03:45,427 --> 00:03:45,867 heaven. 69 00:03:45,931 --> 00:03:46,427 Lord. 70 00:03:46,531 --> 00:03:51,823 Oh, God, I'm so are sorry for bringing our own agenda. 71 00:03:51,919 --> 00:03:54,935 We are sorry for bringing our own opinion. 72 00:03:55,015 --> 00:03:57,207 God, we want to know your word. 73 00:03:57,311 --> 00:03:59,599 Give us a hunger to read your word. 74 00:03:59,727 --> 00:04:02,231 Give us a hunger to eat the scroll. 75 00:04:02,343 --> 00:04:05,735 Oh, God, that we would read the Bible on our work break. 76 00:04:05,855 --> 00:04:08,791 That we would read the Bible on our coffee break. 77 00:04:08,903 --> 00:04:11,855 That we would read the Bible before we go to bed. 78 00:04:11,975 --> 00:04:14,623 God, that your word will be on our lips. 79 00:04:14,679 --> 00:04:17,794 God, that we would speak your word in a season. 80 00:04:17,914 --> 00:04:21,882 Oh, God, we cry out as a church that you would make us people 81 00:04:21,938 --> 00:04:24,850 of prayer and people of the word. 82 00:04:24,922 --> 00:04:25,694 God. 83 00:04:26,074 --> 00:04:30,954 O Lord, in a generation that's obsessed with music, they're obsessed 84 00:04:30,994 --> 00:04:34,154 with songs, make us true worshippers. 85 00:04:34,234 --> 00:04:38,514 God, in a generation that's obsessed with production, they're 86 00:04:38,554 --> 00:04:40,650 obsessed with the sound. 87 00:04:40,722 --> 00:04:43,542 God, let our worship be pure. 88 00:04:43,698 --> 00:04:46,915 God, that we would rise up as true worshipers. 89 00:04:47,495 --> 00:04:48,711 Jesus name. 90 00:04:48,783 --> 00:04:50,355 Father, we ask you. 91 00:04:52,335 --> 00:04:54,715 I come before you, Lord, asking. 92 00:04:55,855 --> 00:04:58,515 I commit these people to you, Father. 93 00:04:58,855 --> 00:05:01,431 I commit these people to you, God. 94 00:05:01,583 --> 00:05:05,743 Oh, Lord, forgive us for even entertaining the idea of divorce. 95 00:05:05,919 --> 00:05:09,335 Forgive us for even entertaining the idea of escaping 96 00:05:09,375 --> 00:05:10,519 and running away. 97 00:05:10,687 --> 00:05:11,879 Father, forgive us for. 98 00:05:11,927 --> 00:05:12,511 I just. 99 00:05:12,543 --> 00:05:15,127 We need to go through a time of repentance right now. 100 00:05:15,231 --> 00:05:17,183 Now, some of you are supposed to get divorced. 101 00:05:17,239 --> 00:05:19,247 It's permissible under certain conditions. 102 00:05:19,311 --> 00:05:21,655 I'm not judging you, but I'm talking about those. 103 00:05:21,695 --> 00:05:23,399 And you know who I'm talking to. 104 00:05:23,527 --> 00:05:26,599 There's many of you right now that there's been this desire to 105 00:05:26,687 --> 00:05:27,495 escape, this. 106 00:05:27,535 --> 00:05:28,559 Desire to run away. 107 00:05:28,607 --> 00:05:29,191 This desire. 108 00:05:29,263 --> 00:05:31,519 And right now we need to bring it up under the blood. 109 00:05:31,567 --> 00:05:33,559 We need to sanctify our minds. 110 00:05:33,647 --> 00:05:35,663 We need to sanctify our wills. 111 00:05:35,759 --> 00:05:38,225 So, Father, we submit it to you right now. 112 00:05:38,335 --> 00:05:39,597 And, Lord, forgive us. 113 00:05:39,661 --> 00:05:41,397 Wash us with your blood. 114 00:05:41,581 --> 00:05:42,365 Wash us. 115 00:05:42,445 --> 00:05:46,517 Make us pure and holy and acceptable before you, Father, that 116 00:05:46,541 --> 00:05:50,221 we can come boldly before the throne of grace right now and we 117 00:05:50,253 --> 00:05:53,677 can receive a fresh oil, a fresh anointing. 118 00:05:53,741 --> 00:05:55,981 God, Lord, that you would purify us. 119 00:05:56,013 --> 00:05:59,861 That you would sanctify our ears from all that we've entertained 120 00:05:59,893 --> 00:06:03,517 to listen to, and you would sanctify our eyes for all those things 121 00:06:03,541 --> 00:06:05,509 that we've entertained to see, God. 122 00:06:05,597 --> 00:06:09,381 And I pray, Lord God, that you would refresh and renew us right 123 00:06:09,413 --> 00:06:09,725 now. 124 00:06:09,805 --> 00:06:11,769 And wash us with your blood. 125 00:06:11,897 --> 00:06:13,761 Oh, God, that you would iron out. 126 00:06:13,833 --> 00:06:16,441 Every wrinkle in your bride right now. 127 00:06:16,553 --> 00:06:18,281 Iron out every wrinkle. 128 00:06:18,393 --> 00:06:21,721 That you would blot out everything, God, that you would make 129 00:06:21,753 --> 00:06:24,617 us pure, pure, pure right now, Jesus. 130 00:06:24,721 --> 00:06:26,993 And we lay it all before you, God. 131 00:06:27,089 --> 00:06:28,553 We lay it all before you. 132 00:06:28,609 --> 00:06:31,025 All gossip, all slander. 133 00:06:31,145 --> 00:06:31,505 Come on. 134 00:06:31,545 --> 00:06:32,713 All accusation. 135 00:06:32,809 --> 00:06:34,065 God, forgive us. 136 00:06:34,145 --> 00:06:38,881 Wash us, Lord God, as we get ready to step up over this threshold, 137 00:06:38,993 --> 00:06:43,089 as we get ready to step up over this threshold, God, may we 138 00:06:43,137 --> 00:06:45,217 not bring our filthy rags. 139 00:06:45,321 --> 00:06:48,961 May we not bring our past and bring all these things, God. 140 00:06:48,993 --> 00:06:53,265 But forgetting what was past and pressing forward towards the 141 00:06:53,305 --> 00:06:56,685 high calling, the high mark which you have for us, Lord. 142 00:07:00,265 --> 00:07:04,897 Forgetting what was past, forgetting our old pastors forgetting 143 00:07:04,921 --> 00:07:06,609 the way worship used to be. 144 00:07:06,697 --> 00:07:08,777 Forgetting how we used to do church. 145 00:07:08,881 --> 00:07:13,945 Forgetting what was past and pressing forward for the high mark, 146 00:07:14,105 --> 00:07:16,645 that calling that awaits us, Lord. 147 00:07:18,345 --> 00:07:19,217 Wow. 148 00:07:19,401 --> 00:07:21,005 Thank you, Jesus. 149 00:07:21,505 --> 00:07:23,169 Thank you, Jesus. 150 00:07:23,337 --> 00:07:25,625 We need supernatural vision. 151 00:07:25,745 --> 00:07:27,675 We need spiritual vision. 152 00:07:27,825 --> 00:07:28,831 In your mighty name. 153 00:07:28,863 --> 00:07:34,007 We in el nombre de Jesus, ye men. 154 00:07:34,111 --> 00:07:34,823 Yeah, man. 155 00:07:34,919 --> 00:07:36,035 Yes. 156 00:07:37,135 --> 00:07:38,647 Is it just me, or did it. 157 00:07:38,671 --> 00:07:41,195 Feel like it physically got brighter in the room? 158 00:07:42,015 --> 00:07:42,831 I'm not kidding. 159 00:07:42,863 --> 00:07:46,359 I'm not trying to be hokey or weird, but I'm like, wow, that was 160 00:07:46,407 --> 00:07:47,135 crazy. 161 00:07:47,295 --> 00:07:48,663 So I promised to preach. 162 00:07:48,719 --> 00:07:52,063 I promised to preach a short sermon, but I didn't promise to pray 163 00:07:52,119 --> 00:07:52,715 short. 164 00:07:53,615 --> 00:07:54,943 So, Jill, react. 165 00:07:55,039 --> 00:07:55,743 Relax, some of you. 166 00:07:55,759 --> 00:07:57,191 That's the longest you prayed all week. 167 00:07:57,223 --> 00:07:58,955 And that's why you had a bad week. 168 00:08:03,015 --> 00:08:03,471 All right? 169 00:08:03,503 --> 00:08:03,967 I love you. 170 00:08:03,991 --> 00:08:04,495 I love you. 171 00:08:04,535 --> 00:08:05,407 I love you. 172 00:08:05,551 --> 00:08:06,999 Come here, let me give you a hug. 173 00:08:07,047 --> 00:08:11,127 Now, you know that awkward moment where your parent beats you 174 00:08:11,151 --> 00:08:12,875 and then they ask you for a hug? 175 00:08:13,735 --> 00:08:14,415 Come over here. 176 00:08:14,455 --> 00:08:15,015 Give me a hug. 177 00:08:15,055 --> 00:08:15,835 You're like. 178 00:08:20,535 --> 00:08:21,359 Come over here. 179 00:08:21,407 --> 00:08:23,035 Give Papa 6 a hug. 180 00:08:23,395 --> 00:08:25,615 Oh, Santo. 181 00:08:27,555 --> 00:08:29,735 Proverbs 29:18. 182 00:08:30,235 --> 00:08:34,035 It says, where there is no prophetic vision, the Hebrew word 183 00:08:34,075 --> 00:08:35,691 there is kezzah. 184 00:08:35,763 --> 00:08:37,251 Everybody say kezzah. 185 00:08:37,443 --> 00:08:38,755 You're a Hebrew scholar. 186 00:08:38,795 --> 00:08:39,859 Isn't that amazing? 187 00:08:39,987 --> 00:08:41,755 Kaza means to see. 188 00:08:41,875 --> 00:08:43,195 It means to see. 189 00:08:43,315 --> 00:08:46,811 Now, many pastors have perverted this scripture to suit 190 00:08:46,843 --> 00:08:48,083 their own agenda. 191 00:08:48,219 --> 00:08:51,251 And there's a very high likelihood that you've heard this 192 00:08:51,283 --> 00:08:55,211 verse before but never heard it properly interpreted, because 193 00:08:55,283 --> 00:08:58,651 pastors use this scripture to convince people, well, where there's 194 00:08:58,683 --> 00:09:00,535 no vision, the people perish. 195 00:09:00,835 --> 00:09:04,563 And then what they proceed to tell you is their selfish vision 196 00:09:04,699 --> 00:09:07,059 that they need to employ all of you to do. 197 00:09:07,147 --> 00:09:10,331 And so what I want to do is I want to tell you what the Bible really 198 00:09:10,403 --> 00:09:13,267 says and what this is, this scripture is about, because I think 199 00:09:13,291 --> 00:09:16,707 it's even better, because let me just tell you, and I want to get 200 00:09:16,731 --> 00:09:20,011 this on record because we're filming right now, the vision of 201 00:09:20,043 --> 00:09:24,763 this church should not even be my vision as the lead pastor, because 202 00:09:24,819 --> 00:09:26,203 my vision will fail. 203 00:09:26,379 --> 00:09:32,067 But if it is God's vision, it cannot fail if it is God's vision, 204 00:09:32,131 --> 00:09:35,971 there's provision if it is God's vision, they can gossip, slander 205 00:09:36,003 --> 00:09:38,875 and accuse, but they can't stop it if it is God. 206 00:09:38,915 --> 00:09:41,379 So we need to know what God's vision is. 207 00:09:41,507 --> 00:09:45,563 Now, as I'm breaking this down, Kaza is to see it's a picture. 208 00:09:45,699 --> 00:09:49,867 And when you look at the original Hebrew, the language translation 209 00:09:49,931 --> 00:09:54,383 for Proverbs, chapter 29:18, it says, where there's no prophetic 210 00:09:54,439 --> 00:09:56,863 vision, the people cast off restraint. 211 00:09:56,999 --> 00:10:00,791 Do you all remember in the 80s when we didn't have to wear seatbelts? 212 00:10:00,983 --> 00:10:02,095 You remember that? 213 00:10:02,215 --> 00:10:03,727 Nobody wore seat belts in the 80s. 214 00:10:03,751 --> 00:10:06,155 We were just living on the edge every day. 215 00:10:06,575 --> 00:10:06,983 Right. 216 00:10:07,039 --> 00:10:08,455 I remember being in the back. 217 00:10:08,495 --> 00:10:10,135 We had a station wagon. 218 00:10:10,175 --> 00:10:11,399 You all remember those? 219 00:10:11,527 --> 00:10:13,119 And all of us would be. 220 00:10:13,167 --> 00:10:15,455 The kids would be in the back, no seatbelt hanging out. 221 00:10:15,495 --> 00:10:16,511 It was amazing. 222 00:10:16,583 --> 00:10:17,863 Bring that back. 223 00:10:18,039 --> 00:10:18,779 And so. 224 00:10:18,887 --> 00:10:22,515 But to cast off restraint is the equivalency of. 225 00:10:22,555 --> 00:10:25,299 To the Hebrew word means to loosen. 226 00:10:25,427 --> 00:10:28,123 So it would be like taking your seatbelt off. 227 00:10:28,259 --> 00:10:31,947 So it says, where there is no prophetic vision, the people, it's 228 00:10:31,971 --> 00:10:35,211 like they take off their seatbelt, they release their restraint, 229 00:10:35,323 --> 00:10:37,323 but blessed is he who keeps the law. 230 00:10:37,379 --> 00:10:41,603 Now let's go back to the old covenant, because what is prophetic 231 00:10:41,659 --> 00:10:42,347 vision? 232 00:10:42,491 --> 00:10:46,779 According to the Old Covenant, it is the prophet that would be designated 233 00:10:46,867 --> 00:10:50,637 by God to speak a word to the nation of Israel. 234 00:10:50,811 --> 00:10:53,305 And so think about the prophet Samuel. 235 00:10:53,425 --> 00:10:56,857 Samuel would get a vision from God and he would speak the vision 236 00:10:56,961 --> 00:11:00,193 and he would say, thus saith the Lord, this is from God. 237 00:11:00,329 --> 00:11:05,185 And then that would actually produce restraint, because vision 238 00:11:05,265 --> 00:11:06,585 produces restraint. 239 00:11:06,705 --> 00:11:07,521 What does that mean? 240 00:11:07,553 --> 00:11:08,993 Well, let me break it down for you. 241 00:11:09,089 --> 00:11:12,897 If you don't have a vision for your sexuality, you will. 242 00:11:13,041 --> 00:11:15,765 Your sexuality will be unrestrained. 243 00:11:16,065 --> 00:11:16,473 So. 244 00:11:16,529 --> 00:11:20,553 Or if you have a false vision for your sexuality, it will be unrestrained. 245 00:11:20,689 --> 00:11:24,193 But when you have a biblical vision for your sexuality, you will 246 00:11:24,249 --> 00:11:28,105 restrain it so that you only fulfill it within the context of 247 00:11:28,145 --> 00:11:32,513 a healthy marriage between a man and a woman. 248 00:11:32,649 --> 00:11:34,065 And that is the Bible. 249 00:11:34,185 --> 00:11:38,617 And so what happens is pornography is a false vision that 250 00:11:38,641 --> 00:11:43,001 will cause you to loose restraint off of the sexuality that 251 00:11:43,033 --> 00:11:44,165 God gave you. 252 00:11:44,585 --> 00:11:46,323 Oh, it's real quiet in here. 253 00:11:46,489 --> 00:11:49,415 Everyone's like, can we repent again or is that time over? 254 00:11:49,455 --> 00:11:51,795 Are we going to do that again before the end of service? 255 00:11:53,415 --> 00:11:56,375 Why do you think the phone is such a powerful device? 256 00:11:56,535 --> 00:11:59,675 Because the primary function of your phone is vision. 257 00:12:00,135 --> 00:12:02,355 And so there's a competing vision. 258 00:12:02,735 --> 00:12:06,023 There's the wrong vision, there's God's vision, there's Satan 259 00:12:06,079 --> 00:12:07,975 vision, then there's carnal vision. 260 00:12:08,095 --> 00:12:12,031 And so the reason why we started with prayer is we need to 261 00:12:12,103 --> 00:12:16,551 kill off our own selfish vision, which is carnal, but we also 262 00:12:16,703 --> 00:12:21,551 need to be have the demonic vision broken off of us so that way 263 00:12:21,583 --> 00:12:24,511 we can get down to the singular vision that God has. 264 00:12:24,623 --> 00:12:27,847 And so with these local churches and the pastor gets up and 265 00:12:27,871 --> 00:12:31,447 quotes this sermon or this scripture, trying to raise money. 266 00:12:31,551 --> 00:12:34,695 It's a perversion of the scripture because we are not here 267 00:12:34,735 --> 00:12:36,159 to fulfill my vision. 268 00:12:36,287 --> 00:12:40,655 We are here to all look at the Word together and come into agreement 269 00:12:40,695 --> 00:12:43,365 about what the scripture says is his vision. 270 00:12:43,495 --> 00:12:46,925 And if we can fulfill his vision, nobody can stop us. 271 00:12:47,305 --> 00:12:47,665 Right? 272 00:12:47,705 --> 00:12:49,105 Does this all make sense? 273 00:12:49,265 --> 00:12:50,985 So that is in all humility. 274 00:12:51,065 --> 00:12:54,945 Now listen, I pray that Jesus comes back in our generation because 275 00:12:54,985 --> 00:12:55,925 I'm tired. 276 00:12:57,505 --> 00:12:58,441 Maranatha. 277 00:12:58,473 --> 00:12:59,497 Lord, you can come today. 278 00:12:59,561 --> 00:13:00,913 You can come during this service. 279 00:13:00,969 --> 00:13:01,921 Lord, I'm ready. 280 00:13:02,033 --> 00:13:04,125 Some of them ain't ready, but I'm ready. 281 00:13:08,345 --> 00:13:10,025 Come on, take me home. 282 00:13:10,185 --> 00:13:11,745 Somebody just said take me home. 283 00:13:11,785 --> 00:13:12,657 Jesus, I'm tired. 284 00:13:12,721 --> 00:13:15,945 My kids on the way to church wore me out. 285 00:13:16,605 --> 00:13:19,905 I don't even care if some of them go anymore, but I'm gone. 286 00:13:21,525 --> 00:13:22,693 Don't clap over that. 287 00:13:22,749 --> 00:13:23,509 That's weird. 288 00:13:23,637 --> 00:13:24,293 That's weird. 289 00:13:24,349 --> 00:13:25,525 Oh, they're in V1 kids. 290 00:13:25,565 --> 00:13:26,173 You can clap. 291 00:13:26,229 --> 00:13:27,025 Nevermind. 292 00:13:27,805 --> 00:13:34,029 My point is, you know, my point is if Jesus doesn't come back 293 00:13:34,077 --> 00:13:37,149 in our generation, which, I mean, if you look at the signs of 294 00:13:37,157 --> 00:13:39,585 the times, it seems likely he will. 295 00:13:39,885 --> 00:13:40,773 And that's something. 296 00:13:40,829 --> 00:13:45,415 I had 15,000 people on my live stream on YouTube last night at one 297 00:13:45,455 --> 00:13:49,199 in the morning and led hundreds of people to Christ utilizing 298 00:13:49,247 --> 00:13:50,399 this drone situation. 299 00:13:50,487 --> 00:13:52,887 Talk about a holy ghost hijacking. 300 00:13:53,031 --> 00:13:57,919 I put up the video, 15,000 people came alive, by the way, that's 301 00:13:57,967 --> 00:14:01,671 one and a half breaker stadiums filled of people and they 302 00:14:01,703 --> 00:14:04,791 came in on the drone and I judo flipped it in the gospel and 303 00:14:04,823 --> 00:14:06,799 had hundreds of people saying, I'm weeping. 304 00:14:06,847 --> 00:14:07,967 I'm getting healed. 305 00:14:08,111 --> 00:14:08,775 I'm accepting. 306 00:14:08,815 --> 00:14:09,391 It was power. 307 00:14:09,463 --> 00:14:09,687 Yeah. 308 00:14:09,711 --> 00:14:11,583 Mims was there, you were up late. 309 00:14:11,639 --> 00:14:14,995 I know you didn't sleep enough because she was in the comment section. 310 00:14:15,035 --> 00:14:18,507 Come on, Pastor, the late night crew. 311 00:14:18,571 --> 00:14:19,731 Last night on the live stream. 312 00:14:19,763 --> 00:14:25,171 My point in saying all this though is if Jesus doesn't come back, 313 00:14:25,323 --> 00:14:30,155 then I want to establish today that this church and whoever becomes 314 00:14:30,195 --> 00:14:34,451 the lead pastor after me in subsequent generations ought not 315 00:14:34,483 --> 00:14:36,667 to ever bring their own vision. 316 00:14:36,811 --> 00:14:38,815 It must be God's vision. 317 00:14:39,165 --> 00:14:41,773 And that is the most important thing. 318 00:14:41,869 --> 00:14:45,381 And that's why last week I told you the story about going V1 319 00:14:45,533 --> 00:14:47,621 because I had to die to my own vision. 320 00:14:47,733 --> 00:14:50,773 And I said, God, I don't want to go to New York just to be a famous 321 00:14:50,829 --> 00:14:51,789 New York preacher. 322 00:14:51,877 --> 00:14:55,061 I don't want to go to New York just to have some selfish ambition 323 00:14:55,133 --> 00:14:57,661 because I don't like northwest Indiana anymore or whatever those 324 00:14:57,693 --> 00:14:58,901 stupid ideas are. 325 00:14:59,013 --> 00:14:59,757 I need to know. 326 00:14:59,821 --> 00:15:02,949 I believe you told me to go, but I need proof. 327 00:15:03,077 --> 00:15:06,785 And then God divinely provided that proof during that sermon. 328 00:15:06,825 --> 00:15:09,369 How many of you were here last week and you heard about going V1? 329 00:15:09,417 --> 00:15:11,601 Okay, so that was last week. 330 00:15:11,713 --> 00:15:14,697 And then we talked about how you need a ground crew and you need 331 00:15:14,721 --> 00:15:16,561 a flight crew and you need fuel. 332 00:15:16,673 --> 00:15:21,329 And we shipped out almost a thousand of the 365 day devotional 333 00:15:21,417 --> 00:15:24,233 journals all around the world, which is amazing. 334 00:15:24,289 --> 00:15:26,385 And we're going to continue to ship them out and you can get them 335 00:15:26,425 --> 00:15:26,841 today. 336 00:15:26,953 --> 00:15:31,337 And we are going to read the Bible every single day of 2025. 337 00:15:31,401 --> 00:15:33,057 How many of you are with me on that? 338 00:15:33,201 --> 00:15:34,545 All right, all right. 339 00:15:34,705 --> 00:15:38,321 And then we're gonna find two groups that we are going to be in 340 00:15:38,353 --> 00:15:39,713 deep discipleship with. 341 00:15:39,769 --> 00:15:41,801 And that's our ground crew and our flight crew. 342 00:15:41,833 --> 00:15:43,849 How many of you ready to find your people? 343 00:15:44,017 --> 00:15:47,065 Okay, so that was last week. 344 00:15:47,105 --> 00:15:49,865 Now we're moving on to this week and we're talking about the 345 00:15:49,905 --> 00:15:50,217 vision. 346 00:15:50,281 --> 00:15:51,313 The vision, the vision. 347 00:15:51,409 --> 00:15:54,225 And I don't know if you noticed this, but as our church is 348 00:15:54,265 --> 00:15:57,205 expanding, I'm actually reducing the vision. 349 00:15:57,745 --> 00:16:01,153 Because sometimes, just like when you go to Central park and you 350 00:16:01,169 --> 00:16:04,489 get a carriage ride with the horses there, they put blinders on 351 00:16:04,497 --> 00:16:05,095 the horse. 352 00:16:05,185 --> 00:16:09,051 But the blinders are not to make the horse blind to everything. 353 00:16:09,243 --> 00:16:12,051 It's just to make them blind to most things. 354 00:16:12,243 --> 00:16:15,307 And see, some of you have taken your blinders off and you need 355 00:16:15,331 --> 00:16:16,939 to put them on because. 356 00:16:17,027 --> 00:16:20,095 And I'm talking to my multipotentialities. 357 00:16:20,675 --> 00:16:21,947 Those of you are like, I don't. 358 00:16:21,971 --> 00:16:23,291 Know, life is life. 359 00:16:23,363 --> 00:16:27,115 I'm an artist, but I'M an entrepreneur, but I love the Lord, 360 00:16:27,155 --> 00:16:27,995 but I can do this. 361 00:16:28,035 --> 00:16:28,963 And I like. 362 00:16:29,019 --> 00:16:31,763 You know, it's like they're called multipotentialities. 363 00:16:31,859 --> 00:16:34,655 It's when you're good at everything but master nothing. 364 00:16:35,575 --> 00:16:36,375 And you're. 365 00:16:36,415 --> 00:16:37,879 And you can do a lot of things. 366 00:16:37,927 --> 00:16:40,595 So therefore you get paralyzed and do nothing. 367 00:16:41,255 --> 00:16:41,839 And that's. 368 00:16:41,887 --> 00:16:44,103 Multipotentialities have this problem. 369 00:16:44,199 --> 00:16:44,711 But I. 370 00:16:44,783 --> 00:16:45,751 But I like art. 371 00:16:45,823 --> 00:16:46,815 No, you don't like art. 372 00:16:46,855 --> 00:16:47,191 You just. 373 00:16:47,223 --> 00:16:48,759 You're a Crayola level artist. 374 00:16:48,807 --> 00:16:49,635 Just chill. 375 00:16:51,735 --> 00:16:53,087 But I'm a musician. 376 00:16:53,151 --> 00:16:53,751 No, you're not. 377 00:16:53,783 --> 00:16:55,063 You know six chords. 378 00:16:55,119 --> 00:16:56,671 Just relax a little bit, all right? 379 00:16:56,703 --> 00:16:57,735 You're not even that good. 380 00:16:57,775 --> 00:16:58,935 Your mom said you were good. 381 00:16:58,975 --> 00:17:01,455 She lied to you to make you feel better about yourself. 382 00:17:01,615 --> 00:17:04,023 Just give it up, right? 383 00:17:04,159 --> 00:17:06,395 Somebody from the worship team said, preach. 384 00:17:08,175 --> 00:17:09,863 But one of the biggest problems of. 385 00:17:09,879 --> 00:17:13,055 Our generation is being a multipotentiality. 386 00:17:13,215 --> 00:17:16,287 And what that means is you feel like, I can do a lot of things, 387 00:17:16,391 --> 00:17:20,031 and then because of the paralysis of analysis, you do nothing. 388 00:17:20,223 --> 00:17:21,015 And so that. 389 00:17:21,055 --> 00:17:24,247 And the reason why I spoke that with so much authority is because 390 00:17:24,311 --> 00:17:25,191 that's me. 391 00:17:25,343 --> 00:17:27,519 I was the guy who was like, I can lead worship. 392 00:17:27,567 --> 00:17:28,119 I can preach. 393 00:17:28,167 --> 00:17:28,751 I can do this. 394 00:17:28,783 --> 00:17:29,351 I'm an artist. 395 00:17:29,383 --> 00:17:30,081 I have this. 396 00:17:30,183 --> 00:17:32,021 I mean, I tried to do it all. 397 00:17:32,053 --> 00:17:35,265 And in doing everything, I diluted the vision. 398 00:17:35,605 --> 00:17:39,869 And so what this says is, where there is no prophetic vision, 399 00:17:39,997 --> 00:17:44,381 the people, loose restraints, and then they do everything, which 400 00:17:44,413 --> 00:17:46,445 ends up turning into a form of sin. 401 00:17:46,565 --> 00:17:48,357 So vision is a restraint. 402 00:17:48,421 --> 00:17:50,973 It's a limitation that's placed on you. 403 00:17:51,069 --> 00:17:52,669 And so I'm going to give you three things. 404 00:17:52,717 --> 00:17:54,253 That vision is for your notes. 405 00:17:54,349 --> 00:17:56,493 And then I'm going to be announcing what God's getting ready 406 00:17:56,509 --> 00:17:57,285 to do in this church. 407 00:17:57,325 --> 00:17:58,525 It's going to be powerful. 408 00:17:58,645 --> 00:18:03,347 But I want to help you understand vision because God, of 409 00:18:03,371 --> 00:18:04,955 course, you're a multi potentiality. 410 00:18:04,995 --> 00:18:09,275 But some of that stuff is supposed to be your hobby, not your 411 00:18:09,315 --> 00:18:09,935 career. 412 00:18:10,355 --> 00:18:13,067 And some of us get that mixed up where it's like, no, you play 413 00:18:13,091 --> 00:18:16,499 the guitar for fun, but God called you to something else. 414 00:18:16,587 --> 00:18:18,131 Oh, you draw for fun, but. 415 00:18:18,203 --> 00:18:20,955 Or sometimes you need to switch it and you gave up a dream 416 00:18:20,995 --> 00:18:23,495 for a career, and you need to go back to the dream. 417 00:18:23,795 --> 00:18:27,483 So this is when you delve into the realm of vision. 418 00:18:27,619 --> 00:18:31,771 But vision can be complicated because a lot of times we don't spend 419 00:18:31,803 --> 00:18:33,451 enough time dying so. 420 00:18:33,473 --> 00:18:35,515 So that we can receive his vision. 421 00:18:35,815 --> 00:18:36,439 And so we. 422 00:18:36,487 --> 00:18:39,863 That's why prayer is so important, because you must empty 423 00:18:39,919 --> 00:18:42,087 yourself and decrease in your. 424 00:18:42,111 --> 00:18:44,895 All of your selfish ambition and Then say, okay now, Lord. 425 00:18:44,935 --> 00:18:47,675 And sometimes he'll show you something you don't want to see. 426 00:18:49,335 --> 00:18:51,751 Like, I know y'all don't believe this, but I wanted to be 427 00:18:51,783 --> 00:18:53,595 a famous music artist. 428 00:18:53,975 --> 00:18:55,279 And my wife knows this. 429 00:18:55,327 --> 00:18:55,975 That's what I. 430 00:18:56,055 --> 00:18:57,191 That's what I wanted to be. 431 00:18:57,223 --> 00:18:58,079 That was my vision. 432 00:18:58,127 --> 00:19:01,929 And I thought, oh, I'll pastor when I'm super, like, way older. 433 00:19:02,047 --> 00:19:05,629 And after I'm done with this very successful, lucrative music 434 00:19:05,717 --> 00:19:06,385 career. 435 00:19:07,805 --> 00:19:09,105 Why are you laughing? 436 00:19:11,205 --> 00:19:13,997 And I toured all over the world, and I met all these famous 437 00:19:14,061 --> 00:19:17,877 people, and I had singles that charted on US Radio that none of 438 00:19:17,901 --> 00:19:18,901 you have ever heard. 439 00:19:19,013 --> 00:19:20,733 But you want to know why? 440 00:19:20,869 --> 00:19:24,985 Because the greatest grace is on God's vision, not on your own. 441 00:19:25,565 --> 00:19:29,267 And when I canceled my music career and then started loading in 442 00:19:29,291 --> 00:19:34,107 and loading out and join my ground crew to set up kids, the anointing 443 00:19:34,171 --> 00:19:36,179 started to flow in northwest Indiana. 444 00:19:36,267 --> 00:19:38,107 And I was in the place of. 445 00:19:38,211 --> 00:19:38,643 Of. 446 00:19:38,739 --> 00:19:40,227 Of most obscurity. 447 00:19:40,291 --> 00:19:41,859 But most anointing. 448 00:19:42,027 --> 00:19:45,843 And oftentimes you will find the greatest anointing in the greatest 449 00:19:45,899 --> 00:19:46,859 obscurity. 450 00:19:47,027 --> 00:19:47,619 Why? 451 00:19:47,747 --> 00:19:49,375 Because you're being tested. 452 00:19:50,035 --> 00:19:52,255 You're being tested over the vision. 453 00:19:52,595 --> 00:19:53,179 See, this. 454 00:19:53,227 --> 00:19:54,643 This is the thing, is the vision. 455 00:19:54,699 --> 00:19:55,315 There's a difference. 456 00:19:55,355 --> 00:19:58,741 And now, if you're taking notes, in Genesis chapter one, there's 457 00:19:58,773 --> 00:20:02,133 a distinction that needs to be made between create and made. 458 00:20:02,269 --> 00:20:05,965 In the beginning, God created, then he made. 459 00:20:06,085 --> 00:20:08,293 And if you pay attention to the words of the. 460 00:20:08,349 --> 00:20:12,733 Of Genesis 1 and the Hebrew account of creation, there's a distinction 461 00:20:12,789 --> 00:20:14,893 being made between create and made. 462 00:20:15,029 --> 00:20:16,613 And nobody even pays attention. 463 00:20:16,669 --> 00:20:19,605 You just assume that instantly, everything. 464 00:20:19,725 --> 00:20:21,997 No, God created it, then he made it. 465 00:20:22,021 --> 00:20:22,525 What is it? 466 00:20:22,565 --> 00:20:24,665 It's blueprint, and then it's product. 467 00:20:25,695 --> 00:20:29,719 So before God, Before God makes, He creates, there's a blueprint, 468 00:20:29,767 --> 00:20:31,991 then the blueprint becomes reality. 469 00:20:32,143 --> 00:20:36,159 And so let me give you some Old Old Testament examples of this. 470 00:20:36,327 --> 00:20:38,679 It's Joseph gets a dream. 471 00:20:38,807 --> 00:20:40,455 The dream is the blueprint. 472 00:20:40,535 --> 00:20:44,967 God created a future for Joseph, but the process is how God 473 00:20:45,031 --> 00:20:46,071 made it for him. 474 00:20:46,183 --> 00:20:47,591 And so watch this. 475 00:20:47,663 --> 00:20:52,383 The anointing had to touch the head of David before the crown touched 476 00:20:52,399 --> 00:20:53,433 the head of David. 477 00:20:53,559 --> 00:20:55,029 The anointing comes first. 478 00:20:55,077 --> 00:21:00,493 God created in him this king, but then he made him a king years 479 00:21:00,549 --> 00:21:01,101 later. 480 00:21:01,253 --> 00:21:04,493 Create is the blueprint and made is the product. 481 00:21:04,629 --> 00:21:06,901 But that only happens with a process. 482 00:21:07,053 --> 00:21:08,597 And so I got good news for you. 483 00:21:08,621 --> 00:21:12,149 If you've been wondering what God's been doing in 2024, he's been 484 00:21:12,197 --> 00:21:13,509 taking you through a process. 485 00:21:13,597 --> 00:21:16,925 And I believe, and I'm not saying this as hype, I'm saying this 486 00:21:16,965 --> 00:21:21,533 under a prophetic unction is that 2025 is when you cross from 487 00:21:21,589 --> 00:21:22,833 create to made. 488 00:21:22,989 --> 00:21:27,001 2025 is when you cross from the blueprint to actual physical 489 00:21:27,073 --> 00:21:27,745 reality. 490 00:21:27,865 --> 00:21:29,241 And I got some proof here today. 491 00:21:29,273 --> 00:21:36,041 I'm about to unload in a few moments, single people before you 492 00:21:36,073 --> 00:21:39,025 ever make them, before you ever make a marriage, you need to 493 00:21:39,065 --> 00:21:40,205 create a marriage. 494 00:21:41,505 --> 00:21:43,125 Have you created it? 495 00:21:44,065 --> 00:21:47,889 Have you thought more about your sex life than you did your spiritual 496 00:21:47,937 --> 00:21:49,565 intimacy with your spouse? 497 00:21:50,145 --> 00:21:53,345 So you have more vision for your physical intimacy than your 498 00:21:53,385 --> 00:21:56,817 spiritual intimacy, which is why you are not ready to make a marriage 499 00:21:56,881 --> 00:21:58,145 even though you've created one. 500 00:21:58,185 --> 00:21:59,165 Oh, come on. 501 00:22:01,025 --> 00:22:02,369 This is a principle. 502 00:22:02,457 --> 00:22:03,737 This is a principle. 503 00:22:03,881 --> 00:22:07,321 You've created a business, but you haven't made a business. 504 00:22:07,433 --> 00:22:10,665 And when you created the business, you spent more time determining 505 00:22:10,705 --> 00:22:13,185 how you're going to spend the money you haven't made than making 506 00:22:13,225 --> 00:22:15,805 the money, which is why you haven't made the business. 507 00:22:16,805 --> 00:22:18,237 So a lot of times when we're. 508 00:22:18,301 --> 00:22:19,133 Oh, come on. 509 00:22:19,229 --> 00:22:21,665 Everybody's like, can you hug me again? 510 00:22:22,845 --> 00:22:24,505 Do we get a hug yet? 511 00:22:25,685 --> 00:22:27,253 I'm telling on myself. 512 00:22:27,389 --> 00:22:29,229 Anytime you ever hear the oohs and. 513 00:22:29,237 --> 00:22:32,845 The ahs in the crowd, it's literally me preaching to a younger 514 00:22:32,885 --> 00:22:36,541 version of me and just telling me what I learned the hard way. 515 00:22:36,613 --> 00:22:40,197 So the pastoring is you getting an accelerated version of 516 00:22:40,221 --> 00:22:41,871 what I got the hard way. 517 00:22:42,013 --> 00:22:43,255 Is that a good deal? 518 00:22:43,755 --> 00:22:47,595 So the thing is create and made, and what God wants to do is. 519 00:22:47,675 --> 00:22:51,139 So sometimes demolition is necessary in the meanwhile. 520 00:22:51,307 --> 00:22:52,939 So he needs to destroy some. 521 00:22:52,987 --> 00:22:57,611 This is why prophets said that we need to pluck out and tear down, 522 00:22:57,723 --> 00:22:59,347 and then God will rebuild. 523 00:22:59,451 --> 00:23:03,403 So some of 2024, was God destroying false relationships to 524 00:23:03,419 --> 00:23:05,015 make room for the real ones. 525 00:23:07,685 --> 00:23:08,069 Bye. 526 00:23:08,117 --> 00:23:08,745 Bye. 527 00:23:09,565 --> 00:23:09,949 Bye. 528 00:23:09,997 --> 00:23:10,653 Bye. 529 00:23:10,829 --> 00:23:11,637 Bye. 530 00:23:11,821 --> 00:23:13,345 Don't ever come back. 531 00:23:13,685 --> 00:23:14,317 Bye. 532 00:23:14,421 --> 00:23:15,869 I hope I never talk to you again. 533 00:23:15,917 --> 00:23:16,973 Maybe I'll see you in heaven. 534 00:23:17,029 --> 00:23:18,025 Probably not. 535 00:23:18,565 --> 00:23:19,397 Probably not. 536 00:23:19,461 --> 00:23:21,101 The way you act, the way you talk. 537 00:23:21,173 --> 00:23:22,185 Probably not. 538 00:23:22,685 --> 00:23:24,461 Not gonna lie and say, I'll pray for you. 539 00:23:24,493 --> 00:23:25,293 Cause I already did. 540 00:23:25,349 --> 00:23:26,465 It didn't work. 541 00:23:26,885 --> 00:23:27,549 Cause you don't. 542 00:23:27,597 --> 00:23:29,669 Cause you didn't respond to the will of the Lord. 543 00:23:29,717 --> 00:23:30,165 So, bye. 544 00:23:30,205 --> 00:23:30,825 Bye. 545 00:23:31,285 --> 00:23:31,781 Bye. 546 00:23:31,853 --> 00:23:32,613 See you later. 547 00:23:32,709 --> 00:23:33,465 Bye. 548 00:23:33,775 --> 00:23:34,635 Bye. 549 00:23:35,135 --> 00:23:35,955 Bye. 550 00:23:36,255 --> 00:23:37,035 Bye. 551 00:23:43,175 --> 00:23:47,675 Abraham had to say goodbye to Lot so that he could get a lot. 552 00:23:48,815 --> 00:23:52,519 He had to say goodbye to Lot so God could increase him, because 553 00:23:52,567 --> 00:23:55,007 the land couldn't sustain that relationship. 554 00:23:55,151 --> 00:23:55,455 Bye. 555 00:23:55,495 --> 00:23:56,315 Bye, Lot. 556 00:23:56,615 --> 00:23:57,383 Bye. 557 00:23:57,519 --> 00:23:59,707 Oh, you're going to Sodom and Gomorrah. 558 00:23:59,791 --> 00:24:00,635 Oh, that's great. 559 00:24:00,715 --> 00:24:01,415 Bye. 560 00:24:03,955 --> 00:24:05,315 If you know the story. 561 00:24:05,435 --> 00:24:07,495 Oh, that's where you want to go by. 562 00:24:08,515 --> 00:24:09,643 Oh, you want to go back to. 563 00:24:09,659 --> 00:24:12,475 The clubs and drinking and smoking by? 564 00:24:12,595 --> 00:24:14,883 I'll be over here reading my 365. 565 00:24:14,939 --> 00:24:16,315 Day journal, filling it out. 566 00:24:16,355 --> 00:24:19,307 Over here secretly rebuilding my life. 567 00:24:19,451 --> 00:24:21,803 Secretly taking from create to made. 568 00:24:21,899 --> 00:24:23,963 I'll be over here in the prayer closet. 569 00:24:24,059 --> 00:24:25,993 I'll be over here serving in kids. 570 00:24:26,099 --> 00:24:26,997 I'll be over here. 571 00:24:27,061 --> 00:24:27,605 Oh, I'm good. 572 00:24:27,645 --> 00:24:27,893 Bye. 573 00:24:27,949 --> 00:24:28,373 Bye. 574 00:24:28,469 --> 00:24:29,949 Oh, yeah, you're going on a cruise. 575 00:24:29,997 --> 00:24:30,605 You're going on. 576 00:24:30,645 --> 00:24:31,917 Yeah, it's the Titanic. 577 00:24:31,981 --> 00:24:33,005 Okay, bye. 578 00:24:33,125 --> 00:24:34,669 I'll stay here on the land. 579 00:24:34,757 --> 00:24:36,533 It's going to be fun till it sinks. 580 00:24:36,589 --> 00:24:37,345 Bye. 581 00:24:40,765 --> 00:24:42,865 I know I'm helping somebody. 582 00:24:43,285 --> 00:24:44,109 This is. 583 00:24:44,237 --> 00:24:45,589 This is vision. 584 00:24:45,757 --> 00:24:47,117 This is vision. 585 00:24:47,301 --> 00:24:50,157 Can you imagine being mad at your friend who got to go on the 586 00:24:50,181 --> 00:24:52,105 Titanic when you had to stay at home? 587 00:24:53,385 --> 00:24:55,025 Some of you are mad about somebody. 588 00:24:55,065 --> 00:24:58,205 Else'S blessing, not really realizing it's a curse. 589 00:25:00,065 --> 00:25:00,925 Bye. 590 00:25:02,305 --> 00:25:03,145 Bye. 591 00:25:03,305 --> 00:25:03,665 Bye. 592 00:25:03,705 --> 00:25:04,645 See you later. 593 00:25:05,185 --> 00:25:07,245 Leonardo's gonna play you. 594 00:25:09,225 --> 00:25:10,085 Bye. 595 00:25:12,105 --> 00:25:12,657 Y'All. 596 00:25:12,721 --> 00:25:16,201 Listen, there's one anointing that I have as your pastor, and it's 597 00:25:16,233 --> 00:25:18,245 the anointing to outlast. 598 00:25:18,655 --> 00:25:20,679 I've got the cockroach anointing. 599 00:25:20,727 --> 00:25:24,471 You can run your mouth, you can talk about me, you can slander 600 00:25:24,503 --> 00:25:24,671 me. 601 00:25:24,703 --> 00:25:26,079 The only thing you can't do is. 602 00:25:26,127 --> 00:25:28,807 Stop me because I don't want to be a pastor. 603 00:25:28,871 --> 00:25:30,423 I don't want to be a preacher. 604 00:25:30,519 --> 00:25:32,199 I don't want to start churches. 605 00:25:32,287 --> 00:25:33,647 I don't want to do this, but. 606 00:25:33,671 --> 00:25:36,095 I have to because he told me to do it. 607 00:25:36,175 --> 00:25:39,439 And when somebody submits and surrenders, hey, guess what? 608 00:25:39,487 --> 00:25:41,151 I'm already a dead man walking. 609 00:25:41,183 --> 00:25:41,879 What are you going to do? 610 00:25:41,927 --> 00:25:42,639 Kill me? 611 00:25:42,727 --> 00:25:45,567 I already killed myself for the sake of the gospel. 612 00:25:45,671 --> 00:25:46,911 What are you gonna do? 613 00:25:47,023 --> 00:25:49,447 Talk about a dead man that's in the grave? 614 00:25:49,551 --> 00:25:51,431 You're talking about a carcass. 615 00:25:51,583 --> 00:25:56,695 No longer it is I that live, but Christ in me, the hope of glory 616 00:25:56,775 --> 00:25:57,687 for the world. 617 00:25:57,791 --> 00:25:59,407 What you gonna do? 618 00:25:59,551 --> 00:25:59,879 Bye. 619 00:25:59,927 --> 00:26:00,555 Bye. 620 00:26:02,015 --> 00:26:03,755 Come on, somebody. 621 00:26:05,575 --> 00:26:09,119 Some of the pastors on Long island who said that this would never 622 00:26:09,207 --> 00:26:11,645 happen are not even pastors. 623 00:26:12,385 --> 00:26:12,745 Bye. 624 00:26:12,785 --> 00:26:13,405 Bye. 625 00:26:22,745 --> 00:26:29,153 And I'm not being mean a little bit, but I think you have 626 00:26:29,169 --> 00:26:33,225 to have this attitude because it says where there is no prophetic 627 00:26:33,265 --> 00:26:35,605 vision, the people cast off restraint. 628 00:26:35,925 --> 00:26:38,845 So what that means is, like when you get a vision and you know 629 00:26:38,885 --> 00:26:43,045 this vision is from God, then you don't expect people to see what 630 00:26:43,085 --> 00:26:44,545 you see all the time. 631 00:26:44,965 --> 00:26:47,625 None of them saw what Noah saw. 632 00:26:48,325 --> 00:26:52,625 So when the rain came, they were shocked, but he was rejoicing. 633 00:26:53,245 --> 00:26:54,741 Did you hear what I just said? 634 00:26:54,893 --> 00:26:56,253 It's like no one saw. 635 00:26:56,349 --> 00:26:57,797 They ridiculed him. 636 00:26:57,901 --> 00:26:58,901 They mocked him. 637 00:26:58,973 --> 00:27:01,069 The only thing they couldn't do is stop him. 638 00:27:01,157 --> 00:27:03,797 And as they were all gurgling on their last breath, this is the 639 00:27:03,821 --> 00:27:06,625 coloring book I want to make so bad for V1 kids. 640 00:27:07,095 --> 00:27:11,995 It's Noah going, bye, bye. 641 00:27:12,855 --> 00:27:13,799 I told you. 642 00:27:13,887 --> 00:27:15,155 I told you. 643 00:27:17,855 --> 00:27:21,295 But some of us would stop building the ark because of their 644 00:27:21,335 --> 00:27:25,207 criticism, instead of remaining focused on the vision, 645 00:27:25,351 --> 00:27:28,835 because you're more tuned to their voice than you are his. 646 00:27:29,255 --> 00:27:32,399 And some of you need to pick up your hammer and you need to build 647 00:27:32,447 --> 00:27:33,065 with us. 648 00:27:33,175 --> 00:27:36,501 And if you see what I see, then you're going to do what I do. 649 00:27:36,613 --> 00:27:37,709 You're going to build. 650 00:27:37,837 --> 00:27:39,021 And that's what this is all about. 651 00:27:39,053 --> 00:27:42,045 When I came to New York, I was like, hey, I don't have a vision. 652 00:27:42,125 --> 00:27:44,293 I already proved that I died to this vision. 653 00:27:44,389 --> 00:27:47,621 But the vision that I am telling you, I believe God is showing 654 00:27:47,653 --> 00:27:47,941 me. 655 00:27:48,013 --> 00:27:50,333 And if it is from God, he already showed you. 656 00:27:50,429 --> 00:27:51,973 So I'm not giving you information. 657 00:27:52,069 --> 00:27:53,869 I'm giving you confirmation. 658 00:27:54,037 --> 00:27:57,437 So I didn't have to sell anybody on our church because the 659 00:27:57,461 --> 00:28:00,933 Holy Spirit already showed them what he was going to do in their 660 00:28:00,989 --> 00:28:01,469 region. 661 00:28:01,597 --> 00:28:04,101 And then when I said it, they were like, that's what God told me. 662 00:28:04,133 --> 00:28:04,985 I said, me too. 663 00:28:05,085 --> 00:28:06,045 Do it together. 664 00:28:06,585 --> 00:28:09,009 And that's how this church has done. 665 00:28:09,057 --> 00:28:12,209 That's why I tell people, don't join this church under any 666 00:28:12,257 --> 00:28:13,641 compulsion or pressure. 667 00:28:13,753 --> 00:28:14,481 But here's the thing. 668 00:28:14,513 --> 00:28:18,481 If the Holy Spirit told you, you're in trouble if you don't, that's 669 00:28:18,513 --> 00:28:20,125 between you and the Holy Spirit. 670 00:28:20,705 --> 00:28:24,577 And I can't tell you how many people started reluctant and they 671 00:28:24,601 --> 00:28:25,769 obeyed the Holy Spirit. 672 00:28:25,817 --> 00:28:28,497 Then they get some distance and they say, that other church that 673 00:28:28,521 --> 00:28:30,193 I went to doesn't exist anymore. 674 00:28:30,289 --> 00:28:31,625 And all this stuff came out. 675 00:28:31,705 --> 00:28:34,681 And by the way, I didn't realize I had demons and I got delivered. 676 00:28:34,793 --> 00:28:36,049 And then, by the way, I've actually. 677 00:28:36,097 --> 00:28:37,505 This is the most I've ever prayed. 678 00:28:37,585 --> 00:28:40,233 And now that I think about it, this church actually helped me a 679 00:28:40,249 --> 00:28:40,473 lot. 680 00:28:40,529 --> 00:28:42,805 Even though I hated it when I first came. 681 00:28:46,945 --> 00:28:48,525 Can you imagine that? 682 00:28:49,385 --> 00:28:50,529 Wait a second. 683 00:28:50,697 --> 00:28:51,805 I was wrong. 684 00:28:54,985 --> 00:28:55,845 I was. 685 00:28:56,625 --> 00:28:58,073 And there's so many people who are. 686 00:28:58,089 --> 00:29:01,077 Like, I thought Pastor Mike was a certain way, and then I got 687 00:29:01,101 --> 00:29:04,705 to know him, and I was wrong about him. 688 00:29:05,325 --> 00:29:08,405 And all those people who make videos about him, they don't even 689 00:29:08,445 --> 00:29:09,225 know him. 690 00:29:10,485 --> 00:29:12,077 This is what I'm talking about. 691 00:29:12,221 --> 00:29:14,945 Go to the vision that God gave you. 692 00:29:15,245 --> 00:29:16,221 Go to the vision. 693 00:29:16,293 --> 00:29:18,985 Because YouTube is somebody else's vision. 694 00:29:19,685 --> 00:29:21,741 Instagram is somebody Else's vision. 695 00:29:21,853 --> 00:29:23,821 Go back to what God showed you. 696 00:29:23,893 --> 00:29:25,813 Okay, I'm going to give you three things and then we're going 697 00:29:25,829 --> 00:29:27,847 to, we're going to talk about what's next. 698 00:29:27,911 --> 00:29:33,319 Number one, Vision is a picture that God gives of what could 699 00:29:33,367 --> 00:29:34,791 be vision. 700 00:29:34,863 --> 00:29:39,927 Number one is a picture that God gives of what could be. 701 00:29:40,071 --> 00:29:43,703 It's a picture of what God gives that could be. 702 00:29:43,839 --> 00:29:45,135 This is vision. 703 00:29:45,215 --> 00:29:45,583 Vision. 704 00:29:45,639 --> 00:29:46,583 It's a picture. 705 00:29:46,719 --> 00:29:47,343 It's a picture. 706 00:29:47,399 --> 00:29:48,875 Everybody say it's a picture. 707 00:29:49,815 --> 00:29:54,887 So to put Proverbs chapter 29, verse 18 in its proper context, only 708 00:29:54,951 --> 00:29:59,527 a prophet in the old covenant would be able to say the picture 709 00:29:59,671 --> 00:30:01,111 that God gave them. 710 00:30:01,223 --> 00:30:02,719 And that was how that worked. 711 00:30:02,807 --> 00:30:06,047 And so it says where that picture is being released, people 712 00:30:06,111 --> 00:30:07,167 have restraint. 713 00:30:07,311 --> 00:30:10,847 But where there is no picture being released to the picture, to 714 00:30:10,871 --> 00:30:13,743 the people, they release their restraint and they do whatever they 715 00:30:13,759 --> 00:30:14,335 want to do. 716 00:30:14,415 --> 00:30:18,143 And my scripture reference for this is if you go to Exodus, chapter 717 00:30:18,239 --> 00:30:24,395 32, verse 25, what happens is Moses goes up Mount Sinai, he has 718 00:30:24,435 --> 00:30:26,075 this incredible encounter with God. 719 00:30:26,115 --> 00:30:27,579 It's a burning bush experience. 720 00:30:27,707 --> 00:30:32,051 He receives the tablets, which is the law, and he gets the vision. 721 00:30:32,203 --> 00:30:36,907 But then just in the time that he was gone, the people, because 722 00:30:36,971 --> 00:30:41,195 there was not vision being poured into them, they released their 723 00:30:41,235 --> 00:30:41,667 restraint. 724 00:30:41,731 --> 00:30:45,651 And then Aaron, who is a real bad campus pastor, I'm telling you, 725 00:30:45,683 --> 00:30:48,821 Aaron was like the worst campus pastor because all the people 726 00:30:48,853 --> 00:30:52,293 were like, we're going to melt down all of our jewelry and we're 727 00:30:52,309 --> 00:30:53,453 going to make this golden calf. 728 00:30:53,469 --> 00:30:55,573 And Aaron's like, I can't stop him. 729 00:30:55,669 --> 00:30:56,565 What am I going to do? 730 00:30:56,605 --> 00:30:58,901 You know, and there's a whole leadership lesson. 731 00:30:58,933 --> 00:31:00,365 And then we don't have time for. 732 00:31:00,445 --> 00:31:03,885 But you know, so then what happens is these people are having 733 00:31:03,965 --> 00:31:06,865 rampant, promiscuous sex. 734 00:31:07,165 --> 00:31:10,597 These people are full blown pagans, idolatry. 735 00:31:10,741 --> 00:31:12,847 And why it very simple. 736 00:31:12,951 --> 00:31:14,431 Moses, he. 737 00:31:14,503 --> 00:31:18,567 There was a time where he wasn't in their midst manually giving 738 00:31:18,631 --> 00:31:19,527 that vision. 739 00:31:19,671 --> 00:31:22,167 And so this is the reference for it. 740 00:31:22,271 --> 00:31:26,031 And so it's, they need this picture, a picture of what could 741 00:31:26,063 --> 00:31:27,215 be from God. 742 00:31:27,335 --> 00:31:30,151 So let me just say sort of how this has happened. 743 00:31:30,183 --> 00:31:34,383 In my experience, when I showed up to New York, I showed up 744 00:31:34,399 --> 00:31:35,935 with prophetic pictures. 745 00:31:36,095 --> 00:31:40,817 God wants to establish healthy church in these regions, in New Jersey, 746 00:31:40,881 --> 00:31:44,177 in Miami, in Brooklyn and Long island, in Indiana. 747 00:31:44,321 --> 00:31:47,785 But people needed to come into agreement with that picture. 748 00:31:47,945 --> 00:31:51,081 But the thing about it is when we say building the church, I don't 749 00:31:51,113 --> 00:31:55,985 mean building buildings because the Bible says that the church 750 00:31:56,025 --> 00:31:59,609 is living stones that are jointly fit together. 751 00:31:59,737 --> 00:32:02,185 And those Stones are individual people. 752 00:32:02,345 --> 00:32:04,401 So I didn't come here to build buildings. 753 00:32:04,513 --> 00:32:06,125 I came here to build people. 754 00:32:06,425 --> 00:32:09,169 And you will need buildings to house the people. 755 00:32:09,297 --> 00:32:11,553 But our church has never been about a building. 756 00:32:11,649 --> 00:32:12,481 And so guess what? 757 00:32:12,513 --> 00:32:16,233 I looked at a man, Edwin Perez, and I said, I see a picture 758 00:32:16,289 --> 00:32:17,521 for you right now. 759 00:32:17,553 --> 00:32:20,529 You're estranged from the local church, haven't attended for 760 00:32:20,577 --> 00:32:21,001 years. 761 00:32:21,113 --> 00:32:23,289 You have no local church right now. 762 00:32:23,377 --> 00:32:27,137 You have hurt from past wounds, and you're living in isolation. 763 00:32:27,241 --> 00:32:30,541 But I see a picture that you're going to actually be the dean 764 00:32:30,573 --> 00:32:33,573 of the college, and you're going to come into V1 and you're 765 00:32:33,589 --> 00:32:34,069 going to thrive. 766 00:32:34,117 --> 00:32:38,261 And every single time I see Brooklyn surround him and they're 767 00:32:38,293 --> 00:32:41,261 loving on him, I brings tears in my eyes to think that he went 768 00:32:41,293 --> 00:32:45,485 from isolation to being embraced by the living stones that 769 00:32:45,525 --> 00:32:46,573 made the church together. 770 00:32:46,629 --> 00:32:50,237 And by the way, he's killing it with V1 College, and we're expanding 771 00:32:50,301 --> 00:32:51,501 every year when. 772 00:32:51,573 --> 00:32:51,925 Come on. 773 00:32:51,965 --> 00:32:52,525 That's all right. 774 00:32:52,565 --> 00:32:53,225 Yeah. 775 00:32:54,125 --> 00:32:57,797 I had a picture, and I had a vision for your campus pastors here 776 00:32:57,821 --> 00:32:58,549 on Long Island. 777 00:32:58,637 --> 00:33:01,541 And do you know the first time I ever gave that picture to Execa? 778 00:33:01,613 --> 00:33:03,253 She said, I don't want this picture. 779 00:33:03,349 --> 00:33:08,357 And she tried to do like Jonah and jump off the boat and do a swan 780 00:33:08,421 --> 00:33:08,701 dive. 781 00:33:08,733 --> 00:33:10,357 And she said, I don't want that picture. 782 00:33:10,461 --> 00:33:12,221 And I said, I didn't want this picture. 783 00:33:12,293 --> 00:33:13,685 And look what God did to me. 784 00:33:13,765 --> 00:33:17,565 Now it's your turn, you know, because. 785 00:33:17,645 --> 00:33:21,385 Your level of surrender is what you can call other people to. 786 00:33:21,925 --> 00:33:24,437 And some of y'all want your kids to be more surrendered than 787 00:33:24,461 --> 00:33:25,185 you are. 788 00:33:27,895 --> 00:33:30,615 So I looked at Exegol and I said, if I'm here on Long island 789 00:33:30,655 --> 00:33:32,775 and I'm surrendered, I'm calling you to full surrender. 790 00:33:32,815 --> 00:33:33,647 And guess what? 791 00:33:33,751 --> 00:33:35,391 Thankfully, she embraced it. 792 00:33:35,503 --> 00:33:37,687 She came back and said, I see the picture. 793 00:33:37,791 --> 00:33:38,511 I don't like it. 794 00:33:38,543 --> 00:33:39,407 Like you didn't like it. 795 00:33:39,431 --> 00:33:41,119 And I said, like father, like daughter. 796 00:33:41,207 --> 00:33:43,215 Come on, let's do this thing together. 797 00:33:43,335 --> 00:33:44,879 Danny came in, and guess what? 798 00:33:44,927 --> 00:33:49,119 Long island is thriving because they received the picture. 799 00:33:49,287 --> 00:33:52,185 That was the spiritual vision that went. 800 00:33:52,225 --> 00:33:54,005 From create to make. 801 00:33:54,505 --> 00:33:56,017 Create to make. 802 00:33:56,201 --> 00:33:56,713 Come on. 803 00:33:56,769 --> 00:33:59,505 And this is the apostolic and prophetic. 804 00:33:59,585 --> 00:34:03,561 How it converges is the prophet prophesies and the apostle 805 00:34:03,633 --> 00:34:04,329 builds it. 806 00:34:04,417 --> 00:34:07,065 And that's how the church was established, and that's how it's 807 00:34:07,105 --> 00:34:09,273 advancing 2,000 years later. 808 00:34:09,329 --> 00:34:10,089 There's a picture. 809 00:34:10,137 --> 00:34:11,153 There's a picture. 810 00:34:11,289 --> 00:34:15,185 I saw a picture for Miami, and all of a sudden, Harvey and Jess 811 00:34:15,225 --> 00:34:17,761 said, yes, I see that picture too, matter of fact. 812 00:34:17,793 --> 00:34:20,984 And I Haven't told this story publicly, but the very first time 813 00:34:21,024 --> 00:34:25,136 I met Harvey was in Indiana at our Indiana campus, when we were 814 00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:28,392 meeting at a bar, in a nightclub before they got a building. 815 00:34:28,528 --> 00:34:31,760 And all of a sudden I look at Harvey and I said, harvey, you're 816 00:34:31,792 --> 00:34:32,520 going to be a pastor. 817 00:34:32,552 --> 00:34:35,736 And now I did not think he was going to be a pastor at our church. 818 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:37,304 And I said, you're going to be a pastor. 819 00:34:37,344 --> 00:34:40,776 And then Pastor Josh came and, you know, Josh said, yes, I see that 820 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:42,136 you're called to be a pastor. 821 00:34:42,240 --> 00:34:45,608 And Harvey's real internal thoughts was like, I don't even like 822 00:34:45,656 --> 00:34:46,312 these people. 823 00:34:46,408 --> 00:34:47,696 Who does this guy think he is? 824 00:34:47,720 --> 00:34:48,848 Who does Mike think he is? 825 00:34:48,896 --> 00:34:53,263 I mean, literally, his first gut response was to rebel against 826 00:34:53,319 --> 00:34:53,703 it. 827 00:34:53,799 --> 00:34:56,399 But deep down inside, he knew it was true. 828 00:34:56,527 --> 00:35:00,071 And now fast forward, he's a campus pastor, him and his wife in 829 00:35:00,103 --> 00:35:03,335 Miami, and they're growing in disciples and they're reaching the 830 00:35:03,415 --> 00:35:04,795 lost in Miami. 831 00:35:05,295 --> 00:35:08,183 And so it's a picture of what could be. 832 00:35:08,279 --> 00:35:11,503 You know, sometimes God will give you a prophetic dream wave at 833 00:35:11,519 --> 00:35:13,475 me if you've ever had a prophetic dream. 834 00:35:13,935 --> 00:35:14,735 Okay? 835 00:35:14,895 --> 00:35:16,795 So many, many years ago. 836 00:35:16,935 --> 00:35:20,307 And because this picture can come by way of dream as well. 837 00:35:20,411 --> 00:35:22,955 Many years ago, I had a dream that I was. 838 00:35:23,075 --> 00:35:25,779 That I walked into this auditorium and I could see the drum 839 00:35:25,827 --> 00:35:27,779 risers were here, this was there. 840 00:35:27,907 --> 00:35:30,723 And then later on in this dream, I got up on this stage and 841 00:35:30,739 --> 00:35:34,251 it was stadium style seating filled with people, and I was conducting 842 00:35:34,283 --> 00:35:35,667 a mass deliverance. 843 00:35:35,851 --> 00:35:39,307 And all of a sudden, at that time, I was the number two for a 844 00:35:39,331 --> 00:35:41,595 very large church in northwest Indiana. 845 00:35:41,715 --> 00:35:44,593 And I said, we were going to go buy a building. 846 00:35:44,729 --> 00:35:47,793 And the actual realtor said, hey, this is the main auditorium. 847 00:35:47,849 --> 00:35:49,801 Let me open the door with my key. 848 00:35:49,993 --> 00:35:53,433 And I said, wait, wait, wait, wait, don't open it yet because. 849 00:35:53,529 --> 00:35:56,745 And I turned to the other pastors that were there and I said, 850 00:35:56,785 --> 00:35:59,753 hey, if we walk into this auditorium and this is the layout, 851 00:35:59,809 --> 00:36:03,433 the drum riser's here, this here, stadium style seating here, 852 00:36:03,529 --> 00:36:06,449 then I know that this is from God, because I've already had a dream 853 00:36:06,497 --> 00:36:07,273 about it. 854 00:36:07,409 --> 00:36:10,025 All of a sudden, the realtor opened the door and we walked in 855 00:36:10,065 --> 00:36:13,725 and it was exactly like I said, now here's the thing that's 856 00:36:13,765 --> 00:36:14,109 crazy. 857 00:36:14,157 --> 00:36:17,293 The realtor, he goes, hey, I just gotta give you credit, man, 858 00:36:17,349 --> 00:36:20,797 because the whole time you were describing the layout, he said, 859 00:36:20,941 --> 00:36:23,725 the drum risers were on the other side of the stage. 860 00:36:23,845 --> 00:36:26,117 And so I'm thinking to myself, you're gonna be wrong. 861 00:36:26,221 --> 00:36:29,365 And I walked in and realized since the last time we've been here, 862 00:36:29,405 --> 00:36:30,869 they moved him to the other side. 863 00:36:30,917 --> 00:36:32,025 And you were right. 864 00:36:32,965 --> 00:36:33,813 So that's. 865 00:36:33,869 --> 00:36:37,853 But then the rest of my dream was that I did this mass deliverance 866 00:36:37,909 --> 00:36:41,405 in this environment, but my job was not to minister from the 867 00:36:41,445 --> 00:36:43,239 stage when I was there serving. 868 00:36:43,287 --> 00:36:45,559 My job was to do all the behind the scenes. 869 00:36:45,687 --> 00:36:47,415 So I said, lord, you gave me that dream. 870 00:36:47,455 --> 00:36:50,551 How could you fulfill one part because we bought that building, 871 00:36:50,663 --> 00:36:52,607 but you didn't fulfill the other part. 872 00:36:52,751 --> 00:36:57,727 Then during the pandemic, that church starts to go through turmoil. 873 00:36:57,871 --> 00:37:01,119 And my apostolic oversight reaches out to me and says, mike, 874 00:37:01,247 --> 00:37:05,207 we believe that God has given you an assignment to be the lead 875 00:37:05,271 --> 00:37:08,361 pastor of both churches during a global pandemic. 876 00:37:08,543 --> 00:37:09,945 And I was like, mm. 877 00:37:11,125 --> 00:37:14,173 And they said, you need to help heal this church and take it 878 00:37:14,189 --> 00:37:15,949 through a process of restoration. 879 00:37:16,077 --> 00:37:18,997 And we want you to be the interim lead pastor there, as you're 880 00:37:19,021 --> 00:37:21,533 the lead pastor here and go back and forth. 881 00:37:21,629 --> 00:37:23,677 So during a global pandemic. 882 00:37:23,861 --> 00:37:26,989 And I remember it was funny because during a global pandemic, 883 00:37:27,037 --> 00:37:31,341 I would fly back and forth between regions and serving another 884 00:37:31,413 --> 00:37:32,397 man's field. 885 00:37:32,541 --> 00:37:34,305 Keep in mind what I just said. 886 00:37:34,765 --> 00:37:39,509 And then one day I came out on that stage because now I had to preach 887 00:37:39,557 --> 00:37:41,701 because I'm their interim lead pastor. 888 00:37:41,853 --> 00:37:44,565 And I get up on that stage and I start dealing with the demonic 889 00:37:44,605 --> 00:37:47,341 and I start speaking, and all of a sudden, deliverance starts breaking 890 00:37:47,373 --> 00:37:47,733 out. 891 00:37:47,829 --> 00:37:50,765 And I look and the Lord says, now you're in the last part of your 892 00:37:50,805 --> 00:37:51,465 dream. 893 00:37:54,125 --> 00:37:56,405 So this is what I'm trying to explain to you. 894 00:37:56,565 --> 00:38:01,069 Prophetic dreams are pictures that God gives you while you're sleeping 895 00:38:01,197 --> 00:38:03,865 because you wouldn't receive them while you're awake. 896 00:38:05,325 --> 00:38:07,145 Oh, I'm talking to somebody. 897 00:38:07,445 --> 00:38:10,741 Because he's trying to explain things to you that. 898 00:38:10,773 --> 00:38:11,101 And he. 899 00:38:11,133 --> 00:38:13,421 And you're resisting, but he's trying to get it through. 900 00:38:13,493 --> 00:38:15,797 And by the way, I know everybody's like, please, Pastor 901 00:38:15,821 --> 00:38:17,325 Mike, help me interpret my dream. 902 00:38:17,405 --> 00:38:20,621 But did you know in the Bible, the only people who needed help interpreting 903 00:38:20,653 --> 00:38:21,985 a dream were wicked? 904 00:38:24,245 --> 00:38:27,349 The righteous were the ones who always interpreted the dream, 905 00:38:27,397 --> 00:38:30,305 and the wicked were always the ones who needed the interpretation. 906 00:38:30,705 --> 00:38:35,001 Now, that doesn't mean that I want you to stop asking for interpretations, 907 00:38:35,153 --> 00:38:38,353 but the interpretation should confirm what the Holy Spirit already 908 00:38:38,409 --> 00:38:39,285 taught you. 909 00:38:39,785 --> 00:38:45,601 And that takes you from dependent to independent and submitted. 910 00:38:45,713 --> 00:38:48,665 So, of course, ask your pastors for dream interpretations. 911 00:38:48,745 --> 00:38:49,177 Ask. 912 00:38:49,281 --> 00:38:52,353 Submit it to different people, like Pastor Josh, who has a prophetic. 913 00:38:52,449 --> 00:38:54,145 But don't rely on them. 914 00:38:54,265 --> 00:38:56,033 You rely on the Holy Spirit. 915 00:38:56,129 --> 00:38:56,849 Amen. 916 00:38:57,017 --> 00:39:00,217 But but we have dreams, and God's given me many dreams. 917 00:39:00,241 --> 00:39:03,345 And I was telling my daughter Bella about how many things in our 918 00:39:03,385 --> 00:39:06,057 life were dreams that God showed me. 919 00:39:06,081 --> 00:39:10,201 In a dream, God showed my mom that I was going to have a yellow 920 00:39:10,273 --> 00:39:10,865 house. 921 00:39:11,025 --> 00:39:12,025 And she said, I see. 922 00:39:12,065 --> 00:39:13,105 I know this sounds crazy. 923 00:39:13,145 --> 00:39:14,593 I see a yellow house. 924 00:39:14,729 --> 00:39:17,585 Sure enough, we go to buy our first house in New York. 925 00:39:17,705 --> 00:39:19,801 And it is a yellow house. 926 00:39:19,993 --> 00:39:20,905 And all of a sudden. 927 00:39:20,985 --> 00:39:24,343 And all of a sudden, I'm like, my mom knew, but it's a dream. 928 00:39:24,479 --> 00:39:28,143 My mom looks at me when we're in a stadium and in the late 90s 929 00:39:28,199 --> 00:39:30,679 and says, I don't know how, I don't know when, but we're going 930 00:39:30,687 --> 00:39:32,383 to go from the stands to the stage. 931 00:39:32,479 --> 00:39:36,871 She was peeking a picture, but I had to come into agreement with 932 00:39:36,903 --> 00:39:37,855 that picture. 933 00:39:38,015 --> 00:39:41,855 And then when we came into agreement, that that becomes Moses 934 00:39:41,895 --> 00:39:44,335 and Aaron, Joshua and Caleb. 935 00:39:44,415 --> 00:39:46,303 Do you see how God works in twos? 936 00:39:46,359 --> 00:39:48,625 Even Jesus sent them out two by two. 937 00:39:48,705 --> 00:39:51,169 It was their ground crew and their flight crew. 938 00:39:51,257 --> 00:39:54,121 He joins you together, he pairs you together. 939 00:39:54,233 --> 00:39:57,257 And when you get a group of people together that believe when 940 00:39:57,281 --> 00:40:00,857 you get married, that's two coming together over a picture. 941 00:40:00,961 --> 00:40:02,289 We're going to make a family. 942 00:40:02,377 --> 00:40:05,841 And the devil comes in to distort that picture, to break that 943 00:40:05,873 --> 00:40:06,489 picture apart. 944 00:40:06,537 --> 00:40:11,217 But God comes to restore the picture, renew the picture, reinforce 945 00:40:11,281 --> 00:40:12,165 the picture. 946 00:40:12,465 --> 00:40:14,097 So, number one, it's a picture. 947 00:40:14,201 --> 00:40:16,029 Number two, is that true? 948 00:40:16,077 --> 00:40:19,665 Vision from God is a reduction of options. 949 00:40:20,845 --> 00:40:23,465 It's a reduction of options. 950 00:40:23,885 --> 00:40:27,225 Some of you, you're not confused, you're overwhelmed. 951 00:40:30,565 --> 00:40:32,945 You're not confused, you're overwhelmed. 952 00:40:33,325 --> 00:40:35,145 Do less, but better. 953 00:40:36,405 --> 00:40:37,645 I'm speaking to somebody. 954 00:40:37,685 --> 00:40:39,061 I'm helping you for the new year. 955 00:40:39,173 --> 00:40:40,957 You're not confused, you're overwhelmed. 956 00:40:41,021 --> 00:40:41,893 You're doing too much. 957 00:40:41,949 --> 00:40:43,365 Do less, but do better. 958 00:40:43,525 --> 00:40:46,741 What would happen if you'd made a singular devotion to one thing 959 00:40:46,773 --> 00:40:48,305 and did it with all your might? 960 00:40:48,805 --> 00:40:52,125 This is what the Lord is trying to focus you. 961 00:40:52,245 --> 00:40:53,661 Vision will focus you. 962 00:40:53,733 --> 00:40:56,349 You'll put your seatbelt back on and you'll lock in. 963 00:40:56,437 --> 00:40:57,357 It'll restrain you. 964 00:40:57,381 --> 00:40:59,053 It'll put blinders on your eyes. 965 00:40:59,149 --> 00:41:02,405 And by the way, for those of you who have lost your purity, who 966 00:41:02,445 --> 00:41:05,885 think, oh, I've already lost my purity, I had a vision of me being 967 00:41:05,925 --> 00:41:06,373 pure. 968 00:41:06,469 --> 00:41:06,797 Guess what? 969 00:41:06,821 --> 00:41:10,053 The Bible says that he makes all things new. 970 00:41:10,229 --> 00:41:12,749 He makes all things new, which means. 971 00:41:12,797 --> 00:41:15,677 He can restore the restraint on your purity. 972 00:41:15,741 --> 00:41:18,957 Just because you did it doesn't mean you have to keep on 973 00:41:19,021 --> 00:41:19,781 doing it. 974 00:41:19,893 --> 00:41:22,965 Just because you did it doesn't mean that's who you are. 975 00:41:23,085 --> 00:41:27,389 He will give you a fresh vision that will reinstall restraint. 976 00:41:27,477 --> 00:41:29,145 Everybody say restraint. 977 00:41:29,725 --> 00:41:31,865 Restraint is a good thing. 978 00:41:32,805 --> 00:41:33,693 Come on. 979 00:41:33,869 --> 00:41:35,825 Yeah, I gained 30 pounds. 980 00:41:36,775 --> 00:41:39,755 But when you restrain your diet, you lose weight. 981 00:41:40,055 --> 00:41:41,247 See, there's something about. 982 00:41:41,311 --> 00:41:43,275 But that requires vision. 983 00:41:43,975 --> 00:41:46,727 And whenever I start overeating, it's because I have a 984 00:41:46,751 --> 00:41:48,875 vision problem, not an eating problem. 985 00:41:49,815 --> 00:41:53,711 I'm overwhelmed, and I can't see my way out, but I can see my 986 00:41:53,743 --> 00:41:54,807 way into that McDonald's. 987 00:41:54,831 --> 00:41:56,871 I'll tell you what I see. 988 00:41:56,903 --> 00:41:58,567 That vision of that glowing M. 989 00:41:58,631 --> 00:41:58,807 Is. 990 00:41:58,831 --> 00:42:00,475 That my M for Michael? 991 00:42:01,305 --> 00:42:01,857 Come on. 992 00:42:01,921 --> 00:42:03,785 Is that M for mighty God? 993 00:42:03,865 --> 00:42:04,565 Yes. 994 00:42:04,905 --> 00:42:08,609 Those golden arches all over the world just beckoning me. 995 00:42:08,697 --> 00:42:11,873 I'm not going to tell you what Pastor Eddie ate in McDonald's when 996 00:42:11,889 --> 00:42:14,525 we were overseas, because that would be dishonoring. 997 00:42:16,265 --> 00:42:19,337 But I know he spent some extra time on the treadmill that week. 998 00:42:19,401 --> 00:42:21,657 But let me tell you, restrain. 999 00:42:21,721 --> 00:42:23,205 Everybody say restraint. 1000 00:42:23,785 --> 00:42:24,449 You know, it's. 1001 00:42:24,497 --> 00:42:24,921 It's the. 1002 00:42:24,953 --> 00:42:28,341 God wants to give a vision to us that actually restrains us. 1003 00:42:28,473 --> 00:42:33,581 And that's the golden calf of Exodus 32:25 is like, no, we can't 1004 00:42:33,613 --> 00:42:35,925 just do every spiritual practice. 1005 00:42:36,085 --> 00:42:39,973 You know, there's witchcraft, there's occult practices. 1006 00:42:40,149 --> 00:42:42,741 Matter of fact, I'm just going to tell you straight up, when you 1007 00:42:42,773 --> 00:42:45,517 become a Christian, you can't just watch any movie you want to 1008 00:42:45,541 --> 00:42:46,133 watch. 1009 00:42:46,309 --> 00:42:50,805 And there are some movies that are popular, but they're problematic. 1010 00:42:50,965 --> 00:42:53,733 And you got to understand, like, you might not have the maturity 1011 00:42:53,789 --> 00:42:55,911 level to be able to take that thing in. 1012 00:42:55,943 --> 00:42:59,151 You might be seduced by something in that some of you can 1013 00:42:59,183 --> 00:43:02,335 have social media and some of you shouldn't have it for a season 1014 00:43:02,495 --> 00:43:04,671 because you need to exercise restraint. 1015 00:43:04,783 --> 00:43:07,783 I don't know if you know this, but having social media is a luxury, 1016 00:43:07,839 --> 00:43:09,075 not a necessity. 1017 00:43:09,655 --> 00:43:11,439 And so some of you, that's a luxury. 1018 00:43:11,487 --> 00:43:13,079 It's like, you don't need social media. 1019 00:43:13,127 --> 00:43:14,439 And some of you are like, but it's free. 1020 00:43:14,487 --> 00:43:17,315 No, it's actually costing you your life and your purpose. 1021 00:43:17,735 --> 00:43:20,167 The reason why they don't charge you. 1022 00:43:20,191 --> 00:43:22,895 To use social media media is because you're the product. 1023 00:43:23,235 --> 00:43:24,667 They're using you. 1024 00:43:24,771 --> 00:43:27,011 And for some of you, for a season, you don't need it. 1025 00:43:27,043 --> 00:43:29,715 It's restraint, limiting things down. 1026 00:43:29,875 --> 00:43:31,923 And then number three, because I'm doing real good. 1027 00:43:31,979 --> 00:43:32,935 Praise God. 1028 00:43:36,435 --> 00:43:40,055 Hebrews chapter one, verse one and two says this. 1029 00:43:40,795 --> 00:43:45,115 It says that in the past, God spoke through the prophets, but in 1030 00:43:45,155 --> 00:43:48,495 these last days, he speaks through his Son, Jesus. 1031 00:43:48,895 --> 00:43:52,079 So now let me put the scripture in proper placement. 1032 00:43:52,127 --> 00:43:56,335 Now it says, and where there is no prophetic vision, the people 1033 00:43:56,415 --> 00:43:57,423 cast off restraint. 1034 00:43:57,479 --> 00:43:59,615 But blessed is he who keeps the law. 1035 00:43:59,735 --> 00:44:03,263 So if in the old covenant the prophetic vision was spoken through 1036 00:44:03,319 --> 00:44:07,183 prophets, but then in Hebrews chapter one, verses one and two, 1037 00:44:07,279 --> 00:44:11,079 it says in the past God spoke through prophets, but in the last 1038 00:44:11,127 --> 00:44:12,959 days he speaks through Jesus. 1039 00:44:13,127 --> 00:44:16,685 Jesus is the vision. 1040 00:44:19,065 --> 00:44:24,721 Not buying buildings, not starting conferences, not writing 1041 00:44:24,793 --> 00:44:26,285 best selling books. 1042 00:44:26,625 --> 00:44:30,125 Jesus is the vision. 1043 00:44:30,745 --> 00:44:33,969 Jesus is the vision. 1044 00:44:34,137 --> 00:44:39,045 And where there is no real Jesus, the people cast off restraint. 1045 00:44:39,385 --> 00:44:43,487 That's why at your other church they had the Republican Jesus, 1046 00:44:43,591 --> 00:44:45,039 the Democrat Jesus. 1047 00:44:45,127 --> 00:44:49,775 They had blond haired, blue eyed, Kevin, white Jesus, Caucasian 1048 00:44:49,855 --> 00:44:51,959 Jesus, honky Jesus. 1049 00:44:52,007 --> 00:44:53,835 Is that all right that I said that? 1050 00:44:55,535 --> 00:44:58,935 But where there is a false Jesus, sin's going to be running 1051 00:44:58,975 --> 00:44:59,715 rampant. 1052 00:45:00,095 --> 00:45:02,383 Where there's a false Jesus in certain. 1053 00:45:02,439 --> 00:45:06,295 Denominations, they're going to actually allow for same sex marriage. 1054 00:45:06,375 --> 00:45:09,245 Where there's the false Jesus, they're going to allow for the murder 1055 00:45:09,285 --> 00:45:10,557 of unborn babies. 1056 00:45:10,661 --> 00:45:13,973 But where the real Jesus is, he is the vision. 1057 00:45:14,069 --> 00:45:17,989 And he said, I came that you might receive life and life more 1058 00:45:18,037 --> 00:45:18,917 abundantly. 1059 00:45:19,021 --> 00:45:23,109 And then people begin to conform to the image of Jesus, which 1060 00:45:23,157 --> 00:45:27,213 is the image of God, which is the original image that they were 1061 00:45:27,269 --> 00:45:28,345 created in. 1062 00:45:29,525 --> 00:45:31,125 We are all image bearers. 1063 00:45:31,165 --> 00:45:34,025 Look at your neighbor and say, you're an image bearer. 1064 00:45:36,795 --> 00:45:39,855 You are an image bearer of God. 1065 00:45:40,315 --> 00:45:44,907 But we got to go back to the original picture because the devil 1066 00:45:44,971 --> 00:45:46,995 comes and he perverts the picture. 1067 00:45:47,035 --> 00:45:48,795 In your sexuality. 1068 00:45:48,955 --> 00:45:53,075 Did you learn about your sexuality from the Bible or pornography? 1069 00:45:53,235 --> 00:45:56,979 Because if you learned it from pornography, the devil gave the image. 1070 00:45:57,107 --> 00:45:59,187 But no, you are an image bearer of God. 1071 00:45:59,251 --> 00:46:00,857 Go back to the blueprint. 1072 00:46:01,011 --> 00:46:05,533 Destroy everything the devil built and rebuild your sexuality 1073 00:46:05,669 --> 00:46:09,141 according to the blueprint of the design of the being. 1074 00:46:09,173 --> 00:46:11,025 An image bearer of God. 1075 00:46:13,285 --> 00:46:14,845 What about your finances? 1076 00:46:14,925 --> 00:46:18,381 Do you know more about your finances from the world than you 1077 00:46:18,413 --> 00:46:19,789 do from Scripture? 1078 00:46:19,957 --> 00:46:23,701 That we've got to become people of the book, that go back 1079 00:46:23,733 --> 00:46:26,993 and say, God, I want to do it your way. 1080 00:46:27,149 --> 00:46:30,401 And sometimes he's got to destroy it before he rebuilds it. 1081 00:46:30,553 --> 00:46:33,961 One of the reasons why some of you have extreme anxiety to log into 1082 00:46:33,993 --> 00:46:37,273 your bank account is because of the picture you think you're going 1083 00:46:37,289 --> 00:46:38,005 to see. 1084 00:46:38,745 --> 00:46:40,765 It's a battle for vision. 1085 00:46:41,105 --> 00:46:47,721 And God is saying, see yourself as a wise steward and those 1086 00:46:47,753 --> 00:46:50,801 who are faithful with little become ruler over much. 1087 00:46:50,993 --> 00:46:53,445 It's a picture he's trying to change. 1088 00:46:53,625 --> 00:46:54,853 Go back to the original. 1089 00:46:54,909 --> 00:46:56,405 And there people get mad at me. 1090 00:46:56,485 --> 00:46:59,349 Oh, Pastor Mike, he's always talking about Islam. 1091 00:46:59,437 --> 00:47:00,989 He's always talking About Hinduism. 1092 00:47:01,037 --> 00:47:03,909 He's always talking about the LGBTQ+IA. 1093 00:47:03,997 --> 00:47:05,485 He's always talking about gender. 1094 00:47:05,565 --> 00:47:06,185 No. 1095 00:47:06,645 --> 00:47:11,021 We live in a generation where instead of receiving a picture, we 1096 00:47:11,053 --> 00:47:12,613 tried to create our own. 1097 00:47:12,789 --> 00:47:16,485 And what I'm showing you is not Mike Signorelli's picture, but 1098 00:47:16,525 --> 00:47:20,197 I am one that reveals the picture that God created. 1099 00:47:20,341 --> 00:47:23,821 And I'm simply bringing the world back to the original design 1100 00:47:23,973 --> 00:47:26,821 to say he created this for human flourishing. 1101 00:47:26,933 --> 00:47:29,677 And anything else will result in a curse. 1102 00:47:29,861 --> 00:47:33,061 But Jesus died on a cross to break that curse. 1103 00:47:33,213 --> 00:47:35,269 He died on a cross to break that curse. 1104 00:47:35,317 --> 00:47:37,861 And can be not conformed to the. 1105 00:47:37,893 --> 00:47:42,989 World, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind that you 1106 00:47:43,037 --> 00:47:44,157 may approve. 1107 00:47:44,301 --> 00:47:44,821 Come on. 1108 00:47:44,893 --> 00:47:47,947 And you may discern rather, the perfect will of God. 1109 00:47:48,061 --> 00:47:50,455 How many of you want to know the perfect will of God in your life 1110 00:47:50,495 --> 00:47:51,527 for this next year? 1111 00:47:51,631 --> 00:47:51,967 Come on. 1112 00:47:51,991 --> 00:47:53,975 We've got to become people of the book. 1113 00:47:54,055 --> 00:47:57,631 We've got to go back to the image that he of the image of God. 1114 00:47:57,703 --> 00:48:00,035 And we've got to conform to his image. 1115 00:48:01,055 --> 00:48:08,687 Last but not least, we are a church where the true Jesus is welcome. 1116 00:48:08,831 --> 00:48:12,039 Well, Pastor Mike, I'm offended when you say the republican 1117 00:48:12,087 --> 00:48:12,439 Jesus. 1118 00:48:12,487 --> 00:48:13,405 No, hear me. 1119 00:48:13,535 --> 00:48:17,377 There are Republicans who serve the real Jesus, but then there 1120 00:48:17,401 --> 00:48:20,325 are Republicans who use Jesus for their will. 1121 00:48:20,785 --> 00:48:23,409 There are Democrats that serve the real Jesus. 1122 00:48:23,457 --> 00:48:26,345 They're trying their best, but there are many that use religion 1123 00:48:26,385 --> 00:48:28,513 and use Jesus for their own will. 1124 00:48:28,689 --> 00:48:31,409 There's social justice warrior Jesus. 1125 00:48:31,537 --> 00:48:36,161 There's Jesus of the good moral teacher that gives you suggestions 1126 00:48:36,233 --> 00:48:37,369 instead of commands. 1127 00:48:37,457 --> 00:48:39,325 And that is a false Jesus. 1128 00:48:39,645 --> 00:48:41,413 Jesus will give you a command, and. 1129 00:48:41,429 --> 00:48:43,109 You have to obey that command. 1130 00:48:43,157 --> 00:48:44,389 It's not a suggestion. 1131 00:48:44,477 --> 00:48:45,861 He's more than a teacher. 1132 00:48:45,933 --> 00:48:47,613 He was not just a rabbi. 1133 00:48:47,709 --> 00:48:49,985 He is the king of all kings. 1134 00:48:50,725 --> 00:48:53,045 Last night, when I had 15,000 people. 1135 00:48:53,085 --> 00:48:56,821 On that YouTube live stream, I said, if you serve Jesus and you're 1136 00:48:56,853 --> 00:48:59,725 submitting him to him now, put in the comment section. 1137 00:48:59,805 --> 00:49:01,425 Jesus is king. 1138 00:49:01,965 --> 00:49:04,261 Because I realize that this generation wants. 1139 00:49:04,293 --> 00:49:06,217 A teacher, but they don't want a king. 1140 00:49:06,381 --> 00:49:08,921 They want a comforter, but they don't want a king. 1141 00:49:09,073 --> 00:49:11,777 This generation wants somebody to bless them, but they don't want 1142 00:49:11,801 --> 00:49:12,353 a king. 1143 00:49:12,449 --> 00:49:14,657 No, we come to bless you, Father. 1144 00:49:14,761 --> 00:49:16,457 We come like wise men. 1145 00:49:16,561 --> 00:49:18,201 We come to lavish you. 1146 00:49:18,313 --> 00:49:22,089 We come bearing gifts everybody wants to receive, but we're 1147 00:49:22,137 --> 00:49:23,561 here to reciprocate. 1148 00:49:23,673 --> 00:49:25,345 I want to give to you God. 1149 00:49:25,425 --> 00:49:26,569 I want to lay it down. 1150 00:49:26,657 --> 00:49:30,065 Because when the real Jesus is in the room, nobody has to tell you 1151 00:49:30,105 --> 00:49:34,037 to tithe because you'll break your alabaster box open. 1152 00:49:34,141 --> 00:49:36,333 And lavish him with your finances. 1153 00:49:36,429 --> 00:49:39,637 You don't have to give under compulsion, but something inside 1154 00:49:39,661 --> 00:49:43,221 of you says, I want to give the king the best I can give. 1155 00:49:43,333 --> 00:49:47,549 The issue of our generation is, have you received him as teacher 1156 00:49:47,597 --> 00:49:49,625 or have you received him as king? 1157 00:49:50,485 --> 00:49:53,185 Because some of y'all don't know how to treat a king. 1158 00:49:54,485 --> 00:49:56,061 But when the king walks in the. 1159 00:49:56,093 --> 00:50:05,591 Room, oh, oh, King, O king, O king, whatever you want. 1160 00:50:05,783 --> 00:50:07,279 Not my will, but thy will. 1161 00:50:07,327 --> 00:50:07,995 King. 1162 00:50:10,255 --> 00:50:12,783 Some of y'all know how to stand on business, but you don't 1163 00:50:12,799 --> 00:50:14,635 know how to kneel before the king. 1164 00:50:15,655 --> 00:50:19,399 Give up your opinion and say, God, what is your will? 1165 00:50:19,527 --> 00:50:21,395 That's what this church is about. 1166 00:50:25,845 --> 00:50:30,237 So God number three. 1167 00:50:30,301 --> 00:50:33,505 Vision is God's way of fighting for your future. 1168 00:50:33,965 --> 00:50:36,637 Vision is God's way of fighting for your future. 1169 00:50:36,821 --> 00:50:41,557 He knows that if you stay in that adulterous relationship, the 1170 00:50:41,581 --> 00:50:42,805 end of it is death. 1171 00:50:42,965 --> 00:50:46,197 So vision is him fighting for your future. 1172 00:50:46,341 --> 00:50:49,125 He knows that if you don't deal with that addiction, that addiction 1173 00:50:49,165 --> 00:50:51,783 is going to deal with you and it's going to end in death. 1174 00:50:51,839 --> 00:50:54,159 Envision is him fighting for your future. 1175 00:50:54,287 --> 00:50:56,159 And the Lord is trying to fight for your future. 1176 00:50:56,207 --> 00:50:58,215 He's trying to fight for your kids future. 1177 00:50:58,335 --> 00:51:00,847 And I feel this on the inside of me because I've been looking at 1178 00:51:00,871 --> 00:51:04,703 our children lately and man, we had yesterday, I had a lot of 1179 00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:04,871 the. 1180 00:51:04,903 --> 00:51:08,983 Youth and the teens at my house and they were doing a Friends 1181 00:51:09,159 --> 00:51:10,335 Christmas thing. 1182 00:51:10,455 --> 00:51:11,687 I don't know what it's called. 1183 00:51:11,831 --> 00:51:12,595 Huh. 1184 00:51:13,055 --> 00:51:13,823 Friends miss. 1185 00:51:13,879 --> 00:51:17,881 They're just inventing holidays now, making stuff up, stressing 1186 00:51:17,913 --> 00:51:18,685 me out. 1187 00:51:19,625 --> 00:51:24,345 And as I looked at those teenagers, I remembered what I was 1188 00:51:24,385 --> 00:51:24,585 like. 1189 00:51:24,625 --> 00:51:27,249 And I said, I didn't have a revival church. 1190 00:51:27,377 --> 00:51:29,721 I didn't have a church taking stadiums over. 1191 00:51:29,753 --> 00:51:31,873 I didn't have a church worshiping like this. 1192 00:51:31,969 --> 00:51:34,089 I would have done anything to have this church. 1193 00:51:34,137 --> 00:51:37,601 And I said, lord, I might not have had it when I was a teenager, 1194 00:51:37,713 --> 00:51:41,137 but as an adult, I'm building it for our teenagers. 1195 00:51:41,241 --> 00:51:41,881 And then I will. 1196 00:51:41,913 --> 00:51:45,185 All of a sudden, I begin to see my daughter Everly with her friends. 1197 00:51:45,305 --> 00:51:47,127 And I asked the little girl, how are you? 1198 00:51:47,151 --> 00:51:48,807 And she says, I'm 10 years old. 1199 00:51:48,911 --> 00:51:51,831 And I said to my daughter later, I said, that little girl's 1200 00:51:51,863 --> 00:51:52,567 anointed. 1201 00:51:52,671 --> 00:51:54,095 Your friend loves the Lord. 1202 00:51:54,175 --> 00:51:56,831 And Everly said, oh, she loves the Lord so much. 1203 00:51:56,903 --> 00:52:00,303 Every time I talk to her, all she's talking about is Jesus. 1204 00:52:00,399 --> 00:52:03,935 And I said, lord, the true king is in V1 church. 1205 00:52:04,015 --> 00:52:07,391 We're not a perfect church, but the King is here in the midst 1206 00:52:07,423 --> 00:52:11,839 of our Imperfections, making all things new, aligning things, 1207 00:52:11,967 --> 00:52:13,973 humbling, breaking things out. 1208 00:52:14,069 --> 00:52:18,245 And I am honored to actually be a part of this thing for the sake 1209 00:52:18,285 --> 00:52:23,665 of our children and if the Lord carries our children's children, 1210 00:52:24,845 --> 00:52:25,453 because one. 1211 00:52:25,469 --> 00:52:27,425 Of my favorite parts of the Bible. 1212 00:52:28,325 --> 00:52:31,945 You got to understand, where I come from, I inherited nothing. 1213 00:52:32,845 --> 00:52:33,637 No legacy. 1214 00:52:33,701 --> 00:52:35,685 I have no pictures of my descendants. 1215 00:52:35,725 --> 00:52:38,705 I never got anything in the material sense. 1216 00:52:39,055 --> 00:52:40,847 So imagine I'm reading the Bible and. 1217 00:52:40,871 --> 00:52:45,927 It says, God tells Joshua and that generation that everywhere, 1218 00:52:45,951 --> 00:52:47,271 I give you a victory. 1219 00:52:47,463 --> 00:52:49,559 I want you to get big stones. 1220 00:52:49,607 --> 00:52:51,635 And make a huge pile of stones. 1221 00:52:52,655 --> 00:52:55,955 And the stones are to be a remembrance for the generations. 1222 00:52:56,495 --> 00:52:59,795 Because there's going to come a day when your kids are discouraged. 1223 00:53:00,175 --> 00:53:03,487 There's going to come a day when your kids are feeling all kinds 1224 00:53:03,511 --> 00:53:06,765 of ways where it seems like it's impossible. 1225 00:53:07,145 --> 00:53:08,681 And then one day your kid is. 1226 00:53:08,713 --> 00:53:12,921 Going to say, mommy, what are those stones over there? 1227 00:53:12,953 --> 00:53:14,289 What's that big pile of stones? 1228 00:53:14,337 --> 00:53:16,097 Because that's unnatural. 1229 00:53:16,281 --> 00:53:18,645 What's that big pile of stones over there? 1230 00:53:19,025 --> 00:53:20,753 Daddy, what's that? 1231 00:53:20,929 --> 00:53:26,785 And then you'll tell them, life was not always like it is right 1232 00:53:26,825 --> 00:53:27,405 now. 1233 00:53:27,825 --> 00:53:31,125 And we didn't have what we have right now. 1234 00:53:31,645 --> 00:53:35,345 But when we had nothing, we came together. 1235 00:53:35,765 --> 00:53:41,665 Black and white, Hispanic, Asian, young and old. 1236 00:53:41,965 --> 00:53:44,945 And when we didn't have nothing, we had each other. 1237 00:53:45,525 --> 00:53:49,005 And when we didn't have biological family, we had spiritual 1238 00:53:49,085 --> 00:53:49,705 family. 1239 00:53:50,325 --> 00:53:52,973 And we gave our money and they gave their money. 1240 00:53:53,029 --> 00:53:56,501 We brought all of our money together, and what we did is we sewed 1241 00:53:56,533 --> 00:53:59,835 and we built this so that your life could be better than ours. 1242 00:54:00,135 --> 00:54:03,435 And we leave an inheritance to our children's children. 1243 00:54:04,295 --> 00:54:08,703 The Bible says a good man leaves an inheritance to his children's 1244 00:54:08,759 --> 00:54:09,263 children. 1245 00:54:09,399 --> 00:54:10,927 That's two generations. 1246 00:54:11,031 --> 00:54:13,887 That's how you get qualified as a good man. 1247 00:54:13,951 --> 00:54:17,431 Biblically, a good man leaves an inheritance to his children's 1248 00:54:17,463 --> 00:54:17,679 children. 1249 00:54:17,727 --> 00:54:19,515 You know what that inheritance is? 1250 00:54:20,095 --> 00:54:23,775 The house of God, the church. 1251 00:54:23,935 --> 00:54:25,911 That is the inheritance. 1252 00:54:26,103 --> 00:54:30,759 That as the world is raging, as climate is out of control, whether 1253 00:54:30,807 --> 00:54:33,151 it's manufactured or not, we don't know. 1254 00:54:33,263 --> 00:54:37,031 While there's drones swirling, while there's nuclear warheads, there's 1255 00:54:37,063 --> 00:54:41,215 a place that we have together where the living stones are jointly 1256 00:54:41,255 --> 00:54:46,239 fit together, and we are safe and secure, and the presence of God 1257 00:54:46,287 --> 00:54:47,435 is released. 1258 00:54:47,975 --> 00:54:49,871 And so what I've been laboring for. 1259 00:54:49,943 --> 00:54:53,397 And I want you to join in this labor with me today, is I've been 1260 00:54:53,421 --> 00:54:56,029 laboring for a living stones moment. 1261 00:54:56,197 --> 00:54:59,185 I've been laboring for the roots to go down. 1262 00:54:59,765 --> 00:55:02,629 So I want to tell you right now let's play this, this first video. 1263 00:55:02,677 --> 00:55:04,661 Let's kill the music for a second. 1264 00:55:04,773 --> 00:55:08,165 And I want to show you guys this just this last year in review 1265 00:55:08,245 --> 00:55:14,705 2024, 2015 people were discipled through the Connect group. 1266 00:55:15,005 --> 00:55:17,197 2015 people discipled. 1267 00:55:17,301 --> 00:55:20,237 We served the needy in Honduras, Ukraine and other cities. 1268 00:55:20,301 --> 00:55:23,699 We trained over 60 pastors in Honduras. 1269 00:55:23,827 --> 00:55:27,643 We equipped 750 leaders for the work of ministry. 1270 00:55:27,699 --> 00:55:29,107 Guys, let's get loud for this. 1271 00:55:29,171 --> 00:55:32,375 6,636 people were fed. 1272 00:55:32,755 --> 00:55:35,975 760 people were baptized. 1273 00:55:36,835 --> 00:55:41,415 And we reached 73 million people with the gospel online. 1274 00:55:42,355 --> 00:55:46,883 Over 100,000 people attended services physically and digitally. 1275 00:55:47,059 --> 00:55:51,265 Thousands of youth and kids have been discipled all this year. 1276 00:55:51,385 --> 00:55:56,089 Breakers conference gathered 10,000 people as the stadium was 1277 00:55:56,137 --> 00:55:56,625 filled. 1278 00:55:56,745 --> 00:56:00,045 V1 youth studied the Bible in Alpha Connect groups. 1279 00:56:01,105 --> 00:56:04,545 Two new locations were launched, New Jersey and Manhattan 1280 00:56:04,585 --> 00:56:06,001 in just one year. 1281 00:56:06,193 --> 00:56:10,445 Come on, can we celebrate what happened over just the last year? 1282 00:56:11,825 --> 00:56:15,193 How many churches do you know that launched two campuses in one 1283 00:56:15,249 --> 00:56:15,845 year? 1284 00:56:17,605 --> 00:56:19,389 But here's the thing I want to tell you. 1285 00:56:19,517 --> 00:56:22,973 How many of you remember when I showed you guys the picture of 1286 00:56:22,989 --> 00:56:24,345 the empty stadium? 1287 00:56:24,725 --> 00:56:26,205 Do you remember that picture? 1288 00:56:26,365 --> 00:56:29,145 And then how many of you saw it completely filled? 1289 00:56:29,845 --> 00:56:34,413 Create, made, create made. 1290 00:56:34,589 --> 00:56:36,797 The blueprint, then the reality. 1291 00:56:36,981 --> 00:56:40,585 But God doesn't create the blueprint by your butt prints. 1292 00:56:41,295 --> 00:56:43,471 In other words, he's not going to drag you through life. 1293 00:56:43,503 --> 00:56:44,679 You got to do it. 1294 00:56:44,847 --> 00:56:48,071 You have to sign up and say, you know what, God, count me in. 1295 00:56:48,223 --> 00:56:51,383 There's even when you speak in tongues, the Bible says that you 1296 00:56:51,439 --> 00:56:52,383 speak mysteries. 1297 00:56:52,479 --> 00:56:54,759 You have to open your mouth and begin to speak. 1298 00:56:54,847 --> 00:56:58,383 And there's this mysterious intermingling with God where you're 1299 00:56:58,439 --> 00:57:01,431 coming together with him because a lot of people think that 1300 00:57:01,463 --> 00:57:04,607 God is going to possess you like a demon and control, you know, 1301 00:57:04,671 --> 00:57:06,835 he's going to give you self control. 1302 00:57:08,095 --> 00:57:12,175 Self control means that you're like, I don't feel like serving, 1303 00:57:12,295 --> 00:57:15,527 but he's given me self control and I can serve. 1304 00:57:15,711 --> 00:57:18,607 I don't feel like giving, but he's given me self control. 1305 00:57:18,671 --> 00:57:22,559 I can control myself and I want to be greedy, but no, I'm going 1306 00:57:22,567 --> 00:57:23,543 to give anyways. 1307 00:57:23,639 --> 00:57:27,115 So the fruit of the spirit is control over yourself. 1308 00:57:27,935 --> 00:57:30,591 And so that's why this church continues to advance. 1309 00:57:30,663 --> 00:57:36,007 Because the Holy Spirit Espiritu Santa is is dwelling on 1310 00:57:36,031 --> 00:57:40,031 the inside of us, giving us self control, saying, I want to leave 1311 00:57:40,103 --> 00:57:41,995 so badly, but I'm going to stay. 1312 00:57:42,295 --> 00:57:45,255 I want to be selfish and hoard, but I'm going to give. 1313 00:57:45,415 --> 00:57:47,255 I want to relapse into the addiction. 1314 00:57:47,295 --> 00:57:50,235 But I'm going to resist the devil until he flees. 1315 00:57:50,895 --> 00:57:52,075 Self control. 1316 00:57:52,695 --> 00:57:57,023 So as I was looking and I was writing out all of the things that 1317 00:57:57,039 --> 00:58:01,721 we accomplished this year, I couldn't help but hold back the tears. 1318 00:58:01,913 --> 00:58:08,113 Because when 6,000, 636 families are fed food, let me just 1319 00:58:08,129 --> 00:58:08,745 put it like this. 1320 00:58:08,785 --> 00:58:12,161 When more people are fed by your church than attend your church, 1321 00:58:12,193 --> 00:58:13,913 you're doing church the right way. 1322 00:58:14,049 --> 00:58:18,201 How many of you believe in leading, leading them and feeding 1323 00:58:18,233 --> 00:58:18,425 them? 1324 00:58:18,465 --> 00:58:23,353 And so we have been a move of God. 1325 00:58:23,529 --> 00:58:28,017 And when the real Jesus is in the room, what happens is sometimes 1326 00:58:28,081 --> 00:58:30,085 Jesus is feeding the 5,000. 1327 00:58:30,465 --> 00:58:34,793 Sometimes Jesus is casting out demons, sometimes Jesus is making 1328 00:58:34,849 --> 00:58:35,657 disciples. 1329 00:58:35,801 --> 00:58:43,085 And what I can truly say when I look at V1 is I see Jesus everywhere. 1330 00:58:43,985 --> 00:58:47,805 Jesus says, suffer not the little children, bring them to me. 1331 00:58:48,265 --> 00:58:51,233 I see Jesus in every facet of what we're doing. 1332 00:58:51,329 --> 00:58:56,287 And not some Jesus that we're using to fulfill our will, but Jesus 1333 00:58:56,351 --> 00:58:59,395 saying, I'm going to empower you to fulfill God's will. 1334 00:58:59,695 --> 00:59:00,783 So here's what I want to do. 1335 00:59:00,799 --> 00:59:04,919 I want to show you a couple more announcements right now, and 1336 00:59:05,007 --> 00:59:06,855 let's just take a look at the first one. 1337 00:59:06,975 --> 00:59:10,351 Hey, this is Pastor Harvey and I am right here at the Regal Theaters 1338 00:59:10,383 --> 00:59:12,767 where we meet weekly, every single Sunday. 1339 00:59:12,871 --> 00:59:15,431 We have seen the miraculous happen here. 1340 00:59:15,463 --> 00:59:19,807 We have seen entire families restored, people set free, delivered, 1341 00:59:19,871 --> 00:59:20,223 healed. 1342 00:59:20,279 --> 00:59:21,767 And these theaters are a womb. 1343 00:59:21,831 --> 00:59:24,007 V1 Church was birthed from a theater. 1344 00:59:24,071 --> 00:59:26,679 V1 New Jersey is in a theater right now. 1345 00:59:26,767 --> 00:59:30,631 We have been praying and interceding for a space where we 1346 00:59:30,663 --> 00:59:34,423 can grow and expand, but this is South Florida, this is Miami. 1347 00:59:34,479 --> 00:59:35,255 This is hard. 1348 00:59:35,335 --> 00:59:36,447 It just doesn't happen. 1349 00:59:36,511 --> 00:59:39,767 And God has opened an unprecedented door. 1350 00:59:39,911 --> 00:59:41,555 But we need your help. 1351 00:59:42,695 --> 00:59:45,791 This is an incredible moment that I'm standing in right now. 1352 00:59:45,903 --> 00:59:48,849 God has made a way and the red has parted. 1353 00:59:48,937 --> 00:59:51,169 This is how we know that God is in it. 1354 00:59:51,217 --> 00:59:55,233 I am right here at the venue, space that we will soon call home. 1355 00:59:55,289 --> 00:59:57,529 This is not just walls and a roof. 1356 00:59:57,577 --> 00:59:59,657 This is a testimony of God's faithfulness. 1357 00:59:59,761 --> 01:00:03,793 This is a testimony of God's goodness and all that he can just 1358 01:00:03,849 --> 01:00:04,425 make happen. 1359 01:00:04,465 --> 01:00:07,737 And now we have an opportunity to prepare this space to be a beacon 1360 01:00:07,801 --> 01:00:09,889 of hope and light to the community. 1361 01:00:10,017 --> 01:00:14,323 But as we step into this next season, there's still work that needs 1362 01:00:14,379 --> 01:00:15,075 to be done. 1363 01:00:15,155 --> 01:00:18,963 We need to get the building ready to welcome everyone that'll 1364 01:00:19,019 --> 01:00:19,283 come. 1365 01:00:19,339 --> 01:00:20,675 And that's where you can come in. 1366 01:00:20,715 --> 01:00:23,499 As you prepare your end of year gift, I want to invite you to 1367 01:00:23,547 --> 01:00:26,723 prayfully consider how you can contribute to the mission. 1368 01:00:26,779 --> 01:00:30,395 Your gift will impact and help us prepare this place for all that 1369 01:00:30,435 --> 01:00:31,355 God has for it. 1370 01:00:31,395 --> 01:00:33,851 And so here's the thing is that you're probably asking, what 1371 01:00:33,883 --> 01:00:35,427 does this have to do with my campus? 1372 01:00:35,491 --> 01:00:36,259 Well, here's the thing. 1373 01:00:36,307 --> 01:00:40,675 I believe that if you sow into our soul soil, you will reap in your 1374 01:00:40,715 --> 01:00:41,131 own. 1375 01:00:41,243 --> 01:00:45,379 We truly are one house with many rooms. 1376 01:00:45,467 --> 01:00:47,763 So let's come together as a church family. 1377 01:00:47,899 --> 01:00:51,307 Believe that as we step out in faith, God will do exceedingly and 1378 01:00:51,331 --> 01:00:54,859 abundantly more than we can ask or imagine. 1379 01:00:55,027 --> 01:00:55,935 Come on. 1380 01:00:57,155 --> 01:00:59,095 We love you, Miami. 1381 01:01:02,555 --> 01:01:05,051 See, when he said party the red. 1382 01:01:05,123 --> 01:01:08,627 See, getting a building like that in Miami is impossible. 1383 01:01:08,811 --> 01:01:09,803 I just want to tell. 1384 01:01:09,859 --> 01:01:13,075 It's actually impossible to get a building like that in Miami. 1385 01:01:13,195 --> 01:01:16,027 And I've been praying and I actually prayed a selfish prayer. 1386 01:01:16,131 --> 01:01:20,955 I said, God, if you're truly with me, if you, if you desire South 1387 01:01:20,995 --> 01:01:23,555 Florida to go to this next level, open a door. 1388 01:01:23,595 --> 01:01:24,835 And I'm telling you that door open. 1389 01:01:24,875 --> 01:01:25,051 Now. 1390 01:01:25,083 --> 01:01:26,563 Here's what has to do with all of us. 1391 01:01:26,619 --> 01:01:30,393 Brooklyn listen, New Jersey listen, Indiana listen. 1392 01:01:30,579 --> 01:01:34,765 And I'm being selfless to be selfish because when I saw that venue, 1393 01:01:34,805 --> 01:01:39,133 I said, man, we just did Free Women Collective in Miami, which 1394 01:01:39,149 --> 01:01:40,093 was amazing. 1395 01:01:40,229 --> 01:01:41,965 I'm like an honorary free woman. 1396 01:01:42,005 --> 01:01:45,773 I don't know if you know that, but we are going to be able to utilize 1397 01:01:45,829 --> 01:01:46,717 that space. 1398 01:01:46,861 --> 01:01:50,093 Instead of renting other people's facilities, we'll have our 1399 01:01:50,149 --> 01:01:50,677 own. 1400 01:01:50,821 --> 01:01:54,717 And Miami is going to continue to expand and by faith we're getting 1401 01:01:54,741 --> 01:01:57,493 the LED wall and the remainder of the production. 1402 01:01:57,549 --> 01:01:59,621 But we need your help to make that happen. 1403 01:01:59,733 --> 01:02:01,117 But see, here's the thing. 1404 01:02:01,261 --> 01:02:03,505 God is a God of double portions. 1405 01:02:04,525 --> 01:02:07,557 I said, God is a God of double portions. 1406 01:02:07,741 --> 01:02:12,301 He will do exceedingly, abundantly more than you can think, 1407 01:02:12,373 --> 01:02:13,421 ask or imagine. 1408 01:02:13,533 --> 01:02:16,981 So when he did it for Miami, I said, okay, God, now do it. 1409 01:02:17,013 --> 01:02:18,301 For us here as well. 1410 01:02:18,413 --> 01:02:20,973 So that's why I'm announcing after seven. 1411 01:02:21,069 --> 01:02:25,225 Years of not being able to, to have our roots go down. 1412 01:02:25,345 --> 01:02:27,401 After seven years of loading in and. 1413 01:02:27,433 --> 01:02:32,165 Out and having leases v1 Long island got a building. 1414 01:02:47,585 --> 01:02:48,805 Hallelujah. 1415 01:02:51,225 --> 01:02:57,885 Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. 1416 01:03:12,665 --> 01:03:14,605 Won't he do it? 1417 01:03:15,465 --> 01:03:17,535 Won't he do it? 1418 01:03:21,435 --> 01:03:26,259 Church, I need you to help me turn a soccer stadium on Long island 1419 01:03:26,387 --> 01:03:29,419 into a habitation of the Holy Spirit. 1420 01:03:29,547 --> 01:03:32,451 We're going to flip that building, we're going to come up 1421 01:03:32,483 --> 01:03:33,211 into that place. 1422 01:03:33,283 --> 01:03:33,963 Come on. 1423 01:03:34,099 --> 01:03:35,947 And we're going to worship the Lord. 1424 01:03:36,051 --> 01:03:40,235 And a sweet smelling aroma, the fragrance of our anointing. 1425 01:03:40,275 --> 01:03:43,065 And the oil is going to be released from this house day and 1426 01:03:43,105 --> 01:03:43,545 night. 1427 01:03:43,665 --> 01:03:46,445 And we're going to dedicate this unto the Lord. 1428 01:03:47,865 --> 01:03:50,445 Don't you just feel the anointing, seeing it? 1429 01:03:51,145 --> 01:03:52,393 So here's the thing I want to. 1430 01:03:52,409 --> 01:03:54,129 Announce, and I'm so excited. 1431 01:03:54,297 --> 01:03:57,525 The closing on this building is this Tuesday. 1432 01:03:58,825 --> 01:03:59,565 Tuesday. 1433 01:04:00,065 --> 01:04:02,777 And you heard me prophesy keys. 1434 01:04:02,961 --> 01:04:04,177 And guess what? 1435 01:04:04,321 --> 01:04:06,529 I said it, I saw it. 1436 01:04:06,577 --> 01:04:08,871 And now God's going to show it off. 1437 01:04:09,023 --> 01:04:12,527 Because Tuesday and Wednesday we're closing on the building and 1438 01:04:12,551 --> 01:04:13,615 the keys are our. 1439 01:04:13,695 --> 01:04:15,195 Come on, somebody. 1440 01:04:25,975 --> 01:04:27,515 Would you look at it? 1441 01:04:28,455 --> 01:04:29,395 Come on. 1442 01:04:30,455 --> 01:04:31,475 V1. 1443 01:04:33,945 --> 01:04:35,929 Now listen, what. 1444 01:04:36,017 --> 01:04:36,809 Here's what you. 1445 01:04:36,857 --> 01:04:39,577 You're not looking at a building because the church is not 1446 01:04:39,601 --> 01:04:39,969 a building. 1447 01:04:40,017 --> 01:04:40,833 We're the church. 1448 01:04:40,889 --> 01:04:42,433 That's why we survive. 1449 01:04:42,529 --> 01:04:46,489 But what you're looking at is a stone for remembrance. 1450 01:04:46,657 --> 01:04:50,361 Because when the children say, did we always have this building? 1451 01:04:50,473 --> 01:04:53,441 Oh, no, there was a time when we were in the movie theater. 1452 01:04:53,553 --> 01:04:56,873 There was a time where we were in that bar and there. 1453 01:04:56,929 --> 01:05:01,505 But God Almighty, this is a stone for remembrance for the generations. 1454 01:05:02,285 --> 01:05:04,945 Let me just tell you, this is new construction. 1455 01:05:06,125 --> 01:05:09,765 New construction, $4.3 million building. 1456 01:05:09,805 --> 01:05:12,957 And some of you are like, pastor Mike, our church must have 1457 01:05:12,981 --> 01:05:14,061 a ton of money. 1458 01:05:14,213 --> 01:05:15,545 I rebuke you. 1459 01:05:16,925 --> 01:05:21,421 The truth is, and I'm saying this in all humility, our church 1460 01:05:21,453 --> 01:05:23,645 is severely underfunded. 1461 01:05:23,805 --> 01:05:27,269 And I think one of the biggest lies is that you see all the people 1462 01:05:27,317 --> 01:05:30,713 who attend and you assume that they're all giving. 1463 01:05:30,889 --> 01:05:34,905 Most people of our church give about 2 to 3% of their annual income 1464 01:05:34,945 --> 01:05:35,689 or less. 1465 01:05:35,817 --> 01:05:41,457 We're nowhere near to the 10% mark per person of their annual giving. 1466 01:05:41,561 --> 01:05:45,289 And I'm not saying that as a rebuke because actually, my love 1467 01:05:45,337 --> 01:05:49,097 for you as you've been going on this journey of generosity and 1468 01:05:49,121 --> 01:05:52,777 maturity in the faith is evident that I saved our money for 1469 01:05:52,841 --> 01:05:56,789 seven years so that I would have the down payment to get us into 1470 01:05:56,837 --> 01:05:57,665 this building. 1471 01:05:57,965 --> 01:05:58,805 Because what I. 1472 01:05:58,845 --> 01:05:59,165 What? 1473 01:05:59,245 --> 01:06:00,305 Yeah, come on. 1474 01:06:09,045 --> 01:06:12,813 I have been saving and saving and saving. 1475 01:06:12,869 --> 01:06:16,877 And we did a brief capital campaign during the pandemic, which 1476 01:06:16,901 --> 01:06:18,445 is the worst time to do it. 1477 01:06:18,565 --> 01:06:21,803 And a lot of those people ironically moved out of New York 1478 01:06:21,859 --> 01:06:24,987 during the pandemic, but I just kept saving and saving. 1479 01:06:25,051 --> 01:06:29,523 So here's the good news that we already got pre approved and I 1480 01:06:29,539 --> 01:06:30,699 already have the down payment. 1481 01:06:30,747 --> 01:06:34,171 So Tuesday and Wednesday, as we're closing, that we will get the 1482 01:06:34,203 --> 01:06:34,895 keys. 1483 01:06:35,395 --> 01:06:36,595 We will get the keys. 1484 01:06:36,635 --> 01:06:37,855 That's the good news. 1485 01:06:38,635 --> 01:06:42,995 But I want to ask you today if you would consider joining in this 1486 01:06:43,035 --> 01:06:44,255 thing with me. 1487 01:06:44,555 --> 01:06:45,867 And here's what that looks like. 1488 01:06:45,891 --> 01:06:48,785 And I'm just going to shoot it to you straight because we've got 1489 01:06:48,825 --> 01:06:51,409 one more vision I'm going to show you here in a second, but I 1490 01:06:51,417 --> 01:06:54,289 want to leave some time where the Holy Spirit speaks to you. 1491 01:06:54,417 --> 01:06:55,537 Now here's the thing. 1492 01:06:55,641 --> 01:06:59,481 We're not under the law, but I do believe that Christ empowers us 1493 01:06:59,513 --> 01:07:00,777 to fulfill the law. 1494 01:07:00,921 --> 01:07:03,745 And so when I look at my finances, I've always asked God, 1495 01:07:03,785 --> 01:07:08,041 how could I give reoccurring at least 10% of my income to the 1496 01:07:08,073 --> 01:07:08,993 local church. 1497 01:07:09,129 --> 01:07:12,297 So if you're somebody who doesn't do that, you might be thinking, 1498 01:07:12,321 --> 01:07:14,551 I'm going to give one time a big gift. 1499 01:07:14,713 --> 01:07:18,539 Actually, the most generous thing you can do is give on reoccurring. 1500 01:07:18,707 --> 01:07:19,275 Why? 1501 01:07:19,395 --> 01:07:22,723 Because the Bible says where your treasure is, your heart is also. 1502 01:07:22,899 --> 01:07:26,363 So if your heart's in the house, then just give repeatedly, 1503 01:07:26,419 --> 01:07:27,331 sign up for reoccurring. 1504 01:07:27,363 --> 01:07:29,539 And I'm going to give you a moment to do that later. 1505 01:07:29,707 --> 01:07:32,707 But then the Lord may be moving on some of you to give a large 1506 01:07:32,771 --> 01:07:33,299 gift. 1507 01:07:33,427 --> 01:07:36,339 And can I just cast a crazy vision to you right now? 1508 01:07:36,507 --> 01:07:39,363 I know this sounds wild because all the odds are against 1509 01:07:39,419 --> 01:07:43,909 it, but I keep going before the Lord saying, lord, you said according 1510 01:07:43,957 --> 01:07:47,677 to the Abrahamic covenant that we are going to be the lender and 1511 01:07:47,701 --> 01:07:48,941 not the borrower. 1512 01:07:49,093 --> 01:07:53,045 And so I believe that we are going to have a mortgage burning 1513 01:07:53,165 --> 01:07:56,429 service where we actually are not in debt. 1514 01:07:56,517 --> 01:07:59,733 And how many of you believe that God can cause us to pay off 1515 01:07:59,869 --> 01:08:02,997 $4.3 million so that we don't have. 1516 01:08:03,061 --> 01:08:04,509 Debt as a church? 1517 01:08:04,557 --> 01:08:08,059 And I'm just raising my faith up and I want this to be a sign. 1518 01:08:08,187 --> 01:08:10,899 And just like those crusty, dusty, mean. 1519 01:08:10,947 --> 01:08:13,251 Old hearted snake pastors, when I got here. 1520 01:08:13,283 --> 01:08:14,575 Oh, sorry, sorry. 1521 01:08:14,875 --> 01:08:16,443 When I got here, they didn't believe. 1522 01:08:16,499 --> 01:08:17,043 You know what? 1523 01:08:17,099 --> 01:08:22,331 I want to mature into the older pastor that when the new pastors 1524 01:08:22,403 --> 01:08:26,603 come to Long island and they tell me a crazy vision, I look them 1525 01:08:26,619 --> 01:08:28,811 in their eyes and I say, I believe it. 1526 01:08:28,963 --> 01:08:31,619 I don't want to be one of those pastors that tell somebody 1527 01:08:31,667 --> 01:08:32,605 it can't be done. 1528 01:08:32,715 --> 01:08:34,329 And I believe that building that we. 1529 01:08:34,377 --> 01:08:37,369 Showed you is going to be assigned to the Christians of Long 1530 01:08:37,417 --> 01:08:37,713 Island. 1531 01:08:37,769 --> 01:08:41,721 Even if you go to another church, God has taken over this law. 1532 01:08:41,793 --> 01:08:44,969 This island, Long island belongs to the king. 1533 01:08:45,097 --> 01:08:46,993 Long island, he come on. 1534 01:08:47,089 --> 01:08:50,801 He's here to establish his kingdom that it's going to be assigned 1535 01:08:50,833 --> 01:08:52,085 to everybody. 1536 01:08:53,625 --> 01:08:55,161 So we're going to do this thing. 1537 01:08:55,273 --> 01:08:56,473 But let me show you this last. 1538 01:08:56,529 --> 01:08:58,353 Vision that counterbalances this. 1539 01:08:58,489 --> 01:09:00,165 Do you like my Photoshop? 1540 01:09:01,305 --> 01:09:02,497 So here's the thing. 1541 01:09:02,601 --> 01:09:06,529 For all of you on Long island, after the new year, the. 1542 01:09:06,617 --> 01:09:09,881 Ironically, the lease on this building is up. 1543 01:09:09,993 --> 01:09:10,761 So we did. 1544 01:09:10,793 --> 01:09:12,605 The timing is perfect. 1545 01:09:13,105 --> 01:09:16,065 Literally, the lease on the building I'm standing in right now 1546 01:09:16,105 --> 01:09:20,305 is up this month, and we literally close on a new building 1547 01:09:20,385 --> 01:09:21,049 next week. 1548 01:09:21,137 --> 01:09:22,641 You can't make that up. 1549 01:09:22,833 --> 01:09:24,369 You can't make that up. 1550 01:09:24,537 --> 01:09:25,953 But we need to go through a. 1551 01:09:26,009 --> 01:09:30,009 Process of installing the equipment, installing the stage, 1552 01:09:30,057 --> 01:09:33,641 and actually getting approval on Long island for occupancy. 1553 01:09:33,833 --> 01:09:37,913 So what we're going to do is for several weeks after the new year, 1554 01:09:38,049 --> 01:09:41,721 we are going to meet at a hotel, Ironically, the same hotel 1555 01:09:41,833 --> 01:09:44,089 that we did the first Breakers Conference. 1556 01:09:44,257 --> 01:09:46,745 So we're going to be meeting in the hotel where we did the very 1557 01:09:46,785 --> 01:09:47,785 first Breakers Conference. 1558 01:09:47,825 --> 01:09:48,953 It's here on Long Island. 1559 01:09:49,049 --> 01:09:49,633 And we're going to be. 1560 01:09:49,649 --> 01:09:49,860 Kim. 1561 01:09:49,912 --> 01:09:54,692 We all join together and pray that occupancy will get approved, 1562 01:09:54,788 --> 01:09:56,348 expedited, fast, that. 1563 01:09:56,356 --> 01:09:56,876 We can get in there. 1564 01:09:56,900 --> 01:09:58,860 Y'all pray, okay? 1565 01:09:59,052 --> 01:10:01,844 And we're going to pray that God gets us in there sooner than 1566 01:10:01,884 --> 01:10:04,124 later so we can transition. 1567 01:10:04,284 --> 01:10:08,700 But what I'm showing you right now is we needed a box truck short 1568 01:10:08,772 --> 01:10:12,756 term, so that way we can house some of our gear as this campus goes 1569 01:10:12,780 --> 01:10:15,344 into transition before we move into the building. 1570 01:10:16,135 --> 01:10:17,911 And I actually said, you know what? 1571 01:10:17,983 --> 01:10:21,175 It was this guy wanting a box truck so bad. 1572 01:10:21,295 --> 01:10:24,315 Aaron's like, dad, can we please have a box truck? 1573 01:10:24,695 --> 01:10:26,751 He is my most expensive child. 1574 01:10:26,823 --> 01:10:29,135 And we all have one always. 1575 01:10:29,215 --> 01:10:30,639 We need a new LED wall. 1576 01:10:30,687 --> 01:10:32,367 We need this, we need that. 1577 01:10:32,511 --> 01:10:33,015 And so. 1578 01:10:33,055 --> 01:10:33,471 But I said. 1579 01:10:33,503 --> 01:10:36,567 I said, you know what's crazy, Aaron, about you asking me for a 1580 01:10:36,591 --> 01:10:37,487 box truck? 1581 01:10:37,631 --> 01:10:41,475 Is that as we got a building in Miami and we got a building in 1582 01:10:42,055 --> 01:10:45,933 Long island, the Lord showed me a vision of us actually doing 1583 01:10:45,989 --> 01:10:50,557 block parties where our different campuses take over neighborhoods. 1584 01:10:50,661 --> 01:10:53,629 And instead of asking people to come to church, we bring church 1585 01:10:53,677 --> 01:10:54,397 to them. 1586 01:10:54,541 --> 01:10:56,933 And we have kids programming and we. 1587 01:10:56,989 --> 01:11:01,437 Feed them, and we have a mobile church that is this. 1588 01:11:01,501 --> 01:11:02,645 This is the mobile church. 1589 01:11:02,685 --> 01:11:05,573 So in New Jersey and all the different locations, how many of 1590 01:11:05,589 --> 01:11:08,957 you are ready to do block parties over the different regions 1591 01:11:08,981 --> 01:11:13,621 where we have churches and lead the lost to the cross at any 1592 01:11:13,693 --> 01:11:14,305 cost? 1593 01:11:15,165 --> 01:11:16,517 So it's both. 1594 01:11:16,701 --> 01:11:18,429 It's not just us getting a building. 1595 01:11:18,477 --> 01:11:22,185 It'S us getting a box truck and us coming to them. 1596 01:11:22,725 --> 01:11:24,661 So would you just take a seat for a second? 1597 01:11:24,693 --> 01:11:24,885 I'm gonna.