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This is Palm Sunday, and let's
look at the scriptures together.

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So, mijo, I don't care how
young you are, you better look.

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Mita, look.

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Did I say it right?

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Okay, fluent.

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Somebody said, they're prophesying.

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So look at the word together.

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So they.

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There's a crowd.

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There's they.

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This is the original Palm Sunday.

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They took branches of palm
trees, so.

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Branches of palm trees.

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And what did they do?

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They went out to meet him.

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This is Jesus.

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And they're crying out, hosanna.

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Hosanna.

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And it's like the most epic
worship service ever.

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And they're saying, blessed is
he who comes in the name of the Lord.

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Even the King of Israel.

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And I'm telling you, when they
said even the King of Israel, people

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probably like, yeah, the king.

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I mean, it was crazy.

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You know?

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Like, those worship services.

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How many of you have been to
V1 before?

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How many?

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Is this your church?

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Okay?

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I said, is this your church?

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Someone's like, people from my
other iglesia are going to see me.

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Okay?

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I'm going to swat you with this.

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So, you know, we've had
worship services here where we're

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all literally bawling our eyes out.

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You know that moment where the
glory of the Lord starts to come

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down and you're like, oh, Jesus.

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You know those moments, the
ones that our social media team catch

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me crying, and then they put
it on the clip and do me dirty like

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that, where it's me, like, so
you know how they do every time I'm

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like, you're fired.

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And they're like, I don't even
work here.

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Oh, man.

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But the thing about those
worship services is that we're crying

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out before the Lord, and
there's just such a certainty in

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the room, and it's such a
powerful moment.

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That's really what this was like.

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But let me put it in the
historic context, so I'm gonna go

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deep.

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All right?

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So stay with me.

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It had been 400 years of them
waiting for the Messiah, 400 years

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of them groaning and
travailing and crying and praying

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out and, oh, Lord, just send
us our Messiah.

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And the Jewish understanding
of Messiah was not just, he's gonna

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forgive my sins, and I'm gonna
go to heaven.

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The Jewish understanding of
Messiah was we are living under Roman

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occupation, and this Roman
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and we're subjected to their
rules and their laws and their.

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And they treat us poorly.

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The Roman people treated them poorly.

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And so the Jews were a group
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Larger group of people.

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So for years, they had this
sentiment that our Messiah's coming,

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and when he comes up, he's
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Like, it was like, when your
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you're like, oh, keep messing
with me, because when my brother

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comes, he gonna take care of
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It was like they kind of had
this feeling of like, listen, we're

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under Roman occupation now,
but when our Messiah comes, he's

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whooping all y'all butts that.

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My mom's all excited about that.

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I don't know.

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She loves to just whoop.

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She's like, yes, whoop.

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Those Romans.

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Mom, the Romans are gone.

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They don't even exist anymore.

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They've already been whooped.

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But let me tell you why this
is important, because I'm trying

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to give you the historic context.

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Jesus comes riding down the
Kidron Valley on a donkey, not a

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white horse.

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Kings, military kings and
generals ride on white horses.

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Now, let me ask you a biblical question.

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Is Jesus eventually gonna come
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Okay, follow me.

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But in this picture, he comes
down on a donkey.

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It's almost as if he was
trying to tell them, y'all are missing

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it, because your expectations
are not my expectation.

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And the thing that you want is
not the wrong thing.

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It's just, you want it out of order.

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The thing that you want is not
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It's just not time for that thing.

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And how you want to get that
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get that thing.

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And so they're crying out, hosanna.

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Blessed is he who came in the
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Oh, this is our Messiah.

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This is our Savior.

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And then the Jewish people
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yashana, Yashana, Yashana, Yashana.

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And they would have been
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because that basically means
deliver now.

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Deliver now.

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Deliver now.

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Yashana.

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It even sounds like Yeshua,
deliver now.

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And so they would have been
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Talmud and their religious
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in each direction was symbolic of.

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Deliver us politically.

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Deliver us from our political rivals.

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Deliver us in our bodies, in
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There was complete, in total,
360 degrees of deliverance.

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Before I go a step further,
how many of you believe that whom

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the sun sets free is free indeed?

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How many of you believe that
yashana is for you and I.

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Come on.

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Deliver me God from my body
and these addictions, but forgive

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me of my mind and my anxiety.

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Forgive me of my finances and
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Yashana is the promise that we have.

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The problem is this branch
represents a promise, but you don't

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get the promise without pain.

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You don't get the promise
without process.

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So there's nothing wrong with
declaring Yashana.

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But there's some people who
want to be delivered but not disciplined.

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There's some people, oh, it's
getting real quiet up in here.

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I hope it's louder in the
other campuses.

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There's some people who want
the absence of a demon, but not the

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presence of the Holy Spirit.

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There's some.

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Oh, come on.

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In the 2020s, when I started
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one of the demon slayers,
people got plane tickets and flew

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out from all over the world to
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And they were saying, yashana,
Yashana, deliver me.

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Deliver me.

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But some of those people have
already relapsed.

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And the Bible says when a
demon gets cast out, it goes roaming

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around arid places and it
comes back to its home, finding that

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it's been swept clean and
brings seven more with it.

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So there are some people who
declare deliver me who are in a worse

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position than before the
deliverance because they wanted deliverance,

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but not discipleship.

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Oh, come on.

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I'll preach to you today.

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Pastor Mike demon slayer.

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Deliver me.

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Okay, the deliverance is over.

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I'll see you at church next Sunday.

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Bring your Bible.

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And you're serving on the
coffee team.

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Oh, no, not me.

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I'm part of the ecclesia.

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I'm a bishop.

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I'm an apostle.

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Apostles don't hand out coffee.

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Come on, I'm talking to
somebody right now.

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They wanted.

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They wanted resurrection
without death.

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They wanted the power of God
without the persecution that you

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experience.

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They.

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They didn't want to walk the
Via Della Rosa.

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They didn't want to walk the
narrow path.

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They didn't.

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Come on.

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And this is what my life was like.

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People flying out, oh, I'm
going to V1 church.

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I'm going to get my freedom.

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Okay, now root yourself in V1 church.

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Oh, no, no, no, I'm not going
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Oh, no.

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I'm rooted in the Bible.

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I'm root.

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Well, did you skip the part
where people were martyred to start

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churches?

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I'm telling you because God
was giving an opportunity, but people

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missed.

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It's like you want the white
horse experience triumphant king

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of kings, but you don't want
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down the Kidron Valley.

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You want the branch, but you
don't want the cross.

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You want the resurrection, but
you don't want the death.

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You want the ministry, but you
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See, there's all come on.

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And that's they.

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It's always the people with
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They took branches of palm
trees and went out to meet him, crying

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out, hosanna.

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Blessed is he who comes in the
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Well, I'm just saying.

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I mean, isn't that how Legion talk?

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For we are many.

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Come on now, somebody.

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I'm just trying to help you today.

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How many personalities am I
talking to?

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You and every demon in you.

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I'm trying to help somebody
right now.

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There has to be a death.

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There has to be deliverance
and discipleship.

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You cannot be in position
until you're submitted to authority.

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It's just.

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There's something about this.

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But you know what's funny is
when you hold a deliverance service,

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people fly out.

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And when you hold a church
service, they won't even drive out.

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This is the narrow road.

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If I ask you to sing on the
worship team, you show up to church.

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But if I ask you to serve
coffee to the worship team, you don't

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come to church.

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This is what the American
church is in China, where they're

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literally being tortured.

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I sat down and met with an
underground Church of China representative

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when I was in Southeast Asia,
and he kept telling me all about

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it.

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My eyes were getting all big,
and I was like, oh, I'm going, man.

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I'm going.

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And Julie's behind me.

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You're not going.

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You're not going.

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So as of right now, I'm not
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to go to China.

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But he told me, he said, mike,
in China, they buy two phones.

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One to keep at home as the
decoy for the find my, and the other

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one to go to the underground
church in a home.

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They have to stagger when they
show up to the home, and they come

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in one or two at a time, and
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accumulate to the point where
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to have a service.

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Because if they all come to
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tip off the locals.

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So it takes them hours and
hours and hours of accumulating.

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Then when they finally reach a
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church, they said, mike, if
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that you preach no less than
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And I said, I would be in
heaven because you preach for one

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hour in America.

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And they say, we're not going
next Sunday because he took too long.

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You preached for four hours in
China and they said, give us two

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more, cuz we could die for
hearing this message.

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You better make it worth it.

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Maybe some of you need more
persecution in America before you

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actually become a real disciple.

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Maybe they need to ban it
before you think it's cool enough

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to show up for.

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And I mean, that's what's
happening right now in the United

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Kingdom.

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By the way, in the United
Kingdom, there was legislation that

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was just proposed that would
make it illegal to preach on the

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streets.

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And even if somebody agrees
for you to pray for them, it would

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be illegal to publicly pray
for them.

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And there's another country
where somebody went to jail for praying

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in their head, across the
street from a place where they were

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committing abortions.

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Maybe we need more persecution.

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Now, why do I say that?

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Because I'm trying.

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This is probably the worst
Palm Sunday message in America right

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now, but the one that is
needed the most.

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Because when you tell the
American church that you're gonna

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be wealthy, that you're gonna
be blessed and happy, you fill up

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stadiums.

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But when you tell them, who
wants to die with me?

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Everybody stays home.

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But I will tell you this.

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I didn't start a church
because I wanted a big church.

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I started a church because I
came to New York City to find the

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real ones.

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And I got good news.

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I found the real ones in Brooklyn.

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I found the real ones in Manhattan.

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I found the real ones in New Jersey.

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I found the real ones in Miami.

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And we might be.

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There might be 10 million
people out this door, and there might

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be a thousand here.

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But I'll tell you what.

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Give me Gideon's army, because
I can do more with the real ones.

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Come on, give me 300 real ones.

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I'll do more than 300,000 fake
ones any day of the week.

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So this is the day they took
branches of palms and they went out

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to meet him, crying out hosanna.

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And here's what's crazy.

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The same crowd that shouted
Deliver us later shouted, crucify

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him.

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Oh, I found this church.

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It's called V1 Church.

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Oh, you don't understand that
Pastor, he came off the stage and

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laid hands on me and prayed
for me.

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He's so relatable that I'm
telling you.

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Oh, it was.

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And you know what?

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He let service go long and
prophesied over us for an hour.

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And I was just bawling my eyes out.

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And he gave us some Greek
words and Hebrew words and a little

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bit of his story.

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And he relatable and he does Spanglish.

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I just love it.

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Oh, and he has a YouTube where
he talks about Leviathan and he talks

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about Jezebel and Ahab and he
even talks about the Nephilim.

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Oh, I knew he was my favorite pastor.

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He even talks about the Nephilim.

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My last pastor would never
talk about the Nephilim.

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My last pastor never prophesied.

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My last pastor never came off
the stage.

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Oh, Mike, I love him.

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Him.

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Six months later, terrible
pastor, doesn't know what he's doing

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at all.

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Oh, yeah, And Eddie, let me
tell you, he's even worse.

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Eddie, I don't care what they
say about you.

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I love you.

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I'm just.

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Oh, and then his mom.

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Have you seen her on the Internet?

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Sandra?

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Who does she think she is,
wearing all those hats like she's

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French, Huh?

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I just gotta have fun with my mom.

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We love you.

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Why do I say this, though?

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Because this is how they are.

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They.

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They will.

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They will cry hosanna one week
and crucify the next.

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It'll be the best church and
the worst church.

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Even though the church never
changed their perspective because

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they were never seen in the spirit.

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They were always seen in the
flesh, or they were always seeing

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in the soulish realm.

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So the only thing that changed
is there is them.

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But Jesus remains the same to
those that even switch it up.

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Because he said eventually,
when they're saying crucify him,

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he's saying, forgive them, for
they know not what they do.

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And so here's my heart posture
towards you, even though I was playing.

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Even though I was playing and
I was trying to have a little fun

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with it.

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Don't eat your pastor for lunch.

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Because people will go to
church on Sunday and then eat their

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pastor for lunch.

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What does that mean?

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That means that how are you?

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How are blessings and curses
gonna come out of the same mouth?

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Oh, well, I'm just.

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I'm not criticizing.

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I'm evaluating.

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Come on.

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The devil is a liar.

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But why do I say this?

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Because people are fickle.

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People who don't see in the
spirit, people who have their mind

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made up about the way things
should be.

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And you know what?

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Cancel culture is worse in the
church than it is in the world.

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But see, wherever there's the
culture of honor.

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See, the thing is, I find it
interesting because if you go back

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to the verses, they call him
king, but they don't necessarily

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have a full revelation.

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Remember when Jesus turned and
said, who do you say I am?

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See, here's the thing.

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I'm praying that our church
begins to see each other for who

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they really are, not what
people say they are, not even what

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your wound says they are, not
what your wound says that you are.

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See, here's the thing, and
we're gonna go a little bit deeper

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right now.

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In Matthew, chapter 27, verse
22, Pilate said, then what shall

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I do with Jesus, who's called
the Christ?

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So even Pilate, who is a
secular politician, said, y'all call

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him the Christ, and what
should I do with this guy?

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And this is what they said.

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They look, here it is.

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There's the pronoun people.

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They said, let him be crucified.

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And he said, why?

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What evil has he done?

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But they shouted all the more,
let him be crucified.

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And this is how you'll get
those kind of people that their evaluation

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is always connected to
something that's not even sin.

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They couldn't even properly
respond with what Jesus did.

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And that's the evidence that
they were operating from a preference,

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because it's like, how did he sin?

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Well, we don't know, Cruz.

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Kill him, though.

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We're not here to make things better.

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We're here to destroy them.

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That same spirit is also
trying to destroy the bride of Christ.

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I can tell you what I don't
like, even if it's not sin, but I'm

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here to declare death, not life.

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See?

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And this is that spirit that's
behind it.

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And it's real quiet right now,
but I'm just offending every demon

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in hell, and I'm okay with it.

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Because the same spirit that
was behind crucifying Christ, if

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you follow the story of Judas,
who was the purse holder of the disciples,

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the Bible gives an account
that when Judas was offended at the

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way that that woman with her
lavish generosity, just poured that

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oil upon Jesus, it said that
out of that offense that Satan forcibly

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entered his heart.

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And you remember, it wasn't
just the crowd that crucified Jesus.

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It was Jesus, CFO because he
was mad about how the money was being

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spent.

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As a matter of fact, the Bible
also gives account that Judas was

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casting demons out before he
betrayed Jesus.

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So that means even somebody
that did deliverance around them

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actually had a demon come up
in the inside of them.

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I got a revelation for some of you.

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Sometimes you're dealing with
the crowd, and sometimes you're dealing

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with a Judas.

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But you're always dealing with
the spirit behind the crowd and Judas.

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And I'm clapping back at the
demon behind all of it, saying, you

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will not kill that which God
has designated to go forth in the

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earth.

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And that same spirit of murder
ain't gonna come up here and rob

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what God has.

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Because they're always crying,
crucify him.

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And they're never crying, God,
crucify me.

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Yeah, that part.

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Come on, make her a deacon.

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Print it out right now in the
back before service is over.

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Girl.

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Y'all hear what I'm saying?

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They were so willing, see,
they wanted Jesus to be their president.

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That's the way of thinking
about it.

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It'd be like all of us
marching to Capitol Hill right now

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and be like, we're done with
you, Donald.

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We want Jesus in.

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That's how literal it was.

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Then when they found out he
came riding on a donkey, not riding

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on a horse, and that he was a
suffering servant instead of being

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a politician, they got mad and
said, yeah, just go ahead and kill

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him.

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Why?

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Because we're done using him.

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And that's how a lot of people.

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Oh, the church helped me get
delivered from my anxiety and my.

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Oh, oh, my.

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The church helped me get through.

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I'm done using it.

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So crucify it.

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See, is the point crucifixion
or is the point covenant?

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Crucifixion is a stop on the
destination to covenant.

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And there's these people that
were crying, crucify him.

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But they didn't realize that
to be a disciple, the real cry is,

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crucify me as Christ was crucified.

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In other words, show me how to
die so I can die like you.

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This is what the Lord's trying
to get into each and every one of

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you.

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And so watch.

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They wanted a political king,
but he came as a suffering servant.

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They wanted crowns, but he
came with a cross.

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Everybody wants the crown.

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Nobody wants the cross.

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The real question is, will you
be willing to go through the cross

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to get the crown?

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This is the heart of a true disciple.

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You know, people say, accept
Jesus Christ and you'll be healthy

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and wealthy and happy.

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Well, let me just tell you this.

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The end destination is that
you'll be healthy, whether it's on

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this life or the other side.

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The end destination is that
you'll have joy in the fullness of

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joy.

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The end destination is that
you're gonna have abundance and overflow.

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So they're only half telling
the truth when they tell the gospel.

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But the thing is, the gospel
without the cross and only a crown

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is actually no gospel at all.

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But then I would say on the
converse, the gospel with a cross

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but no crown is also no gospel
at all.

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It's Both, but it's how you
get them and when you get them.

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So let's talk about this
branch right now.

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So you all got a branch in
your hand at every location.

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In ancient times, this branch
represented victory.

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As a matter of fact, it's like
when nascar.

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Because I'm half hillbilly,
you know, when nascar.

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So when you got the NASCAR and
you're there.

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Am I right, Mom?

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Mama.

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The nascar, when they come
over that finish line, my favorite

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thing is watching people in
New York City with their windows

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rolled down, listening to
country music.

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That's a phenomenon here in
the city.

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Some of you, it's you.

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It's like they got the car
windows rolled down and they're driving

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past and they're like fully
thugged out.

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And the song's like, my dog
died, my wife died, everybody died.

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And I'm seeing them just sing
it out.

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And I'm like, you don't know
nothing about that country life.

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Nothing about that.

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And they're like, yeah, but I
was in the military for a while,

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and, you know, all my
hillbilly friends turned me onto

496
00:21:51,508 --> 00:21:51,700
this.

497
00:21:51,740 --> 00:21:57,188
You know, here's my point is
when you're thinking about.

498
00:21:57,324 --> 00:22:00,996
When you're thinking about all
this, okay, when you're thinking

499
00:22:01,028 --> 00:22:07,316
about the crown and the cross,
when you have this moment, and hopefully

500
00:22:07,348 --> 00:22:11,980
this hits home, okay, when you
have this moment where God is trying

501
00:22:12,020 --> 00:22:17,132
to take you through the valley
of death, there's going to be despair,

502
00:22:17,276 --> 00:22:20,188
there's going to be
hopelessness, there's going to be

503
00:22:20,244 --> 00:22:20,876
sorrow.

504
00:22:20,988 --> 00:22:22,924
But sorrow is not a cycle.

505
00:22:22,972 --> 00:22:24,120
It's a season.

506
00:22:24,580 --> 00:22:27,000
And he will take you through
that process.

507
00:22:27,300 --> 00:22:30,876
And when you look at this,
what this represented more was a

508
00:22:30,948 --> 00:22:33,080
promise and a process.

509
00:22:33,620 --> 00:22:35,740
This represented what comes on
the other side.

510
00:22:35,780 --> 00:22:39,798
So when you have nascar, and
all of a sudden when the first car

511
00:22:39,854 --> 00:22:42,070
crosses and wins, they wave
that flag.

512
00:22:42,230 --> 00:22:45,430
So in ancient times, this
would represent, like a checkered

513
00:22:45,510 --> 00:22:46,150
flag.

514
00:22:46,310 --> 00:22:47,606
So when you go into, like.

515
00:22:47,678 --> 00:22:50,790
Even the temples that they
would build would have etched in

516
00:22:50,830 --> 00:22:54,054
stone palm branches, because
the palm branch is represented.

517
00:22:54,102 --> 00:22:56,054
This temple is a place of victory.

518
00:22:56,102 --> 00:22:57,862
This is when we celebrate victory.

519
00:22:58,006 --> 00:23:02,022
So when Jesus was coming down
that Kidron Valley and they were

520
00:23:02,046 --> 00:23:05,286
waving these palm branches, it
was like they were celebrating too

521
00:23:05,358 --> 00:23:06,028
soon.

522
00:23:06,214 --> 00:23:07,888
They were celebrating with.

523
00:23:08,024 --> 00:23:12,368
They were like acting as if
the promise is instant without a

524
00:23:12,424 --> 00:23:16,288
process, that victory can
happen without death.

525
00:23:16,424 --> 00:23:19,136
They did not understand the
way of the kingdom.

526
00:23:19,248 --> 00:23:21,152
And I just feel led to say
this right now.

527
00:23:21,176 --> 00:23:24,688
Cause there's many of you that
have been indoctrinated into American

528
00:23:24,824 --> 00:23:31,008
weak, flimsy, watered down
Lukewarm Christianity, powerless.

529
00:23:31,104 --> 00:23:34,428
A form of godliness that
denies the power thereof.

530
00:23:34,544 --> 00:23:38,740
Religious, critical fault
finding, consumeristic Christianity.

531
00:23:38,820 --> 00:23:42,116
And the best way I can
disciple you out of that is to cause

532
00:23:42,148 --> 00:23:45,076
you to go through a dying
experience with me.

533
00:23:45,148 --> 00:23:48,052
And I'm telling you, it is one
of the best things you can ever do

534
00:23:48,076 --> 00:23:49,040
in your life.

535
00:23:49,500 --> 00:23:51,364
Death comes in many forms.

536
00:23:51,492 --> 00:23:53,396
So let's put the promise aside.

537
00:23:53,508 --> 00:23:55,280
Cause this is the end result.

538
00:23:55,660 --> 00:23:56,960
This is the process.

539
00:23:57,660 --> 00:23:59,280
Let's talk about this.

540
00:24:00,150 --> 00:24:02,814
Death comes in many forms for
a believer.

541
00:24:02,942 --> 00:24:04,894
What am I talking about right now?

542
00:24:05,062 --> 00:24:12,526
Well, however you want to live
is how you have to die.

543
00:24:12,718 --> 00:24:14,606
So let me talk about myself.

544
00:24:14,798 --> 00:24:18,302
The reason why I sweat so much
when I preach is because I've been

545
00:24:18,326 --> 00:24:20,222
preaching since I was 15 years old.

546
00:24:20,326 --> 00:24:23,454
And I still get nervous and I
still don't like it.

547
00:24:23,542 --> 00:24:24,702
And I still.

548
00:24:24,886 --> 00:24:25,518
This is.

549
00:24:25,574 --> 00:24:28,282
And my wife, everybody knows this.

550
00:24:28,386 --> 00:24:29,978
Death to me is.

551
00:24:30,034 --> 00:24:31,178
I want to be alone.

552
00:24:31,274 --> 00:24:34,682
I don't want to be with all
y'all because you scare me.

553
00:24:34,866 --> 00:24:38,282
I'm telling your opinions,
your comments, your criticisms, how

554
00:24:38,306 --> 00:24:41,898
mean hearted you can be, how
savage you can be, how loveless.

555
00:24:41,994 --> 00:24:43,066
Some of y'all will.

556
00:24:43,138 --> 00:24:46,106
You're the kind of people that
will see something I post on Instagram

557
00:24:46,138 --> 00:24:49,658
and scroll through it and then
wish Kim Kardashian Happy Birthday.

558
00:24:49,754 --> 00:24:55,636
In your stories, that's real.

559
00:24:55,788 --> 00:24:59,940
I will literally fast for you,
pray for you, anoint you, give you

560
00:24:59,980 --> 00:25:02,660
money out of my own wallet,
and you'll scroll past something

561
00:25:02,700 --> 00:25:03,060
I post.

562
00:25:03,100 --> 00:25:04,932
And then in your stories,
happy birthday, Kim.

563
00:25:04,996 --> 00:25:05,920
I love you.

564
00:25:06,620 --> 00:25:08,560
That's Christians for you.

565
00:25:09,180 --> 00:25:11,540
I'm just telling you straight
up, that's Christians.

566
00:25:11,700 --> 00:25:13,028
That's Christians.

567
00:25:13,204 --> 00:25:14,964
Somebody will deliver you from demons.

568
00:25:15,012 --> 00:25:17,028
You throw up all over their
new shirt.

569
00:25:17,124 --> 00:25:17,732
You cry.

570
00:25:17,796 --> 00:25:20,480
I got so many shirts with your
makeup right here.

571
00:25:21,500 --> 00:25:23,796
And then someone's like, oh,
yes, V1 your church.

572
00:25:23,828 --> 00:25:24,800
I don't know.

573
00:25:26,140 --> 00:25:29,840
I'm like, I was just weeping
with you for two hours.

574
00:25:30,300 --> 00:25:31,396
This is what I'm saying.

575
00:25:31,468 --> 00:25:33,040
This is why for me.

576
00:25:33,420 --> 00:25:37,860
For me, death comes in the
form of putting myself out there

577
00:25:37,900 --> 00:25:42,468
to get rejected, to be
misunderstood, for my motives, to

578
00:25:42,524 --> 00:25:45,604
constantly be challenged, no
matter how pure I think they are.

579
00:25:45,692 --> 00:25:48,320
I put myself out there because
I don't want to do this.

580
00:25:48,860 --> 00:25:50,100
I literally don't.

581
00:25:50,180 --> 00:25:54,820
My wife will tell you it's
your fault I tried to quit ministry.

582
00:25:54,900 --> 00:25:56,532
That's how this whole thing started.

583
00:25:56,716 --> 00:26:00,212
We were sitting in the car and
I said, julie, I don't want to do

584
00:26:00,236 --> 00:26:00,420
this.

585
00:26:00,460 --> 00:26:01,316
These people are fake.

586
00:26:01,348 --> 00:26:02,692
They're savage, they're mean.

587
00:26:02,796 --> 00:26:03,764
I'm introverted.

588
00:26:03,812 --> 00:26:05,972
I still get scared Every time
I go on stage.

589
00:26:06,036 --> 00:26:07,572
And she was like, we're gonna
go to New York.

590
00:26:07,596 --> 00:26:10,084
We're gonna launch that
church, just like, God told you.

591
00:26:10,172 --> 00:26:11,556
So this is ultimately your fault.

592
00:26:11,588 --> 00:26:16,290
I'm mad at you, but I had to
choose the cross.

593
00:26:16,870 --> 00:26:20,250
The cross says, all right,
Lord, here I go.

594
00:26:20,710 --> 00:26:22,238
Well, didn't they cancel you again?

595
00:26:22,294 --> 00:26:24,398
But they canceled you too, Jesus.

596
00:26:24,574 --> 00:26:25,902
Weren't they critical of you?

597
00:26:25,926 --> 00:26:28,046
But they were critical of you, Jesus.

598
00:26:28,238 --> 00:26:31,694
But then on the flip side,
let's talk about somebody else.

599
00:26:31,742 --> 00:26:34,494
I know some people that are extroverts.

600
00:26:34,622 --> 00:26:36,478
And you know who some of you are.

601
00:26:36,614 --> 00:26:38,286
And you love being the limelight.

602
00:26:38,318 --> 00:26:39,990
You love being the center of attention.

603
00:26:40,110 --> 00:26:42,918
And matter of fact, I can't
figure out, as an introvert, I can't

604
00:26:42,934 --> 00:26:45,050
figure out why you're always
so excited.

605
00:26:45,870 --> 00:26:47,810
And it kind of annoys me.

606
00:26:48,350 --> 00:26:50,198
You're the person that's like,
hey, how you going?

607
00:26:50,254 --> 00:26:50,934
Good morning.

608
00:26:51,022 --> 00:26:54,918
You know somebody like that,
Good morning, good morning, good

609
00:26:54,974 --> 00:26:55,570
morning.

610
00:26:56,590 --> 00:27:00,410
You know those people, it's
like every time they say, like, ugh,

611
00:27:01,870 --> 00:27:03,046
good morning.

612
00:27:03,198 --> 00:27:05,462
You know that person at work,
good morning.

613
00:27:05,646 --> 00:27:08,518
You're like, you must not be
as broke as I am.

614
00:27:08,574 --> 00:27:09,398
Cause it's not a.

615
00:27:09,454 --> 00:27:11,890
It's bad morning, Bad morning.

616
00:27:14,590 --> 00:27:16,102
But here's the thing.

617
00:27:16,206 --> 00:27:19,702
The person who wants the
limelight, the person who wants to

618
00:27:19,726 --> 00:27:22,934
be the center of attention,
the person who wants to be seen,

619
00:27:23,022 --> 00:27:26,710
the person who wants the
microphone, that death for them comes

620
00:27:26,750 --> 00:27:28,650
in the form of obscurity.

621
00:27:28,990 --> 00:27:32,090
Death for them comes in the
form of isolation.

622
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:36,472
So for me, death comes in the
form of getting on stage in front

623
00:27:36,496 --> 00:27:38,820
of everybody every day of my life.

624
00:27:40,080 --> 00:27:43,688
And that for me, is death,
because I don't wanna do it.

625
00:27:43,824 --> 00:27:44,120
So.

626
00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:47,336
But then on the flip side,
what happens is that death for somebody

627
00:27:47,368 --> 00:27:50,280
else might come in the form of
obscurity where they have to go.

628
00:27:50,320 --> 00:27:53,752
And they need the coffee team
because they need.

629
00:27:53,856 --> 00:27:57,704
And they need to be the most
powerful preacher in America that's

630
00:27:57,752 --> 00:28:01,672
serving coffee that nobody
heard of until they fully die to

631
00:28:01,696 --> 00:28:03,214
that desire to be seen.

632
00:28:03,352 --> 00:28:06,322
So that when they finally get
brought on the stage, they know how

633
00:28:06,346 --> 00:28:09,230
to deflect God's glory instead
of absorb it.

634
00:28:09,610 --> 00:28:11,110
Does this make sense?

635
00:28:11,450 --> 00:28:12,226
Because watch.

636
00:28:12,298 --> 00:28:13,602
Oh, I'm gonna show you something.

637
00:28:13,706 --> 00:28:17,298
If I'm an introvert who denies
my calling to preach, that's called

638
00:28:17,354 --> 00:28:18,470
false humility.

639
00:28:20,330 --> 00:28:24,658
Then if I'm an extrovert who
doesn't go the process of death and

640
00:28:24,714 --> 00:28:26,870
then begin to preach, that's pride.

641
00:28:27,610 --> 00:28:31,334
So sometimes you can be on one
end of the spectrum of false humility

642
00:28:31,382 --> 00:28:32,182
and pride.

643
00:28:32,326 --> 00:28:33,830
And so what happens is this.

644
00:28:33,870 --> 00:28:34,950
This is how God does it.

645
00:28:34,990 --> 00:28:38,930
The promise is often concealed
with a process.

646
00:28:39,230 --> 00:28:41,702
And he offers you the initiation.

647
00:28:41,846 --> 00:28:42,934
Take the cross.

648
00:28:43,062 --> 00:28:44,054
Take the cross.

649
00:28:44,182 --> 00:28:44,934
Take the cross.

650
00:28:44,982 --> 00:28:47,078
I don't want the cross, Lord, please.

651
00:28:47,134 --> 00:28:48,070
No, I don't want.

652
00:28:48,110 --> 00:28:49,334
I want to be an entrepreneur.

653
00:28:49,382 --> 00:28:50,230
You're a pastor.

654
00:28:50,310 --> 00:28:50,822
No, I'm not.

655
00:28:50,846 --> 00:28:51,606
I'm an entrepreneur.

656
00:28:51,638 --> 00:28:52,810
You're a pastor.

657
00:28:53,390 --> 00:28:56,534
Lord, I want to be alone, go
with people, be in a crowd.

658
00:28:56,582 --> 00:28:57,142
Then I do that.

659
00:28:57,166 --> 00:29:00,970
Then all of a sudden, the
resurrection power begins to hit

660
00:29:01,010 --> 00:29:01,354
me.

661
00:29:01,442 --> 00:29:03,834
The anointing begins to come
upon me.

662
00:29:03,922 --> 00:29:05,482
We fill up Times Square.

663
00:29:05,546 --> 00:29:06,842
We fill up the breakers.

664
00:29:06,906 --> 00:29:09,194
We start a college, seven churches.

665
00:29:09,242 --> 00:29:11,610
And the whole time I'm like,
lord, I don't like this.

666
00:29:11,650 --> 00:29:12,250
I don't like this.

667
00:29:12,290 --> 00:29:12,842
I don't like this.

668
00:29:12,866 --> 00:29:15,950
And he's saying, yashana,
Yashana, Yashana.

669
00:29:17,090 --> 00:29:20,330
Then you go back and you're
serving coffee, and they don't even

670
00:29:20,370 --> 00:29:21,466
see who I am.

671
00:29:21,618 --> 00:29:24,870
That other ministry would have
made me a bishop in 14 days.

672
00:29:28,430 --> 00:29:28,854
Come on.

673
00:29:28,862 --> 00:29:31,398
I'm going to start a ministry
that'll make you a bishop in 12 hours.

674
00:29:31,454 --> 00:29:33,290
Let's see how fast it grows.

675
00:29:33,950 --> 00:29:35,526
They don't see who I am.

676
00:29:35,678 --> 00:29:36,278
Then you.

677
00:29:36,334 --> 00:29:36,550
But.

678
00:29:36,590 --> 00:29:37,014
But I'm.

679
00:29:37,062 --> 00:29:39,686
But not my will.

680
00:29:39,758 --> 00:29:40,690
Thy will.

681
00:29:41,630 --> 00:29:43,494
Oh, I don't want to even wake
up for coffee.

682
00:29:43,542 --> 00:29:44,822
They keep going through the process.

683
00:29:44,926 --> 00:29:46,150
But not my will.

684
00:29:46,190 --> 00:29:46,678
Thy will.

685
00:29:46,734 --> 00:29:49,094
You keep going through the
cross, and guess what happens?

686
00:29:49,222 --> 00:29:51,502
And here's how you know you're
done with your process.

687
00:29:51,646 --> 00:29:52,690
Are you ready?

688
00:29:53,270 --> 00:29:57,070
Because when the Lord goes to
make that exchange, he goes, remember,

689
00:29:57,150 --> 00:29:57,966
victory.

690
00:29:58,158 --> 00:29:59,518
It's time now.

691
00:29:59,654 --> 00:30:01,330
It's time for you to preach.

692
00:30:01,910 --> 00:30:02,814
Oh, no, Lord.

693
00:30:02,862 --> 00:30:03,854
I don't know if I'm ready.

694
00:30:03,902 --> 00:30:05,214
I'm still selfish.

695
00:30:05,342 --> 00:30:06,126
Oh, no, Lord.

696
00:30:06,158 --> 00:30:08,494
I'm still going for the
approval of man.

697
00:30:08,582 --> 00:30:09,198
Oh, no, Lord.

698
00:30:09,214 --> 00:30:11,134
I don't see how you'll know
you're ready.

699
00:30:11,182 --> 00:30:13,742
Is that when you went through
the process, you still don't feel

700
00:30:13,766 --> 00:30:15,210
ready when he calls you.

701
00:30:15,590 --> 00:30:19,782
That's actually how you know
and see, God is trying to get you

702
00:30:19,806 --> 00:30:20,758
a palm branch.

703
00:30:20,854 --> 00:30:23,030
And that is the end of the story.

704
00:30:23,150 --> 00:30:24,486
But it looks like death.

705
00:30:24,558 --> 00:30:27,414
And death comes in many
different forms for you.

706
00:30:27,582 --> 00:30:31,462
If you've been raised in
poverty, you're like me, where you

707
00:30:31,486 --> 00:30:34,598
want to keep as much money as
possible, because who knows what's

708
00:30:34,614 --> 00:30:38,422
going to happen with tariffs
and all this crazy stuff and the

709
00:30:38,446 --> 00:30:39,686
hiring structures change.

710
00:30:39,758 --> 00:30:42,662
But what will happen is right
in the midst of that, the Lord will

711
00:30:42,686 --> 00:30:44,374
say, be a river, not a reservoir.

712
00:30:44,422 --> 00:30:48,242
Release those finances, and
that for you is death.

713
00:30:48,426 --> 00:30:50,706
Then there's somebody that
gives all their money.

714
00:30:50,778 --> 00:30:53,550
And the Lord's like, I need
you to save your money.

715
00:30:54,330 --> 00:30:56,482
I need you to steward it and
invest it.

716
00:30:56,506 --> 00:30:59,666
And you're like, oh no, Lord,
death comes in many different forms.

717
00:30:59,698 --> 00:31:00,882
Do you understand what I'm saying?

718
00:31:00,906 --> 00:31:02,030
Do you receive that?

719
00:31:02,490 --> 00:31:04,190
Okay, let me show you something.

720
00:31:04,970 --> 00:31:06,754
Jesus was consistent.

721
00:31:06,882 --> 00:31:09,490
He didn't live from a father wound.

722
00:31:09,570 --> 00:31:12,482
I want to talk to you about
the father wound because this is

723
00:31:12,506 --> 00:31:13,746
ultimately the problem.

724
00:31:13,898 --> 00:31:15,670
Let's talk about finances.

725
00:31:16,410 --> 00:31:21,538
If you had a father that never
made enough money, there's a high

726
00:31:21,594 --> 00:31:26,190
likelihood that that fear of
finances was transmitted to you.

727
00:31:26,490 --> 00:31:29,922
And it's not that you want to
be selfish, but it's that you have

728
00:31:29,946 --> 00:31:34,530
a mechanism that says to hoard
in the case of famine.

729
00:31:34,690 --> 00:31:37,026
Let me tell you why I don't
have a six pack.

730
00:31:37,058 --> 00:31:38,590
I've been going deep on this.

731
00:31:40,870 --> 00:31:43,374
I rebuke everybody laughing
right now.

732
00:31:43,542 --> 00:31:45,262
I rebuke every single one of you.

733
00:31:45,286 --> 00:31:47,294
I'm coming back from
sabbatical and I'm going to shock

734
00:31:47,342 --> 00:31:52,650
and all you, even if I have to
do it chemically, I don't even care.

735
00:31:55,190 --> 00:31:59,582
But let me tell you, because,
you know, I wrote a book about epigenetics.

736
00:31:59,646 --> 00:32:03,774
I wrote an entire book about
generational inheritance and I studied

737
00:32:03,822 --> 00:32:05,078
a lot for it.

738
00:32:05,254 --> 00:32:09,142
And one of the things I was
recently looking at is that from

739
00:32:09,166 --> 00:32:13,574
an ancestral standpoint, if
you know, and this is before modern

740
00:32:13,622 --> 00:32:18,534
civilization, oftentimes
because there was agricultural society

741
00:32:18,582 --> 00:32:21,290
with hunting, food was scarce.

742
00:32:21,710 --> 00:32:26,230
So everybody who had an
adaptation to store as much fat as

743
00:32:26,270 --> 00:32:30,646
possible were the ones that
survived scarcity to pass their genes

744
00:32:30,678 --> 00:32:31,250
on.

745
00:32:31,550 --> 00:32:35,462
So it's only been the last
hundred years to 150 years where

746
00:32:35,486 --> 00:32:38,246
there's been abundance of food everywhere.

747
00:32:38,438 --> 00:32:42,198
So historically there has not
been this much food available.

748
00:32:42,334 --> 00:32:47,254
So whoever had the genetic
predisposition to make as much storage

749
00:32:47,382 --> 00:32:50,550
with the least amount of food
is who survived to go to the next

750
00:32:50,590 --> 00:32:51,398
generation.

751
00:32:51,574 --> 00:32:55,206
So congratulations for all of
us without six pack abs.

752
00:32:55,318 --> 00:32:56,650
We're the survivors.

753
00:32:57,380 --> 00:32:58,920
You like how I flip that?

754
00:32:59,780 --> 00:33:01,116
But the problem is.

755
00:33:01,188 --> 00:33:02,600
Okay, follow me.

756
00:33:02,980 --> 00:33:07,676
The problem is what becomes a
benefit in one generation becomes

757
00:33:07,708 --> 00:33:09,320
a liability in the other.

758
00:33:09,700 --> 00:33:14,748
And see what happens is when
you store in the midst of abundance,

759
00:33:14,844 --> 00:33:19,052
you end up fat, which leads to
cardiac problems, diabetes, all these

760
00:33:19,076 --> 00:33:20,780
other various things that can happen.

761
00:33:20,900 --> 00:33:25,044
And what is a benefit in
scarcity becomes the thing that destroys

762
00:33:25,092 --> 00:33:26,360
you in abundance.

763
00:33:27,020 --> 00:33:30,900
So then it's like when the
Lord is asking you to sow, but you

764
00:33:30,940 --> 00:33:35,124
come from multiple generations
of scarcity, you're doing a mechanism

765
00:33:35,252 --> 00:33:39,012
that's going to disease your
soul just like food can disease your

766
00:33:39,036 --> 00:33:39,652
body.

767
00:33:39,836 --> 00:33:41,540
Am I helping anybody?

768
00:33:41,700 --> 00:33:42,180
Are you?

769
00:33:42,220 --> 00:33:42,580
Are you?

770
00:33:42,620 --> 00:33:44,580
I know you're not shouting
because you don't want to come into

771
00:33:44,620 --> 00:33:47,524
agreement with any of this,
but do you feel what I'm trying to

772
00:33:47,532 --> 00:33:48,320
put down?

773
00:33:49,030 --> 00:33:53,454
So what that means is as you
go through this, Jesus was consistent.

774
00:33:53,502 --> 00:33:55,966
He didn't live from a father wound.

775
00:33:56,158 --> 00:33:59,198
So we have to go back and say,
lord, what did I inherit?

776
00:33:59,294 --> 00:34:00,766
Lord, what did I receive?

777
00:34:00,878 --> 00:34:03,710
Lord, what is the thing that
they did to survive?

778
00:34:03,790 --> 00:34:09,650
But that survival mechanism
has become a self sabotaging mechanism.

779
00:34:10,150 --> 00:34:13,250
So is it survival or is it sabotage?

780
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:23,528
And behold, a voice from
heaven said, this is my beloved son

781
00:34:23,544 --> 00:34:25,128
with whom I'm well pleased.

782
00:34:25,224 --> 00:34:26,200
I want you to look at this.

783
00:34:26,240 --> 00:34:27,304
A voice from heaven.

784
00:34:27,352 --> 00:34:29,740
Everybody say this phrase, a
voice from heaven.

785
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:33,608
How many of you know the
scriptures are very intentional?

786
00:34:33,784 --> 00:34:38,696
The voice didn't come from
earth, the voice came from heaven.

787
00:34:38,888 --> 00:34:43,090
Some of you, the evidence of
your father wound is that you are

788
00:34:43,130 --> 00:34:46,994
looking from for a voice from
the earth, not listening to the voice

789
00:34:47,042 --> 00:34:48,066
from heaven.

790
00:34:48,258 --> 00:34:50,450
Now what did the voice from
heaven say?

791
00:34:50,570 --> 00:34:56,390
This is my beloved Son, with
whom I am well pleased.

792
00:34:56,730 --> 00:35:00,066
Let me ask you this question,
biblical scholars.

793
00:35:00,258 --> 00:35:03,762
At the point chronologically
in the story of Jesus, when this

794
00:35:03,786 --> 00:35:07,500
scripture was written, when
this moment actually occurred, what

795
00:35:07,540 --> 00:35:09,600
had Jesus Christ accomplished?

796
00:35:11,700 --> 00:35:15,200
Come on, biblical scholars, nothing.

797
00:35:16,500 --> 00:35:18,800
This is deeply convicting.

798
00:35:19,300 --> 00:35:22,396
At this point, Jesus had cast
out no demons.

799
00:35:22,588 --> 00:35:26,060
At this point, Jesus had
healed no sick people that we know

800
00:35:26,100 --> 00:35:26,492
of.

801
00:35:26,596 --> 00:35:28,860
At this point, he had not been preaching.

802
00:35:29,020 --> 00:35:31,932
This was actually the moment
after he was baptized.

803
00:35:32,076 --> 00:35:35,532
He comes up out of the water
and to inaugurate the beginning of

804
00:35:35,556 --> 00:35:39,256
his ministry, God says, this
is my beloved son who am well pleased.

805
00:35:39,288 --> 00:35:40,584
I want to talk to the men.

806
00:35:40,752 --> 00:35:42,020
We're almost done.

807
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:46,664
To every single man under the
sound of my voice at all campuses

808
00:35:46,712 --> 00:35:51,340
right now, I want you to know
that you are seen by God.

809
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:55,320
Let me talk to you about what
happens to a man when a man does

810
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:58,584
not receive the affirmation of
his biological father.

811
00:35:58,712 --> 00:36:02,936
When a man does not receive
the visibility of, hey you, you're

812
00:36:02,968 --> 00:36:06,420
doing a good job without it
being connected to performance.

813
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:11,100
He will spend his entire life
performing to get visibility.

814
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:13,272
And I wanna explain this to you.

815
00:36:13,296 --> 00:36:16,152
One of the worst things that
ever happened to me, as well as one

816
00:36:16,176 --> 00:36:19,832
of the best things was Boy
Scouts of America, because my mother

817
00:36:19,896 --> 00:36:21,240
said he doesn't have a father.

818
00:36:21,320 --> 00:36:23,896
So I'm gonna enroll him in Boy
Scouts of America.

819
00:36:24,008 --> 00:36:26,488
And when you're in that
program, they have a book.

820
00:36:26,544 --> 00:36:30,824
And each stage you do
accomplishments, and those accomplishments

821
00:36:30,872 --> 00:36:32,700
are rewarded with Badges.

822
00:36:33,380 --> 00:36:37,740
So I was in Troop 232 in
Hammond, Indiana.

823
00:36:37,900 --> 00:36:40,492
And I would do the book, and
they would say, you're gonna get

824
00:36:40,516 --> 00:36:41,692
this badge and this badge.

825
00:36:41,756 --> 00:36:47,340
And I love sewing those badges
onto my little uniform.

826
00:36:47,500 --> 00:36:50,588
And I kept getting more and
more and more and more.

827
00:36:50,644 --> 00:36:53,388
Then I had a sash, and they
put badges on the sash.

828
00:36:53,484 --> 00:36:55,420
Then I had pins, and they put
pins on the.

829
00:36:55,460 --> 00:36:56,716
I mean, it was crazy.

830
00:36:56,828 --> 00:37:01,164
Finally, one day, my mom and I
get a notification from Troop 232.

831
00:37:01,252 --> 00:37:04,970
And they say, we wanna have a
dinner in honor of your son.

832
00:37:05,870 --> 00:37:07,462
And I was like, what are you
talking about?

833
00:37:07,486 --> 00:37:08,530
You remember this?

834
00:37:08,910 --> 00:37:10,630
And we had no idea what was
going on.

835
00:37:10,670 --> 00:37:13,654
We show up for the dinner, and
they say, guys, we're here to honor

836
00:37:13,702 --> 00:37:15,350
Mike Signorelli's accomplishment.

837
00:37:15,430 --> 00:37:19,334
He's received the most badges
of anybody in the history of Troop

838
00:37:19,382 --> 00:37:20,450
232.

839
00:37:20,910 --> 00:37:22,726
And at that time, everybody's clapping.

840
00:37:22,758 --> 00:37:25,670
I remember being little, like,
looking around the room like, what

841
00:37:25,710 --> 00:37:26,790
is this all about?

842
00:37:26,910 --> 00:37:27,942
Let me explain why.

843
00:37:27,966 --> 00:37:30,130
That was one of the worst
things ever happened to me.

844
00:37:30,270 --> 00:37:33,590
Because I did not have a
father in my home.

845
00:37:34,130 --> 00:37:39,514
So there was a mechanism in me
that was the more I accomplish, then,

846
00:37:39,682 --> 00:37:42,070
the more people acknowledge me.

847
00:37:42,450 --> 00:37:44,110
That is dangerous.

848
00:37:44,530 --> 00:37:48,490
Because then what happens with
those same men who get that mechanism

849
00:37:48,650 --> 00:37:52,522
is they think, if I don't
accomplish, I don't have value.

850
00:37:52,706 --> 00:37:55,178
If I don't accomplish, I don't
have worth.

851
00:37:55,274 --> 00:37:57,734
So there's two paths that men take.

852
00:37:57,922 --> 00:38:01,982
Number one is they take the
path of trying to accomplish as much

853
00:38:02,006 --> 00:38:05,534
as they can to get as much
visibility because they didn't receive

854
00:38:05,582 --> 00:38:07,310
the affirmation of their father.

855
00:38:07,470 --> 00:38:12,174
And they try to grow big bank
accounts, big muscles, big awards.

856
00:38:12,302 --> 00:38:15,518
They try to do things, to do
whatever they can to be seen.

857
00:38:15,654 --> 00:38:17,038
That's why you go in the streets.

858
00:38:17,054 --> 00:38:20,190
And even the thugs, the
biggest earrings, the biggest chains,

859
00:38:20,350 --> 00:38:22,494
the car that they have, the
biggest truck.

860
00:38:22,622 --> 00:38:22,958
Why?

861
00:38:23,014 --> 00:38:24,224
It's visibility.

862
00:38:24,352 --> 00:38:25,968
They need to be seen.

863
00:38:26,104 --> 00:38:29,312
There's some tattoos are a
form of visibility.

864
00:38:29,376 --> 00:38:30,912
I got a whole sleeve of them.

865
00:38:31,016 --> 00:38:33,232
I know some of you are gonna
leave the church today after you

866
00:38:33,256 --> 00:38:34,224
found that out.

867
00:38:34,392 --> 00:38:37,216
I preach in long sleeves, so I
don't catch the heat.

868
00:38:37,328 --> 00:38:38,816
I got a whole sleeve of tattoos.

869
00:38:38,848 --> 00:38:39,984
But what is it?

870
00:38:40,152 --> 00:38:42,128
For some people, it's meaningful.

871
00:38:42,224 --> 00:38:46,400
But some people, it's a deeper
meaning of, look at me, See me.

872
00:38:46,520 --> 00:38:47,520
See how tough I am.

873
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:48,704
See how bad I am.

874
00:38:48,792 --> 00:38:52,144
We do all these things to
posture ourselves for visibility,

875
00:38:52,272 --> 00:38:55,820
but it goes back to the root
of the father wound.

876
00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:58,280
I'm speaking into something
because you're about to get Free,

877
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:00,280
you're five minutes away from freedom.

878
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,620
But then there's the other end
of the spectrum.

879
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:06,920
That same father wound will
push some men to say, because I know

880
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:11,016
it's fake, because I know the
only reason they did that dinner

881
00:39:11,048 --> 00:39:13,976
for Mike Signorelli was
because he got all those badges.

882
00:39:14,088 --> 00:39:16,008
I don't want to get any badges.

883
00:39:16,184 --> 00:39:17,580
Does this make sense?

884
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:18,968
It's almost like.

885
00:39:19,024 --> 00:39:20,594
Because they look at.

886
00:39:20,682 --> 00:39:23,650
It's like, oh, because people
only love them because they have

887
00:39:23,690 --> 00:39:24,034
money.

888
00:39:24,122 --> 00:39:25,906
I don't care if I have any money.

889
00:39:26,058 --> 00:39:28,322
Because they only love them
because they have a nice car and

890
00:39:28,346 --> 00:39:28,834
a big chain.

891
00:39:28,882 --> 00:39:30,930
I don't care if I have a nice
car or a big chain.

892
00:39:31,010 --> 00:39:32,562
And a guy will literally go on.

893
00:39:32,586 --> 00:39:34,898
Two ends of the spectrum
because of a father wound.

894
00:39:34,994 --> 00:39:38,130
They'll either get real loud
or real quiet, or sometimes they

895
00:39:38,170 --> 00:39:39,710
oscillate between both.

896
00:39:40,250 --> 00:39:44,710
Men live with crippling depression.

897
00:39:45,540 --> 00:39:49,852
And most men have never felt
like they have value independent

898
00:39:49,916 --> 00:39:52,764
of their accomplishments, because.

899
00:39:52,852 --> 00:39:53,500
And look what.

900
00:39:53,540 --> 00:39:54,956
This is what happened.

901
00:39:55,148 --> 00:40:01,244
And behold, a voice from
heaven said, this is my beloved son

902
00:40:01,372 --> 00:40:03,996
with whom I am well pleased.

903
00:40:04,108 --> 00:40:11,840
And God the father connected
his pleasure with his son to no accomplishments.

904
00:40:13,020 --> 00:40:18,452
To be honest with you, before
I became a theologian, if you would

905
00:40:18,476 --> 00:40:21,972
have asked me, where does this
scripture happen in the Bible, I

906
00:40:21,996 --> 00:40:25,880
would have said, this happens
after Jesus dies on the cross.

907
00:40:26,780 --> 00:40:30,500
This is my son who I'm well
pleased because he did what I told

908
00:40:30,540 --> 00:40:31,440
him to do.

909
00:40:31,740 --> 00:40:34,132
But God loves different than man.

910
00:40:34,316 --> 00:40:36,996
God says, this is my beloved son.

911
00:40:37,188 --> 00:40:43,056
I don't love him for approval,
but I love him from approval because

912
00:40:43,128 --> 00:40:44,340
he's mine.

913
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:49,152
I remember I was in prayer
years ago, and I saw in the spirit

914
00:40:49,216 --> 00:40:53,232
my boy scouts of America
uniform, and it was covered in all

915
00:40:53,256 --> 00:40:53,872
those badges.

916
00:40:53,936 --> 00:40:56,176
And I said, lord, why do you
keep showing me this?

917
00:40:56,248 --> 00:40:59,472
Because the Lord says, mike,
I'm getting ready to make you successful

918
00:40:59,536 --> 00:41:04,490
now, But I need you to take
off all your accomplishments and

919
00:41:04,530 --> 00:41:05,818
strip it all down.

920
00:41:05,954 --> 00:41:09,546
And I need you to know that I
loved you at your darkest.

921
00:41:09,738 --> 00:41:13,114
I need you to know that I
believed in you when nobody else

922
00:41:13,162 --> 00:41:13,610
did.

923
00:41:13,730 --> 00:41:16,266
And I died for you while you
were yet a sinner.

924
00:41:16,298 --> 00:41:18,314
And I put my whole life on the line.

925
00:41:18,402 --> 00:41:22,570
And nothing you'll ever
accomplish will ever be in response

926
00:41:22,650 --> 00:41:26,550
to my love, but it will
actually be because of my love.

927
00:41:26,850 --> 00:41:29,610
And the Lord began to minister
to me and love on me.

928
00:41:29,650 --> 00:41:32,466
And I went through what's
called an ego death.

929
00:41:32,658 --> 00:41:36,098
This happened about over 10
years ago now.

930
00:41:36,234 --> 00:41:39,314
And I went to the kids
department, and I begin to serve

931
00:41:39,362 --> 00:41:44,002
and I begin to work and I
begin to sow seeds into the children

932
00:41:44,106 --> 00:41:47,538
of that ministry who will
never remember the words I said.

933
00:41:47,594 --> 00:41:49,330
But the seeds were eternal.

934
00:41:49,410 --> 00:41:52,418
And some of the most powerful
ministry I've ever done in my life

935
00:41:52,474 --> 00:41:56,610
happened in complete and total
obscurity because I said, lord, I

936
00:41:56,650 --> 00:42:01,862
don't care who I hear from in
this dimension, because there's a

937
00:42:01,886 --> 00:42:05,990
voice from heaven that I hear
affirming me so to every man under

938
00:42:06,030 --> 00:42:07,370
the sound of my voice.

939
00:42:09,630 --> 00:42:13,410
It's a bonus if your wife
tells you you're doing a good job.

940
00:42:13,950 --> 00:42:17,650
It's a bonus if your boss
tells you you're doing a good job.

941
00:42:17,950 --> 00:42:22,662
But I want you to hear in the
spirit right now that your heavenly

942
00:42:22,726 --> 00:42:30,820
Father is telling you, this is
my beloved Son, whom I'm well pleased,

943
00:42:31,720 --> 00:42:33,100
because this is.

944
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:38,020
This is the way of the cross.

945
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:42,896
Jesus was not going to the
cross for approval.

946
00:42:43,088 --> 00:42:47,540
He was going to the cross from
a place of I'm already approved.

947
00:42:48,120 --> 00:42:50,020
I can lose nothing.

948
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:54,128
I can lose nothing because I
already have everything which is

949
00:42:54,184 --> 00:42:55,060
his voice.

950
00:42:55,450 --> 00:42:57,762
I want to show you the meaning.

951
00:42:57,826 --> 00:42:58,430
Now.

952
00:42:59,050 --> 00:43:02,386
Jesus was affirmed before he
ever did a miracle.

953
00:43:02,498 --> 00:43:05,682
He was called Son before the
crowd ever called him King.

954
00:43:05,826 --> 00:43:08,790
He didn't need to defend
Himself before Pilate.

955
00:43:09,290 --> 00:43:12,274
He didn't chase the crowd when
they turned on him.

956
00:43:12,442 --> 00:43:15,282
And he didn't need applause to
stay obedient.

957
00:43:15,426 --> 00:43:18,786
Let me just tell you, if you
live by their praises, you'll die

958
00:43:18,818 --> 00:43:20,310
by their criticisms.

959
00:43:20,660 --> 00:43:23,324
Let me just tell you, there's
a lot of preachers that can't preach

960
00:43:23,372 --> 00:43:26,476
what the Holy Ghost told them
to preach, because nobody will clap

961
00:43:26,508 --> 00:43:27,628
in this dimension.

962
00:43:27,724 --> 00:43:30,940
But when you can hear your
Heavenly Father clapping, you might

963
00:43:30,980 --> 00:43:34,860
only hear one person clapping,
but that one person is your Father.

964
00:43:34,940 --> 00:43:37,372
And that's louder than a
thousand people.

965
00:43:37,476 --> 00:43:38,844
Come on, you hear what I'm saying.

966
00:43:38,932 --> 00:43:41,804
And there's something about
that authority, that realm of authority.

967
00:43:41,852 --> 00:43:45,804
Like the way you can speak
boldly is you're not living in response

968
00:43:45,852 --> 00:43:49,810
to this dimension, but you
hear his voice from heaven and you

969
00:43:49,850 --> 00:43:52,322
also hear him applauding you
from heaven.

970
00:43:52,386 --> 00:43:57,570
And so that empowers you to
not be a people pleaser, but to know

971
00:43:57,610 --> 00:43:59,990
that you are one that pleases
the Father.

972
00:44:00,410 --> 00:44:04,030
And when you live from that
place, look at what happens next.

973
00:44:04,330 --> 00:44:09,106
It says In Isaiah, chapter 53,
verse 3, he was despised and rejected

974
00:44:09,138 --> 00:44:09,842
by men.

975
00:44:09,946 --> 00:44:13,490
A man of sorrows and
acquainted with grace, grief.

976
00:44:22,710 --> 00:44:26,130
Being a Christian is probably
going to be lonely.

977
00:44:26,470 --> 00:44:29,390
I think a lot of pastors just
try to hype you up.

978
00:44:29,510 --> 00:44:34,398
But I think the hype comes
after the Via Dela Rosa death, then

979
00:44:34,454 --> 00:44:35,422
resurrection.

980
00:44:35,566 --> 00:44:39,566
And when I look at this, it
doesn't say, Jesus was walking around

981
00:44:39,638 --> 00:44:41,816
always happy, always having
the best day.

982
00:44:41,918 --> 00:44:46,036
It said he was despised and rejected.

983
00:44:46,148 --> 00:44:47,120
By who?

984
00:44:47,500 --> 00:44:48,560
By men.

985
00:44:48,860 --> 00:44:50,240
See, here's the thing.

986
00:44:51,340 --> 00:44:52,996
I want to liberate you.

987
00:44:53,148 --> 00:44:55,400
You don't have anything to
prove to anybody.

988
00:44:55,820 --> 00:45:00,980
Like, see, God alone can
promote you, which means that no

989
00:45:01,020 --> 00:45:02,436
man can demote you.

990
00:45:02,588 --> 00:45:05,828
So the good news that I got
for you is that if you walk this

991
00:45:05,884 --> 00:45:09,176
narrow path, whether that
means serving in coffee, serving

992
00:45:09,208 --> 00:45:12,568
in kids, whatever that thing,
death comes in many different forms.

993
00:45:12,664 --> 00:45:16,136
Whether it means stepping into
evangelism, even though you're deathly

994
00:45:16,168 --> 00:45:19,496
afraid to talk to people, as
you begin to go on this journey,

995
00:45:19,608 --> 00:45:22,712
you're gonna experience being
despised and rejected by man.

996
00:45:22,816 --> 00:45:25,416
And it even says, a man of sorrows.

997
00:45:25,528 --> 00:45:28,024
You know, I was thinking about
my children the other day.

998
00:45:28,112 --> 00:45:30,824
I was thinking about the
generations the other day.

999
00:45:30,912 --> 00:45:33,784
And it's like, man, I don't
know if anybody can bear witness

1000
00:45:33,832 --> 00:45:35,380
with this, but life is hard.

1001
00:45:36,500 --> 00:45:38,440
Can anybody say Amen to that?

1002
00:45:39,140 --> 00:45:40,520
Life is hard.

1003
00:45:40,900 --> 00:45:42,600
Life is very hard.

1004
00:45:42,900 --> 00:45:45,372
Life is filled with difficulties.

1005
00:45:45,516 --> 00:45:48,332
Life is filled with mountains
and valleys.

1006
00:45:48,476 --> 00:45:51,340
Life is filled with unexpected tragedies.

1007
00:45:51,500 --> 00:45:52,920
Life is hard.

1008
00:45:53,220 --> 00:45:54,332
Life is hard.

1009
00:45:54,436 --> 00:45:58,028
There's some times where all I
can do is write poetry because only

1010
00:45:58,084 --> 00:46:00,156
poetry is powerful enough for
the pain.

1011
00:46:00,268 --> 00:46:02,986
There's times where all I can
do is groan and travail.

1012
00:46:03,108 --> 00:46:05,646
There's times where all I can
do is sit in silence.

1013
00:46:05,758 --> 00:46:06,302
There's all.

1014
00:46:06,326 --> 00:46:06,702
There's just.

1015
00:46:06,726 --> 00:46:09,374
There's sometimes where life
just doesn't make sense for my pea

1016
00:46:09,422 --> 00:46:10,718
sized little brain.

1017
00:46:10,814 --> 00:46:14,638
But I think about Christ, who
is fully man and also fully God.

1018
00:46:14,734 --> 00:46:18,462
And he was in literally the
garden of Gethsemane with his like

1019
00:46:18,486 --> 00:46:20,318
his sweat turning to blood.

1020
00:46:20,414 --> 00:46:23,022
It was the human part of him
that was in anguish.

1021
00:46:23,086 --> 00:46:26,490
Even though his spirit was
willing, the flesh was what.

1022
00:46:28,720 --> 00:46:30,500
So we all deal with that.

1023
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:36,740
He lived and died for people
who never fully understood him.

1024
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:41,192
This is God's calling for your life.

1025
00:46:41,376 --> 00:46:45,288
People will try to find new
circles where they're appreciated.

1026
00:46:45,384 --> 00:46:48,632
I'm gonna match their energy
this year.

1027
00:46:48,816 --> 00:46:52,024
Well, thank God that Jesus
never matched your energy.

1028
00:46:52,192 --> 00:46:54,662
Because when you were crying,
crucify him.

1029
00:46:54,776 --> 00:46:58,010
He was crying, forgive them,
for they know not what they see.

1030
00:46:58,050 --> 00:46:59,818
Jesus never matched energy.

1031
00:46:59,954 --> 00:47:01,802
Some people say I'm going to
match energy.

1032
00:47:01,906 --> 00:47:02,458
I'm only.

1033
00:47:02,514 --> 00:47:02,842
I'm going to.

1034
00:47:02,866 --> 00:47:03,322
No, no, no.

1035
00:47:03,346 --> 00:47:05,946
Jesus, thank God, he didn't
match energy.

1036
00:47:06,098 --> 00:47:09,002
As a matter of fact, he
treated me the opposite of the way

1037
00:47:09,026 --> 00:47:09,994
I treated him.

1038
00:47:10,082 --> 00:47:12,154
See, this is what we have to
be as Christians.

1039
00:47:12,202 --> 00:47:14,250
If I was going to match new
York's energy.

1040
00:47:14,370 --> 00:47:16,794
I would reject them when they
reject me.

1041
00:47:16,882 --> 00:47:20,650
If I was going to match church
people's energy, I would gossip about

1042
00:47:20,690 --> 00:47:22,314
them when they gossip about me.

1043
00:47:22,402 --> 00:47:23,898
We don't match energy.

1044
00:47:24,034 --> 00:47:25,978
We match the Holy Spirit.

1045
00:47:26,074 --> 00:47:28,378
And when he says forgive, we forgive.

1046
00:47:28,474 --> 00:47:30,218
When he says serve, we serve.

1047
00:47:30,314 --> 00:47:32,138
When he says show up, we show up.

1048
00:47:32,194 --> 00:47:34,810
I didn't come to New York City
to match their energy.

1049
00:47:34,930 --> 00:47:37,434
I came here to change it in
Jesus name.

1050
00:47:37,522 --> 00:47:38,874
I came here to be different.

1051
00:47:38,962 --> 00:47:40,394
I'm a peculiar people.

1052
00:47:40,482 --> 00:47:41,802
I'm a royal priesthood.

1053
00:47:41,866 --> 00:47:43,322
I'm a chosen generation.

1054
00:47:43,386 --> 00:47:45,190
I'm not matching your energy.

1055
00:47:46,610 --> 00:47:48,710
And the Lord's been convicting me.

1056
00:47:48,850 --> 00:47:51,950
They reject, but I embrace and
I go after them.

1057
00:47:51,990 --> 00:47:53,230
It's got to be a you.

1058
00:47:53,270 --> 00:47:56,610
Only way you fight a spirit is
by an opposite spirit.

1059
00:47:57,430 --> 00:47:59,774
You don't fight rejection with rejection.

1060
00:47:59,822 --> 00:48:04,430
That's why the church is a
shoeless army fighting each other

1061
00:48:04,470 --> 00:48:07,210
right now because they're
matching each other's energy.

1062
00:48:07,510 --> 00:48:08,446
Put on the shoe.

1063
00:48:08,478 --> 00:48:08,782
Come on.

1064
00:48:08,806 --> 00:48:10,130
Lace up your boots.

1065
00:48:10,470 --> 00:48:12,174
Put on your backpack.

1066
00:48:12,302 --> 00:48:13,890
It's time to ride.

1067
00:48:14,310 --> 00:48:16,956
Put on the shoes to spread the gospel.

1068
00:48:17,068 --> 00:48:21,036
And let's stop matching energy
and let's start using our energy

1069
00:48:21,108 --> 00:48:22,540
to subdue the nations.

1070
00:48:22,620 --> 00:48:23,196
Let's do.

1071
00:48:23,268 --> 00:48:27,400
He lived and died for people
who never fully understood him.

1072
00:48:28,500 --> 00:48:31,820
Your next level is on the
other side of your willingness to

1073
00:48:31,860 --> 00:48:32,480
die.

1074
00:48:32,900 --> 00:48:35,500
Your next level is on your willingness.

1075
00:48:35,580 --> 00:48:38,268
Oh, can I tell him?

1076
00:48:38,404 --> 00:48:41,986
We've had some conversations
with our pastoral team and they've

1077
00:48:42,018 --> 00:48:43,378
called me Pastor Mike.

1078
00:48:43,474 --> 00:48:46,146
You know, it's so hard, and
I've been like, all right, let's

1079
00:48:46,178 --> 00:48:46,418
stop.

1080
00:48:46,474 --> 00:48:48,190
Let's pray for them right now.

1081
00:48:48,810 --> 00:48:50,098
You know how hard it is.

1082
00:48:50,154 --> 00:48:53,154
Next time you want to talk bad
about somebody, let blessings come

1083
00:48:53,162 --> 00:48:53,762
out of your.

1084
00:48:53,866 --> 00:48:56,350
Didn't Jesus say, bless those who.

1085
00:48:57,290 --> 00:48:58,946
He didn't say match their enemy.

1086
00:48:58,978 --> 00:49:00,258
Otherwise you'd be cursing.

1087
00:49:00,354 --> 00:49:03,750
See if an eye for an eye makes
the whole world blind.

1088
00:49:04,570 --> 00:49:07,070
So the next time you want to
curse them, do what?

1089
00:49:07,540 --> 00:49:08,680
Bless them.

1090
00:49:08,980 --> 00:49:11,580
The next time you want to push
them away, do what?

1091
00:49:11,700 --> 00:49:14,284
Pull them closer the next time.

1092
00:49:14,452 --> 00:49:15,356
See, this is.

1093
00:49:15,428 --> 00:49:16,236
This is.

1094
00:49:16,388 --> 00:49:19,276
And Jesus said, father,
forgive them.

1095
00:49:19,428 --> 00:49:27,720
Look, forgive them, for they
know not what they do.

1096
00:49:28,100 --> 00:49:31,612
Hey, New York, I know you
don't understand what I came here

1097
00:49:31,636 --> 00:49:32,172
to do.

1098
00:49:32,276 --> 00:49:35,100
I know that there's a swingers
club across the street from this

1099
00:49:35,140 --> 00:49:35,790
venue and.

1100
00:49:35,820 --> 00:49:37,466
And you're in there destroying
your marriage.

1101
00:49:37,498 --> 00:49:40,074
But I came here to reconcile
it and heal it.

1102
00:49:40,162 --> 00:49:42,410
Hey, New York, you might be
making fun of us.

1103
00:49:42,450 --> 00:49:45,466
You think I'm bigoted and
small minded because what I say about

1104
00:49:45,538 --> 00:49:47,914
sexuality, but this is an
ancient path.

1105
00:49:47,962 --> 00:49:50,554
And I'm here to tell you that
God can transform you.

1106
00:49:50,642 --> 00:49:53,242
Hey, people down in the club
that are burning their brains out

1107
00:49:53,266 --> 00:49:53,962
with drugs.

1108
00:49:54,026 --> 00:49:56,858
I know what it's like to try
to forget because of the pain.

1109
00:49:56,954 --> 00:49:58,858
But God can go to the root and
heal it.

1110
00:49:58,914 --> 00:50:00,650
I'm not here to match your energy.

1111
00:50:00,770 --> 00:50:02,362
I'm not going to do drugs with you.

1112
00:50:02,386 --> 00:50:05,456
I'm going to elevate you to a
higher height and a deeper depth

1113
00:50:05,488 --> 00:50:06,304
than you ever had.

1114
00:50:06,392 --> 00:50:09,440
I'm here, Father, forgive
them, for they know not what they

1115
00:50:09,480 --> 00:50:09,824
do.

1116
00:50:09,912 --> 00:50:11,536
I'm not here to collaborate.

1117
00:50:11,648 --> 00:50:12,880
I'm here to conquer.

1118
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:14,700
We're going to the next level.

1119
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:19,232
Let me talk to you about the
meaning of the branch.

1120
00:50:19,296 --> 00:50:23,568
Now as we close, let's talk
about the meaning of the branch because

1121
00:50:23,624 --> 00:50:26,016
there's a cry of desperation.

1122
00:50:26,208 --> 00:50:33,818
You know, today's been a
different kind of sermon and it's

1123
00:50:33,834 --> 00:50:34,554
been really quiet.

1124
00:50:34,602 --> 00:50:38,906
Cause we have a whole bunch of
visitors and people who are challenged

1125
00:50:38,938 --> 00:50:39,950
by the message.

1126
00:50:40,690 --> 00:50:43,338
But today I think is a
character builder.

1127
00:50:43,514 --> 00:50:46,458
Because the biggest threat to
Christianity in this next season

1128
00:50:46,514 --> 00:50:48,430
is not going to be other religions.

1129
00:50:48,770 --> 00:50:51,510
It's going to be Christians
that are nothing like Christ.

1130
00:50:52,450 --> 00:50:55,322
It's going to be true light
versus false light.

1131
00:50:55,506 --> 00:50:57,850
That's the biggest threat to
Christianity right now.

1132
00:50:57,890 --> 00:50:59,710
Do you burn or do you glow?

1133
00:51:00,370 --> 00:51:05,626
Artificial light glows, but
real light has a sweet smelling savor.

1134
00:51:05,658 --> 00:51:06,522
There's a burning.

1135
00:51:06,666 --> 00:51:08,390
There's logs on the fire.

1136
00:51:08,850 --> 00:51:10,750
We're called to be a living.

1137
00:51:11,970 --> 00:51:12,762
Oh, come on.

1138
00:51:12,786 --> 00:51:14,122
Three of you know the Bible.

1139
00:51:14,266 --> 00:51:16,030
We're called to be a living.

1140
00:51:18,210 --> 00:51:18,762
Thank you.

1141
00:51:18,786 --> 00:51:20,592
Where's the sacrifice though?

1142
00:51:20,746 --> 00:51:24,212
If the, if the world gossips
and you gossip, where's the sacrifice?

1143
00:51:24,276 --> 00:51:25,172
Where's the death?

1144
00:51:25,276 --> 00:51:29,092
If you love to talk bad about
people, then a form of death is for

1145
00:51:29,116 --> 00:51:32,468
you to talk is to actually
prophesy who they are in the spirit,

1146
00:51:32,564 --> 00:51:33,812
not who they are in the flesh.

1147
00:51:33,876 --> 00:51:35,108
Where's the sacrifice?

1148
00:51:35,204 --> 00:51:36,644
Where's the sacrifice?

1149
00:51:36,772 --> 00:51:40,324
Where is the sacrifice if
we're called to be the burning ones?

1150
00:51:40,372 --> 00:51:41,508
I don't want to glow.

1151
00:51:41,604 --> 00:51:44,532
See, when you glow, it's when
you, when you put the right things

1152
00:51:44,556 --> 00:51:48,088
on Instagram, when you put the
scripture, when you put the Christian.

1153
00:51:48,244 --> 00:51:51,456
Oh yeah, you glow on a screen,
but you don't burn in the private

1154
00:51:51,528 --> 00:51:53,280
place, in the secret place of prayer.

1155
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:54,544
You glow on a screen.

1156
00:51:54,592 --> 00:51:55,568
This is what I'm talking about.

1157
00:51:55,624 --> 00:51:59,280
We need Christians that sound
like Christ, that sacrifice like

1158
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:02,912
Christ, that die like Christ,
that bless our enemies, like Christ,

1159
00:52:03,016 --> 00:52:05,072
that serve the least of these,
like Christ.

1160
00:52:05,176 --> 00:52:06,768
That is what this world needs.

1161
00:52:06,824 --> 00:52:09,392
And I'm preaching this sermon,
and some of y'all may never come

1162
00:52:09,416 --> 00:52:09,696
back.

1163
00:52:09,768 --> 00:52:13,380
But give me the real ones that
want to burn that glow.

1164
00:52:15,330 --> 00:52:18,426
Give me the real ones that say.

1165
00:52:18,498 --> 00:52:19,690
I want to be a burning one.

1166
00:52:19,730 --> 00:52:21,470
Because I'm telling you, it hurts.

1167
00:52:22,370 --> 00:52:23,550
It hurts.

1168
00:52:24,770 --> 00:52:25,870
It hurts.

1169
00:52:27,730 --> 00:52:31,070
When Jesus was getting
crucified, it hurt.

1170
00:52:31,410 --> 00:52:33,270
You ever think about that?

1171
00:52:33,570 --> 00:52:35,590
He was a physical body.

1172
00:52:36,370 --> 00:52:37,550
It hurt.

1173
00:52:38,370 --> 00:52:45,480
In what ways have you allowed
yourself to be hurt for righteousness?

1174
00:52:46,060 --> 00:52:49,924
It hurts when they're talking
bad about you, and then you go to

1175
00:52:49,932 --> 00:52:52,964
the Father and say, father,
bless them, Father.

1176
00:52:53,012 --> 00:52:54,260
I bless them as well.

1177
00:52:54,300 --> 00:52:56,132
I prophesy over them, Lord.

1178
00:52:56,276 --> 00:52:57,320
It hurts.

1179
00:52:57,900 --> 00:53:01,892
It hurts to look at your bank
account and say, I know the scripture

1180
00:53:01,956 --> 00:53:04,980
says, seek first the kingdom,
then all these things, but I want

1181
00:53:05,020 --> 00:53:06,692
to put the kingdom number three.

1182
00:53:06,796 --> 00:53:09,040
It hurts to put it in number one.

1183
00:53:09,430 --> 00:53:13,870
But I'll tell you what, this
is the palm branch.

1184
00:53:13,950 --> 00:53:15,198
It's the promise.

1185
00:53:15,374 --> 00:53:16,702
It's the promise.

1186
00:53:16,846 --> 00:53:18,210
It's the promise.

1187
00:53:19,670 --> 00:53:21,934
They were waving this thing
too soon.

1188
00:53:22,022 --> 00:53:24,814
They waved the palm branch for
victory over Rome.

1189
00:53:24,942 --> 00:53:30,250
But Jesus used the cross for
victory over sin and death.

1190
00:53:32,630 --> 00:53:34,810
I think it's very similar
right now.

1191
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:37,740
This is a promise.

1192
00:53:38,320 --> 00:53:39,740
This is a promise.

1193
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:46,120
And this is a thing for all
those that, during the pandemic,

1194
00:53:46,200 --> 00:53:47,048
flew out.

1195
00:53:47,184 --> 00:53:48,648
Oh, Mike the demon slayer.

1196
00:53:48,664 --> 00:53:50,056
He's going to cast demons out
of me.

1197
00:53:50,128 --> 00:53:52,936
Nothing wrong with wanting to
be free, but.

1198
00:53:53,008 --> 00:53:54,008
But having.

1199
00:53:54,144 --> 00:53:56,600
There is no resurrection
without death.

1200
00:53:56,720 --> 00:54:00,158
There is no true freedom
without there being true pain.

1201
00:54:00,304 --> 00:54:01,954
There has to be a sacrifice.

1202
00:54:02,002 --> 00:54:03,490
There has to be discipleship.

1203
00:54:03,570 --> 00:54:05,970
There has to be rooting
yourself in the house of God.

1204
00:54:06,050 --> 00:54:08,706
There has to be giving,
serving all these things.

1205
00:54:08,778 --> 00:54:11,698
But it's the least popular
thing to preach about, but the very

1206
00:54:11,754 --> 00:54:12,834
thing we need the most.

1207
00:54:12,922 --> 00:54:14,226
But this is the promise.

1208
00:54:14,338 --> 00:54:17,106
The promise is, if you're
willing to go through that process,

1209
00:54:17,178 --> 00:54:18,270
look what will happen.

1210
00:54:18,890 --> 00:54:25,474
Look what will happen, every
single one of you.

1211
00:54:25,562 --> 00:54:29,964
If you're a true believer, you
are in the Bible, and there's a picture

1212
00:54:30,012 --> 00:54:31,356
of you in scripture.

1213
00:54:31,468 --> 00:54:33,468
I'm talking about physically, you.

1214
00:54:33,604 --> 00:54:36,892
I was thinking about Aaron as
I was preparing for this sermon.

1215
00:54:37,036 --> 00:54:39,100
And you know Aaron's past.

1216
00:54:39,220 --> 00:54:43,036
Aaron's father, your
biological father, is the lead pastor

1217
00:54:43,068 --> 00:54:46,412
of a church, and we honor him
and we honor his faithful.

1218
00:54:46,476 --> 00:54:51,676
Years of decades of serving on
Long Island, 20 years of serving

1219
00:54:51,708 --> 00:54:53,360
as a pastor on Long Island.

1220
00:54:53,870 --> 00:54:57,766
But you believed that there
was more to the things of the spirit

1221
00:54:57,878 --> 00:55:01,702
and had to make a very hard
decision, and you joined our church.

1222
00:55:01,846 --> 00:55:04,770
And it's like I became a
father in the faith to you.

1223
00:55:05,630 --> 00:55:09,382
But it's lonely because some
of your biggest accomplishments in

1224
00:55:09,406 --> 00:55:10,054
the faith.

1225
00:55:10,182 --> 00:55:13,590
You can't even necessarily
share them with your own family because

1226
00:55:13,630 --> 00:55:14,610
they don't understand.

1227
00:55:14,990 --> 00:55:18,454
And there's some of my
favorite memories in my entire life

1228
00:55:18,542 --> 00:55:20,926
are looking over and just
seeing you going absolutely, absolutely

1229
00:55:20,958 --> 00:55:25,678
ballistic, playing your heart
out before 20 people, 2,000 people.

1230
00:55:25,734 --> 00:55:27,230
It's never mattered to you.

1231
00:55:27,350 --> 00:55:30,814
I think about us, you know,
that day that the glory of the Lord

1232
00:55:30,862 --> 00:55:34,686
came into this place, and, you
know, you were groaning and travailing,

1233
00:55:34,718 --> 00:55:36,222
and then you started singing
in tongues.

1234
00:55:36,286 --> 00:55:37,646
It was so anointed.

1235
00:55:37,758 --> 00:55:40,894
And then we put it on the
Internet with me open mouth, crying.

1236
00:55:41,022 --> 00:55:44,062
And the whole team just
disrespected me by putting that out

1237
00:55:44,086 --> 00:55:44,270
there.

1238
00:55:44,310 --> 00:55:45,410
But it's fine.

1239
00:55:45,830 --> 00:55:47,860
But bless those who curse you.

1240
00:55:49,120 --> 00:55:50,120
And then me and you.

1241
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:53,240
I mean, I'm thinking about the
times we were in Manhattan, the times

1242
00:55:53,280 --> 00:55:54,104
we've been here in Brooklyn.

1243
00:55:54,152 --> 00:55:55,240
You know what you do?

1244
00:55:55,360 --> 00:55:58,312
Every time he wants to take it
to the next level spiritually, he

1245
00:55:58,336 --> 00:56:00,232
just forces me on the drums.

1246
00:56:00,376 --> 00:56:01,272
I want to end it.

1247
00:56:01,296 --> 00:56:01,752
And he's.

1248
00:56:01,816 --> 00:56:02,936
I'm trying to end the service.

1249
00:56:03,008 --> 00:56:04,296
He's like, no, you're not.

1250
00:56:04,368 --> 00:56:05,460
No, you're not.

1251
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:07,192
You know what you do?

1252
00:56:07,296 --> 00:56:08,200
You know what you do?

1253
00:56:08,240 --> 00:56:10,008
He's my apostle back there.

1254
00:56:10,144 --> 00:56:12,590
Because as soon as he starts
building the drums, like, all right,

1255
00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:13,682
Lord, I surrender.

1256
00:56:13,746 --> 00:56:14,830
Let's keep going.

1257
00:56:15,370 --> 00:56:16,866
But this is what it's like.

1258
00:56:16,938 --> 00:56:20,990
And then, you know, I'm just
telling you, you're a bad player.

1259
00:56:21,290 --> 00:56:25,730
This guy shreds the guitar,
flails around like a wild man.

1260
00:56:25,770 --> 00:56:28,270
Red Hot Chili Peppers has
nothing on you.

1261
00:56:29,290 --> 00:56:29,890
And you.

1262
00:56:29,930 --> 00:56:30,082
And.

1263
00:56:30,106 --> 00:56:30,338
But.

1264
00:56:30,394 --> 00:56:32,390
But, you know, you love the Lord.

1265
00:56:33,050 --> 00:56:33,554
And I've.

1266
00:56:33,602 --> 00:56:36,386
And some of my greatest
memories have been even just watching

1267
00:56:36,418 --> 00:56:38,888
you literally on your knees
before the Lord, worshiping.

1268
00:56:38,984 --> 00:56:40,056
Same thing with the keys.

1269
00:56:40,088 --> 00:56:43,848
Like, you know, you come off
like a quiet guy, but we speak this

1270
00:56:43,904 --> 00:56:47,416
language internally because
all musicians speak a language.

1271
00:56:47,528 --> 00:56:50,232
And there's so many Sundays
where you'll see me look back at

1272
00:56:50,256 --> 00:56:53,960
him, and I know that he knows
because he's spiritually led and

1273
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:55,368
we're going there together.

1274
00:56:55,424 --> 00:56:57,448
And you're playing the keys
and releasing.

1275
00:56:57,624 --> 00:56:59,220
Why do I say this?

1276
00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:04,328
Because to be a Christian,
even surrounded by people, there's

1277
00:57:04,344 --> 00:57:06,924
a loneliness, there's a despair.

1278
00:57:07,052 --> 00:57:11,628
Jesus himself was a man well
acquainted with sorrows.

1279
00:57:11,804 --> 00:57:15,004
So even in those moments,
there's something that each one of

1280
00:57:15,012 --> 00:57:17,820
these men are carrying that is
a sorrow.

1281
00:57:17,900 --> 00:57:19,084
It's grief to them.

1282
00:57:19,172 --> 00:57:20,252
But we worship.

1283
00:57:20,316 --> 00:57:21,292
We worship.

1284
00:57:21,436 --> 00:57:24,332
Now, these people that were
worshiping in the.

1285
00:57:24,516 --> 00:57:27,980
In the story I started with
when they were crying out, yashana,

1286
00:57:28,060 --> 00:57:28,844
deliver me.

1287
00:57:28,932 --> 00:57:31,746
Some of them were putting a
demand and they were waving a wave,

1288
00:57:31,828 --> 00:57:33,286
not a palm branch.

1289
00:57:33,478 --> 00:57:38,870
But then there's others that
truly are saying, lord, I die to

1290
00:57:38,910 --> 00:57:39,206
self.

1291
00:57:39,238 --> 00:57:41,670
I crucify myself, God, I.

1292
00:57:41,710 --> 00:57:41,926
I'm.

1293
00:57:41,958 --> 00:57:43,798
I'm laying it all down before you.

1294
00:57:43,854 --> 00:57:46,662
And there's a pure worship
that comes from sacrifice.

1295
00:57:46,726 --> 00:57:48,566
And this is how this story ends.

1296
00:57:48,598 --> 00:57:51,894
I want to show you this right
now in Revelation, chapter 7, verse

1297
00:57:51,942 --> 00:57:52,198
9.

1298
00:57:52,254 --> 00:57:54,678
You are in the Bible if you're
a true believer.

1299
00:57:54,774 --> 00:57:55,718
This is what it says.

1300
00:57:55,774 --> 00:57:58,278
After this, I looked and behold.

1301
00:57:58,374 --> 00:57:59,846
Everybody say, behold.

1302
00:58:00,038 --> 00:58:03,702
Behold means to really focus
and look at this thing.

1303
00:58:03,806 --> 00:58:06,214
It says, a great multitude.

1304
00:58:06,342 --> 00:58:07,942
See, this is a multitude.

1305
00:58:08,086 --> 00:58:11,302
You might be lonely in your
family right now for serving the

1306
00:58:11,326 --> 00:58:14,998
Lord, but a great Puerto Rican multitude.

1307
00:58:15,094 --> 00:58:16,054
This is the scripture.

1308
00:58:16,102 --> 00:58:17,478
Come on, telling somebody.

1309
00:58:17,574 --> 00:58:20,278
A Dominican multitude.

1310
00:58:20,454 --> 00:58:21,222
Come on.

1311
00:58:21,326 --> 00:58:24,556
I'm talking to a society
Brazilian multitude.

1312
00:58:24,668 --> 00:58:26,188
Come on, talking to somebody.

1313
00:58:26,284 --> 00:58:31,420
An African multitude, a
British multitude, an Australian

1314
00:58:31,500 --> 00:58:32,924
multitude, a great.

1315
00:58:33,012 --> 00:58:36,860
A New York multitude, an
Indiana multitude.

1316
00:58:36,940 --> 00:58:40,492
And a great multitude was on
the other side.

1317
00:58:40,596 --> 00:58:42,076
And this is what it says.

1318
00:58:42,228 --> 00:58:47,916
Standing before the throne and
before the Lamb, the Lamb clothed

1319
00:58:47,948 --> 00:58:49,260
in white robes.

1320
00:58:49,340 --> 00:58:52,212
With palm branches in their hand.

1321
00:58:52,316 --> 00:58:57,268
And they said, I may have
died, but death did not have the

1322
00:58:57,324 --> 00:58:58,628
final victory.

1323
00:58:58,804 --> 00:59:01,220
The palm was the promise.

1324
00:59:01,380 --> 00:59:03,188
I'm in a white robe.

1325
00:59:03,364 --> 00:59:05,636
Nobody's in a wheelchair.

1326
00:59:05,828 --> 00:59:08,228
Nobody's got diabetes.

1327
00:59:08,404 --> 00:59:10,420
Nobody has cancer.

1328
00:59:10,580 --> 00:59:13,348
There is no degenerative diseases.

1329
00:59:13,524 --> 00:59:14,340
I'm in.

1330
00:59:14,460 --> 00:59:16,798
I'm next to Aaron in a white robe.

1331
00:59:16,924 --> 00:59:18,682
I'm next to you in a white robe.

1332
00:59:18,746 --> 00:59:23,350
I don't know who I'm talking
to, but the cross was only a season.

1333
00:59:23,970 --> 00:59:25,370
Oh, come on.

1334
00:59:25,490 --> 00:59:27,790
I'm standing in a white robe.

1335
00:59:28,290 --> 00:59:34,270
No Huntington's disease, no
Parkinson's disease, no dementia.

1336
00:59:34,610 --> 00:59:36,714
I'm standing in a white robe.

1337
00:59:36,842 --> 00:59:38,710
Who am I talking to?

1338
00:59:39,010 --> 00:59:43,002
Every disease, every sickness
washed by the.

1339
00:59:43,026 --> 00:59:43,946
Blood of the lamb.

1340
00:59:44,058 --> 00:59:47,290
No liver disease, no heart disease.

1341
00:59:47,450 --> 00:59:55,686
I'm standing in a white robe
saying, victoria, Victoria standing

1342
00:59:55,718 --> 00:59:57,014
with the white robe.

1343
00:59:57,142 --> 00:59:59,010
Who am I talking to?

1344
01:00:01,630 --> 01:00:04,770
Because I was willing to die
for him.

1345
01:00:05,150 --> 01:00:08,090
I get to live for him forever.

1346
01:00:09,790 --> 01:00:12,330
God, teach me how to die.

1347
01:00:13,870 --> 01:00:16,820
A Teach me how to die.

1348
01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:19,300
I want the pain.

1349
01:00:20,040 --> 01:00:22,176
I want to feel the pain for you.

1350
01:00:22,248 --> 01:00:22,928
Hey.

1351
01:00:23,104 --> 01:00:25,504
Oh, I'm talking to somebody now.

1352
01:00:25,672 --> 01:00:26,420
Hey.

1353
01:00:29,640 --> 01:00:33,312
The only difference between
them cheating on their wives that.

1354
01:00:33,336 --> 01:00:38,064
That's across the street is
saying, God, teach me how to die

1355
01:00:38,112 --> 01:00:39,024
to self.

1356
01:00:39,152 --> 01:00:41,312
Not my will, but thy will.

1357
01:00:41,496 --> 01:00:44,262
The only difference between
those two getting drunk down the

1358
01:00:44,286 --> 01:00:47,062
street is God, teach me to suffer.

1359
01:00:47,126 --> 01:00:48,198
Well, I want.

1360
01:00:48,254 --> 01:00:50,290
But I got a good news for you.

1361
01:00:51,230 --> 01:00:52,278
Those that.

1362
01:00:52,414 --> 01:01:00,566
Oh, those that say I may not
drink ever again on this side.

1363
01:01:00,718 --> 01:01:03,958
Will actually share in the
lamb's supper.

1364
01:01:04,054 --> 01:01:05,894
And we will drink again.

1365
01:01:06,062 --> 01:01:09,078
And I'm gonna look at you and
say, mazel tov.

1366
01:01:09,254 --> 01:01:11,170
It's time to drink again.

1367
01:01:11,710 --> 01:01:14,490
Let's turn up, Yashana.

1368
01:01:15,470 --> 01:01:16,850
Let's turn up.