1 00:00:08,480 --> 00:00:11,560 Have you ever known in your gut that you were supposed to do 2 00:00:11,560 --> 00:00:13,600 something, but you hesitated? 3 00:00:13,920 --> 00:00:15,760 Maybe the Lord's been speaking to you. 4 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:17,360 Maybe the Lord's been revealing to you. 5 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:20,680 And you're like, I know in my gut that I'm supposed to be doing 6 00:00:20,680 --> 00:00:23,360 something, but you just don't take action. 7 00:00:23,360 --> 00:00:25,200 That that's what this message is all about. 8 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:28,960 And I want to speak prophetically because this is a prophetic 9 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:31,360 sermon, and it's a prophetic sermon. 10 00:00:32,140 --> 00:00:36,260 God is removing delay and the things that he's told you to do. 11 00:00:36,260 --> 00:00:40,180 We're gonna become immediately obedient to them, and we're gonna 12 00:00:40,180 --> 00:00:41,740 do the things that he said to do. 13 00:00:41,740 --> 00:00:43,220 And we're gonna step in now. 14 00:00:43,220 --> 00:00:45,500 No more hesitation, no more delay. 15 00:00:45,500 --> 00:00:46,540 We're gonna be obedient. 16 00:00:46,540 --> 00:00:47,580 We're gonna do it now. 17 00:00:47,660 --> 00:00:50,980 And what that might mean is that there are some relationships 18 00:00:50,980 --> 00:00:54,420 the Lord told you to cut off, and you're not gonna delay it. 19 00:00:54,420 --> 00:00:56,220 You're actually gonna cut it off. 20 00:00:56,700 --> 00:01:00,060 That means that there's some people that you've been hanging with 21 00:01:00,220 --> 00:01:05,560 that were good for a season where God's taking you. 22 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:06,440 You know what I'm saying? 23 00:01:06,440 --> 00:01:09,160 Like, when you look at a rocket ship going out into outer 24 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:13,760 space, those rocket boosters get you into a certain atmosphere, 25 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:15,320 and they serve that purpose. 26 00:01:15,320 --> 00:01:18,240 And then they break off because they weren't supposed to 27 00:01:18,240 --> 00:01:19,400 go the whole journey. 28 00:01:19,480 --> 00:01:23,160 And there are people that God will send into your life for a reason 29 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:24,840 and for a season. 30 00:01:25,480 --> 00:01:29,080 But then you try to hold on to what he's telling you to let go, 31 00:01:29,160 --> 00:01:32,200 and you're the one who suffers as a result of it. 32 00:01:32,440 --> 00:01:36,590 So there could be a relationship for that God's dealing 33 00:01:36,590 --> 00:01:36,830 with. 34 00:01:37,070 --> 00:01:39,390 There could be a business decision. 35 00:01:39,950 --> 00:01:41,870 There could be a career change. 36 00:01:42,190 --> 00:01:43,470 I don't know what it is. 37 00:01:43,470 --> 00:01:46,590 And listen, I'm not trying to get, like, you know, all up in your 38 00:01:46,590 --> 00:01:50,990 business, but if God told you to change your address geographically, 39 00:01:51,390 --> 00:01:54,710 why are you still receiving mail at the same apartment, the same 40 00:01:54,710 --> 00:01:54,950 house? 41 00:01:54,950 --> 00:01:58,470 Like, I don't know what I'm talking to right now, but God has 42 00:01:58,470 --> 00:02:00,110 been broadcasting messages. 43 00:02:00,350 --> 00:02:04,070 Is there anybody that's like, Pastor Mike, I'm ready to do what 44 00:02:04,070 --> 00:02:05,390 he told me to do? 45 00:02:06,220 --> 00:02:06,700 All right? 46 00:02:06,700 --> 00:02:07,820 So think about this. 47 00:02:08,220 --> 00:02:09,740 This is a prophetic message. 48 00:02:10,140 --> 00:02:13,020 So this could have been a conversation that you're avoiding, 49 00:02:13,020 --> 00:02:18,380 because sometimes people will choose the pain of the same instead 50 00:02:18,380 --> 00:02:19,660 of the pain of change. 51 00:02:20,860 --> 00:02:22,540 But let me help you. 52 00:02:22,620 --> 00:02:25,180 You're gonna experience pain no matter what. 53 00:02:26,060 --> 00:02:31,100 There are people who will stay at a compromised church where the 54 00:02:31,100 --> 00:02:35,740 Holy Spirit is not moving, where the preacher is not in humility 55 00:02:35,900 --> 00:02:37,340 asking God for the. 56 00:02:38,040 --> 00:02:41,240 And they'll stay in that church for years even though the 57 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:43,000 Holy Spirit told them to leave. 58 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,840 Because they would rather have the pain of the same instead of the 59 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:47,640 pain of change. 60 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:48,840 Oh, come on. 61 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:51,640 I'm gonna break this down before we get into the scriptures. 62 00:02:51,720 --> 00:02:55,720 There are people that will stay in relationships where you are 63 00:02:55,720 --> 00:02:59,080 on the phone with them and they are just complaining. 64 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:06,030 There are people in your life that have never had a good day. 65 00:03:07,390 --> 00:03:08,270 Think about it. 66 00:03:08,350 --> 00:03:10,430 There are people, you know, that have never. 67 00:03:10,830 --> 00:03:13,550 As a matter of fact, if you called them and said, how are you 68 00:03:13,550 --> 00:03:13,710 doing? 69 00:03:13,710 --> 00:03:16,310 And they say, I'm just doing dandy, you'd be like, whoa, are you 70 00:03:16,310 --> 00:03:16,830 all right? 71 00:03:17,150 --> 00:03:19,950 Like, them being in a good mood would shock you. 72 00:03:20,430 --> 00:03:23,470 Those are the people who are weighing you down. 73 00:03:23,870 --> 00:03:29,270 And sometimes you'll take the pain of the same instead of the pain 74 00:03:29,270 --> 00:03:29,870 of change. 75 00:03:32,170 --> 00:03:33,770 Sometimes you gotta set boundaries. 76 00:03:34,490 --> 00:03:36,410 Sometimes you gotta communicate to somebody. 77 00:03:36,410 --> 00:03:40,450 Listen, my ears are not garbage cans, and I'm not your counselor. 78 00:03:40,450 --> 00:03:42,370 Matter of fact, this conversation was free. 79 00:03:42,370 --> 00:03:45,050 But therapy's gonna cost you, and you should sign up. 80 00:03:45,850 --> 00:03:47,330 Cause I'm not your therapist. 81 00:03:47,330 --> 00:03:50,090 Oh, and by the way, I'm also not the Holy Spirit for you. 82 00:03:50,170 --> 00:03:52,810 So why don't we hang up and you go into your prayer closet? 83 00:03:52,810 --> 00:03:54,330 Because I just got out of mine. 84 00:03:55,940 --> 00:03:56,980 All right, y' all with me? 85 00:04:00,580 --> 00:04:02,260 So this is really important. 86 00:04:02,580 --> 00:04:03,340 And let me. 87 00:04:03,340 --> 00:04:03,860 Let me just. 88 00:04:04,020 --> 00:04:04,740 So we've been. 89 00:04:04,740 --> 00:04:07,540 Now, for those of you just tuning in, if you just jumped into 90 00:04:07,540 --> 00:04:11,100 this, I already went from Bethlehem to Nazareth to Capernaum, 91 00:04:11,100 --> 00:04:14,020 to the Sea of Galilee to Cesarea Philippi, which. 92 00:04:14,020 --> 00:04:16,020 That was a brutal message last week. 93 00:04:16,020 --> 00:04:19,620 And then we're on this, like, tour, and now we're stepping into 94 00:04:20,100 --> 00:04:20,500 this. 95 00:04:20,580 --> 00:04:25,420 This very critical moment where Jesus is wrapping up a lot 96 00:04:25,420 --> 00:04:29,360 of his important ministry and he set his eyes to Jerusalem. 97 00:04:29,840 --> 00:04:32,760 And actually, this is coexisting with the resurrection 98 00:04:32,760 --> 00:04:36,000 Sunday and all the events that are gonna unfold. 99 00:04:36,080 --> 00:04:37,760 It's a perfect synchronicity. 100 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:39,640 And so look at the Bible with me. 101 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:40,960 Luke, chapter nine. 102 00:04:41,600 --> 00:04:43,440 Luke, chapter nine, verse 51. 103 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:45,120 I'm gonna read this text to you. 104 00:04:45,440 --> 00:04:47,000 Luke, chapter nine, verse fifty one. 105 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,960 It says, when the days grew near for him to be taken up. 106 00:04:52,400 --> 00:04:55,440 When the days grew near for him to be taken up. 107 00:04:55,600 --> 00:04:59,480 He set his face to go to Jerusalem. 108 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:01,560 This is very important. 109 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:02,960 I want you to underline that. 110 00:05:02,960 --> 00:05:06,080 If you got a physical Bible without any notifications, that doesn't 111 00:05:06,080 --> 00:05:10,600 need to be plugged into your wall, Circle it, underline it. 112 00:05:10,600 --> 00:05:14,920 I want you to write in the margins right now, because that single 113 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:18,120 verse is the hinge of the entire Gospel of Luke. 114 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:20,040 It's the entire hinge. 115 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:23,990 Everything before it, everything we've talked about, the 116 00:05:23,990 --> 00:05:28,230 miracles, the healings, the feeding of the thousands, the calming 117 00:05:28,230 --> 00:05:31,990 the storms, everything I've taught you in the scriptures, everything's 118 00:05:31,990 --> 00:05:32,430 hinging. 119 00:05:32,430 --> 00:05:35,550 Like, if you've been with me all these weeks of this series, it's 120 00:05:35,550 --> 00:05:37,270 all for this moment right now. 121 00:05:37,670 --> 00:05:42,310 And it's so important because everything after it becomes the journey 122 00:05:42,310 --> 00:05:43,110 to the cross. 123 00:05:44,390 --> 00:05:48,070 From this moment forward, Jesus is walking towards his own 124 00:05:48,150 --> 00:05:48,550 death. 125 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:53,360 I got a question for you Christians. 126 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:55,200 This isn't for the unsaved. 127 00:05:55,680 --> 00:05:57,600 These are for those of you who are Christians. 128 00:05:58,640 --> 00:06:03,440 Have you yet made the decision to face Jerusalem and to accept your 129 00:06:03,440 --> 00:06:04,000 own death? 130 00:06:06,160 --> 00:06:08,240 Death to lust and perversion. 131 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:10,240 Death to greed. 132 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:12,960 Some of you are not wealthy, but you're still greedy. 133 00:06:14,080 --> 00:06:16,840 Everybody thinks that only people who are greedy are wealthy. 134 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:17,600 It's like, no, no. 135 00:06:17,600 --> 00:06:20,560 The people who hold onto their money more than the promises of. 136 00:06:21,500 --> 00:06:22,140 Oh, come on. 137 00:06:23,660 --> 00:06:25,580 See, it comes in many different forms. 138 00:06:25,580 --> 00:06:29,500 We have to die many different deaths as a Christian, and Jesus 139 00:06:29,500 --> 00:06:32,220 has to go through the process of accepting his death. 140 00:06:32,220 --> 00:06:35,100 And I'll tell you, there's a lot of Christians that are seeking 141 00:06:35,580 --> 00:06:37,300 a word that tickles their ears. 142 00:06:37,300 --> 00:06:40,380 And they're seeking a church that's always gonna encourage them. 143 00:06:40,380 --> 00:06:41,700 Well, let me encourage you. 144 00:06:41,700 --> 00:06:42,860 We're gonna die today. 145 00:06:45,740 --> 00:06:47,700 This is a narrow road church. 146 00:06:47,700 --> 00:06:50,700 You know, if you want that church that's gonna gas you up and 147 00:06:50,700 --> 00:06:54,480 hype you up, if you want a motivational, you can find that church. 148 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:56,000 But I'm gonna give you a motivation. 149 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,760 Get up on your cross and die to self. 150 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:00,200 Crucify the flesh. 151 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:01,880 Tell the flesh, Shut up. 152 00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:04,400 Stop blaming everything on a demon and 153 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:06,760 start saying, no, God, deal with me. 154 00:07:08,280 --> 00:07:10,560 This is narrow road Christianity. 155 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:13,960 And the example that we have is Jesus went first. 156 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,360 See, the point of the crucifixion isn't Jesus died for 157 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:18,680 you. 158 00:07:18,840 --> 00:07:21,960 The point of the crucifixion is Jesus died first. 159 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:25,060 Now you act like him and choose too. 160 00:07:26,340 --> 00:07:27,620 You want to stay married. 161 00:07:27,700 --> 00:07:29,140 I've been married 20 years. 162 00:07:31,060 --> 00:07:34,100 That fine looking piece of meat on that front aisle. 163 00:07:35,860 --> 00:07:37,180 Come on, men, we've been. 164 00:07:37,180 --> 00:07:38,820 It's been a long weekend, hadn't it? 165 00:07:39,140 --> 00:07:41,380 All the men that got their wives in service are. 166 00:07:41,380 --> 00:07:42,580 I'm like, stop rubbing her. 167 00:07:42,580 --> 00:07:45,060 I'm looking at a dude rubbing her arm like, no, no, just relax. 168 00:07:45,140 --> 00:07:45,540 Just. 169 00:07:46,500 --> 00:07:48,260 It's been a long weekend, Jules. 170 00:07:49,460 --> 00:07:51,060 But I've been married for 20 years. 171 00:07:51,060 --> 00:07:52,740 You want me to tell you how to stay married? 172 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:55,320 I'm gonna tell you how to stay married. 173 00:07:56,280 --> 00:08:00,920 Choose to die to the right to your own opinions. 174 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:06,920 Men, stop blaming your wife and start apologizing because your 175 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:10,760 wife is a reflection of the reality of the words that you sowed. 176 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:14,160 And so everything you don't like about your wife is the fruit 177 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:14,920 of your words. 178 00:08:15,560 --> 00:08:17,960 Change your seed and you'll change the fruit. 179 00:08:19,410 --> 00:08:19,890 Come on. 180 00:08:19,970 --> 00:08:21,810 You will have what you say. 181 00:08:22,290 --> 00:08:23,010 Come on. 182 00:08:23,730 --> 00:08:25,410 And you want to beautify your wife. 183 00:08:25,570 --> 00:08:27,050 It's not about the skin care. 184 00:08:27,050 --> 00:08:28,090 It's about the words. 185 00:08:28,090 --> 00:08:29,530 And it's about what you're speaking. 186 00:08:29,530 --> 00:08:31,770 And it's about, you know, they can go get their hair done. 187 00:08:31,770 --> 00:08:34,090 But I'll tell you what beautifies your wife is when you 188 00:08:34,090 --> 00:08:35,570 wash her with the word. 189 00:08:36,450 --> 00:08:39,250 But you know what that requires dying to self. 190 00:08:39,650 --> 00:08:42,530 It requires saying, God, you know, oh, I'm tired. 191 00:08:42,770 --> 00:08:45,810 It's like, no, man, I'm going to persevere. 192 00:08:46,320 --> 00:08:49,520 And what you see with Jesus is Jesus didn't wanna go to the cross. 193 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:51,960 And you know, you're saying, why would you bring up Julie as your 194 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:52,320 wife? 195 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:54,880 Because we are the bride of Christ. 196 00:08:55,440 --> 00:09:00,080 And so Jesus, being the groom, showed us how to treat our wives 197 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:02,320 because he didn't wanna go to the cross. 198 00:09:02,480 --> 00:09:05,120 He was tired, but he persevered. 199 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:08,920 Jesus had every right to say the meanest thing to us, but he said 200 00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:10,280 the most compassionate thing. 201 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:13,800 And so, husbands, we have a great example through Christ that 202 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:16,800 we need to actually lay our life down for the bride. 203 00:09:16,800 --> 00:09:22,260 And so of the Christian faith is, how good do you get at choosing 204 00:09:22,260 --> 00:09:23,180 your own death? 205 00:09:26,620 --> 00:09:28,220 I don't want to be in New York. 206 00:09:28,540 --> 00:09:32,740 I want to be in Montana in my bunker, you know, when you hear the 207 00:09:32,740 --> 00:09:33,020 news. 208 00:09:33,020 --> 00:09:36,460 But the Lord called me to New York, so I choose to die to say, 209 00:09:36,460 --> 00:09:40,940 God, I'm safer in your will in New York than a bunker in Montana. 210 00:09:41,100 --> 00:09:45,220 The Christian faith is about embracing the thing he told you to 211 00:09:45,220 --> 00:09:48,540 do, even if it means certain death to your desire. 212 00:09:49,540 --> 00:09:50,820 Is this helping anybody? 213 00:09:51,780 --> 00:09:56,500 Okay, and when I look at this, and that's why I wanted you to underline 214 00:09:56,500 --> 00:09:58,780 this verse, I wanted you to look at this verse. 215 00:09:58,780 --> 00:09:59,940 It's just one verse. 216 00:10:00,020 --> 00:10:04,340 But understand, everything shifts after this verse. 217 00:10:04,659 --> 00:10:08,260 And Jesus is not stumbling towards his destiny. 218 00:10:08,340 --> 00:10:11,780 He's not drifting towards it, he's choosing it. 219 00:10:12,260 --> 00:10:16,020 Okay, now, there's a Greek phrase that I want to look at in 220 00:10:16,020 --> 00:10:18,460 this verse because it's extraordinary. 221 00:10:18,620 --> 00:10:22,220 And the New Testament was primarily written in Greek, so it's 222 00:10:22,220 --> 00:10:23,740 going to help you to understand this. 223 00:10:24,060 --> 00:10:28,780 And essentially means he fixed his face towards Jerusalem. 224 00:10:29,020 --> 00:10:33,260 And if you go deeper in the Greek, he strengthened his face. 225 00:10:33,660 --> 00:10:36,940 And another translation is he hardened his face. 226 00:10:39,660 --> 00:10:43,720 So think about when you see a fight and people get ready to, you 227 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:46,360 know, think about being on the subway in New York City and you know, 228 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:50,480 what's going down for all of us sickos, we wait for these moments, 229 00:10:52,480 --> 00:10:57,400 but you set your face, think about an athlete, think about the 230 00:10:57,400 --> 00:10:58,440 Olympics we just saw. 231 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:02,680 It's like they harden their face because there's this level of 232 00:11:02,680 --> 00:11:03,520 determination. 233 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:05,920 And I think there's many of us. 234 00:11:07,770 --> 00:11:08,890 Can I say this in love? 235 00:11:09,770 --> 00:11:11,770 Do I have permission to say a hard thing? 236 00:11:13,370 --> 00:11:18,210 It's many of us should be so advanced in the faith by now because 237 00:11:18,210 --> 00:11:21,210 of how many sermons we've heard and how many years we've been 238 00:11:21,450 --> 00:11:22,250 in this thing. 239 00:11:22,250 --> 00:11:24,810 And yet we've never learned to set our face. 240 00:11:25,290 --> 00:11:29,610 And we're living a life filled with self imposed confusion. 241 00:11:31,450 --> 00:11:32,890 You are not confused. 242 00:11:34,310 --> 00:11:35,990 You know the commands of Christ. 243 00:11:37,110 --> 00:11:38,270 You are not confused. 244 00:11:38,270 --> 00:11:41,310 You know how the future, the Bible says God does nothing without 245 00:11:41,310 --> 00:11:43,190 first revealing it to his prophets. 246 00:11:43,270 --> 00:11:44,790 It's already all been written. 247 00:11:44,870 --> 00:11:46,870 It's like a play that we're watching. 248 00:11:46,950 --> 00:11:49,710 And all of these people that they think they're getting elected 249 00:11:49,710 --> 00:11:52,430 and they think that they're bombing and they're all playing into 250 00:11:52,430 --> 00:11:53,830 God's sovereign will. 251 00:11:53,830 --> 00:11:56,150 Nothing is happening outside of God's control. 252 00:11:56,470 --> 00:11:59,790 So you can be mad about the election, you can be mad about a 253 00:11:59,790 --> 00:12:03,910 war, but I'm celebrating knowing that the Lord divinely allows 254 00:12:03,910 --> 00:12:08,450 all of it because he wrote the script and I'm on the winning team. 255 00:12:08,610 --> 00:12:09,970 I'm not confused. 256 00:12:10,050 --> 00:12:11,610 I'm mature in my faith. 257 00:12:11,610 --> 00:12:13,650 I'm not tossed to and fro by 258 00:12:13,650 --> 00:12:15,410 every wind of doctrine. 259 00:12:15,490 --> 00:12:17,570 I know what the word of God says. 260 00:12:17,650 --> 00:12:18,650 I'm resolute. 261 00:12:18,650 --> 00:12:20,530 My feet are on a solid rock. 262 00:12:20,610 --> 00:12:22,210 I am not confused. 263 00:12:23,330 --> 00:12:25,330 But the difference is this. 264 00:12:26,290 --> 00:12:31,650 We have been discipled into an emotion based Christianity. 265 00:12:32,610 --> 00:12:34,130 That's why we come for the worship. 266 00:12:34,130 --> 00:12:37,970 But we leave early in the sermon because we've been discipled 267 00:12:37,970 --> 00:12:40,370 into an emotional based Christianity. 268 00:12:40,530 --> 00:12:43,810 That's why we seek people that get our emotions up. 269 00:12:44,530 --> 00:12:47,849 But the thing about it is we are not to be led by our emotions. 270 00:12:47,849 --> 00:12:50,930 It's a data set, but not a decision maker. 271 00:12:51,890 --> 00:12:53,730 Emotions is a data set. 272 00:12:53,890 --> 00:12:57,490 There is value to emotions, but emotions don't make the decision, 273 00:12:57,970 --> 00:12:59,730 they just inform the decision. 274 00:13:00,050 --> 00:13:04,070 And when the emotions lie, we tell the emotions the same thing 275 00:13:04,070 --> 00:13:05,150 we tell our flesh. 276 00:13:05,150 --> 00:13:06,030 Shut up. 277 00:13:07,310 --> 00:13:09,150 I feel discouraged. 278 00:13:10,670 --> 00:13:11,790 Think about David. 279 00:13:12,270 --> 00:13:17,310 He's being pursued by Saul, who's throwing javelins, trying to 280 00:13:17,470 --> 00:13:18,270 kill him. 281 00:13:18,830 --> 00:13:22,830 He felt anxiety, he felt fear. 282 00:13:22,910 --> 00:13:24,550 He felt discouraged. 283 00:13:24,550 --> 00:13:27,390 But what does he write in his journal called Psalm? 284 00:13:28,990 --> 00:13:34,060 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my 285 00:13:34,060 --> 00:13:34,260 life. 286 00:13:34,260 --> 00:13:35,420 Well, that wasn't true. 287 00:13:35,980 --> 00:13:37,420 Saul's following you. 288 00:13:37,500 --> 00:13:38,900 Saul wants to kill you. 289 00:13:38,900 --> 00:13:40,780 Well, I don't say what I feel. 290 00:13:41,500 --> 00:13:43,660 I say the opposite of what I feel. 291 00:13:43,980 --> 00:13:47,940 Because I'm a prophet, and I declare and I will eat the fruit 292 00:13:47,940 --> 00:13:48,620 of my words. 293 00:13:48,780 --> 00:13:52,460 So if I say, Saul is following me, I have an enemy. 294 00:13:52,460 --> 00:13:55,860 But if I say goodness and mercy are following me, I have a 295 00:13:55,860 --> 00:13:56,140 future. 296 00:13:56,720 --> 00:14:00,480 Some of you need to learn how to set your face towards Jerusalem. 297 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:04,800 Choose your own death to your feelings and say, I feel discouraged, 298 00:14:04,880 --> 00:14:06,960 but I have the joy of the Lord. 299 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:10,880 And the joy of the Lord is my strength. 300 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:13,920 It is my strength. 301 00:14:14,640 --> 00:14:17,520 I feel discouraged, but I have joy. 302 00:14:17,680 --> 00:14:19,920 And that joy is my faith. 303 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:21,200 Come on. 304 00:14:21,680 --> 00:14:22,800 It's my strength. 305 00:14:24,360 --> 00:14:27,960 So this is what Jesus and I love, the example we have here, because 306 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:30,760 it's like Jesus knows the outcome. 307 00:14:32,280 --> 00:14:36,520 You're talking about anxiety inducing, but he chooses it. 308 00:14:36,520 --> 00:14:40,960 And what he's modeling for all of us is we don't let our feelings 309 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:41,320 lead. 310 00:14:41,400 --> 00:14:45,320 Because if David lets his feelings lead, he never becomes king. 311 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:50,330 If Jesus lets his feelings lead, he never becomes king of kings. 312 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:54,000 Are y' all getting something out of this? 313 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:59,280 So your feelings are a data set, but not a decision maker. 314 00:15:00,480 --> 00:15:02,160 All right, can we go deeper? 315 00:15:02,880 --> 00:15:04,880 Okay, okay. 316 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:08,080 So it's when he's. 317 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:12,000 When it says he fixed his face, it's unshakable resolve. 318 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:14,880 Unshakable resolve. 319 00:15:14,960 --> 00:15:17,010 I have fixed my face. 320 00:15:17,330 --> 00:15:20,410 I don't know about you, but there comes certain points in our 321 00:15:20,410 --> 00:15:23,570 lives, and I look, it's a holy agitation. 322 00:15:24,050 --> 00:15:26,530 It is a righteous thing that happens when you. 323 00:15:26,610 --> 00:15:30,930 When the Lord allows your situation to go from bad to worse. 324 00:15:32,530 --> 00:15:35,570 And some of you are like, why is it not working out for me? 325 00:15:36,210 --> 00:15:39,010 I keep praying and things get worse. 326 00:15:39,010 --> 00:15:40,450 I'll tell you the answer. 327 00:15:40,930 --> 00:15:46,270 Because the Lord is gonna take you to a place where you get so irritated 328 00:15:46,270 --> 00:15:51,110 and so agitated that you get sick and tired of being sick and 329 00:15:51,110 --> 00:15:51,470 tired. 330 00:15:51,630 --> 00:15:53,870 He's taken you to a. Oh, this is a. 331 00:15:53,950 --> 00:15:55,110 God is doing it. 332 00:15:55,110 --> 00:15:58,310 I'm speaking to somebody because he wants you to strengthen 333 00:15:58,310 --> 00:15:59,190 your resolve. 334 00:15:59,190 --> 00:16:02,470 And when you say, I can't take anymore, that's God's way of saying, 335 00:16:02,470 --> 00:16:03,790 okay, you're almost ready. 336 00:16:04,590 --> 00:16:05,590 You're almost ready. 337 00:16:05,590 --> 00:16:06,110 I'm doing. 338 00:16:06,110 --> 00:16:10,030 I'm allowing things to go from bad to worse, to irritate and agitate, 339 00:16:10,030 --> 00:16:13,470 because you keep choosing the pain of the same over the pain of. 340 00:16:15,450 --> 00:16:17,370 So when you don't change your situation. 341 00:16:17,610 --> 00:16:18,810 Sometimes God will. 342 00:16:20,010 --> 00:16:21,130 He's helping you. 343 00:16:21,450 --> 00:16:24,130 And Jesus chooses to go to Jerusalem. 344 00:16:24,130 --> 00:16:28,330 He strengthens his face, and it's locked in determination. 345 00:16:28,810 --> 00:16:32,810 And this is not man being dragged to a fate that he can't control. 346 00:16:33,690 --> 00:16:37,290 This is ultimately a man choosing the hardest road in human 347 00:16:37,290 --> 00:16:37,690 history. 348 00:16:38,250 --> 00:16:41,290 And I need you to hear this right now, loud and clear, all around 349 00:16:41,290 --> 00:16:41,770 the world. 350 00:16:42,290 --> 00:16:44,450 His death was not plan B. 351 00:16:45,250 --> 00:16:47,250 Stop settling for plan B. 352 00:16:49,970 --> 00:16:53,010 If God said it, believe it. 353 00:16:53,330 --> 00:16:54,850 Stand on that truth. 354 00:16:55,410 --> 00:16:59,810 My mother had a degenerative disease in her esophagus, and she 355 00:16:59,810 --> 00:17:02,130 was diagnosed in the late 90s with that. 356 00:17:02,290 --> 00:17:06,130 But I had given her a prophecy that God was gonna miraculously heal 357 00:17:06,130 --> 00:17:09,770 her esophagus, which, by the way, the doctor said is medically 358 00:17:09,770 --> 00:17:10,370 impossible. 359 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:12,560 So now we have two realities. 360 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:17,600 What God said, what access we have to his promises in the Word, 361 00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:19,280 and what the doctor said. 362 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:22,880 See, when you set your face towards Jerusalem, what you're saying 363 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:27,560 is, I choose what God says, even in the face of something that 364 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:29,600 looks verifiable in the natural. 365 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:30,680 Well, you know what? 366 00:17:30,680 --> 00:17:34,720 It may have taken 25 years, and I don't know why there was such 367 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,920 a long duration of time, but I will tell you this. 368 00:17:37,920 --> 00:17:41,400 When my mom walked into that doctor's office last year and they 369 00:17:41,400 --> 00:17:43,580 told her, throw your medication away. 370 00:17:43,580 --> 00:17:45,420 You don't even need it anymore. 371 00:17:45,580 --> 00:17:47,980 She's sitting right in front of you right now. 372 00:17:48,140 --> 00:17:52,180 A testament that God will do what he said he will do. 373 00:17:52,180 --> 00:17:53,260 But here's the thing. 374 00:17:53,340 --> 00:17:54,860 My mother had a choice. 375 00:17:54,940 --> 00:17:58,980 Am I gonna set my face towards Jerusalem or am I gonna go back to 376 00:17:58,980 --> 00:17:59,740 Nazareth? 377 00:18:03,020 --> 00:18:07,620 Some of you are turning around right now, getting ready to go back 378 00:18:07,620 --> 00:18:10,980 to what's familiar, even though they don't honor the anointing 379 00:18:10,980 --> 00:18:14,850 on your life instead of moving forward into Jerusalem because it's 380 00:18:14,850 --> 00:18:15,570 unfamiliar. 381 00:18:15,570 --> 00:18:19,370 And my mother, every single year, she said God said I was gonna 382 00:18:19,370 --> 00:18:19,970 be healed. 383 00:18:19,970 --> 00:18:22,330 And I've set my face towards Jerusalem. 384 00:18:22,330 --> 00:18:25,770 And I know on the other side of this cross is a resurrection. 385 00:18:25,770 --> 00:18:27,290 And last year, it happened. 386 00:18:27,690 --> 00:18:30,010 So if you're watching this right now, if you're here at any 387 00:18:30,010 --> 00:18:33,930 one of our campuses and you've got something that the doctors say 388 00:18:33,930 --> 00:18:36,530 is medically incurable, you know what I tell you? 389 00:18:36,530 --> 00:18:38,230 Set your face towards Jerusalem. 390 00:18:40,300 --> 00:18:41,100 Set your face. 391 00:18:41,660 --> 00:18:43,620 Set your face towards Jerusalem. 392 00:18:43,620 --> 00:18:44,620 Don't back down. 393 00:18:44,620 --> 00:18:45,580 Don't give up. 394 00:18:45,580 --> 00:18:49,220 They say the cancer is going to be unto death, but I say he's 395 00:18:49,220 --> 00:18:49,740 defeated. 396 00:18:49,820 --> 00:18:50,220 Death. 397 00:18:50,380 --> 00:18:51,260 He's defeated. 398 00:18:51,500 --> 00:18:51,980 Come on. 399 00:18:51,980 --> 00:18:52,780 Hell in the grave. 400 00:18:52,860 --> 00:18:54,700 We got to choose what we believe. 401 00:18:54,940 --> 00:18:55,980 Set your faith. 402 00:18:56,060 --> 00:18:57,900 Somebody shout, set your face. 403 00:18:59,900 --> 00:19:01,660 So when you look at this. 404 00:19:01,660 --> 00:19:02,300 It's crazy. 405 00:19:02,540 --> 00:19:06,740 It wasn't God turning the the enemy scheme into something good 406 00:19:07,460 --> 00:19:08,500 after the fact. 407 00:19:08,900 --> 00:19:12,900 The cross, that was for the redemptive plan. 408 00:19:12,980 --> 00:19:15,060 It was planned from the very beginning. 409 00:19:15,540 --> 00:19:16,940 So God knew all these. 410 00:19:16,940 --> 00:19:18,500 It's never a shock to God. 411 00:19:19,780 --> 00:19:23,780 And later, Jesus says to himself, no one can take my life 412 00:19:23,780 --> 00:19:26,660 from me because I sacrifice it voluntarily. 413 00:19:26,740 --> 00:19:30,980 So it raises the question, was Jesus murdered or was he sacrificed? 414 00:19:32,590 --> 00:19:34,750 Murder is when it happens against his will. 415 00:19:35,230 --> 00:19:39,270 But he became the sacrifice because he was the lamb that offered 416 00:19:39,270 --> 00:19:39,870 himself. 417 00:19:39,950 --> 00:19:41,230 Nobody took his life. 418 00:19:45,710 --> 00:19:47,870 How many victims do we have in this church? 419 00:19:50,030 --> 00:19:53,630 Well, Mike, I would be normal if I didn't have abusive stepparents. 420 00:19:54,590 --> 00:19:55,710 How many victims? 421 00:19:55,710 --> 00:19:58,390 Well, Mike, I would volunteer at the church if the other church 422 00:19:58,390 --> 00:19:59,150 didn't hurt me. 423 00:19:59,590 --> 00:20:00,550 How many victims? 424 00:20:01,030 --> 00:20:04,870 Oh, Mike, you know, I would give if the church didn't only want 425 00:20:04,870 --> 00:20:05,350 my money. 426 00:20:06,630 --> 00:20:06,950 Oh. 427 00:20:06,950 --> 00:20:10,110 You know, I would ask somebody on a date, but I've been in some 428 00:20:10,110 --> 00:20:11,270 bad relationships. 429 00:20:11,270 --> 00:20:13,190 How many victims do we have in this church? 430 00:20:13,190 --> 00:20:14,790 I'm looking for victims right now. 431 00:20:17,190 --> 00:20:18,230 See, here's the thing. 432 00:20:19,030 --> 00:20:20,630 Jesus was not a victim. 433 00:20:21,430 --> 00:20:24,550 Jesus said, you can't kill me because I offer my life. 434 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,240 You can't steal from somebody who gives freely. 435 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:31,280 You understand what I'm saying? 436 00:20:31,360 --> 00:20:34,080 And I think for us, we need to get out of the victim seat. 437 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:35,560 Listen, when I. 438 00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:37,720 That other church, they did abuse me. 439 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:38,560 But guess what? 440 00:20:38,560 --> 00:20:40,919 When I was serving them, I was never serving them. 441 00:20:40,919 --> 00:20:43,720 The Bible says that when I gave, it was as if I gave to Christ 442 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:44,320 himself. 443 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:46,240 Hey, let's talk about the money. 444 00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:48,440 They may have misused the money, but 445 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:49,960 I didn't mishandle it. 446 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:52,730 They misused, but I didn't mishandle it. 447 00:20:52,730 --> 00:20:54,010 It came through me. 448 00:20:54,170 --> 00:20:55,770 My job was to sow. 449 00:20:55,850 --> 00:20:57,450 Their job was to steward. 450 00:20:57,530 --> 00:20:58,810 I ain't got no problem. 451 00:20:59,050 --> 00:21:02,610 I gave that money to the feet of Jesus and they messed up. 452 00:21:02,610 --> 00:21:03,930 But I didn't mess up. 453 00:21:04,010 --> 00:21:05,370 I'm not a victim. 454 00:21:06,330 --> 00:21:07,050 Come on. 455 00:21:07,770 --> 00:21:09,250 Some people might have messed me up. 456 00:21:09,250 --> 00:21:11,130 Listen, let me talk to the single people. 457 00:21:11,210 --> 00:21:13,650 That relationship didn't work out, but thank 458 00:21:13,650 --> 00:21:17,330 God because he just prepared you for a mate and. 459 00:21:17,330 --> 00:21:18,170 Oh, come on. 460 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:22,360 Sometimes a hookup doesn't work out because he's trying to make 461 00:21:22,360 --> 00:21:23,680 you ready to get married. 462 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:25,120 See? 463 00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:26,080 Thank God. 464 00:21:26,640 --> 00:21:28,480 But you can't take nothing from me. 465 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:30,200 Oh, those people used me. 466 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:30,720 Did they? 467 00:21:32,880 --> 00:21:33,520 Did they? 468 00:21:34,240 --> 00:21:37,120 How could you use somebody who's offering it freely? 469 00:21:38,640 --> 00:21:39,280 Come on. 470 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:40,400 I'm not a victim. 471 00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:45,480 The anointing that you feel on this message is from 25 years of 472 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:47,440 me being trapped in victim Mentalities. 473 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:51,080 And when I looked at these scriptures we're looking at now, 474 00:21:51,320 --> 00:21:53,720 when I looked at these scriptures we're looking at now, 475 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:54,840 it clicked. 476 00:21:55,560 --> 00:21:57,000 Jesus wasn't murdered. 477 00:21:57,480 --> 00:21:58,920 He was sacrificed. 478 00:21:59,880 --> 00:22:01,480 He offered himself up. 479 00:22:01,880 --> 00:22:05,480 How are we supposed to live our life as a living. 480 00:22:06,680 --> 00:22:07,960 Oh, you're about to get it. 481 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:09,080 You're about to get it. 482 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,320 You're about to get it as a living what? 483 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:13,640 As a living sacrifice. 484 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:15,480 Come on, go ahead and use me. 485 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:17,640 Eat all the fruit off of my tree. 486 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:18,550 Cause I'm gonna keep it. 487 00:22:18,620 --> 00:22:20,780 Keep growing fruit in every season. 488 00:22:20,940 --> 00:22:24,380 I'm gonna feed you and your children and your children. 489 00:22:24,540 --> 00:22:27,980 You take whatever you need because I've been growing fruit. 490 00:22:28,060 --> 00:22:31,820 Love, pace, peace, patience, kindness, long stuff. 491 00:22:32,060 --> 00:22:32,940 Oh, come on. 492 00:22:32,940 --> 00:22:34,380 Eat whatever you need. 493 00:22:34,540 --> 00:22:37,100 You can't use me because I'm a tree. 494 00:22:37,340 --> 00:22:38,700 You can't use me. 495 00:22:38,780 --> 00:22:40,060 Cause I'm a tree. 496 00:22:40,140 --> 00:22:41,500 Eat whatever you need. 497 00:22:41,740 --> 00:22:42,380 Come on. 498 00:22:42,540 --> 00:22:45,070 I'm living my life as a sacrifice. 499 00:22:45,070 --> 00:22:47,590 Somebody shout unto God if you believe it. 500 00:22:49,350 --> 00:22:50,310 Hallelujah. 501 00:22:50,390 --> 00:22:52,870 About to preach myself freed up here. 502 00:22:54,630 --> 00:22:55,270 Use me. 503 00:22:55,270 --> 00:22:56,790 That church used me. 504 00:22:57,350 --> 00:22:58,470 Eat this fruit. 505 00:23:00,149 --> 00:23:00,710 See that? 506 00:23:01,030 --> 00:23:01,670 Come on. 507 00:23:02,390 --> 00:23:06,950 Now there's an explosive connection that most preachers miss. 508 00:23:07,110 --> 00:23:10,430 And this would not be a V1 service if I didn't try to get you 509 00:23:10,430 --> 00:23:12,710 a master's of theology all in 30 minutes. 510 00:23:14,250 --> 00:23:19,530 So Luke, chapter nine, verse 51, it was not written in a vacuum. 511 00:23:20,250 --> 00:23:24,410 So Luke is writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and 512 00:23:24,410 --> 00:23:28,810 deliberately echoes a prophecy written nearly 800 years earlier 513 00:23:28,889 --> 00:23:30,330 by the prophet Isaiah. 514 00:23:30,810 --> 00:23:32,450 So the Bible talks to itself. 515 00:23:32,450 --> 00:23:35,090 Itself, references and confirms itself. 516 00:23:35,090 --> 00:23:38,730 Biblical prophecy is one of the reasons why I went from atheism 517 00:23:38,810 --> 00:23:42,780 to a born again believer, because the Bible confirms itself. 518 00:23:42,860 --> 00:23:46,900 So In Isaiah, chapter 50, verse 7, it says, but the Lord God 519 00:23:46,900 --> 00:23:50,700 helps me, therefore I have not been disgraced. 520 00:23:51,180 --> 00:23:53,660 Therefore I have set my face like flint. 521 00:23:53,820 --> 00:23:57,340 And I know that I will not be put to shame. 522 00:23:57,820 --> 00:23:58,700 Do you see it? 523 00:23:59,020 --> 00:24:01,420 So Luke says he set his face. 524 00:24:01,740 --> 00:24:05,260 Isaiah prophesied, I have set my face like flint. 525 00:24:05,580 --> 00:24:09,940 This is the third servant song, one of four astonishing prophecies 526 00:24:09,940 --> 00:24:10,580 in Isaiah. 527 00:24:10,580 --> 00:24:10,990 Look at this. 528 00:24:11,620 --> 00:24:14,500 Chapters 42, 49, 50 and 53. 529 00:24:14,820 --> 00:24:19,460 They all describe the coming Messiah with surgical precision. 530 00:24:19,620 --> 00:24:23,620 And then God uses a former doctor to write the message of Luke. 531 00:24:23,780 --> 00:24:27,500 And the verse just before it in Isaiah 50, verse 6 tells you that 532 00:24:27,500 --> 00:24:31,020 the servant is literally walking into this scene. 533 00:24:31,020 --> 00:24:32,020 I'm gonna read it to you. 534 00:24:32,100 --> 00:24:34,980 I offered my back to those who beat me. 535 00:24:38,110 --> 00:24:41,230 I offered my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard. 536 00:24:41,950 --> 00:24:45,630 And I did not hide my face from mocking and spitting. 537 00:24:46,590 --> 00:24:49,230 This redefines Your entire perspective. 538 00:24:49,230 --> 00:24:53,390 When you watch the Mel Gibson version, it's as if Jesus has no 539 00:24:53,390 --> 00:24:53,710 control. 540 00:24:54,030 --> 00:24:56,670 What really happened was, oh, you want my cheek? 541 00:24:56,670 --> 00:24:58,030 Go ahead and have it. 542 00:24:58,350 --> 00:24:59,430 Oh, you want my back? 543 00:24:59,430 --> 00:25:00,350 Here's my back. 544 00:25:00,510 --> 00:25:03,850 You can't murder me because I'm being sacrifice, because I'm 545 00:25:03,850 --> 00:25:04,650 giving to you. 546 00:25:04,650 --> 00:25:07,850 Jesus was not a victim of crucifixion. 547 00:25:09,690 --> 00:25:10,650 And this is why. 548 00:25:10,810 --> 00:25:13,890 The only reason why we would make movies that depict him as a 549 00:25:13,890 --> 00:25:17,610 victim is because the producers think that they're victims. 550 00:25:18,970 --> 00:25:21,610 And we make a Christianity where we 551 00:25:21,610 --> 00:25:23,570 portray Christ as a victim because we 552 00:25:23,570 --> 00:25:24,650 feel like a victim. 553 00:25:24,650 --> 00:25:25,850 It was the opposite. 554 00:25:25,850 --> 00:25:28,410 He was saying, I am not your victim. 555 00:25:28,490 --> 00:25:29,920 I am the sacrifice. 556 00:25:31,990 --> 00:25:33,750 I was a victim in my marriage. 557 00:25:34,630 --> 00:25:39,790 No, I offered you the best love I had, and you just couldn't 558 00:25:39,790 --> 00:25:42,070 recognize what you had until it was too late. 559 00:25:43,270 --> 00:25:44,950 And maybe somebody else will. 560 00:25:45,190 --> 00:25:48,030 God's trying to break a victim mindset off of the body of Christ 561 00:25:48,030 --> 00:25:48,630 right now. 562 00:25:49,910 --> 00:25:53,990 There's a major victim mentality in the body of Christ. 563 00:25:53,990 --> 00:25:57,120 And the Lord's trying to break it off because, no, we offered it. 564 00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:59,440 Now this is even crazier. 565 00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:05,320 Jesus read these words, and he basically steps into him and he doesn't 566 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:06,160 even flinch. 567 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:07,440 So, flint. 568 00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:08,640 Now what does this mean? 569 00:26:08,640 --> 00:26:10,400 I set my face as flint. 570 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:17,160 So flint is a rock that is so hard that actually it retains its 571 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:20,480 edge even after it's been repeatedly struck. 572 00:26:22,010 --> 00:26:24,530 So when you look at the archeological discoveries that are 573 00:26:24,530 --> 00:26:27,650 connected to this, and you go to, like, the Jordan Valley, for 574 00:26:27,650 --> 00:26:32,250 example, and you uncover ancient flint knives that were used 575 00:26:32,250 --> 00:26:33,810 in, like, military combat. 576 00:26:33,810 --> 00:26:38,450 For example, the blades, they kept cutting even after being struck 577 00:26:38,450 --> 00:26:39,290 again and again. 578 00:26:40,170 --> 00:26:45,290 This is the metaphor that the Holy Spirit chooses to divinely use 579 00:26:45,290 --> 00:26:50,990 in scripture, that Jesus looks to Jerusalem and he sets his face 580 00:26:51,150 --> 00:26:52,110 like a flint. 581 00:26:53,150 --> 00:26:58,990 He sets his face like a rock that keeps its edge and it stays 582 00:26:58,990 --> 00:27:01,910 sharp even though it receives multiple blows. 583 00:27:01,910 --> 00:27:03,150 So come on, somebody. 584 00:27:03,629 --> 00:27:04,030 Ah. 585 00:27:04,270 --> 00:27:05,550 Y' all hear what I'm saying? 586 00:27:06,110 --> 00:27:06,670 Okay. 587 00:27:06,670 --> 00:27:07,230 Come on. 588 00:27:07,390 --> 00:27:09,150 You can talk about me. 589 00:27:09,230 --> 00:27:14,150 You can walk out on me, you can reject me, you can gossip about 590 00:27:14,150 --> 00:27:14,460 me, about. 591 00:27:14,460 --> 00:27:15,540 Oh, come on, somebody. 592 00:27:15,540 --> 00:27:16,260 You can do it. 593 00:27:16,260 --> 00:27:17,980 You can leave me high and dry. 594 00:27:18,060 --> 00:27:21,580 The only thing you can't do is dull me down. 595 00:27:21,740 --> 00:27:26,140 I'm never losing my edge because I am like a flint. 596 00:27:26,220 --> 00:27:30,220 And no matter how many blows I take, you don't dull me down. 597 00:27:30,540 --> 00:27:33,260 You can't take my fire of the Holy Ghost. 598 00:27:33,420 --> 00:27:37,100 No matter how much you tell me you don't like the church, you can't 599 00:27:37,100 --> 00:27:41,140 stop my worship, no matter how much it desires, disrupt the demons 600 00:27:41,140 --> 00:27:42,020 that are in you. 601 00:27:42,180 --> 00:27:43,540 You can't stop this. 602 00:27:43,620 --> 00:27:47,220 I made a decision to set my face like a flint. 603 00:27:47,220 --> 00:27:51,380 And no matter how many blows I take, I'm gonna be sharp over here. 604 00:27:53,220 --> 00:27:54,180 Hallelujah. 605 00:27:55,380 --> 00:27:57,620 Oh, you want me to turn it down, devil? 606 00:27:57,700 --> 00:27:59,300 How about we turn it up? 607 00:28:00,180 --> 00:28:01,220 Oh, come on. 608 00:28:01,300 --> 00:28:03,300 You don't like the way I'm dancing? 609 00:28:03,380 --> 00:28:06,710 Well, I feel a dance coming on right now, you know? 610 00:28:06,710 --> 00:28:08,950 Oh, David. 611 00:28:08,950 --> 00:28:09,350 Dance. 612 00:28:09,350 --> 00:28:10,430 I'm gonna dance. 613 00:28:11,710 --> 00:28:14,830 See who was disturbed by David's dance. 614 00:28:16,750 --> 00:28:20,590 You gotta understand who is disturbed by David's dance. 615 00:28:21,230 --> 00:28:21,870 Come on. 616 00:28:22,270 --> 00:28:23,030 There's gonna. 617 00:28:23,030 --> 00:28:27,270 How you know that you're in an act of unadulterated obedience to 618 00:28:27,270 --> 00:28:28,070 God is. 619 00:28:28,070 --> 00:28:31,870 You are gonna start to get enemies by becoming a friend of Jesus. 620 00:28:32,020 --> 00:28:32,340 Jesus. 621 00:28:34,340 --> 00:28:37,660 If they're not disturbed by your worship, you probably ain't 622 00:28:37,660 --> 00:28:39,940 worshiping the way he's calling you to worship. 623 00:28:40,340 --> 00:28:41,140 If they're not. 624 00:28:41,300 --> 00:28:42,140 Oh, come on. 625 00:28:42,140 --> 00:28:42,980 What do you mean? 626 00:28:43,220 --> 00:28:46,620 You're gonna go all the way across the country to that Breakers 627 00:28:46,620 --> 00:28:47,300 Conference? 628 00:28:47,300 --> 00:28:48,059 What do you mean? 629 00:28:48,059 --> 00:28:51,100 It's like, what, you didn't have a problem with us going all 630 00:28:51,100 --> 00:28:54,500 across the world to the Dominican Republic and drinking all 631 00:28:54,500 --> 00:28:55,220 day and night? 632 00:28:55,220 --> 00:28:56,620 You didn't have a problem when I 633 00:28:56,620 --> 00:29:00,170 gave my body in that nightclub and you didn't even know where I 634 00:29:00,170 --> 00:29:00,650 was at. 635 00:29:00,650 --> 00:29:04,170 You didn't have a problem with when I ruined my life, but when the 636 00:29:04,170 --> 00:29:06,530 Lord began to build me up, you got a problem. 637 00:29:06,610 --> 00:29:10,090 You want to go on your sin vacations, but you're mad at me going 638 00:29:10,090 --> 00:29:11,730 on a salvation vacation. 639 00:29:11,890 --> 00:29:12,450 Come on. 640 00:29:12,450 --> 00:29:15,010 I can spend my money however I want to. 641 00:29:15,090 --> 00:29:16,930 I'll do whatever I want to do. 642 00:29:16,930 --> 00:29:18,410 I'm grown and you're grown. 643 00:29:18,410 --> 00:29:21,290 If you want to spend your money for a ticket to hell, go for 644 00:29:21,290 --> 00:29:21,570 it. 645 00:29:21,570 --> 00:29:23,010 But I made up my mind. 646 00:29:23,090 --> 00:29:25,150 Just set my face like a flint. 647 00:29:25,230 --> 00:29:27,070 I'm gonna go to Jerusalem. 648 00:29:27,070 --> 00:29:29,230 I'm gonna do what God called me to do. 649 00:29:29,390 --> 00:29:30,590 Don't tell me how to. 650 00:29:30,750 --> 00:29:32,270 Come on, Jezebel. 651 00:29:36,990 --> 00:29:37,710 Come on. 652 00:29:39,310 --> 00:29:40,110 You messed up. 653 00:29:40,110 --> 00:29:40,830 Jezebel. 654 00:29:40,830 --> 00:29:42,030 I'm not Elijah. 655 00:29:42,030 --> 00:29:43,470 He was in his feelings. 656 00:29:43,630 --> 00:29:44,830 I'm Jehu. 657 00:29:44,910 --> 00:29:48,110 I do what needs to be done, and I make a decision. 658 00:29:48,510 --> 00:29:50,500 I ain't hiding under a tree. 659 00:29:50,580 --> 00:29:53,460 I'm ripping you down off your legs, witch. 660 00:30:00,420 --> 00:30:01,700 Okay, take your seats. 661 00:30:04,900 --> 00:30:07,500 This is but you the reason why I'm preaching. 662 00:30:07,500 --> 00:30:09,060 You think this is emotionalism? 663 00:30:09,620 --> 00:30:14,220 This is the bare minimum of what Jesus was doing on the inside 664 00:30:14,220 --> 00:30:16,750 of him to ready himself for the cross. 665 00:30:18,100 --> 00:30:20,260 The warfare that was happening, you understand? 666 00:30:20,340 --> 00:30:23,540 Jesus was 100% man and 100% God. 667 00:30:23,620 --> 00:30:26,940 So that biological part of him was fighting harder than you've ever 668 00:30:26,940 --> 00:30:28,020 been fought in your flesh. 669 00:30:28,980 --> 00:30:30,660 You think your hormones are off. 670 00:30:30,980 --> 00:30:31,900 Jesus was. 671 00:30:31,900 --> 00:30:34,100 I mean, he suffered in every way. 672 00:30:34,420 --> 00:30:37,340 You think you deal with depression and discouragement. 673 00:30:37,340 --> 00:30:39,180 Jesus suffered in the war. 674 00:30:39,180 --> 00:30:41,340 And that attitude I'm giving you is. 675 00:30:41,340 --> 00:30:43,750 Is when I'm a faithful witness to the scriptures. 676 00:30:43,820 --> 00:30:44,220 Scriptures. 677 00:30:44,780 --> 00:30:49,100 When I'm a faithful witness, when I'm a student of these scriptures, 678 00:30:49,340 --> 00:30:50,420 this is what I believe. 679 00:30:50,420 --> 00:30:51,100 He set. 680 00:30:52,940 --> 00:30:53,420 It's. 681 00:30:53,420 --> 00:30:53,940 This is what. 682 00:30:53,940 --> 00:30:54,180 When. 683 00:30:54,180 --> 00:30:55,260 When you read the text. 684 00:30:55,260 --> 00:30:56,940 I set my face like a flint. 685 00:30:57,020 --> 00:30:59,420 Imagine getting ready to go into work tomorrow. 686 00:31:00,060 --> 00:31:01,580 I'm not been in my need of 687 00:31:01,580 --> 00:31:03,340 the spirit in this workplace. 688 00:31:03,420 --> 00:31:04,860 I don't care what happens. 689 00:31:04,860 --> 00:31:06,380 I'm not gonna compromise. 690 00:31:06,460 --> 00:31:07,740 I'm not backing up. 691 00:31:07,820 --> 00:31:08,380 I'm not. 692 00:31:08,380 --> 00:31:08,780 Listen. 693 00:31:08,780 --> 00:31:10,180 If they can get loud about their 694 00:31:10,410 --> 00:31:12,250 sin, I'm gonna get loud about my Savior. 695 00:31:12,330 --> 00:31:13,970 I'm setting my face like a flint. 696 00:31:13,970 --> 00:31:15,450 I'm not gonna take it anymore. 697 00:31:15,450 --> 00:31:17,730 They're not gonna shut me up and silence me. 698 00:31:17,730 --> 00:31:20,650 If everybody else can have an opinion, I can have the truth. 699 00:31:20,730 --> 00:31:22,170 I know what I stand for. 700 00:31:22,170 --> 00:31:23,170 See, it's like, it's. 701 00:31:23,170 --> 00:31:24,170 This is the attitude. 702 00:31:24,170 --> 00:31:25,050 Are you with me? 703 00:31:26,970 --> 00:31:28,890 I set my face like a flint. 704 00:31:30,010 --> 00:31:30,810 You gotta. 705 00:31:30,970 --> 00:31:31,730 It's like that. 706 00:31:31,730 --> 00:31:33,610 That's what I imagine when I read the text. 707 00:31:33,610 --> 00:31:44,260 It's like that, You know, with Mom, Donnie here, you know, rents 708 00:31:44,260 --> 00:31:47,300 are probably going to go high and New York City is probably not 709 00:31:47,300 --> 00:31:47,860 safe. 710 00:31:49,940 --> 00:31:51,860 I set my face like a flint. 711 00:31:52,100 --> 00:31:53,780 I'm going to Times Square. 712 00:31:53,940 --> 00:31:56,940 We're going to have that whole place filled with Christians, and 713 00:31:56,940 --> 00:31:57,620 I don't care. 714 00:31:57,940 --> 00:31:58,580 Listen, 715 00:32:01,870 --> 00:32:03,470 I'm going to Jerusalem. 716 00:32:03,710 --> 00:32:05,150 I made up my mind. 717 00:32:05,470 --> 00:32:07,390 I'm gonna represent Jesus. 718 00:32:07,630 --> 00:32:11,150 I don't care if it's a Muslim, I don't care if it's a Hindu. 719 00:32:11,230 --> 00:32:12,350 I'm a Christian. 720 00:32:13,310 --> 00:32:14,990 There's a remnant in New York City. 721 00:32:14,990 --> 00:32:21,390 I said, ah, I'm not leaving digging my heels in. 722 00:32:22,110 --> 00:32:24,430 I set my face like a flint. 723 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,120 When you find out your kids are 724 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:32,200 drinking, your kids are smoking, your kids are acting crazy, 725 00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:34,680 you set your face like a flint. 726 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:37,320 Listen, this is a Christian house. 727 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:38,720 You're gonna go to church. 728 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:42,040 If I pay the bills to this house, and I don't care if you like 729 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:44,520 church or not, but it's for your soul. 730 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:46,360 And you begin to minister to your family. 731 00:32:46,840 --> 00:32:49,000 I've set my face towards Jerusalem. 732 00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:50,840 I know how this story ends. 733 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:52,660 You don't like it, move out. 734 00:32:53,050 --> 00:32:54,650 But as for me in my house. 735 00:33:03,850 --> 00:33:07,330 As for me in my house, Devil's like, what's going on? 736 00:33:07,330 --> 00:33:08,729 I thought I discouraged them. 737 00:33:08,729 --> 00:33:11,410 Oh, no, I'm just warming up because I'm getting ready to run 738 00:33:11,410 --> 00:33:12,810 rush shot all over you. 739 00:33:13,050 --> 00:33:14,330 I'm not backing down. 740 00:33:14,330 --> 00:33:15,210 I already know. 741 00:33:15,210 --> 00:33:17,210 I am the hunter, not the hunted. 742 00:33:17,210 --> 00:33:19,250 I am the predator, not the pray. 743 00:33:19,410 --> 00:33:23,650 See, Jesus was not just the lamb, he was the lion. 744 00:33:23,650 --> 00:33:27,250 And when he offered his life, he said, I'm gonna give you my life. 745 00:33:27,250 --> 00:33:30,370 Because the next time you see me, I'm gonna have a sword. 746 00:33:30,530 --> 00:33:34,250 The next time you see me, I'm not gonna be like this, and I gotta 747 00:33:34,250 --> 00:33:35,410 encourage somebody. 748 00:33:35,570 --> 00:33:36,930 You are not the victim. 749 00:33:37,090 --> 00:33:50,660 You are the lamb that dies and becomes like, That's the word of 750 00:33:50,660 --> 00:33:51,020 God. 751 00:33:51,500 --> 00:33:52,780 That's the word of God. 752 00:33:54,620 --> 00:33:55,140 Yeah. 753 00:33:55,140 --> 00:33:55,940 And that's the thing. 754 00:33:55,940 --> 00:34:00,540 When you understand God's hierarchy, when you understand God's 755 00:34:00,700 --> 00:34:02,860 control, you're not worried about anything. 756 00:34:03,340 --> 00:34:05,180 Because you're like, wait a second. 757 00:34:05,660 --> 00:34:10,100 You don't even have the power to stop me because I'm divine in 758 00:34:10,100 --> 00:34:10,540 God's hand. 759 00:34:10,540 --> 00:34:13,600 Like, you can't stop me because you didn't start me. 760 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:18,520 Matter of fact, for those of us who are real bad, I know that 761 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:19,600 you can't stop me. 762 00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:21,360 Cause I couldn't stop me. 763 00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:29,760 Did nobody try harder? 764 00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:30,480 That's why. 765 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:32,360 Oh, Mike, are you worried they're canceling? 766 00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:33,040 Oh, no, no. 767 00:34:33,040 --> 00:34:35,920 I canceled myself a long time ago. 768 00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:38,960 They're not gonna succeed where I failed. 769 00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:43,099 I tried to stop myself, and the Lord said, no, Mike, I got for 770 00:34:43,099 --> 00:34:44,059 you in Jerusalem. 771 00:34:44,139 --> 00:34:45,739 Set your face like a flint. 772 00:34:45,739 --> 00:34:46,699 You're going back. 773 00:34:46,779 --> 00:34:47,579 You're going back. 774 00:34:47,579 --> 00:34:49,019 I'm sending you to Jerusalem. 775 00:34:49,019 --> 00:34:50,539 And I'm here to tell somebody. 776 00:34:50,859 --> 00:34:53,699 I remember I started this sermon with saying, God told you 777 00:34:53,699 --> 00:34:54,379 to do something. 778 00:34:54,939 --> 00:34:55,419 Remember? 779 00:34:56,379 --> 00:34:59,979 You set your face like a flint and you say, God, I'm gonna do it. 780 00:35:00,059 --> 00:35:01,659 I'm going to Jerusalem now. 781 00:35:01,739 --> 00:35:04,939 And when you surrender, the story of this church, Julie, was 782 00:35:04,939 --> 00:35:07,339 me trying to not go to Jerusalem. 783 00:35:08,470 --> 00:35:11,510 And Julie put her hand on my shoulder like the documentary moment. 784 00:35:11,590 --> 00:35:13,070 No, babe, we're going to Jerusalem. 785 00:35:13,070 --> 00:35:14,150 I said, no, we not. 786 00:35:17,110 --> 00:35:19,670 Because Julie couldn't make the decision for me. 787 00:35:20,790 --> 00:35:22,230 I had to make it for me. 788 00:35:23,190 --> 00:35:28,390 So Jesus, the test he was facing was he had to make the decision. 789 00:35:29,030 --> 00:35:30,950 That's why it became redemptive. 790 00:35:31,350 --> 00:35:34,550 If he was forced, there's no redemption. 791 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,360 But if he willfully does it, it becomes redemptive. 792 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,400 You have to willfully choose to forgive. 793 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:43,880 You have to willfully choose to redeem. 794 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:45,400 You can't be forced. 795 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:47,320 There's redemption in this. 796 00:35:47,720 --> 00:35:53,120 I'm coming to a close here in a few moments, and this is the connection 797 00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:55,040 that so many people miss. 798 00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:57,400 This Archeological discovery of flint. 799 00:35:57,560 --> 00:35:59,000 But your greatest purpose. 800 00:35:59,000 --> 00:35:59,720 And you know this. 801 00:35:59,720 --> 00:36:02,040 It lives on the other side of your greatest pain. 802 00:36:02,610 --> 00:36:05,410 But there's something about us that avoids that pain. 803 00:36:06,530 --> 00:36:08,610 Luke, chapter 9, verse 51. 804 00:36:09,650 --> 00:36:11,130 Jesus is healing the sick. 805 00:36:11,130 --> 00:36:12,250 He's casting out demons. 806 00:36:12,250 --> 00:36:13,410 He's feeding 5,000. 807 00:36:13,410 --> 00:36:14,410 He's calming storms. 808 00:36:14,410 --> 00:36:15,650 We've talked about those things. 809 00:36:15,730 --> 00:36:20,690 But then after Luke chapter 9, verse 51, the narrative changes. 810 00:36:21,090 --> 00:36:22,370 The miracles continue. 811 00:36:22,770 --> 00:36:24,850 But now there's a new direction. 812 00:36:25,170 --> 00:36:26,850 There's this heavy weight. 813 00:36:27,010 --> 00:36:30,010 Jesus begins moving deliberately towards Jerusalem. 814 00:36:30,010 --> 00:36:32,870 And that's the journey we're gonna take over the next couple of 815 00:36:32,870 --> 00:36:33,070 weeks. 816 00:36:33,070 --> 00:36:34,630 The journey towards Jerusalem. 817 00:36:34,630 --> 00:36:34,990 Why? 818 00:36:35,310 --> 00:36:37,950 Because Jerusalem is where three things are gonna happen. 819 00:36:38,990 --> 00:36:42,830 The cross, the resurrection and the birth. 820 00:36:43,790 --> 00:36:47,310 The cross, the resurrection and the birth. 821 00:36:47,549 --> 00:36:48,510 The birth of what? 822 00:36:48,750 --> 00:36:49,550 The church. 823 00:36:52,110 --> 00:36:52,590 Mike. 824 00:36:52,910 --> 00:36:54,510 The Lord told me to write a book. 825 00:36:55,310 --> 00:36:56,510 Go die on the cross. 826 00:36:57,230 --> 00:37:00,230 Then you'll experience a resurrection and then your book will 827 00:37:00,230 --> 00:37:00,680 be birthed. 828 00:37:02,030 --> 00:37:03,630 Mike, the Lord told me to start a business. 829 00:37:03,950 --> 00:37:05,230 Go die to self. 830 00:37:05,550 --> 00:37:08,390 Then you'll experience a resurrection and then your business 831 00:37:08,390 --> 00:37:09,390 will be birthed. 832 00:37:09,630 --> 00:37:14,350 Anything birthed without experiencing death first will die. 833 00:37:15,470 --> 00:37:16,590 Are you following me? 834 00:37:17,390 --> 00:37:21,670 So the Lord says to Abram, hey, you know Sarah, your old crusty, 835 00:37:21,670 --> 00:37:22,390 dusty wife? 836 00:37:22,390 --> 00:37:22,750 That. 837 00:37:23,950 --> 00:37:24,510 Come on. 838 00:37:24,590 --> 00:37:25,750 I just wanted to offend the women. 839 00:37:25,750 --> 00:37:26,660 I don't know why I did that. 840 00:37:28,010 --> 00:37:30,330 The women were like, ain't my preacher no more. 841 00:37:32,410 --> 00:37:35,890 But listen, yeah, the, the, the, the, you know, your old wife, 842 00:37:35,890 --> 00:37:39,530 your wife that can't is beyond ability to birth. 843 00:37:39,690 --> 00:37:41,130 She's going to be the one to birth. 844 00:37:41,130 --> 00:37:43,690 So this requires death to Abraham. 845 00:37:43,770 --> 00:37:44,650 Death of what? 846 00:37:44,890 --> 00:37:46,090 The natural mind. 847 00:37:47,450 --> 00:37:48,250 This is it. 848 00:37:48,570 --> 00:37:50,090 Death of the natural mind. 849 00:37:50,170 --> 00:37:51,850 So when God tells you, write a book. 850 00:37:52,500 --> 00:37:55,260 The death is the death of the natural mind because your natural 851 00:37:55,260 --> 00:37:56,900 mind says, I can't write a book. 852 00:37:56,900 --> 00:37:59,100 Well, the Lord knew you couldn't do it when he asked you. 853 00:37:59,100 --> 00:38:00,180 You're missing the whole point. 854 00:38:00,740 --> 00:38:03,780 It's like telling Abraham and Sarah, you're going to have a kid 855 00:38:04,100 --> 00:38:07,220 and you're going to become the father of a nation beyond your birthing 856 00:38:07,220 --> 00:38:07,620 years. 857 00:38:07,780 --> 00:38:12,460 It was like the Lord knew it was impossible when he told you so. 858 00:38:12,460 --> 00:38:17,700 The death is the death of your mind, the death of your emotions. 859 00:38:19,610 --> 00:38:20,490 This is the death. 860 00:38:21,370 --> 00:38:25,450 So then Abraham, who's like all of us, doesn't want to die. 861 00:38:26,490 --> 00:38:31,690 So he concocts a plan of compromise and has a baby with a 862 00:38:31,690 --> 00:38:35,690 servant woman and it becomes Ishmael, which then becomes the a 863 00:38:35,690 --> 00:38:40,210 false father, the father of Islam that Christianity is still 864 00:38:40,210 --> 00:38:43,310 fighting and, and the in Israel still fighting to this day. 865 00:38:43,940 --> 00:38:48,100 One man's compromise became A multi generational conflict. 866 00:38:50,260 --> 00:38:55,380 So when God calls you to do something, there's a purity in saying, 867 00:38:55,380 --> 00:38:57,700 lord, I know this is impossible. 868 00:38:57,700 --> 00:38:59,860 That's probably why you asked me to do it. 869 00:38:59,940 --> 00:39:03,380 But the death that I'm willing to experience is death to my own 870 00:39:03,460 --> 00:39:06,340 intellect, death to my own emotions. 871 00:39:06,500 --> 00:39:08,840 And Lord, I'm just gonna agree with you. 872 00:39:08,990 --> 00:39:09,230 You. 873 00:39:09,390 --> 00:39:11,230 I'm just going to agree with you. 874 00:39:11,230 --> 00:39:14,670 And then when you do that, the promise is birthed. 875 00:39:15,230 --> 00:39:18,350 And so this is what I'm asking for you through, through the Lord 876 00:39:18,350 --> 00:39:22,990 right now is will you finally come into agreement with the impossible? 877 00:40:14,001 --> 00:40:18,561 Lord, there's no way my son, my daughter is going to be saved 878 00:40:18,721 --> 00:40:19,921 and serving you. 879 00:40:20,161 --> 00:40:21,121 It's impossible. 880 00:40:21,361 --> 00:40:24,811 And the Lord's like, yeah, I know, but for with me. 881 00:40:24,811 --> 00:40:25,771 Oh, come on. 882 00:40:26,491 --> 00:40:29,531 That's the part of the equation, Lord, I know my spouse. 883 00:40:29,531 --> 00:40:32,051 There's no way my spouse is ever gonna serve you. 884 00:40:32,051 --> 00:40:33,291 And we're always fighting. 885 00:40:33,291 --> 00:40:34,331 But I just. 886 00:40:34,331 --> 00:40:36,651 I know you've given me prophecies and promises. 887 00:40:36,651 --> 00:40:38,491 Yes, I know it's impossible. 888 00:40:38,731 --> 00:40:43,451 But for with me, all things are possible. 889 00:40:45,451 --> 00:40:45,931 Faith. 890 00:40:45,931 --> 00:40:49,871 For without faith, it is impossible to please God. 891 00:40:49,871 --> 00:40:52,191 The impossibility is not the promise. 892 00:40:52,831 --> 00:40:54,191 It's the lack of faith. 893 00:40:54,991 --> 00:40:55,631 For with. 894 00:40:56,751 --> 00:40:58,111 I'm talking to somebody. 895 00:40:58,351 --> 00:40:59,311 Do you feel this? 896 00:40:59,631 --> 00:41:01,471 It's time to operate in faith. 897 00:41:01,871 --> 00:41:02,351 Faith. 898 00:41:02,591 --> 00:41:04,670 Faith speaks and fear jumps. 899 00:41:04,911 --> 00:41:06,671 Faith is the evidence of things hope. 900 00:41:06,671 --> 00:41:08,591 For in the substance of things not seen. 901 00:41:08,671 --> 00:41:10,671 I preached in this building a thousand 902 00:41:10,751 --> 00:41:12,191 times before I bought it. 903 00:41:12,271 --> 00:41:14,611 Because by faith, I was already in it. 904 00:41:14,611 --> 00:41:16,611 See, by faith, I begin to speak it. 905 00:41:16,611 --> 00:41:18,851 I preached the stadium a thousand times 906 00:41:18,851 --> 00:41:20,131 before we rented it. 907 00:41:20,131 --> 00:41:22,211 Because by faith, I was in the stadium. 908 00:41:22,291 --> 00:41:24,251 By faith, I'm already in Times Square. 909 00:41:24,251 --> 00:41:25,091 Can you feel it? 910 00:41:25,171 --> 00:41:25,891 By faith. 911 00:41:25,891 --> 00:41:26,491 By faith. 912 00:41:26,491 --> 00:41:27,171 By faith. 913 00:41:27,171 --> 00:41:29,571 God, I set my face like a flint. 914 00:41:29,571 --> 00:41:31,931 And by faith, I'm going to Jerusalem. 915 00:41:31,931 --> 00:41:35,091 And when I die, there will be a resurrection. 916 00:41:35,171 --> 00:41:38,211 But after the resurrection, there will be a birth. 917 00:41:38,371 --> 00:41:40,531 And that day will be eternal. 918 00:41:42,431 --> 00:41:46,831 Somebody jump to your feet and give God a 30 second praise break 919 00:41:46,831 --> 00:41:50,351 if you're ready to go all the way. 920 00:41:52,271 --> 00:41:53,311 Hallelujah. 921 00:42:01,551 --> 00:42:02,351 So that's it. 922 00:42:03,551 --> 00:42:04,671 That's the message. 923 00:42:05,151 --> 00:42:06,371 We're going all the way now. 924 00:42:07,001 --> 00:42:09,881 We've set our face like flint towards Jerusalem. 925 00:42:10,921 --> 00:42:12,281 We've made up our mind. 926 00:42:12,521 --> 00:42:14,121 I feel the faith in this room. 927 00:42:14,121 --> 00:42:14,921 I feel it. 928 00:42:14,921 --> 00:42:18,921 I feel the campuses connecting together in a unity I've never felt. 929 00:42:19,161 --> 00:42:21,521 I feel like I have 3D goggles on right now. 930 00:42:21,521 --> 00:42:22,201 I'm not kidding. 931 00:42:22,681 --> 00:42:26,681 I feel like I have a virtual reality headset on and I'm seeing 932 00:42:26,681 --> 00:42:27,521 into Miami. 933 00:42:27,521 --> 00:42:28,721 I'm seeing into Brooklyn. 934 00:42:28,721 --> 00:42:29,801 And you know what I see? 935 00:42:29,881 --> 00:42:33,481 I see a Holy Spirit unity like I've never seen before. 936 00:42:34,081 --> 00:42:37,921 I see the Lord threading us together, every generation, every 937 00:42:37,921 --> 00:42:38,401 race. 938 00:42:38,481 --> 00:42:41,281 I see us coming together for such a time as this. 939 00:42:41,441 --> 00:42:42,121 And I just. 940 00:42:42,121 --> 00:42:44,721 Can I do what I feel like the Lord's telling me to do? 941 00:42:45,361 --> 00:42:49,520 I need to make a divine proclamation because the devil has 942 00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:51,841 made schemes and the devil has made plans. 943 00:42:52,081 --> 00:42:55,121 But I want to prophesy right now because I hear the Lord saying, 944 00:42:55,201 --> 00:42:59,531 but I have also planned and I have also strategized Christ. 945 00:42:59,611 --> 00:43:03,411 And by my mighty hand I have positioned those that I've called 946 00:43:03,411 --> 00:43:04,731 to be in position. 947 00:43:04,891 --> 00:43:08,731 I hear the Lord saying, the devil thinks that he has a strategic 948 00:43:08,731 --> 00:43:09,371 advantage. 949 00:43:09,371 --> 00:43:11,211 The devil thinks that he is one. 950 00:43:11,211 --> 00:43:13,051 But I hear the Lord saying, no. 951 00:43:13,131 --> 00:43:16,331 For what I do next, the enemy will not see coming. 952 00:43:16,411 --> 00:43:19,291 For I have veiled my plans from his eyes. 953 00:43:19,371 --> 00:43:21,931 I have failed my plans from his ears. 954 00:43:21,931 --> 00:43:25,371 And I have not allowed the enemy to know what I do next. 955 00:43:25,371 --> 00:43:25,871 And it will. 956 00:43:26,021 --> 00:43:30,421 Will come suddenly and swiftly upon the enemy, says the Lord, and 957 00:43:30,421 --> 00:43:34,661 God Almighty will receive great glory about what happens next. 958 00:43:35,221 --> 00:43:37,461 But I hear the Lord speaking strongly 959 00:43:37,461 --> 00:43:42,661 right now, strongly right now that God has been strategizing. 960 00:43:42,981 --> 00:43:45,541 And I stand right now with the remnant. 961 00:43:45,701 --> 00:43:49,581 I stand right now with the narrow road women and the narrow 962 00:43:49,581 --> 00:43:51,761 road men that say, I'm done with. 963 00:43:51,911 --> 00:43:52,711 With compromise. 964 00:43:52,791 --> 00:43:54,071 I'm done with sin. 965 00:43:54,231 --> 00:43:55,591 I'm done with the flesh. 966 00:43:55,591 --> 00:43:57,191 I'm done with my emotions. 967 00:43:57,191 --> 00:44:01,751 I've set my eyes like a flint and I'm moving in now I'm gonna believe. 968 00:44:01,751 --> 00:44:04,151 I'm only gonna believe what the Lord said. 969 00:44:04,231 --> 00:44:06,551 I'm only gonna believe what the word said. 970 00:44:06,551 --> 00:44:07,751 There's no plan B. 971 00:44:07,911 --> 00:44:10,631 There's no plan C. There's no alternative. 972 00:44:10,791 --> 00:44:13,591 It's God's way or no way at all. 973 00:44:14,871 --> 00:44:16,071 That's where we're going. 974 00:44:17,911 --> 00:44:19,721 You feel this faith stirring in you. 975 00:44:20,431 --> 00:44:20,711 Come on. 976 00:44:20,711 --> 00:44:24,711 You feel this space turning you so across every location, y'. 977 00:44:24,711 --> 00:44:24,911 All. 978 00:44:25,791 --> 00:44:26,151 Wow. 979 00:44:26,151 --> 00:44:26,911 Look at the boys. 980 00:44:27,711 --> 00:44:28,911 Look at the boys already. 981 00:44:29,551 --> 00:44:30,511 Look at the boys. 982 00:44:31,151 --> 00:44:32,111 Look at the boys. 983 00:44:32,911 --> 00:44:33,551 Come on. 984 00:44:35,391 --> 00:44:39,591 Because we gotta leave a little room during this service to 985 00:44:39,591 --> 00:44:40,831 enter back and worship. 986 00:44:41,231 --> 00:44:43,631 But there's something churning inside of your stomach. 987 00:44:43,951 --> 00:44:47,801 I believe when Jesus was looking at Jerusalem, I believe some 988 00:44:47,871 --> 00:44:50,951 something was churning on the inside of him that he said, it's 989 00:44:50,951 --> 00:44:51,551 time now. 990 00:44:51,631 --> 00:44:52,431 It's time. 991 00:44:52,831 --> 00:44:53,951 It's time now. 992 00:44:53,951 --> 00:44:56,031 I know my fate is before me. 993 00:44:56,031 --> 00:44:57,391 Let me just tell you, you are 994 00:44:57,391 --> 00:44:59,071 alive for such a time as this. 995 00:44:59,791 --> 00:45:01,791 You are alive for such a time as this. 996 00:45:01,791 --> 00:45:03,791 I got a church Full of Deborahs. 997 00:45:03,791 --> 00:45:05,671 I got a church full of Esthers. 998 00:45:05,671 --> 00:45:07,791 I got a church full of Mordecai's. 999 00:45:07,791 --> 00:45:10,151 I got a church full of mighty men of valor. 1000 00:45:10,151 --> 00:45:11,631 And we are ready now. 1001 00:45:11,711 --> 00:45:14,111 We are ready for what God wants us to do. 1002 00:45:15,091 --> 00:45:16,451 This is what we're going to begin to do. 1003 00:45:16,451 --> 00:45:18,611 We're setting our eyes towards Jerusalem. 1004 00:45:18,611 --> 00:45:19,291 Yeah, Come on. 1005 00:45:19,291 --> 00:45:22,251 I hear a song across every campus right now. 1006 00:45:22,251 --> 00:45:23,171 We're going to pray together. 1007 00:45:23,491 --> 00:45:26,491 And then at the conclusion of this prayer, and everybody that's 1008 00:45:26,491 --> 00:45:28,851 watching at home, just get up off your couch right now. 1009 00:45:28,931 --> 00:45:30,051 I'm talking to Canada. 1010 00:45:30,451 --> 00:45:31,971 I'm talking all over the world. 1011 00:45:32,051 --> 00:45:35,571 We're going to begin to enter in, but I want us to pray as a church. 1012 00:45:35,731 --> 00:45:39,911 And then I want you to have a time where you just walk around your 1013 00:45:39,981 --> 00:45:44,301 your church, walk around your carpet, and you just begin to declare 1014 00:45:44,381 --> 00:45:45,301 the word of the Lord. 1015 00:45:45,301 --> 00:45:48,861 Because now I'm going to shift it from the sermon to activation. 1016 00:45:49,181 --> 00:45:50,941 What does activation look like? 1017 00:45:51,101 --> 00:45:53,101 Use your mouth. 1018 00:45:53,581 --> 00:45:55,421 Use your words. 1019 00:45:55,501 --> 00:45:58,221 The power of life and death is in your tongue. 1020 00:45:58,301 --> 00:45:59,581 I've done my part. 1021 00:45:59,581 --> 00:46:01,741 The Lord's saying it's time to do your part. 1022 00:46:01,901 --> 00:46:05,941 You speak those words, you prophesy over your body, you lay 1023 00:46:05,941 --> 00:46:07,121 hands on your yourself. 1024 00:46:07,201 --> 00:46:08,121 We're gonna flip it. 1025 00:46:08,121 --> 00:46:09,441 We're going to Jerusalem. 1026 00:46:09,441 --> 00:46:10,881 And there's no plan B. 1027 00:46:11,041 --> 00:46:12,721 That's what this service is about. 1028 00:46:13,041 --> 00:46:16,841 So right now, across America and overseas, in this building, at 1029 00:46:16,841 --> 00:46:19,281 all of our campuses, let's begin to pray. 1030 00:46:19,281 --> 00:46:19,921 Come on. 1031 00:46:19,921 --> 00:46:23,961 Heavenly Father, I pray for each and every person under the sound 1032 00:46:23,961 --> 00:46:26,681 of my voice right now, Lord, that they are 1033 00:46:26,681 --> 00:46:27,681 going to begin to speak. 1034 00:46:27,681 --> 00:46:32,161 Faith over chronic illness, Faith over relationships. 1035 00:46:32,401 --> 00:46:33,831 Faith over their future. 1036 00:46:34,231 --> 00:46:37,871 Faith, faith, faith, faith, faith. 1037 00:46:37,871 --> 00:46:40,391 Begin to be released in the nations right now. 1038 00:46:40,631 --> 00:46:43,831 That they will begin to believe God for the impossible in 1039 00:46:43,831 --> 00:46:44,231 their life. 1040 00:46:44,471 --> 00:46:47,911 That they will begin to say, this time I'm walking the narrow 1041 00:46:47,911 --> 00:46:49,470 road and dying to self. 1042 00:46:49,470 --> 00:46:53,991 And Lord, I thank you that whom the sun sets free is free indeed. 1043 00:46:53,991 --> 00:46:55,151 And we're going all the way. 1044 00:46:55,151 --> 00:46:58,551 Come on now, let's do this across every campus. 1045 00:46:58,551 --> 00:47:00,151 Let's live up a song right now. 1046 00:47:00,421 --> 00:47:03,941 And then if you're in the congregation, I want you to begin 1047 00:47:03,941 --> 00:47:07,701 to pray, to begin to intercede, to go to war right now. 1048 00:47:07,701 --> 00:47:08,181 Come on. 1049 00:47:08,181 --> 00:47:09,541 We're in the war room together. 1050 00:47:09,861 --> 00:47:11,221 We're in the war room together. 1051 00:47:11,221 --> 00:47:12,181 Come on, let's go. 1052 00:47:26,271 --> 00:47:33,801 Sat.