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You know, oh, Lord.

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We're gonna start a three part
series right now.

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And this is the first message.

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And the series is called Daily Dose.

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I'm gonna start by giving you
an acronym, and then we're gonna

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take the next three weeks and
break it down.

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And I think it's gonna help
you so much.

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So if you're taking notes,
there's two ways to take notes.

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One is old school on your pen
and paper on a pad, and the other

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one is in your phone.

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And I want you to write the
word dose as an acronym.

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And I'm gonna break down for
you what we're gonna teach through.

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I'm gonna give you the word of
God today.

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And I think it's gonna help
you, I really do, because it's all

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about dialing in your daily dose.

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So D for dose, it's discern
the season that you're in.

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So discern D.

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Discern the season that you're in.

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Discern the season that you're in.

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Dose.

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What is my daily dose?

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Okay.

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I'm gonna wake up and discern
the season I'm in.

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O.

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Observe and fully embrace today.

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So what does the O stand for?

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I'm gonna observe every day.

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I'm gonna wake up and I'm
gonna observe, and then I'm going

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to fully embrace today.

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Today.

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Am I going too fast?

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Are y'all with me?

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Oh, you guys are good.

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The S stands for stay faithful
in small things.

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I'm gonna stay faithful in
small things every day.

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Stay faithful in small things.

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And then the E stands for I'm
going to execute with consistency

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and intentionality.

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I'm going to execute every day
with consistency and intentionality.

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Dose.

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What is my daily dose?

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Let me roll it back.

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For those of you still
plugging in your notes, every day,

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I'm waking up as a believer
and I'm saying, God, help me discern

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the season I'm in today.

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Then I'm going to observe and
I'm going to fully embrace the day.

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Then I'm going to stay
faithful in small things.

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Stay faithful in small things.

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And lastly, I'm gonna execute
with consistency, and I'm gonna execute

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with intentionality.

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So that's your daily dose.

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Let me ask you, how many of
you guys just wave at me if you take

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a daily vitamin?

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Okay, Some of you are on your
Flintstones still.

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It's a daily vitamin.

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You know, how many of you take
Omega 3s?

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Okay.

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Couple of you.

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We probably should increase that.

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Come on.

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When you start taking.

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When you start eating more
from the deli than you do are daily

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vitamins.

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Okay, what else?

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How many of you?

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Oh, I can't even ask these questions.

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I'm gonna get myself in trouble.

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Let's stop right there.

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But we have daily routines, right?

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And that daily routine
represents a value.

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And so the first message of
this three part series is gonna deal

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with discernment.

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And really, it's titled the
Rhythm of Wisdom.

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Everybody say the rhythm of Wisdom.

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Another way of saying this
would be stop hustling and start

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trusting.

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Come on, you know how to
hustle, but you know how to trust.

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So it's like, what is this
daily rhythm, this rhythm of wisdom?

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Here's another way of saying it.

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What is God's timing versus my plans?

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The Bible says that we make
plans and he laughs at us.

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You know, so what does this
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We're gonna look at multiple
passages of scripture and you know,

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I just wanna make this make
sense to you.

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What if I told you that you're
not necessarily burning out because

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you're doing the wrong things,
but you're burning out because you're

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doing the wrong thing in the
wrong season.

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It's all about discerning the time.

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And you know, a lot of people
are like, oh, I'm burned out.

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But it's like maybe, or maybe
you're doing the right thing in the

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wrong season or the wrong
thing in the right season.

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So timing matters.

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How many of you understand
that timing matters?

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Okay, and so we're gonna break
this down in the word of God today.

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Let's start with Ecclesiastes
chapter three.

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It's the book of wisdom.

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And Solomon being one of the
wisest men, I guess second to Jesus

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that ever walked the planet.

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And Ecclesiastes gives us this
picture into what it means to understand

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the mind of God.

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Ecclesiastes, chapter three.

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And really you can look at
verses one through eight, but we're

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gonna specifically focus just
one particular passage.

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It says for every.

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Well, by the way, say amen
when you found it.

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Anybody?

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Okay, you're there already.

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Praise God.

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For everything there is a
season and a time for every matter

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under heaven.

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A time to be born and a time
to die, A time to plant and a time

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to pluck up what is planted.

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Can somebody say amen?

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So there is for everything is
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It's for every time, for every
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A time to be born and a time
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So anxiety is when fear lies
about what time you're in.

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So fear says you're going to
die, but the Bible says you're going

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to die.

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But there's an appointed time
when you're going to die.

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So when fear tells you you're
going to die too soon, that's anxiety.

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It's when your emotions or
your mind try to tell you something

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different than what God says
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Does this make sense?

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So we're not gonna lie and
say, well, I'm never gonna die, but

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the truth is God has an
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to die.

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And premature death is when
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before our appointed time.

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And anxiety is when fear lies
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Oh, come on, are you getting this?

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So we have to deal with the
reality of Satan is going to try

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to deceive our own mind and
emotions are gonna try to deceive,

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but then the word of God and
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to reveal the truth.

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So we've got to grow in our
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when is the appointed time.

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When is the appointed time?

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Are y'all with me?

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When is the appointed time?

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So let's break this down.

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If you're looking at
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is an Old Testament scripture.

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The Old Testament was written
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And if you at the original
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meanings.

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And so this word specifically
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So if you're writing it from
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And zeman means an appointed time.

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An appointed time.

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Oh, come on.

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God sets a rhythm and we
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There's an appointed time.

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Now, I want to make something
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It doesn't.

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That word zemin doesn't mean a
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It means an appointed time.

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And some of us are living off
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I said some of us are living
off of suggestions, not appointments.

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And so it's not God's
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season.

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So I don't want a suggestion.

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Where do we get our suggestions?

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We get our suggestions from Instagram.

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Well, all my friends are
getting married.

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I guess it's too late for me.

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Oh, no, no.

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You better not get married.

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Because getting married off of
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in divorce, you know.

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Come on.

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We were getting suggestions
from the Internet.

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We're getting suggestions from
social media, we're getting suggestions

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from friends, we're even
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Christian friends.

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They'll give you a suggestion
about where you should go to church.

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They'll give you a suggestion
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They'll give you a suggestion.

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But, man, we need to shift out
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Come on.

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Y'all feel me?

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Okay, I need to.

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I need to do an illustration.

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Let me.

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Give me.

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Let me get one of these mics.

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I'm just gonna go.

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Here.

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I'm just gonna take it.

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Thank you.

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So right now, we live in the
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Everybody's got a podcast.

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Your mom just started a podcast.

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You don't even know it.

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Everybody's got a podcast, right?

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We are in the era of I've got
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right?

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So let me just tell you.

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Cause we live in that era, right?

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And I'm gonna start my own
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you to take an IQ test, and
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test for your emotional quotient.

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And then when you pass that,
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Wouldn't that be healthy?

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And then let them have the
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So here's my thing about this
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See, here's the thing.

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If you take this mic too soon,
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not authority.

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So you got some people buying
all the equipment to podcasts, and

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that equipment is producing
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mean.

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Mean it has authority.

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But can I give you the
converse of this?

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If the Lord did tell you to do
it and you're delaying what he told

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you to do, then you're gonna
have authority, but no audio.

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Does this make sense?

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So it's not about should I or
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When should I?

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Are y'all with me?

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Because our church is a global
voice of the gospel to all people.

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So guess what?

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We need more than one podcast.

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We need thousands of podcasts.

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But the question is not.

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It's when.

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Because if you do it too soon,
it's audio with no authority.

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But if you delay, you've been
given authority, but you need that

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audio.

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Are y'all with me?

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Speaking of audio, why are you
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This isn't a rebuke.

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Relax, chill.

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Here, take this mic back.

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Is this helping you, though?

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Okay, let's talk about sex.

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Sex out of season is called lust.

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Sex in season is passion and unity.

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When you have sex in the
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Oh, here the phone's come out
to record me now.

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When you have sex out of season.

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In season, out of season.

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Okay, what does this mean?

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Sex was designed by God for
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If you do that act inside the
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you.

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It builds you up.

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It unifies you with your spouse.

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But then the Bible says that
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is a sin that you commit to
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It destroys you.

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So the question is not sex or
no sex, it's when are y'all with

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me?

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Can I speak to the ladies?

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And I know we got some kids
here, but they need to hear it anyways

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because the world's getting to
them and the preachers aren't, which

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is why I'm a preacher on the Internet.

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Oh, I don't like that my
pastor's on the Internet.

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Well, porn's on the Internet,
so your pastor better be on the Internet.

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People are mad at me about
having an Instagram, but if the devil's

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got an Instagram, I should
have one too.

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Okay?

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Anyways, Lord, pray.

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Just start interceding.

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Some of you, you feel it in me.

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You're like, something's in
his spirit.

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Brooklyn, we need this church.

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We need each other.

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So let me just tell you this.

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If a man can't wait before
marriage, he'll never be able to

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wait in marriage.

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Because when you get married
and you have a baby, you can't immediately

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reconvene.

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So there are sexless seasons
even in marriage, because a woman

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can't.

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Okay, can I just say that?

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So if he can't wait before
marriage, he's not gonna be able

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to wait in marriage.

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You see what I'm saying?

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So you know, what the world is
realizing is the longer we go on

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this journey of self
destruction, the science keeps aligning

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with what the scripture said
the whole time.

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It keeps aligning the most
satisfied people.

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I'm talking not biblically
now, but I'm talking scientifically.

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Are people in monogamous
relationships with the opposite gender

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committed in marriage?

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Who would have thought?

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It's almost as if that's the
way God designed it.

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Who would have thought?

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And I've told this many times,
but at our marriage conferences,

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which we're doing one next
month, but I'm telling y'all.

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You know, it's like I remember
being a full blown atheist in a secular

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university, a big ten
university, and I was taking a sex

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education class, and they made
the conclusion of this longitudinal

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study.

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The longest running study was
like, yeah, it's a male and a female

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in a marriage relationship
over time rates the highest levels

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of satisfaction.

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And I was like, man, the Bible
just keeps being right.

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But let me.

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So what I'm saying is it's not
about a yes or a no.

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It's about a win.

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So it's like A church that
diminishes your gifting or deletes

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your gifting, Both of those
are wrong.

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You need to go to a church
that develops your gifting.

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So a good church doesn't give
you a no, it gives you a not yet.

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And here's how does this make sense?

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So it's like, hey, at this
church, we want you to prophesy,

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but if you prophesy out of
turn, you're gonna get a rebuke.

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Not because we don't believe
in prophecy, but because we don't

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believe that you have finished
your development journey to prophesy

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without hurting people.

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So it's not about.

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It's not about.

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I'm getting used to this new pulpit.

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I built this in my living room.

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New year, new pulpit.

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It's not about.

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One of my mentors, John
Maxwell, and I traveled to like four

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countries with him and watched
him knock over every water on the

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stage and every podium.

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And I was like, I am
definitely in your spiritual DNA,

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because me and you are just
wrecking stages on accident.

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But what I was gonna say is
that, you know, a lot of churches

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will diminish the prophetic or
delete the prophetic when the prophetic

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needs to be developed.

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And sometimes when people have
only attended churches that have

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deleted the prophetic, then
what happens is when you try to bring

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correction, which is a form of
development, they take the correction

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as elimination.

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You get what I'm trying to say?

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And so we're raising up
prophets across all of our locations,

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and we want prophets to
prophes yes or no.

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It's when.

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Matter of fact, do you want to
know why you have a New Testament?

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Because the apostle was
bringing correction and development

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to the gifts, and he was
writing letters to each region to

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say, I'm not telling you to
stop speaking in tongues.

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I'm just telling you if you're
going to keep doing that in your

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midst, here's some wisdom on
how you administrate doing it.

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Does that make sense?

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Or it's like Steph is not
going to tell you you can't be on

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the worship team.

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She's just going to say, you
need to take vocal lessons because

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you're singing so out of key
that it would distracting and you

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need to put some excellence to
that gift or you don't have that

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gift.

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I know you don't believe that
because you sound so good in the

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shower, but it's.

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Sometimes you get what I'm.

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It's.

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We need to grow in wisdom.

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Everybody say wisdom.

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So this word Zaman it can
refer to a specific time in.

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Such as in the Jewish law.

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So when you look at
Ecclesiastes 3, one says, there's

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this appointed time, which
means its own time for everything.

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And it also means season.

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But then the last meaning that
I think is so crucial is there's

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a word yeshiva.

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Have you ever heard this word?

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So even here in Brooklyn,
there are Jewish schools that the

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children attend, and there's.

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It's basically think about it
as like an elementary and middle

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school yeshiva.

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And so this word that you find
in Ecclesiastes 3, they also.

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In Judaism, they also use this
word to mean semester.

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Now, am I the only one that
has ever had the reoccurring dreams

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of, like, I'm back in school.

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You know that, like, you dream
and you're like, back in school and

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the whole dream, you're panicking.

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Cause you're just like, I
gotta get my homework done.

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Am I the only.

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Wave at me.

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Am I the.

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Okay, I just had one of those dreams.

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And, you know, you wake up.

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Like, I'm like, school was
that traumatizing, That a dream about

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being back in school has me
more scared.

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So it's.

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The word is semester.

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So let me read the text again
with this, with importing the Jewish

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context, okay?

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Cause this is a little bit
about how they would have heard it.

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I think it'll help you so much.

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It says, for everything there
is a season.

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Okay, Let me say, for
everything, there is a semester and

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a time for every matter under
the sun.

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There's a semester where
you're born, There's a semester when

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you die.

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There's a semester where you plant.

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There's a semester when you
pluck up.

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Does this make a little bit
more sense?

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There's a semester when you
start school, and there's a semester

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when you graduate.

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But if you keep failing your
lessons, you don't ever see the graduation

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semester.

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You have to go back and repeat it.

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And there are some people that
God didn't do anything to them.

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And they keep going, God, why
is this stuff happening in my life?

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And God's saying, because you
haven't passed your test, you could

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have went on to the next
grade, but you're repeating the previous

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one.

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Because this is not a timed test.

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This is an aptitude test.

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See, in the Bible, you see
time tests and you see aptitude tests.

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Jesus went through a time test.

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He was not allowed to start
his ministry until he was 30 years

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old.

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Did you know that he spent 30
years in development for three years

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of ministry?

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Some of you want three years
of development for 30 years of ministry?

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Yeah.

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Where do you want to go to lunch?

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What are you gonna.

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Because we're living in a
world where we're getting suggestions

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from Instagram about how many
followers we should have.

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You know, Jesus was okay with
having 12 followers.

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Why aren't you?

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And some of you don't even
love the 12 you got.

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You see what I'm saying?

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We're getting suggestions when
we need to shift into appointments

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and we need to say, God, if it
takes 30 years to develop me for

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three years of the
appointment, I'll take it.

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Is this helping you yet?

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So somebody say, I'm gonna
graduate this semester.

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And you know what's funny is
you don't do school in school years.

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You do school in semesters.

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Think about it.

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And you could repeat semesters.

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Sometimes you're like, lord, I
wanna be married.

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And the Lord's like, but you
keep flunking the purity semester,

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Lord.

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Lord, I really wanna.

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I wanna be married.

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And the Lord's like, you keep
failing the finance semester, and

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you can't budget your finances.

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But you're asking me to double
your finances when you combine bank

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accounts.

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So you're asking me to help
you fail two bank accounts.

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So when I don't ask the Lord,
God, grow my church, I say, God,

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grow me and grow my leaders.

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Because when God grows me and
God grows my leaders, we can handle

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more people.

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I don't ask God for more money.

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I say, God, do you trust what
I did with the money you gave me,

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and will you trust me with more?

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Does this make sense?

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Okay, so this is all.

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Ecclesiastes, Chapter three,
verse one through eight.

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And of course I'm gonna give
you more scripture, but can I break

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the idolatry around the idea
that a sermon with more scripture

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is a better sermon?

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Because it's not the totality
of how many scriptures you can read

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in one setting.

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It's how much you understand
and how much obey.

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Got real quiet on that one.

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Someone's like, Well, I gave
50 scriptures.

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Yeah.

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But nobody understood 49 of
them, and nobody obeyed 50 of them.

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So we've got.

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This is why this year, as
we're on this journey of the scriptures,

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it's, lord, do I understand it
and do I obey it?

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Because Satan knows all the
scripture and obeys none of it.

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Get what I'm saying?

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So I really want us to focus.

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Like, sometimes it's about
ruminating on a verse, staying there,

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unlocking it.

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Okay?

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Are you with me on that?

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Okay, now that we said that.

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I'll give you more scripture.

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Let's go to numbers, chapter 14.

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This is another Leviticus,
Exodus, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,

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Numbers.

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So let's go to numbers 14.

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I'm gonna show you something
that's happening there.

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Now, when you look in the esv,
the subheading says, the people rebel.

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Then all the congregation
raised a loud cry, and the people

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wept that night.

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Okay, can I explain this to you?

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Just because people cry
doesn't mean they're right.

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Tears are not a validation of
your rightness.

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You know how I know?

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Cause I have two kids and I
tell them, you can cry all you want,

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but you're still wrong.

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Am I right?

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So when you look at the
children of Israel in the 14th chapter

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of the Book of Numbers,
they're demonstrating spiritual immaturity.

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So crying don't make you right.

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So let's start there.

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Then it says verse two.

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And all the people of Israel
grumbled against Moses and Aaron.

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Who did they grumble against,
God or God?

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God's leaders.

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They grumbled against God's
leaders, and by proxy, they grumbled

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against God.

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But I just want to stop for a
second and say that these are the

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people of Israel.

501
00:23:04,362 --> 00:23:07,498
The New Covenant example would
be Christians, right?

502
00:23:07,634 --> 00:23:08,794
These were not Christians.

503
00:23:08,842 --> 00:23:11,642
But the New Covenant example
would be the people of God.

504
00:23:11,786 --> 00:23:16,890
What I find is interesting is
spiritually immature people have

505
00:23:16,930 --> 00:23:17,226
an.

506
00:23:17,298 --> 00:23:18,448
They all, okay?

507
00:23:18,594 --> 00:23:21,764
They want to turn the
attention on God's leaders instead

508
00:23:21,812 --> 00:23:24,600
of using that discernment to
discern themselves.

509
00:23:25,580 --> 00:23:26,404
So here's the thing.

510
00:23:26,412 --> 00:23:27,732
I wanna challenge you.

511
00:23:27,836 --> 00:23:29,812
Maybe you don't have discernment.

512
00:23:29,876 --> 00:23:31,480
You just have criticism.

513
00:23:33,100 --> 00:23:33,508
Okay?

514
00:23:33,524 --> 00:23:35,556
Now let me word it another way
so you clap.

515
00:23:35,668 --> 00:23:37,028
Maybe they don't.

516
00:23:37,124 --> 00:23:39,380
Maybe they don't have discernment.

517
00:23:39,460 --> 00:23:41,480
They just have a spirit of critic.

518
00:23:46,370 --> 00:23:50,026
Cause right now, everybody's
like, I'm discerning something about

519
00:23:50,098 --> 00:23:50,442
Mike.

520
00:23:50,506 --> 00:23:51,434
What did you discern?

521
00:23:51,482 --> 00:23:53,290
That I'm a human and I have flaws.

522
00:23:53,370 --> 00:23:54,030
Whoa.

523
00:23:55,650 --> 00:23:56,906
You're a genius.

524
00:23:57,018 --> 00:23:59,150
You're telling me that I'm fallible?

525
00:23:59,730 --> 00:24:01,034
You better tell my wife.

526
00:24:01,082 --> 00:24:02,430
She thinks I'm perfect.

527
00:24:03,330 --> 00:24:04,394
I'm joking.

528
00:24:04,522 --> 00:24:06,270
That's called sarcasm.

529
00:24:07,490 --> 00:24:09,114
But you get what I'm saying.

530
00:24:09,282 --> 00:24:11,802
It's like a lot of these
Christians nowadays, they don't have

531
00:24:11,826 --> 00:24:12,314
discernment.

532
00:24:12,362 --> 00:24:13,682
They have criticism.

533
00:24:13,866 --> 00:24:17,090
And so what I find is
interesting is the children of Israel

534
00:24:17,170 --> 00:24:21,074
never looked at themselves and
said, God, what do you want to develop

535
00:24:21,162 --> 00:24:21,954
in me?

536
00:24:22,042 --> 00:24:23,954
What do you want to change in me?

537
00:24:24,042 --> 00:24:26,978
Why do I feel resistance going
into Canaan?

538
00:24:27,074 --> 00:24:28,770
Why am I so worried all the time?

539
00:24:28,810 --> 00:24:30,418
Why am I so much in fear?

540
00:24:30,514 --> 00:24:34,830
And then God, I trust those
that you put in authority over me.

541
00:24:35,290 --> 00:24:39,522
But you don't see that I'm
really giving you the blueprint for

542
00:24:39,546 --> 00:24:41,590
why they didn't move into the Promise.

543
00:24:42,110 --> 00:24:43,190
So here's the thing.

544
00:24:43,230 --> 00:24:46,678
If I were to write a book
about this called From Chaos to Clarity,

545
00:24:46,854 --> 00:24:52,758
I would say that number one is
you cry.

546
00:24:52,934 --> 00:24:55,730
And you think your tears
vindicate you.

547
00:24:56,750 --> 00:24:59,478
Sometimes when you're growing
in maturity, the Lord says, I don't

548
00:24:59,494 --> 00:25:00,374
care how much you cry.

549
00:25:00,422 --> 00:25:02,370
This time, you have to pass
your test.

550
00:25:06,110 --> 00:25:10,482
Everyone's like, I'm doing it.

551
00:25:10,506 --> 00:25:12,402
Cause he told me to clap it.

552
00:25:12,586 --> 00:25:14,050
I don't wanna respond.

553
00:25:14,210 --> 00:25:16,994
So God's like, I don't care
how much you cry.

554
00:25:17,042 --> 00:25:19,458
Now you're gonna pass your test.

555
00:25:19,514 --> 00:25:22,098
Now sit down, pick your pencil
up, and pass your test.

556
00:25:22,154 --> 00:25:22,786
Okay?

557
00:25:22,898 --> 00:25:27,666
Number two is you will not
move into the Promise until you stop

558
00:25:27,738 --> 00:25:31,394
using discernment on other
people and start using discernment

559
00:25:31,442 --> 00:25:33,030
to develop yourself.

560
00:25:34,260 --> 00:25:35,948
So it's like, God, help me.

561
00:25:36,004 --> 00:25:36,988
See me.

562
00:25:37,124 --> 00:25:38,828
Where am I deficient?

563
00:25:38,924 --> 00:25:40,348
Where am I lacking?

564
00:25:40,444 --> 00:25:42,360
Where do I need to grow?

565
00:25:42,660 --> 00:25:45,260
You know how the Lord develops
me in discernment?

566
00:25:45,340 --> 00:25:48,716
He gives me prophetic dreams
because I'm too stubborn to listen

567
00:25:48,748 --> 00:25:49,920
while I'm awake.

568
00:25:50,580 --> 00:25:54,652
The other day, I had this
dream for my wife in my dream, and

569
00:25:54,676 --> 00:25:56,876
my wife was standing under a
street lamp.

570
00:25:56,908 --> 00:25:59,600
And you know how the
electricity they have, the transformers

571
00:25:59,900 --> 00:26:02,020
and the sparks were sparking
and all this.

572
00:26:02,060 --> 00:26:04,692
And in the dream, my wife kept
standing under that thing.

573
00:26:04,716 --> 00:26:05,668
And I'm like, julie, stop.

574
00:26:05,724 --> 00:26:06,724
You're gonna hurt yourself.

575
00:26:06,772 --> 00:26:07,988
And, you know, blah, blah, blah.

576
00:26:08,004 --> 00:26:10,260
And in this whole dream, I'm
wrestling, and then she's.

577
00:26:10,340 --> 00:26:11,108
Then she.

578
00:26:11,244 --> 00:26:12,756
The sparks come over my wife.

579
00:26:12,788 --> 00:26:15,316
And then she transforms into
this other outfit.

580
00:26:15,348 --> 00:26:18,036
And then she goes on this
football field, and she's singing

581
00:26:18,068 --> 00:26:19,364
a secular song.

582
00:26:19,492 --> 00:26:22,772
And the whole time in this
dream, I'm like, my wife is out of

583
00:26:22,796 --> 00:26:23,360
control.

584
00:26:25,260 --> 00:26:25,716
Literally.

585
00:26:25,748 --> 00:26:26,276
I'm, like, thinking.

586
00:26:26,308 --> 00:26:27,076
I'm like, I'm worried.

587
00:26:27,108 --> 00:26:28,676
I'm like, why is she not
singing worship?

588
00:26:28,708 --> 00:26:29,514
Da, da, da.

589
00:26:29,612 --> 00:26:32,686
So I woke up, and all of a
sudden I was like, lord, this dream

590
00:26:32,718 --> 00:26:33,454
was prophetic.

591
00:26:33,502 --> 00:26:34,942
What are you trying to tell me?

592
00:26:35,046 --> 00:26:39,358
And the Lord said, you, wife
has been working so hard on your

593
00:26:39,414 --> 00:26:41,214
family, on your church.

594
00:26:41,342 --> 00:26:44,526
She wants to be transformed by
the transformer.

595
00:26:44,638 --> 00:26:46,462
And she doesn't want to sing worship.

596
00:26:46,526 --> 00:26:49,774
She wants to do something
that's fun, that's not just labor

597
00:26:49,822 --> 00:26:50,926
and ministry.

598
00:26:51,118 --> 00:26:54,094
So I start to tell that word
to Julie, and she starts bawling

599
00:26:54,142 --> 00:26:54,670
her eyes out.

600
00:26:54,710 --> 00:26:56,526
She's like, that's exactly how
I feel.

601
00:26:56,598 --> 00:26:58,542
And I felt like the Holy
Spirit was behind me.

602
00:26:58,566 --> 00:27:00,210
Like, you idiot, Mike.

603
00:27:03,190 --> 00:27:03,966
But the re.

604
00:27:04,038 --> 00:27:04,366
Because.

605
00:27:04,438 --> 00:27:08,366
And so, you know, sometimes
you need to sing, you know, open

606
00:27:08,438 --> 00:27:10,590
the eyes of my heart, Lord.

607
00:27:10,750 --> 00:27:15,070
And sometimes you need to
sing, you know, West Virginia, Mountain

608
00:27:15,150 --> 00:27:18,910
Mama, Take Me Home, Country Roads.

609
00:27:18,990 --> 00:27:20,730
That's what they sing where
I'm from.

610
00:27:21,270 --> 00:27:22,890
But you get my point.

611
00:27:23,190 --> 00:27:29,454
My point in saying that was
the Lord was like, mike, I don't

612
00:27:29,502 --> 00:27:31,694
want you to work on Julie.

613
00:27:31,822 --> 00:27:33,422
I want you to work on you.

614
00:27:33,446 --> 00:27:35,918
And I'll give you a revelation
for Julie.

615
00:27:36,094 --> 00:27:37,570
Does that make sense?

616
00:27:37,910 --> 00:27:41,262
Like, mike, I would have told
you this about your wife when you

617
00:27:41,286 --> 00:27:45,070
were awake, but you're so
focused, you missed what I was trying

618
00:27:45,110 --> 00:27:46,062
to show you.

619
00:27:46,246 --> 00:27:47,726
Was that worth your time?

620
00:27:47,878 --> 00:27:49,038
Okay, well, we'll move on.

621
00:27:49,094 --> 00:27:50,366
But that's what I see in numbers.

622
00:27:50,398 --> 00:27:52,702
Chapter 14 is they're blaming Moses.

623
00:27:52,766 --> 00:27:55,070
They're looking externally,
not internally.

624
00:27:55,150 --> 00:27:58,250
But if they would have looked
internally, they could have collaborated

625
00:27:58,330 --> 00:27:59,230
externally.

626
00:28:00,050 --> 00:28:04,602
Then it says, would that we
had died in the land of Egypt.

627
00:28:04,666 --> 00:28:06,858
Or would that we had died in
this wilderness.

628
00:28:06,954 --> 00:28:10,346
Why is the Lord bringing us
back to the land to fall by the sword?

629
00:28:10,458 --> 00:28:11,626
And then look what it says.

630
00:28:11,698 --> 00:28:14,618
Our wives and our little ones
will become a prey.

631
00:28:14,794 --> 00:28:18,186
And, you know, it's so funny
because they use the kids.

632
00:28:18,378 --> 00:28:18,970
Look at.

633
00:28:19,010 --> 00:28:19,962
My kids are suffering.

634
00:28:20,026 --> 00:28:22,150
I have to move out of New York City.

635
00:28:22,530 --> 00:28:26,410
Look, God, it has to be your
will for me to go down to Orlando.

636
00:28:26,490 --> 00:28:26,938
I just.

637
00:28:26,994 --> 00:28:29,870
I feel it, Lord, what about my children?

638
00:28:30,650 --> 00:28:32,946
You know, it's like we have.

639
00:28:33,098 --> 00:28:37,698
What we do is instead of
seeking God for the appointment,

640
00:28:37,874 --> 00:28:40,950
we try to convince God of the suggestion.

641
00:28:44,730 --> 00:28:47,730
And we try to give God all the reasons.

642
00:28:47,890 --> 00:28:52,114
See, but what if you got off
the throne and let him sit on the

643
00:28:52,122 --> 00:28:52,354
throne?

644
00:28:52,402 --> 00:28:56,386
Then you sat at his feet and
said, not my will, but thy will.

645
00:28:56,458 --> 00:28:58,590
And where do you want me to be?

646
00:28:58,910 --> 00:29:03,170
Cause I'll tell you what,
that's how I ended up here.

647
00:29:05,710 --> 00:29:08,374
So does this help Luke?

648
00:29:08,502 --> 00:29:09,350
Now, this is.

649
00:29:09,390 --> 00:29:11,414
Okay, now, let me say this as
a church.

650
00:29:11,462 --> 00:29:15,890
Cause we only have 72 minutes
left for this Bible study.

651
00:29:17,070 --> 00:29:20,210
Look, they make the timers go
in the back and blame the team.

652
00:29:20,510 --> 00:29:22,006
I've never gone over a sermon.

653
00:29:22,038 --> 00:29:23,814
I only use the time they give me.

654
00:29:23,902 --> 00:29:25,622
So you gotta go back there and
talk to them.

655
00:29:25,646 --> 00:29:27,650
You tell them, put the timer
on me.

656
00:29:29,900 --> 00:29:31,828
I'm trying to help you.

657
00:29:31,884 --> 00:29:35,380
Because this word is of utmost importance.

658
00:29:35,540 --> 00:29:39,396
Now, we have a whole Bible
approach here at V1 Church.

659
00:29:39,508 --> 00:29:43,044
That means we do not see a
division between Old and New Testament.

660
00:29:43,172 --> 00:29:46,820
The Old Testament is the type
and shadow of the Old Covenant.

661
00:29:46,900 --> 00:29:49,892
And Jesus said, I did not come
to abolish the law, but rather I

662
00:29:49,916 --> 00:29:51,060
came to fulfill it.

663
00:29:51,180 --> 00:29:54,392
So there's a continuity
between the Testaments.

664
00:29:54,456 --> 00:29:55,688
Does this make sense?

665
00:29:55,864 --> 00:29:58,296
So now we've been primarily in
the Old Testament.

666
00:29:58,328 --> 00:29:59,592
Let's go to the New Testament.

667
00:29:59,656 --> 00:30:04,056
And I want us to look at
Matthew and.

668
00:30:04,128 --> 00:30:04,312
Or.

669
00:30:04,336 --> 00:30:04,792
No, no, no.

670
00:30:04,816 --> 00:30:06,340
We're gonna go to Luke 12.

671
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:09,032
I like the way that's worded better.

672
00:30:09,216 --> 00:30:12,392
Luke, chapter 12, verse 54.

673
00:30:12,576 --> 00:30:14,632
Luke, chapter 12, verse54.

674
00:30:14,656 --> 00:30:16,420
And say amen when you found it.

675
00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:18,168
Luke, chapter 12 verse.

676
00:30:18,264 --> 00:30:19,580
Man, you guys are fast.

677
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:21,296
You're doing this digitally.

678
00:30:21,328 --> 00:30:23,312
You're not finding it in your
physical Bible.

679
00:30:23,456 --> 00:30:24,944
Y'all are lying from yourself.

680
00:30:24,992 --> 00:30:28,448
Okay, I gave you an easy one.

681
00:30:28,584 --> 00:30:31,020
I'll make you find Habakkuk next.

682
00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:35,184
Come on, now.

683
00:30:35,352 --> 00:30:37,904
Okay, so Luke.

684
00:30:38,032 --> 00:30:39,600
Okay, this is what it says now.

685
00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:42,720
The subtitle in ESV says,
interpreting the time.

686
00:30:42,840 --> 00:30:44,784
Now, it says in verse 54.

687
00:30:44,872 --> 00:30:46,128
This is Jesus speaking.

688
00:30:46,224 --> 00:30:47,968
He said, also to the crowds.

689
00:30:48,064 --> 00:30:53,264
When you see a cloud rising in
the west, you say at once a shower

690
00:30:53,312 --> 00:30:54,032
is coming.

691
00:30:54,136 --> 00:30:55,280
And so it happens.

692
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,352
And when you see the south
wind blowing, you say, there will

693
00:30:58,376 --> 00:30:59,424
be scorching heat.

694
00:30:59,472 --> 00:31:00,320
And it happens.

695
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:01,824
You hypocrites.

696
00:31:01,952 --> 00:31:05,680
You know how to interpret the
appearance of earth and sky, but

697
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,820
why do you not know how to
interpret the present time?

698
00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:14,640
In other words, he's saying,
how do you know the weather for the

699
00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:18,160
next week in New York City,
but you don't know the will of the

700
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:18,820
Father?

701
00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:23,456
You spend more time listening
for the weather than you do listening

702
00:31:23,488 --> 00:31:24,620
for his will.

703
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,248
This is what needs to be
talked about.

704
00:31:27,384 --> 00:31:30,768
It's like, I think we're
living in a time where we have to

705
00:31:30,824 --> 00:31:33,648
say, God, help me discern today.

706
00:31:33,784 --> 00:31:35,056
Today, today.

707
00:31:35,208 --> 00:31:39,072
Because Christians who can't
discern God's will today will have

708
00:31:39,096 --> 00:31:43,392
a Bible study that is
satisfying and ingratiating their

709
00:31:43,416 --> 00:31:46,704
own desires while the world
around them is going to hell.

710
00:31:46,752 --> 00:31:50,532
And the Lord called you to
evangelism, but you're not picking

711
00:31:50,656 --> 00:31:51,308
mantle.

712
00:31:51,404 --> 00:31:54,796
Because we want to feed
ourself instead of feeding the sheep,

713
00:31:54,908 --> 00:31:56,108
we want to have our own.

714
00:31:56,164 --> 00:31:56,636
Come on.

715
00:31:56,708 --> 00:32:00,040
There's something about God,
help me discern the time.

716
00:32:01,780 --> 00:32:03,148
This is why we.

717
00:32:03,284 --> 00:32:07,756
Man, how could you go to a job
where nobody knows you're a Christian?

718
00:32:07,868 --> 00:32:09,400
Discern the time.

719
00:32:09,700 --> 00:32:12,320
You're not going to eternally
be a nurse.

720
00:32:12,660 --> 00:32:16,700
So do the things that align
with your eternal identity, not your

721
00:32:16,740 --> 00:32:17,960
temporary one.

722
00:32:18,620 --> 00:32:19,028
Come.

723
00:32:19,084 --> 00:32:20,260
You get what I'm saying?

724
00:32:20,380 --> 00:32:23,764
The alignment for the
appointment comes when we say God.

725
00:32:23,812 --> 00:32:27,524
I'm gonna do what makes the
most sense according to my eternal

726
00:32:27,572 --> 00:32:30,436
destiny, not my temporary assignment.

727
00:32:30,628 --> 00:32:31,960
Does that make sense?

728
00:32:32,460 --> 00:32:35,428
And your family doesn't even
believe you're a Christian because

729
00:32:35,484 --> 00:32:36,660
you smoke weed with them.

730
00:32:36,700 --> 00:32:44,660
Last Thanksgiving, somebody
like, is he livestreaming into my

731
00:32:44,700 --> 00:32:45,280
house?

732
00:32:46,320 --> 00:32:49,624
Is he Faith, listen, it's not
about weed.

733
00:32:49,752 --> 00:32:53,560
It's about the fact that you
keep compromising your standard for

734
00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:56,936
godliness and the way that you
curse and you talk with your tongue

735
00:32:56,968 --> 00:32:59,304
fresh and salt water can't
come out of the same.

736
00:32:59,392 --> 00:32:59,784
Come on.

737
00:32:59,792 --> 00:33:02,696
You're gonna have to give up
the F word so that you can start

738
00:33:02,768 --> 00:33:04,552
saying what God, Thus saith
the Lord.

739
00:33:04,616 --> 00:33:07,352
You're gonna have to give up
the S, the D, the B.

740
00:33:07,456 --> 00:33:08,792
You're gonna have to give it up.

741
00:33:08,816 --> 00:33:11,272
Like, there's some things that
you give up to go up.

742
00:33:11,376 --> 00:33:11,912
You're gonna.

743
00:33:11,976 --> 00:33:15,512
I know your body hurts and you
say you use it for pain, but the

744
00:33:15,536 --> 00:33:18,408
only thing you haven't tried
for your pain is his promise.

745
00:33:18,504 --> 00:33:21,576
You haven't tried the Holy
Ghost, but you've tried every flavor

746
00:33:21,608 --> 00:33:22,456
of marijuana.

747
00:33:22,568 --> 00:33:26,152
You haven't tried faith, but
you've tried everything else and

748
00:33:26,176 --> 00:33:28,856
said, well, I just drink a
little bit to help me get to sleep.

749
00:33:28,968 --> 00:33:29,576
Come on.

750
00:33:29,648 --> 00:33:32,340
Is God enough or is he not enough?

751
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,776
And we've got to come out of
the world.

752
00:33:34,848 --> 00:33:37,420
Come out and be ye separate.

753
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,040
This is a call to holiness.

754
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:41,896
This is a call to righteousness.

755
00:33:42,008 --> 00:33:45,208
This is a call to say, God,
either your word is true or it's

756
00:33:45,224 --> 00:33:45,720
a lie.

757
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:47,640
And I will to be in the truth.

758
00:33:49,500 --> 00:33:51,108
You got to give up to go up.

759
00:33:51,164 --> 00:33:54,676
And when you become a
Christian, you don't become sinless,

760
00:33:54,708 --> 00:33:56,560
but you should sin less.

761
00:33:57,500 --> 00:34:01,860
And as you go on a maturity
journey, you sin less and less and

762
00:34:01,900 --> 00:34:03,200
less and less.

763
00:34:04,460 --> 00:34:05,300
And you can't.

764
00:34:05,380 --> 00:34:07,028
I've been a Christian 15 years.

765
00:34:07,084 --> 00:34:08,800
Well, it doesn't look like it.

766
00:34:09,260 --> 00:34:09,812
Why?

767
00:34:09,916 --> 00:34:13,748
Because chronologically you're
getting older, but spiritually, you're

768
00:34:13,764 --> 00:34:15,640
not graduating your semesters.

769
00:34:19,630 --> 00:34:21,410
Pass the gossip test.

770
00:34:24,590 --> 00:34:26,150
Pass the gossip test.

771
00:34:26,270 --> 00:34:27,542
Well, it's not gossip.

772
00:34:27,606 --> 00:34:31,686
It's just that I see things
that I need to deal with and I'm

773
00:34:31,718 --> 00:34:34,934
trying to help bring people
into alignment with the vision.

774
00:34:34,982 --> 00:34:36,582
And it's not gossip.

775
00:34:36,646 --> 00:34:39,398
They just trust me, and they
don't trust to go to the pastors.

776
00:34:39,494 --> 00:34:40,810
It's not gossip.

777
00:34:43,240 --> 00:34:44,900
It's not gossip.

778
00:34:47,240 --> 00:34:49,872
You know, the more times you
repeat that, all you're doing is

779
00:34:49,896 --> 00:34:52,020
proving that you know it's gossip.

780
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,376
You know, the more time you
say, I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid.

781
00:34:55,408 --> 00:34:55,936
I'm not afraid.

782
00:34:55,968 --> 00:34:56,416
I'm not afraid.

783
00:34:56,448 --> 00:34:56,992
I'm not afraid.

784
00:34:57,056 --> 00:34:57,536
I'm not afraid.

785
00:34:57,568 --> 00:34:58,016
I'm not afraid.

786
00:34:58,048 --> 00:34:58,624
I'm not afraid.

787
00:34:58,672 --> 00:34:59,328
It's not gossip.

788
00:34:59,344 --> 00:34:59,936
It's not gossip.

789
00:34:59,968 --> 00:35:00,576
It's not gossip.

790
00:35:00,608 --> 00:35:01,136
It's not gossip.

791
00:35:01,168 --> 00:35:01,952
It's not gossip.

792
00:35:02,016 --> 00:35:03,300
It's not gossip.

793
00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:06,780
You know, you have to say that
because you know what you're doing.

794
00:35:09,090 --> 00:35:10,790
Here's a gossip test.

795
00:35:11,650 --> 00:35:15,658
Act like the conversation's
recorded and play it for the people

796
00:35:15,714 --> 00:35:16,870
you're talking about.

797
00:35:18,290 --> 00:35:19,430
That's the test.

798
00:35:22,130 --> 00:35:24,910
Like Ric Flair attends this church.

799
00:35:28,290 --> 00:35:30,106
That's the gospel, Brooklyn.

800
00:35:30,138 --> 00:35:33,444
If we're going to have a
healthy church, we need to be the

801
00:35:33,452 --> 00:35:36,788
kind of church that when you
hear the conversation about somebody,

802
00:35:36,964 --> 00:35:40,920
they are encouraged by that
secret recording, not destroyed.

803
00:35:41,340 --> 00:35:45,140
That is how I've gotten this
far in ministry is I talk about people

804
00:35:45,180 --> 00:35:48,164
in such a way where as if it
was recorded, they're gonna be encouraged.

805
00:35:48,292 --> 00:35:50,964
Now, it doesn't mean they
always understand what a leader says,

806
00:35:51,052 --> 00:35:54,020
but the heart and the
intention is to edify and to build

807
00:35:54,060 --> 00:35:55,560
up, not to destroy.

808
00:35:56,140 --> 00:36:02,724
So as I come to my third
close, what he's saying in Luke chapter

809
00:36:02,772 --> 00:36:08,836
12, verse 54 and 56 is he's
saying to them, lord, help me.

810
00:36:08,988 --> 00:36:13,540
You know, you spend so much
time in the physical realm that you

811
00:36:13,580 --> 00:36:15,604
have forsaken the spiritual realm.

812
00:36:15,732 --> 00:36:18,100
And right now we need to
increase in that.

813
00:36:18,220 --> 00:36:22,580
You know, there's a let's
bring the music so it'll make me

814
00:36:22,620 --> 00:36:23,640
stop preaching.

815
00:36:25,670 --> 00:36:29,822
There's a New York Times story
that covered a woman who basically

816
00:36:29,886 --> 00:36:34,318
quit this really high paying
job because what happened was she

817
00:36:34,374 --> 00:36:38,382
realized that it was the wrong
season and she started a nonprofit.

818
00:36:38,446 --> 00:36:41,690
And that nonprofit now feeds
thousands of children.

819
00:36:42,070 --> 00:36:46,222
So the point in that is it's
not that her high paying job was

820
00:36:46,246 --> 00:36:47,326
the wrong decision.

821
00:36:47,478 --> 00:36:50,750
It just became the wrong
decision over time.

822
00:36:50,870 --> 00:36:53,982
And then she started this non
profit and thousands of people are

823
00:36:54,006 --> 00:36:56,084
being as a result of it.

824
00:36:56,252 --> 00:36:57,332
What does that mean?

825
00:36:57,436 --> 00:37:02,692
Some of you are even cursing a
previous season and God's trying

826
00:37:02,716 --> 00:37:06,660
to say to you with love and
compassion, it's not that you did

827
00:37:06,700 --> 00:37:07,476
the wrong thing.

828
00:37:07,548 --> 00:37:11,200
It's just that it becomes
wrong if you stay in it too long.

829
00:37:11,820 --> 00:37:13,476
It becomes wrong if you.

830
00:37:13,548 --> 00:37:16,868
So it's like, yeah, that job
was where I taught you things and

831
00:37:16,924 --> 00:37:20,324
I imparted things and I took
you through a character test.

832
00:37:20,412 --> 00:37:22,388
It doesn't mean you made the
wrong decision.

833
00:37:22,524 --> 00:37:25,070
It just means it was right for
that season.

834
00:37:25,370 --> 00:37:28,818
And some of you are still
cursing another church and you're

835
00:37:28,834 --> 00:37:30,450
like, oh, I should have never
gone, no.

836
00:37:30,490 --> 00:37:32,978
The Lord's like, no, I did
call you to that church.

837
00:37:33,074 --> 00:37:34,626
You did hear from me.

838
00:37:34,698 --> 00:37:38,370
And if you would stop being so
bitter about that pastor, you could

839
00:37:38,410 --> 00:37:40,450
actually honor him for what he did.

840
00:37:40,490 --> 00:37:41,410
Teach you that.

841
00:37:41,450 --> 00:37:43,270
I brought you there to learn.

842
00:37:43,770 --> 00:37:44,402
Oh, I know.

843
00:37:44,426 --> 00:37:46,510
Ain't nobody shout me down on
that one.

844
00:37:47,130 --> 00:37:50,030
I'll make you write a letter
to that pastor and thank him.

845
00:37:52,660 --> 00:37:56,652
Because sometimes we curse a
season, like, but it doesn't make

846
00:37:56,676 --> 00:37:59,360
sense, because we don't curse
a semester.

847
00:37:59,780 --> 00:38:02,316
We're thankful for the ABCs.

848
00:38:02,508 --> 00:38:05,132
We're thankful for what we
learned in the previous semesters,

849
00:38:05,196 --> 00:38:09,520
because we understand that one
semester builds upon another semester.

850
00:38:10,180 --> 00:38:13,420
So you don't get mad at your
elementary school teacher for being

851
00:38:13,460 --> 00:38:15,900
elementary because you went on
to greater things.

852
00:38:15,940 --> 00:38:18,960
So don't be mad at your
previous pastor for being elementary.

853
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,192
Oh, I'm trying to help you.

854
00:38:22,376 --> 00:38:23,328
Come on.

855
00:38:23,464 --> 00:38:23,872
Come on.

856
00:38:23,896 --> 00:38:27,020
Don't be mad at him for being
what God called him to be.

857
00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:30,192
This foolishness and what I'm
trying to do.

858
00:38:30,216 --> 00:38:30,752
Yeah, come on.

859
00:38:30,776 --> 00:38:32,940
Play that emotional music so
they get this.

860
00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:39,900
Let's mature together.

861
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:42,672
Let's mature together.

862
00:38:42,776 --> 00:38:44,508
You know what New York City needs?

863
00:38:44,664 --> 00:38:46,040
A mature church.

864
00:38:46,780 --> 00:38:49,508
A consistent church, a
faithful church.

865
00:38:49,604 --> 00:38:53,480
A church where people are not
prophylying, they're prophesying.

866
00:38:53,980 --> 00:38:56,644
A church where they're
preaching the gospel, not preaching

867
00:38:56,692 --> 00:38:57,972
their own preferences.

868
00:38:58,116 --> 00:39:01,060
A church where they're
available, not unavailable.

869
00:39:01,220 --> 00:39:01,892
We need this.

870
00:39:01,916 --> 00:39:04,980
And I feel like God is doing
something special in our midst right

871
00:39:05,020 --> 00:39:05,604
now.

872
00:39:05,772 --> 00:39:08,120
Now, I want to give you homework.

873
00:39:09,340 --> 00:39:09,716
Uh.

874
00:39:09,748 --> 00:39:10,360
Oh.

875
00:39:11,070 --> 00:39:12,390
I want you to write this down.

876
00:39:12,430 --> 00:39:16,662
Cause this week, while you're
in your daily growth journal, I want

877
00:39:16,686 --> 00:39:17,650
you to do this.

878
00:39:17,950 --> 00:39:23,590
I want you to spend five
minutes a day in silence, maybe after

879
00:39:23,630 --> 00:39:25,318
you get done reading the Word
or whatever.

880
00:39:25,414 --> 00:39:27,702
And I want you to set a timer.

881
00:39:27,766 --> 00:39:32,150
Now, I'm not gonna say what
the name is of the assistant on your

882
00:39:32,190 --> 00:39:35,530
phone, but all you have to do
is tell your phone, hey, somebody

883
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:38,980
set a timer for five minutes.

884
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:42,928
And when you set that timer
for five minutes, I want you to just

885
00:39:42,984 --> 00:39:47,216
stay there and I want you to
say, God, help me discern the season

886
00:39:47,288 --> 00:39:47,872
I'm in.

887
00:39:47,976 --> 00:39:49,968
I want to know your appointed time.

888
00:39:50,024 --> 00:39:52,736
I want to step out of
suggested into appointed.

889
00:39:52,848 --> 00:39:55,664
I don't want to be like the
children of Israel in numbers, chapter

890
00:39:55,712 --> 00:39:56,300
14.

891
00:39:56,680 --> 00:40:00,304
I don't want to be like the
people that Jesus was judging in

892
00:40:00,312 --> 00:40:03,092
the book of Luke, because you
see a pattern.

893
00:40:03,156 --> 00:40:05,892
The people that couldn't
recognize what God was doing.

894
00:40:05,996 --> 00:40:09,060
And there was, and God was
trying to get them to recognize it.

895
00:40:09,180 --> 00:40:11,828
Now, how many of you feel like
time the older you get?

896
00:40:11,884 --> 00:40:13,876
Time moves faster and faster.

897
00:40:14,068 --> 00:40:15,508
You know what I'm Talking about.

898
00:40:15,644 --> 00:40:17,220
Okay, I'm gonna tell you something.

899
00:40:17,340 --> 00:40:20,400
There are no adults in the
kingdom, only children.

900
00:40:21,100 --> 00:40:24,052
So you have to go back to
becoming like a child.

901
00:40:24,236 --> 00:40:26,698
And that means slowing down.

902
00:40:26,884 --> 00:40:28,542
Somebody say slow down.

903
00:40:28,726 --> 00:40:31,050
Tell your neighbor, slow down.

904
00:40:32,470 --> 00:40:32,990
Come on.

905
00:40:33,030 --> 00:40:34,210
This is wisdom.

906
00:40:34,790 --> 00:40:35,854
Slow down.

907
00:40:35,942 --> 00:40:37,390
Now, here's why I said that.

908
00:40:37,510 --> 00:40:39,614
Oh, time goes by so fast.

909
00:40:39,742 --> 00:40:43,998
If you stop scrolling on your
phone and you put a timer for five

910
00:40:44,054 --> 00:40:47,086
minutes and you say, lord, I'm
gonna sit here for five.

911
00:40:47,158 --> 00:40:50,542
It's gonna be a long five minutes.

912
00:40:50,686 --> 00:40:54,852
Try praying for an hour on a
timer, and you'll be like, suddenly

913
00:40:54,916 --> 00:40:56,760
life is so slow.

914
00:40:57,660 --> 00:40:59,520
This is gonna help you.

915
00:41:00,540 --> 00:41:01,840
Yes, it is.

916
00:41:04,220 --> 00:41:08,964
Because a lot of times I ask
the Lord, why am I shepherding and

917
00:41:09,052 --> 00:41:10,580
leading in this generation?

918
00:41:10,740 --> 00:41:13,040
And My birthday is 6:16.

919
00:41:13,500 --> 00:41:15,300
June 16th is my birthday.

920
00:41:15,380 --> 00:41:20,360
And Jeremiah 6:16 is, Be a
keeper of the ancient paths.

921
00:41:21,100 --> 00:41:26,276
That is my calling, to be in a
modern generation, to be a keeper

922
00:41:26,308 --> 00:41:27,684
of ancient paths.

923
00:41:27,812 --> 00:41:30,276
Put your timer on and go.

924
00:41:30,348 --> 00:41:32,068
And just say, lord, speak.

925
00:41:32,244 --> 00:41:34,468
And he will, and he will.

926
00:41:34,524 --> 00:41:36,160
And time will slow down.

927
00:41:36,460 --> 00:41:37,300
And your mind.

928
00:41:37,340 --> 00:41:39,188
You'll start to get your mind back.

929
00:41:39,324 --> 00:41:41,892
Because in the previous
season, you learned the power of

930
00:41:41,916 --> 00:41:43,732
deliverance, how to cast out.

931
00:41:43,836 --> 00:41:46,916
But now you need to learn the
power of discipline, how to pull

932
00:41:46,948 --> 00:41:47,520
down.

933
00:41:48,180 --> 00:41:51,484
You cast a demon out, but you
pull a stronghold down.

934
00:41:51,652 --> 00:41:54,124
And some of you know how to do
deliverance, but you don't know how

935
00:41:54,132 --> 00:41:55,280
to do discipline.

936
00:41:55,700 --> 00:41:58,892
So we gotta go into discipline
and pull strongholds down.

937
00:41:58,996 --> 00:42:02,156
But the way you pull a
stronghold down is day by day.

938
00:42:02,228 --> 00:42:04,280
Everybody say day by day.

939
00:42:04,820 --> 00:42:07,132
Inch by inch, everything's a cinch.

940
00:42:07,196 --> 00:42:09,292
Yard by yard, it gets real hard.

941
00:42:09,476 --> 00:42:13,202
That's a hillbilly way of
saying, tomorrow is in the womb.

942
00:42:13,316 --> 00:42:15,030
It's not born yet.

943
00:42:15,150 --> 00:42:16,534
Yesterday is in the tomb.

944
00:42:16,582 --> 00:42:17,366
It's dead.

945
00:42:17,478 --> 00:42:20,742
Today is all we've got, which
is why it's called the present.

946
00:42:20,846 --> 00:42:22,010
It's a gift.

947
00:42:22,350 --> 00:42:25,414
So we're gonna switch into
daily bread.

948
00:42:25,542 --> 00:42:28,086
Not weekly, not monthly, not yearly.

949
00:42:28,198 --> 00:42:30,438
Everybody's like, give me a
word for 20, 25.

950
00:42:30,494 --> 00:42:32,150
Give me the year for the word no.

951
00:42:32,190 --> 00:42:33,410
Give me today.

952
00:42:34,430 --> 00:42:35,810
Give me today.

953
00:42:36,270 --> 00:42:38,374
All right, so here's what I
want you to do.

954
00:42:38,462 --> 00:42:42,252
Spend five minutes every day
for the next six days in silence

955
00:42:42,316 --> 00:42:43,260
on a timer.

956
00:42:43,340 --> 00:42:46,700
Then I want you to journal
your answer about what God's saying

957
00:42:46,820 --> 00:42:48,428
about the season you're in.

958
00:42:48,564 --> 00:42:51,244
And let me tell you, he's
gonna shift you.

959
00:42:51,412 --> 00:42:54,476
And the reason why that's so
good for you is because he's gonna

960
00:42:54,508 --> 00:42:56,716
speak to you very, very plainly.

961
00:42:56,828 --> 00:42:59,548
And you gotta journal, just
like the woman that was Like I'm

962
00:42:59,564 --> 00:43:02,236
in this high paying job, but I
need to start a non profit.

963
00:43:02,348 --> 00:43:04,476
And now she feeds thousands of people.

964
00:43:04,628 --> 00:43:05,964
She had to hear that word.

965
00:43:06,012 --> 00:43:07,484
She had to get that assignment.

966
00:43:07,612 --> 00:43:08,684
And so God will speak.

967
00:43:08,732 --> 00:43:09,996
He's faithful to speak.

968
00:43:10,108 --> 00:43:13,340
And then thirdly, I want you
to share it with a trusted friend

969
00:43:13,380 --> 00:43:14,508
for accountability.

970
00:43:14,684 --> 00:43:15,404
Why?

971
00:43:15,572 --> 00:43:19,596
Because I'm trying to take
gossip and turn it into discerning

972
00:43:19,628 --> 00:43:20,400
yourself.

973
00:43:21,060 --> 00:43:24,956
So instead of going to a
trusted friend to talk about somebody

974
00:43:24,988 --> 00:43:28,716
else, go to a trusted friend
for the next six days and talk about

975
00:43:28,788 --> 00:43:29,600
yourself.

976
00:43:30,820 --> 00:43:32,320
Does this make sense?

977
00:43:32,900 --> 00:43:36,512
So for the next six days, go
to an accountability and be like,

978
00:43:36,536 --> 00:43:38,800
hey, I've been spending this
time, you don't have to do it every

979
00:43:38,840 --> 00:43:43,728
day, but a couple of times
this week go and say, hey, I've been

980
00:43:43,864 --> 00:43:47,584
hearing what this from the
Lord and I want to hold myself accountable

981
00:43:47,632 --> 00:43:48,048
to that.

982
00:43:48,104 --> 00:43:50,060
And then write this scripture down.

983
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:53,420
Psalm chapter 31, verse 5.

984
00:43:53,720 --> 00:43:55,984
Psalm, chapter 31, verse 5.

985
00:43:56,152 --> 00:43:59,040
Because for many of you,
you're still struggling with what

986
00:43:59,080 --> 00:43:59,894
to pray.

987
00:44:00,072 --> 00:44:03,790
But if you learn to pray the
scriptures, you'll never pray wrong.

988
00:44:04,610 --> 00:44:06,110
Pray the word.

989
00:44:06,530 --> 00:44:07,898
Pray the word.

990
00:44:07,994 --> 00:44:09,306
So I'm gonna give you this verse.

991
00:44:09,418 --> 00:44:13,658
It says in Psalm 31:15, so
every day for the next six days,

992
00:44:13,794 --> 00:44:14,842
I want you to do this.

993
00:44:14,866 --> 00:44:16,666
And then you end by praying
the word.

994
00:44:16,698 --> 00:44:17,850
And I want you to pray this.

995
00:44:17,890 --> 00:44:22,710
It says It's Psalm chapter 31,
verse 15.

996
00:44:23,090 --> 00:44:25,710
My times are in your hands.

997
00:44:26,170 --> 00:44:30,950
Rescue me from the hand of my
enemies and from my persecutors.

998
00:44:31,450 --> 00:44:35,842
Rescue me from the hand of my
enemies and from my persecutors.

999
00:44:35,986 --> 00:44:38,066
So that right there is your prayer.

1000
00:44:38,178 --> 00:44:42,114
So God, my times are in your hand.

1001
00:44:42,282 --> 00:44:46,230
Rescue me from the hand of my
enemies and from my persecutors.

1002
00:44:46,730 --> 00:44:48,162
So I know you're writing that down.

1003
00:44:48,186 --> 00:44:51,122
I'm going to give you a second
to finish, but I want you to pray

1004
00:44:51,186 --> 00:44:53,074
Psalms 31:15.

1005
00:44:53,162 --> 00:44:56,722
Let me tell you why you are
not gonna die prematurely.

1006
00:44:56,866 --> 00:45:00,274
So I rebuke the voice of the
devil trying to convince you.

1007
00:45:00,362 --> 00:45:03,842
But we also are gonna pull
that stronghold down and say, God,

1008
00:45:03,906 --> 00:45:06,082
my times are in your hand.

1009
00:45:06,186 --> 00:45:09,922
I will not die until it's time
for me to die.

1010
00:45:10,066 --> 00:45:11,058
So you get what I'm saying.

1011
00:45:11,114 --> 00:45:11,778
It's like.

1012
00:45:11,914 --> 00:45:15,282
But I'm also not gonna rush
myself into other assignments.

1013
00:45:15,346 --> 00:45:20,036
Lord, you tell me when you I'm
gonna reach out, I'm gonna be accountable

1014
00:45:20,068 --> 00:45:23,600
for what you're saying, and
I'm gonna switch into the time.

1015
00:45:23,900 --> 00:45:27,460
This is the wisdom of rhythm,
the rhythm of wisdom.

1016
00:45:27,540 --> 00:45:29,268
This is the timing of God.

1017
00:45:29,364 --> 00:45:30,580
Discern, discern.

1018
00:45:30,660 --> 00:45:32,200
Somebody Say discern.

1019
00:45:33,260 --> 00:45:35,668
Okay, it looks like you're
done writing, so stand to your feet

1020
00:45:35,684 --> 00:45:46,974
with me because I want to
prophetically praise God.

1021
00:45:47,102 --> 00:45:50,142
I just want to personally
minister to each, every one of you

1022
00:45:50,166 --> 00:45:51,570
right now, in this moment.

1023
00:45:52,070 --> 00:45:55,326
So you don't have to close
your eyes, but I do.

1024
00:45:55,478 --> 00:45:58,254
For many of you, if you close
your eyes, you'll remove the distractions.

1025
00:45:58,302 --> 00:45:58,990
Okay?

1026
00:45:59,150 --> 00:46:01,810
So I just want to minister to
you in this moment.

1027
00:46:03,510 --> 00:46:04,650
Slow down.

1028
00:46:05,830 --> 00:46:07,662
Oh, I'm too old to get married.

1029
00:46:07,726 --> 00:46:12,470
No, you'll get married on
God's appointed time.

1030
00:46:13,010 --> 00:46:13,386
Oh.

1031
00:46:13,418 --> 00:46:14,010
Oh, no.

1032
00:46:14,130 --> 00:46:15,274
I've missed my window.

1033
00:46:15,322 --> 00:46:15,818
No.

1034
00:46:15,954 --> 00:46:18,074
Oh, I should have been
successful already.

1035
00:46:18,162 --> 00:46:21,630
No, I want to speak to the
need for validation.

1036
00:46:22,690 --> 00:46:26,858
What if I told you that the
Lord said, because you have not found

1037
00:46:26,914 --> 00:46:31,642
validation in me, I can't
release the desires of your heart

1038
00:46:31,746 --> 00:46:35,350
because that thing would give
you validation instead of me?

1039
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:40,304
And what if the Lord's saying,
it's not yet until you.

1040
00:46:40,472 --> 00:46:44,304
Matter of fact, some of you,
your metric for success is more of

1041
00:46:44,312 --> 00:46:46,656
a clapback than a confirmation.

1042
00:46:46,848 --> 00:46:50,944
In other words, you want to
succeed to prove something to someone

1043
00:46:51,032 --> 00:46:51,536
else.

1044
00:46:51,648 --> 00:46:54,704
And the Lord says, as long as
you're trying to succeed to prove

1045
00:46:54,752 --> 00:46:57,520
something to someone else,
you're going to be withheld from

1046
00:46:57,560 --> 00:47:01,210
that level of success because
the Lord wants to complete something

1047
00:47:01,250 --> 00:47:05,434
on the inside of you so that
you do not need success as the metric

1048
00:47:05,482 --> 00:47:06,858
of your identity.

1049
00:47:07,034 --> 00:47:08,842
So I want to minister to you
right now.

1050
00:47:08,866 --> 00:47:10,510
You don't have nothing to prove.

1051
00:47:11,250 --> 00:47:12,666
You don't have nothing to prove.

1052
00:47:12,698 --> 00:47:14,378
You don't need a new purse.

1053
00:47:14,554 --> 00:47:17,434
You don't need to get your
nails done every two weeks.

1054
00:47:17,602 --> 00:47:19,818
It's okay if your roots are showing.

1055
00:47:19,914 --> 00:47:21,354
Come on, I'm talking to somebody.

1056
00:47:21,402 --> 00:47:23,434
Who are you trying to prove
something to?

1057
00:47:23,522 --> 00:47:24,010
Your.

1058
00:47:24,130 --> 00:47:28,056
Your value does not increase
with the value of the things you

1059
00:47:28,138 --> 00:47:29,040
purchase.

1060
00:47:29,380 --> 00:47:32,284
I'm just trying to break some
strongholds right now.

1061
00:47:32,372 --> 00:47:35,500
And there's a lot of shame on
the people of God.

1062
00:47:35,660 --> 00:47:38,636
And the devil tempts you
through the shame.

1063
00:47:38,748 --> 00:47:41,980
Some of you are ashamed of who
you're married to.

1064
00:47:42,100 --> 00:47:45,196
And I just want to tell you,
you made a covenant, and the Lord

1065
00:47:45,228 --> 00:47:48,652
is going to do something in
your marriage this year, and the

1066
00:47:48,676 --> 00:47:50,940
Lord is going to begin to work
on that marriage.

1067
00:47:51,020 --> 00:47:54,292
And you do not have to be
ashamed of who you're married to.

1068
00:47:54,436 --> 00:47:54,852
Come on.

1069
00:47:54,876 --> 00:47:56,676
I'm speaking into something
right now.

1070
00:47:56,748 --> 00:48:00,500
And I release the word of the
Lord over your marriage right now.

1071
00:48:00,620 --> 00:48:04,724
That God would begin to
strengthen them in areas and strengthen

1072
00:48:04,772 --> 00:48:07,396
you in areas and bring you together.

1073
00:48:07,548 --> 00:48:11,780
And you will not be ashamed
any longer that God will turn your

1074
00:48:11,820 --> 00:48:16,308
shame and reproach into a
double portion this year upon your

1075
00:48:16,364 --> 00:48:17,160
marriage.

1076
00:48:19,100 --> 00:48:20,600
God, heal marriages.

1077
00:48:21,330 --> 00:48:22,830
God, heal marriages.

1078
00:48:23,490 --> 00:48:25,150
God, heal marriages.

1079
00:48:27,170 --> 00:48:30,794
There's some of you that feel
like, well, my spouse isn't is spiritually

1080
00:48:30,842 --> 00:48:31,290
strong.

1081
00:48:31,410 --> 00:48:34,666
And I hear the Lord saying,
no, they're strong in another way.

1082
00:48:34,818 --> 00:48:38,730
And if you will learn how to
value and honor their strength, you

1083
00:48:38,770 --> 00:48:41,002
will actually cause a greater unity.

1084
00:48:41,146 --> 00:48:43,354
It's just a different kind of strength.

1085
00:48:43,482 --> 00:48:46,922
And there's even some of you,
and I'm speaking to women.

1086
00:48:47,026 --> 00:48:49,610
You're almost looking at your
husband being like, oh, he's not

1087
00:48:49,650 --> 00:48:50,474
spiritual enough.

1088
00:48:50,562 --> 00:48:52,966
But there might be a
counterbalance in him.

1089
00:48:53,038 --> 00:48:56,278
There might be something that
the Lord is trying to do, and you've

1090
00:48:56,294 --> 00:48:58,614
got to actually acknowledge
how are they strong?

1091
00:48:58,702 --> 00:49:01,894
And through honor, there's
going to be an increase in blessing

1092
00:49:02,022 --> 00:49:02,982
upon your marriage.

1093
00:49:03,046 --> 00:49:03,890
And men.

1094
00:49:04,190 --> 00:49:06,662
I just want to tell you, just
like the Lord spoke to me through

1095
00:49:06,686 --> 00:49:10,694
that prophetic dream for my
wife and said, my wife needs more

1096
00:49:10,782 --> 00:49:11,410
fun.

1097
00:49:11,950 --> 00:49:14,614
And the Lord realigned my priority.

1098
00:49:14,742 --> 00:49:16,374
I want to pray over the husband.

1099
00:49:16,502 --> 00:49:18,380
Lift your hand if you're
married, a husband.

1100
00:49:18,510 --> 00:49:20,000
How many husbands do we have?

1101
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:20,832
Praise God.

1102
00:49:20,896 --> 00:49:23,456
I want to pray for the
husbands over your wife.

1103
00:49:23,568 --> 00:49:27,376
Okay, Father, I pray for the
husbands right now that they would

1104
00:49:27,448 --> 00:49:29,248
increase husbands.

1105
00:49:29,264 --> 00:49:31,340
I'm going to bring it to you
real right now.

1106
00:49:31,720 --> 00:49:32,912
You've been solicited.

1107
00:49:32,976 --> 00:49:34,768
You're getting tempted in your mind.

1108
00:49:34,904 --> 00:49:36,336
Your fantasies need to.

1109
00:49:36,408 --> 00:49:40,048
You're given too much to that
fantasy, and you need to watch it

1110
00:49:40,104 --> 00:49:42,128
because the enemy's putting a wedge.

1111
00:49:42,304 --> 00:49:48,470
And I hear the Lord saying
that that he is gonna oh, man, you

1112
00:49:48,510 --> 00:49:49,930
feel like a failure.

1113
00:49:50,270 --> 00:49:52,870
You feel like you've already
messed up your marriage.

1114
00:49:53,030 --> 00:49:56,182
And deep down inside, there's
some of you that are using that as

1115
00:49:56,206 --> 00:49:56,902
an excuse.

1116
00:49:56,966 --> 00:49:58,806
And you have one foot out the door.

1117
00:49:58,918 --> 00:50:01,350
I see you, like, one foot out
the door.

1118
00:50:01,430 --> 00:50:04,710
And I heard the Lord say, son,
close that door and get back in your

1119
00:50:04,750 --> 00:50:05,330
house.

1120
00:50:06,190 --> 00:50:09,222
Son, close that door and get
back in your house.

1121
00:50:09,326 --> 00:50:12,502
And matter of fact, I wanna
impart a word to the husbands right

1122
00:50:12,526 --> 00:50:12,662
now.

1123
00:50:12,686 --> 00:50:14,166
This is just for the Brooklyn campus.

1124
00:50:14,198 --> 00:50:15,094
We're not on the Internet.

1125
00:50:15,142 --> 00:50:16,930
I l canceled the Internet thing.

1126
00:50:16,970 --> 00:50:18,802
I said, play the last sermon
for the Internet.

1127
00:50:18,866 --> 00:50:20,962
I want to talk to Brooklyn today.

1128
00:50:21,146 --> 00:50:22,510
This is for you.

1129
00:50:23,530 --> 00:50:28,050
I hear the Lord saying, and I
want to impart this to husbands because

1130
00:50:28,090 --> 00:50:30,386
I feel like when I say this
phrase, it's going to get pushed

1131
00:50:30,418 --> 00:50:31,330
into your gut hard.

1132
00:50:31,370 --> 00:50:34,226
It's going to give you the
resolve that you need.

1133
00:50:34,378 --> 00:50:37,550
I heard the Lord saying, son,
it's your house.

1134
00:50:38,490 --> 00:50:40,990
Take Dominion over your house.

1135
00:50:41,540 --> 00:50:42,476
Take dominion.

1136
00:50:42,508 --> 00:50:44,124
It's your house, son.

1137
00:50:44,252 --> 00:50:46,732
Lock that door and guard that door.

1138
00:50:46,876 --> 00:50:47,532
Oh, come on.

1139
00:50:47,556 --> 00:50:51,628
I see you let the double
barrel shotgun locked and loaded.

1140
00:50:51,724 --> 00:50:52,476
And you're looking.

1141
00:50:52,548 --> 00:50:56,172
And you need to look at
fantasy as an intruder, and you need

1142
00:50:56,196 --> 00:50:58,060
to shoot that intruder down.

1143
00:50:58,180 --> 00:51:00,028
Don't let him through the door.

1144
00:51:00,204 --> 00:51:03,708
You say this is the body of
the woman who bore my children.

1145
00:51:03,844 --> 00:51:05,804
That's the body I'm devoted to.

1146
00:51:05,892 --> 00:51:08,172
Not to someone else's body on Instagram.

1147
00:51:08,236 --> 00:51:11,080
I'm gonna shoot that thing
before it gets in the house.

1148
00:51:11,670 --> 00:51:12,222
Come on.

1149
00:51:12,246 --> 00:51:14,254
I'm talking to somebody right now.

1150
00:51:14,422 --> 00:51:16,862
Okay, let me just keep
ministering a few more minutes, then

1151
00:51:16,886 --> 00:51:17,850
we'll get out.

1152
00:51:28,630 --> 00:51:31,090
I just keep seeing the word regret.

1153
00:51:33,110 --> 00:51:37,820
Regret, regret, regret.

1154
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:43,240
Let me tell you what I'm
actually seeing in the spirit right

1155
00:51:43,280 --> 00:51:43,860
now.

1156
00:51:44,240 --> 00:51:48,872
I saw the word regret, and the
Lord took the word and placed it

1157
00:51:48,896 --> 00:51:50,088
like a bridge.

1158
00:51:50,264 --> 00:51:53,448
And he actually said, I'm
gonna use regret to bridge the past

1159
00:51:53,504 --> 00:51:57,384
into the present and all the
things that they thought were a mistake.

1160
00:51:57,432 --> 00:52:00,280
I'm gonna turn it around and
ransom and use it all.

1161
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:03,240
And the Lord said, even the
things that were not my will, that

1162
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:07,540
you did, I'm gonna use it and
give it to you like a we.

1163
00:52:08,140 --> 00:52:09,028
That good.

1164
00:52:09,164 --> 00:52:10,100
I'm that good.

1165
00:52:10,140 --> 00:52:13,620
The Lord says, even the things
you did that I was not in, I'm still

1166
00:52:13,660 --> 00:52:15,540
gonna use it to your advantage.

1167
00:52:15,620 --> 00:52:19,508
And I saw regret being a
bridge into the present, and there's

1168
00:52:19,524 --> 00:52:21,412
something about that Lord's
like, I'm gonna use it.

1169
00:52:21,436 --> 00:52:22,772
I didn't even intend it.

1170
00:52:22,876 --> 00:52:23,876
I didn't even.

1171
00:52:24,028 --> 00:52:25,364
You, yeah, you were wrong.

1172
00:52:25,412 --> 00:52:26,692
But I'm still gonna use it.

1173
00:52:26,716 --> 00:52:27,236
I'm that.

1174
00:52:27,308 --> 00:52:30,052
And I feel like right now, I
want you to get a revelation of the

1175
00:52:30,076 --> 00:52:33,684
goodness of God, the mercy of
God, and I keep hearing the Lord

1176
00:52:33,732 --> 00:52:36,948
saying, these people do not
know how good I am.

1177
00:52:37,084 --> 00:52:38,356
You are legalistic.

1178
00:52:38,388 --> 00:52:39,976
There's many of you that are str.

1179
00:52:40,108 --> 00:52:41,216
Under legalism.

1180
00:52:41,328 --> 00:52:43,168
You don't know the heart of
the Father.

1181
00:52:43,264 --> 00:52:44,800
You don't know forgiveness.

1182
00:52:44,880 --> 00:52:46,096
You don't know grace.

1183
00:52:46,208 --> 00:52:46,640
Come on.

1184
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:48,144
You're under some legalism.

1185
00:52:48,272 --> 00:52:51,216
Lift your hands if you want to
be freed from a religious spirit

1186
00:52:51,248 --> 00:52:55,824
of legalism that some of you,
if you deal with shame and condemnation

1187
00:52:55,952 --> 00:52:57,424
and guilt, just lift your hands.

1188
00:52:57,472 --> 00:52:59,760
Let me pray for you, Father,
right now.

1189
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:05,088
In the name of Jesus, I speak
to every single lie from the enemy.

1190
00:53:05,184 --> 00:53:07,792
We break the power of that lie
off of you.

1191
00:53:07,816 --> 00:53:09,022
In the name of Jesus.

1192
00:53:09,176 --> 00:53:12,834
And I speak to every
legalistic spirit that has tried

1193
00:53:12,882 --> 00:53:15,618
to tell them that they're
gonna earn the grace of God.

1194
00:53:15,714 --> 00:53:18,706
That they're gonna earn their
salvation, that they're gonna earn

1195
00:53:18,738 --> 00:53:21,858
their future, that they're
gonna earn the promise of God.

1196
00:53:21,954 --> 00:53:23,170
And I say no.

1197
00:53:23,290 --> 00:53:26,738
Whom the sun sets free is free indeed.

1198
00:53:26,834 --> 00:53:27,874
I say no.

1199
00:53:27,962 --> 00:53:31,550
We're gonna step into the
promise because he is good.

1200
00:53:33,930 --> 00:53:34,710
Wow.

1201
00:53:35,760 --> 00:53:36,184
Yeah.

1202
00:53:36,232 --> 00:53:41,700
Be free, be free, be free, be
free, be free.

1203
00:53:42,160 --> 00:53:45,540
I sense the presence of some
pastors in this room.

1204
00:53:48,720 --> 00:53:52,180
I sense the presence of some
pastors in this room.

1205
00:53:55,360 --> 00:53:57,640
I feel the presence of some pastors.

1206
00:53:57,720 --> 00:53:58,296
There's some.

1207
00:53:58,368 --> 00:53:59,256
Eddie and Jocelyn.

1208
00:53:59,288 --> 00:54:01,530
There's some pastors that are
undercover in this.

1209
00:54:01,570 --> 00:54:03,470
In this auditorium, hiding.

1210
00:54:04,690 --> 00:54:07,830
I feel their presence in the
spirit realm right now.

1211
00:54:08,210 --> 00:54:10,506
I sense the presence of some prophets.

1212
00:54:10,618 --> 00:54:11,470
Hiding.

1213
00:54:11,810 --> 00:54:12,314
Hiding.

1214
00:54:12,362 --> 00:54:14,890
There's a matter of fact,
there's hiding happening in this

1215
00:54:14,930 --> 00:54:15,710
campus.

1216
00:54:16,130 --> 00:54:17,514
What do I mean by hiding?

1217
00:54:17,562 --> 00:54:22,666
Hiding your gifting, hiding
your destiny, Hiding your calling.

1218
00:54:22,778 --> 00:54:23,450
And you know what?

1219
00:54:23,490 --> 00:54:25,386
I'm calling you out of hiding now.

1220
00:54:25,538 --> 00:54:26,666
I'm calling you out.

1221
00:54:26,738 --> 00:54:27,834
So what, you got hurt.

1222
00:54:27,882 --> 00:54:29,150
Jesus got hurt.

1223
00:54:29,490 --> 00:54:32,634
He got crucified by the people
that he died for.

1224
00:54:32,722 --> 00:54:35,190
He came to save them and they
killed him.

1225
00:54:35,810 --> 00:54:37,990
Come on, let's suffer together.

1226
00:54:38,290 --> 00:54:39,790
Let's take up the cross.

1227
00:54:40,930 --> 00:54:43,194
Oh, I'm speaking to somebody.

1228
00:54:43,322 --> 00:54:45,642
Brooklyn, this campus is special.

1229
00:54:45,826 --> 00:54:47,354
This campus is different.

1230
00:54:47,442 --> 00:54:47,898
Y'all.

1231
00:54:47,994 --> 00:54:50,922
You need to understand, you
better cherish what you have.

1232
00:54:51,026 --> 00:54:54,042
God is going to use this
campus like a weapon against the

1233
00:54:54,066 --> 00:54:54,538
enemy.

1234
00:54:54,634 --> 00:54:56,800
And I see this place exploding.

1235
00:54:56,880 --> 00:54:57,376
We're gonna.

1236
00:54:57,408 --> 00:55:01,392
I'm telling you, I see souls
that we're gonna run rush out over

1237
00:55:01,416 --> 00:55:02,032
the enemy.

1238
00:55:02,096 --> 00:55:03,760
But you gotta come out of hiding.

1239
00:55:03,840 --> 00:55:07,780
And you know, for you, many of
you, it's time to take your moment.

1240
00:55:09,160 --> 00:55:09,792
Delay.

1241
00:55:09,856 --> 00:55:10,544
Don't delay.

1242
00:55:10,592 --> 00:55:12,672
Don't be like the children of Israel.

1243
00:55:12,816 --> 00:55:14,080
You cried already.

1244
00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:18,880
You complained about Moses and
Aaron, but become Joshua and Caleb.

1245
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:22,352
Now I feel freedom.

1246
00:55:22,416 --> 00:55:27,072
Y'all don't even know what is
being deposited into you right now.

1247
00:55:27,176 --> 00:55:29,024
I've already seen the future
of it.

1248
00:55:29,032 --> 00:55:31,184
But you gotta water this seed now.

1249
00:55:31,352 --> 00:55:32,784
You gotta water this seed.

1250
00:55:32,832 --> 00:55:33,872
I know I took too long.

1251
00:55:33,896 --> 00:55:35,024
I took 62 minutes.

1252
00:55:35,072 --> 00:55:36,780
Y'all are never coming back again.

1253
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:40,220
Will you come back next Sunday?

1254
00:55:41,400 --> 00:55:42,032
Okay.

1255
00:55:42,096 --> 00:55:43,420
Are you mad at me?

1256
00:55:44,040 --> 00:55:46,704
Okay, who said yes?

1257
00:55:46,752 --> 00:55:48,540
Go arrest them right now.

1258
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:49,840
Go arrest them.

1259
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:52,360
Put cups on them and drag them out.

1260
00:55:53,090 --> 00:56:00,030
Okay, now look at me like I'm
on the stage.

1261
00:56:00,370 --> 00:56:02,470
I don't know why I'm here.

1262
00:56:02,770 --> 00:56:05,190
I would not have picked me.

1263
00:56:05,970 --> 00:56:06,950
You understand?

1264
00:56:07,330 --> 00:56:08,602
I know me.

1265
00:56:08,706 --> 00:56:10,550
I would not have picked me.

1266
00:56:11,330 --> 00:56:13,470
I would not have picked myself.

1267
00:56:13,810 --> 00:56:17,994
And matter of fact, many, many
times in life, I did not pick myself.

1268
00:56:18,122 --> 00:56:19,430
That's Why I sit.

1269
00:56:21,020 --> 00:56:23,028
Oh, you're getting how deep
this is.

1270
00:56:23,164 --> 00:56:27,080
I sinned because I didn't
agree with God's choice.

1271
00:56:32,620 --> 00:56:34,360
This is very profound.

1272
00:56:34,700 --> 00:56:38,404
It sounds simple, but I sinned
because I didn't.

1273
00:56:38,452 --> 00:56:41,240
I came out of agreement with
God's choice.

1274
00:56:41,980 --> 00:56:44,612
And finally, what you're
looking at when I get up here is

1275
00:56:44,636 --> 00:56:45,812
not, I'm better than you.

1276
00:56:45,836 --> 00:56:46,384
No, no.

1277
00:56:46,492 --> 00:56:49,240
I'm literally below you,
trying to push you up, saying, I

1278
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:51,080
don't know why God picked me.

1279
00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:52,456
I surrendered to it.

1280
00:56:52,528 --> 00:56:53,592
I said yes to it.

1281
00:56:53,616 --> 00:56:54,712
I keep saying yes.

1282
00:56:54,776 --> 00:56:55,848
I keep showing up.

1283
00:56:55,904 --> 00:56:56,520
I keep doing.

1284
00:56:56,560 --> 00:56:57,416
And I just.

1285
00:56:57,488 --> 00:57:00,520
I went through my own
Instagram the other day, like, the

1286
00:57:00,560 --> 00:57:02,040
last 10 years of it.

1287
00:57:02,160 --> 00:57:06,456
Cause I got Instagram in 2011,
and I was looking at all the pictures,

1288
00:57:06,488 --> 00:57:09,384
and I felt like when I was
preparing for this sermon, the Lord

1289
00:57:09,432 --> 00:57:11,448
wanted me to take inventory.

1290
00:57:11,624 --> 00:57:14,980
And I was just looking at all
the seasons of my life.

1291
00:57:15,370 --> 00:57:19,410
And 10 years ago, from this
day, where we're at right now, if

1292
00:57:19,450 --> 00:57:23,762
you're like, where was Mike 10
years ago, I had about seven interns,

1293
00:57:23,906 --> 00:57:26,402
and I was the executive pastor
of a church.

1294
00:57:26,546 --> 00:57:31,122
And every morning I would open
up sparkling gems by Rick Renner,

1295
00:57:31,186 --> 00:57:33,026
and I would teach them out of that.

1296
00:57:33,098 --> 00:57:34,930
I didn't have the multitudes.

1297
00:57:35,010 --> 00:57:37,298
I didn't have virality on the Internet.

1298
00:57:37,394 --> 00:57:39,234
I was unknown, and I was teaching.

1299
00:57:39,282 --> 00:57:43,120
Now what's so crazy to me is
ten years later, Rick Renner, who

1300
00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:47,520
wrote the book I would teach
my interns every day, is coming to

1301
00:57:47,560 --> 00:57:51,100
our church to preach, and has
become one of my best friends.

1302
00:57:52,200 --> 00:57:56,992
I never thought I'd ever meet
the dude, but my ambition was not

1303
00:57:57,016 --> 00:57:58,128
to be famous.

1304
00:57:58,224 --> 00:58:00,528
My ambition was to be faithful.

1305
00:58:00,624 --> 00:58:04,448
And if you stop trying to be
famous and start trying to be faithful,

1306
00:58:04,544 --> 00:58:07,300
God can raise you up despite yourself.

1307
00:58:08,450 --> 00:58:11,754
And so it's like, I didn't go
on this journey being like, oh, Lord,

1308
00:58:11,802 --> 00:58:14,394
I can't wait until they
finally know my name.

1309
00:58:14,482 --> 00:58:18,394
I said, God, I don't care if
they ever know my name, but if Christ

1310
00:58:18,482 --> 00:58:22,250
be lifted up, he will draw all
men unto him.

1311
00:58:22,370 --> 00:58:24,122
It's about Jesus.

1312
00:58:24,266 --> 00:58:28,042
So get over yourself and your
fake false humility.

1313
00:58:28,186 --> 00:58:31,430
God wants to use you to make
Jesus known.

1314
00:58:33,180 --> 00:58:34,436
That's what it is.

1315
00:58:34,588 --> 00:58:37,160
It's actually another form of pride.

1316
00:58:37,900 --> 00:58:42,436
Oh, I'm just gonna come and
go, no, that's false humility.

1317
00:58:42,548 --> 00:58:44,276
That's a different form of pride.

1318
00:58:44,388 --> 00:58:47,748
What you're saying is that
Christ can't make his name known

1319
00:58:47,804 --> 00:58:51,044
through you because you want
to be silent when he's saying, son,

1320
00:58:51,092 --> 00:58:52,200
use your voice.

1321
00:58:53,980 --> 00:58:55,400
Was that too raw?

1322
00:58:56,700 --> 00:58:57,348
That's good.

1323
00:58:57,404 --> 00:58:58,640
That's okay by you.

1324
00:59:00,230 --> 00:59:01,410
That's okay.

1325
00:59:01,910 --> 00:59:06,798
Come here in front of
everybody, hold my hand.

1326
00:59:06,934 --> 00:59:09,450
I've been waiting to tell you
how proud I am of you.

1327
00:59:10,070 --> 00:59:11,770
I've been waiting to tell you that.

1328
00:59:13,670 --> 00:59:15,006
And I want you to.

1329
00:59:15,158 --> 00:59:16,734
I want you to know that the.

1330
00:59:16,822 --> 00:59:19,610
The affirmation of the Father
is on you.

1331
00:59:20,150 --> 00:59:23,490
This guy's got a podcast, and
it's a good podcast.

1332
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:26,060
I'm endorsing it from the stage.

1333
00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:30,072
But, you know, I was on
TikTok, and all of a sudden I came

1334
00:59:30,096 --> 00:59:31,700
and I said, I know him.

1335
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:35,144
And then he said, you know,
Pastor Mike said in his sermon, and

1336
00:59:35,152 --> 00:59:37,180
I said, this guy's getting
extra credit.

1337
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:43,112
But you know what I love is
that you keep saying yes and you

1338
00:59:43,136 --> 00:59:46,500
keep going on that journey and
we're better together.

1339
00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:50,760
And I want to affirm you even
in front of the church to say that

1340
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:54,042
as you continue to be
faithful, you're becoming example

1341
00:59:54,186 --> 00:59:56,922
of how we over the me.

1342
00:59:57,106 --> 00:59:58,390
You get what I'm saying?

1343
00:59:58,690 --> 01:00:01,430
Jesus did not teach them I and me.

1344
01:00:01,730 --> 01:00:03,910
He taught them we and us.

1345
01:00:04,690 --> 01:00:07,802
So right now, everybody lift
your hands and we're gonna pray this

1346
01:00:07,826 --> 01:00:08,586
thing out.

1347
01:00:08,738 --> 01:00:09,750
Come on.

1348
01:00:10,050 --> 01:00:14,330
Father, I thank you right now
over each and every life that we

1349
01:00:14,370 --> 01:00:18,026
have represented that they're
coming out of hiding, that they're

1350
01:00:18,058 --> 01:00:21,506
coming out of obscurity, that
they're gonna say yes to do.

1351
01:00:21,578 --> 01:00:22,770
They're gonna sign up.

1352
01:00:22,810 --> 01:00:24,466
They're gonna show up, God.

1353
01:00:24,578 --> 01:00:25,778
They're gonna sign up.

1354
01:00:25,834 --> 01:00:27,250
They're gonna show up, God.

1355
01:00:27,330 --> 01:00:28,994
They're gonna step into their moment.

1356
01:00:29,042 --> 01:00:29,618
I thank you.

1357
01:00:29,674 --> 01:00:30,962
Brooklyn is.

1358
01:00:31,066 --> 01:00:31,858
Oh, it's over.

1359
01:00:31,914 --> 01:00:34,178
For the devil in Brooklyn,
it's over.

1360
01:00:34,234 --> 01:00:35,938
I'm speaking to the barrio.

1361
01:00:36,034 --> 01:00:38,018
I'm speaking to the streets.

1362
01:00:38,114 --> 01:00:39,714
I'm speaking to the hood.

1363
01:00:39,842 --> 01:00:42,610
I'm speaking to the gentrified neighborhoods.

1364
01:00:42,690 --> 01:00:45,042
I'm speaking to the ghetto
fight neighborhoods.

1365
01:00:45,106 --> 01:00:45,382
I'm.

1366
01:00:45,426 --> 01:00:46,958
I'm speaking to Brooklyn.

1367
01:00:47,054 --> 01:00:49,774
I speak to the borough of
Brooklyn right now.

1368
01:00:49,862 --> 01:00:54,890
And I declare right now as an
apostolic leader that it is over

1369
01:00:55,190 --> 01:00:58,558
that Jesus is going to rule
and reign in Brooklyn.

1370
01:00:58,654 --> 01:01:00,206
And we will take the.

1371
01:01:00,278 --> 01:01:03,358
I see Brooklyn like a crown on
his jewel.

1372
01:01:03,454 --> 01:01:09,970
And the Lord says, I desire to
put this jewel on the crown of Brooklyn.

1373
01:01:10,550 --> 01:01:15,300
And many have said, no, but I
desire a people who say yes.

1374
01:01:21,000 --> 01:01:21,712
Yeah, come on.

1375
01:01:21,736 --> 01:01:22,620
There it is.

1376
01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:26,960
Yeah, come on.

1377
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:27,900
There it is.

1378
01:02:04,530 --> 01:02:05,310
Hey.

1379
01:02:17,730 --> 01:02:24,110
Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus.

1380
01:02:25,090 --> 01:02:27,990
We come into agreement with
what you said.

1381
01:02:28,770 --> 01:02:31,152
We come into alignment with
your word.

1382
01:02:31,266 --> 01:02:32,116
There it is.

1383
01:02:32,268 --> 01:02:36,760
We are stepping out of
disobedience and walking into obedience.

1384
01:02:37,660 --> 01:02:42,996
We are coming into agreement
with what you said about us we know

1385
01:02:43,148 --> 01:02:48,004
who you designed us to be we
receive the identity no more lies

1386
01:02:48,052 --> 01:02:52,788
of the enemy we cast you down,
devil and we receive what you said

1387
01:02:52,844 --> 01:02:57,870
Jesus we are walking into the
destiny that you have set us out

1388
01:02:57,910 --> 01:03:05,010
for us Lord we are saying yes
we are saying yes we are saying yes

1389
01:03:05,430 --> 01:03:09,130
to you Jesus have your way.

1390
01:03:09,750 --> 01:03:11,210
Have your way.

1391
01:03:12,790 --> 01:03:13,390
Come on.

1392
01:03:13,430 --> 01:03:16,090
How many of you feel the
anointing all over that?

1393
01:03:17,590 --> 01:03:23,506
Oh, see, that was a prophet.

1394
01:03:23,598 --> 01:03:27,322
See what happened was when I
reached over this stage to him, that

1395
01:03:27,346 --> 01:03:32,122
was a prophetic connection and
that was symbolic of the leadership

1396
01:03:32,186 --> 01:03:34,794
connecting with the
congregation in unity.

1397
01:03:34,922 --> 01:03:38,218
Did you see what that was a
symbol of when we can.

1398
01:03:38,274 --> 01:03:39,946
I'm telling you it's time.

1399
01:03:40,018 --> 01:03:40,618
It's time.

1400
01:03:40,674 --> 01:03:41,498
It's time.

1401
01:03:41,634 --> 01:03:43,310
Somebody shout discern.

1402
01:03:44,050 --> 01:03:44,830
Oh.

1403
01:03:48,730 --> 01:03:49,590
Woo.

1404
01:03:57,130 --> 01:03:57,730
Come on.

1405
01:03:57,770 --> 01:03:58,482
You getting an A.

1406
01:03:58,506 --> 01:04:00,450
You're getting an A this semester.

1407
01:04:00,610 --> 01:04:01,170
Come on.

1408
01:04:01,210 --> 01:04:01,506
Some.

1409
01:04:01,578 --> 01:04:04,578
Some of us like I got an F
last semester, I'm getting an A this

1410
01:04:04,634 --> 01:04:14,480
semester.

1411
01:04:14,510 --> 01:04:14,580
Sa.