1 00:00:09,760 --> 00:00:14,490 This message is entitled the elephant, the donkey, or the dove. 2 00:00:15,110 --> 00:00:20,358 And it's very important that we understand that there is no united 3 00:00:20,454 --> 00:00:25,050 States in heaven, but there should be heaven in the United States. 4 00:00:25,860 --> 00:00:31,236 It's very important that we understand that who you are is of 5 00:00:31,268 --> 00:00:33,188 the utmost importance in this era. 6 00:00:33,244 --> 00:00:35,924 Your identity is what matters most. 7 00:00:35,972 --> 00:00:38,596 This is a war over identity. 8 00:00:38,708 --> 00:00:43,204 And don't be seduced by a party that will give you an identity, 9 00:00:43,252 --> 00:00:44,840 but not give you salvation. 10 00:00:45,180 --> 00:00:48,508 They'll give you an identity, but not give you true freedom. 11 00:00:48,644 --> 00:00:51,740 This is the land of the free and the home of the brave. 12 00:00:51,860 --> 00:00:56,000 But true freedom only comes through Christ, not even a constitution. 13 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:59,928 See, the inalienable rights that our founding fathers fought 14 00:00:59,984 --> 00:01:04,840 for was predicated on the idea that a creator created us. 15 00:01:04,960 --> 00:01:09,304 When you remove God, you rip apart the very fabric of our nation, 16 00:01:09,432 --> 00:01:12,760 and you destroy our possibility of even functioning under 17 00:01:12,800 --> 00:01:17,696 our constitution, which is why Christians have really, in this generation, 18 00:01:17,768 --> 00:01:22,128 emerged as the most important group in this entire equation. 19 00:01:22,264 --> 00:01:24,822 And so my wife and I have already voted. 20 00:01:24,936 --> 00:01:27,842 I would encourage each and every one of you to exercise the 21 00:01:27,866 --> 00:01:30,378 right that blood was spilled for and vote. 22 00:01:30,434 --> 00:01:32,394 If you can vote, you need to vote. 23 00:01:32,482 --> 00:01:36,930 We are a church that believes in the ability to vote. 24 00:01:37,010 --> 00:01:40,290 You know, as my wife filled out her ballot, I did think about 25 00:01:40,330 --> 00:01:44,154 women's suffrage and the fact that women did not have that right. 26 00:01:44,242 --> 00:01:46,058 We must exercise that right. 27 00:01:46,154 --> 00:01:51,226 But as your pastor, my job in your spiritual formation is not to 28 00:01:51,258 --> 00:01:56,142 tell you who to vote for, lest I become controlling, because I cannot 29 00:01:56,206 --> 00:02:00,198 force you to think the way that I think, but it is to rather 30 00:02:00,254 --> 00:02:04,846 rightly divide the scriptures so that you will draw the conclusion 31 00:02:04,878 --> 00:02:09,230 that is the most righteous in an hour of great need such as this. 32 00:02:09,390 --> 00:02:13,446 But I want to focus, as a father in the faith on who you are, 33 00:02:13,558 --> 00:02:15,822 because who you are matters first. 34 00:02:15,886 --> 00:02:19,454 Thessalonians, chapter four, verse eleven, is the scripture that 35 00:02:19,502 --> 00:02:21,254 nobody's preaching this Sunday. 36 00:02:21,422 --> 00:02:24,462 Because all the pastors that are trying to grow their church off 37 00:02:24,486 --> 00:02:29,726 of christian nationalism and are going to browbeat today, and 38 00:02:29,798 --> 00:02:32,830 they're going to talk about how important Donald Trump is today, 39 00:02:32,950 --> 00:02:35,710 and then the pastors that are trying to grow their church off of 40 00:02:35,750 --> 00:02:40,358 social justice and these different issues that are traditionally 41 00:02:40,494 --> 00:02:44,782 issues of Democrats and things that their pulpit are going to try 42 00:02:44,806 --> 00:02:47,566 to talk about why Kamala is the choice. 43 00:02:47,718 --> 00:02:50,830 And I said, Lord, in the midst of all that noise, let's be honest. 44 00:02:50,950 --> 00:02:53,886 My church is a red church and a blue church. 45 00:02:53,998 --> 00:02:56,750 V one church is incredibly diverse. 46 00:02:56,910 --> 00:03:00,926 And I don't think for a second I don't have a delusion about me 47 00:03:00,998 --> 00:03:03,902 that of the thousands of people that attend our church physically 48 00:03:03,966 --> 00:03:06,510 and digitally, that we're all going to agree. 49 00:03:06,670 --> 00:03:10,206 But what I am going to tell you is that when I sought the Lord, 50 00:03:10,238 --> 00:03:12,854 I literally fasted for this sermon this week. 51 00:03:12,982 --> 00:03:17,504 I began to ask him, God, what would the apostles of old say? 52 00:03:17,632 --> 00:03:21,080 Because sometimes these pastors have selfish ambition. 53 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:24,768 Sometimes these pastors are doing things out of pride. 54 00:03:24,904 --> 00:03:28,808 Sometimes these pastors are doing things with ulterior motives. 55 00:03:28,904 --> 00:03:32,776 And you can't trust pastors nowadays because pastors have their 56 00:03:32,808 --> 00:03:37,000 own ambitions and own motives and their own ulterior motives. 57 00:03:37,080 --> 00:03:40,016 And the thing that I have gotten to this point simply because 58 00:03:40,128 --> 00:03:43,332 I've really tried to surrender my own thoughts and ambitions and 59 00:03:43,356 --> 00:03:46,556 motives to God and say what's best for the people, what's best 60 00:03:46,588 --> 00:03:49,420 for the sheep, what's best for those that are here. 61 00:03:49,540 --> 00:03:52,452 And it's with that deep conviction that I want to show you 62 00:03:52,476 --> 00:03:55,556 what I see in the scriptures and what I think that the apostles, 63 00:03:55,628 --> 00:03:59,420 if they were alive, would say today because they said it back then. 64 00:03:59,540 --> 00:04:02,164 So let's look at one thessalonians, chapter four, verse 65 00:04:02,212 --> 00:04:02,800 eleven. 66 00:04:03,860 --> 00:04:07,660 It says, these instructions are being given to a group of people. 67 00:04:07,700 --> 00:04:12,852 And it says, and to aspire to live quietly and to mind your own 68 00:04:12,916 --> 00:04:13,520 business. 69 00:04:14,700 --> 00:04:16,120 Does yours say that? 70 00:04:16,780 --> 00:04:23,260 Mind your own affairs and to work with your hands as we instructed 71 00:04:23,300 --> 00:04:23,572 you. 72 00:04:23,636 --> 00:04:26,636 Now look, as we instructed you is another way of saying, I told 73 00:04:26,668 --> 00:04:28,940 you once, now I'm telling you again because you're clearly not 74 00:04:28,980 --> 00:04:29,604 listening. 75 00:04:29,732 --> 00:04:34,644 So that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent 76 00:04:34,692 --> 00:04:35,662 on no one. 77 00:04:35,796 --> 00:04:37,906 Okay, let's unpack this scripture. 78 00:04:38,018 --> 00:04:41,266 It's okay to write in your bible, by the way, and aspire. 79 00:04:41,378 --> 00:04:44,826 You can put a line under or circle the word aspire. 80 00:04:44,978 --> 00:04:46,786 Aspire to live quietly. 81 00:04:46,898 --> 00:04:49,010 That means make it your goal. 82 00:04:49,130 --> 00:04:50,402 A lot of you have goals. 83 00:04:50,506 --> 00:04:53,602 Some of you have goals to get a bigger apartment. 84 00:04:53,786 --> 00:04:55,202 Some of you want your own house. 85 00:04:55,266 --> 00:04:57,506 Some of you want to upgrade your car. 86 00:04:57,618 --> 00:04:58,354 We have goals. 87 00:04:58,402 --> 00:04:59,850 Some of you want to go to college. 88 00:04:59,970 --> 00:05:02,618 But it says, aspire to live quietly. 89 00:05:02,714 --> 00:05:06,450 What if you swapped your goal out and your goal now became the 90 00:05:06,490 --> 00:05:07,410 quiet life? 91 00:05:07,530 --> 00:05:09,154 I want to live quietly. 92 00:05:09,242 --> 00:05:13,790 What if anxiety is the result of the wrong aspiration? 93 00:05:15,250 --> 00:05:19,818 What if when you change the aspiration, then you actually reduce 94 00:05:19,874 --> 00:05:20,826 the anxiety? 95 00:05:20,978 --> 00:05:22,490 It's the quiet life. 96 00:05:22,610 --> 00:05:24,250 What is the quiet life? 97 00:05:24,410 --> 00:05:27,266 And I know you're not even going to believe me when I say this, 98 00:05:27,298 --> 00:05:31,202 but Julie and I's goal, especially when we moved to New York, 99 00:05:31,226 --> 00:05:33,270 was not to fill Times Square. 100 00:05:33,690 --> 00:05:34,858 That was, matter of fact. 101 00:05:34,914 --> 00:05:41,710 Our car, which was a 2006 Kia sportage, praise God. 102 00:05:42,810 --> 00:05:46,790 Died in Times Square when I was moving my family here. 103 00:05:47,290 --> 00:05:51,306 My car died in Times Square because it overheated on the drive. 104 00:05:51,498 --> 00:05:54,834 So I did not aspire to fill Times Square. 105 00:05:54,922 --> 00:05:57,906 Matter of fact, I remember telling everybody, I'm gonna make 106 00:05:57,938 --> 00:06:00,458 the church where we actually make disciples. 107 00:06:00,514 --> 00:06:01,746 That make disciples. 108 00:06:01,898 --> 00:06:05,690 That was my only goal, and I aspired for that. 109 00:06:05,850 --> 00:06:08,362 And it says to mind your own affairs. 110 00:06:08,546 --> 00:06:11,938 Why do you care about other people's affairs? 111 00:06:11,994 --> 00:06:14,010 If you're taking notes, let's break this down. 112 00:06:14,090 --> 00:06:15,750 And this can be free therapy. 113 00:06:17,730 --> 00:06:21,922 You care about their affairs because they make you feel better 114 00:06:21,986 --> 00:06:23,670 about your own affairs. 115 00:06:24,280 --> 00:06:27,704 You care about their failures because they make you feel better 116 00:06:27,752 --> 00:06:29,220 about your own failures. 117 00:06:29,560 --> 00:06:33,296 And some of you are living in a trauma response. 118 00:06:33,448 --> 00:06:37,672 And I'm saying this across all of our locations, there are couples 119 00:06:37,736 --> 00:06:41,512 that fight each other so that they can get to makeup because they 120 00:06:41,536 --> 00:06:44,544 don't know how to have intimacy without having conflict. 121 00:06:44,672 --> 00:06:48,672 Because in the home, they were raised in, the hugs, and the love 122 00:06:48,776 --> 00:06:51,740 was always mixed in with the shouting and the yelling. 123 00:06:52,150 --> 00:06:56,398 And so when you have a trauma response, you will recreate environments 124 00:06:56,414 --> 00:06:59,190 of trauma because it's more comfortable for you. 125 00:06:59,270 --> 00:07:04,982 And I tell this story all the time, but my mom did her very best. 126 00:07:05,126 --> 00:07:07,534 And growing up, we didn't have nice things. 127 00:07:07,662 --> 00:07:11,582 So what became comfortable to me was a certain environment that 128 00:07:11,606 --> 00:07:13,510 was, like, a little dingy, a little older. 129 00:07:13,590 --> 00:07:16,958 And I realized that when Julie would buy new things and bring them 130 00:07:16,974 --> 00:07:20,520 in our house and try to make it nice, it didn't feel like home. 131 00:07:21,100 --> 00:07:25,060 Because to me, home was not filled with nice things. 132 00:07:25,180 --> 00:07:27,076 Home was filled with old things. 133 00:07:27,148 --> 00:07:30,180 Dingy thing, y'all I'm a hill half a hillbilly. 134 00:07:30,260 --> 00:07:34,044 There's this song by Loretta Lynn called Coal Miner's daughter. 135 00:07:34,212 --> 00:07:37,108 And I know some of you New Yorkers came back from the military 136 00:07:37,164 --> 00:07:38,380 loving country music. 137 00:07:38,460 --> 00:07:42,236 So maybe a few of you can recognize this song, but it talks 138 00:07:42,268 --> 00:07:42,892 about coal. 139 00:07:42,956 --> 00:07:45,080 You know, I'm a coal miner's daughter. 140 00:07:45,180 --> 00:07:50,096 This song was about we didn't have new shoes in the summer, but 141 00:07:50,128 --> 00:07:53,304 daddy always found a way to feed us and the culture of the poor. 142 00:07:53,352 --> 00:07:54,480 That's where I come from. 143 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:58,168 I listened to Loretta Lynn's granddaughter sing that song yesterday 144 00:07:58,224 --> 00:08:00,952 on Instagram and bawled my eyes out sitting in my brand new 145 00:08:00,976 --> 00:08:01,700 couch. 146 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:07,176 And I was like, I've come a long way, but it took me a journey, 147 00:08:07,328 --> 00:08:10,768 because for me, I would fight you over the new couch because I 148 00:08:10,784 --> 00:08:12,700 was more comfortable in the old one. 149 00:08:13,170 --> 00:08:16,946 So sometimes God tries to upgrade your life, but you're the 150 00:08:16,978 --> 00:08:20,290 biggest barrier to the upgrade, because all you know is 151 00:08:20,330 --> 00:08:22,674 trauma, and all you know is drama. 152 00:08:22,802 --> 00:08:26,666 And you're fighting your own upgrade because it's because the 153 00:08:26,698 --> 00:08:27,362 old couch. 154 00:08:27,426 --> 00:08:31,826 You would rather have familiar and drama than unfamiliar and an 155 00:08:31,858 --> 00:08:32,590 upgrade. 156 00:08:32,930 --> 00:08:34,370 Does this make sense? 157 00:08:34,530 --> 00:08:35,882 Okay, I'm gonna keep going. 158 00:08:36,026 --> 00:08:38,564 And it says, mind your own affairs. 159 00:08:38,762 --> 00:08:40,168 So when somebody comes to you. 160 00:08:40,184 --> 00:08:42,528 Now, I've been pastoring for a long time. 161 00:08:42,664 --> 00:08:46,120 Do you know how many people I've ever pastored that have admitted 162 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:47,420 that they gossip? 163 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:48,940 Zero. 164 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:54,460 Zero. 165 00:08:55,520 --> 00:08:56,496 You know why? 166 00:08:56,648 --> 00:09:00,660 Because when they gossip, they say, well, but I prayed about it. 167 00:09:01,160 --> 00:09:05,168 When they gossip, it's because they say, well, you know, but I'm 168 00:09:05,184 --> 00:09:06,690 a leader at the church. 169 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:08,238 I need to know this. 170 00:09:08,374 --> 00:09:11,966 When they gossip, there's always a reason. 171 00:09:12,118 --> 00:09:16,198 Gossip is, like, the most justifiable sin that any christian 172 00:09:16,254 --> 00:09:17,238 ever commits. 173 00:09:17,414 --> 00:09:21,998 And I think that what was happening in the church at Thessalonica 174 00:09:22,134 --> 00:09:24,822 is mind your own affairs is really hard. 175 00:09:24,846 --> 00:09:26,318 But let me give you another scripture. 176 00:09:26,414 --> 00:09:30,158 It says, no good soldier entangles themselves in the affairs 177 00:09:30,174 --> 00:09:30,970 of the people. 178 00:09:31,550 --> 00:09:35,614 So it's like, you can't be a good soldier and be entangled in 179 00:09:35,622 --> 00:09:37,660 the affairs of other people at the same time. 180 00:09:37,750 --> 00:09:41,712 In other words, you can't accomplish your mission but also 181 00:09:41,776 --> 00:09:44,296 be on side quests at the same time. 182 00:09:44,368 --> 00:09:46,408 So when people are like, oh, did you hear about so and so? 183 00:09:46,424 --> 00:09:47,904 It's like, yo, that's a side quest. 184 00:09:47,952 --> 00:09:49,080 I don't have time for that. 185 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:51,808 I've got a main mission right now, and it doesn't include this 186 00:09:51,864 --> 00:09:52,352 affair. 187 00:09:52,456 --> 00:09:53,700 Does that make sense? 188 00:09:54,000 --> 00:09:54,664 Okay. 189 00:09:54,752 --> 00:09:56,952 In other words, I like even the word affair. 190 00:09:57,016 --> 00:09:58,640 Isn't it like when you cheat on your wife? 191 00:09:58,680 --> 00:09:59,940 It's called an affair. 192 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:01,584 So it says. 193 00:10:01,712 --> 00:10:03,704 It says, mind your own affairs. 194 00:10:03,752 --> 00:10:06,886 In other words, it's like, stay committed to the thing that 195 00:10:06,918 --> 00:10:08,438 God's put right in front of you. 196 00:10:08,534 --> 00:10:10,650 And then it says, work with your hands. 197 00:10:11,270 --> 00:10:16,326 You know, an honest day's work is something to be cherished and 198 00:10:16,358 --> 00:10:17,206 valued. 199 00:10:17,358 --> 00:10:19,734 And there's not a lot of people like that anymore. 200 00:10:19,822 --> 00:10:22,334 You know, we live in a generation that cheats on the time 201 00:10:22,382 --> 00:10:26,930 clock, and they clocked in for 8 hours, but they only work three, 202 00:10:27,470 --> 00:10:28,446 and we got too much. 203 00:10:28,478 --> 00:10:32,348 And what's happening is we're using our hands to entertain. 204 00:10:32,444 --> 00:10:36,148 But they're saying to the church through thessalonians, you 205 00:10:36,164 --> 00:10:37,460 know, work with your hands. 206 00:10:37,540 --> 00:10:42,220 Because what it's saying is the more time that you're spending 207 00:10:42,300 --> 00:10:47,924 off of mission, the higher your levels of anxiety, the higher 208 00:10:47,972 --> 00:10:49,276 the levels of drama. 209 00:10:49,428 --> 00:10:53,108 And there's something about just doing what you're supposed to 210 00:10:53,124 --> 00:10:53,948 be doing. 211 00:10:54,124 --> 00:10:56,836 And I know right now it got real quiet because everyone's like, 212 00:10:56,868 --> 00:11:00,900 lord, I think I've only worked 3 hours in the last month. 213 00:11:01,920 --> 00:11:03,140 Cue the music. 214 00:11:05,920 --> 00:11:07,500 And I know what I did. 215 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:15,140 You need a job. 216 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:20,820 You need to learn how to work with your hands. 217 00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:24,008 Let me tell you, this is a message out of love. 218 00:11:24,064 --> 00:11:29,130 And the reason why is because we have so much noise and distraction. 219 00:11:29,430 --> 00:11:32,190 It's like I said last week, a lot of you don't have a lust problem. 220 00:11:32,230 --> 00:11:33,570 You have a laziness problem. 221 00:11:34,270 --> 00:11:38,414 My solution for lust, and there's only one solution, is do 222 00:11:38,502 --> 00:11:41,726 what you're called to do for your family and for God with all 223 00:11:41,758 --> 00:11:44,862 your might, to the point where you are so exhausted, you don't have 224 00:11:44,886 --> 00:11:46,342 enough energy for lust. 225 00:11:46,526 --> 00:11:48,330 That's the only thing that works. 226 00:11:48,910 --> 00:11:50,210 It's just like this. 227 00:11:50,590 --> 00:11:51,942 Everything I do now. 228 00:11:52,006 --> 00:11:56,472 I used to get in trouble for doing, and God redeemed it and changed 229 00:11:56,496 --> 00:11:57,900 the direction of it. 230 00:11:58,240 --> 00:11:59,424 Like, you get what I'm saying? 231 00:11:59,472 --> 00:12:01,672 Like, I can't stop being rebellious. 232 00:12:01,816 --> 00:12:04,712 So the Lord said, I'm going to teach you how to rebel against the 233 00:12:04,736 --> 00:12:05,420 devil. 234 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:07,240 Does this make sense? 235 00:12:07,400 --> 00:12:08,200 I can't stop. 236 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:10,536 Like, I'm rebellious by nature. 237 00:12:10,728 --> 00:12:12,120 Like, I can't help it. 238 00:12:12,160 --> 00:12:15,224 But the Lord says, I'm going to redeem your rebellion and just 239 00:12:15,352 --> 00:12:19,240 rebel against witchcraft, rebel against the new age, rebel 240 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:21,264 against all the works of darkness. 241 00:12:21,352 --> 00:12:22,808 It's like, you know what I'm saying? 242 00:12:22,984 --> 00:12:26,920 I am so glad that me and my friends are saved because we are 243 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:28,140 dangerous people. 244 00:12:28,760 --> 00:12:30,020 You get what I'm saying? 245 00:12:30,480 --> 00:12:33,352 And so it's like, that's why God did not ask you to come into 246 00:12:33,376 --> 00:12:35,540 the kingdom and be soft. 247 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:40,208 God asked you, like, to remain dangerous, but be dangerous for him. 248 00:12:40,344 --> 00:12:44,260 But the problem is, it's like, work with your hands. 249 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:51,220 Like, I'm trying to refocus you because you're not built for 250 00:12:51,260 --> 00:12:54,300 this biologically, physically, emotionally. 251 00:12:54,340 --> 00:12:57,852 The way that we're living our life is violating our design. 252 00:12:58,036 --> 00:13:00,132 That's why we are so stressed out. 253 00:13:00,276 --> 00:13:01,308 Go to work. 254 00:13:01,444 --> 00:13:04,120 Work your job honorably. 255 00:13:05,060 --> 00:13:06,840 Be a light of Christ. 256 00:13:07,220 --> 00:13:10,428 Stop inviting people to church and just shine the light of Christ. 257 00:13:10,524 --> 00:13:12,836 And when you turn the light on, they'll come. 258 00:13:12,908 --> 00:13:16,802 And remember when I said nobody ever invites insects to their 259 00:13:16,826 --> 00:13:19,310 house, but when you turn on your light, your light does. 260 00:13:19,890 --> 00:13:22,866 Stop inviting people to church and just learn how to shine. 261 00:13:22,978 --> 00:13:27,442 But it comes through working with your hands, because we love 262 00:13:27,506 --> 00:13:31,030 talking about how senile Joe Biden is. 263 00:13:31,690 --> 00:13:35,670 We love talking about Donald Trump's little hands. 264 00:13:36,290 --> 00:13:39,510 We love talking about how Kamala code switches. 265 00:13:40,060 --> 00:13:42,480 Well, I'm saying, why? 266 00:13:43,380 --> 00:13:45,892 Who cares why? 267 00:13:45,956 --> 00:13:47,320 It's so stupid. 268 00:13:48,020 --> 00:13:50,320 Work with your hands. 269 00:13:51,420 --> 00:13:53,680 Mind your own affairs. 270 00:13:54,100 --> 00:13:56,764 This is the most countercultural message that's being 271 00:13:56,812 --> 00:13:58,068 preached on this Sunday. 272 00:13:58,244 --> 00:14:02,276 And stop making it about the elephant, or stop making it about 273 00:14:02,308 --> 00:14:04,560 the donkey and make it about the dove. 274 00:14:06,030 --> 00:14:08,862 Because this is the point I was trying to get to in this scripture, 275 00:14:08,966 --> 00:14:13,102 so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent 276 00:14:13,126 --> 00:14:13,566 on no one. 277 00:14:13,598 --> 00:14:15,262 I haven't even got to the main point of my sermon. 278 00:14:15,286 --> 00:14:16,326 I'm getting there in seconds. 279 00:14:16,358 --> 00:14:17,330 Stay with me. 280 00:14:18,110 --> 00:14:20,222 Luke, chapter 16, verse ten. 281 00:14:20,366 --> 00:14:21,574 One who is faithful. 282 00:14:21,622 --> 00:14:23,126 Everybody say faithful. 283 00:14:23,318 --> 00:14:28,530 One who is faithful in very little is also faithful in much. 284 00:14:29,150 --> 00:14:34,186 And one who is dishonest in very little is also dishonest in 285 00:14:34,218 --> 00:14:34,842 much. 286 00:14:35,026 --> 00:14:38,950 How many of you never had a pastor read you that whole scripture? 287 00:14:39,730 --> 00:14:40,714 What's the only part? 288 00:14:40,762 --> 00:14:41,506 You know? 289 00:14:41,658 --> 00:14:44,146 If you were faithful with little, he'll make you ruler over 290 00:14:44,178 --> 00:14:44,538 much. 291 00:14:44,634 --> 00:14:47,282 But did you know it says if you're dishonest in little ways, 292 00:14:47,306 --> 00:14:49,910 you're going to be dishonest in every way. 293 00:14:52,770 --> 00:14:55,110 God, why haven't you promoted me? 294 00:14:55,850 --> 00:14:58,690 Because you want me to put you in full time ministry, but you wouldn't 295 00:14:58,730 --> 00:15:00,150 work a full time day. 296 00:15:02,440 --> 00:15:06,060 God, why haven't you given me more finances? 297 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:09,416 Well, because when you got your giving report, you didn't even 298 00:15:09,448 --> 00:15:12,220 come to 5% of your income, let alone ten. 299 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:15,232 I want to give you more, but is it just to spend more? 300 00:15:15,256 --> 00:15:16,540 Is it to give more? 301 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:19,600 If you're faithful with little, he'll make you rule over 302 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:19,840 much. 303 00:15:19,880 --> 00:15:22,512 But if you're dishonest in little ways, you're going to be dishonest 304 00:15:22,536 --> 00:15:23,540 in every way. 305 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:25,776 So I'm going somewhere. 306 00:15:25,808 --> 00:15:28,180 I know this is deeply convicting, but I. 307 00:15:30,830 --> 00:15:37,650 In the late nineties, my mom and I stood in a balcony in Chicago, 308 00:15:37,990 --> 00:15:42,662 in a stadium, and we didn't even barely have the gas money to 309 00:15:42,686 --> 00:15:45,646 drive 15 minutes because we lived 15 minutes away from Chicago's 310 00:15:45,678 --> 00:15:46,330 loot. 311 00:15:46,630 --> 00:15:48,102 That's where we lived. 312 00:15:48,286 --> 00:15:49,486 We could barely get there. 313 00:15:49,518 --> 00:15:50,406 We scrounged together. 314 00:15:50,478 --> 00:15:52,318 My mom was working at White Castle. 315 00:15:52,374 --> 00:15:53,020 My mom. 316 00:15:53,150 --> 00:15:56,096 You guys know Sandra as this global voice. 317 00:15:56,288 --> 00:15:58,620 Sandra was a fast food worker. 318 00:15:59,560 --> 00:16:01,540 So I want this to settle in. 319 00:16:02,120 --> 00:16:06,264 Pastor, Sandra would have taken your order in a white castle 320 00:16:06,312 --> 00:16:09,980 drive through and made your hamburgers for you 25 years ago. 321 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:11,744 And there was me. 322 00:16:11,792 --> 00:16:16,336 I worked for the ham and water department, and I was a full time 323 00:16:16,368 --> 00:16:16,984 college student. 324 00:16:17,032 --> 00:16:19,750 I would dig holes with a shovel all day. 325 00:16:19,920 --> 00:16:21,610 I worked with my hands. 326 00:16:21,690 --> 00:16:23,110 This is your pastor. 327 00:16:23,610 --> 00:16:27,362 And I digged holes in the ground dirt. 328 00:16:27,426 --> 00:16:31,282 And I would put my college books in plastic bags. 329 00:16:31,306 --> 00:16:34,778 And I would jump into the hole because we called it grave digging, 330 00:16:34,914 --> 00:16:36,378 because it destroys your back. 331 00:16:36,434 --> 00:16:38,546 To dig a hole, any man knows what I'm talking about. 332 00:16:38,658 --> 00:16:42,546 And I would jump in the hole with my college books and plastic 333 00:16:42,578 --> 00:16:47,476 bag and take it out and read it and study for my test. 334 00:16:47,668 --> 00:16:50,308 And we barely had enough money to go to the stadium event. 335 00:16:50,364 --> 00:16:52,876 My mom looked at me while worship was happening. 336 00:16:52,908 --> 00:16:57,556 She said, mike, I don't know how and I don't know when, but one 337 00:16:57,588 --> 00:17:01,548 day we're gonna go from the stands to the stage and we're gonna 338 00:17:01,564 --> 00:17:03,280 be doing stadium events. 339 00:17:03,860 --> 00:17:07,236 But let me just tell you, I work for God the same way I work 340 00:17:07,268 --> 00:17:08,040 for man. 341 00:17:08,460 --> 00:17:13,776 When I worked for man, I worked with my hands and I gave it 342 00:17:13,808 --> 00:17:14,456 my all. 343 00:17:14,568 --> 00:17:16,792 And that's why when people talk about me on the Internet, I'm 344 00:17:16,816 --> 00:17:17,624 like, you're an idiot. 345 00:17:17,672 --> 00:17:19,328 You clearly don't know me. 346 00:17:19,504 --> 00:17:21,016 You clearly don't understand. 347 00:17:21,168 --> 00:17:22,736 I don't do ministry for the income. 348 00:17:22,768 --> 00:17:24,180 I do it for the outcome. 349 00:17:25,280 --> 00:17:28,448 But the way I work for man is the way I work for him. 350 00:17:28,624 --> 00:17:31,776 Matter of fact, the way I got into full time ministry is I went 351 00:17:31,808 --> 00:17:34,976 before Jehovah and I was reading the scripture that says the 352 00:17:35,008 --> 00:17:37,120 harvest is vast, but the laborers are few. 353 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:40,268 Ask the Lord of the harvest to send laborers, and he'll send them. 354 00:17:40,344 --> 00:17:43,780 And something clicked in my spirit, and I said, that's, it's 355 00:17:43,820 --> 00:17:46,280 like I have a supervisor at my job. 356 00:17:46,580 --> 00:17:50,708 So if, but, but God says there's supervisors over the fields 357 00:17:50,804 --> 00:17:52,844 for harvest in the earth and all. 358 00:17:52,892 --> 00:17:56,636 And it says, ask him and he'll send harvesters. 359 00:17:56,708 --> 00:18:01,884 So I just said, lord, I would love to be in full time ministry. 360 00:18:02,052 --> 00:18:03,948 And I said, lord, send me. 361 00:18:04,004 --> 00:18:06,012 I'll harvest your fields. 362 00:18:06,196 --> 00:18:09,348 And then, boom, within months, I was in full time ministry. 363 00:18:09,524 --> 00:18:12,676 And not that I glorify that, because full time ministry is whatever 364 00:18:12,708 --> 00:18:14,076 God called you to do. 365 00:18:14,228 --> 00:18:16,740 If it's in the banking industry and that's what God called 366 00:18:16,780 --> 00:18:18,620 you to do, you're in full time ministry. 367 00:18:18,780 --> 00:18:21,292 If it's in law, you're in full time ministry. 368 00:18:21,396 --> 00:18:23,172 If it's in government, you're in full time. 369 00:18:23,236 --> 00:18:26,960 Full time ministry is your full time life. 370 00:18:27,700 --> 00:18:32,030 But the reason why I say this is because the Lord told me the message 371 00:18:32,070 --> 00:18:35,926 that's not going to get preached in America today is the 372 00:18:35,958 --> 00:18:37,370 message of faithfulness. 373 00:18:40,750 --> 00:18:43,930 Kings and kingdoms will all pass away. 374 00:18:44,430 --> 00:18:47,370 There's just something about that name. 375 00:18:48,110 --> 00:18:53,930 Long after the election, long after the riots, long after the fights, 376 00:18:54,510 --> 00:18:56,210 who's going to be faithful? 377 00:18:57,040 --> 00:19:02,144 They might make a new program here in Brooklyn, if we vote a certain 378 00:19:02,192 --> 00:19:06,192 candidate, but I'm not waiting for them to feed people in Brooklyn 379 00:19:06,296 --> 00:19:07,740 through a government program. 380 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:12,056 I'm going to get into a line with my wife, and I'm going to feed 381 00:19:12,088 --> 00:19:14,700 them in Brooklyn, because that's who I am. 382 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:19,216 And people are going to vote a politician to do something that you 383 00:19:19,248 --> 00:19:21,100 were called to do with your life. 384 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,780 This is the message that's not being preached. 385 00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:28,352 I didn't wait for a social program in Brooklyn. 386 00:19:28,456 --> 00:19:31,616 Matter of fact, Pastor Eddy, why are there lines all the way down 387 00:19:31,648 --> 00:19:34,768 the block in Brooklyn if we already have social programs here 388 00:19:34,784 --> 00:19:35,740 in Brooklyn? 389 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:40,856 I am the hands and feet of Jesus, and I'm not waiting for Kamala 390 00:19:40,888 --> 00:19:42,380 to do that for me. 391 00:19:44,680 --> 00:19:47,300 Do you all feel the holiness of God on this? 392 00:19:47,800 --> 00:19:52,060 Because it's like, it's not about them, it's about the dove. 393 00:19:52,470 --> 00:19:54,678 We are the answer. 394 00:19:54,854 --> 00:19:58,502 If you removed every righteous person from this nation, it would 395 00:19:58,526 --> 00:20:00,130 be destroyed in a day. 396 00:20:00,830 --> 00:20:04,894 The only thing that we are, the yeast in the dough, that causes 397 00:20:04,942 --> 00:20:06,390 this thing to rise. 398 00:20:06,550 --> 00:20:09,822 When your children go to school, your children are the best 399 00:20:09,886 --> 00:20:14,190 part of that school, because the holy Ghost of God walks into 400 00:20:14,230 --> 00:20:16,814 that school as he walks in with your children. 401 00:20:16,942 --> 00:20:20,502 When you own a business and you're distributing the things of 402 00:20:20,526 --> 00:20:23,606 your business, and you're a christian business owner, you are 403 00:20:23,638 --> 00:20:26,210 the best part of America. 404 00:20:26,330 --> 00:20:28,274 You are the reason why God has. 405 00:20:28,322 --> 00:20:31,082 Withheld his hand of judgment upon this. 406 00:20:31,146 --> 00:20:33,710 Nation, because you are here. 407 00:20:34,530 --> 00:20:36,350 So it's about faithfulness. 408 00:20:38,450 --> 00:20:42,110 There's a greek word, pistos. 409 00:20:42,610 --> 00:20:45,298 It means trustworthy and reliable. 410 00:20:45,474 --> 00:20:47,538 Everybody say trustworthy. 411 00:20:47,714 --> 00:20:49,430 Everybody say reliable. 412 00:20:50,060 --> 00:20:51,324 The word is faithful. 413 00:20:51,372 --> 00:20:54,084 That's the word that was used in Luke, chapter 16, verse ten. 414 00:20:54,132 --> 00:20:55,000 Watch this. 415 00:20:56,140 --> 00:20:59,932 It's a word that's used to describe believers, but I want to 416 00:20:59,956 --> 00:21:03,308 show you, it was used to describe God's faithfulness. 417 00:21:03,404 --> 00:21:05,804 In one corinthians, chapter one, verse nine. 418 00:21:05,932 --> 00:21:07,660 God is pistos. 419 00:21:07,820 --> 00:21:09,100 He is faithful. 420 00:21:09,220 --> 00:21:13,948 By whom you were called into the fellowship of the Son, Jesus 421 00:21:14,004 --> 00:21:15,156 Christ, our Lord. 422 00:21:15,268 --> 00:21:21,836 So God is this greek word, pistos, he is faithful. 423 00:21:22,028 --> 00:21:23,900 That's who he is. 424 00:21:24,020 --> 00:21:28,644 He worked with his hands to form out of the dust. 425 00:21:28,732 --> 00:21:30,068 Adam, he was faithful. 426 00:21:30,164 --> 00:21:34,028 Even God worked with his hands to form out of the dust. 427 00:21:34,124 --> 00:21:35,396 He did it first. 428 00:21:35,508 --> 00:21:36,180 He built. 429 00:21:36,220 --> 00:21:39,300 He created all that we see, and then he was faithful. 430 00:21:39,380 --> 00:21:42,774 And then when he saw the sin in the garden, he said, I'm going 431 00:21:42,782 --> 00:21:46,166 to be faithful to send my son, and there's going to be a renewal 432 00:21:46,198 --> 00:21:47,430 of all things. 433 00:21:47,550 --> 00:21:48,886 And then he sent Jesus. 434 00:21:48,918 --> 00:21:50,010 Now watch this. 435 00:21:50,430 --> 00:21:52,890 Revelation, chapter 19, verse eleven. 436 00:21:53,190 --> 00:21:57,334 Then I saw heaven open, and behold a white horse. 437 00:21:57,462 --> 00:22:02,450 The one sitting on the white horse is called pistos. 438 00:22:02,830 --> 00:22:06,226 Faithful and true. 439 00:22:06,398 --> 00:22:09,950 And in righteousness, he judges and makes war. 440 00:22:11,210 --> 00:22:14,630 So now God is called faithful pistos. 441 00:22:15,010 --> 00:22:19,274 Then you see that Jesus comes riding on this horse, and the name 442 00:22:19,322 --> 00:22:20,074 is the same. 443 00:22:20,162 --> 00:22:25,362 Faithful, reliable, trustworthy, you see, the same word. 444 00:22:25,426 --> 00:22:27,210 Jesus was faithful. 445 00:22:27,290 --> 00:22:30,794 He didn't want to die on the cross, but he died on the cross. 446 00:22:30,922 --> 00:22:31,950 He didn't want. 447 00:22:32,050 --> 00:22:34,558 He did the thing that he didn't want to do. 448 00:22:34,574 --> 00:22:38,590 He said, nevertheless, not my will, but thy will, because I am 449 00:22:38,750 --> 00:22:39,334 faithful. 450 00:22:39,382 --> 00:22:40,930 Somebody say faithful? 451 00:22:41,230 --> 00:22:42,530 And then look at this. 452 00:22:43,470 --> 00:22:45,990 Number three, human faithfulness. 453 00:22:46,150 --> 00:22:47,702 Luke, chapter 16, verse ten. 454 00:22:47,726 --> 00:22:49,062 Now let me read it again. 455 00:22:49,246 --> 00:22:50,046 One. 456 00:22:50,238 --> 00:22:57,170 Be one who is pistos and very little, and you'll also be faithful. 457 00:22:58,360 --> 00:23:01,420 Be like God. 458 00:23:02,120 --> 00:23:05,060 Be like Jesus. 459 00:23:05,520 --> 00:23:07,264 Be faithful. 460 00:23:07,392 --> 00:23:10,260 In a world that is unreliable. 461 00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:12,136 Be faithful. 462 00:23:12,248 --> 00:23:15,272 When everybody else gives up on those. 463 00:23:15,336 --> 00:23:20,936 People, you refuse to give up on those people, because God refused 464 00:23:21,008 --> 00:23:25,386 to give up on you, because Jesus refused to step, forgiving 465 00:23:25,458 --> 00:23:28,266 you every time you ask for forgiveness. 466 00:23:28,378 --> 00:23:33,058 We are faithful in little, because we are like the one who is 467 00:23:33,114 --> 00:23:34,630 called faithful. 468 00:23:39,130 --> 00:23:40,402 You're going to hear people use the. 469 00:23:40,426 --> 00:23:42,530 Phrase my season at v. 470 00:23:42,570 --> 00:23:43,990 One church is over. 471 00:23:45,170 --> 00:23:48,590 And some of them, they did hear from God. 472 00:23:48,930 --> 00:23:51,150 And some of them, it was a season. 473 00:23:51,990 --> 00:23:58,926 But where my wife and I come from, because we come from another 474 00:23:58,998 --> 00:24:01,730 place, northwest Indiana. 475 00:24:02,030 --> 00:24:06,998 And Julie's family came from Alabama, people would say things 476 00:24:07,054 --> 00:24:13,798 like, I've been attending this church for ten years, 20 years, 30 477 00:24:13,894 --> 00:24:17,570 years, their whole life. 478 00:24:18,140 --> 00:24:20,572 And of course, there were people at that church that annoyed 479 00:24:20,596 --> 00:24:23,620 them, but it just got funny after a while. 480 00:24:23,660 --> 00:24:25,804 Oh, doesn't so and so get on your nerves? 481 00:24:25,852 --> 00:24:27,068 Yeah, but that's just. 482 00:24:27,244 --> 00:24:28,156 That's just Rudy. 483 00:24:28,188 --> 00:24:29,480 That's the way he is. 484 00:24:30,620 --> 00:24:31,604 Oh, what do you think about? 485 00:24:31,652 --> 00:24:36,620 And they would stay in church for years, and I see this new kind 486 00:24:36,660 --> 00:24:40,908 of Christianity, this new kind of Christianity that's rising up 487 00:24:40,924 --> 00:24:41,812 in the earth, and it's. 488 00:24:41,876 --> 00:24:45,400 It's not Pestos, it's not faithful. 489 00:24:46,060 --> 00:24:49,440 The only faithfulness they've ever demonstrated is to themselves. 490 00:24:51,700 --> 00:24:56,320 Faithful to their own dreams, their own ambitions, their own desires. 491 00:24:58,060 --> 00:25:04,716 But I want to hear the stories of how long have you been going to 492 00:25:04,748 --> 00:25:05,404 view on church? 493 00:25:05,452 --> 00:25:09,880 20 years, 30 years, 40 years? 494 00:25:10,510 --> 00:25:12,030 Because, you know, this whole. 495 00:25:12,190 --> 00:25:15,126 I went there for a year, but God called me somewhere else. 496 00:25:15,238 --> 00:25:16,406 I went there for two years. 497 00:25:16,438 --> 00:25:17,790 God called me somewhere else. 498 00:25:17,870 --> 00:25:19,206 I went there for three years. 499 00:25:19,318 --> 00:25:25,410 But did he or did God call you to a group of people that are imperfect, 500 00:25:25,790 --> 00:25:30,382 that you need to demonstrate peace dose that you need to demonstrate 501 00:25:30,446 --> 00:25:32,878 long suffering, kindness, patience. 502 00:25:32,974 --> 00:25:38,616 Because you know what happens in an election is we get tired of 503 00:25:38,648 --> 00:25:42,776 people after four years and we vote in another person. 504 00:25:42,968 --> 00:25:46,700 And some of you are changing pastors like you change presidents 505 00:25:47,320 --> 00:25:48,936 because you don't understand peace. 506 00:25:48,968 --> 00:25:54,856 Dos I'm saying this with love because the people, when I was growing 507 00:25:54,888 --> 00:25:57,136 up, we went to a church and we stayed there. 508 00:25:57,248 --> 00:25:58,984 We stayed there no matter what. 509 00:25:59,152 --> 00:25:59,848 And you know what? 510 00:25:59,904 --> 00:26:02,952 I'm not advocating that there are reasons to leave a church, but 511 00:26:02,976 --> 00:26:04,500 there's something missing. 512 00:26:04,970 --> 00:26:09,090 You know, I'm eleven minutes over my time. 513 00:26:09,130 --> 00:26:09,706 Is that okay? 514 00:26:09,738 --> 00:26:12,210 Can I just pastor my own church for a second with all this 515 00:26:12,250 --> 00:26:13,270 stupid technology? 516 00:26:14,010 --> 00:26:17,538 I just got back from doing events all over the US and it was 517 00:26:17,554 --> 00:26:20,218 the last events that I'm going to do because I canceled all of my 518 00:26:20,234 --> 00:26:23,426 itinerant speaking indefinitely to go all in on v one 519 00:26:23,458 --> 00:26:26,074 church to a greater degree. 520 00:26:26,202 --> 00:26:30,510 And I've been asking the Gen Z, how many of you speak in tongues? 521 00:26:31,020 --> 00:26:33,036 And virtually none of them speak in tongues. 522 00:26:33,068 --> 00:26:35,484 But when I ask the older generation how many speak in tongues, 523 00:26:35,532 --> 00:26:37,160 almost all of them say yes. 524 00:26:37,660 --> 00:26:40,452 Because what's happening is there's a gap in the generations 525 00:26:40,516 --> 00:26:42,600 where things are not getting down to them. 526 00:26:44,380 --> 00:26:45,740 It's not transmitting. 527 00:26:45,860 --> 00:26:49,284 And if I were to say there's something that's not translating 528 00:26:49,332 --> 00:26:52,200 to this generation, it's faithfulness. 529 00:26:54,340 --> 00:26:57,780 And we talk about, oh, these churches are all about entertainment. 530 00:26:57,820 --> 00:26:59,532 But you know how that happened. 531 00:26:59,716 --> 00:27:04,572 A whole bunch of unfaithful people needed to be entertained and 532 00:27:04,596 --> 00:27:09,156 they made the pastors who are willing and to entertainers and the 533 00:27:09,188 --> 00:27:11,900 pastors, and then you got the charismatics and the Pentecostals. 534 00:27:11,940 --> 00:27:13,252 I feel the holiness of God on that. 535 00:27:13,276 --> 00:27:15,268 We're about to close, but just stay with me. 536 00:27:15,444 --> 00:27:20,268 All these Pentecostals and charismatics that are chasing these 537 00:27:20,324 --> 00:27:24,188 spiritual highs that are making the pastors and the ministers 538 00:27:24,204 --> 00:27:27,132 and the worship teams feel like we got to get louder and we 539 00:27:27,156 --> 00:27:29,898 got to cry harder and we got to scream louder. 540 00:27:30,004 --> 00:27:31,446 We're creating this in this need. 541 00:27:31,518 --> 00:27:33,730 But what's missing is faithfulness. 542 00:27:34,670 --> 00:27:38,334 Faithfulness is making this thing get so weird. 543 00:27:38,382 --> 00:27:41,686 It's like a tumor that's distorted and it's growing into all 544 00:27:41,718 --> 00:27:42,566 these different areas. 545 00:27:42,678 --> 00:27:45,850 And I feel like I told the Lord, what is this weird? 546 00:27:46,310 --> 00:27:50,086 Why are these pastors acting like they work for Donald Trump? 547 00:27:50,238 --> 00:27:53,198 And they're giving these entire sermons and they're quoting 548 00:27:53,254 --> 00:27:55,214 one scripture and the whole thing's about Trump? 549 00:27:55,302 --> 00:27:59,310 Why are these churches showing whole communal speeches in their 550 00:27:59,350 --> 00:28:02,438 service and there's no scripture and it's like, what in 551 00:28:02,454 --> 00:28:03,278 the world is going on? 552 00:28:03,334 --> 00:28:06,854 Why are these charismatic Pentecostals chasing these spiritual 553 00:28:06,902 --> 00:28:07,838 euphorias? 554 00:28:07,934 --> 00:28:11,406 But these same people have sexual sin in their life they've 555 00:28:11,438 --> 00:28:12,350 never got free from. 556 00:28:12,390 --> 00:28:15,830 And our biggest pastors in these movements are all going down 557 00:28:15,870 --> 00:28:16,646 from infidelity. 558 00:28:16,678 --> 00:28:18,250 And they have no character. 559 00:28:19,470 --> 00:28:20,690 Man, I'm sorry. 560 00:28:21,390 --> 00:28:22,730 I'm broken. 561 00:28:23,470 --> 00:28:25,126 And I'm like, what is going on? 562 00:28:25,158 --> 00:28:26,690 And it's getting worse. 563 00:28:27,270 --> 00:28:30,222 And you got church members fighting each other in the comment 564 00:28:30,326 --> 00:28:34,790 sections like buffoons when a lost and died world. 565 00:28:34,830 --> 00:28:35,350 This is why. 566 00:28:35,390 --> 00:28:37,366 Let me take you back to the beginning one. 567 00:28:37,438 --> 00:28:39,238 Thessalonians, chapter four, verse eleven. 568 00:28:39,294 --> 00:28:42,910 I promise you, this is the best job I can do of exegeting this 569 00:28:42,950 --> 00:28:43,894 scripture for you. 570 00:28:43,982 --> 00:28:47,286 If the apostles were alive, I promise you this is what they would 571 00:28:47,318 --> 00:28:47,870 say. 572 00:28:48,030 --> 00:28:53,500 Aspire to live quietly, go to church every single Sunday. 573 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:54,980 Try that. 574 00:28:56,240 --> 00:29:00,152 What if that's the only thing you haven't done, is went to church 575 00:29:00,256 --> 00:29:05,944 every single Sunday and just live quietly, mind your own affairs. 576 00:29:05,992 --> 00:29:07,860 What if you've never done that? 577 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:12,448 What if you've never locked in on your own life and you've just 578 00:29:12,504 --> 00:29:14,784 never focused, mind your own affairs. 579 00:29:14,912 --> 00:29:16,620 Work with your hands. 580 00:29:17,120 --> 00:29:21,440 What if you've just never worked on honest day's work and you're 581 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:23,560 always trying to get out of something? 582 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,184 What if you just actually did your job? 583 00:29:26,272 --> 00:29:31,160 It's like, this is what I think they would say, as you may, 584 00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:32,304 but this is the point. 585 00:29:32,432 --> 00:29:33,632 And I want to end on this point. 586 00:29:33,656 --> 00:29:38,160 And we're going to pray so that you may walk properly before 587 00:29:38,280 --> 00:29:39,540 outsiders. 588 00:29:43,530 --> 00:29:48,310 I love this venue, and I love preaching from this stage. 589 00:29:49,410 --> 00:29:53,266 I invited 300 people to come to this church to meet me here today, 590 00:29:53,418 --> 00:29:55,706 last night before I went to bed. 591 00:29:55,858 --> 00:29:56,658 And the reason why. 592 00:29:56,714 --> 00:30:00,682 And I was looking at this venue on the maps, and it has a whole. 593 00:30:00,786 --> 00:30:04,082 If you go to apple maps and you look up this venue, it's LGBt. 594 00:30:04,226 --> 00:30:04,890 It's party. 595 00:30:04,970 --> 00:30:07,562 All the pictures are from clubs, nightclubs. 596 00:30:07,586 --> 00:30:09,340 And this whole place is filled. 597 00:30:09,530 --> 00:30:12,380 And I cried looking at those pictures last night. 598 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:18,460 I cried because I said, lord, that's my church. 599 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,488 This not the Brooklyn Monarch, that's my church. 600 00:30:22,544 --> 00:30:23,088 God. 601 00:30:23,224 --> 00:30:24,384 That's where we worship. 602 00:30:24,432 --> 00:30:25,808 That's where people get free. 603 00:30:25,904 --> 00:30:29,672 And I saw all these pictures from New York City of all these people 604 00:30:29,736 --> 00:30:30,584 in this room. 605 00:30:30,672 --> 00:30:31,584 And I saw our. 606 00:30:31,632 --> 00:30:35,834 This is our led while we installed this, and I was crying, 607 00:30:35,882 --> 00:30:36,698 looking at those pictures. 608 00:30:36,754 --> 00:30:38,498 I said, God, this is my church. 609 00:30:38,554 --> 00:30:40,350 This is not a music venue. 610 00:30:40,970 --> 00:30:45,242 We got in trouble for putting a drape over that $100,000 worth 611 00:30:45,266 --> 00:30:45,874 of alcohol. 612 00:30:45,922 --> 00:30:46,674 That's over there. 613 00:30:46,722 --> 00:30:48,670 Cause it's a fire hazard. 614 00:30:49,130 --> 00:30:51,630 So now we gotta figure out what to do about that. 615 00:30:51,930 --> 00:30:53,106 But I love this venue. 616 00:30:53,138 --> 00:30:56,082 Because when I look, every sermon I've ever preached from this 617 00:30:56,106 --> 00:31:00,210 stage, when I look out through here, and, y'all, if we got a fundraise, 618 00:31:00,250 --> 00:31:02,674 we'll get some flame retardant things for that curtain. 619 00:31:02,722 --> 00:31:03,224 Amen. 620 00:31:03,322 --> 00:31:04,520 You're all with me. 621 00:31:05,860 --> 00:31:07,360 You like how I did that? 622 00:31:08,780 --> 00:31:11,280 But see, there's windows out here. 623 00:31:11,620 --> 00:31:13,640 Somebody's walking by right now. 624 00:31:15,100 --> 00:31:18,212 And every single time I've ever preached a sermon from this 625 00:31:18,316 --> 00:31:22,196 stage, it's forced me to look out those windows and be reminded 626 00:31:22,228 --> 00:31:23,760 about the outsiders. 627 00:31:24,980 --> 00:31:26,652 Because really, what's happening? 628 00:31:26,676 --> 00:31:28,680 And you're sitting there with your beautiful wife. 629 00:31:30,510 --> 00:31:32,130 You were an outsider. 630 00:31:33,190 --> 00:31:34,766 We rented a movie theater. 631 00:31:34,878 --> 00:31:38,918 We got Miami, and we got New Jersey. 632 00:31:39,054 --> 00:31:39,850 Sorry. 633 00:31:40,430 --> 00:31:43,646 And in a movie theater, and sometimes as a church, you'll curse 634 00:31:43,678 --> 00:31:44,438 the movie theater. 635 00:31:44,494 --> 00:31:45,574 Oh, I hate this place. 636 00:31:45,622 --> 00:31:46,730 Well, guess what? 637 00:31:47,110 --> 00:31:51,210 You were the outsider that was working at that movie theater. 638 00:31:53,390 --> 00:31:56,916 And we said, what if the only reason why we're in this movie theater 639 00:31:56,948 --> 00:31:58,916 is to lead every single employee to. 640 00:31:58,948 --> 00:32:01,756 Jesus Christ before we graduate to another venue? 641 00:32:01,868 --> 00:32:05,360 And now you're sitting on the front row with your wife. 642 00:32:06,140 --> 00:32:08,760 See, this is the whole point of this sermon. 643 00:32:09,420 --> 00:32:14,580 So that you may walk properly before outsiders, so that you may 644 00:32:14,660 --> 00:32:16,320 walk properly. 645 00:32:16,660 --> 00:32:17,900 This is the secret. 646 00:32:18,060 --> 00:32:19,724 Would you all stand to your feet for a moment? 647 00:32:19,772 --> 00:32:22,240 I went 17 minutes over. 648 00:32:23,300 --> 00:32:25,640 I'm confessing my sins one to another. 649 00:32:31,900 --> 00:32:33,800 I don't know how to get rich. 650 00:32:35,700 --> 00:32:37,280 I don't know how to get rich. 651 00:32:37,820 --> 00:32:41,720 I don't know how to build multinational organizations. 652 00:32:43,140 --> 00:32:46,028 Matter of fact, by the world standards, I don't even know if I'm 653 00:32:46,044 --> 00:32:46,920 a good leader. 654 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:52,100 But I have had so much trauma in my life. 655 00:32:52,400 --> 00:32:55,912 If you met me in my younger years, I would be unrecognizable 656 00:32:56,056 --> 00:32:59,620 to you right now, because that's how jacked up I was. 657 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,580 Nobody ever came and saved me. 658 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:07,060 All the pastors that raised me in the faith cheated on their wives. 659 00:33:09,720 --> 00:33:13,976 But I'm thankful for my story because it forced me to do two things. 660 00:33:14,008 --> 00:33:17,046 And they were the only two things that mattered is one that 661 00:33:17,078 --> 00:33:23,150 drove me to the real Jesus, so that I stopped blaming pastors for 662 00:33:23,310 --> 00:33:24,406 my lack of freedom. 663 00:33:24,438 --> 00:33:26,170 And I started going to the throne. 664 00:33:26,950 --> 00:33:35,450 And then number two is I began to make my life about other people. 665 00:33:36,150 --> 00:33:40,530 And then I found the secret is, when you live your life for others, 666 00:33:40,870 --> 00:33:42,690 you find your true life. 667 00:33:44,860 --> 00:33:45,840 That's it. 668 00:33:48,460 --> 00:33:50,240 I don't know how to make money. 669 00:33:53,300 --> 00:33:55,840 I don't know how to make large churches. 670 00:33:56,820 --> 00:34:00,320 All I know is that it will always be about people. 671 00:34:01,220 --> 00:34:03,320 It will always be about people. 672 00:34:03,860 --> 00:34:04,236 That's. 673 00:34:04,268 --> 00:34:05,480 My heart bleeds. 674 00:34:06,980 --> 00:34:09,676 So for you right now, oh, I got pain. 675 00:34:09,868 --> 00:34:11,320 I got my own trauma. 676 00:34:11,860 --> 00:34:12,596 Guess what? 677 00:34:12,668 --> 00:34:13,964 I got bad news for you. 678 00:34:14,052 --> 00:34:15,012 No one cares. 679 00:34:15,076 --> 00:34:16,280 We all have trauma. 680 00:34:16,740 --> 00:34:17,796 We're all jacked up. 681 00:34:17,828 --> 00:34:20,400 I don't know if you notice we're all jacked up. 682 00:34:22,820 --> 00:34:27,640 But when you get kicked in the stomach, your body turns into a ball, 683 00:34:28,060 --> 00:34:31,240 because the more you're in pain, the smaller you want to be. 684 00:34:31,820 --> 00:34:34,420 And that's why when we say lift your hands at worship, you're 685 00:34:34,460 --> 00:34:38,120 making your body big, which is the opposite of a trauma response. 686 00:34:38,570 --> 00:34:41,682 And that's why when we ask you to serve and we ask you to show up, 687 00:34:41,706 --> 00:34:43,950 it's the opposite of a trauma response. 688 00:34:44,330 --> 00:34:45,874 That's what the Lord's trying to do. 689 00:34:45,962 --> 00:34:50,898 And that for me, I thought that I was coming to New York City 690 00:34:50,954 --> 00:34:52,150 to help people. 691 00:34:52,850 --> 00:34:54,202 But I will tell you, I've been. 692 00:34:54,226 --> 00:34:57,106 Pastoring this church for eight years, and. 693 00:34:57,138 --> 00:35:02,730 It has helped me more than it's ever helped anybody else, because 694 00:35:02,850 --> 00:35:07,260 every single time I served, when I didn't feel like it, the anointing 695 00:35:07,300 --> 00:35:10,560 began to flow and the Lord began to minister to me. 696 00:35:10,860 --> 00:35:12,476 So if I just want to leave. 697 00:35:12,508 --> 00:35:14,452 You with this thought because we're in. 698 00:35:14,516 --> 00:35:19,760 A pending election, choose the dove. 699 00:35:22,460 --> 00:35:27,796 The Bible says that like a dove, not as like a dove, the Holy 700 00:35:27,828 --> 00:35:33,128 Spirit descended upon Jesus and said, this is my son, in whom 701 00:35:33,184 --> 00:35:35,060 I'm well pleased. 702 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:42,380 So the dove is always affirming true identity. 703 00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:47,208 We were driving on the way here, and there were crowds of young 704 00:35:47,264 --> 00:35:50,260 people that were leaving the club, surrounding this club. 705 00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:55,980 And they were wearing their outfits, you know, their club outfits. 706 00:35:56,520 --> 00:35:59,210 And I thought to myself, you know what they really want? 707 00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:00,530 Affirmation. 708 00:36:01,350 --> 00:36:04,290 They want somebody to put their hand on their shoulder. 709 00:36:04,590 --> 00:36:05,886 This is what they want. 710 00:36:05,998 --> 00:36:09,170 And to say, I'm so proud of you. 711 00:36:09,950 --> 00:36:11,530 I'm so proud of you. 712 00:36:13,030 --> 00:36:13,990 Think about that. 713 00:36:14,070 --> 00:36:16,606 There's one young person walking down the street because they 714 00:36:16,638 --> 00:36:21,438 stayed in a club until 08:00 in the morning, and there's another 715 00:36:21,494 --> 00:36:27,174 young person who shows up to play the keys to worship with you. 716 00:36:27,342 --> 00:36:29,130 It's the tale of two cities. 717 00:36:29,510 --> 00:36:31,406 Two cities are colliding. 718 00:36:31,598 --> 00:36:37,702 New York City with the heavenly City, New Jersey with the 719 00:36:37,726 --> 00:36:41,518 heavenly New Jersey, Miami with the heavenly New Jersey, Miami. 720 00:36:41,614 --> 00:36:43,390 There's two worlds colliding. 721 00:36:43,550 --> 00:36:46,010 So here's what I want to ask you. 722 00:36:46,750 --> 00:36:50,974 Is there anybody here across all of our locations that needs to 723 00:36:51,062 --> 00:36:54,668 surrender their life to Jesus Christ before we move on. 724 00:36:54,804 --> 00:36:57,960 Just lift up your hand and say, I want to accept Jesus. 725 00:36:58,580 --> 00:36:59,292 Anybody? 726 00:36:59,356 --> 00:37:00,860 Okay, come on. 727 00:37:00,900 --> 00:37:02,000 Anybody else? 728 00:37:02,900 --> 00:37:04,520 We're going to pray in a moment. 729 00:37:05,620 --> 00:37:08,760 Praise God for all the salvations across our locations. 730 00:37:11,820 --> 00:37:15,116 Can we just take 10 seconds before I say the next thing and acknowledge 731 00:37:15,148 --> 00:37:16,640 the presence of the dove? 732 00:37:17,980 --> 00:37:19,284 The Holy Spirit's here. 733 00:37:19,332 --> 00:37:20,160 Do you feel. 734 00:37:43,170 --> 00:37:44,150 He'S here? 735 00:37:56,380 --> 00:37:58,960 I believe this is a call to faithfulness. 736 00:38:01,620 --> 00:38:02,492 Come on. 737 00:38:02,636 --> 00:38:06,320 The devil won so big on us during the pandemic. 738 00:38:07,140 --> 00:38:08,812 He got us all fighting. 739 00:38:08,956 --> 00:38:12,400 He got us all divided by race. 740 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:14,000 Come on. 741 00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,140 We're not going to let him do it to us again. 742 00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:19,280 You know what's going to happen this time? 743 00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,300 I'm prophesying from this stage. 744 00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,832 What's going to happen this time is when the world looks and 745 00:38:24,856 --> 00:38:26,504 they see v one church. 746 00:38:26,672 --> 00:38:32,744 The outsiders are going to say, let me in, let me into that 747 00:38:32,792 --> 00:38:35,400 love, let me into that grace. 748 00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:39,230 Let me in, let me in to that. 749 00:38:40,050 --> 00:38:41,310 Not this time. 750 00:38:41,650 --> 00:38:43,230 Not this time, devil. 751 00:38:46,810 --> 00:38:47,590 Wow. 752 00:38:47,970 --> 00:38:51,910 So here's my question as I come to a close. 753 00:38:53,050 --> 00:38:58,250 If you're like Pastor Mike, I have my political convictions, but 754 00:38:58,290 --> 00:39:02,002 beyond that, I want to be a child of God and I want to step into 755 00:39:02,066 --> 00:39:03,030 faithfulness. 756 00:39:04,300 --> 00:39:07,600 The Bible talks a lot about those that endure to the end. 757 00:39:08,820 --> 00:39:10,480 That's what this is all about. 758 00:39:11,220 --> 00:39:15,636 When Jesus comes back on a white horse, his name will be called 759 00:39:15,708 --> 00:39:20,360 faithful and everybody like him will be caught up with him. 760 00:39:20,980 --> 00:39:22,880 It's about an identity thing. 761 00:39:23,420 --> 00:39:24,252 Faithful. 762 00:39:24,356 --> 00:39:24,884 Faithful. 763 00:39:24,932 --> 00:39:25,452 Faithful. 764 00:39:25,516 --> 00:39:26,400 Faithful. 765 00:39:27,940 --> 00:39:28,938 The roots. 766 00:39:29,084 --> 00:39:30,690 You know, I found this video. 767 00:39:32,150 --> 00:39:33,410 It was the Lord. 768 00:39:34,710 --> 00:39:39,862 I was here ten years ago, premeditating, launching this church. 769 00:39:40,046 --> 00:39:44,326 And I was in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and this young man took 770 00:39:44,358 --> 00:39:47,158 me aside and he said, I have to prophesy something over you. 771 00:39:47,174 --> 00:39:50,134 He didn't even know that I was going to launch a church. 772 00:39:50,302 --> 00:39:55,286 And he said, I see your church, and we didn't even have a 773 00:39:55,318 --> 00:39:59,886 name, you know, he just said, your church, as this tree and the 774 00:39:59,918 --> 00:40:05,446 root system goes so deep in the soil of this region that it will 775 00:40:05,478 --> 00:40:06,730 be immovable. 776 00:40:07,110 --> 00:40:11,150 And all the roots represent the people that go down deep. 777 00:40:11,190 --> 00:40:12,838 Their roots go down deep. 778 00:40:12,974 --> 00:40:16,078 And so I believe what's happening in the history of our church 779 00:40:16,254 --> 00:40:18,890 is we're getting rooted right now. 780 00:40:19,310 --> 00:40:20,142 Rooted. 781 00:40:20,286 --> 00:40:21,062 We don't need. 782 00:40:21,126 --> 00:40:22,676 Guess what, worship team? 783 00:40:22,838 --> 00:40:23,312 I don't know. 784 00:40:23,336 --> 00:40:25,900 I feel like to say this across our locations. 785 00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:27,280 You're alleviated. 786 00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:31,008 You don't have to sing the perfect song because we're not here 787 00:40:31,144 --> 00:40:32,540 for a perfect performance. 788 00:40:33,120 --> 00:40:34,860 We're faithful to this house. 789 00:40:35,240 --> 00:40:36,360 There's something about that. 790 00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:39,952 Hey, campus pastors, I want to alleviate you you don't have to always 791 00:40:40,016 --> 00:40:43,512 say the right thing, because we're rooted. 792 00:40:43,656 --> 00:40:44,312 We're here. 793 00:40:44,376 --> 00:40:46,660 You see how that doesn't fear go away? 794 00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:50,320 Perfect love cast out all fear. 795 00:40:50,620 --> 00:40:52,000 I got good news. 796 00:40:52,620 --> 00:40:54,292 Things get a little bit easier when. 797 00:40:54,316 --> 00:40:55,920 We'Re faithful to each other. 798 00:40:56,500 --> 00:40:58,668 We don't have to worry all the time. 799 00:40:58,844 --> 00:41:01,540 We don't have to look over our shoulder all the time. 800 00:41:01,700 --> 00:41:03,596 It's not about the perfect performance. 801 00:41:03,748 --> 00:41:05,956 It's not about the perfect speech. 802 00:41:06,148 --> 00:41:09,180 It's about us having the heart of the father and being faithful 803 00:41:09,220 --> 00:41:10,156 to each other. 804 00:41:10,308 --> 00:41:13,252 And when we get done praying this prayer and we walk out for service, 805 00:41:13,316 --> 00:41:18,570 I want you to hug each other, because we have a gift in each other. 806 00:41:19,350 --> 00:41:21,370 We're not always going to be together. 807 00:41:22,270 --> 00:41:24,450 People die in the local church. 808 00:41:25,430 --> 00:41:28,718 I would do anything to have Ivan Marty here to see what's going 809 00:41:28,734 --> 00:41:32,358 to happen at the breakers this weekend because he told me we were 810 00:41:32,374 --> 00:41:35,930 going to be in stadiums, but we did his funeral on Long island. 811 00:41:37,030 --> 00:41:41,330 We got to stop always being so disgruntled. 812 00:41:41,790 --> 00:41:45,814 We have to stop always examining people's faults and failures. 813 00:41:45,862 --> 00:41:47,450 It's not the heart of the father. 814 00:41:48,830 --> 00:41:52,822 Because when the dove is in the room, you'll feel what I'm feeling. 815 00:41:52,966 --> 00:41:56,710 Because he looked at me when I was at my worst, and he didn't call 816 00:41:56,750 --> 00:41:58,530 out all my faults and failures. 817 00:41:58,990 --> 00:42:04,142 He washed me, he cleansed me, he baptized me. 818 00:42:04,286 --> 00:42:06,318 He kept telling me I was more. 819 00:42:06,454 --> 00:42:08,530 When I felt like I was nothing. 820 00:42:09,150 --> 00:42:13,290 So when are we going to start being like the dove? 821 00:42:13,950 --> 00:42:15,850 Donkeys are stubborn. 822 00:42:16,390 --> 00:42:21,210 Elephants are intelligent and crafty, but doves are gentle. 823 00:42:24,110 --> 00:42:29,062 I want us to be known as the church that loves better than any 824 00:42:29,126 --> 00:42:30,210 other church. 825 00:42:30,630 --> 00:42:33,430 And I felt like I had to go long today because it's like I'm 826 00:42:33,470 --> 00:42:38,202 sitting all my kids down and I'm saying, I don't know what's coming, 827 00:42:38,386 --> 00:42:41,590 but I know how this family's gonna act. 828 00:42:42,090 --> 00:42:44,586 I know how this family's gonna act. 829 00:42:44,778 --> 00:42:48,746 And when you walk into our church after the election, a Republican 830 00:42:48,778 --> 00:42:51,230 and a Democrat better be hugging each other. 831 00:42:52,090 --> 00:42:54,670 And a liberal, even you liberals. 832 00:42:56,730 --> 00:42:57,266 Come on. 833 00:42:57,298 --> 00:43:01,910 Nobody agrees with you these days, but we love you. 834 00:43:02,910 --> 00:43:04,254 That's this church. 835 00:43:04,382 --> 00:43:09,890 I better see white hugging black, asian hugging brown. 836 00:43:10,390 --> 00:43:11,974 I better see it in this church. 837 00:43:12,022 --> 00:43:14,238 This is how this family operates. 838 00:43:14,414 --> 00:43:16,250 Enough of this foolishness. 839 00:43:17,030 --> 00:43:18,398 That's who we are. 840 00:43:18,534 --> 00:43:23,366 I better see young honoring the old, but old, you better honor 841 00:43:23,398 --> 00:43:26,246 the young, because they're gifted and anointed, too. 842 00:43:26,278 --> 00:43:28,770 And if we keep waiting, we're going to wait too long. 843 00:43:29,350 --> 00:43:33,222 So we had to have a family conversation today, Lord, help me, 844 00:43:33,246 --> 00:43:34,170 let me pray. 845 00:43:36,350 --> 00:43:38,890 But it's because of the outsiders. 846 00:43:39,790 --> 00:43:43,182 Because when the outsiders see what we have, they're going to say, 847 00:43:43,206 --> 00:43:45,358 I don't care about joining the Republican Party. 848 00:43:45,414 --> 00:43:47,010 I want to join the kingdom. 849 00:43:48,590 --> 00:43:50,494 I don't care about joining the Democrats. 850 00:43:50,542 --> 00:43:51,550 I want to join the. 851 00:43:51,670 --> 00:43:52,930 I'm going to say something. 852 00:43:54,240 --> 00:43:57,408 I got invited to be in a room alone with Donald Trump, and I turned 853 00:43:57,424 --> 00:43:58,140 it down. 854 00:43:58,560 --> 00:44:02,100 But I also got invited to the DNC and I turned it down. 855 00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:07,056 And I thought to myself, what pastor in America got invited by 856 00:44:07,088 --> 00:44:07,928 both parties? 857 00:44:08,024 --> 00:44:10,100 I must really be confusing them. 858 00:44:11,000 --> 00:44:14,180 And then I thought, good, good. 859 00:44:14,800 --> 00:44:19,240 But I don't need either one of their endorsement because I don't 860 00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:19,880 work for them. 861 00:44:19,920 --> 00:44:21,100 I work for him. 862 00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:28,748 And I'm here to lift up the name of Jesus above every name. 863 00:44:28,844 --> 00:44:32,440 Now, I voted biblical convictions and I put my name down, 864 00:44:32,860 --> 00:44:34,360 but you hear what I'm saying. 865 00:44:35,100 --> 00:44:37,916 So I want to pray right now with each and every one of you because 866 00:44:37,948 --> 00:44:39,600 this is what our house is. 867 00:44:41,540 --> 00:44:43,840 Lord, we've been faithful with little. 868 00:44:47,180 --> 00:44:49,360 Would you make us ruler over much? 869 00:44:51,060 --> 00:44:53,840 Give us more orphans to be adopted. 870 00:44:54,370 --> 00:44:56,990 Give us more lost people to be saved. 871 00:44:57,290 --> 00:45:00,842 Lord, those people coming out of the clubs at 08:00 at night or 872 00:45:00,866 --> 00:45:03,826 08:00 in the morning after being out all night, give them to 873 00:45:03,858 --> 00:45:04,710 us, God. 874 00:45:06,010 --> 00:45:07,830 Lord, we choose the dove. 875 00:45:08,450 --> 00:45:11,162 We choose the dove right now. 876 00:45:11,186 --> 00:45:12,450 Would you all just pray this prayer. 877 00:45:12,490 --> 00:45:14,082 With me across every location? 878 00:45:14,146 --> 00:45:19,750 Lord, help me say, heavenly Father, wash me with your blood. 879 00:45:20,550 --> 00:45:22,330 Forgive me of my sins. 880 00:45:23,550 --> 00:45:29,130 May I work with my hands diligently, faithfully. 881 00:45:29,630 --> 00:45:32,010 May I mind my own affairs. 882 00:45:34,750 --> 00:45:39,570 May I be faithful like you're faithful. 883 00:45:40,670 --> 00:45:42,490 Let my roots go down. 884 00:45:44,190 --> 00:45:51,730 And may your love radiate from my life around everybody, my friends, 885 00:45:52,190 --> 00:45:58,254 my family, the outsiders, that they would all come because they 886 00:45:58,302 --> 00:45:59,450 feel your love. 887 00:46:00,350 --> 00:46:07,438 And I say yes to your will and to your way, Father, in Jesus name. 888 00:46:07,574 --> 00:46:11,014 Now let's lift up a prayer individually across all of our locations 889 00:46:11,102 --> 00:46:11,708 right now. 890 00:46:11,814 --> 00:46:13,816 A prayer for the breakers, a prayer. 891 00:46:13,848 --> 00:46:16,368 For our nation, a prayer for what God's doing. 892 00:46:16,424 --> 00:46:17,900 Father, I thank you. 893 00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:22,600 I thank you, Jesus, for what you're. 894 00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:29,456 Doing, Lord, that many will be saved. 895 00:46:29,528 --> 00:46:31,100 Because of our obedience. 896 00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:34,460 Many will be delivered because of our obedience. 897 00:46:35,240 --> 00:46:38,206 Many will come into the family of Goddesse. 898 00:46:38,308 --> 00:46:40,430 Many will join and be faithful. 899 00:46:40,810 --> 00:46:46,210 And Lord, I thank you that today we're marked, marked by your 900 00:46:46,250 --> 00:46:51,790 love, marked by your love, marked by your faithfulness to us 901 00:46:53,290 --> 00:46:54,930 for a thousand generations. 902 00:46:55,010 --> 00:46:56,430 You're faithful, God. 903 00:46:58,210 --> 00:47:02,666 Lord, I ask for an impartation of faithfulness to every single person 904 00:47:02,738 --> 00:47:03,950 watching right now. 905 00:47:04,540 --> 00:47:09,908 That they would receive endurance, long suffering, faithfulness, 906 00:47:09,964 --> 00:47:11,868 kindness, gentleness, meekness. 907 00:47:11,964 --> 00:47:14,520 And the fruits of the spirit would be in our house. 908 00:47:15,420 --> 00:47:18,100 Jesus name, amen.