Mike Signorelli - Overwhelmed and Exhausted? (A Study of Martha and Mary)

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| Mike Signorelli - Overwhelmed and Exhausted? (A Study of Martha and Mary) | November 18, 2025

How many people claim
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To get saved, but their cravings never change.
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You can scroll on your phone
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For four hours, but you can't spend four minutes in prayer.
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Something's gotta change because you say, if it was about me,
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I would keep scrolling.
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But it's about this density, so let me eat the scroll.
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Come on, somebody.
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Oh, oh.
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Luke chapter ten, verse 38.
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As jesus and his disciples were on their way.
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He came to a village where a woman named martha opened her home to him.
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So you can underline her home.
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She had a sister called mary who sat at the lord's feet
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Listening to what he said, but martha was distracted.
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Everybody say distracted.
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She was distracted by all the preparations that needed to be made.
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And she came to him and asked, lord, don't you care that
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My sister has left me to do the work here by myself?
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Tell her to help me.
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So a couple things.
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Number one, it was her house, which would have been very rare
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In the first century for a woman to have a house, but not a husband.
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Now, scholars don't know whether or not her.
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Her husband, she had a husband and he died, which would have made her a widow.
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Or she never got married.
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But one thing we do know about martha is she's bossy.
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Which, as a general
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Rule, if you do want to get married, stop doing that.
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So i'm just saying, because i can't even imagine.
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She went up to jesus and she sees her sister mary at his feet,
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And he's teaching, by the way, and said, hey, we got a lot of stuff
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To do around the house.
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Jesus. can you.
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This is like, i just read you the scriptures.
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She said, jesus, can you tell her to do it?
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That's crazy.
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She tried to tell jesus what to do, and then jesus.
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This is the clap back of eternity.
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This is what? martha. martha.
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And now you know when your dad says your name twice, you're in trouble.
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Martha.
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Martha, the lord answered, you are worried and upset about many things.
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Another translation the esv actually says, martha, martha,
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The lord answered, you have anxiety over a lot of things,
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So you're worried about a lot of things, but few things are needed,
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Or indeed only one.
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And mary has chosen what is better, and it will not be taken away from her.
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So this is what jesus was saying.
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Jesus was saying,
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It's not that
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You're concerned about what needs to be done in the house.
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It's just that you're always filled with anxiety
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And worried about a whole bunch of things, and you're acting like
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It's about this, but it's not really about this.
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Can i just tell you, when you go to a local church like this,
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People will make issues where there are no issues
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And they will try to convince you that there is a problem
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When there is no problem, because they're the problem.
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And you know that what martha was saying
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Was she was creating drama
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Because really, jesus was saying, hey, there's a lot of things
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That are beneficial to do. i'm going to read you the text.
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You're worried and upset.
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You have anxiety about many things, but few things are actually needed.
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And indeed only one.
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And mary's actually doing the one thing that's needed
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Right now, which is what sitting at my feet.
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But now listen, a lot of the way
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Preachers preach this is don't be a martha, be a mary.
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But i don't want to preach you like that because it's it's not really that binary.
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It's actually
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Be a mary before you
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Become a martha because things need to get done.
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It's just are you doing the things for significance,
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Or do you find your identity and significance at his feet?
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And then when you come up from that place, you're free to do whatever else you do,
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But you know who you are in and through him,
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And you're not chasing significance through an assignment.
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You find it in surrender, and there's so many christians that will join a church
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Trying to find significance in their serving.
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And i just want to tell you, we got the martha
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Spirit in the church today.
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And let me just tell you, what you're doing
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Is tremendously important, but it doesn't define who you are.
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Let me break this down.
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Can i tell on myself?
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You know, i have been preaching for many years traveling to different countries.
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And don't let me tell you what the water in colombia did to me.
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I have this
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Thing where i drink the water
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Of every place that i go in faith that god's going to bring me back,
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And that my intestines are going to be alive with whatever's there.
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And columbia hall, columbia.
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It's not just in me, corazon.
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It's in my god's.
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And so i had been preaching all over and seeing miracles and all that.
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And the assignment that i had before i launched
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V1 church was to be the number two at another church.
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And it was really an identity
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Issue for me, because my assumption was that i was going to preach
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Because it would be rational to say, before you go start your own church,
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You should practice preaching more.
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But the assignment that my pastor gave me was to work in the kids ministry,
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And i was like, the kids ministry,
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Do you know who i am?
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I didn't say like that, but that was the heart behind it.
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Like,
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I just got back from columbia where i saw revival,
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And i didn't say it like that, but i felt it like that.
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Some of us are humble in our actions, but not in our heart.
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So i was like, oh yeah, i'll serve. and kids.
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Yeah right away sir.
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And then in my heart i was like, yeah,
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This will be a couple of weeks before i'm up there preaching.
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Well, guess what happened.
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Weeks turned to months.
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Months turned. the years.
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And i was only supposed to be on that assignment for one year.
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And then i was going to be released back to new york.
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But what started to happen was i started to look at the people in the dream team
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For the children's department,
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And the lord started giving me a compassion for them.
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One of the guys, his name is john, and john would show up at 5:00
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In the morning to help me set up all the kids stuff, and i would wear
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Bib overalls because this was northwest indiana and we're half hillbilly.
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I know y'all don't know about that out here in manhattan, but.
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And so i would look at john and i would think to myself,
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Why would this man wake up at 430 in the morning,
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Shower, get dressed, and drive to load in to help me set kids up?
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Like, what's his why i'm doing this because
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I'm eventually going to plant a church and i need to learn all this stuff.
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Why is he doing it?
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And the more i got to know him, i found out he was an alcoholic.
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I found out that he actually was estranged from his wife.
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And so what he was doing was serving
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As if he was going to say like, okay, god, i screwed my life up.
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But the least i can do is come set kids up and i can serve you.
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So what i realized one day the holy spirit was dealing with me
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In prayer was i was serving, but i had pride.
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But then he was serving with a false gospel
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Where he thought he was going to earn his salvation.
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It was almost like, if i do enough for the church,
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I can make up for how much i've screwed up.
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And so it's up.
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But the lord says, mike, he's an alcoholic.
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He's estranged from his wife.
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You're sober, you are reconnected with your wife.
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But both of you need a revelation of the gospel.
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And you know what the gospel is?
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You can't earn it.
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You don't deserve it.
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It's a gift, not a reward.
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And no matter how hard you work, you can't turn the gift into a reward.
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And so what happened was i started to say to john,
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Hey, my my marriage used to be a bad marriage.
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I'd love to help you with your marriage.
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And by the way, i used to struggle with alcohol. can.
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Do you want to go on that journey of sobriety together?
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And i'll help you. and i started to.
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Instead of preaching to the masses, i started ministering to the one.
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And then he's.
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Then all of a sudden, john, it was crazy because,
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Pastor mike, i'm celebrating one month sober.
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Pastor mike, my wife let me take her on a date.
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Pastor mike, like she laughed when i said a joke.
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And i'm at five in the morning in bib overalls setting up the kids department,
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And he's telling me that.
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And out of the corner of my eye, i am wiping away tears
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Because the lord is saying, this is why you're in kids ministry.
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You're not even in it for the kids. you're in it for john.
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And i'm learning this, this sacred way
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That he leaves the 99 for the wine.
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And then all of a sudden i meet bailey,
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And bailey works on taco bell, which i call it toxic.
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Hell, that's a whole nother thing.
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Can i say that?
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Hey, this is my church. i can say it.
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I didn't cause i didn't cause i meant the literal place.
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Okay, so.
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Some of you are like,
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Is he a theologian or is he hood, or is he both?
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Okay, so.
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But but here's the thing, bailey, young single girl.
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And she's serving in the lobby and she's there.
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And what i find is that bailey has no friends,
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So she comes to serve in hopes to making friends.
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And i remember bailey went missing and she didn't
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Come to church for a couple of weeks, and i was, like, calling her.
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And she would return my calls.
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And then i remembered that she works at taco bell.
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So i literally pulled up to the taco bell drive through
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And i was like, hey, is bailey there?
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Like a true story?
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Hey, is bailey there?
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And, she's like, pastor mike,
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What would you like?
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And i was like, where are you?
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Where have you been?
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And i remember just crying in the taco bell drive-thru,
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Not because of what i was going to eat, but.
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But because the lord gave me
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A supernatural burden for bailey.
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And i couldn't stop thinking about where she was.
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And i didn't care if she attended my church.
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I cared about her soul.
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I didn't care if she set up a lobby.
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I cared about the silent tears that she cried at night
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And the brokenness of her life.
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Because the lord was doing a work in me, and he was exposing how superficial i was
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And how how many ulterior motives that i had, and even wanting to start a church
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And what should have been one year in northwest indiana turned into three.
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And every time my pastor came to me and said, are you ready to go to new york?
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I said, no, because bailey isn't completely free yet.
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No, because johns marriage isn't where it should be.
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And i started to define the length of my service
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By how free everybody got around me.
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Come on.
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There's something about this martha mary thing.
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But what started to
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Happen inside of me is patience,
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Which is the fruit of the spirit.
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And that is in short supply.
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Now a days you don't meet patient people.
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People join a church and they're already planning what
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The new church they're going to join that they're going to lie on the holy ghost
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And said, the lord that the lord told him to go.
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The people don't have patience
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Like we need to pray like, lord,
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Do something in me that cultivates the gifts of the spirit,
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So that when people observe my life, they see long suffering.
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And i stayed there for three years.
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And why do i say all this?
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So we're just in luke chapter ten and i only got five more minutes.
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Chill,
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Martha.
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Martha, you're worried and upset about many things,
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But few things are needed or indeed only one.
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Mary has chosen what is better and it will not be taken away from her.
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Who assigned all these assignments to your life?
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Who told you to do everything you're doing?
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Who told you to care about everything you care about?
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Could it be that you were actually deceived
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And you picked up a whole bunch of burdens that jesus never gave you?
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Could it be that you filled your life with the litter
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In the trash of 21st century society,
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And you've cluttered your life with concerns that don't even matter?
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Could the biggest travesty of our life be that we whittled it away?
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Concern about things that jesus never told us to care about, he said.
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There's so many things you're worried about.
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There's one thing that matters.
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Sit at my feet and waste your life and worship.
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And why do i say waste?
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Because that's how the world is going to look at it.
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But aren't you climbing the corporate ladder?
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Aren't you?
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Didn't you don't you need a promotion?
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Aren't you moving to pennsylvania?
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No, no, no, that's not from the lord.
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That was not a confirmation.
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Delete that.
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If you're near one of our campuses, i want to give you
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A personal invitation to check out v1 church.
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There's no way i can describe the atmosphere of revival in the experience.
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If you've never driven up or driven in, you know,
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Let me just tell you it's a powerful atmosphere
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And a bunch of people who really love the lord and want to get to know you.
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So let us know when you're coming and i'll see you at v1 church.
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I thought i was going to start this church
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To save other people.
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But i was the one that got saved.
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Saved from myself.
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That's what manhattan needs.
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Save from ourselves.
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Saved from ourselves.
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And there's something about sitting at the feet of jesus.
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It's not about being martha. it's not about being married.
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It's about taking mary's posture first
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Before you shift into the next.
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So let's the band's coming up.
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And that's a very
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Subtle way.
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You know what you did?
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I know what you did.
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And they know what you did.
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But it's the night service.
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So i want to show you something in john
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Chapter 11 now, because it's the same family.
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So in john chapter 11 we now are introduced to their brother.
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So it's two sisters and a brother, mary,
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Martha and lazarus, two sisters and a brother.
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This is their family.
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And jesus was a friend to them.
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So it would have been very normal for jesus to spend time with them.
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And if you go to john, so this is another book.
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So another gospel, you go to john chapter 11.
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It says, now a man named lazarus was sick
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And he was from bethany, the village of mary and her sister martha.
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Yeah.
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This mary whose brother lazarus now lay sick, was the same one
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Who poured perfume on the lord and wiped his feet with her hair.
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So the sisters went sent word to jesus, lord, the one that you love is sick.
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They're still trying to manipulate jesus.
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You realize that, right?
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Lord?
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The one that you love is sick.
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It's just like when martha is in the other scene
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And she goes up to jesus and tries to tell jesus, to tell mary.
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She needs to get up and clean the house.
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Now their brother's sick and it's like, hey, this is the one that you love.
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He's he's 6 to 1. two.
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Jesus, i know you have an itinerary.
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I know that you have your plans.
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I know you're doing your thing,
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But cancel all that because your boy lazarus is sick.
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And a lot of us
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Need to shift out of the immaturity
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Of always demanding what jesus does.
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That's what tonight was all about.
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Like, what if we stop telling jesus what he's going to do and start
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Letting him tell us what he what we are going to do?
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That's what this message is really about.
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Like, i want to be the person that's like, jesus, no matter what,
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I'm serving you and there are no conditions.
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If there's conditions, it's a, it's a, it's a commitment.
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If there's no conditions, it's a covenant.
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It's like, lord, i'm married to you
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Till i'm, you know, for better or for worse, sickness and health.
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That's the language of covenant, is the language of certainty.
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And that's that's what you don't really see here yet.
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Yet, yet.
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Okay, now it says when he heard this, jesus said, the sickness will not end.
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And death.
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No, it is for god's glory that god's son may be glorified through it.
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Now jesus loved martha and her sister and lazarus.
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So when he heard that lazarus was sick, he stayed.
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He stayed there two more days.
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When he heard he was sick, he waited till he fully died.
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Let, let let me just say this.
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For those of you who are new to the faith, he may not show up when you want him to.
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He may not even show up when you ask him to.
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But he's never late.
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He's never late.
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Some of the old school saints know what i'm talking about.
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He may not do it when you want him to do it,
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But he's going to do what he said he's going to do. why?
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Because he's proven something to you.
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Showing you something can bring down
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The emotional music.
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So then this is
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A can't be theological.
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I'm keeping it lighthearted because i'm putting that laughing
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Gas on you so we can cut you so deep and get this cancer out of your soul.
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The cancer of selfish ambition, the cancer of your own strategy and plans.
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Because the end of your strategy is the beginning of god's perfect will.
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This psalm, this is the martha and mary story.
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He shows up verse 21.
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Let's skip all the way to verse 21.
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Lord martha said to jesus, you know, if you have been here,
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My brother would not have died.
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But i know that even now god will give you whatever you ask.
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Now i love this.
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Jesus said to her, your brother will rise again.
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Then in verse 24, martha answered, i know he will rise again.
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And the resurrection at the last days.
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She has a perfect theological answer,
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But doesn't know the character and nature of jesus.
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Oh, i know, lord, he will rise again
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In the resurrection of the saints.
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Some of us have binge watched so much christian content.
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You know the scriptures, but you haven't met the word.
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Did you catch that?
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Like jesus is the word and and so satan memorized scripture.
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Did did not satan use scripture to tame jesus?
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And so satan knew scripture but was not obedient to the word.
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And there's something about her in this moment
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Where she's like, well, i know the perfect theology.
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Answer no, i'm right in front of you, i am.
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This is what he says.
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I am the resurrection and i am the life.
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And so there's so many christians that are powerless
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Because they've memorized the scriptures but never obeyed.
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And there's something that flows from obedience
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Where we experience resurrection life.
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This is this is what began to happen.
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He resurrected her from or lazarus from the dead.
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But then, now let's go to chapter 12.
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So i've brought you to the full evolution of martha and mary.
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It's like the final scene and it says this
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Six days before the passover.
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Verse one jesus came to bethany, where lazarus lived,
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Whom jesus had raised from the dead.
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Little side note here a dinner was given in jesus honor.
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Martha served while lazarus was among those reclining at the table with him.
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So there's another table.
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There's another.
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There's some.
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There's jesus in the sea, but now there's lazarus in the seat as well.
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And then it says, then mary took a pint of pure nard and expensive perfume.
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She poured it on jesus feet and wiped his feet
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With her hair and the perfume filled with the fragrance.
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And that it says in the house filled with the fragrance of her perfume.
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Did you know that many theologians speculate that when jesus
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Was physically dying on the cross, he would still smell like the perfume?
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In john chapter 12 that mary lavished him with?
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Because when you look
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At the sequence of events, it happens in such a proximity of time
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That it was likely that the aroma of this perfume
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Would have filled the atmosphere as jesus was being crucified.
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And there's a moment where
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Jesus says that the gospel will be preached
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And as the gospel is preached around the world,
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This story of the anointing of the spikenard being shattered
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And lavished upon me will be told as a memorial to mary. why?
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Because mary's life is to demonstrate to us
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What complete and total surrender looks like.
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You have met a lot of people who are 98% surrendered to jesus.
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You've met a lot of men of god and preachers that are 97% submitted.
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But you know, when you've been around somebody who's 100% submitted
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Because the aroma and the fragrance of their life is simply undeniable.
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They may not be famous on earth, but they're a renown in heaven
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Because heaven responds to those who are in full surrender and.
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The story of bethany
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Is such a powerful because while this is happening,
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There's something about mary that causes
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Everybody around her to manifest.
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There's something about a true worshiper
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That will provoke everybody around them.
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So when mary was worshiping at the first story, i told you it,
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And she was at the feet of jesus, it disturbed martha.
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Martha's like, i gotta stop this.
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I have to stop. what's happening right here.
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And then now she does it again and look who gets disturbed.
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Look who starts to flare up.
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It's none other than judas iscariot,
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And this is what he says.
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But one of the disciples, judas iscariot, this is verse four,
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Who is later to betray him, objected,
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Why wasn't this perfume sold and the money given to the poor?
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It's worth a year's wages. verse six.
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He did not say this because he actually cared about the poor,
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But because he was a thief.
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As keeper of the money bag, he used to help himself
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To what he put into it.
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And then jesus again.
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Jesus is always defending true worshipers.
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So when when martha tried to go stop,
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Mary, mary never even addressed martha.
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We see in scripture jesus is the one who defends her.
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Jesus is like, listen, i what she's doing is the only thing that matters now.
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She lavishes jesus with this, with this fragrant anointing oil.
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And then when judas is like, she shouldn't have done that,
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She could have used that money for the poor.
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She never defends herself.
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She just stays in a posture of worship.
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And then jesus.
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This is what jesus says back to him.
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You don't even care about the poor.
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They never do.
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Can do you see all that equipment
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That v one church brings into that expensive venue in manhattan?
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They could be feeding the poor with that.
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If you care about the poor, let me see your bank statements.
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You owe all that starbucks.
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Was that for the poor?
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You? well, i'm poor, pastor mike.
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It was for me.
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Hey, mike. signa rally here in the studio.
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We're getting ready to jump back into the sermon,
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But just very briefly, i wanted to let you know
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See, what happens is,
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When worship is when you're an environment of worship,
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It will cause everybody's ulterior motives to be exposed.
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And if you're.
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Can i say this gently, if you're in this atmosphere
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And you find yourself constantly being judgmental,
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God wants to heal what worship is revealing.
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If you find yourself looking at people like, look at them and look at that.
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Listen.
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Let's break competition with celebration.
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Let's be the kind of church
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Where we actually emulate and celebrate instead of compete.
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And when we see mary at the feet of jesus, we say, i'm going to emulate mary.
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I'm going to get down at the feet of jesus when i see one of my other,
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Like your worship you in the hat, your worship, bless me tonight.
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You provoked me to go deeper in worship.
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I don't even know you.
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I think i shook your hand at the beginning of the service,
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But i looked over at you.
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I don't know what tomorrow you.
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I don't know what your monday's going to be, but i looked over you
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Several times tonight, and i saw the purity of your worship.
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It was very simple, but the purity of your worship.
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And i said to myself, i want to go deeper because of that guy.
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That's who we need to be. who?
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Does the things that flare up
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In atmospheres like this, they're being they're being solicited.
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They're being drawn out so god could heal it.
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Like, what is it that bothers you?
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So much that somebody else gets attention?
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Is it that orphan tendency?
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Come on, hit that wrong note on that
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She hit a blue note.
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Well,
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We call that a blue note.
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Well.
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It was right on cue.
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You're flowing with me.
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That was holy ghost flow.
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But but but we're laughing because
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What destroys the local church.
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What absolutely erodes
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Our unity is when instead of looking at somebody and taking a cue
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That that's when we like, man, we need to celebrate.
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We start to compete, we start to judge.
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And there's something about the 12th chapter of the book of john
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Where she just jesus responds, leave her alone.
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It was intended that she
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Should save this perfume for the day of my burial.
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You will always have the poor among you, but you will not
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Always have me.
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See, there's there's something about that, y'all.
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Would you just stand your feet so i could pray for you real quick?
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Jesus says you will always have the poor among you,
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But you will not always physically have me.
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Yeah.
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We're getting ready to close this late.
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Chick-fil-a is not open on sundays.
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Come on.
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What's that?
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What's that other chicken place?
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Raising cane's.
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Cane's?
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I rebuke that
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All fried and unhealthy.
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But he's a temple of the holy ghost.
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Come on. amen.
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Somebody just changed their plans.
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But that.
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Well, let me just let me just say this over you.
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Because these sermons that i've been preaching is me
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Trying to lay the foundation
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For what i believe will be a church that remains in manhattan.
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And i'm trying to really look at the foundation to say
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That if the lord tarries and you end up raising your kids
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In this environment, or if you're not called to have kids
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Serving in kids, many ministry for somebody else
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Is that you remember the messages because it's a rare place that you walk into.
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And martha sees mary and then joins mary at jesus feet.
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It's a rare environment like that.
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And that's my heart, my desire for you as your pastor, that you would come
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Every single sunday into this place and be provoked and spur each other on.
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And if we're going to have a competition, let's have a worship competition.
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We're going to have a competition.
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Let's have a generosity competition.
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If we're going to have a competition, let's see how many
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We can lead to the cross.
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Come on.
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At any cost.
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And just that's the competition.
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Next week, i want you to do something special.
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Next week, i want you to bring some people to the feet of jesus.
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And i want to encourage you to invite somebody next week that's
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The least likely to show up,
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Because inviting
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Somebody you think will show up doesn't require faith.
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Invite somebody that you think would never show up.
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And let's bring them into the presence of jehovah
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And let god do what only god can do next week,
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Because i believe that it's going to be a powerful.
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I have had so much anticipation for what god is going to do next week.
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But as we get ready to close right now,
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Who would you close your eyes
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To remove the distractions for a moment?
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Many of you have felt the need to defend yourself
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Because you've been like mary.
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You've been in a posture of worship.
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And i just heard the lord say, i will be your defense.
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Don't even feel the need to defend yourself,
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But i
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Just want to invite you to steal my words.
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Right now we're going to say this prayer together,
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But right now i'm just have your eyes closed
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Because this is a private moment for somebody.
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But is there anybody here who's like, you know, i don't think that
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I've ever really given my life to jesus.
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I've been around christian stuff.
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I've sing the songs, but i can't truly say that i've ever just fully
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Surrendered my life to christ and accepted when i talked about the gospel.
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Maybe somebody is here and you realize you've been trying to earn it
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And you've received a false gospel and you need to
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Just surrender and say, you know what, god, i'm never going to earn it.
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I'm just going to receive it.
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If that's you, would you just lift your hand and say, pastor mike, that's me.
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I truly want to be saved.
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I want to accept jesus christ tonight, and i want to know.
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Yeah. come on,
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Come on.
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Just keep your hand up.
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Come on. there's many people right now.
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Wow, wow.
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Come on.
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This is the greatest miracle that can ever happen.
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There are multiple people in this room
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That are going to cross over from death to life.
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There's people in this room, come on, that are going to make
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A decision for eternity right here.
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Amen. and tonight.
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Okay, you can open your eyes again.
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Just take a look at this crazy preacher.
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Now, listen, i have seen people
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Come out of wheelchairs and got it on video.
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Doesn't always happen, but i've seen it.
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I've got stories.
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Even from weeks ago, people who have had miraculous recoveries
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From cancer without surgeries, with medical verification.
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But what we're about to do right now is greater than all that.
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And so i
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Believe that this week is a foretaste of next week.
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Next week we're going to see a lot of souls.
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But i hope for those of you that lifted up your hand, what's today?
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September 22nd.
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Happy birthday.
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We're about to say this prayer and this is your new birth year.
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This is when you get born again.
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How do you say that in spanish?
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Born again?
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Okay, we don't have a consensus on our spanish here.
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We need a unified
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Born again.
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People say, well, i was born this way.
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Well, it's time to be born again and to be born again.
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Pastor mike, how am i saved?
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Confess that christ as savior.
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Simply receive him as your savior.
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He'll wash you with his blood.
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And you'll leave this place forever free.
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Well, let me just say this.
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After that, we're just going to pray again.
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Because when i was telling the story about bailey
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Waved at me.
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If you started to get a burden for people when i told this story about john,
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How many of you felt like, i want to do that?
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Okay, can i tell you a really cool, crazy thing?
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We ended up starting a church in northwest indiana a couple of years ago.
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John ended up joining our church,
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And now he's leading a dream team,
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And him and his wife are leading a connect group, and their marriage is healthy.
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And he's still been sober.
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And by the way, he had a heart attack that should have killed him.
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It didn't kill him.
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He came back in better health and is now leading
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And serving our men in different capacities.
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That amazing.
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So for all those
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Who raise their hand to accept christ as savior
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Church fam, can we all say this together with him right now?
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Come on, let's lift our voices together.
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Let's say this prayer together.
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Borrow my words, heavenly father,
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Wash me with your blood.
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I surrender.
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Make me new, i will follow you all my days.
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Make me a disciple
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I choose.
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As for me and my house,
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We will serve the lord in jesus name.
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Okay, now for everybody else, say this prayer with me.
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Say, heavenly father, give me a burden
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For your children.
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Give me the anointing
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For breakthrough in their lives
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That dreams would break
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As a ministering to them.
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As i'm speaking to them.
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And there will be truth
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That remains in jesus name.
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Somebody shout amen, amen from the.
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I really want to thank you for supporting this ministry.
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Pray about what god would have you do.
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We don't tell people what to give.
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What we do love to talk about is the amazing, life saving projects
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That we do around the united states and around the world.
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Even underground church networks, or providing disaster relief to areas
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Most affected around the united states, many lives are being changed
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Mike Signorelli - Overwhelmed and Exhausted? (A Study of Martha and Mary)

November 18, 2025 | 37:25

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