Mike Signorelli - Stop Explaining Yourself to Demons in People (Part 1)

September 26, 2025 | 28:0

Pastor Mike Signorelli brings bold, Bible-based teaching to help believers walk faithfully in today’s often compromised world

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| Mike Signorelli - Stop Explaining Yourself to Demons in People (Part 1) | September 26, 2025

How many people claim to get saved?
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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.
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So let me destroy.
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Oh, come on, somebody.
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Oh, oh.
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So we're in the second part of the unaffordable heart.
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Now, this is a series that i did years ago.
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And the lord told me, do it again, but give me more.
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And we're going a little bit deeper now.
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Last week, the emphasis of that sermon.
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And i would love for you to go back and watch it was for you to actually take
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Inventory of yourself, to actually say, okay.
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Shine the light on me.
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God, what do you want me to see about me?
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There's something powerful that happens when you stop looking at other people
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And you start looking at yourself and saying, work on this, god, okay?
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And that really was the essence of part one.
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Go back and listen to it.
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So much freedom. so many testimonies.
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But the title of this sermon is silence is also a language.
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And some of you, here's another way of saying it.
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Stop explaining yourself to demons.
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Why do you get so quiet?
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But you can stop explaining yourself to demons.
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Some of you think you're having a conversation with a person, but you are.
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But you're having a conversation with all the disembodied personalities
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That came into their body, and you're having a conversation with demons.
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And i'm here to tell you that you cannot continue
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To waste your energy having the wrong conversations,
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Because emotional expenditure will actually produce physical exhaustion.
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Some of you are not tired in your body, but your body responds
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With tiredness because you're exhausted in your emotions.
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Stop explaining yourself to demons.
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And i'm here to tell you
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That you cannot afford to use your energy
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To keep having conversations with people
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Who are committed to misunderstanding you.
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They don't want to understand you.
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They don't want to.
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It's not an intelligence issue.
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It's a demonic issue.
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Yeah, they get what you're saying.
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They just don't agree with you.
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Yeah, they understand what you're saying.
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They just don't believe you.
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So stop wasting your energy having conversations with demons.
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Okay, let me explain it.
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In psalm chapter 139, verse 23 and 24.
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This is our memory verse for this month.
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And it says, search me, god, and know my heart.
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Test me in my anxious thoughts and see if there's any offensive way in me.
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And lead me in the way everlasting.
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But then when you look okay now we're going to kind of break this down.
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In matthew chapter seven, verse six.
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Jesus is giving an explanation in the form of a parable
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Meaning things are not literal.
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But we must discern and decipher.
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Bring the gain or the volume down on my vocal so it stops feeding back.
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Thank you. we must discern, or
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We must
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Distinguish what he's saying and what it represents.
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So in other words, there's deeper layers to this.
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And many of you know this, but you probably have never read it in context.
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Or if you did, you don't remember.
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So let's just take a little bit of time and look at matthew chapter seven.
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Do nine.
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Okay. everybody say do not.
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Because when i read scripture, i got to read it real slow
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Because i'm a little adhd.
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You see, some of you are too.
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Do not.
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So here's the thing.
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Some of us are treating god the way we treated our parents.
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We're a command is actually treated like a suggestion.
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Do not to an american.
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Sounds like a suggestion.
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It says do not go more than 55mph.
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And most of you need to repent for your drive to church today.
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I have italian heritage and speed limit.
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Signs are suggestions to me, not commands,
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But there are police officers that have been tasked with enforcing
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What was commanded because there are consequences for the commands.
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Are y'all with me?
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So? so a lot of us need to go back to the bible,
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Particularly matthew, mark, luke and john, which are the gospels.
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And what we need to do is we need to we need to read the commands of christ.
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And we need to ask ourselves, am i reading commands like they're suggestions?
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And if so, what would happen in my life if i actually did what he said to do?
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And i used to actually have a sheet of paper that i would carry around with me.
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That was the 50 commands of christ in scripture
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And just handed out to v1 church members back in the day.
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So when they've ever be like, can you help me with my marriage?
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Yes. here's the 50 commands of christ.
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Can you help me in my finances?
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Yes. here's the 50 commands of christ.
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And i would dispense that paper and be like, do all of this
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In your life will dramatically change because most of us,
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We don't adhere to the commands. so let's start there.
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Okay, so i just want to say do not do not is a command.
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And the reason why i spent so much time just on two words
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Is because most of the things that are beneficial in scripture
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Are very easy to understand, but very hard to do.
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And most of us want difficult things to understand, to tickle our brain.
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But we have not been faithful
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To the things that are easy to understand, but difficult to do.
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You know, like i have food in a tupperware container in this back room
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Because i'm meal prepping, because i gained some weight while i was in europe.
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And the thing is, i know how to lose weight.
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I just don't want to have
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Anybody else just get delivered.
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So it's like, what happens is when, you know,
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Well, i like listening to so-and-so because he's deep.
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Yeah, but
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You really are not faithful in the basics, and that's why you're not living free.
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And so this command do not is exactly that a command?
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But what does it say?
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Do not give dogs what is sacred and do not throw your pearls to pigs.
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So that's the command.
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So we have to break that down.
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How are we faithful to this command if we don't understand what it is?
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So do not give what is sacred to dogs or pigs.
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So that means that there's two kinds of human beings and or one type of human
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Being to two different explanations dogs or pigs.
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Now, the thing about dogs is dogs will indiscriminately eat anything.
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Now doesn't mean they'll keep it all in,
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You know, they'll throw it up.
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A matter of fact,
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A dog goes back to its vomit because it has a keen sense of smell
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And can actually smell the undigested bits of food in the vomit.
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And it's not eating the vomit, it's eating the morsels of undigested food.
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So when a dog don't be like a dog that returns back to vomit
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Is another way of saying don't go back to a toxic situation
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Where some of it was good,
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But the little bit of good is what actually takes you out.
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Some of you are in relationships you like, but he's a nice guy.
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Yeah, he's a nice guy who abuses you.
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Oh, but.
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But i'm attracted to him.
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Yes you are. that means nothing like so.
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A dog returning back to its vomit is another way of saying is, i'm willing
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To lick up something toxic for the what i perceive to be good.
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I'm willing to stay in a friendship because we have history.
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Well, that history is the morsel inside the vomit.
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Just because you have a history doesn't mean you have a future.
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Oh, but i'm trying to help you.
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But then there's pigs.
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Now, the thing about pigs is they walk around in mud.
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Pigs, also indiscriminately eat things.
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And so what it says is don't give what is sacred to pigs.
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And in other words, don't give sacred
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Morsels of truth and wisdom to those who don't discern
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The difference between a $3 cheeseburger and a steak dinner,
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They can't discern the value of the thing you're giving them.
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And so if you can't discern the value, you can't appreciate it.
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There are some people who didn't appreciate who you were
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Because they didn't have a value for the wisdom of god.
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You get what i'm trying to say.
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There's some people that don't know how to discern the depth of what
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You're giving them, because they've got a mcdonald's budget for wisdom.
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You get what i'm trying to say, like, is this making sense?
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So don't cast your pearls among swine is another way
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Of saying they don't have the value for what they can't discern
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The value of what you're giving them.
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And but then i got to go
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A little bit further, because oftentimes we have this bumper sticker, christianity
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That only allows us to quote a scripture out of context
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Because we're there are consequences,
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There are commands, there are consequences.
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So the next sentence says, if you do, everybody say the word.
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If if you do, so in other words is saying, do not give dogs what is sacred.
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Don't throw your pearls to pigs.
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But if you do the this is the consequence.
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It says they will trample them.
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They may trample them under their feet.
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And you might say, and
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So there's actually two consequences
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And turn and tear you to pieces.
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So they destroy the wisdom you tried to give them.
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Then they turn and destroy you.
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So what they're going to do is trample on everything
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You said, then they're going to trample on you.
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So first they're going to attack what you said they're going,
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Then they're going to attack your character.
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Oh, i'm i'm talking.
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I'm tall.
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And some of you only have yourself to blame
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Because you cast your pearls among swine, and you enacted a consequence
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Where pigs and dogs trampled you, and then they ripped you to pieces.
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So stop explaining yourself to demons.
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Yes, this is the solution.
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Silence. but.
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We have the best conversations.
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But they've been there for me.
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But. well, you know,
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They're just a little negative.
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But we have fun sometimes. two
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Do an experiment.
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Don't talk to them and see if they come
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And talk to you. yes.
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Do an experiment.
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Text him.
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Don't text him and see if they text you.
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Don't invite them and see if they invite you.
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Oh, come on,
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The way you determine.
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If so.
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Listen, a dog or a pig
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Is is a creature that doesn't hunt.
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They're always dependent on being fed.
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Do you hear what i just said?
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Did they have a heart
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That's soft before the lord?
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A heart of humility, a heart.
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And the bible says the fear of god is the beginning of wisdom.
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Or do they have a pig's heart?
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Do they have the dog's heart?
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I mean, what kind of heart?
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What are they made of?
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And sometimes in my attempt to help people, i've hurt myself.
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Some of you, in your attempt to help people, you're just hurting yourself.
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Look at these these verses.
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Proverbs chapter 17, verse 28.
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The book of proverbs is the book of wisdom.
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Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent and discerning.
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If they hold their tongue,
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They go about the action of holding, holding your tongue.
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Some of you want to do it.
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Say, can i just tell you that one of the fruits of the spirit is self-control?
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And some of you are.
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You want the holy spirit to act like a demon and possess you and control you,
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But actually the holy spirit is the opposite of a demon.
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See, a demon wants to take your control away and you do things
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Impulsively, but the holy spirit wants to give you self-control.
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And so some of you are like, you want the devil to act like a demon.
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He's not going to act like a demon.
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He's going to empower you to control yourself.
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And so nobody's going to stop you from gossiping, not even the holy spirit.
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You're just going to grieve the holy spirit while you're gossiping,
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And then wonder why you don't operate in authority.
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Because you
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Salt water and fresh water cannot come out of the same spring.
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It is impossible to dishonor the holy spirit and honor him at the same time.
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And so a lot of conversations i have,
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It's i'm asking myself is if is the holy spirit
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Being grieved in the midst of this
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Because he's always in the conversation with me.
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And so this is we've got to it says, even a fool is thought
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Wise if they keep silent, if you're near one of our campuses,
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I want to give you 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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So some of you are on the
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Journey of wisdom, but you're not quite wise yet. why?
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Because you come from families that talk about people,
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See wealthy families talk about ideas.
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They talk about vision.
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They talk about plans and strategies.
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But lower level families talk about people.
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They feast on drama.
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And so what i've had to do is go through a generational change over.
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And it really started with my mother and i because we were the first
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We're the breakers.
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And we sat down at the kitchen table
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And we had made up our mind, we're going to have prophet talks.
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And we came in. let me tell you why.
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Every single day my grandmother and there was a lot she did.
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Right?
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I don't want to dishonor her.
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There's a lot she did right.
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But, you know, in each generation there's a journey
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To get that lineage increasingly more free.
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So she she got a little she was chipping away at the foundation.
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Now, my mother sandra just blew through the whole wall.
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And i said, well, we might as well go to canaan.
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You know, that's kind of how it happened.
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But but i remember that she had a daily conversation with her mom,
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Do you remember this?
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And my mother would be in the kitchen with a corded phone every day.
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She had a man had pretty much a mandatory phone call with her mother,
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And the entire conversation was her just bitter guile.
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Gaza venom, am i right?
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Without dishonoring her?
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The only thing she knew to talk about was other people, you know?
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And to us, as we got older, it was funny.
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But, you know, a lot of us come from families
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Where we talk about each other, am i right?
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But but then it's just this weird toxic trait.
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But we'll also die for them and fight people for them.
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How weird is that?
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So it's like, here's my grandmother going to back cussing somebody out for me.
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But i'm like, did you just say i was sucking all your popped out?
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It didn't tell my mom.
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And what the what? no. toxic.
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Are we all part of the same family?
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So then what happens is god wants to elevate you to the realm
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Where you stop talking about people and you start talking about vision.
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You start talking about strategy, you start sharing wisdom.
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And i remember my mother and i made a
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I don't know, i think the holy ghost probably gave us the idea,
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But we just said, this table is for profit talks.
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And i was only a teenager, by the way, telling these stories.
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I hadn't even moved out because i moved out at 18 and went to college.
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So these are just from 15 to 18.
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But we had profit talks and we just changed our conversations
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And we covenanted to each other, we're not going to talk about people,
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We're going to talk about this, the things of the spirit.
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And that marked me.
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And so if you come to this house now, that's what me and bella talk about.
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That's what me and everleigh talk about.
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We talk about the things in the spirit.
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We have profit talks at our table.
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So you can steal that idea.
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And let me tell you why that's important, because you have to break through these
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Generational patterns of toxicity
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That are lowering, lowering your potential.
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And so it starts with silence.
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If you don't know what to say, how about just don't say nothing.
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That's an option.
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And then ecclesiastes chapter three, verse seven.
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Now ecclesiastes was written by what the bible calls
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The wisest man that ever lived, and the wisest man who ever lived.
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He said in ecclesiastes chapter three,
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There is a time for speaking, and there's a time for silence.
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So we have to learn
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Not just what to say, but when to say it.
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So there's some people who always talk.
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Matter of fact, sometimes the more you talk, the less people listen.
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Then there's some people who never talk that need to talk, and we have to grow
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In our wisdom of when do we speak and what do we speak about?
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And so ecclesiastes tells us there's a time to be silent.
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Now, just going a little bit deeper here.
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It's not about the absence of words.
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It's about the direction of words.
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Because there's some things that you want to say to a person,
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But god the father is saying, say it to me,
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And there are some things that you want to fight and you want to fight a person,
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But you have to actually take a step back and say,
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Am i actually talking to a person or persons within the person?
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Because demons are persons without a body
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Who legally seek the right to inhabit a body and the legal right that they have,
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Which is sort of like the deed of the house is the iniquity
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And the sins of that person and the generations that preceded them.
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The book of galatians gives you a new testament perspective on this.
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And then the book of leviticus and and others give you an old testament
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Perspective on this.
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But for for us today as a church, because i've got hundreds of hours
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Of teachings on, on this online.
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So i can't do it today.
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But the body, you have to understand the bible as a legal language
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Because we're talking, you know, you can't say
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Jesus is my king but not understand the laws of the kingdom.
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So some of you know much more about
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United states politics than you do the kingdom.
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And we've got to understand the kingdom.
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And so for example, jesus said, i didn't come to abolish the law,
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But rather i came to fulfill it.
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So this is legal language.
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Then the other thing is,
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When jesus and we're going to go through the entire month of august, we're going
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To go through the book of leviticus so i can help you discern the implications
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Of old covenant law into new covenant, realization.
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And through christ as can be very powerful.
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How many of you excited to learn the book of leviticus?
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It's going to be great,
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But but the reason why i say that is because, okay,
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So many christians do not understand kingdom, and they're a part of it.
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And it's almost like being a citizen,
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But not being fully aware of the rights that you have as a citizen.
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When they went to go in prison, paul paul said, wait a second, i'm not just a jew.
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I'm also a legal citizen of rome.
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Therefore you must try me in a court.
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And so there was much more of an understanding of how things interact
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Legally.
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Now demons are basically lawyers,
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Demons, no legal right.
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They know what was done by your ancestors before they inhabited your body.
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And there they're saying, no, i have every right now.
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The book of galatians says, cursed is a man that hangs on a tree.
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And it talks about how christ actually by dying on the cross, broke
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Every generational curse and fulfilled, basically
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He satiated the penalty of death,
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Hell, or death and, sin.
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And as a result of that, we have full access to that freedom.
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But what we have access to must be enforced.
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Does this make sense?
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So it's illegal to squat in a house, but that doesn't stop people from squatting.
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You must enforce that law.
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It's illegal for you to speed on your way to church.
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It's illegal to.
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But but depending on how flagrant it is, it gets enforced.
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So these people who say, well, you just let jesus, he'll do it all for you.
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No, it's you're actually using the wrong analogy.
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It's that jesus empowered you to enforce the victory.
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He already established.
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And so you're not fighting for victory.
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You're fighting from a place of victory.
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But you must enforce it because satan and his demons are violators,
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Trying to actually act illegally to impose a thing that's been broken.
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Does that make sense?
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Hey mike, cigna rally here.
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And we're back in the studio.
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I have a very important message for you before we go back into the sermon,
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October 25th.
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Thousands are gathering at now arena in chicago.
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So i want to encourage you, because last year
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We saw medically verifiable miracles.
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Entire families saved, many people delivered
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From addictions and it was a powerful time together.
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And we're doing it again this year.
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But seats are going fast.
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I want to see you there in chicago.
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It's worth the flight.
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It's worth the drive in.
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It's the breakers conference at now arena october 25th.
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Go to
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Breakers conference.com or scan the qr code now.
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Get your tickets
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While there's still a few remaining, and i'll see you october 25th.
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And so that's why we cast them out.
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And the word out to cast out is ekball█.
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And the greek ekball█ means it's it's a military term
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That says that a soldier forcibly removes another soldier from a territory.
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So in other words, it's like saying, this is the united states territory
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And russia, you you made a big mistake when you parachuted
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Into west virginia.
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Because we're going to forcibly remove you because this is not your land.
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It doesn't stop them from trying to come here.
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But there are consequences when you step up on our soil.
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Does anyone know what i'm talking about?
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So in the same way as a believer, it's there are consequences
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When the enemy infringes on soil that he does not no longer, have.
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And we must forcibly remove him, which is the work of deliverance.
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That's the work of intercession.
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How many of you remember?
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Hold off for a second on the band?
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How many of you guys remember when we were in new york city in times square, and me
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And some of my friends were up on stage
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Just prophesying and declaring and interceding?
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Do you guys remember that the assignment was to rend the skies?
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Rend means to tear apart violently.
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And what happened was we were trying to dethrone rulers
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In principle and powers and enact the authority that was given to us.
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I believe that we were successful in that assignment.
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And here's my evidence.
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Since that moment in new york city,
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Now we have lou engle, who is here just weeks ago,
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Who came in and said
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That the lord called him for a couple of months to actually fast
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And pray and live in new york city to advance what he sees for this city.
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So i believe we went first, and then lou came in
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Second to carry that burden and to continue the work.
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Now, in the same way, in october, on the 26th,
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We're going to be we're actually going to be in chicago.
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And i just stood at the now arena.
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And while i was in there, the lord said, mike, your assignment in chicago
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Is to rend the skies again, to assemble the intercessors
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And prayer warriors and to open heavens over the gates of hell.
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But when you are successful in this next assignment,
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I will also send another, just like i said, lou, to continue.
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So for those of you who don't understand, we're not doing the conference
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In october, just to do the next big thing because we don't value big.
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I'll take gideon's army all over a big army any day long.
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Give me the ones who drink from the brook
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With their eyes looking forward, like we don't value numbers.
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But i will tell you this.
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We have to be on the assignment god's given us.
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And i truly believe that god has called us to go to chicago next.
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How many of you know chicago's a dark city?
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And did you
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Know that the apostles did not go to rural areas?
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They primarily went to cities.
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And once they attacked
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What was in the city, then it spilled out into the rural areas.
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And so i believe that we're going to
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Go down the line, and chicago is next to ruin the skies.
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But the reason why i say this because you're like,
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What does this have to do with living on defendable?
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A couple of things.
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Let's break this down.
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Number one, ephesians chapter six.
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We know this verse, but we don't read it in context.
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Let me just read it to you for our struggle.
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It's not against flesh and blood, but it's against what?
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Let's start with this. rulers.
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Everybody say rulers, okay?
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It's our struggle is against rulers.
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Okay, we got that against the authorities.
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Everybody say authorities against the powers of the dark world.
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Let's just say that
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Out allowed powers of the dark world.
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Do you hear that?
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Like, is the bible true or is it not true?
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There are powers of the dark world.
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Where's the dark world?
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It's an interdimensional.
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It's interacting with the physical world.
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You can't see the dark world, but you are experiencing it all around you
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At school, on the job.
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But christians are eager because we read about, oh, we don't fighting.
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Every time we quote the scripture we emphasize so much on.
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We don't fight against flesh and blood that we miss the whole reality
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Of rulers, authorities.
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And in it it says powers of this dark world.
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I really want to thank you for supporting this ministry.
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I 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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Whether it's distributing the gospel in non-christian nations,
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Mike Signorelli - Stop Explaining Yourself to Demons in People (Part 1)

September 26, 2025 | 28:0

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