Mike Signorelli - The Spirit Behind the Panic You're Feeling (Part 1)

April 14, 2026 | 27:29

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 - The Spirit Behind the Panic You're Feeling (Part 1) | April 14, 2026
  • - the narrow way broadcast
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  • Is brought to you in part by partners
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  • Of mike signorelli ministries and viewers like you.
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  • Of mike signorelli ministries and viewers like you,
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  • And so in your life there is a box, there is a parameter
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  • That satan has put you in, that the world has put you in,
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  • That your family has put you in,
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  • And your purpose will be found in doing the thing
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  • That breaks you outta that box.
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  • Because we've become so dysfunctional in our faith
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  • That we become a christian
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  • And we actually stop going into the very places
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  • That jesus would go into.
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  • And if you were his disciple, he would make you go with him.
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  • The nature of is
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  • To walk right into the places he's not supposed to go
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  • And to do the things he's not supposed to do.
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  • Your christian life will be so unsatisfying
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  • If you don't become like jesus
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  • And do the things
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  • That the devil doesn't think that you'll do.
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  • This path is already narrow
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  • And we will forge forward, making no excuse
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  • For why we can live uncompromised in this generation.
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  • Lock in, hit me a hundred people who will walk
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  • That narrow road
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  • And say, i may have some things in my family,
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  • But i've where it runs out.
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  • I've been following jesus for over 25 years
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  • And i've been studying the scriptures
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  • And all of a sudden this pattern just leapt up
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  • Off the pages.
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  • And i suddenly saw the nature of jesus in a way
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  • That i never saw it before.
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  • And so i'm gonna take you through this pattern
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  • And show you how it relates to your life,
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  • Because it's extremely profound
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  • And you're going to experience freedom if you
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  • Get this revelation.
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  • So first off, kings are supposed to be born
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  • And raised in palaces.
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  • I mean, that's, that's where kings are born
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  • And raised in that type of environment.
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  • It's lavish. and yet you see in luke chapter two,
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  • Verse seven, it says, and mary gave birth to a firstborn son
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  • And wrapped him in swaddling clothes
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  • And then laid him in a manger.
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  • So 2000 years ago,
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  • This manger was probably a stone feeding trough.
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  • And so you have this king, the king of the world
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  • As a baby being laid into a, a stone feeding trough.
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  • I have kids.
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  • And when you have your first baby,
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  • This is the natural human instinct is you
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  • Want the best for them.
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  • I remember driving 20 miles an hour in a 60 mile an hour
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  • Road because i was so afraid that something was gonna happen
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  • To bella, you know?
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  • And so the idea of this being, you know, mary gives birth
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  • To jesus and has to put him in a feeding trough is crazy,
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  • But okay, but follow this pattern
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  • 'cause it goes deeper, then jesus grows older.
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  • And in matthew chapter nine, verse 10, it says,
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  • As jesus reclined at a table in the house,
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  • Behold many tax collectors and sinners came
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  • And were reclining with jesus and his disciples.
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  • So jesus is older now,
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  • And he's at this table, he's reclining in a house
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  • And pharisees as,
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  • And they're watching him judging, why would you hang out
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  • With the people that we hate?
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  • And, and it says this, the pharisees were so confused
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  • And they said, why does this teacher eat
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  • With tax collectors and sinner?
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  • So there, this is like the manger.
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  • It's jesus where he's not supposed to be,
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  • Because religious leaders at that time were,
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  • They viewed themselves as too holy to be
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  • With sinners too holy to be.
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  • And tax collectors would take advantage of them.
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  • So it would be like i'm crossing the boundary to go be
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  • With the people that society tells me i'm
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  • Not supposed to be with.
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  • So it's, i'm at the sinner's house.
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  • Now, this is a side note.
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  • Some of you need to learn how to go
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  • To the sinner's house without sinning.
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  • Jesus hung with sinners. he didn't sin with sinners.
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  • Hello
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  • When it says, don't fellowship with darkness,
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  • It means don't sin with sinners.
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  • But it doesn't mean don't sit with them.
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  • As a matter of fact, we should sit with them
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  • Because your christian clique is stopping you from
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  • Fulfilling the great commission.
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  • Okay, let's keep going.
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  • In matthew chapter 14, verse 25, it says in the fourth watch
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  • Of the night, there came, he came to them.
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  • I love that. and jesus came to them in a storm.
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  • How many of you have ever had jesus come
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  • To you even when you didn't come to jesus?
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  • Come on. he showed up in the midnight hour.
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  • He showed up while you were crying.
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  • He showed up when you were desperate.
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  • But it's crazy because when storms happen in the natural
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  • Realm, what do we do?
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  • We, we pull our covers up, we put our show on,
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  • We doom scroll on our phone.
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  • But when a storm happens in the natural,
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  • Jesus does the opposite.
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  • He goes out and walks on the water.
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  • So there's something about the nature of jesus.
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  • And then if you look in mark chapter five, verses one
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  • And two, most of us would skip over this
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  • And not even understand the significance of it.
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  • I'm gonna read it. and then jesus, it says, jesus
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  • And the disciples, they came to the other side of the sea,
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  • And when they arrived there, jesus steps out of the boat.
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  • And immediately there basically was a man
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  • With an unclean spirit that came to him.
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  • Now, i was just recently in israel,
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  • And as i was in israel, this tour guide said, hey.
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  • 'cause i told him, i was like, i don't really want to go
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  • To this place that was on our list.
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  • It's, it's kind of bogus, you know, i'm not feeling it.
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  • And he was just like, oh, i got a place
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  • That i think you'll really like.
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  • And i said, where? he said, you know,
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  • When jesus cast the demons out of the man into the pigs,
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  • And they went into the water, i know where that spot's at.
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  • And i said, ooh, take me there. i'm a demon slayer.
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  • Like, i gotta see this.
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  • I would love to meet you in person as we retrace the steps
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  • Of the apostle paul on an unforgettable journey
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  • Through greece and turkey.
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  • It's gonna be a five star experience
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  • With not only incredible hotels, but also a cruise.
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  • And we're gonna go to the very places
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  • That scripture was written, including patmos, where the book
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  • Of revelation was written by john.
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  • I cannot wait to meet you in person, but seats are limited,
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  • Although they're still available.
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  • So you have to make the decision now.
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  • The information's here on the screen.
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  • Go ahead and take advantage of an experience
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  • That will last a lifetime.
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  • I wanna pray with you at these locations
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  • As we invite the presence of the holy spirit.
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  • I want to teach you exactly what was happening in culture
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  • As the scriptures were written.
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  • I wanna have some incredible meals together with you.
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  • It's going to be amazing.
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  • But i need you to make that decision now
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  • Before all of the seats are gone.
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  • It's gonna be amazing, and i can't wait to meet you.
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  • Go ahead, make that decision to retrace the steps
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  • Of the apostle paul with mike signorelli on tour.
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  • Can't wait to see you there.
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  • So he takes me to the exact cliff.
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  • But he said something to me that when it hit my ears,
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  • It was like all
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  • Of this scripture i've been reading in my
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  • Lifetime, it just came alive.
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  • And this revelation clicked.
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  • What he said was, you know, i'm a jew.
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  • This is what the tour guide was saying.
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  • And i find it interesting
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  • That this area we're in now 2000 years ago was filled
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  • With gentiles.
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  • And the rumor was that they were demonized
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  • And that they were evil people.
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  • So the jews never came here.
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  • So i always found it interesting that jesus took a boat
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  • And took his disciples here because why would jesus do that?
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  • And i was like, i know exactly why jesus would do that.
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  • And so this is what i want you to understand is
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  • That the nature of is
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  • To walk right into the places he's not supposed to go
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  • And to do the things he's not supposed to do.
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  • And the reason why the world needs to hear this is
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  • Because we've become so dysfunctional in our faith
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  • That we become a christian
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  • And we actually stop going into the very places
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  • That jesus would go into.
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  • And if you were his disciple, he would make you go with him.
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  • Are you following me?
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  • And this is, i think one of the most dangerous things
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  • That can happen to a christian is they get into a christian
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  • Bubble with christian music, with christian books,
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  • With christian podcasts, with christian influencers,
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  • And they say, i'm feeding myself.
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  • But the thing is, when you have more input than output,
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  • When you are not in a caloric deficit,
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  • You're not losing weight, you're gaining weight.
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  • And then you become spiritually lethargic.
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  • And then you realize that god puts you here to do something,
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  • Not just to hear something.
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  • And then you never, you never turn the podcast off.
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  • And you went from podcast to podcast like you used
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  • To go from pornography to pornography,
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  • And you just change an addiction.
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  • You, oh, come on, demonic material for christian material.
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  • But it never turned. so if the devil couldn't stop you from
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  • Becoming a christian, he tried
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  • To stop you from becoming a disciple.
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  • Wow. it's like we just exchanged a culture
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  • For another culture,
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  • But we never brought that culture into a lost
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  • And dying world.
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  • And, and my goal again is
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  • To make you disciples of jesus christ.
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  • And i was, you know, one time i used to lead interns,
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  • So i wasn't the lead pastor, and i was at another church
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  • And i had to lead an internship.
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  • And one day i was thinking to myself,
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  • We have our bible study in the morning,
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  • Then we have our chapel in the afternoon,
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  • And then we do all of our church work.
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  • And the, and i was like, the devil probably loves us
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  • As a team because all we are doing is christians doing
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  • Christian stuff in a christian bubble.
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  • So then i had this thought,
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  • What does the devil think we won't do?
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  • 'cause i'm feeling ornery,
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  • I'm feeling sassy, i'm feeling crazy.
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  • How do i discover my purpose, mike? it's very simple.
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  • Do what the devil doesn't think you'll do.
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  • That's your purpose.
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  • Do what the devil doesn't think that you will do.
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  • Like i'm extremely introverted, i have social anxiety,
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  • So the devil does not think i'll get up in front of people
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  • And preach the word of god boldly.
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  • And so, but that my purpose is found in the thing he
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  • Doesn't think i'll do.
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  • Are y'all with me? yeah.
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  • And so in your life there is a box, there is a parameter
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  • That satan has put you in, that the world has put you in,
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  • That your family has put you in,
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  • And your purpose will be found in doing the thing
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  • That breaks you outta that box.
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  • And that's the story of every believer.
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  • It's like for every excuse that you have,
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  • God has an example.
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  • So the boxes, lord, i'm not articulate, i, i stutter
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  • And then that's my excuse.
  • 00:10:33.527 --> 00:10:35.262
  • Then god puts out an example. here's moses.
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  • He became a deliver god, i'm too old, i i my time.
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  • I should have done better with my time
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  • And i've missed my moment.
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  • I'm too, okay, that's your excuse. here's my example.
  • 00:10:45.372 --> 00:10:48.075
  • God, i'm too young. i can't do anything great.
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  • I'm too young. god gives an example.
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  • So i was asking my interns at this time, i said, i said,
  • 00:10:53.947 --> 00:10:58.085
  • You know, every day i see you guys, you go out
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  • For lunch, you drive.
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  • And because we had like an open lunch,
  • 00:11:01.421 --> 00:11:02.823
  • And i said, if you were to use your lunch hour
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  • To go somewhere to preach the gospel
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  • And to minister to people,
  • 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:08.795
  • Where do you think the devil wouldn't want you to go?
  • 00:11:08.795 --> 00:11:11.932
  • And one person says, the liquor store.
  • 00:11:11.932 --> 00:11:14.534
  • I was like, oh, that's good.
  • 00:11:14.534 --> 00:11:16.236
  • And then the other person says, planned parenthood.
  • 00:11:16.236 --> 00:11:18.205
  • And i'm like, okay, that's good.
  • 00:11:18.205 --> 00:11:19.539
  • And they start giving these locations.
  • 00:11:19.539 --> 00:11:21.441
  • So i said, okay, when, when we hit lunch hour, go out
  • 00:11:21.441 --> 00:11:24.311
  • And get your lunch and then go to one of these locations
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  • And just minister the gospel.
  • 00:11:26.580 --> 00:11:28.381
  • I kid you not, the very first time we do it, the one
  • 00:11:28.381 --> 00:11:31.418
  • Of the interns comes back
  • 00:11:31.418 --> 00:11:32.686
  • And he was like, i have the craziest story.
  • 00:11:32.686 --> 00:11:34.755
  • He goes, i walked into the liquor store
  • 00:11:34.755 --> 00:11:37.023
  • And i just, there was only a few people in there.
  • 00:11:37.023 --> 00:11:39.493
  • And i said, hey, i wanna make an announcement.
  • 00:11:39.493 --> 00:11:41.695
  • I, i believe the holy spirit told me to come here.
  • 00:11:41.695 --> 00:11:44.798
  • Because somebody here needs to know that jesus loves him
  • 00:11:44.798 --> 00:11:47.601
  • And he hasn't given up on him.
  • 00:11:47.601 --> 00:11:49.102
  • And, and i know i'm not supposed to be in here doing this,
  • 00:11:49.102 --> 00:11:51.304
  • But i just gotta be obedient.
  • 00:11:51.304 --> 00:11:52.806
  • He said, this guy takes a bottle of alcohol, puts it down,
  • 00:11:52.806 --> 00:11:56.143
  • Starts bawling his eyes out and says, i used to be a pastor,
  • 00:11:56.143 --> 00:12:00.280
  • But i quit ministry.
  • 00:12:00.280 --> 00:12:01.681
  • I gave up on god. i started drinking during the day.
  • 00:12:01.681 --> 00:12:04.985
  • I thought god didn't want nothing to do with me.
  • 00:12:04.985 --> 00:12:07.354
  • And i, and now i know that i didn't go to church,
  • 00:12:07.354 --> 00:12:09.956
  • But church came to me.
  • 00:12:09.956 --> 00:12:11.792
  • Come on. so jesus goes to the place
  • 00:12:11.792 --> 00:12:15.495
  • That he is not supposed to go.
  • 00:12:15.495 --> 00:12:17.564
  • So i, as a christian, let me help you.
  • 00:12:17.564 --> 00:12:20.634
  • Your christian life will be so unsatisfying
  • 00:12:20.634 --> 00:12:24.805
  • If you don't become like jesus
  • 00:12:24.805 --> 00:12:27.240
  • And do the things
  • 00:12:27.240 --> 00:12:28.575
  • That the devil doesn't think that you'll do.
  • 00:12:28.575 --> 00:12:31.878
  • Does anybody feel a righteous boldness
  • 00:12:31.878 --> 00:12:34.614
  • Rising up on the inside of them?
  • 00:12:34.614 --> 00:12:36.183
  • Am i stirring you up a little bit?
  • 00:12:36.183 --> 00:12:38.218
  • I get annoyed by christians
  • 00:12:38.218 --> 00:12:40.353
  • That all they do is talk about christianity,
  • 00:12:40.353 --> 00:12:42.556
  • But never demonstrate it.
  • 00:12:42.556 --> 00:12:44.191
  • As a matter of fact, some of the weirdest people you'll ever
  • 00:12:45.358 --> 00:12:47.260
  • Meet, they have an imbalance of how much they learn with
  • 00:12:47.260 --> 00:12:50.664
  • How much they use.
  • 00:12:50.664 --> 00:12:52.465
  • Those are weird people. and you know what?
  • 00:12:52.465 --> 00:12:54.734
  • They always end up being mean. you ever notice that?
  • 00:12:54.734 --> 00:12:58.171
  • It's like you don't ever experience any fruits
  • 00:12:58.171 --> 00:13:00.240
  • Of the spirit off of their life.
  • 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:01.808
  • You're like, what about joy, peace, kindness, gentleness?
  • 00:13:01.808 --> 00:13:05.278
  • Like, what about the fruits of the spirit?
  • 00:13:05.278 --> 00:13:06.947
  • I know you know greek, but you obviously don't know god.
  • 00:13:06.947 --> 00:13:10.283
  • You know what i'm saying?
  • 00:13:10.851 --> 00:13:12.385
  • Like, you know hebrew, but you obviously don't know him.
  • 00:13:12.385 --> 00:13:15.488
  • You know, by the way, the devil knows the too, he,
  • 00:13:15.488 --> 00:13:17.791
  • He just doesn't obey it and he also doesn't demonstrate it.
  • 00:13:17.791 --> 00:13:21.027
  • And so i think like the, the more i go on this journey,
  • 00:13:21.027 --> 00:13:24.631
  • My desire for you is to just, it could be a simple,
  • 00:13:24.631 --> 00:13:27.534
  • Simple thing, but to get out of yourself.
  • 00:13:27.534 --> 00:13:30.937
  • You know, my brother's a nurse
  • 00:13:30.937 --> 00:13:33.039
  • And he works in the er, which is, he's got crazy stories.
  • 00:13:33.039 --> 00:13:36.343
  • But he told me, he said, nurses use this acronym for pain.
  • 00:13:36.343 --> 00:13:39.813
  • Pay attention inside now.
  • 00:13:39.813 --> 00:13:42.482
  • So when you're feeling pain, the acronym is like,
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  • Okay, pay attention.
  • 00:13:45.886 --> 00:13:47.287
  • That's what pain is doing. pay attention inside.
  • 00:13:47.287 --> 00:13:49.990
  • Now, what happens as a christian is that if you start
  • 00:13:49.990 --> 00:13:54.661
  • Utilizing that pain as an excuse to become inward focused,
  • 00:13:54.661 --> 00:13:59.532
  • Then you'll stop worshiping god
  • 00:13:59.532 --> 00:14:01.568
  • And you'll stop obeying jesus,
  • 00:14:01.568 --> 00:14:03.870
  • Because i got news for you, y'all.
  • 00:14:03.870 --> 00:14:05.739
  • The pain is never going to end.
  • 00:14:05.739 --> 00:14:07.774
  • It's just exchanges one pain for another pain.
  • 00:14:07.774 --> 00:14:10.844
  • I've been in the faith for the a very long time.
  • 00:14:10.844 --> 00:14:13.179
  • I've preached in front of you in some
  • 00:14:13.179 --> 00:14:15.148
  • Of my greatest anguish and pain.
  • 00:14:15.148 --> 00:14:17.384
  • I've preached in front of you in the midst of depression.
  • 00:14:17.384 --> 00:14:20.020
  • But if i was waiting for the pain to stop
  • 00:14:20.020 --> 00:14:22.722
  • So my ministry could start, my ministry would never start.
  • 00:14:22.722 --> 00:14:26.793
  • Matter of fact, what i learned from jesus is you let
  • 00:14:26.793 --> 00:14:29.763
  • That crowd of thorns be pressed into your head,
  • 00:14:29.763 --> 00:14:32.499
  • And as the blood comes down, you say, god, not my will,
  • 00:14:32.499 --> 00:14:36.169
  • But thy will be done.
  • 00:14:36.169 --> 00:14:37.570
  • Nevertheless, i'm going all the way.
  • 00:14:37.570 --> 00:14:40.040
  • I mean, what we have from jesus is not, i'm gonna wait
  • 00:14:40.040 --> 00:14:43.043
  • For the pain to stop, for the ministry to start.
  • 00:14:43.043 --> 00:14:45.478
  • It's, i'm gonna start my ministry in the midst of the pain.
  • 00:14:45.478 --> 00:14:49.783
  • Come on. am i talking to anybody?
  • 00:14:50.550 --> 00:14:52.552
  • As a matter of fact, the kingdom
  • 00:14:52.552 --> 00:14:54.220
  • Of heaven operates on a principle of sowing and reaping.
  • 00:14:54.220 --> 00:14:57.357
  • So when i'm the most depressed, that's when i prophesy
  • 00:14:57.357 --> 00:15:00.694
  • To other people the most.
  • 00:15:00.694 --> 00:15:02.696
  • So over and over again, jesus does the same thing.
  • 00:15:02.696 --> 00:15:06.499
  • He walks into places where people avoid.
  • 00:15:06.499 --> 00:15:10.070
  • He walks into places that people fear,
  • 00:15:10.070 --> 00:15:13.039
  • And he walks into places
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  • That people say are too broken to fix.
  • 00:15:14.374 --> 00:15:16.676
  • Do you know how many messages i get every single week from
  • 00:15:16.676 --> 00:15:20.380
  • People who think they're helping me by telling me
  • 00:15:20.380 --> 00:15:23.583
  • To leave new york city?
  • 00:15:23.583 --> 00:15:25.452
  • Can i just look into the camera
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  • And tell you, stop sending me those messages.
  • 00:15:27.420 --> 00:15:30.323
  • God called me into new york city
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  • And i am safer in his will in new york city than i would be
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  • In idaho with a bunker.
  • 00:15:37.330 --> 00:15:39.332
  • I'm telling you right now,
  • 00:15:39.332 --> 00:15:40.800
  • The most dangerous thing you can do is say no
  • 00:15:40.800 --> 00:15:43.370
  • To god when he told you clearly what you should do.
  • 00:15:43.370 --> 00:15:46.239
  • So stop telling me to leave new york city.
  • 00:15:46.239 --> 00:15:48.508
  • Some of us are called to run into the battle,
  • 00:15:48.508 --> 00:15:51.311
  • To run into the war, and to lift up jesus christ.
  • 00:15:51.311 --> 00:15:54.647
  • Come on. and all the new yorkers here in this room
  • 00:15:54.647 --> 00:15:58.084
  • Shouted, amen.
  • 00:15:58.084 --> 00:15:59.853
  • Come on. it's what i'm here for.
  • 00:16:00.487 --> 00:16:03.323
  • You know what i'm saying? well, what if you get martyred?
  • 00:16:03.323 --> 00:16:05.225
  • Well, then i joined the chorus of martyrs
  • 00:16:05.225 --> 00:16:07.594
  • That went before me.
  • 00:16:07.594 --> 00:16:09.029
  • I come from a rich heritage of those who said yes
  • 00:16:09.029 --> 00:16:12.065
  • To jesus no matter what the cost was.
  • 00:16:12.065 --> 00:16:15.402
  • And so that's why i'm here in new york city.
  • 00:16:15.402 --> 00:16:17.437
  • So stop dming me thinking you're helping me.
  • 00:16:17.437 --> 00:16:20.340
  • And i love your potatoes in idaho,
  • 00:16:20.340 --> 00:16:22.342
  • But i ain't supposed to be in idaho.
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  • Come on now. so now, jesus,
  • 00:16:25.445 --> 00:16:27.213
  • He tells his disciples, we're gonna go on another journey
  • 00:16:28.381 --> 00:16:30.817
  • And we're gonna go on a field trip.
  • 00:16:30.817 --> 00:16:32.552
  • And he walks these disciples all the way up
  • 00:16:32.552 --> 00:16:35.522
  • To caesarea philippi.
  • 00:16:35.522 --> 00:16:38.558
  • Okay, no reaction. okay?
  • 00:16:39.059 --> 00:16:41.428
  • So this would've been, i mean,
  • 00:16:41.428 --> 00:16:43.430
  • Even him telling them when they're like, hey jesus,
  • 00:16:43.430 --> 00:16:46.066
  • What are we gonna do today?
  • 00:16:46.066 --> 00:16:47.333
  • We're going to caesarea philippi. that's crazy.
  • 00:16:47.333 --> 00:16:49.502
  • You're so funny. for real, what are we gonna do?
  • 00:16:49.502 --> 00:16:51.771
  • It would've been like that. no, no.
  • 00:16:51.771 --> 00:16:53.006
  • We we're gonna go to caesarea philippi.
  • 00:16:53.006 --> 00:16:54.974
  • No, jesus, you're crazy, man.
  • 00:16:54.974 --> 00:16:56.509
  • We we're not gonna do that for real.
  • 00:16:56.509 --> 00:16:58.211
  • What are we gonna, yeah, let's go.
  • 00:16:58.211 --> 00:17:00.080
  • And they would've been like, what?
  • 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:01.915
  • Let me tell you why caesarea philippi was a place
  • 00:17:01.915 --> 00:17:05.718
  • That the greeks, they dedicated to a god named pan.
  • 00:17:05.718 --> 00:17:09.522
  • And this god was half animal, half man.
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  • It was a goat and a man named pan.
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  • And the greeks dedicated this place
  • 00:17:14.994 --> 00:17:17.097
  • Because it was a open mouth of a cave.
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  • And there was a river, there was water
  • 00:17:19.966 --> 00:17:21.901
  • That would flow from that cave.
  • 00:17:21.901 --> 00:17:23.403
  • And so what the greeks basically said, they were pagans,
  • 00:17:23.403 --> 00:17:26.873
  • As they said, this is a portal into hades, the underworld.
  • 00:17:26.873 --> 00:17:31.111
  • So if you walk into this cave
  • 00:17:31.111 --> 00:17:32.846
  • And you go deep enough, you're gonna end up
  • 00:17:32.846 --> 00:17:34.714
  • In the underworld.
  • 00:17:34.714 --> 00:17:36.316
  • And they, as a result of this belief, they begin to do these
  • 00:17:36.316 --> 00:17:41.421
  • Incredibly dark, i mean,
  • 00:17:41.921 --> 00:17:43.456
  • What we would know is like satanic luciferian sacrifices.
  • 00:17:43.456 --> 00:17:47.360
  • As a matter of fact, at the mouth of that cave,
  • 00:17:47.360 --> 00:17:49.596
  • There would be rampant drunkenness,
  • 00:17:49.596 --> 00:17:51.464
  • There would be sexual promiscuity in every
  • 00:17:51.464 --> 00:17:53.666
  • Form you can imagine.
  • 00:17:53.666 --> 00:17:55.335
  • And also, there's historic accounts of women giving birth.
  • 00:17:55.335 --> 00:17:59.706
  • And immediately after they would give birth,
  • 00:17:59.706 --> 00:18:01.608
  • Someone would take their baby
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  • And hurl it into the mouth of the cave,
  • 00:18:02.876 --> 00:18:05.645
  • And they would basically wait
  • 00:18:05.645 --> 00:18:07.380
  • To see if the blood in the water would run clear as a sign
  • 00:18:07.380 --> 00:18:11.084
  • That the god pan accepted their sacrifice
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  • And would bless their family.
  • 00:18:13.753 --> 00:18:15.722
  • And the reason why i think it's important for you to
  • 00:18:15.722 --> 00:18:18.191
  • To hear this is this is the place
  • 00:18:18.191 --> 00:18:20.960
  • That jesus tells his disciples, i want you to go with me
  • 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:24.697
  • And we're gonna stand right at the mouth of that cave.
  • 00:18:24.697 --> 00:18:28.034
  • This is why this,
  • 00:18:28.468 --> 00:18:29.903
  • This whole story gets unlocked when you understand
  • 00:18:29.903 --> 00:18:32.338
  • What's really happening.
  • 00:18:32.338 --> 00:18:33.706
  • Now, many of you might be asking, well,
  • 00:18:33.706 --> 00:18:35.475
  • What happened to pan?
  • 00:18:35.475 --> 00:18:36.876
  • Well, that demon is still here in the earth now.
  • 00:18:36.876 --> 00:18:40.380
  • It's just that demon manifest itself
  • 00:18:40.380 --> 00:18:42.482
  • In different environments.
  • 00:18:42.482 --> 00:18:43.750
  • It may not be in the mouth of the cave,
  • 00:18:43.750 --> 00:18:45.385
  • It may be in the nightclub or the bar.
  • 00:18:45.385 --> 00:18:47.387
  • It may be at the sporting event.
  • 00:18:47.387 --> 00:18:49.088
  • It may be at the secular music concert.
  • 00:18:49.088 --> 00:18:51.391
  • Because do people do in those environments?
  • 00:18:51.391 --> 00:18:53.927
  • They get drunk outta their mind
  • 00:18:53.927 --> 00:18:55.695
  • And then they start hook up culture and sexual promiscuity.
  • 00:18:55.695 --> 00:18:59.265
  • And then when they, when they say, i made a mistake, they,
  • 00:18:59.265 --> 00:19:02.135
  • They say, well, it's my body, my choice,
  • 00:19:02.135 --> 00:19:03.970
  • So i can sacrifice this baby.
  • 00:19:03.970 --> 00:19:05.638
  • So they might not be throwing the baby into the cave,
  • 00:19:05.638 --> 00:19:07.974
  • But it's the same spirit behind it.
  • 00:19:07.974 --> 00:19:10.677
  • What i find interesting is,
  • 00:19:10.677 --> 00:19:11.978
  • Let's go back to the old covenant.
  • 00:19:11.978 --> 00:19:13.646
  • When you show up to the temple,
  • 00:19:13.646 --> 00:19:15.582
  • Let's go now let's go to the new covenant.
  • 00:19:15.582 --> 00:19:17.584
  • And you show up to the local church, what are they doing?
  • 00:19:17.584 --> 00:19:20.386
  • They're not getting drunk,
  • 00:19:20.386 --> 00:19:21.821
  • But they're doing communion, which is wine.
  • 00:19:21.821 --> 00:19:24.591
  • And then they're eating bread, which is the body.
  • 00:19:24.591 --> 00:19:27.427
  • See, what happens is satan,
  • 00:19:27.427 --> 00:19:29.262
  • What he does is he flips it upside down
  • 00:19:29.262 --> 00:19:31.898
  • And he replicates everything god has.
  • 00:19:31.898 --> 00:19:34.567
  • So we come and we take a little bit of communion wine
  • 00:19:34.567 --> 00:19:37.370
  • To celebrate his blood.
  • 00:19:37.370 --> 00:19:39.138
  • So what does he do?
  • 00:19:39.138 --> 00:19:40.373
  • Do it in access and become drunk
  • 00:19:40.373 --> 00:19:42.475
  • And turn off your, your intellect.
  • 00:19:42.475 --> 00:19:44.811
  • We, we say marriage is the covenant strong enough
  • 00:19:44.811 --> 00:19:48.648
  • For the power of sexuality between a man and a woman?
  • 00:19:48.648 --> 00:19:52.318
  • So what does satan do? he becomes a covenant breaker.
  • 00:19:52.318 --> 00:19:55.321
  • And you can sleep with anybody who, whoever you want.
  • 00:19:55.321 --> 00:19:58.725
  • See, it's like he takes what god created
  • 00:19:58.725 --> 00:20:00.960
  • And flips it upside down.
  • 00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:02.528
  • So what that cave actually represented was the complete
  • 00:20:02.528 --> 00:20:06.132
  • Opposite of the ways of god for everything holy,
  • 00:20:06.132 --> 00:20:10.036
  • For everything righteous.
  • 00:20:10.036 --> 00:20:11.738
  • That cave represented, it was an upside down kingdom.
  • 00:20:11.738 --> 00:20:15.541
  • And he brought them to caesarea philippi to say,
  • 00:20:15.541 --> 00:20:18.878
  • If you're gonna be my disciple, we don't ignore it.
  • 00:20:18.878 --> 00:20:22.348
  • We don't act like this place doesn't exist.
  • 00:20:22.348 --> 00:20:25.785
  • We don't run away from it.
  • 00:20:25.785 --> 00:20:27.754
  • We walk right up to it and we confront it.
  • 00:20:27.754 --> 00:20:31.157
  • Man, i got chills all over me.
  • 00:20:31.157 --> 00:20:32.959
  • I feel something stirring in the spirit.
  • 00:20:32.959 --> 00:20:35.228
  • And because you know the word panic, the root word is pan.
  • 00:20:35.228 --> 00:20:38.865
  • It comes from the god pan. wow.
  • 00:20:38.865 --> 00:20:40.767
  • So what would happen in ancient times is when something bad
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  • Would happen, they would say the god pan has
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  • Not been satisfied.
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  • And so everybody is in a frenzy of fear and it's panic.
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  • How many of you know
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  • That when they struck the towers here in new york city,
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  • Panic rippled through this nation, through the world,
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  • There's a, what do they call 'em?
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  • Terrorist. it's panic.
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  • It's the same spirit and it's all connected.
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  • But we have to represent the opposite spirit
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  • Because you don't cast out a spirit of fear
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  • With a greater fear.
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  • He says, i've given you love, power, and a sound mind.
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  • So we come with an opposite spirit.
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  • You don't fi fight pride with more arrogance.
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  • You come and you say, i'm humbly submitted to the lord
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  • And i decrease so that he will increase.
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  • And this is what the lord is doing when the enemy comes in
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  • Like a flood, he lifts up a standard against him.
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  • But you are that standard.
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  • This is what nobody ever preaches.
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  • You are the standard he lifts up against the enemy.
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  • It's you. and so he brings them
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  • To caesarea philippi and he asked this question,
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  • And it's such an important question.
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  • Who do you say that i am? who do you say up?
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  • And it was almost juxtaposed with all
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  • Of the paganism happening around them.
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  • You could probably even smell the sin coming off
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  • Of the water from the mouth of the cave.
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  • And he's looking at them.
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  • He's saying, i know who they say i am,
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  • But who do you say i am?
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  • This is the question that every single one
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  • Of us is going to face.
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  • You're facing it right now.
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  • This is the most important question of your entire life.
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  • We know that islam says that he's a prophet but not messiah,
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  • And that it was judas that was crucified, not jesus.
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  • Isn't it convenient that the demonic propaganda in islam is
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  • That he was never crucified?
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  • Because if he wasn't crucified,
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  • There was no sacrifice for sin.
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  • And if he wasn't crucified, he wasn't resurrected,
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  • Which mean he didn't conquer death hell in the grave.
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  • That we know that some of your friends don't have a problem
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  • With jesus as a moral teacher.
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  • So who do you say jesus is?
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  • Well, i guess you know, he was a great moral teacher.
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  • So everybody has a different version of jesus.
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  • But the question that jesus was saying right in the midst
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  • Of caesarea philippi is, who do you say that i am?
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  • And this is the answer, and this is, this is ama.
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  • An amazing moment in the history
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  • Of the church is peter literally says,
  • 00:23:13.953 --> 00:23:17.089
  • You are the christ, the son of the living god.
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  • And he says it right next to all that filth,
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  • Right next to all that.
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  • And this is what jesus says.
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  • Now, his name was simon peter, but jesus doesn't say simon.
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  • He emphasizes peter,
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  • Which in the original language means a fragment of the rock.
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  • So think about what i'm saying.
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  • They're standing on physical rock of caesarea philippi
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  • With a cave with pagan temples
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  • That are carved into this side of this mountain,
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  • And he's literally saying, upon this rock,
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  • I will build my church.
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  • And not even the gate, it's like he pointed to the cave
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  • That they thought was the portal into hades,
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  • And he said, not even the gates
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  • Of hell will prevail against it.
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  • Come on. this is so powerful
  • 00:24:03.469 --> 00:24:06.539
  • Because jesus was speaking on multiple layers.
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  • Layer number one, peter, your confession of me
  • 00:24:09.876 --> 00:24:14.080
  • As savior is the rock
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  • That you're building your whole life on.
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  • I don't know who i came to tell this to today,
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  • But when you said, jesus christ is my savior,
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  • Therefore there is no condemnation to those
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  • Who are in christ jesus.
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  • Your life is built on a solid rock.
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  • And it doesn't matter what that demon reminds you of.
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  • It doesn't matter what your friend says upon that rock
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  • Of your confession.
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  • You can't earn your salvation.
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  • You don't deserve your salvation.
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  • You receive the gift of god.
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  • When you say, i know who you are, people will say,
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  • God's done with america.
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  • Oh, no, no, no. matter of fact,
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  • What is manhattan made out of?
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  • Yeah, yeah, yeah. now you're getting it upon this rock
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  • Where there's smoking weed and dope in the streets
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  • And the hitting a crack pipe and the prostitution
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  • And the gangs are recruiting.
  • 00:25:05.031 --> 00:25:06.299
  • Well, guess what? god's recruiting too,
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  • Because upon this rock, i will build my church
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  • And not even the gates of hell will prevail against.
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  • As a matter of fact, the best foundation
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  • To build the church is on the very thing
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  • That the world thinks is impossible to build a church
  • 00:25:21.147 --> 00:25:24.450
  • Because god gets more glory, the darker it is.
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  • In a few moments, i wanna pray for you.
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  • You know, i've seen medically verifiable
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  • Miracles all around the world.
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  • I wanna pray for you. i,
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  • I've actually seen people delivered from demons in moments.
  • 00:25:36.963 --> 00:25:39.932
  • But the greatest miracle is salvation.
  • 00:25:39.932 --> 00:25:42.301
  • It's when someone who's dead in their sin, literally headed
  • 00:25:42.301 --> 00:25:45.705
  • To hell, is saved by jesus christ and made to be alive
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  • And headed to heaven.
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  • And that can happen if you do what romans chapter 10,
  • 00:25:51.644 --> 00:25:54.413
  • Verse nine says, can confess with your mouth,
  • 00:25:54.413 --> 00:25:56.816
  • Believe in your heart and you will be saved.
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  • It's that we don't earn it. we don't deserve it.
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  • We just receive it.
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  • So i want you to repeat these words with me
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  • Because i don't believe in accidents
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  • And the holy spirit's been drawing you.
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  • Say it with me. heavenly father, i thank you for the cross
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  • Where my sins were forgiven.
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  • Wash me with your blood. i am a disciple.
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  • I surrender my life completely,
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  • And i will follow you on the narrow road in jesus' name.
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  • Come on, say it boldly. amen.
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  • Well, i'm so glad that you just made that decision
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  • To give your life to jesus.
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  • And difficult is the way that leads to life in a world
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  • That celebrates compromise, god calls us to live set apart,
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  • To walk the narrow way with courage, conviction, and faith.
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