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Mike Signorelli - You've Been Quoting Philippians 4:13 Wrong

January 27, 2026 | 6:51

Mike Signorelli - You've Been Quoting Philippians 4:13 Wrong
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 - You've Been Quoting Philippians 4:13 Wrong | January 27, 2026
  • How many people claim
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  • To get saved, but their cravings never change.
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  • You can scroll on your phone
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  • For four hours, but you can't spend four minutes in prayer.
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  • Something's gotta change because you say.
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  • If it was about me, i would keep scrolling.
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  • But it's about this density, so let me destroy.
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  • Oh, come on, somebody.
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  • Oh, oh oh.
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  • You got philippians 413 all wrong.
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  • I know you been quoting it for so many years,
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  • But you have interpreted it wrong.
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  • Here's the good news.
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  • I'm going to open up the scriptures and show you
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  • What philippians 413 really means.
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  • So take a look with me.
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  • I'm in the esv translation,
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  • Although it's pretty similar in most major translations.
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  • I'm going to read it to you directly right now.
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  • I can do all things through him who strengthens me.
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  • Now listen.
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  • That's an incredibly encouraging message.
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  • I can do all things through christ who strengthens me.
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  • But here's where we misinterpret it.
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  • We divorce it from the larger context.
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  • So let me ask you this without looking.
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  • Don't cheat.
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  • Can you tell me what verses what the verses before philippians 413 says?
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  • Can you tell me what the verses after?
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  • Probably not.
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  • Now listen, i'm not judging you.
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  • I'm here to teach you.
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  • So we have to read the scripture in context.
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  • Here's another problem.
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  • We have become so individualistic
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  • That we take these verses to endorse our own selfish ambition.
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  • So this is how we use it out of context.
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  • I can do all things through christ who strengthens me, as if christ is going
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  • To give you to do the strength to fulfill something outside of his will.
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  • Like that's where the misinterpretation happens.
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  • Like god is not going to divinely give you strength
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  • To do something outside of his divine plan.
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  • Okay? so let's just start right there.
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  • The other thing is, i can do all things through christ.
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  • Well, that implies that you're limitless.
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  • And i think there's a problem with that interpretation.
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  • So here's what i want to do.
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  • I want to show you the verses before and after.
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  • And then we're going to lock the true meaning, which i think is even better.
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  • Okay. so let's look.
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  • Philippians 413. let's go to verse 12.
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  • And this is the apostle speaking.
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  • I know how to be brought low.
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  • Come on. now let's just stop right there.
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  • How many of you would also be willing to quote that i know how to be brought low?
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  • That's a little less inspirational. okay.
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  • Then it says, i know how to be brought low,
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  • And i know how to abound in every and any circumstance.
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  • I have learned the secret of facing plenty
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  • And hunger, abundance and need.
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  • Then i can do all things through him who strengthens me.
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  • It's so much better.
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  • And let me tell you why it doesn't ignore
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  • The reality that as christians, yes, christians,
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  • We are going to face abundance and need both.
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  • And i would. okay.
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  • And this is going to be much deeper than you
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  • Anticipated, but it's going to help you so much.
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  • Part of the reason why people deconstruct from christianity
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  • Is because we've actually eliminated the context.
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  • If you tell somebody philippians 413, i can do all things through christ
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  • Who strengthens me.
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  • Then they face a time of need.
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  • They're like, wait a second, this is incompatible.
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  • I should only be in abundance.
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  • But what the scripture actually says is i am being taught.
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  • I'm being taught how to in every circumstance
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  • I have the i know the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need.
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  • Here's the secret.
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  • I can do all things.
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  • What are all things in context?
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  • All things are.
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  • Sometimes i'm in abundance.
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  • And sometimes i'm in need.
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  • Sometimes i'm in hunger.
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  • And sometimes i'm actually full.
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  • So in all of those things, i can do it through christ jesus.
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  • It completely changes the meaning of it for the better.
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  • Because the reality is, as a christian, we face all of the above.
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  • And let me read this.
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  • Lastly, this is verse 14.
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  • Yet it was kind of you to share my trouble.
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  • So watch.
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  • I can do all things through christ who strengthens me.
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  • Yet it was kind of you to share my trouble.
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  • So let's stop deleting the reality of trouble.
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  • Let's stop deleting the reality of need.
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  • Let's actually add jesus into all of it.
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  • Listen, when i'm in the mountain top or i'm in the valley,
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  • He's with me in both of those situations.
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  • I can do all things through christ who sharing in the cancer
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  • Diagnosis and in the report that the cancer was healed.
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  • I can do all things through christ who strengthens me.
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  • When i get the job, when i get fired from the job, i can do all things
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  • Through christ who strengthens me when i'm not in the position.
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  • And then when god elevates and promotes me, i can do all things that it totally
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  • Changes the meaning,
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  • Whether i'm up or down, in or out, no matter what the circumstance.
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  • I can do all things through christ who strengthens me.
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  • So now that you know philippians 413, in context, let me ask you a question.
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  • Isn't it so much better?
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  • Drop in the comment section right now.
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  • Let me know what blew your mind?
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