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 - Fundamental Christian Disciplines | February 3, 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.
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- If you have your bibles, can you turn to first timothy, chapter one?
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- First timothy, chapter one.
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- It's after second thessalonians, and it's towards the back of your bible.
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- Matter of fact, across all of our locations, i want to ask that
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- You would bring your physical bible to church every sunday.
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- You need a bible without notifications.
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- You need a bible that doesn't need to be recharged.
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- And so i also encourage you bring a pen, bring a notepad.
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- And we're going to have bibles available at our locations as well.
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- So that if you need to physically get one, we'll get you one.
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- But if you can, if you're using the bible app, that's okay as well.
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- So we're in first timothy chapter one.
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- And this is going to be our introductory text.
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- Now i want to warn you
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- In all the best ways, we are going to go through dozens of scriptures,
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- Because i really want to let the bible preach this message.
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- We don't need another man's opinion, am i right?
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- We need to know what the word of god has to say.
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- So i'm going to give you many scriptures.
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- See if you can keep up with me.
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- That's going to be a little old school.
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- So, you know, i might say, when you find us, say amen.
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- When you find us, say amen.
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- Okay.
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- So go there in your bibles,
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- First timothy chapter one, verse 18, before i say that.
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- So i have a really good friend. his name is rick.
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- And shout out rick renner if you're watching right now.
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- We love you here at vh1 church.
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- But he's somebody that my wife and i have spent time with recently,
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- And he is a global apostolic voice to the body of christ.
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- And he released a prophetic word for this year called batten down the hatches.
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- So i'm going to actually be sort of like tag team ministering with him right now,
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- Because really, the lord gave him this word.
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- He had the lord had been speaking something very similar to me.
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- And so i actually hit up rick and i said, i'm
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- Going to preach the practicality of that prophetic word.
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- So in other words, if i were to teach my church,
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- What does it mean to batten down the hatches?
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- Like, what are the hatches?
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- How do you batten them down? what does that even mean?
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- And so that's what this message is all about.
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- But, i want to make sure we're on the same page about this.
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- It's a prophetic message that's rooted in the word of god.
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- Amen.
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- Okay, so let me read this to you.
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- It says this charge i entrust to you, timothy, my child,
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- In accordance with the prophecies previously made about you,
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- That by them you may wage the good warfare.
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- Whoo! we could just stop right there.
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- Let me just say this.
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- There's a movement right now that's anti spiritual, father.
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- And i believe that that movement is happening in response
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- To a lot of the abuse that's occurred in that dynamic.
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- But i do want to make sure that in our attempt to correct something
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- That's wrong, we don't overcorrect and become unbiblical
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- Because the relationship that paul the apostle has with
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- Timothy is on display in the sense that he literally calls him my child.
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- He's calling a grown man my child.
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- So i do want to say, first and foremost, that i do believe that god puts godly
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- Leadership over people, and he causes it to
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- Sometimes be a fatherly dynamic.
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- But it's not necessarily that paul was the father
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- As much as he is the image bearer of the heavenly father to timothy.
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- Does this make sense?
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- So i just want to make sure that we have proper theology in this church,
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- Because there's all kinds of stupidity on the internet.
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- And a lot of times
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- What people do is in their attempt to correct something they overcorrect.
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- And so i just want to say, it's okay to have a spiritual father,
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- Because what you're acknowledging is i'm allowing this person
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- To be an image bearer or an extension of the father's heart for me.
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- Does that make sense?
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- Okay, so let's start there.
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- And then it says, timothy, my child, in accordance with the prophecies
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- Previously made about you, that by them you may wage the good warfare.
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- Oh, there's so much here. i just want to say,
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- Theologically, we believe
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- That the gifts of the spirit are still in operation today.
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- In this church, we believe in prophecy.
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- We believe that prophets are still prophesying.
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- We believe that people speak in the tongues of angels
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- And the tongues of men according to the holy spirit.
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- And we believe that those tongues can be interpreted into a language
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- That's known on the earth, that you can benefit from it.
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- And i am unapologetically going to from this pulpit, continue to establish
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- The reality of the gifts of the spirit in the modern age.
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- Is there anybody under the sound of my voice who believes that
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- The gifts are still in operation?
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- And they are for today?
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- Come on, don't shout me down too loud. now.
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- And to deny the gift is to deny the gift giver.
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- So i want the gift and the gift giver.
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- So he's.
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- Now. can i go one step further?
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- He's saying, timothy, my child.
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- Remember the prophecies that's been spoken over you,
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- That you may wage the good warfare?
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- I like that phrase because it insinuates that there's bad warfare.
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- Can i correct another stupid internet theology
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- Right now amongst the charismatic and pentecostal circles?
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- There is this growing movement of people who are suggesting
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- That warfare, prayers, and warfare is not needed and we must just
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- Simply rest in the presence of god or just sing worship songs exclusively.
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- And that's it.
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- And can i tell you that is an overcorrection?
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- Because yes, we should rest in the scriptures.
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- Yes, we should rest in god's word.
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- But good, because he's telling him there's good timothy, there's good warfare.
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- What that means is there's bad warfare, too.
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- You cannot delete the entire book of ephesians
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- That talks about us being in battle, embroiled in a battle
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- Between principalities and powers and rulers in high places.
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- And i just will tell you this.
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- We are not fighting for victory, but spiritual warfare
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- Is enforcing the victory that jesus already won.
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- Does this make sense?
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- Because people are acting like like the devil.
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- Satan and his minions are going to play by the rules
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- Just because jesus won it all.
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- He is a violator, so he's going to violate.
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- He's a liar. so he's going to lie.
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- And it's just like here in new york city.
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- I don't know why we have any shootings because there's no guns allowed here.
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- So the
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- Police are enforcing the law that's in place.
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- So christ has won it all for us.
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- But we've got to enforce that victory.
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- And that's called spiritual warfare.
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- Like, new york city doesn't belong to the devil,
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- But that doesn't mean he's not going to try to take it.
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- So the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, but the violent.
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- Take it by force, give it back, devil.
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- Does this make sense?
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- 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 he's talking about you have to make the good warfare.
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- Verse 19 says, holding faith and good conscience
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- By rejecting this, some have made shipwreck of their faith.
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- And then he names their names. among them are.
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- And he said, and i have handed them
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- Over to satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
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- Sure. sheesh.
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- Can you imagine?
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- You know, like, hey, paul, how do you think i'm doing?
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- Oh, i handed you over to satan.
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- I and i did that so that you would learn not to blaspheme.
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- You know, let me just tell you, there are some people that you need to let go.
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- There's some people you can't change.
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- Matter of fact,
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- The more you try to change somebody, you'll end up controlling them.
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- And then if you control them, that's called witchcraft.
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- Some of you are like, oh, i don't do witchcraft.
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- No, you stop doing santeria, but you're still doing control.
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- Yeah. oh, yeah.
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- You know, it's like witchcraft is control.
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- So even paul saying
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- I handed some of these people over to satan
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- So that they would learn not to blaspheme.
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- Like, in other words, my job is not to control everybody.
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- So you even see a dynamic within these first two, 2 or 3 verses
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- Where paul is calling one person his child,
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- But then two other people blasphemers and turning them over to satan.
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- Is that too deep for you?
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- So you got to learn how to sort people in your life this year.
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- Not everybody's your friend.
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- Not everybody's on the same side.
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- Not everybody's on the same team.
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- And you see paul the apostle in wisdom,
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- Learning how to discern his relationship dynamics.
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- I think 2025, for many of you, is reevaluating and reassessing relationships.
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- Is this helping anybody already?
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- Come on.
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- You know, like you got deliverance, but they didn't.
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- So if you stay in covenant with them, aren't you still in covenant with demons?
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- And by the way, if mary magdalene had seven demons before
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- She got delivered by jesus, how would you know
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- When you were talking to mary or when you were talking to demons?
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- So how many of you you're a little too confident that you're
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- Not talking to demons?
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- And so, like, i think that what is happening
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- Is we need to reassess and reevaluate relationships this year.
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- And we need to determine, like,
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- Who's family and who's a blasphemer, like, who are we going to do relationship.
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- And you kind of see paul working that out.
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- Now here's the prophetic aspect to what i'm trying to preach to you.
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- The prophetic aspect to it is that there is a storm that's coming.
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- And whether you believe it or not, there's a storm that's coming, and i want it.
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- I want us as a church to be prepared for this storm.
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- And when the word batten down the hatches came down,
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- That basically is this take a look at this picture over my shoulder
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- And what you can basically see is a ship going through the storm.
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- Now on the top level of that ship are hatches.
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- And those hatches give access to various different levels of the ship.
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- You know, basically down below.
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- And so what would happen in the olden times
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- Is that the captain would say, you know, basically give this command.
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- And when this command was given to batten down the hatches.
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- What he was saying was, we're not in the storm yet.
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- But if you wait to close those gaps until we're in the storm,
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- It'll be too late because ships are made for water.
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- So it's not the water around it that sinks it.
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- It's the water that gets in.
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- And so that that you have to batten the hatches.
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- Because if you don't close the gap, it'll be your neglect that sinks
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- You, not the storm.
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- It'll be your
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- Neglect that sinks you, not the storm.
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- Matter of fact, i heard one of the old time preachers say you're
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- Either in a storm, coming out of a storm, or getting ready to go into a storm.
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- So you gotta learn how to bat in the hatches.
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- So i'm going to give you seven hatches that we're going to close
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- Before this storm.
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- Why seven?
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- Because i said so.
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- There could be 13.
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- There could be three, but i chose seven.
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- And these are seven fundamental christian disciplines.
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- How many of you will just wave at me at every location?
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- If you're a disciple who's a disciple.
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- Okay.
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- What is the root word of disciple?
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- Discipline.
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- So if we're together and we're on this ship,
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- We've got to learn how to batten the hatches.
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- We've got to learn how to close the gaps and become disciplined this year.
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- And stop blaming everything on the devil.
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- Start crucifying the flesh and start doing the will of the father in our life.
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- And so we now we're going to begin to go through the seven hatches
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- That are fundamental, very basic, yet
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- Very profound christian disciplines.
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- And we're going to start with number one.
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- And the number one is this.
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- It is the hatch of god's word, the hatch of daily scripture reading.
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- How many of you are doing your 365 day devotional lay at me.
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- Come on.
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- If you need one, please grab one at every location on your way out.
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- Now, i'm just going to confess to you while you find matthew chapter seven.
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- So go to matthew chapter seven, and we're going to go to verse 24
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- And then say amen when you found it.
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- So matthew chapter seven verse 24, and then you can say, amen when you found it.
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- So matthew chapter seven verse 24 says, everyone, everybody say everyone.
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- Everyone, then who hears these words of mine and does
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- Them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
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- And the rain fell on, the floods came and the winds blew and beat on that house.
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- But it did not fall because it had been founded on the rock.
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- So i want to i want to bring a couple things out in this verse.
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- Number one, it says everything. everyone.
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- That means this works for you,
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- For your family, for your children, for your teenagers.
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- It works for everyone.
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- But this is what it says.
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- It says for those who do what,
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- Who hear these words and then does them.
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- They will be like the wise men who built this house on rock.
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- It's not the bible that you hear.
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- It's the bible that you do and it's not. why?
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- Because satan himself actually preached a sermon
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- Using only scripture to jesus christ on the mountain when he was tempting him.
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- So? so satan knows the bible.
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- He doesn't submit and obey it.
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- So it's like you can increase in your knowledge of the bible,
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- But if you don't increase in your discipline of doing the bible,
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- Then you literally are becoming more like satan than you are.
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- Like jesus.
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- And many people are bingeing
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- Youtube videos and learning scripture, but they're hoarding up
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- Knowledge unto themselves and it produces self righteousness.
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- Not true righteousness.
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- And now we've created this competition of which one of us is the greatest.
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- Instead of asking, which one of us is the servant?
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- And so i would submit to you, please immediately obey.
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- Immediately obey.
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- I heard another old time preacher say that delayed obedience is disobedience.
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- It's the word that we obey.
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- And so i want to encourage you to obey the word of the lord.
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- And now let's go to the second hatch.
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- We're going to batten down the hatch of prayer.
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- This is philippians chapter four, verse six and seven.
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- So this is the hatch of prayer.
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- Philippians chapter four.
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- Now philippians is a little bit harder to find,
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- And it's right before colossians.
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- So philippians chapter four, and you can say amen when you found it.
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- Philippians is actually after second corinthians.
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- So we're talking in the new testament.
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- This is the hatch of prayer.
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- The hatch of prayer.
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- Now i want to read before we get to that verse.
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- A matter of fact, there's a lot of revelation here.
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- I'm just going to give you as much as i can.
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- Is that all right? let's start at verse two.
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- So i entreat, i, huda, i urge you, and i entreat, since the church
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- Sin. but
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- I don't know.
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- I don't know how to say their names,
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- But he's basically saying, i entreat
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- Both of the both of these people to agree in the lord.
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- Now, what's not important is their name.
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- What's important is that the apostle had to get involved
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- And say, hey, you two, i'm.
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- I'm giving you an assignment.
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- Oh, what is it, a possible apostle?
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- Agree with each other in the lord.
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- If i could say anything to the body of christ right now from this pulpit,
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- You all need to learn how to start agreeing with each other in the lord.
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- Because it's become toxic in the body of christ.
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- Everybody has an opinion, but nobody has a a love and a compassion for each other.
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- And so i believe that we need to learn how to agree in the lord.
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- And i believe that if we're going to come into a storm,
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- We need to come into that storm in agreement.
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- And matter of fact, they were in one mind and one accord.
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- Then the holy spirit.
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- I would i would argue
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- That when there is not agreement in the lord,
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- You will not have the presence of the holy spirit like you did in
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- Acts chapter two, because the holy spirit is not a dove,
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- But like a dove, and that dove will fly away
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- If there's discord and division and pride and arrogance.
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- But when we come together in the lord, i believe that
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- That becomes a habitation for the holy spirit.
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- And i want his presence more than i want to be.
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- Right?
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- I want his presence more than i want to win an argument.
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- Come on, somebody know what i'm talking about?
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- This is my favorite part.
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- Help these women who have labored side
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- By side with me in the gospel together.
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- Okay, hold on now.
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- I just need to put the line in the sand, and i'm doing it.
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- The first sermon of this year.
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- We believe at this church, theologically and doctrinally,
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- That women can preach and women can pastor.
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- And i'm saying it from this stage right now because the apostle said, help
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- These women who have labored side by side with me in the gospel.
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- He didn't say in the kids ministry.
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- He didn't say in the coffee ministry.
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- He didn't say, come on, somebody.
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- They serve with me in the kitchen.
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- He said, they serve with me side by side in the gospel.
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- And so guess what?
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- I'm going to give some woman a microphone and let her preach.
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- Thus saith the lord,
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- Unapologetically, because we believe what the apostle believed.
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- Now, can i counterbalance that?
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- We also believe in strong male headship.
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- Because look at the text.
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- It's he.
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- They labored side by side.
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- So it wasn't women only.
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- There were strong male headship under the apostles leadership.
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- So let me just tell you, wherever
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- There are strong men leading, they're not intimidated by strong women.
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- And the reason why you got called a jezebel is your other church
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- Might not have been
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- Because you had the spirit of jezebel, but because they had the spirit of ahab
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- And they were intimidated by a strong woman
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- Because they refused to be a strong man.
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- Hey, mike signa,
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- Here in the studio, we're getting ready to jump back into the sermon.
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- But just very briefly, i wanted to let you know
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- That i have a resource called the breakers mobile app,
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- And i have so many courses there that teach you supernatural ministry
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- And how you can unlock the gifts that god has given you.
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- I want you to download the mobile app and join a global community of people
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- Learning the narrow way, people learning how to operate
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- In the fullness of what god has for them, and the gifts of the spirit.
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- It's called the breakers of mobile app.
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- It's actually entirely free and you can download it now on your device.
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- I will see you there.
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- And then this is what it says.
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- Rejoice in the lord always.
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- Again i will say, rejoice.
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- Let your reasonableness be known to everyone.
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- The lord is at hand.
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- Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication
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- With thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to god.
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- And i want to encourage you.
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- Stop praying only when there's an emergency,
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- Because if you pray before the emergency happens,
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- You won't even need to pray in the emergency
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- Because he will prepare you for the emergency.
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- Or if you come on out and you.
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- Because what? what? everybody's is clever.
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- Also, please, he's maybe not so bad today.
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- Let the sermon be over.
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- But this is why i'm trying to help you.
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- Because look what it says.
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- It says, let your reasonableness be known.
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- And then the lord, the lord is at hand.
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- Don't be anxious about anything.
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- But in everything prayer and supplication with thanksgiving.
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- Let your requests be known.
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- A lot of you guys are letting your requests be known.
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- Without thanksgiving.
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- So with thanksgiving, lord, i'm thankful.
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- By the way, did you do the front section of the book where i said how to intercede?
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- Okay, that's a formula, and it's a biblical formula of you
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- Enter his courts with praise.
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- You enter his gates with what?
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- Oh, so that's the old testament.
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- Now, the new testament says, don't be anxious.
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- Maybe you're anxious because you're praying without gratitude.
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- You're praying without thanksgiving.
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- Did you notice that in the 365 day devotional, every day
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- It asks you what you're thankful for, what you're grateful for? why?
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- Because it's rewiring your mind.
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- That is one of the formulas to decreasing
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- Anxiety is to increase gratitude.
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- And so it's and it's a process.
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- I know all of y'all want everything to be deliverance
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- Because deliverance is easy and it can happen in moments.
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- But some of you need development, not deliverance.
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- Now, deliverance is easy.
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- You know that, right?
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- People are like, oh no, i need to go to this person because my demons are strong.
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- Yeah, only because you've empowered your demons.
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- Jesus has
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- Disempowered all of them and deliverance is actually easy.
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- Crucifying your flesh is the hard part.
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- We. that's where the rubber meets the road.
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- And we need to increase in our development and discipline this year.
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- And stop blaming everything on the devil and say, god, teach me
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- How to pick up my cross and carry it.
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- Because casting a demon out is easy, but crucifying
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- Your flesh is going to cost you everything.
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- So you ready to do that?
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- Okay, four of you, y'all. indiana.
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- I hope this is hitting different in indiana because here in brooklyn,
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- I'm about to get jumped on my way out.
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- These people are looking at me like like,
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- And we will cast demons out of you if a demon is a problem.
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- But some of you, i'm like, you got delivered three months ago,
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- And everything that happened after that, that was you.
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- That was you.
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- You went out to the demons. name is kevin.
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- Is you.
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- I don't know how to tell you that.
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- In the spirit of kevin, that's messing you up.
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- It's your own.
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- Tell me what. i should bind it.
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- You should bind deborah.
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- That's you.
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- Debbie. debbie, you did it.
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- Be blaming the devil on that.
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- Because i want us to grow in our maturity.
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- I want us to grow in our maturity.
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- You know, what was a revelation to me is i did a live stream on my youtube
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- Channel with john eckhart, and i remember how disappointed
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- My audience was because they were like, i thought he was going to go deep.
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- And i talked to apostle john eckhart after that stream, and he was like,
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- There isn't anything deep about deliverance.
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- I'm like, what are you talking about? you've written 50 books on it.
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- He's like, deliverance is easy. it's the disciplined part.
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- Nobody gets.
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- It's the casting demons out.
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- It's like a very basic thing.
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- Even jesus sent them out two by two and barely even trained them.
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- And they came back celebrating, being like, wow, this is crazy.
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- Even the demons listen to us.
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- And he was like, no, no, no.
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- Just be grateful that your name is written in the lamb's book of life.
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- And so i think we've got to get back to that discipline.
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- Are y'all with me?
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- Okay, now the hatch number three is worship.
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- Go to acts chapter 16.
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- Acts. chapter 16.
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- Matthew. mark. luke. john acts.
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- And then go to chapter 16.
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- And we're going to start at verse 25.
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- Say amen when you found it.
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- So acts chapter 16, verse 25
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- And about midnight,
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- Paul and silas,
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- Come on, where are you and where?
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- Where?
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- As in one of my favorite portions of scripture.
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- And i am going to preach it.
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- I'm going to try to hold myself back.
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- They were praying and they were singing hymns to god,
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- And the prisoners were listen to them.
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- Come on, let me just tell you, you can't help.
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- Sometimes in life to be put in prison, but you need to become aware
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- That there are always people listening to your prayers.
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- There are always people listening to your praise.
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- You've got an audience.
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- Let me tell you, mother, i know you feel like giving up some time,
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- But you got an audience of your children and the next to profit.
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- An apostle, the next teacher.
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- That's the audience that you got. your kids are listening.
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- Oh, you think they're listening to youtube on their ipad?
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- They're listening to you, too, not just youtube.
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- You better start praying.
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- They're listening to that song that comes out of you.
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- You never know what audience you have.
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- There's some people at work that you don't think like you,
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- But they're listening to you.
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- When paul
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- And silas were in that prison, god will allow you
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- To be in a prison situation because it's not about you.
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- It's about your audience.
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- God, why am i here?
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- I don't even like this job.
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- We'll start learning how to be a light on that job,
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- And maybe you'll get graduated to the next thing.
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- But maybe it's about the witnesses of your worship.
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- This is a word
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- I really want to thank you for supporting this ministry.
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- Pray about what god would have you do.
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- We don't tell people what to give, what we do love to talk about
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- Is the amazing, life saving projects that we do around the united states
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- And around the world.
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- Whether it's distributing the gospel in non-christian nations,
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- Even underground church networks, or providing disaster relief to areas
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- Most affected around the united states, many lives are being changed
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- Because of your generosity.
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- Your.
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