Mike Signorelli - Imperfect But Chosen

November 14, 2025 | 28:0

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

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| Mike Signorelli - Imperfect But Chosen | November 14, 2025

How many people claim to get saved?
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But their cravings never change.
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You can scroll on your phone
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For four hours, but you can't spend four minutes in prayer.
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Something's gotta change because you say.
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If it was about me, i would keep scrolling.
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But it's about this density.
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So let me destroy.
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Oh, come on, somebody.
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Oh. jewish
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Genealogies typically did not include women
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Because it was not a matriarchal society.
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It was a patriarchal society.
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And so you knew your genealogy, partly
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Because it also determined your purpose in their society.
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So israel had tribes, and you knew your genealogy
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Because you also
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Were connected by a tribe, and each tribe had a function and a meaning.
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And so when matthew, who was a disciple of jesus christ, becomes an apostle
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And he graduates to that next level of influence through inspiration
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Of the holy spirit, he begins to transmit the gospel a story of jesus life.
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And he starts with his genealogy.
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And then luke, who is a physician,
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Also then chooses to become an apostle.
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And luke will be given an account of the story of jesus.
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And actually matthew and luke talk to each other.
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In other words, they they confirm each other.
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And so i found that as we were moving through the series,
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It was important for me to retrace the genealogy of jesus.
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And we started with the story of david.
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And then we went from david or jesse.
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Then to david and david to absalom.
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And now i'm going to show you now.
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Some of you are not deeply theological.
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I love theology and doctrine.
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On the president of a bible college called v1 college.
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And, we got some v1 college students here.
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But for those of you who are not deeply theological,
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When i do this genealogy and matthew one, can i just go maury povich real quick?
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Can we just go maury povich?
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Because when matthew is writing what i'm about to read,
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He was intentionally being ornery.
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Do you know what that word ornery means? ornery is like
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You know what you're doing
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You know.
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You know how henry is when you're,
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You know, you're getting under somebody's skin and you're.
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He was irritating and agitating for the sake of revelation.
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So when i read this to to 21st century listeners
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Without a first century context, you're
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Not going to you're not going to respond the way they would have responded.
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But they would have responded like what?
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You know, like when maury povich is like and you are the father
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And they're like, oh.
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Isn't that what they do?
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So you might not understand
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The genealogy,
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But it it really came off like that to first century listeners.
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It would have been incredibly scandalous because
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This is the genealogy of the savior messiah that
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The jewish people were waiting for for generations.
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And he finally arrived.
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And then it's like, okay, let me tell you his lineage.
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And they went all been like, oh, i can't wait to hear this.
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And then matthew goes, are you ready?
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Okay, listen to this.
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Abraham was the father of isaac.
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Everyone go. ooh!
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Oh, yeah. yeah.
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This is abraham who impregnated that other wife
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When he didn't have faith to believe that sarah could birth the promise
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And made ishmael, who would eventually become the father of islam,
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That would contend with christianity until christ's return.
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Yeah, that abraham.
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See how he's being ornery.
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Okay, it goes deeper.
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And isaac, the father of jacob and jacob, the father of judah and his brothers,
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And judah, the father of perez and zera by tamar.
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Everyone go. what?
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And then it says in.
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And, you just you keep going through this.
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It's, perez and tamar perez has.
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Ron has ron the father of ram?
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Ram the father up a minute, dad a minute.
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Dad. the father of nation. nation.
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The father of solomon and solomon, the father of boaz.
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By rahab.
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Everyone go. what?
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Yeah.
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Rahab the prostitute. okay. watch this.
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Who hid men in her house when they lay siege of the city?
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Oh, yeah.
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The prostitute hid the men in her house.
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Yeah. this is how people would have heard it.
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Rahab the prostitute in the lineage.
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And david, the father of solomon by the wife of uriah.
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You know who that is?
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Bathsheba.
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So here's the thing.
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And i like the i mean, i can't wait to get to heaven
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And share a meal with matthew and be like,
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Bro, you were good.
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Because when you are right, that genealogy,
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When you got to the part about bathsheba, you said it with a little bit of sass.
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He was ghetto. matthew had a little ghetto.
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He he didn't even say your name said.
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And david was the father of solomon, you know, the wife of uriah.
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I'm serious.
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This is this is the attitude behind it. why?
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David systematically arranged for the murder of araya
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By uriah, by putting him on the frontlines of the battle.
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So by mentioning uriah and not mentioning bathsheba, he's
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Actually mentioning david as both an adulterer and a murderer.
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So. oh, yeah.
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He's of the line of david.
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Your boy david, who slept with someone else's wife.
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And your boy david.
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Oh, by the way, you see how he's talking?
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This is good news for all of y'all.
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Stay with me.
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I'm preaching.
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And then it continues to go on,
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And it says.
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And hezekiah,
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The father of manassa and manassa, the father of amos
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And amos, the father of josiah and josiah, the father of, jack.
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And and his brothers at the time of the deportation to to babylon.
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And then he begins to go down and all the way to verse 16,
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And jacob, the father of joseph, the husband of mary, of whom
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Jesus was born, who who is called christ.
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So verse 17 is so powerful.
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So all the generations from abraham to david were 14.
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Everybody say 14.
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They were 14 generations.
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And from david to the deportation to babylon, 14 generations,
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And from the deportation to babylon to to the,
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The christ, 14 generations.
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Oh, there's a deep revelation here.
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I'm going to have to stand up for this.
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The women
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That were mentioned were not matriarchal legends.
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Oh, you think you had made mention, sarah?
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You think he would mention a woman that had a good reputation?
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But he mentioned women.
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And actually, if you go deeper on the study, one was a hittite,
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One was a canaanite, and one was a moabite.
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So you're telling me that when jesus messiah was born,
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His blood contained non-jewish blood?
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That's exactly what i'm saying.
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Because he had to receive so he could redeem.
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And in other words, there was the blood of
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Jesus christ that would eventually be spilled on the cross.
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That was not just jewish blood, but it was blood from other peoples
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To show that the gospel
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Was not just for the jewish people, but for a whole bunch of gentiles, too.
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And i don't know about you, but i got a church full of gentiles
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At every single location right now that are thankful
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For some hittites and some moabites and some canaanites.
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Oh, you might not like the savior on my life.
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You might not have chose me, but somebody else's sin
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Became a gateway for my salvation.
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Jesus always had a plan.
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Somebody shout if you're thankful that he always had a plan.
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See, when david fell
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And he brought bathsheba, david's greatest fall
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Became an opportunity for jesus greatest victory.
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It didn't look like it made sense.
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See, some of you are like,
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Oh, i shouldn't have been born and i was the product of incest or rape.
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Oh, i should have never made it.
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My parents didn't love each other.
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I was just happenstance that one night they came together and had sex.
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No two human beings can have sex, but only god can give life.
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And what the enemy meant for harm.
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God will turn it around for your good.
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There is always a plan.
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You may see the world calls it random.
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I call it the sovereignty of god.
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And if we submit and surrender in our weakness to him,
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The secret becomes our weakness.
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Come on.
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Just turn to your neighbor and tell him the secret is my weakness.
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That's the whole point.
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You mean bathsheba?
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You mean rahab the prostitute?
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You mean the lineage of jesus? messiah?
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Savior includes people like that.
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Yes, but that's the secret.
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The secret is the weakness.
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Hey, mike riley, here in the studio.
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We're getting ready to jump back into the sermon.
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But just very briefly, i wanted to let you know
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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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But it's an inability to
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Reveal weakness that actually produces an inability to be saved.
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Because what happens privately is always revealed publicly.
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So when you sin privately, you fall publicly.
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So the secret is in the weakness.
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It's in telling on yourself.
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It's in telling the congregation i don't have it all together.
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Let's. let's figure this out together.
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When i think about david, david didn't know how to reveal his weakness.
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When he went to go fight david, a goliath, he stood before goliath.
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He was triumphant.
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But that victory gave him a false sense of security.
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And just because he had won victory, he thought he was going to have
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Every victory.
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David fought one of goliath brothers, and it actually was abishai
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That had to stand up and help david fight that thing that was going to kill him.
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The biggest deterrent to future success is not failure.
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It's past success because you think
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Just because i was successful, then i'll be successful again.
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See, there's something about weakness that our church needs to get a
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Revelation about.
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There's something about weakness.
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It. listen to me, men.
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There's something about weakness that you need to get a revelation about.
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There's something hidden in this for you.
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Because when i look at the genealogy of jesus, what i see
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Is weakness threaded into his lineage.
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And it was supposed to reveal the presence and glory of god.
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Matter of fact, jesus was 100% god, but 100% man.
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And the part of him that was human was his physical body.
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And so in his humanness, he had inherited genetically
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The weakness of the sin of all those who came before him.
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So people say, well, jesus wasn't tempted with lust.
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He had a prostitute in his bloodline.
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He had a genetic predisposition for lust.
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It was deep in him.
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It was. it was in his physical body.
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Oh, he was never tempted with anger, with rage, with malice, with unforgiveness.
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Are you kidding me?
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As i begin to study for this sermon this week,
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You know that phrase that they would say, oh, look, there's jesus.
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That's that's mary, son.
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You know that phrase?
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That's mary's son, jesus.
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When i did a deeper dive, that phrase, when they use son,
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They were using the hebrew word for bastard.
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So they're saying, oh, that's mary's bastard son.
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That's a blaspheming spirit,
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Which i believe was a demonic spirit behind that phrase.
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So jesus was constantly being rejected.
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He was constantly being belittled.
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He was constantly being mislabeled.
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They didn't understand who he was.
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And he carried that weakness in his body.
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He carried that weakness in his life.
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So the story of jesus life is not necessarily about how strong he was.
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It's about how surrendered he was.
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Oh, i'm going to tell you the secret.
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It's not about how people are like, oh, pastor mike,
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I see you casting demons out of people.
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Oh, pastor mike, i see you in the movies, and every theater is filled
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And i see you filling up times square, and thousands of people come and.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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The secret is in my weakness.
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Here's the secret.
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I can't do this.
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I don't have the sermon.
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I don't have the leadership ability.
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The secret is i know how to submit and surrender my weakness.
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And what happens when i come before the lord?
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As i say, lord, i don't know which way to take v1 church.
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Lord, i don't know how to save new york, new york city.
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Lord, i don't know how to deal with the problems in northwest indiana.
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And the lord says, i'm going to get so much glory out of you, mike.
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I pick the right person.
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Not because you know what you do, but because you notice.
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Surrender to the one with the ultimate strategy,
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Not because you know what to say.
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But the book of matthew later on says, when you go before them, don't worry
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About what to say or how to say, for when the time comes.
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It will not be you speaking but the holy spirit through you.
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God is not looking for strong people.
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He's looking for weak people who are surrendered, weak
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People who know how to sacrifice, weak people who know how to give him the glory.
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Are there any weak people who know how to shout right now?
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This is how he receives glory.
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Jesus glorified god through his weakness.
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How can you imagine
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The spirit of a holy, righteous god
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Stepping into the mortal body of flesh
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That consisted of the sewage and the filth and the dirt of generations?
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Can you imagine how disgusting the spirit of god are,
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How disgusting it was for him to encounter human flesh?
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Do you know what it was like
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To step out of the deity of heaven, and all of the grandeur of everything?
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He had roads paved with gold to step up into a body
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Where there's point 1% of rahab, the prostitutes
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Dna in that flesh,
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The dna of all you.
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Can you imagine how it felt for his spirit to be inside of that that dirt body?
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But jesus said, i'm not getting out.
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I'm going through.
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I'm not.
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I'm not trying to escape.
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I'm not trying to run away.
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I'm going to go all the way through.
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Here's my message.
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The secret is that our weakness.
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And here's the thing. okay.
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Can i blow your mind with something?
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When you look at this.
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Okay, so jewish genealogies, they also count.
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So there's an aspect to this of numbers, because they would understand
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That numbers have great significance when you read the bible.
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There's never an accident.
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Okay.
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Remember we talked about that the sovereignty of god.
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So when they when first century listeners would hear this genealogy,
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They would recognize the importance of the number 14.
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Remember we said that.
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So from abraham all the way down. 14.
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It's the multiple of seven. are you with me?
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Matthew is implying that the entire flow of god's history
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Of creating a people for himself actually
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Shows jesus showing up on the seventh.
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It's the number seven. follow me. 42.
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Not just 14.
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There's three sets of 14 is six sets of seven.
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In other words, when jesus showed up in his generation,
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He showed up on the perfect timing of sabbath rest.
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Oh, this is good news.
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You're not shouting.
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Yeah, so i got to explain it.
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I can tell.
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The jewish people, to this day,
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Friday sundown to saturday sundown, they have sabbath.
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If you're ever fortunate enough to go to israel, we had to cancel a trip.
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But we're going to go back when it reopens.
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You will see that on friday night.
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The jewish people shut everything down.
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The first time i was in israel, i needed contact juice.
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You know, the liquid that the contact solution.
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And i went.
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I couldn't even find a store
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That was open on friday night because everybody was on sabbath rest.
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As a matter of fact, in hotels they have shabbat elevators
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That actually go up and down every single floor with no buttons,
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Because the jewish people to this day believe that to press an elevator
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Button is a form of work.
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So in new york city, where i
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Live, where there's large jewish populations, you will see this as well.
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They do anything and everything.
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Matter of fact, they leave the bathroom light on during sabbath
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For that 24 period of time,
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So that when they go in the restroom to use their own bathroom, that they don't
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Have to turn the light on and off, because to even turn the light on is work.
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Jewish people are regulated by hundreds and hundreds of laws
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That they live their life, and this is the very way
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It would be in the first century when jesus was walking.
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So when they heard this genealogy, they said, jesus showed up.
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Now, in a generation, it's representative of now a new season of rest.
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Somebody say rest.
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So what implication does this have for you?
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I think oftentimes we look at the catholics
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And we look at them lighting candles.
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We look at them, you know, interact going to confession with the priest.
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And we say, well, i'm not religious like that.
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I go boldly before the throne of grace.
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I don't have to do all that.
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Maybe we look at the presbyterians and the methodists, and they do sacrament,
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And we look at all that, and we say they're religious.
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What can i tell you?
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Even the spirit filled people on the other side of pentecostal
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And charismatic can end up with a spirit of religion,
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Because what we try to do and say, oh, well, we're not like them,
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But over here we're fasting and we're praying
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And we say, i got to do more warfare prayers.
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I got a shout louder.
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I got a fast longer.
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But see, what you're essentially saying is that by fasting, i can earn his favor.
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That if i pray longer, if i pray more, i can earn his approval.
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Can i just remind you that as jesus grew up, he got baptized by john the baptist?
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When he came out the water, the holy spirit descended like a dove
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And said, this is my son, in whom i am well pleased.
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Then he went to the mountain to fast,
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So he didn't fast for approval.
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He fasted from a place of approval.
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Do y'all hear what i'm saying?
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And so some of you in this place don't understand.
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The secret is in your weakness.
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You're not fasting the twisted
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To twist god's arm and hopefully convince him to bless you.
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You know, the blessing of god is upon you because the blood of jesus is upon you.
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He approves his son, and the blood of his son
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Is over your life, and therefore he approves you.
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When he sees you, he sees his son and whom the son says, free it.
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Come on!
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Somebody across every location whom the sun sets free.
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Come on.
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So, dear pastor mike, does that mean we don't fast?
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Come on. we're going to fast today.
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We're not fasting for approval because we've already been approved.
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We're fasting like a bride that longs for the bridegroom
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Who says i would be eating right now, but i want to spend more time with you.
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Do you see that dynamic?
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So let's get free from religion.
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Why is this so important, pastor mike?
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Because i'm trying to teach you.
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The secret is in your weakness.
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If you're near one of our campuses, i want to give you
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A personal invitation to check out v1 church.
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There's no way i can describe the atmosphere of revival in the experience.
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If you've never driven up or driven in, you know,
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Let me just tell you, it's a powerful atmosphere
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And a bunch of people who really love the lord and want to get to know you.
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So let us know when you're coming and i'll see you at v1 church.
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Honesty is the fastest route to freedom
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Because god can't heal what you are not willing to reveal.
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He said, stretch forth your withered hand.
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It's when you take the withered hand out from.
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Oh, come on, somebody
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He says, stretch forth your withered hand.
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Sometimes you gotta stretch forth the thing that you're embarrassed about.
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You gotta learn how to stretch forth the thing that you're ashamed of.
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You gotta learn how to stretch forth a withered hand so it can be made whole.
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Come on.
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Stop trying to act like you got it all together.
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Stop trying to act like you come from a good family.
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If you're a shield. look.
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See the reason why matthew gave the genealogy of jesus?
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It's because he was saying to you, all jewish people.
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His lineage would be shameful.
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But you don't know what god does with shame.
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He gives you a double portion for your shame.
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He'll give you double for your trouble.
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Oh, i wish somebody would help me preach this sermon right now on long island.
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Oh, come on somebody.
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He'll give you double for your shame.
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Listen, if you find something out about where i come from,
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You're not telling on me.
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You're testifying all my god, all you're doing is proving the point.
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If you found some dirt on me, it only proves
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That the blood washes and makes you a white ass.
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Deal.
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Come on, somebody, you can only talk about my past
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Because he chooses not to remember it.
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Come on, somebody
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Help me!
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Help me preach this thing.
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The blood of jesus testifies.
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We got to be a church that gets honest about this.
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I want to show you something.
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As we get ready to come to a close, i need the worship team to come up.
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I want to show you something, cause i feel the anointing on this now.
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Luke chapter two. so that's matthew.
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Now, the apostle luke is like, i won't get in on this.
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I'm telling my story about jesus.
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By the way,
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This is like the christmas message y'all never heard before, am i right?
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And those damn.
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In those days, a decree went out from caesar
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Augustus that all the world should be registered.
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And there is a registration and all that went to be registered
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To his each their own town.
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And joseph also went up from galilee, from the town of nazareth
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To judea, to the city of david, which is called bethlehem,
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Because he was of the house of the lineage of david.
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Confirmation to be registered with mary,
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His betrothed, who who was with child.
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And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth,
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And she gave birth to her firstborn son, and wrapped him in a swaddling clothing,
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And laid him in a manger, because there was no place for him in the end.
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So now, luke chapter two.
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Now you have another picture.
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They go to register because they're of the house
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And lineage of david, and jesus is showing up.
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See, it's about jesus being born
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Into the humblest situation.
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It was born into total weakness.
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He didn't inherit anything.
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They didn't even see.
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Did you know that the book of proverbs says that a good man leaves
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An inheritance to his children's children?
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So we know that if he had nowhere to lay his head,
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That we know that there was lack, there was poverty to some degree.
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Jesus was a simple his family from a lineage
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Of simple to a craftsman, tradesman.
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Come on. he would be in the local 150
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Him and you know, dad would come home
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With the lunchbox like the flintstones or something.
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But this was a normal family in so many ways.
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And normal fit.
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Matter of fact,
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When you go to the lineage of matthew chapter one, you know what you will find.
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You'll find god.
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Just normal people.
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Yeah, we have the women of ill repute,
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But we also have people we don't know anything about. the why?
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Because they were common.
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But let me tell you a revelation.
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When the anointing of god comes upon a person, it makes something common.
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Uncommon.
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Oh, i don't know who this part of the sermon is for,
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But there's some of you that say, who am i, god?
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Like mary said, who am i that you would choose me?
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And and the angel said, but the lord, you have found favor with him,
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Because the lord looks at the heart.
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When when god showed up through the prophet samuel
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To anoint the king, it was david, because david the prophet
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Said, man looks on the outside, but god looks on the inside.
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He looks at the heart.
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And all those generations later, he looked at the heart of mary
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And found faith that mary would conceive this child. why?
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Some of you still?
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You look in the mirror in the bathroom of our campus locations
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And you say, why am i here?
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Why would god choose me?
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Let me tell you, sister.
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The anointing on your life because of your heart.
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The lord looked in and he saw something that said, my holy spirit
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Is going to overshadow you and you're going to conceive
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A destiny unlike anyone before you.
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I really
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Want to thank you for supporting this ministry.
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Mike Signorelli - Imperfect But Chosen

November 14, 2025 | 28:0

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