Mike Signorelli - Overcoming Idols

April 1, 2026 | 11:23

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

#Israel #Idolatry #Idols #Worship #SeekGod #SpiritualWarfare #Distraction

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| Mike Signorelli - Overcoming Idols | April 1, 2026

- this path is already narrow,
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And we will force forward making no excuse
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For why we can live uncompromised in this generation.
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- lock in, gimme a hundred people who will walk
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That narrow road
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And say, i may have some things in my family,
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But i where it runs out.
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- give me two minutes and i'll tell you why.
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So many believers feel like something is off right now.
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And i know that you might be feeling that as well.
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Not not just morally, not just culturally,
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But spiritually right now.
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Confusion is celebrated. purity is actually mocked.
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Temptation is even louder. attention spans are destroyed.
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Families are under pressure
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And prayer feels harder than it should actually be.
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So we're, we're gonna do a bible journey.
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We're gonna journey with jesus,
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But we're gonna start from the old testament,
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But pattern into a gospel, confrontational,
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And then the epistle strategy.
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So let's start with the old testament.
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You know, idols are systems that demand sacrifice.
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You need to understand that.
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And, and if you look at romans chapter one, verse 25,
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First paul tells you the engine that drives this system,
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They exchange the truth about god for a lie and worship
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And serve the creature rather than the creator.
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So paul unlocks it right off the jump.
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The exchange is the root.
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And when the exchange happens, worship doesn't disappear.
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It actually relocates. come on. are you following me?
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Now, let's go back to one kings chapter 18.
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Israel is, is stuck between god and baal.
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And elijah says, how long will you go?
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Limping between, between two opinions.
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Okay, then the prophet elijah does something
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That isn't flashy, but it's, it's everything in this moment.
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It says, elijah repaired the altar of the lord
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That had been thrown down.
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This is one kings chapter 18, verse 30.
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Because when idols begin to rise, the answer is an outrage.
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It's returned back to god. we need to return back to god.
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We need to rebuild the altar. come on.
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Now, some of you are trying to cast out demons with a phone
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That has 14 hours of screen time
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And zero minutes of prayer time and bible time.
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That's not warfare. come on. that's, that's distraction.
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Elijah didn't start with the enemy.
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He started with the altar. we need to go back to the altar.
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Come on, do you feel this?
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You know, jesus is gonna actually begin to target the fear
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Before he targets the storms.
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And when you look at mark, mark, chapter four, verse 37
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Through 40, there's this great wind storm that arose,
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And they say to teacher, do you not care
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That we are perishing in this storm?
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And he, and he says to the storm, peace be still.
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You know, have you no faith?
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Well, what does this have to do with each other?
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Well, jesus calms the storm, then he confronts the fear.
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Come on, because storms are external and fear is internal,
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And fear is the more dangerous enemy.
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And if you look at second timothy, chapter one, verse seven,
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For god gave us the spirit, not of fear, but of power, love,
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And self-control.
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You know, fear is not your enemy. fear is an invader. okay?
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So fear is not my future. fear is not your future.
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And what do we see? now,
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Let's tie this all together in caesarea philippi.
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Jesus chooses this cra, look, look
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Behind me this dark backdrop on purpose.
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And, and when you look at matthew chapter 16, verse 13,
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Jesus asks, who do you say i am?
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And peter answers, you are the christ, the son
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Of the living god.
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This is matthew chapter six, verse 16.
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Then jesus says, i will build my church.
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And the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
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This is verse 18. i, i'm standing right in this very place.
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A gate now is defensive,
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Meaning the church isn't meant to hide.
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The church is meant to advance and, and notice the order
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'cause this is very important.
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Now, first confession, then authority,
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Then we advance.
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If, if you don't confess him in your private life,
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You won't carry authority in your public life.
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We've gotta rebuild the altar.
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And paul explains it when you open
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To ephesians chapter six, verse 12.
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We don't wrestle against flesh and blood, but principalities
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And powers and rulers in high places.
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Right here around me is a demonic altar
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In the ancient world.
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And ephesians chapter six, four, verse 14, truth,
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Righteousness, readiness, faith, salvation prayer.
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W warfare is not for a few, warfare is
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For the spiritually disciplined.
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And okay, this is very important
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Because even second corinthians, chapter 10,
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Verse four says, we destroy arguments
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And we take every thought captive.
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And, and some of the warfare
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That you call demonic actually originated as a thought life
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That you've been feeding,
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And that's been building in your mind.
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So here's the modern i idolatrous pattern.
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First, comfort can be a god, pleasure as a god,
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Self as a god.
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Even outrage as a god, money as a god,
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Control, as a god.
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And idols always demand sacrifice.
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They, they sacrifice your peace. they sacrifice your family.
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They sacrifice your purity. they sacrifice your children.
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If not physically,
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They sacrifice their destiny, their future.
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The, these idols even sacrifice true worship.
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And some of you are exhausted, not
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Because god is demanding too much, but
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Because the idols are demanding.
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Sacrifice, idols never say, okay, it's enough.
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Only jesus says, come to me and i will give you rest.
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But, but idols will never let you rest.
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They always demand more sacrifice.
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In matthew chapter 11, verse 28, he's c says, come
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To me all you are heavy laden and i will give you rest.
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And idol can never do that.
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So as we look at cesary of philippi, this place
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Of great idolatry, this place
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Of demonic sacrifice in this place,
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They would literally sacrifice their children
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Unto these demonic entities.
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This is where jesus christ looks and to peter
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And says, upon this rock, i will build my church.
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And not even ne gates of hell will prevail against it.
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In other words, i am the lord over all of these idols.
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I am the lord over all of these demonic entities
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That are demanding a sacrifice,
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Because there's gonna be one sacrifice
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That was made the sacrifice of jesus christ on the cross.
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And, and he's saying, i am now going
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To tear down every idol.
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I'm going to break agreements with fear.
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I'm gonna restore purity, restore true prayer,
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Restore true authority.
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Come on, if you believe that the gates
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Of hell will not prevail.
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Somebody shout, amen. come on, let me hear you right now.
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This is so important from this place
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Because many, many ancient people would say,
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Why would we even go to accessory philippi?
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Why would we even go into that place? well, why?
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Because jesus says, no, we're not running from it.
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We're running towards it.
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We're we're not gonna leave this place.
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We're actually going to the place
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Of greatest demonic activity.
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And that's where i'm gonna make myself known.
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That's where i'm gonna build my church.
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You know, right here in caesarea philippi, i,
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I'm getting the boldness of jesus christ.
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Because people would say, mike, why would you go
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To new york city to start a church?
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Why would you go to long island to start a church?
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Why would you go to miami where there's all this idolatry,
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Where there's all this sin?
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Why, why don't you go somewhere easier?
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No, no, this, this is where jesus said
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That i will build my church
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And not even the gates of hell will prevail against it.
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And that same spirit
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That raised jesus from the dead is on the inside of me.
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It's on the inside of you.
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So across every single campus of v one church, we say, god,
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Just like you said it here in the place that people avoided,
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In the place that they knew of wickedness
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And human sacrifice.
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This is where we lift up the cross
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And say, we are gonna crush the head of our enemy.
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Come on. does anybody believe
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That right now we're getting ready to, to pray
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Because we are not called to run away from the war.
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We are not because jesus already conquered it all.
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We come and enforce victory.
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And caesarea philippi, i believe, became a place
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That the disciples are like,
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Why would he march us over here?
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Why would we come here? oh,
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Because he's gonna make his name known
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And he's gonna reveal that i'm gonna build my church
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And not even the gates of hell are gonna prevail against it.
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So i wanna pray right now.
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Heavenly father, i pray for each
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And everyone watching this god,
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That they would go into the cea philippi of their family,
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The place where there's idolatry, the place
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Where there's sin, the place where there's demonic activity,
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The place god that they would want to avoid,
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And they would enforce the authority of the kingdom,
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Expose the works of darkness,
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Eradicate every demonic activity,
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And say, let the light of christ shine in the darkness
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And let your kingdom come, your will be done on earth
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As it is in heaven.
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And flip it. come on in jesus mighty name. amen. amen.
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Amen. come on.
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This is such a powerful moment
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That we're sharing together here from israel,
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From this very place.
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And i believe that the words
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Of jesus are continuing to echo.
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And so i want you to receive what god has for you.
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You don't have to run away.
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You can run right into the epicenter
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And set up a, a, a habitation for the lord.
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We are gonna rebuild the altar. and what? and what happens?
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Just like when jesus was in that storm, he'd, he dealt
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With the storm, then he dealt with the fear.
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See, first we deal with the altar, we rebuild the altar,
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And we, we, through repentance, we say, god,
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I belong to you.
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Then all of a sudden, he begins to deal with
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That demonic activity.
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He begins to deal with the, the idols and destroy them.
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And i believe that god wants to continue to do
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That work in your life of sanctifying
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And destroying all the idols.
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Come on, if you believe it, let me hear you say it. amen.
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Amen.
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- jesus said in matthew seven, narrow is the gate
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And difficult is the way that leads to life.
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In a world that celebrates compromise, god calls us
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To live set apart, to walk the narrow way with courage,
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Conviction, and faith.
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Stay connected and learn more@mikesignorelli.com.
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Mike Signorelli - Overcoming Idols

April 1, 2026 | 11:23

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