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           | Mike Signorelli - Strike the Ground | October 28, 2025
            - 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.
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- So let me destroy.
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- Oh come on, somebody.
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- Oh! well, welcome to v1 church.
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- If you have your bibles, can you open up to acts chapter 19?
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- We're going to start in acts chapter 19.
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- And as i've been seeking the lord for this sermon,
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- I felt very convicted to preach this word in this time.
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- I don't believe in accidents.
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- If you're watching this right now, i believe that god divinely
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- Had you to stop on this moment to hear this message.
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- And this message is entitled strike the ground.
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- Come on. v1 manhattan.
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- Can you say strike the ground?
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- Come on.
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- We're here in new york city, and i believe that this message is for you.
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- Acts chapter 19 i'm going to start with verse one.
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- And it happened that while apollos was at corinth,
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- Paul passed through the inland country and came to ephesus.
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- There he found some disciples.
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- And he said to them, did you receive the holy spirit when you believed?
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- And they said, no, we have not even heard that there is a holy spirit.
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- And then he said, until what then were you baptized?
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- And they said, we were baptized into john's baptism.
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- Verse four says, and paul said, john baptized with the baptism of repentance,
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- Telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him, that is jesus.
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- Verse five says, on hearing this they were baptized in the name of the lord jesus.
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- But verse six, this is very important.
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- And when paul had laid his hands on him, the holy spirit came on them,
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- And they began speaking in tongues and prophesying.
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- And there were 12 men and all, everybody say, strike the ground.
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- So right now
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- Our nation is in a prophetic ephesus.
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- Ephesus is when you have a measure of god,
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- But you have not yet received all that he has promised you.
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- Oh my, talking to somebody,
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- Ephesus, is when you've gone halfway but haven't gone all the way.
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- Oh, i'm talking to somebody.
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- Oh, i love my presbyterian friends and my methodist friends and my baptist friends.
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- But i'm telling you, god has brought you to this message because there is more.
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- Somebody say, strike the ground.
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- Come on.
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- We are guilty of stopping too soon.
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- Like the moment before our greatest breakthrough,
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- The moment before things click.
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- And that's usually when we give up.
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- And so when i look at ephesus, i'm going to let's look at the text.
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- It says this.
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- And paul said, well, john baptized with the baptism, baptism of repentance,
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- Telling the people to believe in the one who was to come after him.
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- But but he said, okay, but actually there's more, there's more.
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- The holy spirit came upon them.
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- They begin to speak in tongues and prophesy.
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- So let me just help you today.
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- There is more for you.
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- God has more for you.
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- The worst thing that you can ever experience
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- In life is not being a sinner.
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- It's being a mediocre christian.
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- Because at least when you were in sin and you didn't know christ,
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- There was some element of satisfaction, even if it was leading to hell.
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- But to be a mediocre christian who hears the word but doesn't do it,
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- To be a christian who surrenders to demons of depression
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- That have already been crushed under the heel of our savior.
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- That is one of the worst conditions to be in.
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- I mean, even the bible itself declares be hot or be cold.
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- It literally gives you an option that says be anything but in the middle,
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- Be anything but lukewarm because god will spew you out of his mouth.
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- Why do you need to hear that message?
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- Because here's the thing if you're cold,
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- At least you know you're cold and you're owning it.
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- I respect an honest sinner more than a lying
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- Christian.
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- Y'all hear me?
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- You hear me like i respect an honest sinner more than a lie.
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- And christian,
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- The reason why i went through atheism, the reason why i read every holy book,
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- Is because i said, man, if i'm going to build my life on this,
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- I'm going to calculate the cost before i do it like i listen.
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- I was born ignorant, but i ain't dying ignorant.
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- And i think what paul, he shows up and he's like, i'm
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- Not trying to diminish your experience thus far,
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- But i sense some ignorance, which means a lack of knowledge.
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- And i'm going to propose something to you.
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- Will you receive it? and they're like, yes, we want more.
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- And they begin to speak in tongues and prophesy.
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- There is more.
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- The thing i love about this christian faith
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- Is there's so many realms and dimensions of revelation
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- That it's just you go from glory to glory
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- To glory, and right when you think you've hit the pinnacle,
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- The very apex of god's presence, he drowns you in a tsunami of his glory.
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- Come on to somebody.
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- Know what i'm talking about, right?
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- When you think you've experienced his goodness in his love,
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- Right when you've been suffocated by his mercy
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- And you don't think you can any get any better, he's like,
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- There's more.
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- Does somebody know what i'm talking about
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- Is somebody have a hunger and a desperation for more.
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- I might be in ephesus
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- And i've only experience of baptism of john, but i want more,
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- And when when paul shows up and acts chapter 19.
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- This this is the beautiful, beautiful part about it.
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- They were receptive.
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- Somebody say strike the ground.
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- Now later on, if you go to the book of ephesians chapter six
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- And i'm going to show you something.
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- And pastors and preachers don't often connect these, but
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- This is the same audience across two different books of your bible.
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- So first we we see him showing up
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- Initially in ephesus, but then now you have the book of ephesians.
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- And paul is later warning them, so something happened
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- That paul's like, wait a second, did i not lay hands on you?
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- And you received the holy spirit. you've drifted.
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- You've drifted.
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- Look, let me read it to you.
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- You all know this verse, but i'm putting in context.
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- We wrestle not against flesh and blood.
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- Have you ever heard a parent be like,
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- We don't eat candy off the floor,
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- We don't hit our brother.
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- Anybody heard a parent talk like that?
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- So imagine paul, as an apostolic father,
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- Says, we don't wrestle against flesh and blood.
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- What do you think they were doing?
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- Blm versus the conservatives.
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- Oh yeah, i'm going there.
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- Pro-palestinian versus pro israel.
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- Oh yeah.
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- It was the same thing.
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- And paul has to show up.
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- And sometimes leaders
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- Have to show up and say, we don't wrestle against flesh and blood,
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- But against principalities and powers and rulers and high places.
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- Oh, yeah.
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- You want to be about the father's business.
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- Help me save souls. don't condemn them.
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- Even jesus said, i didn't come into this world to condemn it.
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- I came to save it. so are you.
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- Who are you to condemn in the comment section?
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- If he wouldn't condemn on the cross,
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- The gen alpha's like that was good,
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- You hear me?
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- Like, who are we to condemn in the comment section?
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- He wouldn't even condemn you on the cross.
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- He said, father, forgive them.
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- They know not what they do.
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- How could you receive forgiveness and yet not dispense it to those in need?
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- We wrestle not against flesh and blood.
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- I mean, didn't we learn in the last five years that we are are one?
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- Jesus is praying that we would be united.
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- So i find it interesting that he has to later
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- Come and tell them, like, hey, this is not a physical battle.
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- See, what happened was in ephesus
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- And this is what i want you to understand.
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- They were stalled.
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- What does it mean to be stalled?
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- Have you ever felt stagnant in your faith?
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- I mean, you've ever.
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- You just kind of feel like, man, i, i don't know if i want to read the bible.
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- I don't know if i want to pray.
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- I don't know if i, i want to i don't know if i want to go to church.
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- I know that i'm supposed to serve at church,
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- But if i want to attend church, man, i love pastor mike.
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- I'm glad he's back, but i just don't feel like hearing a sermon right now.
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- Anybody know what i'm talking about?
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- Okay, don't agree with me too emphatically.
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- Yeah.
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- But here's the thing.
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- If commitment was connected to a feeling,
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- The covenant of marriage would never exist.
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- See, god didn't ask you to commit.
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- He asked you to covenant and see the thing about.
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- Let me just tell you.
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- I mean, my daughter's here, so i'm not going to look at her when i say this.
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- There's times i don't feel like being her dad.
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- I mean, being a dad is a hard thing, but i made a covenant.
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- I am the father and the leader of this home.
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- I covenanted to my wife, julie, i'm just telling you,
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- I know y'all think julie's amazing, but she has some bad days.
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- I know you don't believe that.
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- And sometimes it's like between the dog, my daughters, and julie.
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- I'm just like, lord jesus, take the wheel.
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- But the thing is, i made a decision.
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- And covenant is a decision that is not connected to feelings.
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- Actually, it's a choice that eventually could produce a feeling,
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- But it should never be a feeling that produces a choice.
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- That's why i came out here and preached the first message on salvation.
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- It was like, i'm trying to suck the feelings
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- Out of the room so you can make a covenant to god, not a commitment
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- To get in the water.
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- There's a difference between a bath and a baptism,
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- And the difference is commitment versus covenant.
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- The covenant is i don't feel like giving my money.
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- I don't feel like investing into the kingdom.
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- But i didn't make a decision based on feelings.
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- I covenanted.
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- This is why, even in romans chapter ten, verse nine, it talks about if you believe
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- In your heart that that he is messiah and you receive him as lord and savior,
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- I mean, you ask anybody on their deathbed, do you want to be saved?
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- They're going to say, yes,
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- But you ask anybody fully alive, do you want to surrender?
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- And you're going to get a question mark?
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- Because the thing is,
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- We all want to be saved, but very few of us want to surrender.
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- So what we need is we need to go back to that place where we say,
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- I want you to be my lord and my savior.
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- And what i see the apostle paul doing with the church in ephesus
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- Is he's trying to disciple them into true covenant.
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- And they started, let me just they started fighting the wrong fight.
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- They started fighting each other.
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- And instead of fighting the enemy, remember we covenanted to each other
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- Where the body of christ says the hand, say to the foot, i have no need of thee.
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- Does the eye say to the mouth, i have no need of thee like we are one.
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- We might be different, but we are not disconnected.
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- We are one in the spirit.
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- There's dark days up ahead.
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- And while america very well may be going into revival.
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- See the devil.
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- He has a counterfeit revival. you
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- See, when god brings his children from death to life,
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- What satan does is he resurrects old offenses.
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- He'll take the offense from 2020
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- That had the streets of new york city being burned down.
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- Come on, and he'll resurrect an old offense.
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- Let me just tell you, there's counterfeit revival, too.
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- And the devil has a way of reviving some old sayings and just mark my words.
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- You're going to see the valley of dry bones
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- Turn into an exceedingly great army of christians.
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- But you're going to see a demonic army of those who claim christ.
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- But don't forgive like him.
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- Don't prophesy like him.
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- Come on. don't minister like him.
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- Don't love like him.
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- So not everybody bearing the label bears the mark.
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- This is a prophetic message.
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- So to the church at ephesus.
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- Yes. there's more.
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- More rebuke, more correction.
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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
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- Church.
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- Go to second kings chapter 13.
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- Let's go, old covenant, let's go.
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- Old testament, second kings, chapter 13.
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- This is a powerful, powerful illustration.
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- Second kings, chapter 13.
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- And we're going to start with verse 14.
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- Now, when elijah had fallen sick
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- With the illness of which he was to die,
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- That in of itself is a whole nother sermon we don't have time for.
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- So the great prophet elijah, who now is on track to fulfill double
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- The amount of miracles as the prophet elijah, is now
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- Sick with the illness of watch, which he will die.
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- Then it says, joash, king of israel, went down to him and wept before him.
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- And he's crying, my father, my father, the chariots of israel and its horsemen.
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- Verse 15.
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- And elijah said to him, okay, now watch this.
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- Just follow me.
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- If you if you write in your bible, if you're inclined,
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- This is you have my permission to start writing.
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- Take a bow and arrows.
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- So he took a bow and arrows.
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- Then in verse 16, there's another command.
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- The prophet says, draw the bow, and he drew it.
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- And then elijah laid his hand on the king's hands.
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- Then he said, open the window eastward.
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- So he opens the window.
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- Then elijah said, now shoot. and he shot.
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- Then he said, the lord's arrow of victory, the arrow victory over syria.
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- For you shall fight the syrians in a fact.
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- And it says, until you have made an end of them.
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- Now let me for. nobody's shouting.
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- Nobody's jumping on their feet.
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- So that is my indicator.
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- I have to teach this because that was powerful.
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- Young people.
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- God will never give you the whole plan.
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- Because if he gave you the whole plan, you wouldn't need him.
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- So stop
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- Expecting to get this divine download where he shows
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- You 26 to 89 years old and you walk it out because you would walk.
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- You'd be walking out a plan without a person,
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- And the just shall live by faith.
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- Faith is the evidence of things hoped for and the substance of things
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- Not seen.
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- But i want to see it. god!
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- No, no, no.
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- Don't see it. walk it out.
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- And he gives it to you.
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- One act of obedience at a time.
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- If you want to unlock the invisible staircase
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- That takes you to the next level, you have to take it one step at a time.
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- And when he tells you to do something, you obey.
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- When he tells you to do something, you obey.
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- That is the sacred way of god.
- 00:16:18.531 --> 00:16:22.635
- And of all these years i've been serving the lord.
- 00:16:22.635 --> 00:16:25.005
- I've never found a cheat code. there's no.
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- I can't jump into a tube and warp like super mario.
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- There is no, there is enough.
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- There's no way out of radical obedience.
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- One step at a time.
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- No other way, no other way.
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- And so
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- I find it
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- Interesting because you see this dynamic between the prophet elijah
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- And the king of israel, and he's giving them commands and he's obeying.
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- He's giving them commands.
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- But i want to give you another warning.
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- God has specific.
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- That's why you need to stop settling
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- For who you're dating.
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- I don't know if i believe in soulmates.
- 00:17:05.245 --> 00:17:07.047
- Well, i believe that you knew you messed up when you were with them.
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- God is specific.
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- Some of you order a bagel with more specificity than a relationship.
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- And that's your problem.
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- That's your problem.
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- I have a bacon, egg, and cheese with it as i come on,
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- If you only chose your mate with that same level of detail.
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- So watch this though.
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- It's about specificity.
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- It's about the details.
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- God cares about that.
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- Let me tell you the story of the location you're in right now,
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- Or you're watching on television.
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- I had a dream that one of my mentors who had passed away, his name was tim keller.
- 00:17:48.555 --> 00:17:53.326
- Tim keller had a 5000 plus person church here in new york city.
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- That church still exists. multi-site.
- 00:17:57.931 --> 00:18:00.333
- Tim was a mentor to me, and i had this dream.
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- And in the dream, tim keller, he now, by the way,
- 00:18:04.871 --> 00:18:07.407
- Tim keller died and he died of cancer.
- 00:18:07.407 --> 00:18:10.410
- But in the dream, he was this young man and he had this, like, seersucker
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- Suit on from the 70s.
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- And it was this weird phenomenon where i walked up to him.
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- I was on roosevelt island.
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- You guys know where roosevelt island is?
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- Okay, so it's in between brooklyn, queens area and then manhattan,
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- And i'm on roosevelt island.
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- I'm like, tim, you look amazing.
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- He was like, thanks.
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- So, like, dad, tim keller is telling me in a dream.
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- Then he did. he goes, i want to show you something.
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- I've been waiting to show you this.
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- And he walks me down to the corner of roosevelt island,
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- And he points to manhattan. and this is what he said.
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- Mike, if you answer their questions, they will answer your prayers.
- 00:18:44.110 --> 00:18:49.382
- And then i woke up
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- And i was like, whoa, i think this dream meant something.
- 00:18:51.784 --> 00:18:55.221
- So at the time, our church was trying to lead a thousand souls to christ.
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- We had an initiative. do you guys remember that?
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- So i went to the elders of the church, and i said, i had this dream,
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- And i said, i don't.
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- And i wasn't thinking about a campus.
- 00:19:07.333 --> 00:19:09.669
- I was just simply thinking, what if we try to boot up an evening service
- 00:19:09.669 --> 00:19:14.307
- And we can lead more lost people for a season, and then let's lead
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- These thousand souls to christ,
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- And then we'll shut everything down and we'll go back to business as usual.
- 00:19:19.712 --> 00:19:22.815
- But i said, here's the thing.
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- Manhattan is so expensive, and it's so crazy
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- That if we find a venue in manhattan, we know it's god.
- 00:19:26.953 --> 00:19:30.023
- And all the new yorkers said, amen.
- 00:19:30.023 --> 00:19:32.659
- So all of a sudden, i called the vh1 church board member
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- And i'm like, yo, i, the elders approve of this idea.
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- We're going to try to do evening services in manhattan.
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- I'm looking for a space. do you know of anywhere?
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- And you know what he says?
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- Actually, it's so crazy. you ask me.
- 00:19:45.505 --> 00:19:47.874
- He was just like, we actually have a space that we want to rent.
- 00:19:47.874 --> 00:19:51.411
- And i said, well, where is it?
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- No, i didn't tell him in the dream
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- That tim keller had pointed to the financial district.
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- So all of a sudden he goes, i don't even know
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- If this would work for you, but the venues in the financial district.
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- I almost dropped my phone
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- Because god was divinely speaking.
- 00:20:09.329 --> 00:20:11.798
- So here's the thing.
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- Through that prophetic dream, tim keller points
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- To the financial district, the first and only door.
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- I don't want to say too much, but i heard that we spent all summer
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- Looking for new venues
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- And never found one, which only substantiates this story more.
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- The one and venue.
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- The one and only venue that opened up
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- Was in the very place that he pointed to in the dream.
- 00:20:32.385 --> 00:20:35.722
- God is a god of specifics.
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- Specifics? there's something about that.
- 00:20:41.261 --> 00:20:43.730
- When the lord told me to go into a stadium and fill a stadium,
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- We tried all over america to get a stadium.
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- Every door was locked.
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- Nobody would agree to do a christian event.
- 00:20:52.071 --> 00:20:54.574
- As a matter of fact,
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- Every stadium was coming back saying, we hate working with christians.
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- We need to do something about our witness.
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- And they were.
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- And they went.
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- Then finally, i'm flying over chicago, going to o'hare airport,
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- And the lord causes me to look down.
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- And he said, mike,
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- Do you remember when you helped reinhardt and bunkie do a crusade in chicago?
- 00:21:11.357 --> 00:21:14.394
- I said, yes, he said, rinehart is past.
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- He's dead.
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- Ask me
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- For the mantle of rinehart for chicago, and i'll open up a door to a stadium.
- 00:21:19.265 --> 00:21:22.769
- And literally the first call we made to a stadium in chicago,
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- They gave us an immediate yes.
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- Hey, mike. signa rally 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
- 00:21:33.713 --> 00:21:36.683
- That i have a resource called the breakers mobile app,
- 00:21:36.683 --> 00:21:40.720
- And i have so many courses there that teach you supernatural ministry
- 00:21:42.121 --> 00:21:45.792
- And how you can unlock the gifts that god has given you.
- 00:21:46.893 --> 00:21:48.861
- I want you to download the mobile app and join a global community of people
- 00:21:48.861 --> 00:21:53.366
- Learning the narrow way, people learning how to operate
- 00:21:53.366 --> 00:21:57.136
- In the fullness of what god has for them, and the gifts of the spirit.
- 00:21:57.136 --> 00:22:01.574
- It's called the breakers of mobile app.
- 00:22:02.375 --> 00:22:04.277
- It's actually entirely free and you can download it now on your device.
- 00:22:04.277 --> 00:22:08.448
- I will see you there.
- 00:22:08.948 --> 00:22:13.519
- So why do i say that?
- 00:22:14.020 --> 00:22:15.388
- Is that god has specifics? okay, look at the text.
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- Let's finish this thing.
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- Verse 18, he gives the last command.
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- It says, and take the arrows.
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- And he took them.
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- See, he's being obedient, specific.
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- And he said to the king of israel, watch.
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- Strike the ground with them.
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- Let's hang on that sentence.
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- Did he say how many times?
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- So the insinuation would be.
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- Keep on striking.
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- He didn't say strike it three times.
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- He didn't say strike it ten times.
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- He said a very simple command.
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- Strike the the ground.
- 00:22:49.655 --> 00:22:51.991
- Here's the problem with most christians
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- Is we don't listen for specifics. see?
- 00:22:54.961 --> 00:22:59.632
- Oh come on.
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- This is what happens.
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- Let's continue reading.
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- It says in verse 19, then the man of god was angry with him,
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- And he said, wait a second.
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- You only struck it three times. you stopped.
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- You should have struck it five times.
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- Six times, more times.
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- And then you would have struck down syria until you've made an end of it.
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- But now you will strike down syria only three times.
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- So what he was saying is partial persistence produces a partial victory.
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- You should have kept striking the ground.
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- And i don't know who i'm talking to, but why did you stop praying for your father?
- 00:23:34.233 --> 00:23:39.071
- Keep striking the ground.
- 00:23:39.639 --> 00:23:41.007
- Your dad can still be saved.
- 00:23:41.007 --> 00:23:43.476
- I don't know what i'm talking about,
- 00:23:43.476 --> 00:23:45.044
- But why did you stop praying for supernatural healing?
- 00:23:45.044 --> 00:23:48.548
- Keep striking the ground.
- 00:23:49.115 --> 00:23:50.716
- You may not have gotten healed the first time you prayed, but
- 00:23:50.716 --> 00:23:53.286
- He is still a healer.
- 00:23:53.286 --> 00:23:54.921
- Keep on believing for healing.
- 00:23:54.921 --> 00:23:57.089
- Is there somebody who can shout, strike the ground
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- There!
- 00:24:01.794 --> 00:24:03.129
- There's a holy persistence in the scripture.
- 00:24:03.129 --> 00:24:05.865
- The bible talks about through the words of jesus, the power of a persistent woman
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- Who went before the judge and she wouldn't shut up.
- 00:24:12.038 --> 00:24:14.273
- And the judge, being so annoyed by this woman, said,
- 00:24:15.341 --> 00:24:17.310
- I will honor your plea, not because i agree with you,
- 00:24:17.310 --> 00:24:20.580
- But because i'm tired of you and i don't know who i'm talking to.
- 00:24:21.781 --> 00:24:24.484
- But the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, but the violent take it
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- By force.
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- God, i'm not going to be silent in your new york city.
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- Is saved.
- 00:24:32.792 --> 00:24:34.026
- I'm going to keep striking the ground.
- 00:24:34.026 --> 00:24:36.796
- Come on.
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- Somebody.
- 00:24:37.697 --> 00:24:39.732
- I'm persistent.
- 00:24:39.732 --> 00:24:43.102
- It's got to be something on the inside of me that's like, i won't give up.
- 00:24:44.537 --> 00:24:46.506
- Y'all just shut back up to your feet.
- 00:24:46.506 --> 00:24:50.510
- I got to pray.
- 00:24:50.877 --> 00:24:54.113
- Come on.
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- Strike the ground!
- 00:24:55.147 --> 00:25:00.520
- How many of you know this scripture?
- 00:24:56.649 --> 00:25:02.255
- Submit yourself therefore to god.
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- Resist the devil.
- 00:25:05.224 --> 00:25:07.059
- And what?
- 00:25:07.059 --> 00:25:08.961
- There's a form of warfare
- 00:25:08.961 --> 00:25:10.897
- That only comes through resistance.
- 00:25:10.897 --> 00:25:13.799
- You can't cast every principality out.
- 00:25:13.799 --> 00:25:17.036
- Some of them you have to resist.
- 00:25:17.670 --> 00:25:19.539
- See, i'm trying to take you deeper right now.
- 00:25:19.539 --> 00:25:21.607
- It says submit yourself to god.
- 00:25:21.607 --> 00:25:23.976
- Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
- 00:25:23.976 --> 00:25:26.946
- So everybody trying to cast out something that the lord called you to resist.
- 00:25:26.946 --> 00:25:31.684
- Say that with me. resist.
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- There are some long standing principalities
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- In new york city, and they're not going to go easy.
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- But god's looking for a people who will dig their heels in and resist
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- And say, devil, there's only one of us moving out of this city,
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- And it's not going to be me.
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- I'm going to keep striking the ground.
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- There's something about a holy resistance.
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- There's something about planting your feet down
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- In a place and say, devil, i am going to remain this time.
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- You wanted me to run away.
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- You wanted me to escape.
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- You wanted me to schedule that flight.
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- You taunted me with that apartment.
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- You taunted me with that job.
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- But god told me where to be.
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- God told. i'm here to be obedient.
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- I'm here to be rooted.
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- I'm here to jump.
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- Come on. somebody to stay in god's will.
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- And if he didn't tell me to stop, i'm not going to stop.
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- He told me to strike the ground.
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- He didn't tell me when to stop.
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- So i'm must keep on striking the ground.
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- Hallelujah.
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- I really
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- Want to thank you for supporting this ministry.
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- Pray about what god would have you do.
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- What we do love to talk about is the amazing, life saving projects
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- That we do around the united states and around the world.
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- Whether it's distributing the gospel in non-christian nations,
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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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