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Mike Signorelli - Why You Still Feel Empty (Even Surrounded By People)

October 23, 2025 | 28:0

Mike Signorelli - Why You Still Feel Empty (Even Surrounded By People)
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 - Why You Still Feel Empty (Even Surrounded By People) | October 23, 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, oh.
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  • So for all of you who struggle with loneliness.
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  • Even in a room full of people, for all of you
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  • That have you, you kind of have to mask your true personality.
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  • And it's draining to be in social environments.
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  • Welcome to the club.
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  • Matter of fact, i think the what would happen ideally is
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  • We would get so close as a church that you don't even have to mask anymore.
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  • When that would be amazing.
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  • We could just be ourselves.
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  • But what happens a lot of times is like when we're feeling all these feelings,
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  • We do the opposite of the very thing that we need to do the most.
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  • We isolate when we need to congregate.
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  • So the whole message is, is don't isolate, congregate.
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  • I do believe that the local church is god's
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  • Plan a for the saving of the world.
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  • I believe that this is his design and it is what he wants us to do.
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  • He wants us to congregate, not isolate.
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  • So why don't you just tell the person next to you, congregate.
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  • Don't isolate.
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  • Now, we're all trying to be biblical based christians
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  • In this room and everybody watching right now.
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  • We're trying to be biblically based christians.
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  • But the problem with being a christian in our time is that we have inherited
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  • Thousands of years of accumulated thought software,
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  • And we've accumulated even bad christian thought software.
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  • Are you with me?
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  • So sometimes you have to demolish it before you rebuild it.
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  • So if you're taking notes, i'm going to give you a few of them.
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  • Software. so this is like
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  • The philosophical version of iphone or android.
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  • Which one are you.
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  • And most people that you meet?
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  • Their operating system is called hedonism.
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  • So let me break down what hedonism is.
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  • It's the worldview that life exists for my pleasure and my purpose.
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  • That's called hedonism.
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  • So when people move to manhattan, they're hedonistic.
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  • They lived in nebraska.
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  • Then they're like, i'm going to go and be a broadway star
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  • Because that's my purpose.
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  • And then i'm going to go and it's like,
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  • I'm going to meet people and i'm going to make friends.
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  • And and the the life is the pursuit of pleasure,
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  • And life is the pursuit of passion.
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  • So for somebody who's team hedonism,
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  • What happens is all of life is filtered through the desire to have pleasure
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  • And the desire to feel purpose and how you know, their life is falling
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  • Apart is when they're not getting the pleasure they want again.
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  • And when they feel like their purpose is being blocked
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  • And hedonistic people are like, oh, i just want a man so bad, where's
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  • My man's?
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  • And i want him to love me and kiss me
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  • And smell me and caress me.
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  • Where's my manners?
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  • Because hedonistic people don't get in relationships to serve somebody.
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  • They get in relationships to be served
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  • Because life is about their pleasure and they receive pleasure through porn.
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  • So they want a person to fulfill pornographic visions.
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  • And because they're hedonistic, that's why you're addicted.
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  • You're addicted.
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  • You're not addicted to porn.
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  • You're addicted to pleasure.
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  • Here's the next worldview.
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  • It's called narcissism.
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  • Now i have to make a distinction
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  • Between hedonism and narcissism, because you might think to yourself,
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  • Well, you just it sounds like you explain the same thing.
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  • No, i did. let me.
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  • So narcissism is life is about the unholy trinity of me, myself and i,
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  • Me, myself and i.
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  • It's an unholy trinity.
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  • So when somebody is narcissistic, it's really me, myself and i.
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  • That is the unholy trinity. and they.
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  • Everything is about them all the time.
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  • All the time.
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  • And you will me.
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  • Now, let me just say, if you're sitting in your seat right now
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  • Saying i'm not narcissistic, you do know that narcissists talk that way.
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  • It's like when people are like, i'm not prideful.
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  • That's how prideful people sound.
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  • I don't know if you realize that.
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  • I think the first step of freedom is admitting.
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  • So sometimes we have to take an inventory and say,
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  • I might be an i might not be a narcissist,
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  • But are there areas of my life where i'm narcissistic?
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  • You know what i'm saying?
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  • Because what happens is we're just made to think that we are amazing
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  • No matter what, and life revolves around us.
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  • Okay, i got a couple more for you.
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  • These are operating systems.
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  • You might be team agnosticism or know somebody like this.
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  • It's when it's. so here's agnosticism. it's.
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  • And when i give this definition for this software.
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  • Most of the people you work with, most of the people that you go to school
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  • With, they you're going to realize that is there.
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  • They have this operating system.
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  • It's god might exist, but he's unknowable
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  • And he probably is not involved in my life.
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  • So i'm not going to deny the existence of god.
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  • But there's this agnosticism.
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  • In other words, god might exist, but he's kind of distant
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  • And he's more hands off and he's not intimately involved.
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  • How many of you now know a lot of people like that?
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  • Like they don't get to offended at the idea of god, but they're like god's
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  • Kind of far. y'all know what i'm talking about.
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  • Now, this is why.
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  • Okay, i'm molding this manhattan campus and laying a foundation.
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  • So i've been very precision with what i've said the last several weeks,
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  • Because we're
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  • You know, we're going
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  • To we're going to look several years back from now and we're going to
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  • We're going to want to make sure we did the best job in the formative times.
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  • Are y'all with me? okay.
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  • I want to say this with the
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  • Utmost respect to the churches of new york city, but the bible says
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  • That there's a form of godliness that denies the power thereof.
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  • And one of the diseases that has infiltrated
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  • And infected the church of new york city is intellectual ism.
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  • And i really believe it's because
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  • Pastors with an orphan heart,
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  • They want you to believe that they're smart so that maybe you'll respect them.
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  • And sometimes flexing all of the greek and hebrew
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  • And aramaic and historical context is not for your education.
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  • It's for their edification.
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  • And because i'll tell you, like, i love theology
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  • And i'll tell you, like, i can go there and i can hold my own with anyone.
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  • But i haven't seen that many people get free from lectures.
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  • And i look
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  • At peter, who stood up in the book of acts and preached with power.
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  • But the bible also says in mark that these signs will follow them that believe.
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  • And so it's weird because a lot of pastors, you'll go to their church
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  • And you'll say, do you believe in the gifts of the spirit?
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  • And they'll say, yes, but then you'll say, well, how do we see them in our church?
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  • And they'll say, well, we're trying to figure that out.
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  • And then you say, well, how can you teach me how to do it?
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  • And they'll say, well,
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  • I don't know, because i'm still trying to figure out what i believe about it.
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  • But what i believe about it is either you do it or you don't.
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  • It's like riding a bicycle.
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  • Either you can ride a bike or you don't ride a bike.
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  • And i think sometimes we've intellectualize and wrapped around, like,
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  • Do you do understand that i didn't know
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  • Who was going to get healed and if anybody was going to get healed.
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  • So it requires of me to be willing to to step in
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  • To a level of foolishness, to disciple you in the things of the spirit.
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  • It's the opposite of the pride of life.
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  • And so let me tell you another story.
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  • And that's why i was thankful that my friend jill got healed.
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  • And i was like, okay, god, you're faithful.
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  • And let me show this to a room full of people
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  • So that i can encourage their faith, because it's kind of weird
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  • To convince people that god is real, but then god never heals.
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  • In the same way, when you, with all your agnostic
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  • And atheistic friends that believe mike, maybe god exists, but he's not that close.
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  • I do believe the gifts of the spirit are the answer.
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  • And let me tell you why.
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  • It's really hard to deny.
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  • That's why jesus told the woman at the well, i know
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  • How many husbands you have, even though he never met her,
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  • Because what he was doing was he was affirming his deity.
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  • He was affirming him as savior by saying, i'm going to do things
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  • That are outside the realm of the natural to prove that i am god.
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  • So one of the best ways for us to prove to manhattan and new york city
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  • That god is real is to do things that you can't learn in college.
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  • Now, a lot of pastors counterbalance because the charismatic movement
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  • And pentecostalism went into emotionalism
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  • And people did become unbalanced.
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  • But what happens is in their attempt to counterbalance back, they quenched it.
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  • They denied it. are y'all with me on that?
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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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  • So i'm speaking through a lot of the foolishness
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  • That i've seen in new york city, where people are claiming
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  • They believe in it, but they don't, because i would argue that if you would
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  • Begin to operate in the word of knowledge or in prophecy,
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  • Then we will have a harvest of souls we can't even contain,
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  • Because there's real hard to deny when god starts
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  • Speaking with that level of accuracy, and he doesn't need you to be good,
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  • He needs you to be available.
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  • Give him your yes,
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  • But that was all about agnosticism.
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  • That was a 30 minute tangent on agnosticism.
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  • But that spirit, it is a principality in manhattan
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  • And i'm teaching you how to tear down principalities, is
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  • You do it with the word of knowledge and prophecy is supernatural healing
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  • Because you got people screaming the gospel on microphones.
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  • And sometimes that converts people, but sometimes you got to get into
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  • The realm of the mysterious and say, say something about that.
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  • Say something about that.
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  • Now, homie.
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  • You say, you know,
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  • Say something about that.
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  • But it takes like when you were learning
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  • How to ride your bike, how many times did you fall over?
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  • That is the things of the spirit.
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  • And pastors don't want to fall over in front of their congregation,
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  • And that's why they don't train it.
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  • But i'm wild, i'm wild, and we are the wild ones.
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  • And my my goal is not watch me and become an audience.
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  • It's watch me and do greater things than me and become an army.
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  • That's the heart of the father.
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  • So i got to do this quick.
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  • Unity always falls or fire always falls on unity.
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  • And the thing i want to leave you with tonight
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  • Is we have to be a unified church.
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  • We have to be a unified church.
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  • But when you start saying unity, everybody is like, oh, i get it.
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  • You know, we're going to frolic in central park
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  • And we're going to hug each other.
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  • And that's not unity.
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  • There are some people that hug you just to leave a knife in your back.
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  • Wow. i.
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  • There's some people that hug you.
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  • Just a knife you like.
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  • There's there's some people that compliment me, but they're not for me.
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  • You know, the the bible says don't be seduced by flattering lips.
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  • If you live by their praises, you die by their criticisms.
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  • Well, that last part i added.
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  • So in acts chapter two, verse one through four, you see the upper room.
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  • But they were not united on agreement.
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  • And everybody thinks, well, i'm just going to keep going to one church
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  • Until pastor mike says something i don't agree with.
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  • That's not unity.
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  • Unity is not agreement.
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  • Unity is a choice. you make a choice.
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  • If unity was agreement, everybody would be getting divorced all the time.
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  • Because i don't agree with julie on hardly anything.
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  • Did i say that
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  • It's the truth for me and julie?
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  • Don't agree on hardly nothing.
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  • I don't even know. we're.
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  • But we're married because we made a choice.
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  • Unity is a choice.
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  • And that is. there's something about that.
  • 00:12:58.798 --> 00:13:00.366
  • So in the upper room,
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  • They all have their differing opinions, but they agreed on each other
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  • And they agreed on jesus and they made a choice.
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  • And the other thing is,
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  • Sometimes things work themselves out without you getting involved.
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  • Everybody always wants to get involved.
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  • You know, like seven out of ten problems my leaders bring to me.
  • 00:13:15.548 --> 00:13:18.551
  • I tell them don't do anything about it, and it confuses them.
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  • And it's because i'm like, leave some room for god.
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  • Some of these things will work them.
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  • These people are trifling.
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  • They've been doing this their whole life. you think you're going to stop it?
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  • Doctor phil couldn't help them. you're going to help him.
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  • They don't want.
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  • Just leave it alone.
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  • They create drama, let it work itself out.
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  • And then they come back to me two months later.
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  • Yeah. the whole situation's over. everybody's friends again.
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  • I'm like, and what did you do?
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  • And they said nothing.
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  • And i said, praise god,
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  • Because we're always wanting a medal.
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  • We're always wanting.
  • 00:13:51.951 --> 00:13:53.853
  • And you know, but the upper room was like, no, let's get together and pray.
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  • So they were in unity.
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  • Fire fell really quickly.
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  • First kings 1830 elijah said to the people, come here to me.
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  • They came to him, and then he repaired the altar.
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  • And then then that was torn down.
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  • Then fire fell.
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  • You know, the whole time i've ever read that story,
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  • Because, you know, because i'm sassy and i like to fight.
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  • It was always prophets of baal versus elijah.
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  • And i would always say, i'm elijah.
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  • Come on, let's fight.
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  • Let's see who's god is real, let's have a showdown.
  • 00:14:22.615 --> 00:14:25.150
  • But when i actually went back and looked at those verses in detail,
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  • You know what i found?
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  • The prophet elijah.
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  • He gathered all the people of israel.
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  • He unified them.
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  • And then he said, okay, let's repair the altar and then let's see god move.
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  • And i think what happens is we become so individualistic that we want to be like,
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  • That's calling down fire, but we don't want to be elijah.
  • 00:14:47.072 --> 00:14:49.141
  • That's unifying god's people.
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  • And really,
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  • The unity precedes the fire falling
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  • Matter of fact, fire will never fall unless you unify.
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  • And if fire does fall, it will be strange fire,
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  • And then it will be the fire of judgment.
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  • And that's really how i want to kind of win this thing down.
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  • Because
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  • When you look at the scriptures, the dedication of solomon's temple,
  • 00:15:10.529 --> 00:15:14.967
  • When this is second chronicles, chapter seven, verses one through three,
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  • When solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven
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  • And physically consumed the burnt offering, and the sacrifice
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  • And the glory of the lord filled the temple.
  • 00:15:26.946 --> 00:15:28.113
  • But again, it wasn't about solomon.
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  • If you read before that solomon gathered all of the elders and all of the leaders,
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  • And unified the people of israel for the dedication of the temple,
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  • Then fire came down and fell even the burning bush.
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  • How many of you know the story of moses in the burning bush?
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  • I always read that story as moses alone on sinai, and he was alone.
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  • But the burning bush was to get his attention
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  • So that he could come down off the mountain and unify and mobilize israel.
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  • So it was really never about moses.
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  • It was about the people of israel.
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  • It was the we over the me.
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  • Come on, say that with me.
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  • We over me.
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  • And this is the thing,
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  • When we stop talking about my purpose
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  • And we start talking about our purpose, then my purpose gets fulfilled.
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  • When we start allowing god to do it through us.
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  • It happens. so here's the thing.
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  • We distribute food in brooklyn once a month,
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  • And very few people from v1 church show up.
  • 00:16:30.109 --> 00:16:32.277
  • And i'm not saying this to condemn you, but i would love for you
  • 00:16:32.277 --> 00:16:35.481
  • To show up sometime because the anecdote for anxiety
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  • Is serving other people.
  • 00:16:40.319 --> 00:16:42.321
  • And you know how i know?
  • 00:16:42.321 --> 00:16:43.956
  • Because i had anxiety.
  • 00:16:43.956 --> 00:16:46.658
  • But what happens when you're handing food
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  • To people desperately in need
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  • Is you stop thinking about yourself just long enough
  • 00:16:52.398 --> 00:16:55.968
  • For all those feelings of crippling anxiety to subside.
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  • You get out of your mind.
  • 00:17:00.606 --> 00:17:02.541
  • You become outward focused.
  • 00:17:02.541 --> 00:17:04.943
  • You know, when i first came here during hurricane sandy,
  • 00:17:04.943 --> 00:17:07.746
  • I thought i was helping new york.
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  • When i distribute food in brooklyn, i think i'm helping people in brooklyn.
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  • When i show up to load in the church
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  • And plug in all the gear, i think that i'm helping v1 church,
  • 00:17:15.854 --> 00:17:18.290
  • But if you do it long enough, you'll get the revelation
  • 00:17:19.425 --> 00:17:21.560
  • That it's actually helping you more than you're helping it.
  • 00:17:22.728 --> 00:17:25.164
  • It's actually serving you more than you're serving them.
  • 00:17:26.265 --> 00:17:29.068
  • And it almost sounds cliche, but the bible says
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  • The son of man came to serve, not to be served.
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  • This is the heart of the father.
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  • And it's like sometimes we think we make these extravagant
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  • Sacrifices for the church, but the lord's like, that was actually
  • 00:17:40.145 --> 00:17:43.849
  • The medication that you needed for narcissism.
  • 00:17:44.750 --> 00:17:48.087
  • That was the medication that you needed for hedonism when because, you know,
  • 00:17:49.621 --> 00:17:53.459
  • If the world says, i'm here to seek pleasure, the gospel says, deny yourself.
  • 00:17:54.960 --> 00:17:58.297
  • And when you lose your life, that's when you find it.
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  • Hey, mike, cigna rally here in the studio.
  • 00:18:02.634 --> 00:18:04.069
  • We're getting ready to jump back into the sermon.
  • 00:18:04.069 --> 00:18:06.405
  • But just very briefly, i wanted to let you know
  • 00:18:06.405 --> 00:18:09.408
  • That i have a resource called the breakers mobile app, and i have so many e-course
  • 00:18:09.408 --> 00:18:14.713
  • Is there that teach you supernatural ministry
  • 00:18:15.647 --> 00:18:18.550
  • And how you can unlock the gifts that god has given you.
  • 00:18:19.651 --> 00:18:21.620
  • I want you to download the mobile app and join a global community of people
  • 00:18:21.620 --> 00:18:26.058
  • Learning the narrow way, people learning how to operate
  • 00:18:26.058 --> 00:18:29.828
  • In the fullness of what god has for them, and the gifts of the spirit.
  • 00:18:29.828 --> 00:18:34.199
  • It's called the breakers of mobile app.
  • 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:36.902
  • It's actually entirely free and you can download it now on your device.
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  • I will see you there.
  • 00:18:40.839 --> 00:18:45.511
  • But the thing i want to
  • 00:18:46.011 --> 00:18:47.813
  • Encourage you to do is to never stop striking the ground in manhattan,
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  • Because every time you serve is like another.
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  • Another. how many?
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  • Is there anybody here other than me that's like, addicted to supplements?
  • 00:18:56.889 --> 00:18:59.224
  • Am i the only one taking, like, 100 supplements a day?
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  • I don't, i think i'm going to live to be 140.
  • 00:19:03.495 --> 00:19:06.265
  • Maybe, but it's like when you take your vitamin,
  • 00:19:07.232 --> 00:19:10.869
  • When you take your supplement,
  • 00:19:10.869 --> 00:19:12.671
  • There's something in you that's like, i got to take my supplement.
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  • Serving is your supplement,
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  • Serving is your supplement.
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  • And us coming together and joining together in unity
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  • And losing yourself and making it about somebody else.
  • 00:19:26.985 --> 00:19:30.355
  • That is the solution to what god.
  • 00:19:31.089 --> 00:19:33.692
  • That is the solution to what the devil brought in your life.
  • 00:19:34.860 --> 00:19:36.261
  • That god wants to solve.
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  • And that's his recipe to do it.
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  • I want to read one last thing to you.
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  • As we come to a close on this.
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  • There were these two guys.
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  • There were aaron's sons, nate and abby, who?
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  • And it said that they took their sensors and they put fire in them,
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  • And they added incense.
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  • And then they offered
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  • This unauthorized fire before the lord, contrary to his command.
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  • So fire came down from in the presence of the lord that consumed them.
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  • And they died before the lord.
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  • Okay.
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  • We're going to have a real serious moment.
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  • So just lean in for this.
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  • Here's the thing that i hate the most
  • 00:20:10.195 --> 00:20:11.964
  • About modern christianity
  • 00:20:11.964 --> 00:20:15.300
  • Is somehow or another, we've received the lie
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  • That we can give god what we want to give him,
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  • And we do it in our finances.
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  • I'm speaking to a room full of people that i know you're
  • 00:20:24.543 --> 00:20:27.246
  • Grinding and working, and we say things like, well, i don't believe in the tithe.
  • 00:20:27.246 --> 00:20:31.316
  • I just give generously.
  • 00:20:31.817 --> 00:20:32.784
  • But who defines generosity?
  • 00:20:32.784 --> 00:20:35.721
  • Because to somebody living off of a dollar a day, $2 is really generous.
  • 00:20:35.721 --> 00:20:40.592
  • Who defines generosity and that's why i spent a whole month teaching
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  • Teaching the book of leviticus,
  • 00:20:45.597 --> 00:20:47.599
  • Because what i was trying to download into a whole bunch of christians is living.
  • 00:20:47.599 --> 00:20:50.769
  • Leviticus taught us, you don't give god what you want to give him.
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  • You give him what he requires.
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  • And that's why for me, tithe is the minimum, but my heart is not god.
  • 00:20:56.942 --> 00:21:01.079
  • What's the minimum? it's what's the maximum?
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  • How much can i give you? is this.
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  • Are you pleased with this?
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  • Last week i preached on martha and mary because
  • 00:21:07.219 --> 00:21:10.088
  • Mary was the one who was like, god, i don't want to give you the minimums.
  • 00:21:10.088 --> 00:21:13.625
  • What's the maximum?
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  • I want to give you all.
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  • And she broke that
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  • Alabaster box, and the perfume and the fragrance filled the room.
  • 00:21:18.330 --> 00:21:21.767
  • And they and the scholars said that when jesus was on the cross, he's
  • 00:21:23.135 --> 00:21:24.736
  • Still what it smelled like, the oil that she lavished him with.
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  • I that's what i want.
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  • I don't want to be the kind of christians that's like god.
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  • I gave you two hours on sunday.
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  • That's enough.
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  • God, i read
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  • My bible because that's what christians do.
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  • I want to be the christian.
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  • That's like, lord, are you pleased with us?
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  • I want to give you more.
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  • I want to kiss the scriptures.
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  • I want to spend more time with you.
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  • Lord, have i spoken to enough people?
  • 00:21:49.528 --> 00:21:51.330
  • Have i told them about what you can do?
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  • Have i led the loss to the cross at any cost?
  • 00:21:53.432 --> 00:21:56.735
  • Am i am i a soul winner or am i obsessed with self?
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  • Am i always complaining with other christians,
  • 00:22:01.673 --> 00:22:03.108
  • Or am i prophesying to other christians?
  • 00:22:03.108 --> 00:22:05.577
  • Am i being a conduit for healing, or am i always blabbing about how i'm hurting?
  • 00:22:05.577 --> 00:22:10.849
  • What is it?
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  • So that's it.
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  • Because these two sons of aaron, they made one mistake.
  • 00:22:15.987 --> 00:22:19.624
  • They gave god what they wanted to give god, not what god requires.
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  • And and that's a word.
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  • That's a word, y'all.
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  • You guys are phenomenal musicians.
  • 00:22:28.300 --> 00:22:30.135
  • But when i first moved to new york city, they told me that you'll
  • 00:22:30.135 --> 00:22:33.205
  • Never get musicians without paying them because all the best musicians get paid.
  • 00:22:33.205 --> 00:22:37.943
  • And i said i got no problem paying musicians.
  • 00:22:38.910 --> 00:22:40.746
  • But i do have a problem with hirelings, not sons and daughters.
  • 00:22:40.746 --> 00:22:45.717
  • Because i'm a musician
  • 00:22:46.218 --> 00:22:48.320
  • And i play and i and there are dudes that will play a bar
  • 00:22:48.320 --> 00:22:51.590
  • And literally drink and sleep around on saturday night
  • 00:22:52.691 --> 00:22:54.826
  • And sober up enough to play the drums on sunday morning.
  • 00:22:54.826 --> 00:22:58.196
  • And they know the songs because they listen to them three minutes
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  • Before they walked into the service.
  • 00:23:00.732 --> 00:23:02.901
  • And i said, in our church, we're going to be real worshipers,
  • 00:23:02.901 --> 00:23:06.338
  • And if i gotta put youtube on the speakers and it's going to be real worship,
  • 00:23:07.806 --> 00:23:11.476
  • Because at our church, i'm not going to hire you to worship.
  • 00:23:12.677 --> 00:23:14.813
  • Worship is what we do.
  • 00:23:15.313 --> 00:23:17.215
  • And listen, we got no problem paying people, but we're not doing it for
  • 00:23:17.215 --> 00:23:20.285
  • The income.
  • 00:23:20.285 --> 00:23:21.219
  • We're doing it for the outcome.
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  • We're doing it unto the lord, and you get what i'm saying.
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  • So even the fact that now we have six locations full of people
  • 00:23:27.426 --> 00:23:31.530
  • Worshiping, what happened was the first round of people i had to
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  • Find was the true worshipers.
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  • And aaron, you were one of them.
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  • But the reason why i say that is because aaron had two sons
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  • That they gave god what they wanted to give god.
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  • So let's pray on this.
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  • Let's pray because hopefully you can feel it in my preaching tonight.
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  • Let's pray that this church will be a church that says,
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  • If we're willing to be the wild ones, if we're willing to sacrifice,
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  • If we're willing to say, jesus,
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  • I could never repay you for what you did on the cross,
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  • But i'm going to live my life having a competition to see if i can.
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  • I'll give you.
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  • That's the competition of a christian who can.
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  • I'll give god,
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  • And you can't.
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  • But you keep trying.
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  • Did you know that's a healthy marriage?
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  • Who can out serve?
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  • Who know? julie, i want to serve.
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  • You know mike, i want to serve you know i want to serve.
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  • You know i love you more. know i love you more.
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  • This is disgusting.
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  • Yes. bring it on, bring it on.
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  • Because when my marriage was, you serve me.
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  • It fell apart.
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  • See, this is.
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  • This is the way of the kingdom.
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  • Is anybody receiving some healing over this?
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  • Is god dealing with some things in you?
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  • Am i provoking you like salt and light to be a better christian?
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  • Like, do you feel discipled?
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  • Do you feel biblically mature?
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  • Okay, so i want to pray together.
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  • Stand your feet with me.
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  • Come on.
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  • Help me on those keys.
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  • So let me let me just say this.
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  • Some of the nicest people you'll ever meet in your life
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  • Are the poorest people you'll ever meet in your life.
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  • Some of the most caring people you'll ever meet in your life
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  • Are the most broken people.
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  • People you'll ever meet in your life.
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  • You know why?
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  • Because.
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  • Have you ever seen those viral videos where somebody is asking some people
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  • For something and everybody passes them by,
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  • But it's the homeless person that helps them.
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  • There's something about understanding
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  • Pain that will draw you towards other people's pain.
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  • There's something about knowing
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  • What it feels like to need to draw you to somebody else's need.
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  • And so what i want this church to be is a healing force.
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  • I want us to go in the direction of
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  • People's needs, and i want us to go deeper on that journey together.
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  • And i want us to have the some of the most extravagant, wild stories
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  • About about generosity.
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  • And, do you know that guy that i talked about on the forbes top ten list?
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  • Do you want to know how he got in that circle?
  • 00:26:17.829 --> 00:26:20.332
  • Is a guy looked at him and said, you need to know jesus
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  • And begin to minister to him.
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  • And as he begin to minister to him,
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  • This guy said, i have all this money, but i have no happiness, i have no joy.
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  • And it was actually through the gospel.
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  • So sometimes you you can still be the least of these, even having riches.
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  • I really want to thank you for supporting this ministry.
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  • Pray about what god would have you do.
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  • We don't tell people what to give.
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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
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  • In non-christian nations, even underground church networks,
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  • Or providing disaster relief to areas most affected around the united states.
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  • Many lives are being changed because of your generosity.
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  • Your.
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