Stop Blaming Your Season. Bear Fruit Anyway. | Journey With Jesus Part 11 | Apostle Mike Signorelli

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I promised a short message and I want you to go to Matthew chapter

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21.

And I'm gonna.

I mean, I'm gonna try to preach this short.

I gotta say, I gotta leave something in the tank for London,

you know, but Matthew 21, I want to talk to you as your pastor.

And I'm looking into this camera right now because 2027 is

gonna be a difficult year.

2027 is gonna be far worse than 2026.

And I want you to begin to prepare yourself mentally, prepare

yourself spiritually.

Some of you got a 25 year food supply, but haven't eaten fresh bread

by reading the word of God in the last couple weeks.

Some of you guys know how to get potable water, but can't flow

living water out of your belly.

Some of you have prepared in the natural, but haven't prepared

in the spiritual realm.

But.

But this is a time of spiritual preparedness.

If the Bible says, don't fear the one who can kill your body, but

fear the one who can kill your very soul, how many of you know that

the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom?

And so I'm ready.

But when I say I'm ready, I'm not talking about a food supply.

I'm not talking about a cachet of water.

Don't come to the Signorelli's house trying to get some supplies.

I'm closing the door out on some of y', all.

But I'm talking.

We have to be spiritually prepared.

Spiritually prepared.

And 2026 into 2027 is the fourth turning.

We are in the fourth set of 80 years.

And what that means in the great turning is that civilization

and society will never be the same after the next couple years.

And we're reaching the apex.

We're reaching the very climax of that transition.

So stop hoping that things get better.

Stop hoping that this transition goes away.

And mentally and emotionally and spiritually prepare yourself

to journey through it, not around it.

Because we have a Christianity based in escapism.

Jesus didn't say go around the mountain.

He said, speak to the mountain and tell it to move, and it'll move.

So we are faith people.

We don't walk around obstacles.

We speak to them.

And so this is the time for prophecy like never before.

Where are my prophets at in this church?

Do we got any prophets in this church?

This is the time to be prophesying.

This is the time to be discerning.

Like the sons of Issachar who knew the times that they were in.

This is not the time for Conspiracy.

This is a time for Holy Spirit revelation.

The Bible says that God does nothing without first revealing it

to his prophets.

How many of you know that Jesus fulfilled Old Testament prophecy

and we all are here of actually fulfilling New Testament

prophecy?

How many of you believe that we're living in the days of fulfilled

prophecy?

Come on.

So when you look at this journey with Jesus, we started at

Bethlehem.

We've.

We're only weeks away from being done with this series, and

now we have found ourselves in Jerusalem.

And in fact, Jerusalem is not only where the story ends, but it's

also where the story re.

It begins.

Again, how many of you.

Can I just go all over the Bible for a few moments?

In Acts, chapter 2, Jesus ascends to heaven, and he says, after

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the Holy Spirit comes upon you, you will receive power to be

my witnesses.

But here's the good news.

It says in the book of Revelation, and then you see this

reference in other Old Testament books.

The Return of Christ.

My friend John Bevere just became a New York Times bestseller

with his new book that the King is coming.

How many of you believe the King is coming?

Come on.

Go watch the interview that I did with him on my channel.

It was brilliant.

God has given him such a revelation.

But just like I talked about last week, the Mount of Olives, Jesus

Christ is gonna descend right where he ascended.

So the same place where they watched him go up, he's gonna come

down, and he's gonna walk right past those Muslim graves.

Come on.

They thought that if they put the graves in front of the eastern

gate, they could keep them out.

But they didn't realize they weren't dealing with a normal man.

Come on.

He's fully God.

They thought that if they sealed up

the east gate, I mean, what is

so threatening about this carpenter, this man from the Galilee,

that they actually seal the eastern gate up and put a Muslim

cemetery in front of it to try to stop the prophecy that when he

comes back, he's going to walk through the eastern gate.

Well, I got good news for you.

The resurrected Jesus already walked through walls when he came

to talk to Thomas.

So he's gonna walk with a glorified body right through the

eastern gate and fulfill every bit of that prophecy.

And.

Come on.

While the world's looking for UFOs and extraterrestrials, I'm waiting.

Maranatha.

Come quickly, Jesus.

I'm not waiting to look at demons.

I'm gonna behold my Savior.

Come quickly, Lord.

I'm ready.

Are y' all with me?

So the reason why I say that is because now I'm gonna take you

back to Matthew, chapter 21, and we're gonna look at the parallel

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between these events, what happened the first time, paralleling

what's gonna happen the second time.

Now, do you have an appetite for scripture at this church?

Okay.

Cause, Brooklyn, I didn't hear you.

Y' all are too quiet.

Do you have an appetite for scripture at this church?

Like, does anybody want to eat with me?

Cause we're gonna have to read a lot of SC Scripture.

So let's go through and really digest this.

So slow down a little bit, and let's taste our food as we eat it.

So chapter 21 of the book of St. Matthew.

And when they drew nigh and came into Jerusalem, we were.

They were come to Bethpage, not on Long island, okay?

We're talking here in.

In Israel.

Okay?

And unto the Mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples.

How many did he send?

There's a pattern of Jesus giving assignments in twos.

The number one is too small to fulfill your destiny if you'll never

go alone.

If you go.

Listen, if you go alone, you won't go far.

How many of you want to go together?

This is.

We got to pray for unity.

The unity of the church, the unity of the body.

So he sends them out, and he basically says, go into the village

and straightway, and you'll find a donkey and a colt.

Loose them and bring them unto me.

Verse 3 says, if any man says unto you, you know, what are you

going to say?

He say, the Lord has need of them, and straightway he will send

them.

And this was done that may be fulfilled, which was spoken to the

prophet, saying, tell ye the daughter of Sion.

Behold, the king comes unto thee meek and sitting upon a donkey.

Let me just tell you.

Jesus goes into Jerusalem the first time, meek, sitting on a donkey.

The second time, he returns to Jerusalem, he's riding a horse, and

he's coming for war.

And it says, king of Kings upon his thigh.

Oh, I'm talk.

See, listen.

People don't understand.

The first time, we saw him as a lamb.

The next time, he comes back as a lion.

Come on.

Meekness is not weakness.

Are you with me?

And so we see this pattern.

Jesus is showing the lamb, but he's preparing us for the lion.

Okay?

Now it says in verse seven, they brought him the donkey and the

colt, and they put on their clothes, and they set him thereon.

And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way.

Others cut down branches with their trees, and they Strawed them

in the way.

And the multitudes that went there and that followed cried, saying

hosanna to the Son of David.

Blessed is he that comes in the name of the Lord.

Hosanna and the highest.

Now that's my sermon next week, so I'm gonna.

But I wanna do something that I've.

I have never done.

I'm gonna take you beyond this text.

And then we're gonna learn something today that when we go to

church next Sunday for Palm Sunday, it should unlock something

in, in a major way for you.

So it's kind of like we're, we're reading the prequels to Star

wars right now and it'll all make sense.

Are you with me?

Okay, so this is the Palm Sunday thing.

Blessed he that comes in the name of the Lord.

Hosanna in the highest, verse 10.

And when he came into Jerusalem, all the city was moved,

saying, who is this?

And the multitude said, this is Jesus, the prophet of Nazareth,

of Galilee.

Everybody say, no, I want to show you something.

And this is for the Christian nationalist who think they know Christ

but they're serving Republican.

Jesus may not be the real one.

This is for the woke people who think they serve Christ, but

he's probably not the real one.

How many of you know there's many false Christs?

How many of you know there's many antichrists?

How many of you know that many people have fashioned Christ into

an image of their use for manipulation.

The reason why we spent the first three months journeying with

Jesus is because V1 church is going to surrender to the root of.

Not the Christ that looks like the image of my own preferences,

not the Christ that actually meets my political agendas, not the

Christ that I conform to.

What I want him to say.

No, we are all submitting to Jesus Christ, the true Jesus Christ.

So we submit and surrender to his will, to his way.

We sit and come on.

This is not being preached because I'm telling you there's people

building their churches right now with the false Christ and they're

building this church not realizing it's a house of cards,

that when the next election comes, it's going to be blown over.

How many of you know that?

We're not building on sand, we are building on the rock.

And if Christ tarries, this is a multi generational ministry that

is being built

on the solid rock of the word of God.

Come on, somebody.

Because one of the dangers of today is people fashioning an image

of Jesus into their own preference.

Pentecostal, Jesus Baptist, Jesus High Church Jesus with liturgy

low.

Church Jesus with extended worship.

Jesus with stained glass windows.

Jesus with LED walls.

Push it all aside.

Take your intellectualism, take your emotionalism.

I want the real Jesus.

I am after him.

I want the real Jesus.

Are you all with me?

Are you with me?

This is why I think the Lord has entrusted me with the opportunity

in Times Square.

Because I decrease so that he would increase, because I get out

of the way so that he can have his way.

The journey with Jesus is a journey of death.

Does anybody want to die to self with me?

Does anyone?

Come on.

Because this is how you begin to flow in the perfect will of God.

So Jesus is in Jerusalem and he's stirring up the city.

Now here's where it gets crazy.

I, I'm, I got a 4.0 in my Greek class, so I'm qualified.

Can I tell you some of the Greek and Aramaic in here now?

Okay, so when you look at verse 10, it says, and when he had

come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved.

When you look at that original word moved, it actually is the same

word used for earthquake.

So when Jesus came into the city, it was like an earthquake.

Oh, come on.

That'll preach right there.

There was a rumbling.

There was a palpable shift.

How many of you believe that Easter Sunday in Times Square is

going to be an earthquake?

There's gonna be a rumbling in that city.

Come on.

I got the biggest sound system that they would approve.

I said, if the Muslims are putting their call of prayers on

a sound system, I'm just gonna buy a bigger speaker for Easter Sunday.

And that place is gonna rumble with the praise and worship to the

God the most high.

Am I right?

So Jesus comes in, it's rumbling.

But this is what I thought was interesting.

There's a revelation that's gonna make sense.

Look at verse 11.

And the multitude said.

Everybody say multitude.

Okay.

How many of you know the multitude is almost always wrong

in Scripture?

Who's usually right?

The remnant.

Israel is, is whoring.

Israel is bowing down to false idols.

Israel is going after.

But then there's a remnant.

The usually in the scriptures, when you look at each story, only

a few people actually are right.

The majority is usually wrong.

Moses is the minority.

The majority is making gold calves.

How many of you know if you're going to stand for Christ in this

generation?

You're going to be a minority.

You're going to be.

You're going to be a minority.

And even people who claim to be Christ.

So this is what they said.

And the multitude said this is Jesus the prophet.

Who calls Jesus a prophet?

Islam.

See, they'll always want to unite over a lesser form of Jesus.

Did you catch that revelation?

False unity is always over a reduction of Jesus.

No, no, he's.

Was he a prophet?

Oh, yes.

But he was so much more.

Am I right?

He is the Son of the living God.

He is the Mashiach, he is the Messiah.

But the multitude will say, well, I'll

give you he's a prophet.

No, no, I'm not asking you.

If you think he's a prophet, take it up a notch.

He is the King of all kings, the Lord of all lords.

And if he's not the king, he's nothing.

There is no such thing as Christ the prophet, he's the King

or he's nothing.

And I declare he's the King.

So the multitude was wrong.

This is Jesus, the prophet of Nazareth, of Galilee.

And you know, they mentioned Nazareth.

Now you know about Nazareth, how they treat him in Nazareth.

Do you see this?

Is this making sense to you guys?

Verse 12.

And Jesus went into the temple of God and cast all of them that

sold and bought in the temple and overthrew the tables of the money

changers and the seats of them that sold doves.

Now, in ancient times, they.

You couldn't use a coin, a secular government's coin that had

a pagan image on it.

So there would be a changing of coins and there would be an exchange

for the necessary temple sacrifices, like a dove.

Now, there is actually nothing wrong with this.

The problem was the scalping.

The problem was in the conversion.

There was people taking advantage and manipulating.

There's a profound, profound revelation in this because everybody

talks about Jesus flipping the tables and expelling people from

the temple, but they're missing a lot of revelation because

again, a lot of preachers, these Chachi BT preachers, they don't

have a.

They haven't been in their prayer closet.

They.

They smell like a laptop, not like the aroma of God.

You get what I'm saying?

And.

And so you can't.

A lot of these, A lot of the sermons about this, this Matthew,

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chapter 21 are regurgitations of people saying stuff that sounds

good, but can we look at the text together?

Church?

Can we look at what it actually says?

It says, he cast out all of them that sold and bought in the

temple and overthrew the tables of the money changers and

the seats of them that sold doves.

And he said to them, it is written, my house shall be called

the house of prayer.

But you have made it a den of thieves.

Watch this.

Verse 14.

And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he

healed them.

What's happening?

This is a picture of grace.

He doesn't destroy the temple.

He doesn't shut the temple down.

He cast out the unrepentant people who don't want to change.

He doesn't mentor them.

He doesn't give them pastoral care.

He doesn't try to convince them.

He doesn't argue with them in the comment section on YouTube.

He simply ca cast them out, discerning that they are committed

to misunderstanding him and they don't want to change.

Unrepentant people don't need a counseling session.

They need to be excommunicated.

Come on.

They don't need deliverance.

They need to be dismissed.

People who don't want to change should not be in the house

of God.

There is a point where you can justify saying this is the end of

the road.

You can go infect somebody else's flock with that disease, but

don't bring it in here anymore.

And what I love about Jesus is Jesus was hard on boundaries with

people who are stuck on stupid.

Some of you need to become like Jesus.

And some of the people you're trying to convince, you need to cast

out.

Some of the people you're trying to

win over, you need to release Jesus.

Understood?

I'm not going to shut the whole temple down.

I'm going to shut down the people

who don't want to shut down.

I'm going to flip the tables of those who want to take advantage

of people.

Because we're here to worship God, not help ourselves.

So we need a reformation in the church.

We are here to build the house of God.

And some of us have gone too far with people that Jesus would

have cast out a long time ago.

If you want to learn, Jesus says, come.

We're going to look at this in a few moments.

If you want to receive, come.

But if you are obstinate, if you are stuck in your ways, or if

you're prideful, if you're taking advantage, Jesus Christ, the

same spirit, I'm telling you, will release you then.

But here's what he does now.

Hear me loud and clear.

Because I'm discipling our church.

Let's just be vulnerable together.

There's no way you can attend my church and not see bad videos

about me.

Not because I'm a bad dude, but because I'm influential.

Think about what I just said.

It says more about the office, the weight of the office I carry

than it does me.

Why?

Because you'll see videos about everybody with influence.

Have you noticed that we have never had one president in the history

of the United States that's never had an entire propaganda against

him to try to convince people how bad he was?

It doesn't matter if you loved Obama.

There were a lot of people who hated him and did everything they

could to convince you how evil.

It doesn't matter how much you love Trump.

There's a whole group of people that create every piece of

content to convince you he's evil.

So when you see the propaganda, it's much more a result

of the weight of the office than it is the actions of the individual.

Because you get to realms of influence where you are going to

have an audience that wants to talk about you at any given moment.

Does this make sense?

There's people who get more views talking about me than talking

about the Bible, So what do you think they talk about?

But this is true of all my friends.

This is true of all of my peers.

It's more of a mark of influence than anything else.

Why do I say this?

Stay with me.

Because what Jesus was doing in Matthew 21 is Jesus was saying,

I'm not just going to tell everybody what's wrong.

I'm going to stay in the temple and I'm going to heal the

blind and I'm going to heal the lame, and I'm going to demonstrate

the right way to do it.

I want to say this on the Internet.

I want to say this to the hundreds of thousands of people who

watch these sermons.

The problem I have with the cancel culture, with the call out

culture, with the discernment community, and all these people

who think

that they're helping the body of Christ is not one of them have

posted a video demonstrating the right way to do it.

That's the problem.

Show me your church.

Oh, you don't have one.

Show me, when you pray for people, what's the right way?

Oh, you don't pray for people.

Show me how you cast out demons.

Oh, you don't cast out demons.

See?

Oh, come on.

They can educate, but they can't demonstrate, which means you

shouldn't let them educate, right?

If you educate but you don't demonstrate, then I don't want you

to educate me.

I'm not going to learn how to fire a gun from a blind man.

You get what I'm trying to say?

Y' all picking up on what I'm putting down?

I don't want to learn how to fight by somebody who's gotten beat

up

every day of their life.

I.

But here's the thing.

I might be demonstrating, but I'd rather cast a demon out the wrong

way and get judged because I needed to learn something than get

judged for laziness.

Because the only thing I haven't been, oh, I've been a sinner,

but I never been lazy.

And there's some people who'd rather talk.

But he's coming back for workers.

So he.

So what I love about the ministry of Jesus, because everybody

loves to preach, is, oh, he flipped over the tables, but he stayed

in the temple to demonstrate the right way to do it.

And there's people flipping tables that don't stay in the church.

And that's how I know your motive is.

You want to be known as the table flipper, not the person who

prays for the blind person.

Your motive is exposed by what you stay for or what you leave for

you.

Is this helping anybody?

Because nobody talks about this.

Jesus didn't flip the tables and say, let's go to lunch.

I hope that YouTube video goes viral.

Jesus flipped the tables, cast out the unrepentant people, and then

he stayed there

and said, now let me show you

what this temple was supposed to be for the whole time.

You know what I did when I saw all the injustice in the local church?

You know what I did when I had multiple pastors with infidelities?

Do you know what I did when I saw the prophetic community and they

were given false prophetic words and they were building their

own empires?

Do you know what I did?

I built a church.

I built a school of the prophets.

I built V1 College.

Listen, I'm not saying this to glorify myself, but I don't believe

somebody who has a critique without a solution.

I don't believe somebody who has a critique without compassion.

Are y' all with me?

Paul didn't say, hey, y' all are prophesying wrong.

Stop prophesying.

You know what Paul said?

Here's how you do it.

He brought instruction.

He brought training.

So the reason why this temple cleansing is so important is because

the same compassion of Christ when he cast people out of the temple

is the same compassion when he lays hands on people and prays for

them and the world.

A fatherless generation doesn't know that your dad loves

you when he whoops you, and he loves you when he hugs you.

And you need both of them, right?

But there's some people online, they're not whooping they're

beating, and there's no compassion in it.

So this is important for this hour.

People say reform the church.

You know how you reform it?

By participating in it, submitting to it, serving it.

You want to change my wife.

I'm married to Julie.

I have to wake up with her.

I have to journey with her.

And I think the thing that breaks my heart about this generation

is you got a whole bunch of people having conversations about

what's wrong.

But it's like.

It's like people who only understand dating and not marriage.

Dating is.

I can tell you everything wrong with the single people of New

York City, but marriage is.

Man.

If there's something wrong with me, I have to stay in this relationship

to work on it, and I have to work with Julie, and Julie works

with me.

The body of Christ is not bumble.

The body of Christ is not a dating app where you swipe on the

next church.

Come on, somebody.

The body of Christ.

And what Jesus was demonstrating is, I am covenanted

to the church.

I'm gonna.

Yes, I see what's wrong, but I earn the right to give my opinion

and flip these tables because I'm gonna lay my life down for it.

It's like.

And I think when I look at this passage, it grieves me so deeply

because this world doesn't under.

Only a generation that doesn't understand covenant would give critiques

without compassion because they don't know.

It's like.

As a matter of fact, V1 is not a perfect church.

But when people come together in covenant all around the world,

what happens, like a marriage is we earn the right to transmit

information.

We earn the right in love to talk.

And guess what?

You rebuke Peter, he becomes an apostle.

You rebuke Judas, and he kills himself.

See, it's not about the rebuke.

It's about the person it lands on.

Did you all just hear me?

I've rebuked some people in this church, and they've turned into

campus pastors.

I've rebuked other people in this church, and they became my biggest

critics online.

It's not about the rebuke.

It's about the soil.

It's not about the seed.

It's about the soil.

Y' all hear me?

And it's like, if you have the soil of humility, the Lord will rebuke

you, and Peter will become an apostle.

But if you have the soil of pride, Judas gets rebuked, and he.

He literally sets Jesus up to die and then kills himself.

And so, in this life, how many of you want to be humble?

How many of you want to be submitted?

How many of you said, man, I want to be covenanted?

They don't talk about their imam the way we talk about our pastors.

They don't talk about the people in there.

It's like we can't have it.

Where a Jewish synagogue and Islamic temple are more unified than

the local church.

And Gen Z is looking for a church.

Not a perfect one, but a united church, just like my wife

and I. Julie knows all my faults.

And Julie, I know this is probably news to you, but I know

all yours.

So I can't present to my children a perfect marriage, but

I can show my children what it looks like for two imperfect people

to go on a journey with Jesus, to become a clear reflection of him.

And this is what I'm saying about the church.

So when we go into Times Square, we're not.

We're not showing up there saying, oh, V1's here.

Cause we're the best church.

We're not because we're a perfect church.

We're not, but we're covenanted to each other.

We're working this thing out.

The manifold wisdom of God is evident in our conversations.

It's dripping with grace.

And I think when people talk about Jesus flipping the tables,

they miss the grace.

He could have destroyed the whole temple.

He didn't destroy.

He reformed it.

Then he stuck around long enough to demonstrate the right way

to do it.

So if you think you're going to silently protest by leaving a

church, you didn't prove anything other than your motive was

to be served instead of serve.

Because Jesus showed up long enough to say, I want to show them

the way through humility.

How many of you believe that line, let the greatest among us be

the servant.

The greatest servant.

I gotta get to this last part as we close, because it's all connected.

So go down to verse 17.

And he left them and he went out of the city into Bethany, and

he lodged there.

Now, in the morning, as he returned to the city, he hungered.

Why?

Why do we know in Scripture that Jesus hungered?

It's very simple.

It was just He's a human.

That that was the point of his humanity.

He's fully God and he's fully man.

So he hungered, just like we hunger.

And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it and found

nothing thereon but leaves only, and said unto it, let no fruit

grow hence from this.

This fig tree forever.

And presently the fig tree withered away.

So immediately it began to wither.

And his disciples saw it and they marveled, saying, wow, how soon

is this fig tree withered?

And Jesus answered them and said, verily I say unto you, if you

have faith and doubt not, you'll, you should not only do what

has been done to the fig tree, but you'll also sing into the mountain

be thou removed and thou cast into the sea, and it shall be done.

And all these things, whatever you shall ask in prayer, believing

you shall receive.

Now let's talk about the fig tree because this is so important.

Jesus was demonstrating the power of the, of basically, basically

the his words in this situation.

Let me just break it down for you.

So Jesus is hungry and he's like, I'm gonna go pick a fig off

of the fig tree.

But the fig tree has leaves, but it has no figs.

And anger Jesus speaks to this fig tree and he curses it and says,

may you never bear fruit.

And then it immediately begins to wither.

And it's a supernatural sign because his disciples, they actually

verbally say out loud, can you believe that that tree already withered?

And he just spoke it.

But it was a prophetic sign.

Let's talk about the fig tree.

Because I believe that we are in the season of the fig tree.

Hear me.

This is so prophetic.

But remember I said Matthew 21.

It's a parallel for what's going to happen in the days when

the king comes back.

It's, it's going to be the same and there's, we have to understand

the revelation of the fig tree.

So for those of you who don't know anybody remember fig Newtons?

Whatever happened to those you remember Fig Newtons?

I was trying to think, how do I explain to modern people figs?

So fig trees, it's delicious.

Figs are delicious.

But here's the thing you may not know about figs.

Figs hold their father fruit in every season.

Figs, they bear fruit, but the fruit does not fall off of their

branches.

Which means even when they're not in a fruit bearing season, they

will still have fruit on their limbs because they don't lose the

fruit off of their limbs.

So for G, I'm about to preach this.

So when Jesus walks up to the fig tree and sees that it has leaves

but no figs, it is a sign that it never bore fruit.

And see, some of you are blaming a season for why you didn't

bear fruit.

But the thing is, a fig tree

that bears fruit retains its fruit even

in a bad season.

Come on.

I'M trying to talk to somebody right now.

So there's Christians who will say, well, you know, I want to be

generous, but I'm going through a hard time financially.

No, If I'm a fig tree that bears fruit, I give seed out of my

need.

If I waited to have enough money, I would never give because

I've never had enough money, but because I know how to bear fruit.

See?

Listen, Julie, do you remember that time

I put my check in the offering

when we were executive pastors?

I put my check in the offering

as a sacrifice to God because I was only making $330 a week.

My wife's shouting the number at me.

She probably knows.

And, and, and I said, God, if it can't meet my need, it becomes

my seed.

And with a family of four, I

put my whole check in the offering

and said, I'm getting ready to go to New York to launch a church

and I'm going to lead my church in generosity.

And I don't give because I have enough money.

I have enough money because I give.

Now watch this.

I kid you not.

Dropped it in the offering.

That day, the end of service comes.

I'm backstage.

A woman breaks through the backstage, comes up to me holding

a check in her hand and said, I cannot shake this.

The whole service, the Holy Spirit kept speaking a number.

And I just had to write this number down.

And she's, I don't know if this means anything to you, but the

Lord said, write down Mike Signorelli a check for this number.

She wrote the check in the same amount.

You can't make this up.

Am I right, Julie?

Huh?

To the dollar, my wife is saying.

And she handed me that check.

Literally.

It just did a circulation from my

wallet into heaven and got credited back

to me within an hour and a half.

Now, listen, I was bearing fruit as a fig tree out of state

season.

I was broke, but that didn't stop me from being generous.

So when Jesus walks up to a barren tree, he says, you have leaves,

but you don't have fruit.

And there's Christians that during the worship set have leaves

that are blowing in the wind, but they ain't got no fruit.

They know how to sing because it makes them feel good, but they

don't give because it doesn't make them feel good.

God.

God knows the difference between leave leaves and fruit.

Oh, come on.

Somebody.

There's somebody getting up to preach because they have a fragile

ego.

And they want to preach because they want to feel like they

have a sense of importance and I'm preaching and they're preaching.

But God knows the difference between leaves and fruit.

He knows who's doing it on assignment and he knows who's doing

it for attention.

And see, come on, I'm talking to somebody.

Not every inch influencer on Instagram is doing it because they're

in the prayer closet and they're praying for the people that

follow them.

There's some people that don't do ministry for the outcome.

They do it for the income and they got leaves, but they don't have

fruit.

And I believe up talking to some.

I believe we're coming into a fig tree season where Jesus Christ

is about to curse a fig tree and say, I gave you many seasons,

so stop being selfish.

I gave you many seasons to get your motive right.

I give you many seasons to humble yourself, but you've never

bore fruit in any season.

And the Lord is going to speak to him.

That's why I don't have to make the YouTube video, because my

YouTube video can't do what the words of Jesus Christ are about

to do to the fig tree.

Come on.

I don't have to cancel counsel you because heaven is just and Jesus

will speak to the tree.

Ah, come on.

Yeah.

Stay on your feet so I close.

Just stay on your feet so I can close.

Let me talk to the single people.

Single people.

Single people.

Single people.

Don't be so impressed by his leaves that you ignore the lack of

fruit.

Fruit.

Because if he would have bore fruit, even if it was a bad season,

remember, fig trees don't drop their fruit in between seasons.

He would still have fruit from previous seasons.

Fruit is not actions.

One person preaches, the other person preaches, the action is the

same.

So what happens with fruit is that you can't judge by the action.

That's why Jesus will say on judgment Day, depart from me for

I never knew you.

And they're gonna say, but I did the same action.

I preached like they preach.

I cast out demons.

And Jesus said no.

I looked at the motive.

Fruit is what comes out of you through faithfulness with a pure

motive.

How many of you know that God's looking at the motive?

Do we want to be wealthy because we want to be generous?

Or do we want wealth to satiate our fear of finances?

So one person works to make as much money as they can.

And it's not to build God's house, it's not to build the kingdom,

it's not to be generous.

It's because of a fear of finances.

But then the other person Builds wealth.

But then they're building kingdom infrastructures and they're

influencing the kingdom and they're sowing and investing.

And the Lord looks at both of them and says, your bank account

was the the same, but your motives were different.

And one of you is a fig tree that's gonna be cursed, and the other

fig tree is bearing fruit.

The motive?

God is looking at the heart.

God is looking at the heart.

This is why this message, as we prepare as a church to go into

Hosanna Day, the crowd is literally saying, deliver us now.

Deliver us now.

And then within days, they're going to say, crucify him.

Why?

Because the motive was always, what can this man do for me?

And as soon as they realized that Jesus went to the cross and

they didn't have a revelation of that sacrifice, and they felt

like it wasn't a good deal for them, they were out.

Because they weren't covenant people.

They were commitment people.

And commitment people leave when it doesn't benefit them.

But covenant people cleave when it doesn't benefit them.

Because they know seasons change.

If I go through this death with

Jesus, guess what, baby?

I go through the resurrection with him too.

There cannot be no resurrection without a death.

See, we.

We don't leave.

We cleave because we're covenant people.

The way you change New York City is you don't leave.

You cleave.

Come on, Ivan.

Come on, Brooklyn, come on, Manhattan, come on, Long Island.

You cleave.

The way you change Miami is you don't leave, you cleave to Miami.

And you say, I'm gonna go through the death so I can experience

the resurrection.

So I want to leave you with hope because we're about to pray,

and then we're gonna spend a few moments in worship.

This fig tree, Such a revelation.

I want to pray.

Somebody say, I'm not blaming my season.

Come on, say it boldly.

I'm not blaming my season.

Come on.

Right there in the front row.

I got my wife that I got my mom, shout me down with hanky.

But I'll never forget my mother.

Single mom, five kids.

She gave her last $20 in the offering, and then all of a sudden,

a couple weeks later, she went to the thrift store, picked out a

nice $5 purse.

You know, those thrift store purses sometimes can be the bomb,

you know what I'm saying?

Gets home, opens it up, there's a hundred dollars inside.

That's a five fold return on that offering.

I could take, tell you story after story, but if you don't have

a story of God opening up the windows of heaven and blessing you

to the point where you can't contain it.

It's because you blamed your season on why you didn't bear fruit.

See, this is the thing God wants to free you in your identity.

To say, God, I made up my mind now that no matter what, I'm going

to walk this thing out, no matter what.

Just like Jesus, I'm journeying through Jerusalem, I'm

journeying through death.

I'm say, I don't know why.

When I was preparing this sermon, I felt such a conviction

for the single people of V1 Church to say, stop looking at their

leaves and start looking at their fruit.

Don't compromise with a fig tree that's got nice leaves but no

fruit.

Come on, I'm talking to somebody.

Come on, compromise.

Look at the fruit.

But then at the same time, sometimes when you don't know to

discern something.

Is this real?

Is this right?

Look at the fruit, look at the fruit, look at the fruit.

What does that mean?

Observe the thing that is produced from a motive over time.

It's undeniable.

It's undeniable.

I want to do something.

Across all of our campuses right now as we close out, I want

you, if you accepted Jesus Christ to be your savior, specifically

at V1 Church, would you just lift your hand for a second?

Wow.

Across all the locations, man, that moves me.

You could put your hands down.

I don't know about you, but here in New York, that was almost.

What percentage would you say?

Stuff.

Yeah, it's like, like half or more of everybody here said I accepted

Jesus Christ as my Savior at V1 Church.

So you are the fruit of my motive.

That's, that's what it's.

I can't.

I came saying I want to devote my life.

I have one mission, I have one.

Cause I don't care what the cost.

I'm telling you, through broke down cars,

through all the, the apartments, through all the madness,

it was one motive.

And so when I look out and on my worst day, I'll remember that

moment where I looked and you said, mike, I'm going to heaven because

I connected my yes to your yes.

And I can only imagine the hands in matter of fact, Indiana,

Miami, Brooklyn.

If you're watching online, let me know.

If you're watching online.

I had a woman that went to the Greece tour with me and she goes,

you know, I said, well, how'd you find the Lord?

How'd you find our church?

And she said, you know, I was up late one last night, one night,

and you were on your YouTube channel talking about the, the orbs

and all of the, you know, remember when all that stuff was

going on?

What's that?

Yeah, the drones and the orbs and all that stuff.

And she said, I, I was wondering about that.

She said you had 25,000 thousand people on your live stream,

and then all of a sudden you just started preaching the gospel

and you switched the subject to Jesus.

And she said, I just started bawling my eyes out and I surrendered

my life.

And ever since then, I've been connected to V1.

I've been connected to you.

So God has been using these things in mysterious ways.

And so right now, you might be watching online right now, just clicking

through, saying, what is this going on?

What am I watching?

I believe that heaven has disrupted your life right now.

And I believe that you need to hear the words, that Jesus loves

you, that he was who he said he was, that he's alive right now,

and he's using me to send these words

to you, that you and your household

will be saved if you surrender right now.

So here in this room, across every campus, on the count of three,

if you're like, I want to journey with Jesus, I want to give

my life to Christ.

I want you to just lift your hands and we're going to pray all

together.

And then we're going to prepare our hearts, we're going to

prepare our mind for the days to come, for the things ahead.

And I want to.

Just look at me real quick before we do this.

I know that this church is a different church, and I know sometimes

you probably wish.

I wish we could be more chill.

Maybe not.

Maybe some of you are crazy and you like how crazy it is around

here, but.

All right, well, here's my answer on Long Island.

But the reason why I'm not going to apologize is because I,

I count you infinitely more special than me.

I'm the coach.

I don't even look at it like I'm in the game.

I look at it as you're in the game.

And my job.

You're Michael Jordan, I'm Phil Jackson.

My job is to equip you, to train you, to rebuke you a little

bit, to hug you, to encourage you.

And it's a very hard job for some of y', all, and you know that.

Can I get an amen?

You know, some of you need a little extra.

But I, I.

But the thing is, this generation is a chosen generation.

This generation is A unique.

So I counted a very high privilege to minister to you every

week because of what's on your life.

And most churches get this wrong because it's all the crowd

facing the pastor.

But this is.

You're only here to be equipped and be deployed.

And this is why I think in the days and the weeks and the months

to come, the vision that I want to share with our church, just

30 seconds, is the priesthood of all believers.

So did you know that when all the big news articles were written

about the last time we were in Times Square, did you know the main

thing that they highlighted when I went through and read all

the.

All the articles was not the songs, was not the sermons.

They highlighted the fact that I told thousands of people to leave

the event and go into the streets of Manhattan and lead the

lost and the prostitutes and all.

And that one part to the secular people said, wow, can you

imagine a Christian event where they told the crowd to go out

and do ministry?

And if you read the articles, the thing that stood out the most

in them was me getting up in front of Times Square saying, now

you go into the streets and do the work.

But who talked that way?

Jesus.

So the ministry of Jesus is so rare in the earth that some of us

spent years going to hear a priest but never realize that you

are supposed to be the priest.

This is the priesthood of all believers.

And sometimes we get in the posture so much of receiving that

we don't realize no is it receiving or being equipped to go

do it.

So in the days, in the weeks, in the months to come, I need you

to do the work of the ministry with me.

Would you all do that?

Would you join me with that?

Would you all commit to that?

That's why we're going on tour.

That's why we're going to London.

That's why we just got back from Gary.

I matter of fact, I had a pastor from Los Angeles who's right

on Hollywood Boulevard with a brand new massive building.

They just flipped.

He said, I heard that you want to bring the breakers to Los Angeles

and I will give you my building to use for the night for

free.

All the production, all of my team,

if you'll come to Hollywood Boulevard and

set the captives free.

But.

But hear me when I say, come on, we're stuck.

Why am I doing this?

Why am I leaving my wife and

my children to go on this tour?

Because I'm trying to wake up the

body of Christ to say, now is the time.

You've been waiting your whole life.

It's now.

It's now.

Don't be the fig tree that makes

an excuse for why it doesn't bear for fruit because of a bad season.

Do it anyways.

So on the count of three, if you're willing, just lift your hands

with me.

One, two, three.

Come on.

All over, every location.

And I want us to say this together.

Say, heavenly Father, I don't want to be that fig tree that doesn't

bear fruit.

I want you to.

To be a true believer.

I accept my assignment for the priesthood of all believers.

I'll pray for people.

I'll evangelize to people.

I will cast out demons.

I will prophesy.

I will go.

I will fund the kingdom.

I will serve whatever you ask of me.

I will bear fruit.

I will bear fruit.

Okay, now, I want to do this

right now because this is identity we're now going to begin

to use.

Remember, he said, speak to the mountain.

It'll move.

How many of you want to speak to that mountain?

Now, Jesus said, just like I spoke

to the fig tree, you can speak to the mountain.

So we're gonna.

We're gonna prophesy.

Are you ready?

Come on, if you're ready.

Now, this is going to seem different, but I'm going to.

Some of you have never done this.

You might even feel guilty if you have a spirit of religion, because

the spirit of religion says, well, who am I to do this?

But the spirit of adoption says, I am his son.

I am his seed.

I am his daughter.

And everything he said, I have a right to.

I have a right to.

So we're going to make some declarations.

Are you ready?

So say this with me boldly now, only if you come to into agreement,

but say this with me boldly.

I am generous.

I give seed.

I sow seed.

I am not in lack.

I am not in poverty.

I am the seed of Abraham through Christ Jesus.

Okay, I want you to say this.

I. I am intelligent.

I have the mind of Christ.

He gives me strategy.

He gives me plans.

I am not confused.

I have clarity through the scriptures.

I have revelation through the Holy Spirit.

Okay, come on, come on.

We're gonna keep doing some more of these.

Is this helping you?

Because you have to declare this.

Because the devil.

Remember how I said they make videos about me?

Well, hell makes videos about you.

And the spirit of condemnation and guilt and shame has propaganda

to put a

false identity on you.

And so sometimes you gotta talk back and say no.

Just like Jesus said, it is written.

Are y' all ready?

Come on now.

Say this with Me, I am accepted, not rejected.

The favor of God goes before me like a shield protecting me.

God opens doors that no man can shut.

God shuts doors that shouldn't be open.

I am in his perfect will.

Submit it to him.

I am not wavering.

I am not doubting.

I am in faith.

Fear is not my portion.

Faith is my portion.

I walk by faith.

I talk by faith.

I live by faith.

I breathe by faith.

Come on.

Okay, we're getting it now.

We're getting.

Okay, you want to do some more?

Because you know what I'm working on?

I'm working on a series of prayer books right now.

I'm working on a series of prayer books where you're going to

be able to declare these things at home with the books because

the Lord told me we got to train up this army.

I'm going to do a couple more.

You want to do this?

And you can watch this footage back and you can play these prayers.

These are simple prayers.

But I'm telling you, these prayers kept me through some of my

hardest times.

These prayers are the reason why I'm standing before you right

now.

That's why I can do it without notes.

Are you want to do some more?

Okay.

Declare this with me.

I am healed.

I am whole.

Every cell in my body submitted to

God's word from the top of my

head to the soles of my feet.

I am completely healed.

Because healing is my promise through Christ Jesus.

I do not expect accept any disease, any sickness in Jesus name.

I repent for all unforgiveness.

I repent for all sin known and unknown.

Anything contributing to sickness in my life, I repent and

bring it under the blood of Jesus.

Every spirit of infirmity must leave my body.

My body is the temple of the Holy Spirit.

Only the Holy Spirit can dwell in my body.

Every generational curse is broken from my mother's side and

my father's side.

And my body is healed and whole each day I increase in health.

I increase in vitality.

I increase in energy.

I increase in strength.

Because the Holy Spirit quickens my body for his will to

be done on the earth.

Okay, now watch.

Here's what you're noticing.

It feels like some of you feel like you're speaking a different

language now, don't you?

Because you know what's native to you?

It's not English.

It's not Spanish.

It's not Italian.

You know what's native to your tongue?

Complaining, murmuring.

Right?

So when you pray like I'm praying, it almost sound like, can

I say this.

You should be saying this.

This is what come.

Can we do one more?

All right.

But when we talk about these things, this is important.

This whole sermon, Matthew, chapter 21, it's all about that fig

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tree.

And what you see happening is the harlots and the tax collectors,

they say, jesus, I'm not going to go into the field and harvest.

But then they change their mind, repent, and then they go do

it.

It.

But then there's other people who say, I will go do it, but they

never do it.

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That's what's going.

And Jesus says, that's why the harlots, the prostitutes, the sexually

perverse, the tax collectors, this one.

That's why they're going to be in the kingdom, because they changed

their mind.

They repented.

But then the other people, they lied.

They said they were going to do the work.

They never did it.

It.

And it'd be better to have all that sin in your life and repent

of it and then go do the work, than it would be to be like, well,

I don't hardly ever sin, but I don't do the work.

Because he's saying, these people repent and they change their

ways and they do my will and they enter the kingdom.

So right now, if you're like, well, who am I?

Listen, I'm a. I'm a repented sinner.

I'm the one who changed my mind and said, as for me and my house,

we will see.

Serve the Lord.

Oh, I got a past, but I also have a future.

And I said yes to Jesus, and I'm getting into this kingdom and

I'd

rather do the work.

Come on.

How many of you know Satan will work you too?

I'd rather do that.

I'd rather be a slave for Christ

than to be a celebrity for Satan.

Because Satan will work you too, all the way to hell.

So this.

So when we're praying like this, I'm just.

I'm concerned for you.

All this news media propaganda, what's coming up ahead.

I'm concerned with you.

And you need to pray like you've never prayed.

You need to begin to get into the word like you've never.

That's why I wrote that book, the A Journey with Jesus.

I just finished the transcript for my entire book, Unoffendable

Heart, that's coming out this fall.

John Bevere wrote the foreword, and he said, mike, in the

last days, it says, offenses will increase.

And your book is actually an anecdote for End times, deception.

So the Lord has given you everything you need to step in.

How many of you just feel God's grace in this season?

How many of you feel him speaking to you?

How was there things that I confirmed today during the sermon?

Were there things that you were like, man, I needed that.

It's good for my soul.

All right, we're going to pray.

One more prayer.

And I'm just going through the majors right now.

I'm going through the majors right now.

Okay, you ready?

Oh, the devil's gonna hate this one.

The devil's gonna hate the.

I'm telling you, watch out, because when you pray this one, you're

gonna have to back it up.

But the devil hates this because it's just everything I said

to you is based in the scriptures, and it's an affirmation

of what he said.

So just say this with me.

Boldly say, I have authority to trample upon snakes and scorpions

and every evil spirit.

I have authority in the spiritual realm over my neighborhood,

over my city, over the school system, over my workplace.

I have authority given by Christ to dethrone principalities,

to dethrone demonic spirits, to boldly proclaim the gospel at

the sound of my voice.

Hell responds by fleeing in every direction.

My enemies are scattered.

Every plot of the enemy is foiled by the blood of Jesus.

Every attack, every wile has to cease by the blood of Jesus over

my life.

Heavenly Father, you silence every tongue that rises up against

me.

Heavenly Father, you silence every spirit that is monitoring me,

that is plotting against me.

You thwart their plans.

And Father, I thank you that you

send confusion into the enemy's camp, that

his plans will fail and only your plans will succeed.

Okay, now say it with boldness.

I know who I am.

I know what I have access, access to.

I have been seated in heavenly places.

I will not accept anything less than my full rights, my full

authority, my full inheritance, and no deception, no

lie will work or come nigh to my ear in Jesus, mighty name.

Come on, somebody celebrate.

Come on, come on.

Let's worship for a moment.

I feel that freedom, Sam.