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The Turning Point | HOMECOMING | Apostle Mike Signorelli

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  1. Turning Point.

  2. Can you say that with me?

  3. It's a turning point.

  4. And for those of you who are ignorant enough, or you discern from

  5. the soulless realm of your feelings, or you define what God's

  6. doing through a cultural lens and miss the supernatural.

  7. Can I just help you for a moment?

  8. I was on a ship retracing Paul's apostolic journeys.

  9. I was going from island to island and teaching the scriptures

  10. that were literally written on those islands.

  11. And in the midst of that travel, I'm on the ship.

  12. And last Sunday, the Holy Spirit said, mike, I know that you

  13. have your sermon written, but if you would give me permission,

  14. I'll give you the sermon you're supposed to be preaching.

  15. Hello.

  16. And he said, mike, I want you to just trash that sermon, and I

  17. want you to name this sermon the Turning Point.

  18. And he began to download this message.

  19. So before it was black versus White, before it was Republican versus

  20. Democrat.

  21. Oh, come on, somebody.

  22. I'm gonna speak right into it today.

  23. Before that ever happened, on Sunday, before the assassination,

  24. the Lord spoke to me and said, I need you to preach this message

  25. on a ship called the Turning Point.

  26. How else do you explain the sovereign plan of an almighty God

  27. that in his foreknowledge downloaded to me the very language

  28. now that has become international news?

  29. The Turning Point is the name of Charlie Kirk's organization and

  30. movement.

  31. There's no way I would have ever made the connection, but God

  32. was already on the move.

  33. So if I could warn you, you should have learned something in

  34. 2020.

  35. You should have matured past the immaturity and the foolishness

  36. of racial division and pride.

  37. If you.

  38. I'm telling you, this is gonna be a test of who's on the meat of

  39. the word and who's still on the milk.

  40. This is gonna be a test of who Learned in the 2020s or who is still

  41. circling that mountain.

  42. Why?

  43. Because this is our finest hour.

  44. Don't get so caught up on something that Charlie Kirk disagree

  45. with that you miss the prophetic symbol of what's happening

  46. through Charlie Kirk's assassination.

  47. Because guess what?

  48. I love this country.

  49. I love the United States.

  50. But kings and kingdoms will all pass away.

  51. There's a bigger plan.

  52. And that plan is for the Lamb that was slain to be glorified and

  53. magnified.

  54. And I'm telling you, heaven is my destination.

  55. Even if America is temporarily my home, I'll never hide the cross

  56. underneath the.

  57. Flag of Jesus Christ.

  58. So don't come into this church with your political propaganda.

  59. Whether it's Republican or Democrat, Jesus Ministered in the

  60. context of Rome.

  61. Rome no longer exists.

  62. Choose your battles wisely.

  63. Jesus didn't fight Satan with political propaganda.

  64. He said it is written.

  65. Oh, I'll tell you what kind of church v1 church is.

  66. I'm not gonna parrot some politician, but I'm gonna sound like

  67. my heavenly Father.

  68. And if you want to know my opinion, you could read Genesis to

  69. Revelation.

  70. That's what I think about it.

  71. I'm a Bible believing Christian and I'm here to tell you

  72. the word of God.

  73. It is, it is written.

  74. I learned my lesson in the 2000 and twenties.

  75. This is a church for those who want to mature.

  76. Go find another church that'll give you milk and change your poopy

  77. diapers.

  78. But I'm not a hospital.

  79. We're an army.

  80. Come out the nicu.

  81. Come out the nicu.

  82. It's time to get on the meat of the word.

  83. Come on, soldier, lock in.

  84. Put on the full armor of God.

  85. It's time to do what he called you to do.

  86. Stop playing games in the comment section and start playing

  87. warfare on the battlefield.

  88. It's time to lock in.

  89. Somebody shout It's a turning point, It's.

  90. A turning point I'm turning from immature to mature.

  91. I'm turning from milk to meat.

  92. I'm turning from perversion to purity or.

  93. Oh, somebody help me.

  94. It's a turning point.

  95. It's a turning point.

  96. People who never cared about righteousness and holiness are suddenly

  97. buying Bibles.

  98. Gen Z are now statistically the highest proportion of our population

  99. attending church, which means many of them are going to church

  100. without their own parents.

  101. Listen, millennials, listen, Gen Xers.

  102. You can have your criticisms, you can be a naysayer, but God is

  103. raising up a generation.

  104. Who says I got a job to do?

  105. I might only be 18, but how old was David when he killed a giant?

  106. Come on, somebody, let's stop playing games.

  107. This is a JOL2 movement.

  108. All of us got to be on that door.

  109. Let Gen Z lead.

  110. Come on, old folks.

  111. This is for all of us.

  112. And I feel this in my spirit because before the assassination,

  113. the Lord said, it's a turning point.

  114. It's a turning point.

  115. And that's how I know that this thing is greater than politics.

  116. It's a spiritual battle between good and evil.

  117. It's not left versus right, it's up versus down.

  118. Which one do you choose?

  119. As for me and my house?

  120. Come on.

  121. The scripture says in Deuteronomy I present before you

  122. today blessing or cursing, you choose.

  123. It's a turning point.

  124. It's a turning point.

  125. Oftentimes God conceals good news inside of bad news.

  126. This is how the Father has always worked.

  127. That's why we don't think it's strange when we hear these things

  128. in the news, because he always hides good news inside of bad news.

  129. It's when you hear the taunts of Goliath, it's when he's literally

  130. shouting, your God is not the true God.

  131. That those shouts, those taunts are going to draw out a David

  132. who's been destined for that moment.

  133. And so you don't get a David without a Goliath.

  134. It's literally when the.

  135. There's a famine in the land and it's.

  136. It's this.

  137. The economy is completely wrecked and people are starving to

  138. death.

  139. That God had been meticulously and miraculously moving a man named

  140. Joseph through the structures of an Egyptian prison for the right

  141. time at the right moment.

  142. And if you don't have a famine, you don't have a Joseph.

  143. So for those of you who are still scared right now, can I just

  144. remind you, is when fear gets brought broadcast from Satan, all

  145. it reveals is his desperation.

  146. And Satan's desperation is revealing God's mission in the earth.

  147. What is the devil fighting so hard right now?

  148. What does he see getting ready to take place?

  149. Could it be an international revival?

  150. Could it be the generations being won?

  151. Could it be college campuses coming to him in droves?

  152. Why is he so desperate?

  153. He, God's always got good news wrapped up in bad news.

  154. Oh, Pastor Mike, it's so expensive here in New York.

  155. No, no, no, no.

  156. The most expensive place you can ever live is outside of the will

  157. of God.

  158. It's not expensive in New York.

  159. It's expensive out of his will.

  160. Because if you get into his will, if it's his will, it's his

  161. bill.

  162. He'll make a way where there seems to be no way.

  163. He'll.

  164. He'll open up a door that nobody can shut.

  165. There's good news inside of the bad news.

  166. The bad news is it's expensive here.

  167. The good news is your dad owns a cattle on a thousand hill and everything

  168. that's his is yours.

  169. It's time to lock in church.

  170. It's time to say it's a turning point.

  171. And I made up my mind.

  172. I will follow Jesus.

  173. Done.

  174. None go with me if I gotta go alone on work.

  175. I'm not drinking on my lunch break like they drink on their lunch

  176. break.

  177. I'm praying on my lunch break because.

  178. I'm not at my work.

  179. Alone.

  180. He said he'll never leave me nor forsake me.

  181. And I take him everywhere I go.

  182. Gen Z, put your Bible on top.

  183. Of your textbooks this school year so.

  184. That you shine your light in the middle of that school and you

  185. say, there ain't no spirit but the Holy Spirit up in this school.

  186. And I'm here to be a light in the darkness.

  187. Gen Z, are you with me?

  188. If everybody else is coming out of the closet, why don't you

  189. come out, too?

  190. Demons are real bold about their doctrines.

  191. Why don't you learn doctrine, too?

  192. See, this is a.

  193. This is a dividing line.

  194. It's.

  195. I'm gonna get into the text, but I've been preaching scriptures

  196. for those who have ears to hear.

  197. This is a turning point.

  198. This is the turning point because, see, for a long time, the

  199. grace of God was represented in an intellectualized middle for

  200. a lot of pastors.

  201. He gave pastors a lot of time to figure out how they're gonna communicate

  202. it.

  203. He gave ministers a lot of time to be on the fence.

  204. But I'm telling you, something happened just days ago where it is.

  205. You can't ignore this.

  206. You can't not talk about it.

  207. You can't act like it doesn't exist.

  208. It's time to say the word of God.

  209. It's time to say, I'm a man of God.

  210. I know the truth.

  211. And when they hear the truth, the truth will set them free and

  212. the middle ground is over.

  213. And let me just tell you, there's only two teams, according

  214. to Jesus Christ.

  215. He said you were either a son of Satan or you are a son of the

  216. Savior.

  217. You're a son of God.

  218. There's only two teams here on Long Island.

  219. You talk to people.

  220. Are you a Christian?

  221. Yeah, I'm a Christian.

  222. I went to Catholic school.

  223. Yeah, I'm a Christian.

  224. I was baptized and went through confirmation.

  225. Yeah, I'm a Christian.

  226. I watch YouTube.

  227. I watch Christian YouTube.

  228. No, no, I didn't ask you your title.

  229. I asked you your identity.

  230. Christians have fruit.

  231. And you will know them not by their subscriptions.

  232. Come on, somebody.

  233. And you will know them not because of their education.

  234. And you will know them not because they're Sicilian Catholic

  235. family.

  236. And you will know them by their fruit.

  237. So the thing that I'm going to be watching is who has love and peace

  238. and patience and joy and long suffering in the midst of the next

  239. couple years, I want to know who's going to bear fruit.

  240. Fruit.

  241. So that the world can eat of your fruit.

  242. Somebody shout, it's a Turning point.

  243. So let me jump into the text.

  244. If you have your Bibles, please go to Acts, the 27th chapter.

  245. And although I don't have the privilege of being able to teach

  246. all 26 chapters, to get you caught up, I'll try to summarize.

  247. Is that all right?

  248. No.

  249. You want to fast and just stay here all day?

  250. Okay, great.

  251. We'll do that in the 27th chapter of the book of Acts.

  252. Paul has been going to region to region, and he's been whooped,

  253. bullied, persecuted.

  254. He's been cast out from their midst, and he's on these apostolic

  255. journeys trying to preach the Gospel and establish the church.

  256. And he's a prisoner of Rome.

  257. He's a prisoner of Rome, and they're taking him on this journey.

  258. And it's.

  259. We're going to see how this plays out.

  260. Now that I got you caught up.

  261. It says in verse eight.

  262. So skip down to verse eight.

  263. It says coasting along with difficulty.

  264. Everybody say difficulty.

  265. We came to a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of

  266. Lycia.

  267. So what happens is Paul is on this journey that he's being forced

  268. on.

  269. That's a really important part of the text.

  270. And this journey is this difficult.

  271. It's difficult.

  272. Now, what does Crete, this island, represent for you?

  273. Because for him, it was a physical location.

  274. But how many of you know that there's a parallel between the physical

  275. and the spiritual?

  276. He says there's even a place that's in this geography called,

  277. look at the word Fair Havens.

  278. Have you ever heard that term safe haven't?

  279. So what Crete represented was safe, yet difficult.

  280. The thing that I'm here to prophetically tell you, and this

  281. is one of the most important sermons you'll ever hear in your

  282. life, and I can bank on that, is that you are leaving the island

  283. of Crete now.

  284. Because up until now, your life has been safe but difficult.

  285. I'm not undermining all of the situations you've encountered.

  286. I'm not undermining all of the difficulties.

  287. It is difficult.

  288. But there was a turning point days ago that are now going to take

  289. you by the sovereign God's hand into the next season of your

  290. life, this next era.

  291. And we are now going to shift.

  292. Come on.

  293. Do you feel the shift from difficult past this turning point,

  294. past Fairhaven, where it's safe, into something more perilous?

  295. But remember, I already promised you that God cloaks good

  296. news inside of bad news.

  297. Are you following me?

  298. The assassination of Charlie Kurt.

  299. It represented persecution to Christians in the form of Physical

  300. violence coming to America.

  301. I have.

  302. I did a news interview just two days ago that has almost half

  303. a million views already on YouTube.

  304. Because I have personally, even though I'm nowhere near the

  305. influence of Charlie Kirk, I've personally sustained over five

  306. years of consistent death threats.

  307. Not because of a political position, if you follow my ministry.

  308. I've been very politically agnostic, but because a biblical

  309. stance in a world full of sinners that don't know our Savior.

  310. This book is foolishness to those who are dead in their sin.

  311. And so I think we were in Crete.

  312. I think we were in Crete.

  313. Do you remember life before 9 11?

  314. Those are.

  315. There's these times in our life where it's difficult, but it's

  316. safer than where you're headed.

  317. So the Apostle Paul, some of you are saying, preacher, please

  318. get to the good news.

  319. You said there was good news.

  320. I'm going there.

  321. Then in verse 9.

  322. So Acts 27, verse 9.

    Acts 27:9

  323. Since much time has passed and the voyage was now dangerous, everybody

  324. say dangerous.

  325. Because even the fast was already over.

  326. Paul advised them, saying, sirs, I perceive.

  327. Everybody say perceive.

  328. I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss,

  329. not only of the cargo of the ship, but also of our lives.

  330. So what Paul is saying is.

  331. Paul is saying, when we were in Crete, it was difficult sailing,

  332. but it was safe.

  333. But I perceive if we go to this next destination, we're in a

  334. turning point.

  335. And if you choose wrong, we are going to lose our ship and we're

  336. also going to lose our lives.

  337. And we've transitioned from difficult to dangerous.

  338. There are demonized people who are not okay with you having a biblical

  339. opinion.

  340. It was difficult in this nation to be a Christian before last

  341. week.

  342. It is now dangerous.

  343. Mark my words.

  344. Mark my words.

  345. I got good news for you.

  346. We were built for danger.

  347. The kingdom of heaven suffers violence, but the violent take it

  348. by force.

  349. I may not be physically violent.

  350. The weapons of my warfare are not carnal, but they are mighty through

  351. God.

  352. To the pulling down of strongholds and Satan.

  353. I'm here to take your neck.

  354. I'm built for this.

  355. Somebody shout unto God we were built for this.

  356. We were built for this.

  357. When I started V1 Church, I used to pray every Sunday.

  358. God, I don't want to build a 21st century church.

  359. The 21st century church is full of consumers.

  360. They need a cup of coffee and a bagel.

  361. The 21st century church doesn't read their Bible.

  362. They me to post it on the Internet.

  363. The 21st century church doesn't give their finances because

  364. their God is mammon.

  365. God, help me build a church like the first century church on

  366. the blood of the martyrs.

  367. And I'm here to tell you we're not in a six million dollar building

  368. because this is a prosperity church.

  369. We're in this building today because a sacrifice was poured out

  370. and people said, God, I'm here to serve you on this island.

  371. And I will give and pour my life to build your kingdom.

  372. That's what we're doing here.

  373. When I you peel the sticker back that says V1 church, it better

  374. say the kingdom of heaven.

  375. And if it doesn't, I'll be the first person to leave the church.

  376. Why, Pastor Mike?

  377. Why are you so serious?

  378. Let me tell you why.

  379. When Jesus first called his disciples, the first miracle was

  380. what?

  381. Come on.

  382. Biblical scholars.

  383. Turning water into wine.

  384. Oh, that was a good time.

  385. They were turning up.

  386. It was probably sangria.

  387. You know what I mean?

  388. Probably sangria.

  389. No.

  390. That'S how they started their journey with Jesus.

  391. See, when you first start following Jesus, there's this phase

  392. that you're in of celebration, the joy of your salvation.

  393. He turned water into wine for you.

  394. But right before Gethsemane, something changes.

  395. Jesus says, can't you just stay up one more hour?

  396. Can't you watch?

  397. Can't you pray?

  398. See, it's a different.

  399. He's saying there's been a transition.

  400. There was a turning point.

  401. We're going from celebration to concentration.

  402. There's a turning point.

  403. We're supposed to be shifting.

  404. I mean, yeah, we started this thing with wine, but we're gonna

  405. end it with blood.

  406. There's a transition.

  407. There's a turning point.

  408. And I'm here to tell you, get out of the nicu.

  409. Some of you have been in the infant stage for too long.

  410. Some of you gotta get off the milk of the word and shift into the

  411. meat of the word.

  412. Some of you have been nursing old wounds of church hurt.

  413. And it's been 15 years.

  414. It's time to armor up.

  415. We're going into Gethsemane and.

  416. And trade the wine for blood.

  417. It's a turning point.

  418. Does anybody hear me?

  419. Are you ready to be mature, lacking in nothing, unoffendable?

  420. Are you ready to say, God, I will do what you called me to do.

  421. This is going off way better than I thought it would because I'm

  422. preaching real mean and you're taking it.

  423. Y' all must be for real.

  424. Everybody's like.

  425. Wow, is he not coming back?

  426. For a bride without spot and without.

  427. Wrinkle and without blemish.

  428. God, do your work.

  429. You got to do in me.

  430. Get the wrinkles out, get the spots out.

  431. I may have started wrong, but I'm going to finish strong.

  432. God, I'm here for you.

  433. You're bright.

  434. So they go from Crete, and then from Crete they make the wrong

  435. decision.

  436. It wasn't Paul's fault.

  437. Let me just tell you.

  438. Some of you are subjected to somebody else's bad decision, but

  439. God will be sovereign in your life.

  440. Your husband may not have made the right decision, but God will

  441. take a crooked way and make it straight.

  442. Come on, I'm talking to a single mother right now.

  443. Sometimes the people on the boat with you make the wrong decision,

  444. but they can't control the wind.

  445. God is still going to get you where he wants to get you.

  446. And that's the story of Paul.

  447. I wish you heard me today.

  448. See, Paul gave them a warning.

  449. Paul says in verse nine through 12.

  450. Sirs, I perceived that this voyage will be with injury.

  451. But they didn't listen.

  452. The centurion soldiers of Rome were more content with listening

  453. to the pilot than they were Paul.

  454. We pray for our president, but don't listen to our president more

  455. than you listen to Paul.

  456. Oh, y' all don't hear me?

  457. Y' all don't hear me?

  458. There's only one perfect.

  459. There's only one that's perfect.

  460. There's only.

  461. Come on, I'm talking to somebody right now.

  462. There's going to be delusion in the last days.

  463. There's going to be confusion in the last days.

  464. But the saints that have discernment are going to know.

  465. They might have said it wrong.

  466. But I'm standing on a solid foundation upon this rock and I am

  467. stable.

  468. I am certain I am not confused because the lamp is actually lighting

  469. the path.

  470. This is all.

  471. Come on.

  472. So Proverbs chapter 14, verse 12 says, There's a way that seems

    Proverbs 14:12

  473. right.

  474. There's a way that seems right.

  475. There's a way that seems right to man, but the end of it is death.

  476. Pastor Mike.

  477. Some of my earliest memories of attraction were same sex attraction.

  478. It seems right to me.

  479. Heterosexuality doesn't seem right to me.

  480. Pastor Mike.

  481. I never felt like a man.

  482. I felt like a woman trapped in a man's body.

  483. It seems right for me to wear these women's clothes.

  484. It seems right.

  485. The Bible says, there is a way that seems right, but the end of

  486. it is death.

  487. See, everything in scripture is for human flourishing.

  488. And the more you understand the wisdom of God, you'll see that

  489. he's doing nothing to hurt You.

  490. His plans for you are not evil, but his plans for you are good.

  491. You have a hope and a future through him.

  492. But culture, lies, sexual abuse and trauma, confusing your

  493. sexual identity.

  494. Some people say, well, I was born with this.

  495. You can be born under a generational curse.

  496. Demons coming to inhabit your body before you're even old enough

  497. to make memories.

  498. Be born again.

  499. Be born again.

  500. Why would I say this so boldly knowing that I could offend you?

  501. I'll tell you why.

  502. Because the cross of Jesus Christ is.

  503. Offense to those who are in sin.

  504. It's offensive to demons.

  505. But I have to tell you the truth.

  506. Because if you can hear the truth.

  507. You can be free.

  508. The man who killed Charlie Kirk was.

  509. A 22 year old who's in a relationship with a transgender man,

  510. a 22 year old Mormon.

  511. I don't know if you know this, but this is a demonic battle.

  512. This is a demonic battle.

  513. Last night I was seeking God and I was saying, God, you've been

  514. so merciful to give me the right things to say when it needs

  515. to be said.

  516. And I said, I've cast demons out of people all over the world.

  517. And I feel like.

  518. And I've studied historically, even from the archaeological record,

  519. demons and pagan gods.

  520. And I'm struggling because you hear in the news that phrase senseless

  521. murder, senseless act of violence, senseless.

  522. And I know that it's.

  523. It's seemingly senseless, but there is a reason.

  524. There is a principality, there is a demon over America.

  525. And I cannot fully discern what it is.

  526. Clear as day, the Lord spoke to me and he said, it's Luciferianism.

  527. Luciferianism, Luciferianism.

  528. Is it all right if I come up off my notes for a little bit and

  529. just speak from my heart?

  530. I'll be honest, I thought, what a weird thing, especially with

  531. thousands in attendance to talk about Luciferianism.

  532. And then I was watching my friend Mark.

  533. He has a Saturday night service.

  534. And so as I was going through my notes, I had his sermon on just

  535. watching him.

  536. And all of a sudden he gets towards the end of his sermon and

  537. he says, I asked the Lord to show me what is the spirit, what

  538. is the demon that's over all of what's happening in our nation,

  539. this murderous spirit, this spirit of destruction.

  540. And he said, the Lord spoke to me and said it was Luciferianism.

  541. When those words came out of Mark's mouth, I. I mean, it dropped

  542. my jaw.

  543. And I literally, I was the most stunned I've been in a long

  544. time because it was just like how the Lord told me to actually

  545. preach a sermon.

  546. The turning point two days before Charlie Kirk's murder.

  547. Or just like how he told me to change the name of this sermon or

  548. this service from Ignite Sunday to Homecoming, not knowing

  549. that many unsafe people would come.

  550. It's like the Lord was doing something.

  551. And I was texting Mark last night and I was like, mark, one of

  552. the greatest moments of confirmation in my life was hearing

  553. you speak the phrase Luciferianism as the diagnosis for

  554. what we're dealing with.

  555. But there's many of you who are confused about what that means.

  556. And because of my in depth studies of demonology, I started

  557. to go back and review notes and rehearse and sort of refresh

  558. my memory.

  559. And it's very simple.

  560. That serpent that came into the garden, way back in Genesis,

  561. he looked at Adam and Eve and he said, I know God gave you a command.

  562. I know God gave you a plan.

  563. But you can make your own plan.

  564. And if you do, you won't die.

  565. You can live life the way you want to do it, and you're not going

  566. to die.

  567. And so the question right now, it's not, are you a Republican or

  568. are you a Democrat?

  569. The question right now is not white versus black.

  570. The question is this, do you believe in God or do you believe

  571. that you are God?

  572. It's not Christianity versus Atheism.

  573. It's Luciferianism versus Christianity.

  574. And here's the difference.

  575. Do you believe in the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, or do.

  576. You believe that you are a God?

  577. Transgenderism is a demonic spirit.

  578. When you study the pagan representations of demons, you see

  579. that these demons chose to represent themselves as transgender

  580. throughout history.

  581. But what is the root?

  582. The root is my identity is not received.

  583. My identity is achieved.

  584. I achieve it with surgeries.

  585. I achieve it with hormone replacement.

  586. I achieve it.

  587. Come on.

  588. I'm speaking into the core of a demonic infrastructure structure.

  589. And let me just tell you, for those of you who are saying, well,

  590. I'm not transgendered, what does this have to do with me?

  591. Depression and anxiety is also connected to Luciferian thought.

  592. Why?

  593. One of the most Luciferian questions you can be asked is very

  594. simply, what are you going to be when you grow up?

  595. See, Americans ask that question in our public education

  596. systems.

  597. What are you going to be when you grow up?

  598. What are you going to be when you grow up?

  599. What?

  600. And how many of us grew up and still didn't know what we're going

  601. to be?

  602. Why is that elusive question?

  603. Adam didn't have to figure out what he did with his life.

  604. Adam didn't have to figure out what was he going to be when he grew

  605. up.

  606. Identity was given to him by Abba, his father.

  607. Assignment was given.

  608. His wife was given.

  609. His life was given.

  610. And so what happens when you feel like you are God with a lowercase

  611. g?

  612. You feel the weight of anxiety, of always having to figure

  613. out how to be a good God over your life.

  614. But the gospel is that for all have sinned and fallen short of the

  615. glory.

  616. And I was a bad God over my life.

  617. It led to infidelity and adultery and alcoholism and shame

  618. and God, I'm done being in charge.

  619. I want you to be my Lord and Savior.

  620. Here's the thing.

  621. Right now, the world wants a savior.

  622. In your if you're on your deathbed with cancer, who wouldn't

  623. want the cure?

  624. If you're having an anxiety.

  625. Anxiety attack.

  626. That doesn't make sense.

  627. Who wouldn't want it to immediately stop?

  628. Everybody wants a savior.

  629. But In Romans chapter 10, verse 9, it says that we must confess

    Romans 10:9

  630. with our mouth and believe in our heart that he is Lord and Savior.

  631. And let me tell you the difference.

  632. The difference is simply this.

  633. I praise you when it works out the way I want it to, and I praise

  634. you when I don't understand what you're doing.

  635. I am not just here for your help hand.

  636. I am here for your face.

  637. I want to know you.

  638. I want to be submitted to you.

  639. You are the Lord.

  640. Let pure word.

  641. I wish somebody would jump to their feet and give them some pure

  642. worship that says God, no matter what, I worship you.

  643. You're not just my savior.

  644. My you're my Lord.

  645. Somebody shout, you're my Lord.

  646. This is.

  647. I believe that when Gen Z goes into the school systems and they

  648. see their friends dressed as furries, when there's dog bowls in

  649. the corner to accommodate that demonic delusion.

  650. We're at a turning point.

  651. We're at a turning point.

  652. Do I say this to condemn?

  653. No, it's quite the opposite.

  654. I say that the freedom of the gospel is that you will receive an

  655. identity that you could never achieve.

  656. That you don't have to be filled with anxiety, you don't have

  657. to be filled with fear.

  658. You can simply say yes to Jesus.

  659. But here's the thing.

  660. Hear me.

  661. You have to make him Lord.

  662. What is Lord?

  663. Lord is my heterosexual sin is going to send me to hell, just like

  664. homosexual sin will send me to hell.

  665. And so I don't just need a savior.

  666. I need to submit Lord and say, I'm not going to try to get into

  667. the ring and fight a battle with lust I'll never win.

  668. I'm going to flee from sexual immorality.

  669. I'm going to run in the other direction.

  670. I'm going to find accountability in a group, in the

  671. church.

  672. I'm going to show up to the Bible studies.

  673. I'm going to show up to the meetings.

  674. I'm going to go.

  675. I'm going to be accountable.

  676. I need a Lord over my life.

  677. I've been a rebel my whole life.

  678. But now it's time to submit to him as Lord.

  679. Somebody shout.

  680. It's a turning point.

  681. So to continue the story of Acts, chapter 27, they don't listen.

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  682. It's late fall, probably late November, and they try to traverse

  683. an impossible distance of water out of sheer foolishness.

  684. They wanted to go to another destination.

  685. How many of you know some of your friends and family, no matter

  686. how much you try to save them from destruction, keep heading in

  687. that direction.

  688. But I got good news for you.

  689. The result is on God.

  690. The obligation to tell them the truth is on you, but the results

  691. on God.

  692. There's going to be people who hear.

  693. This message and want to end my.

  694. Life, too, because of my stance on transgenderism.

  695. And yet there's going to be others.

  696. In the transgender community that the gospel of Jesus Christ causes

  697. the scales to fall off.

  698. And they say, I once was blind, but now I see.

  699. I once was lost, and now I'm found.

  700. And the only way that happens is I got to be faithful not to give

  701. my opinion, but to give the truth of the word of God.

  702. There's a man in the Bible named Samson, and you don't know

  703. this because you got the coloring book version, but when he

  704. pushed the pillars down, he was in a temple of Dagon.

  705. It was a hybrid of a human and a creature.

  706. See, these spirits are playing the same playbook, and it's working

  707. over and over again.

  708. But when Samson pushed the pillars down of the temple of Dagon

  709. and destroyed all the priests of Dagon, what it was saying was

  710. lust and perversion almost took me out.

  711. But God has given me grace to take this demon out, and he pushed

  712. those pillars down.

  713. And I'm here to tell you, there's going to be people like Richard

  714. that begin to rise up like a Samson.

  715. In our generation that says LGBTQ ia, you don't have to achieve

  716. your identity.

  717. You receive your identity as a son and daughter and push those pillars

  718. down.

  719. It's a turning point, America.

  720. It's a turning point.

  721. Samson's are going to arise.

  722. Esthers and Mordecai's are going to arise.

  723. But the good news, cloaked in the bad news, is it has to get darker

  724. so that our light can shine brighter.

  725. I want to ask you this last question as I end this sermon.

  726. Acts 20:7.

    Acts 20:7

  727. Paul literally is in this massive shipwreck.

  728. The lives of those on board were preserved because we serve the

  729. God of second chances.

  730. Even though they listened to the pilot and not Paul, Even though

  731. they could have stayed in Crete, but they intended to go to

  732. another destination God didn't design.

  733. I'm telling you, God was merciful and said, the ship will

  734. be destroyed, but your lives will be saved because He's God of

  735. second chances.

  736. There's many of you who, under the sound of my voice, who have not

  737. been to church in years and years and years.

  738. And you should have stayed in Crete, but you went on a journey

  739. and you've experienced shipwreck after shipwreck.

  740. But in God's mercy, he said, son, if you're not dead, it's because

  741. you're not done.

  742. Daughter, you may have left me, but I will never leave you and

  743. never forsake you.

  744. And I'll be with you to the ends of the earth.

  745. But the question I have for you is, do you want to be saved from

  746. a shipwreck, or do you want to receive him as Lord of your.

  747. Life and say, I now will submit to you?

  748. Do what you will with me, break these demonic spirits off of

  749. me and free me from this false identity so I can step up into the

  750. real.

  751. I want to be a part of the turning point.

  752. So on the count of three, here's what we're going to do.

  753. And I don't care if you're up there.

  754. I don't care if you're in the overflow room.

  755. We have to do this because the Bible does not say, make a private

  756. decision and do it from the comfort of your seat.

  757. The Bible says that if you will deny Christ before man, that

  758. when you get to heaven for Judgment Day, he will deny you before

  759. His Father.

  760. So on the count of three, the question I have is, do you want to

  761. receive Jesus as your Savior, but do you also want to submit to

  762. him as Lord and say God, in this turning point, I don't want

  763. to miss what you have.

  764. I'm ready to lock in.

  765. I'm ready to submit to you.

  766. I'm ready to receive you, and I'm ready to come home for homecoming.

  767. And I want us to run and fill these altars on the count of three.

  768. And I want you to do it in front of your friends and family.

  769. And I want you to show them I've decided I'll never be the same

  770. if that's you right now.

  771. Heaven has been waiting for this moment.

  772. Heaven has been waiting for the moment where you stop being lukewarm

  773. and you actually become fiery hot.

  774. And you say, God, I'm going all the way in one.

  775. If that's you, God's dealing with your heart.

  776. Don't resist the Holy Spirit.

  777. It's not about the emotion of the moment.

  778. It's about him drawing you.

  779. Two, if that's you, I want you to grab the hand of somebody with

  780. you.

  781. Give them your courage.

  782. Number three.

  783. Come right now.

  784. Just come.

  785. Come, come, come.

  786. Come on.

  787. It's time.

  788. If you want to.

  789. If you want to receive Christ as your savior, come.

  790. Come on, church.

  791. Just come up front.

  792. Come on, young people, come up closer.

  793. Come on.

  794. They're coming.

  795. Come on.

  796. They're coming.

  797. Come on.

  798. Heaven is rejoicing.

  799. The angels are rejoicing.

  800. Yeah.

  801. Come on.

  802. Every gener.

  803. Come on.

  804. I'm going to give a little bit more time for those who are in the

  805. overflow if you need to come, come.

  806. They're still coming, by the way.

  807. People are still coming.

  808. Wow.

  809. Hallelujah.

  810. Hallelujah.

  811. Wow.

  812. I'm proud of you.

  813. I'm proud of you.

  814. I'm proud of you.

  815. Come on.

  816. This man in the green.

  817. This green and blue striped shirt.

  818. The power of God is all over you.

  819. The power.

  820. And I want to encourage you.

  821. When you made the decision to come up, the Lord told me, your entire

  822. family is next.

  823. Your entire family is next.

  824. Your entire family is next.

  825. The Lord said, it starts with you.

  826. It starts with you, but it doesn't end with you.

  827. Somebody help me.

  828. Ask for me in my house.

  829. Come on.

  830. We're going to pray in a moment.

  831. If you're watching online, this is for you too.

  832. It's a beautiful thing that you would be right there with your

  833. children.

  834. I got a vision of a mother just holding their kids right now,

  835. weeping.

  836. If I'm talking to you right now, this moment is for you.

  837. I don't believe in accidents, whether they're digital or physical.

  838. And God will take the blood of his son, Jesus, and wash us, make

  839. us clean.

  840. It's a turning point.

  841. I want you to make a commitment to be discipled.

  842. I want you to make a commitment to walk the narrow road.

  843. I want you to make a commitment to read your Bible.

  844. Gen Z, are you ready to lock in?

  845. Are you ready to lock in.

  846. It's time.

  847. This Luciferian spirit is going to be broken off of this generation.

  848. And we're going to be free to say, God's got this, God's in control.

  849. How many of you just feel the peace of God just rushing over this

  850. place right now?

  851. We're going to pray.

  852. We're going to pray in a moment.

  853. Romans chapter 10 says, Confess your mouth with your mouth.

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  854. Believe in your heart that he is your Lord and Satan savior and

  855. you will be saved.

  856. Tonight at 7pm we're gonna have a revival service here.

  857. It's gonna be different than the morning service at 5pm I'm gonna

  858. be available.

  859. I want to meet you, want to take a picture, wanna, you know,

  860. just hang with you guys.

  861. And there's gonna be something very special that happens tonight.

  862. But for every single one of you that accepted Christ today, I

  863. want you to make a commitment to go home, to get your friends,

  864. to get your family and bring them back to tonight.

  865. Because some of what God wants to do, he wants to do it today.

  866. This is the day of salvation.

  867. This is the day.

  868. How many of you believe that?

  869. So tonight, get him back here for 7pm it's the only service we

  870. have that even has room left.

  871. But come back here tonight at 7pm let's reverence the presence

  872. of God.

  873. He's here.

  874. He's here.

  875. I hear somebody's heart and you've been crying out, God, when

  876. is it going to change?

  877. I can't take this anymore.

  878. I can't live like this anymore.

  879. I see a woman silently crying on her pillow.

  880. And you have these late night tears that nobody knows about.

  881. I see you waking up at 2 and 3 and 4 in the morning and just weeping,

  882. crying.

  883. You're on your phone, you can't sleep.

  884. And the Lord says, I give you my peace.

  885. Peace that surpasses all understanding.

  886. Some of you have been bearing this heavy burden of your family.

  887. And I see you weeping for your family, weeping for your friends.

  888. But I want to tell you it's Jesus Christ crying through you because

  889. he's giving you a burden for the lost.

  890. And your heart's going to be moved with compassion for those who

  891. are lost.

  892. And you're going to feel what he feels and you're going to think

  893. what he thinks because you've received the mind of Christ.

  894. When we pray this prayer, the Bible says that the old has passed

  895. away and behold all, all things become new.

  896. There's somebody that one of the biggest regrets of their life

  897. was not being a virgin when they got married.

  898. And you felt ashamed.

  899. And you had made a promise that you broke.

  900. And I heard the Lord saying, daughter, behold, I make all things

  901. new.

  902. But also to the men, I make all things new.

  903. There's some of you that your purity was taken by sexual abuse,

  904. and it perverted and distorted your identity.

  905. And you've been saying, I just feel like I can never be normal.

  906. There's some of you that found pornography at such a young age that

  907. it destroyed your imagination.

  908. And you've said, I just don't know that I could ever be normal.

  909. But God is not going to make you normal.

  910. He's going to make you new.

  911. And then you'll never be normal because you're a royal priesthood,

  912. a chosen generation.

  913. Come on.

  914. And this is when.

  915. This is the turnaround.

  916. This is the transition.

  917. This is the turning point.

  918. Some of you got so hurt by another church that one of the scariest

  919. things that you could do is even step into a church.

  920. And I honor the fact that you tried again.

  921. And I honor Girl.

  922. I know there's skepticism.

  923. I know that there's a little bit of skepticism.

  924. But I also believe that God will take you to the place where

  925. you were hurt to heal you.

  926. And so this isn't about playing church games.

  927. This is about destiny.

  928. This is about the afterlife.

  929. This is about eternity.

  930. Are you ready to pray?

  931. Because when you pray this prayer, it's all going to be done

  932. in a moment.

  933. Lift your hands towards heaven.

  934. Let's do this together.

  935. From the front to the back.

  936. This is the universal sign of surrender.

  937. Everybody on the fringes here, everybody in overflow, and I want

  938. you to pray this because they're just weeping and there's

  939. so many tears.

  940. But these tears are like seeds that fall into the soil of your life,

  941. and they're gonna bear much fruit, and you will reap a harvest

  942. of joy.

  943. So shout this out with me and say it boldly.

  944. Heavenly Father, I thank you for the cross where my sins were

  945. forgiven.

  946. I repent for every sin.

  947. Wash me with your blood, Father.

  948. I will follow you all the days of my life.

  949. I will serve you.

  950. You are Lord and Savior.

  951. I will walk the narrow road because it's a turning point.

  952. And I turn to in Jesus name Someone shout Amen.

  953. Come on, let's sing.

  954. Sam.